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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise%20Lost%20in%20Cyberspace | Paradise Lost In Cyberspace was a BBC Radio 4 pseudo-science fiction comedy series of 6 episodes in 1998.
Cast
Stephen Moore as George
Patsy Byrne as Doris
Geoffrey McGivern as O'Connoll
Crew
written by Colin Swash
Episodes and broadcast dates
References
External links
The Official BBC web site
BBC Radio 4 programmes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Toronto%20neighbourhoods | The list of demographic data on each Toronto neighbourhood is taken from the 2006 Canadian census.
Table
Neighbourhood boundaries are approximated to the nearest census tract. The colours indicate the former municipality (FM):
Purple - Old City of Toronto (OCoT)
Pink - Scarborough (S)
Blue - North York (NY)
Green - Etobicoke (E)
Yellow - York (Y)
Orange - East York (EY)
East York
Etobicoke
North York
Old Toronto
Scarborough
See also
Demographics of Toronto
List of neighbourhoods in Toronto
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising%20Whitley | Raising Whitley is an American reality television series that premiered April 20, 2013, on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The show ran for four seasons and in 2016, for unknown reasons, the OWN Network decided not to renew the series for a fifth season.
Premise
Raising Whitley chronicles the daily life of actress-comedian Kym Whitley and her group of friends—whom she refers to as "The Village"—as they raise baby Joshua, the child that Kym unexpectedly gained custody of. Joshua was left to Whitley after a troubled young woman, who she mentored for 15 years, had mysteriously escaped the hospital immediately after giving birth and left behind only Kym's contact information.
Production
It was announced in June 2013 that the Oprah Winfrey Network had ordered a ten-episode second season. Season 2 premiered on January 4, 2014, and expanded to hour-long episodes. On April 29, 2014, OWN announced that Raising Whitley had been renewed for another season. On July 31, 2015 OWN announced that Raising Whitley would return with brand new episodes beginning November 14, 2015. In April 2016, it was announced the show had been cancelled.
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2015)
Season 4 (2015-16)
Awards and nominations
External links
References
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekanbaru%E2%80%93Dumai%20Toll%20Road | Pekanbaru–Dumai Toll Road is a toll road linked from Pekanbaru to Dumai in Riau, Indonesia. This toll road is part of Trans-Sumatra Toll Road network.
Project
Groundbreaking of construction of this toll road was done in 2013. State owned Hutama Karya constructed the toll road. The road was originally expected to be operational by the end of 2019.
but was only inaugurated by Indonesian President Joko Widodo on 25 September 2020.
Exits
Dumai–Mandau Link
References
Infrastructure completed in 2019
2019 establishments in Indonesia
Toll roads in Sumatra
Transport in Riau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20processing%20technician | The United States Navy occupational rating of data processing technician (abbreviated as DP) was a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) to enlisted members who satisfactorily completed initial data processing technician "A" school training.
This navy rating originated as the machine accountant (MA) rating in large number of navy rating changes implemented in 1948. The rating name and designation was changed to data processing technician (DP) in 1967. The Navy disestablished the DP rating on 1 October 1997, combining DPs who had not previously changed ratings into the radioman (RM) rating. In 1999 the (RM) rating was re-designated information systems technician (IT). The radioman rating specialty mark was retained for use by the IT rating members. In 2005 the cryptologic technician communications (CTO) rating merged into the IT rating.
Data processing technicians operated data processing equipment including keypunch machines, sorters, collators, reproducers, tabulating printers, and computers; performed the administrative tasks for operating computer facility, including the handling of all classified material passing into or out of a computer system; designed, developed, tested, and maintained computer software.
See also
List of United States Navy ratings
Navy Data Processor's Association Page
United States Navy ratings
Data processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js | asm.js is a subset of JavaScript designed to allow computer software written in languages such as C to be run as web applications while maintaining performance characteristics considerably better than standard JavaScript, which is the typical language used for such applications.
asm.js consists of a strict subset of JavaScript, to which code written in statically typed languages with manual memory management (such as C) is translated by a source-to-source compiler such as Emscripten (based on LLVM). Performance is improved by limiting language features to those amenable to ahead-of-time optimization and other performance improvements.
Mozilla Firefox was the first web browser to implement asm.js-specific optimizations, starting with version 22.
asm.js is superseded by WebAssembly. See below.
Design
asm.js enables significant performance improvements for web applications, but does not aim to improve the performance of hand-written JavaScript code, nor does it enable anything other than enhanced performance.
It is intended to have performance characteristics closer to that of native code than standard JavaScript by limiting language features to those amenable to ahead-of-time optimization and other performance improvements. By using a subset of JavaScript, asm.js is largely supported by all major web browsers, unlike alternative approaches such as Google Native Client.
Code generation
asm.js is not typically written directly: instead, as an intermediate language, it is generated through the use of a compiler that takes source code in a language such as C++ and outputs asm.js.
For example, given the following C code:
int f(int i) {
return i + 1;
}
Emscripten would output the following JS code:
function f(i) {
i = i|0;
return (i + 1)|0;
}
Note the addition of |0 and the lack of type specifiers. In JavaScript, bitwise operators convert their operands to 32-bit signed integers and give integer results. This means that a bitwise OR with zero converts a value to an integer (a very simple "conceptual" presentation of bitwise operators may not deal with type conversion at all, but every programming language defines operators for its own convenience, as Javascript does here). By doing this for each parameter, this ensures that if the function is called from outside code, the value will be converted to the correct type. This is also used on the return value, in this case to ensure that the result of adding 1 to i will be an integer (as otherwise it could become too large), and to mark the return type of the function. These conversions are required by asm.js, so that an optimising compiler can produce highly efficient native code ahead-of-time. In such an optimising compiler, no conversions are performed when asm.js code calls other asm.js code, as the required type specifiers mean it is guaranteed that values will already have the correct type. Furthermore, rather than performing a floating-point addition and converting to an integer, it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Hum%20Awards | The 2nd Hum Awards ceremony, presented by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC), sponsored by Servis and Telenor Talkshawlk, honored the best in fashion, music and Hum Television Dramas of 2013. The ceremony took place on 29 March 2014 at Expo Center in Karachi, Sindh beginning at 7:30 PST. The ceremony was recorded and was broadcast on 25 May 2014. During the ceremony, Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented awards in 29 regular categories along with 2 in honorary and 1 in special category. The ceremony was televised in Pakistan by Hum TV, while Servis returned as a main sponsor of the show.
Television personalities Meekal Zulfiqar and Sanam Saeed hosted the show along with Sanam Jung and Vasay Chaudhry. Meekal Zulfiqar and Vasay Chaudhry hosted the show for a second time, having hosted the previous ceremony. During the ceremony, Hum also held its annual Honorary Awards, which were presented by host Fahad Mustafa.
Zindagi Gulzar Hai won nine awards, the most for the ceremony, including Best Director Drama Serial for Sultana Siddiqui and Best Drama Serial Jury and Best Drama Serial Popular for Momina Duraid. Aseerzadi won three awards including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, for Sania Saeed and Salman Shahid respectively. Dil-e-Muztar and Ek Pagal Si Larki won two awards each. While others dramas to win one award were Rehaai, Ishq Humari Galion Main, Extras – The Mango People, Rishtay Kuch Adhorey Se, Behadd and Ullu Baraye Farokht Nahi.
Winners and nominees
The nominees of the 2nd Hum Awards were announced on 2 March 2014 at the bloggers meeting by GM Public Relations and Publications Shehnaz Ramzi, In meeting, only four categories were announced which were set open for public voting on channels official website, while the rest of the categories were announced during the ceremony. Television categories were split into Viewers Choice and Jury Choice portions. Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Aseerzadi and Dil-e-Muztar tied for the most nominations with thirteen each, and Zindagi Gulzar Hai bags nine awards in all of its nominations.
Noman Ejaz and Samina Peerzada became the second time winner of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards, respectively. Sania Saeed and Salman Shahid wins in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories respectively made Aseerzadi the second drama to win both leading acting awards. Umera Ahmad won Best Writer Drama Serial for Zindagi Gulzar Hai, which was her second successive win. Umera was the only individual whose work were nominated in all main categories, including Best Actor and Best Actress (Viewers/Jury), Best Supporting Actor/Actress, and Best Television Film which ultimately won for director Asim Raza.
Sanam Saeed and Fawad Khan won the Best Actress Popular and Best Actor Popular receptively. Fawad and Sanam won both Jury and Viewers Choice category of Best Onscreen Couple. Arij Fatyma was the only soap actress to be nominated consecutive for Best Soa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD%20Decompiler | JD (Java Decompiler) is a decompiler for the Java programming language. JD is provided as a GUI tool as well as in the form of plug-ins for the Eclipse (JD-Eclipse) and IntelliJ IDEA (JD-IntelliJ) integrated development environments.
JD supports most versions of Java from 1.1.8 through 1.7.0 as well as JRockit 90_150, Jikes 1.2.2, Eclipse Java Compiler and Apache Harmony and is thus often used where formerly the popular JAD was operated.
Variants
In 2011, Alex Kosinsky initiated a variant of JD-Eclipse which supports the alignment of decompiled code by the line numbers of the originals, which are often included in the original Bytecode as debug information.
In 2012, a branch of JDEclipse-Realign by Martin "Mchr3k" Robertson extended the functionality by manual decompilation control and support for Eclipse 4.2 (Juno).
See also
JAD (software)
Mocha
References
External links
Java decompilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monokub | Monokub () is a computer motherboard based on the Russian Elbrus 2000 computer architecture, which form the basis for the Monoblock PC office workstation.
The motherboard has a miniITX formfactor and contains a single Elbrus-2C+ microprocessor with a clock frequency of 500 MHz. The memory controller provides a dual-channel memory mode. The board has two DDR2-800 memory slots, which enables up to 16 GB of RAM memory (using ECC modules). It also supports expansion boards using PCI Express x16 bus. In addition there is an on-board Gigabit Ethernet interface, 4 USB 2.0, RS-232 interface, DVI connector and audio input/output ports.
References
Motherboard
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Zegar | Charlie Zegar (born 1948) is an American businessman and computer programmer known for being one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P.
Early life and education
Zegar was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Lillian, a musical comedy performer and opera singer, and Henry Zegar, a subway conductor for the New York City Transit Authority.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Science from Long Island University and a master's degree in computer science from New York University.
Career
Zegar is one of the four founding partners of Innovative Market Systems (later renamed Bloomberg L.P.), which was established in 1982. The other founders were Michael Bloomberg, Tom Secunda, and Duncan MacMillan. Zegar met Bloomberg while both were working at Salomon Brothers. Zegar initially led Bloomberg's software development efforts.
In 2020, he was ranked No. 353 in the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America.
Philanthropy
Zegar is a signatory of The Giving Pledge. He also established the Zegar Family Foundation. Zegar is on the board of trustees for New York University
Personal life
Zegar has been married twice. He is widowed from his first wife. He remarried in 2001 to administrative judge, Merryl Judith Snow. The service was officiated by Rabbi Joel Goor and took place at the Essex House in Manhattan.
References
1948 births
21st-century American philanthropists
American billionaires
Bloomberg L.P. founders
Businesspeople from New York City
Living people
Long Island University alumni
New York University alumni
Philanthropists from New York (state)
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayid%20Ghani | Rayid Ghani is a Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department (in the School of Computer Science) and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he was the director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy, research associate professor in the department of computer science, and a senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was also the co-founder of Edgeflip, an analytics startup that grew out of the Obama 2012 Campaign, focused on social media products for non-profits, advocacy groups, and charities. Recently, it was announced that he will be leaving the University of Chicago and joining Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.
Ghani started and runs the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship. He's also the co-founder of Coleridge Initiative, a nonprofit organization working with governments to ensure that data and evidence is used more effectively for policymaking.
Education and career
Ghani completed his schooling at the Karachi Grammar School, in Karachi, Pakistan.
Ghani completed his graduate studies in the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University with Tom M. Mitchell on machine learning and text classification and received his undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics from University of the South.
Before his role at the University of Chicago, he was the chief scientist of the Obama 2012 Campaign. Before that, he was a senior research scientist and director of analytics research at Accenture Labs, where he led a technology research team focused on applied R&D in analytics, machine learning, and data mining for large-scale and emerging business problems.
Policy efforts
Ghani has been actively working with government agencies and non-profits on designing AI and Machine Learning Systems to help tackle societal problems in public health, criminal justice, social services, education, economic development, and workforce development
He has also testified in front of the US Senate (Testimony) and the US House of Representatives (Testimony) on AI Governance and Regulation.
Research contributions
Ghani's research focuses on developing and applying machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence methods to large-scale social problems in areas such as education, healthcare, economic development, criminal justice, energy, transportation, and public safety. His work has previously focused on text analytics, fundraising, volunteer, and voter mobilization using analytics, social media, and machine learning., and data mining. Rayid's research contributions have been in the areas of text mining, co-training, active learning, consumer behavior modeling, and fraud detection.
He has given keynote speeches on Analytics and the Presidential Elections (for example at Predictive An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau%E2%80%93Altom%C3%BCnster%20railway | The Dachau–Altomünster railway, also called the Bummerl, Bockerl or Ludwig Thoma Railway, is a railway in the German state of Bavaria. It is part of the Munich S-Bahn network and is integrated within the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (Munich Transport and Tariff Association, MVV) as line S2. The branch line connects the town of Dachau on the Munich–Treuchtlingen railway with Altomünster. Markt Indersdorf is an important stop. Until its electrification in 2014, it was the only non-electrified line of the Munich S-Bahn and was designated as line A.
History
At the beginning of the year 1900 it was decided to build a railway line from the Munich–Ingolstadt line (now part of the Nuremberg–Munich high-speed line) for the development of the hinterland of Dachau. There were two option for the route: connecting Altomünster via Schwabhausen and Erdweg from Dachau station or connecting Markt Indersdorf from Hebertshausen.
The respective municipalities could not agree on one or other the routes and so came to a compromise. This compromise is reflected in the present route. First it runs west to Schwabhausen, then continues north to Indersdorf and turns back to the southwest to run up the Glonn valley to Erdweg. From there, the line heads back to the northwest to Altomünster. This means that the line takes 29.9 kilometres between Dachau and Altomünster, which are about 20 kilometres apart in a direct line.
