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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Eye%20Network | The Public Eye Network is a group of progressive investigative reporters, licensed investigators, paralegal investigators, attorneys, and activists who share information about political repression and right-wing movements that undermine civil liberties and civil rights. It was formed in the 1970s from three pre-existing groups, the editors of The Public Eye, the magazine sponsoring organization, the Repression Information Project (RIP), and the Guild Investigative Group. Several people who worked as editors or volunteer staff at CounterSpy Magazine joined the network.
The original editors of The Public Eye were Harvey Kahn and Mark Ryter. The magazine was a project of the Repression Information Project, staffed by Russ Bellant, Susan Gluss, Eda Gordon, Harvey Kahn, and Mark Ryter. The Guild Investigative Group (GIG) was formed as an investigative arm of the National Lawyers Guild to research penetration of the Guild by government agents and right-wing spies. The original investigators were Sheila O'Donnell and Eda Gordon.
The Public Eye Network maintains a website. The current coordinator is Sheila O'Donnell of Ace Investigations.
References
External links
Official website
Investigative journalism
American journalism organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20Global | Moore Global (officially Moore Global Network Limited) is a global accountancy, advisory and consulting network of independent firms with its headquarters in London. Moore Global is ranked by the International Accounting Bulletin (IAB) as the 11th largest accountancy network in the world. The Moore Global Network consists of over 34,413 people across 112 countries.
History
The Moore Global network traces its origins back to a small auditing, tax consulting and insolvency practice set up by Harold Moore and Albert Partridge in 1907. Moore, Partridge & Co occupied a building not far from the Guildhall in the heart of the City of London, evolving steadily until the outbreak of war in 1914. By the end of the conflict, Albert Partridge had left and the business entered a new phase of growth.
In 1918 Harold Moore formed Moore, Stephens & Co with John Robinson Stephens, who had managed the firm while his new business partner served in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. The name was shortened to Moore Stephens in 1986, then evolved again when the global network rebranded as Moore in 2019.
In 1921, the firm opened an office in Glasgow and established Moore, Cross & Co. in Brazil a year later. Shortly afterwards, the firm started to develop close relations with the Greek shipping community, which continue to this day. The initial international push revolved the need to meet specific shipping client requirements. Over time, these offices diversified to offer services to a wide range of industries.
In 1968 the Moore Stephens International network was formally established and by 1979 there were member firms in most of the world’s main economies.
A third generation of the Moore family, Richard, took on the task of developing the network, becoming chairman of Moore Stephens International in 2004. He stepped down at the end of 2019, having seen through the successful transition to the Moore Global network in 2019.
Operations
Focused on cross-continent work with roots in local communities, and with member firms in over 100 communities led by experts in several sectors, Moore Global supports clients in the following areas:
Leadership Programs
With a focus on supporting and growing leaders across the network, Moore Global executes a variety of programs available to its member firms.
Moore Ambition
With a focus on supporting the growth of young leaders, Moore Global launched Moore Ambition in 2020. With an initial intake of 147 individuals in 2020, the program has seen significant growth and enrolled 1000+ participants from across the globe to Moore Ambition 2022. Young leaders across member firms enrolled in the program attend workshops and learn key leadership skills with senior experts to inspire innovation and encourage entrepreneurship. There is a strong emphasis on international collaboration, with participants working in groups across geographic boundaries on projects with real-world applications.
Harvard Moore Executive Leadership Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez%20Viking | Chez Viking is the fourth studio album by American post-rock band The Mercury Program, released in 2009 on Lovitt Records; seven years after their previous album A Data Learn the Language.
Track listing
2009 albums
The Mercury Program albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20terrestrial%20television%20in%20Bulgaria | Digital terrestrial television in Bulgaria began on November, 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria with the launch of a free-to-air platform. Ever since then the Digital terrestrial tv network has grown to have networks all over Bulgaria.
History
Bulgaria launched a free-to-air platform on Sofia region, starting in November 2004. The Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) has said that it received 6 bids for the licence to build and operate Bulgaria's two nationwide DTT networks. A second licence tender for the operation of 3 DTT multiplexes was open until 27 May 2009. Following the closing of this process, Hannu Pro, part of Silicon Group, and with Baltic Operations has secured the license to operate three DTT multiplexes in Bulgaria by the country's Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) Bulgaria completed the transition to digital broadcasting in September 2013.
Simulcast
First regular digital broadcast started on 1 March 2013. Analog broadcasting will be definitely terminated at 1 September 2013.
The Simulcast period (time between digital broadcast switch-on and analog broadcast switch-off) will allow people time to buy new integrated Digital TVs or set-top boxes. On 30 September 2013 the simulcast period was officially put to an end.
Technical information
Standards chosen are DVB-T and MPEG4 AVC/H.264 compression format. DVB-T2 will not be used for now.
SFN Allotments in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAGANet | SAGANet (Social Action for Grassroots Astrobiology Network) is a social and collaborative web platform created to connect scientists and science enthusiasts who share interests in the research and culture of astrobiology.
Background
SAGANet was founded in 2011 by Blue Marble Space Institute of Science scientists Zach Adam, Julia DeMarines, Heshan Illangkoon, Betül Kaçar, Sanjoy Som, and Sara Imari Walker. It was officially launched on April 12, 2012 (51 years after the first launch of a human into space and 31 years after the first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1)), and was announced publicly at the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference.
SAGANet is named after the late Carl Sagan (The acronym is used with courtesy of the Carl Sagan Foundation) and builds upon his vision of a citizenry actively engaged in learning about the cosmos. SAGANet is designed to be an immersive virtual community where members interact in an environment of shared learning. SAGANet is currently funded by Blue Marble Space.
Mission
SAGANet seeks to sustain a vibrant community of scientists and science enthusiasts in an inviting environment that supports shared learning. The mission statement for the organization is "To open pathways for curious minds to ask fundamental questions about life in our universe."
Events
SAGANet has organized several events on the site and through various platforms that engage the general public. “Talk to an Astrobiologist” started off as a monthly event where a distinguished scientist is invited to interact with SAGANet members and later evolved with support of the NASA Astrobiology Program to become the YouTube livestream show called Ask an Astrobiologist. Past guests have included David Grinspoon, Paul Davies, Susan Schneider, Betül Kaçar, Kevin Hand, Charles Cockell, Zibi Turtle, and many others from across the realm of astrobiology research. SAGANet salon was a monthly event where members of the community interacted on topics bordering science and philosophy. In the past, SAGANet has hosted academic seminars from Arizona State University and Stockholm University.
References
External links
Official website
S.A.G.A.N. Facebook & Twitter Page
Blue Marble Space
Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
NASA Astrobiology Institute
The Carl Sagan Foundation
Organizations established in 2011
Science communication
Popular science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Laime | Elizabeth Laime (born September 19, 1979) is an American writer, actress and podcast host. She currently hosts the podcast Totally Laime formerly of the Earwolf network. Her former podcasts include Totally Married, a relationship advice show, and Totally Mommy, a show about parenting. She has written for the TruTV comedy series I'm Sorry, the NBC series The Village. and the ABC series A Million Little Things.
Early life
Laime was born on September 19, 1979, in Houston, Texas. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri when she was ten and stayed there until she was eighteen. On December 19, 1998, Laime's mother died from pancreatic cancer. At the time of her mother's death Laime was at her debutante ball, an event that her mother insisted that she go through with despite her condition. Upon leaving her mother Laime realized that, "I knew (crying) when I was saying goodbye to her that I was like saying goodbye." Ten months later, on the anniversary of her parents' wedding, her father died of a heart attack. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara at 20 years old and after a few years moved to New York City.
Career
During her time in New York, Laime got involved with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and joined the sketch Maude team Gunderson! in 2007 She also put up a one-woman show Dear Diary at the UCB Theatre in New York City and Los Angeles and was a Time Out New York critics' pick. Her short story of a failed athletic endeavor, "Swim Team 1996", was published in the book Rejected. In the film Hotel Artemis Laime plays the voice on the Anxiety Tape.
Podcasting career
In 2010, Laime released the first episode of the podcast Totally Laime. She hosted the show with her husband Andy Rosen and would chat with a guest, usually an actor or improviser from the Los Angeles comedy scene. Rosen's title on the show is "Psychic Andy" a derivation of his original title as "Sidekick Andy". Segments on the show included Rapidfire a quick-hit question and answer segment where the guest would say "Totally" if they like the word and "Lame" if they didn't, The Oprah Game where Laime would read the synopsis of an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show and ask for the guest's thoughts on it, and Questions From a Cup where guests would pull questions at random out of a cup.
In 2011, Totally Laime won the Earwolf Challenge, a reality podcasting competition where the winner was awarded a distribution contract with Earwolf. Totally Laime joined the Earwolf network and was part of the network until the show first ended in January 2015. Whitney Matheson, writing in USA Today, listed Totally Laime in her personal top ten comedy podcasts. Los Angeles Magazine included Totally Laime in their "Best of LA" list of best podcasts. Totally Laime was picked by E! Online as one of the 10 best things in pop culture for the week of July 7, 2013.
Totally Laime ran for 260 episodes until it first ended in January 2015. In explaining her decision to end the show, Laime stated that "it feels lik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakura%20Corporation | Kamakura Corporation is a global financial software company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. It specializes in software and data for risk management for banking, insurance and investment businesses.
The company was founded in 1990 by its current CEO and Chairman Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, and as of 2019 Kamakura had served more than 330 clients in 47 countries. Cornell professor Robert A. Jarrow, co-creator of the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework for pricing interest rate derivatives and the reduced form Jarrow–Turnbull credit risk models employed for pricing credit derivatives, serve as the company's Director of Research.
In June 2022, Kamakura was acquired by SAS Institute.
Products and services
The company has two primary products. Kamakura Risk Manager (KRM), an enterprise risk management system integrating credit risk management including IFRS 9 and CECL, market risk management, asset liability management, Basel II and Basel III and other capital allocation technologies, transfer pricing, and performance measurement. Kamakura Risk Information Services (KRIS) is a risk portal providing data for quantitative credit risk measures such as default probabilities, bond spreads, implied spreads and implied ratings for corporate, sovereign and bank counterparties. It also allows users to stress portfolios through Macro Factor Sensitivities and Portfolio Management tools. The Kamakura Troubled Company index measures the percentage of 39,000 public firms in 76 countries that have an annualized one-month default risk of over one percent. In January 2018, the company released its Troubled Bank Index.
History
Kamakura Corporation was founded in Tokyo in 1990. Kamakura Risk Manager (KRM) was first sold commercially in 1993. It was the first credit model published with random interest rates and the first stochastic interest rate term structure model-based valuation software. In 1995, they hired Robert A. Jarrow as their Director of Research. The first closed-form non-maturity deposit valuation model was implemented in KRM in 1996. TD Bank started using KRM during that year.
Kamakura relocated to Honolulu and qualified for the State research and development subsidy. Jarrow-Lando-Turnbull published Markov model for the term structure of credit began to spread in 1997. The stochastic multi-period net income simulation was added to KRM in 1998.
The first implementation of a reduced form credit risk model was made in 2000. Kamakura was the first vendor to offer integrated credit and market risk in their risk management products. In 2002, they launched the KRIS default probability service for 20,000 listed firms. They completed their first Basel II client implementation in 2003. Insurer MetLife and pension fund Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan became clients during that year. Pair-wise default correlations were added to KRIS in 2004. Implied Ratings and Implied CDS Spreads were added to KRIS in 2006. KRIS-CDO launched in 2007. In 2008, Kamakura was named o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Manchester%20Metrolink | This timeline of Manchester Metrolink lists significant events in the history of Greater Manchester's light rail network.
1960s
1968
The Transport Act 1968 sets out the terms under which passenger transport executives and passenger transport authorities are to be formed to co-ordinate and operate public transport in the United Kingdom's six largest conurbations outside London.
1969
SELNEC PTE (the South East Lancashire North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive) is established on 1 November 1969 with reference to the Transport Act 1968 to improve public transport in Manchester and its surrounding municipalities.
1970s
1972
The Picc-Vic tunnel receives planning approval from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Local Government Act 1972 receives Royal Assent on 26 October 1972. The Act sets out provisions to reform local government in England by creating a system of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties and districts across the country. Manchester and its surrounding municipalities are to be amalgamated as a metropolitan county.
1973
A government grant to fund the £86 million Picc-Vic tunnel is rejected amid a weak economic climate.
The United Kingdom local elections of 12 April 1973 creates the Greater Manchester County Council (GMCC) as a shadow authority.
1974
The Greater Manchester County Council publishes its structure plan in January 1974, acknowledging its obligation to provide "an integrated and efficient system of public transport".
Greater Manchester is formally established as a metropolitan county of England on 1 April 1974; SELNEC PTE becomes the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), a functional body of the Greater Manchester County Council tasked with operating and improving public transport in the region.
Greater Manchester County Council submit a bid to the United Kingdom Government to acquire funding for the Picc-Vic tunnel.
1977
Unable to secure funding from the government, the Greater Manchester County Council abandons plans for the Picc-Vic tunnel on economic grounds.
1980s
1982
GMPTE conclude that an overground metropolitan light rail system to replace or complement the region's under-used heavy railways is the most economical solution to improving Greater Manchester's public transport network.
1983
As part of its proposals for light rail, GMPTE suggest that the Oldham Loop Line be re-routed and extended with on-street tramways through Oldham and Rochdale town centres.
The Greater Manchester County Council purchases a disused section of the Cheshire Lines Committee railway between Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Didsbury for £1, hoping to stop development along the route and preserve it for use with a future light rail network.
1984
A Rail Study Group composed of officials from British Rail, Greater Manchester County Council and GMPTE, formally endorse a light rail system for Greater Manchester.
1985
The Local Government Act 1985 receives Royal Assent on 16 July 1985, stating that "the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane%27s%20The%20Jump%20Off | Zane's The Jump Off is an American television series on the Cinemax network, created by Zane. The series follows the lives of five successful African American men from all sorts of backgrounds as it tells the stories of their everyday lives. The series premiered March 29, 2013.
Plot
Zane's latest series follows five 30-something frat brothers and their women as they grapple with issues like commitment, fidelity and forgiveness.
Cast and characters
Main
Amin Joseph - Dmitri Vance
Sean Riggs - Earnest Bishop
J. Teddy Garces - Spencer Martinez
Damian Raven - Gabriel Turner
Kinyumba Mutakabbir - Fenwick "Woody" Wood
Recurring
Joe Torry - Chandler Bishop
Tanjareen Martin - Lauren
Gregg Wayans - Harris Jones
Johanna Quintero - Portia Bishop
Latifah Creswell - Brenda Lancaster
Monique Cash - Nandi Carter
Wlehyonneh Toles - Kenya Wood
Sasha Van Duyn - Aspen Turner
Jen Morillo - Sabrina
Jude B. Lanston - Doctor Stovall
Erika Jordan - Jennifer
Episodes
References
External links
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
2010s American drama television series
2010s American romance television series
Cinemax original programming
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
English-language television shows
Erotic television series
Television shows based on American novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Building%20Research | The Open Building Research is an Italian company established in by Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi. The company was set up to research into design network, new ways of living with the purpose of blending them within architectural and landscape framework.
Awards
The company has won several world awards for its designs. They include:
Design winner for Ghana's first technology park, Hope City, Accra, Ghana
2012 Green Good Design Award winner for the Milanofiori Housing Complex
Award for the international design competition for Via XX Settembre in Genoa, Italy
References
Architecture firms of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOA%20%28digital%20humanities%29 | COCOA (an acronym derived from COunt and COncordance Generation on Atlas) was an early text file utility and associated file format for digital humanities, then known as humanities computing. It was approximately 4000 punched cards of FORTRAN and created in the late 1960s and early 1970s at University College London and the Atlas Computer Laboratory in Harwell, Oxfordshire. Functionality included word-counting and concordance building.
Oxford Concordance Program
The Oxford Concordance Program format was a direct descendant of COCOA developed at Oxford University Computing Services. The Oxford Text Archive holds items in this format.
Later developments
The COCOA file format bears at least a passing similarity to the later markup languages such as SGML and XML. A noticeable difference with its successors is that COCOA tags are flat and not tree structured. In that format, every information type and value encoded by a tag should be considered true until the same tag changes its value. Members of the Text Encoding Initiative community maintain legacy support for COCOA, although most in-demand texts and corpora have already been migrated to more widely understood formats such as TEI XML
References
Digital humanities
Computer file formats
History of software
Markup languages
Fortran software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20communities%20with%20Hispanic-majority%20populations%20in%20the%202000%20census | The following is a list of United States cities, towns, and census-designated places in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2000 Census. This list does not include cities such as Los Angeles, California or Houston, Texas in which, according to the 2000 Census, merely a plurality (as opposed to a majority) of the residents are Hispanic. The list below is organized by state and, within each state, by population size. The percentage of each city's population that is Hispanic is listed in parentheses next to the city's name. The largest incorporated city with the highest proportion of Hispanics is Huron (population 6,306), California; according to the 2000 U.S. Census, Huron is 98.27% Hispanic. The largest city with a Hispanic majority is San Antonio, Texas, and the highest percentage for any major U.S. city is El Paso, Texas at 76%. Thirty-one states do not have any communities that are majority-Hispanic. The following demographics are from the 2000 census.
Note: According to the U.S. Census, Hispanics can be of any race.
