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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabelNet | BabelNet is a multilingual lexicalized semantic network and ontology developed at the NLP group of the Sapienza University of Rome. BabelNet was automatically created by linking Wikipedia to the most popular computational lexicon of the English language, WordNet. The integration is done using an automatic mapping and by filling in lexical gaps in resource-poor languages by using statistical machine translation. The result is an encyclopedic dictionary that provides concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages and connected with large amounts of semantic relations. Additional lexicalizations and definitions are added by linking to free-license wordnets, OmegaWiki, the English Wiktionary, Wikidata, FrameNet, VerbNet and others. Similarly to WordNet, BabelNet groups words in different languages into sets of synonyms, called Babel synsets. For each Babel synset, BabelNet provides short definitions (called glosses) in many languages harvested from both WordNet and Wikipedia.
Statistics of BabelNet
, BabelNet (version 5.0) covers 500 languages. It contains almost 20 million synsets and around 1.4 billion word senses (regardless of their language). Each Babel synset contains 2 synonyms per language, i.e., word senses, on average. The semantic network includes all the lexico-semantic relations from WordNet (hypernymy and hyponymy, meronymy and holonymy, antonymy and synonymy, etc., totaling around 364,000 relation edges) as well as an underspecified relatedness relation from Wikipedia (totaling around 1.3 billion edges). Version 5.0 also associates around 51 million images with Babel synsets and provides a Lemon RDF encoding of the resource, available via a SPARQL endpoint. 2.67 million synsets are assigned domain labels.
Applications
BabelNet has been shown to enable multilingual Natural Language Processing applications. The lexicalized knowledge available in BabelNet has been shown to obtain state-of-the-art results in:
semantic relatedness
multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation
multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking with the Babelfy system
video games with a purpose
Prizes and acknowledgments
BabelNet received the META prize 2015 for "groundbreaking work in overcoming language barriers through a multilingual lexicalised semantic network and ontology making use of heterogeneous data sources".
BabelNet featured prominently in a Time magazine article about the new age of innovative and up-to-date lexical knowledge resources available on the Web.
See also
Babelfy
EuroWordNet
vidby
Knowledge acquisition
Linguistic Linked Open Data
Semantic network
Semantic relatedness
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Word sense disambiguation
Word sense induction
UBY
References
External links
Lexical databases
Knowledge bases
Ontology (information science)
Knowledge representation
Computational linguistics
Online dictionaries
Multilingualism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf%20class | Leaf class may refer to:
Leaf morphology, the classification of leaves by shape
Leaf class (programming language), a class that should not be subclassed
Leaf class tanker, a class of support tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Knapp%20%28sportscaster%29 | Jason Knapp is an American sportscaster for the CBS Sports Network, Pac-12 Network and NBC Sports.
Education
Knapp graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1991. At Syracuse, he was on WAER radio staff, where he did play-by-play and color commentary for various university teams.
Career
He was the sports director for WBRE-TV until 2006. He made his Olympic debut on NBC Sports's coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, calling wrestling, shooting, and archery. For CBS Sports Network, he served as a play-by-play, sideline reporter, and host for the network's coverage of college football, college basketball, high school basketball, college wrestling, college baseball, college field hockey, college rugby, college water polo, college swimming, gymnastics, lacrosse, volleyball, and soccer. He is also a commentator for the NBA D-League games on the CBS Sports Network. In April 2012 Knapp called the Chesapeake Bayhawks-Long Island Lizards game.
Knapp was hired by NBC Sports to work as a curling announcer during the 2014 Winter Olympics. He has continued to provide curling commentary on Curling Night in America, a NBCSN program that broadcasts a made-for-television curling competition.
Knapp was also the play-by-play voice for the 2014 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game for ESPN3.
In 2021, Knapp handled his fifth assignment for NBC Olympics for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Personal life
Knapp is a native of Medford, New Jersey. He currently resides in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
References
External links
NBC Sports Biography
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American television sports announcers
Curling broadcasters
Olympic Games broadcasters
College baseball announcers in the United States
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Gymnastics broadcasters
High school basketball announcers in the United States
Lacrosse announcers
NBA G League broadcasters
People from Medford, New Jersey
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
Sportspeople from Burlington County, New Jersey
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betaworks | Betaworks is an American startup studio and seed stage venture capital company based in New York City that invests in network-focused media businesses.
Its hybrid investor/builder model has led to both investments in fast-growing startups like Tumblr, Airbnb, Groupon and Twitter as well as more exclusive stakes in internally built startups such as Chartbeat, Bitly and SocialFlow. Betaworks was founded in 2007 by John Borthwick.
It has also recently come into the limelight a little more with The Intern podcast, hosted and produced by Allison Behringer. The podcast recounts a young woman beginning her career in the world of technology.
In 2016, Betaworks sold its Instapaper product to the social media scrapbooking site, Pinterest.
Studio
Current:
Activate (app) helps people discover and follow their favorite blogs. The site was founded in Sweden and has over 2 million members, 70% of them who follow fashion blogs & over 90% who are female. Shortly after it took $1 million of investment from Betaworks and Lerer Hippeau Ventures in 2012, traffic spiked following Google's announcement to discontinue Google Reader.
In April 2013, the company released Dots, a video game downloaded over 10 million times.
Former:
Chartbeat, which provides realtime analytics to websites and blogs. It shows visitors, load times, and referring.
Bitly, which that allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier.
Giphy lets anyone search for animated gifs on the web. It was born out of an experiment by two hackers in residence, Alex Chung and Jace Cooke, who found it difficult to browse the best gifs on the web. It spread unexpectedly quickly, serving millions of results in the first few weeks. "We could tell it struck a nerve, so we swarmed it," said Paul Murphy, the head of product at Betaworks told The Verge In May 2020, it was announced that Giphy had agreed to be acquired by Facebook Inc. (now Meta Platforms), with a reported purchase price of $400 million. Facebook services had accounted for roughly half of Giphy's overall traffic. Giphy was to be integrated with the staff of Facebook subsidiary Instagram, although Facebook stated that there would be no immediate changes to the service.
SocialFlow, which optimizes the real-time value of content.
In July 2012, the company acquired the Digg brand and internet assets for US$500,000 and merged it with News.me, a social news reading app. Digg was purchased by BuySellAds, an advertising company, for an undisclosed amount in April 2018.
In April 2013, the company acquired a majority stake in Instapaper, before selling it to Pinterest in 2016.
References
Business incubators of the United States
Venture capital firms of the United States
Privately held companies based in New York City
Financial services companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinet | Equinet is the European Network of Equality Bodies. It serves as a professional platform for cooperation, capacity building and peer support amongst Equality Bodies around the legal interpretation and implementation in practice of the EU equal treatment Directives and around the promotion of equality and the elimination of discrimination.
National Equality Bodies have been established on the basis of the EU equal treatment Directives. This legislation provides that each Member State shall have (at least) one Equality Body with the power to, among other, give independent assistance to victims of discrimination. The Equality Bodies are specialised authorities whose staff are trained and experienced to handle cases of discrimination. They are empowered to counteract discrimination across the range of grounds including age, disability, gender, race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.
Equinet is an umbrella organisation for European equality bodies and has no mandate to provide any kind of legal assistance to individual victims of discrimination. The organisation however provides contact details (see below) for equality bodies based in all EU Member States and beyond.
History
Equinet builds upon the two-year project "Strengthening the co-operation between specialised bodies for the implementation of equal treatment legislation" (2002-2004). The initiative to create a network of equality bodies was taken by the Migration Policy Group, who also acted as Equinet's Secretariat until 2007. Equinet was established as an independent structure in 2007 with the creation of the Equinet Secretariat in Brussels and its registration as a not-for-profit international association (AISBL) under Belgian law.
Mission and Objectives
Equinet promotes equality in Europe by supporting Equality Bodies to be independent and effective catalysts for more equal societies, and delivers its mission in a way that embodies and promotes its values. Equinet works to:
Strengthen and support Equality Bodies to achieve equality for all
Act as an expert voice of Equality Bodies in Europe on equality and non-discrimination
Maintain and improve Equinet’s capacity as a strong, resilient, and innovative Network
Approach
Support & Empower - Equinet provides general support to Equality Bodies through capacity building activities, facilitates peer-to-peer exchange and knowledge sharing across Equality Bodies, promotes and consolidates Equality Bodies’ position as national level experts on equality and non-discrimination, including by supporting the adoption and implementation of legislation on European Standards for Equality Bodies.
Connect & Network - Equinet builds bridges between Equality Bodies and partners (policymakers, civil society organisations, European institutions, etc.) as well as other actors related to equality and non-discrimination, provides a forum for Equality Bodies to network, and creates useful connections at European level.
I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20Europe | Population Europe is a collaborative network of Europe's demographic research institutes and centres. It was founded in 2009. Its aim is to coordinate and strengthen research efforts and to contribute reliable facts and findings to public discussions of population issues.
The network operates under the auspices of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and is supported by the European Commission.
Population Europe currently includes 36 European research institutes; it further collaborates with institutions working on population and policy issues.
Organization
Population Europe has two branches: the Council of Advisors and the Information Centre. The Council of Advisors assembles researchers. The Information Centre coordinates the dissemination of demographic facts on population trends and policies to a scientific audience, as well as to the general public.
The Population Europe Secretariat is hosted by the Max Planck Society. The Secretariat is situated at the WissenschaftsForum at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin.
External links
Population Europe
References
Demographics of Europe
Education in Berlin
Research institutes in Germany
Research institutes established in 2009
Population research organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodily.com | Foodily.com was a social networking platform built on top of a recipe search engine. It offered a way to search for and find and share recipes through social media as well as from other web sites. However, it is no longer possible to search for recipes, and the site simply gives the notice that the system is unavailable.
History
Foodily.com was co-founded by former Yahoo! veterans. It was launched as a web service on February 1, 2011. In November 2011, Foodily went mobile with the launch of its free iPhone app. Foodily was acquired by IAC-owned social network [Ask.fm] in 2015.
Awards
In 2012, Foodily.com won the Webby Award for the best food and beverage site.
See also
Social networking service
List of social networking websites
References
Further reading
Food, I Love You from vimeo.com
"Foodily: A Social Search Engine Just For Food" from The Huffington Post (February 16, 2011)
"Foodily Brings Social Goodness And Menu Sharing To Recipe Search Engine" from TechCrunch (February 1, 2011)
External links
Foodily.com
The Foodily blog
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
American cooking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unbelievable%20Truth%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Unbelievable Truth is an Australian comedy television series on the Seven Network, based on a British radio show of the same name. The series is produced by members of The Chaser and Graeme Garden's Random Entertainment, and was first screened in October 2012.
The show is hosted by Craig Reucassel with fellow Chaser members Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen appearing in alternate episodes. The show features guests spinning lies about a given topic, while slipping in truths which they hope will be undetected by their fellow players.
Guests
Episode 1: Toby Truslove, Kitty Flanagan and Sam Simmons
Episode 2: Graeme Garden, Merrick Watts and Sarah Kendall
Episode 3: Shane Jacobson, Kitty Flanagan and Sam Simmons
Episode 4: Cal Wilson, Toby Truslove and Scott Dooley
Episode 5: Scott Dooley, Celia Pacquola and Stephen K. Amos
Episode 6: Virginia Gay, The Umbilical Brothers and Akmal Saleh
Episode 7: Tom Gleeson, Scott Dooley and Claudia O'Doherty
Episode 8: Scott Dooley and Kitty Flanagan
Episode 9: Tom Gleeson, Virginia Gay and Toby Schmitz
Episode 10: Jimeoin, Sarah Kendall and The Umbilical Brothers
Craig Reucassel replaced Andrew Hansen for his speech.
Third guest was replaced by a member of The Chaser.
Episode 9 was uploaded to the Seven website on 23 November, a week before the original airdate. The episode was taken down by Seven and replaced by episode 8.
References
External links
Audio interview with Andrew Hansen on the Goodies Podcast
Australian panel games
Seven Network original programming
2010s Australian comedy television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings
The Chaser
Television series based on radio series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martie%20Duncan | Martie Duncan is an American chef, blogger and party planner. She was a finalist on the eighth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star.
Career
Duncan has made several appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has had no formal culinary training, nor has she ever worked in a restaurant. Duncan is the president of her own party-planning company, M Content Media LLC.
Food Network Star
In 2012, Duncan became a contestant on the eighth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star, being mentored by Alton Brown. She eventually became one of the final four contestants, and she filmed a pilot for a potential series called Martie with the Party. She eventually lost the competition to Justin Warner; however, on , it was announced that she (as well as Chad Rosenthal from season nine) would be a contestant on the Food Network Star spin-off webseries Star Salvation, which gives eliminated contestants a chance to re-enter the Food Network Star competition. Duncan was eliminated from Star Salvation in the second episode of the season.
Personal life
Duncan was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Her mother, Martha Bossart, died in 2004 at age 73. Duncan initially did not reveal her age, simply billing herself on Food Network Star as "slightly over 40"; however, she gave her age as 50 on the July 15, 2012 episode.
References
External links
1960s births
American bloggers
Chefs from Alabama
American women in business
Date of birth missing (living people)
Food Network Star contestants
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
Writers from Birmingham, Alabama
American women bloggers
American women chefs
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firoze%20Manji | Firoze Madatally Manji (born 1950) is a Kenyan activist with more than 40 years’ experience in international development, health, human rights, teaching, publishing and political organizing.
He is the recipient of the 2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Background
Firoze Manji was born in Kenya, to Kenya's "Biscuit Baron" Madatally Manji and his wife Fatima. After obtaining a dentistry degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he started his career as a dentist working as a prison dentist and part-time as an immigration advisor at the Hammersmith Law Centre, London. He obtained MSc in Dental Public Health from the London Hospital Medical College, University of London; and a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of London.
Career
Firoze Manji is the publisher of Daraja Press presenter of podcasting series Organising in the time of COVID-19. He is also the founder and former editor-in-chief of the pan-African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press. He is the founder and former executive director of Fahamu - Networks for Social Justice. He has published widely on health, social policy, human rights and political sciences, and authored and edited a range of books on social justice in Africa, including on women's rights, trade justice, on China's role in Africa, and on the uprisings in Africa. He is co-editor, with Sokari Ekine, of African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions and co-editor with Bill Fletcher Jr, of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral. He has authored chapters in several books, including Culture, Power and Resistance: reflections on the ideas of Amilcar Cabral in the State of Power 2017 published by the Transnational Institute; and: “Emancipation, freedom or taxonomy? What does it mean to be African?” in Racism After Apartheid (Wits University Press), 2019.
Manji has previously worked as director of Pan-African Baraza for Thoughtworks, as Africa program director for Amnesty International, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK), and Regional Representative for Health Sciences in Eastern and Southern Africa for the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), researcher at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine in Dental Public Health, University of Nairobi. He was managing director of TWIN / TWIN Trading 1997-1997. He served as a member of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on the Role of TNCs in Southern Africa (2018-9).
Fellow/membership
Firoze Manji is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, Senior Researcher at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin.
Manji is a former board member of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and a former mem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20ICAO%20Data%20Interchange%20Network | The Common ICAO Data Interchange Network (CIDIN) is a network, run by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which makes up part of the aeronautical fixed service. It is used to transmit text or binary messages for the purposes of air traffic control.
References
Aviation communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordata%20language | Fordata (, ) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of the Moluccas. It is closely related to Kei, and more distantly to Yamdena, both also spoken in the Tanimbar Islands.
Phonology
Consonants
Glottal sounds only occur intervocalically.
can often be heard as among younger speakers.
can also be heard in free variation with a flap sound .
Vowels
Sounds have lax sounds of [ ]
can have an allophone of when before a consonant, or in word-final position.
References
External links
www.bahasafordata.net
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
Languages of the Maluku Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbsInt | AbsInt is a software-development tools vendor based in Saarbrücken, Germany. The company was founded in 1998 as a technology spin-off from the Department of Programming Languages and Compiler Construction of Prof. Reinhard Wilhelm at Saarland University. AbsInt specializes in software-verification tools based on abstract interpretation. Its tools are used worldwide by Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, government agencies and startups.
Products
aiT WCET Analyzer statically computes safe upper bounds for the worst-case execution time of tasks in real-time systems. It directly analyzes binary executables and takes the intrinsic cache and pipeline behavior of the microprocessor into account. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and NASA used it in its Study on Sudden Unintended Acceleration in the electronic throttle control systems of Toyota vehicles.
StackAnalyzer determines the maximum stack usage of the tasks in embedded applications and can prove the absence of stack overflow. The analysis results are valid for all inputs and each task execution. StackAnalyzer is used in the Aerospace, Medical, Telecom and Transportation industries.
Astrée is a static program analyzer that proves the absence of run-time errors in safety-critical embedded applications written or automatically generated in C. It is used in the Defense/Aerospace, Medical, Industrial Control, Electronic, Telecom/Datacom and Transportation industries. Astrée originates from the group of Patrick Cousot at CNRS/ENS and is developed and distributed by AbsInt under license from the CNRS/ENS. In the 6th Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE VI) of NIST (2020), Astrée was confirmed to satisfy the SATE VI Ockham Sound Analysis Criteria.
RuleChecker is a static program analyzer that automatically checks C/C++ code for compliance with coding guidelines including MISRA C/C++, SEI CERT C, CWE, ISO/IEC TS 17961:2013, and Adaptive Autosar C++ Coding Guidelines.
TimeWeaver is a hybrid WCET analysis tool that combines static path analysis and static value analysis with non-intrusive real-time instruction-level tracing to bound the worst-case execution time (WCET). This approach works for a wide range of modern high-performance (multi-core) processors.
CompCert is a formally verified optimizing C compiler. Its intended use is the compilation of safety-critical and mission-critical software written in C and meeting high levels of assurance. It produces machine code for the PowerPC, ARM and AArch64, IA32 (x86 32-bit), AMD64, and RISC-V (32- and 64-bit) architectures. Since 2015 AbsInt offers commercial licenses, provides industrial-strength support and maintenance, and contributes to the advancement of the tool. For the development of CompCert, Xavier Leroy and the development team of CompCert received the 2021 ACM Software System Award.
History
AbsInt is a 1998 spin-off from the Department for Programming Languages and Compilers at the Saarland Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatbelt%20railway%20lines%20of%20Western%20Australia | The wheatbelt railway lines of Western Australia were, in most cases, a network of railway lines in Western Australia that primarily served the Wheatbelt region.
Maps of the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) system in the 1930s show that in the main wheatbelt region, any railway line was within of the harvest location, facilitating ease of access to rail transport. Most of the larger extent of the network has since been closed.
In the current railway management systems, many of the remaining operating lines are primarily for the haulage of grain.
1900s
In 1905 the report of the Royal Commission into Immigration in Western Australia stated:
All considerable areas of agricultural land must have a 15 mile rail service
In 1947, the Royal Commission into Railway management stated of the 1905 and after era of construction:
... to construct railways in agricultural areas as cheaply as possible, lines were built with 45 lb. rail sections which practically followed the surface of the ground with (a) earth ballasting (b) half-round timber sleepers (c) providing the bare minimum station facilities only
1930s
Transport of wheat on the WAGR system was identified by station/siding early in annual reports, as a commodity of importance to the railways.
Early transport of grain was organised through the railways and growers with the Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia as a main player.
The feasibility of bulk handling and storage, and the relationship with the railway networks then in place, was a concern of Westralian Farmers in the 1930s, as well as that of the Western Australian government of the time.
In 1932, five sidings in the Western Australian Government Railway System were the first locations of bulk handling of wheat by rail:
Benjaberring
Korrelocking
Nembudding
Trayning
Yelbeni
From the time of creation of specific railway branches or sections, most railway lines in the era of the WAGR carried mixed services of freight, and passenger services.
1950s
A number of lines of considerable length were closed in 1957 in the larger railway system.
