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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20News%20Channel | Solar News Channel (SNC) was a major commercial television network in the Philippines, owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation's arm television subsidiary of Solar Television Network lease with its owner by Radio Philippines Network. Its flagship television station was DZKB-TV channel 9 in Mega Manila and other regional stations in the Philippines. The station was operational 18 hours a day from 6:00 AM to midnight on free TV, while being available 24 hours on cable, satellite and internet TV providers.
Most of its live programming from studios were located at Upper Ground Floor of the Worldwide Corporate Center, Shaw Boulevard corner Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Mandaluyong with transmitter at No. 97, Panay Avenue, Brgy. South Triangle, Quezon City. The channel ceased to air on August 22, 2014, and was replaced with 9TV.
History
The network debuted on October 30, 2012, at 05:45 am (UTC +8:00) as a replacement for then all-news channel Talk TV on SBN 21—as such it is broadcast by all television service provider and terrestrial stations which formerly carried Talk TV.
It is the first all-English news channel to be aired on free TV in the Philippines, and the first channel of Solar Entertainment to air both on cable and free TV. Major part of the programming are local programs including news and current affairs programs from Solar News and foreign programs from NBC and CBS.
On December 1, 2013, Solar News Channel transferred to all RPN stations nationwide to widen its telecast while ETC returned to all SBN stations.
Aside from the transfer, Solar News Channel launched its own mobile application for smartphone users. Its consists of features such as live streaming, catch-up episodes and latest news from the network's website, solarnews.ph.
On August 13, 2014, Solar Television Network announced that Solar News Channel was to be replaced with 9TV by August 23, retaining the news and current affairs programming while expanding its weekend programming to cater more audiences which was started by the launching of "Kids Weekend" on August 23.
Programming
Solar News Channel's programming consists of rolling news coverage and other news programming, along with documentaries, current affairs show, talk show, entertainment, sports news. Most of the foreign programs on this news channel are from American TV networks such as NBC and CBS, with programs dedicated for infomercials, religious, pre-school, and children's programs.
Kids Programming
Educational
Sesame Street
Cartoons
Beware The Batman
Care Bears
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures
Young Justice
Anime Series
Pokémon the Series: XY
News Programming
News.ph
Serbisyo All Access
Sports Desk
Med Talk
Affiliate
See also
Radio Philippines Network
ETC (Solar Television Network's female-oriented channel, Solar News Channel's sister channels)
2nd Avenue (Solar Television Network's female and lifestyle channel, Solar News Channel's sister channels)
Jack City (Solar Televisio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20the%20Study%20of%20Science%2C%20Technology%20and%20Innovation | The Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) is an interdisciplinary research centre based in the UK. The research network was established in 2001 to bring together groups of academics and individual researchers across the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. It consolidates activities in research, teaching and knowledge transfer on social and policy aspects of science, technology and innovation.
ISSTI emerged from the interdisciplinary research collaboration established amongst specialist groups and scholars at the University of Edinburgh under the ESRC Programme on Information and Communications Technology, coordinated by the Research Centre for Social Sciences. Other founding members were the Sociology subject group, the Science Studies Unit, the Japanese European Technology Studies Institute (JETS) and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group in the Business School and Economics, and the Innogen Centre. Over time this collaboration has expanded to include a wider array of scholars and specialist centres across the University including the Schools of Informatics, Law, Public Health, and Edinburgh College of Art with links also to Geosciences, Engineering and Philosophy. Today ISSTI comprises over 100 staff and research students.
It constitutes one of the most interdisciplinary groupings in the field of science, technology and innovation studies measured in terms joint publication and publication outliets.
Research
The institute's research activities fall into four broad priority areas: Life Science Innovation; Information and Communication Technologies; Energy Technologies & Environmental Innovation; and, the Historical Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine.
References
External links
ISSTI web site
Innovation in the United Kingdom
Research institutes in Scotland
University of Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravida%20%28organisation%29 | Gravida: National Centre for Growth and Development is a New Zealand government-funded Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE). CoREs are inter-institutional, multi-disciplinary research networks that are tasked with facilitating collaborative research on topics of strategic interest.
History
Gravida was originally set up under the name of the National Research Centre for Growth and Development (NRCGD) in 2003 and was initially headed by Professor Sir Peter Gluckman. The name was changed from NRCGD to Gravida in November 2012.
Main areas of research
The organisation is focused on funding research into epigenetics, phenotypic plasticity, physiology, medicine, and evolutionary medicine.
The main research question is how environmental influences such as nutrition and maternal weight, before, during and shortly after pregnancy can alter the way humans and animals develop. The aim is to translate research findings into better health for the community, as well as into increased agricultural productivity.
Members
Gravida provides research funding to researchers within the following ‘member organisations’:
Massey University,
The University of Otago,
The University of Canterbury,
AgResearch Limited,
Landcorp Farming,
The University of Auckland.
The organisation is hosted by the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Membership
Gravida is a member of the Association of Centres of Research Excellence (aCoRE), NZ.
Funding
Gravida, and the other CoREs, are funded by the New Zealand government through the Tertiary Education Commission. Funding is allocated through a competitive funding round that takes place every 6 years.
References
External links
Association of Centres of Research Excellence, NZ
Tertiary Education Commission, Centres of Research Excellence, NZ
Scientific organisations based in New Zealand
Organizations established in 2003
Organisations based in Auckland
Research in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thea%20Tolentino | Thea Loise Señerez Tolentino (born August 13, 1996) is a Filipino actress known for her role as Ashley Mercado Alcantara in the GMA Network television drama The Half Sisters. She started her career as one of the winners of the second season of Protégé, a talent-search reality show created by GMA Network. Since then, she became a contract artist of GMA and began appearing on various dramas such as Anna Karenina, Pyra: Babaeng Apoy, Hahamakin ang Lahat and Asawa Ko, Karibal Ko. She also gained public attention for playing the villain sorcereress in Haplos (2017), which is her most villainous role up to date. Recently, she portrayed an evil mother in Madrasta (2019).
Early life
Thea Loise Señerez Tolentino was born and raised in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. Tolentino has two younger brothers, Terrence Louie and Tobbie. Prior to joining Protégé, she stated that "she had never been separated from the family." Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Lie To Me are one of her favorite films and TV series respectively. She's a self-proclaimed Jpop fan, most especially by the Johnny's idol group Hey! Say! JUMP. She had said in interviews before that she went back to Japan just to watch their concert and to see her crush Ryosuke Yamada.
Tolentino graduated from the Trinity University of Asia, where she took up Business Administration major in Public Administration.
Career
2012: Protégé
Tolentino auditioned in front of Gina Alajar who turned out as her mentor in the entire run of the show. She sang "Torete" by Moonstar88 while playing a guitar. Eventually, Tolentino and Mark Kenneth Banez was chosen as one of the official protégés for that season and one of the four protégés of Gina Alajar.
Tolentino said that she joined Protégé to hone her skills, to let the people know that she has a talent and to help her family.
Mentor Gina helped her all throughout the show and Tolentino's shyness was gradually fading as the competition became tougher. The improvements in her performances during gala night was seen by the judges.
Singing is considered as Tolentino's niche. Mikoy Morales, one of Jolina Magdangal's protégés, worked with Tolentino by composing a song entitled "Butterfly". Morales and Tolentino sang the song and Mark Escueta, husband of Jolina Magdangal and one of the members of Rivermaya, helped in creating the music video of "Butterfly".
At the end of the competition, Tolentino was announced as the "Ultimate Female Protégé" by the host, Dingdong Dantes. Tolentino's male counterpart in winning the competition is Jeric Gonzales, who is also from Calamba.
2012–2015: Post-Protégé
Weeks after winning the reality search, Tolentino, along with co-winner Jeric Gonzales, were cast in the TGIS' sequel Teen Gen. However, the series ended its run and Tolentino moved on to take part as the scheming "Angel" in the 2013 resurrection of the series Anna Karenina. In mid-2013, GMA Network announced that they have chosen her to play the lead in the new daytime drama Py |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch%20%28video%20game%29 | Starch is a computer game written by Mark Dixon in 1990 for the Acorn Archimedes computer. The objective of the game was to help the principal characters complete tasks related to laundry duties in the company in which they worked.
Starch was retailed through Dabs Press which was closely associated with the publisher Alien Images.
The game supported either one or two simultaneous players. It featured a 3D playing area, digitized sound, speech and music, and used a 256 color screen mode.
Gameplay
Starch saw two manual workers, Harry and Dave, on a frantic clothes-cleaning night shift. The game supported either one or two simultaneous players. In addition to the two main characters the game also included a computer controlled character called Sam that attempted to stop the progress of the main characters. In one player mode the second character would be controlled by the computer.
There were five different levels to complete, each consisting of a specific task. In order to complete a task the player had to work out how to operate various pieces of machinery controlled by buttons, levers and ropes.
Each level ended when the available time expired or a specific 'Quota' had been met. Following the completion of each level the two characters would be shown in the manager's office. If the level had been successfully completed then they would jump up in the air in celebration. If the level had not been completed then the manager would pull a lever that caused a trap door to be opened below the player(s), while uttering the words "you're fired!"
Reception
Starch was rated in the top ten games of 1990 by BBC Acorn User Magazine and described as probably the only original concept to have hit the games scene in that year, praising the replay value of the two-player mode.
Eurogamer also highlighted the unusual game premise, and described the freedom to choose between cooperative or competitive gameplay.
References
External links
1990 video games
Acorn Archimedes games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Iman%20Sharmarke | Ali Iman Sharmarke (, ) (b. 1956/1957-d. 11 August 2007) was a Somalian and Canadian journalist and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of HornAfrik Media Inc, the first independent radio network to have its headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia. In 2007, he was killed by a roadside bomb. Sharmarke was posthumously awarded the CJFE's International Press Freedom Award and Tara Singh Hayer Award for his journalistic work. His family also established the Sharmarke Peace Foundation in his memory.
Personal life
Sharmarke was raised in Somalia. After the start of the civil war in the early 1990s, he emigrated to Canada. He subsequently became a Canadian citizen, holding dual citizenship.
While living in Ottawa, Sharmarke completed a Master's in Public Administration at Carleton University. He also studied political science and economics going on to earn a PhD from the same institution.
Sharmarke was married to Luul Mohamed, with whom he had three children, Liban, Hanad, and Nora.
Career
Finance Department
Sharmarke initially worked at the Department of Finance Canada in Ottawa. Although he had no previous background in journalism, he set out to establish a new radio network in Somalia so as to facilitate access to information and to give local residents an outlet to express their views.
HornAfrik
In early 1999, Sharmarke and fellow Somali emigrants to Canada Ahmed Abdisalam Adan and Mohamed Elmi 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, the independent HornAfrik broadcast firm was subsequently officially launched on 12 December 1999.
Under Sharmarke's direction, HornAfrik earned a reputation for its objective news coverage. It ran a number of popular call-in programs, which 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.
Due to its transmissions of international segments, the network earned criticism from religious fundamentalists, with the Al-Shabaab militant group routinely launching attacks against the company and its staff. In 2007, the former Transitional Federal Government (TFG) also shut down HornAfrik's radio and television stations on charges that it was abetting terrorist groups by airing programs which allegedly supported extremist elements. Sharmarke rejected the allegations, characterizing them as a denial of press freedom.
Additionally, HornAfrik engaged in some philanthropic work.
Death
On 11 August 2007, Sharmarke's co-worker at HornAfrik's Capital Voice private radio station, Mahad Ahmed Elmi, who ran a popular daily morning call-in show on crime an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo%20adiantoides | Ginkgo adiantoides is an extinct ginkgo species in the family Ginkgoaceae from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene.
Evolutionary history is unresolved. Morphological and molecular data show a wide range of possible relationships with cycads and conifers.
Ginkgo leaves were borne on both long and short shoots on lateral branches of the main stem. They are recognized by their distinctive leaf shape and open dichotomous venation pattern. Ginkogoales are spermatophytes, belong to the lignophyte clade, and are euphyllophytes.
References
Paleobotany, Second Edition: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants by Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor and Michael Krings - Page 748
North America Through Time: A Paleontological History of Our Continent by Lynne M. Clos - Page 172
Jurassic and Cretaceous Floras and Climates of the Earth by V. A. Vakhrameev, Norman F. Hughes and Ju V. Litvinov - Page 110
Fossil Plants: A Text-Book for Students of Botany and Geology (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science) by A. C. Seward - Page 10
adiantoides
Paleocene plants
Eocene plants
Miocene plants
Oligocene plants
Prehistoric trees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding%20Sarah%3A%20From%20Royalty%20to%20the%20Real%20World | Finding Sarah (also named Finding Sarah: From Royalty to the Real World) is an American documentary television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network that debuted on June 12, 2011.
Premise
The series follows the daily life of Sarah, Duchess of York, as she rebuilds her life after her divorce from Prince Andrew, and following numerous financial and public troubles. Throughout the episodes she seeks advice from experts in different fields including Phil McGraw, Suze Orman, and Martha Beck to find out how she can improve her life. Highlights of the show included Sarah's journey through Canada's Arctic region during which she challenged her physical and mental stamina.
Episodes
References
2010s American documentary television series
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Christian%20Songs%20number%20ones%20of%20the%202010s | Christian Songs is a record chart compiled and published by Billboard that measures the top-performing contemporary Christian music songs in the United States. The data was compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on the weekly audience impressions of each song played on contemporary Christian radio stations until the end of November 2013. With the Billboard issue dated December 7, 2013, the Christian Songs chart began utilizing the same methodology used for the Hot 100 chart to compile its rankings; that is, measuring the airplay of Christian songs across all radio formats, while incorporating data from digital sales and streaming activity. The Christian Airplay listing, which had been published for the first time in 2013, was based solely on Christian radio airplay, a methodology which had previously been used for a decade for Hot Christian Songs.
Details
In 2010, ten songs by ten artists achieved a No. 1 single, either as a leading artist or featured artist. TobyMac recorded two No. 1s, while Amy Grant achieved one as a featured artist with Matthew West. MercyMe's "All of Creation, Chris Tomlin's "Our God", and Sanctus Real's "Lead Me" tied for the longest-running No. 1 single of 2010, with all three spending a total of nine weeks atop the chart. "All of Creation" was the top ranked song on the year-end chart.
In 2011, seventeen songs by thirteen artists achieved a No. 1 single, either as a leading artist or featured artist. MercyMe, Casting Crowns, and Tenth Avenue North recorded two No. 1s each, while Leigh Nash achieved one as a featured artist with tobyMac. MercyMe and Casting Crowns also tied for the longest-running No. 1 single of 2011, with "Move" and "Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)" each spending a total of nine weeks atop the chart. Tenth Avenue North's "You Are More" was the top-ranked song on the year-end chart.
In 2012, there were nine No. 1 on the Christian Songs chart by ten artists (Aaron Shust's "My Hope Is in You" first reached the top in 2011 and is not counted in the total). Passion's "One Thing Remains" features Kristian Stanfill. Building 429's "Where I Belong" spent 15 consecutive weeks at No. 1, the longest-running No. 1 single of the year, and was ranked as the top Christian song of 2012. Matt Redman's "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" had three separate stints at No. 1 for a total of 13 weeks.
In 2013, only four artists topped the Christian Songs chart. Songs by Big Daddy Weave and Passion featuring Kristian Stanfill are not included in the total; "Redeemed" (three weeks in 2013, seven weeks in total) and "One Thing Remains" (three separate stints at No. 1, two weeks in 2013, four weeks in total), respectively, first reached the top in 2012. Chris Tomlin's "Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)" was ranked as the top Christian Song of 2013, having earned a cumulative total of 15 weeks on top of the chart. Matthew West's "Hello My Name Is", however, spent more time at No. 1, scoring 17 weeks atop the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet%20Street%20tram%20stop | Violet Street is the first 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
The Violet Street Terminus was opened to the public on 9 December 1972, on the opening day of the "Vintage 'Talking' Tram Tours" of Bendigo. Following its closure in April 1972, the former Charing Cross - Golden Square tramway was shortened, and the remaining (and current) tramway was diverted from High Street Bendigo to its current location next to the Central Deborah Gold Mine in Violet Street Bendigo. The stop was created following the closure of the former SEC Bendigo public tramways for tourism purposes and as a means of retaining the tramways of Bendigo.
Facilities
Violet Street consists of a large tram shelter canopy and has toilet facilities available (Disabled Accessible) in the Central Deborah Gold Mine Reception for customers.
References
Trams in Bendigo
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1972
Bendigo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing%20Cross%20tram%20stop | Charing Cross is the second 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
The Charing Cross Tram Stop was opened to the public upon the commencement of trams in Bendigo in 1890. Charing Cross remained the central-hub for trams for 82 years, until the closure of the former SEC Bendigo public tramways on 16 April 1972. On 9 December 1972, after much support from the local people of Bendigo, the State Government of Victoria and the City of Greater Bendigo Council, the former Charing Cross - Golden Square tramway was shortened and altered, to provide a tourist tram service between the Bendigo Joss House Temple at the North Bendigo Terminus and the Central Deborah Gold Mine at the Violet Street Terminus. Today, Charing Cross remains the City Centre and possibly the most used tram stop in Bendigo.
Facilities
Charing Cross consists of a tram shelter.
References
Trams in Bendigo
Tram stops
Bendigo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahto%20Buldas | Ahto Buldas (born 17 January 1967) is an Estonian computer scientist. He is the inventor of Keyless Signature Infrastructure, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Guardtime and Chair of the OpenKSI foundation.
Life and education
Buldas was born in Tallinn. After graduating from high school, he was conscripted in to the Soviet Army where he spent 2 years as an artillery officer in Siberia. After being discharged, he started studies in Tallinn University of Technology, where he defended his MSc degree in 1993 and his PhD in 1999. He currently lives in Tallinn with his wife and four children.
Career
Buldas was a leading contributor to the Estonian Digital Signature Act and ID-card from 1996 to 2002, currently the only national-level public-key infrastructure (PKI) which has achieved widespread adoption by a country's population for legally binding digital signatures. He published his first timestamping related research in 1998 and has published over 30 academic papers on the subject. His experience of implementing a national level PKI led him to invent Keyless Signature Infrastructure, a digital signature/timestamping system for electronic data that uses only hash-function based cryptography. By using hash-functions as the only cryptographic primitive the complexities of key management are eliminated and the system remains secure from quantum cryptographic attacks. His invention led to the founding of keyless signature technology company Guardtime in 2006.
He is the Chair of Information Security at Tallinn University of Technology. Buldas has been a supervisor for 15 MSc dissertations and 4 PhD theses.
Awards
2002: Young Scientist Award by the Cultural Foundation of the President of Estonia.
2015: Order of the White Star, IV class.
References
Academic work
External links
Ahto Buldas' personal website
Ahto Buldas' series of mini-lectures about cryptographic hash functions
Ahto Buldas' TTU lecture on keyless signatures
1967 births
Living people
Modern cryptographers
Estonian inventors
Estonian computer scientists
Estonian mathematicians
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class
Scientists from Tallinn
Tallinn University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tartu
Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Walker%20%28astronomer%29 | Anne Walker (21 October 1863 – 2 March 1940) was a British astronomer and one of the first women employed in paid routine work in astronomy in her country. She was one of a number of women computers employed at Cambridge Observatory between 1882 and 1903. Unlike most of these women, Walker remained at the observatory for a significant period of time.
Walker was born at Wickham Market, Suffolk on 21 October 1863. She was employed by the observatory in 1882 at the age of 19, and remained there for 21 years, working under astronomers John Couch Adams and Robert Stawell Ball. She worked most directly with the observatory's senior assistant at the time, Andrew Graham. The observatory necessitated that only two observers worked at any one time. Up until 1892, Walker substituted for Graham's current assistant Henry Todd when Todd's ill health prevented him from observing. That Walker was making transit observations with the meridian circle in the mid-1880s is clear from an observatory report that stated her work was interrupted by an earth tremor on 22 April 1884, when she had to stop while wires in the eyepiece vibrated. From 1892, Walker became Graham's observation partner and from 1894 to 1896, she observed alone.
Andrew Graham retired in 1903 at the age of eighty-eight. Anne Walker resigned at the same time as him, bringing her astronomical career at the Cambridge Observatory to an end after 21 years. She emigrated to join family in Australia and died there on 2 March 1940 in Glen Huntly, Victoria.
It has been suggested that Walker was much more than a routine computer, and that she took part in observations with Graham. If true, this makes her the second woman (after Caroline Herschel) to have been recorded formally engaging in night-time astronomical observations.
References
1863 births
19th-century British astronomers
20th-century British astronomers
Human computers
People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
Women astronomers
Year of death missing
British emigrants to Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizastar | Vizastar was the first integrated software package for the Commodore 64 home computer. At the time of its introduction it was the only package for the C64 with features comparable to Lotus 1-2-3, including spreadsheet, database and graphics components. It had the ability to split or merge files between the database and spreadsheet components and could split the screen into up to nine windows.
To alleviate the C64's somewhat limited memory capacity when running complex software, Vizastar included a ROM cartridge that provided an additional 4K RAM and also served as a form of copy protection. This allowed the program to remain compatible with third-party floppy disk drives for the C64, such as the Indus GT and MSD Super Disk, unlike many copy protected packages. Commodore serial printers were supported, as were RS-232 and Centronics printers with the appropriate interface.
The spreadsheet had a maximum size of 1000 rows by 64 columns, or 64,000 cells, but because only about 10k of memory was left available after the program was loaded, not all the cells could be used. The additional cells provided flexibility in the dimensions of the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet module had a macro feature that could execute a series of commands at once.
The database had a capacity of 1200 fields, which could each hold 124 characters. In order to keep down the programs memory requirements, it was necessary to export a database to the spreadsheet module in order to sort it.
It was later ported to the Commodore 128.