Arizona
Arizona places with between 10,000 and 25,000 people
Douglas (86.0%)
Drexel Heights (60.1%)
Eloy (74.4%)
Nogales (93.6%)
San Luis (89.1%)
Arizona places with fewer than 10,000 people
Ash Fork (51.4%)
Clifton (55.9%)
Drexel-Alvernon (58.1%)
Dudleyville (59.0%)
El Mirage (66.9%)
Gadsden (93.8%)
Gila Bend (52.6%)
Guadalupe (72.3%)
Hayden (84.5%)
Littletown (50.5%)
Mammoth (73.0%)
Maricopa (70.4%)
Miami (54.4%)
Mojave Ranch Estates (78.6%)
Naco (82.5%)
Pirtleville (95.0%)
Poston (77.1%)
Rio Rico Northeast (67.1%)
Rio Rico Northwest (87.3%)
Rio Rico Southeast (85.0%)
Rio Rico Southwest (85.1%)
Somerton (95.2%)
South Tucson (81.2%)
Stanfield (61.6%)
Summit (63.5%)
Superior (69.1%)
Tacna (50.8%)
Tolleson (78.0%)
Tumacacori-Carmen (58.0%)
Valencia West (68.4%)
Winkelman (74.7%)
California
See List of California communities with Hispanic majority populations in the 2000 census
Colorado
Colorado places with between 10,000 and 25,000 people
Commerce City (52.9%)
Colorado places with fewer than 10,000 people
Alamosa East (54.4%)
Antonito (90.3%)
Avondale (64.1%)
Blanca (67.0%)
Center (86.1%)
Del Norte (57.4%)
Fort Garland (72.2%)
Garden City (68.3%)
Gilcrest (54.9%)
Granada (62.5%)
La Jara (62.9%)
Log Lane Village (52.8%)
Monte Vista (58.2%)
Red Cliff (61.9%)
Rocky Ford (57.1%)
Romeo (77.1%)
Salt Creek (79.3%)
San Luis (88.8%)
Starkville (64.1%)
Walsenburg (51.0%)
Florida
Places with over 100,000 people
Hialeah (92.3%)
Miami (65.8%)
Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
Country Club (60.3%)
Fontainebleau (87.2%)
Homestead (51.8%)
Kendale Lakes (76.6%)
Kendall West (79.0%)
Kendall (50.0%)
Miami Beach (53.5%)
Richmond West (70.0%)
South Miami Heights (56.2%)
Tamiami (87.0%)
The Hammocks (65.3%)
University Park (82.7%)
Westchester (85.3%)
Places with fewer than 25,000 people
Buenaventura Lakes (54.6%)
Coral Terrace (82.1%)
Country Walk (56.1%)
D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indio%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes for Indio, a Filipino historical drama-epic fantasy television series, created and developed by Suzette Doctolero and produced by GMA Network. It premiered on January 14, 2013 on GMA Telebabad block. It concluded its twenty weeks run on May 31, 2013 with the total of ninety-seven episodes. The series features Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr. playing the title role, with Jennylyn Mercado, Michael de Mesa, Maxene Magalona and Rhian Ramos. It executive produced by Meann P. Regala and directed by Dondon Santos.
The series chronicles the life of Malaya/Simeon/Indio who rises from a lowly slave to a demigod on his quest for freedom from the Spanish Crown. With its high production value and powerhouse cast, the series is regards as a "telemovie" or a movie made for television and dubbed as the most expensive series of the network for 2013. The series is considered as a "ratings success" from its premiere telecast and have also received positive reviews both from viewers and critics.
Plot
In order to save her newborn son from certain doom, Ynaguiginid—the goddess of war—is forced to sacrifice her own immortality. Safe and alone in the forest under the watchful eyes of Magayon, the deity of flying creatures, Ynaguiginid's child is rescued by a native couple who name him Malaya. As Malaya grows up he manifests god-like powers which were inherited from his mother. His powers are witnessed by the villagers and Malaya is eventually looked upon as their savior.
However, as Spanish conquerors descend upon the land, Malaya is captured and enslaved. Years gone by and Malaya—now called Simeon—will have witnessed how terribly the Spaniards mistreat his countrymen. No longer able to bear the suffering and pain of his people, he is roused by Magayon of his true purpose. Simeon must fulfil his destiny to fight off the Spanish invaders and liberate his country.
Main cast
Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr. as Malaya/Simeon/Indio
Jennylyn Mercado as Esperanza Sanreal
Rhian Ramos as Dian Magayon
Michael de Mesa as Señor Juancho Sanreal
Series overview
List of episodes
Book 1
Book 2
External links
Official Indio website
Official GMA Network website
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes
Lists of fantasy television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation%20and%20Long-term%20Access%20through%20Networked%20Services | The Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services (PLANETS) project addressed core digital preservation challenges. The primary goal for Planets was to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets. The outputs of this European Sixth Framework Programme are, since 2010, sustained by the follow-on organisation, the Open Planets Foundation.
Amongst its higher profile outputs, in 2010, PLANETS deposited a Time Capsule in the vaults of Swiss Fort Knox containing digital data along with instructions on how to retrieve and decode it.
In 2012, PLANETS was awarded the Digital Preservation Coalition's award for Research and Innovation.
See also
Digital Preservation Award
Digital preservation
Data preservation
Preservation metadata
References
External links
Official website
FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).
European Union and science and technology
FP6 projects
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplotype%20estimation | In genetics, haplotype estimation (also known as "phasing") refers to the process of statistical estimation of haplotypes from genotype data. The most common situation arises when genotypes are collected at a set of polymorphic sites from a group of individuals. For example in human genetics, genome-wide association studies collect genotypes in thousands of individuals at between 200,000-5,000,000 SNPs using microarrays. Haplotype estimation methods are used in the analysis of these datasets and allow genotype imputation of alleles from reference databases such as the HapMap Project and the 1000 Genomes Project.
Genotypes and haplotypes
Genotypes measure the unordered combination of alleles at each site, whereas haplotypes are the two sequences of alleles that have been inherited together from the individual's parents. When there are heterozygous genotypes present in an individual's set of genotypes, there will be possible pairs of haplotypes that could underlie the genotypes. For example, when , we have the following haplotypes: AA/TT, AT/TA, TA/AT, and TT/AA. If there are missing genotypes then the number of possible haplotype pairs increases.
Haplotype estimation methods
Many statistical methods have been proposed for estimation of haplotypes. Some of the earliest approaches used a simple multinomial model in which each possible haplotype consistent with the sample was given an unknown frequency parameter and these parameters were estimated with an Expectation–maximization algorithm. These approaches were only able to handle small numbers of sites at once, although sequential versions were later developed, specifically the SNPHAP method.
The most accurate and widely used methods for haplotype estimation utilize some form of hidden Markov model (HMM) to carry out inference. For a long time PHASE was the most accurate method. PHASE was the first method to utilize ideas from coalescent theory concerning the joint distribution of haplotypes. This method used a Gibbs sampling approach in which each individuals haplotypes were updated conditional upon the current estimates of haplotypes from all other samples. Approximations to the distribution of a haplotype conditional upon a set of other haplotypes were used for the conditional distributions of the Gibbs sampler. PHASE was used to estimate the haplotypes from the HapMap Project. PHASE was limited by its speed and was not applicable to datasets from genome-wide association studies.
The fastPHASE and BEAGLE methods introduced haplotype cluster models applicable to GWAS-sized datasets. Subsequently the IMPUTE2 and MaCH methods were introduced that were similar to the PHASE approach but much faster. These methods iteratively update the haplotype estimates of each sample conditional upon a subset of K haplotype estimates of other samples. IMPUTE2 introduced the idea of carefully choosing which subset of haplotypes to condition on to improve accuracy. Accuracy increases with K but with quadrati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates%3A%20Adventures%20in%20Art | Pirates: Adventures in Art () is a Canadian computer-animated children's television series which aired on CBC Television in Canada from December 18, 2010 to October 15, 2011. The show, produced by DHX Media, was creative-produced and executive-story edited by Jed MacKay, produced by Katrina Walsh and directed by William Gordon.
The show tells the story of three pirates who sail the seas in search of art, always dodging the evil, art-hating queen Conformia. The show’s theme song was performed by Canadian band Great Big Sea. 44 episodes were produced.
In Latin America, the show launched on February 27, 2012 on Discovery Kids and Boomerang in Spanish as Los piratas y sus aventuras coloridas and in Portuguese as Os piratas e suas aventuras coloridas. It also aired in Portugal on Canal Panda with the title of Os Piratas e as Suas Aventuras Coloridas and in Germany on Super RTL with the title of Cleo und die Kunstpiraten.
Cast
Joseph Motiki as Leo
Tajja Isen as Cleo
Carlos Diaz as Fresco de Gecko
Jayne Eastwood as Queen Conformia
James Rankin as Krank and Skelly
Episodes
Season 1
Cleo's Clue
Landscape Escape
Go Fly a Kite
The Tricky Tower
The Adventure of Wildfang Island
The Adventure of Dragon Boat
A Balancing Act
Collage
Cap'n Cubism
The Great Golden Gecko
Hide in Plain Sight
Yo Ho Shadow
Portrait of a Queen
A Yucky Uck Adventure
The Grape Escape
Mission Tradition
Season 2
Say It with Symbols
Colour Me Purple
Marooned!
The Adventures of Wango Mango
All in Good Lime
All's Well that Ends Wall
Cleopatra's Crown
Veni Vidi Da Vinci!
Shutterbug
A Matter of Perspective
The Next Top Pirate
Queen Conformia's Mine
The Golden Gorgon
The Phantom of Crazy Castle
The Goblet
The Wrong Impression
The Ones that Got Away
Diorama Rama
Farm Folk Frenzy
The Artless Festival
Totally Totem
The Golden Tapestry
Weave Got You Covered
Fresco's Fresco
The Curse of the Zeus Temple
The Wild Brushman
Pop! Go the Pirates
A Lotta Terracotta
References
External links
CBC Television original programming
Television series by DHX Media
2010s Canadian animated television series
2010s Canadian children's television series
2010 Canadian television series debuts
2011 Canadian television series endings
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
Canadian children's animated fantasy television series
Canadian children's animated musical television series
Canadian computer-animated television series
Canadian preschool education television series
Animated preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series
Television series about pirates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Unearthed | America Unearthed was an American entertainment television series, the first original series to air on the A&E Networks channel H2. The show premiered on December 21, 2012, and was produced by Committee Films of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The program was hosted by Minnesota-based geologist Scott Wolter, who investigates mysteries and artifacts believed to reveal an alternative history of the North American continent before the United States.
The show was cancelled following the sale of H2. The Travel Channel revived the series for ten episodes, again hosted by Wolter. The series broadcast in 2019 and was canceled after just one season.
The show has been described as entertaining but also has received criticism for promoting pseudohistory.
Predecessor
In September 2009, History Channel aired the two-hour special "Holy Grail in America", produced by Committee Films, which follows Scott Wolter as he explores the idea that the Kensington Runestone is evidence that the Knights Templar sailed to America about one hundred years before Columbus's voyage.
Reviewer Paul Mavis characterized "Holy Grail in America" as enjoyable pseudoscientific entertainment in the tradition of the 1970s television series In Search of.... Mavis noted that, "tellingly, the doc never presents any other geologists who have alternative theories about Wolter's findings" but concluded, "who cares if it's true or not? It's fun."
Reception
America Unearthed began airing on the H2 network in December 2012 The first episode, "American Maya Secrets", aired on the supposed end of the Mayan calendar and deals with a possible Mayan village in Georgia. The program was a success for the network, becoming "the #1 series of all time on H2" and was subsequently approved for a second season with production starting in early 2013. The series had an average of 765,000 viewers in early 2013 and surpassed one million viewers in January 2013.
Episodes
Season 1 (2012–13)
Season 2 (2013–14)
Season 3 (2014–15)
Season 4 (2019)
References
External links
2012 American television series debuts
H2 (A&E networks) original programming
Pseudohistory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin%20Earl%20Maron | Melvin Earl "Bill" Maron (Jan 23, 1924 - September 28, 2016) was an American computer scientist and emeritis professor of University of California, Berkeley. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the University of Nebraska and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California in 1951. Maron is best known for his work on probabilistic information retrieval which he published together with his friend and colleague Lary Kuhns.
Quite remarkably, Maron also pioneered relational databases, proposing a system called the Relational Data File in 1967, on which Ted Codd based his Relational model of data.
References
University of California, Berkeley School of Information faculty
American computer scientists
1924 births
2016 deaths
University of Nebraska alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF%20Products | ALF Products Inc., or ALF (named after an assembly language instruction for "rotate the A register Left Four bits"), was a Colorado company primarily known for its computer-controlled music synthesizers and floppy disk supplies and duplicators.
History
In 1971 Tim Gill, a Wheat Ridge High School student with an interest in computers, visited the computer terminal room at Lakewood High School looking for "other intelligent life-forms". There he met Philip Tubb, a Lakewood High School student, who shared his interest in computers. This meeting inspired Philip to start the Jefferson County Computer Club. As a freshman, Philip had served as Student President, and he had good relationships with the school's and district's staff. He was able to create the only student-founded multi-school club in the district. Using log-on messages on the county's Hewlett-Packard 2000-series time-shared computer system, club meetings were announced county-wide and held at various high schools.
At the Jefferson County Computer Club, Philip Tubb met many other students who shared an interest in computers. He also shared a strong interest in electronics with John Ridges, a Wheat Ridge High School student. John designed and built one of the first computer-controlled music synthesizers, a polyphonic unit with 6 voices (each with an 8 octave range and 8 volume levels). It could be controlled by a remotely located computer when connected between a teletype (or similar device) and its modem. The ASCII serial data flowing on that connection was used to issue commands to the synthesizer. John also wrote programs in BASIC which allowed music to be entered in text format, saved on the computer's hard drive, and played back using the device. The synthesizer got the nickname "Mesmerelda" due to the hypnotic effects of its status LEDs during playback.
While a student at Lakewood High School, Philip Tubb was hired part-time to operate the district's computer. In that job, Philip also taught seminars on programming to many of the county's high school math teachers who, with little if any prior instruction, were struggling to teach the programming classes. With those contacts, Philip and John began demonstrating Mesmerelda to music classes at several high schools, introducing the students (and teachers) to this new concept of computer-controlled music. Many of the students were interested in music but not skilled enough to perform using a conventional instrument. These students were excited by the idea of using a computer to play music, eliminating the need to master an instrument first. The potential market for computer-controlled synthesizers was apparently larger than the two had assumed.
After high school, Philip Tubb joined fellow former computer club members Tim Gill and Rich Harman at the University of Colorado. Philip soon discovered the computer science classes were based almost entirely on mainframe computers, which he considered obsolete by that time. He dropped out a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tujh%20Sang%20Preet%20Lagai%20Sajna | Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna may refer to:
Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna (Star Plus), a drama series that aired on the Indian satellite television network Star Plus in 2008–2010.
Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna (Sahara One), an Indian television drama series aired on television channel Sahara One in 2012–2013. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mexican%20states%20by%20homicides | This is a list of Mexican states by their respective homicide data.
Methodology
The National Institute of Statistic and Geography released information of homicides for the 32 federal states of Mexico. In the year 2011 there were 27,199 homicides in Mexico. The state of Chihuahua ranked number one with the most homicides in the country, the least was Baja California Sur. For Mexico there were 24 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants.
2011 INEGI records
Homicide rates by year
Intentional homicide rate (per 100,000)
See also
Crime in Mexico
List of cities by murder rate
Homicide in world cities
List of Brazilian states by murder rate
List of U.S. states by homicide rate
List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate
List of countries by intentional homicide rate
Notes
References
Population
Murder in Mexico
Mexican states
Mexico, homicides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah%20%28TV%20series%29 | Jonah is an Australian television drama series which aired for 20 episodes starting from 15 October 1962 on the Seven Network. Produced during an era when commercial television in Australia produced few dramatic series, Jonah was a period drama, and was inspired by the success of ABC's period drama mini-series like Stormy Petrel.
The episodes still exist.
Premise
The National Film and Sound Archive describes the series as a "historical drama series about Jonah Locke, a merchant trader in the early Australian colony". Jonah lived in Sydney between 1840 and 1850. He would encounter historical figures.
Regular cast
Brian James as Jonah Locke
Hilary Bamberger as Ann Parry, Jonah's housekeeper
Neil Fitzpatrick as Brett Hamilton, Jonah's nephew
Guest stars
Judith Arthy as Rosa
Denis Doonan as Captain Westcote
John Faasen as Sir John Franklin
Henry Gilbert as The Reverend Dr.
Ron Haddrick as Governor
Robert McPhee as Monahan
Moya O'Sullivan as Pompy
Lionel Pearcey as Ed Curr
Donald Philps as Captain Duff
Gwen Plumb as Lady Jane Franklin
Chris Christensen as Black Henry O'Brien
Richard Davies as Mathew Crawford
Claire Dunn as The Maid
Brett Hamilton as Neil Fitzpatrick
Brigid Lenihan as Kate Winslow
Muriel Steinbeck as Caroline Chisolm
Noeline Brown as Dorothea Styles
Julianna Allan
Background
In March 1962 it was announced ATN would make the series with Michael Plant to be writer and story editor, Harry Dearth to produce and David Cahill to direct. By July the lead actors had been cast. It was shot at Artransa Park Studios. Michael Plant was the writer and script editor.
The episode cost around £3,500 each. They sold to the Australian networks for £1,500 an episode and then to Britain for £1,000 an episode. There were disputes with Actors Equity over how much the actors should be paid.
Reception
One review called it "splendid".
The Women's Weekly called it "fast, action packed entertainment".
Select episodes
Ep 1 – "No Time for Despair" (w. Michael Plant) – gold is discovered in 1839 – guest starring Hans Farkash as Count Strzelecki, Ron Haddrick as Governor Gipps, Al Thomas, and Owen Weingott as Stone Polonski
Ep 2 – "A Tale of Two Bees" – the story of Benjamin Boyd who dreamed of building his own city – guest starring Colin Croft, Brigid Lenihan, John Faasen as Sir John Franklin Gwen Plumb as Lady Jane Franklin
"A Ring Around a Rosa" – story of a young immigrant girl – guest star Muriel Steinbeck as Caroline Chisolm, Judith Artha as Rosa
"The Wrong Hands" – the story of Ludwig Leichardt – guest star Clement McCallin, Joe McCormick, Philip Ross
"Freedom for Port Phillip" – about John Dunmore Lang – guest star Henry Gilbert, John Llewellyn, Lionel Pearcey, Robert McPhee
"A Nest of Hornets" – about clash with Chinese migrants at Lambing Flat – guest star Allan Tobin as Lin Fong, Derek Barnes as Captain Zouch
"The Hashemy" – about the ship The Hashemy
"The Marquis of Mullambimbee" – the clash between William Wentworth and Henry Parkes – with J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dark%20Shadows%20episodes | Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. A total of 1,225 episodes were produced, but during the course of its run, the show was pre-empted 20 times. ABC would compensate for this by occasionally skipping, double numbering and, in one case, triple numbering episodes in order to keep a show ending in a 5 or 0 airing on Fridays. This is why the last episode produced has #1245 when in actuality it was only the 1,225th episode produced. The following is a complete list of all episodes. Along with production information, it also includes a list of the DVD releases in volume format.
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
See also
Dark Shadows (televised storylines)
Dark Shadows (audio drama)
External links
Dark Shadows episode guide
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Register%20Information%20System | The National Register Information System (NRIS) is a database of properties that have been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. The database includes more than 84,000 entries of historic sites that are currently listed on the National Register, that were previously listed and later removed, or that are pending listing. The database includes approximately 45 pieces of data for each listed property. Accuracy of the NRIS database may be imperfect. For example, a 2004 paper addressed accuracy of spatial location data for part of the NRIS content.