However, not that many lines closed as a result of the 1957 decisions in the actual wheatbelt region:
Boddington to Dwarda (1913-1957) and Dwarda to Narrogin (1926-1957)
Brookton to Corrigin railway (1915-1957)
Gnowangerup to Ongerup (1913-1957)
Muckinbudin to Lake Brown (1923-1957) and Lake Brown to Bullfinch (1929-1957)
Nyabing to Pingrup (1923-1957)
Following the decline of passenger services in the 1950s, many branch lines ceased to have specific passenger services and the WAGR road bus services replaced rail passenger facilities.
1970s
In the decade of the creation of the brand Westrail, many branch lines had sidings removed, and had ceased to operate as mixed freight lines. They became in many cases oriented to single commodity lines; timber, woodchip, iron ore or grain haulage became the main orientation of many of the branch lines in the narrow gauge network.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webinos | webinos (Secure WebOS Application Environment) is a computing platform for the development of software components that are independent of the utilized computer hardware or operating system. At the same time, webinos is the name of the EU-funded project aiming to deliver this platform.
The webinos platform is based on open-source software. Its objective is to enable web applications and services to be used and shared consistently and securely over a broad spectrum of converged and connected devices (cross-platform and cross-domain), including mobile, PC, home media (TV) and in-car units. More than 5,400 developers have already downloaded the webinos operating system.
Technology
Central concepts
The webinos technology has been built on HTML5, widget and device API standards. Thus common web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome can run webinos-enabled apps. To handle the cross device challenges, three central concepts have been followed: First, a method of binding devices to individuals, and for the individuals to declare their identities is the concept of “Personal Zones”. It is built up from internet agents (Personal Zone Hub) and device agents (Personal Zone Proxy) that communicate and identify each other and ensure that transmitted data is safeguarded. Furthermore, the “Remoting and Discovery” approach enables devices to broadcast their services as well as applications to discover these services and a protocol for invoking these services. Finally, a virtualized network overlays the physical networks, allowing devices to communicate optimally. This “Overlay network” runs over the internet or over local Bluetooth.
Architecture
The core webinos architecture is based on widget and web runtimes, which consist of rendering components, policy and permission frameworks, packaging components and extended APIs. To realize the cross device communication, webinos has split the packaging, policy and API extensions from the renderer. By loosely coupling these hitherto monolithic components, it is far easier to expose the application centric components to other devices.
Security
The addressed challenges comprise: how to provision and adapt security across a range of devices, services, networks as well as how individuals can gain control over the privacy aspects of their web presence regardless of the service that is being used.
Project and consortium
The project receives 10 million Euros co-funding, under the EU FP7 ICT Programme, No 257103,and has a total budget of 14 million Euros. Webinos has been initiated by a research consortium with the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Fraunhofer FOKUS, at the helm and will run for three years starting in September 2010.
More than 30 partners are represented within the consortium:
Agora Media (UK),
AmbieSense Ltd (UK),
Antenna Software (UK),
BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH (DE),
Cloud Friends (B),
Data Driven Standardization Consulting (AU),
Deutsche Telekom (DE),
DOCO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Lobban | Richard A. Lobban, Jr., husband of Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, is an anthropologist and early pioneer in social network modeling, archaeologist, Egyptologist, Sudanist, foreign policy expert, human rights activist, mentor, father, and beekeeper. He is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island since 1972; also a lecturer at the Archaeological Institute of America and the Naval War College. He is an expert in Ancient Sudan and Ancient Egypt, with a particular focus on Nubia. He is a co-founder of the Sudan Studies Association.
Books
Lobban has also authored numerous books and publications such as the Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia, Historical Dictionary of Sudan (2002), and Social Networks in Urban Sudan (1973). He has also authored/co-authored books such as Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (1997), Cape Verde: Crioulo colony to independent nation (1995), Historical dictionary of Cape Verde (2007), and Middle Eastern women and the invisible economy (1998).
References
American anthropologists
American archaeologists
American Egyptologists
Living people
Rhode Island College faculty
1943 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanju%20Bansal | Sanju K. Bansal is an Indian-American businessman, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile software, big data and cloud-based services. He served as the company's vice chairman of the board of directors and executive vice president till November 14, 2013. From 1993-2012, he served as chief operating officer of MicroStrategy. Bansal serves or has served as a member of the board of directors of CSRA, a technology services provider to the US government, Cvent, a cloud-based event management software provider, and The Advisory Board Company, a technology research services company.
Early life and education
Bansal was born in Patiala, India and emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was two years old. The family settled in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. He attended Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia where he was a valedictorian.
His father, Ved Bansal, came to the United States in 1959 with $1. His father's work ethic and emphasis on math and science in childhood has been cited as the foundation for his later education and career.
Bansal received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from MIT and a Master of Science in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.
Career
Directly out of college, Sanju Bansal worked for the technology and management consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton.
In 1989, with MIT classmates Michael J. Saylor and Thomas Spahr, Bansal co-founded MicroStrategy. Bansal helped build MicroStrategy with no venture capital, often working 80 to 100 hours per week to get the company off the ground. During this time, the company experienced rapid growth, increasing revenues by 100% every year between 1990 and 1996. In June 1998, MicroStrategy had its initial public offering and, on its first day of trading, the stock price doubled. By March 2000, the company had a market cap of approximately $24 billion, making Bansal and other company leaders billionaires on paper.
Later that month, MicroStrategy announced that it would restate its financial results for the preceding two years, which resulted in an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In December 2000, Saylor, Bansal, and the company's former CFO settled with the SEC without admitting wrongdoing by each paying $350,000 in fines. The officers also paid a combined total of $10 million in disgorgement.
Subsequently, the company's stock price plummeted, from a high of $333.00 in March to a low of $9.25 by December 2000. As chief operating officer, Bansal played a significant role in getting MicroStrategy back on its feet. He was instrumental in raising more than $175 million in the following 17 months to keep the company going and expanding business into China in 2002. The company employed more than 3,200 people worldwide and reported revenue of $594.61 million in 2012. As of 2013, the company has operations in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mute%20%28magazine%29 | Mute is a British online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of subjects related to cyberculture, artistic practice, left-wing politics, urban regeneration, biopolitics, direct democracy, net art, the commons, horizontality and UK arts.
Founded in 1994 by art school graduates Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman, the magazine is an experimental hybrid of web and print formats, publishing articles weekly online, contributed by both staff and readers, and a biannual print compilation combining selections from current issues and other online content with specially commissioned and co-published projects. Contributors to Mute have included Heath Bunting, James Flint, Hari Kunzru, Anthony Davies and Simon Ford, Stewart Home, Kate Rich, Jamie King, Daniel Neofetou, Nils Norman, and Peter Linebaugh. The magazine was supported by the Arts Council of England from 1999 to 2012.
In 2009, the magazine produced an anthology, Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics After the Net (), published by Autonomedia.
References
Further reading
External links
1994 establishments in the United Kingdom
Biannual magazines published in the United Kingdom
Visual arts magazines published in the United Kingdom
Online magazines published in the United Kingdom
Internet art
Internet culture
Magazines published in London
Magazines established in 1994
Mass media about Internet culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot%20Horowitz | Eliot Horowitz is a founder and the former chief technology officer of MongoDB Inc., a software company that develops and provides commercial support for the open source NoSQL database MongoDB. Horowitz is the founder and current CEO of Viam, a robotics software startup.
Career
Horowitz attended Brown University where he received a B.S. in Computer Science. After college, he joined DoubleClick as a software developer in its R&D group. He then left to start up ShopWiki, a search engine for e-commerce, with the CTO of DoubleClick, Dwight Merriman. He developed the crawling and data extraction algorithm for ShopWiki. In 2006, BusinessWeek selected Eliot as one of its Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25.
In 2007, Horowitz formed 10gen with Kevin P. Ryan and Merriman, and started writing the core code base for MongoDB, an open source database. Its first public release came two years later in 2009. MongoDB has become widely used to build high-performance systems by companies. 10gen was later renamed MongoDB Inc. in 2013, and it was listed on NASDAQ in 2017. It has a market capitalization of $7.2 billion by 2019. In March 2020, after nearly 13 years with the company, Horowitz announced he would step down as chief technology officer, as well as from MongoDB's board of directors, effective July 10, 2020. He continues to serve as technical advisor to MongoDB.
In 2020, Horowitz founded Viam Robotics to create a general-purpose development platform for robotics and enable robotics businesses to get to market faster while taking advantage of cloud services like AI, machine learning and advanced analytics.
References
Living people
Brown University alumni
American computer businesspeople
American corporate directors
American technology chief executives
American technology company founders
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesod%20%28web%20framework%29 | Yesod (; , "Foundation") is a web framework based on the programming language Haskell for productive development of type-safe, representational state transfer (REST) model based (where uniform resource locators (URLs) identify resources, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods identify transitions), high performance web applications, developed by Michael Snoyman, et al. It is free and open-source software released under an MIT License.
Yesod is based on templates, to generate instances for listed entities, and dynamic content process functions, through Template Haskell constructs to host domain-specific language (eDSL) content templates called QuasiQuotes, where the content is translated into code expressions by metaprogramming instructions.
There are also web-like language snippet templates that admit code expression interpolations, making them fully type-checked at compile time.
Yesod divides its functions in separate libraries (database, html rendering, forms, etc.) so functions may used as needed.
MVC architecture
(MVC)
Controller
Server interface
Yesod uses a Web application interface (WAI), a type of application programming interface (API), to isolate servlets, aka web apps., from servers, with handlers for the server protocols Common Gateway Interface (CGI), FastCGI, Simple Common Gateway Interface (SCGI), Warp, Launch (open as local URL to the default browser, closing the server when the window is closed),
The foundation type
See ref. Yesod requires a data type that instantiates the model–view–controller classes. This is called the foundation type. In the example below, it is named "MyApp".
The REST model identifies a web resource with a web path. Here, REST resources are given names with an R suffix (like "HomeR") and are listed in a parseRoutes site map description template. From this list, route names and dispatch handler names are derived.
Yesod makes use of Template Haskell metaprogramming to generate code from templates at compile time, assuring that the names in the templates match and everything typechecks (e.g. web resource names and handler names).
By inserting a mkYesod call, this will call Template Haskell primitives to generate the code corresponding to the route type members, and the instances of the dispatch controller classes as to dispatch GET calls to route HomeR to a routine named composing them both as "getHomeR", expecting an existing handler that matches the name.
Hello World
"Hello, World!" program example based on a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) server interface (the handler types have changed, but the philosophy remains):
{- file wai-cgi-hello.hs -}
{-# LANGUAGE PackageImports, TypeFamilies, QuasiQuotes, MultiParamTypeClasses,
TemplateHaskell, OverloadedStrings #-}
import "wai" Network.Wai
import "wai-extra" Network.Wai.Handler.CGI (run) -- interchangeable WAI handler
import "yesod" Yesod
import "yesod-core" Yesod.Handler (getRequest)
import "text" Data.Text (Text)
import "sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Database%20for%20Autism%20Research | The National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) is a secure research data repository promoting scientific data sharing and collaboration among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) investigators. The project was launched in 2006 as a joint effort between five institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH): the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the Center for Information Technology (CIT). The goal of NDAR is to provide a shared common platform for data collection, retrieval, and archiving to accelerate the advancement of research on autism spectrum disorders. The largest repository of its kind, NDAR makes available data at all levels of biological and behavioral organization for all data types. As of November 2013, data from over 90,000 research participants are available to qualified investigators through the NDAR portal. Summary information about the available data is accessible through the NDAR public website.
Background
In response to the heightened societal concern over ASD, the United States Congress passed the Combating Autism Act (CAA) of 2006 (P.L. 109–416). Through this Act, Congress intended to rapidly increase and improve coordination of scientific discovery in ASD research. The CAA mandated the creation of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), a federal government advisory panel charged with developing and annually updating a Strategic Plan for ASD research. This plan provides a blueprint for autism research that is advisory to Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other federal agencies on the needs and opportunities for autism research. The IACC Strategic Plan was designed to detail research opportunities centered on the six most pressing questions facing those affected by autism and links them to specific research efforts. In 2009, the plan was finalized and submitted to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; a seventh question related to infrastructure and surveillance needs was added to the plan in 2010.
NDAR was developed by the NIH with the goal of improving sample sizes and enabling researchers to share data for increased analyses. NDAR was already in the process of being developed when the seventh question of the IACC Strategic Plan was added. Question 7, Objective H of the IACC Strategic Plan emphasizes the creation of mechanisms to specifically support the contribution of data into NDAR from 90 percent of newly initiated projects regardless of funding source, and the linking of NDAR with other existing data resources by 2012.
Oversight and governance
Thomas Insel, the Director of NIMH, oversees NDAR and its implementation and participates on a Governing Committee responsible for the ongoing management and stewardship of NDAR. This co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20of%20Amanda%20Todd | Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A month before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flashcards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breasts via webcam, and of being bullied and physically assaulted. The video went viral after her death, resulting in international media attention. The original video has had more than 15 million views as of May 2023, although mirrored copies of the video had received tens of millions of additional views shortly after her death; additionally, a YouTube video by React has a video of teens reacting to Todd’s video which has garnered 44.7 million views as of May 2023, and various videos from news agencies around the world regarding the case have registered countless millions more. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British Columbia Coroners Service launched investigations into the suicide.
In response to her death, then-Premier of British Columbia Christy Clark, made an online statement of condolence and suggested a national discussion on criminalizing cyberbullying. A motion was also introduced in the Canadian House of Commons to propose a study of the scope of bullying in Canada and for more funding and support for anti-bullying organizations. Todd's mother, Carol, established the Amanda Todd Trust, receiving donations to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people with mental health problems.
A Dutch-Turkish man, Aydin Coban, who was already imprisoned for sexual blackmail in the Netherlands, was extradited to Canada to face trial on charges of harassing and sexually extorting Todd before her suicide. On August 5, 2022, the jury found Coban guilty on all counts, and he was sentenced to 13 years in prison on October 14, 2022.
Background and suicide
On September 7, 2012, Todd posted a 9-minute YouTube video titled My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm, which showed her using a series of flashcards to tell of her experiences being bullied. The video went viral after her death on October 10, 2012, receiving over 1,600,000 views by October 13, 2012, with news websites from around the world linking to it.
During the video, Todd writes that when she was in 7th grade (2009–10), around the same time she moved in with her father, she used video chat to meet new people over the Internet and received compliments on her looks. After a stranger repeatedly asked her for over a year to bare her breasts, Todd did so on a webcam stream, and the person saved frames using screen capturing. He later blackmailed her by threatening to give the topless photo to her friends unless she gave him a "show". She also was featured briefly on the Daily Capper on BlogTV, a pedophile-run news show utilizing animation of the character Dora Smarmy from the HBO Family series Crashbox that t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adopt-a-Pet.com | Adopt a Pet is an adoption web service that advocates pet adoption, gathering information from over 15,000 pet shelters in the U.S. and Canada, and presenting adoptable pet data in a searchable data base to facilitate pet adoption. The web site allows people to sign up to receive an email when a pet that satisfies their criteria appears in a local shelter. Adopt a Pet also contains information on pet care for first-time pet owners and publishes a newsletter. The web site also lists volunteer opportunities and promotes spaying and neutering of the pets.
In addition, Adopt a Pet promotes pet adoption through conventional and social media presence, public service announcements, and interactions with local governments. Since 2015 Adopt a Pet has been offering its visitors manuals for pets.
History
Adopt a Pet was founded in 2000 by David Meyer, Steve Abbey, Luke Montgomery, Amy Luwis, and Doug McKee as 1-800-Save-a-Pet.com. Initially, 1-800-Save-a-Pet.com was a program designed to end the overpopulation of companion animals in shelters in Los Angeles, California. The program was based on a year of research about the problem and proposed scientifically based solutions and projections.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 1-800-Save-a-Pet.com participated in the pet rescue effort by helping reunite pets with their owners and helping the pets that could not be reunited find either foster or new homes.
In September 2008, the company changed its name to Adopt a Pet In October 2008, Adopt a Pet partnered with Care2 to launch America's Favorite Animal Shelter contest. The winning shelters were awarded a total of $20000 worth of prizes on December 4, 2008. The contest took place again in 2009.
In January 2009, Adopt a Pet launched a national ADOPT campaign accompanied by a poster created by Shepard Fairey using a photo by Clay Myers to raise awareness about adoption at the time President Obama was looking for a dog for his family. This poster was on the cover of the Spring 2009 issue of Dog's Life Magazine and was fashioned after Fairey's Obama Hope poster.
In April 2009, Adopt a Pet expanded its search to include, in addition to cats and dogs, rabbits, birds, small animals (such as hamsters and guinea pigs), farm-type animals, horses, amphibians, reptiles, and fish. In May the same year, it launched a social media campaign, "Social Petworking", introducing the capability to share a photo of an adoptable pet on a Facebook page or to attach it to an e-mail.
In June 2010, Adopt a Pet paid tribute to Rue McClanahan, who was known as an actress and a supporter of pet adoption.
In 2011, White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle and his wife Jamie partnered with Adopt a Pet to create a public service billboard campaign to promote pet adoption.
In 2021, Adopt a Pet was acquired by Kinship, a subsidiary of Mars, Inc.
Management
CEO: Jeannine Taaffe
References
External links
Non-profit organizations based in California
Online companies of Canada
Online compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-2012%20statewide%20opinion%20polling%20for%20the%202012%20United%20States%20presidential%20election | Statewide polls for the 2012 United States presidential election are as follows. The polls listed here, by state, are from 2009 to December 31, 2011 and provide early data on opinion polling between a possible Republican candidate against incumbent President Barack Obama.
Note that some states did not conduct polling before December 31, 2011.
Arizona
11 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 55%–44% (Republican in 2008) 53%–45%
Arkansas
6 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 54%–45% (Republican in 2008) 59%–39%
California
55 electoral votes(Democratic in 2004) 54%–45% (Democratic in 2008) 61%–37%
Colorado
9 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 52%–47% (Democratic in 2008) 54%–45%
Connecticut
7 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 54%–44% (Democratic in 2008) 61%–38%
Florida
29 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 52%–47% (Democratic in 2008) 51%–48%
Georgia
16 electoral votes(Republican in 2004) 58%–41% (Republican in 2008) 52%–47%
Hawaii
4 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 54%–45% (Democratic in 2008) 72%–27%
Illinois
20 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 55%–45% (Democratic in 2008) 62%–37%
Iowa
6 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 50%–49% (Democratic in 2008) 54%–44%
Kansas
6 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 62%–37% (Republican in 2008) 57%–42%
Kentucky
8 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 60%–40% (Republican in 2008) 57%–41%
Louisiana
8 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 57%–42% (Republican in 2008) 59%–40%
Maine
4 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 53%–45% (Democratic in 2008) 58%–40%
Massachusetts
11 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 62%–37% (Democratic in 2008) 62%–36%
Michigan
16 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 51%–48% (Democratic in 2008) 57%–41%
Minnesota
10 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 51%–48% (Democratic in 2008) 54%–44%
Mississippi
6 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 59%–40% (Republican in 2008) 56%–43%
Missouri
10 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 53%–46% (Republican in 2008) 49%–49%
Montana
3 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 59%–39% (Republican in 2008) 49%–47%
Nebraska
5 electoral votes(Republican in 2004) 66%–33% (Republican in 2008) 57%–42%
Nevada
6 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 51%–48% (Democratic in 2008) 55%–43%
New Hampshire
4 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 50%–49% (Democratic in 2008) 54%–45%
New Jersey
14 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 52%–46% (Democratic in 2008) 57%–42%
New Mexico
5 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 50%–49% (Democratic in 2008) 57%–42%
Three Way race
New York
29 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 58%–40% (Democratic in 2008) 63%–36%
North Carolina
15 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 56%–44% (Democratic in 2008) 50%–49%
Ohio
18 electoral votes (Republican in 2004) 51%–49% (Democratic in 2008) 52%–47%
Oregon
7 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 51%–47% (Democratic in 2008) 57%–40%
Pennsylvania
20 electoral votes (Democratic in 2004) 51%–48% (Democratic in 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20simple%20triage | Computer-aided simple triage (CAST) are computerized methods or systems that assist physicians in initial interpretation and classification of medical images. CAST is a sub-class of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). CAST software systems perform a fully automatic initial triage (classification) of diagnostic medical imaging studies. CAST is primarily intended for emergency diagnostic imaging, where a prompt diagnosis of critical, life-threatening condition is required.
