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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athipattu%20railway%20station | Athipattu 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 Athipattu, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 22 km north of Chennai Central railway station.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 13 April 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athipattu%20Pudhunagar%20railway%20station | Athipattu Pudhunagar 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 Athipattu Pudhunagar, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 20 km north of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 4 m above sea level.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 13 April 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Athipattu Pudhunagar station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Korean%20dramas | This is an incomplete list of Korean dramas, broadcast on nationwide networks KBS (KBS1 and KBS2), MBC, SBS; and cable channels JTBC, tvN, OCN, Channel A, MBN, Mnet and TV Chosun. The list also contains notable miniseries and web series broadcast on Naver TV, Netflix, Viu, iQIYI, TVING, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video and other online streaming platforms.
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100 Days My Prince (2018)
12 Signs of Love (2012)
12 Years Promise (2014)
18 Again (2020)
1st Republic (1981–82)
365: Repeat the Year (2020)
4 Legendary Witches (2014–15)
49 Days (2011)
5th Republic (2005)
7 First Kisses (2016–17)
7th Grade Civil Servant (2013)
90 Days, Time to Love (2006–07)
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A Beautiful Mind (2016)
A Bird That Doesn't Sing (2015)
A Bloody Lucky Day (2023)
A Daughter Just Like You (2015)
A Gentleman's Dignity (2012)
A Girl Who Sees Smells (2015)
A Good Day to Be a Dog (2023–24)
A Happy Woman (2007)
A Hundred Year Legacy (2013)
A Korean Odyssey (2017–18)
A Little Love Never Hurts (2013–14)
A Love So Beautiful (2020–21)
A Love to Kill (2005)
A Man Called God (2010)
A Model Family (2022)
A New Leaf (2014)
A Piece of Your Mind (2020)
A Place in the Sun (2018–19)
A Pledge to God (2018–19)
A Poem a Day (2018)
A Shoulder to Cry On (2023)
A Superior Day (2022)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2013)
A Thousand Days' Promise (2011)
A Thousand Kisses (2011–12)
A Time Called You (2023)
A Witch's Love (2014)
A-Teen (2018)
A-Teen 2 (2019)
About Time (2018)
Abyss (2019)
Ad Genius Lee Tae-baek (2013)
Adamas (2022)
Adult Trainee (2021)
Aeja's Older Sister, Minja (2008)
Aftermath (2014)
Again My Life (2022)
Age of Innocence (2002)
Age of Warriors (2003–04)
Agency (2023)
Air City (2007)
Alchemy of Souls (2022–23)
Alice (2020)
All About Eve (2000)
All About My Mom (2015–16)
All About My Romance (2013)
All In (2003)
All My Love For You (2010–11)
All of Us Are Dead (2022–present)
All That We Loved (2023)
Alone in Love (2006)
Amanza (2020)
Amor Fati (2021)
Andante (2017–18)
Ang Shim Jung (2010–11)
Angel Eyes (2014)
Angel's Choice (2012)
Angel's Last Mission: Love (2019)
Angel's Revenge (2014)
Angry Mom (2015)
Anna (2022)
Another Miss Oh (2016)
Another Peaceful Day of Second-Hand Items (2021)
Apgujeong Midnight Sun (2014–15)
April Kiss (2004)
Arang and the Magistrate (2012)
Are You Human? (2018)
Argon (2017)
Arthdal Chronicles (2019–23)
Artificial City (2021–22)
Ask the Stars (TBA)
Asphalt Man (1995)
Assembly (2015)
Assorted Gems (2009–10)
At Eighteen (2019)
At a Distance, Spring Is Green (2021)
Athena: Goddess of War (2010–11)
Autumn Shower (2005)
Avengers Social Club (2017)
Awaken (2020–21)
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Babel (2019)
Baby Faced Beauty (2011)
Babysitter (2016)
Bachelor's Vegetable Store (2011–12)
Backstreet Rookie (2020)
Bad and Crazy (2021–22)
Bad Family (2006)
Bad Guy (2010)
Bad Guys (2014)
Bad Guys 2 (2017–18)
Bad Housewife (2005)
Bad Memory Eraser (TBA)
Bad Papa (2018)
Bad Prosecutor (2022)
Bad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoc | Nanoc is a Ruby-based website compiler that generates static HTML. It supports compiling from various markup languages, including Markdown, Textile, and Haml. It can generate and lay out pages with a consistent look and feel. Nanoc is not a content management system, however it acts somewhat like one.
Advantages of Nanoc
In comparison to other static site generators, Nanoc has a modular architecture.
Differences from traditional content management systems
Although Nanoc sometimes acts as a content management system (CMS), there are many differences.
Traditional CMSs must assemble the webpage every time a user requests it. Static HTML pages are pre-assembled and as such do not have to be re-assembled.
CMSs run using a server-side language, which exposes the CMS to all the vulnerabilities of the language. Since Nanoc compiles websites to static HTML, the only vulnerabilities are that of the web server itself.
The content managed by a CMS can usually be changed at any time through a web interface. Since Nanoc must recompile the website at every change, it is more difficult to modify a website.
References
External links
Official project website
Command-line software
Compilers
Free static website generators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRosa | subRosa is a cyberfeminist organization led by artists Faith Wilding and Hyla Willis.
In the late 1990s at Carnegie Mellon University, Faith Wilding organized an on-campus reading group that discussed digital culture and technologies, feminisms, postcolonial theory, body- and bio-politics, and reproductive health. It was from this reading group in 1998 that the cyberfeminist collective subRosa formed, with founding members María Fernández, Wilding, Hyla Willis, and Michelle M. Wright. As outlined by members of subRosa, challenging the utopian ideas associated with technology and the internet is the foundation of subRosa’s practice. subRosa’s work is connected to – but differs from – the broader cyberfeminist movement of the 1990s and Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory. Many of subRosa’s works are performance-based and participatory, and encourage members of the public to think deeply about technology and its role in their lives. As the group consisted of artists, activists, and scholars, the collective’s practice reflected the individual backgrounds of its members. Other participants in the reading group at Carnegie Mellon (and at different points, members of subRosa) include Emily de Araujo, Krista Connerly, Steffi Domike, Camilla Griggers, Christina Hung, Carolina Loyola, Laleh Mehran, Elizabeth Monoian, Ann Rosenthal, Suzie Silver, Lucia Sommer, and Rebecca Vaughan.
At The Next Five Minutes 3 Festival in Amsterdam in 1999, subRosa introduced their manifesto, outlining the collective’s histories, purpose, and practices:
Hyla Willis writes: "subRosa is a mutable (cyber)feminist art collective combining art, social activism and politics to explore and critique the intersections of information and bio technologies on women’s bodies, lives and work. Since its founding in 1998, subRosa has developed situated, trans-disciplinary, performative, and discursive practices that create open-ended environments where participants engage with objects, texts, digital technologies, and critical learning experiences interacting with each other and the artists."
Major works and themes
Most of subRosa’s works are performances and workshops at university campuses, museums, and gallery spaces. As a part of the performances, supplementary material such as pamphlets, surveys, posters, and website domains were circulated and distributed amongst the crowd. Frequently, subRosa members would wear white lab coats to signal their role as facilitators in science, art, and technology. subRosa’s works provided feminist critiques of biotechnologies and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). In an interview with Ryan Griffis, subRosa explains that through their work, “we have critiqued the appropriation of the feminist notion of "choice" to support commodified development of ARTs (Assisted Reproductive Technologies).” subRosa’s art practice focused on facilitating intersectional and collaborative approaches by inviting scholars from international communities to contribute to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20risk%20resource%20group | Shared risk resource group (commonly referred to as shared risk group or SRG) is a concept in optical mesh network routing that different networks may suffer from a common failure if they share a common risk or a common SRG. SRG is not limited to Optical mesh networks: SRGs are also used in MPLS, IP networks, and synchronous optical networks.
An SRG failure makes multiple circuits go down because of the failure of a common resource those networks share. There are three main shared risk groups:
Shared risk link group (SRLG)
Shared risk node group (SRNG)
Shared risk equipment group (SREG).
Failure recovery is a crucial in all types of networks. The MPLS as well as the IP network uses the high speed capabilities of modern optical networks. SRLGs typically deal with links between fiber optic nodes, but that is not always the case. SRLG can also be modeled if the links contain transmission lines instead of fiber optic cable. SRG modeling is also used when a provider generates a service-level agreement with a client with various protection schemes.
Types of SRRGs
SRLG
Fiber spans are fiber optic cables that connect two nodes. In practice, these cables are bundled on one concrete conduit or power/telephone pole (aerial), which creates a shared risk link Group. If, for example, if there is a cut on a fiber span, it takes down all circuits (upper layer logical links) that use that particular SRLG. The term SRLG may have first appeared in 2000. Early work (from 1990s) that considered SRLG (before the term was coined) in understanding implications due to SRLG, and designing for survivability and restoration by considering SRLG can be found in
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SRNG
In optical mesh networks, nodes are junctions of fiber spans. Some nodes might contain highly sophisticated routing equipment— while others may be just a patch panel. Whatever the case, a node is a shared risk node group—because if the node fails, the failure affects all signals through that particular node.
SREG
Shared risk group also extends within a node itself—in particular nodes that contain multi-port network cards. Dense wavelength division multiplexing equipment are also considered SREG because if a DWDM Mux fails that affects all of the channels through that DWDM. The same is true for multi-port network cards. When routing over SNRG is not possible, circuit-pack diversity with-in the same node can lessen the risk of failure.
Diverse Routing in SRG failure
Failure recovery is an essential part of any optical based network. When provisioning a circuit, engineers typically use a shortest path algorithm, such as Dijkstra. Calculations for a protection path must take into account that the protection path must provide 100% SRG protection. In other words, the protection path cannot go through the same SRLG or SRNG. If SRG diversity is not achieved then the failure of that SRG fails both primary path and back-up paths simultaneously. Therefore, the two calculated paths must be SRG diverse.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIIW-LD | WIIW-LD (channel 14) is a low-power television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, airing programming from the 24/7 headline news service NewsNet. It is owned and operated by Bridge Media Networks. WIIW-LD transmitter is located in Whites Creek.
History
The station was built and signed on by Equity Broadcasting in 1989, under the callsign of W11BZ. The station changed its callsign to WIIW-LP on February 5, 1996. It would not be until 1999, when the station would officially sign on, and would broadcast programming from Univision 24 hours a day. On December 18, 2003, Equity Broadcasting sold WIIW-LP to U.S. Television. Soon after the sale, programming from Univision was replaced with programming from Daystar. Univision's programming moved to Equity's newly acquired station, WNTU-LP, in 2006. Daystar's programming was discontinued in 2012 and replaced with programming from MTV2. On December 1, 2015, WIIW-LP was taken silent and remained off the air for five years, while the station was upgrading to digital. While the station was off the air, owners of the station (U.S. Television, LLC) stated that the station would return to the air as an independent station when the conversion to digital operations were completed. The station officially returned to the air on digital channel 29 on July 1, 2020, as an independent station. The station was receivable only in the Downtown Nashville area, while viewers outside the area could receive it. Therefore, the station was only broadcasting at a reduced limited amount of power, while the station developed a plan to build out the 15 kW construction permit for the station.
The station's analog license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on May 11, 2021.
WIIW-LD renewed its license for digital operations on September 21, 2021. The station also filed with the FCC to relocate its channel from channel 29 to channel 14 on April 13, 2021.
On November 23, 2022, U.S. Television LLC, the company that owned WIIW since 2003, announced that they would sell the Station to Bridge Media Networks, the owner and operator of 24/7 headline news service NewsNet. Bridge also purchased WIIW-LD's sister station in Jacksonville, Florida (WWRJ-LD [channel 27]) and plans to convert both of those stations to NewsNet stations when the sale is finalized. Both transactions were closed on January 19, 2023.
Programming
As an independent station, WIIW-LP carried religious programming from Nashville Innercity Church of Christ. Also, the station featured other local programming mixed in as well.
Technical information
Subchannels
Analog-to-digital conversion
The deadline for the digital television transition for low-power stations was supposed to be in September 2015, however, the cutoff date for standard LPTVs and translators still broadcasting in analog was suspended until further notice. Therefore, WIIW-LP maintained its analog signal on Channel 14. The analog signal on Channel 14 was dark until WIIW-LP conve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20Parks%20station%20%28Paris%29 | Rosa Parks station (French: Gare Rosa Parks) is a railway station in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France near the Porte d'Aubervilliers. It is on the RER network, and also has a tram stop. The station opened on 13 December 2015, and bears the name of American civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
History
The station, initially named Évangile because of its proximity to Rue de l'Évangile, is located on the site of the former Est-Ceinture and Évangile stations, both part of the Parisian circular line "Petite Ceinture".
The remnants of Évangile station were demolished in 2011. A new stop on Tram Line 3b opened at the station site on 15 December 2012 and the RER station opened on 13 December 2015.
The station bears the name of American civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Explaining the name, Annick Lepetit, deputy of Bertrand Delanoë (Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014) in charge of transport, stated: "We wanted at least 50% female names. There has been much debate, especially with RATP, which favours existing place names, but for Rosa Parks there was a consensus: this is necessary for a tram station, it is a strong symbol".
Services
The station, located on the Paris-Est–Strasbourg-Ville and Paris-Est–Mulhouse-Ville railways, both departing from Paris-Est, is served by the suburban line RER E. Île-de-France tramway Line 3b opened on 15 December 2012 with a stop located at the station.
Future
The extension of RER line E to Mantes-la-Jolie station is planned for December 2026. It is planned that the extension will be served by 6 trains per hour, and that these trains will have a Paris terminus at Rosa Parks. In order to accommodate this, two turnback platforms will be built.
Gallery
References
External links
Réseau Express Régional stations
Memorials to Rosa Parks
Buildings and structures in the 19th arrondissement of Paris
Railway stations in France opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20lifecycle%20phase | Program lifecycle phases are the stages a computer program undergoes, from initial creation to deployment and execution. The phases are edit time, compile time, link time, distribution time, installation time, load time, and run time.
Lifecycle phases do not necessarily happen in a linear order, and they can be intertwined in various ways. For example, when modifying a program, software developers may need to repeatedly edit, compile, install, and execute it on their own computers to ensure sufficient quality before it can be distributed to users; copies of the modified program are then downloaded, installed, and executed by users on their computers.
Phases
Edit time is when the source code of the program is being edited. This spans initial creation to any bug fix, refactoring, or addition of new features. Editing is typically performed by a person, but automated design tools and metaprogramming systems may also be used.
Compile time is when source code is translated into machine code by a compiler. Part of this involves language checking, such as ensuring proper use of the type system. The result of a successful compilation is an executable.
Link time connects all of the necessary machine code components of a program, including externals. It is very common for programs to use functions implemented by external libraries, all of which must be properly linked together. There are two types of linking. Static linking is when the connection is made by the compiler, which is always prior to execution. Dynamic linking, however, is performed by the operating system (OS) just before, or even during, execution.
Distribution time is the process of transferring a copy of a program to a user. The distribution format is typically an executable, but may also be source code, especially for a program written in an interpreted language. The means of distribution can be physical media such as a USB flash drive or a remote download via the Internet.
Installation time gets the distributed program ready for execution on the user's computer, which often includes storing the executable for future loading by the OS.
Load time is when the OS takes the program's executable from storage, such as a hard drive, and places it into active memory, in order to begin execution.
Run time is the execution phase, when the central processing unit executes the program's machine code instructions. Programs may run indefinitely. If execution terminates it will either be normal, expected behavior or an abnormality such as a crash.
Programming language implementation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20World%20Haskell | Real World Haskell is an O'Reilly Media book, , about the Haskell programming language by Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen and features a rhinoceros beetle as its mascot. It won a 2009 Jolt Award.
References
External links
Full text
O'Reilly Media books
Computer_programming_books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHENIX%20detector | The PHENIX detector (for Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment) is the largest of the four experiments that have taken data at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States.
Overview
PHENIX is an exploratory experiment for the investigation of high energy collisions of heavy ions and protons, and is designed specifically to measure direct probes of the collisions such as electrons, muons, and photons. The primary goal of PHENIX is to discover and study a new state of matter called quark–gluon plasma (QGP). Detecting and understanding the QGP allows us to understand better the universe in the moments after the Big Bang.
The PHENIX Experiment consists of a collection of detectors, each of which perform a specific role in the measurement of the results of a heavy ion collision. The detectors are grouped into two central arms, which are capable of measuring a variety of particles including pions, protons, kaons, deuterons, photons, and electrons, and two muon arms which focus on the measurement of muon particles. There are also additional event characterization detectors that provide additional information about a collision, and a set of three huge magnets that bend the trajectories of the charged particles. These detectors work together in an advanced high-speed data acquisition system to collect information about the event and subsequently investigate properties of the QGP.
The experiment consists of a collaboration of more than 400 scientists and engineers from around the world. The collaboration is led by a spokesperson, elected by members every three years, along with a team of deputies and other appointed members who oversee various aspects of operating the detector and managing the large group of scientist and institutions affiliated with it. Past and present spokespeople include Shoji Nagamiya (1992–1998), William Allen Zajc (1998–2006), and Barbara Jacak (2007–2012).
The physics of PHENIX
The PHENIX collaboration performs basic research with high energy collisions of heavy ions and protons. The primary mission of PHENIX is the following:
Search for a new state of matter called the quark–gluon plasma, which is believed to be the state of matter existing in the universe shortly after the Big Bang. PHENIX data suggest that a new form of matter has indeed been discovered, and that it behaves like a perfect fluid. PHENIX scientists are now working to study its properties.
Study matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.
Learn where the proton gets its spin.
Study the most basic building blocks of nature and the forces that govern them.
Create a map of the quantum chromodynamics phase diagram.
See also
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Further reading
References
External links
PHENIX webpage
PHENIX experiment record on INSPIRE-HEP
Particle experiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20device%20connectivity | Medical device connectivity is the establishment and maintenance of a connection through which data is transferred between a medical device, such as a patient monitor, and an information system. The term is used interchangeably with biomedical device connectivity or biomedical device integration. By eliminating the need for manual data entry, potential benefits include faster and more frequent data updates, diminished human error, and improved workflow efficiency.
Medical devices may be connected on wireless and wired networks. Wireless networks, including Wi-Fi, Wireless Medical Telemetry Service, and Bluetooth, provide more ubiquitous coverage of connectivity, allowing uninterrupted monitoring of patients in transit. Wired networks are fast, stable, and highly available. Wired networks are usually more costly to install at first and require ongoing costs for maintenance, but allow connectivity of the organization in a closed environment.
Interoperability of devices
Adherence to standards ensures interoperability within a network of medical devices. In most cases, the clinical environment is heterogenous; devices are supplied by a variety of vendors, allowing for different technologies to be utilized. Achieving interoperability can be difficult, as data format and encryption varies among vendors and models.
The following standards enable interoperability between connected medical device.
CEN ISO/IEEE 11073* enables the communication between medical devices and external information systems. This standard provides plug-and-play interoperability between devices, and facilitates the efficient exchange of data acquired at the point of care in all care environments.
IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n are standards for implementing a wireless local area network (WLAN) in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands, utilizing the same basic protocol.
Regulatory organizations and industrial associations, such as Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative and Continua Health Alliance, are working towards standardized vendor-neutral device integration systems. The IHE provides a single set of internationally harmonized medical device informatics and interoperability standards as a unitary reference point for the industry. The IHE collaborates with Continua Health Alliance regarding data exchange protocol and device specializations.
The IHE Patient Care Device (PCD) Technical Framework Volumes 1-3 defines the established standards profiles, such as the integration, transaction and semantic content profiles respectively for complete, enterprise-wide integration and interoperability of health information systems.
Several profiles have applications in medical device connectivity including the following:
[DEC] Device Enterprise Communication - supports publication of information from point-of-care medical devices to applications such as clinical information systems and electronic health record systems, using a consistent Health Level Seven version 2 (HL7 v.2) messa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20God%20Ministry%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20International | The Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International (CGMJCI) is a Christian, neo-charismatic charismatic, and restorationist church network. It was created in 1972 by the evangelical preacher Luis Eduardo Moreno, his mother María Jesús Moreno, and his wife María Luisa Piraquive. The Church has over 1000 locations in more than fifty countries and territories, and visits 40 other nations worldwide. The main broadcasts of the church on its YouTube channel have more than 250,000,000 views in Spanish and more than 1,500,000 views in English; it is simultaneously interpreted in 12 languages.
The leader of the Church is Piraquive, while the current General Preacher is Carlos Alberto Baena.
History
Background
The origins of the Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International go back to the wandering of Luis Eduardo Moreno and his mother María Jesús Moreno through various Christian denominations, where he served as preacher. After his marriage in 1966, his wife María Luisa Piraquive joined them.
Luis Eduardo had disagreements with the leaders of the various evangelical denominations in which he worked, due to the fact that he was pressed to give results in terms of growth of the churches at his charge.
Beginning
Disappointed by the permanent disagreements with the leaders of the denominations in which they congregated, the Moreno Piraquive family decided not to attend any church anymore and instead, they decided to pray at their house.