Reception
Commodore Microcomputers stated that "Vizastar packs so much muscle into the 64 that it is hard to believe you're running it on a 64K machine". The reviewer approved of the software's speed, "excellent documentation", and use of windows to show multiple portions of a document. He concluded, "I ... could find no major weaknesses. It seems to be a 64 application program beyond reproach ... Vizastar is an all-star!" Compute!'s Gazette said "There's nothing quite like Vizastar 128 for the Commodore 128 ... Each application, if available separately, would be a good solid program". The magazine concluded that it was "a gem of a program", and "as close as it comes" to Lotus 1-2-3 for the 128. Info said of Vizastar 128, "Despite minor quirks this is a powerhouse program with few of the compromises normally associated with integrated programs". The magazine added that if the company could combine it with Vizawrite Classic, "it would become the Commodore 128 Appleworks".
References
Commodore 64 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo%20System%20Utilities | Comodo System Utilities, also marketed as Comodo PC TuneUp, is a software suite by the Comodo Group, a software company known for Internet and network security software. .
Overview
Comodo System Utilities combines three cleaning utilities: Registry Cleaner, Disk Cleaner, and Privacy Cleaner. It includes the following programs:
Windows registry cleaner: Identifies, removes or repairs any corrupted entries or files
Disk cleaner: Frees up disk space and improve performance
Privacy cleaner: Deletes cookies, cache and history
SafeDelete: A trademarked product that deletes files that are determined to be safe to delete.
Comodo System Utilities requires Windows XP,Vista or 7 and can be downloaded for free.
Reviews
January 15, 2014, PCMAG.COM listed Comodo PC Tuneup among the top 7 PC Tuneup Utilities.
October 21, 2013 PCMAG.COM reviewed Comodo PCTunep and gave it an "Editors Rating" of "Good". Jeffery L. Wilson wrote that it will improve your system performance, but noted that the key feature of Active Delete is only available in the Comodo System Utilities Pro edition.
In September 2012 techsupportalert.com called Comodo System Utilities "The Best Free PC Cleanup Utility".
August 20, 2012 Top5Freeware.com called Comodo System Utilities "a powerful freeware program which cleans up your computer with complete safety."
In August 2012, Jeffery L. Wilson of PCMag.com gave Comodo System Utilities an Excellent rating, 4 of 5 stars. He states as his "Bottom Line" conclusion "Comodo System Utilities is a free and effective system-enhancing utility that is as potent, if not more so in certain cases, as paid apps".
In July 2012 snapfiles.com gave Comodo System Utilities 4.5 of 5 stars.
Downloadcrew.com gave Comodo System Utilities 4.5 of 5 stars. They said "System Utilities is a great suite of utilities that gives great results at no cost."
On January 5, 2010 cnet.com gave Comodo System Utilities its highest rating "Spectacular", 5 of 5 stars. They said " Comodo System Cleaner is as well-designed and functional a program as its competitors, yet it's free, which makes it the best bargain there is.
See also
Comodo Dragon
Comodo IceDragon
Comodo Internet Security
Comodo Mobile Security
Comodo SSL
References
External links
System Utility
Utilities for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentville%20Research%20and%20Development%20Centre | The Kentville Research and Development Centre (formerly Atlantic Food and Horticulture Research Centre) is a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's national network of 20 research centres stationed across Canada. The site is situated on in Kentville, located in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. The Centre's programs address agricultural challenges throughout the Canadian horticultural and food network, but primarily focus on the regional requirements of Atlantic Canada. On September 2, 2003, the centre's staff was recognized by Environment Canada for providing a volunteer climate observation station for a continuous 70 years. On January 26, 2011, and in honour of their centennial celebration, the centre was bestowed with an honorary membership to the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association in recognition of the centre's development and support of a sustainable tree fruit industry in Atlantic Canada.
History
The centre was first established as the Kentville Research Centre by the Canadian federal government in 1911 on request by the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association. During the early 20th century, Nova Scotia's 2.5 million apple trees were the major supplier of apples to England and the association requested assistance to help expand commercial production to meet demand.
In 1912 William Saxby Blair was appointed the centre's first Superintendent, and research began on breeding new fruit varieties, experimenting with planting and harvesting methods, and improving pest and disease resistance. Trials did not focus solely on apples, however, and by 1929 had grown to include many different fruits and vegetables, cereals, flax and hemp.
The centre also expanded its research to encompass crop protection, water management and evaluation, post-harvest storage, seed indexing, and an extensive pollination study, housing 184 bee colonies at the centre by 1928.
The centre's research into large-scale food dehydration, canning, and freezing created export opportunities for fruit and vegetable producers that had outgrown the local markets ability to sustain their expansion. In 1929 Cecil B. Eidt developed a forced-air food dehydrator that improved the production of dehydrated fruits and vegetables. The Eidt Dehydrator allowed production of thousands of tonnes of dehydrated vegetables in Canada during World War II and was the leading dehydration technology until the 1960s.
In 1933, Dr. Charles Eaves launched a post-harvest research program at the centre, and in 1939 introduced one of the first atmospherically controlled storage facilities for fruits and vegetables in the western hemisphere. The unit extended the shelf life of produce by lowering the ambient amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide, which help to trigger organic decomposition.
The centre also expanded its studies to include chicken-egg incubation research, and poultry health and breeding, decreasing by half the time required to raise a chicken.
In 1996 the Honeycrisp apple variety (deve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognizable%20set | In computer science, more precisely in automata theory, a recognizable set of a monoid is a subset that can be distinguished by some morphism to a finite monoid. Recognizable sets are useful in automata theory, formal languages and algebra.
This notion is different from the notion of recognizable language. Indeed, the term "recognizable" has a different meaning in computability theory.
Definition
Let be a monoid, a subset is recognized by a monoid if there exists a morphism from to such that , and recognizable if it is recognized by some finite monoid. This means that there exists a subset of (not necessarily a submonoid of ) such that the image of is in and the image of is in .
Example
Let be an alphabet: the set of words over is a monoid, the free monoid on . The recognizable subsets of are precisely the regular languages. Indeed, such a language is recognized by the transition monoid of any automaton that recognizes the language.
The recognizable subsets of are the ultimately periodic sets of integers.
Properties
A subset of is recognizable if and only if its syntactic monoid is finite.
The set of recognizable subsets of is closed under:
union
intersection
complement
right and left quotient
Mezei's theorem states that if is the product of the monoids , then a subset of is recognizable if and only if it is a finite union of subsets of the form , where each is a recognizable subset of . For instance, the subset of is rational and hence recognizable, since is a free monoid. It follows that the subset of is recognizable.
McKnight's theorem states that if is finitely generated then its recognizable subsets are rational subsets.
This is not true in general, since the whole is always recognizable but it is not rational if is infinitely generated.
Conversely, a rational subset may not be recognizable, even if is finitely generated.
In fact, even a finite subset of is not necessarily recognizable. For instance, the set is not a recognizable subset of . Indeed, if a morphism from to satisfies , then is an injective function, hence is infinite.
Also, in general, is not closed under Kleene star. For instance, the set is a recognizable subset of , but is not recognizable. Indeed, its syntactic monoid is infinite.
The intersection of a rational subset and of a recognizable subset is rational.
Recognizable sets are closed under inverse of morphisms. I.e. if and are monoids and is a morphism then if then .
For finite groups the following result of Anissimov and Seifert is well known: a subgroup H of a finitely generated group G is recognizable if and only if H has finite index in G. In contrast, H is rational if and only if H is finitely generated.
See also
Rational set
Rational monoid
References
Jean-Eric Pin, Mathematical Foundations of Automata Theory, Chapter IV: Recognisable and rational sets
Further reading
Automata (computation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo%20Bridge%20Home%20Entertainment | Echo Bridge Entertainment is an American independent distribution company. It acquires and distributes feature films, scripted and non-scripted series, documentaries, and children’s programming for home video, digital and television in the United States and throughout the world. Since its acquisition of Alliance Atlantis International Distribution and recent distribution partnerships with Miramax and ABC Disney/Buena Vista, Echo Bridge Entertainment had a combined portfolio of over 11,000 titles, including Degrassi: The Next Generation (a co-production with DHX Media's Epitome Pictures), until DHX Media acquired the library in November 2014.
History
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, a division of Echo Bridge Entertainment, was founded in 1995 as Platinum Disc Corporation. It was named and had its logo inspired from the real Echo Bridge in Massachusetts. In 2002, Platinum acquired PM Entertainment from The Harvey Entertainment Group. In 2005, Platinum Disc Corporation and Echo Bridge Entertainment merged to form Echo Bridge Home Entertainment. In 2008, Echo Bridge acquired Alliance Atlantis International Distribution. In 2011, Echo Bridge Entertainment and Miramax have made a distribution deal in which Echo Bridge will release 251 movies from the Miramax catalog, with the other 550 going to Lionsgate and StudioCanal as Miramax has a similar distribution deal with them. On March 17, 2014, after Echo Bridge lost the distribution rights to the Miramax titles, the Miramax releases all went out of print and any mention of them was removed from their website. Lionsgate later expanded their deal with Miramax to include the 251 movies previously released by Echo Bridge until 2020, when Paramount Home Entertainment (which parent company acquired a 49% stake of Miramax in 2019) extended their own deal with Miramax to include those 251 movies. In 2014, Echo Bridge sold its family library to DHX Media.
In January 2017, filmmaker and producer Steven Paul purchased Echo Bridge.
Filmography
Platinum Disc Library
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Library
See also
Alliance Atlantis
Miramax
PM Entertainment
The Asylum
References
External links
Official Echo Bridge/Twitter
Official Echo Bridge/Facebook
Companies based in Wisconsin
Mass media companies established in 1995
Home video companies of the United States
DVD companies of the United States
Film distributors of the United States
La Crosse, Wisconsin
American independent film studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RazorThreat | RazorThreat is an American software company that develops advanced threat protection software that detects unknown and unauthorized activity occurring in a network. Its Threat Analysis Console was listed in 2007 as an "industry innovator" by Secure Computing.
Company history
2006 - RazorThreat founded by Greg Guidice and headquartered in Royal Oak, Michigan, United States.
2007 - RazorThreat TAC introduced
2009 - RazorThreat relocates headquarters to Pontiac, Michigan
2010 - RazorDetect introduced
2011 - RazorThreat Vision introduced
2013 - RazorThreat HVA introduced
In September 2012, RazorThreat partnered with Ficus Consulting Group of Westborough, MA to resell its RazorThreat Vision threat intelligence software.
References
SC Magazine First Look
SC Magazine Industry Innovators NitroSecurity
RazorThreat Emerging Technology Company of the Year
451 Research Review of Threat Stream
External links
Corporate website
Software companies based in Michigan
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Truth%20Is%20%28TV%20program%29 | The Truth Is is an Australian current affairs television program. It aired on Network Ten from 3 June to 17 June 2013, and was hosted by Hamish Macdonald. In the United States the program aired on Al Jazeera America.
Episodes
Episode 1: After the Kill/Sunny Chernobyl
Episode 2: Soldiers of Fortune
Episode 3: Welcome to Prison/Russia's Paris Hilton?
References
2013 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings
Al Jazeera America original programming
Australian television news shows
English-language television shows
Network 10 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic%20the%20Viking | Vic the Viking is a children's animated television ABC series, which began on Network Ten on 6 July 2013, and continued on Eleven on 9 November 2013. It was based on the 1974-1975 anime series Vicky the Viking, and the book series it was originally inspired. The show aired 39 episodes for a total of 78 segments, and ended in 2014.
The main characters are Vic, a young, frail and ingenious Viking boy; his father Halvar, the Captain of the Drakkar and chief elect of 'Flake' the home village, and the villagers, mainly the other plunder crewmen, including druid Urobe, the ever-quarreling companions Tjure and Snorre, the simple giant Flaxe, squeaky-voiced navigator Gorm and bard Ulme; also Vic's bossy mother Ylva, mischievous urchin-rival Gilby, who is jealous that Vic is allowed to sail with the men, and Vic's equally inquisitive little cousin, Ylvi. Halvar's sworn enemy is the rascally captain Sven and his crew of incompetent oafs, but most episodes have other antagonists.
The series has been aired overseas, as in Flanders by Ketnet since autumn 2013 (dubbed in Dutch). In the UK it is aired on Pop. There are also two Catalan language dubs, corresponding to Televisió de Catalunya and À Punt Mèdia, in València.
Series overview
Season 1 (2013)
References
External links
2013 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian animated television series
Animated television series about children
Australian children's animated action television series
Australian children's animated comedy television series
Australian computer-animated television series
English-language television shows
Network 10 original programming
10 Peach original programming
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Fictional Vikings
Television series set in the Viking Age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20Student%20Zero | Exchange Student Zero is an Australian television film that premiered on 16 December 2012 on Cartoon Network. Created by Bruce Kane with Maurice Argiro and produced by Bogan Entertainment Solutions, in association with Cartoon Network Asia Pacific, it is the first local animated made production to be commissioned by the channel.
A TV series based on the film was announced as the first Cartoon Network show produced in Australia, where the two original creators joins Patrick Crawley. It premiered in the Asia-Pacific region on 26 September 2015, and the setting was changed from Perth, Australia to a U.S. town called South Port.
Voice cast
Film (2012)
Main
Dee Bradley Baker - Amonsun, Monsters
Natalie Bond - Lucinda, Anime Girls #1
Patrick Crawley - Biology Teacher, Real Exchange Student
Marg Downey - Peg, Happy Peach Flower, Drama Teacher
Scott Edgar - Principal Rogerson
Mark Hamill - King Karuta, King Blackyard
Edwin Kane - Leroy
Kate McLennan - Charity, Anime Girls #2
Rove McManus - Hiro, John, Max, Lionel, Coach
Candi Milo - Avere, Queen Karuta, Queen Blackyard
Peter Rowsthorn - Denmead
Jon Von Goes - Sot Sloane
Additional
Gene Argiro
Ginger Argiro
Giles Brading
Patrick Crawley
Shona Elliot-Kerr
Serena Kane
Indigo Malatt
Molly McCusker
Judy Whittle
Astra Whitton
Series (2015)
Ashleigh Ball - Charity, Peg
Jacqueline Brennan - Queen Blackyard, Avere, Happy Peach Flower, Queen Karuta, Old Lady
Patrick Crawley - Papa Rainbow, Zoobooninian, Doolsworth Farnstickle, Wrestler
Scott Edgar - Principal Rogerson
Keegan Connor Tracy - Lucinda
Maryke Hendrikse - Ms. Dunwall
Jessica Hopcraft - Gunk Queen
Rove McManus - Hiro, Max, Coach Coach, Stinky
Scott McNeil - Headmaster, Lionel, King Karuta
Toby Moore - Principal Kipling, Announcer
Lee Tockar - Amonsun
Vincent Tong - John, Nephlan 1
Sam Vincent - Denmead, Hank, Nephlan 2
Film
Series
References
External links
(2012 film)
(2015 series)
Cartoon Network television films
International Cartoon Network original programming
2012 television films
2012 films
2010s Australian animated films
2015 Australian television series debuts
2010s animated television series
2010s Australian animated television series
Anime-influenced animation
Anime-influenced Western animation
Anime-influenced Western animated television series
Australian children's animated action television series
Australian children's animated fantasy television series
Australian television films
Australian animated feature films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triggerfish%20Animation%20Studios | Triggerfish is a computer animation film studio based in Cape Town, South Africa and Galway, Ireland. The studio is best known for its animated feature films Adventures in Zambezia (2012), Khumba (2013), and Seal Team (2021), as well as the work they have done on television specials created for UK producers Magic Light Pictures. In 2016, Stick Man was awarded the Cristal for best TV production at the Annecy International Animation Festival. In 2017, Revolting Rhymes again won the Cristal for best TV production at the Annecy Festival, and was nominated for the Best Short Film (Animated) Oscar at the 2018 Academy Awards. In 2019, Netflix announced that Triggerfish would produce its first African animated TV series. In 2020, Zog won the International Emmy for Best Kids Animation. In 2021, The Snail and The Whale won Best Special Production at The Annie Awards, while Triggerfish received the Mifa Animation Industry Award at Annecy for "the pioneering role that the company has played in animation in South Africa, and Africa most widely.” In 2022, their third film, Seal Team, made the Netflix Top 10 Films global list for its launch week.
History
Triggerfish was established in 1996 by Jacquie Trowell and Emma Kaye in Cape Town, South Africa. As a stop-motion animation studio, it produced multiple commercials for South African ad agencies. From 1998 through 2008, Triggerfish produced animation for Sesame Workshop for the South African version of Sesame Street, Takalani Sesame, as well as the US domestic and international versions of the pre-school kids' program.
Stuart Forrest joined as a junior animator in 2002 to work on Takalani Sesame for seasons two and three. In 2004, Forrest and James Middleton became partners in Triggerfish and in 2005 became the sole partners when the original founders left the company. In 2007, Anthony Silverston joined as creative director, and Mike Buckland joined as head of production. At the same time, the company moved away from stop-frame animation and relaunched as a computer animation studio.
In 2015, at the Premier’s Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards (PERA), Triggerfish was named Business of the Year by the Western Cape Government.
In 2021, Triggerfish received the Mifa Animation Industry Award at Annecy for "the pioneering role that the company has played in animation in South Africa, and Africa most widely.”
Short films
In 2008, Triggerfish created a 30-minute short entitled The Rise and Fall of Tony the Frog. The short was produced by Ambient Animation in Cape Town for Isaac Entertainment.
In 2018, Triggerfish released an original 4-minute short entitled Belly Flop, co-directed by Jeremy Collins and writer Kelly Dillon. This was one of four shorts screened during the closing ceremony at Annecy 2018. A second original short film,Troll Girl premiered at the Cape Town International Animation Festival in 2021.
Triggerfish was one of nine studios selected around the world to produce a short for Star Wars Vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoproxy | A pseudoproxy is a synthetic dataset used in paleoclimatology to test methods of reconstruction of global or hemispherical climate change from temperature records, developed for reconstructing the temperature record of the past 1000 years using proxies for periods before the instrumental temperature record. In May 2002 Michael E. Mann and Scott Rutherford published a paper introducing this method of adding artificial noise to actual temperature records or to climate model simulations to produce what they called "pseudoproxies". When the reconstruction algorithms were used with these pseudoproxies, the result was then compared with the original record or simulation to see how closely it had been reconstructed. They discussed the issue that regression methods of reconstruction tended to underestimate the amplitude of variation.
References
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Paleoclimatology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRIAM%20Registry | The MIRIAM Registry, a by-product of the MIRIAM Guidelines, is a database of namespaces and associated information that is used in the creation of uniform resource identifiers. It contains the set of community-approved namespaces for databases and resources serving, primarily, the biological sciences domain. These shared namespaces, when combined with 'data collection' identifiers, can be used to create globally unique identifiers for knowledge held in data repositories. For more information on the use of URIs to annotate models, see the specification of SBML Level 2 Version 2 (and above).
A 'data collection' is defined as a set of data which is generated by a provider. A 'resource' is defined as a distributor of that data. Such a description allows numerous resources to be associated with a single collection, allowing accurate representation of how biological information is available on the World Wide Web; often the same information, from a single data collection, may be mirrored by different resources, or the core information may be supplemented with other data.
data collection name: Gene Ontology
data collection identifier: MIR:00000022
data collection synonyms: GO
data collection identifier pattern: ^GO:\d{7}$
data collection namespace: urn:miriam:obo.go
data collection 'Root URL': http://identifiers.org/obo.go/
data collection 'Root URN': urn:miriam:obo.go:
collection resources:
resource #1
resource identifier: MIR:00100012
resource location website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego/
resource access URL (tokenised): http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego/DisplayGoTerm?selected=$1
resource Description: QuickGO (Gene Ontology browser)
resource institution: European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
resource #2
[...]
The MIRIAM Registry is a curated resource, which is freely available and open to all. Submissions for new collections can be made through the website.
Identifiers using the MIRIAM system
The MIRIAM Guidelines require the use of uniform resource identifiers in the annotation of model components. These are created using the shared list of namespaces defined in the MIRIAM Registry.
MIRIAM URIs
Using the namespaces defined in the MIRIAM Registry, it is possible to create identifiers in both a URN and a URL forms. This requires a unique collection-specific identifier, as well as a namespace to globally constrain the information space. Both the namespace and the root of each URI form are given for each data collection in the Registry. Both forms are derived from the same namespace. For example:
urn form: urn:miriam:pubmed:16333295
url form: http://identifiers.org/pubmed/16333295
In this example, the collection-specific identifier is 16333295, and the namespace is pubmed.
The URN form of identifiers requires the use of Web Services or programmatic means to access the referenced record. This means that one cannot simply put the URN form into a browser window and arrive at the referenced information. The URL form is directly r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Flexible%20Data%20Center | HP Flexible Data Center, also termed FlexDC, is a modular data center built from prefabricated components by Hewlett-Packard and introduced in 2010. It is housed in five large buildings that form the shape of a butterfly. The Flexible DC looks like a traditional building, but it is fabricated off-site in order to circumvent the two years it often takes for traditional building construction. The building consists of a central admin area (the Core), surrounded by 1-4 data halls (the Quadrants). FDC offers cooling options that are optimal for each type of climate.
The FlexDC product line follows from HP's acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities in November 2007. HP currently positions FlexDC at the top end of their modular datacenter product line (above their PODs, which are housed in shipping containers), up to 3.6MW in capacity per facility.
References
External links
Press Release: HP Flexible Data Center
Data centers
Flexible Data Center
Modular datacenter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Mini | The iPad Mini (branded and marketed as iPad mini) is a line of mini tablet computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is a sub-series of the iPad line of tablets, with screen sizes of 7.9 inches and 8.3 inches. The first-generation iPad Mini was announced on October 23, 2012, and was released on November 2, 2012, in nearly all of Apple's markets. It featured similar internal specifications to the iPad 2, including its display resolution.