Overview
Computer-aided simple triage (CAST) is a combination of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) and simple triage and rapid treatment (START).
CAST performs a fully automatic initial interpretation of a study – a "wet read". Studies are automatically classified into some meaningful categories, e.g. positive/negative, critical/minor/normal, difficult/simple/non-diagnostic, etc.
CAST is primarily intended for emergency diagnostic imaging. Unlike traditional CAD, mainly used to detect malignant lesions, CAST deals with acute, life-threatening conditions, when a prompt diagnosis is time
critical. While the primary goal of the traditional CAD is improving the diagnostic accuracy of a human reader, the CAST addresses two other problems:
Low availability of image interpreters – no reader immediately available to read an urgent study – off hours, rural places, under-staffing
Reading sequence prioritization – given a large number of studies to read, establish the optimal reading sequence, e.g. urgent cases first; or, given several available readers, distribute the workload in the optimal way, e.g. simple cases to trainees, difficult to experts.
Use case scenario
As with the traditional CAD, CAST does not substitute the physician. It only alerts about the possibility of acute, critical condition, or suggests that the study is free of severe disease. In both cases, the diagnosis should be verified by a trained physician.
The clinical benefit is achieved:
for positive cases – by bringing expert's attention to critical cases faster than it would happen without CAST
for negative cases – by letting less experienced staff be the first to deal with simple negative cases, thus releasing pressure from less available experts.
Traditional CAD system usually plays the role of a "second reader" and is used after or during the interpretation
performed by physician. CAST, on the other hand, analyzes the study before the physician, in a background, fully automatic mode. By the time physician comes to read the study, the initial triage or "wet read" prepared by CAST is already available. CAST system can send a message to a physician to report an urgent case requiring immediate attention.
Sensitivity and specificity
Like any CAD system, CAST, in general, cannot guarantee 100% diagnostic accuracy.
Since CAST operates in a fully automated mode, the system is expected to exhibit very high sensitivity – usually above 90%. Moreover, the need to provide a diagnosis at "per study" level dictates stringent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20P%20%28disambiguation%29 | Station P may refer to:
Station P, an encampment in Antarctica
Station P (ocean measurement site)
Chugoku Communication Network, also known as Hiroshima Station P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seguwantivu%20and%20Vidatamunai%20Wind%20Farms | The Seguwantivu and Vidatamunai Wind Farms are two legally separate wind farms built together by Seguwantivu Wind Power and Vidatamunai Wind Power, on the south-east shore of the Puttalam Lagoon, in Puttalam, Sri Lanka.
The Seguwantivu Wind Farm utilizes thirteen wind turbines, while the Vidatamunai Wind Farm utilizes twelve wind turbines also of the same model, thus totalling the installed capacity to and respectively. The wind farm is approximately in length, and is diagonal from north-west to south-east, with the mainland on the north-east the Puttalam Lagoon on the south-west. The twelve northern turbines belong to Vidatamunai Wind Farm, while the thirteen southern turbines belong to Seguwantivu. The wind farms cost to construct.
The transportation of wind turbines from the Colombo Harbour to the wind farm site was carried out by Agility Logistics in late-2009. Power lines and telephone poles had to be permanently raised to in order to accommodate the transportation of large turbine parts from the Harbour to the construction site. The erection of each turbine required three cranes; a lattice crane with a boom, a crane, and a crane, all of which were imported. The wind farms together produces of electricity annually. A central control station, two indoor switch yards of each, , and an administration building has been built in the Mullipuram Village to support the operations of the wind farm.
See also
Electricity in Sri Lanka
List of power stations in Sri Lanka
References
Wind farms in Sri Lanka
Buildings and structures in Puttalam District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fairclough%20%28disambiguation%29 | John Fairclough was a computer designer.
John Fairclough may also refer to:
John Fairclough (MP) for Derby (UK Parliament constituency)
chorister, divine and chaplain sometimes known as John Fairclough John Featley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20caudata | A. caudata may refer to:
Aechmea caudata, a plant species native to Brazil
Artanthe caudata, a synonym for Piper marginatum, the cake bush, Anesi wiwiri, marigold pepper, Ti Bombé in Creole or Hinojo, a plant species found in moist, shady spots in the Amazon rainforest in Surinam, French Guiana and Brazil
See also
Caudata (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Development%2C%20Competitiveness%2C%20Infrastructure%2C%20Transport%20and%20Networks%20%28Greece%29 | The Ministry of Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Communications () was a Greek Government Ministry. It was established on June 21, 2012, following a proposal by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
It ranked sixth in among the cabinet ministries, according to Prime Ministerial decision Y4/21.6.2012.
The first Minister was Kostis Hatzidakis, with Stavros Kalogiannis as Alternate Minister.
Formation
The ministry was set up from departments of the former ministries of Infrastructure, Transport and Communications and Development, Competitiveness and Shipping—except those transferred to the Ministry of Shipping and Aegean—and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, which was transferred from the former Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs.
See also
Cabinet of Antonis Samaras
Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (Greece)
Development
2012 establishments in Greece
Ministries established in 2012
Defunct transport organizations based in Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-to-serial%20adapter | A USB-to-serial adapter or simply USB adapter is a type of protocol converter that is used for converting USB data signals to and from serial communications standards (serial ports). Most commonly the USB data signals are converted to either RS-232, RS-485, RS-422, or TTL-level UART serial data. The older serial RS-423 protocol is rarely used any more, so USB to RS423 adapters are less common.
Uses
USB-to-serial RS-232 adapters are often used with consumer, commercial and industrial applications and USB-to-serial RS-485/422 adapters are usually mainly used only with industrial applications. Currently, USB to TTL-level UART converters are used extensively by students and hobbyist as they can be directly interfaced to microcontrollers.
Adapters for converting USB to other standard or proprietary protocols also exist; however, these are usually not referred to as a serial adapter.
The primary application scenario is to enable USB-based computers to access and communicate with serial devices featuring D-sub (usually DB9 or DB25) connectors or screw terminals, where security of the data transmission is not generally an issue.
USB serial adapters can be isolated or non-isolated. The isolated version has opto-couplers and/or surge suppressors to prevent static electricity or other high-voltage surges to enter the data lines thereby preventing data loss and damage to the adapter and connected serial device. The non-isolated version has no protection against static electricity or voltage surges, which is why this version is usually recommended for only non-critical applications and at short communication ranges.
History
Historically, most personal computers had a built-in D-sub serial RS-232 port, also referred to as a COM port, which could be used for connecting the computer to most types of serial RS-232 devices. By the late '90s, many computer manufacturers started to phase out the serial COM port in favor of the USB port (in part dictated from the PC97 architecture, from Microsoft).
By the mid-2000s, some computers had both a serial COM port and a USB port; however, many no longer had a serial COM port by that time, and today most modern computers have no serial COM port but instead only USB ports.
Since many serial devices with an RS-232, RS-485 or RS-422 port are still in use and even still produced today, the disappearance of the serial COM port from personal computers has created a need for the USB to serial adapter.
Architecture
As a simplified example, a typical standard USB to serial adapter consists of a USB processor chip that processes the USB signals. The USB processor sends the processed USB signals to a serial driver chip which applies the correct voltages and sends the processed data signals to the serial output.
For the computer to be able to detect and process the data signals drivers must be installed on the computer. Some chip models have drivers installed by default, including FTDI, while drivers for other chip models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20virus%20families%20and%20subfamilies | This is a list of biological virus families and subfamilies. See also Comparison of computer viruses
This is an alphabetical list of biological virus families and subfamilies; it includes those families and subfamilies listed by the ICTV 2020 report.
For a list of individual species, see List of virus species.
For a list of virus genera, see List of virus genera.
For a list of virus realms, subrealms, kingdoms, subkingdoms, phyla, subphyla, classes, subclasses, orders, and suborders, see List of higher virus taxa.
Families
A
Abyssoviridae
Ackermannviridae
Adenoviridae
Adintoviridae
Aliusviridae
Alloherpesviridae
Alphaflexiviridae
Alphasatellitidae
Alphatetraviridae
Alvernaviridae
Amalgaviridae
Amnoonviridae
Ampullaviridae
Anelloviridae
Arenaviridae
Arteriviridae
Artoviridae
Ascoviridae
Asfarviridae
Aspiviridae
Astroviridae
Atkinsviridae
Autographiviridae
Avsunviroidae
B
Bacilladnaviridae
Baculoviridae
Barnaviridae
Belpaoviridae
Benyviridae
Betaflexiviridae
Bicaudaviridae
Bidnaviridae
Birnaviridae
Blumeviridae
Bornaviridae
Botourmiaviridae
Bromoviridae
C
Caliciviridae
Carmotetraviridae
Caulimoviridae
Chaseviridae
Chrysoviridae
Chuviridae
Circoviridae
Clavaviridae
Closteroviridae
Coronaviridae
Corticoviridae
Cremegaviridae
Crepuscuviridae
Cruliviridae
Curvulaviridae
Cystoviridae
D
Deltaflexiviridae
Demerecviridae
Dicistroviridae
Drexlerviridae
Duinviridae
E
Endornaviridae
Euroniviridae
F
Fiersviridae
Filoviridae
Fimoviridae
Finnlakeviridae
Flaviviridae
Fuselloviridae
G
Gammaflexiviridae
Geminiviridae
Genomoviridae
Globuloviridae
Gresnaviridae
Guelinviridae
Guttaviridae
H
Halspiviridae
Hantaviridae
Hepadnaviridae
Hepeviridae
Herelleviridae
Herpesviridae
Hypoviridae
Hytrosaviridae
I
Iflaviridae
Inoviridae
Iridoviridae
K
Kitaviridae
Kolmioviridae
L
Lavidaviridae
Leishbuviridae
Lipothrixviridae
Lispiviridae
M
Malacoherpesviridae
Marnaviridae
Marseilleviridae
Matonaviridae
Matshushitaviridae
Mayoviridae
Medioniviridae
Megabirnaviridae
Mesoniviridae
Metaviridae
Metaxyviridae
Microviridae
Mimiviridae
Mitoviridae
Mononiviridae
Mymonaviridae
Myoviridae
Mypoviridae
Myriaviridae
N
Nairoviridae
Nanghoshaviridae
Nanhypoviridae
Nanoviridae
Narnaviridae
Natareviridae
Nimaviridae
Nodaviridae
Nudiviridae
Nyamiviridae
O
Olifoviridae
Orthomyxoviridae
Ovaliviridae
P
Papillomaviridae
Paramyxoviridae
Partitiviridae
Parvoviridae
Paulinoviridae
Peribunyaviridae
Permutotetraviridae
Phasmaviridae
Phenuiviridae
Phycodnaviridae
Picobirnaviridae
Picornaviridae
Plasmaviridae
Plectroviridae
Pleolipoviridae
Pneumoviridae
Podoviridae
Polycipiviridae
Polydnaviridae
Polymycoviridae
Polyomaviridae
Portogloboviridae
Pospiviroidae
Potyviridae
Poxviridae
Pseudoviridae
Q
Qinviridae
Quadriviridae
R
Redondoviridae
Reoviridae
Retroviridae
Rhabdoviridae
Roniviridae
Rountreeviridae
Rudiviridae
S
Salasmaviridae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Python%27s%20Flying%20Circus%3A%20The%20Computer%20Game | Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game (referred to simply as Monty Python's Flying Circus in the game itself) is a 1990 scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Core Design. It was released by Virgin Games the Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and the ZX Spectrum. It is loosely based on material and characters from the 1970s British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in particular the Gumby character.
Reception
Contemporary reviews of the game were mixed, ranging from relatively high (89% for the Atari ST reissue from Zero magazine) to poor (47% for the Commodore 64 version from Zzap 64).
Gallery
References
External links
Monty Python's Flying Circus at MobyGames
1990 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Core Design games
Monty Python video games
Parody video games
Shoot 'em ups
Single-player video games
Video games based on television series
Virgin Interactive games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20V%C3%A1zsonyi | Andrew Vázsonyi (1916–2003), also known as Endre Weiszfeld and Zepartzatt Gozinto) was a Hungarian mathematician and operations researcher. He is known for Weiszfeld's algorithm for minimizing the sum of distances to a set of points, and for founding The Institute of Management Sciences.
Biography
Endre Weiszfeld was born on November 4, 1916, the middle son of a Jewish family in Budapest, where his father was the owner of a shoe store. At age 14, he met and befriended Paul Erdős (his elder by three years), and at age 16, he began working on the geometric median problem for which he would later publish a solution. He studied at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, from which he earned a doctorate in 1936. His thesis, on higher-dimensional surfaces, was supervised by Lipót Fejér. Because of increasing discrimination against Jews in the 1930s and following the lead of his cousin, politician Vilmos Vázsonyi, he changed his name in 1937 to Andrew Vázsonyi. The name comes from that of his father's native town, Nagyvázsony. During this period, Vázsonyi studied graph theory, working with Erdős on finding necessary and sufficient conditions for an infinite graph to have an Euler tour.
In 1938, Vázsonyi was invited by Otto Szász to escape Europe and work with Szász at the University of Cincinnati, but was only able to obtain a one-year student visa. Instead, he traveled to Paris, and finally succeeded in traveling to the US in April 1940, two months before France's fall to the Nazis. He spent a year at a Quaker workshop at Haverford, Pennsylvania, and in 1941 began graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Harvard University, studying there under Richard von Mises with the support of a Gordon McKay Fellowship. He earned an M.S. in 1942 and continued to work at Harvard for Howard Wilson Emmons, studying the design of supersonic aircraft. While at Harvard, he met and married Baroness Laura Vladimirovna Saparova, a musician and immigrant from Georgia whom he had met at Harvard's International Club.
In 1945, Vázsonyi took US citizenship and left Harvard, working as an engineer for the Elliott Company in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. From there, he moved to southern California, where he worked on missile design for North American Aviation. He moved to the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station in 1948, where he headed their missile guidance and control division, and in 1953 moved again to Hughes Aircraft. At Hughes, his interests shifted from aeronautics to management science. He began working on computerization of Hughes' payroll and production lines, and on diagramming parts requirements. His alias "Zepartzatt Gozinto" began during this period, when he visited the RAND Corporation and, during a presentation there, made a joke that was misinterpreted by attendee George Dantzig. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Vázsonyi continued to work on management science problems at several other companies, including the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, Roe Alderson, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Zhiming | Liu Zhiming may refer to:
Zhiming Liu (computer scientist) (born 1961), Chinese computer scientist
Liu Zhiming (athlete) (born 1989), Chinese Paralympic athlete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typescript | Typescript may refer to:
Manuscript that was typewritten
Script (Unix), a Unix command for recording terminal session whose output is referred to as typescript
TypeScript, a programming language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak%3A%20The%20Giant%20King | The Giant King (; ; ) (released as The Robot Giant in some countries and Yak in Thailand) is a 2015 Thai 3D computer-animated comic science fiction children's/family film starring Santisuk Promsiri, Kreadtisuk Udomnak, Boribroon Junrieng, Weranut Tippayamontol, Pawanrat Naksuriya, Caninap Sirisawut, Udom Tarpanich, Bawriboon Chanreuang, Nathan LaVelle, Santisuk Promsiri, Udom Taephanit, Kerttisak Udomnak and Chris Wegoda, directed by Prapas Cholsaranont and Chaiporn Panichrutiwong and distributed by Workpoint Picture. The story is a futuristic adaptation of the fable of Tosakan and Hanuman the Monkey King from the Thai version of the Ramayana, with robots for the main characters.
Plot
A re-interpretation of Ramayana, the Thai animation film tells the story of a giant robot, Na Kiew, who's left wandering in a barren wasteland after a great war. Na Kiew meets Jao Phuek, a puny tin robot who's lost his memory and is now stuck with his new big friend. Together they set out across the desert populated by metal scavengers, to look for Ram, the creator of all robots.
Cast
Original version
Santisuk Promsiri
Kreadtisuk Udomnak
Boribroon Junrieng
Weranut Tippayamontol
Pawanrat Naksuriya
Caninap Sirisawut
Udom Tarpanich
Bawriboon Chanreuang
Santisuk Promsiri
Udom Taephanit
Kerttisak Udomnak
Chris Wegoda
1st English version
Todd (tongdee) Lavelle as Big Green/Tossakan/The old mechanic/Brooks/9 Heads/Planet/Fireman/Fire foreman
Hugh Gallagher as Whitey/Hanuman
Stephen Thomas as Kum/Kok/Bartender/Mayor/Dr. Watt/Fireman/Work foreman/Old woman
Hailey Rodee as Rusty
Tabitha King as Sadayuu
Vincent Junior Bergeron as Mayor's son
Sean Bergeron as Friend of Mayor's son/Boy
Chris Wegoda as Fireman/Work foreman/Old woman
Mariam Tokarsky as Mayor's wife/Woman was robbed/Cat's owner
Ananya LO as Girl
2nd English version
Bella Thorne as Pinky
Russell Peters as Zork
Meg DeAngelis as Rusty
Gregg Sulkin as Flapper
Carlos PenaVega as Krudd
Romeo Lacoste as Bartender
Nathan Barnatt as Scrap Metal Dealer
Mark Steines as Bob the Mechanic
Gina Briganti as Mama Robot
Joseph Pfeiffer as Dad Robot
Dan O'Day-McClellan as Mayor
Mychal Simka as Various robots (uncredited)
Characters
Na Khiaw (Big Green/Tosakan, Zork in the U.S. version)
Ravana
Brooks
Phuak (Whitey/Hanuman, Pinky in the U.S. version)
Sanim (Rusty in both English versions)
Hanuman
Sadayuu (Flapper in the U.S. version)
Kok
Guard
Father
French Construction Worker
Mexican Worker
Tasokan
Awards
The Best Directors are Prapas Cholsaranont and Chaiporn Panichrutiwong, The Best Score is Jakkrapat Iamnoon, The Best Editors are Smith Timsawat, Punlop Sinjaroen and Prapas Cholsaranont, The Best Art Direction is Chaiporn Panichrutiwong, The Best Sound is made by Richard Hocks and The Best Original Song is "Kerd Ma Pen Phuen Ther" performed by Apiwat Eurthavornsuk.
Release
The film was theatrically released in 2012 and 2013 in Thailand and Russia in cinemas and in Australia and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprises%21 | Surprises! is an Australian pre-school children's television series which first aired on the Nine Network on 14 October 2012. It then aired on the network's 9GO! channel.
It was produced by Ambience Entertainment and was a spin-off series from William & Sparkles' Magical Tales, another show now airs on 9GO!
Surprises! is set in a stylised travelling space contraption where William the Wizard and Sparkles the Fairy are joined by their speedy courier friend, Digby Dash. Together the team lead a group of pre-schoolers on a thrilling journey as each new episode uncovers a daily surprise.
References
Nine Network original programming
9Go! original programming
Australian children's television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Orridge | Jeffrey Lyndon Orridge (born 1960) is the chief executive officer of TVOntario, the provincial educational television network. He was appointed effective November 30, 2020. Previously he served as 13th Commissioner of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and was the first African-American chief executive of a major North American sports league. Earlier in his career, Orridge served as COO of Right to Play and executive director of CBC Sports Properties.
Early life and education
Orridge is a New York native. His mother was a registered nurse and social worker and his father worked for the New York City Transit Authority. Orridge participated in track and field and played basketball in school until he tore his ACL. He graduated from the Collegiate School. He earned a psychology degree from Amherst College in 1982, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986.