History
Efforts to digitize the database began as early as 1968, but the database was not fully digitized until 1986. By 1994 it had come to be used in answering more than 4,000 public queries per year.
Availability
A search interface within the National Park Service's NPS Focus system provides access to a skeletal record of NRIS data, as well as to photographs and documents describing properties listed on the National Register. The skeletal record includes a simplified set of the information in NRIS about all sites listed through August 2012. The NPS Focus search screen allows searching by NRHP listing name or other property identifiers.
References
External links
NOTE: the database does not include the following states: Arkansas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.
Spreadsheets available for download.
"All of our records will eventually be in the National Archives. Right now NARA has the states of: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. (and more will be added.)" as of 2018-09-18
Geospatial Dataset — (Code: 2210280).
Geographical databases
Government databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Algorithm | The Algorithm is the musical project of French musician Rémi Gallego (born 7 October 1989) from Perpignan. His style is characterised by an unusual combination of electronic music with progressive metal. Gallego chose the name The Algorithm to highlight the music's complex and electronic nature.
History
Early years (2009–2010)
After the demise of his band Dying Breath, Rémi Gallego decided in 2009 to look for potential members for a band that focused on mathcore, which came as an inspiration from The Dillinger Escape Plan. After a futile search for new members, with the help of his guitar and a DAW, Gallego began to produce his own music.
In December 2009 and July 2010, he published the two demos The Doppler Effect and Critical Error, which were released through his own website for free download. Towards the end of 2010, he announced that he was working on a new EP named Identity (it was never completed). Also, he was preparing for his first live appearances.
First live shows (2011)
In August 2011, The Algorithm released his compilation called Method_ on which the songs from his two previous demos were compiled which were also for free download. An appearance followed in October 2011 at the Euroblast Festival in Cologne, where The Algorithm featured alongside bands such as Textures, TesseracT and Vildhjarta.
A month later Mike Malyan, drummer for the band Monuments, uploaded a drum cover of the song "Isometry" on YouTube. After seeing this, Gallego was convinced that it would be possible to play his songs on a real drum set and Malyan was presented as an accompaniment during live performances.
In the same month, The Algorithm signed a record deal with the British label Basick Records.
Signing to Basick Records and Polymorphic Code (2012–2013)
In January 2012, The Algorithm released the single "Trojans" via Basick Records, which was only available digitally. It was followed by appearances in festivals such as Djentival in Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as on the UK Tech-Metal Fest held in Alton, United Kingdom, where he joined the release in addition to including Uneven Structure and Chimp Spanner appearances. On 19 November 2012, the debut album Polymorphic Code was released through Basick Records, which included seven previously unreleased songs as well as the song "Trojans".
In January 2013, The Algorithm played alongside Enter Shikari and Cancer Bats at a concert in Paris. In April 2013, The Algorithm played their first live shows in the UK with a new live member, guitarist Max Michel. On 17 June 2013, The Algorithm was decorated on a Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards as the best underground artist of that year, decided by the votes of Metal Hammer readers. From September–October 2013, The Algorithm toured mainland Europe on the French Connection Tour with Uneven Structure and Weaksaw. However, Mike Malyan was not able to perform on this tour; Boris Le Gal of NeonFly filled in for him instead. The live line-up also performed on a UK tour w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic%20Code | Polymorphic Code is the debut studio album by French musical project the Algorithm, released on 19 November 2012 through Basick Records. Music video for the song "Trojans" was released on 7 November 2012.
Track listing
Personnel
Rémi Gallego – synthesizer, sequencer, guitar, programming, production
Tim Reynolds – mastering
References
2012 debut albums
The Algorithm albums
Albums produced by Rémi Gallego
Basick Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic%20keyboard%20layout | The Icelandic keyboard layout is a national functional keyboard layout described in ÍST 125, used to write the Icelandic language on computers and typewriters. It is QWERTY-based and features some influences from the continental Nordic layouts. It supports the language's many special letters, some of which it shares with the other Nordic languages:
Þ/þ, Ð/ð, Æ/æ and Ö/ö (Æ/æ also occurs in Norwegian, Danish and Faroese, Ð/ð in Faroese, and Ö/ö in Swedish, Finnish and Estonian.) These are all entered by pressing dedicated keys .
Á/á, É/é, Ý/ý, Ú/ú, Í/í, and Ó/ó are entered by first pressing dead key located to the right of Æ and then the corresponding key.
Non-Icelandic letters
The letters Å/å, Ä/ä, Ÿ/ÿ, Ü/ü, Ï/ï, and Ë/ë can be produced with the Icelandic keyboard by first pressing the or (for ¨) dead key located below the key, and then the corresponding letter (i.e. followed by yields å). These letters are not used natively in Icelandic, but may have been implemented for ease of communication in other Nordic languages.
References
Latin-script keyboard layouts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapyuta | Rapyuta is the online database for the RoboEarth Cloud Engine which is a platform as a service (PaaS). The database, which is part of the European RoboEarth Project, is used as an open-source tool for developers creating robotic applications in the cloud platform. It is designed to allow robots to query the database to learn about their environment, build, as well as providing guidance systems. Rapyuta project lead was Mohanarajah Gajamohan.
Background
The name Rapyuta is derived from the Hayao Miyazaki's anime, Castle in the Sky. In the film, there is a place called Rapyuta, which was inspired by Jonathan Swift's island of Laputa, where all robots live. The stated purpose of the project is[T]he goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behavior, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction. In simple terms, Rapyuta is considered an online brain that describes unfamiliar objects to robots. Aside from helping users send their application to the cloud for processing, Rapyuta also enables robots to search for data (draw from the "experience" of other robots) that can help it perform its tasks. It uses a combination of ROS and WebSocket communication protocols so that the computing environment can be employed in three types of cases: private cloud, where the robots belong to a single entity; software-as-a-service, where multiple robots access ROS software applications run by Rapyuta; and, platform-as-a-service, where Rapyuta serves as a host to the developers' applications or a platform where they can be shared.
References
Cloud platforms
Cloud robotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Ansar%20Party | The Al-Ansar Party is a political party in Egypt. It is one of three parties that are part of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail's network of political parties; the other two parties are the Egyptian Nation Party and the Flag Party. The party would have been part of a coalition including the People Party, the Building and Development Party and the Virtue Party; however Hazem Salah Abu Ismail formed a coalition called the Nation Alliance without the Al Ansar Party.
References
Conservative parties in Egypt
Islamic political parties in Egypt
Political parties in Egypt
Political parties with year of establishment missing
Salafi Islamist groups
Sunni Islamic political parties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberPatriot | CyberPatriot is a national youth cyber education program created in the United States to help direct students toward careers in cybersecurity or another computer, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The program was created by the Air Force Association (AFA). It features the annual National Youth Cyber Defense Competition for high school and middle school students. It is similar to its collegiate counterpart, the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), especially at the CyberPatriot National Finals Competition.
The National Youth Cyber Defense Competition is now in its fifteenth season and is called "CyberPatriot XV" indicating the season's competition. CyberPatriot XV is open to all high schools, middle schools, and accredited home school programs around the country. JROTC units of all Services, Civil Air Patrol squadrons, and Naval Sea Cadet Corps divisions may also participate in the competition. Outside of the regular competition, CyberPatriot also hosts two additional sub-programs: Summer CyberCamps and an Elementary School Cyber Education Initiative. The Northrop Grumman Foundation is the "presenting sponsor". A British spin off program is called Cyber Centurion.
History
CyberPatriot began in 2009 as a proof-of-concept demonstration at AFA's Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Four organizations were responsible for developing the competition: the Air Force Association, the U.S. Air Force, the defense contractor SAIC, and the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Eight high school teams, from AFJROTC and Civil Air Patrol squadrons, competed. The second phase of the program was limited to Air Force AFJROTC and Civil Air Patrol teams. Online training and qualification competitions were held during the fall of 2009 with nearly 200 teams from 44 states competing for eight slots in the first in-person National Finals Competition in February 2010, held in Orlando, Florida. The final phase of the developmental program, full national deployment, is now underway.Over 1,500 teams from all 50 states, Canada, and DoD Dependant schools overseas competed in CyberPatriot VI. CyberPatriot VII began in October 2014, with over 2,100 teams registered to compete. The Middle School Division was added in CyberPatriot V. CyberPatriot IX, which started in October 2016, featuring over 4,300 registered teams. The previous national commissioner who has served in that position since 2008, General Bernie Skoch, has retired in June 2021, and has been replaced by Acting National Commissioner Rachel Zimmerman, who has served in other leadership roles prior to her term as commissioner.
Goals and objectives
CyberPatriot is designed to be accessible to any high school or middle school student, provides a path from high school to college/workforce, and benefits all national CyberPatriot partners. The program increases the awareness of cybersecurity by delivering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20cordata | Eupithecia cordata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in south-western China (Yunnan, Tibet).
The wingspan is about 16–17 mm. The fore- and hindwings are pale buff-brown.
References
Moths described in 2004
cordata
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelyaari | Travelyaari.com is an Indian bus booking company headquartered at Bangalore, India. With a network of over 3,500 bus operators on its website and 150,000 bus options per day on 45,000 routes, it has served over 150 million bus travelers till date. It books 150,000-200,000 bus tickets daily through Mantis Technologies platform. It also enables 8,000-9,000 offline travel outlets to help them book bus tickets.
About
Travelyaari.com is the flagship brand of Mantis Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mantis, through its wide range of online products (i.e. Travelyaari, BusCRS.com, IamGDS.com, BusTicketBooking API) has drastically shifted the entire bus industry in India to the Internet. Thus, making the industry more accessible, organised, transparent, efficient and collaborative. Travelyaari.com also has a tours section which offers handpicked travel packages at affordable prices.
Travelyaari is an Indian online bus ticketing website with its offices in Bangalore and other major cities like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, and Chandigarh.
It claims to have 1.54 million monthly visits as per similarweb. and expects a turnover of about $200–250 million for the financial year ending March 2018.
Travelyaari has features in their online booking system that maintain the safety of single women passengers. It also provides insurance that provides bus travelers protection against last minute cancellations and accidents.
History
Travelyaari.com started operations in year 20 April 2007 by IIM Ahmedabad Graduates and industry professionals, Parthasarthi Sinha, Aurvind Lama and Prateek Nigam.
Mantis Technologies, Travelyaari's parent company, also develops a global distribution systems for bus operators to manage their inventories and operations.
References
External links
Travelyaari
Mantis Technologies
MantisConnect
IamGDS
Bus transport in India
Ticket sales companies
Indian travel websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowgrind | Flowgrind is a testing and benchmarking tool to measure throughput and other metrics for TCP.
It was originally developed to study performance and behavior of TCP variants within Wireless mesh networks.
In contrast to similar tools like Iperf or Netperf it features a distributed architecture, where throughput and other
metrics are measured between flowgrind server processes. The Flowgrind client has
the purpose to schedule such measurements and collect the measurement data.
Inherent with this architecture and its designation for Wireless mesh networks flowgrind supports:
separation of measured traffic and control traffic (e.g., to measure the wireless performance, but don't let the control traffic interfere),
a simultaneous measurement between any number of hosts running the flowgrind server (e.g., to create wireless crosstalk),
uni-directional, bi-directional or sophisticated request/response tests (e.g., to simulate various usage scenarios and protocols) and
packet capture support (e.g., for offline in-depth traffic analysis).
Flowgrind allows the user to set various protocol parameters (e.g. the Congestion control algorithm) individually for each connection. This can be used to explore how certain settings affect network utilization and how they may compete which each other.
Unlike most cross-platform testing tools, besides application layer
metrics, Flowgrind can output some transport layer metrics, which are
usually internal to the TCP/IP Stack. For example, on Linux this includes
the kernel's estimation of the end-to-end round-trip
time and the size of the congestion window.
See also
Iperf, Netperf, Ttcp, bwping: tools of a similar nature.
Measuring network throughput
Packet generation model
References
External links
Flowgrind Homepage
Flowgrind at GitHub
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Werme | Tom Werme is a television sports announcer who currently calls ACC College Basketball and Football for ACC on Regional Sports Networks broadcasts produced by Raycom Sports and Major League Lacrosse games for the Charlotte Hounds on ESPN3.
Biography
Werme calls football and basketball for the Big Ten Network and has done similar roles with the ESPN family, Fox Sports South, and Raycom Sports. He is also the sideline reporter and the pregame/halftime/postgame host for Oklahoma City Thunder telecasts and performed the same position with the Charlotte Bobcats. He has also done games for Fox College Sports. In 2009 in his NBA debut, Werme said, "I'm very excited to be back in the NBA, especially with an organization and that is young and fresh with a bright future." He works with studio analyst Elissa Walker Campbell, play-by-play man Brian Davis, TV color analyst Grant Long, and radio broadcaster Matt Pinto as part of the crew of Oklahoma City Thunder broadcasts. He calls Charlotte Hounds games for ESPN3 along with college football, basketball, and NBA basketball and is employed by the PGA Tour Radio on PGA.com. Werme is a graduate of Syracuse University
References
Living people
National Basketball Association broadcasters
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
American television sports announcers
Charlotte Bobcats announcers
College baseball announcers in the United States
Lacrosse announcers
Softball announcers
Syracuse University alumni
Major League Lacrosse announcers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACK-Oriented%20Reliable%20Multicast | NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) is a transport layer Internet protocol designed to provide reliable transport in multicast groups in data networks. It is formally defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Request for Comments (RFC) 5740, which was published in November 2009.
NORM operates on top of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and ensures reliable communication based upon a negative acknowledgement (NACK), selective Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) mechanism, as opposed to the positive acknowledgement (ACK) approach that the standard Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) uses. In other words, receivers using NORM only send feedback when they do not receive a packet, as opposed to the TCP model where receivers regularly acknowledge packet receipt as part of it protocol operation. This allows NORM to support large-scale receiver groups.
To support further scalability, NORM also employs packet erasure coding using forward error correction (FEC) codes coupled with suppression of redundant NACK feedback from the receiver group. Additionally, NORM can be configured to operate with “silent receivers” relying upon its packet erasure coding for high assurance delivery, thus operating as a broadcast-only protocol. The FEC can be configured to be used either reactively (with NACKing receivers) or proactively (silent receivers), or in a hybrid manner that allows tradeoffs in latency and network overhead.
Along with supporting reliable transport, NORM also provides TCP-compatible congestion control as well as end-to-end flow control. Unlike TCP, which uses the ACK mechanism for congestion control and flow control, NORM uses separate mechanisms for each. This allows for a wide variety of configurations to meet different application data delivery needs.
NORM also supports additional signaling mechanisms to facilitate session control, application-controlled positive acknowledgement, and other functions towards building complete point-to-point and group network communications applications that are highly robust and efficient.
Although NORM was developed primarily to support multicast group communication, it also supports unicast (point-to-point) data transfers.
Background
In the TCP/IP network model, the transport layer of the network (Layer 4) is responsible for the reliable transport of data. The TCP protocol is the principal means of ensuring reliable unicast (point-to-point) transport. TCP does this through an ACK mechanism.
With the ACK mechanism, data packets are sequentially numbered, and the sender does not send a packet in a sequence until it receives an acknowledgement (ACK) from the receiver that the previous packet has been successfully received. If the sender does not receive an ACK after a specified time period, it resends the associated packet. The sender will continue doing this until it receives an ACK (although beyond a certain point the sender will assume the connection has been lost and stop the session). T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Sea%20Academy | The Baltic Sea Academy is a network of 15 universities from 9 countries bordering the Baltic Sea region. It was initiated by the Hanseatic Parliament and established as a nonprofit organization association in February 2010
. The common objective is to bridge the gap between the small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and the academic world. The Baltic Sea Academy is actively supporting companies with concrete R&D solutions, but is also creating and implementing tailor made curricula for SMEs. The promotion of innovative solutions for SMEs is a priority for the realised R&D tasks, with regards to the created study courses the focus is on the Dual education system, allowing a combination of practical skills and academic knowledge.
Hanseatic Conferences
On an annual basis the Baltic Sea Academy and the Hanse Parliament are hosting the "Hanseatic Conference", a two-day conference limited to 120 participants from businesses, politics and the academic sector to discuss one topic in relation to the medium-sized economy. The conference is coined by the very vivid participation of the participants. After two to three presentations, the participants discuss on round tables and develop scenarios and visions for the future. The meetings attract reputable speakers, i.e. in 2011 EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger or in 2012 EU Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta. Following the conferences, presentations, academic papers and discussions are published in a book by the Baltic Sea Academy.
Publications
The Baltic Sea Academy publishes peer-reviewed papers from conferences and strategic programs on an irregular basis.
So far the following publications have been printed:
Strategies for the Development of Crafts and SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region, 180 pages (German, Polish, English, Russian) 2011
Education Policy Strategies today and tomorrow around the "Mare Balticum", 432 pages (German, English), 2011
Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection around the Mare Balticum, 264 pages (German, English), 2011
Strategy Programme for education policies in the Baltic Sea Region, 172 pages (German, Polish, English), 2012
SME relevant sectors in the BSR: Personnel organisation, Energy and Construction, 188 pages (English), 2012
Strategies and Promotion of Innovation in Regional Policies around the Mare Balticum, 432 pages, (German, English), 2012
Strategy Programme for innovation in regional policies in the Baltic Sea Region, 240 pages (German, Polish, English) 2012
Humanivity - Innovative economic development through human growth, 248 pages (English), 2012
External links
Baltic Sea Academy Homepage of the association
References
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Non-profit organizations based in Europe
Baltic Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Cohen | Ed Cohen (born June 25, 1983) is a sportscaster known for his work with ESPN Plus, MLB.com, NHL Network, Rutgers University, MSG Network, and ONE World Sports. He currently serves as the radio play-by-play voice of the New York Knicks.
Early life
Cohen grew up in Scarsdale, New York, where at the age of 10 years old he knew he wanted to be a sportscaster. He called his first games as a sophomore at Scarsdale High School on the town's public access channel.
Cohen graduated from Ithaca College in 2005 with a degree in journalism from the Roy H. Park School of Communications.
Career
Cohen's first on-air job was as the play-by-play voice of Manhattan College's men's basketball team in 2005, a role he served for six seasons. In addition, he was the radio play-by-play announcer for the Rutgers women's basketball team from 2008 to 2014.