The first section from Dachau to Indersdorf was opened on 8 July 1912 and the whole line to Altomünster was commissioned as the "Dachauer Lokalbahn" on 18 December 1913.
At the time of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, the local railway was an important economic factor for the revolutionary government. The money printed in the paper mill in Dachau could be transported directly to Munich without substantial detours.
Since the establishment of the MVV, the whole line has been integrated in the MVV's system of fares. It was formerly served by local trains, operated with push–pull trains trains made up of yl and Silberling carriage, hauled by locomotives of class 211 and later 212. In 1995, the still non-electrified railway was included as line A of the Munich S-Bahn.
In the 2000s, planning began for the electrification of the suburban railway line. The estimated cost in 2005 was €32 million. The planning agreement for electrification was signed at the end of June 2006. Originally, the construction was to begin in 2012, with completion scheduled for 2013, but the work was repeatedly postponed. Final planning approval was issued in January 2013. In mid-November 2013, the contract for the electrification of the line was estimated to be worth €8 million. As part of the European tender five bids were received. The final cost estimate was €47 million.
From April 28 to 13 December 2014, the line was completely closed for the construction work. The S-Bahn line was continuously electrified and a passing loop was installed between Bachem and Schwabhausen. A c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jettha%20Tissa%20III%20of%20Anuradhapura | Jettha Tissa III was King of Anuradhapura in the 7th century, whose reign lasted from 623 to 624. He succeeded Aggabodhi III by a successful rebellion. He had sent his general Datasiva to the western part of the country to lay waste. The general was defeated by King Aggabodhi's sub-king Mana. Prince Jetta Tissa however withstood the King's forces and defeated him.
King Jetta Thissa bestowed land grants to various viharas throughout the land.
On the return of former king Aggabodhi III with an Indian army the King ventured to meet him at the head of the royal forces. A great battle ensued near Kalawewa and the king was defeated.
On seeing that he is being defeated, the King Jetta Thissa instructed his minister to carry a message to his queen to enter into a monastery and to learn and preach abhidhamma and to offer that merit to him. Then he moved forward on his elephant slaying every Indian he encountered. When he was fatigued by this an Indian called Veluppa advance to fight with the king. At his point rather than being defeated the king Jetta Thissa committed suicide.
He was succeeded by Aggabodhi III as King of Anuradhapura.
See also
List of Sri Lankan monarchs
History of Sri Lanka
References
External links
Kings & Rulers of Sri Lanka
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt%20Vetulani%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Zygmunt Władysław Vetulani (born 12 September 1950) is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in language engineering and artificial intelligence, professor of technical sciences and professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University where he is also Head of the Department of Information Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence.
Biography
Professional career
He was born in 1950 in Poznań and was the only son of Polish zoologist Tadeusz Vetulani and medical doctor and stomatologist Maria née Godlewska. He attended the prestigious Karol Marcinkowski High School, where he passed matura in 1968. In 1973 he graduated in mathematics from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He received his PhD in 1977 at the University of Warsaw. In 1982 he obtained his second master's degree graduating in Roman philology from Adam Mickiewicz University. He was a scholarship holder of the French Government at the Université d'Aix-Marseille II (1984) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Bielefeld University and the University of Paris VII (1987–1989).
In 1990 he received a habilitation degree at the Faculty of Modern Languages at the Adam Mickiewicz University in the field of humanities (computer linguistics). Since 1993, he has been Head of the Department of Information Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Adam Mickiewicz University. On 30 May 2006 he received the title of professor of technical sciences in the field of computer science.
Vetulani has published more than 100 research papers and six books which cover subjects such as computational linguistics, language engineering, artificial intelligence and mathematical logic. He created linguistic resources of databases for Polish language (POLEX, PolNex) and IT systems with language competence (POLINT, POLiNT-112-SMS). He is an organizer and chair of the program committee of the Language and Technology Conference (LTC) held every two years in Poznań since 2005.
In 1990 he was awarded the Minister of National Education Award, and in 2001 he was awarded the Adam Mickiewicz University Rector Prize.
Hobby activities and personal life
In his free time he is an amateur fencer and a sports activist. He is a member of the training staff and deputy head of the fencing section of KS Warta Poznań club. He co-organized numerous fencing events, among others European Fencing Festival. In 2009 he was the initiator and the creator of the fencing section of KU AZS UAM (University Club of the Academic Sports Association of the Adam Mickiewicz University). In 2014 and 2015, as a representative of Poland, he performed at the European Veterans Championship in fencing. Also in 2015 he won a bronze medal at the European Fencing Veterans' Games held in Nice.
He is interested in the history of his family. He arranged and donated to the Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań a large part of his father's legacy. He published a chapter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves%20AN/TPQ-2%20Close%20Air%20Support%20System | The AN/TPQ-2 Close Air Support System was a post-World War II radar/computer/communications system ("Q" system) for automatically tracking an aircraft and guiding it to a predetermined bomb release point. The system was the predecessor of the General Electric AN/MPQ-14 Course Directing Central deployed to the Korean War for ground-directed bombing.
Background
After the Air Medal was awarded for development of ground-directed bombing in Italy for World War II Close Air Support, a detachment of NAS Mojave's "Pilotless Aircraft Unit" was established in 1945 on a SeaBee military installation at Point Mugu (4 officers and 11 enlisted men). A Bureau of Aeronautics committee's December 1945 Study of the Requirements for Pilotless Aircraft for Fleet Use in 1950 was approved 3 months later, and the KGW-1 Loon was 1 of its 18 missile proposals. The detachment's "Marine LtCol Marion Dalby and Dr. Herbert Wagner", the latter arriving by Operation Paperclip in early 1946, developed "NAVAIR’s TPQ-2 Close Air Support System" for command guidance of the KGW-1 Loon missile for submarine attacks on mapped Japanese "beach-head fortifications". Point Mugu development of the KGW-1 and its test launch facilities were by "Jack Schoenhair's gang" and included additional Operation Paperclip scientists "Willy Fiedler, Robert Lusser and Otto Schwede". The 1st KGW-1 launch was in January 1946, and its 1st submarine launch was February 12, 1947, using rocket assist developed by Robert Truax's team.
Description
The transportable AN/TPQ-2 included a World War II surplus SCR-584 radar and, as in the AN/MSQ-1, a Reeves Instrument Corporation analog computer for converting the radar's spherical coordinates to rectangular coordinates, and a Reeves "plotting board to yield course changes, a warhead arming signal and a dump [dive] command to the Loon". A "Marine F6F fighter" was to escort the KGW-1 for safety (e.g., to abort by shooting a missile straying back over land) and during simulated KGW-1 missions, MSgt. Clark. D Hayden used the system to instead control the manned fighter. During Dalby's 2nd mission piloting a "Loon simulation flight" he "wondered why…prefer [sub-launched, 1,000 lb payload] Loon over a two thousand lb. Bomb” from a piloted aircraft launched by a carrier. Dalby briefed Point Mugu's Director of Tests, Captain Grayson Merrill, when "both realized…we were talking about [an] all-weather, close-air support system" and "Dalby and I conceived the idea of converting [its use to] Close Air Support."
Dalby and Cpt. Samuel A. Dressin redesigned the system (e.g., switched from the SCR-584 to the SCR-784 radar), and the TPQ-2 was demonstrated at Camp Pendelton in April 1950. Dalby claimed dummy bombs from would drop within of the target, and a direct hit on a terrain feature was observed by the 1st Marine Air Wing Chief of Staff. Lt. Col. Homer G. Hutchinson helped the project receive support including two F4U night-fighters and pilots for training.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20Logix |
Introduction
Fuzzy Logix develops high -performance analytics solutions for Big Data.
Fuzzy Logix offers in-database and GPU-based analytics solutions built on comprehensive and growing libraries of over 600 mathematical, statistical, simulation, data mining, time series and financial models.
History
Fuzzy Logix was formed in 2007 by Partha Sen and Mike Upchurch who met while working at Bank of America and shared a goal of making analytics pervasive. In 2008 Fuzzy Logix released DB Lytix, the first complete and commercially available library of in-database analytics. FIN Lytix was released in 2010 and was the first comprehensive library of in-database financial models. In 2010, Aperity OEM’d Fuzzy Logix models to run in their analytics and CPG software SaaS solutions. In 2011, Quest (now Dell) released Toad for Data Analyst (Data Point) that included Fuzzy Logix's models running in MySQL. The company was started in Charlotte, NC, USA, where their headquarters are located today. Fuzzy Logix has offices in Richmond, VA, Cupertino, CA and in the UK and India and has reseller partners in Mexico, Sweden, Japan and China.
Software
Fuzzy Logix offers four software products DB Lytix and Fin Lytix are comprehensive libraries of in-database analytic models. The libraries leverage the user defined function (UDF) capability available in database platforms. The software is available on multiple database platforms. Since data movement from the database is minimized and database platforms are growing increasingly powerful, in-database models run 5X to 100X faster than models that use multi-tiered analytics platforms.
DB Lytix
Fuzzy Logix released the first comprehensive library of in-database models, DB Lytix in 2008. The library had been under development since 1998. The library includes mathematical, statistical, data mining, simulation and classification models.
Fin Lytix
Fuzzy Logix released the first comprehensive financial library FIN Lytix, in 2010. The library contains models for equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, interest rate and time series models that are used by the financial services industry for risk management, pricing and portfolio optimization.
FastINDX
In 2016 Fuzzy Logix realized that current tools and technology for Index creation or for Index operations are based on heavily manual and error prone processes which are ultimately a drag on the growth of the overall business.
In conjunction with one of Asia’s largest Index providers, Fuzzy Logix developed an automation tool with the mission to drive 10-100x efficiency in the process, allowing customers to focus on the high value, intellectual aspect of the business, and letting the software do the menial work. As a result, customers can rapidly grow from managing a few hundred indexes, to several thousand indexes covering a larger geography with an exposure to various new asset classes – without adding any additional staff!
Supported Database Platforms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX%20Magaz%C3%ADn | ZX Magazín was a Czech magazine for users of home computers ZX Spectrum, Didaktik, Delta, Sam Coupé and compatible computers. It was published from 1988 to 2005. It was published by different companies. When its publisher was the company Proxima - Software, the magazine was issued bimonthly.
Magazine content
The magazine was not oriented only to computer games, the game topics was only about one-third of the whole content. The other topics that the magazine was focused to were the manuals to user programs and utilities, hardware description (either own ZX Spectrum hardware, either peripherals), courses of programming, introduction to electronics. Some issues contains reportages from actions organized by ZX Spectrum community and interviews with authors of ZX Spectrum programs.
As a speciality, the magazine Intro was put at the last page of the magazine.
Magazine issuers
1988 – 1991 – David Hertl
1992 – 1994 – Proxima - Software,
1995 – 1997 – Zbyněk Vanžura (Heptau)
1998 – 2005 – Matěj Kryndler (Matsoft).
The was given to the magazine in 1993.
References
Remarks
External links
ZX Magazín in the list of journals and issuers by Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic
Record about ZX Magazínu in the catalog of Northbohemian science library
1988 establishments in Czechoslovakia
2005 disestablishments in the Czech Republic
Czech-language magazines
Video game magazines published in the Czech Republic
Defunct magazines published in the Czech Republic
Magazines established in 1988
Magazines disestablished in 2005
ZX Spectrum magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%20r%C3%A9sille | Émail en résille sur verre ("enamel in a network on glass") is a rare and difficult enameling technique first practiced for a brief period in seventeenth-century France. It was later revived by American metalsmith Margret Craver, who encountered the technique in 1953 and spent 13 years re-creating and perfecting it.
Method
The technique involves etching a design in a piece of glass, which is then lined with gold foil and the hollow filled with powdered enamel. It is difficult to accomplish in part because of the extremely careful regulation of temperature required to fuse the enamel without damaging the glass in which it is embedded. The edges of the foil form a frame for the enamel, giving the appearance, as artist William Claude Harper described it, of "the most delicate cloisonné that you can imagine".
1950s rediscovery
In 1953, metalsmith Margret Craver saw a pin decorated using the technique. Craver began studying the technique, researching and testing it over the course of about thirteen years to reproduce it. Because the technique was not being practiced, and there were no instructional texts in existence, the work was slow, and Craver had to design her own tools. On the technique, Craver said "it took forever, because this was such an ancient technique and no one knew a darn thing about it. I just had to start out and do it myself."
See also
Creativity techniques
List of art techniques
References
Artistic techniques
Jewellery making
Vitreous enamel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript%20templating | JavaScript templating refers to the client side data binding method implemented with the JavaScript language. This approach became popular thanks to JavaScript's increased use, its increase in client processing capabilities, and the trend to outsource computations to the client's web browser. Popular JavaScript templating libraries are AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, Handlebars.js, Vue.js and Mustache.js. A frequent practice is to use double curly brackets (i.e. {{key}}) to call values of the given key from data files, often JSON objects.
Examples
All examples use an external file presidents.json with following contents
{
"presidents" : [
{ "name": "Washington", "firstname": "George", "born": "1732", "death": "1799" },
{ "name": "Lincoln", "firstname": "Abraham", "born": "1809", "death": "1865" }
]
}
All examples will produce the following HTML list:
Washington (1732-1799)
Lincoln (1809-1865)
Templating becomes useful when the information distributed may change, is too large to be maintained in various HTML pages by available human resources and not large enough to require heavier server-side templating.
See also
Online JavaScript IDE
Comparison of web template engines
References
http://www.jquery4u.com/javascript/10-javascript-jquery-templates-engines/
Template engines
JavaScript libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Fantasy%20Artniks | Final Fantasy Artniks was a Japanese video game developed by Square Enix and the GREE social network. It is the second Final Fantasy social game and the second game developed with GREE.
The game is a card game using art assets, characters and battle systems from previous Final Fantasy titles. Players could either fight series of battles against enemies and bosses for rewards and rankings, or engage other players.
The game was released on November 30, 2012, and in just over a month, one million players had joined. Square Enix reported in 2013 that social games like Artniks were producing "acceptable profits".
A sequel to the game, titled Final Fantasy Artniks Dive, was released in June 2014. Both titles have since been discontinued.
Gameplay
Players began the game by choosing a main card. They also utilized equipment cards that enhanced all characters in play. Ability cards were also used to make attacks stronger and hit points higher. Defeating enemies and completing quests filled a meter that when full made players to enter "Burst Mode", releasing treasure chests. Boss combat used Final Fantasys active time battle system. Player versus player combat was also possible, and involved eleven cards instead of the five used in boss battles. Winners got points toward the game's leaderboard, and also "Mog Medals" that were used to access a mini-game.