Career
After graduating from law school, Orridge joined the corporate law firm Rogers & Wells before becoming executive director of Home Attendant Corp. at North General Hospital. In 1991, he became head of business and legal affairs at USA Basketball, the governing body for the Olympic sport. He was the organization's first in-house attorney. He left the organization in 1994 and joined Reebok International. In the mid to late 1990s, he became global sports marketing director for Reebok International, and was sports licensing director for Warner Bros. Consumer Products. He also served as senior vice president and general manager for Momentum Worldwide and in the early 2000s, and as chief marketing officer for OneNetNow, and has served as vice-president of worldwide licensing and entertainment and new business development for Mattel Inc.
In 2007, he was named chief operating officer at Right to Play in Canada, an organization that focused on the use of sports and play for development with children in disadvantaged countries, until 2011. In April 2011, Orridge became executive director of CBC Sports Properties. Orridge also served as general manager for the Olympics on CBC. It was during this period that CBC Sports lost the broadcast rights to Hockey Night in Canada.
In March 2015, Orridge became the first African-American chief executive of a major North American sports league when he became the 13th commissioner of the Canadian Football League (CFL). In April 2017, it was announced that due to philosophical differences between Orridge and the board of governors over the future of the CFL, Orridge would step down from his position as commissioner of the CFL, effective June 30, 2017. His final day as CFL commissioner was June 15, 2017, with Jim Lawson taking over the Commissioner role on an interim basis. He was succeeded by Randy Ambrosie as commissioner on July 5, 2017.
Under Orridge's leadership at TVOntario, the provincial broadcaster experienced the first labour strike in its 53-year history.
Controversy
In 2016, Orridge received media attention after saying there was no conclusive l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Gernelle | François Gernelle (born December 20, 1944) is a French engineer, computer scientist and entrepreneur famous for inventing the first micro-computer using a micro-processor, the Micral N.
Education
In the late 1960s, Gernelle earned an engineering degree at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 1978, he earned a Ph.D. in computer science at the Pierre Mendès-France University of Grenoble.
Career
Intertechnique and R2E
In 1968, he was hired by Intertechnique, a company specialized in electronic measurement for aviation. There he discovered the Intel 8008 microprocessor and imagined all its potential applications. As his hierarchy didn't share his views on the i8008 development capacity, he resigned in 1972 and joined R2E, a company created and led by Paul Magneron. He designed the Micral N micro-computer to answer a request of INRA to measure agricultural hygrometry. During this project, he granted two patents. In 1973 he supported the Micral N and, with the company's growth, helped to design 20 other multi-user microcomputers for some were multi-processor one.
Bull Micral
In 1981, the Bull company acquired R2E and he then joined the new entity Bull Micral. But the company wanted him to design IBM PC compatible machines and François Gernelle didn't agree because he thought this machine was poorly designed, using an 8 bit single-tasking single-user i8088 powered by a poor operating system. In his mind, this kind of poor computer design was a dead-end at a time where really good micro-processors existed and offered capacity to design powerful multi-user and multi-tasking systems at medium and even low cost.
FORUM International
In 1983, he resigned from Bull and founded a new company named FORUM International to create professional computers powered by Prologue OS.
References
External References
This article is based on the French Wikipedia article.
Interview with F. Gernelle issued in Le Choc du Mois issue #18 of december 2007 .
«La naissance du premier micro-ordinateur: le Micral N» ("Birth of the first micro-computer: the Micral N") article written by F.Gernelle where he talks about his career at R2E, Bull and the creation of FORUM International.
French engineers
1944 births
Living people
French computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Old%20Man%20and%20the%20Big%20%27C%27 | "The Old Man and the Big 'C" is the third episode of the eleventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy and the 191st episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 4, 2012. It was initially going to be aired on October 21, 2012 but due to a previous rainout, the NLCS Game 6 bumped all the sitcoms of Animation Domination.
Plot
At a Boston Red Sox ballgame, Quagmire accidentally loses his toupée going for a fly ball, and it was put up on the scoreboard and YouTube. When he becomes a laughingstock both at the game and due to a Kia Motors-sponsored story with the slogan, "Too bad it's a Kia," on Quahog 5, he decides to ditch the wig. The change in his appearance affects his attitude. The guys become reluctant to hang out with him and convince him to get a hair transplant.
At the hospital for Quagmire's hair transplant, Brian wanders off and overhears that Carter has terminal cancer. He returns and tells Stewie who confirms it via online camera in the Pewterschmidt house. Brian tells Lois who rounds up the family and heads for her parents' home, but when they arrive they find Carter in good health, Lois becomes angry at a stunned Brian for surprising her like that, with Meg shaming him, and Peter saying "he will get it when he drinks". Brian suspects that Carter is an impostor in order to protect the family business interests and convinces Stewie to come with him to prove his theory.
Brian and Stewie follow Carter around in Pewterschmidt Industries in order to prove he is an impostor. They hear Carter talking to one of his executives about a "Specimen Z" in the sub-levels that might be the description for the "real" Carter Pewterschmidt. While sneaking into a sub-level medical facility to find "Specimen Z," Brian and Stewie discover that "Specimen Z" is actually for a chemical that is the cure for cancer. Carter finds them in the room where it is being held and reveals that he has been sitting on the cure since 1999 in order to protect his sales of treatment pharmaceuticals. Carter then has the security guards throw Brian and Stewie out.
As Brian fumes on their way home, Stewie reveals that he stole the cure. They take it home to show Lois, but Carter arrives with his men to take it back and Brian tells what it is. Lois is appalled, but Carter refuses to show pity until she brings up some of his closest loved ones possibly dying of cancer. After an argument with Lois, Carter promises to reveal the cure.
The next day in a press release, Carter only gives the news of a new type of deodorant for mentally disabled people called "Slow Stick" (a parody of Speed Stick), which is also apparently edible. Lois calls to find out why he did not reveal the secret as Carter reveals that he lied before hanging up on her. The episode ends with Peter assuring to Lois that they will get over the fact that Carter's a bad man when he is shown on the cover of Forbes Magazine with devil-like horns.
Reception
The e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUPID | The MUPID (short for "Mehrzweck Universell Programmierbarer Intelligenter Decoder" in German) or MUPID A320 was an early home computer like system introduced in 1981, designed and invented by Hermann Maurer at TU Graz, Austria to be used as a Bildschirmtext terminal, but it was also capable of being used as a stand-alone computer.
It had a Zilog Z80 microprocessor and came with BASIC as operating system, 128 KB of RAM, a V.24 1200/75 baud modem, audio input/output for tape recorder, a parallel printer interface and an optional external floppy drive unit. At the time it excelled in having advanced color graphic capabilities.
There were several model variations: the MUPID C2D (square case with separate keyboard) and MUPID C2D2 were available in Germany, the MUPID C2A2 or "Komfort MUPID" (later models) were available in Austria.
The Mupid was also sold under other brands, as the Grundig PTC 100 (C2D2 variation in a different color) and the Siemens T3110 (C2D variation).
A card for older IBM PC compatibles with an ISA slot was developed that gave a PC the same graphics capabilities as a MUPID.
The original Mupid A320 was followed in 1983 by the MUPID II. This version supported the CEPT Prestel standard, had a better keyboard, a 320 × 240 graphics mode, four voice sound, two DIN6 joystick connectors, a DIN8 tape interface, a DB25 modem, a DE9 serial connector and a DIN8 external disk drive connector.
References
Home computers
Videotex
Telecommunications in Germany
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Talcott | Carolyn Talcott (born June 14, 1941) is an American computer scientist known for work in formal reasoning, especially as it relates to computers, cryptanalysis and systems biology. She is currently the program director of the Symbolic Systems Biology group at SRI International.
She is currently the co-editor-in-chief of Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation. Talcott married John McCarthy (computer scientist) and had a son.
Early life and education
Carolyn was born to Howard Talcott and Harriet Louise Mitchell who were Presbyterians from Idaho.
Talcott earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985. Her dissertation, The Essence of RUM: A Theory of the Intensional and Extensional Aspects of LISP-Type Computation, was supervised by Solomon Feferman.
Awards and memberships
Talcott was named an SRI Fellow in 2011. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Association for Symbolic Logic.
References
External links
List of publications from DBLP
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Systems biologists
University of Denver alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University faculty
1941 births
People from Caldwell, Idaho
SRI International people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20poetry | Code poetry is literature that intermixes notions of classical poetry and computer code. Unlike digital poetry, which prominently uses physical computers, code poems may or may not run through executable binaries. A code poem may be interactive or static, digital or analog. Code poems can be performed by computers or humans through spoken word and written text.
Examples of code poetry include: poems written in a programming language, but human readable as poetry; computer code expressed poetically, that is, playful with sound, terseness, or beauty.
A variety of events and websites allow the general public to present or publish code poetry, including Stanford University's Code Poetry Slam, the PerlMonks Perl Poetry Page, and the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
See also
Black Perl - A poem in perl
PerlMonks – New poems are regularly submitted to the community
Recreational obfuscation - Writing code in an obfuscated way as a creative brain teaser
School for Poetic Computation
References
Bibliography
Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr, ./code —-poetry, Broken Sleep Books (2023).
Francesco Aprile, Code Poems: 2010-2019, Post-Asemic Press (2020).
Charles Hartman, Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press (1996).
Ishac Bertran, code {poems}, Barcelona: Impremta Badia (2012).
External links
Daniel Holden & Chris Kerr's multi-lingual code poetry collection
Francesco Aprile, Computer poems. Dall’archeologia al source code poetry, in Utsanga.it, #09, september 2016
News Report: First Stanford code poetry slam reveals the literary side of computer code
Wired Magazine: Code Isn’t Just Functional, It’s Poetic
GitHub: Leslie Wu's Stanford code poetry slam winning entry
Francesco Aprile code poetry source since 2010
Ishac Bertran's code poetry collection from 2012
ChucKu: 3 lines of code
Poetry movements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomography | Anatomography is an interactive website which supports generating anatomical diagrams and animations of the human body. The Anatomography website is maintained by the DBCLS (Database Center for Life Science) non-profit research institute located at the University of Tokyo. Anatomical diagrams generated by Anatomography, and 3D polygon data used on the website (called BodyParts3D), are freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Description
Anatomography was launched on Feb. 9, 2009 by founder and chief director , professor of the DNA Data Bank of Japan at the National Institute of Genetics.
Human body polygon data used in the site are called "BodyParts3D". BodyParts3D polygon data are extracted from full-body MRI images. The MRI image set that BodyParts3D is based on is called "TARO". Taro is a common given name for males in Japanese, as John is in English. TARO is a 2mm * 2mm * 2mm voxel dataset of the human male created by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. TARO was published freely in November, 2004.
The construction process of BodyParts3D is as follows.
Phase 1: Additional anatomical segmentations were introduced in the original TARO data.
Phase 2: Then, missing details were supplemented and blurred contours were clarified using a 3D editing program by referring to textbooks, atlases, and mock-up models by medical illustrators.
Phase 3: Further segmentation and data modification will continue in collaboration with clinical researchers until sufficient concept coverage is achieved.
BodyParts3D polygon data are distributed in the OBJ file format. The entire data file's size is 127 MB (polygon reduced) and 521 MB (high quality) as of version 3.0. The number of body parts (organs) registered in BodyParts3D is 1,523 as of version 3.0.
License
Images generated by Anatomography and the polygon data included in BodyParts3D are licensed under the Creative Commons license, in hope of widening usage and democratizing medical knowledge.
Funding
The BodyParts3D/Anatomography project was funded by MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) from FY2007 to FY2010. As of FY2011, the project has been funded by the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency).
Reception
Diagrams from Anatomography are used, for example, in Canadian science TV show Le code Chastenay, Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, as lecture material in universities, and elsewhere to share knowledge. About usage of Anatomography on websites like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, developers say "spreading of usages by anonymous users on like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons is what we had expected."
Technical features
BodyParts3D/Anatomography project uses the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA). The FMA is an open-source anatomical ontology developed and maintained by the Structural Informatics Group at the University of Washington. In BodyParts3D, each body-part is managed by an FMA ident |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lease%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a Lease is a contract that gives its holder specified rights to some resource for a limited period. Because it is time-limited, a lease is an alternative to a lock for resource serialization.
Motivation
A traditional resource lock is granted until it is explicitly released by the locking client process. Reasons why a lock might not be released include:
The client failed before releasing the resources
The client deadlocked while attempting to allocate another resource
The client was blocked or delayed for an unreasonable period
The client neglected to free the resource, perhaps due to a bug
The request to free the resource was lost
The resource manager failed or lost track of the resource stated
Any of these could end the availability of an important reusable resource until the system is reset. By contract, a lease is valid for a limited period, after which it automatically expires, making the resource available for reallocation by a new client.
History
The term 'lease' was applied to this concept in a 1989 paper by Cary G. Gray and David R. Cheriton, but similar concepts (expiring tokens and breakable locks with timeouts) had been used in prior systems.
Problems
Leases are commonly used in distributed systems for applications ranging from DHCP address allocation to file locking, but they are not (by themselves) a complete solution:
There must be some means of notifying the lease holder of the expiration and preventing that agent from continuing to rely on the resource. Often, this is done by requiring all requests to be accompanied by an access token, which is invalidated if the associated lease has expired.
If a lease is revoked after the lease holder has started operating on the resource, revocation may leave the resource in a compromised state. In such situations, it is common to use Atomic transactions to ensure that updates that do not complete have no effect.
References
Concurrency control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202012%20%28Colombia%29 | This is a list of the National-Report Top 100 Nacional number-one songs of 2012. Chart rankings are based on radio play and are issued weekly. The data is compiled monitoring radio stations through an automated system in real-time.
Number ones by week
References
Number-one hits
Colombia
Colombian record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo%20%28software%29 | Servo is an experimental browser engine designed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language. It seeks to create a highly parallel environment, in which rendering, layout, HTML parsing, image decoding, and other engine components are handled by fine-grained, isolated tasks. It also makes use of GPU acceleration to render web pages quickly and smoothly.
Servo has always been a research project. It began at the Mozilla Corporation in 2012, and its employees did the bulk of the work until 2020. This included the Quantum project, when portions of Servo were incorporated into the Gecko engine of Firefox.
After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020, governance of the project was transferred to the Linux Foundation. Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.
History
Development of Servo began at the Mozilla Corporation in 2012. The project was named after Tom Servo, a robot from the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.
In 2013, Mozilla announced that Samsung was collaborating on the project. Samsung's main contribution was porting Servo to Android and ARM processors. A Samsung developer also attempted to re-implement the Chromium Embedded Framework API in Servo, but it never reached fruition and the code was eventually removed.
The Acid2 test was passed in 2014, and Servo could render some websites faster than the Gecko engine of Firefox. By 2016, the engine had been further optimized. The same year, Mozilla began the Quantum project, which incorporated stable portions of Servo into Gecko.
Servo was the engine of two augmented reality browsers. The first was for a Magic Leap headset in 2018. Then the Firefox Reality browser was released in 2020.
In August 2020, Mozilla laid off many employees, including the Servo team, to "adapt its finances to a post-COVID-19 world and re-focus the organization on new commercial services". Governance of the Servo project was thus transferred to the Linux Foundation.
In January 2023, the Servo project announced that new external funding had enabled a team of developers to reactivate the project. The initial roadmap focused on selecting one of the two existing layout engines for further development, followed by working towards basic CSS2 conformance.
References
External links
2016 podcast about Servo
Free software programmed in Rust
Layout engines
Linux Foundation projects
Mozilla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Auxiliary%20Memory | Media Auxiliary Memory or Medium Auxiliary Memory (MAM) refers to a chip embedded into a digital media device (usually a tape cartridge) that stores a small amount of data or metadata that a computer can read without having to read the actual tape.
MAMs can be used by the tape driver to increase efficiency, or by custom software to store & retrieve custom data.
Some examples of MAM's are Cartridge Memory (HP/Seagate/IBM LTO) and MIC (Sony AIT).
References
Digital media
Tape-based computer storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redpine%20Signals | Redpine Signals is a fabless semiconductor company that started its operation in 2001. The company makes chipsets and system-level products for wireless networks. It serves the Internet of Things and wireless embedded systems market, enabling all volume levels of chipsets and modules.
In 2005, Redpine Signals developed a low power 802.11 b/g chipset, which it licensed to a semiconductor company for use in its product or SoC as a wireless interface.
The company established a single stream 802.11n Wi-Fi product in 2007 for handheld devices.
In 2012, Redpine Signals developed a simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi 11n/BT 4.0 + 5 GHz MIMO 11ac convergence SoC for smartphones and tablets.
The company also introduced a simultaneous dual-band 450 Mbit/s 3x3 802.11n chipset for digital home and enterprise applications.
In 2020, its connectivity business, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth products, its development center in Hyderabad, and patent portfolio, was acquired by Silicon Labs.
Products and services
Redpine Signals' products include single stream 802.11abgn chipsets and modules, and system products for Wi-Fi based Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS). The company also offers 'Wi-Fi Starter Kits' that include Redpine Wi-Fi Interface cards integrated with microcontroller development kits from partnership companies.
There is an open-source device driver mainlined in the Linux kernel for some rsi91x hardware that uses the mac80211 framework. Other drivers are documented in Comparison of open-source wireless drivers.
The company offers a comprehensive Internet of Things IoT platform that includes hardware boards, application development environment, cloud software and services framework as well as a product synthesis solution for synthesizing the final product. The platform significantly reduces the time it takes to develop and bring to market new IoT devices by providing integrated sensing, computing, communication, power management, cloud and application support.
References
External links
Redpine Signals Home Page
Redpine champions 5GHz WiFi for M2M
RedPine Signals Intros Dual-Frequency Wi-Fi RFID Tag
Frost & Sullivan Presented the 2012 Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards
Red Herring Americas 2012 Top 100
Rutronik introduces Redpine Signals‘ new 5 GHz Wi-Fi RTLS tags
Redpine Signals Introduces Industry’s First 5 GHz Wi-Fi RTLS Tags
Ascom i62 VoWiFi delivers longer battery life, enhances enterprise productivity
Migrating to the 5 GHz Wi-Fi Band Will Advance RTLS and M2M Communications
Why Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things will move to 5 GHz
Brainstorm: M2M Communications
M2M Communications with Wi-Fi in the 5 GHz Band
Redpine Signals Unveils WiSeConnect
Televic Selects Redpine Signals Wi-Fi Technology for the Next Generation of its Confidea® Audio Conferencing Solution
Semiconductor companies of the United States
Chipsets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr%20%26%20Mrs%20Murder | Mr & Mrs Murder is a 13-part Australian crime comedy television series produced by FremantleMedia Australia in association with Bravado Productions. It originally ran on Network Ten on from 20 February to 15 May 2013. The murder mystery series follows the adventures of married couple Nicola and Charlie Buchanan, who run an industrial cleaning business specialising in crime scenes. They use this experience to become amateur sleuths. In the United Kingdom, the show was shown on satellite channel Sky Living, and picked up for broadcast by Channel 5 from Network Ten along with the shows Wentworth and Secrets and Lies.
Cast
Shaun Micallef as Charlie Buchanan
Kat Stewart as Nicola Buchanan
Jonny Pasvolsky as Detective Peter Vinetti
Lucy Honigman as Jess Chalmers
Episodes
DVD and Blu-ray releases
See also
Crime Scene Cleaner (TV series)
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
Australian comedy-drama television series
Australian workplace comedy television series
2010s Australian crime television series
2013 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings
2010s mystery television series
Mystery television series
Detective television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows set in Melbourne
Cozy mystery television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20G.%20Wolf | Catherine Gody Wolf (May 25, 1947 - February 7, 2018) was an American psychologist and expert in human-computer interaction. She was the author of more than 100 research articles and held six patents in the areas of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and collaboration. Wolf was known for her work at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, where she was a 19-year staff researcher.
