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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vert.x | Eclipse Vert.x is a polyglot event-driven application framework that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
Similar environments written in other programming languages include Node.js for JavaScript, Twisted for Python, Perl Object Environment for Perl, libevent for C, reactPHP and amphp for PHP and EventMachine for Ruby.
As of version 2.1.4, Vert.x exposes its API in Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Scala, Clojure and Ceylon.
As of version 3.7.0, Vert.x exposes its API in Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, Scala, Kotlin and Ceylon.
As of version 3.9.1, Vert.x exposes its API in Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, Scala and Kotlin.
As of version 4.0.0, Vert.x exposes its API in Java, Groovy and Kotlin.
History
Vert.x was started by Tim Fox in 2011 while he was employed by VMware.
Fox initially named the project "Node.x", a play on the naming of Node.js, with the "x" representing the fact that the new project was polyglot in nature, and didn't simply support JavaScript. The project was later renamed to "Vert.x" to avoid any potential legal issues as "Node" was a trademark owned by Joyent Inc. The new name was also a play on the name node, as a vertex is a synonym for a node in mathematics.
In December 2012, after he left their employment, VMware served legal papers on Tim Fox to take control of the Vert.x trademark, domain name, blog, GitHub account, and Google Group from the Vert.x community
After much discussion with other parties, in January 2013, VMware was persuaded that it would be in the best interests of the Vert.x community to move the project and associated IP to the Eclipse Foundation, a neutral legal entity.
In August 2013, the core Vert.x project completed its move to the Eclipse Foundation. The other projects that make up the Vert.x stack did not migrate to Eclipse but continued to use the "Vert.x" trademark with tacit approval of the Eclipse Foundation.
In May 2014, Vert.x won the award for "Most Innovative Java Technology" at the JAX Innovation awards.
On January 12, 2016, Tim Fox stepped down as the lead of the Vert.x project. and Julien Viet, a long-time contributor, took his place.
Architecture
Vert.x uses low level IO library Netty.
The application framework includes these features:
Polyglot. Application components can be written in Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, Scala, Kotlin and Ceylon.
Simple concurrency model. All code is single threaded, freeing from the hassle of multi-threaded programming.
Simple, asynchronous programming model for writing truly scalable non-blocking applications.
Distributed event bus that spans the client and server side. The event bus even penetrates into in-browser JavaScript allowing to create so-called real-time web applications.
Actor model and public repository, to re-use and share components.
Examples
A web server serving "Hello from Vert.x!" could be written in Java:
import io.vertx.core.AbstractVerticle;
public class Server extends AbstractVerticle {
public void start() { |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underscore.js | Underscore.js is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks. It is comparable to features provided by Prototype.js and the Ruby language, but opts for a functional programming design instead of extending object prototypes. The documentation refers to Underscore.js as "the tie to go along with jQuery's tux, and Backbone.js' suspenders." Underscore.js was created by Jeremy Ashkenas, who is also known for Backbone.js and CoffeeScript.
History
Jeremy Ashkenas created Underscore by the end of 2009 as a spin-off from the DocumentCloud project, together with Backbone.js. It was one of the earliest libraries for JavaScript to provide general functional programming utilities, taking inspiration from Prototype.js, Oliver Steele's Functional JavaScript, and John Resig's Micro-Templating.
In 2012, John-David Dalton created a fork of Underscore, named Lo-Dash (now Lodash). Lo-Dash was initially promoted as a drop-in alternative for Underscore with "consistency, customization, performance, & extras". Nevertheless, Lodash already departed from the original Underscore interface at an early stage and started making more drastic changes with the 3.0.0 release, making it necessary for Lodash users to change their code.
In May 2015, Jeremy Ashkenas announced that John-David Dalton had contacted him about merging the libraries back together. Despite concerns about code style and code size, Ashkenas was not opposed to merging some of Lodash's extensions into Underscore. At the time, there were several developers contributing to Underscore and Lodash in parallel; this group of contributors started making changes to Underscore in order to make it more like Lodash.
In parallel to this effort, however, Dalton made more drastic changes to the Lodash interface. In June 2015, he announced Lodash version 4.0.0, which distanced Lodash even further from the Underscore interface, while making a significant departure from the version 3.x series of Lodash itself as well. This prompted some projects that depended on Lodash to create their own distributions of Lodash 3.
In February 2016, Dalton announced that he considered the merge effort to be complete. He suggested that users switch from Underscore to Lodash, motivating this with usage share statistics. A maintainer of Underscore however made clear that there was no intention to stop developing Underscore as a separate library. Both libraries entered a state of low development activity after 2016.
Over time, newer versions of the ECMAScript standard have added built-in functions to the language that replicate some of the functionality of Underscore, such as Object.assign and Array.prototype.map. However, the built-in functions are sometimes less powerful than their Underscore equivalents; in particular, built-in array iteration methods such as map, filter and forEach cannot iterate over plain objects and do not support iteratee shorthands.
As of March 2021, Underscore is being activ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20best-selling%20albums%20by%20country | The following is a list of best-selling albums by country. Depends on the measurement, record sales of albums are taken by estimations or certifications.
Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available published data from a number of territories, unlike the United Kingdom and the United States with recognized national measurement firms such as Official Charts Company and Nielsen SoundScan respectively. Therefore, it is not an exhaustive list, so no rankings are given in certain cases.
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Additional information: According to a 2003 report from The Society, gospel music in Ghana constituted the largest commercial genre by that time; and 5,000 copies sold of a record were technically a "hit" in the country. A 2005 article of Daily Graphic, puts the highest amount that a musician can peak to be 50,000 copies.
Greece
Haiti
Additional information: Legitimate album sales higher estimates are considered to be between 5,000 and even a "maximum" of 10,000 of a record.
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India and Pakistan
The following list includes both Indian and Pakistani albums, due to their music industries being closely linked. The data mentioned may not be totally accurate due to lack of trusted resources.
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Malaysia
Sales figure derived from various sources.
Malta
Malawi
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Papua New Guinea
Up to 2006, George Telek's albums distributed by CHM sold about 15,000 copies each. The band Painim Wok, which had Telek as a member, became one of the best-selling bands in Papua New Guinea (or the best-selling band) with over 100,000 copies of their albums in 5 years alone up to 1993.
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
South Africa
South Korea
Singapore
Slovak Socialist Republic
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Additional information: Between 1999 and 2001 "several rappers" sold over 100,000 copies of their albums. Dudubaya sold 25,000 copies with Papo na Papo (2004) in its first-week.
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Latin
Puerto Rico
Uruguay
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
Zimbabwe
By region
Central America
Europe
Middle East (Gulf States)
USSR
See also
List of best-selling albums
List of best-selling albums of the 21st century
List of best-selling remix albums
List of best-selling albums by women
List of best-selling Latin albums
Notes
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20Lens | Decision Lens is online decision-making software that is based on multi-criteria decision making.
Decision Lens implements the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
and the Analytic Network Process (ANP)
and is used in fields such as energy, medical research and group decision-making.
The software is supplied by Decision Lens Inc., which was founded in 2002 by John and Dan Saaty.
References
External links
Decision Lens web site
Decision-making software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DecideIT | DecideIT is a decision-making software for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and the multi-attribute value theory (MAVT). It supports both value tree analysis for multi-attribute decision problems as well as decision tree analysis for evaluating decisions under risk and can combine these structures in a common model.
The software implements the Delta MCDM method and is therefore able to handle imprecise statements in terms of intervals, rankings, and comparisons. Earlier versions employed a so-called contraction analysis approach to evaluate decision problems with imprecise information, but as from DecideIT 3, the software supports second-order probabilities which enables a more discriminative power and more informative means for decision evaluation when expected value intervals are overlapping.
The software has been used for addressing decision problems in various domains, such as evaluation of fuels and biomass systems, district heating, energy transition, community decision-making., outbreak response measures, selection of tool for digital forensics, and broadband technology selection.
DecideIT is developed and maintained by the Swedish company Preference.
References
Decision-making software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20event%20manager | Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) is a feature included in Cisco's IOS operating system (and some other Cisco OSes such as IOS-XR, IOS-XE, and NX-OS) that allow programmability and automation capabilities inside the device. EEM allows the behavior of a Cisco device to adapt to specific user requirements by allowing scripting, thresholding, proactive actions, data collection and event management inside the Cisco device itself. Using EEM, problems can be identified and resolved automatically in advance by setting event triggers (called Event Detectors) to watch for specific types of situations or thresholds, or run a set of actions periodically.
Cisco embedded management family
EEM is a member of a family of embedded management technologies in Cisco IOS including SNMP, NetFlow, IP SLA, Web Services Management Agent, Syslog, ESM (Embedded Syslog Manager), ERM (Embedded Resource Manager), EMM (Embedded Menu Manager), Tcl and Service Diagnostics.
When a situation is detected by EEM, it uses policies to invoke actions based on the type of event and the configured policy. EEM currently supports three different types of programming actions (see Programming Capabilities below).
About
With EEM, users can capture complex network events and run sophisticated programs on Cisco devices. The version of EEM on most Cisco devices is version 2.1, or version is 3.0 which was introduced in IOS 12.4(22)T. The latest version is version 4.0, which was released November 2011, targeting IOS releases 12.2SR, 12.2SB, 12.4, and 12.4T, 15.0M, 12.2SG, 12.2SE, Cisco IOS XE, and future versions. EEM consists of three areas; event detectors, policies and programming languages.
Event detectors
The brains of EEM are event detectors. These event detectors are built-in capabilities to watch for specific situations or conditions. Newer versions of EEM have more event detectors than older ones.
Typical of EEM Event Detectors:
SNMP
OIR (Online Insertion and Removal)
CLI command-line interface
Syslog
XML-RPC
IP SLAs
NetFlow
Application specific event
Config change
Interface counters
Redundancy framework
SNMP notification (i.e. when the device receives a trap)
Resource
Timer
Timer subscriber
IOS Process
Counter
GOLD (Generic OnLine Diagnostics)
Environmental
Routing
Enhanced Object Tracking (EOT)
None (launch the event manually)
Policies
Policies determine what is run when an event is detected. Policies save users from having to enumerate an action for every possible event.
Programming capabilities
EEM supports three methods of programmability and scripting.
Applets - these allow CLI to be run when a certain set of conditions occurs
Tcl - when more complex programs need to be built, EEM supports Tcl (Tool Command Language) development
IOS.sh - newer versions of IOS support IOS.sh (IOS shell) macros similar to Linux bash shell
Version comparison
Example
There are four steps to setting up an EEM system. In this example, we will get an email of the status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20Coyotes%20Radio%20Network | The Arizona Coyotes Radio Network is a 10-station network of radio stations in the U.S. state of Arizona. The flagship of the network is KTAR.
Radio Network list of stations
Flagships (3 stations)
620/KTAR: Phoenix
98.7/KMVP-FM: Phoenix (when there is a conflict on KTAR)
92.3/KTAR-FM: Glendale (when there is a conflict on KTAR and KMVP-FM)
Affiliates (7 stations)
600/KVNA: Flagstaff
980/KNTR: Lake Havasu City
1340/KIKO: Miami
1130/KQNA: Prescott Valley
94.3/KDDL: Prescott
1230/KATO: Safford
780/KAZM: Sedona
References
External links
Station list on the Coyotes' website
Arizona Coyotes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguars%20Radio%20Network | The Jacksonville Jaguars Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 21 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Jacksonville Jaguars, a professional football team in the National Football League (NFL). An additional station also carries Spanish-language coverage of the team.
Since 2014, Jacksonville market stations WJXL (), WJXL-FM (), and WGNE-FM () have served as the network's three flagships. The network also includes 18 affiliates in the U.S. states of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina: seven AM stations, six of which supplement their signals with a low-power FM translator; ten full-power FM stations; and one HD Radio subchannel which supplements its signal with a low-power FM translator. Frank Frangie is the lead announcer along with color commentators Jeff Lageman and Tony Boselli. Spanish-language game coverage is broadcast over WFXJ (), which supplements its signal with an FM translator and an HD Radio subchannel simulcast.
In addition to traditional over-the-air AM and FM broadcasts, network programming airs on satellite radio via Sirius XM and is available online via Sirius XM, TuneIn and NFL+.
Station list
English-language stations
Blue background indicates FM translator.
Gray background indicates station is a simulcast of another station.
Spanish-language stations
Blue background indicates FM translator.
Gray background indicates station is a simulcast of another station.
References
External links
Jaguars radio affiliates
National Football League on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotowns | Eurotowns is a network of medium-sized European cities with a population between 50,000 and 250,000 inhabitants. The organisation was founded in 1991. Its members include Avilés, Böblingen, Chelm, Detmold, Eskilstuna, Gävle, Girona, Haarlem, Halmstad, Hasselt, Jyväskylä, Manresa, Reggio Emilia, Roeselare, Sabadell, Schiedam, Sindelfingen, Solingen, Ulm, and Varberg.
Mission
The Eurotowns network aims to address the issues of sustainability, innovation and welfare in small to medium-sized cities, in order to support the achievement of the EU 2030 strategy objectives. Among the aims of Eurotowns are to promote the exchange of good practices, to represent the interests of medium-sized European city, to promote European projects between members of the network, and to provide tools for innovation and knowledge. In order to underline the specific scale of those medium-sized cities, their USP has been translated as : "big enough to cope, small enough to care".
Structure
All members of the Eurotowns network participate in a General Assembly which compares political and technical achievements. The Assembly elects an Executive Council every two years, a body that ensures the implementation of the projects carried out by the network. Members of Eurotowns participate in the work of "Task Teams", working groups that promote ideas of projects, study, research and comparison that receive funding to develop these activities. Currently there are five task teams: innovation, mobility, culture, social inclusion and SDG's. The main strategy is pointed out by a Strategic Policy Group.
Policy priorities
Eurotowns advocates priorities based on the challenges of Europe 2030
External links
Eurotowns website
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram: www.instagram.com/eurotowns
Lists of cities in Europe
Cross-European advocacy groups
International organizations based in Europe
Politics of the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%27s%20Child | Evolution's Child is a 1999 American sci-fi fantasy drama television film directed by Jeffrey Reiner and aired on USA Network. Its teleplay, written by Walter Klenhard, was based on the 1995 book Toys of Glass by Martin Booth. The film starred Ken Olin, Taylor Nichols, Heidi Swedberg, and Jacob Smith.
Tagline
He never knew his father. Because his father died 3,000 years ago.
Plot
After a preserved Bronze Age man is found in Colorado, a woman is mistakenly inseminated with semen extracted from him for DNA research. Years later the child begins to exhibit strange abilities.
Cast
Ken Olin as James Mydell
Taylor Nichols as Brian Cordell
Heidi Swedberg as Elaine Cordell
Jacob Smith as Adam Cordell
Susan Gibney as Beth Lider
Jerry Wasserman as Agent Edmunds
Christopher Gaze as Dr. Lindenhan
Matthew Nielsen as Baby Adam
Wendy Van Riesen as Molly
Robert Moloney as Craig
Kirsten Alter as Dr. Bantrow
Kevin McNulty as Dr. Collard
Simon Longmore as Bystander
Deryl Hayes as Detective Sheridan
Robert Saunders as Bob
Laura Drummond as Woman
Jenny Mitchell as Teacher
Mark Brandon as TV reporter
D. Neil Mark as Trooper
Santino Barile as Bronze Age man
Sara McIntyre as Nurse
Paul Batten as Dr. Rhodes
Linnea Sharples as Business woman
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1999 television films
1999 films
American science fiction television films
American fantasy television films
American drama television films
USA Network original films
1990s English-language films
Films directed by Jeffrey Reiner
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPFC | HPFC may refer to:
Hourly Price Forward Curve
Hanover Park F.C.
Harwich & Parkeston F.C.
High Performance FC
High Performance Fuzzy Computing
Highlands Park F.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted%3A%20Fight%20for%20Fortune | Uncharted: Fight for Fortune is a 2012 digital collectible card game co-developed by Bend Studio and One Loop Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Vita. A spin-off of the Uncharted series, players engage in turn-based matches using cards themed after characters and elements of the series. The original release featured both a single-player campaign and asynchronous multiplayer, but the latter was closed down in 2019 with the Vita's online functions.
The concept was created by Bend Studio after they finished development on Uncharted: Golden Abyss in early 2012 with the aim of breaking new ground for the series. They chose to collaborate with One Loop Games, previously noted for their mobile titles, and were overseen by franchise creator Naughty Dog. Following release, it was supported by two downloadable content packs featuring cards themed after the second and third Uncharted titles. It saw mixed reviews from journalists, who enjoyed its gameplay but saw a lack of content and game balance.
Gameplay
Uncharted: Fight for Fortune is a turn-based digital collectible card game; the aim for players is to reduce an opponent's health to nothing, using cards based on characters, scenes and objects from the Uncharted series. During combat, one card attacks an opponent, with any card directly opposite absorbing the attack. At the beginning of each round in a match, the player chooses a selection of cards to place in one of five slots. The cards have different attack and defence statistics, and buffs to their abilities. Cards are divided into three factions; Heroes, Villains, or Mercs. Each Faction has an associated points value, drawing from a shared pool of points to play. These cards can be buffed with additional treasure cards, which impact their attack and defence values. Treasure cards can also be banked or held in the hand for a points bonus. In addition to the single-player mode against set antagonists taken from the series, players can engage each other in online asynchronous multiplayer.
Development and release
Fight for Fortune was conceived and proposed in early 2012 by Bend Studio, who had just finished production on the spin-off title Uncharted: Golden Abyss. It was co-produced by Bend Studio and One Loop Games, a company known for supplementary work on console and full production of mobile titles. As with Golden Abyss, the game was supervised by series creator Naughty Dog. The team wanted to give a way for players to better experience the treasures designed by the team for the series as collectables, and also sought to break new ground with the series' gameplay styles.