Cohen's other early work includes voicing highlights, studio hosting and calling games for NBA TV, MLB.com and NHL Network. Beginning in 2007, he spent three summers calling minor league baseball games for the Burlington Royals and for the Billings Mustangs.
Starting in 2009, Cohen served as one of the play-by-play voices for MSG Varsity, a network dedicated exclusively to high school sports.
From 2010 to 2015, he was a sports update anchor for SiriusXM, which included delivering reports on SiriusXM NFL Radio's Sunday Drive program.
Cohen called a wide range of sports as play-by-play voice of ONE World Sports. His assignments included the Kontinental Hockey League, Champions Hockey League, Chinese Basketball Association, New York Cosmos soccer and baseball's legendary Yomiuri Giants. In June 2015, he reported live during the Cosmos historic friendly in Havana, Cuba.
Cohen made his Olympics debut with NBC Sports in 2016, calling weightlifting in the Rio Games alongside Shane Hamman. Later that year, he did play-by-play of the Paralympic Games for wheelchair rugby, including the gold medal game on NBC.
He has worked the U.S. Tennis Open since 2015, calling play-by-play for the tournament's international television feed as well as US Open Radio. He handled similar world feed responsibilities for IMG Media's coverage of the New York City Marathon in 2017.
Cohen continues to call college basketball games for CBS Sports Network, which he's done since 2013, along with Big Ten Network, in addition to past experience with ESPN Regional and covering the Atlantic 10 on SNY and American Sports Network.
New York Knicks
Cohen works with analyst Brendan Brown on Knicks radio broadcasts, heard on ESPN New York 98.7 FM. In January 2018, he worked his first Knicks' MSG telecast alongside Walt Frazier.
Cohen is also the TV play-by-play voice of the New York Liberty on MSG Networks. He previously called New York Cosmos soccer on MSG in addition to handling play-by-play responsibilities for MSG Network’s coverage of Knicks Summer League in 2017.
Personal life
Cohen was named one of the "Top 30 Sportscasters Under 30" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersocket%2C%20Inc. | Cybersocket, Inc. is an American multimedia publishing company based in West Hollywood, California. It was founded in 1997 by Morgan Sommer and Tim Lutz.
Publishing
Since 1999, Cybersocket, Inc. has published an annual trade paperback guide to gay pornographic websites called the Cybersocket Gay Net Directory. The company also publishes a free, consumer-focused, monthly periodical called Cybersocket Magazine that covers gay adult films, websites, performers, novelties, and events. Cybersocket Magazine has an audited national circulation of 70,000 copies per issue.
Website
The official Cybersocket Website includes a free online version of Cybersocket Magazine, an expanded version of the Cybersocket Gay Net Directory, and reviews of gay pornographic videos and websites.
Adult Industry Events
In 2000, Cybersocket, Inc. established an annual event called the Cybersocket Web Awards. In addition, Cybersocket regularly hosts B2B networking events for the gay adult entertainment industry in conjunction with major adult industry gatherings such as the XBIZ Conference, The Phoenix Forum, and the European Summit.
References
External links
"Cybersocket's Top 50 Porn Stars" - July 2009
Publishing companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula%20%28company%29 | Nebula, Inc. was a hardware and software company with offices in Mountain View, California, and Seattle, Washington, USA. Nebula developed Nebula One, a cloud computing hardware appliance that turned racks of standard servers into a private cloud. The Nebula One private cloud system was built on the OpenStack open source cloud framework, as well as many other open source software projects.
History
Nebula was founded as Fourth Paradigm Development in March 2011 by former NASA Ames Research Center chief technology officer Chris C. Kemp, long-time colleague Devin Carlen, entrepreneur Steve O'Hara, with software engineer Tres Henry, formerly at Amazon Web Services and author of the AWS Console, named as the head of User Experience.
In May 2011, Nebula closed a round of series A investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners, with participation from Google's first three investors—Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram, and David Cheriton, as well as other investors.
In the summer of 2012, eight members of the original Anso Labs (acquired by Rackspace) and NASA team that originally wrote components of the OpenStack project joined Nebula.
In the fall of 2012, Nebula closed a $25 million series B investment led by Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital, and Google executive Eric Schmidt’s venture fund Innovation Endeavors became an investor.
In February 2013, Silicon India named Kemp as one of ten pioneers in cloud computing.
In March 2013, Nebula was named one of CIO.com 10 Hot Cloud Companies to Watch.
Nebula One, was made generally available on April 2, 2013.
On April 1, 2015 the company announced on its website and confirmed on Twitter that it was ceasing operations.
References
External links
Nebula website
Cloud computing providers
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Software performance management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riri%20Fitri%20Sari | Riri Fitri Sari (born 7 July 1970) is a professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Indonesia (UI). She was the CIO / Head of Information System Development and Services of the University of Indonesia (2006-2014).
Education
In 1997, she received her MSc in Software Systems and Parallel Processing of Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK and subsequently a PhD from Leeds University, UK (2004).
Teaching and organisational affiliations
She is Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Indonesia, and was previously Chief Information Officer of the same university. She is currently actively teaching and researching in the field of Internet of Things, Computer Network, Protocol Engineering, and the implementation of Information and Communication Technology. Riri Fitri Sari as the chairperson of UI GreenMetric have jointly collaborated 2 kinds of online courses, i.e., International and Indonesia's universities courses. UI GreenMetric International Online course involved collaboration among 7 universities from 7 countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Hungary, Indonesia, Tunisia, and The United Arab Emirates. Indonesian Online course involves collaboration of 17 universities to provide a course entitled "Best Practice of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Indonesia organised from 8 September – 22 December 2022.
Since 2010, she has been actively involved with University Ranking and has been the Chairperson of UI GreenMetric Ranking of World University.
Riri Fitri Sari was appointed as one of the Deputy President of ICMI (Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals) in January 2022, under the leadership of Prof. Arif Satria. She coordinates ICMI's program in the field of Health, Empowerment of Women, Children, Youth and the Elderly.
On 10 November 2022, Riri Fitri Sari received the 2022 Habibie Prize from Indonesian National Research Agency (BRIN) and Human Resource Science and Technology Foundation (Yayasan SDM Iptek).
In 2022, Riri Fitri Sari delivered many Keynote Speeches at many of UI GreenMetric Events at various universities in Indonesia and overseas such as at Omnes Education (Inseec U) - Paris, COP-27 in Sharm El-Seikh, Sultan Ageng University Tirtayasa (Untirta) Serang, UIN Raden Fatah Palembang, UIN Raden Intan Lampung, Yogyakarta State University, Unsrat Manado, UMN Tangerang, Budi Luhur University Jakarta, etc. Apart from that, visits to GreenMetric participating universities such as Oxford University, Nottingham Trent University, Warwick University, Al Azhar University in Egypt, 6 October University Cairo, and others in November 2022.
Poetry
On December 24, 2022, Riri Fitri Sari as the initiator of the Poetry Reading Society of Indonesia (PRSI), held an Online Poetry Reading event with the theme "Borderless Poetry". This event invites ambassadors of the Republic of Indonesia who are on duty in various countries, including A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Schenkel | Stephen Schenkel (September 25, 1934 - December 14, 2009) was an American TV producer and network executive. Schenkel produced a number of soap opera programs; in particular he is known for being executive producer of All My Children, Another World, and The Edge of Night.
Early life and education
Schenkel was a graduate of Columbia University, class of 1956.
Career
Schenkel served as an executive at NBC, CBS, ABC and Benton & Bowles. He developed and produced variety, mini-series, and game shows programs as well as Discovery Channel documentaries. He was also co-creator and creative consultant on Ryan's Hope and ABC After School Specials.
Schenkel was hired as a producer on the daytime serial Another World in 1985; he then became executive producer of All My Children in 1987, but resigned in 1989, citing ill health.
Personal
Schenkel married Penny Bergman in 1990 after meeting her on the set of All My Children. He died on December 14, 2009, aged 75.
References
External links
http://www.igs.net/~awhp/credits.html
1934 births
2009 deaths
Columbia College (New York) alumni
American producers
American Broadcasting Company executives
NBCUniversal people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ARC-231 | The ARC-231 Skyfire is a software-definable radio for military aircraft that provides two-way, multi-mode voice and data communications over a 30 to 512 MHz frequency range. It covers both line-of-sight Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and Very High Frequency (VHF) bands with AM, FM and SATCOM capabilities, including Integrated Waveform (IW). The ARC-231 radio also includes embedded anti-jam waveforms, including HAVE QUICK and SINCGARS, and other data link and secure communications features, providing battlefield interoperability. The radios utilize the MIL-STD-1553 data bus.
The ARC-231s are manufactured by BAE Systems and are installed in a wide range of helicopters and some fixed-wing aircraft, across all the U.S. military services. Available accessories include remote controls, transmit power amplifiers, SATCOM preamplifiers, and ground support equipment. As of 2012, over 5000 radios had been fielded.
A related radio by Raytheon, the AN/ARC-232, has similar line-of-sight capabilities but is designed to be a form-fit replacement for the older, UHF-only AN/ARC-164.
See also
AN/ARC-210 similar radio made by Rockwell Collins
List of military electronics of the United States
References
Equipment of the United States Air Force
Military radio systems of the United States
Military electronics of the United States
Goods manufactured in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20energy%20system%20models | Open energy system models are energy system models that are open source. However, some of them may use third party proprietary software as part of their workflows to input, process, or output data. Preferably, these models use open data, which facilitates open science.
Energy system models are used to explore future energy systems and are often applied to questions involving energy and climate policy. The models themselves vary widely in terms of their type, design, programming, application, scope, level of detail, sophistication, and shortcomings. For many models, some form of mathematical optimization is used to inform the solution process.
Energy regulators and system operators in Europe and North America began adopting open energy system models for planning purposes in the early2020s. Open models and open data are increasingly being used by government agencies to guide the develop of netzero public policy as well (with examples indicated throughout this article). Companies and engineering consultancies are likewise adopting open models for analysis (again seebelow).
General considerations
Organization
The open energy modeling projects listed here fall exclusively within the bottom-up paradigm, in which a model is a relatively literal representation of the underlying system.
Several drivers favor the development of open models and open data. There is an increasing interest in making public policy energy models more transparent to improve their acceptance by policymakers and the public. There is also a desire to leverage the benefits that open data and open software development can bring, including reduced duplication of effort, better sharing of ideas and information, improved quality, and wider engagement and adoption. Model development is therefore usually a team effort and constituted as either an academic project, a commercial venture, or a genuinely inclusive community initiative.
This article does not cover projects which simply make their source code or spreadsheets available for public download, but which omit a recognized free and open-source software license. The absence of a license agreement creates a state of legal uncertainty whereby potential users cannot know which limitations the owner may want to enforce in the future. The projects listed here are deemed suitable for inclusion through having pending or published academic literature or by being reported in secondary sources.
A 2017 paper lists the benefits of open data and models and discusses the reasons that many projects nonetheless remain closed. The paper makes a number of recommendations for projects wishing to transition to a more open approach. The authors also conclude that, in terms of openness, energy research has lagged behind other fields, most notably physics, biotechnology, and medicine.
Growth
Open energy system modeling came of age in the 2010s. Just two projects were cited in a 2011 paper on the topic: OSeMOSYS and TEMOA. Balmorel was a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton-Jones | Peyton-Jones or Peyton Jones may refer to:
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones (born 1952), British art director, OBE
Sir Simon Peyton Jones (born 1958), British computer scientist, OBE
Sir Tobias Grant Peyton-Jones,, OBE
Samuel "Fireman Sam" Peyton-Jones, the titular character of Fireman Sam
See also
Peyton (name)
Jones (surname)
Compound surnames
English-language surnames
Surnames of English origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Flood | Mike Flood may refer to:
Mike Flood (politician) (born 1975), member of U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska
Mike Flood, a character in Fireman Sam
MIKE FLOOD, computer program
Michael Flood, sociologist
Flood, Mike |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportskool | Sportskool is a US-based cable television network dedicated to sports instruction, exercise and entertainment. Sportskool was launched as a free on-demand channel in 2004 by Rainbow Media Holdings now known as AMC Networks, which at the time was a subsidiary of Cablevision.
Sportskool was acquired in October, 2008 by Grace Creek Media, Inc, a television production and distribution company headquartered in Annapolis, MD.
Sportskool's programming consists largely of sports, fitness and yoga instruction featuring professional athletes and coaches like Mia Hamm (soccer) Bode Miller (skiing) Misty May Trainor (volleyball) and Tony Gwynn (baseball) and the US Navy Seals (fitness). In 2010, Sportskool produced the six-part series "For Coaches & Parents: It's More Than A Game," with Hollywood actor and youth coach Sean Astin. The channel also features sports documentaries, including the original production "Yogi Berra: Deja Vu All Over Again", "Women and the Waves", and “Sean White: Wizard of Winter Games” among others.
US television providers carrying Sportskool’s free on-demand channel include Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, Brighthouse and Verizon FiOS, reaching more than 37 million households. Sportskool programming is also available through seven subscription channels on Roku and other streaming devices. Each subscription channel is dedicated to a specific sports category or activity. Channels include Sportskool Yoga, Fitness, Golf, Team Sports, Extreme Sports, Endurance Sports, and Women’s Sports. In 2012, Sportskool launched a 24/7 linear channel that is available in select markets around the world. Sportskool programming is available in a number of markets outside the US, including India, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia.
On May 9, 2013, Google announced that SportskooPlus would be among the first 53 paid subscription channels offered on YouTube.
References
Cable television companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Mobile%20Polska | Virgin Mobile Poland is a provider of prepaid and postpaid wireless voice, text and data communications services throughout Poland. It launched on August 22, 2012. In September 2020 it was bought by the Polish telecommunications provider Play.
Networks
Mobile services provided by Virgin use PLAY EGSM (1800 MHz), WCDMA (900 and 2100 MHz) and LTE (1800 and 2100 MHz) network (including domestic roaming T-Mobile).
See also
Play Mobile
List of mobile network operators of Europe#Poland
References
External links
Virgin Mobile Polska
Mobile phone companies of Poland
Virgin Mobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKM | MKM may refer to:
Mariborska kolesarska mreža, cycling network, NGO promoting cycling in Maribor, Slovenia
Mathematical knowledge management
MKM Educational Trust
MKM steel
Mukah Airport IATA code
Museum Küppersmühle
Melksham railway station station code
Sukhoi Su-30MKM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Sarila | The Legend of Sarila () is a 2013 French-Canadian computer-animated adventure film and Canada's first 3-D animated feature film. The film draws heavily on Inuit culture and tradition. Set in northern Canada in 1910, it tells the story of three young Inuit, who set out for the legendary land of Sarila in search of food for their clan. One of them, Markussi, finds out during their adventures that he is really an Inuit shaman, while the clan's shaman at home repeatedly attempts to kill him and undermine their quest.
The film was picked up for distribution in the United States by Phase 4 Films, under the title Frozen Land (not to be confused with the Finnish movie Frozen Land) and with an adapted logo in order to mimic Disney's Frozen, which resulted in a lawsuit with Disney.
Plot
The young orphan Markussi lives with his little sister Mipoulok in an Inuit clan. Markussi can talk to animals and has some special powers unique to shamans. He does not want to be a shaman though and mainly keeps his powers a secret because he fears being a shaman would make him like the clan's shaman Croolik. Croolik grew selfish and unjust after the deaths of his sons, who died along with Markussi's father in an accident on a hunting trip. Croolik blames his sons' deaths on his now-separated wife Saya (who he accuses of having let their sons go hunting at too young an age) and Markussi's father. By extension, Croolik also hates Markussi.
At the beginning of the film, Croolik secretly turns away from the goddess Sedna and tries to call on the spirit of darkness. In punishment, Sedna takes all animals away from the clan's lands, provoking a dangerous food shortage and lack of tradable pelts.
Desperate, the clan decides to search for Sarila, a legendary land where animals are said to be plenty. Under Croolik's influence—who intends Markussi to die on the quest—three young Inuit are selected: Markussi, along with his two friends, Putulik (son of the clan chief), and Apik, who were promised to each other when they were children. Saya, who now lives on her own as a healer, offers to take care of Markussi's young sister and her dog Kajuk in his absence.
The three friends leave the clan with sled dogs and Apik's pet lemming Kimi. On their quest, they face several dangers, repeatedly brought on by Croolik through magic; this includes possessing Putulik by means of twin amulets (called "medallions"), so that Putulik attacks Markussi. The three young travellers can overcome all dangers, repeatedly saved by Markussi's powers. In the meantime, Croolik frames his former wife Saya for stealing food from the clan and has her banned from the clan.
Eventually the three friends reach Sarila, a warm place full of life, where they can quickly hunt the much-needed food for the clan. Besides, Apik realizes she loves Markussi, who had already shown affection for her before. Markussi is told by Sedna that he has passed all tests, but needs to do one "small thing" for her upon return to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Television%20Digital%20News%20Association%20of%20the%20Carolinas | The Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas is a professional organization of radio and television stations, networks, cable and news services in North and South Carolina.
The association conducts professional development meetings and seminars as well as an annual meeting where awards are presented.
The association maintains student chapters in Elon University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of South Carolina, and Winthrop University.
See also
Radio Television Digital News Association
References
External links
Professional associations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOEA%20Framework | The MOEA Framework is an open-source evolutionary computation library for Java that specializes in multi-objective optimization. It supports a variety of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), including genetic algorithms, genetic programming, grammatical evolution, differential evolution, and particle swarm optimization. As a result, it has been used to conduct numerous comparative studies to assess the efficiency, reliability, and controllability of state-of-the-art MOEAs.
Features
The MOEA Framework is an extensible framework for rapidly designing, developing, executing, and statistically testing multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). It features 25 different state-of-the-art MOEAs and over 80 analytical test problems. It supports NSGA-II, its recently introduced successor NSGA-III epsilon-MOEA, GDE3., and MOEA/D. natively. In addition, it integrates with the JMetal, Platform and Programming Language Independent Interface for Search Algorithms (PISA), and Borg MOEA libraries to provide access to all popular MOEAs. Additionally, using Java's service provider interface (SPI), new MOEAs and problems can be introduced into the framework. This supports the use of the MOEA Framework in scientific studies, allowing new MOEAs to be tested against a suite of state-of-the-art algorithms across a large collection of test problems.