In the late 1990s, Wolf was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Despite a rapid physical deterioration, Wolf was still able to communicate with the world via electronic sensory equipment, including a sophisticated brain-computer interface. Remarkably, with almost no voluntary physical functions remaining, she published novel research into the fine-scale abilities of ALS patients.
Education
Wolf completed her undergraduate degree at Tufts University, where she majored in psychology. In 1967 she met her future husband, Joel Wolf, then a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both continued on to graduate school at Brown University, where Catherine focused her research on the way that children perceive speech. After Brown, Wolf completed additional postgraduate work at MIT before entering the workforce as a full-time researcher.
Career
Wolf's career focused on human-computer interaction. In 1977, she joined Bell Labs, where she became a human factors manager. Eight years later, she began her tenure as a research psychologist at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM's research headquarters. During her time at IBM, Wolf was particularly interested in learning how people interact with software in the workplace. In response to behaviors she observed, she designed and tested new interface systems in which speech and handwritten words could be converted to digital information. Among other technologies, Wolf worked on a system known as the Conversation Machine, which was the precursor of today's phone banking systems: users could access their accounts by conversing with an automated voice system. She also published papers on the sharing of information in the workplace and search in the context of technical support.
In all, Wolf held title to six patents and more than 100 research articles. In 1997, she was diagnosed with ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease, which eventually prevented her from performing her normal work duties. Wolf went on long-term disability leave in 2004 and officially retired from IBM in 2012. Even after losing almost all muscle function, however, Wolf still contributed to research on human-computer interaction. She also did work with the Wadsworth Center, part of the New York State Department of Health, as a tester of various systems. In 2009, Wolf also published a research article extending a scale commonly used to assess the progression of ALS (known as the ALSFRS-R) to more finely assess the abilities of people with advanced ALS. This paper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IgroMir | IgroMir (, Gaming World) was the first large-scale annual exhibition of computer and video games in Russia, organized in Moscow by the committee of the Russian Game Developers Conference since 2006.
The exhibition quickly grew to a four-day event (Thursday to Sunday), with the first day reserved for industry members, the press, and VIPs. It was held on the first weekend of November at VDNKh Exhibition Center for its first five years, then from 2011 moved to Crocus Expo and was held on the first weekend of October. Since 2014, Comic-Con Russia has been held as part of IgroMir and attendance has averaged 160,000 people, the capacity of the venue.
History
2006
The exhibition was first held from 4 to 5 November 2006, at the VDNKh Exhibition Center. According to the organizers, attendance exceeded 25,000 people. About 45 domestic and foreign companies were present, showing more than 100 games for different platforms.
2007
In 2007, IgroMir returned to the VDNKh Center for an expanded exhibition from 2 to 4 November (Friday to Sunday). The exhibition area increased from , and there were about 45,000 to 50,000 visitors, including exhibitors and the press. The exhibition was attended by domestic game companies such as Russobit-M, 1C, Akella, and Nival Online, as well as by Western publishers such as Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo, Sega and others. Some games were shown to the public for the first time. Many were presented by developers, such as Epic Games President Mike Capps, Ubisoft's Jade Raymond and representatives of Bizarre Creations, Creative Assembly and Running with Scissors.
2008
IgroMir continued to grow and switched to a four-day format (Thursday to Sunday) held from 6 to 9 November in 2008. The first day was called the business day in which games were presented to industry members and the press in arelaxed business setting. The remaining three days were open to the public. The total number of visitors exceeded 65,000 people, with more than 120 exhibitors. Among them were leading western companies: Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo, Sega, Ubisoft, and Blizzard Entertainment. The total exhibition area increased to .
2009
The 2009 exhibition again took place at the VDNKh Center from 5 to 8 November. According to estimates of the organizers and the VDNKh police department, the exhibition was visited by 82,000 people. The exhibition attracted domestic game companies (such as 1C, Akella, Buka, Nival), and Western companies Microsoft, Sony Computer Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Activision, Nintendo and Sega. VIP guests to the exhibition included Joe Kucan and Anatoly Wasserman.
2010
In 2010, the fifth IgroMir was held from 3 to 6 November at VDNKh, and was partnered with Gamer.ru social network and Mail.ru. The exhibition was attended by more than 110 companies, and occupied more than of exhibition space. The business day was attended by more than 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical%20agent | A pedagogical agent is a concept borrowed from computer science and artificial intelligence and applied to education, usually as part of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). It is a simulated human-like interface between the learner and the content, in an educational environment. A pedagogical agent is designed to model the type of interactions between a student and another person. Mabanza and de Wet define it as "a character enacted by a computer that interacts with the user in a socially engaging manner". A pedagogical agent can be assigned different roles in the learning environment, such as tutor or co-learner, depending on the desired purpose of the agent. "A tutor agent plays the role of a teacher, while a co-learner agent plays the role of a learning companion".
History
The history of Pedagogical Agents is closely aligned with the history of computer animation. As computer animation progressed, it was adopted by educators to enhance computerized learning by including a lifelike interface between the program and the learner. The first versions of a pedagogical agent were more cartoon than person, like Microsoft's Clippy which helped users of Microsoft Office load and use the program's features in 1997. However, with developments in computer animation, pedagogical agents can now look lifelike. By 2006 there was a call to develop modular, reusable agents to decrease the time and expertise required to create a pedagogical agent. There was also a call in 2009 to enact agent standards. The standardization and re-usability of pedagogical agents is less of an issue since the decrease in cost and widespread availability of animation tools. Individualized pedagogical agents can be found across disciplines including medicine, math, law, language learning, automotive, and armed forces. They are used in applications directed to every age, from preschool to adult.
Learning theories related to pedagogical agent design
Distributed cognition theory
Distributed cognition theory is the method in which cognition progresses in the context of collaboration with others. Pedagogical agents can be designed to assist the cognitive transfer to the learner, operating as artifacts or partners with collaborative role in learning. To support the performance of an action by the user, the pedagogical agent can act as a cognitive tool as long as the agent is equipped with the knowledge that the user lacks. The interactions between the user and the pedagogical agent can facilitate a social relationship. The pedagogical agent may fulfill the role of a working partner.
Socio-cultural learning theory
Socio-cultural learning theory is how the user develops when they are involved in learning activities in which there is interaction with other agents. A pedagogical agent can: intervene when the user requests, provide support for tasks that the user cannot address, and potentially extend the learners cognitive reach. Interaction with the pedagogical agent may elicit a vari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20modifiers | Access modifiers (or access specifiers) are keywords in object-oriented languages that set the accessibility of classes, methods, and other members. Access modifiers are a specific part of programming language syntax used to facilitate the encapsulation of components.
In C++, there are only three access modifiers. C# extends the number of them to six, while Java has four access modifiers, but three keywords for this purpose. In Java, having no keyword before defaults to the package-private modifier.
When the class is declared as public, it is accessible to other classes defined in the same package as well as those defined in other packages. This is the most commonly used specifier for classes. However, a class itself cannot be declared as private. If no access specifier is stated, the default access restrictions will be applied. The class will be accessible to other classes in the same package but will be inaccessible to classes outside the package. When we say that a class is inaccessible, it simply means that we cannot create an object of that class or declare a variable of that class type. The protected access specifier too cannot be applied to a class.
Names of keywords
C++ uses the three modifiers called public, protected, and private. C# has the modifiers public, protected ,internal, private, protected internal, private protected, and file. Java has public, package, protected, and private; package is the default, used if no other access modifier keyword is specified. The meaning of these modifiers may differ from one language to another. A comparison of the keywords, ordered from the most restrictive to the most open, and their meaning in these three languages follows. Their visibility ranges from the same class to the package where the class is defined to a general access permission. Below, the maximal access is written into the table.
In Swift, there are five different access levels relative to both the source file in which the entity is defined and the module containing that source file.
Example in C++
#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
struct B { // default access modifier inside struct is public
void set_n(int v) { n = v; }
void f() { cout << "B::f" << endl; }
protected:
int m, n; // B::m, B::n are protected
private:
int x;
};
struct D : B {
using B::m; // D::m is public
int get_n() { return n; } // B::n is accessible here, but not outside
// int get_x() { return x; } // ERROR, B::x is inaccessible here
private:
using B::f; // D::f is private
};
int main() {
D d;
// d.x = 2; // ERROR, private
// d.n = 2; // ERROR, protected
d.m = 2; // protected B::m is accessible as D::m
d.set_n(2); // calls B::set_n(int)
cout << d.get_n() << endl; // output: 2
// d.f(); // ERROR, B::f is inaccessible as D::f
B& b = d; // b references d and "views" it as being type B
// b.x = 3; // ERROR, private
// b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Berezin | Evelyn Berezin (April 12, 1925 – December 8, 2018) was an American computer designer of the first computer-driven word processor. She also worked on computer-controlled systems for airline reservations.
Early life and education
Berezin was born in the east Bronx in 1925 to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, and attended Christopher Columbus High School. She started university at the age of sixteen at Hunter College in January 1941, studying Economics instead of the Physics she preferred because it was preferred as a subject for women at that time. After WWII started, new opportunities made the study of physics possible with a scholarship at New York University, plus free classes at both Hunter and Brooklyn Polytech during the war years. At the same time, she worked full-time during the day as an assistant in the Rheology Department of the Research Division of the International Printing Company (IPI). Going to university at night, she received her B.S. in physics in 1946.
Career and contributions
Berezin began graduate work at New York University, holding a fellowship from the United States Atomic Energy Commission. In 1951 she accepted a job with the Electronic Computer Corporation and began there as head of the Logic Design Department. Berezin was the only person doing the logic design for computers being developed by ECC. In 1957 ECC was purchased by Underwood Corporation (originally known as the Underwood Typewriter Company). Here, she designed a number of computers which were very general in structure but individual in specific application. Among them was a system for the US Army for range calculations, a system for controlling the distribution of magazines, and what is now considered the first office computer.
The Underwood Typewriter Company was not able to continue the development beyond 1957, and Berezin went to a company called Teleregister, formerly a division of Western Union.
Using vacuum tube computers and electromechanical switching, Teleregister had built one of the first airline reservation systems, the "Reservisor". Using newly available transistor technology, Berezin developed a computerized reservation system for United Airlines which was one of the largest computer systems at that time, controlling 60 cities in a communication system that provided 1 second response time. While working for Teleregister, Berezin also developed the first computerized banking system.
In 1960, Berezin had a job offer from the New York Stock Exchange retracted strictly because she was a woman, despite being one of few qualified for the job.
In 1968, Berezin had the idea for a word processor to simplify the work of secretaries, and in 1969 she founded Redactron Corporation, which became a public company and delivered thousands of systems to customers throughout its international marketing organization. The company's main product was called the "Data Secretary" and it was the size of a small refrigerator, had no screen, and the keyboar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20W.%20Cooper | William Wager Cooper (July 23, 1914 – June 20, 2012) was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as "Mr. Linear Programming". He was the founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences, founding editor-in-chief of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University), founding dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs (now the Heinz College) at CMU, the former Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University, and the Foster Parker Professor Emeritus of Management, Finance and Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin.
Biography
William Wager Cooper was born on July 23, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in Chicago, where his father (a former bookkeeper) owned several gasoline stations that closed in the Great Depression. Cooper, in his second year of high school, dropped out to help support his family. He worked in a bowling alley, on a golf course, and as a professional boxer. As a boxer, he won 58 bouts, lost three, and drew two. While commuting to the golf course, he met Eric Kohler, a professor at Northwestern University, who pushed him to go back to school and bankrolled his entry to the University of Chicago. At Chicago, he began studying physical chemistry but was inspired by his work for Kohler on a legal case to switch to economics, graduating with a B.A. and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1938.
After graduation, from 1938 to 1940, he worked as an accountant for the Tennessee Valley Authority, where Kohler had become Controller. There, he worked on performance auditing and the mathematical allocation of resources, and helped Kohler testify to a congressional investigative committee. In 1940, Cooper started doing graduate studies at Columbia University; however, in 1942, with his coursework completed but his thesis unwritten, he left Columbia to serve his country during World War II. He worked in the Division of Statistical Standards of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget coordinating the government programs that collected accounting statistics; his 1945 paper describing his wartime activities was the first recipient of an award from the American Institute of Accountants for the best paper of the year.
Cooper began his academic career with a brief teaching stint, from 1944 to 1946, back at the University of Chicago.
In 1945, Cooper married his wife Ruth, a lawyer and human activist, and in 1946 he joined the newly formed Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University). There, he formed important research collaborations with Abraham Charnes, George Leland Bach, and Herbert A. Simon, and eventually became University Professor. While at CMU, from 1949 to 1950, he also worked again as an assist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20manufacturing%20network | A Virtual Manufacturing Network is a manufacturing network which is not owned by a simple company, but it is built with the use of ICT for bringing together different suppliers and alliance partners creating in such a way a virtual network which is able to operate as a solely owned supply network.
A Virtual Manufacturing Network is in this way a Collaborative network of manufacturing enterprises (from OEMs to Suppliers), which are connected by means of ICT for configuring, managing and monitoring the manufacturing process.
Many companies have adopted a philosophy of acquiring worldwide resources through a virtual network for minimizing expenses in their whole operation, focusing on core competences and relying to other companies with specific expertise to take over the parts of the manufacturing process they cannot perform by themselves.
The evolution of a Virtual Manufacturing Network is a Dynamic Manufacturing Network, which describes a more flexible and agile manufacturing network, that is able to be instantiated or dissolved quite rapidly, in order to meet emerging market needs and business opportunities.
Notes
Manufacturing
Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terengganu%20Welcome%20Sign | Terengganu Welcome Sign or Mercu Tanda Selamat Datang ke Negeri Terengganu is a famous landmark in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. This landmark is located at the hill of Bukit Besar. Motorists coming into Kuala Terengganu via the Jalan Tengku Mizan see this as their first landmark other than Kuala Terengganu. The signs read: Allah Peliharakanlah Terengganu (God saves Terengganu).
Buildings and structures in Terengganu
Kuala Terengganu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM%20big.LITTLE | ARM big.LITTLE is a heterogeneous computing architecture developed by ARM Holdings, coupling relatively battery-saving and slower processor cores (LITTLE) with relatively more powerful and power-hungry ones (big). Typically, only one "side" or the other will be active at once, but all cores have access to the same memory regions, so workloads can be swapped between Big and Little cores on the fly. The intention is to create a multi-core processor that can adjust better to dynamic computing needs and use less power than clock scaling alone. ARM's marketing material promises up to a 75% savings in power usage for some activities. Most commonly, ARM big.LITTLE architectures are used to create a multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC).
In October 2011, big.LITTLE was announced along with the Cortex-A7, which was designed to be architecturally compatible with the Cortex-A15. In October 2012 ARM announced the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 (ARMv8-A) cores, which are also intercompatible to allow their use in a big.LITTLE chip. ARM later announced the Cortex-A12 at Computex 2013 followed by the Cortex-A17 in February 2014. Both the Cortex-A12 and the Cortex-A17 can also be paired in a big.LITTLE configuration with the Cortex-A7.
The problem that big.LITTLE solves
For a given library of CMOS logic, active power increases as the logic switches more per second, while leakage increases with the number of transistors. So, CPUs designed to run fast are different from CPUs designed to save power. When a very fast out-of-order CPU is idling at very low speeds, a CPU with much less leakage (fewer transistors) could do the same work. For example, it might use a smaller (fewer transistors) memory cache, or a simpler microarchitecture such as a pipeline. big.LITTLE is a way to optimize for both cases: Power and speed, in the same system.
In practice, a big.LITTLE system can be surprisingly inflexible. One issue is the number and types of power and clock domains that the IC provides. These may not match the standard power management features offered by an operating system. Another is that the CPUs no longer have equivalent abilities, and matching the right software task to the right CPU becomes more difficult. Most of these problems are being solved by making the electronics and software more flexible.
Run-state migration
There are three ways for the different processor cores to be arranged in a big.LITTLE design, depending on the scheduler implemented in the kernel.
Clustered switching
The clustered model approach is the first and simplest implementation, arranging the processor into identically sized clusters of "big" or "LITTLE" cores. The operating system scheduler can only see one cluster at a time; when the load on the whole processor changes between low and high, the system transitions to the other cluster. All relevant data are then passed through the common L2 cache, the active core cluster is powered off and the other one is activated. A Cache Coherent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20dependence%20graph | In computer science, a Program Dependence Graph (PDG) is a representation of graph notation, that makes a program's dependencies (both data dependencies and control dependencies) explicit.
These dependencies are used during dependence analysis in optimizing compilers to make transformations so that multiple cores are used, and parallelism is improved.
See: dependency graph.
References
Parallel computing
Application-specific graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Corp.%20v.%20Shah | Microsoft Corp. v. Shah was an
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) case heard before the
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Microsoft sued the defendants, Amish Shah and others, for, among other charges, contributory cybersquatting for encouraging others, through videos and software, to infringe on Microsoft's trademarks. The case was settled out of court in July 2011 after judge Ricardo S. Martinez denied Shah's motion for dismissal. Legal observers suggested that, if upheld, the case would prove notable for the court's expansion
of the ACPA liability to include contributory cybersquatting.
Background
Amish Shah, with help from the other defendants, registered domain names containing Microsoft trademarks, and induced others to register similar domains. Some of these domains used possible misspellings of trademarked Microsoft names. Consumers seeking Microsoft products could mistakenly end up at the defendants' website and be tricked into downloading the defendants' products. In addition to cybersquatting, the defendants also produced instructions (including a video) on how to use Microsoft's marks in a misleading manner to maximize traffic to the website. Shah also offered a software system that enabled buyers to easily create websites incorporating Microsoft's marks.
On the basis of the latter, Microsoft made claims for contributory cybersquatting and contributory trademark dilution, in addition to cybersquatting, trademark dilution, and trademark infringement. Defendants moved to dismiss the claims for contributory cybersquatting and contributory dilution, arguing that such causes of action are not recognized under law. The ACPA created liability only for registering, trafficking, or using a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to a protected mark. Additionally, the ACPA required proof that the defendant acted with "bad faith with intent to profit from the mark."
Opinion of the Court
Judge Ricardo Martinez decided against dismissal on January 12, 2011, affirming that Microsoft had a possible case against Shah. The court first noted that while contributory trademark infringement is well established, the ACPA, unlike trademark law, required a showing of "bad faith intent." Previous courts, notably in Ford Motor Co. v. Greatdomains.com, reasoned that a higher standard was required for claims of contributory cybersquatting.
The court noted that the decision of the Ford court indicated that the court had recognized a cause of action under contributory cybersquatting, but found in favor of GreatDomains.com since Ford failed to show the requisite bad faith by GreatDomains.com. The Judge noted that in this particular case, the facts clearly demonstrated bad faith with an intent to profit, and as such denied the defendants' motion to dismiss. While the ACPA does not explicitly address causes of action under contributory liability, the court noted that action under the ACPA is a to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satinath%20Sarangi | Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi was born in Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India, on 25 September 1954. Since 1984 he has lived in Bhopal. Sarangi has been involved with the multiple activities run by a network of local, national, and international groups, pursuing health and economic needs, fighting legal claims, providing medical support, and working to ensure remembrance of the Bhopal disaster of 1984. Sarangi is the founder of several activist organizations and is also the founder and manager of Sambhavna Trust.
Studies
Educational Qualification: Master of Technology (M Tech) (Metallurgical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi. He enrolled for Ph.D. in 1980 but dropped out in 1984.
Activism before 1984
Sarangi's work as a campaigner started early as he became involved in various campaigns including indigenous people's struggle for self-determination in Bihar and the Society of Social Workers, students involved in organizing low-caste agricultural workers.
Activism in Bhopal
Sarangi arrived in Bhopal the next day after the Bhopal disaster, when on the night of 2–3 December 1984 the gas was released. He immediately started exposing the issues of health care and defending the rights of the victims. Thus, he had to deal with the violence of the police and authorities. When other activists left Bhopal, he stood by. Being well-educated, he supported the victims, their organizations, and unions.