Features
Characters, monsters and items from all the main Final Fantasy games appeared, as well as Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Dissidia Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Type-0, and others. Well known events from previous Final Fantasy titles were occasionally encountered. The game received updates periodically in the form of "Most Wanted" villains for players to share information about to find and defeat to earn rewards. The first update featured Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy VI and the second being Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.
Development
The game was first revealed under the temporary title of "Final Fantasy X GREE" in October 2012. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy producer Ichiro Hazama collaborated with Kazunari Itakura to create the game. It was the second social game released under the Final Fantasy title and the second collaboration with the Japanese social network GREE. In an interview with Famitsu, Yuichi Itakura explained that the graphics were not remade to have a similar aesthetic like Dissidia or Theatrythm, but were kept similar to their original appearances to appeal to players sense of nostalgia and make the game feel more like a collectible card game. Those who registered early for the game's release received a free "summon ticket" reward and signing up for "The World Ends With You Live Remix" as well gave access to two extremely rare Aerith and Bahamut cards. The game was released in Japan on November 30, one month after its initial reveal.
Reception
Famitsu featured Artniks on the cover of "Famitsu GREE" magazine on January 31, 2013, and carried rare char |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoblock%20PC | Monoblock PC is a computer workstation based on the Elbrus 2000 architecture. It was developed in Russia as a joint effort between Kraftway and the Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST).
Specifications
Based on the Monokub motherboard with one Elbrus-2C+ processor at 500 MHz
Heat pipe-based cooling system
20" touchscreen with 1600x900 resolution
SATA 2.5" hard drive, with room for one extra drive
DVD-RW drive
Wi-Fi using adapter
USB hub with card reader and panel audio header
2 built-in 4 W loudspeakers
Connector for external power supply 19 V, 8 A
Operating system
Elbrus operating system based on the Linux 2.6.33 kernel
Elbrus 2000 reportedly also runs Microsoft Windows
References
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20Radio%20Van | The Packet Radio Van was a van refitted by Don Cone at SRI International, and equipped with technology that was used in the first two-way internetworked transmission on August 27, 1976, and the first three-way internetworked transmission on November 22, 1977; the latter of which is considered the start of the Internet.
Background
The van was created as part of DARPA's PRNET project, which developed the world's first mobile ad hoc network. It was a mobile packet radio laboratory that housed one of the PRNET radio nodes, to simulate the needs of in-the-field military to connect to the network. As DARPA further wished connect the disparate computers at its various contractors, and indeed globally, there was a push to test internetworking - connecting different communications protocols via the Internet protocol suite. The van played a unique role in the very first demonstration of the Internet.
Equipment
The van, designed by Don Cone, resembled a bread van and contained all of the equipment needed to be an ARPANET node via packet radio, including a DEC LSI-11. Other equipment included a shielded generator, flexible equipment racks, and air conditioning. Due to his contributions around that time, Cone was promoted to Research Engineer.
Transmissions
The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the van and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (now the Alpine Inn), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables. The location was chosen as to be far enough from SRI in Menlo Park, California to be "remote" but close enough to have good radio contact.
This first true Internet transmission occurred on November 22, 1977, when SRI originated the first connection between three disparate networks. Data flowed seamlessly through the mobile van at SRI in Menlo Park, California and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles via London, England, across three types of networks: packet radio, satellite, and the ARPANET.
The van was also the site of the first experiments (primarily by Earl Craighill and Tom Magill) with Voice over IP through ARPA's Network Speech Compression Program around 1977 to 1978. They focused on how to compress speech such that it still sounded "natural" and arrived in a timely manner. The phone in the van was a Mickey Mouse phone.
Legacy
The van was parked unused for a decade in a back lot of the SRI campus until the planning of a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Internet in 1997 at the Internet Supercomputer Conference in San Jose, California. SRI employees Don Alves and Don Nielson cleaned, licensed, and replenished the van's radio and Internet equipment. The van was exhibited on the convention floor and was popular with attendees. SRI donated the van to the Computer History Museum to prevent further deterioration.
In 2007, the Computer History Museum presented a 30th anniversary celebration of this demonstration, which include |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20B.%20Kahn | Louis B. Kahn (9 May 1918 – 5 July 2012) was an American computer scientist and statistician. Kahn was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hungarian and Latvian parents.
Education
Kahn received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied science and economics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940. After receiving a Certificate of Metallurgy from the University of Manchester School of Technology in 1945, he received a Master of Science degree in statistics, economics and mathematics, and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin in 1948 and 1951, respectively.
Career
In 1959, he was one of 10 leading pioneers in the application of statistics using electronic computers, and he presented the Queen of the United Kingdom with a statistical paper that he read to the Royal Statistical Society. He fought in World War II in the 9th Infantry Division in Germany as 1st Lieutenant and was honored the Purple Heart, 2 Bronze Medals and 3 Battle Stars.
Prof. Kahn's Ph.D thesis was published as a book entitled A Study of Productivity and Its Measurement in 1951. Prof. Kahn co-authored a book entitled Logistics Papers with J.E. Hamilton in 1956. He also authored a paper entitled "A Statistical Model for Evaluating the Reliability of Safety Systems for Plants Manufacturing Hazardous Products" in 1959.
In 1961, the Shell Development Company in Emeryville, California appointed Louis B. Kahn the editor of a new journal, The Logistics Review and Military Logistics Journal. The publication was the official journal of the Military Logistics Society. In January 1962, shortly after becoming Associate Professor of Operations Research at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, he suffered a debilitating cerebral hemorrhage, which severely & permanently impeded his speech & overall mobility. His doctors initially predicted that he would only live 10 days. Yet later in 1962, Professor Kahn was able to start his own company in Berkeley, California called Technical Economics, Inc. As president of the company, Dr. Kahn was the computer application specialist, developing proprietary computer programs. As president, he was also a consulting statistician at the Neurosurgery Department of the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California. He was the principal editor of The Logistics Review and Military Logistics Journal as well as the principal editor of The Journal of Biomedical Systems. He also was the founder and assistant editor of The Logistics and Transportation Review. In addition, he was on the editorial advisory board of the publication entitled Current Contents, Life Sciences.
Death
Prof. Kahn died on July 5, 2012, at Chaparral Skilled Nursing in Berkeley, California from complications due to old age. An obituary was published on April 27, 2013, in the Oakland Tribune.
References
Who'sWho in the West, 15th edition, 1976-1977. Chicago, IL: Marquis Who'sWho, 1977
American Men and Women of Science
13TH EDITION |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CENTRIXS | The Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS) is a collection of classified coalition networks, called enclaves, that enable information sharing through the use of email and Web services, instant messaging or chat, the Common Operational Picture service, and Voice over IP. CENTRIXS supports combatant commands throughout the world, including the U.S. Indo-Pacific, Central and European commands.
Some of the CENTRIXS networks are:
CENTRIXS Four Eyes (CFE) for the US, Britain, Canada and Australia
CENTRIXS-J for the United States and Japan
CENTRIXS-K for the United States and South Korea
CENTRIXS-ISAF for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
CENTRIXS-GCTF for the Troop Contributing Nations of the Global Counter-Terrorism Force (GCTF)
CENTRIXS-CMFC for the Combined Maritime Forces, Central Command (CMFC)
CENTRIXS-CMFP for the Cooperative Maritime Forces, Pacific (CMFP)
History
United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) began envisioning and exploring a coalition data-sharing network in early 1999.
At the onset of the global war on terrorism, as USCENTCOM prepared to conduct Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in late 2001, efforts focused on speeding the development of just such a network. Additionally, the global nature of the war on terrorism demanded that CENTRIXS become a global multinational information sharing initiative.
The CENTRIXS Program Office (CPMO) was established by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration in late January 2002. The CPMO was responsible for coordinating the planning, resources, and implementation of CENTRIXS world-wide to support the combatant commands.
Most CENTRIXS-ISAF and CENTRIXS-GCTF have been migrated to the newly created CENTCOM Partner Network (CPN).
References
External links
DISA Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) service
Command and control
Military technology
Military terminology
Net-centric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Solitude%20Monastery | Our Lady of Solitude Monastery is a Catholic foundation in the United States.
It was founded in May 2005 by Mother Angelica, who also founded Eternal Word Television Network and built the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama. The monastery is located about one hour west of downtown Phoenix, in the rural desert and farming community of Tonopah, Arizona. It is located within the territory of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix but is not subject to it.
Our Lady of Solitude Monastery sprang from the order of Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, one of many branches of the Poor Clares, founded by Saint Clare of Assisi. They are a contemplative order of nuns in the Franciscan tradition, founded in France in 1854 by Marie Claire Bouillevaux. The nuns have dedicated themselves to their main apostolate of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in a spirit of reparative thanksgiving. They pray especially for Catholic priests.
References
External links
DesertNuns.com the official website
Christian organizations established in 2005
Poor Clare monasteries in the United States
Catholic Church in Arizona
2005 establishments in Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20%28word%20processor%29 | Desktop is a WYSIWYG word processor for computers ZX Spectrum and compatible (e. g. Didaktik). It is a word processor of Czech origin, its author is Tomáš Vilím who used the name Universum as his author name. Distributor of the program was Proxima - Software.
Destop is very advanced word processor when compared with other ZX Spectrum word processors, it uses proportional fonts and it can use four different font in one document. However, it is not possible to use bold and italics variant, every variant needs to use independent font.
Program was distributed with three supporting programs:
Convertor - converter of text created in Tasword, D-Text, R-Text, D-Writer, and Textmachine into Desktop format,
Fonteditor - for editing fonts and writing headings, it can covert color images into gray scale images,
Screen Top - for editing images up to dimensions of 512 by 384 pixels (2 by 2 screens of ZX Spectrum).
Several printers and plotters were supported for printing the text:
plotter Minigraf Aritma 0507,
plotters XY 4140, XY 4150, XY 4160,
plotter Merkur Alfi,
1-pin dot matrix printer BT100,
printer Gamacentrum 01,
thermoprinter Robotron K6304,
9-pin dot matrix printers Epson FX, RX, LX, EX and compatible,
24-pin dot matrix printers Epson LQ and compatible.
The driver Ultra LQ was developed for better printing at Epson compatible printers, it prints the letters in the matrix of 16 by 24 points instead of original 8 by 12 points. The driver Ultra BT for better printing at BT100 printer existed too. These drivers were distributed as independent software packages.
Special version of Desktop with driver of D-100 printer existed, because D-100 was not compatible with Epson printers. Also a version supporting PRT 42G printer existed.
Four sets of supporting programs, drivers, fonts, images were developed and distributed under the names Klub uživatelů Desktopu 1 - 4 (in English Desktop user club 1 - 4).
Klub uživatelů Desktopu 1 contains following:
Archives - for printing of font look overview,
driver BT100-552 - it allows printing of up to 552 point per line instead of standard 480 points per line (it requires modified printer BT100, unmodified can be damaged),
Fonteditor - keypad - font editor directly runnable from Desktop word processor, controlled by keyboard,
Fonteditor - Kempston - font editor directly runnable from Desktop word processor, controlled by Kempston joystick,
Insert+Cat - it allows creating a text file from a diskette directory, similarly, it allows to make a list of files on cassette. Additionally, it allows to convert sequential .Q files into text file (.Q files are sequential files used by diskette units Didaktik 40 and Didaktik 80).
Keyboard View - for printing of actual keyboard letter placement,
Pulldown Menus - pull-down menus for Desktop,
20 fonts,
2 font complets - every complet contains four fonts,
3 big fonts,
60 images,
3 sample texts.
Klub uživatelů Desktopu 2 is the driver Ultra BT.
Klub uživatel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EACSL | The European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), founded 14 July 1992, is an international professional non-profit organization representing the interests of its members and promoting computer science logic in the areas of scientific research and education. It supports both basic and application oriented research to advance the connections between basic research and industrial applications. The current president is Prof. Thomas Schwentick (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany).
Each year, the EACSL organizes the international conference Computer Science Logic (CSL) and publishes the associated proceedings, it supports several workshops and summer schools and sponsors the Ackermann Award, the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. The annual general meeting of members takes place each year during the annual international conference CSL.
References
External links
Computer science organizations
Information technology organizations based in Europe
1992 establishments in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producer%27s%20representative | Producer's Representatives, or Producer's Reps, aid film producers in selling films direct to studios and networks. Typically they act as a liaison between the film producer and film distributor. American producer's reps include: Scotty Gelt, Jeff_Dowd, Buffalo 8, Ben Yennie, Noor Ahmed, Andrew Herwitz.
References
Filmmaking occupations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20roads%20in%20Nepal | Roads in Nepal are administered by three levels of Government as below:
The Economic Survey 2014–15 released by the Ministry of Finance (Nepal), shows that the country had total road network of 80,078 km in 2014/15 that included 26,935 km roads constructed and maintained by the Department of Roads (DoR) and 53,143 km roads constructed by the government of local bodies. This includes the national highway, feeder roads, district roads and urban roads.
National Highway
National Highways are administered by Department of roads under Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (Nepal).
According to the Statics of National Highway SNH-2020/21 there are 80 National Highways in Nepal which are 14,913 KM long in total distance.
List of National Highways
Provincial Highways
There are seven provinces in Nepal which have many provincial Highways and provincial roads which are marked by province's government. Provincial highway or road are marked as below:
'00' stands for highway or road numbers.
Urban/rural roads
Agriculture road
Nepal has special kind of road for agricultural areas and such roads are constructed by Department of Local Infrastructure.
See also
Department of Roads
Department of Local Infrastructure
National Highway System (Nepal)
Churia Tunnel
External links
References
Nepal
Roads
Roads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Information%20Processing%20Board | The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) is a student group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that helps students access computing resources and use them effectively.
History
SIPB was founded in 1969 by Bob Frankston, Gary Gut, David Burmaster, and Ed Fox. At the time, computers in universities were still expensive resources reserved for funded research projects. Through an arrangement with the MIT administration, SIPB administered student accounts on university-owned computers. This allowed students access to MIT's timeshared computers when computers otherwise cost millions of dollars and were as big as an entire room.