New problems are defined in the MOEA Framework using one or more decision variables of a varying type. This includes common representations such as binary strings, real-valued numbers, and permutations. It additionally supports evolving grammars in Backus–Naur form and programs using an internal Turing complete programming language. Once the problem is defined, the user can optimize the problem using any of supported MOEAs.
Sensitivity analysis
The MOEA Framework is the only known framework for evolutionary computation that provides support for sensitivity analysis. Sensitivity analysis in this context studies how an MOEA's parameters impact its output (i.e., the quality of the results). Alternatively, sensitivity analysis measures the robustness of an MOEA to changes in its parameters. An MOEA whose behavior is sensitive to its parameterization will not be easily controllable; conversely, an MOEA that is insensitive to its parameters is controllable. By measuring the sensitivities of each MOEA, the MOEA Framework can identify the controlling parameters for each MOEA and provide guidance for fine-tuning the parameters. Additionally, MOEAs that are consistently insensitive to parameter changes across an array of problem domains are regarded highly due to their robust ability to solve optimization problems.
See also
ECJ, a toolkit to implement evolutionary algorithms
Paradiseo, a metaheuristics framework
References
External links
Official site
Evolutionary algorithms
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free mathematics software
Free application software
Free scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDG%20Group | The CDG Group is group of Information technology companies in Thailand. Their first affiliate, Control Data (Thailand) Ltd., was initially a subsidiary of Control Data (USA), which had been established during the Vietnam War to serve the US army as the data backup center in Thailand. After the war, Yingyong Liuchareon acquired the business and registered it as a local Thai company in 1968.
CDG Group consists of five affiliates: Control Data (Thailand) Ltd., CDGS System Ltd., Computer Peripherals & Supplies Ltd., ESRI (Thailand) Co., Ltd., GlobeTech Co. Ltd., employing over 1,000 employees and handling 8 key fields.
References
External links
https://www.facebook.com/cdg.co.th
http://www.thairath.co.th/content/tech/234735
http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/home/detail/it/it/20120131/433144/ซีดีจีปรับแบรนด์ใหม่บุกตลาดอาเซียน.html
http://www.itpc.or.th/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=183:2012-03-01-08-22-26&catid=45:2012-03-01-08-05-58&Itemid=58
http://www.manager.co.th/Cyberbiz/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9550000013653
Information technology companies of Thailand
Privately held companies of Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic%20dot%20theory | The pathetic dot theory or the New Chicago School theory was introduced by Lawrence Lessig in a 1998 article and popularized in his 1999 book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. It is a socioeconomic theory of regulation. It discusses how lives of individuals (the pathetic dots in question) are regulated by four forces: the law, social norms, the market, and architecture (technical infrastructure).
Theory
Lessig identifies four forces that constrain our actions: the law, social norms, the market, and architecture. The law threatens sanction if it is not obeyed. Social norms are enforced by the community. Markets through supply and demand set a price on various items or behaviors. The final force is the (social) architecture. By that Lessig means "features of the world, whether made, or found"; noting that facts like biology, geography, technology and others constrain our actions. Together, those four forces are the totality of what constrains our action, in fashion both direct and indirect, ex post and ex ante.
The theory has been formally called by Lessig in 1998 "The New Chicago School", and can be seen as a theory of regulation.
The theory can be applied to many aspects of life (such as how smoking is regulated), but it has been popularized by Lessig's subsequent usage of it in the context of the regulation of the Internet. Lessig noted that the key difference in regulation of the Internet (cyberspace), compared to regulation of the "real world" ("realspace"), is the fact that the architecture of the internet – the computer code that underlies all software – is created by humans, whereas in the real world much of the architecture, based on laws of physics, biology, and major social and cultural forces, is beyond our control. Lessig sees code as an important force that should be of interest to the wider public, and not only to the programmers. He notes the importance of how technology-mediated architecture, such as coded software, can affect and regulate our behavior. Lessig wrote:
See also
Chicago school of economics
References
Further reading
Lessig, Lawrence, Code 2.0, Chapter: What Things Regulate (available in print: )
Social theories
Regulation
Internet governance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression%20practice | The practice of decompression by divers comprises the planning and monitoring of the profile indicated by the algorithms or tables of the chosen decompression model, to allow asymptomatic and harmless release of excess inert gases dissolved in the tissues as a result of breathing at ambient pressures greater than surface atmospheric pressure, the equipment available and appropriate to the circumstances of the dive, and the procedures authorized for the equipment and profile to be used. There is a large range of options in all of these aspects.
Decompression may be continuous or staged, where the ascent is interrupted by stops at regular depth intervals, but the entire ascent is part of the decompression, and ascent rate can be critical to harmless elimination of inert gas. What is commonly known as no-decompression diving, or more accurately no-stop decompression, relies on limiting ascent rate for avoidance of excessive bubble formation. Staged decompression may include deep stops depending on the theoretical model used for calculating the ascent schedule. Omission of decompression theoretically required for a dive profile exposes the diver to significantly higher risk of symptomatic decompression sickness, and in severe cases, serious injury or death. The risk is related to the severity of exposure and the level of supersaturation of tissues in the diver. Procedures for emergency management of omitted decompression and symptomatic decompression sickness have been published. These procedures are generally effective, but vary in effectiveness from case to case.
The procedures used for decompression depend on the mode of diving, the available equipment, the site and environment, and the actual dive profile. Standardized procedures have been developed which provide an acceptable level of risk in the circumstances for which they are appropriate. Different sets of procedures are used by commercial, military, scientific and recreational divers, though there is considerable overlap where similar equipment is used, and some concepts are common to all decompression procedures. In particular, all types of surface oriented diving benefited significantly from the acceptance of personal dive computers in the 1990s, which facilitated decompression practice and allowed more complex dive profiles at acceptable levels of risk.
Decompression
Decompression in the context of diving derives from the reduction in ambient pressure experienced by the diver during the ascent at the end of a dive or hyperbaric exposure and refers to both the reduction in pressure and the process of allowing dissolved inert gases to be eliminated from the tissues during this reduction in pressure. When a diver descends in the water column the ambient pressure rises. Breathing gas is supplied at the same pressure as the surrounding water, and some of this gas dissolves into the diver's blood and other fluids. Inert gas continues to be taken up until the gas dissolved in the diver is in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S27%20%28Munich%29 | Line S27 was a former line on the Munich S-Bahn network. It was operated by DB Regio Bayern until 15 December 2013 and ran from Munich Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) via Solln to Deisenhofen over the Munich–Holzkirchen railway. Its services have been replaced by services operated by Meridian, a brand of Veolia Verkehr, initially using class 423 four-car electrical multiple units. These services run from Munich to Holzkirchen and continuing via the Mangfall Valley Railway to Rosenheim.
S-Bahn services commenced on 28 May 1972 as S-Bahn line 22 between Holzkirchen wing station (Holzkirchner Flügelbahnhof) of Munich Hauptbahnhof and Deisenhofen as they could not yet continue to the Starnberg wing station of the Hauptbahnhof because the southern lines tunnel, which passes under the long-distance tracks towards Pasing and the S-Bahn trunk line, was not yet available. With the opening of the southern lines tunnel on the S-Bahn route on 31 May 1981, the S-Bahn line from Deisenhofen continued to the Starnberg wing station.
References
External links
Munich S-Bahn lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20analysis | In statistics, circular analysis is the selection of the details of a data analysis using the data that is being analysed. It is often referred to as double dipping, as one uses the same data twice. Circular analysis unjustifiably inflates the apparent statistical strength of any results reported and, at the most extreme, can lead to the apparently significant result being found in data that consists only of noise. In particular, where an experiment is implemented to study a postulated effect, it is a misuse of statistics to initially reduce the complete dataset by selecting a subset of data in ways that are aligned to the effects being studied. A second misuse occurs where the performance of a fitted model or classification rule is reported as a raw result, without allowing for the effects of model-selection and the tuning of parameters based on the data being analyzed.
Examples
At its most simple, it can include the decision to remove outliers, after noticing this might help improve the analysis of an experiment. The effect can be more subtle. In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, for example, considerable amounts of pre-processing is often needed. These might be applied incrementally until the analysis 'works'. Similarly, the classifiers used in a multivoxel pattern analysis of fMRI data require parameters, which could be tuned to maximise the classification accuracy.
In geology, the potential for circular analysis has been noted in the case of maps of geological faults, where these may be drawn on the basis of an assumption that faults develop and propagate in a particular way, with those maps being later used as evidence that faults do actually develop in that way.
Solutions
Careful design of the analysis one plans to perform, prior to collecting the data, means the analysis choice is not affected by the data collected. Alternatively, one might decide to perfect the classification on one or two participants, and then use the analysis on the remaining participant data. Regarding the selection of classification parameters, a common method is to divide the data into two sets, and find the optimum parameter using one set and then test using this parameter value on the second set. This is a standard technique used (for example) by the princeton MVPA classification library.
Notes
References
Model selection
Misuse of statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S20%20%28Munich%29 | Line S20 is a line on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is operated by DB Regio Bayern. It runs from München-Pasing station to . It runs on a connecting line from Pasing to München Mittersendling station that has a platform at München Heimeranplatz station, but does not have a platform at München Harras, although the track here lies directly next to the Munich–Holzkirchen line. It is operated during peak hours from Monday through Friday. It is operated using class 423 four-car electrical multiple units.
The line runs over lines built at various times:
from München-Pasing station to east of München-Pasing station (where it has no platform) over a track running parallel with and to the south of the Munich–Augsburg railway, opened by the Munich–Augsburg Railway Company on 1 September 1839, known as the Sendlinger Spange (“Sendling clasp”); from München-Friedenheimer Brücke junction this track runs parallel with the Munich South Ring to München-Heimeranplatz station
from München-Heimeranplatz station to a point to the north of Grosshesselohe Isartal station, its track runs parallel with the Munich–Holzkirchen railway, opened from Munich to Grosshesselohe on 24 June 1854 as part of the Bavarian Maximilian's Railway.
from a point to the north of Grosshesselohe Isartal station to Höllriegelskreuth on the Isar Valley Railway, opened by the Lokalbahn AG company (LAG) on 27 July 1891 and electrified from Wolfratshausen to Höllriegelskreuth in May 1960 at 580 volts DC and converted to 15 kV AC on 27 September 1957
S-Bahn services commenced on 28 May 1972 as S-Bahn line 12. It ran to Deisenhofen rather than Höllriegelskreuth until 14 December 2013.
References
External links
Munich S-Bahn lines
1972 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomic%20glove | An ergonomic glove, also known as a computer glove or support glove, is a stiff glove worn to try to prevent or remedy carpal tunnel syndrome by holding the wrist in a certain position while typing.
References
Ergonomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Network | Hum Network Limited or Hum TV Network Limited () is a Pakistani media company based in Karachi, Pakistan. It was established in February 2004 by Sultana Siddiqui.
It is a current member of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (APBU), Association for International Broadcasting (AIB), and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA).
History
Hum Network Limited was established in February 2004 with the name of Eye TV Limited which was later changed to Eye Television Network Limited on 18 November 2004. The present name, Hum Network, was adopted on 21 January 2011.
Company is registered with Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority in October 2004 to operate its first satellite channel Hum TV which went live in January 2005. In June 2005, company made its public offering of company shares and is listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange.
On 12 February 2013, during a press consultation at Hum Network head-office, 1st Hum Awards were announced in the presence of President Hum Network Sultana Siddiqui.
In September 2014, the Network launched Hum Films, a film production and distributor banner. First film which released under banner was Na Maloom Afraad which released domestically on 5 October 2014.
On 14 October 2014 Hum Network announced stock split from Rs 10 to Rs 1.
Hum Europe
Hum Europe is a British Pakistani Entertainment channel. It launched on 10 March 2014, FTA on BskyB. In December 2014, it was launched on Virgin Media. Soon after launching, in July 2014, the channel became the first Pakistani Entertainment channel to sign up to BARB.
Current programs
HUM Awards
HUM TV has its own awards. The 1st HUM Awards were held on 12 March 2015, encompassing 42 Nominations in 7 categories from 3 prominent fields. The Awards recognised and rewarded excellence in Pakistani Television, Fashion and Music.
Style360 Labels eStore
HUM Network created a strategic alliance with Labels eStore (an e-commerce website in Pakistan retailing clothing by Pakistani designers). The eStore is now called Style360Labels.
Brands
Magazines
BCW Fashion Catalogues
Humsay
Masala TV Food Magazine
Newsline magazine
Cook Books
Masala TV Food Mag
Masala TV Food Mag a monthly Food recipe base magazine. Masala TV Food Mag is the only cooking magazine in Pakistan that has set a record of selling more than 70,000 copies. Even today, the magazine has the distinction of being a multi-issue magazine. The magazine was launched in January 2009 and has been successfully published ever since. Sultana Siddiqui is the Editor-in-Chief of Masala TV Food Magazine. In addition to the authoritative recipes of Hum Masala's chefs in this magazine, also include the most useful and authoritative articles.
TV channels
TV Channels Pakistan
Hum TV HD (Pakistan & South Asia)
Hum Sitaray
Hum News
Hum Masala
Hum Pashto 1
International Channels
Hum Europe (Europe)
Hum World HD (United States)
Hum Mena (Middle East & North Africa)
HUM Arabia (Arab world Pakistani Content in Arabic La |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Holden | Ben Holden (born November 3, 1970 in Lansing, Michigan) is a sportscaster most recently with CBS Sports Network and has been with the Big Ten Network.
Biography
Holden called college football, basketball, and ice hockey for the CBS Sports Network and done similar roles for the Big Ten Network and Comcast SportsNet and was the voice of the Lake Erie Monsters. He has even called football and hockey games for ESPNU and CBS College Sports Network. For one season, Holden called games for the Indianapolis Indians. He also called the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals for NHL International as well and served as sports anchor/reporter for WILX-TV. He won two Emmy Awards; one in 2007 and one in 2008. He also has called college field hockey, softball, lacrosse, and soccer games for ESPN Plus. He also has called Arena football, MISL soccer, women's college basketball, volleyball, and wrestling.
References
http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=198548.0
http://sportsmediajournal.com/2012/09/25/college-hockey-this-season-on-cbs-sports-network
Living people
1970 births
People from Lansing, Michigan
American sports announcers
Ice hockey commentators
National Hockey League broadcasters
Lacrosse announcers
Baseball announcers
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Association football commentators
Arena football announcers
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
American Hockey League broadcasters
College hockey announcers in the United States
Alliance of American Football announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAKO%20%28programming%20language%29 | SAKO (PL: System Automatycznego KOdowania - EN: An Automatic Coding System) is a Polish language-based programming language written for the computers XYZ, ZAM-2, ZAM-21, ZAM-41 and Mińsk-22.
General features of the SAKO language:
commands similar to sentences used in natural language
shortened the time of learning the principles of programming
easy to use, reduced coding time
transparent program code, low probability of making a mistake
It had a static address allocation. It was possible to insert code in SAS macro assembler. The compilation proceeded in two stages:
From SAKO to simplified SAS macro assembler (SAS-W).
From SAS-W to machine language.
The most characteristic feature of SAKO are Polish commands, e.g. CZYTAJ, SKOCZ DO. Designed primarily for programming numerical calculations.
Hello world
LINIA
TEKST:
HELLO WORLD
STOP NASTEPNY
KONIEC
References
Prace Zakładu Aparatów Matematycznych PAN, "System Automatycznego Kodowania SAKO. Cz. 1, Opis języka", PAN – Warszawa 1961
Leon Łukaszewicz, Antoni Mazurkiewicz "System automatycznego kodowania SAKO" Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing House, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1966 r.
Antoni Mazurkiewicz "Arithmetic Formulae and the Use of Subroutines in SAKO" Annual Review in Automatic Programming, Vol. 2
Leon Łukaszewicz "SAKO — An Automatic Coding System" Annual Review in Automatic Programming, Vol. 2
Władysław Turski "Some Results of Research on Automatic Programming in Eastern Europe" Advances in Computers, Vol. 5
"Algorytmy" Vol. 1 No. 1, Institute of Mathematical Machines, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
CIA-RDP80T00246A011500230001-8
Citations
Non-English-based programming languages
Science and technology in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20Splash%21%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Celebrity Splash! was an Australian reality television series that follows celebrities as they try to master the art of diving. The program premiered on the Seven Network on 29 April 2013 and was hosted by Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies. The celebrities performed each week in front of a panel of judges and a live audience in an Olympic-size diving pool with the result each week partly determined by home viewers. After poor ratings, the show was moved from its original prime-time slot, with the second semi-final episode shelved. Instead, the show's final aired on 16 May 2013.
The format for the show was a franchise developed by television production company Eyeworks., and was broadcast on SBS 6 as Sterren Springen (Dutch for Celebrities Jump). The British version is known as Splash!.
Cast
The cast was announced on 20 March 2013. Due to injury, Laura Csortan was forced to withdraw from the competition, with Derek Boyer coming in as a last-minute replacement.
Scoring chart
Live show details
Heat 1 (29 April)
Judges' vote to save
Louganis – Paul Fenech
Camplin – Paul Fenech
Mitcham – Paul Fenech
Heat 2 (30 April)
References
Seven Network original programming
2013 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
English-language television shows
Diving in Australia
Television shows set in Sydney
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Australian television series based on Dutch television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influential%20observation | In statistics, an influential observation is an observation for a statistical calculation whose deletion from the dataset would noticeably change the result of the calculation. In particular, in regression analysis an influential observation is one whose deletion has a large effect on the parameter estimates.
Assessment
Various methods have been proposed for measuring influence. Assume an estimated regression , where is an n×1 column vector for the response variable, is the n×k design matrix of explanatory variables (including a constant), is the n×1 residual vector, and is a k×1 vector of estimates of some population parameter . Also define , the projection matrix of . Then we have the following measures of influence:
, where denotes the coefficients estimated with the i-th row of deleted, denotes the i-th value of matrix's main diagonal. Thus DFBETA measures the difference in each parameter estimate with and without the influential point. There is a DFBETA for each variable and each observation (if there are N observations and k variables there are N·k DFBETAs). Table shows DFBETAs for the third dataset from Anscombe's quartet (bottom left chart in the figure):
Outliers, leverage and influence
An outlier may be defined as a data point that differs significantly from other observations.
A high-leverage point are observations made at extreme values of independent variables.
Both types of atypical observations will force the regression line to be close to the point.
In Anscombe's quartet, the bottom right image has a point with high leverage and the bottom left image has an outlying point.