In December 1984, he was one of the founders of Zahareeli Gas Kand Sangharsh Morcha (Poisonous Gas Episode Struggle Front), an organization of survivors of the Union Carbide in the Bhopal disaster. In 1986, he founded the Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA). In 1989, he made a campaign tour to the US, UK, Ireland, and The Netherlands.
He was a member of the organizing committee for the Bhopal session of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Industrial and Environmental Hazards and Human Rights in 1992, and the National Organizing Secretary for the International Medical Commission on Bhopal in 1994.
Awards
The University Gold medal for topping M Tech exam.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, BHU 2008.
Honorary graduate/Ph.D. at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh 2009.
Ground Zero Patriot, Tehelka magazine, 2009.
Man of the year, The Week Magazine 2010.
Award of Excellence 2010–11, Association of IT-BHU Alumni, New Delhi.
The Sambhavna Trust was awarded the Japanese Tajiri Muneaki prize in 1999, the national ‘Inner Flame Award’ for outstanding humanitarian work in 2001, the international Margaret Mead Award in 2002, and the International Regenerative Health Care Award from CleanMed 2009/Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), USA in 2009
Publications
S. Sarangi, T. Zaidi, R.K. Pal, D. Katgara, V. G. Gadag, S. Mulay, and D.R. Varma, Effects of Exposure of Parents to Toxic Gases in Bhopal on the Offspring. American Journal of Industrial Medicine;53(8):836-41, 2010
Satinath Sarangi. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Hagen%20%28footballer%29 | For the computer scientist, see Hans Hagen
Hans Hagen (15 July 1894 – 11 October 1957) was a German international footballer.
Club career
Twice he was crowned German football champion with SpVgg Fürth in the 1920s.
International career
Hagen won 12 caps between 1920 and 1930 for the Germany national team.
References
External links
1894 births
1957 deaths
Men's association football defenders
German men's footballers
Germany men's international footballers
German football managers
Sportspeople from Fürth
Footballers from Middle Franconia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao%20Ming | Zhao Ming may refer to:
Xiao Tong (萧统), formally Crown Prince Zhao Ming (昭明太子), son of Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty (502-577) compiler of the Zhao Ming essays, the first anthology of essays in China
Zhao Ming, film director; director of The Adventures of Sanmao the Waif (1949)
Zhao Ming (footballer, born 1984) (赵铭 born 1984), Chinese football player
Zhao Ming (footballer, born 1987) (赵铭 born 1987), Chinese football player
Zhao Ming (actress) (赵铭 1987), Chinese actress who appears in the film Let the Bullets Fly 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami%20al-tafsir | Jami al-tafsir, also spelled as Jame Tafasir, is a multimedia software produced by the Noor Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences. It is a tafsir in the form of an encyclopedia of the Qur'an.
The Jame tafsir contains an exhibition of complete texts of 184 commentaries of different Islamic sects in 1225 volumes such as: Min Wahy al-Qur`an, al-Tebyan Fi Tasfir al-Qur`an, Noor al-Thaqalain, Kashful Asrar wa Edatol Abrar, Tafsir al-Qur`an al-Karim, al-Amthal Fi Tafsir al-Ketab al-Munzal, al-Mizan Fi Tafsir al-Qur`an from Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei, Tafsir Nemouneh, Majma’ al-Bayan Fi Tafsir al-Qur`an, Tafsir Rawdh al-Jinan and Tafsir Beidhawi.
The aim of the software is to provide content and options to simplify the research path for researchers of Islamic sciences and Qur'anic scholars.
References
Multimedia
Tafsir works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finjan%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Secure%20Computing%20Corp. | Finjan, Inc. v. Secure Computing Corp., 626 F.3d 1197 (2010), was a patent infringement case by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit involving "proactive scanning" technology for computer security. The Federal Circuit made a mixed decision after hearing the appeals from both sides. In terms of infringement, the Federal Circuit affirmed Secure Computing's infringement on Finjan's system and storage medium patent claims but reversed the infringement on Finjan's method claim. In terms of damage award, the Federal Circuit not only affirmed the previous $9.18 million award by the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, but also remanded for the district court to assess the extra damages between the post-judgement and pre-injunction period.
Background
Brief history in the Lower Court
Finjan, Inc.("Finjan"), a company providing enterprise web security solutions, sued Secure Computing Corp. (acquired by McAfee in 2008), Cyberguard Corp., and Webwasher AG (collectively, "Secure") in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware for infringement of three U.S. patents (U.S. Patents No. 6,092,194, No. 6,804,780, and No. 7,058,822). Defendants counterclaimed against Finjan for infringement of two U.S. Patents (No. 6,357,010 and No. 7,185,361). In the decisions, the jury concluded that all of the patents mentioned above were valid and Finjan did not infringe upon the defendants' patents. The defendants, however, infringed on all of the asserted patent claims by Finjan. The district court awarded $9.18 million enhanced damages to Finjan under , and imposed a permanent injunction against the defendants.
After the verdict in the lower court, the defendants appealed both infringement and damages. Finjan, on the other hand, cross-appealed only the district court's damage ruling, claiming that additional damages should be awarded for the peiord between post-judgment and pre-injunction.
Patents and claims from Finjan
In this case, Finjan owned three patents related to proactive scanning technique. They were used to detect and defeat previously unknown, Internet-based threats to computers. The brief descriptions of each patent are listed below.
'194 Patent: It included method claims, system claims and storage medium claims that can comprising the steps of receiving, comparing Downloadable and preventing execution of the Downloadable in order to detect and prevent threats.
'780 Patent: it had the same title as the '194 patent and also included method, system and storage medium claims. This patent covered "caching" or identifying previously encountered downloadable files.
'822 Patent: it included both method and system claims and addressed "sandboxing" potentially dangerous downloadables with protective code.
Undisputed facts
Defendants sold three accused computer security products: a "Webwasher" software download, a "Webwasher" hardware appliance and a "Cyberguard TSP" hardware appliance. All three pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus%20of%20Electronic%20Texts | The Corpus of Electronic Texts, or CELT, is an online database of contemporary and historical documents relating to Irish history and culture. As of 8 December 2016, CELT contained 1,601 documents, with a total of over 18 million words. In 1992, CELT originated from the ashes of an unsuccessful partnership between University College Cork (UCC/NUI) and the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) through a project named CURIA. According to CELT, the database "caters for academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public, all over the world".
References
External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Databases in Ireland
Culture of Ireland
Irish digital libraries
Online databases
University College Cork
Computer-related introductions in 1992
1992 establishments in Ireland
Corpora
Libraries established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochoidea%20pyramidata | Trochoidea pyramidata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Distribution
This species occurs around the Mediterranean Sea.
References
Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. 2 pp. (Avertissement a sa Majesté l'Impératrice), 2 pp. Rapport, i-viii (Préface), 1-164, pl. 1-13, 1 p. Errata.
Mousson, A. (1859). Coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles, recueillies dans l'Orient par M. le Dr. Alex. Schläfli. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich, 4 (1): 12-36; 4 (3): 253-297. Zürich
Walderdorff R. (1864). Systematisches Verzeichnis der im Kreise Cattaro (Süd-Dalmatien) mit Ausnahme der Biela-Gora und in einigen angrenzenden Theilen von Montenegro und türkisch Albanien vorkommenden Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 14: 503‑514
Trochoidea (genus)
Gastropods described in 1805 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Friedman | Carol Friedman is a scientist and biomedical informatician. She is among the pioneers the use of expert systems in medical language processing and the explicit medical concept representation underpinning the use of entity–attribute–value modeling underpinning electronic medical records.
Life
Before her doctoral degree, working under the direction of Naomi Sager at New York University, she also contributed to the development of second generation medical language processing systems. After her doctoral degree in computer science (natural language processing) under Dr. Ralph Grishman at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University, she has developed annotative clinical information systems that have been integrated in the New York–Presbyterian Hospital, and the Columbia University Medical Center.
She is recognized for her development, translation to clinical practice and evaluation of the MedLEE medical language processing system. MedLEE is in daily use for clinical decision support at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. She adapted and evaluated the MedLEE system to build biomolecular and genotype-phenotype networks (GENIES and BioMedLEE respectively). MedLEE and GENIES exemplify the translation to practice of the sub-language theory proposed by Zellig Harris that Friedman pursued. In summary, she has been demonstrating the value of natural language processing for a broad range of clinical and biomedical applications that include decision support, automated encoding, vocabulary development, sub-language grammar applied to biomedicine, clinical research, outcomes analysis, error detection, and genomics research.
Friedman is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Friedman was a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine from 2007 to 2011, and has published over 150 articles.
Publications
References
External links
Living people
United States National Library of Medicine
Health informaticians
New York University alumni
Columbia University faculty
Columbia Medical School faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
City College of New York alumni
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Natural language processing researchers
Data miners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome%20to%20Briarcliff | "Welcome to Briarcliff" is the first episode of the second season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on October 17, 2012 on the cable network FX. In its original airing, the episode was watched by 3.85 million viewers, the largest audience of the franchise thus far, 2.8 million of which were from the 18–49 demographic.
This episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special in 2013. It was also nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie and Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie.
The episode introduces the season's main cast. It follows reporter Lana Winters' (Sarah Paulson) plight to expose Sister Jude's (Jessica Lange) sadistic insane asylum and Kit Walker's (Evan Peters) unjust commitment to the institution. Chloë Sevigny guest stars as Shelley, a patient at the asylum. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
Plot
Flashing forward to 2012, Leo and Teresa, two recently married horror fanatics, visit Briarcliff, an abandoned mental institution. While reaching through a hatch in one of the doors to peek a camera in a room that the couple heard noise in, Leo's arm is severed. Teresa runs to get help, but finds the entryway locked up behind them. When looking for another way out, she discovers a hidden tunnel and encounters one famous serial killer who resided in the asylum, "Bloody Face", wearing a mask of human skin.
In 1964, Kit Walker lives with his African-American wife Alma, in secret. While at home together, a series of explosions, bright lights, loud noises and apparent anti-gravity occur during which Alma disappears and Kit is rendered unconscious. He is supposedly kidnapped and operated on by aliens.
Lana Winters, an ambitious journalist tired of fluff stories given to her by her paper, goes on her own to Briarcliff Sanitarium to report on the commitment of serial killer "Bloody Face". Sister Jude Martin, the asylum's authoritarian administrator, does not take a liking to Lana or her questioning. Unknown to anyone, Jude harbors sexual feelings for the sanitarium's founder, Monsignor Timothy Howard, who is an ambitious priest aiming to become Pope. At the sanitarium, the alleged murderer is Kit, accused of skinning three women – including Alma – alive. He is being held pending determination if he is sane enough to stand trial. Kit denies ever killing anyone, blaming Alma's disappearance instead on extra-terrestrials, which Jude does not believe.
Kit later encounters other inmates, including Shelley, a nymphomaniac, and Grace, a seemingly sane patient committed for allegedly killing and cutting up her family. Spivey, a bully in the asylum, picks a fight with Kit. Jude breaks up the fight, and the guards drag Kit to solitary confinement.
Jude has a conversation with the institution's physician, Dr. Arden. She wonders why some patients who had died under mysterious circumstances all had no family or friends and as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HafenCity%20Universit%C3%A4t%20station | HafenCity Universität () is a rapid transit station on line U4 of the Hamburg U-Bahn network in the district of HafenCity in central Hamburg, Germany. The station is named after the nearby HafenCity Universität.
History
The station was designed by Munich-based architecture firm Raupach Architekten. The design makes reference to the changing colors typical to the HafenCity, caused by reflections throughout the day by the wharf buildings' red brick and the ship hulls' iron and steel.
Groundbreaking on the branch of the U2 from Jungfernstieg to HafenCity, now known as the U4, took place on 23 August 2007, with construction beginning in February 2008. The station structure was completed on 11 May 2010 and interior work took place until its opening on 29 November 2012. Until 10 August 2013, HafenCity Universität station was open only on weekends and public holidays; since then it is served regularly.
HafenCity Universität served as the terminus station of line U4 from its opening until the U4 was extended one station further eastwards to Elbbrücken on 7 December 2018.
Service
Trains
HafenCity Universität is served by Hamburg U-Bahn line U4; departures are every 10 minutes.
Gallery
See also
List of Hamburg U-Bahn stations
References
External links
Line and route network plans, hvv.de
100 Jahre Hochbahn, hochbahn.de
Hamburg U-Bahn line U4 , hochbahn.de
Hamburg U-Bahn stations in Hamburg
U4 (Hamburg U-Bahn) stations
Buildings and structures in Hamburg-Mitte
Railway stations in Germany opened in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DI%20Corporation | DI Corporation is a South Korean company involved in the manufacture and supply of semiconductors test equipment and computer chips. DI stands for Dongil.
Ownership
Its executive chairman is Park Won-ho, father of the K-Pop artist PSY, who released the song "Gangnam Style" in July 2012.
PSY, together with his father, uncle and grandmother own a combined 30 percent of the company. The company's headquarters are located in Gangnam District, Seoul.
History
The company was established on June 10, 1955.
It was listed on the Korea Stock Exchange in 1996.
In 2003, it expanded and began operations overseas with the establishment of DI Japan Corp.
Meteoric rise of share prices
According to Reuters, the company's market capitalization doubled in value after the release of "Gangnam Style", surging to 113.5 billion won ($101.29 million) in late September, 2012.
In October 2012, Bloomberg L.P. reported that the "father-son connection" to the "Gangnam Style" music video has triggered an almost 500 percent rally in shares of DI Corporation. The Economist compared its remarkable surge in share prices with stock market bubbles such as the 17th century Tulip mania.
By the end of 2012, shares of DI corporation have surged eightfold since the release of the song.
External links
Official website of DI Corporation
References
Companies of South Korea
Companies based in Seoul
Electronics companies established in 1955
Semiconductor companies of South Korea
South Korean brands
Companies listed on the Korea Exchange
South Korean companies established in 1955 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospike%20%28database%29 | Aerospike Database is a real-time, high performance NoSQL database. Designed for applications that cannot experience any downtime and require high read & write throughput. Aerospike is optimized to run on NVMe SSDs capable of efficiently storing large datasets (Gigabytes to Petabytes). Aerospike can also be deployed as a fully in-memory cache database. Aerospike offers Key-Value, JSON Document, and Graph data models. Aerospike is open source distributed NoSQL database management system, marketed by the company also named Aerospike.
History
Aerospike was first known as Citrusleaf. In August 2012, the company - which had been providing its database since 2010 - rebranded both the company and software name to Aerospike. The name "Aerospike" is derived from the aerospike engine, a type of rocket nozzle that is able to maintain its output efficiency over a large range of altitudes, and is intended to refer to the software's ability to scale up. In 2012, Aerospike acquired AlchemyDB, and integrated the two databases' functions, including the addition of a relational data management system. On June 24, 2014, Aerospike was opensourced under the AGPL 3.0 license for the Aerospike database server and the Apache License Version 2.0 for its Aerospike client software development kit.
Release history
Features
Aerospike Database is modeled under the shared-nothing architecture and written in C. It operates in three layers: a data storage layer, a self-managed distribution layer, and a cluster-aware client layer.
Aerospike uses hybrid memory architecture: the database indices are stored fully in main random-access memory, while the data is stored on a persistent device using the data layer. The data layer stores the data in solid-state drive, NVMe or Persistent memory. Reading the data is done using a direct access to the record position on disk using a direct pointer from the primary index, and data writes are optimized through large block writes to reduce latency. This architecture to fetch all records from the persistent device and void the use of data cache. Aerospike also provides the ability to store the data fully in RAM, thus acting as an in-memory database. In that case, data would be persisted to either SSD, NVMe, PMEM or traditional rotational media.
Aerospike provides single-record ACID transactions. The distribution layer is responsible to replicate the data across nodes to ensure the durability and immediate consistency properties of the transaction. This allows the database to remain operational even when an individual server node fails or is manually removed from the cluster. Since version 4.0 (2018), Aerospike Database can be configured both as Available and Partition-tolerant (AP) or Consistent and Partition-tolerant (CP) under the CAP theorem.
The client cluster-aware layer is used to track the cluster configuration in the database, and manages client direct communications to all the nodes in the cluster. The clustering is done using h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Simons | Geoffrey Leslie Simons (23 November 1939 – 31 August 2011), best known as Geoff L. Simons was a British freelance writer. In the 1980s, he was chief editor at the National Computing Centre in Manchester. A prolific author of non-fiction, he wrote books about sex, computers and politics, particularly the history of the Middle East.
Career
Geoff Simons was born in Stockport, and lived in or around Greater Manchester throughout his life. He worked as an Information Officer at several companies, as well as working as a technical author and editor. He wrote hardware and software manuals at Ferranti and ICL. As Chief Editor at the NCC, he established Computer Journal Abstracts and wrote summaries for over 20,000 computer articles.
Simons was a critic of US foreign policy, regarding sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s as genocide, and the United States as "a plutocracy that shapes foreign policy in the cynical calculation of elitist commercial advantage". In later life he was a frequent correspondent to newspapers, seeing his letters published in The Times, the Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Morning Star. He died on 31 August 2011. He was survived by his widow, Christine, children, grandchildren and great-granddaughter.
Skepticism
Simons was an atheist and skeptic. He was a member of Greater Manchester Humanists. In his book Is God a Programmer?, he defended atheism and criticized the argument from design.
Works
Sex in the modern world, 1970.
A history of sex, 1970.
Sex tomorrow, 1971.
Does sex make you feel guilty?, 1972.
Pornography without prejudice: a reply to objectors, 1972.
A place for pleasure: the history of the brothel, 1973.
The witchcraft world, 1974.
The Simons book of sexual records, 1975.
Introducing microprocessors, 1979.
Robots in industry, 1980.
The uses of microprocessors, 1980.
Introducing word processing, 1981.
Women in computing, 1981.
The illustrated book of sexual records, 1982. Second ed., 1985.
Privacy in the computer age, 1982.
Computers in engineering and manufacture, 1982.
The book of world sexual records, 1983.
Sex and superstition, 1983.
Are computers alive? Evolution and new life forms, 1983.
Automating your office, 1984.
Computer bits and pieces: a compendium of curiosities, 1984.
Expert systems and micros, 1985.
Towards fifth-generation computers, 1986.
Is man a robot, 1986.
Introducing artificial intelligence, 1984.
The biology of computer life: survival, emotion and free will, 1985.
Silicon shock: the menace of the computer invasion, 1985.
(with R. T. Doswell) Fraud and abuse of IT systems, 1986.
Eco-computer: the impact of global intelligence, 1987.
What is software engineering?, 1987.
Introducing software engineering, 1987.
Evolution of the intelligent machine: a popular history of AI, 1988.
Is God a programmer?: religion in the computer age, 1988.
Silicon psychosis: derangement in the global network, 1989.
Viruses, bugs and star wars: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamadelic | , was Data East's "house band" composed of Data East music composers. Its name is a pun of "game" and "delicious". They were like "Oh My Deco" in the name of the candidate bands.
See also
S.S.T. Band - Sega's house band.
Zuntata - Taito's house band.
Konami Kukeiha Club - Konami's house band.
Alph Lyla - Capcom's house band.
J.D.K. Band - Nihon Falcom's house band.
Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan - SNK's house band before becoming Playmore and then SNK Playmore.
ADK Sound Factory - ADK's house band.
Scitron - Known for publishing music albums officially by Gamadelic.
References
Japanese instrumental musical groups
Japanese rock music groups
Video game composers
Video game music cover bands
Video game musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HornAfrik%20Media%20Inc | HornAfrik was a media organization based in Mogadishu, Somalia. Prior to its closure in 2010, it was the first independent radio network to have its headquarters in the city. HornAfrik operated Radio HornAfrik, as well as one other radio station, a television station, a website and a training research center.