The iPad Mini 2, with a A7 processor and a Retina Display, was announced on October 22, 2013, and released on November 12, 2013. The iPad Mini 3 was announced on October 16, 2014 and was released on October 22, 2014, alongside the iPad Air 2; it features the same external hardware as the Mini 2 and the addition of a Touch ID fingerprint sensor compatible with Apple Pay. On September 9, 2015, Apple released the iPad Mini 4; which is a smaller version of the iPad Air 2. On March 18, 2019, Apple released the fifth-generation iPad Mini with support for the Apple Pencil alongside the third-generation iPad Air. The sixth-generation iPad Mini was announced on September 14, 2021 alongside the ninth-generation iPad, with both devices being released on September 24, 2021. Matching the new design language of the current Pro and Air iPads, features included a larger 8.3-inch full-screen display, USB-C port (instead of Lightning), top button with Touch ID (with home button removed), and support for the second-generation Apple Pencil.
History
On October 16, 2012, Apple announced plans for a media event on October 23 at the California Theatre in San Jose, California. The company did not give the subject of the event, but it was widely expected to be the iPad Mini. At the event, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced a new version of MacBook family and new generations of the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and the iMac, then unveiled the fourth-generation iPad and the iPad Mini.
Features
Software
The iPad Mini comes with several pre-installed applications, including Siri, Safari, Mail, Photos, Video, Music, iTunes, App Store, Maps, Notes, Calendar, Game Center, Photo Booth, and Contacts. Like all iOS devices, the iPad can sync content and other data with a Mac or PC using iTunes and to Apple's iCloud online service. Although the tablet is not designed to make telephone calls over a cellular network, users can use a headset or the built-in speaker and microphone and place phone calls over Wi-Fi or cellular using a VoIP application, such as Skype. iPads offer dictation when connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network.
Applications from Apple and third-party developers can be downloaded through the App Store, an application distribution market for iOS that is maintained and regulated by Apple. The service allows users to browse and purchase applications. Optional apps from Apple that can be purchased through the App Store include GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, and the iWork apps (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) are available.
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%284th%20generation%29 | The iPad (4th generation) (marketed as iPad with Retina display, colloquially referred to as the iPad 4) is a tablet computer produced and marketed by Apple Inc. Compared to its predecessor, the third-generation iPad, the fourth-generation iPad maintained the Retina Display but featured new and upgraded components such as the Apple A6X chip and the Lightning connector, which was introduced on September 12, 2012. It shipped with iOS 6, which provides a platform for audio-visual media, including electronic books, periodicals, films, music, computer games, presentations and web content. Like the third-generation iPad it replaced, it was supported by five major iOS releases, in this case iOS 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. iOS 11, which was released on September 19, 2017, does not support the fourth-generation iPad as that update does not support 32-bit devices and apps.
It was announced at a media conference on October 23, 2012 as the fourth generation of the iPad line, and was first released on November 2, 2012, in 35 countries, and then through December in ten other countries including China, India and Brazil. The third generation was discontinued following the fourth's announcement, after only seven months of general availability.
The device is available with either a black or white front glass panel and various connectivity and storage options. Storage size options include 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB, and 128 GB; the available connectivity options are Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + Cellular with LTE capabilities.
The fourth-generation iPad received positive reviews and was praised for its hardware improvements as well as the Retina display, which was also featured in the device's predecessor. Furthermore, benchmarks reveal that the fourth-generation iPad is able to perform CPU-reliant tasks twice as fast as its predecessor. During the first weekend of sales, an aggregated amount of 3 million fourth-generation iPads and iPad Minis were sold.
History
Rumors regarding the next-generation iPad emerged shortly after the release of the third-generation iPad. At that point some speculated that the next iPad released would be of a smaller size. Further speculations emerged in July 2012 when DigiTimes, with the help of unspecified sources, claimed that Apple made small revisions to the then upcoming iPad and scheduled its release for late 2012. On October 16, 2012, Apple announced a media event scheduled for October 23 at the California Theatre in San Jose, California. The company did not pre-disclose the subject of the event, but it was widely expected to be regarding the iPad Mini. Photographic images of the device's dock connector and front camera emerged shortly before the media event.
At the media event, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced a new version of iBooks and new generations of the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and the iMac before unveiling the fourth-generation iPad and the lower-end iPad Mini. During the unveiling, Apple stated that the fourth-generation iPad would be avail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20IQ | Cache IQ, Inc. was an Austin, Texas, US-based network computing company which created an inline caching appliance for network-attached storage (NAS). Founded in 2010, the management team included former NetQoS CEO Joel Trammell. The company was reported to have received $5 million in initial funding from angel investors. According to InformationWeek, Cache IQ came out of stealth mode in September 2011.
NetApp acquired Cache IQ in November 2012.
See also
List of companies based in Austin, Texas
References
External links
Cache IQ's Website
Cache IQ Startup Profile on Storage Newsletter
Cache IQ Company Profile on Hoovers
Companies based in Austin, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNet%20NZ%20Music%20Awards | The bNet NZ Music Awards was an annual New Zealand music award presentation organised by New Zealand student radio network bNet from 1998 to 2007.
History
The awards began in 1998 and were originally known as the 95bFM Music Awards, run by Auckland student radio station bFM. In 1999 the awards were expanded to include other bNet stations, were renamed the bNet Music Awards, and later became the bNet NZ Music Awards.
Founded as an alternative to RIANZ's New Zealand Music Awards, the bNet awards were largely determined by a public vote, and in early years the awards had irreverent categories such as Male Fox and Female Fox, Most Incomprehensible Lyric and Biggest Cock-Up. But the awards also included categories that were otherwise overlooked by mainstream music awards of the time, such as Best DJ, Best Independent Album and Best Website. 2007 was the final year the bNet Awards were held.
1998 bFM Music Awards
The first awards were called the bFM Music Awards and were organised by Auckland student radio station bFM. The awards ceremony was held in August 1998 at the Mandalay venue in Newmarket, Auckland.
Winners (Partial list)
Album Of The Year: The Stereo Bus The Stereo Bus
Best Dance Party: The Gathering
Best Music Video: Darcy Clay "Jesus I Was Evil"
Best Live Audio Engineer: Tiki Taane
Best Breakbeat DJ: Manuel Bundy
DJ of the Year: Greg Churchill
Best Unreleased Song: The Cosmetics "Can't Believe"
1999 bNet Music Awards
In 1999 the awards were renamed the bNet Music Awards to reflect the involvement of the bNet radio network. The awards were presented at the Mandalay venue in Newmarket, Auckland on Saturday August 28, 1999. Awards were presented in 34 categories, with 23 decided by public vote and 11 by a panel of judges. Categories included Most Astonishing Chart Placement, Most Incomprehensible Lyric, Best Independent Record Label, Contribution to New Zealand Music by a Major Label, Promoter or Promotion of a New Zealand Tour, and Luckiest Manager.
Winners (Partial list)
Male Fox: King Kapisi
Female Fox: Julia Deans
Best Live Audio Engineer: Tiki Taane
Best Hiphop DJ: Manuel Bundy
Best Live Electronica Act: Pitch Black
Best Album: Salmonella Dub Killervision
Best Independent Release: Fur Patrol Starlifter
Best Song: Salmonella Dub "For the Love Of It"
Best Hip-Hop/Reggae/Dub Release: Salmonella Dub Killervision
Best Electronica Release: Pitch Black Futureproof
Best Rock/Pop Release: Shihad Blue Light Disco
Best Live Act: Salmonella Dub
Best New Act: Polaar
Best Vocalist: Che Fu
Best Guitarist: Tom Watson, Head Like A Hole
Best Drummer: Isaac Tucker, The New Loungehead
Best Bassist: Mark Tyler, Salmonella Dub
Best Keyboardist: Paddy Free, Pitch Black
Best Independent Record Label: Kog Transmissions
Best International Achievement: Shihad
Lifetime Achievement Award: Trevor Reekie
2000 bNet Music Awards
The 2000 awards were held at the Powerstation venue in Auckland on Saturday 26 August 2000. Performing at the awards were hip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semblance%20analysis | Semblance analysis is a process used in the refinement and study of seismic data. The use of this technique along with other methods makes it possible to greatly increase the resolution of the data despite the presence of background noise. The new data received following the semblance analysis is usually easier to interpret when trying to deduce the underground structure of an area. Weighted semblance can be used for increasing the resolution of traditional semblance or make traditional semblance capable of analyzing more complicated seismic data.
History
Semblance analysis is a technique that first began to be developed and used in the late 1960s. Prior to the discovery of this method, identifying the main reflections produced by the many layers under the ground was fairly difficult. The primary reflections of these layers were often obscured by the background noise as well as noise from the many secondary reflections that are produced. The use of semblance analysis allows for the removal of the extra noise and leaves only the primary reflection.
Process
Semblance analysis allows for the refinement of seismic data. This is done by developing a velocity spectra display to determine the velocity through different layers at depth. The easiest way to accomplish this is by recording the normal incidence path (NIP). The NIP is where you have the shot and the geophone in the same location and the path taken by the recorded sound waves is perpendicular to the boundaries between the layers. This path represents the shortest amount of time that can be taken to reach a layer and return. With this information it becomes fairly easy to calculate the velocity of the waves as they travel through each layer by using the equation for the root mean square velocity starting with the top layer and working downward.
Once all of the velocities for the layers are known then it is possible to calculate the time needed for the wave to travel the distance down to the midpoint between each geophone and the shot point for each of the layers. As the geophones are farther away from the shot, the more the time taken for the wave to travel there increases, this forms a hyperbola in a graph of time vs. distance. The velocity data is used to correct the curves of the hyperbolas and create a flat line where all points are at an equal depth. The final step for the semblance analysis is to sum all of the data that has been corrected for velocity. This is done with the use of a computer filter to sum together all of the events that the traces share, then remove the ones they don't. The result is a single data set that has all of the primary peaks strongly displayed with most of the noise removed.
Problems
While this technique can be very useful in the analysis there are several situations in which it will not work. Semblance analysis will not work properly when the offset from the shot is greater than the depth of the reflecting layers because the data no longer has a hyper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20search | Forensic search is an emerging field of computer forensics. Forensic search focuses on user created data such as email files, cell phone records, office documents, PDFs and other files that are easily interpreted by a person.
Forensic search differs from computer forensic analysis in that it does not seek to review or analyze the lower level system files such as the registry, link files or disk level issues more commonly associated with traditional computer forensic analysis.
Purpose
Forensic search has emerged due to a number of factors including:
Improvements in technologies to enable lesser qualified users to undertake search and analysis of data that would have previously been undertaken only by a computer forensic expert. (This trend can be seen in many industries).
A need to reduce the high cost of undertaking a full computer forensic analysis of a user's computer, when in most cases the evidence found in the user created data is most useful and all that is required.
The rise of Cloud computing which has seen a move away from data storage on local computer hardware to data storage in any number of remote locations.
A lack of qualified computer forensic experts
The need to address the backlog of cases in most policing agencies where computer-based information requires review.
The need to involve other types of expertise for proper assessment of evidence, e.g. knowledge of accounting regulations, legal knowledge, etc.
Objectives
The objective of forensic search software is to allow a person with only a general knowledge of computers, but skilled in document review or investigation techniques, to undertake and search user created electronically stored information (ESI). Data that is typically considered to be user created ESI is made up of emails, documents, pictures and other file types created by a user, as opposed to data created by the computer's operating system (i.e. registry files, link files, unallocated space. These are controlled or created by the computer and not the user). The objective of reviewing the user created data is to find information that may be used to base decisions on as part of an investigation.
Forensic search software
Forensic search software differs from using the native applications (e.g. Outlook) or desktop search software (e.g. Google Desktop) to search the data in that no changes are made to the data during processing or searching that may impact the results or skew the findings. Forensic search software will also allow access to the base metadata of items not available via the native application. A good example of this would be the metadata in MS Word documents. A number of forensic search software products will be able to perform data recovery on a range of email file types.
Some examples of how using the native application or non-forensic application can affect the data:
Opening a Microsoft Word document in Microsoft Word may change the created, modified or last accessed dates in the documen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20composition%20data | Food composition data (FCD) are detailed sets of information on the nutritionally important components of foods and provide values for energy and nutrients including protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals and for other important food components such as fibre. The data are presented in food composition databases (FCDBs).
In the UK, FCD is listed in tables known as The Chemical Composition of Foods, McCance and Widdowson (1940) and in the first edition the authors stated that:
‘A knowledge of the chemical composition of foods is the first essential in the dietary treatment of disease or in any quantitative study of human nutrition’.
This demonstrates the main reason for establishing FCD at that time. To this day, food composition studies remain central to nutrition research into the role of food components and their interactions in health and disease. However, due to increasing levels of sophistication and complexity in nutrition science, there is a greater demand for complete, current and reliable FCD, together with information on a wider range of food components, including bioactive compounds.
FCD are important in many fields including clinical practice, research, nutrition policy, public health and education, and the food manufacturing industry and is used in a variety of ways including: national programmes for the assessment of diet and nutritional status at a population level (e.g. epidemiological researchers assessing diets at a population level); development of therapeutic diets (e.g. to treat obesity, diabetes, nutritional deficiencies, food allergy and intolerance) and institutional diets (e.g. schools, hospitals, prisons, day-care centres) and nutrition labelling of processed foods.
The earliest food composition tables were based solely on chemical analyses of food samples, which were mostly undertaken specifically for the tables. However, as the food supply has evolved, and with the increasing demand for nutritional and related components, it has become more difficult for compilers to rely only on chemical analysis when compiling FCDBs. For example, in the UK the third edition of The Composition of Foods presented data on vitamin content of foods. However, due to the amount of information already available and in order to avoid the need to analyse every food for every vitamin, values from the scientific literature were included, although the tables are still predominately based on analytical data. Nowadays, food composition databases tend to be compiled using a variety of methods as described below.
Chemical analysis
Chemical analysis of food samples carried out in analytical laboratories is typically the preferred method for creating FCD. The food samples are carefully chosen using a defined sampling plan to ensure that they are representative of the foods being consumed in a country. This includes accounting for factors that could affect the nutrient content of a food as purchased (e.g. region and/or country of origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%281st%20generation%29 | The first-generation iPad ( ) (retrospectively referred to unofficially as the iPad 1, or original iPad) is a tablet computer designed and marketed by Apple Inc. as the first device in the iPad lineup of tablet computers. The device features an Apple A4 SoC, a touchscreen display, and, on certain variants, the capability of accessing cellular networks. Using the iOS operating system, the iPad can play music, send and receive email and browse the web. Other functions, which include the ability to play games and access references, GPS navigation software and social network services can be enabled by downloading apps.
The device was announced and unveiled on January 27, 2010, by Apple founder Steve Jobs at an Apple press event. On April 3, 2010, the Wi-Fi variant of the device was released in the United States, followed by the release of the "Wi-Fi + 3G" variant on April 30. On May 28, 2010, it was released in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The device received positive reviews from various technology blogs and publications. Reviewers praised the device for its wide range of capabilities and labeled it as a competitor to laptops and netbooks. Some aspects were criticized, including the closed nature of the operating system and the lack of support for the Adobe Flash multimedia format. During the first 80 days, 3 million iPads were sold. By the launch of the iPad 2, Apple had sold more than 15 million iPads.
On March 2, 2011, the first generation iPad was discontinued following Apple's announcement of the iPad 2. Remaining stock of the first iPad were temporarily available from Apple at reduced price.
History
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs stated in a 1983 speech about the company:
Apple's first tablet computer was the Newton MessagePad 100, introduced in 1993, which led to the creation of the ARM6 processor core with Acorn Computers. Apple also developed a prototype PowerBook Duo-based tablet, the PenLite, but decided not to sell it in order to avoid hurting MessagePad sales. Apple released several more Newton-based PDAs; the final one, the MessagePad 2100, was discontinued in 1998.
Apple reentered the mobile-computing market in 2007 with the iPhone. Smaller than the (not yet announced) iPad and featuring a camera and mobile capabilities, it pioneered the multitouch finger-sensitive touchscreen interface of Apple's iOS mobile operating system.
By late 2009, the iPad's release had been rumored for several years. Such speculation mostly talked about "Apple's tablet"; specific names included iTablet and iSlate. The actual name is reportedly an homage to the Star Trek PADD, a fictional device very similar in appearance to the iPad.
The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Jobs later said that Apple began developing the iPad before the iPhone, but temporarily shelved the effort upon realizin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Lugano | The Lugano tramway network () was part of the public transport network of Lugano, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, for over half a century. Opened in 1896, the network was progressively replaced by the Lugano trolleybus system by 1959, with one independent line surviving until 1964.
The main part of the network was operated by the Società luganese dei tramway elettrici, which, after several subsequent name changes, is now known as the Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi. However one route was independently operated as part of the Lugano–Cadro–Dino regional railway. Since a plebiscite in 2014, the reintroducing of a tram line is in the planning stages.
History
Lugano railway station first opened in 1874, and by 1882, Lugano was connected to the north over the Monte Ceneri Pass to Bellinzona, and the Gotthard Rail Tunnel beyond that. The first local transport need in the city was to link the station with the city, which was well above the city in its lakeside location. To that end, the Lugano Città–Stazione funicular was opened in 1886.
However further economic development, not least because of the coming of the railway, led to Lugano spreading beyond its original lakeside core, resulting in further need for local transportation. The Società luganese dei tramway elettrici (Lugano Electric Tramway Company) was responsible for constructing the city's urban tramways, which went into service in 1896.
Initially the trams were supplied with electricity at 400 V three-phase AC. In 1910 the system switched to 1000 V DC.
In 1911, the Lugano–Cadro–Dino railway (LCD) opened its regional railway from Piazza Manzoni, on the Lake Lugano waterfront. The first of the line, as far as the line's depot at Lugano La Santa, was laid in the street. In addition to its regional trains, the LCD operated an urban tramway service over these tracks, with tram cars running every 15 minutes. This tram service was independent of the earlier system, although the two systems' tracks did cross each other, and used the same gauge and electrification system.
The Società luganese dei tramway elettrici was taken over by the city of Lugano in 1918 and the name changed to Tranvie elettriche comunali (Municipal Electric Tramways). At its peak, in 1927, the following municipal routes were operated:
By the 1950s the decision had been taken to replace the municipal trams with trolleybuses. The first trolleybus route opened in 1954, and in the same year the Tranvie elettriche comunali changed its name to the Azienda Comunale del Traffico. The trolleybus system progressively replaced the municipal tramway network, until the last lines were operated in 1959.
The independent LCD tram line continued until 1964, when it was replaced by a municipal bus service. The LCD's regional trains continued to use the track until the line was curtailed to Piazza Indipendenza in 1967, and abandoned altogether in 1970.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Switzerland
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Credit%20Data | Global Credit Data (GCD) (formerly named PECDC or the Pan-European Credit Data Consortium) was formed in December 2004 as a credit data pooling initiative primarily designed to assist member banks' completion of Basel II preparations in their pursuit of Advanced Status for AIRB. Initially it was formed as a loose affiliation of 13 original member banks. GCD now has the largest commercial loan loss and recovery dataset in existence. Membership has grown from the original base of 13 to a membership of 55 banks at September 2021 and the geographic coverage of the GCD databases, originally limited to Europe, have been extended to banks in Africa, Australia and North America. In December 2008 GCD was incorporated as a private not-for-profit legal association, domiciled in The Netherlands under Dutch law.
Role
The role of Global Credit Data is to provide members with an additional credit data collection, analysis and research resource as well as to contribute to a better understanding of credit risk, as put forward in the Articles of Association.
Structure
Global Credit Data is governed by the Board, which comprises at least 7 members appointed by the General Meeting of members for two years. The board is governed by a chairperson and meets at least quarterly. There is also an Executive Director appointed by the board and the General Meeting. There is also a methodology committee charged with all methodological aspects, which is appointed by the board.
Board
Simon Ross-Hansen, Chairman
Sanjay Gupta, Deputy-Chairman
Massimo Cutaia, Treasurer
Stephan Jortzik, Chairman of Methodology Committee
Jean-Gabriel Albigot
Maz Khan
Mark Dutrisac
Senior personnel
(TBD), Executive Director
Nina Brumma, Head of Analytics and Research
Michael Dhaenens, Head of IT, Data & Delivery
References
External links
Global Credit Data official website
Banking in Europe
Trade associations based in the Netherlands
Organizations established in 2008
Companies based in Rotterdam
Banking organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphic%20word | In mathematics and computer science, a morphic word or substitutive word is an infinite sequence of symbols which is constructed from a particular class of endomorphism of a free monoid.
Every automatic sequence is morphic.
Definition
Let f be an endomorphism of the free monoid A∗ on an alphabet A with the property that there is a letter a such that f(a) = as for a non-empty string s: we say that f is prolongable at a. The word
is a pure morphic or pure substitutive word. Note that it is the limit of the sequence a, f(a), f(f(a)), f(f(f(a))), ...
It is clearly a fixed point of the endomorphism f: the unique such sequence beginning with the letter a. In general, a morphic word is the image of a pure morphic word under a coding, that is, a morphism that maps letter to letter.
If a morphic word is constructed as the fixed point of a prolongable k-uniform morphism on A∗ then the word is k-automatic. The n-th term in such a sequence can be produced by a finite state automaton reading the digits of n in base k.
Examples
The Thue–Morse sequence is generated over {0,1} by the 2-uniform endomorphism 0 → 01, 1 → 10.
The Fibonacci word is generated over {a,b} by the endomorphism a → ab, b → a.
The tribonacci word is generated over {a,b,c} by the endomorphism a → ab, b → ac, c → a.
The Rudin–Shapiro sequence is obtained from the fixed point of the 2-uniform morphism a → ab, b → ac, c → db, d → dc followed by the coding a,b → 0, c,d → 1.
The regular paperfolding sequence is obtained from the fixed point of the 2-uniform morphism a → ab, b → cb, c → ad, d → cd followed by the coding a,b → 0, c,d → 1.
D0L system
A D0L system (deterministic context-free Lindenmayer system) is given by a word w of the free monoid A∗ on an alphabet A together with a morphism σ prolongable at w. The system generates the infinite D0L word ω = limn→∞ σn(w). Purely morphic words are D0L words but not conversely. However, if ω = uν is an infinite D0L word with an initial segment u of length |u| ≥ |w|, then zν is a purely morphic word, where z is a letter not in A.