The game was first leaked in early November 2012 and later officially revealed that same month. The game launched across the PlayStation Network on December 4 in North America, and December 5 in Europe. A patch released for Golden Abyss in November implemented redeemable cards themed after that game for Fight for Fortune. The game was supp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20HP%20Pavilion%20400%20series%20in%20Sweden | This is a list of the Hewlett-Packard 400 series computer models in Sweden. In March–July 2002 Hewlett Packard were producing a new low budget desktop PC series for home users, which came along with the 700 series
The 400 series were launched in December 2002 for public use in the United States and several European countries.
Desktop PCs
Hewlett-Packard 400
All were running v.90 modems
See also
List of HP Pavilion 700 series in Sweden
References
Pavilion 400 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20macro | X macros are an idiomatic usage of programming language macros for generating list-like structures of data or code. They are most useful when at least some of the lists cannot be composed by indexing, such as compile time. They provide reliable maintenance of parallel lists whose corresponding items must be declared or executed in the same order.
Examples of such lists particularly include initialization of arrays, in concert with declarations of enumeration constants and function prototypes; generation of statement sequences and switch arms; etc.
Usage of X macros dates back to the 1960s. It remains useful in modern-day C and C++ programming languages, but remains relatively unknown.
Implementation
An X macro application consists of two parts:
The definition of the list's elements.
Expansion(s) of the list to generate fragments of declarations or statements.
The list is defined by a macro or header file (named, LIST) which generates no code by itself, but merely consists of a sequence of invocations of a macro (classically named "X") with the elements' data. Each expansion of LIST is preceded by a definition of X with the syntax for a list element. The invocation of LIST expands X for each element in the list.
Example 1
This example defines a list of variables, and automatically generates their declarations and a function to print them out.
First the list definition. The list entries could contain multiple arguments, but here only the name of the variable is used.
#define LIST_OF_VARIABLES \
X(value1) \
X(value2) \
X(value3)
Then we execute this list to generate the variable declarations:
#define X(name) int name;
LIST_OF_VARIABLES
#undef X
In a similar way, we can generate a function that prints the variables and their values:
void print_variables(void)
{
#define X(name) printf(#name " = %d\n", name);
LIST_OF_VARIABLES
#undef X
}
When run through the C preprocessor, the following code is generated. Line breaks and indentation have been added for ease of reading, even though they are not actually generated by the preprocessor:
int value1;
int value2;
int value3;
void print_variables(void)
{
printf("value1" " = %d\n", value1);
printf("value2" " = %d\n", value2);
printf("value3" " = %d\n", value3);
}
Example 2 with X macro as argument
This example aims to improve the readability of the X macro usage by:
Prefix the name of the macro that defines the list with "FOR_".
Pass name of the worker macro into the list macro. This both avoids defining an obscurely named macro (X), and alleviates the need to undefine it.
Use the syntax for variadic macro arguments "..." in the worker macros to be able to accept more arguments than needed. This enables the maintainer of the code to add columns to the list without having to update all the macro definitions.
Use the name "DO" as the macro name, the argument to the list macro.
#define FOR_LIST_OF_VARIABLES(DO) \
DO(id1, name1) \
DO(id2, name2) \
DO( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s%20Revenge | "Joe's Revenge" is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 18, 2012. In the episode, when Bobby “The Shirt” Briggs, the criminal who shot Joe years ago, leaving Joe in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, becomes a fugitive, Quagmire, Joe and Peter team up to hunt the bad guy down. The episode received mostly positive reviews for its storyline and cultural references.
Plot
While watching Quahog 5 News at The Drunken Clam, Peter, Joe, and Quagmire hear that notorious heroin mogul Bobby “The Shirt” Briggs – (an apparent reference to the Twin Peaks character of the same name) who began a minor drug-running operation in 1996 – has finally been caught after fifteen years on the run. Admitting to having lied about losing the use of his legs during a fight with The Grinch on the roof of an orphanage, Joe reveals the truth: after being exposed in an undercover infiltration of the heroin operation, Joe was shot by Briggs point-blank in the legs.
A party is held at Joe's house to celebrate his justice, with him finally gaining some closure about Briggs; Joe even points out the previous night was the first night in fifteen years he didn't strangle Bonnie in his sleep. However, Kevin informs him that Tom Tucker is reporting a breaking news story about Bobby Briggs escaping police custody during a prison open house. Joe is horrified by all this and desperately goes to the Police Chief, demanding to be put on the case. He is turned down however, as the Police Chief states that Joe is "too close to the case" and assigns the job to two other police officers that are so far from the case, they don't even care about it at all. Back at The Drunken Clam, Joe expresses his lament. Seeing his friend's anguish, Peter volunteers himself and Quagmire as backup on a mission to catch Briggs. Despite misgivings about police protocol, Joe agrees to the plan and reveals that he has an entire room in his house full of information on Bobby Briggs (this explains why Kevin and Susie both share a room). Their first stop is Atlantic City, where a stripper named Tanya (who is known to have been Briggs' only relationship) works.
Before the trio departs, Quagmire leaves with Lois his newest cat Principessa (a full-blooded Persian cat), along with very exact instructions about caring for it. In Atlantic City, the trio find Briggs' girl at a strip club. When Joe's direct questioning fails, Quagmire cites his ability to communicate with strippers, extracting Bobby Briggs' exact address through a sexual osmosis he calls the "Vulcan V meld". Back in Quahog, Brian grows jealous of the attention Quagmire's cat gets and gives. When Chris states cats are better than dogs, Brian is injured trying to prove that dogs also always land on their feet.
In Atlantic City, the three easily locate Briggs' apartment. Joe is able to confront Briggs who nonetheless escapes after throwing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%20B | Var B may refer to:
B-type variable star
Variable declaration of "b" in computer programming
M33 Var B, see List of most luminous stars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%20C | Var C may refer to:
Variable c, variable speed of light
variable declaration of "c" in computer programming
C variable types and declarations
M33 Var C, see List of most luminous stars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon%20Coolpix%20S800c | The Nikon Coolpix S800c is the first digital compact camera with Android operating system announced Aug 22, 2012.
Features
Core camera features (sensor, lens) are shared with the Coolpix S6300.
Android 2.3 OS
3.5" OLED touchscreen monitor
GPS and Wi-Fi
Email, web browsing, music streaming, social networking, Android apps
CMOS sensor
Lens-based and electronic Vibration Reduction
10x optical zoom
1080p video recording
SD card storage with SDHC and SDXC support
See also
Nikon
Nikon Coolpix series
Samsung Galaxy Camera
References
External links
Nikon Coolpix S800c Nikon
S800c
Android (operating system) devices
Cameras introduced in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il-sung | Il-sung, also spelled Il-seong, is a Korean masculine given name. It was the fifth-most popular name for baby boys in 1940, according to South Korean government data. One common pair of hanja used to write the name () may also be read as a Japanese masculine given name Kazunari.
People with this name include:
Ilseong of Silla (r. 134–154), Silla Dynasty ruler during Korea's Three Kingdoms period
Kim Il Sung (1912–1994), North Korean politician, chairman and subsequently secretary-general of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea
Kazunari Okayama (born Kang Il-sung, 1978), Japanese football forward of Korean descent
See also
List of Korean given names
References
Korean masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Rapaport | Amir Rapaport (; born 11 March 1970) is an Israeli analyst, journalist, entrepreneur, and cyber expert.
Personal life
Amir Rappaport was born in Beersheba, Israel and holds a B.A. in economics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is married and has two children.
Journalism career
From 1987 to 1989, Rapaport was a partner and first editor of the agriculture magazine Mashov Khakla'ut.
From 1991 to 1996, Rapaport wrote for Yediot Aharonoth. He covered the arrival of Yasser Arafat to Gaza. In 1994 he published the book Mystery about the murder of Hanit Kicos.
In 1996 Rapaport became the military correspondent of Yedioth Ahronoth. In 2002 he moved to Ma'ariv as a military analyst, remaining until November 2008. Rapaport covered the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from security belt in south Lebanon, the Second Intifada, disengagement from Gaza, and the Second Lebanon War. He is the author of Fire on Our Forces.
In 2006 Rapaport published the findings of a multi-year investigation, along with criminologist Dr. Ariel Livne. They claimed that the Bedouin Suleiman Alabid, convicted of murdering Hanit Kicos, was innocent. Following the investigation a committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Miriam Ben Porat shortened Alabid's sentence.
In 2009 Rapaport joined the Security Zone radio program. In 2010 he published a study, The IDF and the Lessons of the Second Lebanon War at the Begin-Sadat Center and founded the media group Arrowmedia Israel, Ltd.
In 2021 Rapaport’s fourth book, Cybermania was published (co-written with Prof. Eviatar Matania). Cybermania describes the story of the global cyber revolution and the leading role Israel has in shaping the cyber eco system.
Cybertech Global Events
Rapaport is the founder of Cybertech Global Events, an international business platform for cyber, tech, and innovation.
References
Israeli journalists
Living people
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
1970 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Solomon | Cynthia Solomon is an American computer scientist known for her work in popularizing computer science for students. She is a pioneer in the fields of computer science, and educational computing. While working as a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Solomon took it upon herself to understand and program in the programming language Lisp. As she began learning this language, she realized the need for a programming language that was more accessible and understandable for children. Throughout her research studies in education, Solomon worked full-time as a computer teacher in elementary and secondary schools. Her work has mainly focused on research on human-computer interaction and children as designers. While working at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, she worked with Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert, to create the first programming language for children, named Logo. The language was created to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp. Solomon has attained many accomplishments in her life such as being the vice president of R&D for Logo Computer Systems, Inc., when Apple Logo was developed and was the Director of the Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory. Solomon worked on the program committee of Constructing Modern Knowledge and the Marvin Minsky Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2016. Further, she has published many writings based on research in the field of child education and technology in the classroom. Solomon has conducted workshops in elementary schools, high schools, and colleges regarding academic research and writing. She continues to contribute to the field by speaking at conferences and working with the One Laptop per Child Foundation.
Education
Solomon received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in history at Radcliffe College in the early 1960s. Subsequently, she studied at Boston University where she received her Master of Science (M.S.) in computer science in 1976. She then received her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in education at Harvard University in 1985. Intermittently while completing her schooling, Solomon worked for several years as a researcher with Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert at MIT and later at Bolt, Beranek and Newman.
Accomplishments
After receiving her B.A. at Radcliffe College, Solomon taught at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts for seven years. She also became the Technology Integration Coordinator at Monsignor Haddad Middle School in Needham, Massachusetts. Then, in the 1980s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology hired Solomon to lead the Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory due to her success in developing Logo. Solomon maintained a long relationship working with the MIT Media Lab and the One Laptop per Child Foundation. Solomon is still a leading worker for the foundation and directed the creation of educational materials for it. She continued teaching, consulting, and her scholarship while working with several esteemed research labs and foundations.
Logo, children's programming l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20long%20non-coding%20RNA%20databases | This is a list of long noncoding RNA databases, which provide information about lncRNAs.
Long non-coding RNA databases
References
Genetics databases
RNA
RNA
Non-coding RNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korukkupet%20railway%20station | Korukkupet railway station is one of the railway station of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Korukkupet, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 4 km north of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 7 m above sea level.
History
Korukkupet railway station is the first railway station located north of the diamond junction of the city's railway network. The lines at the station were electrified on 13 April 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section.
Developments
In 2007, a road overbridge project to replace the level crossing No. 1 was sanctioned at a cost of 140 million. Work commenced in 2009, and is expected to be completed by end 2012.
However, the station lacks several basic facilities.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Korukkupet station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIDS%20Online | RAIDS Online is a free public crime map developed by BAIR Analytics. It aims to reduce information requests and improve trust between law enforcement entities and their public with data accuracy and transparency.
The map enables users to view nearby crime activity. Users can choose different data layers to see how demographics and socio-economic factors affect crime. Citizens or neighborhood watch groups can sign up for reports on their areas of activity.
Development
Free RAIDS Online iPhone mobile app
Features
Automated data feed
Works with any RMS/CAD
Integrated tips
User guide
Data management for admins
Email alerts
Basic analytics
Embeddable widget for website
unlimited historic data
Hotspot maps
Free web tips
Proximity search
Data grid view of data
Temporal topology chart
Metadata/data transparency
Accuracy
Ability to upload data on any schedule
See also
Crime mapping
References
Northeast Columbia Patch – Columbia Police to Use Online Crime Mapping Tool, published November 16, 2012.
Sonoma Valley Patch – Sonoma County Sheriff Now Using Online Crime Mapping, published November 13, 2012.
NBC 17 – Special Report: How safe are you?, published November 13, 2012.
ABC 15 – Track crimes in your neighborhood: Website lets you search crimes near you, published November 13, 2012.
azcentral – Phoenix police chief talks crime stats, published August 21, 2012.
nwa – Crime Mapping May Help Residents Stay Safe, published October 11, 2012.
KTVZ – Bend joins Redmond in online crime mapping, published October 1, 2012.
Reporter Herald – Larimer County residents can access new crime mapping system, published October 1, 2012.
pressdemocrat – Sonoma County Sheriff's Office unveils crime mapping tool, published November 20, 2012.
Crime mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuttX | NuttX is a free and open-source Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) with an emphasis on technical standards compliance and on having a small footprint. Scalable from 8-bit to 64-bit microcontroller environments, the main governing standards in NuttX are from the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Further standard application programming interfaces (APIs) from Unix and other common RTOSes (such as VxWorks) are adopted for functions unavailable under these standards, or inappropriate for deeply embedded environments, such as the fork() system call.
NuttX was initially released in 2007 under the permissive BSD license. In December 2019, it began incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. changing its license form BSD to Apache License and graduated to a top-level project in November 2022.
Usage
NuttX RTOS is used in a variety of applications, including the Sony CXD5602/Spresense microcontroller as well as an audio recorder from Sony.
The firmware for some of Motorola's MotoMod accessories for the Moto Z used NuttX RTOS, and NuttX is also used in the PX4 autopilot drones, which use NuttX to control a variety of autonomous platforms.
References
External links
Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems
Free software operating systems
ARM operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Microkernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell%202261 | Abell 2261 is one of 25 galaxy clusters being studied as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) program, a major project to build a library of scientific data on lensing clusters.
It also has the galaxy A2261-BCG (short for Abell 2261 Brightest Cluster Galaxy) which has the one of the largest galaxy cores ever observed.
In January 2021, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope were reported to be unable to locate a supermassive black hole presumed to be at the center of the galaxy. A newer and larger space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in December 2021, may help determine the object's whereabouts, according to the astronomers.
References
Galaxy clusters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click%20Frenzy | Click Frenzy is an Australian e-commerce website and online sales initiative inspired by and based on a similar format to the United States shopping event Cyber Monday. Click Frenzy was founded by parent company Global Marketplace in 2012, and as of 2021 consists of a number of sales held throughout the year.
The inaugural Click Frenzy event was launched on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 with heavy media and online promotion in the lead up, with organisers arranging sales partnerships with many of Australia's leading retailers, and had given multiple assurances prior to the event that they would be able to support the anticipated heavy traffic of the event. However the event's website crashed within moments of launching at 7pm AEST and was unavailable for most of the night, leading to a backlash from frustrated customers.
Despite the inauspicious start, Click Frenzy events continue to be held in the years following, with the event estimating $189 million in sales and the site receiving 1 million visitors in 2014, and 2.4 million visitors in 2017. The traffic to click frenzy’s site doubled in 2020 year-on-year with 1.9 million visits in May 2020 event, which was a 103% increase compared to both the Nov 2019 and May 2019 events. After delivering a record growth in 2020, it's anticipated to break records in 2021. Global Marketplace, owner of Click Frenzy said it's planning for an IPO in 2022.
Overview
Click Frenzy generally consists of two major general sales in May and November, branded as Click Frenzy Mayhem and The Main Event (formerly Click Frenzy Go Wild) respectively. Throughout the year minor sales focused on specific categories such as travel or sports are also held on various dates. A sale is also held in the lead up to Valentine's Day.
Consumers are encouraged to visit the Click Frenzy website which centralises deals from Click Frenzy's partners in a single location, though the deals are also available from the partners' own websites.
History
Click Frenzy 2012
The inaugural Click Frenzy event was heavily promoted in Australian media including the major television networks and online newspapers. Numerous Australian and international retailers and brands were involved, including Myer, Bing Lee, Microsoft, Toys R Us, Dell, Target and Priceline. Organisers boasted of their preparedness to deal with the expected popularity. "We're expecting up to 1 million site visits [to clickfrenzy.com.au] and we're prepared for this," the spokesperson said. However the site failed almost immediately after the sale period starting. There was a rapid backlash from the Australian public, with trending of the "#clickfail" hashtag on Twitter and creation of various memes mocking the event. Click Frenzy co-founder Grant Arnott appeared on Channel 9's Today Show the next morning expressing disappointment at the website's initial failure.
At the time commentators suggested this incident could further damage the struggling Australian retail sector, and also hurt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%20Xplus | The Mini Xplus is a small computer that runs Android 4.0 and is based on the AllWinner A10 SoC. It is sold together with a remote control and is therefore suitable for use as an HTPC.
References
External links
Computer-related introductions in 2011
Linux-based devices
Computers and the environment
Nettop
Embedded Linux
Single-board computers
Educational hardware
Home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Wormald | Nicholas Charles Wormald (born 1953) is an Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at Monash University. He specializes in probabilistic combinatorics, graph theory, graph algorithms, Steiner trees, web graphs, mine optimization, and other areas in combinatorics.
In 1979, Wormald earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Newcastle with a dissertation titled Some problems in the enumeration of labelled graphs.
In 2006, he won the Euler Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. He has held the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. In 2012, he was recognized with an Australian Laureate Fellowship for his achievements. In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
In 2018, Wormald was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.