In 1983, MIT launched Project Athena, an initiative to create a distributed computing system for educational use. SIPB was instrumental in the creation of Project Athena and helped to provide MIT students with access to computing resources for independent projects. Project Athena led to several important Unix technologies such as X11, instant messaging, and network filesystems.
SIPB set up a Web server at www.mit.edu in 1993, when the number of public web servers was roughly 100 and long before university Web sites became common. When MIT finally did set up an official website, it was at web.mit.edu.
Projects
SIPB has been instrumental for funding technical software projects that benefit the MIT community. These have included:
scripts.mit.edu, a dynamic web hosting service
MIT Minecraft, a virtual MIT campus in Minecraft
CourseRoad, a course planning aid for MIT students
Debathena, a set of software packages for Athena clients
XVM, a virtual machine service
BarnOwl, an instant messaging client
References
External links
SIPB homepage
Massachusetts Institute of Technology student life
Computer clubs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20biviridata | Eupithecia biviridata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in the Himalaya.
References
Moths described in 1896
biviridata
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opensignal | Opensignal is an independent analytics company specialising in "quantifying the mobile-network experience".
In August 2014, Opensignal raised a $4 million Series A investment from Qualcomm Ventures, OATV and Passion Capital.
Products and services
The OpenSignal application points the user in the direction of better phone signal, measures signal strength, data speed and reliability, and displays nearby Wi-Fi networks. Users of the app share information with Opensignal, which is used in their independent maps of carrier coverage and NetworkRank service. As of July 2021 the app has been downloaded over 10 million times.
Opensignal NetworkRank is an in-app service comparing the performance of different cellular carriers in particular regions. The service is a part of their carrier maps, which are colour-coded to show areas of strong and weak cell phone signal. The information used is provided by users of the Opensignal application.
The company produce regular industry and consumer reports based on information crowdsourced from their app users. They have worked with the BBC and TV 2 (Denmark) to create interactive maps of 3G 'notspots' in the UK and Denmark and have also produced general reports, on topics as diverse as how cell phone screen size affects data use to the state of "Android Fragmentation" — that is, the vast array of different types of Android devices in use; some models having very few users.
In May 2013 the firm released a second crowdsourcing app on Android, WeatherSignal. It makes use of native sensors on the phones, such as barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, magnetometers and lux-meters, to collect information sent in real-time to create live weather maps. After one week over 2 million readings had been collected. After iPhone 6 included a barometer, a version of the app for iPhone was released.
CrisisSignal is an Android app to identify the status of communication networks (and outages) in emergency response areas. The interface is a real-time dashboard of signal strength, available networks, and other metrics. It has been used to assist with the relief efforts in Ebola affected regions.
Using the data collected from the Opensignal app, the company is building WifiMapper, an app for finding free Wi‑Fi hotspots, available on iOS and Android.
Method of operation
Mobile operators use different methods when it comes to compiling their coverage maps, Opensignal standardises this process by using crowdsourced signal data from their users to measure the true state of carrier coverage. By crowdsourcing from client devices, the firm can build a picture of the network as it is experienced by its users, rather than modelling coverage using drive testing.
References
Android (operating system) software
Crowdsourcing
IOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoptila%20deviridata | Mesoptila deviridata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in New Guinea.
References
Moths described in 1907
Eupitheciini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class%20message | In object-oriented programming, a programming language is said to have first-class messages or dynamic messages if in a method call not only the receiving object and parameter list can be varied dynamically (i.e. bound to a variable or computed as an expression) but also the specific method invoked.
Typed object-oriented programming languages, such as Java and C++, often do not support first-class methods. Smalltalk only support them in an untyped way. In Objective-C (Cocoa), you can use to represent first-class messages in a way that is aware of the types at runtime; however, safe use still relies on the programmer.
Some theoretical progress has been made to support first-class messages in a type-safe manner, but none of the proposed systems has been implemented in a programming language, possibly due to their complexity.
See also
Delegate (object-oriented programming)
First-class function
Notes
References
Susumu Nishimura (1998). "Static Typing for Dynamic Messages". POPL '98.
Michelle Bugliesi & Silvia Crafa (1999). "Object Calculi for Dynamic Messages". FOOL 6.
Martin Müller & Susumu Nishimura (2000). "Type Inference for First-Class Messages with Feature Constraints". International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science 11:1.
François Pottier (2000). "A versatile Constraint-based Type Inference System". Nordic Journal of Computing.
Paritosh Shroff & Scott F. Smith. "Type Inference for First-Class Messages with Match-Functions".
Object-oriented programming
Subroutines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenHPI%20%28Online%20Education%29 | openHPI is a platform for massive open online courses (MOOC) in the field of computer science and information technology. It is hosted at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany. openHPI is open to everyone, and participation is free of charge. Everybody can register and enroll for courses without any prerequisites. openHPI's courses are derived from HPI's bachelor and master programs in IT-Systems Engineering and cover both, foundations of information technology as well as highly topical innovations.
The course languages are English and German. openHPI offers around six to ten courses per year. All courses follow the same educational format: The subject domain is split into two to six weekly units. Each week, video lectures, reading materials and quizzes are presented in a learning sequence. Learners can ask their questions and discuss points of interest with each other in the course discussion forum which is actively moderated by the teaching team. Learning progress is measured through self-tests which can be repeated as often as desired, and assessed in graded weekly assignments, and a graded final exam. Participants who achieve at least 50% of the total score receive a record of achievement. After a course ends, materials remain available in archive mode.
History
The platform, which began in September 2012, pioneered the MOOC format in Germany. The first course covered the topic of In-Memory Data Management and was given by the founder of the HPI, Hasso Plattner. In 2017, five years after its launch, openHPI reached the benchmark of 400,000 enrollments.
Among other things, the courses contain the following topics:
In-Memory Data Management
Internetworking with TCP/IP
Internet Security for Beginners
Web Technologies
Embedded Smart Home
Semantic Web Technologies
Data Management with SQL
Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Objekt-oriented programming in Java
Linux for everyone
Technical aspects
The platform was originally based on the popular learning management system Canvas, with some technical adaptations for example a reworked front end. The experience with the first courses showed that this system was not able to scale to many thousands of participants. Therefore, a new platform was developed from scratch in the sense of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which allows better scalability and more flexibility regarding the integration of features. Video streaming is made through the streaming provider Vimeo. The platform uses a dual stream video player which allows the synchronous playback of two video sources, for example the video of a lecturer together with the video of the presentation slides. In 2015, the programming platform CodeOcean was developed by HPI researchers and integrated in openHPI. CodeOcean is available as an open source solution and allows programming directly in the browser. It has already been used in the openHPI courses “Java für Einsteiger,” “Web Technologies,” and “Spiele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions%20page | Confessions pages are pages on social networking websites (such as Facebook etc), or stand alone website pages which are generally used at schools and universities for students to anonymously post their confessions and secrets to their respective communities. Confessions, statements acknowledging personal facts that someone would prefer to not be shared under their true identity, are sent to the administrators of the page through online form services such as SurveyMonkey and Google Forms or submission portals created with purpose-built tools. The administrators then decide which confessions to post on the page.
Confessions pages act as a medium for students to express their emotions, beliefs, and troubles anonymously with their community. Confessions pages can also be a de facto message board where students can ask for help regarding issues about schoolwork and affairs. Confessions pages are becoming very popular among not only universities but also high schools. For instance, Boulder High School in CO and Swinburne University Sarawak in Malaysia have popular confessions pages that are flooded with posts about crushes and other relationship details. Students feel comfortable on revealing their thoughts on confessions pages due to the complete anonymity of their posts. However, due to the anonymity, the pages sometimes have to be reviewed by their creators as some users may post about sensitive topics that may be related to race or sexual orientation, as well as political and religious content.
History and overview
Anonymous confession pages went viral on the internet in 2012 after a page was created on Facebook called OMG Confessions, which was originally restricted to Facebook members 18 and over. However, the trend has since been spreading all over the world. College students in India, America and Great Britain are beginning to utilize online confession pages, too. One student told Buzzfeed, “Everyone posts so much about themselves. It is sort of disturbing, borderline creepy, but sickly entertaining.” Facebook pages for confessions began surfacing for college campuses large and small all around the United States. High schools have also had these confession pages appear, but some have been shut down due to cyberbullying. However, the commentators on these confessions can serve as a support system, offering advice for confessors coping with depression or other issues. However, this is not always the case. At the high school level, the police asked Facebook to shut down two confession pages due to hatefully and sexually explicit content. At the university level, the concern for school administrators is not bullying but brand protection. According to the New York Times, campus administrators are worried that “outsiders will mistake these raunchy independent pages — with their school logos and landmark buildings — for sanctioned reflections of campus life.” Some universities including San Francisco State have asked their school's confession pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISEE%20%28company%29 | ISEE is a European multinational company that designs and manufactures small computer-on-modules (COMs), single-board computers, expansion boards, radars and other embedded systems.
The abbreviation of ISEE refers to Integration, Software & Electronics Engineering. Their products are based on the IGEP Technology, the ISEE Generic Enhanced Platform using Texas Instruments OMAP processors.
Some of their products, including IGEPv2 and IGEP COM MODULE, are open hardware, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share-alike 3.0 unported license.
Products
ISEE products have been used in various industrial and commercial projects such automotive and transportation applications, medical devices, vending machines, security and protection, robotics and radar applications under the commercial brand name of IGEP Technology.
All IGEP products include pre-installed Linux-based distributions with functional software and other resources such developing tools, IDEs, schematics, mechanical drawings, hardware manuals and software manuals. Other tutorials, articles, FAQs and a public GIT repository are also available by the IGEP Community, a collaborative user support community.
IGEP processor boards
IGEPv2
IGEPv2 was released in 2009.
It consists of a low-power, fanless, industrial single-board computer (SBC) based on the Texas Instruments DM3730 ARM Cortex-A8 processor in a 65mm x 95mm board. IGEPv2 was the first open hardware IGEP Processor Board from ISEE and may be used to evaluate IGEP Technology, develop full-fledged product prototypes or can be completely customized by the user thanks to the freely available schematics.
IGEPv5
IGEPv5 was presented in September 2013.
It is based on the Texas Instruments OMAP5 SoC, which uses a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU. IGEPv5 allows additional connectivity via its on-board connectors and can be used to develop applications with advanced multimedia requirements.
IGEP COM PROTON
IGEP COM PROTON was released in 2010.
It provides the same processor and performance as IGEPv2 but without most of its on-board connectors, so it results in a smaller industrial form factor. There are four connectors of 70 pins for extended connectivity and measures 35mm x 51,2mm.
IGEP COM MODULE
IGEP COM MODULE was released in 2010.
It measures 18mm x 68,5mm and is the smallest computer-on-module (COM) released by ISEE and features Texas Instruments DM3730. It provides USB OTG, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on-board and two connectors of 70 pins for extended connectivity.
IGEP COM AQUILA
IGEP COM AQUILA was released in 2013.
It is based on Texas Instruments AM3354 Cortex-A8 CPU and is the first IGEP Processor Board with standard SO-DIMM size format.
IGEP Expansion Boards
IGEPv2 EXPANSION
IGEPv2 EXPANSION was released in 2009.
It adds connectivity to IGEPv2 Processor Board (RS232, VGA Output, CAN interface and GSM/GPRS Modem).
IGEP PARIS
IGEP PARIS was released in 2010.
It consists of an Expansion Board for IGEP COM MODULE an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hills%20of%20Hampshire | This is a list of hills in Hampshire. It is based on the online Database of British and Irish Hills, Jackson's More Relative Hills of Britain and list of 30 metre prominences and the Ordnance Survey mapping service.
Many of these hills are important historic, archaeological and nature conservation sites, as well as popular hiking and tourist destinations in the county of Hampshire in southern England.
Colour key
The table is colour-coded based on the classification or "listing" of the hill. The types that occur in Hampshire are Marilyns, HuMPs and TuMPs, listings that are based on the topographical prominence. "Prominence" correlates strongly with the subjective significance of a summit. Peaks with low prominences are either subsidiary tops of a higher summit or relatively insignificant independent summits. Peaks with high prominences tend to be the highest points around and likely to have extraordinary views.
A Marilyn is a hill of any height that has a prominence of at least 150 metres or about 500 feet. A "HuMP" (the acronym comes from "Hundred Metre Prominence) is a hill with a prominence of at least 100 but less than 150 metres. In this table Marilyns are in beige and HuMPs in lilac. The term "sub-Marilyn" or "sub-HuMP" is used, e.g. in the Database of British and Irish Hills to indicate hills that fall just below the threshold.
To qualify for inclusion, hills must either be 200 metres or higher with a prominence of at least 30 metres, below 200 metres with a prominence of at least 90 metres (the threshold for a sub-HuMP), or be in some other way notable. For further information see the Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles and the individual articles on Marilyns, HuMPs and TuMPs.
In this context, "TuMP" is used to connote a hill with a prominence of at least 30 but less than 100 metres. By way of contrast, see also the article listing Tumps (a traditional term meaning a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus).
The county tops (i.e. highest points) of Portsmouth and Southampton unitary authorities are not strictly in the modern county of Hampshire, but are included because they fall within Hampshire's historic county boundary.
Table
The following summits have been omitted from the table as they are considered sub-peaks, alternative names of hills in the main list or are otherwise not eligible at this stage:
Cottington's Hill or King John's Hill, Kingsclere, Hampshire Downs ()
Stoner Hill, Hampshire Downs, East Hampshire Hangers () is a subsidiary summit of Wheatham Hill ().
See also
List of mountains and hills of the United Kingdom
List of Marilyns in England
Geology of Hampshire
References and footnotes
Hampshire
Hills |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%208.1 | Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released for retail sale on October 17, 2013, about a year after the retail release of its predecessor, and succeeded by Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Windows 8.1 was made available for download via MSDN and Technet and available as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows RT users via the Windows Store. A server version, Windows Server 2012 R2, was released on October 18, 2013.
Windows 8.1 aimed to address complaints of Windows 8 users and reviewers on launch. Enhancements include an improved Start screen, additional snap views, additional bundled apps, tighter OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) integration, Internet Explorer 11 (IE11), a Bing-powered unified search system, restoration of a visible Start button on the taskbar, and the ability to restore the previous behavior of opening the user's desktop on login instead of the Start screen.
Windows 8.1 also added support for then emerging technologies like high-resolution displays, 3D printing, Wi-Fi Direct, and Miracast streaming, as well as the ReFS file system.