See also
Cutting sequence
Lyndon word
Hall word
Sturmian word
References
Further reading
Semigroup theory
Formal languages
Combinatorics on words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi | Eiichi (written: 暎一, 栄一, 英一, 詠一 or 映一) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
, Japanese manga artist
, Japanese computer scientist
Eiichi Itai (born 1951), Japanese golfer
, Japanese sumo wrestler
, Japanese sport wrestler
, Japanese actor
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese film director
, Japanese photographer
, Japanese photographer
, Japanese karateka and judoka
, Japanese chemist and academic
, Japanese field hockey player
, Japanese politician
, Japanese chemist
, Japanese musician
, Japanese photographer
, Japanese politician
, Japanese businessman
, Japanese economist and academic
, Japanese Nordic combined skier
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese film director and screenwriter
, Japanese politician
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exe2bin | The command-line tool exe2bin is a post-compilation utility program available on MS-DOS and other operating systems.
Overview
Early compilers and linkers for the MS-DOS platform could not produce a COM file executable directly. Instead, the compilers would output an EXE-format file with relocation information. If all 8086 segments were set to be identical in such an EXE file (i.e. the "tiny" memory model was used), then exe2bin could convert it to a COM file.
exe2bin could also be used to convert compiled code to make it suitable to be embedded in ROM as part of BIOS or a device driver.
Availability
The command was included in MS/DOS versions 1 thru 3.1 as part of a standard distribution. For version 3.2, among the changes were
the version included did not permit itself to run on any version except 3.2. For the next version, 3.3, there was no EXE2BIN on the DOS disk. "Instead, IBM sells the program
separately, at an extra cost, with the DOS Technical Reference." IBM also added code to check the version. PC Magazine published a
workaround: just patch it to work with
3.2 or higher.
One way or the other, it was no longer available for the base price after 3.2; for version 6 it was on what was called the Supplemental Disk. The program was also distributed with many language compilers for MS-DOS in the 1980s, and included with certain versions of IBM PC DOS.
PhysTechSoft & Paragon Technology Systems PTS-DOS, Digital Research DR DOS 6.0, and Datalight ROM-DOS, also include an implementation of the command.
The command is also available in FreeDOS. This implementation is licensed under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License.
Windows XP and later versions include exe2bin and other 16-bit commands (nonnative) for the MS-DOS subsystem to maintain MS-DOS compatibility. The 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem commands are not available on 64-bit editions of Windows.
See also
List of DOS commands
References
Further reading
External links
Exe2bin | Microsoft Docs
comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ
Open source EXE2BIN implementation that comes with MS-DOS v2.0
Open source implementation of exe2bin that comes with FreeDOS
External DOS commands
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft free software
Programming language implementation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciri | Ciri or CIRI may refer to:
Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, an academic and research institute based in Lyon, France.
CIRI Human Rights Data Project
Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
Continuous Individualized Risk Index
An alternate name for Tiri language of New Caledonia
CIRI-FM, a traffic advisory radio station, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cirilla, a female protagonist from the fantasy saga The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
Ciri, an episode of The Hexer (TV series), based on Sapkowski's saga
Ciri, a nickname of Ciriaco Sforza, a Swiss former professional football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13cabs | 13cabs is an Australian taxi network with a fleet of over 10,000 vehicles. Named after their phone number (13 22 27 or “13cabs”), and a part of A2B Australia, 13cabs operates in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Newcastle. 13cabs has expanded to the Northern Territory, regional Victoria and regional Queensland, providing a 24/7 booking service via three Australian-based contact centres.
In March 2020, in an effort to counter the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the taxi industry, it was announced that 13cabs had established a subsidiary named 13things, a home delivery service that offers to pick up and deliver goods and parcels.
Bookings can be made through the 13cabs app, enabling users to book a taxi as they would if they were travelling. They then fill in an option to mark it as a parcel.
Community
13cabs supports and creates community programs such as the 13cabs Taxi Driver Memorial Cup, an annual cricket match between a team of taxi drivers and a team of professional athletes. In 2019, they facilitated over 8 million trips supporting passengers with a disability. Other initiatives include helping to deliver medical goods to hospitals, partnering with charitable organisations like Guide Dogs Australia, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Good Friday Appeal.
Locations
13cabs operates in all states and territories of Australia
Adelaide
Brisbane
Darwin
Melbourne
Perth
Sydney
Airlie Beach
Alice Springs
Albury
Bairnsdale
Ballarat
Bendigo
Blue Mountains
Bundaberg
Coffs Harbour
Dubbo
Darwin
Forster
Gold Coast
Geelong
Geraldton
Ipswich
Logan
Mackay
Mandurah
Newcastle
Rockhampton
Sale
Shepparton
Surf Coast
Tamworth
Taree
Toowoomba
Townsville
Tully
Tuncurry
Warrnambool
Wellington
Wodonga
Wollongong
Awards
On 25 July 2014, 13cabs was awarded the Monash Business Awards Business of the Year 2013–2014.
References
Companies based in Melbourne
Taxis of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Freeny | Jason Freeny (born 1970) is an American artist specializing in sculpture, designer toys and computer-generated imagery. He is the owner of the Moist Production studio, which acts as the primary publisher and distributor of his works. He is best known for his anatomical art, where he produces cutaway drawings and sculptures of (typically toy) inanimate objects such as a Lego man, Barbie doll, the animated fish Nemo or a balloon art dog.
Early life
Jason Freeny was born in 1970 in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. Freeny studied Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Middletown High School in Middletown, Maryland.
Career
Before forming Moist Production LLC, Freeny worked for MTV as a freelance production and properties designer where he created the custom trophies used in the Rock'n'Jock series and TRL Awards televised events. Freeny also spent time at ESPN designing for the mobile division and was a freelance illustrator creating editorial and literary illustrations for Penthouse (magazine).
Freeny's sculptural and illustration work has been the basis for several mass-produced toys. He has collaborated with Hong Kong-based Toy2R (working on the Qee figurines), Hong Kong-based Fame Master toys producing Gummy bear anatomical toys, United States-based Jailbreak Collective producing the "CAPSL" collectable series and United States-based Marbles the Brain Store creating Freeny's Brain Cube puzzle. He has also worked with Singapore-based Mighty Jaxx to produce a series of Sanrio and Minions toy collectibles.
Awards
Freeny has received several Designer Toy Awards throughout his career, including Break Through Artist (2011), Fan Favorite (2013), Custom of the Year (2014), Best Collaboration with artist Luke Chueh (2014), Artist of the Year - Fan Choice (2014), and Best Vinyl & Plastic (2016).
Freeny was the Designer, Art Director and Typographer for the poster series entitled Anatomy, which was awarded the Grand Prix (Outdoor) and Gold Medal (Print Work) at the 2009 Dubai Lynx International Advertising Festival.
Private collections
Nike CEO/President Mark Parker
Television Host Conan O'Brien
Los Angeles collector Long Gone John
Comedian Hamish Blake
Exhibitions
Plastic Surgeon, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, September 15 - October 5, 2017
MOLT, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA. February 2015
PIQ, Piq, Las Vegas, NV. November 2013
101/exhibit, Los Angeles, CA. March 2013
Personal life
Jason lives in New York with his fiancée, Kendra.
References
External links
Freeny's DeviantArt Gallery
Moist Production Website
Jason’s Instagram
1970 births
Living people
American sculptors
People from Silver Spring, Maryland
People from Middletown, Maryland
Balloon artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firstpost | Firstpost is an Indian news website owned by Reliance Industries, which also runs CNN-News18 and CNBC TV18. It posted misinformation on multiple occasions.
The Network 18 group was originally owned by Raghav Bahl. In January 2012, the group received an investment from Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries through a rights issue of up to crore.
History
Firstpost began in 2011 as an online news portal of Network18. In May 2013, the news group was merged with the Indian edition of Forbes India whose four top editorial heads, including editor in chief Indrajit Gupta, were dismissed. The event led to a media furor. Thereafter on 31 May 2013, Firstpost took over a satirical website Fakingnews.com for an undisclosed amount. According to Scroll.in, "Network18, with its online outlet FirstPost, famously lost its primetime anchors in 2014 because of a diktat against criticising Modi."
In 2015, The Caravan reported on censorship in Firstpost over criticism of political leaders such as Arun Jaitley. In January 2019, a weekly English-language print edition of Firstpost began, and then ended in June 2019, with publication of Firstpost continuing online. As of April 2020, Jaideep Giridhar is the executive editor of Firstpost in Mumbai, while Sanjay Singh is the deputy executive editor. On 26 January 2023, the prime-time show Vantage was launched, hosted by managing editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay, formerly of WION.
Fact-checkers have found the Firstpost to have posted incorrect information on multiple occasions. In 2023, it misreported photo of a grave with iron grille to be from Pakistan when it was from Hyderabad, India. In 2023, it falsely reported that Atiq Ahmed's vote had ‘Saved' the UPA Govt in 2008.
References
Indian news websites
Internet properties established in 2011
Mass media in Mumbai
Network18 Group
New media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6fingen%20station | Höfingen station is in the Leonberg district of Höfingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located at kilometre 10.9 of the Black Forest Railway and is a station on the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn.
History
On 1 December 1869, the Royal Württemberg State Railways opened the second leg of the Black Forest Railway, between Ditzingen and Weil der Stadt. It is assumed that Foreign Minister Karl von Varnbüler, the former owner of the Höfingen castle, influenced the route. However, although the route ran along the Glems valley through the district of Höfingen, the village at first had no station. After that, many residents joined together to form a citizens' association, which campaigned for the construction of a station. In 1885 the town gave Karl von Varnbüler honorary citizenship.
On 27 September 1888, the establishment of the station was announced. On 16 January 1889, the first train stopped at Höfingen in the presence of cheering people. The single-storey wooden station building with a waiting room and station services, as well as an adjoining freight shed, no longer exists. The trip from Stuttgart to Höfingen was then scheduled to take 35 minutes.
On 30 September 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn opened a second mainline track between Ditzingen and Leonberg. On 15 May 1939, electrical operations began between Zuffenhausen and Leonberg.
In the 1970s, Deutsche Bundesbahn rebuilt the halt as an S-Bahn station. In 1975, it demolished the entrance building. The former station master's house remained. Since 1 October 1978, S-Bahn line S 6 services running between Weil der Stadt and Schwabstraße stop in Höfingen.
Rail services
The station is served by lines S 6 and S 60 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Track 1 is used for services to Zuffenhausen and track 2 is used for services to Leonberg.
The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.
S-Bahn
Notes
References
Stuttgart S-Bahn stations
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1889
Buildings and structures in Böblingen (district) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacocybernetics | Pharmacocybernetics (also known as pharma-cybernetics, cybernetic pharmacy and cyberpharmacy) is an upcoming field that describes the science of supporting drugs and medications use through the application and evaluation of informatics and internet technologies, so as to improve the pharmaceutical care of patients. It is an interdisciplinary field that integrates the domains of medicine and pharmacy, computer sciences (informatics, cybernetics, interactive digital media, human-computer-environment interactions) and psychological sciences to design, develop, apply and evaluate technological innovations which improve drugs and medications management, as well as prevent or solve drug-related problems.
Terminology
"Pharmaco" originates from the Greek word "pharmakon", which means drugs or poisons; while "cybernetics" originates from the Greek word "kubernetes", which means "the art of steering". Norbert Wiener first defined cybernetics as the science or study of "control and communication in the animal and the machine". Since then, the American Society for Cybernetics has further described this field as "the design or discovery and application of principles of regulation and communication".
Cybernetics has been applied to many fields, such as anthropology, sociology, systems theory, psychology, biology, computer science and engineering. The defining characteristic of a cybernetic system is its relationship between endogenous goals and the external environment. In the 1970s, cybernetics was applied in healthcare as a means of setting positive outcome goals for patients who were not satisfied with their plastic surgeries. The emergence of "new cybernetics" or "second-order cybernetics" further expanded this concept to include the interactions between cybernetic systems and the people interacting with them, as well as to society as a whole.
Cybernetics also includes the concept of "cyberspace", which is described by the science fiction author William Gibson as a virtual representation of information in varying states of accessibility that is linked to various people and organizations in his book Neuromancer. This concept is also reiterated in the movie "The Matrix" and its sequels, which revolves around Neo (Keanu Reeves), a computer programmer, who lives in a simulated matrix world created by sentient machines but perceived by humans as reality. The term "cyberspace" is now used ubiquitously to describe anything that is associated with computers, informatics and internet technologies, and also user experiences through interactions with these technologies.
Context
The increased popularity of informatics and internet technologies in healthcare has led to the development of various software, tools and applications for healthcare professionals and patients to improve pharmaceutical care and health-related outcomes. Pharmacoinformatics (or pharmacy informatics) is a field within e-health that targets drug-related problems through the use of informatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20D.%20Tocher | Keith Douglas "Toch" Tocher (19 March 1921 – 30 December 1981) was a computer scientist known for contributions to computer simulation.
Tocher received a first-class BSc in Mathematics in 1941 from University College London, a BSc in Statistics in 1946 from University of London, and a PhD in 1952 at Imperial College London.
In 1958, he worked for United Steel Companies under Anthony Stafford Beer, and developed the first discrete-event simulation package, the General Simulation Program (GSP), a program that used a common structure to execute a range of simulations.
He was appointed professor of operational research at the University of Southampton in 1980. He was awarded the silver medal of the Operational Research Society in 1967 and served as president from 1972–73.
Tocher was also one of the creators of the SRT division algorithm that is used in the hardware of many modern computers.
References
External links
Guide to the United Steel Companies Department of Operational Research and Cybernetics Handbooks, 1959-1960
1921 births
1981 deaths
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition%20Matrix | The Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States. Developed by the Obama administration beginning in 2010, it goes beyond existing kill lists and is intended to become a permanent fixture of U.S. policy. The process determining the criteria for killing is not public and was heavily shaped by National Counterterrorism Director and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John O. Brennan.
Though White House, National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and CIA spokespeople have declined to comment on the database, officials have stated privately that kill lists will expand "for at least another decade", if not indefinitely. One official stated "it's a necessary part of what we do". Paul R. Pillar, the former deputy director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, has stated, "We are looking at something that is potentially indefinite".
The database's existence was revealed in a three-part series published by The Washington Post.
Purpose
The creation of the Disposition Matrix database is part of an effort embraced by White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan to codify the targeted killing policies developed by President Barack Obama. Under the George W. Bush administration, Brennan served as top aide to CIA director George Tenet, where he defended the administration's use of extraordinary rendition, enhanced interrogation, and torture by definition according to international standards. Brennan's association with the CIA's interrogation program was controversial and forced him to withdraw his candidacy for directorship of the CIA or National Intelligence in 2008.
According to The New York Times, Brennan was the "principal coordinator" of U.S. kill lists. Former Obama administration counter-terrorism official Daniel Benjamin has stated that Brennan "probably had more power and influence than anyone in a comparable position in the last 20 years".
The database's creation also accompanied an expansion of the drone fleet, turning the CIA into a "paramilitary force" according to The Washington Post. It is associated with increased Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) operations in Africa, and increased JSOC involvement in forming kill lists. The database has unified originally separate but overlapping kill lists maintained by both JSOC and the CIA, and was originally proposed by former NCTC director Michael Leiter.
Scope
The Disposition Matrix database catalogues biographies, locations, associates, and affiliations of suspects. It also catalogues strategies for finding, capturing, or killing suspects, or subjecting them to extraordinary rendition. The database continues to direct U.S. operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and will facilitate expanded operations in Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Libya, Iran, and throughout east Africa.
A clear example of the expansion of targeted killing as managed by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%20Decision | Kill Decision is a science fiction novel by Daniel Suarez, published in 2012. It deals with themes of espionage, artificial intelligence, and warfare using robots and drones. The story deals with the fictional scenario where insurgents have created automated drones that identify enemies and make the decision to kill them (the "kill decision") without human intervention.
Characters
Odin aka David Shaw: The leader of the main protagonist team of the book.
Linda McKinney aka The Professor: A professor who studies swarming models of Weaver ants. She was targeted by the insurgents for her computer model of the swarming behaviour of ants, and was rescued by Odin's team
Huginn and Muninn: Two ravens trained by Odin to do surveillance.
Foxy: Team member, handles flying helicopters, planes, etc.
Ripper, Mooch and Smokey: Team members.
Hoov, a team member specializing in communications and audio visual forgery detection.
Ritter: An American who is part of the group that wants drones to be legalized and funded; tries to subvert the plans of the group.
Henry Clarke: A person who manages social media messaging for the armed forces and the US Government.
Marta: Henry's boss.
Plot summary
The book opens with a video feed from predator drones in Karbala, Iraq, where it is observed that an unmarked drone with American colors fires a missile on the dense crowd during a religious ceremony, killing many people. Repercussions of this attack are felt worldwide.
A team at the vision lab in Stanford are informed by a patent lawyer that their computer vision code has been stolen by some people and appears in public forums. One of the students then traces the code, and observes that it initially appeared in a location in China. Just as they assemble the team to discuss this development, they are killed by a laser guided missile.
Linda McKinney is studying the swarming behavior of weaver ants in Africa. Later that night, Linda is woken up by some noises, and is lured away from her house just as her house is completely destroyed in a missile attack. She is then sedated and kidnapped by Odin and his crew. On the way back to the US, we observe a military operation in Pakistan to reverse engineer US predator drones. Odin realizes that it is a farce put up to implicate Pakistan for the attack at Karbala, and decides to stick to his original plan. They land in Kansas City, and then make their way to the base of operations, which is located in SubTropolis, an old limestone mine.
Linda manages to escape the base in a Fire truck. She seeks protection of the FBI from the people who have 'kidnapped' her. Ritter, claiming to be from the Department of Homeland Security turns up and takes her into custody. Ritter is unable to convince Odin to step down on his mission to prevent the widespread adoption of unmanned kill-drones. Odin takes charge of Linda again. Odin realizes that his base of operations has been compromised. They execute their mission quickly, which is to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPS%20Health%20Network | The Tarrant County Hospital District (TCHD) does business as the JPS Health Network. It is located in the taxpayer-supported hospital district of Tarrant County, Texas. Headquarters are in the John Peter Smith Hospital at 1500 South Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas, 76104.
About JPS Health Network
The origins of JPS Health Network go back to October of 1877. Future Fort Worth mayor, John Peter Smith, deeded five acres of land for medical facilities for families in Fort Worth and in Tarrant County. JPS is a teaching facility. It is the site of the nation's largest hospital-based Family Medicine residency program.
JPS Health Network operates John Peter Smith Hospital, which is a 573-bed acute care facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
John Peter Smith Hospital provides emergency services and Level 1 trauma care. The hospital is the only psychiatric emergency services site in Tarrant County. More than 5,000 babies are born each year at John Peter Smith Hospital.
JPS is a certified Chest Pain Center, Certified Primary Stroke Center and an Accredited American College of Surgery Cancer Center. Joint Commission Disease Specific Certification in Sepsis and Geriatrics. JPS has a Level lll Neonatal Intensive Care Center (NICU).
Academics
JPS is a teaching site and trains physicians, nurses, physician assistants and other health care workers. JPS supports nine residency programs. The Family Medicine residency is the largest hospital-based family medicine residency program in the nation.
Leadership
The JPS Board of Managers includes 11 members. They are appointed by the Tarrant County Commissioners. This committee manages the JPS Health Network facilities and leadership.
Health centers
The network includes more than 40 community-based health centers, including 20 clinics based on school campuses.
See also
Harris Health System (former Harris County Hospital District)
Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas County)
References
External links
JPS Health Network
Healthcare in Texas
Hospital networks in the United States
Tarrant County, Texas
Organizations based in Fort Worth, Texas
Buildings and structures in Tarrant County, Texas
Medical and health organizations based in Texas
Health departments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves%20AN/MSQ-35%20Bomb%20Scoring%20Central | The Reeves AN/MSQ-35 Bomb Scoring Central was a United States Air Force dual radar system with computerized plotting board for evaluating the accuracy of Strategic Air Command bomber crews by the 1st Combat Evaluation Group.
Description
The central had a 20 rpm Acquisition Radar System with a variable "fan-shaped beam" in elevation and an Interrogator Set AN/TPX-27 for identification friend or foe. The central's trailer van for operations had the separate AN/MSQ-54 Bomb Scoring Set with an automatic tracking radar group (OA-450/FSA-4 Receiver-Transmitter Control Group), a computer group with analog vacuum tube circuitry and on the roof, the antenna group. A communications group provided a link for receiving the aircraft's signal at simulated bomb release, and additional vehicles included a V-280 maintenance van and a V-287 flatbed trailer for transporting the radar/IFF antennas.
Operation
In addition to providing a conventional plot of the aircraft bomb run, the computer group automated the previously manual "bomb plot" in which technicians used time-of-flight charts for air drag and drew lengths of line from the release point to the vacuum impact point and then to an estimate impact point for drag and crosswind. By automatically using "ballistic data" such as time-of-fall to determine vacuum impact point, the AN/MSQ-35 computed bomb "score data [that was] printed out on tape" from a paper roll.
Development and training
The X-band Western Electric M-33 Fire Control System "was utilized as a basic building block" for the X-band AN/MSQ-35, and "techniques established during [the] AN/USQ-9 development program were utilized in the AN/MSQ-35 production program." In 1962 the Reeves Instrument Corporation production facility hosted the first class for AN/MSQ-35 operators, and the central's field testing was in early 1963 at White Sands Missile Range.
Deployment
The AN/MSQ-35 military school was initially at the Aberdeen Proving Ground (where the M-33 school had been located) and the central eventually became the instructional radar used at the 40-week Keesler Air Force Base technical training school for Automatic Tracking Radar Specialists (AUTOTRACK). The Final Engineering Report for the AN/MSQ-35 was published in December 1965 after it was used as the basis for developing the 1965 Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central with integrating computer for Combat Skyspot ground-directed bombing in the then-ongoing Vietnam War.
