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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtustream | Virtustream was a provider of cloud computing management software, infrastructure as a service ("IaaS") and managed services to enterprises, governments and service providers. It was a subsidiary of Dell Technologies.
Virtustream was headquartered in Round Rock, TX, with offices in, Bangalore, Draper, Hopkinton, MA, Frankfurt, Kaunas, London, and Sofia, Virtustream's global infrastructure included data centers located in Frankfurt, Japan, London, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Sydney, Las Vegas, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Virginia.
History
Virtustream was founded in 2009. The company raised approximately $40 million in series A funding from Columbia Capital, Blue Lagoon Capital, Intel Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners and TDF Ventures between September 2009 and May 2010, and $15 million in series B funding in July 2011 from Intel Capital, Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners, QuestMark Capital and TDF Ventures.
On May 26, 2015, EMC Corporation announced an agreement to acquire Virtustream and the deal was completed on July 9, 2015. Following Virtustream’s acquisition by EMC, on October 12, 2015, Dell Inc. announced it would acquire EMC in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $67 billion—the largest-ever acquisition in the technology industry. The merger closed on September 7, 2016, with EMC being renamed to Dell EMC as a result, and eventually renamed as Dell Technologies. Dell Technologies became the world’s largest privately controlled tech company at the time.
On October 12, 2015, Fortune reported, “Overall, the deal values EMC around 27% higher than where it was trading before news of Dell’s interest first broke last week. It would be the second-largest tech merger ever, behind only the $106 billion tie-up between AOL and Time Warner in 2000, and the largest-ever take-private transaction for a tech company.”
On May 7, 2018, it was announced that Virtustream's founders, Rodney J. Rogers and Kevin Reid, had decided to leave the company. Rory Read became the president of Virtustream, while retaining his position as chief operating executive of Dell Technologies. Deepak Patil, formerly of Microsoft Azure, became the senior vice president of Product and Technology. In August 2019, Patil left Virtustream to lead Dell's cloud business. In June 2020, Read left Virtustream to become CEO of Vonage. Todd Pavone, who had been president of Dell EMC’s Global Consulting business, was named to succeed Read as Virtustream's president.
See also
Enterprise Cloud Computing
References
External links
Official Website
Open Source Evolution
Information technology companies of the United States
Companies based in Bethesda, Maryland
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud computing providers
Dell acquisitions
2015 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neubot | Neubot (the network neutrality bot) is a free software Internet bot, developed and maintained by the Nexa Center for Internet and Society, that gathers network performance data useful to investigate network neutrality.
Description
Once installed on the user's computer, it runs in the background and periodically performs active transmission tests with servers hosted by the distributed Measurement Lab server platform (and, in future, with other instances of the software itself). These transmission tests measure end-to-end network performance emulating different protocols (currently HTTP and BitTorrent) as well as transmitting and receiving "raw" data over TCP. Performance are measured at application level as well as at TCP level (using Web100).
Measurements results are saved both locally (where a localhost-only web user interface allows users to browse them
) and on Measurement Lab servers. They are collected for research purposes
and automatically published on the web
under Creative Commons Zero (public domain) allowing anyone to re-use them freely for the same purpose.
See also
Network Neutrality
References
External links
Neubot home page
Neubot github repository
Basso, S., Servetti, A., & De Martin, J. C. (2011, June). The network neutrality bot architecture: a preliminary approach for self-monitoring of Internet access QoS. In Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2011 IEEE Symposium on (pp. 1131-1136). IEEE. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031834/http://www.neubot.org/neubotfiles/2011-iscc-paper.pdf
De Martin, J. C., & Glorioso, A. (2008, June). The Neubot project: A collaborative approach to measuring internet neutrality. In Technology and Society, 2008. ISTAS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 1-4). IEEE. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002403/http://www.neubot.org/neubotfiles/istas08-neubot-paper.pdf
"Neubot e Nexa Per Un Web Piu` Democratico" (in Italian)
"Ma la rete e' ancora neutrale? Possiamo misurarlo con Neubot" (in Italian)
"Servizi ADSL sotto esame" (in Italian)
Free software programmed in Python
Public domain databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH1 | NH1, or NH-1, or similar, may refer to:
NH1 News, a New Hampshire based television and radio news network formerly aired on WBIN-TV and WNNH
Howard NH-1, a World War II instrument training aircraft
National Harbor Line (Route NH1), a WMATA bus line in Prince George's County, Maryland
National Highway 1 (Cambodia)
National Highway 1 (India)
New Hampshire's 1st congressional district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartOS | SmartOS is a free and open-source SVR4 hypervisor based on the UNIX operating system that combines OpenSolaris technology with bhyve and KVM virtualization. Its core kernel contributes to the illumos project. It features several technologies: Crossbow, DTrace, bhyve, KVM, ZFS, and Zones. Unlike other illumos distributions, SmartOS employs NetBSD pkgsrc package management. SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances. It was originally developed for and by Joyent, who announced in April 2022 that they had sold their business supporting and developing of Triton Datacenter and SmartOS to MNX Solutions. It is open-source and free for anyone to use.
SmartOS is an in-memory operating system and boots directly into random-access memory. It supports various boot mechanisms such as booting from hard drive, USB thumbdrive, ISO Image, or over the network via PXE boot. One of the many benefits of employing this boot mechanism is that operating system upgrades are trivial, simply requiring a reboot from a newer SmartOS image version.
SmartOS follows a strict local node storage architecture. This means that virtual machines are stored locally on each node and do not boot over the network from a central SAN or NAS. This helps ensure that network latency issues are eliminated as well as to preserve node independence. Multi-node SmartOS clouds can be managed via the open-source MNX Triton DataCenter (formerly known as SmartDataCenter) cloud orchestration suite or via the Project Fifo Open Source SmartOS Cloud management platform built on Erlang.
In 2012, Joyent and MongoDB Inc. (formerly 10gen) partnered to improve the scalability of SmartOS.
Virtualization
SmartOS includes a number of virtualization technologies, including:
Zones, a light weight operating system-level virtualization; analogous to "jails" or "containers" as provided by other systems
Hardware virtualization
Native Zones
Native zones provide SmartOS applications isolation environment, based on Solaris Containers , an OS-level virtualization, without the overhead of hardware-emulating HVM virtual machines.
LX zones (Linux system call emulation)
LX-branded zones provide the Linux system call interface, enabling the execution of Linux application binaries without recompiling them for SmartOS. This facility is available in several illumos distributions, including SmartOS and OmniOS.
KVM
KVM and QEMU were ported to SmartOS in 2011, and can be used on Intel CPUs with VMX and EPT support.
bhyve
The Bhyve hypervisor from FreeBSD was ported to SmartOS. This is the preferred virtualization when required to use HVM for Windows or Linux guests.
References
External links
SmartOS Docs
Joyent
OpenSolaris
Solaris software
OpenSolaris-derived software distributions
Samsung software
Virtualization software
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Thirty%20Curtain | Nine Thirty Curtain was a dramatic anthology television series which aired on the DuMont Television Network from October 16, 1953, to January 1, 1954. The 30-minute show aired on Fridays at 9:30 pm ET.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to survive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1953-54 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
List of episodes at TVTango
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
1950s American anthology television series
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Storage%20Wars%3A%20New%20York%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from the reality television series Storage Wars: New York, which airs on the cable network A&E Network. The episodes listed here are in a broadcast order, not production order. The series debuted on January 1, 2013. The descriptions of the items listed in this article reflect those given by their sellers and others in the episodes prior to their appraisal by experts as authentic or inauthentic, unless otherwise noted.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2013)
Episodes Statistics
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2013)
Other Notes
In "The Walking Bid" episode, Big Steve spent $1,100 and profited $1,600.
In "An Embarrassment of Richards" episode, Big Steve spent $200 and profited $1,150.
In "Da Bronx Tale" episode, Joe P. and The Fog worked as a team. Additionally, Candy and Courtney's profit in this episode represents their take from a pop up sale they staged, not from an item appraisal, as the only item of worth in their room was the gumball machine.
In "Legends of the Fog" episode, The Fog spent $1,100 and profited $2,630. Candy and Courtney did not appear in this episode.
In "The Forgotten Borough" episode, Big Steve spent $675 and profited $1,300. Chris and Tad did not appear in this episode.
In "East River Gold" episode, Big Steve spent $900 and profited $740.
In "Bid with a Bang" episode, The Fog did not buy a locker. Chris and Tad did not appear in this episode.
In "Bid Master Funk" episode, Big Steve spent $1,000 and profited $425.
In "It Takes A Queen's Village" episode, Big Steve did not buy a locker.
In "Drags To Riches" episode, Big Steve spent $1,200 and profited $122. Big Steve's season finished with him spending $5,075 and profiting $5,337.
References
External links
Lists of American reality television series episodes
Episodes New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUHU%20%28software%29 | Weather Underground / HeavyWeather Uploader, commonly WUHU, is a free software package for Microsoft Windows which allows users with Personal Weather Stations to contribute weather data to one of several networks, including:
Weather Underground (wunderground.com)
Citizen Weather Observer Program (also known as CWOP)
WeatherBug
YoWindow
Australian Weather Network
UK Weather Net
It can collect data from multiple models of weather stations from La Crosse Technology, Davis Instruments, and Oregon Scientific.
References
External links
Yahoo! group
Crowdsourcing
Meteorological data and networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202013%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2013, seventeen singles claimed the top spot, including "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, which started its peak position in late 2012. Fifteen acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead or featured artist: Mary Lambert, Nate Ruess, Baauer, Ray Dalton, Passenger, Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, T.I., Avicii, 2 Chainz, Redfoo, Dami Im, Taylor Henderson and John Legend. Im and Henderson were the only Australian artists to achieve a number-one single.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis had three number-one singles during the year for "Thrift Shop", "Same Love" and "Can't Hold Us". Jason Derulo earned two number-one singles for "Talk Dirty" and "Trumpets". Pharrell Williams also earned two number-one singles during the year, as a featured artist on Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". Katy Perry's "Roar" was the longest-running number-one single of 2013, having topped the ARIA Singles Chart for nine weeks. "Blurred Lines" was the second longest-running number-one single, with eight consecutive weeks at the top. Passenger's "Let Her Go" stayed at number one for five consecutive weeks, while Avicii's "Wake Me Up!" topped the chart for six consecutive weeks.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2013 in music
List of number-one albums of 2013 (Australia)
List of top 25 singles for 2013 in Australia
List of top 10 singles in 2013 (Australia)
References
Australia Singles
Number-one singles
2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAPC | Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) is a programming contest for students from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It is organized annually by an institution of higher education. From 1991 through 2004, the contest was held under the name NKP (Dutch Programming Championship).
Organisation
Since 2006, BAPC is an official preliminary of NWERC (Northwestern Europe Regional Contest). In practice, this means the participating institutions determine which teams they will send to NWERC based on the results at BAPC. The top teams of NWERC (typically the top two or the top three), are invited to take part in the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
A month before BAPC, a preliminary round is held to determine which teams are allowed to represent their institution at BAPC.
Besides the student ranking, there is a ranking for companies. However, the contest is the same for all participants.
Contest format
A team consists of, at most, three people and has five hours to solve a set of six to ten problems. During the contest, each team is only allowed to use a single computer. The problems are algorithmic in nature and of varying degree of difficulty.
Judging
Solutions to a problem, in the form of computer programs, can be submitted more than once. The BAPC jury checks whether a submission satisfies certain criteria and replies with a simple verdict. In case the submitted program gives the correct answer to all predefined tests within the allotted time, the response will be Accepted or Correct.
If a program requires too much time to pass all tests, the jury will reply Time Limit Exceeded. If it terminates with an error, the response will be Runtime Error, and if the program terminates correctly, but doesn't pass all tests, the reply will be Wrong Answer or Incorrect. Under no circumstances will the jury give hints as to what caused the error, which tests failed, or where the Bug is.
Scoring
For each solved problem, one point is awarded. For each point scored within the first four hours of the contest, a helium balloon is attached to the team's computer. After four hours, the scoreboard is no longer updated, so that it remains a secret who won until the award ceremony.
Ties are solved by a time penalty (the lower, the better). Every team starts out with a penalty time of 0 minutes. For every solved problem, the time from the start of the contest until the correct submission in minutes is added to the time penalty. For every prior wrong submission for a solved problem, 20 minutes are added. Wrong submissions for problems that are not eventually solved do not affect the a team's score.
Prizes
The prizes for the top three teams are typically a power of two. In 2008, for example, the prizes for the first, second, and third student teams were 1024, 512, and 256 euro respectively. The best company team received 512 euro. Participation costs for companies were 500 euro per team, while participation for student teams was free.
His |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waleed%20Ouda | Waleed Ouda (born 1973) is a Palestinian novelist. He was born in Kuwait. He has a PhD in computer engineering and currently works in the United Arab Emirates. He has written four novels. He was a participant in the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Nadwa, organized to encourage the work of promising young Arab writers.
References
1973 births
Living people
Palestinian novelists
Date of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Palestinian writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Music%20City%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Music City Bowl throughout the years.
Television
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
Radio
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
References
Music City
Broadcasters
Music City Bowl
Music City Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2016%29 | Season sixteen of Dancing with the Stars premiered on March 18, 2013, on the ABC network.
Country music singer Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough were crowned the champions, while Disney Channel star Zendaya and finished in second place, and Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones and Karina Smirnoff finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. Eleven celebrities and their professional partners were announced on February 26, 2013, on Good Morning America, with Jacoby Jones' participation having been confirmed two days earlier during a network promo that aired during the 85th Oscars. Two weeks following the cast announcement, Sean Lowe as revealed as the twelfth contestant. Lindsay Arnold, a contestant from season nine of So You Think You Can Dance, was introduced as a new professional along with Sharna Burgess, who had been a member of the dance troupe. Gleb Savchenko, who had recently participated as a professional on season twelve of the Australian Dancing with the Stars, was also announced as a new professional. The dance troupe consisted of Oksana Dmytrenko, Henry Byalikov, Emma Slater, and Sasha Farber, along with new members Witney Carson and Julian Tocker.
Host and judges
Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet returned as co-hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. The Harold Wheeler orchestra and singers also returned to provide the music throughout the season.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Couples performed either the cha-cha-cha, contemporary, or the foxtrot, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: First Elimination
Couples performed either jazz, the jive, or the quickstep, and are listed in the order they performed.
At the results show of this week, it was announced that Dorothy Hamill would be withdrawing from the show due to an injury she had suffered from during training prior to this week.
Week 3: Prom Night
All couples participated in a team freestyle, where Jacoby & Karina and Zendaya & Val each received two bonus points, plus one unlearned dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Best Year of My Life Night
Couples performed one unlearned dance celebrating the most memorable year of their lives. Each celebrity included a brief solo during their routines. Kyle Jacobs, Kellie Pickler's husband, performed his own song that he wrote for Kellie. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: Len's Side-by-Side Challenge
Each couple had to select two other professionals that had either been eliminated, participated in previous seasons, or participated in the troupe; and then pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282006%29 | Home and Away is an Australian soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the Australian soap opera Home and Away in 2006, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's series producer Julie McGuaran. The 19th season of Home and Away began airing on the Seven Network on 16 January 2006 and concluded on 1 December 2006. The first introduction of year was Amy Mathews as Rachel Armstrong in the year's premiere. Jessica Tovey joined the cast as Belle Taylor in February. Sam North began portraying Dom Moran in April. Rodger Corser and Trent Baines also joined the cast as Doctor Hugh Sullivan and Macca MacKenzie respectively. In July, Bobby Morley arrived as Drew Curtis and Chris Sadrinna was cast as Rachel's brother Brad Armstrong. October marked the introductions of Jessica Chapnik as Sam Tolhurst, her son Rory Tolhurst and the Cooper brothers Rocco and Johnny played by Ian Meadows and Callan Mulvey.
Rachel Armstrong
Rachel Armstrong, played by Amy Mathews debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 16 January 2006. In 2010, Mathews quit the serial to pursue other projects and her on-screen husband Tony Holden was also written out.
The serial's official website describe Rachel stating: "She has great instincts for people and has a sharp mind; she’s fiercely independent and has great strength of character." Of Rachel's persona, Mathews states: "Rachel is outgoing and fun with a sharp mind and good instincts for people. She has incredible strength and is fiercely independent. She has strong values and definite ideas about right and wrong but she is also a romantic at heart."
In 2007, Mathews received the Logie for "New Female Talent" for her portrayal of Rachel. Mathews was nominated for "Best Actress" and "Best Couple" for her relationship with Kim at the 2007 Inside Soap Awards. Soap opera reporting website Holy Soap describe Rachel's most memorable moment as: "Being taken hostage by the Believers cult, who tried to force her to deliver Tasha's baby."
Belle Taylor
Susan "Belle" Taylor, played by Jessica Tovey, made her first on-screen appearance on 3 February 2006. Belle's storylines included finding her birth mother, a drug addiction, her relationship with Aden Jefferies and being diagnosed with cancer. In 2009, it was announced that Tovey had quit the show and the writers took the decision to kill off the character. Belle made her last appearance on 11 August 2009. Tovey joined Home and Away in 2006 when she was 18. The character of Belle was her first television role. In April 2009, Tovey announced that she had quit Home and Away. RTÉ's website describes Belle as being a "cheeky, extroverted young girl". She was full of insecurity from her "disciplined and controlling" upbringing. She craved love and attention from her parents, which they never gave to her. Belle's parents were shocked to discover their daughter was rejecti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett%20A.%20Hernandez | Lieutenant General Rhett Anthony Hernandez (born March 9, 1953) is a retired officer in the United States Army and the former commander of the United States Army Cyber Command, the Army's service component to United States Cyber Command. Hernandez assumed the position upon its activation on October 10, 2010, with its headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Military career
Hernandez was commissioned into the United States Army in 1976 as a Field Artillery officer upon graduation from the United States Military Academy. During his career, he held posts with numerous field artillery units as well as a number of staff officer positions. Hernandez was the Assistant G-3/5/7, Headquarters, Department of the Army; the Chief, United States Military Training Mission in Saudi Arabia; and the Commander, United States Army Human Resources Command. Hernandez also attended the University of Virginia, where he received a master's degree in Systems Engineering and he attended the National War College where he received a master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies.