Windows 8.1 received more positive reception than Windows 8, with people appreciating the expanded functionality available to apps in comparison to Windows 8, its OneDrive integration, its user interface tweaks, and the addition of expanded tutorials for operating the Windows 8 interface. Despite these improvements, Windows 8.1 was still criticized for not addressing all issues of Windows 8 (such as poor integration between Metro-style apps and the desktop interface), and the potential privacy implications of the expanded use of online services.
Mainstream support for Windows 8.1 ended on January 9, 2018, and extended support ended on January 10, 2023. Mainstream support for the Embedded Industry edition of Windows 8.1 ended on July 10, 2018, and extended support ended on January 10, 2023. As of September 2023, 0.61% of PCs are running Windows 8.1.
History
In February 2013, ZDNet writer Mary Jo Foley disclosed potential rumors about "Blue", the codename for a wave of planned updates across several Microsoft products and services, including Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Outlook.com, and SkyDrive. In particular, the report detailed that Microsoft was planning to shift to a more "continuous" development model, which would see major revisions to its main software platforms released on a consistent yearly cycle to keep up with market demands. Lending credibility to the reports, Foley noted that a Microsoft staff member had listed experience with "Windows Blue" on his LinkedIn profile, and listed it as a separate operating system from 8.
A post-RTM build of Windows 8, build 9364, was leaked in March 2013. The build, which was believed to be of "Windows Blue", revealed a number of enhancements across Windows 8's interface, including additional size options for tiles, expanded col |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheye%20State%20Routing | Fisheye State Routing (FSR) is a proposal for an implicit hierarchical routing protocol targeted to ad hoc networks. The basic principles of FSR are shared with other proactive, link-state routing protocols. In proactive link-state protocols every network node constantly updates a topology map that makes it possible to compute the shortest path (and thus the next hop) to any destination in the network. The originality of FSR is inspired by the "fisheye" technique to reduce the size of information required to represent graphical data: The eye of a fish captures with high detail the pixels near the focal point, while the detail decreases as the distance from the focal point increases.
In routing, the fisheye approach translates into maintaining an updated information set about distance and path quality information for the immediate neighborhood of a node, against a progressively less updated information as the distance increases. Fisheye represents a valid trade-off between the accuracy of the routing function and the overhead due to the generation of control messages by the routing protocol.
FSR was never released to the public as a stand-alone routing protocol, and its specification was never finalized. The base principle was included in the widely used OLSRd daemon (an open source implementation of the OLSR routing protocol).
Protocol working principle
FSR is a link-state routing protocol, thus it is made of three tasks:
Neighbor Discovery: every node sends an HELLO message every δ seconds to its one-hop neighbours, in order to establish and maintain neighbour relationships.
Information Dissemination: every node disseminates Link State Announcements messages (LSA) every Δ seconds (with Δ > δ), that contain neighbour link information, to all other nodes in the network.
Route Computation: from the information contained in the LSA messages the node can reconstruct the whole network topology and use Dijkstra's algorithm to compute the routes to any node in the network.
The peculiarity of FSR is that LSA messages are generated every Δ seconds using a sequence of distinct Time-To-Live (TTL) values. Take as an example the sequence 1, 3, 8, 64, the 1-hop neighbours receive the LSA every Δs, so they have the most updated information. 2-hop neighbours receive the LSA with TTL 3, 8, 24. Nodes at a distance from 4 to 8 hops receive only the LSA with TTL 8 and 64. All the others receive only the LSA with TTL 64. As a consequence every node has progressively less updated information on the network topology as the distance increases.
The protocol exploits the fact that when a packet moves from a source to a destination, the nodes encountered on the shortest path have an increasingly precise topology information about the topological position of the destination (as their distance to the destination decreases), so the loss of accuracy in the shortest path computation from the source node is compensated along the path to the destination.
FSR thus decre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut%20Radio | Balut Radio was an Internet radio service in the Philippines owned by TV5 Network, Inc. It featured OPM and international music channels, as well as news and sports channels powered by News5 and Interaksyon. The website also featured a customizing radio channel for users, similar to Pandora Radio and iHeartRadio.
It was launched on April 1, 2013, as a public beta. As of September 2014, Balut Radio is inactive.
References
External links
Official website
2013 establishments in the Philippines
TV5 Network
Internet radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ryzza%20Mae%20Show | The Ryzza Mae Show is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Ryzza Mae Dizon, it premiered on April 8, 2013 on the network's afternoon line up. The show concluded on September 18, 2015 with a total of 636 episodes. It was replaced by Princess in the Palace in its timeslot.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of The Ryzza Mae Show earned a 17.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 15.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows
Television series by TAPE Inc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelling%20screen | A smelling screen is a type of digital scent technology, unveiled in 2013, that combines a display screen, similar to a television or computer monitor, with an odor emitting device capable of pinpointing the smell to a specific portion of the displayed image. It is believed to be the first device to incorporate smells into a television screen, though certainly not the first to synchronize smell with a displayed image (see Digital scent technology).
Description
The smelling screen combines a digital display with four small fans, one at each corner of the display. Odor stored in tiny gel packets is emitted and blown parallel to the screen. By varying the speed and strength of each fan, an emitted odor is moved to a specific spot on the screen. The fans operate at a very low speed, making it difficult for the user to perceive airflow; instead he or she perceives the smell as coming directly out of the screen and object displayed at that location.
Development
In 2013, a group of researchers from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology unveiled a prototype smelling screen to the public at the ACM/IEEE Virtual Reality Conference.
The product is in the early stages of development with no plans for commercial distribution in the near future.
See also
iSmell
Smell-O-Vision
References
External links
Smelling screen research paper published by the IEEE Computer Society
Olfaction
Emerging technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Sports%20Upper%20Midwest | Prime Sports Upper Midwest was an American regional sports network owned by Hubbard Broadcasting and Liberty Media, which operated as an affiliate of the Prime Network. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the channel broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout the Upper Midwest region. Prime Sports Upper Midwest was available on cable providers throughout Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
History
Prime Sports Upper Midwest launched in 1990, receiving its affiliation with the Prime Network through Liberty's partial ownership interest. The centerpiece of the network's sports coverage was the rights to the games of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and Milwaukee Bucks, along with a number of college sports events and outdoors programs.
The network struggled only having one team's sports rights against the more established Midwest Sports Channel, which had the rights to Minnesota Twins baseball, and the backing of Midwest Radio and Television, the owners of the dominant WCCO stations. MSC's strength in the Twin Cities became more dominant in 1992 after CBS Corporation purchased Midwest Radio and Television, along with the Twins' win in the 1991 World Series, while PSUM was stunted by the terminal mediocrity of the Timberwolves in the 90s, along with other challenges to Hubbard's longevity in the Twin Cities market, namely Gannett NBC affiliate KARE permanently unseating Hubbard's KSTP-TV as the market's spirited competitor to WCCO, and KMSP-TV beginning its slow rise in viewership and news and sports strength.
In the spring of 1995, MSC signed an agreement with the Timberwolves to acquire the exclusive regional cable television rights to the team's games beginning with the 1995–96 season. As a result, on October 5, 1995, Hubbard and Liberty Media announced that Prime Sports Upper Midwest would be shut down. The announcement came three weeks before News Corporation acquired a 50% ownership interest in the Prime Sports networks on October 31, with the intent to partner with Liberty to have the Prime Sports networks to serve as the cornerstones for a new group of regional sports networks – developed as a cable venture for Fox Sports – which would also offer national programming distributed to the Prime-affiliated RSNs not owned by Liberty. Prime Sports Upper Midwest ceased operations on December 31, 1995. Fox Sports would then purchase MSC in 1999 from Viacom as it spun off extraneous assets from its first merger with CBS, relaunching it as Fox Sports North in 2001.
References
Prime Sports
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Sports in Minneapolis
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1995
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Defunct mass media in Iowa
Defunct mass media in Minnesota
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus%20%28information%20retrieval%29 | In the context of information retrieval, a thesaurus (plural: "thesauri") is a form of controlled vocabulary that seeks to dictate semantic manifestations of metadata in the indexing of content objects. A thesaurus serves to minimise semantic ambiguity by ensuring uniformity and consistency in the storage and retrieval of the manifestations of content objects. ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 defines a content object as "any item that is to be described for inclusion in an information retrieval system, website, or other source of information". The thesaurus aids the assignment of preferred terms to convey semantic metadata associated with the content object.
A thesaurus serves to guide both an indexer and a searcher in selecting the same preferred term or combination of preferred terms to represent a given subject. ISO 25964, the international standard for information retrieval thesauri, defines a thesaurus as a “controlled and structured vocabulary in which concepts are represented by terms, organized so that relationships between concepts are made explicit, and preferred terms are accompanied by lead-in entries for synonyms or quasi-synonyms.”
A thesaurus is composed by at least three elements: 1-a list of words (or terms), 2-the relationship amongst the words (or terms), indicated by their hierarchical relative position (e.g. parent/broader term; child/narrower term, synonym, etc.), 3-a set of rules on how to use the thesaurus.
History
Wherever there have been large collections of information, whether on paper or in computers, scholars have faced a challenge in pinpointing the items they seek. The use of classification schemes to arrange the documents in order was only a partial solution. Another approach was to index the contents of the documents using words or terms, rather than classification codes. In the 1940s and 1950s some pioneers, such as Calvin Mooers, Charles L. Bernier, Evan J. Crane and Hans Peter Luhn, collected up their index terms in various kinds of list that they called a “thesaurus” (by analogy with the well known thesaurus developed by Peter Roget). The first such list put seriously to use in information retrieval was the thesaurus developed in 1959 at the E I Dupont de Nemours Company.
The first two of these lists to be published were the Thesaurus of ASTIA Descriptors (1960) and the Chemical Engineering Thesaurus of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1961), a descendant of the Dupont thesaurus. More followed, culminating in the influential Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms (TEST) published jointly by the Engineers Joint Council and the US Department of Defense in 1967. TEST did more than just serve as an example; its Appendix 1 presented Thesaurus rules and conventions that have guided thesaurus construction ever since.
Hundreds of thesauri have been produced since then, perhaps thousands. The most notable innovations since TEST have been:
(a) Extension from monolingual to multilingual capability; and
(b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Cadena%20Deportiva | La Cadena Deportiva is a defunct American Spanish language regional sports network that was owned by Liberty Media (originally through its parent company Tele-Communications Inc., in conjunction with Bill Daniels), and operated as an affiliate of the Prime Network. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the channel broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout the Southern California, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Los Angeles and San Diego. La Cadena Deportiva was available on cable providers throughout California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii.
History
The network launched on November 15, 1993, as the only U.S.-based owned-and-operated outlet of the Prime Network that was not an English language network. The network provided Spanish language coverage of various sporting events, many of which were carried on sister network Prime Ticket, including games from the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings and California Angels of Major League Baseball. It also carried coverage of college sports events from the Pacific-10 Conference as well as additional international soccer games not shown on Prime Ticket.
In August 1994, Bill Daniels sold his share in La Cadena Deportiva, Prime Ticket and the Prime Network to Liberty Media. The channel relaunched as a national network in 1995, as La Cadena Deportiva Nacional. On October 31, 1995, News Corporation, which sought to create its own group of regional sports networks as a cable venture for Fox Sports, which was formed the year prior through the Fox Broadcasting Company's acquisition of the television rights to the NFL's National Football Conference, acquired a 50% ownership interest in the Prime Network.
On July 3, 1996, News Corporation and Liberty Media announced that the eight Prime Sports networks would be relaunched as part of the new Fox Sports Net group. It subsequently announced that La Cadena Deportiva Nacional would simultaneously be relaunched as Fox Sports Americas, which took effect on November 1, 1996.
References
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1996
Prime Sports
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Television stations in Los Angeles
Defunct mass media in Arizona
Defunct mass media in Nevada
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Defunct mass media in Hawaii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Vaghar | Sam Vaghar (born August 19, 1986) is an American social entrepreneur and Executive Director and co-founder of the Millennium Campus Network.
Early life
Sam Vaghar was born in Birmingham, England, and raised in Newton, Massachusetts. As a child growing up, he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. A trip in his teenage years to Havana, Cuba exposed him to the challenges of poverty. After enrolling at Brandeis University, Vaghar began to engage in social activism, initially organizing a bi-partisan bus trip to President Bush's inauguration in 2005. During this time, Vaghar read Mountains Beyond Mountains about the work of Dr. Paul Farmer and Partners in Health. Vaghar then read The End of Poverty by economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs.
As a college sophomore, Vaghar cold-called Dr. Sachs' office and met with his staff two days later in New York City. Back on campus, Vaghar and friend Seth Werfel later co-founded the Millennium Campus Network in the summer of 2007.
Vaghar graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International & Global Studies from Brandeis University in 2008.
Millennium Campus Network
Vaghar serves as Executive Director of the Millennium Campus Network. In this capacity, Vaghar engages with numerous MCN allies, including sponsors like Microsoft and The Jenzabar Foundation as well as MCN Advisors including Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Farmer. His primary responsibilities center on fundraising and outreach. Vaghar has represented the MCN in engaging with numerous global leaders including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.
In addition to his role with MCN, Vaghar serves as an Advisor to the Executive Director of UN Women as a member of her Civil Society Advisory Group.
Awards and recognition
Honorary Doctorate from Monmouth College and 2020 Commencement Speaker.
Gleitsman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Honorary Doctorate from Becker College and 2018 Honors Convocation Distinguished Speaker
Profiled in The Boston Globe and Fast Company.
2013 Commencement Speaker, Lynn University
Selected to the 2012 list of the "Top 99 most influential foreign policy leaders under the age of 33" by The Diplomatic Courier and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy
Selected as one of ten young American leaders from across the nation to share perspectives with President Barack Obama in the White House in June 2011
Invited by the US State Department as Featured Speaker across Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2011
2010 Social Entrepreneurs of the Year, awarded to the MCN (accepted by Will Herberich and Sam Vaghar) by The Jenzabar Foundation
References
1986 births
Living people
Brandeis University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTT%20Communications | GTT Communications, Inc. (GTT) is a managed network and security services provider to global organizations, headquartered in McLean, Virginia. GTT operates a global Tier 1 IP network, and its communication services include voice and video, Internet, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Wide Area Networking, SD-WAN, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Network Security, Cloud Security, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), and Managed and Professional Services. GTT serves global enterprise customers across North and South America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
History
1998–2006
In 1998, telecom services integrator Global Internetworking Inc. was founded in McLean, Virginia. That same year, European Telecom and Technology was founded in London.