In 1972, during the prayers of a small group of four people congregated at the Moreno Piraquive family house, they claim to have experienced the first prophecy from God in the Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ. In such prophecy, God is said to have given them the instructions about how to direct the church.
As time passed by the church expanded to other departments of Colombia. Currently it has locations in more than 300 Colombian municipalities.
In 1997, the word International was added to the Church's name, and in 2000 the leaders of the church created a political party in Colombia, called MIRA, whose current President is Colombian Senator Carlos Eduardo Guevara.
Beliefs
The denomination has a charismatic confession of faith.
The Church's most important feature is its reliance on the gift of prophecy, in which a human instrument is said to be used by the Holy Spirit to speak. This practice reminds of the early Christian Church's gift of prophecy, mentioned by Paul in the Epistle to the Corinthians, by John in his Gospel and other New Testament books.
Unlike other Pentecostal denominations, prophecies are seldom general (i. e., given to the public attending the service), but individual, and refer to the past, present and future of the person receiving the message. Its form is of specific promises (of healing, happiness, economic prosperity, spiritual experiencies, marriage, and so on) expected to be fulfilled by God through His power, as well as commandments on the individual's life, as a "gu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataStax | DataStax, Inc. is a real-time data company based in Santa Clara, California. Its product Astra DB is a cloud database-as-a-service based on Apache Cassandra. DataStax also offers DataStax Enterprise (DSE), an on-premises database built on Apache Cassandra, and Astra Streaming, a messaging and event streaming cloud service based on Apache Pulsar. As of June 2022, the company has roughly 800 customers distributed in over 50 countries.
History
DataStax was built on the open source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra. Cassandra was initially developed internally at Facebook to handle large data sets across multiple servers, and was released as an Apache open source project in 2008. In 2010, Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil left Rackspace, where they had worked with Cassandra, to launch Riptano in Austin, Texas. Ellis and Pfeil later renamed the company DataStax, and moved its headquarters to Santa Clara, California.
The company went on to create its own enterprise version of Cassandra, a NoSQL database called DataStax Enterprise (DSE). Version 1.0, released in October 2011, was the first commercial distribution of the Cassandra database, designed to provide real-time application performance and heavy analytics on the same physical infrastructure. It grew to include advanced security controls, graph database models, operational analytics and advanced search capabilities.
In September 2014, DataStax raised in a Series E funding round, raising the total investment in the company to . On June 15, 2022, the company announced it had raised an additional , at a valuation.
In April 2016, the company announced the release of DataStax Enterprise Graph, adding graph data model functionality to DSE.
In March 2017, DataStax announced the release of its DSE platform 5.1, which included improved search capabilities, improved security control, improvements to its Graph data management and improvements to operational analytics performance. DataStax also announced a shift in strategy, with an added focus on customer experience applications. Rather than a new set of technologies, the company started to offer advice on best practice to users of its core DSE platform.
In April 2018, DataStax released DSE 6, with the new version focused on businesses using a hybrid cloud computing model, with all the benefits of a distributed cloud database on any public cloud or on-premise, twice the responsiveness and ability to handle twice the throughput.
In December 2018, DataStax released DSE 6.7, which offers enterprise customers five key new feature upgrades, including: improved analytics, geospatial search, improved data protection in the cloud, enhanced performance insights and new developer integration tools with our Apache Kafka Connector and certified production Docker images.
In 2019, Chet Kapoor was named the company's new CEO, taking over from Billy Bosworth.
In April 2020, DataStax released DSE 6.8, offering enterprises new capabilities for bare-metal performance and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSOAP | gSOAP is a C and C++ software development toolkit for SOAP/XML web services and generic XML data bindings. Given a set of C/C++ type declarations, the compiler-based gSOAP tools generate serialization routines in source code for efficient XML serialization of the specified C and C++ data structures. Serialization takes zero-copy overhead.
History
The gSOAP toolkit started as a research project at the Florida State University by professor Robert van Engelen in 1999. The project introduced new methods for highly-efficient XML parsing (pull parsing) and serialization of C/C++ data directly in XML and later also in SOAP. The project succeeded at defining type-safe data bindings between XML Schema types and a wide variety of C/C++ data types. The toolkit uses automatic programming to simplify the development and invocation of Web services using efficient auto-generated XML serializers to send and receive C/C++ data directly. A domain-specific compiler-based tool generates source code that efficiently converts native C/C++ data structures to XML and back. The toolkit was further developed to support the SOAP web services messaging protocol, introduced at around the same time, therefore the name "gSOAP" (generic XML and SOAP) and to use the approach for scientific data exchange. Further development and maintenance of the software took place under ownership of Genivia Inc. This includes the addition of new WSDL and XML Schema processing capabilities as well as the addition of many WS-* web services protocol capabilities such as WS-Security optimizations, XML-RPC messaging, support for the JSON data format, plugin modules to integrate gSOAP in Apache and IIS web servers, and third-party plugins such as for Grid Services. The gSOAP toolkit is written in portable C/C++ and uses a form of bootstrapping by generating its own code to implement a converter to translate WSDL/XSD specifications to C/C++ source code for WSDL/XSD meta-data bindings. The gSOAP software is licensed under the GPLv2 open source license and commercial-use source code licenses. The gSOAP software is widely used in industrial projects and mission-critical infrastructures.
XML web service operations by example
An example web service operation in C for retrieving the lodging rate of a hotel given a number of guests can be declared in annotated form as
//gsoap ns service namespace: tempuri
//gsoap ns service style: document
//gsoap ns service encoding: literal
int ns__get_rate(char* hotel, int guests, float *rate);
The last parameter of the function is always the service return value, which can be denoted as void for one-way operations and should be a struct/class to bundle multiple service return parameters. The function's int return value is used for error diagnostics.
A service invocation in C using the auto-generated soap_call_ns__get_rate function is executed as follows:
const char *URL = "http://www.example.com/hotels";
const char *action = NULL;
struct soap *ctx = soap_new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20odd-toed%20ungulates%20by%20population | This is a list of odd-toed ungulate species by estimated global population. This list misses data on Tapirus terrestris, which has not yet been estimated.
See also
Lists of mammals by population
Lists of organisms by population
References
Mammals
ungulates
Perissodactyla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SequenceL | SequenceL is a general purpose functional programming language and auto-parallelizing (Parallel computing) compiler and tool set, whose primary design objectives are performance on multi-core processor hardware, ease of programming, platform portability/optimization, and code clarity and readability. Its main advantage is that it can be used to write straightforward code that automatically takes full advantage of all the processing power available, without programmers needing to be concerned with identifying parallelisms, specifying vectorization, avoiding race conditions, and other challenges of manual directive-based programming approaches such as OpenMP.
Programs written in SequenceL can be compiled to multithreaded code that runs in parallel, with no explicit indications from a programmer of how or what to parallelize. , versions of the SequenceL compiler generate parallel code in C++ and OpenCL, which allows it to work with most popular programming languages, including C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, and Python. A platform-specific runtime manages the threads safely, automatically providing parallel performance according to the number of cores available, currently supporting x86, POWER8, and ARM platforms.
History
SequenceL was initially developed over a 20-year period starting in 1989, mostly at Texas Tech University. Primary funding was from NASA, which originally wanted to develop a specification language which was "self-verifying"; that is, once written, the requirements could be executed, and the results verified against the desired outcome.
The principal researcher on the project was initially Dr. Daniel Cooke, who was soon joined by Dr. Nelson Rushton (another Texas Tech professor) and later Dr. Brad Nemanich (then a PhD student under Cooke). The goal of creating a language that was simple enough to be readable, but unambiguous enough to be executable, drove the inventors to settle on a functional, declarative language approach, where a programmer describes desired results, rather than the means to achieve them. The language is then free to solve the problem in the most efficient manner that it can find.
As the language evolved, the researchers developed new computational approaches, including consume-simplify-produce (CSP). In 1998, research began to apply SequenceL to parallel computing. This culminated in 2004 when it took its more complete form with the addition of the normalize-transpose (NT) semantic, which coincided with the major vendors of central processing units (CPUs) making a major shift to multi-core processors rather than continuing to increase clock speeds. NT is the semantic work-horse, being used to simplify and decompose structures, based on a dataflow-like execution strategy similar to GAMMA and NESL. The NT semantic achieves a goal similar to that of the Lämmel and Peyton-Jones’ boilerplate elimination.
All other features of the language are definable from these two laws - including recursion, subscripting s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datafolha | Datafolha is Grupo Folha's polling institute, founded in 1983 as the research department of Empresa Folha da Manhã S. A., and later on became a separate company able to serve external clients, from 1990. In 1995, it became a separate business unit within Grupo Folha, a group of companies to which newspaper Folha de S.Paulo belongs.
Datafolha conducts statistical surveys, election polling, opinion and market surveys, both on behalf of other Grupo Folha units and for the market at large. The company does not offer polling services or government evaluations for public administrations, political parties, candidates or political figures. In February, 2016, the company had completed more than six thousand studies, totaling more than nine million interviews.
Datafolha was created by Luiz Frias (born in 1964), the president of the board of directors of Grupo Folha and Universo Online (UOL) headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
Controversies
Anti-government protests of 2016
March 13th, 2016, during the anti-government protests of 2016, Datafolha counted 500 thousand people demonstrating on Paulista Avenue, in São Paulo, using an on-the-ground sampling methodology adopted since 2011 to estimate the size of mobile crowds in events such as the gay pride parade and the protests that occurred starting in 2013.
The organizers of the protests routinely expressed their displeasure with Datafolha's numbers, considering them an under-estimation. At the invitation of the organizers, a survey by the Israeli company StoreSmarts claimed to have counted 1.48 million people in the protest, by counting the IP addresses of smartphones detected in the region.
Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff
July 16th, 2016, Grupo Folha's newspaper Folha de S. Paulo published the headline "For 50% of Brazilians, Temer must stay; 32% asked for the return of Dilma," based on a study conducted by Datafolha two days previously.
Days later, the journalist Glenn Greenwald accused Folha de S. Paulo of "journalistic fraud". Writing for the online newspaper The Intercept, he suggested that it is "simply inconceivable" that in just three months the portion of Brazilians in favor of calling new elections had fallen from 60% to 3%, and that those that wanted the continuation of Michel Temer's government "skyrocketed" from only 8% to 50%. He argued that in the context of a question in the same poll showing only 14% approval of Temer's government, it's "extremely difficult to understand how [the claim] could possibly be true."
Greenwald went on to say that based on the full data and underlying questions that Datafolha released after the headlines were published, he and others such as the journalist Alex Cuadros believed that the questions posed to those interviewed had been manipulated to prejudice voters against Rousseff in the impeachment suit brought against her.
Luciana Chong, a lawyer for Datafolha, defended the polling institute, alleging "that it was Folha [de S. Paulo], not her polling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginigera | Ginigera is a village in the Koppal taluk of Koppal district in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is from Koppal and lies on National Highway 67. Ginigera is on the railway network and lies on the Guntakal–Hubli line.
Demographics
At the 2001 Census of India, Ginigera had a population of 4,968 (2,567 males, 2,402 females) and 954 households.
See also
Hospet
Gangavati, Karnataka
Koppal
Karnataka
References
Villages in Koppal district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%20V%3A%20The%20Final%20Frontier%20%28computer%20game%29 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a 1989 video game published by Mindscape.
Gameplay
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a game in which the crew of the Enterprise voyages to the planet of Sha Ka Ree as seen in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Reception
John Harrington reviewed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier for Games International magazine, and gave it 2 stars out of 5, and stated that "Despite the graphics and the very familiar subject matter, it is not particularly addictive. It is, perhaps, a bit too cerebral for your average shoot-em-up fan and probably a little too reliant on arcade adventure to appeal to the adult market."
Charles Ardai reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "It could have been so much more, though, than ten minutes of excitement followed by twenty years in a display case. That it isn't, especially with so much going for it, is a true pity."
Reviews
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) - Dec, 1989
The Games Machine - Mar, 1990
Zero - Feb, 1990
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Dec, 1989
References
External links
Review in Compute!
1989 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Mindscape games
Space combat simulators
Final Frontier
Video games based on films
Final Frontier
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Rutledge | Laura Rutledge (née McKeeman; born October 2, 1988) is a reporter and host for ESPN and the SEC Network. She is an American beauty pageant titleholder from St. Petersburg, Florida, who was named Miss Florida 2012.
Biography
She won the title of Miss Florida on July 7, 2012, when she received her crown from outgoing titleholder Kristina Janolo. Her competition talent was ballet. Rutledge is a graduate of the University of Florida, having majored in broadcast journalism. She was also a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. She is currently working for ESPN and is featured in multiple shows, including the SEC Network's college football pre-game show, SEC Nation and NFL Live.
Sports journalist
Rutledge worked for Fox Sports as a sideline reporter, previously covering Fox broadcasts of Tampa Bay Rays games and then San Diego Padres games. She also provided on-field reporting for the Fox College Sports coverage of the NCPA's 2012 National Paintball Championship in Lakeland, Florida. She joined ESPN and the SEC Network in summer 2014.
In 2014, Rutledge hosted the Coors Light PostGame show on Fox College Football and hosted halftime programming for FSN college football games.
Rutledge also hosted Chargers Insider for the San Diego Chargers in 2013 and SD Live. She is the producer and host of SDLive, an original show she started at Fox Sports San Diego.
On May 16, 2017 she was named host of SEC Nation on the SEC Network. On August 17, 2020, she became the host of ESPN's premier NFL show, "NFL Live."
Personal life
She attended Celebration High School in Celebration, Florida. She married Josh Rutledge, a professional baseball player, in 2013. On October 2, 2019, Rutledge gave birth to a daughter, Reese Katherine Rutledge. On May 25, 2023, Rutledge gave birth to their second child and first son, Jack Alexander. They live in a log cabin in suburban Connecticut that was purchased for $1.1M in 2021.
References
External links
Bio at ESPN's MediaZone
1988 births
Living people
American beauty pageant winners
American women journalists
CNN people
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
ESPN people
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Miss America 2013 delegates
People from St. Petersburg, Florida
Tampa Bay Rays announcers
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumni
21st-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match%20It | Match It is an Australian children's game show airing on the Seven Network on 4 June 2012, later on 7TWO in 2013, presented by Jack Yabsley. Two teams of primary school students compete on touchscreen 'pods', matching pairs of clues such as flags, photos, faces, and words. The fastest team, with the best memory wins.
Each half hour episode sees four different rounds – Four In Your Face. Tag Team. Sound Round. Flash-Match and the nail-biting Mega-Match – with the successful team up for the chance to play for the title of weekly winner. The series’ top eight teams will then battle it out in finals week for the chance to become ‘Match It’ champions and win a prize for their school.
The studio game-show sees teams of Year Six school-kids using touch-screen technology and smartphone-style icons to match up multiple-choice answers to an array of questions – from pets to pop culture, sport, space and beyond.
Winners
Smart Puppies won season 2 on July 24, 2013.
the Marvellous Midgets (Elliott Merryweather, Natalie Hooper & Bridget Spencer) won season 3 on 6 September 2013.
The Big Thinkers (Christopher, Tegan & Luke) defeated the Rocket Racers (Priscilla, Tilly & Spencer) by 360-300.
References
7two original programming
Australian children's game shows
2012 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian game shows
Australian children's television series
English-language television shows
Student quiz television series
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N4%20%28Bangladesh%29 | The N4 is a Bangladeshi national highway connecting Joydebpur near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and Jamalpur. It is part of AH2 and AH41 in the Asian Highway Network.
References
National Highways in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B14 | C++14 is a version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. It is intended to be a small extension over C++11, featuring mainly bug fixes and small improvements, and was replaced by C++17. Its approval was announced on August 18, 2014. C++14 was published as ISO/IEC 14882:2014 in December 2014.
Because earlier C++ standard revisions were noticeably late, the name "C++1y" was sometimes used instead until its approval, similarly to how the C++11 standard used to be termed "C++0x" with the expectation of its release before 2010 (although in fact it slipped into 2010 and finally 2011).
New language features
These are the features added to the core language of C++14.
Function return type deduction
C++11 allowed lambda functions to deduce the return type based on the type of the expression given to the return statement. C++14 provides this ability to all functions. It also extends these facilities to lambda functions, allowing return type deduction for functions that are not of the form return expression;.
In order to induce return type deduction, the function must be declared with auto as the return type, but without the trailing return type specifier in C++11:
auto DeduceReturnType(); // Return type to be determined.
If multiple return expressions are used in the function's implementation, then they must all deduce the same type.
Functions that deduce their return types can be forward declared, but they cannot be used until they have been defined. Their definitions must be available to the translation unit that uses them.
Recursion can be used with a function of this type, but the recursive call must happen after at least one return statement in the definition of the function:
auto Correct(int i)
{
if (i == 1)
return i; // return type deduced as int
return Correct(i-1)+i; // ok to call it now
}
auto Wrong(int i)
{
if (i != 1)
return Wrong(i-1)+i; // Too soon to call this. No prior return statement.
return i; // return type deduced as int
}
Alternate type deduction on declaration
In C++11, two methods of type deduction were added. auto was a way to create a variable of the appropriate type, based on a given expression. decltype was a way to compute the type of a given expression. However, decltype and auto deduce types in different ways. In particular, auto always deduces a non-reference type, as though by using std::decay, while auto&& always deduces a reference type. However, decltype can be prodded into deducing a reference or non-reference type, based on the value category of the expression and the nature of the expression it is deducing:
int i;
int&& f();
auto x3a = i; // decltype(x3a) is int
decltype(i) x3d = i; // decltype(x3d) is int
auto x4a = (i); // decltype(x4a) is int
decltype((i)) x4d = (i); // decltype(x4d) is int&
auto x5a = f(); // decltype(x5a) is int
decltype(f()) x5d = f(); // decltype(x5d) is int& |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana%20Siddiqui | Sultana Siddiqui also known as Sultana Apa (Sindhi: سلطانا آپي)is a Pakistani media mogul, television director, and producer who is the founder of Hum Network Limited.
Siddiqui is an active director of Hum Network Limited and the president of Hum Network Limited.
By virtue of that she became the first woman in Pakistan to establish a TV station quite successfully in a matchless mode and was awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz for the same in 2021 by the President of Pakistan.
Personal life
She was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, into a Siddiqui family domiciled therein, one of ten children. She received her early education from government schools in Hyderabad.
Career
Sultana started her career from PTV as a producer in Karachi in 1974. In 2004 she founded Eye Television Network, now known as "Hum Network Limited" under which her own four cable channels are working, including "Hum TV". Under her direction HUM TV has received Pakistan's Lux Style Awards four years in a row. She is the only woman in Asia who started or owned a TV channel.
As a director she remained inactive ten years before her latest drama serial Zindagi Gulzar Hai, a critically acclaimed serial that has been praised for "breaking the ice across the borders of Pakistan and India in current times" featuring Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed. Siddiqui has also produced children's television, musical performances, television films, serials and documentaries.
As a public speaker, Sultana has spoken on many local and international platforms, including the 2013 US Islamic World Forum held in Doha, Qatar and the 2014 Women Leadership Forum held in Silicon Valley, California.
Sultana has won numerous awards, including the Best Producer of a Drama Serial, Best Producer of a Music Production, the Hazrat Khadijat ul Kubra Award, Women of Vision Award, Nigar Award, the Gold Medal Award, Sindh Graduates Association Award, and the Pride of Performance Award from the Government of Pakistan. Her work is well known for its attention to social issues and its focus on female empowerment. Siddiqui has represented Pakistan in numerous international workshops and seminars.
In 2014, Sultana Siddiqui was awarded the "Leadership Award 2014" by CEO Club & Manager Today Magazine, recognising her work as a "true entrepreneur and leader of Pakistan who is steering the nation and nurturing the upcoming generation with hope and professionalism". During this year Sultana Siddiqui was also featured in the best-selling book, "100 Performing CEOs & Leaders of Pakistan".
In January 2015, Sultana Siddiqui was recognised for the contribution to the entertainment industry with the Scroll of Honour award at the 5th GR8! Women Awards held in Dubai. The awards ceremony is held every year by the Indian Television Academy to celebrate the contributions made by women in various fields, including art, cinema, environment, entrepreneurship and education.
Siddiqui founded the Karachi Film Society (KFS) in 2017. The nonprofit society hosts se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hargitay | Peter Hargitay (born 1951) is a public relations executive and a partner of the European Consultancy Network.
In his early career as a public relations professional Hargitay represented Union Carbide in the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster and commodities trader and fugitive Marc Rich.
In 1980 Hargitay founded the Consulting Group Europe which specialized in cases involving high-profile companies and individuals who needed help ensuring their reputations.
In 1990 Hargitay produced the production of King; a musical based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Hargitay was one of the executive producers on the 2010 "Fire in Babylon" film, as well as 2005 film Goal! and the final part of the Goal! trilogy, Goal III: Taking on the World.
Hargitay advised both Chelsea and FIFA in their dispute at the Court of Arbitration for Sport during the 2009 English football tapping up controversy.