Hernandez commanded the United States Army Cyber Command from its creation on October 1, 2010, until he handed command over to Lieutenant General Edward C. Cardon on September 3, 2013. He received a promotion to lieutenant general on March 25, 2011. As head of Army Cyber Command, Hernandez was responsible for planning, coordinating, and integrating the network operations and defense of all United States Army networks. Hernandez was also tasked with conducting cyberspace operations in support of army operations through his command of approximately 21,000 soldiers and civilians. Hernandez oversaw a command that brought an unprecedented unity of effort and synchronization of all Army forces operating within the cyber domain. Under Hernandez, the command concentrated its efforts on operationalizing cyberspace and improving Army capabilities in the cyberspace domain. As a first step, the command established the Army Cyber Operations and Integration Center collocating intelligence, operations, and signal staffs, together with a critical targeting function, and bringing a new synergy to Army cyberspace operations. To improve the Army's cyber capabilities the command fielded a World Class Cyber Opposing Force at the National Training Center; developed new doctrinal concepts for Land-Cyber operations; and identified the Army's capability requirements needed to fully operationalize the cyberspace domain and grow the Army's cyber force. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA).
Hernandez retired on September 4, 2013.
Awards
Hernandez received the Army Distinguished Service Medal (2), Defense Superior Service Medal (2), the Legion of Merit (2), the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (5), the Army Commendation Medal (5), the Army Achievement Medal (2), the Combat Action Badge, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeRank | EdgeRank is the name commonly given to the algorithm that Facebook uses to determine what articles should be displayed in a user's News Feed. As of 2011, Facebook has stopped using the EdgeRank system and uses a machine learning algorithm that, as of 2013, takes more than 100,000 factors into account.
EdgeRank was developed and implemented by Serkan Piantino.
Formula and factors
In 2010, a simplified version of the EdgeRank algorithm was presented as:
where:
is user affinity.
is how the content is weighted.
is a time-based decay parameter.
User Affinity: The User Affinity part of the algorithm in Facebook's EdgeRank looks at the relationship and proximity of the user and the content (post/status update).
Content Weight: What action was taken by the user on the content.
Time-Based Decay Parameter: New or old. Newer posts tend to hold a higher place than older posts.
Some of the methods that Facebook uses to adjust the parameters are proprietary and not available to the public.
A study has shown that it is possible to hypothesize a disadvantage of the "like" reaction and advantages of other interactions (e.g., the "haha" reaction or "comments") in content algorithmic ranking on Facebook. The "like" button can decrease the organic reach as a "brake effect of viral reach". The "haha" reaction, "comments" and the "love" reaction could achieve the highest increase in total organic reach.
Impact
EdgeRank and its successors have a broad impact on what users actually see out of what they ostensibly follow: for instance, the selection can produce a filter bubble (if users are exposed to updates which confirm their opinions etc.) or alter people's mood (if users are shown a disproportionate amount of positive or negative updates).
As a result, for Facebook pages, the typical engagement rate is less than 1% (or less than 0.1% for the bigger ones), and organic reach 10% or less for most non-profits.
As a consequence, for pages, it may be nearly impossible to reach any significant audience without paying to promote their content.
See also
PageRank, the ranking algorithm used by Google's search engine
References
External links
edgerank.net
Facebook - How News Feed Works
Facebook
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rock%20Band%20Network%20songs | The Rock Band Network in the music video games Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3 supports downloadable songs for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii veins throughout the consoles' respective online services. The Rock Band Network Store became publicly available on March 4, 2010, for all Xbox 360 players in selected countries (US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Singapore). Rock Band Network songs became available on the PlayStation 3 in five song intervals through their own Rock Band Network Store on April 22, 2010. Starting on April 12, 2011, up to 10 songs were added weekly to the PlayStation 3 platform until June 14, 2011, when it reverted to five song intervals. Also, starting on June 14, 2011, PlayStation 3 Rock Band Network songs will only be compatible with Rock Band 3. Rock Band Network became available on the Wii in six to 10 song intervals from September 7, 2010 to January 18, 2011. Rock Band Network songs will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 for 30 days, after which a selection of songs will be made available on the PlayStation 3 and Wii. As of January 18, 2011, no further Rock Band Network songs will be released on the Wii platform due to Nintendo's small online install base, limited demand for the songs and the significant amount of work each song needs to convert to the Wii.
Players can download songs (and free demos of the songs if being used on the Xbox 360) on a track-by-track basis. Unlike a song released through the regular music store, there are limitations to where the song can be used. Network songs will not appear as a song within the various "Mystery Setlist" challenges within Tour mode (except on Wii, where they are treated as regular DLC), though users can add Network songs to "Make a Setlist". Users can also use Network songs in Quickplay modes. Network songs cannot be played in the head-to-head modes, as this would require Network authors to also balance note tracks for these game modes. Songs can be practiced through Practice Mode, but unlike Harmonix-authored songs, which include hooks to allow the user to practice specific sections of a song, Network songs are not authored with these phrase hooks and can only be practiced in percentage based segments (i.e. short songs would get 10% increments, longer would get 5%, etc.).
With the release of Rock Band Network 2.0, creators can now add songs with harmony vocals, standard and pro mode keyboard tracks, and pro drum tracks, as well as mark specific sections for practicing and the end-of-song breakdown. Support for pro guitar and bass is not included in RBN 2.0 due to the complexity of authoring such tracks and the small base of pro guitar users/testers early on. With the formal launch of RBN 2.0 on February 15, 2011, the previous version of the network was shut down, ending RBN support for Rock Band 2.
Pricing
Prices for Rock Band Networks songs are set by the parties involved with authoring and submitting the song, and can be set at either 80, 160 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202013 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2013
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202005 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
External links
2005
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202006 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2006
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Journals%20Online | Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) is a project started by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) funded by the Department of International Development of the British Government to encourage open access of information.
History
INASP initiated BanglaJOL in June 2007 and officially launched it in September 2007. The Bangladesh Academy of Sciences assumed management of BanglaJOL in 2014.
It is a database of open access journals published in Bangladesh, dealing with the full range of academic disciplines including both paper based and online only publications. Aim of the project is to make participating peer-reviewed journals' high visibility, high readership and open access over the internet by providing access to tables of contents (ToCs), abstracts and full-text.
See also
Open Journal Systems
African Journals OnLine
References
External links
Organizations established in 2007
Open-access archives
Academic journal online publishing platforms
Full-text scholarly online databases
Open access projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolveSpace | SolveSpace is a free and open-source 2D/3D constraint-based parametric computer-aided design (CAD) software that supports basic 2D and 3D constructive solid geometry modeling.
It is a constraint-based parametric modeler with simple mechanical simulation capabilities. Version 2.1 and onward runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. The Linux version is shipped as a snap and native packages. It supports STEP and DFX for import and export. By default, SolveSpace utilizes its own CAD file format called for model storage. It is possible to export models as a whole or in part to various formats such as PDF, SVG, or Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).
It was initially created by Jonathan Westhues and as of 2022 is maintained by a community of volunteers.
History
Development of SolveSpace started in 2008 as commercial proprietary software for Microsoft Windows. A previous software package called SketchFlat, also developed by Westhues, was replaced by SolveSpace.
In 2012 version 1.9 released as unrestricted freeware proprietary software. In 2013 version 2.0 released as free and open-source software. In 2016 version 2.1 brings support for Linux and MacOS.
According to an interview given in 2020 by a major maintainer SolveSpace aims to be backwards compatibile as much as possible. The codebase at the time was about 30,000 lines of code and it took Whitequark almost 2 years to familiarize herself with it. On September 22, 2020, Whitequark stepped down as a maintainer.
Overview
SolveSpace is free and open source software distributed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
Features
SolveSpace is shipped with the following basic features:
2D Sketch Modeling
SolveSpace supports parametric 2D drawing of lines, circles, arcs, Cubic bézier curves etc; datum points and lines are also supported for general, reference based modeling.
3D Solid Modeling
Drawing, extrusion, rotation and revolution along a helix are supported in both modes. In 3D it is possible to use basic Boolean operations (union, difference, intersection), though as of version 3.0, SolveSpace had limitations on the order of application of these operations.
Mechanical design and analysis
By using the built-in constraint solver it is possible to visualize planar or spatial linkages with pin, ball, or slide joints, trace their movements, and export its data in CSV format.
Assembly
SolveSpace allows solids to be imported in a special mode that does not allow modeling. These imported solids can then be constrained to ensure that the designed model's dimensions meet necessary requirements.
Plane and solid geometry
Replace hand-solved trigonometry and spreadsheets with a live dimensioned drawing.
Supported file formats
Importing
SolveSpace can open and import its own textual file formats for both editing and assembly. The DXF/DWG file format AutoCAD (version 2007) is supported for opening and editing.
Exporting
SolveSpace v3.0 is able to export 2D sketches and surfaces into DXF/DWG (AutoCAD version 2007), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldivian%20Youth%20Climate%20Network | The Maldivian Youth Climate Network (MYCN), founded on 29 August 2010, is a non-governmental organisation from Maldives which is primarily involved in raising awareness on and empowering youth to combat climate change. It is currently one of the leading organizations advocating against climate change in Maldives.
Objectives
Establishing a strong network among youth to build resilience to Climate Change
Informing youth on Climate Change science and impacts
Building capacity of youth to implement innovative solutions for adaptation and mitigation
Support youth to ensure that funds are allocated to sound projects that address the needs of the most vulnerable communities
Policy advocacy such as reviewing legislations, regulations, guidelines and policies to ensure evidence-based decision making
Activities
2010
Waste Management Partner at the Hay Festival; Aarah, Maldives. (14–17 October)
Participated in South Asian Youth Summit on Climate Change; Colombo, Sri Lanka. (28–31 October)
Partner at 5th Japan Maldives Festival; Male’, Maldives
Participated in Unity Day Fair, Male’, Maldives. (26 December)
2011
Conducted the Third SAARC Youth Camp; Addu, Maldives. (21–26 February)
Participated in CHSE Environs Fair; Male', Maldives (22–23 March)
Organised and conducted MYCN Fanaaru 2011 Climate Camp; K. Huraa, Maldives. (5–7 May)
Participated in the World Environment Day 2011 official celebrations; Male', Maldives (5 June)
Conducted a session at the Girl Guides' Camp; K. Villingili, Maldives (7 June)
Conducted an awareness raising session on Climate Change at Muhibbuddin School; Addu, Maldives (17 August)
Participated in UNFCCC COP 17; Durban, South Africa. (28–9 December)
2012
Antarctic exploration trip
Participated in UNFCCC COP 18; Doha, Qatar. (December)
References
Climate change organizations
Youth empowerment organizations
Youth-led organizations
Youth organisations based in the Maldives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreCAD | LibreCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) application for 2D design. It is free and open-source, and available for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems.
Most of the interface and handle concepts are analogous to AutoCAD, making it easier to use for users with experience in this type of commercial CAD application.
History
Around 2010, the QCAD Community Edition v2.0.5.0 was forked to start the development of what is now known as LibreCAD. Originally, the GUI was based on Qt3 libraries.
LibreCAD relies on a GUI based on Qt5 libraries, so it can run on several platforms in the same way.
The GNU LibreDWG library is released under GPLv3, so it cannot be used by GPLv2-licensed LibreCAD (and FreeCAD) because their licenses are incompatible. A request also went to the FSF to relicense GNU LibreDWG as GPLv2, which was rejected. The problem was eventually resolved by writing a new GPLv2-licensed library called libdxfrw, with more complete DWG support.
Features
LibreCAD is available in over 30 languages. It uses the AutoCAD DXF file format internally for import and save files, as well as allowing export to many other file formats.
File formats
As of version 2.2.0, LibreCAD is capable of reading and writing the following file formats:
Open File or Import Block
CAD: DXF, DWG, JWW
CAD font: LFF, CXF
Import Image
Vector image: SVG, SVGZ
Bitmap image: BMP, CUR, GIF, ICNS, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, WEBP, XBM, XPM
Save File
CAD: DXF (2007), DXF (2004), DXF (2000), DXF (R14), DXF (R12)
CAD font: LFF, CXF
Export
PDF
Vector image: SVG, CAM (Plain SVG)
Bitmap image: BMP, CUR, ICNS, ICO, JPG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TIF, WBMP, WEBP, XBM, XPM
See also
Comparison of computer-aided design software
References
External links
LibreCAD User Manual
2011 software
Computer-aided design software for Linux
Computer-aided design software for Windows
Engineering software that uses Qt
Free computer-aided design software
Free software programmed in C++
MacOS computer-aided design software
Software that uses Qt
Software using the GPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasia%20Glowicka | Kasia Glowicka (born Katarzyna Głowicka, October 12, 1977), also known as Katarina Glowicka, is a Polish composer and lecturer of computer music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Her body of musical work encompasses compositions for opera, theater, ballet and film. As a playwright, she focuses her work on current social issues.
As a composer, her work spans a range of styles in experimental, minimalism, Avant-garde, art music and contemporary classical music genres, written for orchestra, small ensembles, or solos and often accompanied by electronic music.
In 2004 she married composer Henry Vega and they reside in the Netherlands. They are founding directors of the Artek Foundation and its recording label, ARTEKsounds.
Glowicka's collaborations include works with the Dutch symphony orchestra Het Balletorkest, an affiliate of Het Nationale Ballet, plus Ensemble Recherche and Ties Mellema. Her scores are published by the Dutch institute Donemus.
Early life and education
Glowicka was born in Oleśnica. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in 2001 after studying with the composer Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil. During 2000 she held an internship with Italian composer Ivan Fedele at the Conservatory in Strasbourg and later studied with Dutch composers, Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, of which she is also a graduate. She also completed a PhD focusing on computer music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at the Queen's University Belfast in 2008.
Awards and commissions
As early as 1999, Glowicka's piece Gindry for bass and string orchestra won the Adam Didur All-Polish Composition Competition. In 2001, at just 23 years old, Glowicka was short-listed along with librettist Jerzy Lukosz for the Genesis Prize, from the London-based Genesis Foundation for their Opera The King's Gravedigger and an act from the piece was performed at the Almeida Theatre.
She has also been recognized by the Holland Symfonia Competition, and won awards from the European Commission, the International Biennale of Modern Art Crash and the Polish Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music awards for her 1999 work "Summer's day."
In 2004 she received a distinction in the Musica Sacra Polish Composers Competition. Her piece Opalescence won 1st Prize at the Bourges Competition for Electronic Music and was shortlisted for the SPNM awards in 2006.
A few of the many commissions Glowicka received for her works have come from the Society of Promotion of New Music in London for the BBC Scottish Ensemble to perform the piece Perpetuity for the ‘Sounds New’ Festival in Aberdeen and the piece was later featured in the 18th International Review of Composers in Belgrade in 2009. Another commission came from a grant by the Polish Ministry of Culture for the CD recording of "Springs and Summers."
In 2012 she was commissioned to compose a piece for the New York program "On Silence" marking the centennial of John Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jensen%20Code | The Jensen Code is a UK children's television sci-fi thriller series. Produced in colour by Associated Television (ATV) in 13 installments, it originally aired weekly on the ITV network between 28 February 1973 and 23 May 1973. It was written by the novelist and dramatist Carey Harrison (son of actor Rex Harrison).
Series partial overview
The story begins with 16-year-old Terry Connor sat alone in a cavern 100 feet underground whilst on a potholing expedition. The senior Outward Bound instructor, Alex, has long since been missing in the depths of the cavernous subterranean pot named 'Wilmer Deep' after going to retrieve a torch which Terry had dropped earlier. When Alex returns (without the torch) he is strangely convinced that he has been away for ten minutes but Terry knows that Alex has been away for more than two hours. Alex believes that Terry has suffered hallucinations, which he says can be a side-effect of the confined darkness of a cavern. When they surface Terry believes he has seen man watching them, to which Alex again suggests it is an hallucination and that Terry is not cut out for potholing and so should not go on the big potholing expedition on which the rest of the students will be going the next day. Returning to the outward bound centre, Terry is subjected to much ribbing by his fellow students including the ring leader Jacko. Terry is convinced that the centre or the students at least, are being watched and when the others inform Terry that there is a Ministry Of Defence research establishment nearby he begins to feel increasingly uneasy. Another instructor at the centre, Gordon, becomes aware of Terry's concerns and tells him that he believes his story that Alex had gone missing for two hours but that he can't say much more than that.
The following day, Terry is detailed to go on his own day and night solo trek above ground. However, eager to prove to himself that he is unafraid of the cave, Terry sets out to return to Wilmer Deep. First, he needs to obtain the key to the gate which covers the cave and that key is kept at Granny Powell's farmhouse. When Terry turns up there he is unexpectedly joined by Alex, who is accompanied Kurtz, the man Terry had seen spying on them the previous day. Strangely, Alex appears vague and seems to have no recollection of setting Terry the trekking task.
Terry follows Alex and Kurtz and witnesses them performing a kidnapping. Terry rushes back to the centre to tell Gordon, who says he works for the security department within the Ministry of Defence and that he is investigating Alex, whom he believes is intending to endanger the life of a scientist in the nearby research unit using the Wilmer Deep pot as a cover to gain access to the research establishment. Gordon also informs Terry that the person who has been kidnapped is Dr Jensen, the only man who knows important strategic communication codes for a military space satellite to be launched shortly. Gordon takes Terry to a house to keep him |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimora%3A%20House%20of%20Fab | Kimora: House of Fab is an American reality television series on the Style Network that debuted on January 23, 2013. Kimora: House of Fab chronicles the day-to-day life at JustFab, an online fashion website. Simmons was hired in 2011 after the company raised $33 million in first round capital. The series focuses solely on Simmons's career with the company, rather than her home life as shown in Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Kimora Lee Simmons - the President of Fab
Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler — the Big Bosses
Lianca Lyons — the Kimora Whisperer
Johnny Anastacio — the Drama King
Alyson Wilson — the Know-It-All
Kimberly Tobman — the Perfectionist
Lesley Holmes — the Trend Spotter
Recurring cast
Sandra Diaz
Sarah Marsh
Rose Montoya
Jessica Flores
Ashley Hildebrandt
Angela Fink
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
References
External links
JustFab Official Site
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming
Reality television spin-offs
American television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darinka%20Dentcheva | Darinka Dentcheva (Bulgarian: Даринка Денчева) is a Bulgarian-American mathematician, noted for her contributions to convex analysis, stochastic programming, and risk-averse optimization.
Schooling and positions
Dentcheva was born in Bulgaria.
She received her MsC and PhD degrees in mathematics from Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) in 1981 and 1989, respectively. In 2006 she was granted Habilitation from Humboldt University of Berlin, for a dissertation on set-valued analysis.