In April 2005, Mercator Partners, a special purpose acquisition company bought both Global Internetworking Inc. and European Telecommunications & Technology in 2006, merging the two companies' operations and renaming it Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. (GTT).
2006–2020
In December 2009, GTT acquired Denver-based WBS Connect in a stock and cash transaction, shifting its business model to a network operator providing IP transit and Ethernet services.
In June 2011, GTT acquired PacketExchange, a privately held UK company and operator of a global IP backbone, for $20 million in cash.
In May 2012, GTT acquired nLayer Communications, a privately held global IP backbone, for $18 million.
In April 2013, GTT acquired the Tier 1 IP network, Tinet (formerly Tiscali International Network), from Inteliquent for $54.5 million in cash and services, resulting in Tier 1 status for GTT's global IP network. In June 2013 GTT was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol GTT.
On January 14, 2014, GTT officially changed its name to GTT Communications, Inc. In February 2014, GTT announced opening a new office in Hong Kong's Central District, bringing its total to 9 offices in 6 countries. In October 2014, GTT announced it had closed the acquisition of UNSi, a communications company providing data services to large enterprise and carrier clients.
On February 19, 2015, GTT entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MegaPath’s managed services business, which provides private wide-area-networking, Internet access services, managed services and managed security to multinational clients. On October 22, 2015, GTT acquired One Source Networks (OSN), a provider of data, Internet, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking and managed services.
On February 9, 2016, GTT acquired Telnes Broadband for $18 million. On October 7, 2016, GTT announced the award of Government Services Administrations (GSA) IT Schedule 70 Contract. The IT Schedule 70 is the largest acquisition vehicle in the United States federal government.
On January 9, 2017, GTT completed the acquisition of Hibernia Networks for $590 million. The company acquired five subsea cables, including Hibernia Express (now GTT Express), a low latency transatlant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Broadcasting%20Center | The Capital Broadcasting Center () (CBC ()) is a satellite television network in Egypt that began in July 2011. It is owned by the United Media Services (UMS), a company owned by the Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS).
It broadcasts entertainment, drama and general political programmes. CBC has been accused of pro-government bias.
See also
Television in Egypt
References
External links
2011 establishments in Egypt
Television stations in Egypt
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2010s in Egyptian television
Arabic-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282002%29 | Home and Away is an Australian soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 2002 by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's Series Producer Julie McGuaran. The 15th season of Home and Away began airing on the Seven Network on 14 January 2002. The first introduction of year was Sebastian Elmaloglou as Max Sutherland. Rhett Giles joined the cast as Paris Burnett in April. Laurie Foell arrived as Deputy Principal Angie Russell in September and was joined by her son Dylan (Brett Hicks-Maitland) in October.
Max Sutherland
Max Sutherland, portrayed by Sebastian Elmaloglou, made his first appearance on 21 January 2002 and departed on 1 September 2004. Following guest appearances on various television serials including GP. Max was Elmaloglou's first ongoing role
He told the serial's official website how he differed from his character. "He is nothing like me because he is accused for everything as he is very cheeky and I'm not like that". Around the time of his debut, Elmaloglou began watching repeats of Home and Away starring his sister, Rebekah who played Sophie Simpson. "It is so funny watching Rebekah because she looks completely different. I have been told that when I was a baby and we were out together as a family, people would go up to Bec and ask her if I was her baby, after she had the baby on the show".
Max arrives in Summer Bay with his father, Pete (Christopher Mayer) to stay with his uncle Rhys (Michael Beckley) and aunt Shelley (Paula Forrest). Max's stay with his relatives becomes permanent when Pete flees to Hong Kong to escape gambling debts. He struggles to adjust to his new life but quickly makes a friend in caravan park resident Colleen Smart (Lyn Collingwood). He is also often in trouble at school along with his cousin Kirsty (Christie Hayes). Max later helps Colleen write a book under the pen-name "Maxine Peterson". He is also the centre of a small love triangle with Tamara Simpson (Sophie Luck) and Caitlin (Bree Beadman), who both want him to dedicate the book to them but both disappear from his life. Max then finds Tasha Andrews (Isabel Lucas), a disoriented girl on the beach and quickly becomes friendly with her. Eloise Lennox (Suzanne McEachernn), a new student at Summer Bay High catches Max's eye but has a hard time getting to know her due to her overprotective parents. Eloise reveals she is dying of Leukaemia and Max helps her live out her final wishes. After a date, Eloise dies in Max's arms.
Max creates a memorial place for Eloise in an abandoned mineshaft, but it collapses when Rhys, Kirsty and Jade (Kate Garven) arrive to find him. They are all eventually rescued. When Rhys marries Beth Hunter (Clarissa House, following his divorce from Shelley, Max has to contend with her younger children, twins Henry (Tobi Atkins) and Matilda (Indiana Evans), who are frequently rude to the Sutherlands due to being upr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20storage | Local storage may refer to:
Data storage that is directly attached to a compute device
A network-attached storage device accessed via a local network, rather than a wide area network
Local storage, a JavaScript web storage facility allowing websites to store data on a user's device
Local shared object (or Flash cookie), Adobe Flash data stored on a user's computer
Scratchpad memory, computer memory closely integrated with a CPU or other component
See also
Thread-local storage
Network storage (disambiguation)
Direct-attached storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyzicidae | Cyzicidae is a family of crustaceans in the order Spinicaudata. They are distinguished from the family Leptestheriidae by the absence of a rostral spine. Some members of Cyzicidae are known to burrow through mud, leading to speculation that they may be filter feeders, but Martin reports that their mouthparts are indistinguishable from Leptestheriidae, which are believed to be grazers.
The family contains four extant genera:
Caenestheria
Caenestheriella
Cyzicus
Eocyzicus
References
Spinicaudata
Crustacean families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptestheriidae | Leptestheriidae is a family of crustaceans in the order Spinicaudata. They are distinguished from the family Cyzicidae by the presence of a rostral spine. Members of Leptestheriidae are believed to graze on detritus.
The family contains five extant genera:
Eoleptestheria
Leptestheria
Leptestheria compleximanus
Leptestheriella
Maghrebestheria
Sewellestheria
References
Spinicaudata
Crustacean families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Moment%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | The Moment is an American reality television series that debuted on USA Network on April 11, 2013, and last aired on May 31, 2013. Casting for a potential second season took place prior to the series debut. The series debuted with 1.129 million viewers, with the second episode dropping to 963,000 viewers and its third airing capturing only 950,000 viewers — which led to USA shifting the series to Fridays at 11 pm.
Premise
The Moment chronicles the lives of nine men and women who are nominated by a close friend or family member and surprised by Kurt Warner who gives them the chance to reclaim the career dreams they put on hold when their lives took an unexpected turn. They will endure extensive training by an expert mentor who will prepare them for an audition of the career they've chosen. In the end, they are left with the decision to accept their new job and change their lives forever or keep the career they currently hold and go back to their normal life.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
USA Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia%20alboviridata | Rhodesia alboviridata, the frosted emerald, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Max Saalmüller in 1880. It is found in southern Africa and Madagascar.
Known food plants of this species are Carissa edulis and Bauhinia variegata.
References
Saalmüller, M. (1880). "Neue Lepidopteren aus Madagascar, die sich in Museum der Senckenberg'schen naturforschenden Gesellschaft befinden". Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a.M. 1879–1880: 258–310.
Geometrinae
Moths described in 1880
Moths of Madagascar
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-pouring%20algorithm | The water-pouring algorithm is a technique used in digital communications systems for allocating power among different channels in multicarrier schemes. It was described by R. C. Gallager in 1968 along with the water-pouring theorem which proves its optimality for channels having Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and intersymbol interference (ISI).
For this reason, it is a standard baseline algorithm for various digital communications systems.
The intuition that gives the algorithm its name is to think of the communication medium as if it was some kind of water container with an uneven bottom. Each of the available channels is then a section of the container having its own depth, given by the reciprocal of the frequency-dependent SNR for the channel.
To allocate power, imagine pouring water into this container (the amount depends on the desired maximum average transmit power). After the water level settles, the largest amount of water is in the deepest sections of the container. This implies allocating more power to the channels with the most favourable SNR. Note, however, that the ratio allocation to each channel is not a fixed proportion but varies nonlinearly with the maximum average transmit power.
References
Telecommunications
Information theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Data%20Service | The UK Data Service is the largest digital repository for quantitative and qualitative social science and humanities research data in the United Kingdom. The organisation is funded by the UK government through the Economic and Social Research Council and is led by the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex, in partnership with other universities.
The service is free to data owners and free at the point of use to non-commercial data users.
History
The organisation developed from the UK Data Archive, established at Essex University in 1967. Its funder, the Economic and Social Research Council (part of UK Research and Innovation) established the UK Data Service in its current form in October 2012. Besides the UK Data Archive, the partners are:
Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester
Jisc, a not-for-profit technology supplier
Geography and Environment, University of Southampton
EDINA, University of Edinburgh
Department of Information Studies, University College London
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
Rapid response to COVID-19
The UK Data Service enabled continued research access to data throughout the pandemic and the first COVID-19 datasets were made available in July 2020. Within six months of the pandemic they held their first online COVID-19 data dive with researchers and policy makers across the UK and beyond.
The organisation frequently advise at a national and international level on data governance, ethics and confidentiality. They advised the Cabinet office on its development of the draft data ethics framework, which influenced the implementation of the Digital Economy Act 2017, and are often called upon to input into government White Papers around the use of data for research.
In October 2013, the UK Data Service received additional funding to coordinate the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN), the predecessor to ADR-UK, designed to streamline research access to data routinely collected by UK government departments and other agencies.
UK Data Service is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories, re3data.org. It is part of the "trusted research environment" provided by the Office for National Statistics.
Data access
The UK Data Service is commissioned to provide data access and support for researchers from all sectors including higher education, central and local government, foundations, charities and business. There are currently more than 6,000 datasets available from a variety of sources. Key data types include:
UK Census data
Government-funded surveys (such as Labour Force Survey and Health Survey for England)
Longitudinal studies (such as British Household Panel Survey and Millennium Cohort Study)
Cross-national surveys (such as European Social Survey and Eurobarometer)
International macrodata (such as statistics from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund)
Business microdata
Qualitative and mixed methods data
Access to th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Doleman | Bill Doleman (born 1966) is a free lance studio analyst.
Biography
Bill Doleman joined Comcast Sports Net Houston in 2012 after the MountainWest Sports Network ceased operations in May of that year. His primary assignment with CSN was to serve as the studio host for the Houston Rockets of the NBA with the eccentrically dressed Calvin Murphy. He is also the primary host for the network's college football and golf shows and was one of the studio hosts for the Houston Astros. Doleman was one of the main anchors on Sports Net Central and also a play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports Group during the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games.
Prior to moving to Houston, he called the play-by-play for football, basketball, quidditch, baseball, and volleyball for the network and served as an anchor and host for The Mtn. He also called Big 12 men's basketball games for ESPN and several conferences such as the Big Ten and Mountain West. He was also a broadcaster for the Lincoln Saltdogs independent professional baseball team before moving to Denver and joining The Mtn. full-time. He was replaced in Lincoln by Drew Bontadelli, the current voice of the Saltdogs. Doleman also served as the director of broadcasting and communications for the team. Doleman began his career with Nebraska Public Television calling the play-by-play for numerous sports in the state and was the first host of Big Red WrapUp. He is a former Nebraska Sportscaster of the Year in 1993. In 1994, Doleman and his mutual acquaintance rock guitarist Lenny Kravitz met up in Kansas City and rode a roller coaster at Worlds of Fun. Bill served as a sports director for Houston station KTBU-TV, 1999-2000, where he called games and hosted coaches shows for the University of Houston Cougars. He oversaw the tumultuous c He returned to Lincoln and began working for KFOR 1240 AM calling baseball and later for KLMS/ESPN 1480 where he was the Program Director and Announcer. He hosted "The Average Joe Sports Show" and a Christian-sports show "Goin' Deep with Ron Brown." He also worked as a host, anchor, and play-by-play for many sports including college football and basketball for numerous networks, including ABC Sports, Fox Sports Net, CBS College Sports Network, and the Big Ten Network.
In 2017 on Twitter he was noted for saying< "Scott Frost is the greatest hire in college football history, he's going to be better than Nick Saban."
A Nebraska native of the greater Fairbury metropolitan area, Doleman graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in broadcast journalism. While at UNL, he was also a member of Theta Xi fraternity. He currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska teaching kids about sports journalism.
References
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NU College of Journalism & Mass Communications - Alumni News - Spring 1999
Bill Doleman Joins Lincoln Saltdogs
Christian Sportscasters United
NBC Sports Regional Networks
Living people
1966 births
People from Lincoln, Nebraska
University of Nebraska alumni
American televis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Video | Apple Video is a lossy video compression and decompression algorithm (codec) developed by Apple Inc. and first released as part of QuickTime 1.0 in 1991. The codec is also known as QuickTime Video, by its FourCC RPZA and the name Road Pizza. (The codename "Road Pizza" is a reference to the idea that "when you run over an animal, you're basically compressing it on the freeway".) When used in the AVI container, the FourCC AZPR is also used.
The bit-stream format of Apple Video has been reverse-engineered and a decoder has been implemented in the projects XAnim and libavcodec.
Technical Details
The codec operates on 4×4 blocks of pixels in the RGB colorspace. Each frame is segmented into 4×4 blocks in raster-scan order. Each block is coded in one of four coding modes: skip, single color, four color, or 16 color. Colors are represented by 16 bits with a bit-depth of 5 bit for each of the three components red, green, and blue, a format known as RGB555. Because Apple Video operates in the image domain without motion compensation, decoding is much faster than MPEG-style codecs which use motion compensation and perform coding in a transform domain. As a tradeoff, the compression performance of Apple Video is lower.
Skip mode
The skip mode realizes conditional replenishment. If a block is coded in skip mode, the content of the block at same location in the previous frame is copied to the current frame. Runs of skip blocks are coded in a run-length encoding scheme, enabling a high compression ratio in static areas of the picture.
Single color mode
In single color mode, all pixels in a block are decoded in the same color. This can be interpreted as a palette with a single color.