Selected publications
References
1953 births
Living people
Australian mathematicians
University of Newcastle (Australia) alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Graph theorists
Canada Research Chairs
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft%20Communications%20Data%20Bill | The Draft Communications Data Bill (nicknamed the Snoopers' Charter or Snooper's Charter) was draft legislation proposed by then Home Secretary Theresa May in the United Kingdom which would require Internet service providers and mobile phone companies to maintain records of each user's internet browsing activity (including social media), email correspondence, voice calls, internet gaming, and mobile phone messaging services and store the records for 12 months. Retention of email and telephone contact data for this time is already required by the Data Retention Regulations 2014. The anticipated cost was £1.8 billion.
May originally expected the bill to be introduced in the 2012–13 legislative session, carried over to the following session, and enacted as law in 2014. However, the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg withdrew his support for this bill in April 2013, saying "a law which means there would be a record kept of every website you visit, who you communicate with on social media sites ... it is certainly not going to happen with Liberal Democrats in government", and his Liberal Democrat party blocked it from being reintroduced during the 2010-2015 Parliament. Shortly after the Conservative victory in May 2015, May vowed to introduce the Communications Data Bill in the next parliament. In November 2015, May announced a new Investigatory Powers Bill similar to the Draft Communications Data Bill, although with more limited powers and additional oversight.
History
Intercept Modernisation
The powers and intent of the Bill were preceded by plans under the last Labour administration to improve access to communications traffic data, under the Interception Modernisation Programme. The plans did not become a firm legislative proposal and were strongly opposed by both Conservative and Liberal Democrat opposition parties.
The new coalition agreement in 2010 committed to ending the storing of email and Internet records "without good reason". The IMP was not entirely abandoned however, and the Home Office under the new coalition committed to examining the problem of access to communications data under the Communications Capabilities Development Programme.
Queen's Speech
The government announced its intention to legislate in order to "maintain capability" of law enforcement access to communications traffic data in 2012.
Joint Committee
As the result of public reaction to the proposed Bill and internal Liberal Democrat opposition to the Bill, Nick Clegg asked for the Bill to be referred to a Joint Committee to scrutinise the proposal. The Committee reported in December 2012.
Counter Terrorism Bill 2015
In 2015 a cross-party group of lords — Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, former Conservative Defence Secretary; Ian Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and crossbench peer; Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, former Independent Reviewer of counter-terrorism legislation and Lib Dem peer; and Alan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%E2%80%93value%20database | A key–value database, or key–value store, is a data storage paradigm designed for storing, retrieving, and managing associative arrays, and a data structure more commonly known today as a dictionary or hash table. Dictionaries contain a collection of objects, or records, which in turn have many different fields within them, each containing data. These records are stored and retrieved using a key that uniquely identifies the record, and is used to find the data within the database.
Key–value databases work in a very different fashion from the better known relational databases (RDB). RDBs predefine the data structure in the database as a series of tables containing fields with well defined data types. Exposing the data types to the database program allows it to apply a number of optimizations. In contrast, key–value systems treat the data as a single opaque collection, which may have different fields for every record. This offers considerable flexibility and more closely follows modern concepts like object-oriented programming. Because optional values are not represented by placeholders or input parameters, as in most RDBs, key–value databases often use far less memory to store the same data, which can lead to large performance gains in certain workloads.
Performance, a lack of standardization and other issues limited key–value systems to niche uses for many years, but the rapid move to cloud computing after 2010 has led to a renaissance as part of the broader NoSQL movement. Some graph databases, such as ArangoDB, are also key–value databases internally, adding the concept of the relationships (pointers) between records as a first class data type.
Types and examples
Key–value databases can use consistency models ranging from eventual consistency to serializability. Some support ordering of keys.
Some maintain data in memory (RAM), while others employ solid-state drives or rotating disks.
Every entity (record) is a set of key–value pairs. A key has multiple components, specified as an ordered list. The major key identifies the record and consists of the leading components of the key. The subsequent components are called minor keys. This organization is similar to a directory path specification in a file system (e.g., /Major/minor1/minor2/). The “value” part of the key–value pair is simply an uninterpreted string of bytes of arbitrary length.
The Unix system provides dbm (database manager), which is a 1979 library originally written by Ken Thompson. It is also ported to Microsoft Windows, provided through programming languages such as Perl for Win32. The dbm manages associative arrays of arbitrary data by use of a single key (a primary key). Modern implementations include sdbm, GNU dbm, and Berkeley DB. Although dbm precedes the concept of a NoSQL and is rarely mentioned in modern discourse, it is used by many pieces of software.
A more recent example of a key-value database is RocksDB which is used as storage engine for other database manag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvigle | Tvigle is a website, video syndication network and over-the-top (OTT) delivery service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming of TV shows, webisodes and other videos from BBC Worldwide, Fox, ABC, Nickelodeon, Channel One and other smaller networks. Tvigle videos are offered only to users in Russia and Ukraine, in Flash Video and HTML5 format, as well as 288p, 360p, 480p, and 720p HD. Via proprietary SaaS service VideoPublisher Tvigle also provides services for clients, among which are popular Russian media television channels, such as Forbes, Dailymotion, MTV Russia and Muz-TV.
Tvigle is a privately owned company, started by Egor Yakovlev in 2007 but is 25% owned by Allianz ROSNO since 2009, later followed by investment from Media3 in 2011.
History
Tvigle Media LLc was established in 2007 as an internet video platform, offering content to a Russian audience.
The Tvigle Video Publisher was established in 2008, offering web syndication and SaaS services for other websites and media clients. Video Publisher customers can access Tvigle licensed content, and have the ability to upload and use their own video content.
In 2009, in addition to BBC Worldwide, ABC and Fox programs and movies, Tvigle began producing short videos. One of their more popular titles was Versus, an animated series by Red Medusa Productions, that was initially created to advertise the XPYC Team brand of flour-based chips). In September 2012, Tvigle launched a new season of the cartoon that was separate from the commercials, with 20 new episodes.
Features
Tvigle is accessible on a range of platforms, which include:
Smart televisions
Dune, BBK, set-top boxes and games consoles
Smartphones and tablets
In 2009, a subscription-free version of the service was launched in the iTunes App Store, for devices running iOS version 4 or higher.
Programming
Tvigle includes programming from multiple networks, including:
Networks and channels
Fox
The Walt Disney Company: ABC, ABC Family
Nickelodeon
Channel One
CTC Media
MTV Russia
Tvigle Exclusive (catch-up broadcasting)
In 2011, Tvigle Media signed deals with BBC Worldwide and Fox International to offer catch-up broadcasting of the new seasons of popular shows, dubbed in Russian, after the premiere of each episode in the United States and United Kingdom. It was previously unprecedented for the Russian VOD market, that a foreign TV programme would appear on a web-source before a TV presentation.
Some Tvigle shows include:
Misfits (BBC)
The Walking Dead (FOX)
Luther (BBC)
Short course of happy life (Channel One)
References
Video on demand services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Crisis%20Early%20Warning%20System | The Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS) combines a database of political events and a system using these to provide conflict early warnings. It is supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States. The database as well as the model used by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories are currently undergoing operational test and evaluation by the United States Southern Command and United States Pacific Command.
History
ICEWS was a DARPA program conceived and led by Dr. Sean P. O'Brien that launched in 2008. In March 2010, O'Brien authored an article that compared ICEWS with past efforts in the realm, including systems designed by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. According to the paper, the first of three phases of the ICEWS involved a competition between different groups to successfully predict events of interest based on historical data. The winning team, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, combined six different conflict modeling systems, including agent-based models such as Barry Silverman's Factionalism and Ian Lustick's Political Science-Identity (PSI) computational modeling platforms, logistic regression models such as those developed by Philip A. Schrodt and the Bayesian statistics model used by Steve Shellman, and geo-spatial network models built by Michael D. Ward.
The ICEWS data and model are currently maintained by Lockheed Martin and undergoing operational test and evaluation by the United States Southern Command and United States Pacific Command.
Reception
Academic reception
ICEWS has been discussed in papers on conflict prediction as well as papers on the coding of political events. There has also been some research comparing ICEWS with the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone.
Reception in blogs
ICEWS has been discussed extensively in blogs related to geopolitical forecasting as well as crisis prediction. Among the topics discussed have been the utility of access to ICEWS data in improving the quality of predictions made in The Good Judgment Project and its similarities and differences with the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT).
References
External links
(maintained by Lockheed Martin)
International relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20As... | Smart As... is a puzzle game for the PlayStation Vita. It was developed by Climax Studios and published by the XDev Studio Europe department of Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released in North America on October 30, 2012, and Europe and Australia on October 31, 2012.
Gameplay
Smart As... is designed, like most other brain training games, to be played once a day in order to achieve a Brain Power Score. The user is challenged to a brain game from each of the game's four areas: Arithmetic, Logic, Observation and Language. After playing each brain game the user's cumulative average score from each category is presented as their Brain Power Score for the day. This score is then shared with the Smart As World which allows the user to see where their score stands against everyone else in the world. After each day's Daily Training the user will unlock one of brain games in the Free play area allowing them to play and practice at any time.
In addition to the Daily Training Mode and the Free play area the game also contains an extensive charts and stats section allowing the user to see their score from every day played as well as recording the answers to all questions answered and other in game statistics and finally the Smart As World section which contains all of the game's player and geographic leaderboards, access to "near challenges" and a GPS based Street Smart game mode.
Brain Games
Smart As... contains 5 games in each of the four "brain areas", making for a total of 20 games. The games are based on using different inputs on the PlayStation Vita including front and rear touch functionality, gyroscopic sensors, and AR Card recognition. The "Street Smart" mode uses the Vita's GPS location-based features.
Each game is unlocked for Free Play after performing a Daily Training session. On the first day 4 games are unlocked immediately, with the remaining 16 being unlocked one by one as the user plays the game on the following days. Within the Free Play area, all games have 4 difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard and Genius with the difficulty increasing at each stage.
Most games are scored on the amount of time it takes a user to complete 3-5 rounds of the puzzle. Some games have time penalties for incorrect answers or results. The general principle is that practice will bring familiarity with each game, allowing the user to complete it quickly and accurately for a better brain power score.
Arithmetic Games
Calculations + This game challenges the player to enter the missing digit from a sum by writing it onto a whiteboard displayed on front screen.
Less Equals More Two digits are shown on screen and the user must decide if the one of the left is less than (<), equal to(=) or more than (>) the number on the right. The user inputs there answer using the front touch screen.
Sum Sequence The user must follow the progression of a sum shown one digit at a time on screen. At the end of each round the user must write the answer to the sum on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambalam%20railway%20station | Mambalam Railway Station is one of the railway stations in Chennai, India, on the Chennai Beach–Chengelpet section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It is situated in the neighbourhoods of West Mambalam and T. Nagar, about from Chennai Beach, and has an elevation of above sea level.
With a patronage of 200,000 passengers a day, Mambalam railway station is one of the busiest stations in the city.
The Mambalam railway line divides the Mambalam area into West Mambalam and East Mambalam, the latter now being renamed as Tyagaraya Nagar.
History
Mambalam railway station was constructed when the suburban railway service connecting Madras Egmore with Kanchipuram was opened in 1911. The suburban service between Madras Beach and Tambaram was inaugurated on 11 May 1931 and in this regard, two railway tracks were electrified by 15 November 1931. The section was converted to 25 kV AC traction on 15 January 1967.
Facilities
About nineteen express and passenger trains pass through the station.
Mambalam railway station is one of the busiest stations in the city and handles over 200,000 passenger daily, with more than 1,000 passengers an hour. The parking lot at the station has a capacity to accommodate around 500 to 600 two-wheelers and around 200 bicycles.
The station has a footbridge descending into Ranganathan Street at the southern end of the station. However, following a demand, a second footbridge was built in 2014 at the northern end.
The passenger reservation system (PRS) centre at the station caters to residents of the neighbourhoods including T. Nagar, West Mambalam, Kodambakkam, and Vadapalani. It is a major railway ticket-booking centre after Moore Market Complex and Tambaram. It has ten counters for booking tickets and another counter for enquiries, and sells around 2,500 tickets daily.
Security
The station is covered by the 400-million Integrated Security Surveillance System (ISSS) project implemented in 2012. The project, implemented jointly by the Southern Railways and HCL Infosystems, includes installation of CCTV cameras that would record visuals around the clock and store the data for 30 days, with the footage transmitted and stored using an Internet Protocol system.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Mambalam railway station on Indiarailinfo.org
Railway stations in India opened in 1911
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addgene | Addgene is a non-profit plasmid repository. Addgene facilitates the exchange of genetic material between laboratories by offering plasmids and their associated cloning data to non-profit and academic laboratories around the world. Addgene provides a free online database of plasmid cloning information and references, including lists of commonly used vector backbones, popular lentiviral plasmids, and molecular cloning protocols.
History
Addgene was founded in 2004 by Melina Fan, Kenneth Fan, and Benjie Chen.
Operations
Addgene's headquarters are located in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Addgene accepts plasmids from researchers for distribution and archival.
The organization covers the operating costs of maintaining and improving the collection by charging a nominal fee to scientists requesting plasmids.
Plasmid repository
As of 2014 Addgene's repository comprised 30,000 plasmids, deposited by 1,700 labs. Its plasmid collection contains plasmids used for functions such as genome engineering (including CRISPRS), gene expression, shRNA knockdown, viral-mediated gene delivery, detection of miRNA and promoter activity. The plasmid collection includes:
Genome engineering
CRISPRs
Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nuclease (TALEN) kits
Zinc finger nuclease kits
Empty backbones
Species-specific expression
Epitope tags
Fusion proteins
Selectable markers
Fluorescent marker
Viral vectors
Retroviral/Lentiviral
Adenoviral
AAV
cDNA expression
shRNA expression
Tools and guides
Molecular biology tools
Vector Database—A curated list of over 4,000 vector backbones, including relevant cloning information and bacterial growth conditions.
Sequence Analyzer—An Addgene software tool for creating plasmid maps from sequences with annotated features and restriction sites.
Molecular Biology Reference—A collection of references for molecular biology reagents, such as primers, restriction enzymes and antibiotic concentrations.
Plasmid Cloning Guides
Molecular Cloning Guides—References to help scientists design plasmid cloning experiments, including tutorials on restriction enzyme digestion and PCR-based cloning.
Molecular Cloning Protocols—Specific protocols for a variety of plasmid cloning techniques, such as isolation of bacterial colonies, DNA purification by gel electrophoresis and bacterial transformation.
Collaborations
Addgene collaborates with institutes and consortia to curate plasmid collections for specific purposes. Examples of these collaborations include special collections from the Structural Genomics Consortium, Zinc Finger Consortium, the Cell Migration Consortium, the KLF collection and The Michael J. Fox Foundation. The plasmids are available to both academic and industry labs.
In 2020, Addgene received funding from Fast Grants to subsidize the cost of reagents for COVID-19 research.
Depositors
Noteworthy depositors include:
12 Nobel Prize winners; John Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka, Bruce Beutler, Mario Capecchi, Andrew Fire, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus%20Kuhn | Markus Kuhn may refer to:
Markus Kuhn (computer scientist) (born 1971), German computer scientist
Markus Kuhn (American football) (born 1986), German American football defensive tackle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOWSA | The NOWSA (Network Of Women Students Australia) is an Australian feminist student organisation founded on ideals of creating a grassroots, autonomous network concerned with issues that impact women and women students.
Established in 1987, NOWSA provides a platform for women's organising across universities and in the wider community through resource, skill and knowledge sharing both in conference and through web branches of the network. The network continues to shift, grow and change, but constantly places feminist agenda at the forefront. Women of all ages, sexualities, abilities, and experiences have the opportunity to be involved.
The annual NOWSA conference is organised by a collective of women students and hosted by a different university in Australia each year.
The NOWSA conference usually runs for 5 days, giving voice to women students and allowing them to engage with personal, political, social, and cultural issues that are relevant to women. NOWSA is now an annual conference, held from year to year at different universities, and encourages networks to be developed with women from across Australia.
List of conferences
References
External links
Official website
NOWSA 2012 conference website
National Union of Students NOWSA post 2010
Women of Colour blog speech from NOWSA 2010
NOWSA 2008 Myspace Page
International Women's Day broadsheet 1998
Student organisations in Australia
Feminist organisations in Australia
Recurring events established in 1987
1987 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink%20Master | Ink Master is an American reality competition television series that originally aired on Paramount Network (formerly called Spike), now airing on the Paramount+ Streaming service and 24/7 on the Pluto app which has a channel dedicated entirely to the show. The first season originally premiered on January 17, 2012. The show is hosted by Dave Navarro who joins Chris Nunez and Oliver Peck to make up a panel of judges that decides which contestants get to continue in the competition and which go home, ultimately deciding the winner at the end. Each season features tattoo artists who compete in various challenges assessing their tattooing and related artistic skills. They are judged by renowned tattoo artists and enthusiasts, with one or more contestants eliminated each episode. The last contestant standing each season receives a $100,000 prize, the title of Ink Master, and a feature in Inked Magazine. The series is produced by Original Media, which also produced the reality show Miami Ink.
Four spin-off shows, titled Ink Shrinks, Ink Master: Redemption, Ink Master: Angels and Ink Master: Grudge Match, have also been released. The series has also released a number of special standalone episodes themed around upcoming events or holidays, such as Halloween.
The tenth season (titled as Ink Master: Return of the Masters) premiered on January 9, 2018, and aired its first two episodes on Spike before the network rebranded as the Paramount Network. On April 24, 2018, it was announced that Paramount Network had renewed the series for an eleventh season. The twelfth season, titled Ink Master: Battle of the Sexes, premiered on June 11, 2019. On November 12, 2019, it was announced that the thirteenth season titled Ink Master: Turf War would premiere on January 7, 2020.
On September 22, 2020, Paramount Network cancelled the series, as part of the network's then-planned shift to movies. On December 1, 2020, the first two seasons were made available to stream on Netflix in the United States. They were later removed on December 1, 2021, and replaced with seasons three and four. On February 24, 2021, it was announced that the series would be revived by Paramount+. On August 5, 2022, it was announced that the revival would premiere on September 7, 2022. A fifteenth season is slated to premiere on November 1, 2023 with three time champion DJ Tambe joining as a judge.