In the 2000s Hargitay was a special adviser to Sepp Blatter, the President of the world governing body of football, FIFA. Hargitay left his job with FIFA to work on England's bid for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. After all outside consultants were invited to reapply for the England bid work in a tender process, European Consultancy Network declined and left the bid. Hargitay's European Consultancy Network were employed by the Football Federation of Australia to provide strategy and networking advice for Australia's bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Australia's bid was ultimately unsuccessful, receiving only a single vote in the first round of voting.
Peter Hargitay has also served as a lecturer at the Universities of Neuchatel, Milan and Leicester and at Bocconi and De Montfort Universities.
Since 2003, Hargitay has also been lecturing at the Centre for International Sports Studies (CIES) for the master's degree Program in Switzerland, Italy and UK.
References
External links
2010 profile of Hargitay's work for Australia's World Cup bid
The Age
Public relations people
Living people
1951 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20You%20Think%20You%20Can%20Dance%20%28Belgium%20and%20the%20Netherlands%2C%20season%205%29 | The fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance, a Dutch/Belgian televised dance competition, aired in the fall of 2012 on networks RTL5 (Netherlands) and vtm (Belgium). Judges Dan Karaty, Euvgenia Parakhina and Jan Kooijman all returned as permanent members of the judge's panel. Departing judge Marco Gerrits was replaced by choreographer Ish Ait Hamou. An Lemmens and Dennis Weening returned in their roles as co-hosts. On December 9, hip-hop dancer Frederic de Smet was announced as the winner of the competition and awarded a choice of dance school scholarship and €25,000.
Selection process
Open Auditions
The announcement that So You Think You Can Dance had been picked up for a fifth season was made during the fourth season finale on November 27, 2011, but registration of contestants did not begin until several months later. As with season four, open auditions were held at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam on July 8 and 9 and in the BOZAR in Brussels on July 15 and 16. As with previous seasons, the open auditions represented the initial assessment of contestants before the more extensive workshops of the show's “Bootcamp” phase; however, unlike in previous seasons, the judges awarded special places to four different contestants (Vita Boers, Sarah Mancini, Remy Vetter and Niels van den Heuvel), which allowed them to proceed immediately to the foreign phase of the bootcamp, skipping the initial workshops at the “ArtEz” Arnhem studios.
Bootcamp
The initial workshops of the Bootcamp phase took place at ArtEZ dance studious in Arnhem during July 20–22. Just over 100 contestants participated after being selected during the open auditions. Day one featured workshops for four dance styles – hip-hop, Latin, modern, and jazz – the results of which more than halved the number of contestants to 43. One dancer, Vivian Gomez Cardoso, impressed the judges to such a degree during this first day that she was immediately awarded a spot in the foreign component of the Bootcamp; Cardoso would go on to take second place for the season. During the second day, couples were formed and given a piece of music from any of a number of genres, around which they were required to design a short routine. Based on these performances, the judges selected half of the remaining dancers (21, plus the additional five already awarded places) to proceed to the foreign phase of the Bootcamp, held in New York City, for season 5.
Once in New York, the remaining dancers were granted the choice of a modern or hip-hop workshop, though they were given no details as to where and under whom these would take place until after they made their choice. Those who chose hip-hop were trained by hip-hop choreographer “Dixter” in the Bronx, whereas those who chose modern went to the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Manhattan. These workshops were immediately followed by a challenge to develop group choreography within these two styles, with a total of four performances (two ea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20LeVeque | Les LeVeque is an artist based in New York who works with digital and analog electronic technology. His work includes single and multi-channel videos and video/computer-based installations. LeVeque's work uses algorithmic structures, statistically distributed elements, experimentation with the boundaries of interfaces, and provides new views of existing narratives. In 2014 he is a member of the faculty and co-chair of Film and Video at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.
Early life and education
LeVeque holds an MFA from Syracuse University with a concentration in Video.
Experiential video narratives
In 2014, Les LeVeque's creations are videos which combine and electronically modify appropriated media and filmed social situations to provoke physical, intellectual and emotional response from the viewers. LeVeque employs, in his work, algorithms and computer interface mixed with classical Hollywood films, appropriations of political broadcasts and advertisements, using new technology to provide an alternative view of cinema and to highlight political issues regarding media. The algorithms produce a visual experience that is not present in the original films.
List of works
Traders Leaving the Exchange, A Guard and the Street. 2011, 36 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 4:3
Workers Leaving the Factory – Ten Days that Shook The World. Downloaded, repeatedly recompressed and reversed. 2011, 24 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9
Communists Like Us. 2010, 3:28 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 4:3 Distributed by Video Data Bank
as the waves play along with an invisible spine (the workers die). 2010, 10:40 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9 :Distributed by Video Data Bank
white and fifteen movies starring Charlton Heston 2010, 15 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9
Distributed by Video Data Bank
a little girl dreams of a new pluralism meanwhile the old war continues V.1. 2009, 67 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9
a little girl dreams of a new pluralism meanwhile the old war continues V.2. 2009, 67 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9 Distributed by Video Data Bank
stammering forward backward GIANT. 2008, 17:40 minutes, color, stereo, aspect ratio 16:9 Distributed by Video Data Bank
Three Songs of Lenin (like we loved him). 2008, 10:49 minutes, black and white, stereo, aspect ratio 4:3 Distributed by Video Data Bank
Unsung Musicals (Opening numbers) 2005–2008, silent, color A four channel video installation
16xohwhatabeautifulmornin. 37 minutes
16xthehillsarealivewiththesoundofmusic 71 minutes
32xtwolittlegirlsfromlittlerock. 42 minutes
32xnewyorknewyork. 150 minutes Represented by KS Art, New York
Repeating The End. 2006, color, stereo A three-channel video and three mp3 player installation
Beginning. 80 minutes
Middle. 80 minutes
End. 80 minutes Represented by KS Art, New York
Memorial Stadium Slow Death (The full torture of death speed)x16. 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Cult%20Awareness%20Network | The "New Cult Awareness Network" (NCAN, often referred to as simply the "Cult Awareness Network", though other than inheriting the name, it is unrelated to that older group) is an organization that provides information about cults, and is owned and operated by associates of the Church of Scientology, itself categorized in many countries as a cult. It was formed in 1996, with the name purchased from the now defunct Cult Awareness Network, an organization that provided information on groups it considered to be cults, and that strongly opposed Scientology.
The "New CAN" organization (also known as the Foundation for Religious Freedom) has caused both confusion and controversy among academics and its opponents. Board members of the "Old CAN" have characterized it as a front group for the Church of Scientology. In December 1997, 60 Minutes profiled the controversy regarding the history of the "Old CAN" and the "New CAN", with host Lesley Stahl noting, "Now, when you call looking for information about a cult, chances are the person you're talking to is a Scientologist". Margaret Thaler Singer expressed the opinion that any experts the public would be referred to by the "New CAN" would be cult apologists. Shupe and Darnell noted the "New CAN" had been able to attract support from donors such as Amazon.com, and by 2000 it was receiving thousands of phone calls per month. The "New CAN" promotes itself as a champion of human rights and freedom of religion. An August 2007 article on Fox News on the Wikipedia Scanner noted "a computer linked to the Church of Scientology's network was used to delete references to links between it and [...] the 'Cult Awareness Network'" on Wikipedia.
History
Bought in bankruptcy court
The old Cult Awareness Network, which publicly opposed Scientology as well as other groups it considered to be cults, was driven into bankruptcy by litigation costs in 1996. Subsequently, Church of Scientology attorney Steven Hayes appeared in bankruptcy court and won the bidding for what remained of the organization for an amount of $20,000: the name, logo, phone number, office equipment, and judgments that the organization had won but not yet collected. Initially, the Scientologists did not gain access to the CAN files, because of the threat of litigation against the bankruptcy trustee; the files were returned to the board. After Jason Scott sold his $1.875 million judgment to Scientologist Gary Beeny for $25,000, this made Beeny, represented by Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon, CAN's largest creditor. The CAN board then settled with Beeny by turning over the files to him instead of the possibility of being individually liable for the judgement.
Individuals who had confided in the "Old CAN" organization expressed anxiety about their confidential files being sold to other groups, but Moxon stated: "People who have committed crimes don't want them to be revealed". According to Shupe, Darnell and Moxon, there is evidence that a number of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopula%20luridata | Scopula luridata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in southern Europe, Asia Minor, China, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, Oman and Japan.
Subspecies
Scopula luridata luridata
Scopula luridata distracta (Butler, 1881) (Pakistan)
Scopula luridata sternecki Prout, 1935 (Japan)
References
Moths described in 1847
luridata
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Pearson%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Mark Pearson (born 1980) is a London, United Kingdom-based entrepreneur and investor. He founded and served as CEO of Markco Media, a European discount network. Markco Media is the parent company of MyVoucherCodes.
In June 2014, Pearson sold Markco Media to the publicly listed mobile payments firm Monitise plc in a reported £55m deal.
Pearson is an active investor and mentor. The Sunday Times Rich List 2011 valued his fortune at £60m ($100m).
Career
When Pearson left school aged 16 he took up a place at a local catering college. He entered and won a nationwide cooking competition, leading to his employment by Claridge’s.
Pearson then went on to manage his own chain of restaurants after taking out a small loan from his grandmother.
Aged 23, Pearson started Roses by Design, a company that sold fresh rose petals with tiny messages written upon them. It was whilst running this business that Pearson learnt about affiliate marketing.
Pearson was approached by Interflora and Flowers Direct, which both asked if they could put discount code banners for their businesses on his web pages, and then pay him a commission for each resulting sale. He found he was earning more money from these commission payments than from selling his own roses.
This led to the idea of My Voucher Codes, which launched in November 2006 when Pearson was 26. He paid £300 for the first version of the site. He ran the site from his bedroom until 2009, when he opened an office in Croydon. He moved the business to a central London location in 2011.
Personal life
Pearson grew up on a council estate in Liverpool with his mother and sister. He traces the origin of his drive to succeed to time spent in a domestic violence refuge, where he realised he had to be the ‘man of the family’.
In 2010 Pearson appeared on Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire, where he was exposed to the realities of gun crime and domestic violence in Nottingham. He donated £115,000 to three charities. Pearson says big charities “wind [him] up because they cost so much to run” and the purpose for him appearing on The Secret Millionaire was to “meet people on the ground who don’t get the spotlight”.
Hackathons
In 2012, Pearson founded Hackathon London, an event that invites developers to build tools and services in teams or individually, giving them the chance to pitch ideas to active investors and business mentors.
In November 2012, Pearson spotted on Twitter that the Young Rewired State Hackathon in Scotland, for coders under 18 years of age, would be cancelled if it didn't receive funding. He subsequently sponsored the event, enabling it to go ahead.
Investments
According to The Telegraph, Pearson has invested around £5m in a total of nine firms, giving a minimum investment of £100,000 each time.
His portfolio includes Shopwave, an iPad payment system for retailers which also monitors sales, and mobile analytics firm Calq. He invested £1m in British 'unicorn' Ve Interactive, which grew from a team of 30 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Childhood%20Longitudinal%20Study | The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program provides data about the development of children in the United States. It is carried out by the Institute of Education Sciences. It provides data on children's status at birth and at various points thereafter. The ECLS program also provides data to analyze the relationships among a wide range of family, school, community, and individual variables with children's development, early learning, and performance in school.
References
External links
ECLS
Child development
Educational programs
Epidemiological study projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibre%20Design | Alibre Design is a 3D parametric computer aided design (3D CAD) software suite developed by Alibre for Microsoft Windows. Available in fifteen languages. Alibre is a brand of Alibre, LLC, a company based in Texas.
About
Founded in 1997, Alibre began working closely with Microsoft in 1998 to develop the first web-based collaborative 3D design environment. The environment operated on a web-browser and allowed multiple users to work on the same design simultaneously. Following this development, Alibre received a patent for "System and method for solid modeling," protecting their technologies for generating 3D geometries across a high bandwidth, distributed network. Alibre's purported aim in this development was to give businesses a cost-effective way to geographically distribute teams by enabling networked design environments without incurring large capital expenditures.
Alibre Design is based on the ACIS modeling kernel from Spatial, and a 2D and 3D constraint solving system from Siemens PLM, among other technologies. It allows users to create modeled representations of concepts to facilitate design and manufacturing, with 2D and 3D functionality. Parametric solid modeling is driven by intelligent dimensions, meaning that the software automatically recomputes designs to accommodate changes to a single dimension, thereby maintaining the design's dimensional accuracy without necessitating manual adjustment of each dimension.
Products and features
Alibre's products fall into two categories intended for different users and applications. Alibre Design Professional has a basic set of features intended for users to get started with CAD, whereas Alibre Design Expert is a 3D and 2D modeling application suitable or intended for professional use.
Design tools
Some of Alibre's key design tools include:
Part modeling to define the geometry of individual components using a variety of powerful parametric feature creation tools
Sheet metal modeling to define the geometry of individual components created from sheeted materials, such as sheet metal. Software adheres to the real-world constraints of sheeted goods
Assembly modeling to define relationships between individual components for final assembled designs. Software analyzes the relation of components to assess real-word constraints and conditions, such as tangency or alignment
Exploded assembly view creation and publishing animated sequences to 3D PDF
Surface modeling to create organic surface models
2D drafting to convert previously created 3D designs into 2D engineering drawings for manufacturing, patents and design communication. Extensive detailing tools available for creating professional drawings meeting major engineering drawing standards
Bill of Material generation and inclusion in 2D drawings
Integrated scripting environment using Python language
Technical support and training
Alibre includes free training through a built-in help section in the software. Free training is also av |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Hildreth | Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College. Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr.
She completed all of her higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her thesis, "The Measurement of Visual Motion", won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery.
She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons.
References
Artificial intelligence researchers
Computer vision researchers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Wellesley College faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictprotein | PredictProtein (PP) is an automatic service that searches up-to-date public sequence databases, creates alignments, and predicts aspects of protein structure and function. Users send a protein sequence and receive a single file with results from database comparisons and prediction methods. PP went online in 1992 at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory; since 1999 it has operated from Columbia University and in 2009 it moved to the Technische Universität München. Although many servers have implemented particular aspects, PP remains the most widely used public server for structure prediction: over 1.5 million requests from users in 104 countries have been handled; over 13000 users submitted 10 or more different queries. PP web pages are mirrored in 17 countries on 4 continents. The system is optimized to meet the demands of experimentalists not experienced in bioinformatics. This implied that we focused on incorporating only high-quality methods, and tried to collate results omitting less reliable or less important ones.
Attempt to simplify output by incorporating a hierarchy of thresholds
The attempt to ‘pre-digest’ as much information as possible to simplify the ease of interpreting the results is a unique pillar of PP. For example, by default PP returns only those proteins found in the database that are very likely to have a similar structure to the query protein. Particular predictions, such as those for membrane helices, coiled-coil regions, signal peptides and nuclear localization signals, are not returned if found to be below given probability thresholds.
Each request triggers the application of over 20 different methods
Users receive a single output file with the following results. Database searches: similar sequences are reported and aligned by a standard, pairwise BLAST, an iterated PSI-BLAST search. Although the pairwise BLAST searches are identical to those obtainable from the NCBI site, the iterated PSI-BLAST is performed on a carefully filtered database to avoid accumulating false positives during the iteration,. A standard search for functional motifs in the PROSITE database. PP now also identifies putative boundaries for structural domains through the CHOP procedure. Structure prediction methods: secondary structure, solvent accessibility and membrane helices predicted by the PHD and PROF programs, membrane strands predicted by PROFtmb, coiled-coil regions by COILS, and inter-residue contacts through PROFcon, low-complexity regions are marked by SEG and long regions with no regular secondary structure are identified by NORSp,. The PHD/PROF programs are only available through PP. The particular way in which PP automatically iterates PSI-BLAST searches and the way in which we decide what to include in sequence families is also unique to PP. The particular aspects of function that are currently embedded explicitly in PP are all somehow related to sub-cellular localization: we detect nuclear localization signals through Pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattack | A cyberattack is any offensive maneuver that targets computer information systems, computer networks, infrastructures, personal computer devices, or smartphones. An attacker is a person or process that attempts to access data, functions, or other restricted areas of the system without authorization, potentially with malicious intent. Depending on the context, cyberattacks can be part of cyber warfare or cyberterrorism. A cyberattack can be employed by sovereign states, individuals, groups, societies or organizations and it may originate from an anonymous source. A product that facilitates a cyberattack is sometimes called a cyber weapon. Cyberattacks have increased over the last few years. A well-known example of a cyberattack is a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).
A cyberattack may steal, alter, or destroy a specified target by hacking into a private network or otherwise susceptible system. Cyberattacks can range from installing spyware on a personal computer to attempting to destroy the infrastructure of entire nations. Legal experts are seeking to limit the use of the term to incidents causing physical damage, distinguishing it from the more routine data breaches and broader hacking activities.
Cyberattacks have become increasingly sophisticated and hazardous.
User behavior analytics and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) can be used to help prevent these attacks.
Definitions
Since the late 1980s, cyberattacks have evolved several times to use innovations in information technology as vectors for committing cybercrimes. In recent years, the scale and robustness of cyberattacks have increased rapidly, as observed by the World Economic Forum in its 2018 report: "Offensive cyber capabilities are developing more rapidly than our ability to deal with hostile incidents".
In May 2000, the Internet Engineering Task Force defined attack in RFC 2828 as:
an assault on system security that derives from an intelligent threat, i.e., an intelligent act that is a deliberate attempt (especially in the sense of a method or technique) to evade security services and violate the security policy of a system.
CNSS Instruction No. 4009 dated 26 April 2010 by Committee on National Security Systems of the United States of America defines an attack as:
Any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.
The increasing dependency of modern society on information and computer networks (both in private and public sectors, including the military) has led to new terms like cyber attack and cyber warfare.
CNSS Instruction No. 4009 define a cyber attack as:
An attack, via cyberspace, targets an enterprise’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environment/infrastructure; or destroying the integrity of the data or stealing controlled information.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cartoon%20Network%20films | This is a list of films that released in theaters and aired on Cartoon Network. Films that aired on Adult Swim are included.
Animated films
Live-action films
Notes
See also
List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network Studios productions
References
Films
Lists of American animated films
Lists of television films
Films
Lists of Warner Bros. films
Lists of films by studio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20A.%20Miller | Brian A. Miller is an American television producer and the former Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, having assumed the title from 2000 to 2021. He was formerly Vice President of Production at Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Vice President of Production at Hanna-Barbera, and Vice President of Production at DIC Entertainment. He served as a production supervisor for 1983's Alvin and the Chipmunks series and was the executive in charge of production for various shows in the 1990s and early 2000s such as Dexter's Laboratory, Hey Arnold!, The Angry Beavers, ChalkZone, CatDog, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Powerpuff Girls, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, and the first and early second season of SpongeBob SquarePants.
He has overseen the production of many animated series, such as Adventure Time, Chowder, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Regular Show, Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Mixels, and Ben 10. He has received 11 Emmy Awards out of 40 nominations.
On January 8, 2021, Miller founded a new animation production studio, Pat and Mike Productions, Inc. Miller serves as both chief executive officer and secretary, while former Cartoon Network Studios partner Jennifer Pelphrey serves as chief operating officer.
On March 19, 2021, Miller left his job at Cartoon Network Studios, as part of a company wide restructuring due to the merger with AT&T.
Personal life
Miller attended California State University in Northridge, Los Angeles, from 1978 to 1982. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio, television, and film.
Accolades
Filmography
References
External links
American television producers
Living people
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Cartoon Network executives
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Cartoon Network Studios people
Hanna-Barbera people
Nickelodeon Animation Studio people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hopel%20Brown | Charles Hopel Brown (born 9 October 1964 at Morant Bay, Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica), is a US Army veteran and computer engineer. After leaving Robert Lightbourne High School, where he was a member of the cadet corp, he then became a police cadet and later enlisted in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
In 1985, he migrated to the United States and enlisted in the United States Army on 18 May 1988 after acquiring legal resident status in February 1988. A 1996 graduate of South Florida State College, he earned an associate degree in computer programming. In August 1996, as part of a negotiated plea agreement with the State of Florida and his attorney at law, Brown pleaded "no contest" to a charge of aggravated battery which stems from a domestic dispute and was placed on two years' probation. The presiding judge withheld the adjudication based on his status in the community.
In August 1998, the probation was extended to August 2001 in order to satisfy the monetary part of the condition of the probation.
On 30 September 1996, the US Congress passed and newly re-elected US President Bill Clinton signed into law the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), which lessened the chances of non-US citizens with certain kinds of convictions to remain in the country. An amendment to the IIRIRA categorized probation "as a sentence and a final order of conviction for deportation or removal purposes", so he was able to be deported". However, in 2001, the US Supreme Court in INS v St. Cyr, ruled that non-US citizens with convictions that occurred as a result of plea-agreements and who were not able to be deported at the time of the offence based on the law then in effect should be allowed to file "cancellation of removal" petitions in an effort to remain in the country.