From 1982 to 1994 Dentcheva was with the Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in Sofia (Bulgaria). In 1997–1999 she was a visitor at the Rutgers Center for Operations Research of Rutgers University. In 1999–2000 she was a visiting professor at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Lehigh University. Since 2000 Dentcheva has been with Stevens Institute of Technology, where she holds a position of Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Main achievements
Dentcheva developed the theory of Steiner selections of multifunctions, the theory of stochastic dominance constraints (jointly with Andrzej Ruszczyński), and contributed to the theory of unit commitment in power systems (with Werner Römisch).
She authored 2 books and more than 70 research
papers.
Most influential publications
Dentcheva, D.; and Ruszczyński, A., Optimization with stochastic dominance constraints, SIAM Journal on Optimization 14 (2003) 548–566.
Dentcheva, D.; Prékopa, A.; Ruszczyński, A., Concavity and efficient points of discrete distributions in probabilistic programming, Mathematical Programming 89, 2000, 55–77.
Dentcheva, D.; Römisch, W., Optimal power generation under uncertainty via stochastic programming, in: Stochastic Programming Methods and Technical Applications (K. Marti and P. Kall Eds.), Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer Verlag, 1998.
Dentcheva, D.; Helbig, S., On variational principles, level sets, well-posedness, and ∈-solutions in vector optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 89, 1996, 325–349.
References
1958 births
Living people
20th-century Bulgarian mathematicians
21st-century Bulgarian mathematicians
Bulgarian women mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Bulgarian emigrants to the United States
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Rutgers University faculty
Lehigh University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NASA%20cameras%20on%20spacecraft | NASA has operated several cameras on spacecraft over the course of its history.
Apollo Program
Apollo TV camera
Hasselblad "Electric Camera" (modified 500 EL) with 70 mm film
Maurer Data Acquisition Camera (DAC) with 16 mm film
Nikon F with 35 mm film
Mapping (Metric) Camera (7.6 cm focal length) with 127 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17 (see Sherman Fairchild#Lunar photography)
Stellar Camera (7.6 cm focal length) with 35 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17
Panoramic Camera (61 cm focal length) with 127 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17
Skylab
Personal camera equipment:
Television camera
16 mm film video camera
35 mm film camera
70 mm film camera
Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle booster cameras.
Space Shuttle External Tank camera
Columbia
Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing experiment
Nikon NASA F4
Lunar missions
Pioneer program, 1958–1960
Pioneer 1, television camera
Pioneer 2, television camera
Lunar Orbiter program, Lunar Orbiter 1–5, 1966–1967
The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth.
Clementine, 1994
Ultraviolet/Visible camera (UV/Vis)
Near-Infrared camera (NIR)
High-Resolution Camera (HIRES)
Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, 2009
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC)
Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
One visible, two near infrared, and two mid-infrared cameras
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, 2011
Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students (MoonKAM)
Other missions
Hazcam
Navcam
Pancam
Cachecam
See also
List of cameras on ISS
Nikon NASA F4
References
cameras on spacecraft
Cameras |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2098%20%28Poland%29 | Droga krajowa nr 98 (translates from Polish as national road 98) was a route belonging to Polish national roads network.
History
1985–2000
The first time route 98 was introduced in 1985, as a part of road network reform. It ran from Wadowice through Maków Podhalański, Jordanów, Rabka, Limanowa, Nowy Sącz, Gorlice, Jasło, Krosno, Sanok, Kuźmina and Bircza to Przemyśl until the year 2000, when as a result of another reform the route 98 was decommissioned and replaced with road 28 existing to present day.
2011–2019
In 2011, after the Wrocław motorway bypass opened, road 98 was commissioned a second time. It ran entirely through Lower Silesian Voivodeship, leading from expressway S8 at junction Kobierzyce to Długołęka. In 2012 road 98 was rerouted – it began on a crossing with national road 5 in Wrocław and finished at the Wrocław Psie Pole junction at motorway A8 and expressway S8 near the city, following mostly the old route of national road 8. Road 98 was treated as an alternative route for the bypass, despite the fact that A8 is not a toll road.
Since January 1, 2020 road 98 is no longer a part of the national roads network. The stretch connecting motorway junction Wrocław Psie Pole with village Długołęka was downgraded to voivodeship road 372 (DW 372), with the further section through Wrocław downgraded to a gmina road.
References
98 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Jazeera%20America | Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. It was Al Jazeera's second entry into the U.S. television market, after the launch of beIN Sports in 2012. The channel, which had persistently low ratings, announced in January 2016 that it would close on April 12, 2016, citing the "economic landscape".
Al Jazeera America was headquartered and run from studios on the first floor of the Manhattan Center in New York City. It also had a total of 12 bureaus located in places such as Washington, D.C., at the channel's D.C. studios at the Newseum and Al Jazeera's D.C. hub, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Miami, and San Francisco (former headquarters of Current TV and current headquarters of online channel AJ+).
The channel was the sister channel of Al Jazeera's international English language news channel Al Jazeera English. Although operated and managed completely separately with America's management based in the United States, the two shared United States studios and bureaus, such as the D.C. hub, and Al Jazeera America ran some of Al Jazeera English's programming and many of its live newscasts alongside its own.
History
Creation
The creation of Al Jazeera America was announced on January 2, 2013, along with the announcement that the network had purchased the user-generated content channel turned progressive-oriented pay television channel Current TV, which had long been struggling in the ratings and after two format changes had announced in October 2012 that it was considering a sale of the channel. It was reported that Al Jazeera planned on shutting down Current TV, keeping its production staff and possibly some programs, and using the company's distribution network to broadcast Al Jazeera America. Current TV, by coincidence, was formerly Newsworld International, an international news channel similar to Al Jazeera America run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
On July 22, 2013, Al Jazeera America named former ABC News Vice President Kate O'Brian as president of the network, and Ehab Al Shihabi as interim CEO in charge of business affairs. In addition, former CNN veteran David Doss was named Vice President of News Programming and former CBS News executive Marcy McGinnis was named Vice President of News Gathering. Former MSNBC executive Shannon High-Bassalik was named Senior Vice President of Documentaries and Programs.
Al Jazeera said it received more than 21,000 job applications for 400 positions at its U.S. network. Approximately 200 Current TV employees, including some 50 in editorial, were absorbed by the new operation. It planned to have a total of 800 employees at the channel's launch. Al Jazeera America also announced that the channel would employ well-known veteran journalists, anchors, and producers.
On July |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooksville%20%28TV%20series%29 | Spooksville is an action/adventure live action television series that aired on the Hub Network from October 26, 2013 to May 17, 2014. The show is based on the book series of the same name. The show is produced by Jane Startz, who also produced Tuck Everlasting and Ella Enchanted. The show is adapted for TV by James Krieg (Scooby-Doo, Batman, Spider-Man, Green Lantern, and Spectacular!).
Synopsis
The new kid in town discovers that he holds the key to a battle between good and evil that has been taking place for centuries in a bizarre small town that plays host to a wide array of supernatural and unexplained occurrences.
Cast
Main cast
Keean Johnson as Adam Freeman, a teenager who moves to Springville along with his father. He discovers many secrets along with his friends, including one about his supposedly deceased mother, revealing that she formerly lived in Spooksville and is one of the few people who knows its strange and dark secrets. He eventually finds out that his mother is alive from Ann Templeton, through a magic spell.
Katie Douglas as Sally Wilcox, a fearless and sarcastic girl, who also is trying to discover the many secrets of Spooksville, mostly the many reasons for the bizarre events that take place there.
Nick Purcha as Watch Waverly
Morgan Taylor Campbell as Ann Templeton. (Only credited in episodes in which she appeared) A teenage girl, who lives alone in a manor called Shadowmire, along with her servant Moorpark. She is revealed to come from with a long line of witches, starting from the town witch Madeline Templeton, who, back in the era of the Salem Witch trials, was punished and cursed the entire town of Spooksville.
Recurring cast
Samuel Patrick Chu as Brandon
Steve Bacic as George Freeman
Kimberly Sustad as Madeline Templeton, the witch responsible for cursing the entire town of Springville before her supposed execution.
Peter Bryant as Moorpark
Frank C. Turner as The Mayor
Jacqueline Samuda as Mrs. Waverly
Reece Alexander as Officer Dugan
Harrison Houde as Stanley 'Scaredy' Katzman
Glynis Davies as Principal Blackwater
Patricia Harras as Dodie Wilcox
Erica Carroll as Laurel Hall
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s American drama television series
2013 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
2010s Canadian drama television series
2013 Canadian television series debuts
2014 Canadian television series endings
American action television series
American adventure television series
American horror fiction television series
American television shows based on children's books
Canadian action television series
Canadian adventure television series
Canadian horror fiction television series
Canadian television shows based on children's books
Discovery Family original programming
English-language television shows
Television series about teenagers
Television shows filmed in Victoria, British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Data%20Protection%20Regulation | The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, abbreviated GDPR) is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and human rights law, in particular Article 8(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It also governs the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA. The GDPR's goals are to enhance individuals' control and rights over their personal information and to simplify the regulations for international business. It supersedes the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and, among other things, simplifies the terminology.
The European Parliament and Council of the European Union adopted the GDPR on 14 April 2016, to become effective on 25 May 2018. As an EU regulation (instead of a directive), GDPR is directly applicable with force of law on its own without the need of transposition. However, it also provides flexibility for individual member states to modify (derogate from) some of its provisions.
The regulation became a model for many other laws around the world, including in Turkey, Mauritius, Chile, Japan, Brazil, South Korea, South Africa, Argentina and Kenya. , the United Kingdom enacted its own law identical to the GDPR despite no longer being an EU member state. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), adopted on 28 June 2018, has many similarities with the GDPR.
Contents
The GDPR 2016 has eleven chapters, concerning general provisions, principles, rights of the data subject, duties of data controllers or processors, transfers of personal data to third countries, supervisory authorities, cooperation among member states, remedies, liability or penalties for breach of rights, and miscellaneous final provisions. Recital 4 proclaims that ‘processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind’.
General provisions
The regulation applies if the data controller (an organisation that collects information about living people, whether they are in the EU or not), or processor (an organisation that processes data on behalf of a data controller like cloud service providers), or the data subject (person) is based in the EU. Under certain circumstances, the regulation also applies to organisations based outside the EU if they collect or process personal data of individuals located inside the EU. The regulation does not apply to the processing of data by a person for a "purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity." (Recital 18)
According to the European Commission, "Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. If you cannot directly identify an individual from that information, then you need to consider whether the individual is still identifiable. You should take into account the information you are processing together with all the means reasonably likely to be used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Watson%20%28sportscaster%29 | Jim Watson is a sportscaster with Fox Sports and formerly with NBC Sports.
Sportscasting career
NBC Sports Network
He called Gymnastics for the 2016 Rio Olympics. He called weightlifting for the 2012 London Olympics. He also calls water polo for Universal Sports. He has also served as a play-by-play announcer, anchor, reporter, and host for NBC Sports, Universal Sports, FOX Sports, ESPN3, Time Warner, and several other regional networks. He called Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Pac-12 Network and Fox Sports
Watson is also employed by the Pac-12 Network. There he calls football, basketball, baseball, swimming, and diving.
In addition to Pac-12 sports, he has also covered golf, tennis, cross-country, track-and-field, softball, soccer, and water polo.
Watson is the host and reporter for Dodgers Live, a pregame/postgame show for the Los Angeles Dodgers and calls beach volleyball for the Beach Volleyball World Tour. He was also the voice of the Los Angeles Galaxy for five years.
Other sports
Watson has also covered motocross, snowboarding, wrestling, skiing, gymnastics, and weightlifting. He was also the host of Runnin' with the Pac.
Career Timeline
2005–present NBC Sports, Universal Sports, Fox Sports, The Mountain, and ESPN3 play-by-play, host, anchor, and reporter
MLB, NBA, MLS, FIVB, Pac-10/Pac-12, Big West, CIF High School Sports
2003-2005 Fox Sports Northwest (Seattle)
play-by-play, host, anchor, reporter
MLB, NBA, NFL, WNBA, Pac-10, West Coast, Conference, WIAA(Washington) High School Sports
2003-2005 Fox Sports West (Los Angeles) play-by-play, anchor, host, reporter
MLB, NBA, NHL, Pac-10, West Coast Conference, Big West Conference, CIF High School Sports
Olympics
2016: Gymnastics 2012: Weightlifting
2004: Indoor Volleyball
2000: Beach Volleyball
World Championships
2009-2012: NBC Sports, Universal Sports
Beach Volleyball, Team Volleyball, Water Polo, snowboarding, Wrestling, Rowing
Personal
He attended the University of Hawaii and the University of Southern California. He graduated from USC in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sports Information. He currently lives in Santa Monica, California.
References
Television anchors from Los Angeles
Living people
University of Southern California alumni
People from Santa Monica, California
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Los Angeles Dodgers announcers
College baseball announcers in the United States
Association football commentators
High school basketball announcers in the United States
High school football announcers in the United States
College basketball announcers in the United States
American television sports anchors
College football announcers
Golf writers and broadcasters
Tennis commentators
Olympic Games broadcasters
Beach Volleyball commentators
Volleyball commentators
Track and field broadcasters
Skiing announcers
Softball announcers
Gymnastics broadcasters
Women's National Basketball Association announcers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIF-CS | The Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS) is an XML vocabulary for representing metadata about data collections and related entities based on ISO 2146.
It is a machine-readable format to describe metadata about data collections. Similar to how MARC standards are used by library systems to describe books, RIF-CS is used to describe data collections.
For example, a RIF-CS record can describe a spreadsheet containing experimental results: it might contain the title, description, creator, keywords, date the experiment was conducted and a URL to obtain the actual spreadsheet. Another RIF-CS record can describe the person who created the spreadsheet: it might contain their name, address and contact email.
RIF-CS documents, containing RIF-CS records, are exchanged between computer systems. For example, a university can send the RIF-CS documents to a national database, where it can be indexed and searched. People can download RIF-CS records from a national database to use the information to find out more about the data and/or the researcher.
Model
The metadata describes the entity as well relationships between the entities. RIF-CS represents metadata about the following types of entities, which it calls registry objects:
Collections
Parties
Activities
Services
These entities are based on the entities defined in ISO 2146.
The registry objects contain either embedded information or links to other registry objects. Some information is represented directly in the registry object; for example: names, descriptions and dates. Other information is represented by a link to another registry object: for example, the creator for a collection (research data) is a link to another registry object that describes the party (a researcher).
Use
RIF-CS is used in Australian universities and industry as a format for submitting metadata to the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Research Data Australia service.
In that context, collections represent collections of research data; parties represent people and groups; activities represent research projects or programs; services represent ways to access the research data collections.
RIF-CS is only a representation of the metadata. To exchange RIF-CS a protocol, such as OAI-PMH, is used.
Example
This example RIF-CS document contains a collection record and a party record.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<registryObjects xmlns="https://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects">
<registryObject group="G1">
<key>urn:uuid:7d9127c5-b97e-4474-87a3-68f2c219c609</key>
<originatingSource>https://www.example.com/thales/source</originatingSource>
<collection type="dataset" dateModified="2013-03-14T15:09:26Z">
<identifier type="local">urn:uuid:dec9b127-0d24-4d12-aaf2-a71e9ed29f75</identifier>
<name type="primary"><namePart>Test data</namePart></name>
<name type="alternative"><namePart>Data for testing</namePart></name>
<description type="fu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podio | Podio supplies a web-based platform for creating no code solutions and automated workflows. The feature set includes organizing team communication, business processes, data and content in project management workspaces according to project needs.
History
Podio was founded in Denmark as Hoist by Jon Froda, Anders Pollas and Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen in early 2009. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal joined as chairman. The company signed up its first customers in August 2009 and was joined by Kasper Hulthin as co-founder.
In August 2010, Danish entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers, best known for the mobile social site ZYB, joined as CEO and angel investor.
Podio officially launched in March 2011. As part of the launch, Podio briefly opened a storefront in San Francisco where people could walk in for help with building apps.
In September, 2011, Podio launched mobile apps for iPhone and Android.
In April 2012, Citrix acquired Podio.
In June 2015, Podio added two additional plans: Podio Plus (Advanced project processes and workflows) and Podio Premium (Priority support) to offer them to its expanded customer base. The application's basic version is still free but needs to be upgraded after reaching an entry threshold.
Reception
PC Magazine has given Podio an Editor's Choice award and selected it as one of The Best Online Collaboration Software of 2016, saying "Podio is an extremely flexible and highly customizable online hub for work and communication. Because it's so user friendly and scales easily for growing businesses, it's an Editors' Choice.".
See also
Software as a service
Collaboration software
Project management software
Comparison of file hosting services
Cloud storage
Cloud collaboration
Enterprise social software
References
External links
Citrix Systems
Web applications
2012 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202007 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2007
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202008 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2008
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202009 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2009
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202010 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2010
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202013 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2013
After Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Igor%20Cassini%20Show | The Igor Cassini Show was a DuMont Television Network talk show hosted by columnist Igor Cassini, who wrote under the name "Cholly Knickerbocker". The show aired Sunday evenings from October 25, 1953, to February 28, 1954.
Episode status
As with many DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1953-54 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
The Igor Cassini Show at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
American television talk shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ilona%20Massey%20Show | The Ilona Massey Show is a DuMont Television Network variety show hosted by actress Ilona Massey and featuring musician Irving Fields. Massey sang on a set built to resemble a nightclub. The show aired Mondays from November 1, 1954, to January 3, 1955 for a total of 10 episodes.
Episode status
As with many DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1954-55 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
The Ilona Massey Show at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1954 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaySpan | PlaySpan is a payments company whose payments platform handles transactions for digital goods in online games, digital media, and social networks.
Company history
PlaySpan was founded in 2006 by Karl Mehta. In July 2008, PlaySpan acquired Internet Payment Solutions, an alternative payments company, and in April 2009, PlaySpan acquired Spare Change Payments, a social media payments company.
The company received a total of $46 million in funding from investors Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank Capital, STIC Investments, Softbank, Vodafone, and GE Asset Management.
In March 2011, Visa Inc. acquired PlaySpan for $190 million in cash + earn-outs over 2 years, amounting to approximately $240 million in total purchase consideration.
References
Financial services companies established in 2006
American companies established in 2006
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
2006 establishments in California
Visa acquisitions
2011 mergers and acquisitions
Online payments
Payment service providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%20Yeah%21%20Wrath%20of%20the%20Dead%20Rabbit | Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (or simply Hell Yeah!) is a platform game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 through PlayStation Network, Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade, and iOS through App Store (the latter as Hell Yeah! Pocket Inferno). It was developed by French developer Arkedo Studio and published by Sega. The game has an ESRB rating of Teen.