Show format
Basic format
All episodes aside from the finales have the following format, with some minor variations to the application of the format:
First, a Flash Challenge will be evaluated based on how well an artist met the week's skill. Some Flash Challenges involve tattooing, but typically, flash challenges do not incorporate the act of tattooing; but instead will require a non-related artistic skill (i.e., painting, haircutting, etching, burning, etc.) The winner of the flash challenge wins the right to select their human canvas in the elimination challenge and, as of season two, pair up the o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook-ja | Sook-ja, also spelled Suk-ja, is a Korean female given name. According to South Korean government data, it was the fifth-most popular name for newborn girls in 1940. The characters used to write this name can also be read as a number of different Japanese female given names, including Yoshiko and Toshiko.
There are 13 hanja with the reading "sook" and 28 hanja with the reading "ja" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. Typically, "ja" is written with the hanja meaning "child" (). It is one of a number of Japanese-style names ending in "ja", like Young-ja and Jeong-ja, that were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule, but declined in popularity afterwards. By 1950 there were no names ending in "ja" in the top ten.
People with this name include:
Kim Sook-ja (1926–1991), South Korean pansori musician
Hong Sook-ja (born 1933), South Korean diplomat and writer
Oh Sook-ja (born 1941), South Korean composer
Shin Suk-ja (born 1942), South Korean prisoner of conscience in North Korea
Yoon Sook-ja (born 1948), South Korean cooking researcher and professor
Lee Sook-ja (born 1980), South Korean volleyball player
Sue Kim Bonifazio, birth name Kim Sook-ja, South Korean-born American singer
Park Suk-ja (born 1970), South Korean athlete
See also
List of Korean given names
References
Korean feminine given names
Feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20module%20definition | Asynchronous module definition (AMD) is a specification for the programming language JavaScript. It defines an application programming interface (API) that defines code modules and their dependencies, and loads them asynchronously if desired. Implementations of AMD provide the following benefits:
Website performance improvements. AMD implementations load smaller JavaScript files, and then only when they are needed.
Fewer page errors. AMD implementations allow developers to define dependencies that must load before a module is executed, so the module does not try to use outside code that is not available yet.
In addition to loading multiple JavaScript files at runtime, AMD implementations allow developers to encapsulate code in smaller, more logically-organized files, in a way similar to other programming languages such as Java. For production and deployment, developers can concatenate and minify JavaScript modules based on an AMD API into one file, the same as traditional JavaScript.
AMD provides some CommonJS interoperability. It allows for using a similar and interface in the code, although its own interface is more basal and preferred.
The AMD specification is implemented by Dojo Toolkit, RequireJS, and other libraries.
References
External links
Why AMD? (Require.js)
Dojo Introduction to AMD
Writing Modular JavaScript With AMD, CommonJS & ES Harmony
JavaScript
Application programming interfaces
Web development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20African%20Spatial%20Data%20Infrastructure | The South African Spatial Data Infrastructure (SASDI) is an initiative of the South African government that makes policies and technical standards on the use of geographical data such as maps, aerial and satellite photographs, and surveys. It also seeks to facilitate the capture, management, maintenance, integration, distribution and use of spatial information in South Africa. SASDI is under development by the Committee for Spatial Information (CSI).
Parliament passed the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, which established the CSI, in December 2003, and the President assented to the act in February 2004.
Significance
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. SASDI promotes efficiency by using state resources by sharing information among different spheres of government.
The act's passage was an acknowledgement of the strategic value of spatial information for South Africa. It is important that all SASDI stakeholders, including users, gain an understanding and appreciation of the value of spatial information for planning, management and decision-making.
The CSI consists of a principal committee and six subcommittees (data, systems, standards, policy and legislation, education and training, and marketing and communication).
References
External links
South African Spatial Data Infrastructure
The SDI Act - GISSA
Spatial Data Infrastructure Act of 2003
Geographic information systems
Earth sciences data formats
Government of South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Ellis | Carla Schlatter Ellis is an American computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Duke University. She is known for her work in energy management on mobile devices as well as for her dedication to increasing the number of women in the field of computer science. She is one of the founding members of Systers, an international email list of female computer scientists that was founded in 1987. Systers, which was initiated by Ellis and 12 other female computer scientists who met at a Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), has since grown to over 3000 members.
Biography
Ellis received the B.S. degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo OH, in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1977 and 1979. She was a member of the Computer Science faculties at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 1978 to 1980, and at the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, from 1980 to 1986. In 1986 she moved to Duke University as an Associate Professor, then Professor, and currently Emeritus Professor.
Awards and honors
In 2010, the Association for Computing Machinery named her an ACM Fellow "for contributions to techniques for energy management in mobile devices, and for service to the computing community".
When she was the Co-Chair CRA’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), CRA-W won a 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) and the 2005 National Science Board Public Service Award.
References
External links
Senior Technical Woman Profile: Carla Ellis, Professor Emerita of Computer Science, Duke University
Duke University: Carla Schlatter Ellis, Department of Computer Science
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Washington alumni
University of Rochester faculty
Duke University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Engineers from Ohio
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahaljana | Mahaljana is a village in west Uttar Pradesh situated 7 kilometers east of Budhana. It comes under Budhana Tehsil of Muzaffarnagar district.
Kutubpur Datana, Kurthal and Kavli are the nearby villages. Most of the population in the village is of Muslim ethnicity, with a few Hindu families.
Hindon river flows near the village in north.
References
Villages in Muzaffarnagar district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Pierce | Margaret or Maggie Pierce may refer to:
Margaret Pierce, musician in The Pierces
Margaret Pierce, see List of Brigham Young's wives
Margaret Anne Pierce, see Computer ethics
Maggie Pierce, fictional character in Grey's anatomy
Maggie Pierce (actress), in My Mother the Car and The Fastest Guitar Alive
See also
Margaret Pearce, English author on science
Margaret Pearse (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoaXPress | CoaXPress (CXP) is a digital interface standard developed for high speed image data transmission in machine vision applications.
The name is a portmanteau of 'express' (as in express train) and 'coaxial' to emphasize CoaXPress is faster than other standards (e.g. Camera Link, or GigE Vision) and uses 75 ohm coaxial cables as the physical transmission medium.
CoaXPress is mostly used in digital imaging applications but it is also suitable for high-speed transmission of universal digital data.
A 'device' that generates and transmits data (e.g. an industrial digital camera) is connected with one or more coaxial cables to a 'host' that receives the data (e.g. a frame grabber board in a computer). The CoaXPress standard 1.0 and 1.1 supports bit rates up to 6.25 Gbit/s per coaxial cable and the new 2.0 standard supports bit rates up to 12.5 Gbit/s per coaxial cable from the 'device' to the 'host'. The number of cables is not limited by the standard. Some recent CoaXPress cameras and frame grabbers use 8 coaxial cables providing a maximum image data rate of about 4.8 GB/s. The older Camera Link standard can only carry up to 850 MB/s.
A low speed uplink, operating at up to 41.6 Mbit/s is available to control the 'device' or for triggering.
A CoaXPress 'host' can supply 24 V over the coaxial cable up to 13 W per cable.
The CoaXPress standard requires that both the 'device' and the 'host' support GenICam, a standardized generic programming interface.
Other than Camera Link that is built upon pure LVDS with no transport layer, CoaXPress transmits data in packets (cf. network packet) using 8b/10b encoding and provides CRC.
CoaXPress competes with the Camera Link HS standard by the Automated Imaging Association.
History
CoaXPress has been developed by 6 companies, of whom Adimec, EqcoLogic (today: Microchip) and Active Silicon were among the biggest drivers, in 2008. The goal was after the failure of Visilink to develop a successor for the Camera link standard for high-speed and data-rich vision related communication. The standard was first demonstrated in November 2008 at the "Vision" trade show. After a good reception the standard writing consortium of industrial companies consisting of Adimec, Eqcologic, Active Silicon, AVAL DATA, NED and Components Express was formed early 2009. During the next Vision in 2009 the consortium was awarded the VisionAward for their efforts to further the cause of (machine) vision applications. By this time the Japan Industrial Imaging Association has adopted CoaXPress to mature it to an official standard after which the first draft version 1.0 was presented in December 2010.
Cabling and connectors
The transmission medium for CoaXPress is coaxial cable with a characteristic impedance of 75 Ω. The maximum transmission distance is depending on the bit rate and the quality of the cable. RG11, RG6, RG59 and other cable types can be used. It is also possible to reuse existing coaxial cable when upgrading from an analogue to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winwebsec | Winwebsec is a category of malware that targets the users of Windows operating systems and produces fake claims as genuine anti-malware software, then demands payment to provide fixes to fictitious problems.
Winwebsec
These are programs that generate misleading alerts and false detections in order to convince users to purchase illegitimate security software. Some of these programs, including Win32/Winwebsec, may display product names or logos of some well-known companies like Microsoft in an attempt to impersonate some genuine products of legitimate companies.
The software shows popup that claim to scan for malware, and displays fake warnings similar to:
They then show a message to the user that they need to pay money to activate the software in order to remove these threats which actually don’t exist. This malware may display a dialog that looks similar to Windows Security Center or it may have names like Live Security Platinum
or Security Shield. The GUI varies from variant to variant.
Microsoft security software detects and removes this family of threats.
Variants
Smart Protection 2012
Smart Protection 2013
Smart Protection 2014
Security Sphere 2012
Security Sphere 2013
Security Sphere 2014
System Security
Winweb Security (where the family gets its name from)
Smart Security
Total Security
Security Tool
Security Shield
Security Scanner
System Tool
MS Removal Tool
Essential Cleaner
Win 7 Security System
Win 8 Security System
Win XP Security System
System Progressive Protection
Disk Antivirus Professional
System Care Antivirus
Live Security Platinum
Personal Shield Pro
AVASoft Antivirus Professional
AVASoft Professional Antivirus
Smart Fortress 2012
Smart Fortress 2013
Smart Fortress 2014
System Doctor 2012
System Doctor 2013
System Doctor 2014
Reimage Repair
Adware/AntiSpywarePro2009
Adware/UltimateCleaner
Adware/Xpantivirus2008
AntiSpyware Pro 2009
AntiVirus2008
FakeAlert-AntiSpywarePro
FakeAlert-WinwebSecurity.gen
See also
Rogue security software
Social engineering (security)
List of rogue security software
Scareware
References
Computer security articles needing attention
Windows malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lektz | Lektz is an eBook business platform developed by AEL Data, operating in the UK and India. The platform has DRM, ebook reader applications, virtual book store, ebook conversion, elending, consumer analytics, and digital marketing solutions for small, medium-sized publishers and independent authors. M.S. Mohammed Sadiq, Sr. Vice President of AEL Data, is the chief architect of the Lektz platform and it draws support from AEL Data's ePublishing, digitization, accessibility solutions, and application development services.
The Lektz platform was presented as an ebook ecosystem at the London Book Fair 2013, by Sadiq and Lindsay MacLeod, Executive Director at AEL Data.
Lektz eBook Reader is a reader application for Android, iOS devices, and PC reader (web-based/Google Chrome Extension).It supports PDF, EPUB2 and EPUB3 ebook formats. It was launched by AEL Data Services in May 2012. The Lektz reader provides full support to Non-DRM ebooks while the DRM support is limited to ebooks that are secured using the Lektz Proprietary DRM. The Lektz eBook Reader supports both Fixed Layout and Freeflow EPUB across varied platforms.
Use
The Lektz SaaS based solution is where publishers sign up and create their own branded ebook stores, upload PDF and EPUB ebooks to it, encrypt them using Lektz DRM, configure their own payment gateway and start selling their ebooks on the Lektz platform. The on-premises solution is where the ebookstore, elending, DRM and payment gateway solutions are integrated into a publisher website.
DRM
Lektz DRM is a proprietary eBook DRM technology of AEL Data. Lektz DRM secures eBooks from being copied and transmitted without appropriate rights and permissions. When publishers upload their eBooks in the Lektz platform, they can choose to enable DRM security for their eBooks which is decrypted when synced with the Lektz reader.
There are three levels of protection:
eBook encryption
eBook accessing device control
User account credentials verification
The Lektz DRM mechanism is designed as a closed system and is implemented by protecting the eBooks with the system software, which also acts as an eBook reader (Lektz reader). To secure the eBooks, all the eBooks that are sold via the publisher's website are embedded with a security mechanism, and will only be permitted to open using Lektz e-reader software. Lektz DRM can be integrated with publishers existing websites or portals to secure their eBooks from piracy and to provide a secured platform to sell and distribute their books online.
Ebook reader
Lektz eBook Reader is a reader application for Android, iOS and PC (stand-alone and Google Chrome Extension). It supports PDF, EPUB2 and EPUB3 ebook formats. It was launched by AEL Data Services in May 2012. The Lektz reader provides full support to Non-DRM ebooks while the DRM support is limited to ebooks that are secured using the Lektz Proprietary DRM. The Lektz eBook Reader supports freeflow EPUB across varied platforms.
An exclusive va |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Guix | GNU Guix () is a functional cross-platform package manager and a tool to instantiate and manage Unix-like operating systems, based on the Nix package manager. Configuration and package recipes are written in Guile Scheme. GNU Guix is the default package manager of the GNU Guix System distribution.
Differing from traditional package managers, Guix (like Nix) utilizes a purely functional deployment model where software is installed into unique directories generated through cryptographic hashes. All dependencies for each software are included within each hash. This solves the problem of dependency hell, allows multiple versions of the same software to coexist and makes packages portable and reproducible. Performing scientific computations in a Guix setup has been proposed as a promising response to the replication crisis.
The development of GNU Guix is intertwined with the GNU Guix System, an installable operating system distribution using the Linux-libre kernel and GNU Shepherd init system.
General features
Guix packages are defined through functional Guile Scheme APIs specifically designed for package management. Dependencies are tracked directly in this language through special values called "derivations" which are evaluated by the Guix daemon lazily. Guix keeps track of these references automatically so that installed packages can be garbage collected when no other package depends on them. At the cost of greater storage requirements, all upgrades in Guix are guaranteed to be both atomic and can be rolled back. The roll-back feature of Guix is inherited from the design of Nix and is not found in any of the native package managers of popular Linux distributions such as Debian and its derivatives, Arch Linux and its derivatives, or in other major distributions such as Fedora, CentOS or openSUSE. The Guix package manager can however be used in such distributions and is available for Debian and Parabola. This also enables multiple users to safely install software on the same system without administrator privileges.
Compared to traditional package managers, Guix package stores can grow considerably bigger and therefore require more bandwidth; although compared to container solutions (like Docker) that are also commonly employed to solve dependency hell, Guix is leaner and conforms to practices like Don't repeat yourself and Single source of truth. If the user chooses to build everything from source even larger storage space and bandwidth is required.
The store
Inherited from the design of Nix, most of the content of the package manager is kept in a directory /gnu/store where only the Guix daemon has write-access. This is achieved via specialised bind mounts, where the Store as a file system is mounted read only, prohibiting interference even from the root user, while the Guix daemon remounts the Store as read/writable in its own private namespace. Guix talks with this daemon to build things or fetch substitutes which are all kept in the store. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inet%20TV | Inet-TV is a South Korean television channel created in October 2001.
Channel number (Korea)
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sk b TV= 254
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kt olleh TV= 92
References
Television networks in South Korea
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noticias%20MundoFox | Noticias MundoFox was the national news division of the Spanish-language network, MundoFox, that was previously co-owned by the Fox Networks Group division of 21st Century Fox and RCN Television. The weeknightly news broadcast of the same name was hosted by Rolando Nichols with correspondents Carolina Sarassa and Max Aub. Following RCN acquiring Fox's share of MundoFox, the channel itself was renamed MundoMax and the newscast was cancelled on July 28, 2015 following the final broadcast the day prior (July 27).
RCN Television's NTN24 was the primary content provider for Noticias MundoFox, which had access to the bureaus of NTN24 and have its talent will appear on the newscast.
Background
Noticias MundoFox has a newsroom based in Los Angeles, California (making it the only major U.S.-based network news division that is not headquartered in the Eastern United States) with bureaus in Mexico City, Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City; airing on weekdays, four live half-hour editions of its main newscast are broadcast for the Eastern and Central Time Zones at 5:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. PT) and for the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones at 5:30 p.m. PT (8:30 p.m. ET), as well as a live program MundoFox ¡Y Ya! for both coasts, which airs live at 5 and 10 p.m.
Noticias MundoFox's official tagline, which is used in the introduction, is "El Primer noticiero en la tarde y el unico producido en vivo para ambas costas", when translated means, "The only (national) newscast in the early evening and the only newscast produced live for both the East and West coasts". The tagline is in reference to MundoFox being the only network to air its national newscasts an hour earlier than its English and Spanish competitors, which airs their newscasts at 6:30 p.m. and airs a pre-recorded edition for the West coast.
Jorge Mettey, SVP of News for MundoFox was quoted as saying, “We are targeting Latinos, especially young Latinos who probably feel more comfortable speaking in English, but they do understand Spanish, and obviously we are also targeting Latinos who speak only Spanish... We are not focusing on the regular normal issues that newscasts in Spanish focus on, like immigration and that stuff. It is not our focus. We are talking to a different Latino. We are not talking to victims. We are talking to successful people eager to improve their lives.”
48 stations from MundoFox's initial 50-station affiliate body have also committed to developing in-house news departments to provide locally produced Spanish language newscasts to the markets served by the stations, a small number of whom do not have a Spanish language news option on local television (excluding KWHY and WGEN-TV who already operate their own news departments). Affiliates without full-fledged newscasts are expected to produce two-minute local news capsules that will be aired during the network’s Noticias MundoFox national evening newscasts.