On 5 January 2001, Brown was convicted on one count of resisting arrest without violence by a jury, and sentenced to 9 months in jail. As a result of the conviction, Highlands County Circuit Judge J.D. Langford revoked the probation. Brown was sentenced to a maximum term of 46 months in prison, but was released after 24 months due to good conduct. He was handed over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. After appearing before an immigration judge in September 2003, the judge ordered Brown deported to his native Jamaica. Brown was deported on 24 January 2004 after spending a total of 19 years in the United States, altogether. Despite Brown's army service, he had never applied for naturalization, making him eligible for deportation as a non-US citizen.
Brown wrote The Jamaican Deportees....we are displaced, desperate, damaged, rich, resourceful, or dangerous.... Who am I?
He resides in Jamaica and writes frequent published articles to the editor of the Daily Gleaner and The Jamaica Observer.
References
External links
Jamaica-gleaner.com
Jamaica-gleaner.com
Stopdeportationsnow.blogspot.com
1964 births
Living people
People deported from the Unit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Payment%20Descriptor | Short Payment Descriptor (SPAYD, SPD) is a compact data format for an easy exchange of payment information using modern electronic channels, such as smart phones or NFC devices. Practically, the format is being deployed in the Czech Republic (where the format is an accepted unique standard for QR code payments) and the Slovak Republic, but the format can be technically used with any bank using IBAN account numbers. That includes currently the majority of European countries, some in the Middle East and a few others.
History
Development of the format started in May 2012 during the development of the mobile banking app for Raiffeisenbank a.s. (Czech branch of Raiffeisen BANK International) in cooperation with a technology company Inmite s.r.o. Originally, the format was intended for use for P2P Payments via a QR Code. Later, it was generalized for many other usages, such as NFC payments or online payments.
The format was created as an open effort from the very beginning and all specification, documentation, source codes, libraries and APIs were open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. Therefore, Short Payment Descriptor can be implemented by any subject without any legal concerns or fees. Due to this approach, the format was quickly recognized and accepted by many Czech invoice software companies and adopted by Czech banks. Československá obchodní banka (together with Zentity s.r.o.) was very active during the format development and it proposed the brand name for the communication to the users.
On 14 November 2012, the format was accepted by the Czech Banking Association and submitted to all Czech banks as the official local standard for QR code payments.
Format information
Short Payment Descriptor uses the ideas from the vCard (by the structure) and SEPA payment (semantics). It is designed to be compact, human readable and therefore, easy to implement. The format is based on defined key-value pairs and it can be extended by proprietary attributes (using the "X-" prefix). The string may contain any ASCII printable characters, any other characters must be encoded using the percent encoding.
Example of SPAYD payload
SPD*1.0*ACC:CZ5855000000001265098001*AM:480.50*CC:CZK*MSG:Payment for the goods
Default SPAYD keys
The default keys that are used in the SPAYD format are:
Integration with applications
The file type extension is:
*.spayd.
MIME type of the format is:
application/x-shortpaymentdescriptor.
Examples of format usage
QR Codes with payment information (to be printed on invoices or displayed on the web) that can be scanned using either the mobile phone or a special automated teller machine (ATM)
sending the payment information using the NFC technology
sharing the payment information via the web or e-mail (via a downloadable file or and e-mail attachment)
See also
EPC QR code
References
External links
Format Web (in Czech)
Source codes on GitHub
Computer file formats
Data serialization formats
Mobile payments
Open |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaatedocus | Kaatedocus is a genus of flagellicaudatan sauropod known from the middle Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian stage) of northern Wyoming, United States. It is known from well-preserved skull and cervical vertebrae which were collected in the lower part of the Morrison Formation. The type and only species is Kaatedocus siberi, described in 2012 by Emanuel Tschopp and Octávio Mateus.
History
In 1934, a team of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) headed by Barnum Brown, financed by the Sinclair Oil Corporation, uncovered about three thousand sauropod bones on the land of rancher Barker Howe near Shell, in Big Horn County. Plans for further excavations in 1935 had to be cancelled after Howe, convinced by the large publicity surrounding the find that the remains were very valuable, demanded higher payment. The bones would not be described and most of them were lost in a fire at the AMNH during the 1940s; other were thrown away in the 1960s after having rotted because of being stowed in a chicken run at Shell. Only about 10% of the fossils survived, among them a skull. They were generally interpreted as belonging to Barosaurus. In 2015, based on specimen-level phylogenetic analysis, one of these specimens (AMNH FARB 7530) was reinterpreted to belong to Kaatedocus.
In 1989 the site was reopened by Hans-Jakob Siber, the founder of the Swiss Aathal Dinosaur Museum. His team immediately adjacent to the old Howe Quarry discovered another 450 bones that became part of the collection of the Swiss museum.
The finds included an exceptionally complete neck, specimen SMA 004 In Switzerland, this became the subject of several lines of scientific investigation. In 2005 Daniela Schwarz studied the pneumatisation of the vertebrae by tomography scanning them with neutrons and X-rays. In 2010 Andreas Christian used the well-preserved vertebrae to support his hypothesis that sauropod necks were held in a rather upright position, which was confirmed by Armin Schmitt studying the vestibular system of Kaatedocus. In 2012 Tschopp used a scan to create a replica of the neck by means of a 3D-printer.
During the intense study of the fossils it became clear that they did not represent Barosaurus but a species new to science. In 2012 this was named Kaatedocus siberi, by the Swiss palaeontologist Emanuel Tschopp, who as a boy had visited the excavations, and his Portuguese colleague Octávio Mateus. The generic name, which means "small beam", combines a reference to the related form Diplodocus with a Crow Indian diminutive suffix ~kaate. The specific name honours Siber.
An additional specimen consisting of a braincase from the Aathal Dinosaur Museum collection (SMA D16-3) was referred to Kaatedocus in 2013, and its referral was corroborated in 2015 based on an exhaustive phylogenetic analysis.
Description
Kaatedocus was relatively small compared to most diplodocids. The type individual was estimated to have been approximately long. The combined length of the skull and ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandiambakkam%20railway%20station | Nandiambakkam railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Nandiambakkam, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 23 km north of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 6 m above sea level.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 13 April 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Nandiambakkam station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minjur%20railway%20station | Minjur railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Minjur, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 26 km north of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 8 m above sea level.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 13 April 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section.
Traffic
About 20,000 people uses the station every day.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Minjur station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Globo | Radio Globo may refer to
Rádio Globo, a Brazilian news radio network
Radio Globo (Honduras), radio station operating in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Radio Globo (Italy), Italian station based in Rome
See also
Grupo Globo, South American large mass media group founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and with a big number of radio stations and other investments
Globo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20Netherlands | HBO Nederland (Home Box Office) was a Dutch premium television network, owned by a joint venture between HBO and the largest cable television operator in the Netherlands, Ziggo. It launched on 9 February 2012. HBO Nederland offered three television channels, available in HD and SD, video-on-demand services and HBO GO. The programming consisted of HBO's own productions, TV series, documentaries and films from Warner Bros.
HBO Netherlands closed on 31 December 2016. Cable company Ziggo has acquired the broadcasting licenses of HBO content for the Dutch market.
Channels
HBO: Main flagship channel with television premieres
HBO 2: Second channel with a focus on drama and comedy
HBO 3: Third channel with a focus on action and thriller
HBO On Demand
HBO GO
See also
HBO
Television in the Netherlands
References
HBO
HBO Netherlands
Defunct television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20magnetic%20resonance%20spectroscopy%20of%20the%20brain | Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain (fMRS) uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study brain metabolism during brain activation. The data generated by fMRS usually shows spectra of resonances, instead of a brain image, as with MRI. The area under peaks in the spectrum represents relative concentrations of metabolites.
fMRS is based on the same principles as in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). However, while conventional MRS records a single spectrum of metabolites from a region of interest, a key interest of fMRS is to detect multiple spectra and study metabolite concentration dynamics during brain function. Therefore, it is sometimes referred to as dynamic MRS, event-related MRS or time-resolved MRS. A novel variant of fMRS is functional diffusion-weighted spectroscopy (fDWS) which measures diffusion properties of brain metabolites upon brain activation.
Unlike in vivo MRS which is intensively used in clinical settings, fMRS is used primarily as a research tool, both in a clinical context, for example, to study metabolite dynamics in patients with epilepsy, migraine and dyslexia, and to study healthy brains. fMRS can be used to study metabolism dynamics also in other parts of the body, for example, in muscles and heart; however, brain studies have been far more popular.
The main goals of fMRS studies are to contribute to the understanding of energy metabolism in the brain, and to test and improve data acquisition and quantification techniques to ensure and enhance validity and reliability of fMRS studies.
Basic principles
Studied nuclei
Like in vivo MRS, fMRS can probe different nuclei, such as hydrogen (1H) and carbon (13C). The 1H nucleus is the most sensitive and is most commonly used to measure metabolite concentrations and concentration dynamics, whereas 13C is best suited for characterizing fluxes and pathways of brain metabolism. The natural abundance of 13C in the brain is only about 1%; therefore, 13C fMRS studies usually involve the isotope enrichment via infusion or ingestion.
In the literature 13C fMRS is commonly referred to as functional 13C MRS or just 13C MRS.
Spectral and temporal resolution
Typically in MRS a single spectrum is acquired by averaging enough spectra over a long acquisition time. Averaging is necessary because of the complex spectral structures and relatively low concentrations of many brain metabolites, which result in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in MRS of a living brain.
fMRS differs from MRS by acquiring not one but multiple spectra at different time points while the participant is inside the MRI scanner. Thus, temporal resolution is very important and acquisition times need to be kept adequately short to provide a dynamic rate of metabolite concentration change.
To balance the need for temporal resolution and sufficient SNR, fMRS requires a high magnetic field strength (1.5 T and above). High field strengths have the advantage of increased SNR as well as impro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20Telecom%20%28Dominican%20Republic%29 | WIND Telecom, S.A. is a telecommunications company in the Dominican Republic which operates networks for wireless Internet over WiMAX, VoIP telephony, and cable over MMDS in the Dominican Republic.
History
On January 29, 2010 WIND announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics to build out their WiMAX network. On November 29, 2010 WIND launched their WiMAX network in Santiago. On March 30, 2011 WIND announced their network buildout had been completed.
In June 2014, media announced the deployment of a TDD-LTE based network built by ZTE.
Services
Consumer
WIND Telecom provides bundled services under the WIND brand. These bundles offer discounts on their Television, Internet, and Telephone services.
Internet is provided over WiMAX. As of December 2012, their available speeds are as follows.
Enterprise
WIND offers symmetric and asymmetric Internet over WiMAX as well as Internet Backhaul over fibre or microwave. WIND also provides SIP telephone, television, and virtual fax services.
Notes
External links
Telecommunications companies of the Dominican Republic
2008 establishments in the Dominican Republic
Telecommunications companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20protection | Link protection is designed to safeguard networks from failure. Failures in high-speed networks have always been a concern of utmost importance. A single fiber cut can lead to heavy losses of traffic and protection-switching techniques have been used as the key source to ensure survivability in networks. Survivability can be addressed in many layers in a network and protection can be performed at the physical layer (SONET/SDH, Optical Transport Network), Layer 2 (Ethernet, MPLS) and Layer 3 (IP).
Protection architectures like Path protection and Link protection safeguard the above-mentioned networks from different kinds of failures. In path protection, a backup path is used from the source to its destination to bypass the failure. In Link protection, the end nodes of the failed link initiate the protection. These nodes detect the fault responsible to initiate the protection mechanisms in order to detour the affected traffic from the failed link onto predetermined reserved paths. Other types of protection are channel-, segment- and p-cycle protection.
Link Protection in the Optical Transport Layer
In older high-speed transport networks, the SONET layer (also SDH) was the main client wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) layer. For this reason, before WDM protection schemes were defined, SONET protection mechanisms were mainly adopted to guarantee optical network survivability. When the WDM layer was created, the optical networks survivability techniques in consideration were mainly based on many elements of SONET protection in order to ensure maximum compatibility with the legacy systems (SONET systems). Hence some of the WDM-layer protection techniques are very similar to SONET/SDH protection techniques in the case of ring networks.
Ring-Based protection
In the case of a link or network failure, the simplest mechanism for network survivability is automatic protection switching (APS). APS techniques involve reserving a protection channel (dedicated or shared) with the same capacity of the channel or element being protected. When a shared protection technique is used, an APS protocol is needed to coordinate access to the shared protection bandwidth.
An example of a link-based protection architecture at the Optical Transport Network layer is a Bidirectional Line Switched Ring (BLSR). In a BLSR, every link can carry both the working and backup traffic at the same time and hence does not require backup links. Unlike a UPSR (see SONET), in a BLSR, under normal circumstances, the protection fiber is unused and this is beneficial to ISP's since they can use the protection fiber to send lower priority traffic (using protection bandwidth) like data traffic and voice traffic.
There are two architectures for BLSRs. The four-fiber BLSR and the two-fiber BLSR. In a four-fiber BLSR, two fibers are used as working fibers and the other two are used as protection fibers, to be utilized in the case of a failure. Four-fiber BLSRs use two types of protection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20SMC-70 | The SMC-70 is a microcomputer that was produced by Sony and released in September 1982. The system was initially released for general office use in the United States, with the SMC-70G and SMC-70GP (released in 1983) designed for professional video generation, for example in cable television applications, and digital video effect generation.
It was the first computer that used the recently invented (released in 1981 - also by Sony) 3.5" micro floppy disk drive that was modified to become the industry standard. Like many home and office computers of the era, it had its own specially developed version of BASIC. Sony BASIC was designed to take advantage of a color Sony Trinitron display. The SMC-70 was not sold with Microsoft BASIC, despite the system being designed to compete in the US market. With optional expansion ROMs the system could display kanji characters.
The system was expandable, allowing users to install a disk controller with one or two internal 3.5" disk drives (the base system did not include a floppy disk controller or disk drives). The floppy disk controller supported up to two additional 3.5" disk drives (for a total of four 3.5" drives).
The base system included the following external ports: I/O expansion , black and white composite monitor, analog RGB monitor, parallel printer, light pen, cassette deck, number pad, headphone, and RS-232C.
The system could further be expanded by plug-in modules. The SMC-70 had three externally available expansion ports (the unit split apart in the middle and expanded to accommodate one, two, or three modules). Users were limited by the available power from the power supply (0.95A at 120V - 114 watts).
Released expansion modules included:
256K RAM cache disk
5.25 and 8-inch FDD control unit (Shugart interface)
Battery backup
Chinese character ROM
IEEE-488 interface
Kanji ROM
NTSC superimposer (occupied two expansion slots)
PAL superimposer
RGB superimposer
RS-232C serial interface (non-programmable)
RS-232C serial interface (programmable)
Third parties also released expansion modules for the system. Third party expansions included a joystick port and a hard drive controller.
The external I/O expansion port supported a self-powered enclosure that held an additional five modules, the Videotizer (a device that converted analog images to a digital format that could be manipulated), or the 16-bit Supercharger. Internally the SMC-70 had two I/O expansion bus connectors, one of which was used by the 3.5" floppy drive controller.
With the use of the SMC-7086 Supercharger one could add a 5 MHz Intel 8086 16-bit CPU. The Supercharger also supported the addition of an Intel 8087 numeric data processor, which provided about 100 times the performance of the 8086 alone for numeric processing. The Supercharger came with a base 256 KB of RAM that was upgradable to a total of 768K via 256K expansion boards. With the Supercharger the SMC-70 could run CP/M-86. Though Sony announced the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTM%20%28programming%20language%29 | TTM is a string oriented, general purpose macro processing programming language developed in 1968 by Steven Caine and E. Kent Gordon at the California Institute of Technology.
Description
The following description is taken from the original TTM reference manual and the subsequent batch processing extension.
TTM Is a recursive, interpretive language designed primarily for string manipulation, text editing, macro definition and expansion, and other applications generally classified as systems programming. It is derived from GAP and GPM.
Initially, TTM was planned as the macro processing portion of an assembler for the IBM System/360 and was designed to overcome the restrictions and inconsistencies which existed in the standard assemblers for that system.
In addition, it was designed to have all of the power possessed by earlier general macro assemblers but with the unfortunate syntactic and semantic difficulties removed.
During the development of TTM, it became apparent that applications other than assembler macro processing were possible. These include data editing, text manipulation, expression compiling, and macro processing for language processors other than assemblers.
The initial version of TTM was implemented to run in a conversational manner under the Caltech Basic Time Sharing System for the IBM System/360 Model 50. Other versions have been written to run in the batch processing environment of OS/360 and to operate in front of or in conjunction with various language processors.
Syntax and Semantics
The reference implementation assumes that TTM is given a text file containing some combination of ordinary text and TTM function calls (i.e. invocations). The text is scanned character by character. Any ordinary text is passed to the output unchanged (except for escapes).
If a TTM function is encountered, it is collected and executed.
The general form of a TTM function call looks like this
#<functionname;arg1;arg2;...;argn>
where the function name and the arguments are arbitrary character strings not containing characters of significance: '#', '<', '>', and ';'. The function is invoked with the specified arguments and the resulting text is inserted into the original text in place of the function call.
If the function call was prefixed by a single '#' character, then scanning will resume just before the inserted text from the function call.
This is called active invocation.
If the function call was prefixed by two '#' characters, then scanning resumes just after the inserted text. This is called passive invocation.
During the collection of a function call, additional function calls may be encountered, for example, this.
#<functionname;arg1;#<f2;arg;...>;...;argn>
The nested function call will be invoked when encountered and the result inserted into the text of the outer function call and scanning of the outer function call resumes at the place indicated by the number of '#' characters preceding the nested call.
If a function takes, f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20police%20radio%20dramas | This is a list of police radio dramas.
Dramas involving police procedure, private detectives, and espionage have been a mainstay of programming since the early days of broadcasting. Although police radio dramas reached their popularity during the golden age of radio and were largely displaced by television, they continue to be produced in many parts of the world today.
#
21st Precinct (CBS; USA, 1953-1956)
B
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (NBC; USA, 1951-1955)
Boston Blackie (NBC; USA, 1944-1950)
Broadway Is My Beat (CBS; USA, 1949-1954)
Bulldog Drummond (MBS; USA, 1941-1954)
C
Calling All Cars (CBS; USA, 1933-1939)
Casey, Crime Photographer (CBS; USA, 1943-1955)
Cloak and Dagger (NBC; USA, 1950)
Counterspy (NBC Blue and MBS; USA, 1942-1957)
Crime Does Not Pay (USA;WMGM1949-1951, MBS 1952)
D
Dick Tracy (USA; CBS 1935, MBS 1935–1937, NBC 1938–1939, ABC Blue Network 1943-1948)
Dixon of Dock Green, remake, (UK; BBC Radio 2005)
Dragnet (NBC; USA, 1949-1957)
Gang Busters (NBC, CBS, Blue Network, MBS; USA, 1935-1957)
I
I Was a Communist for the FBI (Frederick W. Ziv Company; USA, 1952-1953)
N
Nero Wolfe
Nick Carter, Master Detective
P
Pat Novak For Hire
Perry Mason (CBS; USA, 1943-1955)
Philip Marlowe
R
Richard Diamond
S
Sam Spade
Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police
T
Tales of the Texas Rangers
The Black Museum
The Green Hornet
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Blue Network and Mutual Broadcasting System; USA, 1939-1947)
This is Your FBI
Trueman and Riley (BBC; UK, 2002–present)
Y
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (USA, 1949-1962)
References
Police |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%20Jun | Ge Jun (; born in October 1964 in Nantong, Jiangsu), is the associate professor and master instructor of College of Mathematics and Computer Science of Nanjing Normal University. Ge took part in the composing and designing process of the mathematics paper of the National College Entrance Examination for several times. The papers of the year 2003, 2010 and 2012 were regarded as “extremely difficult” by examinees. As a result, he is called "the Emperor of Mathematics" () by netizens in China. Some media also use this nickname.
Composing of the mathematics papers
The 2003 mathematics examination paper composed by Ge Jun averaged only 68 (out of 150). Some teachers, students and parents believed that the paper of 2010 was more difficult than that of 2003 but actually the average score was 83 (out of 160). In 2012, he joined the composing process of the mathematics paper following the new curriculum standard and the paper was once more considered difficult by examinees.
Since 2011, whenever a difficult mathematics examination paper occurs in China, its composers will be human flesh searched by netizens. Ge was supposed to participate in the composing process of 2011 college entrance examination in Guangdong Province. The Guangdong Provincial Education Examination Authority denied the rumors later. According to the report of Modern Express, Ge Jun himself claimed that he did not participate in the work of Jiangsu or Guangdong.
Evaluations of the mathematics papers of college entrance examination composed by Ge Jun were mixed. For instance, experts believe that the paper was innovative, differentiated, and appropriate while many students and their parents were apparently dissatisfied because of the low marks examinees received. Professor Tu Rongbao (), an expert of the go-over group of mathematics entrance paper of Jiangsu believed the 2010 paper to have a wide coverage of knowledge, to meet the requirements of the exam instructions and to contain a lot of innovations.