Four color mode
In four color mode, each pixel in a block is decoded as one of four colors which are specified in a palette. To select one of the four entries, 2 bits per pixel are written to the bit-stream. The same palette is used for a run of length between one and 32 blocks. Of the four colors, two are explicitly written to the bit-stream, while the other two are calculated at the decoder by linear interpolation in the RGB colorspace using the following equations:
where color0 and color3 are the two colors which are written in the bit-stream. The four colors can be interpreted as lying equidistantly spaced on a line segment in the three-dimensional vector space with the three components red, green, and blue. The end-points of this line are written in the bit-stream. A similar color-interpolation scheme is used in S3 Texture Compression.
Interpreted as vector quantization, a three-dimensional vector with the components red, green, and blue is quantized using a codebook with four entries.
16 color mode
In 16-color mode, the color of each pixel in a block is explicitly written in the bit-stream. This mode is lossless and equivalent to raw PCM without any compression.
See also
Indexed color
Color quantization
Block truncation coding, a similar coding technique for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Junction%20Road | The Gary Junction Road is an outback unsealed road in Australia built by Len Beadell in the 1960s as part of a network of roads for the Weapons Research Establishment at Woomera, South Australia. In its original form, the Gary Junction Road ran from Liebig bore in the Northern Territory to Callawa Station in Western Australia. On present day maps, it is depicted as running from the Tanami Road (Narwietooma turnoff) to Gary Junction, just east of the Canning Stock Route, a distance of 852 kilometres. The road was named after Beadell's only son Gary.
History
Beadell and his Gunbarrel Road Construction Party (GRCP) commenced work immediately after completing the Sandy Blight Junction Road in August 1960. Starting from Sandy Blight Junction, the first stage was built towards an existing bore track near Mount Liebig 180 km to the east (67 km west of Papunya). Liebig bore was reached on 16 September. The party then returned to Sandy Blight Junction to continue the western section, with the ultimate goal being Callawa Station near the north-west coast of Western Australia.
Construction west of the junction began on 5 October, and the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia was reached on 12 October. Beadell took star sights and placed a signpost displaying the latitude and longitude to mark the border. The road progressed westward and reached the present site of Jupiter Well on 7 November. The location was about 330 km from Sandy Blight Junction. On 8 November the grader broke down with a major transmission failure. Further road making was interrupted, and a lengthy towing operation of 800 km back to Giles began, using the bulldozer to tow the grader, with the water trailer attached behind it. The average speed of the bulldozer train was 3 km per hour, with an estimate of about a month for the journey. Every two hours while the bulldozer was travelling, a halt for greasing the track rollers was required.
Towing had barely begun when the cook's ration truck with all of its supplies caught fire and was burnt out on 12 November. Beadell was forced to make an emergency trip to Alice Springs to obtain replacement food, a return trip of around 3000 km. Meanwhile, the towing operation continued, and the team was reunited 10 km west of Sandy Blight Junction. The slow moving convoy reached Giles on 26 November 1960.
Completion of the Gary Junction Road was delayed by more than two years, and recommenced in 1963 after the GRCP had built the south to north Gary Highway. Construction began on 18 May 1963 from Gary Junction east towards Jupiter Well to link up with the earlier stage. The road progressed to within a few kilometres of the well, but a large sand dune blocked the way. By using the Land Rover as an anchor, a four-wheel drive truck attached to a long winch cable was able to get up the dune, and the remaining vehicles were successively winched, including lastly the grader. A bulldozer was not part of the road making |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202001%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
In 2001, eleven singles topped the chart. Public Domain's "Operation Blade (Bass in the Place...)" had the longest-running chart-topping dance single of 2001, for thirteen non-consecutive weeks. Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and Bardot's "I Need Somebody" were the only singles to debut at the number-one spot of the chart. Debelah Morgan's "Dance With Me" appeared on the chart for five weeks, before it was removed from the chart and listed on the newly established ARIA Urban Singles Chart. Other chart-topping dance singles from 2001 include Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head", which stayed at number one for ten straight weeks, and Da Muttz's "Wassuup" which spent eight weeks atop the chart.
Chart history
See also
2001 in music
List of number-one singles of 2001 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2001 (Australia)
References
ARIA Dance Singles chart
Dance 2001
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packed%20to%20the%20Rafters%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth and final season of Packed to the Rafters, an Australian television drama series, premiered on 23 April 2013 on the Seven Network. The series is made up of only 12 episodes. The reduction of episodes is due to the series making way for Winners & Losers later in the year.
Cast
Regular
Rebecca Gibney as Julie Rafter
Erik Thomson as Dave Rafter
Angus McLaren as Nathan Rafter
Hannah Marshall as Retta Schembri-Karandonis
George Houvardas as Carbo Karandonis
Brooke Satchwell as Frankie Calasso
Jacob Allan as Matt Jennings
Zoe Cramond as Emma MacKey
Ben Mingay as Fergus "Buzz" Graham
Merridy Eastman as Donna MacKey
Michael Caton as Ted Taylor
Fiona Spence as Eleanor McCormack (8 episodes)
Ryan Corr as Coby Jennings (4 episodes)
Jessica McNamee as Sammy Westaway (4 episodes)
Hugh Sheridan as Ben Rafter (2 episodes)
Jessica Marais as Rachel Rafter (1 episode)
James Stewart as Jake Barton (1 episode)
Recurring and guest
Hannah & Sabella Storey as Ruby Rafter
Lauren Clair as Saskia Clark Rafter
Jacinta Stapleton as Carla Calasso
Sarah Chadwick as Trish Westaway
Tom O'Sullivan as Craig/Logan
Harry & Leo Lucas as Edward Rafter
Molly Meldrum as himself
Narek Arman as Jackson Radovich
Julie Hamilton as Louise Taylor
Casting
Hugh Sheridan is committed to at least two episodes. Jessica McNamee will also return in season 6 as Sammy Westaway. Jessica Marais will briefly reprise her role of Rachel Rafter in season six. Fiona Spence joined the cast as Eleanor McCormack.
Production
Packed to the Rafters was renewed for a sixth season on 16 May 2012. The reduced number of episodes meant less filming for the cast, however rumours began to circulate that the show had been axed when the Rafter house went up for sale. However, the house failed to sell.
It was announced in TV Week that the sixth season of Packed to the Rafters would be the last, with Hugh Sheridan stating: "It's emotional letting go of Rafters – for all of us. It was such an amazing chapter in Aussie TV. I'm really proud we all came back together to send it off." The series finale of Rafters will air later in 2013. However, Channel Seven revealed that scripts for the seventh season are in development and that while Frankie, Buzz, Coby and Ben won't be back, Julie definitely will be. A spokesperson also announced that there is no way they would bring such a wonderful story to a close.
It was later confirmed by TV Week that Packed to the Rafters has been cancelled and would finish in July with a big two-hour season finale, which would see the return of Hugh Sheridan, Jessica Marais, Ryan Corr, Jessica McNamee and James Stewart. Rebecca Gibney said, "The cast, writers and producers have always said that we wanted to keep Rafters as one of the most-watched shows on TV. If we ever felt like we were losing too many cast members, we needed to end it on a high. We can say season six winds up an aspect of the Rafter family and there is a sense of finality to it."
It was later |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRA-TV | DXRA-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Metro Davao, Philippines, serving as the Mindanao flagship of the GTV network. It is owned and operated by GMA Network, Inc. alongside GMA outlet DXMJ-TV (channel 5). Both stations share studios and transmitters at the GMA Complex, Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Brgy. Matina Crossing, Davao City.
See also
GMA Network
GTV
GMA News TV (the former name of GTV)
DXGM-AM
DXRV
DXMJ-TV
List of GTV stations
Q
DWDB-TV
DYLS-TV
GTV (Philippine TV network) stations
Television stations in Davao City
Television channels and stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate%20inference | Approximate inference methods make it possible to learn realistic models from big data by trading off computation time for accuracy, when exact learning and inference are computationally intractable.
Major methods classes
Laplace's approximation
Variational Bayesian methods
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Expectation propagation
Markov random fields
Bayesian networks
Variational message passing
Loopy and generalized belief propagation
See also
Statistical inference
Fuzzy logic
Data mining
References
External links
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWt%20%28Java%20web%20toolkit%29 | JWt (pronounced "jay-witty") is an open-source widget-centric web application framework for the Java programming language developed by Emweb. It has an API that uses established GUI application development patterns. The programming model is component-based and event-driven, similar to Swing.
The goal of the library is to benefit from the stateful component model used in desktop applications APIs, applied to web development, instead of the traditional model–view–controller (MVC) model. Rather than using MVC at the level of a page, MVC is pushed to the level of individual components.
While the library uses a desktop application development model, it does support web-specific features including semantic URLs, browser history navigation support, internationalization, themes, and styling.
A unique feature of the library is its abstraction layer of the browser rendering model. The library uses Ajax for communicating with Ajax-capable browsers, while using plain HTML form post-backs for other user agents (for accessibility and search engines). Using a progressive bootstrap method, the user interface is initially rendered as plain HTML, and for Ajax-capable browsers, it is automatically upgraded to use Ajax for increased interactivity.
JWt is distributed as a jar file. A JWt application is a war file that is deployed in a standards-compliant servlet container.
Major features
See the feature list on the project homepage for a more detailed overview.
Automatic graceful degradation and progressive enhancement
On all modern browsers, a JWt application is a single-page application, with full support for forward/back and bookmark navigation, but still fully SEO.
Supports server-initiated events (Comet), and uses asynchronous I/O when deployed within a Servlet 3.0 container.
A unified 2D rendering API (SVG/HTML5 canvas/VML/PDF) with java.awt.Graphics2D compatibility
Integrated PDF rendering for Widgets, Graphics (Charts) and HTML/CSS, to generate reports
Both client-side and server-side validation
Various automatic built-in security features to avoid cross-site scripting and CSRF vulnerabilities.
Theme support through CSS or Bootstrap
Available widgets are demonstrated in the widget gallery
A 3D painting API for WebGL rendering, with fallback to server-side GPU accelerated rendering
A 3D chart API (surfaces, points, bar charts, ...) supporting selection, intersection highlighting, height maps, isolines, ...
Code example
The Hello World! example full source code
/*
* A simple hello world application class which demonstrates how to react
* to events, read input, and give feed-back.
*/
public class HelloApplication extends WApplication {
public HelloApplication(WEnvironment env) {
super(env);
setTitle("Hello world");
getRoot().addWidget(new WText("Your name, please ? "));
final WLineEdit nameEdit = new WLineEdit(getRoot());
nameEdit.setFocus();
WPushButton button = new WPushButton("G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Digital%20Television | West Digital Television is an Australian digital television network jointly owned by Seven West Media and WIN Corporation. It broadcasts free-to-air on a number of digital terrestrial transmitters in regional and remote areas of Western Australia, as well as free-to-view on the Viewer Access Satellite Television service. The network began as an affiliate of Network 10, remaining so until 1 July 2016, when it switched to the Nine Network. On 1 July 2021, it returned to Network 10, broadcasting a direct feed of NEW-10 Perth.
The network is similar to other joint ventures already available in Tasmania, Mildura, Darwin and Central and Eastern Australia. As GWN7 consists of three different stations licensed in Albany/Bunbury, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton, and a fourth licensed to the rest of the state as part of the Remote Commercial Television Licence scheme, West Digital Television's network is made up of four separate stations. Each of the four stations trade as West Digital Television Pty Ltd.
History
On 18 June 2009, the Australian Communications & Media Authority allocated new "Section 38B" television broadcasting licences to a joint venture company owned by Prime Media and WIN Television. The company, named West Digital Television, launched Ten West on Thursday 10 June 2010 as part of the initial introduction of digital commercial television in Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Mawson Trig and Mingenew.
West Digital Television launched on the Viewer Access Satellite Television platform in April 2011.
Multi-channels One and Eleven were launched to Regional WA viewers on 28 July 2011, the same day digital commercial television commenced in Bunbury.
Switch to Nine
On 1 July 2016, WIN's Nine Network-affiliated stations switched to Network Ten, displacing WDT's affiliation and requiring the station to negotiate a switch to Nine Network. WDT failed to reach an affiliation deal with Nine in time for the switchover, with the co-owners stating that Nine had been actively rejecting offers. At this time, the channel temporarily suspended transmission, with programming replaced by a loop of scenic footage with the scrolling message "Programming on this channel in Regional Western Australia is currently unavailable." On the evening of 2 July 2016 at around 7:30 p.m. WST, WDT began to carry Nine programming, joining its federal election coverage already in progress.
Back to 10
On 12 March 2021, Nine announced that it would return to WIN Television as its regional affiliate in most markets beginning 1 July 2021, in a deal that will last at least seven years. This will include WIN paying half of its regional advertising revenue to Nine Entertainment Co., and providing advertising time for Nine's properties on WIN's radio and television outlets. WIN will also provide advertising sales services for Nine's O&Os NBN and NTD (with the former succeeding a similar agreement it had with SCA). Nine CEO Hugh Marks explained that "while our relationship with Southern Cross and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapad | Tapad Inc. is a venture-funded startup company based in New York City that develops and markets software and services for cross-device advertising and content delivery. It uses algorithms to analyze internet and device data and predict whether two or more devices are owned by the same person. Participating websites and apps then cater their advertisements based on a collective knowledge of the user's actions across all of their devices.
Tapad was founded in 2010 by Are Traasdahl. It raised $1.8 million in funding in June 2011 and another $6.5 million in March 2013.
On January 29, 2016, Telenor Group entered into an agreement to acquire approximately 95% of Tapad Inc. The purchase price is US$360 million, on a debt and cash-free 100% basis. In November 2020, Tapad was acquired by Experian.
History
The idea for Tapad was conceived by cofounder and CEO Are Traasdahl at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Traasdahl previously founded Thumbplay, a mobile entertainment company. He saw attendees switching between televisions, laptops and smartphones and thought that brands should be able to cater their ads to individual users even as they switch between devices.
Cofounder and CTO Dag Liodden, Traasdahl, and four others began developing algorithms for the software and founded Tapad in 2010. It took almost a year for the company to obtain its first client, but afterwards the organization grew quickly. In 2011, it raised $1.8 million in funding and opened five more sales offices in major US cities. From mid-2012 to mid-2013, the company hired 44 people and moved its headquarters to a larger office in New York City.