On July 16, 2015 21st Century Fox announced that it had sold its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-and-disk%20integrator | The ball-and-disk integrator is a key component of many advanced mechanical computers. Through simple mechanical means, it performs continual integration of the value of an input. Typical uses were the measurement of area or volume of material in industrial settings, range-keeping systems on ships, and tachometric bombsights. The addition of the torque amplifier by Vannevar Bush led to the differential analysers of the 1930s and 1940s.
Description and operation
The basic mechanism consists of two inputs and one output. The first input is a spinning disk, generally electrically driven, and using some sort of governor to ensure that it turns at a fixed rate. The second input is a movable carriage that holds a bearing against the input disk, along its radius. The bearing transfers motion from the disk to an output shaft. The axis of the output shaft is oriented parallel to the rails of the carriage. As the carriage slides, the bearing remains in contact with both the disk & the output, allowing one to drive the other.
The spin rate of the output shaft is governed by the displacement of the carriage; this is the "integration." When the bearing is positioned at the center of the disk, no net motion is imparted; the output shaft remains stationary. As the carriage moves the bearing away from the center and towards the edge of the disk, the bearing, and thus the output shaft, begins to rotate faster and faster. Effectively, this is a system of two gears with an infinitely variable gear ratio; when the bearing is nearer to the center of the disk, the ratio is low (or zero), and when the bearing is nearer to the edge, it is high.
The output shaft can rotate either "forward" or "backward," depending on the direction of the bearing's displacement; this is a useful property for an integrator.
Consider an example system that measures the total amount of water flowing through a sluice: A float is attached to the input carriage so the bearing moves up and down with the level of the water. As the water level rises, the bearing is pushed farther from the center of the input disk, increasing the output's rotation rate. By counting the total number of turns of the output shaft (for example, with an odometer-type device), and multiplying by the cross-sectional area of the sluice, the total amount of water flowing past the meter can be determined.
History
Invention and early use
The basic concept of the ball-and-disk integrator was first described by James Thomson, brother of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. William used the concept to build the Harmonic Analyser in 1886. This system was used to calculate the coefficients of a Fourier series representing inputs dialled in as the positions of the balls. The inputs were set to measured tide heights from any port being studied. The output was then fed into a similar machine, the Harmonic Synthesiser, which spun several wheels to represent the phase of the contribution from the sun and moon. A wire running along |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanculus%20edentulus | Clanculus edentulus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the bottom snails.
OBIS (the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database) declares this species an Incertae Sedis (with uncertain taxonomic placement ).
Description
The shell has an orbiculate-conoid shape. It is dirty red with white spots. The transverse ribs are granulated. The whorls are slightly convex. The umbilical margin is subcrenulate. The top of the columella is plicate. The columella lacks a denticle and has three tubercles at its base. The inner lip is subsulcate.
References
Adams, A., 1853. Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851(19):150-192
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
edentulus
Gastropods described in 1853 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Alperovitch | Dmitri Mikhailovich Alperovitch (born 1980) is an American think-tank founder, investor, philanthropist, podcast host and former computer security industry executive. He is the chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, D.C., and a co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike. Alperovitch is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Russia who came to the United States in 1994 with his family.
Early life and education
Born in Moscow in the Russian SFSR, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, Alperovitch is a U.S. citizen. In 1994, his father was granted a visa to Canada, and a year later the family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Alperovitch earned a BS in computer science in 2001, and a MS in information security in 2003, both from Georgia Institute of Technology. It was the school's first graduate degree in information security.
Career
Alperovitch worked at a number of computer security startups in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including e-mail security startup CipherTrust, where he was one of the leading inventors of the TrustedSource reputation system. Upon acquisition of CipherTrust by Secure Computing in 2006, he led the research team and launched the Software-as-a-Service business for the company. Alperovitch took over as vice president of threat research at McAfee, when the company acquired Secure Computing in 2008.
In January 2010, he led the investigation into Operation Aurora, the Chinese intrusions into Google and two dozen other companies. Subsequently, he led the investigation of Night Dragon espionage operation of the Western multinational oil and gas companies, and traced them to Song Zhiyue, a Chinese national living in Heze City, Shandong.
In August 2011, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.
CrowdStrike
In late 2011, along with entrepreneur George Kurtz and Gregg Marston, Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded and became the chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, a security technology company focused on helping enterprises and governments protect their intellectual property and secrets against cyberespionage and cybercrime.
In 2015, CapitalG (formerly Google Capital), led a $100 million capital drive for CrowdStrike. The firm brought on board senior FBI executives, such as Shawn Henry, former executive assistant director (EAD) of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, and Steve Chabinsky, former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division. By May 2017, CrowdStrike had received $256 million in funding from Warburg Pincus, Accel Partners, and Google Capital and its stock was valued at just under $1 billion.
In June 2019, the company made an initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ, which valued the company at over $10 billion.
Silverado Policy Accelerator
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudominolia%20gradata | Pseudominolia gradata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 3 mm and 8 mm. The turbinate shell is widely and profoundly perforated. It is white with radially large, brown spots. The apex is acute. The sutures are narrowly channeled. The six whorls are angulated, with the upper whorl is concave to flat. The spire is adorned with oblique striae. and two keels (with narrow lirae between them). The body whorlis biangulate and contains irregular 3 to 4 carinae. The convex base is finely striated and laminated and provided with six rounded lirae. The aperture is slightly oblique and is subquadrate. The peristome is sharp.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Eastern Indian Ocean and off Sri Lanka
References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
gradata
Gastropods described in 1895 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamfone | Salamfone, a subsidiary of Kuwait’s Reach Telecom, was the world's first Syariah compliant mobile network. The Mobile Virtual Network Operator(MVNO) operated using the Maxis 2G network.
Salamfone closed down its business on 1 August 2013.
Services and coverage
The prepaid starter pack was priced at RM8.50 with RM5 airtime. Voice calls are charged RM0.20/min(normal rate is 25sen/min) to all network nationwide & each SMS cost 10sen. Data is pay-per-use and it is charged 10sen/10kb.
Some of the services provided by Salamfone:
Infaq-One sen will be donated by Salamfone every time a customer calls another Salamfone customer
Talian Hidayah – dedicated Islamic helpline
Islamic Auspicious Days reminder and bonus
Free inspiring religious SMS
Islamic tunes – Nasyid and Islamic RBT
Subscription Islamic Value Added Services
Reload transfer
Salamfone was planned to be aggressively marketed at Kedah, Perlis, Terengganu and Kelantan as these locations have the highest concentration of Muslim residents in Malaysia. The service will be primarily targeted to those in the age group of 17 to 55.
Developments
Salamfone, which received shariah certification in 2010, banned a number of things such as pornographic pictures sent and received through their lines.
SalamFone expected to be introduced in stages throughout Malaysia. Currently, they use 010 base 6XXX XXX.Salamfone also expected to introduce their 3G Internet service next month.
Termination
In late-July 2013, during the final weeks of the Ramadan holy month, and with Hari Raya Aidilfitri around the corner, Salamfone users begin to experience a series of service disruptions. It was later known that Salamfone is in the process of settling certain disputes with its host network Maxis. After a series of disagreements between Salamfone and Maxis, it was later decided that Maxis will terminate Salamfone's services and hence, Salamfone was forcibly shut down.
On August 1, Subscribers were given the option to migrate to a different service provider. Existing Salamfone subscribers with unused credits had the choice to either request a refund or transfer their unused credits to "XOX," another MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) operator, in order to continue their services there.
References
External links
Defunct companies of Malaysia
Mobile phone companies of Malaysia
Internet service providers of Malaysia
Companies based in Kuala Lumpur
2013 disestablishments in Malaysia
Companies disestablished in 2013
Malaysian subsidiaries of foreign companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCAF%20Station%20Parent | RCAF Station Parent was a Canadian early warning radar station and formed part of the Pinetree Line air defence network. Ground was broken in 1951, and by 1954 the station was operational. 14 Aircraft Control & Warning (AC&W) Squadron was the lodger unit operating the facility. In 1963 the station was moved to Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) operation; in 1964 it closed, as it was deemed redundant with more powerful radar stations coming online in the sector.
Present day
Nothing remains of the operational installation other than the foundations, guard rails, and paved parking lot at the top of the mountain. A communications antenna has been erected at the site of the original operations building. Some of the buildings at the domestic site below, where station personnel lived, are still inhabited. Supporting buildings such as the hospital, sewage treatment facility, and mess hall have long been demolished and removed; only their foundations remain.
See also
List of Royal Canadian Air Force stations
References
External links
Information for RCAF Station Parent
Parent
Parent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsunori | Mitsunori (written: , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese artist
, Japanese shogi player
, Japanese computer scientist
, Japanese politician
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
See also
Mitsunari
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Energy (Stylized as E.) is a private Spanish television channel owned by Mediaset España. Its programming is aimed towards a male audience. It began test broadcasts on 27 December 2011 before fully launching on 9 January 2012.
History
In 2010, after the merger between Gestevisión Telecinco and Sogecuatro, the newly formed group was able to add two television channels to its offer, which would be occupied by a channel aimed at women and another at men. The first channel was called Divinity and it was launched in April 2011, while in the male case the project was frozen.
In November 2011, the group's men's channel project was recovered with the announcement of the two possible names for the channel: Vertigo and Energy. Finally the second name was chosen for the channel.
The channel began broadcasting on January 9, 2012, occupying the space of Canal+ 2, in its beginnings, the channel broadcast programming based on series, documentaries, reality shows, sports and movies.
In November 2015, the channel was reformed to focus on the transmission of television series.
Programming
Energy airs syndicated television series, both international and local, most of them reruns of series previously aired on sister channels Telecinco and Cuatro. Previously the channel also broadcast sports, news documentaries and movies.
In its beginnings the channel also dedicated its transmission of events like Grand Prix motorcycle racing, the UEFA European Football Championship, Copa del Rey, the UEFA Europa League and the UEFS Futsal Men's Championship; NBA basketball and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
In November 2015, the channel was reformed to focus on the transmission of television series, especially from the US, this due to the launch of Atreseries by Atresmedia and the low audience numbers achieved in the original format, the channel also added documentaries and films to its programming, although they were later transferred to other channels of Mediaset such as Be Mad or Cuatro.
Some of the series broadcast by Energy are: CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas, CSI New York, Hawaii Five-0, Criminal Minds, The Rookie or FBI: Most Wanted.
References
External links
Channels of Mediaset España Comunicación
Television stations in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Spanish-language television stations
Men's interest channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Raffensperger | Carolyn E. Raffensperger is an environmental lawyer and the executive director of the Science & Environmental Health Network, as well as being a leading expert on the Precautionary Principle. She has authored a number of papers and publications, as well as being featured in a number of notable magazines. Raffensperger was also a state field representative for the Sierra Club.
Early life
Raffensperger was raised in Chicago and is the daughter of John G. Raffensperger, a paediatric surgeon. After gaining an interest in archaeology while at college, she went on to study a bachelor's degree at Wheaton College, before then completing her master's degree at Northwestern University. She then worked in Dolores, Colorado, studying artifacts from the Anasazi people. She went on to work for the Sierra Club.
Career
Raffensperger joined the Science & Environmental Health Network (SEHN) in 1994 and became its executive director. Raffensperger has written on the Precautionary Principle. She has spoken in public on the issue and has appeared on TEDx and EnviroVideo with Karl Grossman. In 1998, Raffensperger convened and attended the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle. The first use of the phrase "ecological medicine" is attributed to Raffensperger, in an article entitled "Our Planet, Our Selves" on the UTNE website. Ecological medicine refers to the way in which people and the environment interact, and how an individual's acts towards the environment can have a negative effect on health.
Publications
Raffensperger, Jackson, Tickner (1999). Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing The Precautionary Principle, Island Press, 391 pages.
Raffensperger, Tickner, Myers (1999). The Precautionary Principle in Action: A Handbook.
Raffensperger, Myers (2005). Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy. MIT Press, 400 pages.
References
Living people
American women lawyers
American people of German descent
Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Lawyers from Chicago
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wind%20Rises | is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI. It was released in Japan on 20 July 2013 by Toho, and in North America by Touchstone Pictures on 21 February 2014.
The Wind Rises is a fictionalised biographical film of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The film was adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name.
The Wind Rises was the highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan in 2013. Though it caused some political controversy and criticism, it was met with critical acclaim. The film was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, winning the latter.
Plot
In 1916, a young Jiro Horikoshi longs to become a pilot, but his nearsightedness prevents it. One night, he dreams of his idol, the Italian aircraft designer Giovanni Battista Caproni, who tells him that he has never flown a plane in his life, and that building planes is better than flying them. Seven years later after World War I ended, Jiro is traveling by train to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University and meets a young girl, Nahoko Satomi, traveling with her maid. When the Great Kantō earthquake hits, Nahoko's maid's leg is broken and Jiro helps Nahoko carry her to Nahoko's family home, leaving without giving his name.
In 1925, Jiro graduates with his friend Kiro Honjo and both are employed at aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi, assigned to design a fighter plane, the Mitsubishi 1MF9, for the Imperial Army. During a test, it breaks apart in midair and is rejected. Dispirited about what he perceives as the backwardness of Japanese aircraft technology, Jiro is sent with Honjo to the Weimar Republic in 1929 to carry out technical research and obtain a production license for a Junkers G.38 aircraft. Jiro dreams again of Caproni, who tells him that the world is better for the beauty of planes, even if humankind might put them to terrible purposes.
In early 1932, Jiro is promoted to chief designer for a fighter plane competition sponsored by the Imperial Navy, but his design, the Mitsubishi 1MF10, fails testing in 1933 and is rejected. Disappointed, he goes to a summer resort in Karuizawa to rest, where he meets Nahoko again. Hans Castorp, a German visitor privately critical of the Nazi regime, tells Jiro, who intends to visit Dessau, that Hugo Junkers is in trouble for fighting Nazism and that Germany will go to war again and must be stopped.
Later, Jiro asks Nahoko's father for his blessing to marry her, and the two are engaged. However, Nahoko has tuberculosis and wants to wait until she recovers to marry. C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Government%20Directorate%20%28Pakistan%29 | Electronic Government Directorate of Pakistan was established October 2002. The directorate was created by the Ministry of Information Technology. In 2014 Directorate was merged with Pakistan Computer Bureau to form National Information Technology Board.
Some of the projects completed by the directorate include:
Online Processing of Hajj Applications and Status online Tracking for arrangements for Hujjaj
Automation of Prime Minister Secretariat, Islamabad
Online Nadra Card Application
E-Enablement of Senate & National Assembly of Pakistan
E-service for submission of documents at Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
Automation of Estate Office
Development of Urdu Lexicon, Machine Translation & Text to Speech Software for Urdu language
Online Access to Statutory Case Laws at District Bar Associations
Automation of Patent Office, Karachi
E-Enablement of Press Clubs
Salary Disbursement through ATMs
IT Skills Training Programme for Probationary Government Officers
Process Mapping for improving efficiency of Ministry of Science & Technology
Installation of LAN and implementation of Mail Tracking and Internal E-mail System at 07 Federal Government Divisions
IT Technical Support to Provinces and AJK
Development of PPHI Website
See also
Government of Pakistan
References
External links
A list of e-services provided by Government of Pakistan
Pakistan
Science and technology in Pakistan
Defunct government departments and agencies of Pakistan
Pakistan federal departments and agencies
Government agencies established in 2002
Government agencies disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Takeout | Google Takeout, also known as Download Your Data, is a project by the Google Data Liberation Front that allows users of Google products, such as YouTube and Gmail, to export their data to a downloadable archive file.
Usage
Users can select different services from the list of options provided. , the services that can be exported are as follows:
Google+ +1s, Circles, Pages, Streams and posts
Chrome Sync bookmarks
Google Calendar appointments
Google Contacts
Google Drive files
Google Fit
Google Photos
Google News
Google Play Store
Google Play Console
Google Play Movies
Google Play Music
Google Play Games
Google Play Books metadata and notes
Google Groups
Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts On Air
Google Keep
Google Stadia
Google Tasks
Google Location History
Gmail data
Google Maps My Maps, saved places and reviews
Google Profile
Android Device Configuration Service
Google Home App
Input Tools
Classic Sites
Google Voice billing history, greetings and voicemail recordings
Google Wallet
YouTube videos, subscriptions, chats, own comments, playlists, history, live chat messages
Google Pay
Search Contributions
Data Shared For Research
Shopping Lists
Textcube
Google Home
Bookmarks
Hands Free
Street View
The user can select to export all of the available services or choose services from the above list. Takeout will then process the request and put all the files into a zip file. Takeout then optionally sends an email notification that the export is completed, at which point the user can download the archive from the downloads section of the website. The zip file contains a separate folder for each service that was selected for export.
History
Google Takeout was created by the Google Data Liberation Front on June 28, 2011 to allow users to export their data from most of Google's services. Since its creation, Google has added several more services to Takeout due to popular demand from users.
Takeout started with exports of only Google Buzz, Google Contacts, Google Profile, Google Streams, and Picasa Albums. The next month, on July 15, 2011, Google added the export of Google +1's to the list after it was frequently requested by Takeout's users. Later in 2011 on September 6, Google added Google Voice to their export service. A big milestone was the addition of YouTube video exports to Takeout next year on September 26, 2012. Google took another big step with the addition of Blogger posts and Google+ pages on February 17, 2013.
On December 5, 2013, Google Takeout was further expanded to include Gmail and Google Calendar data.
Criticism
Earlier criticisms were raised that Google Takeout did not allow users to export from some core Google services, most notably Google Search history and Google Wallet details. Google has since expanded the service to include search history and Wallet details (September 2016). Google has also added Google Hangouts to the Takeout service. Google also does not delete user data automatically |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20Euclidean%20minimum%20spanning%20tree | A kinetic Euclidean minimum spanning tree is a kinetic data structure that maintains the Euclidean minimum spanning tree (EMST) of a set P of n points that are moving continuously.
For the set of points P in 2-dimensional space, there are two kinetic algorithms for maintenance of the EMST.