References
1962 establishments in the United States
1965 disestablishments in the United States
1962 in military history
1965 in military history
Computer-related introductions in 1962
20th-century history of the United States Air Force
Analog computers
Aviation ground support equipment
Cold War military computer systems of the United States
Ballistics
Ground radars
Radars of the United States Air Force
Military equipment introduced in the 1960s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Transformer%20Pad%20TF700T | Asus Transformer Pad TF700T or Asus Transformer Pad Infinity - is a tablet computer made by Asus, successor to the Asus Transformer Prime. The manufacturer announced it at CES 2012, less than a month after the original product launch, to launch Q2 2012.
This new model includes a Tegra 3 T33 processor clocked at 1.6 GHz (as opposed to the Prime's T30), and an upgraded 1,920×1,200-pixel-resolution screen, more than doubling the pixel count of the prior model. The display was upgraded to a Super IPS+ panel for ultra bright outdoor readability with 178° wide viewing angles. In response to the signal problems it includes a new back-panel design with the upper part made of plastic to enhance Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS performance. The front camera was boosted from 1.2 megapixels to 2 megapixels. It has improved graphics performance with a 12-core GPU.
Successor
In November 2013 a successor was released by the name of Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF701.
The new Transformer Pad was upgraded with a Tegra 4 CPU, a 2560 x 1600 resolution display with 300 ppi, 2GB RAM and other upgrades over its predecessor.
CyanogenMod
CyanogenMod 11 or newer is supported on the TF700T tablet.
References
Tablet computers
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2012
Asus products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmatic | Starmatic was a social networking-enabled photo sharing and filtering application for the Apple iPhone, launched in September 2012.
History
Starmatic made its debut on the Apple App Store on September 5, 2012, gained almost 500,000 users, and was discontinued in May 2014.
Backstory
The Starmatic application was named after the Starmatic Brownie camera introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1959. Starmatic was part of Kodak's Brownies Star series launched in 1957. Made of plastic and relatively cheap, Starmatic fell in the category of toy cameras and was sold over an estimated 10 million units in 5 years.
The icon and the camera of the application were modeled after the original Starmatic camera while the two rolls of filters, Starmacolor and Starmachrome, have been inspired by the 127 films used by Starmatic cameras.
Reception
Starmatic made Apple's Top 25 New and Noteworthy iPhone apps in 20 countries (including USA, China, Japan, Italy and France) and gained over 50,000 registered users from around the world within a month.
Starmatic was named an App of the Week by Stuff magazine, The Guardian, AppAdvice and AppMyWorld. The app was praised for its nice interface and was wholly perceived by the media as a qualitative and serious alternative to Instagram.
Nicholas Carron, in its extensive review of the app for We Are Juxt stated: Upon opening the app for the first time, there is an immediate sense that the Starmatic team not only understood the niche benefits of reviving a legendary brand, they utilized their various backgrounds in design, fashion, photography, advertising and previous business pursuits to create a handheld, interactive product that is visually appealing and tempts exploration.
Upon its launch, Starmatic has also been recommended via Twitter by the Apple App Store and by British actor Stephen Fry to its 5 million followers.
References
External links
Grampros.com
2012 software
IOS software
Image-sharing websites
Defunct social networking services
Kodak cameras |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20expert%20system | A legal expert system is a domain-specific expert system that uses artificial intelligence to emulate the decision-making abilities of a human expert in the field of law. Legal expert systems employ a rule base or knowledge base and an inference engine to accumulate, reference and produce expert knowledge on specific subjects within the legal domain.
Purpose
It has been suggested that legal expert systems could help to manage the rapid expansion of legal information and decisions that began to intensify in the late 1960s. Many of the first legal expert systems were created in the 1970s and 1980s.
Lawyers were originally identified as primary target users of legal expert systems. Potential motivations for this work included:
speedier delivery of legal advice;
reduced time spent in repetitive, labour intensive legal tasks;
development of knowledge management techniques that were not dependent on staff;
reduced overhead and labour costs and higher profitability for law firms; and
reduced fees for clients.
Some early development work was oriented toward the creation of automated judges.
Later work on legal expert systems has identified potential benefits to non-lawyers as a means to increase access to legal knowledge.
Legal expert systems can also support administrative processes, facilitating decision making processes, automating rule-based analyses and exchanging information directly with citizen-users.
Types
Architectural variations
Rule-based expert systems rely on a model of deductive reasoning that utilizes "if A, then B" rules. In a rule-based legal expert system, information is represented in the form of deductive rules within the knowledge base.
Case-based reasoning models, which store and manipulate examples or cases, hold the potential to emulate an analogical reasoning process thought to be well-suited for the legal domain. This model effectively draws on known experiences our outcomes for similar problems.
A neural net relies on a computer model that mimics that structure of a human brain, and operates in a very similar way to the case-based reasoning model. This expert system model is capable of recognizing and classifying patterns within the realm of legal knowledge and dealing with imprecise inputs.
Fuzzy logic models attempt to create 'fuzzy' concepts or objects that can then be converted into quantitative terms or rules that are indexed and retrieved by the system. In the legal domain, fuzzy logic can be used for rule-based and case-based reasoning models.
Theoretical variations
While some legal expert system architects have adopted a very practical approach, employing scientific modes of reasoning within a given set of rules or cases, others have opted for a broader philosophical approach inspired by jurisprudential reasoning modes emanating from established legal theoreticians.
Functional variations
Some legal expert systems aim to arrive at a particular conclusion in law, while others are designed to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsujii | Tsujii (written: 辻井) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese computer scientist
, Japanese pianist and composer
, Japanese writer and poet, pen-name of Tsutsumi Seiji, Japanese businessman
Japanese-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20failover | Wireless failover is an automated function in telephone networks and computer networks where a standard hardwired connection is switched to a redundant wireless connection upon failure or irregular closure of a default hardwired connection or component in the network such as a router, server, or computer.
Wireless failover is a business continuity function. That is, it allows businesses to continue operations even in the event of a network failure. In retail, wireless failover is typically used when a standard connection for a point of sale credit card machine fails. In this instance, the wireless failover allows business transactions to continue to be processed, ensuring business continuity.
Infrastructure
Wireless failover solutions are offered in different forms. A radio may be installed into the network. Examples of this may include a 3G or 4G network connection. Additionally, 3G or 4G network cards may be used. Also, a router may be used with an Ethernet connection.
References
Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup%20%28education%29 | Mashups are a combination of two or more data sources that have been integrated into one source. They typically consist of graphics, texts, audio clips, and video that have been sourced from various media such as blogs, wikis, YouTube, Google Maps, etc., into a new product. Remix is a related term, referring to how data sources have been combined to produce a constellation of elements that were not originally intended by the creators. Mashups rely on open and discoverable resources, open and transparent licensing, and open and remixable formats.
In the educational context, mashups are being used as an instructional tool by the teacher and/or as a product created by the student who are responsible for manipulating the data themselves. For example, http://rru.worldbank.org/businessplanet/, is a mashup website that was created by the World Bank to provide learners with data about country GDP, GDP growth, taxes, and other related information about countries around the globe. Students can use this platform to investigate real-world questions and generate their own arguments as a form of inquiry-based learning. Also, this places students into the role of the participant in the internet as they engage in discovering, remixing, and sharing content. As a result, mashups provide pedagogical opportunities, among them, as a tool within the constructivist approach to learning and also a way of teaching digital literacy, science, social studies, video production, and web development. Mashups rely on open and discoverable resources, open and transparent licensing, and open and remixable formats.
Uses in the classroom
Student-created Mashups
Students can create mashups as objects for evaluation and assessment in the classroom. Mashups can be included in reports and assignments to provide a visual representation to describe data and to "demonstrate mastery of a subject". On the internet learners access free development platforms such as Yahoo’s Pipes, Google Mashup Editor, and Microsoft’s Popfly. One example of a student created mashup project is MapSkip. Students manipulated a Google Map by marking different places they have visited by adding their videos, audio clips, or images. Student created mashups are also used in Higher Education; graduate students in a YouTube for Educators course learned to make mashups for their students, incorporating three or more video clips from different sources into an educational short on YouTube. The goals of this project were not only learning video editing skills, but also "raise[ing] awareness of copyright issues and how to obtain media online from public sources". This ties into teaching digital literacy as students need to be able to "effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technology" (digital literacy wiki page).
Mashups as learning materials
Because research can be displayed on interactive graphs, charts, or maps to clarify difficult concepts for the learners t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Computing%20Security%20Standards%20Forum | Common Computing Security Standards Forum (CCSS Forum) is a voluntary organization of vendors and providers of security software, operating systems, and Internet browsers.
Goals
The CCSS Forum was formed with the following goals:
Mitigating the risk of malicious intent and software,
Creating standards for the industry, and
Including all security providers in order to maximize the benefit and protection of the end users.
History
In 2009, Melih Abdulhayoğlu organized the Common Computing Security Standards Forum initially for the purpose of maintaining a list of legitimate antivirus engines.
This was in response to "scareware" products that present themselves as antivirus software but are either adware or malware.
According to the FBI, they are aware of an estimated loss to victims from rogue antivirus software of as much as $150 million.
Whitelist
The CCSS maintains a so-called "whitelist" of legitimate organizations that provide antivirus systems. The "Trusted Vendors" list can be viewed on the organization's web site, http://www.ccssforum.org
References
Professional associations based in the United States
Organizations based in New Jersey
Organizations established in 2009
Computer security organizations
Antivirus software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Nor'easter" is the third episode of the second season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on October 31, 2012 on the cable network FX. The episode is written by Jennifer Salt and directed by Michael Uppendahl.
Nor'easter was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
The episode focuses on the asylum's staff attempt to maintain order as a fierce storm hits the area, allowing some patients to try another escape. Chloë Sevigny guest stars as Shelley. The episode originally aired two days after Hurricane Sandy's U.S. landfall. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
Plot
Flashing forward to 2012, Teresa and Leo are running from Bloody Face. Bloody Face is knocked unconscious and stabbed, but while the couple attempt to escape, two armed Bloody Faces ambush them leaving mortally wounded. Another Bloody Face appears behind these two Bloody Faces.
Sister Mary Eunice gives Sister Jude a newspaper from 1949, with a story about a missing child that Jude had hit with her car. Mary Eunice announces that The Sign of the Cross will be shown to calm residents during a winter storm. Eunice then kills a woman who suspected she was possessed. Meanwhile, Dr. Arden inspects a wound on sanitarium resident Kit, who Arden suspects is a Stasi spy, and Lana asks Dr. Thredson to deliver a note to Wendy.
Jude accuses Arden of corrupting Mary Eunice, while he believes it to be Shelley and Jude's lack of control. While a radio announces the approaching storm and strange lights in the sky. Kit's removed implant mysteriously rattles in a jar.
Thredson tells of his visit to Wendy's empty house to Lana. He reports that he believes Wendy to have been murdered due to similarities between her empty house and the scenes of the other Bloody Face murder victims. During the presentation of The Sign of the Cross, Mary Eunice revels in Christian persecution segments, while Shelley, Lana, Grace, and Kit sneak out to begin their escape. Jude searches the ward for the missing suspicious female patient and sees an alien in a lightning flash.
Three escapees giddily reach the outside, but Arden catches Shelley. Grace, Kit, and Lana discuss heading for the main road. The Raspers force the three escapees to return inside the asylum tunnel. Mary Eunice fetches Jude to tell her of the escape. Jude shuts down the movie, and any other future group events.
In his laboratory, after a failed attempt to rape Shelley, Arden informs her that she is being blamed as the instigator of the escape attempt and everyone believes she is outside the asylum. He then reveals he has amputated both of her legs.
Production
"Nor'easter" was written by co-executive producer Jennifer Salt, while Mad Men veteran Michael Uppendahl served as director.
In a November 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly, series creator Ryan Murphy spoke on several episode topics. About the timing of the episode's airdate with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitecture%20simulation | Microarchitecture simulation is an important technique in computer architecture research and computer science education. It is a tool for modeling the design and behavior of a microprocessor and its components, such as the ALU, cache memory, control unit, and data path, among others. The simulation allows researchers to explore the design space as well as to evaluate the performance and efficiency of novel microarchitecture features. For example, several microarchitecture components, such as branch predictors, re-order buffer, and trace cache, went through numerous simulation cycles before they become common components in contemporary microprocessors of today. In addition, the simulation also enables educators to teach computer organization and architecture courses with hand-on experiences.
For system-level simulation of computer hardware, please refer to the full system simulation.
Classification
Microarchitecture simulation can be classified into multiple categories according to input types and level of details. Specifically, the input can be a trace collected from an execution of program on a real microprocessor (so called trace-driven simulation) or a program itself (so called execution-driven simulation).
A trace-driven simulation reads a fixed sequence of trace records from a file as an input. These trace records usually represent memory references, branch outcomes, or specific machine instructions, among others. While a trace-driven simulation is known to be comparatively fast and its results are highly reproducible, it also requires a very large storage space. On the other hand, an execution-driven simulation reads a program and simulates the execution of machine instructions on the fly. A program file is typically several magnitudes smaller than a trace file. However, the execution-driven simulation is much slower than the trace-driven simulation because it has to process each instruction one-by-one and update all statuses of the microarchitecture components involved. Thus, the selection of input types for simulation is a trade-off between space and time. In particular, a very detailed trace for a highly accurate simulation requires a very large storage space, whereas a very accurate execution-driven simulation takes a very long time to execute all instructions in the program.
Apart from input types, the level of details can also be used to classify the simulation. In particular, a piece of software that simulates a microprocessor executing a program on a cycle-by-cycle basis is known as cycle-accurate simulator, whereas instruction set simulator only models the execution of a program on a microprocessor through the eyes of an instruction scheduler along with a coarse timing of instruction execution. Most computer science classes in computer architecture with hand-on experiences adopt the instruction set simulators as tools for teaching, whereas the cycle-accurate simulators are deployed mostly for research projects due to both com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Jazeera%20controversies%20and%20criticism | Al Jazeera Media Network, endowed by the Government of Qatar, is one of the world's largest news organizations. It provides extensive news coverage through 80 bureaus on a variety of media platforms in several languages, including Arabic and English. Al Jazeera has a large audience, but the organization (particularly its original Arabic channel) has been criticized for its alleged involvement in controversies ranging from slanted journalism to anti-Hindu bias and anti-Israel bias.
Allegations of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment
Antisemitism
An article by Sherry Ricchiardi in the American Journalism Review (AJR) noted that critics of Al Jazeera have "assailed what they see as anti-Semitic, anti-American bias in the channel's news content." Ricchiardi had earlier criticized an Al Jazeera report that Jewish employees of 9/11 targets were informed of the attacks beforehand, a report which was also criticized in an October 2001 New York Times editorial. She cited the former Al Jazeera weekly show Sharia and Life, hosted by Yusuf Qaradawi (an Egyptian cleric who "argues clearly and consistently that hatred of Israel and Jews is Islamically sanctioned"). The organization held a 2008 on-air birthday party for Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese terrorist convicted of killing four Israelis who was released in July of that year, later admitting that its coverage of Kuntar's release violated its code of ethics. The organization's Beirut bureau chief said, "Brother Samir, we wish to celebrate your birthday with you" and called him a "pan-Arab hero."
Former Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly has called Al Jazeera "anti-Semitic" and "anti-American." Dave Marash, a veteran correspondent for ABC's Nightline who resigned from his position as Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English in 2008 due to his perception of anti-American bias there, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor and said: "They certainly aren't anti-Semitic, but they are anti-Netanyahu and anti-Lieberman and anti-Israeli, right ..."
On May 30, 2017, Al Jazeera's English-language account retweeted an Anti-Semitic meme. The network tweeted an apology after the incident, calling it a "mistake."
In May 2019, AJ+ produced a video denying and minimizing the Holocaust. Al Jazeera suspended two journalists over the video. The video stated that "[the] number [of Jews murdered in the Holocaust] had been exaggerated and 'adopted by the Zionist movement', and that Israel is the 'biggest winner' from the genocide."
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
During the Second Intifada, Palestinians killed by Israelis were referred to as "martyrs"; Israelis killed by Palestinians were not.
Israel announced a "boycott" of the Arabic broadcaster on 13 March 2008, accusing it of bias in its coverage of the Gaza Strip conflict and toward Hamas. Israeli government employees declined interviews and denied visa applications for the organization's staff. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Wahabi accused it of focusing on Palestinian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%20Diners | Mystery Diners was an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series, hosted by Charles Stiles, debuted on May 25, 2012. Stiles is the owner of California-based Business Evaluation Services and Mystery Shopper Services.
Plot
The show focuses on the Mystery Diners, an organization that goes undercover at specific restaurants at their owners' requests, and sets up undercover stings and unseen surveillance cameras to catch misbehaving restaurant employees in the act.
Beginning in Season 9, Mystery Diners made changes to its format including the addition of private investigators, new technology, new graphics and opening credits, and advanced equipment. In the opening sequence, Stiles narrates that the changes were made on the pretext that restaurant staff have grown more aware of the show and the company and become more savvy in their scams.
The Consultation
Charles greets the owners with his signature, "Charles Stiles, Mystery Diners" at the episode's beginning. He and one or more of his fellow Mystery Diners meet with a restaurant's owner(s) to discuss the restaurant's problem(s) before opening, or at a neutral venue, and Charles learns of the possible suspect(s). Charles then tells the owner(s) that his team will come after hours to wire the restaurant with hidden cameras and microphones.
The narrator gives details of where the hidden cameras and microphones have been set up (usually with a floorplan graphic presenting a simplified layout of the establishment), and also mentions which Mystery Diners will be going undercover as new staff members or customers. Microphones and cameras are set up only in areas of the restaurant where legally allowed and customers and employees have no expectation of privacy (with restrooms and locker rooms universally excluded from stings), and sometimes are set up outside in patio and 'breakroom' areas of the establishments, whether outside or inside.
The Sting
Charles and the owner(s) operate from a control room setup, usually within an isolated part of the building without easy employee access, or in another nearby building rented temporarily during the sting length. Sometimes, a luton van or similar is hired. A number of large-screen LCD televisions featuring the live camera footage and graphics involving the sting subjects are configured in a multi-screen matrix and a switching system is utilized, along with audio monitoring of the establishment through shotgun microphones. The Mystery Diner decoy employees and customers are wired with hidden duplex two-way communication to Stiles and the control room, either through audible means and/or cameras hidden in common objects such as eyeglasses or other personal effects.
Usually the owner introduces one undercover team member (who may have already spent some days at the establishment in advance of the sting) to the staff as a trainee waiter. The owner then retires to the control room to watch events unfold. Although the owner(s) are usually t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talafi | Talafi () is a Pakistani drama serial produced by Humayun Saeed and Shehzad Nasib and aired on PTV Home in 2012.
Reviews
Talafi became the top rated drama on PTV Network easily due to brisk pace of the plot and performance of the cast. Gaining respectable viewership across Pakistan despite facing stiff competition from satellite networks.
Cast
Mahnoor Baloch as Falak
Mikaal Zulfiqar as Ammad
Natasha Ali as Sharmeen
Rubina Ashraf as Surayya
Rabia Noreen as Falak's mother
Salma Hassan as Nomeer's wife
Adnan Saeed as Nomeer
Lux Style Awards
Best TV Play (Terrestrial)-Nominated
Best TV Actress (Terrestrial)-Mahnoor Baloch-Won
Best TV Writer-Seema Munaf-Nominated
References
Pakistani drama television series
Urdu-language television shows
2012 Pakistani television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalur%20railway%20station | Vandalur railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Vandalur, a suburb of Chennai. It is situated at a distance of from Chennai Beach junction and is located on NH 45 in Vandalur, with an elevation of above sea level.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 9 January 1965, with the electrification of the Tambaram—Chengalpattu section.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Vandalur railway station at Indiarailinfo.com
Local Train timings from/to Vandalur
Amenities and facilities at Vandalur railway station
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chengalpattu district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Disk%20Sentinel | Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a computer hard disk drive-monitoring software for Windows, Linux and DOS operating systems.
History
Hard Disk Sentinel was founded and first released in 2005, developed by Heartfelt Development Services, based in Urhida, Hungary, with János Máthé as the company's CEO. The first version of Hard Disk Sentinel for Windows released on 1 November 2005.
In 2007, version 2.00 released with supporting USB drives along with free trial (unregistered) version, Hard Disk Sentinel standard (paid version with basic disk monitoring) and Hard Disk Sentinel Professional (paid version with alerts, detailed reports, tests). Since 2009, with version 3.00, Hard Disk Sentinel supports numerous RAID controllers, by detection of hard disk status in RAID configurations and disk surface testing.
Since 2012, with version 4.00, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro Portable version is available, working without installation.
In 2017, Version 5.00 released with Disk Repair functionality and Network Attached Storage (NAS) monitoring, export status in XML and WMI. This allows creating third-party applications/add-ons to work together with Hard Disk Sentinel—integration with NagiOS, for example.
Version 6.10 included a more graphic interface on par with Windows 11 as well as supports quick disk repairing, additional warnings and statuses display. This version focused on some changes in favour of detecting more problems before they are able to cause data loss.
The software is designed to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drives, reveal problems, display health and avoid failures by using S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) function of hard disk drives. The detected information can be saved to file in formats such as HTML, text, or XML.
Hard Disk Sentinel has the capability to function for both internal hard disks and external hard disks as well as hybrid disk drives (SSHD), SSDs, NAS and RAID arrays within the same software.
DOS version
In 2008, Hard Disk Sentinel DOS version released in different formats on bootable pendrive, CD, floppy. Usable when no operating system installed (or if the system is not bootable otherwise) to detect and display temperature, health status of IDE, SATA hard disk drives and with limited AHCI controller support. The DOS version has no graphical user interface or disk testing functions and does not support RAID configurations.
Linux version
In 2008, Hard Disk Sentinel Linux version released, a command-line console tool detection and showing disk status with limited support of RAID configuration and SSDs in addition to hard disk status detection. The Linux version is available on x86, x64 and Raspberry PI, ARMv5 platforms.