The game puts a player in control of Ash, the prince of Hell, as he sets out across Hell on a self-imposed quest to restore his dignity by killing a number of monsters. He accomplishes this with the use of a large circular-saw blade jetpack that serves as both his primary weapon and his main mode of transportation. The game was praised for its visuals, but widely criticized for its control scheme.
Gameplay
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is a side-scrolling platformer. A player controls Ash, who jumps around platforms on a series of seven levels separated by doors and attempts to kill 100 individually named monsters. As the monsters are killed, more doors to new areas are unlocked. The combat uses twin-stick shooter controls, in which movement is controlled by one thumbstick or set of keys, and firing weapons is controlled by the other thumbstick or another set of keys. The player fights the monsters using a variety of projectile weapons, and can purchase additional weapons. Monsters can also be killed by cutting into them with the saw blade. To finish off any of the 100 monsters, the player must perform a quick mini-game, which unlocks a death animation unique to each monster. Failing the mini-game will result in damage to Ash and the monster will regain some life. Aside from the 100 named monsters, levels are also filled with traps and weaker, unnamed monsters that reappear each time the player re-enters that level.
Plot
Ash, a skeletal rabbit and the prince of Hell, has inherited the role of ruler of Hell from his father. After a photographer takes a picture of Ash playing with a rubber duck in the bathtub, Ash sets out to kill the 100 monsters that have seen the photo, to restore his image. The world of Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit has several zones with different visual styles, including "haunted caves, science labs, casinos and spaceships full of talking animals". The player navigates these zones by traveling on a large buzz-saw-like circular blade that can cut through the environment, can fire a variety of projectile weapons, and is equipped with a jet pack. Ash is assisted in his quest by his butler, Nestor, a top hat-wearing octopus.
Reception
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit and Hell Yeah! Pocket Inferno received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Critics praised the game's visuals, with Lawrence Sonntag of Inside Gaming Daily writing that "every level is bizarre but expertly colored, vibrant, and filled with high-resolution assets", and that the monsters are "what you might find in a second grader's notebook – doodles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legit%20%282013%20TV%20series%29 | Legit is an American sitcom created by Peter O'Fallon and Jim Jefferies. The series premiered on January 17, 2013, on the American cable television network FX and ended on May 14, 2014, on FX's sister channel FXX. The executive producers were Jefferies, O'Fallon, Rick Cleveland, and Lisa Blum.
On March 28, 2013, Legit was renewed for a second season by FX and moved to FXX. On May 14, 2014, it was announced that Legit was cancelled due to low ratings and would not return to FXX for a third season.
Cast
Main
Jim Jefferies as himself – an Australian stand-up comedian who very rarely takes things seriously
Dan Bakkedahl as Steve Nugent – Jim's best friend and roommate who is suffering from depression after divorcing his wife
DJ Qualls as Billy Nugent – Steve's vocal, and often cunning muscular dystrophy-afflicted brother who tries to retain as much independence as he still can
Recurring
Mindy Sterling as Janice Nugent – Steve and Billy's irritable, controlling and overprotective mother who openly despises Jim
John Ratzenberger as Walter Nugent – Steve and Billy's unusually laid-back father
Sonya Eddy as Ramona – Billy's no-nonsense personal nurse
Magda Szubanski as Anne Jefferies – Jim's mother
George Lazenby as Jack Jefferies – Jim's father
Nick Daley as Rodney – Billy's autistic, but gifted and multi-talented friend and former roommate from the care facility
Ginger Gonzaga as Peggy – Jim's on/off girlfriend
Arden Myrin as Tess – A sex addict who briefly dates Billy
Jill Latiano as Katie Knox – Jim's first love
Andrea Bendewald as Georgia – Steve's ex-wife, and mother of his daughter.
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
Broadcast
In Australia, Legit aired Thursdays on The Comedy Channel.
References
External links
2010s American single-camera sitcoms
2013 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
Alcohol abuse in television
Television shows about crime
Cultural depictions of Australian men
Cultural depictions of comedians
Disability and sexuality
Disability in television
Disability in fiction
English-language television shows
False allegations of sex crimes in fiction
FX Networks original programming
FXX original programming
Gun violence in fiction
Homelessness in popular culture
Midlife crisis in television
Racism in television
Sexual addiction in fiction
Television series about brothers
Television series about dysfunctional families
Television series about comedians
Television shows about disability
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Unemployment in fiction
Venice, Los Angeles
Virginity in television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20CBS%20television%20affiliates | CBS (an initialism of its former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American broadcast television network that originated as a radio network in September 1927, and expanded into television in July 1941. Throughout its history, the network has had many owned-and-operated and affiliated stations.
This article is a table listing of former CBS owned-and-operated and affiliated stations, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license as well as its Designated Market Area; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former CBS-affiliated station (if the station remains operational) and the current CBS affiliates in each of the listed markets, as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station's disaffiliation from the network. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel (PSIP) number, which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network.
Former affiliate stations
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
See also
List of CBS television affiliates (table)
List of CBS television affiliates (by U.S. state)
References
CBS former |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitti%20Mohanty | Bitti Mohanty, also called Bitihotra Mohanty is a computer engineer and is a high-profile convict sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for raping a German tourist at Alwar, India and was since absconding after he was released on parole on 20 November 2006 to meet his ailing mother at Cuttack, Orissa. He was arrested from Kannur in Kerala, on Saturday, 9 March 2013. His case was one of the quickest rape trials conducted by a fast-track court; the trial was completed within 15 days of lodging the complaint. The parole was granted within 8 months of his conviction. His father, Bidya Bhushan Mohanty (B.B. Mohanty), an Indian Police Service officer, stood as surety for his son's 15 days' parole and was subsequently suspended and arrested on the charges of helping, hiding and harbouring his son. He was later reinstated into service in 2009 and retired in 2012. Six years after his son's disappearance, the father expressed ignorance about his son's whereabouts and asserted that his son did not commit any major crime.
A.S. Gill (the Director General of Police of Rajasthan) and B.B. Mohanty were batch mates and it was alleged that the investigation was slowed down due to intervention of high-ranking officials. The investigating parole officer was transferred abruptly on 29 May 2007 and this hampered a speedy investigation.
Father
Bitty Mohanty's father, an Indian Police Service officer had petitioned the National Human Rights Commission and the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission, stating his son needed urgent medical treatment and should not be arrested. He established he found out about his son's ill health through communication with other inmates. The convict's father also argued that the German lady and his son were intimate and had been living together. Bitti is the eldest of two children of Mr and Mrs Mohanty.
Disappearance
He was charged with raping of a German national on 21 March 2006. The German lady and Bitti Mohanty were on a holiday in Rajasthan and took a hotel room at Alwar on 20 March 2006. He was convicted on 12 April 2006 by a fast-track court and police from Odisha and Rajasthan have failed to locate him thence.
Chief Minister of Rajasthan assured that police are trying to trace Bitty Mohanty by forming special teams, as he is considered a high-profile convict. However, after seven years of the convict's disappearance, the Rajasthani government stated that it had done all that was possible to arrest Bitty Mohanty.
Arrest
Bitty Mohanty was arrested from Kannur in Kerala, 9 March 2013. Police got information of Bitti by anonymous letter received by the bank branch authorities where he was working as Raghav Rajan from Andhra Pradesh, suspecting that the man may be Bitti. His photo was shown among the pictures of accused sex crimes running on television and Internet, which helped to identify him. He was working in a Bank with identity as Raghav Rajan.
References
Violence against women in India
Indian rapists
Crime in Rajast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2B%20Cin%C3%A9ma%28s%29 | Canal+ Cinéma(s) is a French TV channel devoted to movie programming. It belongs to Les Chaînes Canal+ and the Ciné-Séries package of Canal+. It does not broadcast advertising.
Canal+ Cinéma has an African version, on channel 4 of Canal+ Afrique.
History
Originally, the channel launched on 27 April 1996 as "Canal+ Jaune" on satellite and cable. Its programmes consisted of a multicast of Canal+ films.
On 28 June 2002, Canal+ Jaune applied to the CSA to obtain a frequency on TNT.
As part of the creation of the Canal+ "Bouquet", the channel changed its name on 1 November 2003 to Canal+ Cinéma. The application was approved and the CSA assigned a frequency on the multiplex R3 DTT from where it begins to be issued as early as 21 November 2005.
Since 12 October 2010, the channel had begun broadcasting a high definition (HD) version of the channel.
See also
Canal+
Canal+ Séries
Canal+ Family
Canal+ Sport
Canal+ Décalé
External links
Official Website
Television stations in France
Canal+
Television channels and stations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamobile | Vietnamobile is a Vietnamese mobile network operator. It is a joint-venture of Hanoi Telecom and Hutchison Asia Telecom Group and the fourth largest provider as of 2012.
History
HT Mobile was set up in 2007 as a joint-venture of Hanoi Telecom and Hutchison Asia Telecom Group. It was renamed to Vietnamobile in 2009, accompanied by the adoption of GSM technology to replace the less popular CDMA.
It started offering 3G services in late 2011, long after its major competitors.
Market share and competitors
Vietnamobile had a market share (estimated based on revenues) of 8% in 2012.
Its main competitors are Viettel with a market share of 40.67%, Vinaphone with 30%, MobiFone with 17.9%, the three large state-owned providers with a market share of almost 90%. The only smaller competitors are Gmobile and S-Fone.
References
CK Hutchison Holdings
Mobile phone companies of Vietnam
Joint ventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2B%20Sport%20%28French%20TV%20channel%29 | Canal+ Sport is a French TV channel devoted to sports programming and is part of the "Les Chaînes Canal+" themed channels of Canal+.
History
Canal+ Vert launched on 31 August 1998, on satellite and cable as a programme multicast of Canal+ sports programmes.
As part of the creation of the Canal+ Bouquet (later, "Les Chaînes Canal+" ) the channel changed its name on 1 November 2003 to Canal+ Sport.
On 20 April 2005, Canal+ Sport presented to the CSA to obtain a frequency on TNT. The application having been selected, the CSA assigned a frequency on the multiplex R3 pay DTT issued as early as 21 November 2005.
Since 8 June 2010, it has started to broadcast its programmes in high definition (HD).
Sports coverage
Association football
Ligue 1
Ligue 2
Championat National
Premier League
Division 1 Féminine
UEFA Champions League
Eredivisie
A-League Men (only in Africa)
Copa Libertadores
Motorsport
Formula E
IndyCar Series
Grand Prix motorcycle racing (MotoGP)
Formula One
World Rally Championship (WRC)
Rugby
Top 14
Super Rugby
The Rugby Championship
SANZAAR
World Rugby Sevens Series
Aquatics
FINA World Aquatics Championships
Athletics
Diamond League
Basketball
FIBA Basketball World Cup
EuroBasket
EuroBasket Women
National Basketball Association (NBA)
Boxing
Premier Boxing Champions
Salling
SailGP
Ice hockey
National Hockey League (NHL)
Ice Hockey World Championships (2021-2025)
Champions Hockey League
Golf
Ryder Cup
The Open Championship
US Open
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship
PGA Tour
PGA European Tour
World Golf Championships
See also
Canal+
Canal+ Séries
Canal+ Family
Canal+ Cinéma
Canal+ Décalé
External links
Official Website
Sport
Television stations in France
Television channels and stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in France
Sports television networks in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2B%20D%C3%A9cal%C3%A9 | Canal+ Décalé was a French pay-television channel. Part of Canal+, "Décalé'" means 'staggered', and was an overflow network carrying mainly event programming which could not be contained to Canal+'s regular networks, along with replays of that programming.
History
Canal+ Bleu launched on 27 April 1996, on satellite and cable as a programme multicast of Canal+ films.
As part of the creation of the Canal+ Bouquet, the channel changed its name on 1 November 2003 to Canal+ Confort. It changed to its present name on 2005 to become Canal + Décalé.
The channel started broadcasting its programmes in high definition on 12 October 2010.
Canal+ Décalé is used for pop-up channels for many events, like Canal+ Rio 2016 (in the 2016 Olympic Games) and Canal+ Tennis (every year for the BNP Paribas Masters).
On 29 August 2022, Canal+ Décalé was closed down and replaced by Canal+ Sport 360 two days later.
See also
Canal+
Canal+ Séries
Canal+ Family
Canal+ Sport
Canal+ Cinéma
References
External links
Official website
Television stations in France
Defunct television channels in France
Décalé
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2022
2005 establishments in France
2022 disestablishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmobile | Gmobile is a Vietnamese mobile network operator. The brand Gmobile is owned by GTel Mobile and is the successor of Beeline Vietnam. GTel in turn is owned by Global Telecommunications Corporation, a state-owned joint-stock company under the Ministry of Public Security.
Market share and competitors
Gmobile had a market share (estimated based on revenues) of 3.2% in 2012, making it the fifth largest operator.
Its main competitors are Viettel with 40.67% market share, Vinaphone with 30%, and MobiFone with 17.9%, the latter two of which are owned by VNPT. Together, the big three control almost 90% of the market. The only other significant competitor is Vietnamobile with 8%.
It had 3.2 million subscribers in 2012.
History
Gmobile was set up in September 2012 as successor of Beeline Vietnam. The Russian investor OJSC VimpelCom had previously left the joint-venture. VimpelCom sold its stakes that were once worth $500m for $45m.
References
Mobile phone companies of Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof%20Kubry%C5%84ski | Krzysztof Kubryński (born 1954, Poland) is a researcher in aerodynamics. Author of a set of computer programs (KK-AERO) assisting in the design of the aircraft. His methodology of 3D aerodynamic design and his software had been used in the majority of contemporary competition sailplane projects (ASW-27/ASG-29, Ventus-2, DG-1000, ASW-28, Antares, JS-1, Concordia) . Designer of the sail used by the winner (Mateusz Kusznierewicz) of the 1996 Summer Olympics Finn class competition. Recently he worked on the aerodynamics of the Flaris Jet 1.
Krzysztof Kubryński received his Ph.D. from Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology where he had been employed since 1990. His best known design is the wing of Diana 2 (multiple wins at World Gliding Championships and Grand Prix races).
As of 2018, Dr Kubryńki's newest design is the wing of the Diana 3 sailplane, already winning the 2019 European Championships.
Sources
www.samolotypolskie.pl: Krzysztof Kubryński
References
1954 births
Aerodynamicists
Polish engineers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African%20e-Network%20project | The Pan-African e-Network project is an information and communications technology (ICT) project between India and the African Union that seeks to connect the 55 member states of the Union through a satellite and fibre-optic network to India and to each other to enable access to and sharing of expertise between India and African states in the areas of tele-education, telemedicine, Voice over IP, infotainment, resource mapping, meteorological services, e-governance and e-commerce services. The project is often described as Africa's biggest ever in the ICT sector and is expected to extend ICT infrastructure to rural and previously underserved areas. The project is seen as an example of India furthering its economic and strategic interests in Africa through the use of soft diplomacy and has been acclaimed as an instance of South–South cooperation, helping to overcome the digital divide in Africa.
History
The idea for the project came from the then President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam who proposed such a network during his address to the Pan-African Parliament in Johannesburg in 2004. The Government of India decided to support the idea and gave the project a funding of $100 million in 2007. The entire cost of the project, amounting to 540 crores ($125 million) is to be borne by the Government of India through a grant.
The first phase of the project was launched on 26 February 2009 by the then Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee and included the 11 countries of Sudan, Rwanda,Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Senegal and Seychelles. The second phase of the project that covers 12 countries- Botswana, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, Uganda and Zambia- was launched in 2010 by the Minister of External Affairs, S M Krishna. 47 African countries have joined the project out of which implementation in 34 were completed by 2010 and the remaining were to be completed by the end of 2011.
The second phase of the project called e-VidyaBharti (Tele-education) and e-ArogyaBharti (Tele-medicine) was launched on 7 October 2019.
Infrastructure
The e-network is made up of a large undersea communications cable network and satellite connectivity provided through C-Band transponders of the INTELSAT-904 or RASCOM satellites. A Hub Earth Station of the project, located in Senegal, is connected to the participant universities and super specialty hospitals, through an International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC) that links it to a submarine cable landing station in India. Each partner nation from Africa has a tele-education terminal, a telemedicine terminal and a VVIP communication node for the head of State linked to the network. The network, designed to have 169 terminals and a central hub that delivers services, uses state of the art technology that is compatible with broadband technologies like Wi-Fi and WiMax. The network can also be scaled up to support increase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%20Asian%20Wrestling%20Championships | The following is the final results of the 1993 Asian Wrestling Championships.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
UWW Database
Asia
Wre
Wre
Asian Wrestling Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Mongolia
International wrestling competitions hosted by Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Report%20%28Hong%20Kong%20TV%20series%29 | Sunday Report is a TVB News programme which first aired on Tuesday March 10, 1987. It airs Sunday at 7pm on TVB Jade.
References
TVB original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Support%20Services | CSSI Technologies, Inc., formerly Computer Support Services, Inc., is a multi-national company providing technology solutions and professional services. The company is best known for releasing Core Integrator Workflow, a Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) technology suite.
Computer Support Services, Inc. (CSSI) is a Microsoft Silver Certified Partner and a re-seller of Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly known as Great Plains, a Platinum Partner of Intermec and a Gold Partner of Motorola Solutions providing supply chain solutions. CSSI headquarters is located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, along with offices in Pittsburgh and Wyomissing. CSSI is the parent company of CSSI Global Technologies located in Bangalore, India. In 2007, Inc. 5000 awards recognized CSSI as one of the top 5,000 fastest growing companies in the United States.
History
The company was founded in 1973 as Computer Support Services by Ronald P. Lewis to provide companies with data processing services. Computer Support Services, also known as RPL & Co. at that time, was incorporated in 1978. In 1980, the company established itself as a service-oriented company under new owners, Delmar R. Ritter and David L. Cornelius. With sales reaching $2.4 million, the company added a third owner, Thomas A. Erickson, in 1989.
In 1992, employee Terrance (Terry) Early joined others in a U.S. delegation of People to People Citizens Ambassador Program to visit the former Soviet Union. Meeting with government and business leaders related to business operations in a free enterprise system. The company acquired Quality Data Products of Williamsport, Pennsylvania from David Franklin in 1993.
In 1997, CSSI became a reseller of Great Plains Software and, as of 2012, continues as a Microsoft Silver Certified Partner and a reseller of Microsoft Dynamics GP. In 2011, the company opened a subsidiary, CSSI Global Technologies, to sell the company's flagship product, Core Integrator, worldwide.
In 2018, the company announced the change of the company's name to CSSI Technologies, and the divestment of its Core Integrator software business, which would be independently operated as CoreIntegrator, LLC.