See also
Influence function (statistics)
Outlier
Leverage
Partial leverage
Regression analysis
Anomaly detection
References
Further reading
Actuarial science
Regression diagnostics
Robust statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffbot | Diffbot is a developer of machine learning and computer vision algorithms and public APIs for extracting data from web pages / web scraping to create a knowledge base.
The company has gained interest from its application of computer vision technology to web pages, wherein it visually parses a web page for important elements and returns them in a structured format. In 2015 Diffbot announced it was working on its version of an automated "Knowledge Graph" by crawling the web and using its automatic web page extraction to build a large database of structured web data. In 2019 Diffbot released their Knowledge Graph which has since grown to include over 2 billion entities (corporations, people, articles, products, discussions, and more), and 10 trillion "facts."
The company's products allow software developers to analyze web home pages and article pages, and extract the "important information" while ignoring elements deemed not core to the primary content.
In August 2012 the company released its Page Classifier API, which automatically categorizes web pages into specific "page types". As part of this, Diffbot analyzed 750,000 web pages shared on the social media service Twitter and revealed that photos, followed by articles and videos, are the predominant web media shared on the social network.
In September 2020 the company released a Natural Language Processing API for automatically building Knowledge Graphs from text.
The company raised $2 million in funding in May 2012 from investors including Andy Bechtolsheim and Sky Dayton.
Diffbot's customers include Adobe, AOL, Cisco, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Instapaper, Microsoft, Onswipe and Springpad.
See also
GPT-3
References
External links
Knowledge Graph
Applied machine learning
Web scraping
Web crawlers
Web archiving
Knowledge graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24%20Oras%20Ilokano | 24 Oras Ilokano, formerly Balitang Ilokano is a Philippine television news broadcasting program broadcast by GMA Network in the Ilocos Region. Anchored by Jorge Guerrero, it premiered on June 25, 2012. The newscast concluded on April 24, 2015.
Overview
The program delivers news and current events coming from the Ilocos provinces and Abra. It is initially aired live weekdays from GMA Ilocos studios in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur and was simulcasted on TV-5 Ilocos Norte and TV-7 Abra.
Premiered on June 25, 2012, the newscast began its airing weeks after the launch of GMA Ilocos. Former Balitang Amianan anchor Jorge Guerrero returned to his hometown in Ilocos just to anchor the said news program.
Following the changes on its now-main newscast , Balitang Ilokano was rebranded as 24 Oras Ilokano since November 10, 2014.
The newscast, suddenly got cancelled after almost three years of broadcast (next to GMA Bicol's 24 Oras Bikol, formerly Baretang Bikol, which aired three months later in September 2012) due to the strategic streamlining happened to all provincial stations of the network. Following the cancellation was the retrenchment of its staff and personalities and the closure of the network's regional news department. but the reporters and its cameramen still continue to give their reports to the main current regional news programs (from Balitang Amianan) and even in 24 Oras National Newscast.
Area of Coverage
Laoag City and Ilocos Norte
Vigan City and Ilocos Sur
Bangued and Abra
Batac
Candon City
Final Anchor
Jorge Guerrero
Final Reporters
Brigette Mayor - relief anchor for Jorge Guerrero; now a lawyer
Argie Lorenzo - relief anchor for Jorge Guerrero; now with GMA Dagupan and now with 103.7 Joy FM Abra
Zion Palacay - now working at Mariano Marcos State University
Mark Masudog - now working at the OCD Region 1
Manny Morales - now a Barangay Kagawad in Laoag City
Former Reporters
Ivy Hernando - now with GMA Dagupan
Zenna Nacino
Franzes Ivy Carasi - now working as Public & Media Relations Officer at Civil Defense Cordillera
References
GMA Network news shows
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television news shows
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Mass media in Ilocos Sur
Flagship evening news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa%20FM%20%28Romania%29 | Europa FM is a Romanian radio station which started airing on 26 May 2000. Its programming consists of a variety of shows, including news, music and morning shows. It was previously owned by Lagardère Active, but has been owned by Czech Media Invest since 2018. A number of notable Romanian journalists have been part of the news team, including Andreea Esca, Cristian Tudor Popescu, and Cătălin Tolontan.
References
Radio stations in Romania
Romanian-language radio stations
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20undata | Eupithecia undata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Christian Friedrich Freyer in 1840. The North American Moth Photographers Group lists it as a synonym of Eupithecia lafontaineata. It is found in the Pyrenees, Alps, the Massif Central, the Tatra mountains, on the Balkan Peninsula and in Romania. It is also found in North America, where it has been recorded from Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon.
The wingspan is 17–18 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from mid-May to July in Europe.
The larvae feed on Silene and Minuartia species and Gypsophila repens. Larvae can be found from the end of June to mid-August. The species overwinters in the pupal stage.
Subspecies
Eupithecia undata undata
Eupithecia undata abruzzensis Dietze, 1913
References
Moths described in 1840
undata
Moths of Europe
Moths of North America
Taxa named by Christian Friedrich Freyer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navatar%20Group | Navatar Group provides cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) products to financial firms globally. It offers its financial products to clients in more than 30 countries around the world. The company was founded in 2004 and has its headquarters on Wall Street in New York City in the United States along with an office in New Delhi, India. Alok Misra and Ketan Khandkar are the founders of Navatar Group and serve as the company's Principals.
History
Alok Misra and Ketan Khandkar, former employees of Deloitte Consulting, founded Navatar Group in 2004 after noticing a need for the developing new cloud services sector. Early in the company's history, the founders had made Navatar Group partners with Salesforce.com, a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) that also offers global enterprise software.
Navatar Group's initial purpose was to provide CRM services to the small-to-medium business market, and it was the first to offer cloud products for capital markets and private equity on Wall Street.
Navatar Group began to shift gears as larger financial firms such as M&T Bank and PNC Bank began to take notice of what it had to offer and began requesting off-the-shelf products in place of relying on internal Information Technology (IT) departments.
In order to contain costs, the company made the decision to set up sales, management, and support teams for its products in its New Delhi, India, office as the company expanded.
Navatar Group's customer base now amounts to over 400 clients in more than 30 countries worldwide.
Products
Navatar Group offers cloud products for capital markets, private equity, hedge funds, fund of funds, mutual funds, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, real estate funds and corporate development. Navatar also operates a deal sourcing marketplace for investment bankers and private equity firms worldwide, called Navatar Deal Connect.
External links
Navatar Group Official Website
References
Financial services companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST | MCST (, acronym for Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies) is a Russian microprocessor company that was set up in 1992. Different types of processors made by MCST were used in personal computers, servers and computing systems. MCST develops microprocessors based on two different instruction set architecture (ISA): Elbrus and SPARC. MCST is a direct descendant of the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering.
MCST is the base organization of the Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
MCST develops the Elbrus processor architecture and the eponymous family of universal VLIW microprocessors based on it with the participation of .
The name "Elbrus" has been given the backronym "ExpLicit Basic Resources Utilization Scheduling".
Products
Elbrus 1 (1973) was the fourth generation Soviet computer, developed by Vsevolod Burtsev. Implements tag-based architecture and ALGOL as system language like the Burroughs large systems. A side development was an update of the 1965 BESM-6 as Elbrus-1K2.
Elbrus 2 (1977) was a 10-processor computer, considered the first Soviet supercomputer, with superscalar RISC processors. Re-implementation of the Elbrus 1 architecture with faster ECL chips.
Elbrus 3 (1986) was a 16-processor computer developed by Boris Babayan. Differing completely from the architecture of both Elbrus 1 and Elbrus 2, it employed a VLIW architecture.
Elbrus-90micro (1998–2010) is a computer line based on SPARC instruction set architecture (ISA) microprocessors: MCST R80, R150, R500, R500S, MCST-4R (MCST-R1000) and MCST-R2000 working at 80, 150, 500, 1000 and 2000 MHz.
Elbrus-3M1 (2005) is a two-processor computer based on the Elbrus 2000 microprocessor employing VLIW architecture working at 300 MHz. It is a further development of the Elbrus 3 (1986).
Elbrus МВ3S1/C (2009) is a ccNUMA 4-processor computer based on Elbrus-S microprocessor working at 500 MHz.
Elbrus-2S+ (2011) is a dual-core Elbrus 2000 based microprocessor working at 500 MHz, with capacity to calculate 16 GFlops.
Elbrus-2SM (2014) is a dual-core Elbrus 2000 based microprocessor working at 300 MHz, with capacity to calculate 9.6 GFlops.
Elbrus-4S (2014) is a quad-core Elbrus 2000 based microprocessor working at 800 MHz, with capacity to calculate 50 GFlops.
Elbrus-8S (2014–2015) is an octa-core Elbrus 2000 based microprocessor working at 1300 MHz, with capacity to calculate 250 GFlops.
Elbrus-8SV (2018) is an octa-core Elbrus 2000 based microprocessor working at 1500 MHz, with capacity to calculate 576 GFlops.
Elbrus-16S (2021) is 16-core Elbrus 2000 based microprocessor working at 2000 MHz, with capacity to calculate 750 GFlops at double precision and 1.5 TFlops at single precision operations.
Elbrus-32S (Sample production is planned in 2025) is a 32-core Elbrus 2000 based microprocessor working at 2500 MHz, with capacity to calculate 1.5 TFlops.
See also
History of computing in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidi%27s%20generalized%20secant%20method | Sidi's generalized secant method is a root-finding algorithm, that is, a numerical method for solving equations of the form . The method was published
by Avram Sidi.
The method is a generalization of the secant method. Like the secant method, it is an iterative method which requires one evaluation of in each iteration and no derivatives of . The method can converge much faster though, with an order which approaches 2 provided that satisfies the regularity conditions described below.
Algorithm
We call the root of , that is, . Sidi's method is an iterative method which generates a sequence of approximations of . Starting with k + 1 initial approximations , the approximation is calculated in the first iteration, the approximation is calculated in the second iteration, etc. Each iteration takes as input the last k + 1 approximations and the value of at those approximations. Hence the nth iteration takes as input the approximations and the values .
The number k must be 1 or larger: k = 1, 2, 3, .... It remains fixed during the execution of the algorithm. In order to obtain the starting approximations one could carry out a few initializing iterations with a lower value of k.
The approximation is calculated as follows in the nth iteration. A polynomial of interpolation of degree k is fitted to the k + 1 points . With this polynomial, the next approximation of is calculated as
with the derivative of at . Having calculated one calculates and the algorithm can continue with the (n + 1)th iteration. Clearly, this method requires the function to be evaluated only once per iteration; it requires no derivatives of .
The iterative cycle is stopped if an appropriate stopping criterion is met. Typically the criterion is that the last calculated approximation is close enough to the sought-after root .
To execute the algorithm effectively, Sidi's method calculates the interpolating polynomial in its Newton form.
Convergence
Sidi showed that if the function is (k + 1)-times continuously differentiable in an open interval containing (that is, ), is a simple root of (that is, ) and the initial approximations are chosen close enough to , then the sequence converges to , meaning that the following limit holds: .
Sidi furthermore showed that
and that the sequence converges to of order , i.e.
The order of convergence is the only positive root of the polynomial
We have e.g. ≈ 1.6180, ≈ 1.8393 and ≈ 1.9276. The order approaches 2 from below if k becomes large:
Related algorithms
Sidi's method reduces to the secant method if we take k = 1. In this case the polynomial is the linear approximation of around which is used in the nth iteration of the secant method.
We can expect that the larger we choose k, the better is an approximation of around . Also, the better is an approximation of around . If we replace with in () we obtain that the next approximation in each iteration is calculated as
This is the Newton–Raphso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADF%20Solutions | Advanced Digital Forensic Solutions, Inc. (ADF Solutions) is a company based in Reston, Virginia, that develops tools for scanning suspect computers and digital devices in order to locate and extract data, a process known as digital forensics. Digital forensic tools scan mobile phones, computers and digital devices to collect intelligence or evidence of a crime to identify computers that contain content relevant to an investigation.
Triage-G2 is a media exploitation (MEDEX) tool used on computers and peripheral devices. It is typically deployed on a USB device by military personnel working in the field. The USB devices, known as triage keys, can be prepared in advance or in the field by selecting specific search criteria. The users of this tool do not require significant technical computer skills. Triage-G2 is currently in use by several U.S. Defense and Intelligence agencies.
Mobile Device Investigator provides field investigators with rapid evidence collection, analysis and reporting for iOS and Android devices (smartphones, tablets) to recover call records, messages, saved contacts, calendar data, browsing history, download history, search terms, WiFi connections, installed applications, pictures, videos, audio files, documents and more. Police and investigators can review and analyze results immediately so they can make on-scene decisions.
Digital Evidence Investigator is a forensic triage tool used on computers by forensic examiners in lab environments, or on location, to scan suspect devices and prioritize them for full examinations. Digital Evidence Investigator is in use by law enforcement agencies worldwide.
The software used in this technology employs sets of search criteria known as Captures. This software allows analysts and operators to describe the specific search or exploitation they want to conduct. They can also be used to automate recurring categories of investigations and can be shared among the agencies that need them.
Document and media exploitation
According to technopedia.com, document and media exploitation is defined as the extraction, translation, and analysis of physical and digital documents and media to generate useful and timely information. Also known as DOMEX, it is a very similar discipline to computer forensics, digital forensics or media exploitation.
References
External links
Computer security companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasterocomacea | Gasterocomacea is an extinct superfamily of crinoids from the Middle to Late Devonian.
References
External links
Gasterocomacea in the Paleobiology Database
Cladida
Animal superfamilies
Devonian crinoids
Middle Devonian first appearances
Late Devonian animals
Late Devonian genus extinctions
Paleozoic echinoderms of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermathena%20candidata | Hermathena candidata is a species of butterfly in genus Hermathena of the family Riodinidae. It is found from Costa Rica to Colombia, the Guianas and Bolivia east of Andes.
The larvae feed on Vriesea species.
Subspecies
Hermathena candidata candidata (Bolivia)
Hermathena candidata columba Stichel, 1910 (Colombia)
References
Hewitson, William Chapman (1876), Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson, Volume 5.
External links
Tree of Life web project: Hermathena candidata
ADW: Hermathena candidata: classification
Riodinidae
Butterflies described in 1874
Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
Riodinidae of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoplaninae | Ectoplaninae is a subfamily of Maricola triclads.
Genera
List of known genera:<ref>*Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 Database </ref>Ectoplana Miroplana Nesion Obrimoposthia OstenoculaPaucumaraProcerodellaSluysiaTryssosoma''
References
External links
Maricola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uteriporinae | Uteriporinae is a subfamily of Maricola triclads.
Genera
List of known genera:<ref>*Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 Database </ref>Allogenus CamerataDinizia Foviella Leucolesma MicaplanaNexilis UteriporusVatapa''
References
External links
Maricola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20McMain%20Secondary%20School | Eleanor Laura McMain Secondary School is a charter secondary school in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. It is operated by the Inspire Charter Network.
History
The school was named in honor of New Orleans social activist Eleanor McMain. It opened in 1932 originally as an all-girls school. It became a coeducational junior high school in 1952, and a coeducational secondary with a magnet program in 1974. It later became an all-magnet school.
Students and Alumni refer to the schools appearance as "The Birthday Cake" because of its square shape and candle-like pillars. The school is five blocks away from the former Alcee Fortier High School, now the Lusher Charter School secondary campus.
As Hurricane Katrina was about to hit, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) designated McMain as a place where people could receive transportation to the Louisiana Superdome, a shelter of last resort.
After Hurricane Katrina, McMain remained under the Orleans Parish School Board and later the Recovery School District.
In 2017, it was announced that McMain was going to become a charter school and retain the same name under the Inspire Charter Network starting with the 2018 school year.
Athletics
McMain Secondary School athletics competes in the LHSAA.
Notable alumni
Hong Chau Vietnamese American actress. Attended McMain in the 1990s
Matthew Dorsett, NFL defensive back. Class of 1991
Lil Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.), rapper, singer, songwriter. Attended McMain in the 1990s for two years before transferring to Marion Abramson High School
Darrion Weems, NFL offensive tackle. Attended but did not graduate from McMain. (displaced by Hurricane Katrina)
References
External links
Eleanor McMain Secondary School website
U.S. News
Charter schools in New Orleans
Public high schools in New Orleans
Middle schools in New Orleans
Educational institutions established in 1932
1932 establishments in Louisiana
Uptown New Orleans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandas%20%28software%29 | pandas is a software library written for the Python programming language for data manipulation and analysis. In particular, it offers data structures and operations for manipulating numerical tables and time series. It is free software released under the three-clause BSD license. The name is derived from the term "panel data", an econometrics term for data sets that include observations over multiple time periods for the same individuals. Its name is a play on the phrase "Python data analysis" itself. Wes McKinney started building what would become pandas at AQR Capital while he was a researcher there from 2007 to 2010.
DataFrames
Pandas is mainly used for data analysis and associated manipulation of tabular data in DataFrames. Pandas allows importing data from various file formats such as comma-separated values, JSON, Parquet, SQL database tables or queries, and Microsoft Excel. Pandas allows various data manipulation operations such as merging, reshaping, selecting, as well as data cleaning, and data wrangling features. The development of pandas introduced into Python many comparable features of working with DataFrames that were established in the R programming language. The pandas library is built upon another library, NumPy, which is oriented to efficiently working with arrays instead of the features of working on DataFrames.
History
Developer Wes McKinney started working on pandas in 2008 while at AQR Capital Management out of the need for a high performance, flexible tool to perform quantitative analysis on financial data. Before leaving AQR he was able to convince management to allow him to open source the library.
Another AQR employee, Chang She, joined the effort in 2012 as the second major contributor to the library.
In 2015, pandas signed on as a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States.
See also
matplotlib
NumPy
Dask
SciPy
R (programming language)
scikit-learn
statsmodels
List of numerical analysis software
References
Further reading
Free statistical software
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20HBO%20international%20channels | Home Box Office (HBO)—originally established on November 8, 1972, as a premium cable television network in the United States—has, since 1991, expanded into a family of international pay television channels presently owned by Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc. and operated through sister subsidiary Warner Bros. Discovery International or owned by third-party media companies through programming and brand licensing partnerships.
In countries where an HBO-branded network does not exist in its own right, the network's programming is licensed instead to domestic pay television services or through a basic cable channel; all of which are permitted to refer to themselves as the "Home of HBO" since 2010, such as with Sky Atlantic and Now TV in parts of Europe, Fox Showcase and Binge in Australia, and Amazon Prime Video in France.