Since 30 August 2017, the Linux version supports industrial SD cards too and can be used with NAS devices. The Linux version has no graphical user interface, although extensions created to simplify usage under Linux.
See also
Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera%2B | Camera+ is an app for Apple's iOS mobile operating system developed by LateNiteSoft. The app serves as an alternative to the standard iOS camera app, primarily adding basic and advanced editing tools (including special effects and lighting filters), an image stabilizer, and integrated sharing with Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter.
Camera+ received generally positive reception; PC Advisor gave the app stars out of 5 and declared it a "must-have" app for iPhone photographers, praising its advanced editing functionality for allowing users to "[make] poor snaps into great photographs that will wow your friends", making the built-in camera app feel like a pinhole in comparison. Wired gave the app a 9 out of 10, describing it as a "secret weapon" for photographers, and stating that it contained so much functionality that it was "too easy to get lost in the deeply layered menus or forget where you found that killer function the other day." In May 2012, Camera+ was the 10th most popular paid app on the iPhone until then.
References
External links
iOS software
Camera software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf%20Storaasli | Olaf O. Storaasli, Synective Labs VP, was a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Computer Science and Mathematics Division's Future Technologies Group) and USEC following his NASA career. He led the hardware, software and applications teams' successful development of one of NASA's 1st parallel computers, the Finite element machine and developed rapid matrix equation algorithms tailored to high-performance computers (even harnessing FPGA accelerators) to solve science and engineering applications. He was PhD advisor and graduate instructor at UT, GWU and CNU and mentored 25 NHGS students. He is recognized by American Men and Women of Science, Marquis Who's Who, and NASA, Cray, Intel and Concordia College awards. NASA Awards include Viking Mars Lander design and Engineering Analysis (IPAD, RIM, HPC, FPGA, SPAR, FEM, Space Shuttle SRB and NASA Software-of-the-year).
Education
Storaasli received a B.A. in Physics, Mathematics & French (Concordia College, 1964), M.A. in Mathematics (USD,1966), Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics (NCSU, 1970) and post-doc fellowships: NTNU (1984–85), University of Edinburgh (2008).
Research
He develops, tests and documents parallel analysis software to speed matrix equation solution to simulate physical & biological behavior on advanced-computer architectures (e.g. NASA's GPS solver based on prior Finite element machine and rapid parallel analysis of Space Shuttle SRB redesign earned Cray's 1st GigaFLOP Performance Award at Supercomputing '89).
Books
Engineering Applications on NASA's FPGA-based Hypercomputer, 7th MAPLD, Washington, D.C., Sept 2004.
Large-Scale Analysis, Design and Intelligent Synthesis Environments, Elsevier Sciences, 2000.
Large-Scale Analysis & Design on High-Performance Computers & Workstations, Elsevier Sciences, 1998.
Large-Scale Structural Analysis for High-Performance Computers & Workstations, Pergamon Press 1994.
Parallel Computational Methods for Large-Scale Structural Analysis & Design, Pergamon Press 1993.
Parallel Methods on Large-Scale Structural Analysis & Physics Applications, Pergamon Press 1991.
References
1 Olaf Storaasli at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2 State-of-the-Art in Heterogeneous Computing, Scientific Programming 18 pp. 1–33, IOS Press, 2010.(+PARA10)
3 High-Performance Mixed-Precision Linear Solver for FPGAs, IEEE Trans Computers 57/12, 1614–1623, 2008.
4 Accelerating Science Applications up to 100X with FPGAs, PARA08 Proc.Trondheim Norway, May 2008.
5 Computation Speed-up of Complex Durability Analysis of Large-Scale Composite Structures, AIAA 49th SDM Proc. 2008.
6 Accelerating Genome Sequencing 100-1000X MRSC Proc. Queen's University, Belfast, UK April 1–3, 2008.
7 Exploring Accelerating Science Applications with FPGAs, NCSA/RSSI Proc. Urbana, IL, July 20, 2007.
8 Performance Evaluation of FPGA-Based Biological Applications, Cray Users Group Proc. Seattle, May 2007.
9 Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication Design on FPGAs, IEEE 15th Symp on FCCM Proc., 349 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Pro | The Surface Pro is a first generation 2-in-1 detachable of the Microsoft Surface series, designed and manufactured by Microsoft. The device ran a 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro operating system with a free upgrade possibility to Windows 8.1 Pro, and eventually also Windows 10. Initially announced as Surface for Windows 8 Pro on June 18, 2012, at a Los Angeles event, Microsoft later renamed the device to Surface Pro, and launched it on February 9, 2013.
History
Microsoft did not take pre-orders for the Surface Pro. It was available for a purchase on February 9, 2013, in the United States, Canada and China, and was released on May 23, 2013, in the United Kingdom and a number of other countries.
Features
Hardware
The Surface Pro shares a lot of its design traits with its lower cost counterpart, the original Surface hybrid tablet, announced on the same day. Both have the dark VaporMg coating over the same magnesium body and a 10-point multi-touch enabled screen with crack resistant Gorilla Glass. The Wifi is 802.11 a/b/g/n.
However, the resolution on the Surface Pro is higher and is 1920x1080, and the screen has a Wacom digitizer for pen input. Surface Pro runs a dual-core 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5-3317U CPU, with a Turbo Boost frequency of up to 2.6 GHz with a built-in Intel HD Graphics 4000. It has 4 GB of memory and a 64 or 128 GB solid-state drive. Unique to the Surface and Surface Pro is the kickstand which can be flipped out from the back, propping the device up. The kickstand comes out of the devices at a 22 degree angle, the same angle the edges of the device are angled at.
Along the right side of the device, the Surface Pro has a micro-SD card slot on top (with support for cards up to 200 GB), followed by the power port, and near the bottom, a Mini DisplayPort to connect a number of external displays. The bottom of the device (dubbed the "accessory spine") contains the cover port to attach a Touch Cover or Type Cover. In addition to the magnetic attachments, the cover port on the Surface Pro contains a pogo pin connector. Unique to the Surface Pro, compared to the Surface tablet, is the addition of power connectors for compatibility with the Surface Power Cover. The left side of the 2-in-1 contains a full-sized USB 3 port, the volume rocker, and the audio jack. The power button is on the top of the device. On the front and back of the device are two 720p Lifecam cameras, and inside is a 42 Watt-hour battery. Other sensors include an ambient light sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass.
Software
Surface Pro originally shipped with Windows 8 Pro, but was upgradeable to Windows 8.1 Pro. The Surface Pro is further capable of upgrading to Windows 10 Pro, which became a free upgrade for users since July 29, 2015.
Accessories
The 2-in-1 features two types of detachable keyboards: Type Cover and Touch Cover, both with an integrated touchpad. The former is thick and has moving keys for a more traditional typing feel, while the latter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZenBook | ZenBook is a family of ultrabooks – low-bulk laptop computers – produced by Asus. The first ZenBooks were released in October 2011, and the original range of products was amended and expanded during 2012. Models range from 12-inch laptops featuring power efficient components but lacking connectivity and having only integrated graphics processors, to 15-inch laptops with discrete graphics processing units and optical disc drives. Most (though not all) ZenBooks use Intel Core ultra-low-voltage processors and Nvidia GPUs when integrated graphics are not used. Asus introduced new models with touch screens to take advantage of Windows 8 after its release in late 2012. Most models drew comparisons to the MacBook Air. The ZenBook mainly competes against computers such as Acer's Aspire, Dell's Inspiron and XPS, HP's Pavilion, HP Stream and Envy, Lenovo's IdeaPad, Samsung's Sens and Toshiba's Satellite.
Asus designed the ZenBooks with brushed aluminium chassis and high rigidity, rather than plastic, the usual laptop construction material. A pattern of concentric circles on the lids is said to represent ripples in water and represent the "zen philosophy" that designers wanted to portray when creating the laptops. ZenBooks have been generally well received due to their chassis design and appearance as well as the high quality screens used in later models. However, the touchpad software was found to be erratic, particularly on the early models and some of the models received criticism for their high prices. Some models (such as the UX32) suffer from lockdown when the lithium polymer battery cell gets drained or discharged below its recommended threshold, for example if the device is left on and unattended. The result is that the charger will fail to recharge the battery even when plugged in, leaving the machine in a near-complete unresponsive off-state. The machine can often be revived by pressing the power-on key for 10 seconds, whereupon it will start recharging.
Design
In 2009 Asus released the UX50V, a 15-inch laptop that was focused on energy efficiency and had a thin profile. The laptop was rated poorly by reviewers as it under-performed and had mediocre battery life, despite the installed energy efficient hardware. Although not branded as one, it bore the same "UX" product code as many of the later ZenBooks and was an early foray into the ultraportable market.
The ZenBook name was proposed by Asus chairman Jonney Shih to reflect the "zen philosophy" applied to the design. The chief designer, Loewy Chen, had wanted to incorporate design elements from luxury watches into his products for a long time. ZenBooks were the first opportunity to put this into practice, the crossover being achieved, he said, by "the unfolding of the laptop from the side recalling the elegance of minute and hour hand movements". The reference to watches is also reflected in the marketing of ZenBooks; Asus published design sketches overlaying an open ZenBook on a watch face |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricks%20and%20Treats%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Tricks and Treats" is the second episode of the second season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on October 24, 2012, on the cable network FX. It is written by James Wong and directed by Bradley Buecker.
The episode mainly focuses on an exorcism performed on a teenaged boy (Devon Graye) and three patients' escape attempt. Chloë Sevigny guest stars as Shelley. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
Plot
Flashing forward to 2012, Leo and Teresa attempt to escape Bloody Face while in the Briarcliff mental institution. Leo is stabbed multiple times while Teresa hides in a room, where Bloody Face pounds on the door.
Wendy becomes regretful of her decision to sign her partner, Lana, over to the Briarcliff Manor Sanitarium, resolves to recant her signature and free Lana. Before she can, Bloody Face kills her in her own home.
At Briarcliff, Lana states that she remembered what happened to her, prompting Sister Jude to ask Dr. Arden to give Lana electroshock treatment. Jude is disturbed by the violence of the treatment. Lana continues to secretly document her experiences, now doing so because her memory is impaired by the electroshock. Lana reveals to Grace that she knows of an escape route, of which they plan an escape. Meanwhile, Kit is deemed insane by a state psychiatrist Dr. Oliver Thredson.
Jude visits Jed, a violent teenager who has been brought to the sanitarium. Monsignor Timothy Howard and Father Malachi decide to perform an exorcism on Jed. As the exorcism begins, the possessed boy reveals details about each of the participants' lives and flings objects around the room. The exorcism causes a power outage, allowing Lana and Grace to escape. Grace wishes to bring Kit with them and goes to retrieve him, but Lana disagrees with her. They separate as Grace and Kit try to escape, and Lana screams for the guards, ruining their chance at escaping.
Meanwhile, Dr. Arden hires a prostitute to dine with him. While she is changing, she discovers photographs of bound and mutilated women. Dr. Arden finds her with the photos and blocks her exit. The prostitute attacks Arden and escapes.
The possessed Jed goes into cardiac arrest. Before he dies, he stares directly at Mary Eunice, who is flung backwards and knocked unconscious. The next day, Dr. Arden visits her, and Eunice acts mysteriously when he leaves.
Lana is brought into Jude's office. Jude tells her that she understands the sacrifice Lana took to sabotage Kit and Grace's escape, and as a reward, allows her to watch the two receive a caning for their escape attempt. Lana is disturbed by the spectacle and apologizes to Grace, who scorns her. Before Grace can be caned, Kit offers to accept both of their punishments instead: Jude then begins to cane him.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 100% approval rating, based on 11 reviews. The critical consensus reads, "AHS: Asylum characters become more fully formed in an episode that refuses to contain its gleeful insa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-stamping | e-Stamping is a computer-based application and a secured way of paying non-judicial stamp duty to the government. e-Stamping is currently operational in the states of Odisha, Haryana, Gujarat, Karnataka, NCR Delhi, Bihar, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and the union territories of Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu Puducherry, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh. The wide network and focus on technology. SHCIL is the only Central Record Keeping Agency (CRA) appointed by the Government of India. The CRA is responsible for user registration, Imprest Balance Administration and overall E-Stamping application operations and maintenance. CRA will appoint ACCs who will issue certificates to the clients at their counters.
There are ACC authorized centers from respective state governments. In case of karnataka, commissioner of stamps issues license to co-operative and credit co-operative societies, who are authorized to sell e-stamps. There are various online e-commerce portals like VATA e-stamp and rental agreements which sell e-stamps online and deliver them at the door step for one or more states.
HP Printer 403dw is an authorized printer for E stamping.
Benefits
e-Stamp Certificate can be generated within minutes
e-Stamp Certificate generated is tamper proof
Authenticity of the e-Stamp certificate can be checked through the inquiry module
e-Stamp Certificate generated has a Unique Identification Number
Specific denomination is not required.
e-stamp certificate can be checked by any person through recommended site
References
Taxation in India
E-government in India
Revenue stamps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Colby | Chuck Colby was an electronics engineer and chief-inventor, founder and president of Colby Systems Corporation (later Colby Computer, Inc.), a company that created the first DVR-based video surveillance systems but is also very notable as a pioneer in portable computing, being the first to market both DOS and Macintosh portable computers, as well as a remarkable number of other technological firsts.
Early Inventions
Colby's first invention was the Colby TR-2 transistor radio, which he designed at the precocious age of 12 and sold to family, friends and customers on his paper-route, and is possibly the first pocket transistor radio. At 15, he built for his high school science project the world's first home earth satellite station capable of receiving signals from the Russian satellite Sputnik. As a college student, his passion for radio and inventing brought him attention in the LA Times when he and a friend built their own TV stations to broadcast video to each other over the airwaves. Shortly afterwards, he built a video security system for use by NASA.
Chuck Colby also helped design the "Syzygy" original prototype of Atari Pong that was built into a suitcase so that it could be carried around and demonstrated to potential investors. On July 10, 2003, he donated the prototype to the DigiBarn Computer Museum.
In the 1980s, Colby created and marketed the first PC clone motherboard and was among the first to market with portable, expandable DOS-compatible computer such as the Colby PC-1 and PC-5 while most other companies were only producing portable computers that ran CP/M. This is a notable milestone as CP/M systems were generally fixed to 64Kb while the DOS offered applications the ability to directly address a full megabyte, allowing for larger and considerably more powerful applications. Colby Systems would continue this trend by producing some of the very earliest and, for a time, only Apple-sanctioned vendor of Macintosh-compatible portables such as the ruggedized "luggable" MacColby and the WalkMac laptop, which could be purchased with a 68030-based SE/30 motherboard which generated sales even after Apple's first laptop hit the market because Apple's Macintosh Portable was only available with the considerably slower 68000 microprocessor as used in the original Macintosh.
Colby is also mentioned in Steve Wozniak's book iWoz as having introduced Wozniak to early satellite television, which was mentioned as the impetus for Wozniak to leave Apple so he could design, then start a company to market, the first programmable learning TV remote, the CL 9. Steve Wozniak recently wrote in an e-mail to Chuck Colby: "You are the greatest inventor I know. I'd gladly trade places. I hope you get more and more recognition." Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters, wrote "Chuck Colby is a fountain of ideas and represents the best of a creative person one that thinks of things and then can build them."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Software%20Group | IBM Software Group (SWG) was one of the major divisions of IBM.
Since 2010, it was sub-divided into two groups: Middleware and Solutions
See List of IBM products#Computer software for a list of actual IBM software products.
Middleware Group
Information Management Software — database servers and tools, text analytics, and content management.
Rational Software — Software development and application lifecycle management. Acquired in 2002.
Tivoli Software — Systems management. Acquired in 1995. Re-branded as 'Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure' (C&SI) in 2013.
WebSphere - An EJB development environment, container, and a series of pre-packaged applications, primarily for management interfaces and web commerce.
Solutions Group
Lotus Software — Groupware, collaboration and business software. Acquired in 1995.
Business Analytics — Cognos and SPSS
Industry Solutions — Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Marketing Management and B2B&Commerce
References
Software Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL3%20%28Lazio%20regional%20railways%29 | The FL3 (until 2012 FR3) is a commuter rail route. It forms part of the network of the Lazio regional railways (), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy.
The route operates over the infrastructure of the Rome–Capranica–Viterbo railway. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter railway. It is estimated that on average about 60,000 passengers travel on an FR3 train each day.
The designation FL3 appears only in publicity material (e.g. public transport maps), in the official timetables, and on signs at some stations. The electronic destination boards at stations on the FL3 route show only the designation "R" and the relevant train number.
Route
Viterbo Porta Fiorentina ↔ Roma Ostiense
The FL3, a radial route, runs from Viterbo Porta Fiorentina, north west of Rome, in a south easterly direction, via the Rome–Capranica–Viterbo railway, to Roma San Pietro, and then around the southern side of Rome's city centre to Roma Ostiense.
Stations
The stations on the FR3 are as follows:
Viterbo Porta Fiorentina
Viterbo Porta Romana
Tre Croci
Vetralla
Capranica-Sutri
Oriolo
Manziana-Canale Monterano
Bracciano
Vigna di Valle
Anguillara
Cesano di Roma (limit of urban service)
Olgiata
La Storta
La Giustiniana
Ipogeo degli Ottavi
Ottavia
Roma San Filippo Neri
Roma Monte Mario
Gemelli
Roma Balduina
Appiano
Valle Aurelia
Roma San Pietro
Quattro Venti
Roma Trastevere
Roma Ostiense
Scheduling
The FL3 route is designated in Trenitalia official timetables as M77 Viterbo–Roma FL3.
, FL3 services operated between Roma Ostiense and Cesano every 15 minutes. Every second train between Ostiense and Cesano either continues to or originates from Bracciano, and every second train between Ostiense and Bracciano either continues to or originates in Viterbo. In this way, the Cesano–Bracciano section is served by a train every half-hour in each direction, while Bracciano–Viterbo traffic is served by one train per hour in each direction.
The urban section between Roma Ostiense and Cesano di Roma is almost long, and takes about 50 minutes to traverse. As this section is located within the territory of the comune of Rome ("Roma Capitale"), passengers can travel by purchasing the BIT Metrebus (integrated time ticket), which costs €1.50 for 100 minutes, is valid for one ride on the train, and can also be used on the ATAC public transport network until it expires.
See also
History of rail transport in Italy
List of railway stations in Lazio
Rail transport in Italy
Transport in Rome
References
External links
ATAC – official site
ATAC map – schematic depicting all routes in the Rome railway network
Ferrovie regionali del Lazio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENAFN | MENA REPORT (Middle East and North Africa Business Report), also known as MENAFN (Middle East and North Africa Financial Network) is a business news agency established in 2001 and run by Al Bawaba (Amman, Jordan, and Dubai). It covers business and economics across the Arab world.
Profile
The Mena Report was established in 2001. It covers economy and trade, IT and telecom, financial markets, oil and energy, agriculture, general industry, retail and services, transport and tourism. At time of launch, Menafn.com and Zawya.com provided similar content as the Mena Report. In 2009 the Mena Report portal claimed to have 123,409 monthly site visits.
References
2001 establishments in Jordan
Arabic-language websites
Business magazines
English-language websites
Magazines published in Jordan
Jordanian news websites
Internet properties established in 2001
Magazines established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes%20%28Apple%29 | Notes is a notetaking app developed by Apple Inc. It is provided on their iOS, iPadOS and macOS operating systems, the latter starting with OS X Mountain Lion. It functions as a service for making short text notes, which can be synchronized between devices using Apple's iCloud service. The application uses a similar interface on iOS and macOS, with a non-textured paper background for notes and light yellow icons, suggesting pencil or crayon. Until 2013, both applications used a strongly skeuomorphic interface, with a lined, textured paper design; the Mountain Lion version placed this inside a leather folder. This design was replaced in OS X Mavericks and iOS 7.
iOS/iPadOS version
iOS 9
Starting with iOS 9, Notes received a significant functional overhaul: iCloud sync (instead of IMAP; in-line with the OS X El Capitan version), the ability to create sketches (and later, support for Apple Pencil), advanced text formatting options, several styles of lists, rich web and map link previews, support for more file type attachments, a corresponding dedicated attachment browser and a system share extension point for saving web links, images, etc. As of iOS 9.3, individual notes can be password-protected (with the ability to use Touch ID to unlock all notes on compatible devices), however, only one password can be set for all notes locked henceforth. The password syncs across compatible devices.
iOS 10
In iOS 10, Notes now has a collaboration feature for many people to work on a note at the same time.
iOS 11
The update to Notes released with iOS 11 adds tables, pinned notes, a document scanner, graph and lined paper, monospaced text support, handwriting search and improved integration with Apple Pencil. Tapping the Pencil on the Lock screen will bring up a new note, with drawing active; the Pencil can also be used while in the Notes app to start an inline drawing.
iOS/iPadOS 13
In iOS 13, the Notes app includes a new gallery view that displays notes as thumbnails, and shared folders. Checklist items can be automatically moved to the bottom when completed, and can be reordered using drag and drop. Search can find text in documents scanned using Notes and can recognise images within notes.
iOS/iPadOS 15
Notes supports using tags to categorise notes, and using mentions to notify collaborators of important changes to shared notes. A new Activity view shows all the recent changes to a shared note.
iOS/iPadOS 16
Quick Notes is now available on iPhone through the Share Sheet, and Smart Folders support new filters for organizing notes. Notes can be locked using the device passcode, instead of using a specific passcode for locked notes.
macOS version
Prior to Mountain Lion, Apple Mail on macOS supported a mailbox containing notes, which was synced with notes in the Notes application in iOS. This situation was a kludge: as Apple Mail already implemented the IMAP mailbox synchronization protocol, it could also sync notes with minimal additional work. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsu%20station | Munsu station is a railway station in Munsu-myeon, the city of Yeongju, South Korea. It is on the Jungang Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Yeongju
Railway stations opened in 1941
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1940s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unavoidable%20pattern | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, a pattern is an unavoidable pattern if it is unavoidable on any finite alphabet.