In 2019, CSSI Technologies was recognized by Zebra Technologies for successfully implementing warehouse management software and Android mobile devices at North Central Sight Services.
In 2020, CSSI Technologies introduced CSSI Device Life cycle Management™, a subscription service through which CSSI manages the provisioning and OS version maintenance of customer Android mobile computers. The company also announced the receipt of a federal contract from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for bar code-generating software.
Current executives
David Cornelius, CEO
Joe Tosolt, President
References
American companies established in 1973
Companies based in Union County, Pennsylvania
Technology companies of the United States
1973 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Markazi | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Baqerabad Rural District, in the Central District of Mahallat County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 110, in 30 families.
References
Populated places in Mahallat County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202013%20%28Colombia%29 | This is a list of the National-Report Top 100 Nacional number-one songs of 2013. Chart rankings are based on radio play and are issued weekly. The data is compiled monitoring radio stations through an automated system in real-time.
Number ones by week
References
Number-one songs
Colombia
Colombian record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20Touch | Ubuntu Touch is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system, being developed by the UBports community. Its user interface is written in Qt, and is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, but the original goal of convergence was intended to bring Ubuntu Touch to laptops, desktops, IOT devices and TVs for a complete unified user experience.
The project was started by Canonical Ltd. but Mark Shuttleworth announced that Canonical would terminate support due to lack of market interest on 5 April 2017. It was then adopted by UBports as a community project. The UBports project was seeded by Marius Gripsgard in 2015 and the source code was transferred to the UBports Foundation where it now resides. UBports' mission is to support the collaborative development of Ubuntu Touch and to promote its widespread use.
History
The Ubuntu Touch project was started in 2011. Mark Shuttleworth announced on that by Ubuntu 14.04, the goal was that Ubuntu would support smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other smart screens (such as car head units and smartwatches), but to date has only been supported by vendors on a few smartphones, one tablet and a number of third-party devices which hobbyists have ported the operating system to. The initial goal set by Shuttleworth for Ubuntu was to reach full convergence (same platform and libraries on all devices). The Ubuntu platform for phones was unveiled on . The Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview was released on . On 22 July 2013 Ubuntu announced a crowdfunding campaign for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone that would run Ubuntu Touch, but it did not reach its funding target.
Canonical released Ubuntu Touch 1.0, the first developer/partner version on 17 October 2013, along with Ubuntu 13.10 that "primarily supports the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 phones, though there are images available for other phones and tablets", and released a "relatively 'stable' build for wider testing and feedback" on 17 April 2014, along with Ubuntu 14.04. A preview version of the software is available for installation on certain additional Android handsets including the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition as a Developer Preview as of 21 February 2013. Developers have access to all of the source code under a license allowing modification and redistribution of the software.
Ubuntu Touch was released to manufacturers on 16 September 2014. BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, the world's first Ubuntu-based smartphone went on sale in Europe on 9 February 2015.
In April 2016, the world's first Ubuntu-based tablet, the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition, was released.
In August 2016, OTA-3 was announced to support Android 6.0 BSP.
In August 2018, UBPorts released its OTA-4, upgrading the Ubuntu Touch's base from the Canonical's starting Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" to the nearest, current long-term support version Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus".
Ubuntu for Android
Ubuntu for Android was a variant of Ubuntu designed to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20of%20agriculture | A census of agriculture is a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering the whole or a significant part of a country. Typical structural data collected in a census of agriculture are number and size of holdings, land tenure, land use, crop area, irrigation, livestock numbers, gender of holders, number of household members, labour and other agricultural inputs. In a census of agriculture, data are collected at the holding level, but some community-level data may also be collected.
The most widely accepted definition of the census of agriculture is that provided by the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (WCA), particularly in its guidelines that are updated every ten years.
In practice, countries adapt this definition to their national circumstances and needs. Some examples are available here. Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union provides a common definition for all its member countries.
Objectives of the census of agriculture
The census of agriculture aims to provide data on the structure of agricultural holdings, with attention given to providing data for small administrative units. Censuses of agriculture are also used to provide benchmarks to improve current crop and livestock statistics and to provide sampling frames for follow-up agricultural sample surveys.
The general objectives of the census of agriculture are:
To provide data on the structure of agriculture, especially for small administrative units, and to enable detailed cross-tabulations;
To provide data to use as benchmarks for and reconciliation of current agricultural statistics;
To provide frames for agricultural sample surveys.
In practice, countries expand these objectives or add specific objectives to serve their needs.
Since censuses of agriculture are usually undertaken only every ten years, it is natural to associate them with those aspects of agriculture that change relatively slowly over time. Some national censuses of agriculture, however, are conducted at five-year intervals (e.g. Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, USA and Viet Nam), which can provide more up-to-date structural data for agricultural policy purposes. Thus, censuses of agriculture are mainly concerned with data on the basic organizational structure of agricultural holdings (see structural data in the definition above). Censuses of agriculture do not normally include data that change from year to year, such as agricultural production or prices. The latter type of fast-changing information is usually collected in sample surveys.
In terms of international comparability, some cross-country analytical studies on agricultural sectors have been carried out using census data.
Statistical unit of the census of agriculture
The statistical unit for the census of agriculture is the agricultural holding. In developed countries the statistical units are often establishments with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Tree%20%28TV%20series%29 | Family Tree is a documentary-style television comedy created by Christopher Guest and Jim Piddock. The series premiered on 12 May 2013, on the American pay television network HBO, and appeared on the British channel BBC Two in July 2013. Guest, Piddock, Karen Murphy, Deborah Oppenheimer, and Mario Stylianides serve as the show's executive producers.
On 23 January 2014, it was announced that HBO had cancelled the series.
Cast
Chadwick Family
Chris O'Dowd as Tom Chadwick, a young man investigating his lineage.
Nina Conti as Bea Chadwick/Monkey, Tom's sister who uses a hand puppet named "Monk" to communicate her feelings after an embarrassing incident with a puffin in her childhood
Michael McKean, as Keith Chadwick, Tom's father who loves old British situation comedies
Lisa Palfrey, as Luba Chadwick, Keith's Moldovan wife who is extremely eccentric
Christopher Guest as David Chadwick, one of Tom's relatives from North Carolina. He claims to have a vestigial tail (which is hereditary). David had a wife who disappeared under mysterious circumstances three years prior to the events of the series. Guest also plays Phineas Chadwick, David's grandfather who was a musician, art collector, actor and baseball player.
Ed Begley Jr. as Dr. Al Chadwick, Tom's third uncle. He lives in Glendale, California with his wife Kitty. He is a podiatrist (his father's profession also) and is trained in Native American survival tactics. He and his wife love R&B music. He is obsessed with the fact that Charles Chadwick left America just two days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination and is a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Also appears to be wearing a Masonic ring—which would normally indicate a Masonic tie of some sort.
Carrie Aizley as Kitty Chadwick, Al's wife, whom he met when he contacted her from a phone number on a public toilet cubicle. She is dimwitted and ignorant about English culture. She is the inventor of a series of flavored enemas.
Christian Rodska as Graham Chadwick, Keith's cousin who lives in Derbyshire on a farm
Adam James as Ronnie Chadwick, Tom's second cousin who lives and works on a farm in Derbyshire
Susan Earl as Emma Chadwick, Ronnie's wife
Kevin Pollak as Marty Schmelff, one of Tom's relatives who owns a store in Barstow, California. He is related to Tom by Charles Chadwick's marriage to Rebecca Schmelff, a member of a Jewish family in Barstow
Bob Balaban as Melvin Schmelff, Tom's uncle. He is an admirer of his grandfather, Ezra Schmelff, who was a famous Western film actor. Balaban also plays Ezra.
Other Characters
Tom Bennett as Pete Stupples, Tom's immature best friend who works at a zoo in London
Jim Piddock as Glenn Pfister, the eccentric South African owner of "Mr Pfister's Bits & Bobs", an antique and collectibles store in London
Annabel Scholey as Lucy Pfister, a baker and daughter of Mr Pfister. She was recently engaged to be married, but has since split with her (now) ex-fiancé.
Fred Willard as Mike Morton, Al's crude neighbour. He i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle%20Gang%20%281994%20film%29 | Motorcycle Gang originally aired on the cable television network Showtime on August 5, 1994, as part of the anthology series Rebel Highway. As with other films in the series, its name is taken from a 1950s B-movie but its plot bears no resemblance to that film.
The film was directed by John Milius, who considers it one of his favorites.
Plot
A motorcycle gang terrorizes army veteran Cal Morris and his family as they are driving on the highway to their new home in California. When the gang kidnaps Cal's daughter Leann and takes her to Mexico, Cal and his wife pursue them.
Production
When asked why he chose to remake Motorcycle Gang, Milius said "Why not? I never saw it. I just took a story that was kind of endemic to the period. What happened in those movies is that they always had a family crossing the desert and the family is beset by giant ants, cannibals or a hot rod or motorcycle gang. So in this one I have a dysfunctional family beset by a motorcycle gang."
Just before filming was to begin, the Jan. 17 Northridge earthquake interrupted shooting plans. Milius said, "We couldn't get to any of the locations since mine was by far, location-wise and production-wise, the most ambitious of all of them because it all takes place out-of-doors and in the desert. We couldn't get to any of those places, so we had to find alternate ways of doing it. I thought it was very challenging and I enjoyed the challenge a great deal."
The film was an early lead role for Jake Busey who call it "the most dynamic role I've had the opportunity to play," he says. "I grew up racing Motocross, off-road bikes. It's very dangerous. I quit when I was 17, after a good friend broke his back. I still have a bike. For the movie, I slicked back my hair like they did in the '50s, wore sunglasses and rode a Harley Davidson. This was definitely a thrilling experience."
Release
The film was the third in the series to be screened, after Roadracers and Confessions of a Sorority Girl.
References
External links
Review of film at Outlaw Vern
Review of film at AV Club
American action films
American auto racing films
Drag racing
Motorcycle racing films
Rebel Highway
1994 television films
1994 films
Films directed by John Milius
Films scored by Hummie Mann
1990s action films
Films produced by Debra Hill
Outlaw biker films
1994 crime drama films
1994 independent films
1990s gang films
American drama television films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/140%20Proof | 140 Proof is an advertising company that uses social data from many sources in targeting relevant ads based on consumers' interests as indicated by their social activity across networks.
History
140 Proof was launched in 2009 by Jon Elvekrog and John Manoogian III.
140 Proof began as an app-based network: its name is a reference to the 140-character limit on Twitter. 140 Proof does not serve ads on the Twitter website itself; instead its API is used by third-party apps to display targeted ads appearing on apps, social sites and mobile networks. Additionally, the service allows advertisers to run campaigns on blogging platforms like WordPress and Tumblr.
While its largest market is the United States, 140 Proof also serves customers internationally.
In 2012 the company launched a platform to help big media brands monetize their content. The platform allows media brands to offer their advertisers social ads.
In 2014 the company was granted a patent for targeting users based on persona data. 140 Proof's patented method includes the steps of receiving an advertisement request from a third-party environment with associated content, identifying a content stream that includes a reference to the third-party content, identifying a persona based on the user associated with the identified content stream and serving an advertisement to the third-party environment based on the identified persona.
In August, 2016, 140 Proof was acquired by AcuityAds for up to $20 million in cash.
Mobile advertisements
140 Proof ads appear in mobile apps, mobile social reader apps, and mobile networks. Ads are targeted to specific audiences based on public interest graph data.
In 2012, 140 Proof began offering video on any app running 140 Proof ads. Its first video ad campaign was for Chevrolet during the Super Bowl. The ads generated 50 million impressions in 2 days and resulted in 120,000 downloads of Chevy's “Chevy Game Time” app. Like its text ads, the videos show up in users’ social streams on apps that run 140 Proof ads. Users can watch, rate and share the video without leaving the page.
The blended interest graph
Public social activity from the interest graph is the primary data source 140 Proof uses to make its ads more relevant. Apps using 140 Proof give the company a user ID list stripped of names, along with the public information in that user's profile. 140 Proof's algorithms assemble ‘personas’ of users based on keywords in users’ posts and who users are following. By combining information on several of a user's stated interests, interest graphs allow 140 Proof to infer further about the user's interests.
Brands can then choose personas toward which they can target their ads. For example, an advertiser might want to reach just sports fans, or either sports fans or mothers, or only sports fans who are also mothers.
References
External links
140 Proof Official Website
140 Proof Official Blog
Advertising agencies of the United States
Marketing companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pass%20%28psychoanalysis%29 | The Pass is a procedure that was introduced by Jacques Lacan in 1967 as a means of gathering data on a psychoanalysis and investigating its results. It was adopted as an institutional procedure in the École freudienne de Paris and later in the World Association of Psychoanalysis.
Historical context
In the 1960s, Lacan was increasingly occupied with two intersecting themes: the issue of how to define and assess the end of a psychoanalysis; and the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and science.
In 1962, when still a member of the Société française de psychanalyse, Lacan called into question Freud’s comments at the end of "Analysis Terminable and Interminable", saying "it really isn’t castration anxiety that in and of itself constitutes the neurotic’s ultimate impasse". Lacan’s tenth seminar, the last prior to his departure from the International Psychoanalytical Association, examines this theme at length.
The following seminar in 1964, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, displaced the question "is psychoanalysis a science?", to ask, "what is a science that includes psychoanalysis?" The 1966 text “Science and Truth”, offers a response to this question, opening with the comment: “contrary to what has been trumped up about a supposed break on Freud’s part with the scientism of his time, […] it was this very scientism […] that led Freud, as his writings show, to pave the way that shall forever bear his name".
Lacan acknowledged that some means of communicating and confirming the results of psychoanalysis was called for, and that neither the analyst who directs the treatment, nor any third party observer, could produce epistemologically rigorous accounts.
Lacan’s 1963 break from the IPA and the founding of his School in 1964 created the conditions in which he was able to explore these issues by devising an interface between the clinical setting and the institutional frame. This interface was announced in 1967 in the "Proposition of 9 October on the Psychoanalyst of the School" which put on the table a procedure that has since been described as “an experiment that progresses by stages leading to a result; with the particularity that the experimenter takes himself as the object of experimentation".
The term "Pass" refers to "the passage to the desire to be an analyst".
Proposition of the Pass
Delivered in 1967 and published in the inaugural issue of Scilicet, the text of the "Proposition" is first and foremost an institutional document and thus it opens on the question of the institutional frame, whilst taking care to circumscribe the authority of the psychoanalyst as independent and derived "only from himself".
Although it is often referred to as the "Proposition on the Pass", the "Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School" concerns two markedly different institutional titles:
1. The first title, Analyst Member of the School (A.M.S.), is delivered on the initiative of the School to any psych |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiruvallur%20railway%20station | Tiruvallur railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It is one of the terminal and oldest stations in the network where some of the suburban trains originate and terminate. It serves the neighbourhood of Tiruvallur, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 41 km west of the Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 47.46 m above sea level.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.
Traffic
As of 2018, the station handles about 100,000 passengers a day.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
References
Railway stations in India opened in 1856
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district
Tiruvallur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition%20SCADA | Ignition is an Integrated Software Platform for SCADA systems released by Inductive Automation in January 2010. It is based on a SQL Database-centric architecture. Ignition features cross platform web based deployment through Java Web Start technology. The Ignition platform has three main components: the Ignition Gateway, the Designer, and the runtime clients. Independent modules provide separate functionality in any or all of the platform components. Ignition SCADA modules provide features such as: Real-Time Status Control, Alarming, Reporting, Data Acquisition, Scripting, Scheduling, MES, and Mobile support.
Awards
Ignition received the 2011 Duke's Choice award at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, CA on October 4, 2011. Oracle recognized the impact of Ignition as a significant Java-based product in Industrial Automation.
Ignition received a 2011 Readers Choice award from Automation World in the SCADA and Information management categories.
Modules
Module Marketplace
Module Marketplace is an online store, similar in concept to: the iTunes Store or Google Play for the SCADA software. Inductive Automation opened it on March 4, 2013.
Some modules are free while others are paid. All are developed using the Ignition SDK. Access to core Ignition apps are made available so that third-party developers can create module apps for use with the company's systems. All of these apps can be made available for download on the Module Marketplace site.
Early reviews compared the Module Marketplace to the Apple iTunes Store, indicated that it was disruptive and that it removed proprietary boundaries among SCADA software producers. Developers set their own pricing models in the marketplace, with 70% of the revenue going to the developer and 30% going to Inductive Automation. All modules are required to be submitted for validation to Inductive Automation to test for stability, compatibility and memory leaks. Upon validation, the module is digitally signed by Inductive Automation and may be uploaded to the Module Marketplace. All modules are required to include a free user re-settable 2-hour trial version.
SQL Bridge
SQL Bridge is an OPC based Middleware product that bridges the gap between industrial PLCs and SQL Databases. It is a drag and drop application that does not require scripting or programming for configuration.
Transaction groups are used to log data, synchronize PLCs, track downtime and manage recipes. Such groups support stored procedures, flexible execution scheduling, and triggering for precise control and monitoring. Data logging can be achieved with transaction groups or SQLTags History.
Store-and-Forward is an engine that buffers SQL database writes to memory and caches them to a local disk when an external database connection is unavailable. Upon reconnection the data is forwarded to the server in aggregated time-efficient batches.
The SQL Bridge module was created in January 2010 to replace the final version of FactorySQL in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Legislation%20Identifier | The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) ontology is a vocabulary for representing metadata about national and European Union (EU) legislation. It is designed to provide a standardized way to identify and describe the context and content of national or EU legislation, including its purpose, scope, relationships with other legislations and legal basis. This will guarantee easier identification, access, exchange and reuse of legislation for public authorities, professional users, academics and citizens. ELI paves the way for knowledge graphs, based on semantic web standards, of legal gazettes and official journals.
History
First established in the context of the European Forum of Official Gazettes on the initiative of John Dann, director of the central service of legislation of Luxembourg, ELI has been further supported by the subgroup mandated by the Council of the European Union in the framework of the Working Party on E-Law. ELI stems from the acknowledgement that the World Wide Web defines a new paradigm for legal information access, sharing and enrichment.
Community
European Legislation Identifier Task Force (ELI TF)
The Task Force "European Legislation Identifier", short "ELI TF", is the body created by the eLaw/eLaw Working Party of the Council of the European Union to define ELI-related specifications and to ensure their future evolution
The Task Force comprises representatives of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg (chair), Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the EU Publications Office.