Like its flagship U.S. channel, most of the international channels maintain a subscription-based model, in which they do not accept traditional advertising and offer programming that includes theatrically released motion pictures, original television programs (both licensed by the U.S. service and produced for individual regional channels), made-for-cable movies, documentaries, and occasional stand-up comedy and concert specials. While HBO maintains international distribution rights for its original programs, the terms of its licensing agreements with film studios only retains it the right to broadcast them within the United States and the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, therefore film rights for the international channels must be licensed separately.
Branded services
The Americas
Brazil
HBO Brazil was launched in 1991 as a partnership between Grupo Abril's TVA, Time Warner and Sony. It was developed as an analogue pay channel, but used UHF broadcast frequencies and ran its programming for nine hours each day. After the Brazilian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Grupo Abril sold its share in the network to Time Warner.
Canada
Canadian rights to HBO-owned and -distributed programming are held by Bell Media, the mass-media unit of telecom company Bell Canada. Programming is offered through Bell's Crave pay television service, which includes an HBO-branded multiplex channel that launched in 2008 and features the U.S. channel's original programming; the over-the-top Crave streaming service; and Bell's French-language pay service Super Écran, along with occasional airings of library programs on the company's basic cable channels. Outside of the required brand licensing to use the HBO trademarks and logo, HBO parent Warner Bros. Discovery does not have an ownership interest in these services, and, as such, the Canadian service is the only HBO channel that WBD does not operate.
The HBO multiplex channel was launched as HBO Canada on October 30, 2008, as a joint venture between two regional Canadian pay television services: Astral Media-owned The Movie Network (now Crave), whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%20Meteorological%20Service | The Israel Meteorological Service (, HaSherut HaMete'orologi HaYisra'eli) is a unit of the Israeli Ministry of Transportation responsible for forecasting weather, meteorological data and climate research in Israel.
It was founded in the 1930s as a meteorological unit during the British Mandate, mainly supporting the evolving aviation needs. After establishing the state of Israel, it was incorporated into the Ministry of Transportation. Since 1949, it has been a member of the World Meteorological Organization.
The Israeli Meteorological Service is headquartered in Beit Dagan and operates over 150 measuring stations nationwide.
References
External links
Israeli Meteorological Service
Facebook
Instagram
Atmospheric dispersion modeling
Governmental meteorological agencies in Asia
Research institutes in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSB%20Bank%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | TSB Bank plc is a retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Sabadell Group.
TSB Bank operates a network of 220 branches across England, Scotland and Wales but has not had a presence in Northern Ireland since 1991. TSB in its present form launched on 9 September 2013. Its headquarters are located in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it has more than five million customers with over £37 billion of lending and £36 billion of customer deposits. The bank was formed from the existing business of Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, into which a number of Lloyds TSB branches in England and Wales and all branches of Cheltenham & Gloucester were transferred, and renamed TSB Bank plc.
A European Commission ruling that the British government's 2009 purchase of a 43% stake in Lloyds Banking Group counted as state aid made it necessary for Lloyds Banking Group to sell a portion of its business; TSB was divested. Post-divestment, TSB offered an initial public offering and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2014. In 2015, it was acquired by Sabadell Group.
History
Trustee Savings Bank
The TSB name was previously used by the Trustee Savings Bank prior to its merger with Lloyds Bank in 1995, resulting in the formation of Lloyds TSB in 1999.
The merger was structured as a reverse takeover by TSB. Lloyds Bank was delisted from the London Stock Exchange and TSB Group was renamed Lloyds TSB Group in 1995, with former Lloyds Bank shareholders owning a 70% equity interest in the share capital, effected through a scheme of arrangement. The new bank commenced trading in 1999, after the statutory process of integration was completed. The original TSB Bank transferred engagements to Lloyds Bank which then changed its name to Lloyds TSB Bank; at the same time, TSB Bank Scotland absorbed Lloyds' three Scottish branches becoming Lloyds TSB Scotland.
In 1986, the legal entity, Trustee Savings Bank, was renamed TSB Scotland (and, in 1989, TSB Bank Scotland), before becoming Lloyds TSB Scotland in 1999. This company was re-registered under the name TSB Bank in 2013. The parent, TSB Banking Group, was registered in England in 2014 and later that year TSB Bank ceased to be part of the Lloyds Banking Group.
Project Verde
Lloyds TSB Group bought HBOS in January 2009 and renamed itself Lloyds Banking Group. In 2009, following the UK bank rescue package, the Government of the United Kingdom took a 43.4% stake in Lloyds Banking Group, which later announced that it would sell a standalone retail banking business of 632 branches and most accounts held at those branches in order to comply with European Commission state aid requirements.
Codenamed "Verde", the group's divestment plan identified 632 branches which were transferred to a new business. Customers with accounts held by the branches and staff employed within them were also transferred. A number of Lloyds TSB branches in England and Wales, together with all branches of Lloyds TSB Scotland and Cheltenha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hassell | David Hassell is an American businessperson. He is the founder and CEO of 15Five, an employee feedback system.
Career
In 1999, he co-founded AdClip Networks, an online advertising technology company aimed at creating alternatives to the predominant banner ads of the day, starting with online coupons that could be “clipped” off a web page. It was later re-branded as Endai Worldwide and focused more broadly on a variety of online marketing technologies and services.
An avid kitesurfer, Hassell attends an annual gathering of Silicon Valley CEOs and other tech-world entrepreneurs on Maui called MaiTai.
In 2010, Hassell co-founded Strategy Day with former President of the San Francisco chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization, Rob Wensing, a consulting company that works with CEOs and executive teams to develop focus and accomplish strategic plans. At the same time, Hassell began work on a similar idea for facilitating communication within companies. This idea, 15Five, was launched in 2011.
15Five
The idea for 15Five originated with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, who implemented a weekly "5-15 report" to keep track of his employees and business while he enjoyed his adventurous life. The idea behind 15Five is employees spend "15 minutes to write the reports and managers spend no more than 5 minutes to read them." The goal of the company is to provide fast and easy communication between managers and employees using an interface that Hassell says is based on the design value of "elegant simplicity."
In 2013, 15Five received $1 million in seed funding from venture capital firm Richmond Global, 500 Startups, and investments from individuals, including Yammer founder David O. Sacks, Ustream founder John Ham, former editor of Mashable Ben Parr, Ben Ling of Google and Xobni founder Matt Brezina.
Reception
Hassell has served as the President of the San Francisco chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization, a global non-profit with the stated goal of helping entrepreneurs learn and grow. Inc., and VentureBeat.
References
External links
David Hassell on Twitter
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannis%20Ioannidis | Yannis Ioannidis () is a Greek computer scientist who is the current President of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a professor at the University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the "Athena" Research and Innovation Center, where he also served as the President and General Director for 10 years (2011–2021).
References
External links
Google Scholar profile
1959 births
Living people
Human–computer interaction researchers
National Technical University of Athens alumni
Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Database researchers
Greek computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery
Constantinopolitan Greeks
Academics from Istanbul
People from Athens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeat%20%28computing%29 | In computer science, a heartbeat is a periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a computer system. Heartbeat mechanism is one of the common techniques in mission critical systems for providing high availability and fault tolerance of network services by detecting the network or systems failures of nodes or daemons which belongs to a network cluster—administered by a master server—for the purpose of automatic adaptation and rebalancing of the system by using the remaining redundant nodes on the cluster to take over the load of failed nodes for providing constant services. Usually a heartbeat is sent between machines at a regular interval in the order of seconds; a heartbeat message. If the endpoint does not receive a heartbeat for a time—usually a few heartbeat intervals—the machine that should have sent the heartbeat is assumed to have failed. Heartbeat messages are typically sent non-stop on a periodic or recurring basis from the originator's start-up until the originator's shutdown. When the destination identifies a lack of heartbeat messages during an anticipated arrival period, the destination may determine that the originator has failed, shutdown, or is generally no longer available.
Heartbeat protocol
A heartbeat protocol is generally used to negotiate and monitor the availability of a resource, such as a floating IP address, and the procedure involves sending network packets to all the nodes in the cluster to verify its reachability. Typically when a heartbeat starts on a machine, it will perform an election process with other machines on the heartbeat network to determine which machine, if any, owns the resource. On heartbeat networks of more than two machines, it is important to take into account partitioning, where two halves of the network could be functioning but not able to communicate with each other. In a situation such as this, it is important that the resource is only owned by one machine, not one machine in each partition.
As a heartbeat is intended to be used to indicate the health of a machine, it is important that the heartbeat protocol and the transport that it runs on are as reliable as possible. Causing a failover because of a false alarm may, depending on the resource, be highly undesirable. It is also important to react quickly to an actual failure, further signifying the reliability of the heartbeat messages. For this reason, it is often desirable to have a heartbeat running over more than one transport; for instance, an Ethernet segment using UDP/IP, and a serial link.
A "cluster membership" of a node is a property of network reachability: if the master can communicate with the node , it's considered a member of the cluster and "dead" otherwise. A heartbeat program as a whole consist of various subsystems:
Heartbeat Subsystem (HS): The subsystem that monitors the node's presence within the cluster through a series of keepalive or "hear-beat mess |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahrad%20Network | Shahrad Network () is an Iranian Internet service provider. The official name of the company is Shahrad Net Company Ltd. This private company has been held in 2006 by providing ADSL and Dialup Internet for home users in Tehran. According to NetIndex Shahrad Net Company Ltd. is the second High-speed ISP in Tehran and 4th in Iran.
Products and services
Shahrad Network provides various services for home and business users:
ADSL Internet
Data Center services
Web hosting service
Broadband Internet
Dialup Internet
Wireless Internet (Limited)
References
Internet service providers of Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffy%20Calder | Dame Muffy Calder (née Thomas; born 21 May 1958) is a Canadian-born British computer scientist, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. From 2012 to 2015 she was Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government.
Biography
Calder was born Muffy Thomas on 21 May 1958 in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada to Carmen and Lois (Hallen) van Thomas. She graduated with a BSc degree in computer science from the University of Stirling, and completed a PhD in computational science at the University of St Andrews in 1987 under the supervision of Roy Dyckhoff. She published widely under the surname Thomas prior to her marriage to David Calder in 1998.
She has worked at the University of Glasgow since 1988, and was Dean of Research in the College of Science and Engineering until 2012. She became Chief Scientific Adviser to the Scottish Government on 1 March 2012. Previously Calder has served as Chair of the UK Computing Research Committee and Chair of the British Computer Society Academy of Computing Research Committee. She became Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering in 2015. In 2015 she was appointed to the Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Research
Calder summarises her research interests as "mathematical modelling and automated reasoning for concurrent, communicating systems". Calder published an influential overview on the feature interaction problem, with more than 300 citations at Google Scholar. Her research has extended to applying computer science methods to biochemical networks and cell signalling in bioinformatics, resulting in a number of papers.
Awards and recognition
Calder was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to computer science and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to research and education.
She holds fellowships of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2000), the British Computer Society (2002), the Institution of Electrical Engineers (2002) and the Royal Academy of Engineering (2013).
Calder was listed as 21st most influential woman in Scotland, 2012, by The Herald.
References
Living people
Scottish computer scientists
Scottish women scientists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Civil servants in the Scottish Government
British women computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Stirling
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1958 births
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
21st-century women engineers
Scottish women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20J.%20Hanratty | Patrick J. Hanratty was an American computer scientist and businessperson, known as the "Father of CAD/CAM"—computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing. Up to 2013, he was president and CEO of Manufacturing and Consulting Services (MCS) of Scottsdale, Arizona, a company he founded. According to the University of California in 2012, industry analysts think that "70 percent of all 3-D mechanical CAD/CAM systems available today trace their roots back to Hanratty’s original code".
Early career
Hanratty earned a PhD from the University of California, Irvine. He worked for General Electric, where in 1957 he wrote Pronto, an early commercial numerical control programming language. Then he moved in 1961 to General Motors Research Laboratories where he helped to develop DAC, (Design Automated by Computer).
Banking standard
Around the mid-1950s Hanratty and a team from the Stanford Research Institute using equipment built by the General Electric Computer Laboratory developed standardized machine-readable characters for use on bank checks. Adopted by the American Bankers Association in 1958, their characters are still in use and magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) and the E-13B font became standard in the industry.
Business
In 1970 he founded his own company, where he learned valuable lessons. Hanratty later said, "Never generate anything closely coupled to a specific architecture. And make sure you keep things open to communicate with other systems, even your competitors." The business, called ICS, failed because its product, a CAD/CAM drafting system, was tied to a computer that very few people had available, and because its product was written in TPL, an unfamiliar language for most people.
In 1971 Hanratty founded Manufacturing and Consulting Services (MCS), applying what he had learned at ICS. All the software was written in Fortran and it ran on almost any computer. His product was named Automated Drafting and Machining (ADAM), later AD-2000, and still later Anvil-4000. This package was very successful.
Among well-known customers of MCS were Computervision who licensed Adam for CADDS, Gerber Scientific for IDS 3, and McDonnell Douglas who licensed it for Unigraphics. Several well-known CAD/CAM packages were developed from MCS products. Among them were Auto-Grapl, Autosnap 3D, Anvil-5000, and Intelligent Modeler.
Auto-Grapl in particular demonstrates what Hanratty had learned: "the computer writes the program for you".
Personal life
Hanratty was married to Sandra and they had 3 children and 13 grandchildren. He died July 28, 2019.
Notes
References
External links
MCS ReAnsys
1931 births
2019 deaths
American computer programmers
American technology company founders
University of California, Irvine alumni
People from Scottsdale, Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20ochridata | Eupithecia ochridata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, the Benelux, France, Portugal, Austria, Croatia, and northern Russia. It is also present in the eastern Palearctic realm and the Near East.
The wingspan is about 18–20 mm.
The larvae feed on Artemisia campestris.
References
Moths described in 1968
ochridata
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Molina | Maria Janeth Molina (born April 7, 1987) is an American meteorologist. She was the on-air meteorologist for the Fox News Channel, a U.S. television network, from 2010 to 2016. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Early life
Molina was born in Nicaragua and grew up in Hialeah, Florida. She is a graduate of Barbara Goleman Senior High School. She attributes her interest in meteorology to her experience with Category 5 Hurricane Andrew, which hit her hometown in South Florida when she was 5 years old.
Education
Molina graduated cum laude from Florida State University in 2008, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology and minors in mathematics and communications. While at Florida State University, she completed the University Honors Program and the Honors in the Major Program requirements.
Additionally, she graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2015 with a Masters of Arts degree in Climate and Society.
She earned her PhD from Central Michigan University in the Earth and Ecosystem Science Doctoral Program, where she was also a graduate research assistant.
Career
Molina has earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) designation from the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
Molina joined Fox News in October 2010. She provided weather updates on many Fox shows and appeared regularly on the FOX & Friends morning show, until leaving the station in September 2016. She was credited as being the youngest meteorologist on cable in 2012. While at Fox News, she also appeared on the Fox Business, Fox News Radio, Fox News Latino, and Fox Sports Networks.
She served as a part-time meteorologist at WJBK Fox2 in Detroit mainly on weekend newscasts while pursuing her doctoral degree in Michigan.
Prior to Fox News, Molina was a bilingual TV meteorologist for AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania, for which she provided weather forecasts in both English and Spanish.
She was an Advanced Study Program (ASP) postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Personal life
In December 2015, she married stormchaser Reed Timmer at the Masaya Volcano National Park in Nicaragua. They divorced in 2018.
References
External links
Living people
Television personalities from Florida
American television meteorologists
Fox News people
Florida State University alumni
Columbia University alumni
Nicaraguan emigrants to the United States
Place of birth missing (living people)
1987 births
Scientists from Florida
Hispanic and Latino American women journalists
21st-century American women
People from Hialeah, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20%26%20Lies | Love & Lies is a 2013 Philippine television drama thriller series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Richard Gutierrez, Bela Padilla and Michelle Madrigal. It premiered on April 8, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Temptation of Wife. The series concluded on June 7, 2013 with a total of 44 episodes. It was replaced by My Husband's Lover in its timeslot.
Premise
Edward Galvez, a Philippine Navy officer gets tangled in a web of lies and conspiracies when an organization kidnaps his wife. As the protagonist discovers the truth behind the crime, he uncovers a treacherous plot that threatens to turn his world upside-down. The true perpetrators of the crime may be closer to home than he dare think. As he thread to the maze of lies, blackmails, double-dealings, and betrayals, everyone becomes a suspect.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as Edward Galvez
Bela Padilla as Denise Salvador-Galvez
Michelle Madrigal as Catherine "Cathy" Alcantara-Galvez
Supporting cast
Sid Lucero as Gabriel "Gabby" Romero
Paolo Contis as Emmanuel "Manny" Perez
Lloyd Samartino as Ramon Alcantara
Lara Melissa de Leon as Consuelo Alcantara
Bobby Andrews as Captain Jose Lorde Villamor
Luz Valdez as Rosa Galvez
Miguel Tanfelix as Marco Salvador
Jeric Gonzales as Ryan Alcantara
Thea Tolentino as Marissa Rivero-Alcantara
Guest cast
Jade Lopez as Roxanne Salvador
Neil Ryan Sese as Ricardo Salvador
Gerard Pizarras as Ka Fredo
Ian de Leon as Gardo Mendoza
Shyr Valdez as Rosanna Rivero-Mendoza
Aicelle Santos as Ligaya Salvador
Alessandra de Rossi as Regina Perez
Production and development
The series—a fast-paced suspense-action drama, also dubbed as "suspenserye was conceptualized by RJ Nuevas and developed by Richard Cruz. The two began developing the show under the title Notorious in January and February 2013. The title was changed to Love & Lies during the early stage of production.
The production team picked the Philippine Navy as a major setting for the series. On March 13, 2013, the show's main casts Richard Gutierrez, Paolo Contis together with series' director Mark Reyes visited the Headquarters Philippine Navy (HPN) and paid a courtesy call on the Navy Chief, Vice Admiral Jose Luis M. Alano AFP. Aside from that, Gutierrez and Contis also signed up as Philippine Navy Reservists. On the other hand, Vice Admiral Alano assured the network that the Navy will provide its full support and assistance to the series and said "We look forward to this project in which we can show and highlight what the Philippine Navy is all about." He likewise briefed Gutierrez and Contis about the rigid training and life of a Navy Seal.
The series' director described the show as his "dream project". Regarding the amount of action and drama being laced in the series, Reyes said that "The nearest thing that you can compare it to is Taken. There's a lot of suspense. But at the same time, there's drama that is interwoven with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB%20Networks | DB Networks is a privately held Information Security company founded in the United States The company is headquartered in San Diego, California, and its regional offices are located in Palo Alto, California and Seattle, Washington.