Definitions
Pattern
Like a word, a pattern (also called term) is a sequence of symbols over some alphabet.
The minimum multiplicity of the pattern is where is the number of occurrence of symbol in pattern . In other words, it is the number of occurrences in of the least frequently occurring symbol in .
Instance
Given finite alphabets and , a word is an instance of the pattern if there exists a non-erasing semigroup morphism such that , where denotes the Kleene star of . Non-erasing means that for all , where denotes the empty string.
Avoidance / Matching
A word is said to match, or encounter, a pattern if a factor (also called subword or substring) of is an instance of . Otherwise, is said to avoid , or to be -free. This definition can be generalized to the case of an infinite , based on a generalized definition of "substring".
Avoidability / Unavoidability on a specific alphabet
A pattern is unavoidable on a finite alphabet if each sufficiently long word must match ; formally: if . Otherwise, is avoidable on , which implies there exist infinitely many words over the alphabet that avoid .
By Kőnig's lemma, pattern is avoidable on if and only if there exists an infinite word that avoids .
Maximal -free word
Given a pattern and an alphabet . A -free word is a maximal -free word over if and match .
Avoidable / Unavoidable pattern
A pattern is an unavoidable pattern (also called blocking term) if is unavoidable on any finite alphabet.
If a pattern is unavoidable and not limited to a specific alphabet, then it is unavoidable for any finite alphabet by default. Conversely, if a pattern is said to be avoidable and not limited to a specific alphabet, then it is avoidable on some finite alphabet by default.
-avoidable / -unavoidable
A pattern is -avoidable if is avoidable on an alphabet of size . Otherwise, is -unavoidable, which means is unavoidable on every alphabet of size .
If pattern is -avoidable, then is -avoidable for all .
Given a finite set of avoidable patterns , there exists an infinite word such that avoids all patterns of . Let denote the size of the minimal alphabet such that avoiding all patterns of .
Avoidability index
The avoidability index of a pattern is the smallest such that is -avoidable, and if is unavoidable.
Properties
A pattern is avoidable if is an instance of an avoidable pattern .
Let avoidable pattern be a factor of pattern , then is also avoidable.
A pattern is unavoidable if and only if is a factor of some unavoidable pattern .
Given an unavoidable pattern and a symbol not in , then is unavoidable.
Given an unavoidable pattern , then the reversal is unavoidable.
Given an unavoidable pattern , there exists a symbol such that occurs exactly once in .
Let represent the number of distinct symbols of pattern . If |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%2010 | The Nexus 10 is a tablet computer co-developed by Google and Samsung Electronics that runs the Android operating system. It is the second tablet in the Google Nexus series, a family of Android consumer devices marketed by Google and built by an OEM partner. Following the success of the 7-inch Nexus 7, the first Google Nexus tablet, the Nexus 10 was released with a 10.1-inch, 2560×1600 pixel display, which was the world's highest resolution tablet display at the time of its release. The Nexus 10 was announced on October 29, 2012, and became available on November 13, 2012.
The device is available in two storage sizes, 16 GB for US$399 and 32 GB for US$499. Along with the Nexus 4 mobile phone, the Nexus 10 launched Android 4.2 ("Jelly Bean"), which offered several new features, such as: 360° panoramic photo stitching called "Photo Sphere"; a quick settings menu; widgets on the lock screen; gesture typing; an updated version of Google Now; and multiple user accounts for tablets.
Google revealed the device on October 29, 2012, to mixed-to-favorable reactions. Due to high demand, the device quickly sold out through the Google Play Store. Since its release, the device has gone through three major software updates and is currently upgradable to Android 5.1.1 ("Lollipop"). Official software support for Android versions after 5.1.1 will not be offered; however, security patches will be provided at least 3 years after the release of the device.
History
Google was scheduled to launch the Nexus 10 along with the Nexus 4 and Android 4.2 at a conference event in New York City on October 29, 2012, however, the event was cancelled because of Hurricane Sandy.
Instead, the device was announced the same day in an official press release in Google's blog, along with the Nexus 4 and the 32 GB, cellular connectivity-capable Nexus 7.
The Nexus 10 became available for sale in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, and Canada on November 13, 2012. Japan was supposed to be included in the November 13 launch but the release was postponed. The tablet became available on February 5.
The Nexus 10 went through repeated patterns of availability across international Google Play Stores, while the 32 GB version was more consistently out of stock. The 32 GB Nexus 10 was sold out within hours of its release in Google Play, while the 16 GB version was still available for sale. Google Play stores in the United States and Canada received the Nexus 10 and quickly sold out.
Features
Software
The Nexus 10 shipped with Android 4.2 ("Jelly Bean") as its operating system and is upgradable to Android 5.1.1 ("Lollipop") since March 9, 2015. It ships with preinstalled applications, such as Google Chrome, Gmail, Play Music, Play Books, Play Movies, the Play Store application, YouTube, Currents, Google+, Maps, and People.
Hardware and design
The Nexus 10 features a Samsung Exynos 5250 system on chip, a dual-core 1.7 GHz Cortex A15 central processing unit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%3A%20Where%20Are%20They%20Now%3F | Oprah: Where Are They Now? is an American reality television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series debuted on October 2, 2012, and takes a look back at what happened to some of the biggest headline makers on The Oprah Winfrey Show plus updates on their current life.
On January 5, 2013, The Oprah Winfrey Network released its 2013 programming and announced that the series has been renewed for a second season. Season two premiered on Tuesday March 19, 2013 and features episodes that bring viewers updates on the following Oprah Show guests: Omarosa, Bow Wow, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman, Dennis Rodman, Gennifer Flowers and Heidi Fleiss. The second half of the season debuted on July 28, 2013, and features: Favorite American Idol contestants, Fab Morvan from Milli Vanilli, Ted Haggard, Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Danielynn and Danielynn's father Larry Birkhead, Fabio Lanzoni, Donald Trump's ex-wife Marla Maples, Molly Ringwald, Erin Brockovich, Diff’rent Strokes actor Todd Bridges, The Partridge Family stars Danny Bonaduce and David Cassidy, The Brady Bunch stars Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Susan Olsen, and Mike Lookinland.
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2014)
Season 5 (2014-15)
Season 6 (2015)
Season 7 (2015-16)
Season 8 (2016)
Season 9 (2017)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
Television series by Harpo Productions
Oprah Winfrey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation%20for%20Automatic%20Machinery | Simulation for Automatic Machinery or SAM were two unique minicomputers built by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (NDRE) in the mid-1960s. SAM 1, built between 1962 and 1964, was the first Norwegian-built programmable computer. It featured 4,096 14-bit words of memory and 14 registers and was used in-house at NDRE. SAM 2 was built between 1966 and 1967 and was used for analysis of satellite imagery at Tromsø Satellite Station. A third-generation computer, it was among the first three in the world to use integrated circuits.
NDRE's first computer had been Lydia which was used for anti-submarine warfare. When it was completed in 1962, the design group led by Yngvar Lundh started working on SAM 1. After it was completed, NDRE convinced the satellite station to procure a Norwegian computer, despite that it had yet to be developed. Key people in the SAM 2 development were Lars Monrad-Krohn, Per Bjørge and Rolf Skår. On the basis of SAM 2 they established Norsk Data and developed the Nord-1 minicomputer.
Development
The first attempts by NDRE to build a computer were made by the mathematics division in the early 1950s. There were two main intended uses: calculation of orbital mechanics for ballistic missiles and for the dimensions for Kjeller Reactor. The background was that NDRE had a keypunch machine, but there were no commercially available digital computers. In 1953 NDRE was offered a digital Ferranti computer via the Norwegian Intelligence Service and the agency thus terminated its own computer development and instead focused on software.
The development of SAM arose in the NDRE's servo division. Led by Karl Holberg, it was working on Terne, an anti-submarine warfare system. The system relied on an analogue electromechanical computer and NDRE saw the possibility of using digital computers instead. Yngvar Lundh wrote his master's thesis in engineering at NDRE in 1957 and then studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US where he encountered the TX-2 minicomputer. When he returned to NDRE, Lundh started working on a digital computer named Lydia for Bridge, an anti-submarine system. Holberg became director of the telecommunications division in 1962 and Lundh's group moved there.
Holberg gave the go-ahead for the development of a minicomputer in mid 1962 and was to be a further development of Lydia. The goal was not to make a computer that could compete with commercial models, but instead be tailored for use internally in NDRE for research of computers and simulation. SAM was completed in 1964 and used in-house at NDRE. It was the first Norwegian-built computer which could be programmed.
The Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (NTNF) and NDRE started negotiating a satellite ground station in Tromsø in 1965. It and Kongsfjord Telemetry Station in Ny-Ålesund were to be used by the European Space Research Organization for their low-Earth-orbit satellites starting with ESRO-2. The agreement was ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVC%20Deportes | TVC Deportes is a Mexican sports channel, founded August 11, 2007. Currently only can be viewed through cable television systems in Mexico. Its programming combines both national and international sports, a sports news program (TVC Deportes Total), and several analysis programs dedicated to other sports.
Is part of TVC Networks, is the business unit of PCTV (In Spanish:Productora de Comercializacion de Television por Cable) engaged in planning, design, development, production and distribution of audiovisual content.
In 2007 TVC Deportes signed a deal with CONADE to broadcast sports events of that organization.
Media Coverage
American Football:
Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional
Lingerie Football League
NCAA
Baseball:
Mexican Baseball League
Mexican Pacific League
Basketball:
Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional
Football:
Ascenso MX
Copa MX
Liga Premier
Liga MX Femenil
FIFA World Cup: 2014 and 2018 matches live
Tennis:
Davis Cup
WTA
Wrestling:
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Other Sports:
Olympic Games 2016 and 2020.
References
Television networks in Mexico
Sports television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Show%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of American animated television series Regular Show, created by J. G. Quintel, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. Quintel created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the canceled anthology series The Cartoonstitute. He developed Regular Show from his own experiences in college. Simultaneously, several of the show's main characters originated from his animated shorts 2 in the AM PM and The Naïve Man from Lolliland. Following its first season's success, Regular Show was renewed for a second season in 2009, ahead of its premiere. The season ran from November 29, 2010 to August 1, 2011, and was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
Regular Shows second season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Shion Takeuchi, Benton Connor, Calvin Wong, Paul Scarlata, Kat Morris, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Minty Lewis, Henry Yu, and Dennis Messmer. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Roth, Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor.
Development
Concept
Two 23-year-old friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby, are employed as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker Skips, but the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as their rivals.
Production
Many of the characters are loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man From Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed artists to create pilots with no notes to be optioned as a show possibly. After being green-lit, Quintel recruited several indie comic book artists to compose the show's staff, as their style matched close to what he desired for the series. The season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Shion Takeuchi, Benton Connor, Calvin Wong, Paul Scarlata, Kat Morris, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Minty Lewis, Henry Yu, and Dennis Messmer. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Roth, Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor while being produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
The second season of Regular Show was produced between August 2010 to November 2010. It utilizes double entendres and mild language; Quintel stated that, although the network wanted to step up from the more child-oriented fare, some restrictions came with this switch.
Episodes
Home media
Warner Home Video released multiple DVDs, consisting of region 1 formats.
Slack Pack, The Best DVD in the World *At this Moment in Time, Party Pack, Fright Pack, Mordecai & Margaret Pack and Rigby Pack were created for Region 1 markets containing episodes from the second seas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIRCA | SIRCA is a provider of online services to support finance and other data-intensive research at universities, Government and financial market participants world-wide.
History
SIRCA was incorporated in 1997 as a not-for-profit company to host and manage share price data from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) for a small group of collaborating Australian universities.
In its early years, SIRCA collaborated with the ASX and other research partners on a number of landmark studies including:
ASIC review of the research on the past performance of managed funds [2002]
The ASX-SIRCA Benchmarking Study [2003]
The Importance of Market Integrity [2004]
Identity Fraud in Australia [2003] A report for financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC which found it to be $1.1Bn problem.
Today, SIRCA serves over 50 universities including 37 member universities in Australia and New Zealand and over 20 from North America, Europe and Asia.
Services
SIRCA in partnership with the Australian Financial Markets Association produces the Australian Financial Markets Report (AFMR) - an annual report with comprehensive coverage and statistics on all Australia's financial markets including equities, futures, bonds and over-the-counter securities. In 2012, these markets collectively turned over collectively turned over more than $125 trillion in 2011-12.
SIRCA technology underpins the market leading Thomson Reuters Tick History database. This is used by most leading financial institutions around the world as a source of historical tick and end of day data for a variety of functions, including the back testing of algorithms to support automated trading strategies, and for a range of risk and compliance related tasks.
Governance
SIRCA is a registered as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee with the Australian company regulator Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC). SIRCA’s governance is overseen by a Board of Directors, and Executive.
See also
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
Thomson Reuters
Reserve Bank of Australia
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
References
External links
Official SIRCA Website
Technology Spectator, "A smarter approach to innovation" 28 Aug 2012
Financial services companies of Australia
Non-profit organisations based in New South Wales
E-Science
Information science
Organizations established in 1997
Organisations based in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo%20Alto%20Networks | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The core product is a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference. It is a partner organization of the World Economic Forum.
In 2018, Palo Alto Networks was listed 8th in the Forbes Digital 100. In June 2018, former Google and SoftBank executive Nikesh Arora joined the company as Chairman and CEO.
History
Palo Alto Networks was founded in 2005 by Israeli-American Nir Zuk, a former engineer from Check Point and NetScreen Technologies, and was the principal developer of the first stateful inspection firewall and the first intrusion prevention system. Zuk created Palo Alto Networks with the intention of solving problems enterprises faced with existing network security solutions, namely: the inability to allow employees to use modern applications safely, which entailed developing a firewall capable of identifying and providing fine-grained control of applications.
In 2007, the company produced and shipped its first product, an enterprise firewall. In 2009, Gartner released a publication defining a next-generation firewall. In contrast to traditional firewalls, which at the time relied on simple rules such as port numbers and protocol to block traffic, the authors stated that next-generation firewalls should operate on and inspect all layers of the network stack and be intelligent enough to block threats independently of port numbers or protocols used. In particular, the publication defined this next-generation firewall as containing (in addition to the full capabilities of both traditional firewalls and intrusion prevention systems): Support for in-line deployment without disrupting network operations, application awareness, and full stack visibility allowing for fine-grained detection and control of applications, extra-firewall intelligence, and upgrade paths.
Starting in 2011, Gartner began listing Palo Alto Networks as a leader on its enterprise firewall, Magic Quadrant. In 2019, they were named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for the 8th year in a row. The company debuted on the NYSE on July 20, 2012, raising $260 million with its initial public offering, which was the 4th-largest tech IPO of 2012. It remained on the NYSE until October 2021 when the company transferred its listing to Nasdaq.
In 2014, Palo Alto Networks founded the Cyber Threat Alliance with Fortinet, McAfee, and NortonLifeLock (formerly known as Symantec), a not-for-profit organization with the goal of improving cybersecurity "for the greater good" by encouraging collaboration between cybersecurity organizations by sharing cyber threat intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20Theater | Desktop Theater was a digital performance project created by Adriene Jenik and Lisa Brenneis that ran from 1997 to 2002. The project consisted of a series of early experiments in network performances using online discussion rooms and visual chat applications such as The Palace. The objective was to introduce a compelling way for the public to interact with theater online and the audiences responses in the chat room were seen as an important element of the work. The project created over 40 web-based performances during its lifetime.
Using The Palace, the company would enter the online environment and using avatars, create adaptations of stage performances. One adaptation performed was waitingforgodot.com, based on Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Everything that would conventionally be seen on a live stage (e.g. scenery, gestures, emotions, and speech) was compressed into 2D and computer speech. This subgenre of digital performance is also known as cyberformance.
Besides adaptations of plays, the Desktop Theater project also created improvisations, activities, active verses, and workshops. With each work, the project strove to eliminate the distance between performer and audience.
Archive
Plays
waitingforgodot.com - Third Annual Digital Storytelling Festival (1997)
Spectacled Society - Palace Mansion (2000)
The World of Park - Palace Mansion (2000)
Invisible Interludes - Santaman's Harvest Digital Arts & Culture (1999)
WaterWars[2] - Transit III Festival of Women in Theater, Odin teatret, Holstebro, Denmark and the Genetically Enhanced Palace (2001)
Improvisations
Barnstorming the Palace - Palace Mansion (2000)
FatGirls Prop - Palace Mansion (2000)
Mom & Larky - Palace Mansion (2000)
Moments in Palace Culture - Palace Mansion (2000)
SuperSchmoozio - Live at The Kitchen, New York City, New York & in Genetically Enhanced Palace (2001)
BagoCats - Beall Center for the Arts, Irvine, California (2000)
Activities
Source:
Dreams
First Night Dream- Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Thigh Dream- Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Lindsay's Flying Dream -Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Nancy's Dream -Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Die 4 Dixie Dream -Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Kitten Dream -Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
River of Salsa Dream -Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Mike's Dream - Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Dreaming in Public - Palace Mansion (2000)
LaBone's Dream - LaBone's Dream (2000)
Windy Dream - Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Bookmark Dream_version 2 - Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Connie's Dream - Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
LizardPeople Dream - Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
Jack's Dream - Genetically Enhanced Palace (2000)
AdrieneMagentaPool Dream - Genetically Enhanced Palace / Dreamroom (2001)
NancyCreepyDream - Genetically Enhanced Palace / Dreamroom (2000)
Blind Dreamer - Genetically Enhanced Palace / Dreamroom (2001)
Connie's XXX Dream - Genetically Enhanced Palace / Dr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat%20Broadband%20Network | BharatNet, also known as Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), is a central public sector undertaking, set up by the Department of Telecommunications, a department under Ministry of Communications of the Government of India for the establishment, management, and operation of the National Optical Fibre Network to provide a minimum of 100 Mbit/s broadband connectivity to all 250,000-gram panchayats in the country, covering nearly 625,000 villages, by improving the middle layer of nation-wide broadband internet in India to achieve the goal of Digital India.
BharatNet Phase-I, connecting 100,000 village councils covering 300,000 villages, was completed by December 2017. BharatNet Phase-II will be completed by 31 March 2023 to connect the remaining 150,000 village councils covering 325,000 villages in 16 states (July 2021 update). The last mile connectivity, with a total of 700,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to cover all 625,000 villages of India by adding 2 to 5 Wi-Fi hotspots per gram panchayat and a minimum of one Wi-Fi hotspot per village, have been created by connecting high-speed 4G base tower stations of commercial telecom operators to BharatNet, whereby commercially non-viable Wi-Fi hotspots will be subsidized by the union government grant of to sustain the operation.
BharatNet is the world's largest rural broadband connectivity program, which is built under the Make in India initiative with no involvement of foreign companies. It is both an enabler and a beneficiary of other key government schemes, such as Digital India, Make in India, the National e-Governance Plan, UMANG, Bharatmala, Sagarmala, Parvatmala, the dedicated freight corridors, industrial corridors, UDAN-RCS and Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.
History
Origin and slow pace of implementation (2011)
On 25 October 2011, the Government of India approved the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) initiative, later renamed as BharatNet, to connect all 250,000 gram panchayats in the country covering nearly 625,000 villages, by utilizing the existing optical fibre network and extending it to the gram panchayats. To achieve this, Bharat Broadband Network was incorporated as a Special Purpose Vehicle(SPV) on 25 February 2012 under Companies Act of 1956. Between 2011 and 2014, project did not take off as planned, and only 350 km of optical fibre, out of 300,000 km optical fibre network needed for the Phase-I, was laid. Between 2014 and 2017, the original Phase-I target of laying 300,000 km of optical fibre was completed under the new BJP government.
Implementation boost in 2014
The BharatNet project picked up pace under the Digital India initiative after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, he renamed the project as the "BharatNet", made several changes to expedite the project, significantly enhanced the BharatNet funding to several billion dollars under the Digital India, set ambitious time-bound implementations deadlines, appointed government public sector units (BSNL, RailTel, and Powe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintext%20Players | The Plaintext Players were an online performance group founded by Antoinette LaFarge in 1994. Consisting mainly of artists and writers, they engaged in improvisational cyberformance on MOOs and later branched out into mixed reality performance, working with stage actors. Their performances form a "hybrid of theatre, fiction and poetry".
Overview
When the Plaintext Players began their journey into the world of cyberformance, they worked primarily in the text-based online environments known as MOOs. LaFarge would devise a detailed scenario which would be communicated to the actors or "participants" beforehand. The pieces would then be constructed through live improvisation under LaFarge's direction. Two early examples of this were their "Gutter City" (1995) and "LittleHamlet" (1995). In "Gutter City," they told the tale of what happened to Ishmael, from Moby-Dick, when he became involved in the Civil War after his rescue; and in "LittleHamlet" they retold the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet but attempted to show "all of the characters' formerly unspoken needs, fears, and desires."
Starting in 1998, in collaboration with theater director Robert Allen, they began bridging between virtual and real spaces, bringing theater actors to work with the online material in various ways. Initially, LaFarge adapted online transcripts for stage and radio performance; the first of these was "Still Lies Quiet Truth", a 1998 adaptation of the 1996 online series known as "The Candide Campaign" that was performed at the New York International Fringe Festival. Locations from the characters' virtual world were projected on screen in synch with the performance, showing where the characters were at any given moment. After this, the Players began experimenting with performances in which live feeds allowed the online performers to improvise in real time with the stage actors. These live feeds ranged from text projections to audio synthesized from text, and the stage actors responded to these feeds in various ways. In addition, all of the information being circulated between the online and stage performers in the form of audio, video, and text streams was subject to further transformations through computer programming. The Plaintext Players' departure from purely text-based performance was enabled by the growing availability of multimedia technologies, and in line with their aesthetic of mediated improvisation. As a group they have been largely inactive since 2006, although individual members have continued cyberformance in other venues.
Founding members of the Plaintext Players include Ursula Endlicher, Joe Ferrari, Heather Wagner, Thessy Mehrain, and Adrianne Wortzel. Other members who appeared in multiple performance series include Lise Patt, Marlena Corcoran, Cathy Caplan, Richard Foerstl, and Richard Smoley.