Overview : elements of ELI
The ELI TF has drafted a number of specifications that together form the ELI standard:
Pillar I: Web identifiers for legal resources
Pillar II: ELI ontology: Metadata set specifying how to describe legal information, and its expression in a formal ontology
Pillar III: Recommendations for integrating metadata into legislative website
Pillar IV: Protocol to synchronize ELI metadata
Pillar I: ELI identifier
ELI uses URI Templates (RFC 6570)
that carry semantics both from a legal and an end-user point of view.
Each Member State will build its own, self-describing URIs using the described components as well as taking into account their specific language requirements.
All the components are optional and can be selected based on national requirements and do not have a pre-defined order.
To enable the exchange of information the chosen URI template must be documented using the URI template mechanism.
Template:
/eli/{jurisdiction}/{agent}/{sub-agent}/{year}/{month}/{day}/{type}/{natural identifier}/{level 1…}/{point in time}/{version}/{language}
Example:
https://www.boe.es/eli/es/lo/2013/12/20/9 (Spain)
http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2020/1057/oj (European Union)
Pillar II: ELI ontology / metadata to describe legislation
In addition to HTTP URIs uniquely identifying legislation ELI encourages the use of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul-Majid%20Bhurgri | Abdul-Majid Bhurgri (; born February 8, 1948) is the founder of computing in the Sindhi language. He hails from Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan, and now lives in Seattle, USA. His work from 1987 to 1988 enabled the use of Sindhi on personal computers and revolutionized the Sindhi printing and publishing industry and largely with his work the later upcoming Sindhi generation helped further digitize it.
From 2000 to 2001, Bhurgri developed the first Sindhi Unicode font, obtained support for Sindhi on the Microsoft Windows platform, developed resources to make the use of standard Sindhi possible on the Windows operating system, and made these resources freely available on the Internet.
In 2002, Bhurgri wrote a paper for Microsoft titled “Enabling Pakistani Languages Through Unicode”. Referring to Bhurgri's paper, Microsoft's Michael S. Kaplan wrote on his blog: “This is pretty exciting, since at one point Sindhi was being considered for Vista (but was ultimately not done). I suspect that Abdul-Majid Bhurgri (who I was in contact with back in 2007 talking about Urdu and Sindhi) will be pleased to see Sindhi finally being added to Windows 8.”
Early life
Bhurgri was born in the village of Ghulam Nabi Bhurgri, part of the Taluka Shahdadkot (now Qamber Shahdadkot) district of Larkana, in Pakistan's Sindh Province. His father, Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri, was a lawyer, politician, and writer. His mother, Khursheed Bano, was a housewife.
Education
Bhurgri completed his primary education in Larkana, first at PV School and later at Shah Muhammad School. He began his secondary education at Municipal High School and completed it at Government High School in Larkana.
He went on to the University of Sindh, where he received a B.A., with honors, in general history. He then decided to prepare for the Central Superior Services of Pakistan examinations and sought admission to the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) programme at Law College in Larkana.
In 1983, he enrolled in the MBA programme at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He graduated in 1985 with an emphasis in finance. It was during his studies at the University of Arizona that he was introduced to computer technology.
Professional life
In October 1971, Bhurgri took the Central Superior Services of Pakistan exam. He passed and was selected to work for the Pakistan Taxation Service, which he joined on 13 November 1972. He received a year of professional training at the Financial Services Academy in Walton, near Lahore. After that, he received further departmental training for six months.
In July 1974, he was posted to Larkana as an income tax officer. He stayed there for three years. In 1977, he was transferred to Hyderabad, and then to Karachi in 1980.
He went on leave from 1980 to 1983, and while on leave, he was promoted to additional commissioner of income tax. On his return, he was posted to Karachi. In 1990, he became general manager for commercial purchases at Pakistan International Airlines. After about six m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouJava | SouJava is a Brazilian Java User Group created to promote the Java programming language and other Open Source initiatives. It's recognized as the world's largest Java User Group with 40,000 members.
History
Brazilian Java User Group SouJava was founded in September 1999 by Bruno Souza (JavaMan) and Einar Saukas. It was first registered officially as a technology group in Sucesu-SP (association of technology groups in Brazil), then later publicly announced in a press conference at October 29, 1999. The name (also spelled as SOUJava) is an acronym for "Sociedade de Usuarios Java" ("Java Users Society"), and "Sou Java" also means "I'm Java" in Portuguese.
Since the beginning, SouJava has always been a nonprofit organization supported by volunteer work, quite known by the enthusiasm of its members. It initially had a flat management structure (President and VP were originally Director and Associate Director in the original announcement press release, everybody else were simply referred as "members" except for a Technical Coordinator) but quickly migrated to a more formal model as membership grew rapidly. On November 28, 2004, SouJava acquired Non-Governmental Organization status upon reaching almost 18,000 members and got recognized as the world's largest Java User Group.
In 2011, SouJava became the first Java User Group nominated for the Java Community Process Executive Committee, as Java Community Process Expert Group Member. The following year, it was awarded as Java Community Process Member/Participant of the Year.
Over the years, SouJava has organized several Java conferences in Brazil, and it helped influence the adoption of open source by the Brazilian government (mainly by leading an open standards and platforms manifesto, organizing Javali at FISL, and working together with the Brazilian Federal Government's Information Technology National Institute ), which in turn forced Sun Microsystems to open-source Java. It's also the co-creator, together with London Java User Group, of "Adopt a JSR" program, an effort to encourage JUG members and the wider Java community to get involved in JSRs
SouJava is headquartered in Sao Paulo, with branches in Campinas, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia.
Leadership
Executive leadership positions are voluntary and unpaid, elected by the director's board. SouJava mandates are listed below:
1999-2003: President Einar Saukas, Vice-President Jefferson Conz (Floyd), Technical Coordinator Bruno Souza (JavaMan).
Honors and awards
Java Community Process Member/Participant of the Year 2011: Nominated
Java Community Process Member/Participant of the Year 2012: Winner
Outstanding Adopt-a-JSR Participant of the Year 2013: Recognized
Java Community Process Member/Participant of the Year 2014: Nominated
References
External links
Official SouJava website
Java (programming language)
User groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20search%20tree | In computer science, finger search trees are a type of binary search tree that keeps pointers to interior nodes, called fingers. The fingers speed up searches, insertions, and deletions for elements close to the fingers, giving amortized O(log n) lookups, and amortized O(1) insertions and deletions. It should not be confused with a finger tree nor a splay tree, although both can be used to implement finger search trees.
Guibas et al.
introduced finger search trees, by building upon B-trees. The original version supports finger searches in O(log d) time, where d is the number of elements between the finger and the search target. Updates take O(1) time, when only O(1) moveable fingers are maintained. Moving a finger p positions requires O(log p) time. Huddleston and Mehlhorn refined this idea as level-linked B-trees.
Tsakalidis proposed a version based on AVL trees that facilitates searching from the ends of the tree; it can be used to implement a data structure with multiple fingers by using multiple of such trees.
To perform a finger search on a binary tree, the ideal way is to start from the finger, and search upwards to the root, until we reach the least common ancestor, also called the turning node, of x and y, and then go downwards to find the element we're looking for. Determining if a node is the ancestor of another is non-trivial.
Treaps, a randomized tree structure proposed by Seidel and Aragon, has the property that the expected path length of two elements of distance d is O(log d). For finger searching, they proposed adding pointers to determine the least common ancestor(LCA) quickly, or in every node maintain the minimum and maximum values of its subtree.
A book chapter has been written that covers finger search trees in depth. In which, Brodal suggested an algorithm to perform finger search on treaps in O(log d) time, without needing any extra bookkeeping information; this algorithm accomplishes this by concurrently searching downward from the last candidate LCA.
See also
Finger search
Finger tree
References
Trees (data structures)
Search algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%20Open%20Data%20Portal | Before data.europa.eu, the EU Open Data Portal was the point of access to public data published by the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies. On April 21, 2021 it was consolidated to the data.europa.eu portal, together with the European Data Portal: a similar initiative aimed at the EU Member States.
Public data can be used and reused for commercial or non‑commercial purposes. The portal was a key instrument of the EU open data strategy. By ensuring easy and free access to data, their innovative use and economic potential can be enhanced. The goal of the portal was also to make the institutions and other EU bodies more transparent and accountable.
Legal basis and launch of the portal
Launched in December 2012, the portal was formally established by Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 (2011/833/EU) on the reuse of Commission documents to promote accessibility and reuse.
Based on this decision, all the EU institutions were invited - and are still today - to publish information such as open data and to make it accessible to the public whenever possible.
The operational management of the portal was the task of the Publications Office of the European Union. Implementation of EU open data policy was the responsibility of the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. This is still true today with data.europa.eu.
Features
The portal enabled users to search, explore, link, download and easily re-use data for commercial or non-commercial purposes, through a common metadata catalogue. From the portal, users could access data published on the websites of the various institutions, agencies and other bodies of the EU.
Semantic technologies offered additional functionalities. The metadata catalogue could be searched via an interactive search engine and through SPARQL queries.
Users could suggest data they think is missing on the portal and give feedback on the quality of data obtainable.
The interface was in 24 EU official languages, but most metadata was available in a limited number of languages (English, French and German). Some of the metadata (e.g. names of the data providers and geographical coverage) was in 24 languages.
Terms of use
Most of the data accessible via the EU Open Data Portal was covered by the legal notice of the Europa website. Generally, data could be used for free for commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. Specific conditions for reuse, relating mostly to the protection of data privacy and intellectual property, applied to a small amount of data. A link to these conditions could be found for each dataset.
The terms of use could be found on the site. As of November 2020, most data was covered by the Creative Commons CC‑BY‑4.0 license and the site metadata by the Creative Commons CC0‑1.0 public domain waiver.
Available data
The portal contained a very wide variety of high-value open data across EU policy d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYXL | DYXL (93.9 FM), broadcasting as 93.9 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and offices are located at the RMN Broadcast Center, G/F Capitol Central Hotel & Suites, N. Escario St. cor. F. Ramos Ext., Capitol Site, Cebu City, while its transmitter facilities are located in Sitio Seaside Asinan, Brgy. Basak San Nicolas, Cebu City (shared with sister station DYHP).
History
1976–1992: DYHP/YXL
DYXL was the third RMN FM station and the fourth FM station in Cebu, established in 1976 under the call letters DYHP. Two years later, the station was officially launched on September 9, 1978 as YXL 93.9. Dubbed as "The Beautiful Romance", it aired an easy listening format. Its first studio was located along Legazpi cor. Manalili Sts. In a few years, YXL became one of the most-listening FM station in Cebu.
Most notable DJ's who worked on the station at that time including Joe Jammer, Naughty Dundee, Ric Ryan, Harry Harrison, Mighty Might, Sexy Susan, Johnny Kawa and Lady Daisy with an all English spiels.
In September 1988, in time for DYHP's 25th anniversary, YXL 93.9 celebrated its 10th anniversary with the theme "25-10 on September 13", a promo event held at Cebu Coliseum.
1992–1999: Smile Radio
On August 16, 1992, the station was relaunched as Smile Radio 93.9 YXL and adopted the slogan "The Voice of Music", derived from its flagship station in Cagayan de Oro. It became the first FM radio station in the market to carry a mass-based format. In 1993, the station's studios moved to Gold Palace Bldg. in Osmeña Blvd.
The station ended its broadcast on November 22, 1999, a span of almost seven years under the Smile Radio network, which signified a branding to all RMN FM stations.
1999–2002: XLFM
On November 23, 1999, the station rebranded as 939 XLFM (pronounced as "nine-three-nine") and carried the slogan "Live it Up!". It switched into a Top 40 format. It initially operated from 4:00 AM to 9:00 PM. At that time, the station was previously located at the 2nd Floor, Gold Palace Bldg. along Osmeña Blvd.
After almost 3 years, XLFM signed off the air for the last time on May 15, 2002.
2002–present: iFM
On May 16, 2002, the station was relaunched as 93.9 iFM & switched back to its mass-based format, with its first slogan "Hit after hit, iFM". It expanded its broadcast hours to 20 hours daily, signing off at 12:00 MN. Since 2008, iFM airs 24 hours a day. According to the Nielsen Radio Audience Measurement Survey, iFM was the over-all Number 1 FM station in Metro Cebu from 2002 to 2013.
In 2005, the station launched its love-advice program, Dear iFM, wherein listeners asking for letter senders to share their stories of love, heartaches, struggles, joys and even strange ones.
On March 2, 2009, as part of RMN's nationwide expansion, iFM changed its new logo and the slogan Sa iFM, Siguradong Enjoy Ka!.
On May 26, 2012, iFM and its sister station DYHP went off the air and moved to its present studios new broadc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202013%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each album and EP's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2013, thirty-six albums claimed the top spot, including Michael Bublé's Christmas and Pink's The Truth About Love, both of which started their peak positions in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Sixteen acts achieved their first number-one album in Australia: Bruno Mars, Flume, Of Monsters and Men, Foals, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birds of Tokyo, Daft Punk, Queens of the Stone Age, Kanye West, Harrison Craig, Karnivool, RÜFÜS, Boy & Bear, Lorde, Dami Im and Taylor Henderson.
Michael Bublé had two number-one albums during the year for To Be Loved and Christmas. Bublé's To Be Loved and Pink's The Truth About Love tied for the longest-running number-one album of 2013, both spending five weeks atop the ARIA Albums Chart. Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox and Bublé's Christmas topped the chart for three consecutive weeks. Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, Harrison Craig's More Than a Dream and Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 each spent two weeks at number one.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2013 in music
List of number-one singles of 2013 (Australia)
List of Top 25 albums for 2013 in Australia
References
2013
Australia Albums
2013 in Australian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20in%20the%20Shell%3A%20Stand%20Alone%20Complex%20%282004%20video%20game%29 | is an action game based on the cyberpunk anime of the same name. It is a third-person shooter, released for the PlayStation 2.
Gameplay
The game's playable characters include Motoko Kusanagi and Batou. Levels are separated along with the two parallel parts of the Section 9 investigation that forms the basis of the storyline, with some sections following Batou's experiences and others recounting Kusanagi's solo journey to the region where the plot appears to originate from. Gameplay uses a third-person perspective, and players use a variety of weapons, including the ability to ghost-hack opponents, in order to progress. Kusanagi's levels tend to require the player to use her agility to progress to a much greater degree than Batou's levels, which tend to feature a focus on more heavy firepower. Media response was generally positive, but reserved, citing the high-quality graphics and enjoyable, action-packed gameplay but noting the slightly awkward controls, lack of any real innovation and the failure to use the license to its full potential, for example not using hacking as a more advanced, useful or integral gameplay feature.
Plot
The games take place in the year 2030, between the stories told in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. In the year 2030, cybercrime, espionage and terrorism plague a society lost between humanity and technology. As one of the trusted members of the government organization known as Section 9, Major Motoko Kusanagi must uncover the truth behind a mysterious case known only as T.A.R.
After Section 9 seized the black market of surplus weaponry of the Japan Self-Defense Force in Nihama Port, the suspect died from an unknown reason. During Batou's investigation, he found out the suspect was doing a transport work of a batch of micromachine rice. And then Section 9 traced the track to the old military research complex called "Tohoku Autonomous Region". Therefore, Batou and Motoko infiltrate the facility to reveal the conspiracy behind those rice.
Development and release
The game was developed by Cavia. A total of 50 developers worked on the game. The game's story was written in 6 months and took 15 months to develop. Masamune Shirow assisted in the conceptual stages of the game. Cavia wanted the game to be faithful to the original TV series, but also chose a design that allowed them to enhance the personalities of Motoko Kusanagi and Batou. Music was produced by Cavia with sound effects being in collaboration with Production I.G.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two sevens, one eight, and one seven for a total of 29 out of 40. It sold 45,528 copies a week after its release in Japan.
References
External links
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. page
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. page: Playstation 2
2004 video games
Cavia (company) games
Ghost in the Shell video games
Play |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobileye | Mobileye Global Inc. is a company developing autonomous driving technologies and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) including cameras, computer chips and software. Mobileye was acquired by Intel in 2017 and went public again in 2022. Mobileye is based in Jerusalem, Israel, and also has sales and marketing offices in Midtown, Manhattan, US; Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan; and Düsseldorf, Germany.
History
Mobileye was founded in 1999 by Hebrew University professor Amnon Shashua when he evolved his academic research into a vision system which could detect vehicles using a camera and software algorithms on a processor. Since its establishment, it has developed into a supplier of automotive safety technologies based on adding "intelligence" to inexpensive cameras for commercialization.
Mobileye established its first research center in 2004, and launched the first generation EyeQ1 processor four years later, in 2008. The technology offered driver assistance including AEB (automatic emergency braking). One of the first vehicles to use this technology was the fifth-generation BMW 7 Series. Subsequent versions of the chip were released in 2010, 2014 and 2018.
In 2013, Mobileye announced the sale of a 25% stake to Blue-chip investors for $400 million, valuing the company at approximately $1.5 billion.
Mobileye went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014. It raised $890 million, and became the largest Israeli IPO in U.S. history. By the end of the year, Mobileye's technology was implemented in 160 car models made by 18 different OEMs.
In 2017, Mobileye unveiled a mathematical model for safe self-driving cars based on a research paper by CEO Amnon Shashua and VP of Technology Shai Shalev-Shwartz. The paper outlines a system called Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) which redefines fault and caution and could potentially be used to inform insurance policies and driving laws. Shai Shalev-Shwartz was promoted to CTO in 2019.
In March 2017, Intel announced that it would be acquiring Mobileye for $15.3 billion — the biggest-ever acquisition of an Israeli tech company. Following the acquisition, Reuters reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had charged two Israelis, Ariel Darvasi and Amir Waldman, with engaging in insider trading prior to the announcement of the acquisition of Mobileye by Intel. Both had connections to Mobileye through the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where Mobileye's technology was first developed. Also, the SEC obtained an emergency court order, freezing certain assets of Virginia residents Lawrence F. Cluff, Jr. and Roger E. Shaoul who allegedly used insider information to make approximately $1 million on Intel's purchase of Mobileye. Neither Intel nor Mobileye were accused by the SEC of violating the law.
In October 2018, Mobileye and Volkswagen released plans to commercialize Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) in Israel. Mobileye began "robotaxi" trials with Nio electric vehicles in Israel in May 2020 d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Thy%20Neighbor%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Love Thy Neighbor is an American television sitcom broadcast from May 29, 2013 to August 19, 2017 on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series is written, directed and executive produced by Tyler Perry. The series serves as a spin-off of the Madea franchise. It also acquired the second highest-rated series premiere on the Oprah Winfrey Network, after another Perry program, The Haves and the Have Nots.