In May 2018, DB Networks announced that it will change its company name to DB CyberTech.
History
DB Networks was founded in United States in 2009 to provide database security including database infrastructure assessment, compromised credential identification, and SQL injection defense, predominantly to the financial services industry and federal government. The company was initially financed by Angel investors. In 2012 the company raised $4.5M in venture capital from Khosla Ventures. In 2014 the company closed a $17 Million round of funding led by Khosla Ventures and Grotech Ventures.
The company's first product, the ADF-4200, was launched in February 2013. Also in February 2013 the company announced a partnership with Alamo City Engineering Services (ACES) to offer its products to the US Military and civilian federal agencies. In October 2013 the company announced the IDS-6300, later renamed DBN-6300, originally as a SQL injection defense and database infrastructure security product.
In 2013 DB Networks was invited to join the Cync cybersecurity technology program under the direction of Northrop Grumman and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Research Park Corporation. The Cync program identifies innovative technologies to combat cybersecurity threats.
In 2014 AMP Tech Solutions was announced as a channel partner to offer DB Network products through the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) IV contract to the United States federal agencies.
In 2015 DB Networks was awarded two United States patents for their database security technologies.
DB Networks began licensing their database security software and technologies to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in February 2016 coinciding with the launch of their Layer 7 Database Sensor. Partnerships have been announced with FireEye, Cyphort, and Security On-Demand.
Technology
DB Networks database security technology is based on machine learning and behavioral analysis as opposed to the traditional information security approach requiring human generated blacklists or whitelists. The machine learning and behavioral analysis platform learns each applications' proper SQL transaction behavior. Compromised credentials and rogue SQL statements, such as a SQL injection attack, will deviate from the established model and will raise an alarm as a database attack. Machine learning and behavioral analysis technologies have the ability to prevent advanced and zero-day database attacks without prior threat intelligence or the need to establish and maintain signature files of known attack strings.
Products
DB Networks DBN-6300 was announced in October 2013 (originally referred to as the IDS-6300). The DBN-6300 is a 2U purpose-built database securit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Redshift | Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product which forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse company ParAccel (later acquired by Actian), to handle large scale data sets and database migrations. Redshift differs from Amazon's other hosted database offering, Amazon RDS, in its ability to handle analytic workloads on big data data sets stored by a column-oriented DBMS principle. Redshift allows up to 16 petabytes of data on a cluster compared to Amazon RDS Aurora's maximum size of 128 terabytes.
Amazon Redshift is based on an older version of PostgreSQL 8.0.2, and Redshift has made changes to that version. An initial preview beta was released in November 2012 and a full release was made available on February 15, 2013. The service can handle connections from most other applications using ODBC and JDBC connections.
According to Cloud Data Warehouse report published by Forrester in Q4 2018, Amazon Redshift has the largest number of Cloud data warehouse deployments, with more than 6,500 deployments.
Redshift uses parallel-processing and compression to decrease command execution time. This allows Redshift to perform operations on billions of rows at once. This also makes Redshift useful for storing and analyzing large quantities of data from logs or live feeds through a source such as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.
Amazon has listed a number of business intelligence software proprietors as partners and tested tools in their "APN Partner" program, including Actian, Actuate Corporation, Alteryx, Dundas Data Visualization, IBM Cognos, InetSoft, Infor, Logi Analytics, Looker, MicroStrategy, Pentaho, Qlik, SiSense, Tableau Software, and Yellowfin. Partner companies providing data integration tools include Informatica and SnapLogic. System integration and consulting partners include Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini and DXC Technology.
The "Red" in Redshift's name alludes to Oracle, a competing computer technology company sometimes informally referred to as "Big Red" due to its red corporate color. Hence, customers choosing to move their databases from Oracle to Redshift would be "shifting" from "Red".
See also
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Relational Database Service
References
External links
Redshift Research Project
Redshift
Data warehousing products
Cloud databases
PostgreSQL
Computer-related introductions in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobinnet | Mobinnet () is one of the largest Internet service providers of wireless broadband in Iran that provides high-speed LTE services, connectivity network solutions, dedicated bandwidth, data center, digital services such a services that connects homes and businesses through a suitable and extensive infrastructure across the country. This company was founded in December 2008 and on 29th of January in 2017, it has established its nationwide wireless network based on TD-LTE technology. Alongside home internet services, wide range of communication and internet services for organizations has turned Mobinnet to be known as one of the largest wireless internet service providers for businesses. With reliance on progresses in LTE technology, national wireless network, radio links and equipped data center, Mobinnet is currently extending services nationwide through maximum number of locations in Iran.
Products and services
High-speed TD-LTE Internet
Broadband Internet
VPN
Data Center
Internet of things
References
Internet service providers of Iran
Telecommunications companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriy%20Sharapov | Valeriy Sharapov is a Habil. doctor (doctor of engineering sciences), professor, head of department of computer-assisted and informative technologies in the instrument-making of the Cherkassy State Technological University.
He graduated from Chemical Technological College at Shostkа (explosives production) in 1962, from a branch of Moscow Engineering and Physical Institute (MEPHI) in 1969 (automatics and electronics of nuclear facilities).
He received PhD degree (candidate’s degree) at Tomsk Institute of Automatics, Electronics and Control Systems. He received Doctorate degree at Odesa National Polytechnic University (Ukraine).
He worked at the nuclear center in Russian Federation, scientific and industrial complex of “Photopribor”, research institute of “Chimanalyt” and the scientific production association “Phonon”
He is the author of more than 900 scientific publications, inclusive 19 monographs and manuals and more than 500 patents for inventions.
Publications
Sharapov V. Piezoceramic sensors. – Springer Verlag, 2011. – 498 p. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 241 libraries
Sharapov V.M. et al. Piezoelectric sensors. - Moscow: Technosphera, 2006.- 632p.
Sharapov V.M. et al. Sensors. - Moscow: Technosphera, 2012. - 616 p.
Sharapov V.M. Baybakov F.B. Control of admixtures in compressed gases. - Moscow: Chemistry, 1989. – 160 p.
Sharapov V.M. et al. Piezoceramic transducers of physical sizes.- Cherkasy: ChGTU, 2005.– 631p.
Sharapov V.M. et al. Automatic control theory. Manual. Cherkasy: CHSTU, 2005. - 200 p.
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References
20th-century Ukrainian engineers
Living people
Odesa National Polytechnic Univ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut%20and%20paste%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cut and paste is a method for digital transfer of text or other data in computing
Cut and paste may also refer to:
Cut & Paste, a 1984 word processor from Electronic Arts
Cut and Paste (film), a 2006 Egyptian film
See also
Copy and paste (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Rural%20Development%20Network | The Rural Development Network (RDN), formerly the Alberta Rural Development Network (ARDN), is an Alberta-based organization purposed towards supporting development in rural communities in Canada.
Established in 2009, RDN was created as a partnership of Alberta's 21 public post secondary institutions.
ARDN publishes a newsletter, The RTAB, at least once a month.
History
ARDN began operations in 2009 with a grant from the Rural Alberta Development Fund (RADF) and in-kind commitments from its post-secondary members.
Since its inception, ARDN has worked with several of Alberta's colleges, universities and organizations on projects, including Lakeland College and Portage College on a Regional Innovation Network in East Central Alberta, Mount Royal University on a Business Retention & Expansion Symposium, the Alberta Academy of Art and Design on the Company of Albertans, Pastor Tim Wray on the Young Adult Photovoice Project, and Lethbridge College on Social in the South.
More recently, ARDN administered the Homelessness Partnering Strategy's Rural and Remote Homelessness funding stream for Alberta. So far, this has resulted in the funding of seven rural homelessness projects, including projects in Drayton Valley, Chestermere, Fort Macleod and Cochrane.
Members
Athabasca University
Grande Prairie Regional College
Keyano College
Lethbridge College
Medicine Hat College
Northern Lakes College
Portage College
University of Calgary
University of Lethbridge
References
Homelessness in Canada
Affordable housing in Canada
Rural community development
Non-profit organizations based in Alberta
Rural development in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Carddass | is a series of Japanese arcade game machines created by Bandai, which largely focus around the digital use of collectible trading cards. It is an expansion of Bandai's Carddass collectible trading card series, which allows players to use special cards to interact with arcade video games. Many of these machines revolve around various anime and tokusatsu franchises owned by Bandai. The machines first began release in Japanese arcades from March 2005.
Bandai had sold 100,000 Data Carddass arcade machines by March 2012. For use with the machines, over 2.4billion Data Cardass cards had been sold by 2017, increasing to Data Carddass cards sold .
Overview
Data Carddass make use of special Carddass cards with data stored on them. These collectible cards can be read by various Data Carddass machines in order to interact with the game. For example, in Aikatsu!, a game revolving around fashion, players can scan cards featuring various clothes to make their character wear them. Depending on the machine, cards can either be inserted via a slot or scanned via a flat panel. Each machine is also fitted with various controls unique to their specific minigames, such as buttons which require timed presses or touches. Performing well in these games can also grant additional cards. Select machines utilise IC cards, which allow frequent players to save personal data from the games. Certain machines can also scan collectible toys to affect the gameplay.
Series
These machines are periodically updated as new elements are added in their respective franchises.
Ongoing series
Official IC Card Support type
Great Animal Kaiser July 2012～
Daikaijuu Rush ULTRA FRONTIER September 2013～
Kamen Rider Ganbarizing October 2013～
No IC Card Support type
Pretty Cure Princess Party April 2015～
Ultraman Fusion Fight! July 2016～
Retired series
Hyakujuu Taisen Animal Kaiser
Dragon Ball series
Data Carddass: Dragon Ball Z
Data Carddass: Dragon Ball Z 2
Dragon Ball Z: Bakuretsu Impact
Dragon Ball Z: W Bakuretsu Impact
Dragon Ball Kai Dragon Battlers
Naruto series
Naruto Narultimate Card Battle
Naruto Shippuden: Kyuukyoku Ninmu Narultimate Mission
Naruto Shippuden: Narultimate Cross
Digimon series
Kyuukyoku Taisen! Digimon Battle Terminal Kyuukyoku Taisen! Digimon Battle Terminal 02 Digimon Xros Wars Chou Digicard Taisen Digimon Xros Wars Chou Digicard Taisen: General Strikers Tamagotchi series
Chou Nenju Kaisai Card de Ouen! Tamagotchi Cup All Seasons Saa Ikou! Card de Entry! Tamagotchi Contest Tamagotchi Fushigi na Ehon Card de Dechakushin! Tamagotchi! Card de Happy! Tamagotchi! Tama Heart Collection Daikaijuu Battle series:
Daikaijuu Battle Ultra Monsters Daikaijuu Battle Ultra Monsters Ex Daikaijuu Battle Ultra Monsters Neo Daikaijuu Battle Ultra Monster Neo: Galaxy Legend Daikaijuu Battle RR Pretty Cure series
Utatte! Pretty Cure Dream Live ~Speech Card de Metamorphose!? Pretty Cure All Stars: GoGo Dream Live Pretty Cure All Stars: Fresh Dream Dance Pretty Cu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Hanratty | Patrick Hanratty is the name of:
Patrick J. Hanratty, (born c. 1941), computer scientist and businessman
Patrick Hanratty (bishop), 17th-century Roman Catholic Bishop of Dromore and Bishop of Down and Connor
See also
Pat Hanratty, politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20mapping | Crisis mapping (also known as disaster mapping) is the real-time gathering, display and analysis of data during a crisis, usually a natural disaster or social/political conflict (violence, elections, etc.). Crisis mapping projects usually allows large numbers of people, including the public and crisis responders, to contribute information either remotely or from the site of the crisis. One benefit of the crisis mapping method over others is that it can increase situational awareness, since the public can report information and improve data management.
Crisis mappers work with data that comes from diverse sources and can be produced for varying purposes. As such, there is some overlap with big data, international development, and community engagement.
History
One of the first major events to utilize crisis mapping was the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people and left homes and infrastructure badly damaged. People who wanted to help started mapping the basic infrastructure, especially in OpenStreetMap, and were then able to do more detailed mapping as better resources became available. Crisis mapping in one form or another has been used in many crises since then. Many volunteers have also joined to help with data responses to crises and to build new information-handling tools for both crisis mappers and crisis responders in the field.
Since 2010, crisis mappers have mapped events in Libya (refugees), Japan (crowdsourcing and radiation monitoring for 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami), Chile (Humanitarian response to the 2010 Chile earthquake), Pakistan (2010 Pakistan floods, 2011 floods), Somalia (refugees), Alabama (2011 Super Outbreak), and dozens of smaller disasters and events around the world.
Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, hosting Syrians escaping the war, is being actively mapped on OpenStreetMap by UNHCR and REACH workers.
Techniques
Crisis mapping leverage the following tools and methods to power effective early warning for rapid response to complex humanitarian emergencies:
Mobile and web-based applications,
Participatory maps and crowdsourced event data,
Aerial and satellite imagery,
Geospatial platforms,
Advanced visualization,
Live simulation, and
Computational and statistical models
Crisis mappers are usually volunteers, meaning they contribute non-wage labor. They can be professional mappers, software developers, data analysts, or members of the public. Since it is a new field, crisis mapping engages users' existing skills, rather than field-specific skills. However, new skills are often acquired during "deployments", where a crisis mapping organization and interface is established to begin collecting data.
Instances of crisis mapping usually have a goal to process and/or produce data that would be of value in the crisis. Examples of processing data include geolocating news reports, and classifying or translating text messages. It is common to scrape social media sites for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical%20Care%20Affiliates | SCA Health (SCA), is based in Deerfield, Illinois, with a network of 300+ ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 35 states performing 1 million procedures a year. Since March 2017, the company is part of Optum.
SCA creates partnerships between health plans, physician groups, and health systems, to acquire, develop and optimize surgical facilities. SCA's affiliated physicians provide a range of surgical services.
In 2015, SCA was named one of Becker’s ASC Review’s “Best Places to Work in Healthcare”.
History
Surgical Care Affiliates was founded in 1982 by Joel Gordon in Nashville, Tennessee. Gordon had previously founded General Care Corp (NYSE: GCE) in 1969, a hospital company that was sold to Hospital Corporation of America (“HCA”) in 1980. Subsequent to selling General Care Corp to HCA, Gordon partnered with Andrew “Woody” Miller, an HCA executive, and Jack Massey, a co-founder of HCA and American venture capitalist, to launch SCA. SCA raised capital by listing shares on the New York Stock Exchange and used the proceeds to acquire existing surgery centers and build new surgery centers, mostly in the southeast. From 1982 to 1995, SCA grew to approximately 67 facilities, with Ken Melkus serving as the CEO for most of that time.
HealthSouth Corporation acquired SCA in October 1995 and closed the Nashville office which had been consolidated into the company's surgery division office located at the HealthSouth Corporate Campus in Birmingham, Alabama. The acquisition, along with several previous surgery center company acquisitions, made HealthSouth the largest provider of outpatient surgery in the nation with a total of 126 surgery centers. HealthSouth acquired other surgery center companies, including ASC Network Corp and National Surgery Centers, and independent facilities during this period. In March 2007, HealthSouth announced that it would sell its surgery center division to TPG Capital (TPG), a large private equity firm.
In June 2007, TPG Capital acquired the assets of HealthSouth’s surgery division, effectively forming SCA as a new, stand-alone company. The company was named Surgical Care Affiliates, in recognition of the original SCA, and headquartered in Birmingham where the company continues to maintain its administrative headquarters and largest base of employees. In May 2008, Andrew Hayek was hired as president and chief executive officer. Hayek had previously been president of a division of DaVita Healthcare Partners (now Optum) and had been president and chief operating officer of Alliance Healthcare Services.
In October 2013, the company issued an IPO.
In January 2021, the company was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of labor market collusion. According to the Department of Justice, "Beginning at least as early as May 2010 and continuing until at least as late as October 2017, SCA conspired with a company based in Texas to allocate senior-level employees by agreeing not to solicit each other’s senior-level employees. Be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiptail%20Technologies | Whiptail Technologies LLC, was previously a privately held company that builds data storage systems out of solid-state drive components. Whiptail designed and commercialized the use of NAND flash memory as a replacement for hard disk drives in large-scale storage systems. The company is named after the whiptail racerunner, a fast lizard species indigenous to the southwestern United States.
On October 29, 2013,Whiptail was acquired by Cisco Systems for approximately US $415M.
History
Headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey, with offices in San Jose, California, and London, United Kingdom, Whiptail was founded in 2009 by Edward T Rebholz CEO and (now CTO) James Candelaria.
Early investors included Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital. In January 2012, Series B funding was reported as "more than $10 million." In December 2012, Whiptail announced a $31 million funding round. Ignition Partners led the Series C financing, with SanDisk Ventures joining as the new strategic investor. Existing investors, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital also participated.
Whiptail released the XLR8r in 2009. In May 2012, Whiptail announced the ACCELA all-flash storage array, and INVICTA, which featured scaling, high-availability, modular and multi-protocol technology.
In November 2012, Whiptail announced INVICTA INFINITY, which they said exceeded 4 million IOPS and 40 GB/second data rate and an upgrade to version 4.1. of the software RACERUNNER, which allows businesses to replicate data to a non-Whiptail target array.
On January 31, 2011, former CTO of Brocade Communications Systems Dan Crain became CEO.
On March 12, 2013, former SunGard CEO Cristóbal Conde was named Whiptail Chairman of the Board.
In 2012, Whiptail partnered with Cisco, Citrix, SanDisk, Micron and VMware. Whiptail works with the Cisco VXI (Virtualization Experience Infrastructure) and the UCS (Unified Computing System). INVICTA and ACCELA are verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program identifies solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer, NetScaler and GoToMeeting.
In December, 2012, SanDisk announced an investment in Whiptail via SanDisk Ventures, the company’s newly formed strategic investment arm, with Alex Lam joining the company as a Board Observer. Whiptail’s INVICTA and ACCELA storage arrays achieved VMware Ready status.
On September 10, 2013, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Whiptail for $415 million, with a plan to incorporate Whiptail's technology within Cisco UCS fabric offerings at a hardware and manageability level.
On July 24, 2015, Cisco announced the end-of-life (EOL) of Whiptail products, specifically the Invicta Appliance and Scaling System products.
Products
Product specifications:
References
Companies based in Morris County, New Jersey
American companies established in 2009
Computer storage companies
Computer companie |
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