Academic areas
Ge Jun mainly engaged in mathematics competitions, teaching theory of mathematics curriculum, network curriculum, school education and research. He has published more than 60 papers and edited more than 30 textbooks and works.
Ge Jun is the senior coach of Chinese Mathematical Olympiad, deputy director of the Centre for Teacher Training in Colleges and Universities of Jiangsu Province, executive director of Primary and Secondary School Science and Technology Education Association of Jiangsu Province, vice chairman of the Council of Mathematics Teaching in Middle Schools of Jiangsu Province, general secretary of Nanjing Institute of Mathematics.
Ge is currently the vice president of the College of teacher education of Nanjing Normal University. His main fields of research include methodology of mathematical thought, teaching theory of mathematics, curriculum evaluation, education of mathematics, mathematical problem solving and mathematical communication.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20protection | Path protection in telecommunications is an end-to-end protection scheme used in connection oriented circuits in different network architectures to protect against inevitable failures on service providers’ network that might affect the services offered to end customers. Any failure occurred at any point along the path of a circuit will cause the end nodes to move/pick the traffic to/from a new route. Finding paths with protection, especially in elastic optical networks, was considered a difficult problem, but an efficient and optimal algorithm was proposed.
Other techniques to protect telecommunications networks against failures are: Channel Protection, Link Protection, Segment-Protection, and P-cycle Protection
Path protection in ring-based networks
In ring-based networks topology where the setup is to form a closed loop among the Add Drop Multiplexers, there is basically one path related ring protection scheme available in Unidirectional Path-Switched Ring architecture. In SDH networks, the equivalent of UPSR is Sub-Network Connection Protection (SNCP). Note that SNCP does not assume a ring topology, and can also be used in mesh topologies.
In UPSR, the data is transmitted in both directions, clock and counter clock wise, at the source ADM. At the destination then, both signals are compared and the best one of the two is selected. If a failure occurs then the destination just needs to switch to the unaffected path.
Path protection in optical mesh network
Circuits in optical mesh networks can be unprotected, protected to a single failure, and protected to multiple failures. The end optical switches in protected circuits are in charge of detecting the failure, in some cases requesting digital cross connects or optical cross-connects in intermediate devices, and switching the traffic to/from the backup path. When the primary and backup paths are calculated, it is important that they are at least link diverse so that a single link failure does not affect both of them at the same time. They can also be node diverse, which offers more protection in case a node failure occurs; depending on the network sometimes the primary and backup path cannot be provisioned to be node diverse at the edges, ingress and egress, node.
There are two types of path protection in Optical Mesh Networks: Dedicated Backup Path Protection and Shared Backup Path Protection
Dedicated backup path protection or DBPP (1+1)
In DBPP, both the primary and backup path carry the traffic end to end, then it is up to the receiver to decide which of the two incoming traffic it is going to pick; this is exactly the same concept as in Ring Based Path Protection. Since the optics along both paths are already active, DBPP is the fastest protection scheme available, usually in the order of a few tens of milliseconds, because there is no signaling involved in between ingress and egress nodes thus only needing the egress node to detect the failure and switch the traffic over to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Child%20Traumatic%20Stress%20Network | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is an American organization whose "mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States". According to its website, the NCTSN "offers training, support, and resources to providers who work with children and families exposed to a wide range of traumatic experiences, including physical and sexual abuse; domestic, school, and community violence; natural disasters, terrorism, or military family challenges; and life-threatening injury and illness."
NCTSN supports trauma-informed care with a well-regarded program called the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit.
History
The NCTSN is coordinated by the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, and is a collaboration that has 60 members and a network of more than 150 centers and thousands of partners throughout the US. It was named in honor of Yale physician Donald J. Cohen, and was established in 2000 by the US Congress.
The NCTSN is a resource for dealing with tragedies like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
References
Further reading
External links
National Child Traumatic Stress Network website
Mental health organizations in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment%20protection | Segment protection is a type of backup technique that can be used in most networks. It can be implemented as a dedicated backup or as a shared backup protection. Overlapping segments and non-overlapping segments are allowed; each providing different advantages.
Technique
Terms
Working path - is the chosen route from source to destination.
Segment protection path - is the working path where the broken segment is using the protected path.
Primary segment - is a segment of the working path.
Protected segment - is the backup path of one segment.
End-to-end protection - is the protection of one segment where is source and destination are also the end points of the backup protection.
Examples
In "Working path" animation on the right it can be seen that for a chosen route the primary path becomes the working path. This example illustrates that the source (node A) is routed to B,then C,D,E, and lastly the destination (node F). We can see that segment protection has been implemented. Segment consists of nodes A, B, C, and D while segment consists of nodes C, D, E, and F. Lets assume that link B-C failed. Nodes B and C know that the link between them is down so they signal to their neighboring nodes that a link is down and to move to a backup path. Node A sends its traffic over to node D directly. Node D then sends the traffic over its route to E then finally destination F.
Note: in this case the segment protection path for segment does not contain any intermediate nodes; this is usually not the case, but the example would follow respectively.
Overlapping vs. non-overlapping
Overlapping and non-overlapping segment protection have one main difference but provide different protections at different costs. The diagrams to the right, "overlapping protection" and "non-overlapping protection" illustrate the difference between the two. The overlapping scheme makes sure that there is at least one link that is protected by two segments, while the non-overlapping scheme begins a segment protection at the same node as the previous ended. Node protection is the main advantage of the overlapping scheme over the non-overlapping scheme.
Node protection that is provided allows a path to be provisioned if a node goes offline. In the diagram, "Overlapped link", we can see that link C-D has protection from segment and segment . This type of protection allows node C to fail and for the backup of segment to be used. The path would then be node A to D to E to F. This would work the same if node D failed. The corresponding path to that failure would be node A to B to C to F.
Non-overlapping segment protection does not provide node protection at every node. This scheme is only able to recover from a node failure that is not at the segment end node. In the diagram, "Non-overlapping protection", if node D fails a path cannot be provisioned from node A, the source, to node F, the Destination. Non-overlapping segment protection is a more cost efficient solution because on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American%20Freemasonry | Anglo-American Freemasonry (also self-described as Regular Freemasonry) is a loose network of overlapping chains of mutually recognized Grand Lodges, forming a Regular Masonic jurisdiction. For the most part these trace their descent from one of "original" British Grand Lodges, with mutual recognition based on adherence to certain core values, rules and membership requirements (known as Landmarks).
Different branches of Freemasonry
Freemasonry is often said to consist of two branches not in mutual regular amity:
Anglo-American style, or Regular Freemasonry
Continental style, or Liberal Freemasonry
The majority of Masonic jurisdictions around the world follow the Anglo-American style. The United Grand Lodge of England lists 194 Grand Lodges which it considers to be Regular and the Grand Lodge of New York lists 202 which it considers to be Regular, while the umbrella organisation for Liberal Freemasonry, CLIPSAS, lists 90 members. The Anglo-American style is especially dominant in the United States, and the countries that once formed the British Empire. It has a minority presence in France and most Latin American countries. The Anglo-American branch has several noteworthy sub-branches, most notably Prince Hall Freemasonry (a legacy of past racial segregation in the United States, and so predominantly found in that country). The Swedish Rite (which is exclusively open for confessors of the Christian faith, and has a significant presence in Scandinavia), although recognised by this branch of masonry, is best viewed as a separate rite.
The Continental Style dominates in France, and has a majority presence in several European countries and in most Latin American countries. It has a minority presence in other parts of the world.
There are three core issues that separate the Anglo-American Branch and the Continental Branch of Freemasonry:
References
External links
The Web of Hiram at Bradford University, an electronic database of historic Masonic material for Great Britain held in the university's Special Collections
Freemasonry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett%20Optical%20Ranging%20System | The Barrett Optical Ranging System (BORS) is an integrated ballistics computer manufactured by Barrett Firearms that aids snipers and long-range marksmen in taking precise and accurate shots. The system mounts directly to the riflescope and couples with the elevation knob. With the aid of the BORS, marksmen can rapidly account for temperature, barometric pressure and aiming at an upward or downward angle.
Design and features
The computer built into the BORS, constantly updates to account for changing factors. Barrett states that the BORS "instantly takes care of the data work so the shooter can focus on the task of putting lead on target." It takes data from thousands of tables and accounts for a number of real-time external factors automatically giving the shooter the exact yardage at which a bullet will hit its target.
Since the BORS is mounted directly to the scope and coupled with the elevation knobs, the computer can interact with the scope by simply turning the elevation knob until the LCD displays the target’s range.
The kit includes the proprietary Barrett Ballistic Software that is pre-programmed with a library selected by Barrett. It also includes a cable that allows users to program custom loads on their computer and transfer them directly to the BORS.
Use
While designed to withstand military operations, the BORS is also available for civilian sale and can be used by long-range marksmen including target shooters and hunters. The BORS was used by Ukrainian forces in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a unit fitted onto a Barrett M107A1 rifle was captured by Russian forces.
References
External links
Official Website
BORS User Manual
Barrett firearms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20as%20a%20service | Network as a service (NaaS) brings software-defined networking (SDN), programmable networking and API-based operation to WAN services, and transport, hybrid cloud, multicloud, Private Network Interconnect, and internet exchange points.
Historic definitions focused on fundamental concepts of NaaS, including describing services for network transport connectivity. NaaS also involves the optimization of resource allocations by considering network and computing resources as a unified whole.
Description
The term network-as-a-service (NaaS) is often used alongside other marketing terms like cloud computing, along with terms such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and software-defined networking.
With the emergence of cloud computing, NaaS has become the transport not only between dynamic collaborators outside of the cloud (an update to the classic enterprise WAN architecture), but also between enterprise resources in private (often multi-tenant) data center facilities (MTDCs) and in the public Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), including the interconnection between all of these in a growing "cloud first" enterprise architecture.
Before the new WAN connectivity patterns, enterprise WAN architectures and consumption models resulting from the adoption of cloud computing and the network programmability focus introduced by SDN, NaaS was sometimes used to describe more traditional network resource-sharing concepts like the provision of a virtual network service by the owners of the network infrastructure to a third party.
Some service models include:
Connectivity cloud: A model in which a private fiber fabric or wireline "middle mile" network is used to bypass often less-optimal public (internet) routing and congestion to provide connectivity for critical Enterprise resources and services access. Controlled via a distributed software platform, the model supports "cloud-aligned" elastic consumption including on-demand provisioning, any-to-any connectivity, and flexible bandwidth deployment (see BoD) through both portal and programmable API operation and introspection. By integrating the platform API with provisioning and application deployment playbooks, the resulting WAN can realize an infrastructure as code paradigm for wide area networks—"network-as-code". The resulting services include custom WAN interconnectivity, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud connectivity. This model is employed by a facility-based provider, and is not reliant on another network as an underlay (like VPN or IP transit-based network models). While the operations design is direct-to-consumer, because of its programmability and its facilities base, this model can also support the Virtual Network Operator model for wireline connectivity in a manner similar to the mobile network virtualization model (MVNO) for wireless networks.
Connecting through the cloud: It is considered that 2 or more locations/systems are connected th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhota%20Bheem%20and%20the%20Curse%20of%20Damyaan | Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan is a 2012 Indian computer-animated fantasy action adventure film written and directed by Rajiv Chilaka, based on the character Chhota Bheem and his friends. It is the eleventh movie in the Chhota Bheem film series and the first movie to be released in theatres. The film was made under the Green Gold Animation banner in association with INOX Cinemas and distributed by PVR Pictures worldwide.
Plot
In Dholakpur, Princess Indumati and a few other children are kidnapped by Mangal Singh. Chhota Bheem aka arrives and saves the children Meanwhile, Jaggu, Dholu-Bholu, Raju, Chutki and Kalia are planning their Bheem's secret birthday party while Damyaan, a demon who was granted immortality by the Book of Magi along with a curse that he would be confined to the city of Sonapur, wants to escape from this confinement and get back his power and kingdom. Damyaan's minister, Skandi hijacks and loots trade convoy headed for Dholakpur and meets King Indravarma, who assigned the delivery of the convoy. Bheem suspects Skandi and the rest of his gang, before he can speak to Indravarma, Skandi reveals about the depleting treasury of Dholakpur and the hidden treasures of Sonapur, thus luring him. In reality, he wants to trick Indravarma to release Damyaan. Indravarma agrees to leave for the city in search of that hidden treasure. Despite being warned by the gypsies, he begins the journey, along with Bheem and his friends. After reaching the city, the king unknowingly sets Damyaan free through the great demon entrance.
Damyaan captures the king, along with Bheem and his friends in the prison. Bheem manages to set his friends free through his wit and strength, where he meets Singhala, who reveals that the only way to free the prisoners from Damyaan's capture is defeating Damyaan by destroying the Book of Magi. Singhala sends them back in time where the while trying to find the Book of Magi. A fight ensues, in which Dholu-Bholu are turned into frogs. Bheem somehow manages to defeat the guards and dons their clothes along with his friends and enters Sonapur pretending to be a bunch of Kaalsainiks. Soon another group of Kaalsainiks arrive and a sweet shop owner named Gulabchand figures out that Bheem and his team are not Kaalsainiks and manages to save the group. In the process, Bheem is wounded and faints while passing through the magical door. Upon regaining consciousness, he observes that Dholu-Bholu have regained their respective human forms. The sage who saves them, Guru Sambhu, tells them that despite being brave and strong, they cannot defeat Damyaan without magic. He then takes them to a magical place and teaches magic to the group. After completing their class on magic, he provides them with powers: Raju gets a magical bow and arrow which never misses its aim; Chutki gets two magical trees; Jaggu gets a bunch of magical stinging bananas; Kalia gets the power to become invisible; Dholu and Bholu get the power to replicate th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20different%20machine%20translation%20approaches | Machine translation (MT) algorithms may be classified by their operating principle. MT may be based on a set of linguistic rules, or on large bodies (corpora) of already existing parallel texts. Rule-based methodologies may consist in a direct word-by-word translation, or operate via a more abstract representation of meaning: a representation either specific to the language pair, or a language-independent interlingua. Corpora-based methodologies rely on machine learning and may follow specific examples taken from the parallel texts, or may calculate statistical probabilities to select a preferred option out of all possible translations.
Rule-based and corpus-based machine translation
Rule-based machine translation (RBMT) is generated on the basis of morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of both the source and the target languages. Corpus-based machine translation (CBMT) is generated on the analysis of bilingual text corpora. The former belongs to the domain of rationalism and the latter empiricism. Given large-scale and fine-grained linguistic rules, RBMT systems are capable of producing translations with reasonable quality, but constructing the system is very time-consuming and labor-intensive because such linguistic resources need to be hand-crafted, frequently referred to as knowledge acquisition problem. Moreover, it is of great difficulty to correct the input or add new rules to the system to generate a translation. By contrast, adding more examples to a CBMT system can improve the system since it is based on the data, though the accumulation and management of the huge bilingual data corpus can also be costly.
Direct, transfer and interlingual machine translation
The direct, transfer-based machine translation and interlingual machine translation methods of machine translation all belong to RBMT but differ in the depth of analysis of the source language and the extent to which they attempt to reach a language-independent representation of meaning or intent between the source and target languages. Their dissimilarities can be obviously observed through the Vauquois Triangle (see illustration), which illustrates these levels of analysis.
Starting with the shallowest level at the bottom, direct transfer is made at the word level. Depending on finding direct correspondences between source language and target language lexical units, DMT is a word-by-word translation approach with some simple grammatical adjustments. A DMT system is designed for a specific source and target language pair and the translation unit of which is usually a word. Translation is then performed on representations of the source sentence structure and meaning respectively through syntactic and semantic transfer approaches.
A transfer-based machine translation system involves three stages. The first stage makes analysis of the source text and converts it into abstract representations; the second stage converts those into equivalent target language-oriented rep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible%20Crew | Incredible Crew is an American sketch comedy television series, created by Nick Cannon for Cartoon Network. Cannon created the series in early 2012, and the series aired as a sneak peek on December 31, 2012 to April 11, 2013, featuring a 22-minute run time.
This was the final live-action show produced by Cartoon Network until 2021, when Family Mash-Up was announced to be in production. (Family Mash-Up was eventually scrapped, which makes Incredible Crew the last live-action program to date to be made on Cartoon Network.)
Plot
Incredible Crew is a live-action sketch comedy series from producer and entertainer Nick Cannon. Episodes consist of short-form surreal comedy acts, hidden camera pranks, original music videos, and commercial parodies using non-sequitur humor. Incredible Crew casts six young comedy stars: Shauna Case (American Horror Story), Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse), Tristan Pasterick (guest star, I'm in the Band), Chanelle Peloso (Level Up), Jeremy Shada (Adventure Time), and Brandon Soo Hoo (Supah Ninjas). Nick Cannon serves as executive producer of Incredible Crew along with Michael Goldman and Scott Tomlinson. Cartoon Network Studios produced the series in association with N'Credible Entertainment.
Sketches
According to Michael Goldman and Scott Tomlinson, over 330 sketches were created and carefully selected for each episode.
Cast
Principal cast
Nick Cannon as Announcer
Shauna Case as Herself, Various
Shameik Moore as Himself, Various
Tristan Pasterick as Himself, Various
Chanelle Peloso as Herself, Various
Jeremy Shada as Himself, Various
Brandon Soo Hoo as Himself, Various
Recurring cast
Benton Jennings as Krumping High School Principal
Rachel O'Meara as Various
Justin Tinucci as Justin, Performer
Jillian "Jill" Moray as Mother, Teacher
Stephanie Jackson as Mom
Barbara Kerford as Mom
Nicholas "Nick" Leland as Various
Lawrence "Larry" Morgan as Dad
Cassandra Braden as Mrs. Hall
Lawrence Mandley as Referee
Episodes
Pilot (2011)
Season 1 (2013)
Reception
Emily Ashby from Common Sense Media gave the show 3 stars and said that "Nick Cannon's mild sketch comedy will entertain kids," and that it "makes the most of clever writing and a well-rounded cast."
Accolades
Music
In conjunction with the show's music, WaterTower Music released two soundtrack albums based on the first season of the show. The first album, Incredible Crew: Music From the Television Show (Vol. 1), was released on March 5, 2013, and the second, Incredible Crew: Music From the Television Show (Vol. 2), was released on April 23, 2013. Both soundtracks were available to download via iTunes. The show's music was composed by Nick Cannon and Kevin Writer.
Track listing for Volume 1
Track listing for Volume 2
Cancellation
On July 29, 2013, the series was cancelled after one season, mostly due to low ratings. Reruns aired on the network until November 23, 2014.
See also
All That
The Amanda Show
So Random!
Refer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtel%20Movies | Foxtel Movies is a suite of 11 pay television film channels in Australia which began broadcasting on 1 January 2013. Owned by Foxtel, the channels replaced the now-defunct Movie Network and Showtime suites.
History
In June 2012, speculation arose that Foxtel would be looking at taking movies in-house at the end of 2012 when their contracts with Showtime and Movie Network expired.
This would allow Foxtel to make cost savings of a predicted 40% by making movie deals directly with the Hollywood studios.
On 11 October 2012, it was announced that Foxtel had acquired "certain assets" from the Premium Movie Partnership (PMP) shareholders, taking over managing and producing the Showtime channels from 31 October 2012.
Foxtel were in negotiations with Movie Network to acquire it, but it was believed that two of the Movie Network shareholders (Warner Bros. & Village Roadshow) broke ranks and began negotiations with Foxtel for their movie rights. On 6 December 2012, it was announced that Movie Network would fold on 1 January 2013, being not permitted to sell the company to Foxtel or renew their contract.
On 9 December 2012, Foxtel announced they would launch a new line up of channels branded Foxtel Movies. The channels would offer films from four major film companies – 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, & NBCUniversal (rights acquired from Foxtel's acquisition of Showtime).
On 20 December 2012, Foxtel announced a movie deal with Village Roadshow. On 21 December 2012, Foxtel announced a movie deal with Warner Bros.
Over 600 posts were made on Foxtel's Facebook page within 3 days after Foxtel Movies' launch, all criticising Foxtel's changes in that the total amount of channels was reduced from 15 to 11 yet the price remained the same. On 17 January 2013, in response to the outrage by subscribers, Foxtel launched an additional 2 timeshift channels (Family + 2 and Action/Adventure + 2).
On 21 February 2013, Foxtel announced they had finalised agreements with The Walt Disney Company and MGM, resulting in Foxtel having agreements with all the major studios and distributors.
On 15 October 2013, it was announced that Foxtel had reached distribution agreements with StudioCanal, Hopscotch Entertainment One, Icon, and Transmission Films – four of Australia's key independent movie distributors.
On 1 January 2014, Action/Adventure, Drama/Romance and Thriller/Crime were renamed Action, Romance and Thriller respectively.
Despite these changes, the programming of each channel remained constant. In addition to the name change of three channels, all channels launched new logos and themes.
On 10 April 2014, Foxtel Movies launched Foxtel Movies Disney, a channel dedicated to Disney's animated, live action and Pixar films. On 28 March 2015, a timeshift channel for Foxtel Movies Disney launched, coinciding with its first birthday.