History
HornAfrik.net was established in 1999 by, Mohamed Elmi and Ali Iman Sharmarke, three Somali emigrants to Canada who arrived after the start of the civil war in their country of birth. They later returned to Mogadishu following a period of relative calm in order to finalize market research that they had conducted on the feasibility and technological equipment necessary to start a new media company in the city. Concluding that the project was workable, HornAfrik was subsequently officially opened on 12 December 1999.
Prior to the Somali Army's pacification of Mogadishu in August 2011, HornAfrik operated from a temporary premises in the capital. The network's transmissions of international segments earned it criticism from religious fundamentalists, with the Al-Shabaab militant group routinely launching attacks against the company and its staff. HornAfrik's co-founder Sharmarke was among those killed in 2007, at the height of this Islamist insurgency in southern Somalia. Despite the threats of violence, HornAfrik persevered and continued to air outside programs.
In 2008, HornAfrik celebrated its ninth anniversary. It permanently closed down operations the following year.
Programs and services
HornAfrik.net broadasted 18 hours daily. Besides Mogadishu, its FM transmissions reached several other regions in the nation. They could also be heard in other parts of the continent via satellite, as well as in Europe, Asia and Australia. Worldwide, the network's broadcasts were accessible through the internet.
HornAfrik.net ran a number of popular call-in programs. These segments allowed residents of Mogadishu and the surrounding area to share their views on various issues of local interest, including topics related to culture, health, religion, peace, education and economy. In the past, the network also used to air interviews with faction leaders who at the time controlled parts of the city.
Additionally, HornAfrik broadcast Somali language programming from the BBC and Voice of America. It also engaged in some philanthropic work.
Network
The HornAfrik media network consisted of Radio HornAfrik, as well as the Capital Voice private radio station. It also included a television station, HornAfrik TV, in addition to a website and a training research center.
According to MENASSAT, the Arab world media resource, HornAfrik TV during its existence operated six channels in Somali and Arabic, the two official languages of Somalia.
Awards
In 2002, the Somali-Canadian founders of HornAfrik were honored as the winners of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE's) International Press Freedom Award. HornAfrik was presented the award for its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance%20Oz | Surveillance Oz is an Australian factual television series screened on the Seven Network that premiered in October 2012. In May 2015, spin-off series Surveillance Oz: Dash Cam launched.
In March 2019, Seven Studios announced that Surveillance Oz will return with Season 6 in 2021.
About
Every day tens of thousands of cameras in cars are monitoring what goes on across the roads of Australia, and you will not believe what they are recording. In this series, you see in real time the accidents, road rage incidents and dangerous driving that happens around the country, all captured on dashcams.
Series overview
Episodes
Series 1 (2012)
Series 2 (2013)
Series 3 (2014)
Series 4 (2016)
Series 5 (2016–2018)
Series 6 (2021)
Season 6 of Surveillance Oz has already aired in New Zealand & Australia.
Surveillance Oz Specials
See also
List of Australian television series
References
Australian factual television series
Seven Network original programming
2012 Australian television series debuts
Television series by Seven Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/360%20Model%2044 | The IBM System/360 Model 44 is a specialized member of the IBM System/360 family, with a variant of the System/360 computer architecture, designed for scientific computing, real-time computing, process control and numerical control (NC).
The Model 44 was announced August 16, 1965 and withdrawn September 24, 1973.
Architecture
The base Model 44 lacks the storage-to-storage character and decimal instruction sets of a standard System/360, however an "extended instruction set" feature was available to provide the missing instructions. The machine features four unique instructions: Change Priority Mask (CHPM), Load PSW Special (LPSX), Read Direct Word (RDDW), and Write Direct Word (WRDW).
The system comes with four memory sizes: E (32 KiB), F (64 KiB), G (128 KiB), and H (256 KiB), with an access time of 1 μs, which puts it closer to the Model 65 (.75 μs) than the Model 50 (2.0 μs). Storage protection is an optional feature.
General purpose registers are normally located in a non-addressable portion of 1 μs core storage termed "bump storage". For added speed, the general purpose registers can be implemented in Solid Logic Technology (SLT) circuitry with an access time of .25 μs.
A unique feature of the Model 44 is "variable-length precision floating point arithmetic".
It has the same short floating-point instructions and long floating-point instructions as the other models in the System/360 line, but it also has a rotary switch on the front panel which can be used to set the precision of long floating-point numbers. The mantissa portion of long floating-point numbers can be chosen as 32, 40, 48, or 56 bits, with 56 bits being the standard value. Whatever the setting, long floating-point numbers still occupy 64 bits in memory (the first eight bits are the sign and the exponent); the setting only leads, when it was less than 56 bits, to long floating-point operations ignoring some of the least significant bits of these numbers. This provides an improvement in speed when greater precision is not needed.
An optional feature provides six external interrupt lines.
The direct word feature allows the transfer of a full 32-bit word of information between an external device and main storage. This differs from the standard System/360 direct control feature which transfers a single byte. The Write Direct Word instruction places the contents of a word in memory as static signals on the 32 direct-out lines and uses the I2 field of the instruction as up to eight timing pulses. The Read Direct Word reads the 32 direct-in lines into memory and sends the I2 field as timing pulses.
Write Direct Word ('B4'x): WRDW D1(B1),I2
Read Direct Word ('B5'x): RDDW D1(B1),I2
The direct data channel feature provides a fast, simple data transfer capability. Controlled by standard System/360 I/O instructions and commands, it allows the connection of external devices that perform word-by-word data transfers with the Model 44 CPU at transfer rates up to 4 MiB/s.
The pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kero%20Kero%20Keroppi%20no%20Daibouken | Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken is a series of video games for the Nintendo Family Computer that lasted from 1991 to 1993.
Series
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken
is based on the popular Sanrio character Keroppi. Released on the Nintendo Family Computer console in Japan in 1991.
Big Adventure is a children's puzzle game where Keroppi must rescue his girlfriend Keroleen who is locked up in a castle. To do so, he must solve the action based puzzles in seven differently themed worlds with four different types of stages (the surface of the maze, flying a plane, a Reversi-like level, and through a field of lava). All the items in the game are pre-determined; there is a need to memorize the pattern for each playthrough so that a player may advance through the levels more quickly once they have achieved a degree of expertise in the game.
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken 2: Donuts Ike ha Oosawagi
is a Japan-exclusive action video game video game for children that was released on the Family Computer console in 1993.
This video game has Sanrio's character searching for lost children who have been kidnapped by monsters. Essentially a standard Wagan Land clone, the player controlling the cartoon frog has to leap around platforms jumping on baddies or killing them with his croak weapon. Each bonus level involves matching characters from the Sanrio franchise in a format similar to the card game Concentration. Intermission screens show the progress of the character throughout the game.
Levels range from the forest to a seaside setting.
Kero Kero Keroppi no Bouken Nikki
is a Japan-exclusive role-playing game released for Super Famicom in 1994. The subtitle is a reference to Sleeping Beauty, and the plot revolves around rescuing Keroleen after she is kidnapped in the woods during a picnic.
References
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken at GameFAQs
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken at SuperFamicom.org
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken at SFC no Game Seiha Shimasho
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken at ocn.ne.jp
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken 2: Donuts Ike ha Oosawagi! at GameFAQs
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken 2 at SuperFamicom.org
Credit information for Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken 2 at GeoCities.jp
Kero Kero Keroppi no Bouken Nikki at MobyGames
1991 video games
1993 video games
Character Soft games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Sanrio video games
Sega franchises
Video game franchises
Video game franchises introduced in 1991
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1%20Vorobjov | Tomáš Vorobjov (; born 1984) is a Slovak amateur astronomer and an observer and discoverer of minor planets, in particular near-Earth objects.
He is the director of the IASC Data Reduction Team and is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 9 numbered minor planets.
In October 2012, Vorobjov discovered 276P/Vorobjov, a periodic comet and his first comet discovery. He also discovered the trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in April 2012.
The Florian main-belt asteroid 4858 Vorobjov, discovered by American astronomer James Gibson at Palomar in 1985, was named after him.
Discoveries
Near-Earth objects
2011 EB7 (Mar 1, 2011)
2011 HD63 (May 1, 2011)
2011 PW6 (Aug 8, 2011)
2013 EP41 (Mar 9, 2013)
2013 FC11 (Mar 21, 2013)
2014 FG33 (Mar 26, 2014)
2014 GF45 (Apr 6, 2014)
2014 QP362 (Aug 26, 2014)
2014 WG70 (Nov 17, 2014)
Centaurs
2013 GY54 (Mar 8, 2013)
2015 FK37 (Mar 20, 2015)
TNOs
(432949) 2012 HH2 (Apr 19, 2012)
2014 FP43 (Mar 28, 2014)
2014 GE45 (Apr 6, 2014)
2014 QF433 (Aug 26, 2014)
2014 UH192 (Oct 28, 2014)
2014 WT69 (Nov 17, 2014)
TVPS8GA (Nov 20, 2014) - lost
2015 FP36 (Mar 19, 2015)
References
1984 births
Discoverers of asteroids
Discoverers of comets
Living people
Slovak astronomers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Bendigo%20tram%20stop | North Bendigo is the sixth tram stop in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, on the Vintage 'Talking' Tram network which is operated by Bendigo Tramways, under the supervision of The Bendigo Trust.
History
North Bendigo was opened to the public upon completion of the North Bendigo section of tramway, on 23 November 1942. The former Charing Cross - Lake Weeroona section of tramway was diverted from its former location, and on to its current location near the former Commonwealth Government Ordnance Factory, adjacent to the Yungera railway line in North Bendigo. Following the closure of the former SEC Bendigo public tramways, the stop has been used for tourism purposes, due to its close proximity to the Bendigo Joss House Temple.
Facilities
North Bendigo consists of an original 1930s tram stop shelter and has toilet facilities available (Disabled Accessible) for customers.
References
Trams in Bendigo
Bendigo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20B.S.%20of%20A.%20with%20Brian%20Sack | The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack was an American sketch comedy program that aired on TheBlaze television network. The show premiered on November 11, 2011. The show's name derived from the title of host Brian Sack's book, The B.S. of A.: A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted (Simon & Schuster, 2011),
The show featured comedic sketches interspersed with a "panel of experts" discussing topical news items. The "experts" were improvisational actors often portraying celebrities or absurd characters.
Despite being on a network owned by right-wing pundit Glenn Beck, the show routinely made jokes at the expense of political figures and politics of all party affiliations. Beck told The Daily Beast that he green-lit the show under the condition that Sack not play any political favorites, telling him, "if it deserves to be poked at, poke."
Cast
Jack Helmuth served as show runner and occasional performer. Sack acted as host, writer and performer. All cast members were drawn from the Upright Citizen's Brigade improvisational comedy theater in New York City.
The show regularly featured the voice of George Lowe, best known for his role as the title character in Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Full-time staff included Lauren Conlin Adams (writer/performer), Jon Bershad (writer), Caitlin Bitzegaio (writer), Matt Fisher (writer/performer) and César Zamora (writer).
The show's roster of regular performers included Anthony Atamanuik, Jeremy Bent, Lydia Hensler, Langan Kingsley, Molly Lloyd, Tim Martin, Michael Nathanson, Ben Rameaka, Emilea Wilson and Sasheer Zamata.
Atamanuik, who did a wide range of impersonations in "The Experts" segment of the show, went on to portray President Donald Trump in The President Show. Zamata later went to Saturday Night Live.
Themes
The show routinely lampooned political figures of the day, including Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Michael Bloomberg, Newt Gingrich and Hillary Clinton.
Sack had a particular affinity for jokes at the expense of "nanny-state" politics, the Transportation Security Administration, mainstream media malfeasance, and abuses of power by the Executive Branch of the American government.
The show routinely poked fun at Glenn Beck himself. When Beck proposed the creation of a conservative amusement park, Sack responded with a sketch advertising the fictional "Libertypendence Park".
Popular Sketches
Fact-Free News Reporting lampoons the mainstream media's tendency to rush to report the news first, at the expense of accuracy. In it, Sack interrupts an interview with Buck Sexton to speculate wildly on a breaking news story.
99 Problems and a Glitch Day One portends to be an interview with an individual responsible for the error-plagued rollout of the Affordable Care Act. When questioned, he reveals that the infrastructure runs on his son's iPad, and that the software was outsourced to "Bosco from Serbia."
Security Theater is an operatic satire of Transportation Security Administration screening pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion%20%28video%20game%29 | Legion is a turn-based computer wargame with a historical setting, designed by Slitherine and released in 2002. In Legion, the player attempts to build a powerful army by controlling villages and defeating enemies with the ultimate goal of dominating a region. An updated version, Legion Gold, was released in 2003. A port for OS X was released in 2003, developed by Freeverse. A sequel, Legion II, was announced on November 16, 2004 for a 2005 release.
Gameplay
Legion is a turn-based single-player wargame. The strategy of battle involves fighting on favorable terrain with enemies weak against the player's units. Other concerns are capturing cities that produce food, stone and wood. Upgrading the cities' buildings leads to the production of stronger units.
Each unit in Legion has its own strengths and weaknesses, different types of attacks (melee and ranged) and weapon.
Legion takes place in the historic setting of the Roman expansion, from the conquest of Italy, Britain, Hispania, Gaul and Germania.
Campaigns
Legion Gold comes with eight campaign maps (including tutorial), each of which has three difficulty levels and options for historical and non-historical gameplay settings. The maps are generally well-researched and correspond closely to historical geography in the names of tribes and locations of cities.
Development
Legion was announced on July 30, 2001. The release of Legion was on June 4, 2002. An iPad version was released on December 31, 2012.
Reception
Legion Gold got a 6.9 on Gamezone, an 8 on Gamevortex and a 7.5 on the Entertainment Depot, amongst others.
See also
Legion Arena
References
External links
2002 video games
Computer wargames
Freeverse Inc. games
IOS games
MacOS games
Paradox Interactive games
Single-player video games
Slitherine Software games
Strategy First games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in the Roman Empire
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruninravur%20railway%20station | Thiruninravur railway station is one of the railway stations on the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Thiruninravur, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 29 km west of the Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 37 m above sea level.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.
Existing footbridge was demolished due to less usage and a new footbridge was erected in February 2016. In 2019, reservation counter was moved from the station platform to footbridge.
Layout
The station has three platforms. Platform 1 is meant for long-distance trains, goods trains and trains starting from Thiruninravur. Platform 2 and 3 are meant for local suburban trains. Platform 4 is for fast suburban trains.
Traffic
The station has a footfall of more than 10,000 commuters every day.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Edwards%20%28human%20computer%29 | Mary Edwards ( – September 1815) was a human computer for the British Nautical Almanac and one of a very few women paid directly by the Board of Longitude, and to earn a living from scientific work at the time.
She was one of 35 human computers who calculated the position of the sun, moon and planets at different times of day for annual nautical almanacs used for navigation at sea.
Work
Edwards was introduced to the almanac project and to Nevil Maskelyne, the fifth English Astronomer Royal, through her clergyman husband the Revd John Edwards (–1784) who had taken on piece-work as a computer to supplement the family income and received payment for work on 6 months' worth of each almanac from 1773 until his death in 1784. It was revealed that Mary had done most of the calculations when she wrote to Maskelyne to ask if she could continue work to support herself and her daughters after her husband's death. On her husband's death Mary Edwards officially took over his computing work on a full-time basis and as her sole source of income. Maskelyne may have known all along that she undertook the calculations because he had visited the family on several occasions. However, when Maskelyne died in 1811 she found that the new Astronomer Royal John Pond did not give her enough work. The Board of Longitude eventually ruled that Pond should continue to allocate work to her. Over time, her reputation for reliability and accuracy meant she could take on more work. She continued until her death in 1815.
Family
Her daughter, Eliza Edwards (1779-1846), also worked as a computer, initially helping from a young age and then independently after her mother's death in 1815. She continued to work for the Nautical Almanac until 1832, at which date computing work was centralised in London and in the new HM Nautical Almanac Office there was no place for women employees as Civil Service rules made the employment of women very difficult.
Recognition
The minor planet 12627 Maryedwards was named in her honour.
In 2016 Ludlow Civic Society decided to put a Blue Plaque on her former home in 4 Brand Lane, Ludlow, Shropshire, in recognition of her services as the first female "computer".
See also
List of female mathematicians
Women in computing
Women in the workforce
History of science
References
1815 deaths
British women mathematicians
Human computers
18th-century British mathematicians
19th-century British mathematicians
18th-century British women scientists
19th-century British women scientists
People from Ludlow
1750s births
Year of birth uncertain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20City | Jack City (visually rendered in its logo all capital letters) was a Filipino cable and satellite television network based in Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong. Formerly known as Chase, it serves as the spin-off channel to Jack TV. Owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation, the channel is currently broadcast on Cignal Digital TV channel 22, Destiny Cable channel 64 (analog) & channel 138 (digital), Cablelink channel 40, and SkyCable channel 138 (digital) and other cable operators in the Philippines, and is also available on live streaming via video-on-demand service Blink. It was also previously aired on BEAM TV from 2012 to 2014.
History
2011–2012: Chase
During its initial launch on BEAM Channel 31, Chase was a male-focused general entertainment channel that aired during nighttime, while sharing its channel space with the now-defunct game show channel, TGC, which aired during daytime. In late February 2012, the former announced in an on-screen graphic during its shows that it was switching to a 24-hour broadcast, therefore remaining on channel 31 while the latter was spun off into its own channel on select cable providers.
2012–2015: Jack City
On September 7, 2012, Chase announced through on-screen graphics and various plugs that it was going to be replaced by a spin-off of sister channel Jack TV. The changes took effect on October 20, 2012, when Jack City was launched, with some of Chase's programs carried onto its roster. The full broadcast was initiated on November 11, 2012.
On June 28, 2013, the channel's airing hours were reduced to 18 hours a day on free TV, in compliance with the National Telecommunications Commission's guidelines. However, it still continues to air 24 hours a day as a cable channel. On September 1, 2014, Jack City ended its run on free TV, due to the preparations being made by BEAM 31 for the incoming transition to ISDB-T digital television, though it continues to be broadcast as a separate cable channel. This move resulted in a change of its channel assignment for SkyCable and Destiny Cable (Digital) subscribers.
2015: CT
In March 2015, the channel was set to be renamed as CT, signaling a deviation from the "Jack" branding. The new channel will not only air drama series like its predecessor, but will also air comedy series, talk shows and men's lifestyle programs.
Programming
Catering to a more mature male and female audience, while targeting executives, Jack City's programming currently consists of action and crime-oriented drama series and movies.
See also
C/S
CHASE
BEAM TV Channel 31
Jack TV
Solar Entertainment Corporation
DWKC-TV
References
External links
Official Website
Defunct television networks in the Philippines
Former Solar Entertainment Corporation channels
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Men's interest channels
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcellanasteridae | The Porcellanasteridae are a family of sea stars in the order Paxillosida. These sea stars are found at abyssal depths. The World Asteroidea Database includes these genera in this family:
Abyssaster Madsen, 1961
Benthogenia Fisher, 1911
Damnaster H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 1994
Eremicaster Fisher, 1905
Hyphalaster Sladen, 1883
Lethmaster Belyaev, 1969
Lysaster Bell, 1909
Porcellanaster Wyville Thomson, 1877
Sidonaster Koehler, 1909
Styracaster Sladen, 1883
Thoracaster Sladen, 1883
Vitjazaster Belyaev, 1969
References
Paxillosida
Echinoderm families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xidu | Xidu may refer to:
Xidu laptop (), a young computer manufacturing company from Shenzhen, China
Xidu station (), a station on Line 5 of the Shanghai Metro
Xidu Subdistrict (), Fengxian District, Shanghai
Xidu, Hunan (), town in and seat of Hengyang County
Daxi Dam (), also known as "", former dam along the Eastern Zhejiang Canal
Fengxiang County, formerly named Xidu () in the Tang Dynasty, Shaanxi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugterra | Slugterra is a Canadian computer-animated television series created by Asaph Fipke. The series was produced by the Canadian animation studio Nerd Corps Entertainment, a subsidiary of DHX Media (now known as "WildBrain"). It premiered on Disney XD Canada on September 3, 2012 and started broadcasting in the U.S. the following month. The series was formerly streamed on Netflix from 2016 until 2018, and is currently available on other platforms such as The Roku Channel.