Rahmati and Zarei build a kinetic data structure based on the kinetic Delaunay triangulation to handle updates to the EMST in polylog time per event. Their kinetic data structure handles events, where m is the number of all changes to the Delaunay triangulation of the moving points.
Their kinetic approach can work well for maintenance of the minimum spanning tree (MST) of a planar graph whose edge weights are changing as a continuous function of time.
Abam, Rahmati, and Zarei provide a significant improvement on exact kinetic maintenance on the Euclidean minimum spanning tree. Their kinetic data structure handles a nearly cubic number of events.
References
Kinetic data structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVDO | SVDO, or Simultaneous Voice and EV-DO data, is a technology that allows supported CDMA2000 EV-DO cellular phones to maintain an active 3G data session while the phone is on a call. Previously, the capability of being able to use data while on a call was found only on mobile phones using GSM cellular networks. In 2011, Verizon released their first SVDO-supported phone, the HTC Thunderbolt. The following year, Sprint released their first SVDO-supported phone, the HTC Evo 4G LTE. Although both phones support LTE, which already allows for simultaneous voice and data, when the devices are only in 3G data coverage, they can use SVDO to be in a 3G data session while on a phone call.
External links
CDMA Development Group Announces 'SVDO': Handle Calls and Data at same time
YouTube - SVDO on the HTC EVO 4G LTE
3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 standards
Channel access methods
Code division multiple access |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellbach%20station | Fellbach station is located in Fellbach on the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt–Nördlingen railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is a station on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.
History
During the construction of the Stuttgart–Nördlingen railway by the Royal Württemberg State Railways in 1861, it built a station for Fellbach on the fields of the village of Schmiden as the only station between Cannstatt and Waiblingen. It was at that time about one kilometre north of Fellbach and one and a half kilometres south of Schmiden at the boundary of the two villages. Even before the construction of the railway, Fellbach had almost 3,000 inhabitants and was one of the largest villages in Württemberg.
The railway was opened on 25 July 1861. The station building has been preserved and is still used as such. It was built of light sandstone and has two full floors and a Kniestock ("knee jamb", which raises the base of a pitched roof to give more usable space). Windows and doors on the ground floor have rounded arches.
Between 1862 and 1869 the newly established post office operated from the building. Then it was transferred to Cannstatter Straße. In 1864, the State Railways opened a second main line track from Cannstatt to Fellbach.
The volume of traffic rose steadily, as did the number of inhabitants of Fellbach and Schmiden, which both grew towards the station.
Deutsche Reichsbahn
Deutsche Reichsbahn enlarged the station between 1923 and 1925. It created a platform underpass for passengers.
In the late 1920s the city of Stuttgart proposed to incorporate Fellbach. On 4 May 1929, services on the Stuttgart tramway were extended to Fellbacher Lutherkirche. This meant that some commuters no longer had to walk to the station. This affected Deutsche Reichsbahn: in the annual accounts of 1928, the number of passengers was 337,868, by 1932 this figure had dropped to 228,417.
In October 1931, the council negotiated with a representative of the Stuttgart City Council. As conditions for agreeing to be incorporated, the local council's requests included the extension of the tram line to the station, the closure of the level crossing on Bahnhofstraße, next to the station, in favour of an underpass and a commuter service between Stuttgart and Fellbach.
As a result of these and other demands, the Stuttgart City Council rejected the draft agreement of incorporation of 8 March 1932 on 1 April 1932. Fellbach thus remained independent and was then known as "the largest village in Württemberg " as it then had more than 11,000 inhabitants. On 29 October 1933, it received its own charter as a town.
Deutsche Bundesbahn period
On 2 October 1949, Deutsche Bundesbahn completed electrification of the Bad Cannstatt–Waiblingen stretch and electric suburban services began operating between Stuttgart and Waiblingen. In 1959, the wait at the level crossing on Bahnhofstraße also became a thing of the past when an underpass was completed.
On 1 January 1973, Schmiden was incor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetput%20railway%20station | Chetpet Railway Station, also spelt as Chetput 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 Chetpet. It is situated adjacent to the Chetpet lake on the southern side, with an elevation of 9 m above sea level.
History
The station lies in the Chennai Beach–Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network, the first suburban section of the city. With the completion of track-lying work in March 1931, which began in 1928, the suburban services were started on 11 May 1931 between Beach and Tambaram, and was electrified on 15 November 1931, with the first MG EMU services running on 1.5 kV DC. The section was converted to 25 kV AC traction on 15 January 1967.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
Railway stations in India opened in 1931
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres%20Ca%C3%ADnes | Los Tres Caínes (The 3 Cains) is a 2013 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones for Colombia-based television network RCN TV and United States-based television network MundoFox. Based on the story of the Colombian paramilitary leaders Carlos Castaño, Vicente Castaño and Fidel Castaño. Gregorio Pernía stars as the protagonist.
Cast
Castaño family
Self-defenses
Medellín cartel, family and hitmen
Government and press
Police and army
ECAR and M-19
Cali Cartel and allies
Norte del Valle Cartel y other characters
Misstresses
Broadcasters
References
External links
Official website RCN TV:
Official website Mundo FOX:
2013 telenovelas
RTI Producciones telenovelas
2013 Colombian television series debuts
2013 Colombian television series endings
RCN Televisión telenovelas
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Bogotá
Works about Colombian drug cartels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri%C3%A7%20Yurdatapan | Meriç Yurdatapan (born 1972) is a Turkish woman jazz singer resident in Germany. Yurdatapan came to Germany at the age of 18 to study architecture but changed to study singing at the University of Mainz. She became well known in Germany from her concert Live in Mainz, which became her first commercial record release.
Discography
Meriç Yurdatapan Oriental Jazz Live in Mainz 2007
Meriç Yurdatapan The Great Turkish Songbook
References
External links
Official Website
Turkish jazz singers
1972 births
Living people
21st-century Turkish singers
21st-century Turkish women singers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack%20Zero | Zack Zero is a 2.5D platform-adventure video game developed and published by Crocodile Entertainment via PlayStation Network on January 17, 2012 and Microsoft Windows, through Steam, on April 29, 2013.
The player helps Zack Zero save his partner Marlene from Evil Zulrog who wishes to exchange her for a unique material involved in time travel called Kelestinia.
Reception
References
External links
2012 video games
Video games about dinosaurs
Indie games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Platformers
Science fiction video games
Side-scrolling video games
Superhero video games
Video games about time travel
Video games developed in Spain
Video games with 2.5D graphics
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSharper | WebSharper is an open-source and commercial web-programming framework that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript and HTML5 front-end applications in the F# programming language. Other than a few native libraries, everything is F# source.
Overview
WebSharper includes support for jQuery, HTML5, DOM and EcmaScript. WebSharper Mobile includes support for Android, iOS and Windows Phone Formlets and Sitelets.
Unlike many other web-programming toolkits, WebSharper offers a rich set of abstractions and DSL syntax for common web-related chores, such as composing HTML, defining web forms, managing required resources and handling URLs safely.
Extensions
WebSharper extensions include
Bing Maps
DHTMLX
Ext JS
Formlets for jQuery UI
Formlets for jQuery Mobile
GlMatrix
Google Maps
Google Visualization
InfoVis
jQuery Mobile
jQuery Tools
jQuery UI
Kendo UI
Modernizr
O3D
Protovis
Raphael
Sencha Touch
TinyMCE
Twitter
WebGL
YUI
Development Environments
WebSharper can be used with any text editor. WebSharper can also be used with Visual Studio templates with full ASP.NET integration and with MonoDevelop.
Mobile
As a general framework for making web apps, WebSharper is also capable of being used as a framework for making mobile and tablet apps, either by making the needed widgets and animations from scratch, or by using one of the mobile frameworks for WebSharper. An HTML5 app written in WebSharper can have separate views for Tablets and Mobile phones.
Examples
The following sample displays a single HTML paragraph:
[<JavaScript>]
let Main () = Div [ P [Text "Welcome"] ]
The matching server-side code is also written in F#:
type HelloWorldViewer() =
inherit Web.Control()
[<JavaScript>]
override this.Body = HelloWorld.Main () :> Html.IPagelet
See also
F#
Comparison of JavaScript frameworks
Comparison of web frameworks
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Web development software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putri%20Bidadari | Putri Bidadari (English:Angelic Princess) is an Indonesian long-running soap opera with full-episode. It was produced by SinemArt Productions and network by RCTI and starred character such as Qheyla Zavyera Valendro, Sandra Dewi and Atalarik Syah.
Cast
Plot
Putri is a beautiful, sweet girl, who is mature for her age. My daughter lives with her father Mahmud, his mother, Sari, and grandmother Grandma Ida. One day, Mahmud led to a fire in the house of her employer, Jeffery, which causes Jeffery family, Dini, his wife, and Baby children died. Jeffry also seek to hold accountable Mahmud.
Mahmud who fear had left his family when Jeffry came. Jeffry then intend to take the daughter. But fortunately Sari and daughter managed to escape from the pursuing Jeffery to run into the woods. But an accident claimed the lives of Sari in the forest, so the daughter had to live alone with Grandma Ida. Before he died, Sari had to say farewell to the princess with great affection. Sari asked daughter not to be sad and always spread love to everyone. Sari was last tears. Miraculously, tears Sari was transformed into a beautiful crystal and shimmering. Apparently, the amount of affection for daughter Sari has touched the hearts of Angels. Angel came down to earth to protect the Putri through tears Sari, the transformed into a crystal. Jeffry had turned out to see it in disbelief. Jeffry was making plans to seize it from the Crystal Putri, to bring back his family who have died.
Originally daughter did not notice a change in him. He was just surprised to find a beautiful crystal in her bag. Putri had remembered the tales that often read Sari at night before sleeping Putri. But Grandma Ida reminded that it is only fiction. But when the second angel saved him again from venomous snake bites, the Putri was willing to not want to believe. Putri was glad of the presence of angels at his side and help him. He also summoned the angel by the name Bundadari. After that, it was always Putri Crystal store in the bag.
Putri was then undergo adventures with the help of Angels. Daughter with love and innocence also helped a lot of friends, neighbors in the village to solve the problems of their lives.
Concern grew when Mahmud's daughter secretly returned and complicate Grandma Ida and daughter. Angel was still faithful to help Putri resolve any problem.
International broadcasts
Award
External links
SinemArt
RCTI Website
Putri Bidadari in Youtube Search
Indonesian television soap operas
RCTI original programming
2012 Indonesian television series debuts
2013 Indonesian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20Chef | Fat Chef is a reality show on the Food Network, which premiered on January 26, 2012.
Cast
Christine Avanti
Robert Brace
Brett Hoebel
Episodes
References
External links
Official Page
2012 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series endings
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20Dome | Sugar Dome is an American reality-competition series on the Food Network. The series debuted on November 25, 2012. The series showcases three teams of culinary artists as they compete by creating extravagant food for the ultimate chance to be rewarded with $15,000.
Cast
David Bull as host.
Paulette Goto as a judge.
Pichet Ong as a judge.
Episodes
References
External links
Official Page
Sugar Dome on Internet Movie Database
Sugar Dome on TV.com
2012 American television series debuts
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20Seekers | Heat Seekers is an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series officially debuted on July 22, 2011, but one episode aired prior on July 17, 2011. The second season of the series premiered on January 16, 2012.
Premise
The series follows chefs Aarón Sanchez and Roger Mooking as they work to discover and taste some of the spiciest food across the United States.
Episodes
Season 1: 2011
Season 2: 2012
References
External links
Heat Seekers on TV.com
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Giraph | Apache Giraph is an Apache project to perform graph processing on big data. Giraph utilizes Apache Hadoop's MapReduce implementation to process graphs. Facebook used Giraph with some performance improvements to analyze one trillion edges using 200 machines in 4 minutes. Giraph is based on a paper published by Google about its own graph processing system called Pregel. It can be compared to other Big Graph processing libraries such as Cassovary.
References
External links
Giraph
Hadoop
Data mining and machine learning software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9toon%20la%20nuit | Télétoon la nuit (branded as TÉLÉTOON la Nuit; formerly Le détour sur Télétoon and Télétoon Dechaîne!, then Télétoon Détour) is a Canadian French language late night programming block that targets older teen and adult audiences which airs from 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. ET/PT every night on the Canadian television channel Télétoon. This block is the French version of Teletoon's Teletoon at Night. It was launched in September 2002 as "Le Détour sur Télétoon" and "Télétoon Dechaîne!" the first being geared towards older adolescents and the former being intended for adults, but in 2005 both blocks were amalgamated as an adult-oriented animated block. On September 1, 2008 it was renamed "Télétoon Détour" and adopted a different art style. The block was revamped once again in September 2009 to "Télétoon la nuit".
The block has continued after April 1, 2019, even though Teletoon at Night (the English version of the block) was discontinued with the move of its programming to the newly launched Adult Swim channel. The English block was since replaced by more kids and family-oriented programming.
Programming
Current programming
The network has been known to broadcast slightly different programming than its English-language counterpart. This is because of differences between the English and French television markets and the differences between each program and their English or French dub's license agreement. For example, South Park and Les Simpson have long been staple programming for Télétoon, while their English language dubs would air on The Comedy Network instead of English Teletoon.
As of October 2023:
American Dad!
Archer
Batman (Batman: The Animated Series)
Bravest Warriors
Family Guy (Euro-French dub had previously aired under the name Les Griffin)
Faut pas rêver (Fugget About It)
Les Frères Apocalypse (Doomsday Brothers)
Les Histoires bizarres du professeur Zarbi (The Bizarre Stories of Professor Zarbi)
La ligue des justiciers: Nouvelle génération (Young Justice)
Psi Cops: Escouade Paranormale
Red Ketchup
Les Simpson (also on Noovo)
Le Télétoon Show (The Télétoon Show)
Former programming
Programs previously broadcast on Teletoon Dechaine!/Le Détour sur Télétoon/Télétoon Détour/Télétoon la Nuit:
Animatrix
Au pays des Têtes à claques (Knuckleheads)
Les Awesomes (The Awesomes)
Batman, la relève (Batman Beyond)
Bob's Burgers
Bob et Margaret (Bob and Margaret)
Les Boondocks (The Boondocks)
Célibataire Cherche (The Dating Guy)
Ciné Maniac (Home Movies)
La Clique (Undergrads)
Clone High
La Côte Ouest (The Wrong Coast)
Dans l'canyon (Crash Canyon)
Daria
Les Décalés du cosmos (Tripping the Rift)
Les Déchiqueteurs (The Ripping Friends)
Les lascars (The homiez)
Delta State
Futurama
Les Grandes Gueules s'animent! (2 Nuts and a Richard!)
Henri pis sa gang (King of the Hill)
Malice et menaces (Grim and Evil)
Mike Ward Show
Naruto
Nouvelle Ligue des justiciers (Justice League Unlimited)
La Patrouille du Temps (Time Squad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Real%20Ghostbusters%20%281987%20video%20game%29 | The Real Ghostbusters is a 1987 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East in the United States. It is loosely based on the animated series of the same name. In Japan, Data East released it as a non-Ghostbusters arcade game under the title In 1989, Activision published The Real Ghostbusters for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.
Gameplay
The Real Ghostbusters is a shoot 'em up game loosely based on the animated series of the same name. It features 10 levels, each viewed from an angled overhead perspective. The player controls a member of the Ghostbusters team who must defend against various monsters and ghosts while completing each level on a time limit. Monsters are killed if the player shoots at them, and the player can earn bonus points by trapping each monster's soul, which is done by using a proton beam to suck in the ghost.
Bonus items that can aid the player are hidden throughout the game in objects such as oil drums and wheelbarrows. Bonus items include weapon upgrades, or a Slimer ghost who protects the player by killing enemies who get too close. The end of each level features a boss enemy ghost who must be defeated, leaving behind a key that allows the player to access the next level. The arcade version includes a multiplayer option for up to three players, while the computer versions feature only a two-player option for multiplayer mode.
Meikyuu Hunter G features eight levels, similar to The Real Ghostbusters but with different layouts. It features less weaponry than The Real Ghostbusters and the multiplayer mode supports only two players instead of three.
Development and release
Meikyuu Hunter G was originally intended to be an arcade game based on the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. However, because of licensing issues, the game was instead released in Japan as a non-Ghostbusters arcade game, although the unaltered version was released in the USA and Europe. The Japanese version features some modifications from the U.S. and European versions. Most of the enemies were redrawn for Meikyuu Hunter G, which also removed Ray Parker Jr.'s song "Ghostbusters" from the game.
In 1989, Activision published conversions of The Real Ghostbusters for various computer platforms in Europe, including Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 (C64), and ZX Spectrum. In the United Kingdom in 1991, The Hit Squad published The Real Ghostbusters as a budget re-release for CPC and C64.
Reception
Chris Jenkins of ACE called the arcade version "enormous fun" and believed it would become a hit, while John Cook of Computer and Video Games (CVG) considered the arcade version and its computer conversions to be mediocre, and believed that the game would primarily appeal to Ghostbusters fans and "undemanding gamers". Some reviewers criticized the computer versions for their graphics, character sprites, and scrolling. Critics had differing opinions as to whether The Real Ghostbusters was a superior game t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Webster | Warren Webster is CEO of media and entertainment company Atlas Obscura. He was previously the president and co-founder of Patch Media, a network of more than 900 local news sites launched in 2007 and sold in 2009 to AOL. Webster departed Patch in 2014 to become COO of goop, the lifestyle company founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
Webster was named in Forbes Magazine as Arianna Huffington's list of "Most Powerful People in Media" alongside Patch Editor-in-Chief Brian Farnham, as well as Business Insider's "SAI 100 New York Tech" list in 2010 and 2011. Originally from Osterville, Massachusetts, Webster attended St. Lawrence University and lives in New York City.