The second season of the series premiered on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. The third season of Love Thy Neighbor premiered on Wednesday, January 7, 2015. The fourth season of the series premiered on Friday, January 8, 2016, while the second half premiered on July 1, 2016. OWN announced the fifth and final season, which premiered on Saturday, March 4, 2017. The second half of the series premiered on July 29, 2017. The series concluded on August 19, 2017, ending with 118 episodes in total.
Plot
Love Thy Neighbor is a half-hour sitcom revolving around diner owner Hattie Mae Love (Patrice Lovely) and her middle-class family's daily triumphs and struggles. The show's focal point is the Love Train Diner, an old locomotive car converted to a diner that serves up all of Hattie Mae's favorite recipes. It is the neighborhood hangout that, along with great food, serves up fun and offers advice to customers. It also deals with all the drama that Hattie Mae's daughter Linda (Kendra C. Johnson) faces in her life from bad husbands, to bad boyfriends, to good ones, to having a baby girl.
Episodes
Cast and characters
Main
Patrice Lovely as Hattie Mae Love, Linda's cantankerous mother and owner of the Love Train Diner. Hattie is the most vivacious 75-year-old woman you'll ever meet and although she cares deeply for her daughter and grandson she is a strong believer in "tough love". She said that "Linda was so mad she piss her pants". As revealed in the 2016 horror comedy film Boo! A Madea Halloween, Hattie is in a relationship with Madea's brother, Joe Simmons.
Palmer Williams Jr. as Floyd Stanley Jackson (from House of Payne), is Linda's uncle and Danny's great-uncle, through his late brother's marriage to Hattie. Floyd, often jovial and sarcastic, is the superintendent of the apartment building where Danny and his friends live, but he also works at the diner. (At the end of many Tyler Perry plays that Williams has been in, Perry has told him he's "gotta get him his own show".)
Kendra C. Johnson as Linda Mae Love-Harris, Hattie's daughter and Danny's mother. Despite going through a divorce with her ex-husband Lionel, Linda is often optimistic and cheerful. She is not particularly skilled at anything, but begins working at the diner in episode 6. In the season 2 finale, she becomes pregnant by Phillip. She is clueless of her feelings for Phillip until he doesn't return the ones he earlier had. She is furious that her son married Troy in Las Vegas and has hated her ever since. In the season 3 finale, her water breaks in the diner, but it turns out she was so mad a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAP | NPAP is an acronym which may refer to:
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
Network Printing Alliance Protocol; see Printer Working Group
National Police Accountability Project; see People's Law Office
N-PAP, a variant of the Zastava PAP series of sporting rifles.
New Product Approval Process, a corporate process designed to standardize how new products/services are commercialized. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospike%20%28company%29 | Aerospike is the company behind the Aerospike open source NoSQL distributed database management system. Citrusleaf, a Mountain View, California based company which rebranded to Aerospike in August 2012, announced the product in 2011. The software is used by developers to deploy real-time big data applications.
History
Citrusleaf was founded in 2009 by CTO Brian Bulkowski and vice president of engineering and operations Srini V. Srinivasan. The company rebranded to Aerospike in 2012.
The database was initially used mainly in the advertising industry as a server-side cookie store, where read and write performance is paramount. It formed the core user data storage for adMarketplace and several other advertising companies including BlueKai, Tapad, The Trade Desk, Sony's So-net, and eXelate. Other customers include payment systems, gaming, cyber-security, and e-commerce industries.
In 2012, the web site Wikibon promoted Aerospike for transactional analytic applications. It had automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization.
In August 2012, Aerospike acquired the database AlchemyDB. AlchemyDB, led by Russell Sullivan, is a hybrid RDBMS/NoSQL-datastore that has been optimized for memory efficiency. Aerospike made the acquisition with funding from New Enterprise Associates, Draper Associates, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, and Alsop Louie Partners.
In December 2012, online ad broker Tapad bought an Aerospike flash-based NoSQL database running on SSDs with indices held in RAM. The Aerospike database allowed Tapad the cost benefit of dealing with memory as a "single level store" by utilizing flash as a memory extension.
In June 2014, Aerospike raised $20 million in a Series C round of funding. The company announced it had open sourced its technology. The company also partnered with Adform, InMobi, and Vizury in 2014.
In February 2015, Aerospike named John Dillon, previously of Salesforce.com, as its CEO.
A round of $32 million of funding was announced on November 18, 2019, led by Triangle Peak Partners.
Aerospike database
The Aerospike database management system is a key-value datastore, or distributed hash table, that delivers predictable, sub-millisecond query response times. It also has the ability to scale to very large sizes while maintaining high speeds. Its code is engineered to match the characteristics of flash memory, as opposed to more traditional methods.
Aerospike uses row-based random access with indexes in memory and data in memory or on SSD (solid-state drive) storage. The database holds data that is accessible in real time.
References
Further reading
Forrester: NoSQL Key-Value Databases, Q3 2014
Database companies
Database providers
Information technology companies of the United States
NoSQL companies
Structured storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202013 | The highest-selling albums and mini-albums in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, published by Oricon Style magazine. The data is compiled by Oricon based on each album's weekly physical sales. In 2013, a total of 46 albums occupied the peak position on the chart. Arashi's Love was the best-selling album of 2013.
Chart history
See also
2013 in music
References
Number-one albums
Japan
2013
de:Liste der Nummer-eins-Hits in Japan (2013) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202013 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales.
Chart history
See also
List of best-selling singles in 2013 (Japan)
References
See also
2013 in music
2013 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revue%20virtuelle | Revue virtuelle (1992–1996) was an exhibition project for early new media, virtual art technologies, computer graphics, virtual reality, hypermedia and digital art projects that was housed in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou from1992 to 1996.
It also created a virtual "magazine" jointly created by the museum and the Centre de Création Industrielle, addressing new technologies from the viewpoints of science, aesthetics, museography and education. These activities were documented in a bilingual CD-ROM, L'Actualité du Virtuel/Actualizing the Virtual, published in 1996.
Revue virtuelle history
Number 1: Definitions
Lecture: Edmond Couchot - 15 April 1992
Number 2-3: Anthologies
Exhibition: 17 June - 11 October 1992
Lecture: Anne-Marie Duguet - 23 September 1992
Number 4: Real-Virtual
Exhibition: 9 December 1992 - 24 January 1993
Lecture: Scott S Fisher - 9 December 1992
Number 5: Images évolutives
Exhibition: 3 March - 2 May 1993
Lecture: Karl Sims - 4 March 1993
Numbers 6-7: The Virtual in Questions
Exhibition: 2 June - 19 September 1993
Lecture: Derrick de Kerckhove - 3 June 1993
Number 8: The Digital Herbarium
Exhibition: 13 October 1993 - 2 January 1994
Lecture: Philippe de Reffye - 13 October 1993
Number 9: The Virtual Body
Exhibition: 2 March - 2 May 1994
Lecture: Dr. Karl Heinz Höhne - 7 April 1994
Numbers 10-11: The Art of Games
Exhibition: 6 July - 26 September 1994
Lecture: Alain Le Diberder, Matt Mullican, Florian Rötzer - 14 September 1994
Number 12: The Hypermedia
Exhibition: 9 November 1994 - 23 January 1995
Lecture: George Legrady, Pierre Lévy, Nam June Paik - 9 November 1994
Number 13: Networks as Spaces for Writing
Lecture: Friedrich Kittler, Geert Lovink - 31 May 1995
Number 14: Architecture and Interactivity
Lecture: Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofido - 18 October 1995
Number 15: Virtuality and Subjectivity
Lecture: Siegfried Zielinski, Knowbotic Research (Christian Hübler and Yvonne Wilhelm) - 31 January 1996
Number 16: Digital Arts and Digital Media
Lecture: Jean-Marie Schaeffer - 23 February 1996
Number 17: The InterCommunication Center Project (Tokyo)
Lecture: Akira Asada, Toshiharu Itoh - 24 June 1996
See also
New media
New media art
References
New media art
Defunct art museums and galleries in Paris
Arts centres in France
Contemporary art galleries in France
1992 establishments in France
1996 disestablishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Chevalier | Miguel Chevalier (born April 22, 1959, in Mexico) is a French digital and virtual artist. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.
His multidisciplinary and experimental work addresses the question of immateriality in art, as well as the logics induced by computers, such as hybridization, generativity, interactivity, networking. He develops different themes in his work, such as the relationship between nature and artifice, the observation of flux and networks organizing our contemporary societies, the imaginary of architecture and virtual cities, the transposition of patterns from Islamic art into the digital world. The images he offers perpetually question our relationship to the world.
His works are most often presented in the form of digital installations projected at a large scale. He creates in-situ works that revisit the history and architecture of places through digital art, giving them a new interpretation. He also creates sculptures using 3D printing or laser cutting techniques, which materialize his virtual universes.
Miguel Chevalier has been featured in numerous exhibitions in museums, art centers and galleries all over the world. He also carries out projects in public and architectural spaces.
Biography
Childhood and youth
Miguel Chevalier spent his childhood in Mexico where his father was a university researcher studying the history of Latin America. The cultural and artistic environment in which he grew up enabled the emergence of an early interest in art. Regular visitors to the family home included muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo or Diego Rivera, director Luis Buñuel and architect Luis Barragán, whose violent use of color would significantly influence the artist. The influence of Mexican artists is subsequently noticeable in the monumental dimension of the artist's works, as well as in the attention he pays to the integration of his art into the public space.
During his teenage years he followed his parents to Madrid, where his father took over the management of the Casa de Vélazquez. He discovers with great passion the treasures of Churrigueresque architecture, as well as the European masters' paintings in museums. At the Prado Museum, Miguel Chevalier has the opportunity to discover Goya's work, which he describes as an emotional shock. The reproduction technique as a series such as The Disasters of War impacts him deeply him, much like Andy Warhol's the silkscreened works. In 1974 he also discovered the work of the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez opening him to kinetic art.
He then moved to Paris, whose cultural richness and numerous exhibitions (including the one on Marcel Duchamp in 1977 and the famous Paris-New York, Paris-Moscow and Paris-Berlin at the Centre Georges Pompidou) struck him as a revelation.
Training
Miguel Chevalier joined t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel%20Shorts%20Film%20Festival | The Reel Shorts Film Festival, held annually in Grande Prairie, Alberta since 2007, is recognized as one of North America's best short film festivals. Its programming focus is short-form cinematic storytelling, screening "gems of storytelling brilliance" from around the world, across Canada, and in the Peace Region. The purpose is twofold: to entertain, educate, and engage audiences; and to grow the film-making community in the Peace Region by inspiring, developing, and showcasing its filmmakers. Thousands of submissions are received annually from which 80-105 short films are selected. It is a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards.
History
Terry Scerbak founded the festival as a production of the nonprofit Grande Prairie Live Theatre in 2007. In 2016, she was one of the founding members of the Reel Shorts Film Society which took over the production of the festival in 2017 with the full support and cooperation of the GPLT Board of Directors.
The festival's program has grown from 3 days screening 38 films in 2007 to 6–8 days screening 80-105 films since 2014. The 14th edition of the festival, originally scheduled for May 4–11, 2020 but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, takes place April 26 to May 3, 2021.
Awards
Since 2010, audiences have determined the winner(s) of the Audience Choice Awards. Since 2014, the directors of Audience Choice Awards and Jury Awards have received an award designed by Grande Prairie sculptor Grant Berg.
Audience Choice Awards
In 2014, the festival became competitive and presented the following awards.
Jury Awards
Film Productions
In the summer of 2012, the festival produced a short film as part of Shoot for Reel, a two-week internship training program for 12 interns which was a collaboration between the festival, Grande Prairie Regional College, and Ricebrain Media, a Vancouver film company whose president (Scott Belyea) grew up in Grande Prairie. The Horizon Project, the short film that Belyea directed during the 11 days of Shoot for Reel, premiered at the 7th Reel Shorts Film Festival in 2013.
The school program of screenings, training, and filmmaker class visits is a big component of the film festival. In 2013, the festival produced HB, an 8-minute film directed by Nathan Fast, as part of the Youth Film Mentorship Project. On Sep 29, 2013, it won the Best Overall Youth Short Film Award at the Calgary International Film Festival and a month later won the Young Filmmakers Program Competition Grand Prize at the 2013 Austin Film Festival.
In the summer of 2018, the festival helped fund the production of the short film Aeternitas as part of the 2018 Shoot for Reel, a five-day internship training program for 12 interns led by Writer/Director Gordie Haakstad and Cinematographer Chris Beauchamp, owners of The Distillery Film Company and producers of the film. Aeternitas was nominated for six Rosie Awards in 2019 for Drama Under 30 Minutes and won two of them: Gordie Haakstad for Best Director a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202013 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2013, there were 29 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Muse's sixth studio album The 2nd Law, which was released the previous year. The first new number-one album of the year was Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones, the third studio album by Black Veil Brides. Muse also had the final number-one UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number one of the year with the live album Live at Rome Olympic Stadium, which spent three weeks at number one in December.
The most successful albums on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2013 were Biffy Clyro's sixth studio album Opposites and the self-titled fourth studio album by Paramore, both of which spent a total of six weeks at number one during the year. Opposites was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 35th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart, while Paramore ranked 76th. Queens of the Stone Age's sixth studio album ...Like Clockwork spent four weeks at number one, while four albums – Black Sabbath's 13, the Teenage Dirtbags compilation, Pearl Jam's Lightning Bolt and Muse's Live at Rome Olympic Stadium – were number one for three weeks in 2013. Two further albums – Muse's The 2nd Law and the Nickelback compilation The Best of Nickelback Volume 1 – each spent two weeks at number one in 2013.
Chart history
See also
2013 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2013
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2013 in British music
United Kingdom Rock Albums
2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Continental%20Railway%20Journeys | Great Continental Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. In the early series, Portillo explores the railway networks of continental Europe, but in later series he also ventured further afield. He refers to a 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, as he describes how the places he visits have changed since Edwardian times. The first series was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 2012, and the seventh series was first aired in 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
Series 1 (2012)
The first series was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 2012. Portillo made five separate journeys across France, Germany, the Low Countries, Switzerland, and the countries whose land made up the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Series 2 (2013)
Production of a second series included filming in Spain and Gibraltar in May and June 2013, following the Ronda–Algeciras railway line, built in the 1890s by British interests under the Algeciras Gibraltar Railway Company, for the benefit of British officers stationed in Gibraltar wanting to travel to Spain and the rest of Europe. To avoid offending Spanish sensitivities, the line was built concluding in Algeciras, a town in Spain on the opposite side of the Bay of Gibraltar, rather than at the Gibraltar border. Despite it having no direct connection to the European railway network, a chapter was devoted to Gibraltar in the 1913 guidebook.
Series 3 (2014)
The third series had six journeys, in one of which Portillo went further afield to travel on the railways in modern-day Israel.
Series 4 (2015)
The fourth series aired in 2015. It took Portillo to Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, and Spain.
Series 5 (2016)
Series 6 (2018)
Series 7 (2020)
DVD releases
As of 2021, series 1-6 of Great Continental Railway Journeys have been released on DVD by FremantleMedia under licence from Boundless and the BBC.
Books
Great Continental Railway Journeys, written by Michael Portillo, was published by Simon & Schuster UK in October 2015.
References
External links
Article by Michael Portillo - 25 Oct 2013 at The Telegraph
2012 British television series debuts
2010s British documentary television series
2010s British travel television series
2020s British documentary television series
2020s British travel television series
BBC television documentaries
BBC travel television series
Documentary television series about railway transport
English-language television shows
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows set in Austria
Television shows set in Belgium
Television shows set in Bulgaria
Television shows set in the Czech Republic
Television shows set in Denmark
Television shows set in England
Television shows set in France
Television shows set in Germany
Television shows set in Greece
Television shows set in Hungary
Television shows set in Israel
Television shows set in Italy
Television shows set in London
Television shows set in the Nethe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLADE%20%28software%29 | BLADE (Block All Drive-by Download Exploits) is a computer program that was developed by Phillip Porras and Vinod Yegneswaran at SRI International; and Long Lu and Wenke Lee at the Georgia Institute of Technology. BLADE is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the United States Army Research Laboratory, and the Office of Naval Research. The program is designed to prevent drive-by download malware attacks.
References
External links
SRI International software
Computer security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodambakkam%20railway%20station | Kodambakkam Railway Station is a railway station on the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Kodambakkam, Vadapalani, and Ashok Nagar. The railway station was already in existence when the Chennai Egmore-Kanchipuram suburban railway was opened in 1911.
History
The station lies in the Chennai Beach–Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. With the completion of track-lying work in March 1931, which began in 1928, the suburban services were started on 11 May 1931 between Beach and Tambaram, and was electrified on 15 November 1931, with the first MG EMU services running on 1.5 kV DC. The section was converted to 25 kV AC traction on 15 January 1967.
Gallery
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
Railway stations in India opened in the 1900s
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civia | Civia is a class of electric multiple unit trains built by CAF, Siemens and Alstom for the Renfe Cercanías commuter railway networks in Spain. The first units entered service in 2003.
The Civia train concept was created with passenger comfort and build quality in mind, and to meet the goals of reliability, frequency and punctuality. They have better provision for disabled passengers than older Cercanías trains.
Technical details
Civia units use 3kV DC overhead electrification. The maximum speed of Civia units in service is , but with modifications they will be able to reach .
Modularity
Civia are modular units - trains can be formed from two, three, four or five cars as required. There are four car types:
A1 - end car with driving cab and normal floor.
A2 - end car with driving cab and normal floor.
A3 - intermediate car and downstairs WC.
A4 - intermediate car with normal floor.
Cities and routes
Civia units operate in the following cities and regions:
Asturias
Cádiz
Catalonia
Madrid
Málaga
Seville
Valencia
Zaragoza
Accident
On 28 July 2017, Class 465 unit 210M collided with a buffer stop at station, causing 54 injuries with 5 of which serious.
Gallery
Scheme
See also
Ivolga (train)
DBAG Class 422
DBAG Class 423
DBAG Class 424
Cercanías
Renfe
References
External links
Renfe - Our Trains
Ferropedia - Renfe Civia (Spanish)
CAF multiple units
Siemens multiple units
3000 V DC multiple units
Renfe multiple units
Cercanías
Train-related introductions in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Louis%20Cardinals%20Radio%20Network | The St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network is a United States radio network that broadcasts St. Louis Cardinals baseball games. The network consists of 146 stations1 (including the flagship station) (52 AM, 58 FM) and six FM translators in nine states (four in the Midwest and five in the South). Its flagship station is KMOX in St. Louis. Due to an earlier deal with KTRS, it is still a partial owner of that station although Cardinals games no longer air on KTRS (which they did for the 2006-2010 seasons).