Performance history
"Christmas" (1994)
"LittleHamlet" (1995)
"Gutter City" (1995)
"The Candide Campaign" (1996)
"The White Whale" (1997)
"Orpheus" (1997)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Contemporary%20Film%20Festival | The ICFF is a not-for-profit, publicly attended film festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, programming international films and taking place during the summer. Founded in 2012, ICFF has grown from a four-day, single-venue festival of 18 films, to a 10-day, nine-city festival of over 130 feature films, documentaries and short films.
The ICFF has a monthly program with screenings and events held in its main cities, a Youth Festival program and its main June Festival initiative.
Every year ICFF takes place during the month of June in celebration of Ontario’s Italian Heritage Month with screenings in the cities of Toronto, Vaughan, Vancouver, Hamilton, Markham, Niagara, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City. The ICFF festival screenings in Toronto are held at the TIFF Bell LightBox. The ICFF also runs special events and international programs throughout the year, which aim to involve different niche audiences.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, in 2020 the 9th edition of the ICFF took place online. In both 2020 and 2021, in light of the pandemic the ICFF and corporate sponsor Lavazza also organized the special 'Lavazza Drive-In Film Festival,' a screening series of films presented at a drive-in theatre at Ontario Place; the Lavazza Festival included some Italian films in its program, but programmed a diversity of films representing a broad cross-section of Canadian and international multicultural films rather than being exclusively Italian-themed.
In 2021, the ICFF introduced an open-air section of the festival at Trillium Park in Toronto, and in 2022, the festival fully transitioned to an outdoor format at the Distillery Historic District under the new name 'IncluCity Festival.' The new format includes international and multicultural cinema screenings on the streets and main square of the Distillery District, as well as stages and street activations.
In 2023, the festival introduced a new section dedicated to dark drama and horror films called 'The Dark Side.' This program features full-length films screened at midnight in the outdoor setting of the Distillery District.
History
2012 – 1st edition
Films screened: 16 films
Shorts screened: N/A
Notable films featured: What a Beautiful Day/Che bella giornata, To Rome with Love, The Vanishing of Pato/La scomparsa di Patò, Basilicata Coast to Coast
Opening film: Kryptonite!/La Kryptonite nella borsa, Directed by: Ivan Cotroneo, Italy
Closing film: A Flat for Three/Posti in piedi in paradiso, Directed by: Carlo Verdone, Italy
Cities: Toronto, TIFF Bell Lightbox
2013 – 2nd edition
Films screened: 34 films
Shorts screened: 26 Shorts
Notable films featured: Welcome Mr. President/Benvenuto Presidente!, Siberian Education/Educazione Siberiana, It Was The Son/ È stato il figlio, A Perfect Family/ Una famiglia perfetta, Viva L’Italia
Opening film: Welcome Mr. President/Benvenuto Presidente! Directed by: Riccardo Milani, Italy
Closing film: Come Undone/ Cosa voglio di più, Directed by: Silvio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics%20and%20Systems | Cybernetics and Systems is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of cybernetics and systems science, including artificial intelligence, computer science, cybernetics, human computer intelligence, information and communication technology, machine learning, and robotics. The journal was established in 1971 as Journal of Cybernetics and obtained its current title in 1980. It is published by Taylor & Francis in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies and the editor-in-chief is Robert Trappl.
Abstracting and indexing
Cybernetics and Systems is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.434, ranking it 12th out of 22 journals in the category "Computer Science, Cybernetics"
References
External links
Cybernetics
Academic journals established in 1971
Taylor & Francis academic journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Shustek | Leonard J. "Len" Shustek is a founder of networking companies Nestar Systems and Network General and a former chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California.
Background and career
Shustek received BS and MS from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn, New York. After earning his PhD from Stanford University, he became an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. After leaving the faculty, he co-founded Nestar Systems in 1979, and Network General in 1986. In 2003, he provided a $2.5 million endowment for the "Leonard J. Shustek Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Chair" at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He has also taught computer science at Stanford University.
In 1972, Shustek proposed using microcode for evaluating the performance of computer systems. He received BS and MS from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn.
In a 1999 interview, Shustek reflected upon the failure of major computer suppliers decades earlier to recognize the need for computer networks. According to Shustek, computer scientist Harry Saal resigned his position at IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, because he could not convince IBM to develop local area networks. Saal then convinced Shustek to give up his position as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon, and together they founded the networking company Nestar.
References
External links
In computer infancy, Saal and Shustek convince skeptics to invest in networking.
Living people
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Stanford University faculty
Stanford University alumni
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Place%20to%20Call%20Home%20%28TV%20series%29 | A Place to Call Home is an Australian television drama series, created by Bevan Lee for the Seven Network, which premiered in 2013. Set in rural New South Wales after World War II, it follows Sarah Adams (Marta Dusseldorp), who has returned to Australia after twenty years abroad to start a new life and ends up clashing with wealthy matriarch Elizabeth Bligh (Noni Hazlehurst). The main cast also includes Brett Climo (George Bligh), Craig Hall (Dr. Jack Duncan), David Berry (James Bligh), Abby Earl (Anna Bligh), Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood (Olivia Bligh), Aldo Mignone (Gino Poletti), Sara Wiseman (Carolyn Bligh), Jenni Baird (Regina Standish), Tim Draxl (Henry Fox), and Frankie J. Holden (Roy Briggs). The show was cancelled after its second season, but obtained further funding and concluded successfully after a total of six seasons in 2018.
Cast and characters
Main continuing characters
Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Adams, who despite a strict Catholic upbringing, moved to Paris to be with the man she loved, and adopted his Jewish faith. She comes to work for the local hospital near the Bligh family, whom she met while serving as a nurse on the ship taking them back to Australia from Europe. Later, she is astonished to hear a report that her husband is still alive following World War II, and her life again spins into troubled times.
Noni Hazlehurst as Elizabeth Bligh, the headstrong and stubborn matriarch of the Bligh family. She at first worries that Sarah will endanger the Bligh family's social position, but she mellows over time. She intuits James' homosexuality, since her own husband also had affairs with men, but she pressures James to stay in the marriage as she had done in her own past. Later in the series, she leaves for Sydney to live with her daughter Carolyn, and becomes a less-domineering, more-relaxed person.
Brett Climo as George Bligh, Elizabeth's son, a good-hearted man who takes Sarah under his protection and gradually falls in love with her. He is Elaine's widower and father to James and Anna, although it eventually emerges that Anna is the secret child of his sister Carolyn and their friend Jack; she was taken in by George and Elaine to spare Carolyn any scandal. His high expectations of James puts his son in danger, until eventually George remembers having once seen his own father kissing another man. George later runs for public office and takes over as lord of the estate. In later years, he has a child by Sarah.
Craig Hall as Jack Duncan, the secret, past lover of Carolyn and secret father to Anna, who now faces many challenges in his work as a doctor in a hospital run by the Bligh family. He is compassionate and generous, despite his episodic personal problems with addiction and depression, and devotes his energy to helping others. Over the series, he and Carolyn connect with their daughter Anna and reconnect with each other.
David Berry as James Bligh (regular: seasons 1–4, 6; recurring: season 5), the only son of George and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare%20event%20sampling | Rare event sampling is an umbrella term for a group of computer simulation methods intended to selectively sample 'special' regions of the dynamic space of systems which are unlikely to visit those special regions through brute-force simulation. A familiar example of a rare event in this context would be nucleation of a raindrop from over-saturated water vapour: although raindrops form every day, relative to the length and time scales defined by the motion of water molecules in the vapour phase, the formation of a liquid droplet is extremely rare.
Due to the wide use of computer simulation across very different domains, articles on the topic arise from quite disparate sources and it is difficult to make a coherent survey of rare event sampling techniques. Contemporary methods include transition-path sampling (TPS), replica exchange transition interface sampling (RETIS), repetitive simulation trials after reaching thresholds (RESTART), forward flux sampling (FFS), generalized splitting, adaptive multilevel splitting (AMS), stochastic-process rare-event sampling (SPRES), line sampling, subset simulation, and weighted ensemble (WE). The first published rare event technique was by Herman Kahn and Theodore Edward Harris in 1951, who in turn referred to an unpublished technical report by John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam.
Time dependence
If a system is out of thermodynamic equilibrium, then it is possible that there will be time-dependence in the rare event flux. In order to follow the time evolution of the probability of a rare event, it is necessary to maintain a steady current of trajectories into the target region of configurational space. SPRES is specifically designed for this eventuality and AMS is also at least formally valid for applications in which this is required.
In cases where a dissipative steady state obtains (i.e. the conditions for thermodynamic equilibrium are not met, but the rare event flux is nonetheless constant) then FFS and other methods can be appropriate as well as the typically more expensive full-nonequilibrium approaches.
Landscape methods
If the assumption of thermodynamic equilibrium is made, then there is no time-dependence in the rare event flux and a thermodynamic rather than statistical approach to the problem may be more appropriate. These methods are generally thought of separately to rare event methods, but may address the same problems. In these strategies, a free energy landscape (or an energy landscape, for small systems) is prepared. For a small system this landscape may be mapped entirely, while for a system with a larger number of degrees of freedom a projection onto some set of progress coordinates will still be required.
Having mapped the landscape, and making certain assumptions, transition-state theory can then be used to yield a description of the probabilities of paths within it. An example method for mapping landscapes is replica exchange simulation, which has the advantage when appli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS%20version%20history | WebOS is a Linux operating system for smart devices, and formerly a mobile operating system. It was initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard, and then LG Electronics. Palm launched WebOS in January 2009. Various versions of WebOS have been featured on several devices, including Pre, Pixi, and Veer phones and the HP TouchPad tablet. The latest version, 3.0.5, was released on 12 January 2012.
Palm / HP devices
References
Lists of operating systems
Software version histories
webOS
WebOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Similarity%20Judgment%20Program | The Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) is a collaborative project applying computational approaches to comparative linguistics using a database of word lists. The database is open access and consists of 40-item basic-vocabulary lists for well over half of the world's languages. It is continuously being expanded. In addition to isolates and languages of demonstrated genealogical groups, the database includes pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and constructed languages. Words of the database are transcribed into a simplified standard orthography (ASJPcode). The database has been used to estimate dates at which language families have diverged into daughter languages by a method related to but still different from glottochronology, to determine the homeland (Urheimat) of a proto-language, to investigate sound symbolism, to evaluate different phylogenetic methods, and several other purposes.
ASJP is not widely accepted among historical linguists as an adequate method to establish or evaluate relationships between language families.
It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
History
Original goals
ASJP was originally developed as a means for objectively evaluating the similarity of words with the same meaning from different languages, with the ultimate goal of classifying languages computationally, based on the lexical similarities observed. In the first ASJP paper two semantically identical words from compared languages were judged similar if they showed at least two identical sound segments. Similarity between the two languages was calculated as a percentage of the total number of words compared that were judged as similar. This method was applied to 100-item word lists for 250 languages from language families including Austroasiatic, Indo-European, Mayan, and Muskogean.
ASJP Consortium
The ASJP Consortium, founded around 2008, came to involve around 25 professional linguists and other interested parties working as volunteer transcribers and/or extending aid to the project in other ways. The main driving force behind the founding of the consortium was Cecil H. Brown. Søren Wichmann is daily curator of the project. A third central member of the consortium is Eric W. Holman, who has created most of the software used in the project.
Shorter word lists
While word lists used were originally based on the 100-item Swadesh list, it was statistically determined that a subset of 40 of the 100 items produced just as good if not slightly better classificatory results than the whole list. So subsequently word lists gathered contain only 40 items (or less, when attestations for some are lacking).
Levenshtein distance
In papers published since 2008, ASJP has employed a similarity judgment program based on Levenshtein distance (LD). This approach was found to produce better classificatory results measured against expert opinion than the method used initially. LD is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenetic | Frenetic may refer to:
Frenetic (programming language), a domain-specific language for programming software-defined networks (SDNs)
The Frenetic Five, a series of interactive fiction ("text adventure") games for a wide variety of platforms
Frenetic Records, an independent record label
See also
Frenzy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Regular%20Show%20episodes | Regular Show is an American animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network that aired from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017. The series revolves around the daily lives of two 23-year-old friends, Mordecai (a blue jay), and Rigby (a raccoon). They work as groundskeepers at a park, and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson (a gumball machine) and their coworker Skips (a yeti), but to the delight of park manager Pops (a man with a lollipop-shaped head). Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as their rivals.
Quintel initially worked as a writer and staff director for the Cartoon Network series Camp Lazlo and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack before he was offered to produce a short for the network's showcase project The Cartoonstitute. Quintel developed the Regular Show pilot for the project, utilizing characters from his California Institute of the Arts student films The Naïve Man from Lolliland (2005) and 2 in the AM PM (2006). While The Cartoonstitute was ultimately scrapped, Cartoon Network executives approved the production of Regular Show, starting with its first season. Its first two seasons were rating successes, with Nielsen Media Research ranking the series at number one in its time period amongst its primary demographic. As of May 2013, the program averages approximately 2 to 2.5 million viewers each week.
Regular Show received positive reviews from critics and has been noted for its appeal towards different age groups, simplistic animation style, and frequent references to 1980s popular culture. It has attained four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including a win in the Short-format Animation category for the 2012 third season episode "Eggscellent". The series has also been nominated for two Annie Awards, as well as three BAFTA Children's Awards. The eighth and final season was announced by Cartoon Network on July 7, 2015. A film adaptation, Regular Show: The Movie, premiered on November 25, 2015. After eight seasons and 261 episodes, Regular Show concluded on January 16, 2017, with "A Regular Epic Final Battle".
Series overview
Early shorts (2005–06)
J. G. Quintel created two shorts while in college with characters that resemble the present cast.
Episodes
Pilot (2009)
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2010–11)
Season 3 (2011–12)
Season 4 (2012–13)
Season 5 (2013–14)
Season 6 (2014–15)
Season 7 (2015–16)
Season 8 (2016–17)
Film
Shorts
Season 2 short
Season 6 shorts
These shorts' production code takes up one production code of season 6.
Season 7 shorts
These shorts' production code takes up one production code of season 7.
Season 8 shorts
These shorts' production code take up one production code of season 8.
References
External links
Official page for Regular Show at Cartoon Network
Regular Show at epguides
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumazi | Sumazi is a social media and social intelligence platform for enterprises, brands, and celebrities. Its technology performs social data analysis across social networking services including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, to identify key people in his/her network who are experts, influencers or are located in a specific area for marketing, advertising or sales campaigns.
The technology company was founded in 2011 by former Sun Microsystems employee Sumaya Kazi. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Reception
Sumazi was one of 25 startups selected out of more than 1,200 to compete at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, where it won the Omidyar Network award for the startup "Most Likely to Change the World."
Sumazi, which was based out of San Francisco, California, had been profiled in The New York Times as well as USA Today, which commented the advantages of the startup's location in the Silicon Valley. American Express OPEN Forum also featured Sumazi as a "Startup of the Week". Sumazi has additionally been mentioned in articles by Mashable, The Wall Street Journal, Current Editorials, Harvard Business Review, Smashing Magazine, and TechCrunch.
References
External links
Companies established in 2011
Digital marketing companies of the United States
Companies based in San Francisco
Privately held companies based in California
Social media
Social media management platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Q.%20Ferguson | Brendan Q. Ferguson is an American computer game designer, writer, programmer, and voice actor. He was the co-designer and co-writer of Sam & Max Save the World and Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space. He was also the co-designer of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
Career
Brendan Q. Ferguson began his career as a programmer at LucasArts in 2003 on Star Wars: Obi-Wan. He was a co-writer and co-designer of the cancelled Sam & Max Freelance Police. He left LucasArts with much of the Freelance Police team in 2004 to join Telltale Games. He maintained their blog in their early years and was as a co-designer of their first game, Telltale Texas Hold'em. He was also the voice of Theodore Dudebrough in that game. Between 2006 and 2007, he co-designed and co-wrote Sam & Max Save the World. In 2007 and 2008, he also the co-designed and co-wrote the sequel, Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space. He reprised his role as voice actor in those games, voicing the bug. His final project at Telltale Games was writing the episode "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak" for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, before leaving Telltale Games in 2010.
Recognition
Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space, which was co-designed and co-written by Ferguson, received awards in the 2008 Adventure Gamers Aggie Awards in the categories of "Best Writing", "Best Gameplay", "Best Third-Person PC Adventure", and "Best Adventure of 2008".
Tales of Monkey Island, for which Brendan Q. Furguson co-developed episodes 1–4, was nominated for "best artistic design" and won for the award for "biggest surprise" at IGN's Best of E3 2009 Awards. After release, it won the PC Gamer 2009 adventure game of the year, was nominated for the IGN best adventure game of the year for PC and Wii, won the Adventure Gamers Best Adventure of 2009, and was named the "Best Series Revival" by OC Weekly.
Credited works
Video games
2001 Star Wars: Obi-Wan, programmer (LucasArts)
2003 Gladius, programmer (LucasArts)
2005 Telltale Texas Hold'em, co-designer, voice actor (Theodore Dudebrough) (Telltale Games)
2007 Sam & Max Save the World, co-designer, co-writer, voice actor (the bug) (Telltale Games)
2008 Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, co-designer, co-writer, voice actor (the bug) (Telltale Games)
2008 Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, co-designer (Telltale Games)
2009 Tales of Monkey Island, co-designer Episodes 1–4 (Telltale Games)
2010 Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, writer The Tomb of Sammun-Mak (Telltale Games)
References
External links
American computer programmers
American video game designers
American video game directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mystery%20at%20Castle%20House | Mystery at Castle House is a 1982 Australian film for children. The film was broadcast in the United Kingdom on the ITV network in 1986
Plot
With their father tied up with a long-term business contract, siblings Kate and Ben move in with their aunt. As they explore their new surroundings, they meet and befriend a local boy named Spider. They also encounter Rocco and Ah Leong, who are stealing produce from the shops and households.
Kate, Ben and Spider eventually decide to explore Castle House, a mysterious huge manor that has been abandoned for 15 years. However, they soon discover that the house has inhabitants: An old lady named Miss Markham, to whose family the house belongs; her new ground caretaker Mr. Wilberforce; and his two dimwitted aides Morris and Stakovich. While Miss Markham proves to be very friendly, Mr. Wilberforce and his men strive to keep the children away from the grounds. After the children's visit, Miss Markham discovers that Wilberforce and his men are keeping her own cellar locked up; and when she decides to investigate, the men overpower her and tie her up.
On their way back to the house's jetty, Ben, Kate and Spider discover a secret tunnel to the house, and in it they run into Rocco and Ah Leong. As the two boys disclose, Ah Leong's father was kidnapped by Wilberforce and his goons to help them in a break-in, since he is supposed to disable the security system, and is kept captive in Castle House's cellar. The children try to free Mr. Leong, but only succeed in alerting Wilberforce about their knowledge of his plans, and with the robbery about to take place this very day, the gangsters decide to speed up their plans. The children do what they can to slow down Wilberforce's plans, and manage to free Miss Markham. Using Miss Markham's personal high-power speedboat, they catch up with the gangsters, overpower them and free Mr Leong.
Cast
Simone Buchanan as Kate
Jeremy Shadlow as Spider
Scott Nicholas as Ben
Aileen Britton as Miss Markham
Henri Szeps as Mr. Wilberforce
John Cobley as Morris
Ray Meagher as Stakovich
Robert Geammel as Rocco
Tony Lee as Ah Leong
Ron Mee Lee as (Ah Leong's) Father
Robin Bowering as Mr. Gaspari, Rocco's father
Carole Skinner as Aunt Josephine
References
External links
1982 films
Australian children's films
1980s children's films
1980s English-language films
Films directed by Peter Maxwell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commvault | Commvault is an American publicly traded data protection and data management software company headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Commvault enterprise software can be used for data backup and recovery, cloud and infrastructure management, retention and compliance.
History
Commvault was originally formed in 1988 as a development group in Bell Labs focused on data management, backup, and recovery; it was later designated a business unit of AT&T Network Systems. After becoming a part of Lucent Technologies, the unit was sold in 1996 and became a corporation, with Scotty R. Neal as CEO.
In March 1998, Bob Hammer joined Commvault as chairman, president and CEO, and Al Bunte joined as vice president and COO. In 2000, the company began releasing products aimed at managing network storage. In March 2006, Commvault filed for an initial public offering, and officially went public later that year as CVLT on NASDAQ. At the end of 2013, the company moved from its space in Oceanport, New Jersey, to its new $146 million headquarters at the former Fort Monmouth in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
On February 5, 2019, Sanjay Mirchandani replaced the retiring Hammer as president and CEO, and Nick Adamo was announced as chairman of the board. Mirchandani joined Commvault from Puppet, an Oregon-based IT automation company, where he served as CEO.
Software
Commvault software is an enterprise-level data platform that contains modules to back up, restore, archive, replicate, and search data. It is built from the ground-up on a single platform and unified code base. It has four product lines: Complete Backup and Recovery, HyperScale integrated appliances, Orchestrate disaster recovery, and Activate analytics. The software is available across cloud and on-premises environments.
Data is protected by installing agent software on the physical or virtual hosts, which use operating system or application native APIs to protect data in a consistent state. Production data is processed by the agent software on client computers and backed up through a data manager, the MediaAgent, to disk, tape, or cloud storage. All data management activity in the environment is tracked by a centralized server, the CommServ, and can be managed by administrators through a central user interface. End users can access protected data using web browsers and mobile devices.
In 2008, Commvault launched a new remote operations management service for storage management for small and midsize businesses. In 2009, the company's backup software product Simpana version 8 offered the industry's first global embedded software deduplication, allowing users to deduplicate data no matter where it is stored. In 2015, following the release of Simpana version 10, the product was renamed Commvault Software. In 2017, Commvault began to sell its Hyperscale Backup data protection appliances, following up a year later by adding high capacity Hyperscale appliances, and the standalone Remote Office Appliance. Also in |
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