References
Living people
St. Lawrence University alumni
AOL people
American technology company founders
People from Osterville, Massachusetts
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zim%20Smith%20Trail | The Zim Smith Trail is the main multi-use trail of a network of trails in Saratoga County, New York. Extending twelve miles, it connects the cities and towns of Mechanicville, Halfmoon, Clifton Park, Round Lake Village, Malta and Ballston Spa. The trail is the route of the former Delaware & Hudson Railroad, originally the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad which was completed in 1836. It is the only trail in New York state to be designated a national recreation trail by the U.S. Department of Interior and National Park Service.
The trail starts at Oak Street in Ballston Spa and runs through Malta's Shenantaha Creek Park. From there the trail passes under Interstate 87, the Adirondack Northway, and brings you through the village of Round Lake. From Round Lake Village the trail crosses over U.S. Route 9 and through a portion of the towns of Clifton Park and Halfmoon. As of 2020, it has now been extended to the city of Mechanicville. There are future plans to extend the trail north to Saratoga Springs.
The Zim Smith Trail is named after Lt. Col. Zimri "Zim" Smith, USAF (Ret) who died in 1994. Zim was active in historic preservation in Saratoga Springs and founded Friends of Saratoga Battlefield.
References
External links
TrailLink Website
Saratogian Newspaper Article
National Park Service: National Trails System
New York Trailheads: Trail Guide & Map
Hiking trails in New York (state)
Bike paths in New York (state)
Parks in Saratoga County, New York
Capital District (New York) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern%20S-Bahn | The Bern S-Bahn (; ) is an S-Bahn commuter rail network focused on Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. The network is roughly coterminous with Bern's urban agglomeration.
With approximately 9 million train kilometres per year, the Bern S-Bahn is the second-largest S-Bahn in Switzerland. It handles around 100,000 passengers daily (175,000 on weekdays), and thus carries the majority of the agglomeration's regional public transport traffic.
History
As early as 1974, (VBW), forerunner of Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn (RBS), began operating S-Bahn-style clock-face schedule services in the Bern area. The next step came in 1987, when Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) began running trains from through to or on a half-hourly schedule.
The second line began operation on 28 May 1995, operating from to . At this time the "S"-style designations were introduced to differentiate the lines.
The next expansion occurred in 1998, with the commissioning of the S3 (Biel/Bienne−) and the S4 (Bern–− and beyond). The S33 and S44 supplemented service on the S3 and S4, while the S5 designation was applied to regional services between Bern and . Also introduced was the S55 for services from Bern to via .
2005
The December 2004 timetable change saw major expansions of the Bern S-Bahn concept. This was partly enabled by infrastructure improvements carried out under the Rail 2000 program. The three RBS lines were formally incorporated into the network, SBB transferred the operation of the S1 and S3 to the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn (BLS). The network now consisted of the following services:
2009
The December 2008 timetable change saw several major alterations to the standard gauge part of the network. On the Lausanne–Bern line, the S11 was eliminated, and the S1 began operating half-hourly between Flamatt and Fribourg and skipping most local stops between Flamatt and . The S2's western terminus was changed from Schwarzenburg to Laupen BE. On the Bern–Schwarzenburg railway line, the new S6 replaced the S2 and S22, offering a half-hourly service between Schwarzenburg and Bern. On the Bern–Neuchâtel line, the new S52 replaced the S4 and S44 between Bern and Rosshäusern, and was extended to Kerzers, while the S51 was increased to half-hourly service and extended to the new station at . The S4 and S44 were re-routed over the Bern–Belp–Thun line to Thun via Belp, in place of the S33.
2010–2012
The December 2009 timetable change saw a limited number of changes. The most significant involved the S4 and S44. Service on the was cut back from Affoltern-Weier to , and the S4 and S44 swapped termini, with the S4 now going to Sumiswald-Grünen and the S44 going to Langnau i.E. The December 2011 addition of the S31 between and Belp (via Bern) increased the service frequency between those two stations to every fifteen minutes.
Operations
The Bern S-Bahn Bern is operated, under a joint commission from the Canton of Bern, its neighbouring cantons and the Federal Governme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Fighter | New Fighter-Network of Left Socialists () is a left-wing political party in Greece and former member of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). It was founded in 2006 as a faction in Panhellenic Socialist Movement. It was formed by former members of PASOK and non-aligned socialists, who are motivated by the principles of democratic socialism. Since 2011, the New Fighter participated in SYRIZA. However, New Fighter left SYRIZA in 2015 and joined Popular Unity for the September 2015 legislative elections.
External links
Official site
Socialist parties in Greece
2006 establishments in Greece
Former components of Syriza |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20natural%20language%20processing | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to natural-language processing:
natural-language processing – computer activity in which computers are entailed to analyze, understand, alter, or generate natural language. This includes the automation of any or all linguistic forms, activities, or methods of communication, such as conversation, correspondence, reading, written composition, dictation, publishing, translation, lip reading, and so on. Natural-language processing is also the name of the branch of computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics concerned with enabling computers to engage in communication using natural language(s) in all forms, including but not limited to speech, print, writing, and signing.
Natural-language processing
Natural-language processing can be described as all of the following:
A field of science – systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
An applied science – field that applies human knowledge to build or design useful things.
A field of computer science – scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications.
A branch of artificial intelligence – intelligence of machines and robots and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.
A subfield of computational linguistics – interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective.
An application of engineering – science, skill, and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and also build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
An application of software engineering – application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the design, development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.
A subfield of computer programming – process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages (such as Java, C++, C#, Python, etc.). The purpose of programming is to create a set of instructions that computers use to perform specific operations or to exhibit desired behaviors.
A subfield of artificial intelligence programming –
A type of system – set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole or a set of elements (often called 'components' ) and relationships which are different from relationships of the set or its elements to other elements or sets.
A system that includes software – software is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the compute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston%20Workshops | Preston Workshops is the heavy maintenance facility for the Melbourne tram network. The workshop is located on a block surrounded by Miller Street, St George's Road, Oakover Road and the Mernda railway line in Preston, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Following a major redevelopment in April 2016, it also became an operational depot under the name New Preston Depot, taking over from East Preston.
History
The Preston Workshops were erected by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) in 1924-26, to provide manufacturing and maintenance facilities for Melbourne's trams in conjunction with the introduction and production of the W class trams.
The earlier tram maintenance workshops were located on the corner of Holden Street and St Georges Road, Fitzroy, where today only a tramways substation remains, following demolition and sale in 1937.
In the mid-1920s, the MMTB sought a suitable place to build its own tramcars, having previously manufactured the steel chassis and truck frames at the Cable Repair Workshops at Nicholson Street, Fitzroy North, built the wooden bodywork in temporary sheds behind the Fitzroy cable car shed, done painting and varnishing at Preston and Glenhuntly depots, and let tenders to private companies for completed bodies. The running maintenance and overhaul was conducted at workshops attached to the Malvern, Hawthorn, Coburg and Essendon depots.
A single comprehensive workshop was desperately needed, and a site was ultimately chosen opposite Thornbury depot on St Georges Road adjacent to the Miller Street line, covering 17 acres. Tenders were let progressively for each building - the paint and car erecting shops and first traverser completed early in 1925; the main store and sub-station in 1925/26; the large truck, wheel, machine, fitting and electrical shops and second traverser to the car shop in late 1926; the timber storage racks, office block, blacksmiths and plate shops, foundry and pattern shop in the next few months; and finally the mess hall and amenities.
Preston became the most modern tramway workshop in Australia and took over the maintenance, overhaul and new construction tasks for the whole system. W-class cars were built to replace cable trams for the cable conversions, and subsequently W1 and W2 types were built at the workshops.
A distinctive workplace culture grew up around the workshops, evident in the oral traditions and characters of the workshops, such as Norm Cross, who may have been the inspiration for Malcolm in the film of the same name by Nadia Tass.
The Tudor style “Melbourne Room” which provided a ball-room, theatre, concert and lecture hall for tram events, still features the gaily decorated stage that hosted 3DB's Lunchtime Funtime with Bill Collins.
In the 1990s, part of the works was leased to A Goninan & Co to refurbish Z1 and Z2 class trams as well as fit out light rail vehicles for the Hong Kong Light Rail system.
In 2014, a project commenced to revitalise the workshop. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipos%20C.%20Loizou | Philipos (Philip) C. Loizou (November 10, 1965 – July 22, 2012) was Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
Career
Loizou was an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock (1996 to 1999) prior to joining the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, where he helped co-found the Center of Robust Speech Systems (CRSS). He established the Speech Processing and Cochlear Implant Laboratories at the University of Texas at Dallas and held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2009. Loizou developed a noisy speech corpus known as NOIZEUS.
References
External links
Philipos Loizou's Homepage
CI lab
Speech Processing lab
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
1965 births
2012 deaths
Audiologists
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering alumni
Cypriot emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-time%20estimation%20of%20system%20and%20sub-system%20level%20power%20consumption | Electronic systems’ power consumption has been a real challenge for Hardware and Software designers as well as users especially in portable devices like cell phones and laptop computers. Power consumption also has been an issue for many industries that use computer systems heavily such as Internet service providers using servers or companies with many employees using computers and other computational devices. Many different approaches (during design of HW, SW or real-time estimation) have been discovered by researchers to estimate power consumption efficiently. This survey paper focuses on the different methods where power consumption can be estimated or measured in real-time.
Measuring real time power dissipation is critical in thermal analysis of a new design of HW like processors (CPU) just as it is important for OS programmers writing process schedulers. Researchers discovered that knowing the real-time power consumption on a subsystem level like CPU, hard drives, memory and other devices can help power optimizations in applications such as storage encryption, virtualization, and application sandboxing, as well as application tradeoffs.
Different technologies have been discovered that can enable measuring power consumption in real-time. These technologies can be categorized into two main categories: direct measurement using subsystem power sensors and meters or indirect estimation based on provided information such as temperature or performance counters. There are also different methods within each category; for example, different models have been developed to utilize performance counters for power estimation. Each one of these methods has its own benefits and disadvantages. The goal of this paper is to survey that different methods in each category.
Run-time Estimation of System and Sub-system Level Power Consumption
Power consumption can be different for the same type of system because of differences in manufacturing of Hardware and in temperature conditions in which the device is going to operate. Real-Time power management can be used to optimize the system or subsystems to minimize the energy consumption which may, for example, extend the battery lifetime of mobile devices or result in energy savings for Internet companies operating with many computer servers. The following sections are technologies discovered to enable real-time power estimation.
Indirect Power measurement
Indirect power measurement such as using a CPU performance monitoring unit (PMU), or performance counters to estimate run-time CPU and memory power consumption are widely used for their low cost.
Performance counters
Hardware performance counters (HPCs) are a set of special purpose registers built into modern microprocessors to store the counts of hardware-related activities for hardware and software related events. Different models of processors have limited numbers of hardware counters with different events that will satisfy the CPU requirement. These perfor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer%20Support%20Community | The Cancer Support Community (CSC) focuses on three areas of support: direct service delivery, research, and advocacy.
The organization includes an international network of Affiliates that offer social and emotional support for people impacted by cancer, as well as a community of support available online and over the phone. Its Research and Training Institute conducts psychosocial, behavioral and survivorship research. CSC furthers its focus on patient advocacy through the Cancer Policy Institute, informing public policy in Washington D.C. and across the nation.
Individual gifts, corporate and foundation contributions, and educational grants are the major sources of support for CSC.
History
The Cancer Support Community formed in 2009 following the merger of The Wellness Community and Gilda's Club The Wellness Community was founded in 1982 by Harold and Harriet Benjamin with Shannon McGowan in California. They wanted to create something that had previously been missing in cancer care—an organization that would provide social and emotional support to cancer patients, their families, friends and caregivers. Gilda's Club was founded in 1991 in honor of Saturday Night Live comedian and former ovarian cancer patient, Gilda Radner, after her passing, by her husband, Gene Wilder, and Joanna Bull with other friends and family. Gilda's Club opened locations to provide social and emotional support for people living with cancer nationwide while the Wellness Community locations remained on the West Coast.
In 2007 the Institute of Medicine released a pivotal report on the importance of addressing the social and emotional needs of individuals living with cancer, which was a practice both the Wellness Community and Gilda's Club had been implementing for years. Not long after, to be able to better serve more individuals living with cancer, the Wellness Community and Gilda's Club merged to become the Cancer Support Community.
Programs and services
Support
CSC provides a toll-free Cancer Support Helpline which takes calls from patients, families and health professionals seeking information, access to local and national resources, and counseling. An online chat service is also part of the support services. CSC also hosts an online support group called the Living Room. The community includes message boards and professional facilitated online support groups.
Affiliate Network
The Cancer Support Affiliate Network consists of 42 licensed affiliates, 150 satellite locations and a growing number of health care partnerships. Affiliates provide programs free of charge to anyone affected by cancer, including patients, survivors, caregivers, loved ones and children. These programs include support groups, short-term individual counseling, social activities, resource and referral services, educational sessions and health and wellness programs.
Educational resources
CSC produces the Frankly Speaking About Cancer program series in several formats to meet the education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%2013%3A%20The%20Show | MLB 13: The Show is a Major League Baseball video game which was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by San Diego Studio. The game was released in March 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. It is the third installment of the series to be compatible with PlayStation Move. The play-by play is done once again by Matt Vasgersian and Eric Karros along with a new commentator, Steve Lyons.
The standard cover features Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen. In Canada, a separate cover featuring Toronto Blue Jays outfielder José Bautista was released, making it the second consecutive year Bautista was featured on the cover in Canada.
An expansion pack exclusive to PlayStation 3, called MLB 13: The Show - Home Run Derby, was released on July 2, 2013.
New Features
Postseason mode, allowing players to play through a full MLB postseason, complete with realistic postseason atmosphere.
New color commentator Steve Lyons joins broadcast booth, replacing Dave Campbell.
Hitting enhancements, such as push/pull hitting trajectories engine
Diamond Dynasty Improvements: new card types, designated hitter option
Road To The Show (RTTS): new mode-specific presentation
New player development and budgeting systems in Season and Franchise modes
Fielding throwing meters
Online features
These features depended on the PlayStation Network
Universal online profile
Cross-platform online Home Run Derby
The Show Live: allows players to play along with real-life MLB schedule with updated stats, rosters, and commentary.
Online leagues overhaul: ability to play real schedule of all 30 MLB teams, and ability to control pace of league.
Road To The Show (RTTS): new RTTS online leaderboards
Challenge of the Week Real-time leaderboard
In August 2014, Sony announced they were shutting down the online servers, so people are no longer able to play online features, but the players can continue playing the offline features.
Reception
The game received "generally favorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Sports Illustrated gave the PS3 version a score of nine out of ten and said that it was "consistently successful because it's loaded with options that allow you to play the brand of baseball you want, and at a skill level you can handle." Toronto Sun gave it a similar score of four-and-a-half stars out of five and said that it "pulls no squeeze plays on quality and realism when it comes to the game of baseball." The Digital Fix gave it a score of eight out of ten and said, "For those unfamiliar with baseball MLB 13: The Show is probably a curiosity at most. The fact that the game is also PlayStation exclusive further segregates its European audience so that it occupies a limited niche at best. Still, for those looking for a baseball game there is nothing better on the market."
Soundtrack
References
External links
Official site
2013 video games
Major League Baseball video games
North |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucerne%20S-Bahn | The Lucerne S-Bahn () is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail network focusing on Lucerne, Switzerland.
Opened on 12 December 2004, the network forms part of the Central Switzerland S-Bahn project (), which also includes the Zug Stadtbahn ().
Current map
Lines
, the network consisted of the following lines:
See also
Trolleybuses in Lucerne
References
External links
BLS – official site
S-Bahn in Switzerland
S-Bahn
2004 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageNets | ImageNets is an open source framework for rapid prototyping of machine vision algorithms, developed by the Institute of Automation.
Description
ImageNets is an open source and platform independent (Windows & Linux) framework for rapid prototyping of machine vision algorithms. With the GUI ImageNet Designer, no programming knowledge is required to perform operations on images. A configured ImageNet can be loaded and executed from C++ code without the need for loading the ImageNet Designer GUI to achieve higher execution performance.
History
ImageNets was developed by the Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany. The software was first publicly released in 2010. Originally, ImageNets was developed for the Care-Providing Robot FRIEND but it can be used for a wide range of computer vision applications.
References
External links
ImageNets homepage
Download ImageNets
Computer vision software
Learning in computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerohive%20Networks | Aerohive Networks was an American multinational computer networking equipment company headquartered in Milpitas, California, with 17 additional offices worldwide. The company was founded in 2006 and provided wireless networking to medium-sized and larger businesses.
In 2012, Aerohive was listed on The Wall Street Journal's list of "Top 50 Start-Ups." The company raised around $105 million in venture capital funding before undergoing an IPO in March 2014.
On June 26, 2019, Extreme Networks announced its intent to acquire Aerohive for a purchase price of approximately $272 million. The acquisition closed on August 9, 2019.
History
Aerohive was founded in 2006 by Changming Liu. That same year, the company raised $4 million in series A round funding. In July 2007, the company raised an additional $20 million in series B round funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Aerohive completed a series C round of funding, raising $23.5 million to expand its sales and marketing strategy in March 2010. In 2011, the company acquired Pareto Networks, a cloud-based routing service, the acquisition allowed Aerohive to integrate Pareto's cloud management technology into its existing offerings. In September 2012, Aerohive raised $22.5 million in a series E round of funding and announced its plans to undergo an IPO the following year. The company raised an additional $10 million in funding as it prepared to go public, in 2013. On March 28, 2014, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the HIVE symbol. Aerohive joined Barack Obama's ConnectED initiative in October 2014, when it partnered with Apple Inc. and provided wireless connectivity to the schools receiving Apple products.
Aerohive announced that its devices would operate more seamlessly with Barracuda Networks security products in May 2015. In September 2015, the company announced a technology alliance with Juniper Networks. In January 2016, the company released HiveSchool, a learning application for K-12 classrooms that runs on any network with any computer running the Google Chrome web browser. The company announced that it had entered a distribution agreement with Synnex Corporation in February 2016. The agreement named Synnex as the exclusive distributor of Aerohive products in Canada. In April 2016, Aerohive announced a strategic partnership with the technology company Dell.