On 1 July 2016, Foxtel Movies launched Foxtel Movies More, a channel which features a mixture of films which air as theme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nungambakkam%20railway%20station | Nungambakkam 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 Nungambakkam, a suburb of Chennai. It is located at about 8 km from Chennai Beach terminus and is situated at Choolaimedu, with an elevation of 11 m above sea level.
History
Nungambakkam railway station was constructed when the electric suburban railway service was laid between 1928 and 1931. Before 1923, the stretch between Chetpet and Kodambakkam stations was covered by the Nungambakkam Tank. The section was converted to 25 kV AC traction on 15 January 1967.
Safety issues
Despite being one of the busier railway stations within downtown Chennai, the station lacked many safety factors, including lack of a closed-circuit television camera. The murder of Swathy, a 24-year-old computer engineer who was hacked to death by a then unidentified young man in the station premises on the morning of 24 June 2016 in full daylight, received wide media attention and publicity, leading to the public outcry on the safety levels at all suburban stations.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Nungambakkam railway station on IndiaRailInfo.com
Local Train timings from/to Nungambakkam
Railway stations in India opened in the 1900s
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on April 5, 2010, and concluded on September 27, 2010, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The series is based on a short produced for Frederator's Nicktoons Network animation incubator series Random! Cartoons. The season follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, and BMO.
After the original short became a viral hit on the internet, Cartoon Network picked it up for a full-length series that previewed on March 11, 2010, and officially premiered on April 5, 2010. The season was storyboarded and written by Adam Muto, Elizabeth Ito, Pendleton Ward, Sean Jimenez, Patrick McHale, Luther McLaurin, Kent Osborne, Pete Browngardt, Niki Yang, Armen Mirzaian, J. G. Quintel, Cole Sanchez, Tom Herpich, Bert Youn, and Ako Castuera.
The first episodes of the season, "Slumber Party Panic" and "Trouble in Lumpy Space" were watched by 2.5 million viewers; this marked a dramatic increase in viewers watching Cartoon Network when compared to the previous year. The season ended with the finale "Gut Grinder" on September 27, 2010. Soon after airing, the show began to receive critical acclaim as well as a large fan following. In 2010, the Adventure Time episode "My Two Favorite People" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program, although the series did not win. Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were released after the season finished airing. On July 10, 2012, the full season was released on Region 1 DVD; a Blu-ray edition was released on June 4, 2013.
Development
Concept and creation
The season follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including: Princess Bubblegum, the Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, and BMO.
Common storylines revolve around: Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, rescuing princesses from the Ice King, and battling monsters in order to help others. Various other episodes deal with Finn attempting to understand his attraction towards Bubblegum.
According to series creator Pendleton Ward, the show's style was influenced by his time attending the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and his experiences working as a writer and storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. In an interview with Animation World Network, Ward said he strives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on October 11, 2010, and concluded on May 2, 2011, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The season follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, and BMO.
After the first, the second season of Adventure Time was quickly ordered by Cartoon Network. However, the beginning of the series debuted under production constraints, and "It Came from the Nightosphere" aired after just barely being finished. The season was storyboarded and written by Adam Muto, Rebecca Sugar, Kent Osborne, Somvilay Xayaphone, Cole Sanchez, Benton Connor, Jesse Moynihan, Ako Castuera, and Tom Herpich.
The first episode of the season, "It Came from the Nightosphere" was watched by 2.001 million viewers; this marked a decrease in viewers watching Cartoon Network when compared to the previous season's debut, although it marked an increase when compared to the last season's finale. The season ended with the episode "Heat Signature" on May 9, 2011. It was viewed by 1.975 million viewers, which marked an increase from the first-season finale. The season was initially supposed to end with the cliffhanger two-parter "Mortal Folly"/"Mortal Recoil." Still, due to a scheduling error, "Heat Signature" was the last episode to air for the season. In 2011, Adventure Time was nominated for an Annie Award, and the episode "It Came from the Nightosphere" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program. Neither the series nor the episode won, however. Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were released after the season finished airing. The complete season set was released on June 4, 2013, on DVD and Blu-ray.
Development
Concept
The season follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, and BMO. Common storylines revolve around: Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, battling the Ice King, and battling monsters to help others. Various other episodes deal with Finn attempting to understand his attraction towards Bubblegum. Two of the season's final episodes, "Mortal Folly"/"Mortal Recoil", expand the mythology of the show by introducing the Lich (voiced by Ron Perlman), who would become the show's main antagonist.
Production
After Adventure Time debuted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on July 11, 2011, and concluded on February 13, 2012, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The season follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, and BMO.
This season saw the series grow and progress, featuring the first of the popular Fionna and Cake episodes, as well as marking the first time that fan-submitted content was canonized. Ward also noted that the storyboard artists affected the overall tone of the show, moving it towards more bizarre and spiritual matters. The season was storyboarded and written by Ako Castuera, Tom Herpich, Adam Muto, Rebecca Sugar, Jesse Moynihan, Bert Youn, Kent Osborne, Somvilay Xayaphone, Pendleton Ward, and Natasha Allegri.
The first episode of the season, "Conquest of Cuteness" was watched by 2.686 million viewers; this marked an increase in viewers watching Cartoon Network when compared to the previous season's debut. The season ended with the cliffhanger "Incendium", which was resolved at the start of season four. The season was met with largely positive critical reception. In addition, several episodes and writers were nominated for awards; the episode "Thank You" was nominated for an Annie Award as well as an award at the Sundance Film Festival. "Too Young" was nominated for an Emmy Award. Storyboard artist Rebecca Sugar was also nominated for an Annie Award. Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were released after the season finished airing. The full season set was released on February 25, 2014, on DVD and Blu-ray.
Development
Concept
The season follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, and BMO. Common storylines revolve around: Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, battling the Ice King, and battling monsters in order to help others. This season expands upon the backstories of Marceline and Ice King, and concludes with Finn attempting to understand his attraction towards Bubblegum and developing a crush on newly introduced Flame Princess.
Production
After the increasing success of the series, on November 29, 2010 Deadline Hollywood announced that Cartoon Network had renewed the series for a third season. The episode titles were released on April 6, 2011, by Frederator Studios, while the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on November 12, 2012 and concluded on March 17, 2014, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The season follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess.
This season comprises 52 episodes, making it twice the length of any of the show's previous seasons. The episodes were storyboarded and written by Tom Herpich, Jesse Moynihan, Cole Sanchez, Rebecca Sugar, Steve Wolfhard, Skyler Page, Somvilay Xayaphone, Ako Castuera, Michael DeForge, Kent Osborne, David OReilly, Ward, Graham Falk, Thomas Wellmann, Luke Pearson, Seo Kim, and Andy Ristaino. The season also featured OReilly and James Baxter as guest animators in the episodes "A Glitch is a Glitch" and "James Baxter the Horse," respectively. Furthermore, this was the last year of Adventure Time to feature Sugar and Page as they both left before the season ended to create their own shows. (Sugar with Steven Universe; Page with Clarence). It was also the final season to feature Ward as the showrunner.
The first episode of the fifth season was the two-parter episode "Finn the Human" / "Jake the Dog," both of which aired on November 12, 2012. 3.435 million viewers viewed the episode; this marked a dramatic increase from the previous season's premiere and finale. The season ended with "Billy's Bucket List," which was viewed by 2.335 million viewers.
The season was met with largely positive critical reception. In June 2013, the series was nominated for "Best Animated Series" at the 2013 Critics' Choice Television Awards, although it did not win. Both "Simon & Marcy" and "Be More" were nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Short-Format Animation at the 65th and 66th Primetime Emmy Awards respectively. Former character designer Andy Ristaino and series' art director Nick Jennings both won Emmys for "Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation" in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In addition, several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season have been released. The complete season set was released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 14, 2015.
Development
Concept
The season follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on April 2, 2012 and concluded on October 22, 2012, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The season follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess.
During the production of the season Ward and the series' crew sought to over come what they called the "season four blues" by writing more interesting and different stories than what had previously aired. The season was storyboarded and written by Cole Sanchez, Rebecca Sugar, Tom Herpich, Skyler Page, Ako Castuera, Jesse Moynihan, Bert Youn, Somvilay Xayaphone, and Steve Wolfhard.
The first episode of the season, "Hot to the Touch" was watched by 2.655 million viewers; this marked a slight decrease in viewers watching Cartoon Network when compared to the previous season's debut. The season ended with the cliffhanger "The Lich", which was viewed by 2.589 million viewers; the story was resolved at the start of season five. The season was met with largely positive critical reception. In addition, several episodes were nominated for awards; the episodes "Princess Cookie", "The Hard Easy", "Lady & Peebles", and "Goliad" were all nominated for Annie Awards. The episode "Card Wars" won a Golden Reel Award. Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were released after the season finished airing. The full season set was released on October 7, 2014 on DVD and Blu-ray.
Development
Concept
The season follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around: Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, battling the Ice King, and battling monsters in order to help others. Multi-episode storylines for this season include Finn attempting to woo Flame Princess, and the Lich using the Enchiridion to open a multidimensional portal in his quest to destroy all life in the multiverse.
Production
On April 6, 2011, Eric Homan announced through Frederator's official blog that, although he was unable to "confirm nor deny" whether the series had been renewed for a fourth season, "if there were a fourth season planned [...] writing would begin next week." On April 28, 2011, Ward officially announced that, with the storyboards for season thr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WATIAC | WATIAC was a virtual computer developed for teaching the principles of assembly language programming to undergraduates.
WATIAC, and the WATMAP assembly language that ran on it were developed in 1973 by the newly founded Computer Systems Group,
at the University of Waterloo, under the direction of Wes Graham.
In the 1970s most programming was conducted through batch stream processing, where the operating systems of the day, like IBM`s OS-360, would allow a single program to use all the resources of a large computer, for a limited period of time.
Since student programs were only run a few times, possibly only once, after they had been successfully written, and debugged, efficient running of those programs was of relatively little importance, compared with quick compilation and relatively good error messages.
Waterloo had been a leader in writing single pass, compile-and-go teaching compilers, with first its WATFOR FORTRAN compiler, and its WATBOL COBOL compiler.
WATMAP was developed to be a similar compile-and-go teaching compiler.
References
Computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WATBOL | WATBOL is a teaching compiler for the COBOL programming language developed in 1969 at the University of Waterloo.
The compiler was a companion product, built under the design philosophy, of Waterloo's earlier, widely used WATFOR teaching compiler.
Since programs written by undergraduate students were unlikely to be run more than a few times, after they were successfully written and debugged, the efficiency of the program, once compiled was of secondary importance, compared with giving simpler, clearer error messages, and in simplifying the steps for the student to compile the program. At that time executing a program through the use of commercial compiler was a three-step process. First the Fortran, or COBOL, had to be compiled into assembly language, then the assembly language had to be assembled into binary code; finally the compiled and assembled code had to be linked with previously written libraries of subroutines. WATFOR and WATBOL allowed simple programs to be compiled, linked, and executed in a single step.
In 1982 Carol Vogt wrote that 230 other institutions were using WATBOL.
References
Test items
Compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Savage%20Dragon%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Savage Dragon is a half-hour animated television series aired as part of the Cartoon Express on the USA Network. Co-produced by Universal Cartoon Studios, P3 Entertainment, Lacewood Productions for season 1 and Studio B Productions for season 2, it ran for 26 episodes from 1995 to 1996 and featured numerous supporting characters from the comic book series, including She-Dragon, Horde, Barbaric, Mako and Overlord.
The Dragon was voiced by Jim Cummings. Additional voices were provided by Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Jennifer Hale, René Auberjonois, Frank Welker, Paul Eiding, Rob Paulsen and Tony Jay.
The series is currently available to stream on Peacock.
Cast
Main cast
René Auberjonois as Horde
Jeff Glen Bennett as Barbaric / Mako The Shark / Sergeant Howard Niseman
Jim Cummings as Savage Dragon / Doubleheader
Jennifer Hale as She-Dragon
Dorian Harewood as Lieutenant Frank Darling / R. Richard Richards
Tony Jay as Overlord
Danny Mann as Fiend / Open Face
Rob Paulsen as John Backwood / Octopus
Kath Soucie as Alex Wilde
Frank Welker as Arachnid / Basher
Additional voices
Gregg Berger
Ruth Buzzi
Darleen Carr
Dave Coulier as Gilroy
Michael Dorn as The Warrior King
Paul Eiding
Jeannie Elias
Richard Gilbert Hill
Allan Lurie
Mark Hamill
Robert Picardo
Peter Renaday
Neil Ross
Cree Summer
Marcelo Tubert
Paul Williams
Episodes
Season 1 (1995–1996)
Season two (1996)
Toyline
To coincide with the animated series, Playmates Toys produced a toyline of five action figures featuring the Dragon, She-Dragon, and Barbaric.
References
External links
1995 American television series debuts
1996 American television series endings
1990s American animated television series
1995 Canadian television series debuts
1996 Canadian television series endings
1990s Canadian animated television series
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated science fantasy television series
American children's animated superhero television series
Animated television series about dragons
Canadian children's animated action television series
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
Canadian children's animated science fantasy television series
Canadian children's animated superhero television series
USA Network original programming
USA Action Extreme Team
English-language television shows
Television series by Universal Animation Studios
Television shows based on comics
Television series based on Image Comics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Grimson | William Eric Leifur Grimson (born 1953) is a Canadian-born computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as Chancellor from 2011 to 2014. An expert in computer vision, he headed MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 2005 to 2011 and currently serves as its Chancellor for Academic Advancement.
Early life and education
Grimson was born in 1953 in Estevan, Saskatchewan. His father William was the principal of Estevan Collegiate Institute, the local high school, and his mother was an eminent musician and taught piano performance and music theory. The family later moved to Regina, where he attended Campbell Collegiate and the University of Regina, graduating in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics with high honours. In 1980, he received his PhD in mathematics from MIT. His doctoral dissertation, "Computing Shape Using a Theory of Human Stereo Vision", was on computer vision, a field that would become the focus of his research career. An expanded version of the dissertation was published by MIT Press in 1981 as From Images to Surfaces: A Computational Study of the Human Early Vision System, which was endorsed by Tomaso Poggio and Noam Chomsky.
Academia
After completing his PhD, Grimson worked as a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now CSAIL) before joining the university's faculty in 1984. He eventually rose to Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering and holds a joint appointment as a Radiology Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. After serving as Education Officer and Associate Department Head, he was appointed Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and served from 2005 to 2011. In February 2011, he was appointed Chancellor of MIT, succeeding Phillip Clay, and took up his post the following month and served until 2014 when he was replaced by Cynthia Barnhart.
Grimson has "long prized teaching" and has taught introductory computer science courses for 25 years, in addition to advising doctoral students and teaching advanced classes. He also teaches two introductory computer science courses on edX.
In his current position as Chancellor for Academic Advancement, Grimson reports directly to MIT President L. Rafael Reif. His role is to gather faculty and student input on MIT's fundraising priorities and to communicate these priorities to donors and alumni.
Personal life
Grimson is married to Wellesley College professor Ellen Hildreth. The couple have two sons.
Honors and awards
Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (2014): For contributions to computer vision and medical image computing
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow (2004): For contributions to surface reconstruction, object-recognition, image database indexing, and medical applications
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabi%20Hernandez | Gabi Hernandez is a fictional character from the American soap opera Days of Our Lives on the NBC network. The role was first introduced in 2009, and played by actress Camila Banus since 2010. The role was created by Dena Higley and Christopher Whitesell, and originated by actress Gabriela Rodriguez on November 20, 2009. Banus stepped into the role on October 4, 2010.
Originally described as a sweet, innocent, and loving girl, a number of events since Gabi's arrival on the series have altered her personality. In 2012, the character experienced a personality shift, which would reveal her manipulative side that was called "crazy" and obsessive. Her storylines have included the death of her sister Arianna Hernandez (Lindsay Hartley), her first love (Will Horton) coming to terms that he is gay, and romances with Chad DiMera (Casey Deidrick/Billy Flynn), Nick Fallon (Blake Berris), JJ Deveraux (Casey Moss), Eli Grant (Lamon Archey), Stefan DiMera (Tyler Christopher/ Brandon Barash) and Jake Lambert (also Barash). Other storylines have included killing Nick, giving birth to Will's daughter, Arianna Horton , going to prison several times, being wrongly accused and imprisoned for the murder of André DiMera and her feuds with Chad, Abigail Deveraux, Julie Olson Williams and Lani Price, amongst others. Gabi is of Latin descent, and Banus has expressed her pride in representing the Hispanic community through her portrayal. Banus' portrayal of Gabi earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2015.
Casting
Gabriela Rodriguez first appeared in the role of Gabi on November 20, 2009. Of auditioning, Rodriguez said "It was honestly so random. I had never auditioned for a soap opera before and I was like "wow this is different. I think I want to give it a try." She seemed like such a cool girl, I was like "hey let's go for it." [...] I ended up talking with the casting director for a while and she just kind of explained to me about the character [...] The next day I got called for a callback and that was that." Fellow Hispanic actress Camilla Banus had also auditioned. Banus stated "I went in and read for the role. It was actually a pretty long process. The first audition then the second audition, then I went in again to meet the casting director and the producer. They then said they wanted me for a screen test. I did the screen test and they ended up not choosing me. They ended up going with the other girl [Rodriguez]. They told me that they wanted to go a little bit younger for the part."
In July 2010, Soap Opera Digest reported that Rodriguez had been replaced by Banus. Banus was previously best known for her role as Lola Montez on One Life to Live. Banus, who first aired as Gabi on October 4, 2010, said that the transition was "super easy" and she was welcomed onto the set with "lots of love".
Explaining her being hired by Days of our Lives, Banus said that two months after her initial audition she was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Got%20Talent%20%28season%207%29 | Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television show, based on the original UK series, to find new talent. The seventh season aired on the Nine Network from 11 August 2013 until 10 November 2013. Kyle Sandilands returned as a judge for his fourth season, and was joined by Dawn French, Timomatic and Geri Halliwell, as well as Julia Morris as the new host. Halliwell, French and Timomatic who is the additional fourth judge replaced original judge Dannii Minogue and Brian McFadden, while Morris replaced Grant Denyer. It was the first time that the show aired on another network, following its axing from the Seven Network in October 2012. The auditions took place from March–April 2013.
Season Overview
In October 2012, original host Grant Denyer confirmed he would not return to the show. In November and December 2012, it was also confirmed that Dannii Minogue, Brian McFadden and Kyle Sandilands would all not return to the judging panel following the show's reboot. Nine stated that it was looking for a "fresh, new panel", ruling out original judge Minogue who had sat on the panel since the show's debut in 2007. This was the first season in the show's history to feature four judges.
On 17 March 2013, it was announced that Melanie Brown of Spice Girls would replace Minogue as a judge. A day later, it was announced that comedian Dawn French would replace McFadden on the panel. On 19 March 2013, it was announced that former participant Tim Omaji, otherwise known as Timomatic, had signed up to the panel. On 20 March 2013, it was announced that Sandilands would return to reprise his role on the panel despite constant rumours that he would be leaving the show. Later that day, Julia Morris was confirmed as the host of the new season.
On 20 March 2013, it was reported that Seven, the show's former network, had won a legal injunction preventing Brown from signing onto any shows airing on Nine until 31 January 2014, thus putting her role on the show in doubt. Producers were forced to look for a new fourth judge after a Supreme Court judge ruled that the injunction preventing Brown from working for any Australian network other than Seven was to remain in place. On 29 April 2013, Nine confirmed that Geri Halliwell would replace Brown as the fourth judge.
This season's judges table and X's on the stage looked identical to the ones on Britain's Got Talent. In addition, the sound of the fourth judge's buzzer sounded identical to the one on America's Got Talent when an act had been buzzed out, while the others' sounded identical to the ones on Britain's Got Talent.
Auditions
In December 2012, it was announced that the auditions would take place from March 2013. There were various options for auditioning, such as attending the correct venue on the correct day with the questionnaire (which could be found on the website or completed on audition day), sending a DVD in with the act on it, or applying online. The following list contains all of the cities, venu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20%28malware%29 | Dexter is a computer virus or point of sale malware which infects computers running Microsoft Windows and was discovered by IT security firm Seculert, in December 2012. It infects PoS systems worldwide and steals sensitive information such as credit and debit card information.
Function
When Dexter infects a machine it injects itself into iexplore.exe, the executable file that runs Internet Explorer. It also changes Windows registry entries to allow the malware to run on startup of the machine. The malware parses memory dumps by using a Windows function called ReadProcessMemory. Dexter uploads the contents of the memory it parses from PoS machines to a server located in the Seychelles. The information Dexter can collect includes credit and debit card information, user names and host names, operating system data, a list of running processes, and encryption keys so the data it collects can be decrypted.
Impact
Businesses infected by Dexter include retail stores, hotels, restaurants, banks, and private parking providers. By December 2012, around the time it was first discovered, the malware was found in 40 different countries, with most compromised machines being located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada (where POS systems are ubiquitous) but was also found in Asia (including China, Southeast Asia and India).