As of the 2022 season, the broadcast team consists of play-by-play announcer John Rooney and color analyst Rick Horton. Mike Claiborne occasionally assists on play-by-play, while Matt Pauley, Joe Pott, and Tom Ackerman host the pre- and post-game shows.
Station list
Flagship (1 station)
KMOX 1120: St. Louis (2011–present; was also the flagship from 1928-1940 and again from 1955-2005)
Affiliates
Arkansas (13 stations)
KBTA 1340: Batesville
KAFN 690: Benton
KAGH 800: Crossett (Daytime only)
KAGH-FM 104.9: Crossett
KYEL 105.5: Danville
KHGA 103.9: Earle (Jonesboro area)
KURM-FM 100.3: Gravette
KHGG-FM 103.5: Mansfield (Fort Smith area)
KVOM 800: Morrilton
KTLO 1240: Mountain Home
KDRS 1490: Paragould
KPOC-FM 104.1: Pocahontas
KAGE 1580: Van Buren (Fort Smith area)
KCON 92.7: Vilonia (Conway area)
Illinois (30 stations + 8 translators)
WTIM 870: Assumption
W300EH 107.9: Assumption (rebroadcasts WTIM)
WJBC 1230: Bloomington
WBYS 1560: Canton
WCEZ 93.9: Carthage (Keokuk, Iowa, area)
WROY 1460: Carmi
WDAN 1490: Danville
WSOY 1340: Decatur
WCRA 1090: Effingham (daytime only)
W284BI 104.7: Effingham (rebroadcasts WCRA)
WEBQ-FM 102.3: Eldorado (Harrisburg area)
WOKZ 105.9: Fairfield
WGIL 1400: Galesburg
WEAI 107.1: Jacksonville
WKEI 1450: Kewanee
W282AL 104.3: Kewanee (rebroadcasts WKEI)
WLPO 1220: Lasalle
WSMI 1540: Litchfield, Illinois (daytime only)
WREZ 105.5: Metropolis (Paducah, Kentucky area)
WMIX-FM 94.1: Mount Vernon
WINI 1420: Murphysboro
WHQQ 98.9: Neoga (Mattoon-Effingham area)
WVLN 740: Olney
WSEI 92.9: Olney
WSEY 95.7: Oregon (Dixon area)
W280EG 103.9: Paris (rebroadcasts WLPO)
WIRL 1290: Peoria (stereo)
WGEM-FM 105.1: Quincy
WJEK 95.3: Rantoul (Champaign area; simulcasts with WSJK)
WTAY 1570: Robinson
W262BI 100.3: Robinson (rebroadcasts WTAY)
W298CD 107.5: Shelbyville (rebroadcasts WTIM)
WHCO 1230: Sparta
WTAX 1240: Springfield
W298AP 107.5: Springfield (rebroadcasts WTAX)
W241CF 96.1: Taylorville (rebroadcasts WTIM)
WSJK 93.5: Tuscola (Champaign area; simulcasts with WJEK)
WHET 97.7: West Frankfort (Marion area)
Indiana (3 stations)
WQKZ 98.5: Ferdinand
WQTY 93.3: Linton (Vincennes/Terre Haute area)
WMVI 106.7: Mt. Vernon
Iowa (7 stations)
KJAN 1220: Atlantic (C-QUAM stereo)
KMA-FM 99.1: Clarinda (Shenendoah area)
KXNO 1460: Des Moines
KMAQ-FM 95.1: Maquoketa
KCOB 1280: Newton
KCOB-FM 95.9: Newton
KUDV 106.9 Bloomfield
Kentucky (7 stations + 1 translator)
WCBL-FM 99.1: Grand Rivers (Benton area)
WSON 860: Henderson (C-QUAM stereo)
WFM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes%20OS | Qubes OS is a security-focused desktop operating system that aims to provide security through isolation. Isolation is provided through the use of virtualization technology. This allows the segmentation of applications into secure virtual machines called qubes. Virtualization services in Qubes OS are provided by the Xen hypervisor.
The runtimes of individual qubes are generally based on a unique system of underlying operating system templates. Templates provide a single, immutable root file system which can be shared by multiple qubes.
This approach has a two major benefits. First, updates to a given template are automatically "inherited" by all qubes based on it. Second, shared templates can dramatically reduce storage requirements compared to separate VMs with a full operating install per secure domain.
The base installation of Qubes OS provides a number of officially supported templates based on the Fedora and Debian Linux distributions. Alternative community-supported templates include Whonix, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, CentOS, or Gentoo. Users may also create their own templates.
Operating Systems like Qubes OS are referred to in academia as Converged Multi-Level Secure (MLS) Systems. Other proposals of similar systems have surfaced and SecureView and VMware vSphere are commercial competitors.
Security goals
Qubes implements a Security by Isolation approach.
The assumption is that there can be no perfect, bug-free desktop environment: such an environment counts millions of lines of code and billions of software/hardware interactions. One critical bug in any of these interactions may be enough for malicious software to take control of a machine.
To secure a desktop using Qubes OS, the user takes care to isolate various environments, so that if one of the components gets compromised, the malicious software would get access to only the data inside that environment.
In Qubes OS, the isolation is provided in two dimensions: hardware controllers can be isolated into functional domains (e.g. network domains, USB controller domains), whereas the user's digital life is divided into security domains with different levels of trust.
For instance: work domain (most trusted), shopping domain, random domain (less trusted). Each of these domains is run in a separate qube.
The qubes have passwordless root access (e.g. passwordless sudo) by default. UEFI Secure Boot is not supported out of the box, but this is not considered a major security issue.
Qubes is not a multiuser system.
Installation and System Requirements
As a desktop-focused operating system, Qubes OS targets personal computer hardware. This market is dominated by laptops running Intel and AMD processors and chipsets.
The base system requirements for Qubes OS are as follows (discussion below):
64-bit Intel or AMD processor with virtualization extensions*
6 GB RAM minimum
32 GB disk space minimum
[*Since 2013, Qubes OS only supports 64-bit processors.
In addition, since release 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDi | CoDi is a cellular automaton (CA) model for spiking neural networks (SNNs). CoDi is an acronym for Collect and Distribute, referring to the signals and spikes in a neural network.
CoDi uses a von Neumann neighborhood modified for a three-dimensional space; each cell looks at the states of its six orthogonal neighbors and its own state. In a growth phase a neural network is grown in the CA-space based on an underlying chromosome. There are four types of cells: neuron body, axon, dendrite and blank. The growth phase is followed by a signaling- or processing-phase. Signals are distributed from the neuron bodies via their axon tree and collected from connection dendrites. These two basic interactions cover every case, and they can be expressed simply, using a small number of rules.
Cell interaction during signaling
The neuron body cells collect neural signals from the surrounding dendritic cells and apply an internally defined function to the collected data. In the CoDi model the neurons sum the incoming signal values and fire after a threshold is reached. This behavior of the neuron bodies can be modified easily to suit a given problem. The output of the neuron bodies is passed on to its surrounding axon cells. Axonal cells distribute data originating from the neuron body. Dendritic cells collect data and eventually pass it to the neuron body. These two types of cell-to-cell interaction cover all kinds of cell encounters.
Every cell has a gate, which is interpreted differently depending on the type of the cell. A neuron cell uses this gate to store its orientation, i.e. the direction in which the axon is pointing. In an axon cell, the gate points to the neighbor from which the neural signals are received. An axon cell accepts input only from this neighbor, but makes its own output available to all its neighbors. In this way axon cells distribute information. The source of information is always a neuron cell. Dendritic cells collect
information by accepting information from any neighbor. They give their output, (e.g. a Boolean OR operation on the binary inputs) only to the neighbor specified by their own gate. In this way, dendritic cells collect and sum neural signals, until the final sum of collected neural signals reaches the neuron cell.
Each axonal and dendritic cell belongs to exactly one neuron cell. This configuration of the CA-space is guaranteed by the preceding growth phase.
Synapses
The CoDi model does not use explicit synapses, because dendrite cells that are in contact with an axonal trail (i.e. have an axon cell as neighbor) collect the neural signals directly from the axonal trail. This results from the behavior of axon cells, which distribute to every neighbor, and from the behavior of the dendrite cells, which collect from any neighbor.
The strength of a neuron-neuron connection (a synapse) is represented by the number of their neighboring axon and dendrite cells. The exact structure of the network and the position of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopula%20nitidata | Scopula nitidata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by William Warren in 1905 and is found in South Africa.
References
Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 1905
nitidata
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Schwerin | The Schwerin tramway network () is a network of tramways forming the key feature of the public transport system in Schwerin, the capital city of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Opened on 1 December 1908, the electrically powered network is currently operated by , and has four lines.
Lines
The network's four lines, and their headways during the day (depending in part upon the time of day, or day of week) are:
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Schwerin
Transport in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Schwerin
600 V DC railway electrification
Schwerin
https://sgrscrapbook.weebly.com/schwerin-tramway-germany.html |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20France%20International | TV France International is the organization in charge of promoting French audiovisual programming around the world.
It brings together around 150 french exporters-producers, distributors and the distribution arm of broadcasters - who represent 90% of all international sales.
TV France International is supported by the CNC (Centre national du cinéma), the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, and the Procirep.
On June 23, 2021, the members of TV France International voted 85 votes in favor and 1 abstention on the merger agreement unanimously approved on April 23 by its board of directors. By this vote, they record the dissolution and the absorption of TV France International, created in 1994, by UniFrance, in charge of the promotion of French cinema internationally.
Promotional activities
TV France International connects buyers and French exporters through:
Le Rendez-Vous, an opportunity for acquisition executives to screen more than 1,300 recent French programs and to meet with French distributors (The 19th Rendez-Vous was held in Biarritz, September 8–12, 2013)
umbrella booths and delegations at most major international television program markets
focused promotional showcase events in various territories
A presentation of all the French TV catalogues under one roof at www.tvfrance-intl.com:
more than 22,000 programs - drama (TV and feature films), animation, documentaries, game shows, performing arts – are presented in detail by all French exporters
a detailed programs search and personal alerts on newly listed programs
a VOD service dedicated to international buyers offering more than 6,000 full-length programs for online screening
The Export Award:
It is given every year to the top selling programs. It highlights the economic and cultural impact of television program exports and pays tribute to the dynamism of French distributors.
Each year, the Export Award ceremony takes place in partnership with Procirep’ French Television Producer Awards.
The 2019 Export Award winners were:
animation: Grizzy and the Lemmings - Season 1 (distributed by Hari International)
documentary: The Origami Code (distributed by Lucky You)
and fiction: Call My Agent! - Season 2 (distributed by France tv distribution)
Specific tools dedicated to member companies:
Listing of programs in the online catalogue.
An international database listing about 15,000 contacts from 4,000 companies seeking to acquire content.
Information on the international market: market reports, studies and surveys, model contracts, ratings survey of French programs aired in key territories, etc.
Notes & references
Television networks in France
French television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Blue%20Umbrella%20%282013%20film%29 | The Blue Umbrella is a 2013 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios that was released alongside Monsters University. The short was written and directed by Saschka Unseld of Pixar's technical department. The short features techniques such as photorealistic lighting, shading, and compositing.
Plot
A city scene is brought to life by a rainstorm. Many objects along the street – signs, lights, awnings, mailboxes, buildings, houses, drains, drain pipes, rain gutters, windows, doors – appear to come to life and develop faces and expressions of their own, enjoying the shower. People pass on the street under their umbrellas, all of which are seemly black, except for a singular blue umbrella. As his owner stops at a street corner, the blue umbrella sees a pretty red umbrella next to him. The two exchange nervous glances, and soon become smitten with each other, but their owners' paths diverge.
Seeing this, the objects along the street begin to work with each other to bring the owners together. As the blue umbrella is about to be taken into the subway station, a sign allows the wind to blow the umbrella from his owner's hands. The umbrella is floating through the air toward his destination when a sudden gust of wind caused by a passing bus veers him off course and he lands in the street. With the umbrella in danger from the traffic, the objects attempt to protect him from oncoming cars: a construction sign lights up to redirect an oncoming vehicle, a gurgling drain pipe spews water to push him out of the way, another construction sign falls on him to fling him away from another car, and a drain blasts him into the air, but he is hit by a truck, much to the distress of the objects that have tried to help him.
Battered and bruised, the umbrella is found by his owner who straightens him out just as the owner of the red umbrella approaches to help him up, reuniting the two of them. The objects of the city silently celebrate their reunion as the umbrellas' owners sit down together at a local café, allowing the two umbrellas to be together after all.
Production
Unseld said he conceptualized the story after finding an abandoned umbrella one day in San Francisco. As inspiration, Unseld and his colleagues took photographs of inanimate objects found in city streets throughout New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Paris. Unseld has described the short as "a love declaration to the rain".
Pixar's rendering system was updated to include algorithms capable of rendering new types of lighting and reflection, a technique referred to as global illumination.
Many of the shots use artificial pareidolia to cause faces to be seen in various inanimate objects. As with most other Pixar shorts, The Blue Umbrella is "absent of dialogue and long on the use of visual and musical cues to elicit an emotional response".
Release
The Blue Umbrella premiered on February 12, 2013, at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The short receive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Grayson | Daniel Grayson may refer to:
Daniel Grayson, character in Revenge (TV series)
Daniel Grayson, co-developer of the Macaulay2 computer algebra system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guang%20Gao | Guang R. Gao (1945 – 12 September 2021) was a computer scientist and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware. Gao was a founder and Chief Scientist of ETI (ET International Inc., Newark, Delaware).
Education and early life
Born in Tianjin in 1945 and brought up in a prominent physician family in China, Gao has received a strict education from early childhood both in traditional knowledge of Chinese history and culture, as well as in western science and English. Gao has shown his strong interests and curiosity in science subjects, and received his education in the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing. In January 1980, Gao has left China and pursued his graduate education in the United States. He received his master's degree and PhD degree in 1982 and 1986 respectively both in Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Gao is the first person from mainland China who received a Computer Science Ph.D. degree from MIT.
Career and legacy
Gao has begun his research career in the west as a junior faculty member at McGill University in 1987—at a time that the computer science community has a widespread doubt on the future of parallel computing in general and dataflow model of parallel computation in particular.
Gao has devoted a majority of his research and academic careers in carrying on the legacy of the MIT dataflow model research that he has participated in, and contributed to, during his Ph.D. project under Prof. Jack. B. Dennis and Arvind. The legacy of Gao's own research is to show that the fundamental value of the dataflow model of computation can be effectively explored and efficiently realized – and the superiority dataflow can be demonstrated even in parallel computer systems that are made of classical microprocessors with von-Neumann architectures and other components. To this end, Gao has led a series of parallel architecture and system projects where various aspects of dataflow models are improved and integrated in the design and implementation – ranging from innovations in programming paradigms, architecture features, system software technology, including novel program optimization and runtime system techniques. Gao's contribution was recognized by receiving the ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow in 2007.
Gao's research focused in dataflow models, parallel computing, computer system architecture, program analysis and optimization techniques.
Dataflow models for computation and refinement and extension
Multithreaded programming/execution models inspired by dataflow
Computer system architecture
Compiler optimization models and techniques and inspired by dataflow
Software pipelining
Program analysis techniques
The legacy of Gao's work has also been associated with his entrepreneurial effort to initiate the technology transfer and commercialization of the dataflow R&D results for real world applications through ETI (ET International Inc.). ETI is a company started in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20ABC%20television%20affiliates | The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television network that originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948. Throughout its history, the network has many owned-and-operated and affiliated stations.
This article is a table listing of former ABC stations, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license as well as its Designated Market Area; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former ABC-affiliated station (if the station remains operational) and the current ABC affiliates in each of the listed markets, as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station's disaffiliation from the network. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel (PSIP) number, which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network.
Former affiliate stations
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
See also
List of ABC television affiliates (table)
List of ABC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
References
ABC former
ABC
ABC network affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjaro | Manjaro ( ) is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system that has a focus on user-friendliness and accessibility. It uses a rolling release update model and Pacman as its package manager. It is developed mainly in Austria, France and Germany.
History
Manjaro was first released on July 10, 2011. By mid 2013, it was in the beta stage, though key elements of the final system had all been implemented, including a GUI installer (then an Antergos installer fork); a package manager (Pacman) with a choice of frontends; Pamac (GTK) for Xfce desktop and Octopi (Qt) for its Openbox edition; MHWD (Manjaro Hardware Detection, for detection of free & proprietary video drivers); and Manjaro Settings Manager (for system-wide settings, user management, and graphics driver installation and management).
GNOME Shell support was dropped with the release of version 0.8.3 in 2012. However, efforts within Arch Linux made it possible to restart the Cinnamon/GNOME edition as a community edition. An official release offering the GNOME desktop environment was reinstated in March 2017.
During the development of Manjaro 0.9.0 at the end of August 2015, the team decided to switch to year and month designations for Manjaro's version scheme instead of numbers. This applies to both the 0.8.x series as well as the new 0.9.x series—renaming 0.8.13, released in June 2015, as 15.06 and so on. Manjaro 15.09, codenamed Bellatrix and formerly known as 0.9.0, was released on 27 September 2015 with the new Calamares installer and updated packages.
In September 2017, Manjaro announced that support for i686 architecture would be dropped because "popularity of this architecture is decreasing". However, in November 2017 a semi-official community project "manjaro32", based on archlinux32, continued i686 support.
In September 2019, the Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG company was founded. It's FOSS website stated the company was formed '... to effectively engage in commercial agreements, form partnerships, and offer professional services'.
Official editions
Manjaro Xfce, featuring Manjaro's own dark theme and the Xfce desktop.
Manjaro KDE, featuring Manjaro's own dark Plasma theme and the latest KDE Plasma 5, apps and frameworks.
Manjaro GNOME became the third official version with the Gellivara release; it offers the GNOME desktop with a version of the Manjaro theme.
While not official releases, Manjaro Community Editions are maintained by members of the Manjaro community. They offer additional user interfaces over the official releases, including Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, i3, MATE, and Sway.
Manjaro also has editions for devices with ARM processors, such as single-board computers or Pinebook notebooks.
Features
Manjaro comes with both a CLI and a graphical installer. The rolling release model means that users do not need to upgrade/reinstall the whole system to keep it all up-to-date inline with the latest release. Package management is handled by Pacm |
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