In September 2016, the company released SD-LAN, a software-defined network that functions on local area networks. And then in August 2018, the company shipped the first family of enterprise-class 802.11ax access points (Wi-Fi 6), along with the first enterprise-class pluggable wireless access point (ATOM AP630).
On June 26, 2019 Extreme Networks was reported to take over Aerohive Networks. The acquisition was completed on August 9, 2019, at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $272 million. Accounting for Aerohive's net cash balance of $62 million at the end of its fiscal first quarter, the dea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad%2085 | Squad 85 is an American comedy series created by Gregory Bonsignore that premiered on November 13, 2012 on Justin Lin's YOMYOMF Network. The series premise establishes that, "In 1985 the Los Angeles Police Department experimented with a secret Time-Travel division, catapulting four of L.A.'s finest 25 years into the future. That future... is NOW!" Wherein four cops from 1985 time travel to present day, meeting their Chief and Bobby a new recruit to form their own police squad. The series satirizes many 1980s Cop tropes as well as other movies and shows.
Squad 85 has received acclaim from critics and has gained a cult following. They have finished photography on Series 1.
The Trailer debuted November 5, 2012.
Cast and characters
The show focuses on an ensemble of police working out of an old graffiti-tatted L.A. squad house.
The Squad
Bobby "The Rookie" (Christopher Larkin)
Rusty "The Heartthrob" (Travis Van Winkle)
Tori "...disguises?" (Ceci Fernandez)
Bronx "The Muscle" (Gregory Bonsignore)
Wheels "The Brains" (Milauna Jemai)
The Chief "Undercover Asian Woman" (Jeff Biehl)
Additional cast
Arch-Villain "Alan" Rickman (Parvesh Cheena)
The Commissioner (Diedrich Bader)
Special Needs Nathan (RJ Mitte)
Luis (Armand Vasquez)
The Assistant Principal (Rizwan Manji)
Rogers (Bryan Coffee)
Macey (Jeff Hiller)
Rachel (Jen Winters)
The Reporter (Sonal Shah)
The Scientist (Danny Pudi)
The Dancer (Ethan Zachery Scott)
Episodes
Episode 1: Out With the New:
A Police Academy grad is assigned to a top-secret Squad, and is immediately on the case of a new drug ring at Dukakis High.
Episode 2: It's Not the Work, It's the Stares:
To see the crime scene, the Squad goes undercover, unnecessarily, as call girls... 80′s call girls.
Episode 3: Special Ops:
The Squad heads back to Dukakis High to interrogate the most surprising of drug dealers (Guest star: RJ Mitte – Breaking Bad).
References and sources
Sources
2009 web series debuts
Television shows set in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi%20Explorer | WiFi Explorer is a wireless network scanner tool for macOS that can help users identify channel conflicts, overlapping and network configuration issues that may be affecting the connectivity and performance of Wi-Fi networks.
History
WiFi Explorer began as a desktop alternative to WiFi Analyzer, an iPhone app for wireless network scanning that was pulled out from Apple's App Store in March, 2010, due to the use of private frameworks. Since its first release, WiFi Explorer incorporated features that were not included in the last available version of WiFi Analyzer, such as support for 5 GHz networks and 40 MHz channel widths. Starting in version 1.5, WiFi Explorer included support for 802.11ac networks, as well as 80 and 160 MHz channel widths. On June 22, 2017, a professional version of WiFi Explorer, WiFi Explorer Pro, was released. WiFi Explorer Pro offers additional features especially designed for WLAN and IT professionals.
The standard version of WiFi Explorer is also available on Setapp.
Features
Standard
Displays various network parameters:
Network name (SSID) and MAC address (BSSID)
Manufacturer
AP name for certain Cisco and Aruba devices
Beacon interval
Mode (802.11a/b/g/n/ac)
Band (2.4 GHz ISM and 5 GHz UNII-1, 2, 2 Extended, and 3)
Channel width (20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz)
Secondary channel offset
Security mode (WEP, WPA, WPA2)
Support for Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
Supported basic, min and max data rates
Advertised 802.11 Information Elements
Graphical visualization of channel allocation, signal strength or Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
Different sorting and filtering options
Displays signal strength and noise values as percentage or dBm
Ability to save and load results for later analysis
Metrics and network details can be exported to a CSV file format
Selectable and sortable columns
Adjustable graph timescales
Editable column for annotations, comments, etc.
Customizable network colors
Full screen mode
Comprehensive application's help
Professional
Passive and directed scan modes
Spectrum analysis integration
Apple's iOS AirPort Utility integration
Enhanced filtering
Support for remote sensors
Support for networks with hidden SSIDs
Support for external USB Wi-Fi adapters via the External Adapter Support Environment (EASE)
Additional organization options for scan results
Dark and light themes
Limitations
Due to limitations of Apple's CoreWLAN framework, the standard version of WiFi Explorer is unable to detect hidden networks (except when connected to it) and does not support external USB Wi-Fi adapters. The Pro edition supports passive scanning, which can detect hidden networks, and can make use of external adapters via the External Adapter Support Environment (EASE).
System requirements
macOS 10.10 or higher (64-bit)
See also
iStumbler - An open-source utility for finding wireless networks and devices in macOS.
KisMAC - A wireless network discovery tool for macOS.
Netspot - A macOS tool for wir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Analysis%20Expressions | Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is the native formula and query language for Microsoft PowerPivot, Power BI Desktop and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Tabular models. DAX includes some of the functions that are used in Excel formulas with additional functions that are designed to work with relational data and perform dynamic aggregation. It is, in part, an evolution of the Multidimensional Expression (MDX) language developed by Microsoft for Analysis Services multidimensional models (often called cubes) combined with Excel formula functions. It is designed to be simple and easy to learn, while exposing the power and flexibility of PowerPivot and SSAS tabular models.
Background
The Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) language provides a specialized syntax for querying Analysis Services tabular model. DAX is not a programming language. DAX is primarily a formula language and is also a query language. You can use DAX to define custom calculations for Calculated Columns, Measures, Calculated Tables, Calculation Groups, Custom Format Strings, and filter expressions in role-based security in Tabular models. The same Analysis Services engine for Tabular models is also used in Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel. Power BI also uses DAX for conditional formatting expressions and other dynamic properties of visual components.
History
DAX was developed by the SQL Server Analysis Services team at Microsoft as part of Project Gemini and released in 2009 with the first version of the PowerPivot for Excel 2010 Add-in. Both DAX and MDX can be used to query PowerPivot and Tabular models, however only MDX may be used to query multidimensional SSAS models (cubes) in versions of SSAS up to SQL Server 2012 RTM. Future versions of SSAS (both multidimensional & tabular models) will support DAX natively.
2016 marks a significant improvement with the rapid adoption of Microsoft Power BI and SQL Server 2016. Power BI is a subscription-based self-service analytic tool and Power BI Desktop is a desktop analytic and report authoring application. SQL Server 2016 includes a new release of SQL Analysis Services Tabular with many improvements over previous versions. Enhancements to the DAX language after 2015 include support for calculated tables, automatic date table generation, variables and a total of 340 functions.
DAX data types
DAX can compute values for seven data types:
Integer
Real
Currency
Date (datetime)
TRUE/FALSE (Boolean)
String
Variant
The BLOB (binary large object) data type is managed by the Tabular model but cannot be directly manipulated by DAX expressions.
DAX has a powerful type-handling system so that you do not have to worry much about data types. When you write a DAX expression, the resulting type is based on the type of the terms used in the expression and on the operator used. Type conversion happens automatically during the expression evaluation. However, if an expression might return different data types depending on the conditions, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur%20Safari | Dinosaur Safari is a 1996 computer game released by Creative Multimedia Corporation and Mindscape. It was released for the Macintosh and PC. Designed by scientists from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Dinosaur Safari is an educational video game intended for children.
Plot
In Dinosaur Safari, the player travels in time and photographs images of dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles for the "National Chronographic Society." Some of the more aggressive dinosaur species will attack the player's vehicle, the Kronos Sphere. As more species are photographed, the player gains access to power-ups such as a video recorder and a call to attract dinosaurs. Captured images and video footage of the dinosaurs are stored on crystals in the National Chronographic headquarters.
Reception
Abandonia praised the game's appeal to children, while noting that its graphics are unimpressive by modern standards.
See also
Pokémon Snap
References
External links
Dinosaur Safari at GameFAQs
Game footage on YouTube
1996 video games
Children's educational video games
Video games about dinosaurs
Classic Mac OS games
Photography games
Video games about time travel
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%281995%29 | Home and Away is an Australian soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1995, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's then executive producer John Holmes. The 8th season of Home and Away began airing on 16 January 1995. The first introduction of the year was Daniel Goddard as drug dealer Eric Phillips. Adrian Lee began portraying teacher Andrew Warren in March. Nic Testoni joined the serial in April as Travis Nash. Kristy Wright took on the role of Chloe Richards in June. Kimberley Joseph began playing Joanne Brennan from July. Katrina Hobbs began playing doctor Kelly Watson in August. Nick Freedman debuted as Alex Bennett in October, while Quinn Jackson also made her first appearance. The following month, David Ritchie arrived as Alex's father, Saul.
Eric Phillips
Eric Phillips, played by Daniel Goddard. Goddard signed to guest star in the show for six weeks. Eric is characterised as being calculating and has muscles. Goddard told Victoria Ross from Inside Soap that "Eric can be manipulative and he knows how to get people on side". Jack Wilson (Daniel Amalm) and Curtis Reed (Shane Ammann) befriend Eric and ask him for help getting into shape, he reveals that he uses steroids. Goddard explained that Eric agrees to help the duo "but things turn sour when Eric suggests that Jack try steroids to build up his muscles even more." The actor revealed that Eric only leaves Summer Bay after causing a lot of trouble. Goddard's stint on Home and Away proved popular with viewers and he received much fan mail. He added that there was a possibility of Eric returning once again. Ross said that Eric was a "bad boy" character with better biceps than Shane Parrish (Dieter Brummer). She added that Eric's arrival had the Summer Bay females "hearts fluttering" and the males "reaching for their dumbbells." A writer from the Home and Away Official Collector's Edition said that "through 1995, Goddard caused a storm of trouble in Home and Away as bad boy Eric Phillips".
Eric arrives in town and makes friends with Jack and Curtis. They are impressed with his physique and asks for tips. He tells them he uses steroids. Curtis is reluctant but Jack is determined, even more so after Curtis bests him in an arm-wrestling contest. Shannon Reed (Isla Fisher) takes an interest in Eric and they begin dating. Shannon's friends and family warn her about Eric but she refuses to listen. Eric gets violent with Shannon and Jack intervenes. Eric then leaves Summer Bay.
Andrew Warren
Andrew Warren, played by Adrian Lee, made his first appearance on 16 March 1995 and departed on 3 May 1995. Andrew was introduced into serial as the former lover of established character Donna Bishop (Nicola Quilter) who arrives in order to reconcile with her. Lee told Victoria Ross from Inside Soap that Donna is "in big trouble" when she gets back together with Andrew again. He explained |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golm%20Metabolome%20Database | The Golm Metabolome Database (GMD) is a gas chromatography (GC) – mass spectrometry (MS) reference library dedicated to metabolite profiling experiments and comprises mass spectral and retention index (RI) information for non-annotated mass spectral tags (MSTs, mass spectral information with retention time attached indices) together with data of a multitude of already identified metabolites and reference substances. The GMD is hosted at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm district of Potsdam, Germany.
Background
Gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the most widespread routine technologies applied to the large scale screening and discovery of novel biomarkers in metabolomics. However, the majority of MSTs currently measured in plant metabolomic profiling experiments remains unidentified due to the lack of authenticated pure reference substances and the expensive and time-consuming effort to maintain mass spectral RI libraries required for compound identification by GC-MS.
As the communication of analytical results and other approach-related details such as mass spectral and RI reference information within the scientific community is becoming increasingly popular, open access platforms for information exchange, such as the GMD, are obligatory.
Due to the lack of mandatory standards it remains difficult to compare individual mass spectrums.
While the different mass detector technologies, namely
quadrupole, ion trap and time of flight, can be deemed irrelevant, the chromatography settings such as temperature programming, type of capillary column and choice of column manufacturer heavily affect the empirically determined RI properties. Procedures for the transfer of RI properties between chromatography variants are, therefore, highly relevant for a shared library use. The GMD assesses the accuracy of RI transfer between chromatography variants and implements means to transfer empirically determined RI properties.
Aiming at the classification and identification of un-identified MSTs, the GMD accesses the information on available reference compounds. These compounds serve as training set of data to apply decision trees (DT) as a supervised machine learning approach. Structural feature extraction was applied to classify the metabolite space of the GMD prior to DT training. DT-based predictions of the most frequent substructures classify low resolution GC-MS mass spectra of the linked (potentially unknown) metabolite with respect to the presence or absence of the chemical moieties.
The web-based frontend supports conventional mass spectral and RI comparison by ranked hit lists as well as advanced DT supported substructure prediction. Batch processing is enabled via Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based web services while web-based data access services expose particular data base entities adapting Representational State Transfer (ReST) principles and mass spectral standards such as NIST-MSP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantharctia%20mundata | Acantharctia mundata is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, the Gambia and Uganda.
References
Moths described in 1865
Spilosomina
Moths of Africa
Lepidoptera of West Africa
Lepidoptera of Uganda
Lepidoptera of Malawi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20collaboration | Digital collaboration is using digital technologies for collaboration. Dramatically different from traditional collaboration, it connects a broader network of participants who can accomplish much more than they would on their own. Digital Collaboration is used in many fields, for example digital collaboration in classrooms.
Examples
Online meetings and webinars
Online team chatrooms
Co-authoring documents and shared spreadsheets
Social media
Shared task lists or issue tracking systems
Wikis
Email
Digital Collaboration in Classrooms
Background
21st century mobile devices such as apps, social media, bandwidth and open data, connect people on a global level. This has led to an increase in information and at the same time increased levels of stress. As a result, workplace innovators and visionaries want to discover new digital tools and are rethinking how, when and where they work.
Processes
E-mail
A collaborative system through electronic devices which allows users to exchange messages and information online by way of computer, tablet, or smartphone. Users develop accounts and use E-mail for work and leisure related topics. A great reliance is placed on e-mail to communicate, gone are the days when a message can go unread. Adapting digital tools such as notetaking apps, task lists and ical to David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity workflow, users can find "weird time", to process the e-mail in box. GTD principles can be difficult to maintain over the long term. Examples of providers for e-mail are Gmail, Comcast, and Outlook.
Social media
Social Media networks foster collaboration as well as manage and share knowledge between peers and interested groups. Participation in these networks builds trust among peers, which leads to open sharing of ideas. News and information can be activity filtered through subscription, allowing users to focus on what interests them, as opposed to passively receiving information. Events, activities, files and discussions are searchable and presented as a timeline. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram bring users together by connecting them on the internet.
Open data sources
Applications that can deliver data to help make decisions. Public agencies and GIS services provide, what was once thought of as proprietary data, to the private sector developers to present useful context and decision-making. People themselves can also provide data about their location or experience, which has social value to interested users.
Wikis
Wikis are websites which allow collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup"), and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor. A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20Break | is a free to play 3D MMO third-person shooter with big robots and colorful, explosive battles in an anime style. The game was developed and published by the Japanese company CyberStep, Inc. and was officially released in several countries. As is the case with GetAmped2, Cosmic Break also has various NPCs and playable characters voiced by famous Japanese voice-over artists. Among these are Rie Tanaka (Icy, Ivis), Akio Ōtsuka (Draken), Takeshi Kusao (Lios), Asami Shimoda (Crimrose, Lily Rain), Atsuko Tanaka (Koko Gaap, Winberrl) and Daisuke Sakaguchi (Jikun Hu).
In 2015, a sequel game, with different mechanics and cast, Cosmic League (Cosmic Break 2) was announced for development and had a failed Kickstarter campaign was launched that raised less than half of its target. Regardless, CosmicBreak 2 was released in the Summer of 2015 with a new cast of humanoid robots and an original story and was planned to continue service alongside its initial counterpart. Both games have shut down service in the U.S.
In 2021, after a hiatus, a more widely-released version of the game, CosmicBreak Universal, was made live on Steam in the US.
Story
The game is set in the distant future in a parallel dimension called the Cosmic Ark. There is a race of long-dormant, gigantic robots called Arks, which have suddenly awakened to find their galaxy being ruled by the evil Chaos. Since they lay dormant for aeons, the three remaining great Arks of Wisdom, Courage and Strength have been drained of their energy, and now there is only enough energy remaining for one of them to be revived with the power to vanquish the evil Chaos. In order to accomplish this, three different Unions of followers of each of the great Arks have formed, each competing for the revival of their respective Ark and thereby, for the defeat of the Chaos and the fate of the world.
Besides this overarching story, there are several backstories of characters of the game. There is, for example, the background of Crimrose and Ivis, the story of Eihwaz, or the meeting between Eris and Resha among others.
Gameplay
Upon entering the game for the first time, players were originally to choose one of three initial robots, as well as their Union, which they want to join - this has recently been changed, however; players are now allowed to choose several robots from a growing pool of robots - originally, this pool was numbered at twenty-one robots.
There are three Unions:
Bladine – This Union values courage and loyalty above everything else. It is led by the Guardian Lios who has very strong morals and an extraordinary sense of justice.
Wizdom – Wizdom is led by the Guardian Icy, a sharp tactician who believes strongly in the superiority of knowledge on the battlefield. Wizdom's members are very apt at using strategy and tactics in the battlefield and are very intelligent.
Dostrex – Led by the Guardian Dracken who believes in sheer strength to overcome adversaries. Yet in spite of their belief in their |
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