A variant of Dexter, thought to have been modified to avoid anti-malware detection by an unknown group in the UK, was linked to estimated losses in the tens of millions for banks in South Africa. South Africa's banks noticed "unusual levels of suspected fraud" after customers used credit cards at various fast-food restaurants. An updated anti-malware signature was provided for all outlets suspected of using infected PoS machines. It is unknown how many credit cards were compromised in these attacks, but many were monitored for fraud after the incident.
Variants
StarDust
In December 2013, researchers discovered StarDust, a major revision of Dexter, which compromised 20,000 cards in active campaign hitting US merchants.
It was one of the first known botnets to target point-of-sale (PoS) terminals used by stores and restaurants to process customers' credit and debit card payments. Unlike the original version of Dexter, StarDust can also extract information from internal network traffic instead of information contained to one PoS device.
See also
Cyber electronic warfare
Cyber security standards
Cyber warfare
List of cyber attack threat trends
Proactive Cyber Defence
Point-of-sale malware
References
External links
2012 in computing
Computer viruses
Cyberwarfare
Rootkits
Cybercrime in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damm%20algorithm | In error detection, the Damm algorithm is a check digit algorithm that detects all single-digit errors and all adjacent transposition errors. It was presented by H. Michael Damm in 2004.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
The Damm algorithm is similar to the Verhoeff algorithm. It too will detect all occurrences of the two most frequently appearing types of transcription errors, namely altering a single digit or transposing two adjacent digits (including the transposition of the trailing check digit and the preceding digit). The Damm algorithm has the benefit that it does not have the dedicatedly constructed permutations and its position-specific powers of the Verhoeff scheme. A table of inverses can also be dispensed with when all main diagonal entries of the operation table are zero.
The Damm algorithm generates only 10 possible values, avoiding the need for a non-digit character (such as the X in the 10-digit ISBN check digit scheme).
Prepending leading zeros does not affect the check digit (a weakness for variable-length codes).
There are totally anti-symmetric quasigroups that detect all phonetic errors associated with the English language (, , ..., ). The table used in the illustrating example is based on an instance of such kind.
Weaknesses
For all checksum algorithms, including the Damm algorithm, prepending leading zeroes does not affect the check digit, so 1, 01, 001, etc. produce the same check digit. Consequently variable-length codes should not be verified together.
Design
Its essential part is a quasigroup of order 10 (i.e. having a Latin square as the body of its operation table) with the special feature of being weakly totally anti-symmetric. Damm revealed several methods to create totally anti-symmetric quasigroups of order 10 and gave some examples in his doctoral dissertation. With this, Damm also disproved an old conjecture that totally anti-symmetric quasigroups of order 10 do not exist.
A quasigroup is called totally anti-symmetric if for all , the following implications hold:
,
and it is called weak totally anti-symmetric if only the first implication holds. Damm proved that the existence of a totally anti-symmetric quasigroup of order is equivalent to the existence of a weak totally anti-symmetric quasigroup of order . For the Damm algorithm with the check equation
,
a weak totally anti-symmetric quasigroup with the property
is needed. Such a quasigroup can be constructed from any totally anti-symmetric quasigroup by rearranging the columns in such a way that all zeros lay on the diagonal. And, on the other hand, from any weak totally anti-symmetric quasigroup a totally anti-symmetric quasigroup can be constructed by rearranging the columns in such a way that the first row is in natural order.
Algorithm
The validity of a digit sequence containing a check digit is defined over a quasigroup. A quasigroup table ready for use can be taken from Damm's dissertation (pages 98, 106, 111). It is useful if each |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20David%20Boswell | Dave Boswell (born c. 1956) is a Canadian computer scientist who was awarded the J.W. Graham Medal for his contributions to the field in 2003.
Biography
Boswell earned his undergraduate and Masters in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
While he was a student and after he earned his masters in 1980, Boswell worked under J. Wesley Graham, a senior Computer Scientist at the University of Waterloo, who had broadly managed teams at Waterloo that developed several widely used computer language compilers.
One of the first languages that was his design was the ″Waterloo Systems Language″, intended for systems programming, which introduced some new flow control constructs.
Boswell worked in compiler design at the University of Waterloo's Computer Systems Group until 1988, when he was one of the founders of Watcom.
Watcom's other products were written in the Waterloo Systems Language.
Watcom developed Watcom C and several other successful products until it was acquired by Powersoft in 1994 for $100 million.
Powersoft was in turn acquired by Sybase and Boswell was made a Sybase vice-president.
In 1998 Boswell left Sybase and was one of the founders of LivePage, in Waterloo. In 1999 Boswell was the President of LivePage when it merged or was acquired by Janna Systems, for $19 million.
References
External links
F. David Boswell 2003 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal at uwaterloo.ca
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian businesspeople
Canadian computer scientists
University of Waterloo alumni
J.W. Graham Medal awardees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20Panda | Lola Panda is a trademarked game character, featuring in children's mobile games created by Finnish computer game developer BeiZ. Lola is an anthropomorphic panda who typically wears a pink short-sleeved shirt, knee length jeans, and sneakers. In some games, she uses other kinds of clothing, suitable for the situation, e.g. swimsuit for the beach. Lola Panda games are aimed at children between 3 and 8 years of age and have been primarily developed for mobile devices
Games
Series
Other languages
The games are available in multiple languages, including English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Language selection varies between games and platforms. Lola Panda games reached one million downloads in August, 2012. At that time, the best selling game was Lola's Math Train.
References
External links
Official Lola Panda website
BeiZ company website
Children's educational video games
Software for children
Puzzle video games
Casual games
IOS games
MacOS games
Linux games
Windows games
Symbian games
IOS-only games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo 3DS games
Windows Phone games
Android (operating system) games
Video games about bears
Video games developed in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreana | Koreana may refer to:
Koreana (band), a South Korean band
Koreana (TV series), a Filipino drama series produced by GMA Network
Koreana Hotel (Seoul), a skyscraper and hotel in Seoul
Koreana (magazine), a cultural quarterly magazine
See also
Tripitaka Koreana, a Korean collection of the Tripitaka (Buddhist scriptures) carved in the 13th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfriMobile | AfriMobile was a mobile virtual network operator based in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2012 and was dissolved in October 2020. It specialised in providing low cost international calls to African countries and services such as airtime credit transfer, with its main user base being African communities within the UK.
References
Mobile virtual network operators
Mobile phone companies of the United Kingdom
Companies disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20One%20Bridging%20Index | The West One Bridging Index (WOBI) is a collection of data intended to measure the state of the UK bridging market. Bridging is in effect a short-term loan designed to help a borrower obtain immediate funding to begin a particular project. In most cases, this loan is repaid once a longer term financial solution is put in place. The UK bridging loan market is currently unregulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and as a consequence the Government does not produce any official statistics on the bridging industry.
History
The West One Bridging Index was launched in 2011 by West One Loans.
Index Source Material
The West One Bridging Index is calculated and published every two months (six editions per year), and consists of gross and net lending figures, number of loans (calculated on a 3-month moving average), average loan sizes, 1st charge loan to value (LTV), monthly interest rate fluctuations, and market predictions. It uses West One Loans’ management data, as well as statistics published by the Association of Bridging Professionals (AOBP) and other leading UK bridging loan lenders.
References
Bridging market could hit £1.5bn by end of 2012 according to West One Bridging Index Mortgage Solutions November 2012
The number of completed bridging loans fell 5% during the second quarter of the year, according to the West One Loans quarterly bridging index Mortgage Solutions August 2012
The true size of the bridging market is analysed through the West One Bridging Index. Bridgingwatch - Rob Jupp - March 2012 Mortgage Strategy.
Mortgage Solutions reporting August findings of the WOBI that gross bridging lending could top £2bn in 2013 Mortgage Solutions 23 August 2013
Alternative loans outperform alternative equities, says West One report Financial Reporter 26 June 2013
External links
Corporate finance
Personal finance
Finance in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20%26%20Friends%3A%20King%20of%20the%20Railway | Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway is a 2013 British computer-animated fantasy comedy adventure film and feature-length special of the British television series, Thomas & Friends. The film is produced by HIT Entertainment and animated by Arc Productions, replacing Nitrogen Studios. It is the series’ first production to have CGI animation provided by Arc Productions.
Directed by Rob Silvestri and written by Andrew Brenner with additional material by Sam Wilkinson, the film stars Ben Small and Martin Sherman as Thomas the Tank Engine in the US and the UK respectively. Co-stars include Keith Wickham, Kerry Shale, William Hope and Teresa Gallagher.
Bob Golding, Mike Grady, Jonathan Forbes, Rebecca O'Mara and Miranda Raison join the cast.
Plot
Long ago, Sodor was a kingdom under the rule of King Godred. One day Godred's crown was stolen by thieves. Though the thieves were caught, the crown was hidden and considered lost forever.
In the present day, Sir Topham Hatt announces to the engines that Sir Robert Norramby, the Earl of Sodor is returning from his travels around the world for many years. Sir Robert wishes to restore the ruins of King Godred's Castle at Ulfstead.
Thomas arrives at Ulfstead with crates of building materials, where he meets a French narrow gauge engine named Millie. Thomas remarks that he hasn't seen her before to which she responds, explaining that she was kept in her shed when the Earl was on his travels around the world.
Spencer returns to Sodor and stays at Tidmouth Sheds for the night, where he argues with Gordon about who is the fastest. The two engines race the next day but Spencer abruptly leaves in between the race, claiming that he has to help the Earl and be really useful.
After Henry has a fault with his bursted safety valve, Thomas, Percy and James are assigned to pull his heavy goods train to the castle. Once there, Thomas meets Jack the Front Loader who informs him of the Earl's plans to restore the castle. The Earl tells Thomas that one of the flatbeds (containing a crate on top) have to be taken to the Steamworks. Out of curiosity, Percy and James follow Thomas as he transports the flatbed.
When the engines arrive at the Steamworks, the crate is removed from the flatbed to reveal an old and rusty engine: Stephenson's Rocket, referred to as Stephen. Thomas asks the Earl why Stephen has been brought to Sodor. The Earl claims that he has a "special job" for him but warns Thomas not to tell him that yet. That night at Tidmouth Sheds, Thomas, Percy and James told the other engines about Stephen.
The next morning, all the other engines visit the Steamworks to have a look at Stephen. Stephen explains that he is one of the first steam engines ever built in the world. Back when he was built, engines were typically pulled by horses and steam engines were new and experimental. He was contested in a race against the four other existing steam engines at the time, which he won.
After a while, Stephen is restored and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20feminism | Networked feminism is a phenomenon that can be described as the online mobilization and coordination of feminists in response to sexist, misogynistic, racist, and other discriminatory acts against minority groups. This phenomenon covers all possible definitions of what feminist movements may entail, as there have been multiple waves of feminist movements and there is no central authority to control what the term "feminism" claims to be. While one may hold a different opinion from another on the definition of "feminism", all those who believe in these movements and ideologies share the same goal of dismantling the current patriarchal social structure, where men hold primary power and higher social privileges above all others. Networked feminism is not spearheaded by one singular women's group. Rather, it is the manifestation of feminists' ability to leverage the internet to make traditionally unrepresented voices and viewpoints heard. Networked feminism occurs when social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are used as a catalyst in the promotion of feminist equality and in response to sexism. Users of these social media websites promote the advancement of feminism using tools such as viral Facebook groups and hashtags. These tools are used to push gender equality and call attention to those promoting anything otherwise. Online feminist work is a new engine of contemporary feminism. With the possibility of connecting and communicating all around the world through the Internet, no other form of activism in history has brought together and empowered so many people to take action on a singular issue.
Background
The mass convergence of feminists occurred as a result of a spike in the advancement of Internet usage and social media websites. Networked feminism is a part of the contemporary feminist community whose interests revolve around cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. This feminist community makes up the movement known as cyberfeminism. The beginnings of "online feminism were primarily in the form of online journals, websites, and blogs, developed in response to the need for a public platform where young women could voice their opinions about the state of the world around them". Women and men began creating spaces for themselves to voice out their opinions to create a public awareness of gender and race inequalities. As technology evolved, communication through the internet became more accessible. Nowadays, anyone who has access to the Internet has the capability to voice out their opinions across the globe. Web-based tools and platforms evolved to support the need of communication through the internet like YouTube, which allows for vlogging, or "video blogging". Social media blogging platforms like Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram also allow for easier and more immediate sharing capabilities. Facebook is another, considered one of the largest social media platforms of communication, allowing many to use their 'profiles' and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil%20keyboard | The Tamil keyboard is used in computers and mobile devices to input text in the Tamil script.
The keyboard layout approved by the Government of Tamil Nadu is Tamil 99. The InScript keyboard is the keyboard layout standardized by the Government of India for inputting text in the languages of India written in Brahmic scripts.
Tamil keyboards are often digraphic, combining the Tamil script with the Latin alphabet.
Tamil input methods
There are different systems developed to type Tamil language characters using a typewriter or a computer keyboard. Several programs such as Azhagi and NHM writer provide both fixed and phonetic type layouts for typing.
Phonetic Computer Layouts
Google transliteration
Google Input Method Editors(Google IME)
Microsoft Tamil Transliteration
Transliteration provided by Azhagi software
Tamil 99
Tamil 99 is a keyboard layout approved by the Tamil Nadu Government. The layout, along with several monolingual and biliTamli
ngual fonts for use with the Tamil language, was approved by Government order on 13 June 1999.
Designed for use with a normal QWERTY keyboard, typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern. The arrangement of the characters allow for fast and simple typing for users familiar with the script.
InScript
InScript (Indian Script) is the standard keyboard for Indian scripts. It is a touch typing keyboard layout for computer. This keyboard layout is standardized by Government of India for inputting text in languages of India written in Brahmic scripts, as well as the Santali language, written in the non-Brahmic Ol Chiki script. It was developed by Indian Government and supported by several public and private organisations. This is the standard keyboard for 12 Indian scripts including Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu etc.
Usage
Windows 10
On Windows 10, Go to Settings.> Time & Language.> Region and Language.> Add new language.> Tamil (India) or Tamil (Sri Lanka) and select install. Then click Tamil (India) or Sri Lanka and select the options. Now select the Keyboard you want (Inscript or Tamil 99). Note: Tamil 99 is only available in Windows 10 April 2018 Update and higher.
iOS
On iOS, Go to Settings.> General.> Keyboards.> Keyboards.> Add New Keyboard, and select Tamil, Select the required keyboard, such as Tamil99, Anjal or InScript.
See also
Tamil 99
தமிழ் 99
InScript
Brahmic keyboard layouts
Keyboard layout
Tamil (Unicode block)
Tamil blogosphere
References
External links
http://ildc.in/inscriptlayout.html
http://tamilelibrary.org/teli/tnstd.html
http://tamilnation.org/digital/tamilnet99/report.htm
Tamil input methods
Keyboard layouts
Indic computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozio | Mozio is a New York City-based transportation-search engine company that aggregates ground transportation data and plans trips to and from an airport. Mozio coordinates buses, trains, boats, rapid transit, and other types of transit to allow users to arrive at the airport as fast as possible.
History
Mozio was founded in 2011 by David Litwak and Joseph Metzinger.
Mozio completed Plug and Play's Start-up Camp in February 2012 and has since created partnerships with a number of large and small agencies, including Uber, Shuttlefare, and Limos.com. Its platform compares time and cost metrics in order to find the most efficient option for each traveler and destination.
In 2013, Mozio raised seed money from investors including Jeff Clarke, Chairman of Orbitz. The first airports to be included in the search services were San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco. The company is focusing on development of its ground-transportation-to-airport platform. In 2016 the company partnered with Ethiopian Airlines.
As of 2018 Mozio provides ground transportation services for JetBlue, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Despegar, New Zealand Air, CheapOAir and incorporates Uber and Lyft in its transportation network. News media report that Mozio has a "bigger fleet than Uber and Lyft combined" due to its partnerships with those and other ground transportation companies.
See also
Mozio Article on HuffPost
Mozio Article on SiloBreaker
References
External links
Transport software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%20Little%20McGhees | 6 Little McGhees is an American reality television series that debuted on December 15, 2012, on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) that is based on the popular 1960s song "Seven Little Girl's (Sitting in the Backseat, Kissing and Hugging with Freddie McGhee)
On June 8, 2016, the show returned on UP under the new title Growing Up McGhee airing on Wednesdays at 9 pm.
Premise
The series follows the day-to-day lives of Mia and Rozonno McGhee, along with their household, as they balance life between their six children, marriage and a family business. The McGhees own and operate a carpet and upholstery cleaning business in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio. The couple, who met while in high school, both come from deprived backgrounds; they both suffered emotional abuse and physical neglect. Rozonno grew up without any contact from his father and with a drug-addicted mother. When Mia was a teenager, her mother threw her out of the family home, forcing the girl to drop out of school to support herself. The McGhees were married for 10 years and suffered several failed pregnancies before they were able to become parents.
Cast
Parents
Mia McGhee born November 19th 1980 (age 41)
Rozonno (Ro) McGhee Sr.-born July 6th 1979 (age 42)
Sextuplets (oldest to youngest)
Sextuplets born June 9th 2010 (age 13)
Rozonno Junior (RoRo)
Issac (Happy Feet)
Josiah "Joey" (Joe Joe)
Madison (Maddie)
Elijah (Eli)
Olivia "Liv" (Livvy)
Family and friends
Charmayne aka Cilky Smooth, Rozonno's mother
Frank, Rozonno's brother
Cierra, Mia's niece
Sonia, Mia's mother
Tania, Mia's sister
Cian, Mia's niece
Yasmin, Mia's niece
Antonsae aka Boogie, Kids' helper aunt
Amy, Volunteer Helper
Cieara, Mia's Friend
Luke, Manager
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2012–13)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2014)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
Television series about children
Television series about families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-cycle%20protection | The p-Cycle protection scheme is a technique to protect a mesh network from a failure of a link, with the benefits of ring like recovery speed and mesh-like capacity efficiency, similar to that of a shared backup path protection (SBPP). p-Cycle protection was invented in late 1990s, with research and development done mostly by Wayne D. Grover, and D. Stamatelakis.
Overview of the p-Cycle
In Transport communication networks two methods were developed and introduced for restoration and recovery, one was a ring-based protection and the other was mesh restoration. The ring based protection offered a quick recovery time at the expense of higher capacity redundancy, while the mesh restoration offered better capacity-efficiency at the expense of slower recovery times. In 1998 the p-Cycle became a promising technique for recovery in mesh networks because of the combined benefits of ring network recovery speed and mesh like capacity efficiency. In a mesh network, the spare capacity is used to create the ring like structures as shown in Figure 1. Due to the nature of the rings assuming bi-directional line switched ring (BLSR), only 2 end nodes are involved in a case of a link failure to switch traffic to a pre-planned cycle (path) and recover, as it is demonstrated in Figure 2.
One of the key differences between a ring-based scheme and the p-cycle scheme is the ability of the p-cycle to protect links that are not on the p-cycle ring as shown in Figure 3. The ability to protect two channel for every spare channel that is assigned to the p-cycle allows to achieve mesh-like capacity efficiency. This feature gives the p-cycle the additional efficiency over the ring-based schemes. "Another over looked feature of the p-Cycle is that working paths may be freely routed over the network graph and are not limited to follow the ring-constrained routings".
P-Cycle Types
The p-cycles come in few variations depending on how they protect a given network and their underlying architecture. The types of p-cycles that are available are: Hamiltonian, Simple, Non-Simple, Span, Node encircling, Path, and Flow. The Hamiltonian, Simple, and Non-Simple are named after their underlying architecture (In relationship to the Network). The Span, Node, Path, and Flow p-cycles are named after the type of protection offered to the network.
Hamiltonian - a p-cycle in which the protection path passes through all nodes in a network only once. This p-cycle is illustrated in Figure 4.
Simple - a p-cycle in which the protection path is not required to pass through all the nodes in the network. The p-cycle is allowed to pass through any one node only once shown in Figure 1.
Non-simple - a p-cycle in which the protection path is allowed to pass through any given node more than once. This is shown in Figure 5.
Span p-cycle - a p-cycle whose primary job is to protect spans or links not on the p-cycle itself. This type of p-cycle is shown in Figure 3.
Node encircling - a p-cycle that pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20Abroad | Cellular Abroad is a mobile virtual network operator and internet retailer based in Los Angeles that uses GSM technology to provide international wireless voice, messaging and data services. Cellular Abroad sells and rents unlocked international GSM cell phones, portable WiFi hotspots and SIM Cards under the National Geographic Society brand.
History
Cellular Abroad was founded in 2002 by Sebastian Harrison, son of cult film star and b-movie legend Richard Harrison and grandson of American International Pictures co-founder James H. Nicholson. After operating another successful internet company selling region-free DVD players, Sebastian saw similar market potential for international SIM Cards, and launched www.cellularabroad.com in October 2002, offering early tri-band frequency GSM cell phones and SIM Cards for 25 popular travel destinations.