During its four year-run, Slugterra consisted of four seasons; six feature films; and had a total runtime of 1,386 minutes, with 63 20-minute episodes. Additionally, the series also consisted of 81 minutes of Slugisodes.Several products tied to the series have been released, including both action figures and video games like the mobile game, as well as games for PlayStation and Xbox.
Synopsis
Deep inside the Earth exists the vast underground world of Slugterra, named after the tiny slugs who live there. The Shane family are the traditional guardians of Slugterra and have kept its existence secret from the world as they train the slugs for use as living ammunition. A threat appears in the form of Dr. Thaddius Blakk, who wants to transform the Slugs into evil weapons he calls "ghouls." 15-year-old Eli Shane must take his place as the new guardian of Slugterra and, with the help of the slugs and his gang, stop Dr. Blakk.
Major characters
Eli Shane (voice: Sam Vincent)--The series' main protagonist, Eli becomes the new Protector of Slugterra when his father Will Shane goes missing.
Kord Zane (voice: Andrew Francis)--A huge cave troll. He is a mechanic who fixes the team's Mecha beasts and upgrades their blasters. His favourite thing to do is play practical jokes, normally on Pronto.
Pronto Geronimole (voice: Lee Tockar)--A proud and knowledgeable molenoid tracker. Claims to be a master rogue, slugslinger and adventurer but is known throughout the show for being the comic relief and constantly getting into trouble.
Trixie Sting (voice: Shannon Chan-Kent)--Female vlogger and the Shane Gang's resident slug expert. Trixie's dream is to make a documentary about the slugs.
Will Shane (voice: Sam Vincent)--Father of Eli Shane, The Protector of Slugterra
Junjie (voice: Vincent Tong)--A hero from the Eastern Caverns and master of the art of "Slug Fu," a way of controlling fired slugs with the mind.
Dr. Thaddeus Blakk (voice: Mark Oliver)--Owner of Blakk Industries. His business dealings and the creation of the Slugterran Express train have made him rich and powerful. His business hides his true intent: to control all of Slugterra and destroy the magical slug energy that protects it.
Thaddius "Tad" D. Justin Blakk (Voice: Adrian Petriw)--Son of Dr Blakk, who came from the surface along with his slug. Tad befriends the Shane Gang and they teach him the basics of Slugslinging.
Episodes
Slugisodes
From 2012 to 2016, 80 Slugisodes were aired.
"The new animated action-comedy ‘Slugisodes’ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Cyber%20Defence%20Force | The Norwegian Cyber Defence Force () is a branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for military communications and defensive cyberwarfare in Norway. The force employs 1,500 people located at more than 60 locations. The main base is at Jørstadmoen in Lillehammer, with a secondary base at Kolsås outside Oslo. The Cyber Defence was established as its own branch on 18 September 2012.
See also
List of cyber warfare forces
References
Cyberwarfare
Military of Norway
Lillehammer
Organisations based in Oppland
2012 establishments in Norway
Computer security organizations
Military units and formations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Schaffhausen | The Schaffhausen trolleybus system () is part of the public transport network of Schaffhausen, capital city of the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and the adjacent town of Neuhausen am Rheinfall in the same canton. It is also Switzerland's youngest and smallest such system. Its route, designated as line 1, connects among others Schaffhausen railway station with the Rhine Falls.
Opened in 1966, the system replaced the Schaffhausen tramway network. , it consists of one cross-city route. It is currently operated by (VBSH), and is supplemented by five motor bus routes operated by the same transport company.
With 3.45 million passengers annually (as of 2011), the trolleybus line is by far the busiest of all the operator's routes.
History
Origins and extensions
The conversion of the Schaffhausen Waldfriedhof–Neuhausen Zentrum tramway to trolleybus operation was the consequence of a popular vote (referendum) held on 13 September 1964. The changeover occurred seamlessly, over the break between 23 and 24 September 1966. However, the trolleybus line that emerged from the tramway line ran initially only as far as Ebnat, whereas the tramway had continued one stop further, to the Waldfriedhof (forest cemetery) in St. Niklausen. At first, the trolleybuses operated every ten minutes at normal times, and every five minutes during peak times.
The trolleybus system also took over the former tram depot, which was then at Cardinal, on the site of today's central fire station.
Only in the spring of 1970 was the trolleybus system extended to reach St. Niklausen, as the tramway had done. Since then, St. Niklausen has been connected into the system via a long clockwise operating balloon loop, by which the trolleybuses pass through the nominal terminus at Waldfriedhof without a lengthy stopover.
On 29 May 1974, another new section of line, the long Ebnat–Herblingertal section, went into service. Upon the opening of this section, the VBSH put a second trolleybus route into operation: Line 9, Neuhausen Zentrum–Herblingertal. This was a reinforcement line that ran only in peak times, and was served by four rigid (two-axle) buses. Line 9 replaced the additional bus rounds on line 1 in peak times, and also served exclusively the new section in the Herblingertal, where no public transport was available outside line 9's operating hours.
On 4 August 1980, there was an extension at the other end of the system, when the section from Neuhausen Zentrum to Neuhausen Herbstäcker went into operation. At Herbstäcker, another balloon loop was constructed; trolleybuses ran through it counter clock-wise, and with a longer stay at the terminus. The opening of this extension led to the introduction of a third route number, because not all services ran through to Herbstäcker. Services running only as far as Neuhausen Zentrum were henceforth known as line 2; meanwhile, line 9 was unaffected by the extension, and continued to terminate at Neuhausen Zentrum.
On 31 May |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorway%2064%20%28Greece%29 | The Greek Motorway A64 (), often referred to as the Hymettus Ring Road () is a branch of the main A6 route in the Attiki Odos motorway network. It is named after the Hymettus mountain range it partly encircles.
Serving parts of eastern Athens, it is also expected to be extended further southwards following the Hymettus to Vouliagmeni, and further eastwards towards Rafina.
History
On 4 December 2015, the Greek government proposed to renumber the A64 as the A62: In practice, the renumbering did not take place, because road signs still show the motorway as the A64.
Exit list
Source: Attiki Odos, Motorway Exitlists
References
External links
64
Roads in Attica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20%28Romanian%20TV%20series%29 | Top Chef is a Romanian reality competition show on the cable television network Antena 1, that first aired in 2012, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is hosted by Alina Pușcaș. The judges are Joseph Hadad, Tudor Constantinescu and Nicolai Tand.
Show Format
Basic format
Generally, each episode of Top Chef, other than the finale has had two challenges.
The first is called the Quickfire challenge. Each chef must cook a dish that meets certain requirements (for example, using specific ingredients or to inspire a certain taste) or participate in a culinary-related challenge (for example, a mise en place relay or a taste test). They are usually given an hour or less to complete these tasks. A guest judge selects one or more chefs as the best in the challenge. Early in the season the winning chef(s) are granted immunity from the episode's Elimination Challenge. As the number of contestants dwindle immunity is withdrawn, and instead the winner receives an advantage (such as being team leader for a team challenge) or a prize. To emphasise the culture and environment of the sixth season's Las Vegas setting, the show introduced "high-stakes" Quickfires, which featured an extravagant prize (usually a large cash prize). High-stakes Quickfires would continue onward in further seasons. Occasionally, a Quickfire will also include the poorest performer being eliminated from the competition. Sometimes contestants have been dismissed for violations such as tasting a sauce with a finger.
In the Elimination challenge, the chefs prepare one or more dishes to meet the challenge requirements, which are usually more complex and require longer time to execute than a Quickfire challenge. Elimination challenges may be individual challenges or may require chefs to work in a team, and may require a chef or chefs to produce several courses. Teams may be selected by the remaining contestants among themselves, but more often are selected by the random process such as by "drawing knives" from a butcher's block, with the team identification revealed on the blade of the knife. The chefs may have from a few hours to a few days to complete this challenge, which typically includes preparation and planning time. Ingredients for Elimination challenges generally allow chefs to access both what staples are available in the "Top Chef" pantry and what they chefs purchase at a grocery store, within a specified budget. However, certain challenges may provide specific ingredients or limit the type or number of ingredients that can be used, while others require non-traditional methods of obtaining ingredients (such as asking people door-to-door) or preparation methods (such as tailgate cooking). After shopping, the contestants will cook for up to four judges, usually including at least one gues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosotek | Nosotek () is the first Western-invested IT joint venture company in North Korea.
Nosotek is known for developing computer games for various platforms, such as iPhone, j2me and Wii. They claimed to have 50+ programmers on the team in 2009.
Nosotek's main target market is Europe. Payments by clients are done through a Chinese company or a Hong Kong company.
History
Nosotek was founded in July 2007 by the North Korean General Federation of Science and Technology (GFST) and the foreign entrepreneurs Felix Abt and Volker Eloesser. Ju Jong Chol also played a major role in founding of the company. The company was joint venture between GFST and Felix Abt and Eastmars Ltd (Owned by Volker Eloesser).
Nosotek took industry by surprise with its popular western oriented games. This included a popular role-playing for Nintendo Wii and an app that reached that reached Apple's Top 10 list in Germany for at least a week in 2008. They also developed an award-winning medical software. Products names are kept are confidential as clients don't want to be associated with North Korea.
Nosotek's co-founder Felix Abt claimed that company became profitable in less than a year. Several of Nosotek's games are distributed by German company Exozet Games, which includes a game called "Bobby's Blocks."
Between 2007 and 2010, Nosotek's North Korean programmers made mobile-phone games based on the Hollywood films The Big Lebowski and Men in Black which were then distributed in the western countries by Nosotek Joint Venture Company. They developed “Big Lebowski Bowling”, a 2007 bowling game set in a bowling alley where much of the movie was set, and “Men in Black: Alien Assault” a game in which players battle invading aliens. Those games were published through Ojom GmbH, a subsidiary of Jamba, which was later wholly bought by News Corp. for $188 million in October 2008 and later renamed Fox Mobile. Elocom Mobile Entertainment GmbH was founded by Volker Eloesser in 2003, which was later brought by Ojom.
In 2012, Nosotek cooperated with students from the Kim Chaek University of Technology to develop Pyongyang Racer, a racing video game built for and released by the Koryo Tours travel agency to promote tourism in North Korea.This game represents the first North Korean game which was widely available online.As it turns out had Pyongyang Racer was based based upon a earlier game developed by Nosotek which was published on Facebook by “one of the big players in the social media market.” Nick Bonner had a talk with Volker Eloesser at Nostek which led to the creation of the game. He liked the idea of working on a “fun, nonviolent and nonpolitical” project with North Korean youth.
Software development business which company have offered since its founding in 2007 appears to be shut down. Since 2013, company's website has been inaccessible after it was hacked. The site was hit in 2013 and its front page was replaced with a message in French, English and Korean attacking North Kore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixio | Elixio Network is a web3 social networking platform. Elixio authenticates new members and requires 3 factor authentication: An invitation from an existing member, a LinkedIn account and an Apple or google ID. Elixio Network's mission is to promote Trust in Social Media by utilizing Deep Learning and AI. The Platform leverages world's first and only tokenized Social Blockchain for network quality and authenticity. Members can select Dating, Social and Business modes on the platform. Unlike other similar social networks, Elixio is managed by its members who volunteer in day to day activities such as addressing inappropriate behavior, hate, bots, commercial content and unverified news and conspiracy theories. Members who participate in Management activities are rewarded Elixium tokens and advanced administrative privileges. By the start of 2021, Elixio had more than 15 million monthly active users.
References
American social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC%20%28operating%20system%29 | EPOC is a mobile operating system developed by Psion, a British company founded in 1980. It began as a 16-bit operating system (OS) for Psion's own x86-compatible devices, and was later replaced by a 32-bit system for x86 and ARM. Psion licensed the 32-bit system to other hardware makers, such as Ericsson.
To distinguish it from the 16-bit OS, the 32-bit version was sometimes called EPOC32. Technologically, it was a major departure from the 16-bit version (which came to be called EPOC16 or SIBO). In 1998, the 32-bit version was renamed Symbian OS. After Nokia acquired the rights to Symbian in 2010, they published Symbian's source code under the Eclipse Public License. In 2011, Nokia rescinded the open-source license for subsequent releases of the software.
Name
The name EPOC comes from the word epoch (the beginning of an era). The name was shortened to four letters to accord with the names of such software innovations as Unix and Mach.
Initially the operating system was capitalised as Epoc rather than 'EPOC', since it is not an acronym. The change to all capital letters was made on the recommendation of Psion's marketing department. Thereafter, a rumour circulated in the technical press that EPOC was an acronym for "Electronic Piece of Cheese". When Psion started developing a 32-bit operating system in 1994, they kept it under the EPOC brand. To avoid confusion within the company, they started calling the old system EPOC16, and the new one EPOC32. Then it became conventional within the company to refer to EPOC16 as SIBO, which was the codename of Psion's 16-bit mobile computing initiative. This change freed them use the name EPOC for EPOC32.
In June 1998, Psion formed a limited company, named Symbian Ltd., with the telecommunications corporations Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola. By buying into the new firm, the telecommunications corporations each acquired a stake in Psion's EPOC operating system and other intellectual property. Symbian Ltd. changed the name of EPOC/EPOC32 to Symbian OS, which debuted in November 2000 on the Nokia 9210 Communicator smartphone.
EPOC16 (1989–1998)
EPOC was developed at Psion, a software and mobile-device company founded in London in 1980. The company released its first pocket computer in 1984: an 8-bit device named the Psion Organiser. In 1986 they released a series of improved models under the Organiser II brand, but the 8-bit era was ending. Psion saw a need to develop a 16-bit operating system to drive their next generation of devices. First, however, they needed to engineer a 16-bit single-board computer, something that was extremely difficult at the time. They codenamed the project SIBO, for "single-board organiser" or "sixteen-bit organiser". To develop the SIBO hardware and software, they needed samples of the 16-bit microprocessors they would be programming; but it took more than a year to secure the chips, which caused a significant delay.
By 1987, development of EPOC was underway: It was a single-us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20X%20Factor%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29%20finalists | The X Factor is an Australian television reality music competition that first aired in 2005. As of 2015, there have been seven seasons; one on Network Ten and six on the Seven Network. The final round of the competition features a number of solo singers and vocal groups: nine for season 1, twelve for seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8, and thirteen for season 6. A total of 94 acts have reached the finals of their seasons. Season three winner Reece Mastin is the most successful contestant from the show, having attained two top-five albums and three number-one singles, with nine platinum and three gold certifications.
During season 1, the contestants were split into three categories: 16-24s (soloists aged 16 to 24), Over 25s (soloists aged 25 and over) and Groups (including duos). Each category was mentored by Mark Holden, Kate Ceberano and John Reid. From season 2 onwards, the 16-24s category was split into separate male and female sections, making four categories in all: Boys, Girls, Over 25s and Groups. The judging panel was replaced by Guy Sebastian, Natalie Imbruglia, Ronan Keating and Kyle Sandilands who is the additional fourth judge. In season three, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Mel B joined the judging panel as replacements for Imbruglia and Sandilands. Dannii Minogue and Redfoo replaced Mel B and Sebastian in season 5. In series 5, the over 25s were changed to over 24s, before being changed back to over 25s for series 6. Sebastian returned in season 7 along with Chris Isaak and James Blunt to replace Redfoo, Bassingthwaighte and Keating. In season 8, boys and girls has been defunct and making the 14-21s to come back, the over 25s category was changed to over 22s. Mel B returned in 8 along with Iggy Azalea and Adam Lambert to replace Minogue, Issak and Blunt.
As of season 8, each five categories have won the show on at least one occasion, while six of the show's fifteen judges have had the winning act in their category at least once, with Sebastian and Keating winning twice, and Holden, Minogue, Isaak and Lambert winning once. The judges not to win were Reid, Cebrano, Imbruglia, Sandilands, Bassingthwaighte, Mel B, Redfoo, Blunt and Azalea with Bassingthwaighte placing runner-up in 2011 and 2014 (the first and the fourth of her four years on the panel), Reid, Imbruglia, Brown and Blunt placing runner-up in 2005, 2010, 2012 and 2015 respectively (their only season), Cebrano and Sandilands’ best performance having their contestant being the last eliminated in 2005 and 2010 respectively (their only season), Redfoo’s best performance having his contestant being the ninth eliminated in 2014 (the second of his two years on the panel) and Azalea’s best performance having her contestant being the third eliminated in 2016 (her only season).
Contestants
Key:
– Winner
– Runner-up
– Disqualified
Notes
A Josh Brookes was disqualified when it was revealed that he "behaved in an inappropriate manner" on social media. He was later replaced by Carmelo Mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy%20Story%20of%20Terror%21 | Toy Story of Terror! is an American computer-animated Halloween television special produced by Pixar Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the Toy Story franchise. It is set after the events of Toy Story 3, and premiered on the American television network ABC on October 16, 2013. It was written and directed by Angus MacLane, produced by Galyn Susman, with Joan Cusack, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Timothy Dalton, and Kristen Schaal reprising their roles of Jessie, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, and Trixie with Carl Weathers as Combat Carl and Stephen Tobolowsky as the motel manager. Michael Giacchino composed the music for the special. The film's soundtrack was released on October 15, 2013, on Amazon.com and iTunes in digital format.
The special follows the toys on a road trip, when a flat tire leads Bonnie and her mother to spend the night in a roadside motel. After Mr. Potato Head goes missing, the others begin to search for him, but they find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that leads them to a big conspiracy.
Plot
Bonnie and her mother are on a road trip to visit Bonnie's grandmother; Bonnie has brought Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, Mr. Potato Head, and Trixie with her. In the trunk of the vehicle, the toys are watching a horror film on a portable DVD player. When the car gets a flat tire, Bonnie and her mother must spend the night at the Sleep Well roadside motel, as a tow truck cannot be sent out until the next morning.
Once Bonnie and her mother are asleep, her toys exit Bonnie's bag to explore the motel room, but Mr. Potato Head goes missing. At this point, Mr. Pricklepants begins to narrate ongoing events as if it were part of an actual horror film, considering himself an expert. The toys search through the motel for Mr. Potato Head, but several are taken by an iguana named Mr. Jones, leaving only Jessie. In a bathroom, Jessie meets an action figure named Combat Carl, who was separated from his owner, Billy. Combat Carl urges Jessie to flee to her owner for safety, but she insists on trying to rescue her friends. The iguana returns to take Combat Carl, then Jessie. The iguana is revealed to be owned by the motel's manager, Ron, who has trained Mr. Jones to steal unattended toys and other items from motel guests so he can sell them in online auctions. Ron puts Jessie in the back room of his office, in a glass cabinet containing her friends, Combat Carl, and other stolen toys.
As morning approaches, a buyer purchases Woody online and Ron packs him into a box. Jessie is sold soon after, but Ron is distracted by the arrival of the tow truck and Jessie is left on the counter. A delivery lady takes Woody's box out to her truck, and Combat Carl tells Jessie that their only hope to rescue Woody and escape is for Jessie to travel to the truck in a box. Terrified, Jessie insists that sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXOO | DXOO (97.5 FM) is a radio station owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation and operated by TV5 Network, Inc. It currently serves as a relay station of Radyo5 in Manila. The station's transmitter is located in PLDT Building, Beatiles St., General Santos.
History
The station began operations in 1976 as MRS 97.5, airing an adult contemporary format. In 1998, after NBC was acquired by PLDT subsidiary MediaQuest Holdings, the station rebranded as Anna @ Rhythms 97.5 (later on shortened to Anna 97.5) and switched to a Top 40 format. In 2009, it rebranded as WAV FM. On February 21, 2011, months after TV5 took over operations of the stations, it became a relay station of 92.3 Radyo5 in Manila.
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Radio stations in General Santos
Radio stations established in 1976 |
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