Cellular Abroad became incorporated in 2004. To compete with the ever-changing mobile device market, Cellular Abroad changed their business model to mostly offer GSM cell phone rentals, and launched the Talk Abroad service for international travelers. The original 'Talk Abroad' SIM offered flat rates for use in over 70 countries, and free inbound calling to the SIM card on a Liechtenstein phone number.
In January 2007, Cellular Abroad negotiated a branding license with the National Geographic Society and went on to launch the National Geographic Talk Abroad Travel Phone, which offered a service similar to the original Talk Abroad SIM, but with a United Kingdom phone number and increased coverage in more than 100 countries.
April 2009 saw the release of the National Geographic Duet Phone; the first FCC approved dual-SIM card cell phone for the U.S. market.
Cellular Abroad started offering portable WiFi hotspots for international travelers in the fall of 2011.
Products and Services
Cellular Abroad owns and operates the National Geographic Talk Abroad Network, featuring U.K.-and U.S.-based phone numbers, and since 2011 has increased coverage to include more than 200 countries and territories. National Geographic Talk Abroad products include cell phones for rental or purchase and SIM Cards, available from their website.
Cellular Abroad also offers GSM quad band capable handsets with individual prepaid services for Europe, South America, North America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
See also
List of United States wireless communications service providers
Cloud9
External links
National Geographic Joins Wireless Race, Wall Street Journal, 2007-03-07
Stay in Touch (for Less) When Abroad, New York Times, 2007-07-29
Cellular Abroad International Hotspot, PCMag, 2011-12-05
A guide to using the Internet abroad, Washington Post, 2012-05-18
Cellular Abroad
References
Mobile virtual network operators
National Geographic Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Santa%20Simulation | "The Santa Simulation" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of the American comedy television series The Big Bang Theory. The episode was originally aired on the CBS television network on December 13, 2012. The story was created by Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan and Steve Holland, and turned into a teleplay by Steven Molaro, Jim Reynolds, and Maria Ferrari. Mark Cendrowski directed the episode.
The series depicts a group of male friends employed at the California Institute of Technology, and their relationships with others. In this episode, Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) runs a Christmas-themed Dungeons & Dragons game for his friends. Meanwhile, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and the girls take Raj (Kunal Nayyar) to a club.
"The Santa Simulation" received mostly positive reviews from television critics, with comparisons being made to other shows such as Arrested Development and Community due to the relationships and the Dungeons & Dragons game. The episode was viewed by 16.77 million viewers and received a 5.4/17 percent rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, ranking first in its timeslot. The Big Bang Theory was also ranked as the highest-rated program of the night.
Plot
Leonard, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Howard (Simon Helberg) each inform their significant others that they will play Dungeons & Dragons and that the girls are banned from participating, while Raj invites Stuart (Kevin Sussman). The game begins at Leonard and Sheldon's apartment, with Leonard as the dungeon master, who reveals the game has a Christmas theme by giving Sheldon a scroll in a Christmas stocking and telling them that their characters have to save Santa Claus from hungry ogres. Sheldon is not happy, and the game begins with Raj's character dying in the first room of the dungeon as he accidentally triggered a fatal trap in his excited rush to save Santa. The girls enter the apartment wearing sexy dresses (with the exception of Amy (Mayim Bialik), who has a dress Penny describes as from "Forever 63") and do a runway show for the boys in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade their men to go with them to the bar. Only Raj wishes to go as his character is already dead. After initially refusing, they allow him to do so.
When the girls and Raj arrive at the club, they decide to find a girl for Raj, who initially says that he requires someone physically attractive before admitting that he would take anyone. Raj returns to the girls' table with a girl's email address, but it is fake. Disappointed, he complains that he cannot find anyone and laments about how he used to fancy both Penny and Bernadette (Melissa Rauch). Amy suggests that he at some point had found her attractive, to which he responds that he never has, despite encouragement from both Penny and Bernadette to agree. When he realizes how much that hurts Amy, Raj apologizes to her. Amy and Raj connect over their failed love lives, and Raj suggests that he would like to find someone like her. Satisfied, she lea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Peter | Hans-Peter is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Hans Peter Aglassinger (born 1963), Austrian industrial designer
Hans Peter Anvin (born 1972), Swedish computer programmer, contributor to Free and open source software projects
Hans-Peter Bartels (born 1961), German politician of the SPD and member of the Bundestag for Kiel
Hans-Peter Berger (born 1981), Austrian football goalkeeper
Hans Peter Boerresen (1825–1901), Danish missionary to India from Gossner mission
Hans-Peter Briegel (born 1955), former German football player and manager
Hans Peter Duerr (born 1943), German anthropologist, author of ten books on the subject
Hans-Peter Dürr (1929–2014), German physicist
Hans-Peter Durst (born 1958), German para cyclist
Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941), German visual artist
Hans-Peter Ferner (born 1956), (West) German former middle-distance runner
Hans Peter Fischnaller (born 1985), Italian luger
Hans-Peter Friedländer (1920–1999), Swiss football forward
Hans-Peter Friedrich (born 1957), German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union
Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen Gammel (1854–1931), author and bookseller
Hans Peter Geerdes or H.P. Baxxter (born 1964), German entertainer, frontman of the techno group Scooter
Hans-Peter Gies (born 1947), retired East German shot putter
Hans Peter Hallwachs (born 1938), German television actor
Hans Peter Hammel (born 1947), Swiss journalist
Hans Peter Christian Hansen (1851–1910), New Zealand farmer, hotel-keeper and community leader
Hans Peter Hansen (1829–1899), Danish xylographer who specialized in portraits
Hans Peter Hansen (politician) (1872–1953), Danish journalist and politician
Hans Peter Haselsteiner (born 1944), Austrian industrialist and former politician
Hans Peter Helander or Peter Helander (born 1951), retired professional hockey player
Hans Peter Holm (1772–1812), Danish naval officer
Hans-Peter Kaul (1943–2014), German judge, international law scholar, former diplomat
Hanspeter Keiser (1925–2007), Swiss artist known as César Keiser
Hans Peter Keller (1915–1988), German poet who authored several poem collections
Hans Peter Kerkeling (born 1964), German actor, presenter and comedian
Hans-Peter Knaust (1906–1983), highly decorated Oberstleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II
Hans-Peter Koppe (born 1958), German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics
Hans Peter Kraus (1907–1988), Austrian-born book dealer
Hans-Peter Kriegel (born 1948), German computer scientist, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Hans Peter Kürten, mayor of Remagen from 1964 to 1994 who opened the Peace Museum at Remagen in 1980
Hans-Peter Lanig (born 1935), German alpine skier
Hans-Peter Lehnhoff (born 1963), retired German football player
Hans-Peter Liese or Peter Liese (born 1965), German politician and Member of the European Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm (born 1973), Norwegian producer
Hans Peter Elisa Lødrup (1885–1955), Norw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth and final season of Psych, containing 10 episodes, premiered on the USA Network in the United States on January 8, 2014. James Roday, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson, Corbin Bernsen and Kirsten Nelson all reprise their roles as the main characters in the series.
USA Network confirmed on February 5, 2014 that the eighth season of Psych would be its last.
Production
Steve Franks continued as showrunner of the series. The song "I Know, You Know", performed by The Friendly Indians, continues to be used as the theme song for the show.
On December 19, 2012, it was announced that Psych had been renewed for an eighth season consisting of eight episodes. On April 22, 2013, USA Network ordered five additional scripts for potential episodes. On June 25, 2013, USA Network greenlit two additional episodes of those five scripts, one to be chosen by online poll. During the 2013 Comic-Con in San Diego, it was revealed that "Dream Therapy", now known as "A Nightmare on State Street", won with more than 50% of the votes. Season 8 premiered on January 8, 2014.
Cast
James Roday continues to portray the fake psychic detective Shawn Spencer. Dulé Hill appears as Burton "Gus" Guster. Timothy Omundson and Maggie Lawson portray detectives Carlton "Lassie" Lassiter and Juliet "Jules" O'Hara, respectively. Corbin Bernsen continues as Henry Spencer, and Kirsten Nelson returns as SBPD Chief Karen Vick.
Cary Elwes returned to portray the character of Pierre Despereaux for the fourth time in the series' run. He appeared alongside Vinnie Jones in the first episode of the season. Anthony Michael Hall reprises his role as Interim Chief Harris Trout, while Kristy Swanson, Kurt Fuller and Sage Brocklebank return as Marlowe Lassiter, Woody the Coroner and Buzz McNab, respectively. John Kapelos also returns as Tom Swaggerty, the Mayor of Santa Barbara, for the sixth episode of the season, called "1967: A Psych Odyssey", that marks the directorial debut of Kirsten Nelson. Phylicia Rashad returned as Gus' mother. Curt Smith returns as himself. Mira Sorvino appears as Head Detective Betsy Brannigan.
Dana Ashbrook, Katharine Isabelle, Carlos Jacott, Ed Lover, Ralph Macchio, Lindsay Sloane, Janet Varney, Alan Ruck, and Ray Wise guest star in the third episode of the season, a special all-star remake of the season one episode "Cloudy... With a Chance of Murder", with Michael Weston reprising his role as Adam Hornstock from the original episode.
Tom Arnold, The Bella Twins, Corbin Bleu, Yvette Nicole Brown, Dean Cameron, Bruce Campbell, Olivia d'Abo, Loretta Devine, Sutton Foster, Vincent Gale, Kali Hawk, Vinnie Jones, Val Kilmer, Floriana Lima, Peggy Lipton, Deon Richmond, Peter Stormare, Vincent Ventresca, Vincent M. Ward, Celia Weston, William Zabka and Billy Zane also guest star in different episodes of the season.
Episodes
DVD release
Psych: The Complete Eighth Season, consisting of ten episodes, was released on April 1, 2014. The three-disc set inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%27s%20Angels%20%28season%201%29 | This is a list of episodes for the first season of the 1970s television series, Charlie's Angels. Broadcast on the ABC network from September 22, 1976, to May 4, 1977 - with a total of 22 episodes - season one starred Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Jaclyn Smith and David Doyle. John Forsythe provided the voice of the character Charles "Charlie" Townsend.
The pilot film aired on March 21, 1976, as a 2-hour TV movie. Succeeding episodes were between 48 and 50 minutes in length. Viewing figures for the first season were extremely high, finishing at #5 in the Nielsen ratings.
The pilot episode featured M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers as the character Scott Woodville, a male liaison to Charlie. Woodville was dropped for the series as it was felt the character was too severe and that it was unnecessary for Charlie to have two male liaisons. Fellow liaison Bosley (played by Doyle) was kept as someone the writers could use to add humor to the episodes.
The show's three female leads were launched to greater heights in their careers, with Fawcett-Majors proving to be the most popular of the trio. Although Jackson and Smith were overshadowed by Fawcett-Majors they have equally stood the test of time; both have also been cited as "fan favorites".
Note that the United States Copyright Office starts numbering the episodes with "Hellride", the first regular episode of season 1.
Main cast
Kate Jackson as Sabrina Duncan (regular)
Farrah Fawcett-Majors as Jill Munroe (regular)
Jaclyn Smith as Kelly Garrett (regular)
David Doyle as John Bosley (regular)
John Forsythe as Charles "Charlie" Townsend (regular, voice only)
David Ogden Stiers as Scott Woodville (pilot episode only)
Notable guest stars
Fernando Lamas
Ida Lupino
Dick Sargent
Richard Mulligan
Frank Gorshin
Michael Bell
Bo Hopkins
Jenny O'Hara
Anthony James
Tom Selleck
Tommy Lee Jones
Kim Basinger
Lauren Tewes
Dirk Benedict
Episodes
References
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1976 American television seasons
1977 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20E.%20Baum | Leonard Esau Baum (August 23, 1931 – August 14, 2017) was an American mathematician, known for the Baum–Welch algorithm and Baum–Sweet sequence. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1953, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard in 1958, with a dissertation titled Derivations in Commutative Semi-Simple Banach Algebras.
He developed the Baum–Welch Algorithm with Lloyd Welch while working for the Communications Research Division of IDA. It enabled the development of speech recognition and had applications in cryptanalysis and genetics. He coined the motto of the Communications Research Division: "Bad ideas is good, good ideas is terrific, no ideas is terrible."
Later, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Baum used mathematical models for currency trading, working with Monemetrics, a predecessor of hedge fund management company Renaissance Technologies. He left the firm in 1984 amid steep losses. In his later years, he would participate in Go tournaments and work on mathematical problems relating to prime numbers and the Riemann hypothesis. He died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on August 14, 2017, at the age of 86.
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2017 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo%20Ku%C5%A1%C4%8Der | Samo Kuščer (born 1952) is a Slovene physicist and writer.
He won the Levstik Award twice for his popular science books, in 1987 Logo in računalnik (Logo and Computers) and in 1993 for Energija (Energy). He is also known for his science fiction stories.
Selected works
Zrak (Air), 2000
Voda (Water), 1997
Brbi gre po barve (Brbi Gets Some Colours), 1994
Živa zemlja (Living Earth), 1994
Energija (Energy), 1991
Logo in računalnik (Logo and Computers), 1987
Moj prijatelj računalnik (My Friend the Computer), 1985
Sabi (Sabi), short SF stories, 1983
Žalostni virtuoz (Melancholy Virtuoso), short SF stories, 1989
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1952 births
Slovenian writers
Slovenian science fiction writers
Yugoslav science fiction writers
Slovenian physicists
Levstik Award laureates
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20Morikawa | is the current president of NHN Corporation. Morikawa joined Nippon Television Network Corporation after graduating from the University of Tsukuba in 1989. While serving for the systems division at the TV firm, he got involved in a wide range of media businesses from online advertising and video distribution, mobile service, international broadcast, to BS digital broadcast. Received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Aoyama Gakuin University in 1999. Joined Sony Corp. in 2000, where he was in charge of new mobile content and broadband businesses and was responsible for overall content business, including business/service planning and sales. Joined Hangame Japan (predecessor of NHN Japan) in 2003, where he served as general manager overseeing overall gaming business and then as director, before becoming vice president in October 2006. Appointed president in October 2007 and doubled as president of newly established Naver Japan the following month. Remained president of NHN Japan after the company, Naver Japan and Livedoor Co. merged to form the NHN Japan group in January 2012.
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Japanese corporate directors
Japanese businesspeople
Living people
1969 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20Twist | The ThinkPad Twist is a 2-in-1 convertible tablet, that can function as a laptop and tablet released in 2012. The Twist is designed for business users and runs Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
Features
Design
The Twist is built to Intel's Ultrabook specification. Its look and feel are consistent with other ThinkPad devices. The Twist has a flat smooth cover with a soft rubbery finish and a flourish of silver-colored material around the edge. The outer case has both Lenovo and ThinkPad logos. Notably, the dot in the ThinkPad logo's "i" pulses when the unit is powered on. The Twist weights 3.5 pounds and is .8 inches thick. While not backlit, the Twist's island-style keyboard is spill-resistant and has U-shaped chiclet-style keys in order to enhance user comfort.
Specifications and performance
The Twist has 12.5-inch multitouch display made with Gorilla Glass. Like the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga, its display, with a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels, is connected to the base of the machine by a sturdy hinge capable of rotating 180 degrees in every direction. The display has brightness of 350 nits. This hinge, along with Windows 8, allows the Twist to serve as both a laptop and a tablet. A lock button at the bottom of the screen allows users to override the built-in accelerometer. The Twist does not have a discrete graphics processor; its display is powered by Intel's HD 4000 integrated graphics processor.
The Twist is available with a choice of three different Intel processors, up to 8GB of RAM, a choice of 7200RPM hard drives in 320GB and 500GB capacities or a much faster 128GB solid-state drive. An mSATA slot containing a 24GB SSD is used as cache for fast startup. The Twist also has two USB 3.0 ports, a mini-HDMI output, a mini DisplayPort, an Ethernet jack, a 3.5mm audio output, and a memory card reader.
In a test conducted by Engadget the Twist's 43 watt-hour battery was able to support 4 hours and 18 minutes of video playback with Wi-Fi on and the display set at 65-percent brightness. Lenovo claims a similar battery life.
Pre-installed software includes Evernote, Amazon's Kindle reader, Skype, AccuWeather, eBay, the streaming service rara.com, Microsoft Office, a trial of Norton Internet Security, Lenovo Support, and Lenovo Solutions for Small Business. Lenovo's proprietary support software includes a backup and restore utility, a USB blocker, software monitoring, power management tools, tune-up utilities, and Lenovo Cloud Storage, powered by SugarSync. Lenovo offers a free download of QuickLaunch, a utility that restores Windows' traditional Start Menu in order to avoid the new interface of Windows 8.
Reception
In a review for Gadling Gear Kraig Becker wrote,"If you're in the market for a new laptop and you're looking to harness the full potential of Windows 8, the Lenovo Twist is a fantastic choice. I found that once I started using a touch screen notebook it was incredibly difficult to go back to a standard model. Touch just seems l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nexus%20Trilogy | The Nexus Trilogy is a postcyberpunk thriller novel trilogy written by American author Ramez Naam and published between 2012-2015. The novel series follows the protagonist Kaden Lane, a scientist who works on an experimental nano-drug, Nexus, which allows the brain to be programmed and networked, connecting human minds together. As he pursues his work, he becomes entangled in government and corporate intrigue. The story takes place in the year 2040.
Nexus tied for Best Novel in the 2014 Prometheus Awards given out by the Libertarian Futurist Society. It was also shortlisted for the 2014 Arthur C. Clarke award. Nexus was published in 2012. Its sequel, Crux, was published in 2013. The third volume of the trilogy, Apex, was published in 2014, and won the 2015 Philip K. Dick Award. The film rights to Nexus were purchased by Paramount in 2013.
Plot summary
Nexus
Samantha Cataranes (Sam), an agent for the Emerging Risks Directorate (ERD) of the United States government, arrives undercover at a party looking for Kaden Lane. Kaden is there testing Nexus 5, an illegal, experimental nano-drug for direct input and output of brain signals. Sam talks with Kaden about his work and he invites her to be a part of a Nexus 5 study. Sam goes to the study and meets Kaden's close friends and colleagues: Rangan Shankari, Ilya Alexander, and Watson Cole (Wats). Sam takes Nexus 5, connecting her mind with the others, and they discover who she is and Kade uses Nexus to knock her out. When Sam awakes she threatens the group with prison, and promises a pardon in exchange for Kade's help. Wats escapes before the ERD extracts the group. The ERD describe a mission to spy on Su-Yong Shu, a brilliant Chinese neuroscientist who is implicated in murder and brain control coercion. Kade agrees to work with the ERD and hands over Nexus 5. Kade and the group are sent to retrieve the Nexus 5 data, and on the way, they install a backdoor into the Nexus 5 operating system.
Sam is required to have permanent integration with Nexus 5, despite her disagreement with Warren Becker, the Enforcement Division Deputy Director at the ERD. Kade and Sam, now with the pseudonym of Robyn Rodriguez, travel to Bangkok for a conference that Kade is invited to by Shu. Wats follows in hopes of setting Kade free and spreading Nexus 5 to the general public. At registration, Kade hears an inspiring talk from Somdet Phra Ananda, discussing a Nexus-like topic, and meets Narong, a PhD student. Narong invites Kade to a student mixer the following night. After returning to the hotel Kade finds a secret note left by Wats, informing him of the possibility of escape, if needed. Kade recognizes that he needs to stay and attempts to notify Wats, who never receives the message.
At the opening night reception Sam discovers Narong is a known associate of Suk Prat-Nung, a nephew of Thanom Prat-Nung, a Thai Drug Dealer. Sam decides it is important to continue to track Narong in hopes of catching the Thai drug ring lea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayo%20Wallace | Nayo Kamilah Wallace is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on Speed Racer as Minx, scientist and girlfriend to Racer X and on the Hub Network's Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot as the voice of Harmony Bear from its premiere on June 2, 2012 until December 8, 2012. She also portrayed the character of Sarabi in The Lion King on Broadway.
Personal life
Nayo Kamilah Wallace was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Filmography
| 2019
| The Rookie
| Stacy
| One episode: "Safety"
References
External links
Living people
Actresses from Detroit
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
American stage actresses
American video game actresses
American voice actresses
African-American actresses
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
1970 births
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20River%2C%20South%20Carolina | Ashley River is an unincorporated community in Charleston County, South Carolina. Its zip code is 29407.
References
External links
U.S. Geological Survey. Best Practices National Structures Dataset. https://web.archive.org/web/20090825115836/http://bpgeo.cr.usgs.gov/. 30 July 2008.
Ashley River, South Carolina. Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.
Populated places in Charleston County, South Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%20Norman%20Group | The Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) is an American computer user interface and user experience consulting firm, founded in 1998 by Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman. Their work includes an analysis of the interface of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. They have done analyses of the user experience of mobile devices (including the iPad), and intranets. As of 2000, Bruce Tognazzini joined Nielsen Norman Group as a partner.
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Companies based in Fremont, California
1998 establishments in California
Consulting firms established in 1998
User interfaces |
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