Another $6.5 million in funding was raised in March 2013 and $7 million was raised in July 2014 to fund additional expansion in Europe. An additional $18.5 million in funding was raised in July 2015.
In 2016, Tapad worked with 160 U.S. brands and had 50 data technology licensing partnerships.
On January 29, 2016, Norway-based Telenor Group entered into an agreement to acquire about 95 percent of Tapad Inc. for $360 million.
On November 19, 2020, Experian announced that it had completed the acquisition of Tapad for a roughly $280 million.
Software and services
Tapad uses data such as cookie IDs, operating system IDs, IP addresses, online registrations and data from partnering publishers to develop a probability that different devices are shared by the same person or household. According to Tapad, none of the data contains personally identifiable information (PII). In a data sample tested by Nielsen, Tapad accurately identified users across devices in 91.2% of cases. This is only slightly less than deterministic methods which require PII.
Tapad is used for advertising to consumers across devices, where a user is shown an ad on their mobile or tablet device based on websites they visited on a desktop or based on a usage behavior that matches an advertiser's target audience. For example, if an Android phone visits a website shortly a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare%2C%20endangered%20and%20threatened%20plants%20of%20Kerala | The Database on Rare, Endangered and Threatened plants of Kerala is a red list compiled by The Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Kerala, with information from various institutions and scientists. It is a list of plants that are presently threatened present in Kerala.
See also
List of endemic and threatened plants of India
References
Flora of Kerala
. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Lane%20Polk | Ralph Lane Polk (1849–1923) was an American compiler of facts and publisher of directories.
Early life and education
Polk was born 12 September 1849 in Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, to Rev. David Polk Jr. (b. Maryland, d. 15 April 1857 Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania) and his wife Mary Charlotte Warner (b. New Jersey), daughter of Jacob Warner. In 1860 Polk, four of his siblings and their widowed mother were living with his maternal grandfather in Trenton, New Jersey. Ralph Lane Polk's siblings included: Margaret Polk (b. 1839/40), Mary Polk (1841–1902). David R Polk (1844 - May 1871), Susan Polk (September 1846 - 12 May 1918), Louisa Polk (b. 12 May 1847 - 7 May 1916), and Charles Polk (b. 1853/54).
Polk was educated at the Pennington School, New Jersey.
American Civil War
At the beginning of the American Civil War, people generally thought the war could be short with a settlement quickly reached. After years of carnage with the largest number of dead, diseased and maimed soldiers ever witnessed on the continent, large bounties were being paid to attract new recruits to what would become the last New Jersey Infantry Regiment formed for the war. About 25% of New Jersey soldiers died during the war. Polk volunteered at the age of 16, mustered in 16 February 1865 in Trenton, and left the state on 17 February. He became a Union Army drummer boy during the Siege of Petersburg, at the Third Battle of Petersburg on 2 April 1865, and at the Battle of Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, as a musician in Company G of the 40th New Jersey Infantry.
Career
By 1880, Polk was living in Detroit with wife Amelia, working as a directory clerk, while paying for adopted daughter Frances to be a boarding pupil at the Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart's St. Ursula Academy in Toledo, Ohio.
Polk became a successful Detroit publisher and president of R.L. Polk & Co., directory publishers. He belonged to the Association of North American Directory Publishers. His grandson, Ralph Lane Polk, III (July 21, 1911 - February 9, 1984), was a later president of the company which was acquired by IHS Inc. on July 15, 2013.
Marriage and family
Ralph Polk married Amelia Francis, widow of John Henry Hopkins. Polk adopted her daughter as his own. Born Frances Hopkins (28 January 1873 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan – 2 August 1944 Detroit), she used the name Frances Hopkins Polk through her youth, and when married used the name Francis Polk Kemp. Her husband, Second Lieutenant Ulysses Grant Kemp, died as a result of injuries from a fall during a practice company cavalry charge, leaving her to return to Detroit with two-year old daughter Amy Polk Kemp (1897–1981), and seven months pregnant with daughter Dorothy Grant Kemp (25 October 1898 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan – 22 July 1985 Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan; political activist, concert pianist, second wife of Hall Roosevelt and mother of three daughters, sister-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt). As |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEAD%20Public%20Schools | LEAD Public Schools is a Nashville-based non-profit organization running a network of charter schools. LEAD was founded in 2007 by Jeremy Kane as the first charter management organization in the state of Tennessee. Since its establishment, LEAD has grown to serve 1,250 students across Nashville. As part of a statewide initiative to improve under-performing schools, LEAD received millions of dollars to expand its reach in the local area. Its growth has been augmented by a partnership with Metro Nashville Public Schools and the Achievement School District, which selected LEAD as the charter operator for turnaround schools in these districts. Chris Barbic, the founder of Yes Prep and the superintendent of the Achievement School District, expressed his thoughts regarding LEAD's results in a public press release.
LEAD schools
LEAD Academy high school
Cameron College Prep currently serves grades 5-8. This is LEAD's, and Tennessee's, first conversion school. LEAD took over Cameron Middle School, one of the low-performing schools in the Metro Nashville district, to create Cameron College Prep.
LEAD Academy High School serves grades 9-12. LEAD's first graduating class will graduate in May 2014.
Brick Church College Prep serves grades 5-8. This school is a partnership between LEAD Public Schools, Metro Nashville Public Schools, and the Achievement School District.
LEAD Prep Southeast serves grades 5-8. This is LEAD Public Schools' newest charter school.
LEAD Neely’s Bend serves grades 5-8 as a zoned charter school in partnership with the Achievement School District.
References
Charter schools in Tennessee
School districts established in 2007
Schools in Nashville, Tennessee
2007 establishments in Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20McGeoch | Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems. She is currently Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College. She has been the Editor in Chief of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and was a member of the ACM Publications Board.
Biography
McGeoch graduated summa cum laude from Butler University in 1981. She then earned her M.S. (1983) and her Ph.D.(1986) from Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Jon Bentley. She is the author of A Guide to Experimental Algorithmics () and Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing: Theory and Practice ().
In 2013, she published one of the first detailed benchmarks of D-Wave's Quantum Computer versus conventional software. Her work was featured in an Amherst College press release and was subsequently cited in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist and The New Yorker. Starting in May 2014 she took a leave of absence from Amherst College to work full-time for D-Wave.
References
Butler University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
21st-century American women writers
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTI%20Electronics%20Corporation | CTI Electronics Corporation is a manufacturer of industrial computer peripherals such as rugged keyboards, pointing devices, motion controllers, analog joysticks, USB keypads and many other industrial, military, medical, or aerospace grade input devices. CTI Electronics Corporation products are made in the United States and it is a well-known supplier of input devices to some of the most notable private defense contractors in the world, including Lockheed Martin, DRS Technologies, Computer Sciences Corporation, General Dynamics, BAE Systems, L3 Communications, AAI, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, Thales Group and many more companies that provide security and defense around the world. CTI also supplies Homeland Security and United States Department of Defense supporting their efforts in protecting and serving the country and military personnel of the United States.
Background
CTI Electronics Corporation was started in 1986 and is currently located in Stratford, Connecticut.
Industries
CTI's products are used all over the world in a variety of industries and specialize in highly reliable industrial-grade input devices for use harsh environments. Its products are currently being used in the control systems of UAVs, UUVs, and UGVs. CTI has also donated industrial joysticks to students of UW-Madison to for research into the Standing Paraplegic Omni-directional Transport (SPOT)
These products are not only used for military but are also used in the medical, industrial, and aerospace industries all over the world.
Product certifications
NEMA 4
NEMA 4X
NEMA 12
IP54
IP66
RoHS
CE
ISO 9001:2008
References
External links
CTI Electronics Home Page
Computer companies of the United States
Computer peripheral companies
Computer companies established in 1986
Electronics companies established in 1986
Companies based in Stratford, Connecticut
American companies established in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Kustok | Sarah Grace Kustok ( ; born December 17, 1981) is an American sports reporter who works for the YES Network and Fox Sports. In 2017, she became the first female full-time analyst for an NBA team's local TV broadcasts, when the YES Network promoted her from sideline analyst for Brooklyn Nets games.
Biography
Kustok began her career as an analyst and sideline reporter for ESPN and Fox Sports, covering college football, basketball (men's and women's), and high school football. She also worked as a TV sideline reporter for the Chicago Bulls, Blackhawks, Cubs, White Sox and Fire for Comcast SportsNet Chicago and was a substitute anchor for the network and filled in as sports anchor for WMAQ-TV. She has hosted College Sports Minute and was a freelance sports anchor/reporter for WFLD-TV. She also worked for Versus. She is the color commentator for the WNBA's Connecticut Sun home games. She also is the substitute anchor and contributor on FS1's First Things First. Kustok previously worked as a sideline reporter with the Brooklyn Nets (succeeding Michelle Beadle) before being promoted to TV analyst in 2017, making her the NBA's first ever female solo analyst. She also contributes to Nets Magazine.
DePaul statistics
Source
Personal life
Kustok grew up in Orland Park, Illinois, where she played high school volleyball and basketball. She later attended DePaul University, where she played on the Blue Demons women's basketball team. Her older brother, Zak, is a businessman who formerly played quarterback for the Northwestern Wildcats football team.
Sarah's father, Allan Kustok, was tried for the shooting and killing of Anita "Jeanie" Kustok, her mother, while she slept in their home in 2010. Sarah testified before the jury, and maintained her father's innocence in March 2014. Allan was convicted of first degree murder and is currently serving a 60-year prison sentence, where he is not eligible for parole.
References
1981 births
American women's basketball coaches
Brooklyn Nets announcers
Chicago Blackhawks announcers
Chicago Bulls announcers
Chicago Cubs announcers
Chicago White Sox announcers
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
DePaul Blue Demons women's basketball coaches
DePaul Blue Demons women's basketball players
DePaul University alumni
Living people
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
National Football League announcers
Major League Soccer broadcasters
People from Orland Park, Illinois
Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois
Television sports anchors from Chicago
YES Network
Fox Sports 1 people
American women's basketball players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20%26%20Order%3A%20UK%20%28series%207%29 | In August 2012, the UK television network ITV announced that the series Law & Order: UK would return with a six-episode seventh series with production to begin in November. It was also announced that cast members Freema Agyeman and Harriet Walter would not be returning. Georgia Taylor and Paterson Joseph join the cast in this series. The series began airing on 14 July 2013, eighteen months since the airing of Series 6.
Cast
Main
Law
Bradley Walsh as Senior Detective Sergeant Ronnie Brooks
Paul Nicholls as Junior Detective Sergeant Sam Casey
Paterson Joseph as Detective Inspector Wes Leyton
Order
Dominic Rowan as Senior Crown Prosecutor Jacob Thorne
Georgia Taylor as Junior Crown Prosecutor Kate Barker
Peter Davison as Henry Sharpe, Director of London Crown Prosecution Service
Episodes
1 Ratings do not include ITV HD.
References
Law & Order: UK
2013 British television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphilopota%20foedata | Aphilopota foedata is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Max Bastelberger in 1907. It is found in Tanzania.
This species looks dirty yellowish grey, irregularly sprayed with fine black spots on the forewings and hindwings. The male has a wingspan of 40–41 mm.
References
Endemic fauna of Tanzania
Ennominae
Moths described in 1907
Insects of Tanzania
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Paxton%20%28actor%29 | James Paxton (born February 23, 1994) is an American actor. He is known for co-starring in the USA Network drama series Eyewitness as Lukas Waldenbeck. He also starred in the music video for Matt Maeson's "Beggar's Song". He is the son of actor Bill Paxton, and played a younger version of his father's character John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music
References
External links
1994 births
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American people of Austrian descent
American people of Dutch descent
American people of English descent
American people of French descent
American people of German descent
American people of Norwegian descent
American people of Scotch-Irish descent
American people of Scottish descent
American people of Swiss descent
American people of Welsh descent
Living people
Male actors from California
People from Ojai, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Note%208.0 | The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is an 8-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the second generation of the Samsung Galaxy Note series tablets, which also includes a 10.1-inch model, the Galaxy Note 10.1. It was first sold in the US in April 2013. Like the larger model, it uses both touch and Samsung's S-Pen stylus. It is Samsung's first 8-inch tablet, and was followed later by a lower-end sibling, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0.
History
The Galaxy Note 8.0 was announced on 23 February 2013. It was shown along with the Galaxy S4 at the 2013 Mobile World Conference. Samsung confirmed that the Galaxy Note 8.0 would be released in the US on 11 April, with a price of $399.99 for the 16GB model.
Features
The Galaxy Note 8.0 is released with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. An upgrade to Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean is available in some areas as an over-the-air update and through Samsung Kies. In February 2014, Samsung included the Galaxy Note 8.0 on their upgrade list for Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Roll out of the Android 4.4.2 update began May 12, 2014. On June 4, 2014, Samsung announced the 4.4.2 update for U.S. tablets. The Android 4.4.2 update included updated TouchWiz applications, but, with the notable and inexplicable elimination of its crucial handwriting preferences, largely retained the tablet's original feature set. Bluetooth low energy capability was enabled with the Android 4.4.2 firmware update.
Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz UX software. As well as apps from Google, including Google Play, Gmail and YouTube, it has access to Samsung apps such as ChatON, S Note, S Suggest, S Voice, S Translator, S Planner, Smart Remote (Peel), Smart Stay, Multi-Window, Air View, Group Play, and All Share Play.
The Camera User Interface is known from the Galaxy S3.
Like the Galaxy S4, the Galaxy Note 8.0 is equipped with an infrared transmitter for usage as a universal remote control.
The Galaxy Note 8.0 is available in WiFi-only, 3G & Wi-Fi, and 4G/LTE & WiFi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has an 8-inch WXGA TFT screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels. It also features a 1.3 MP front camera and 5.0 MP AF rear-facing camera without flash. Its 5 megapixel rear camera also has the ability to record HD (720p) videos.
See also
Samsung Galaxy Note series
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0
References
External links
Note 8.0 Manual
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2013
Galaxy Note 8.0
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design-Oriented%20Programming | Design-oriented programming is a way to author computer applications using a combination of text, graphics, and style elements in a unified code-space. The goal is to improve the experience of program writing for software developers, boost accessibility, and reduce eye-strain. Good design helps computer programmers to quickly locate sections of code using visual cues typically found in documents and web page authoring.
User interface design and graphical user interface builder research are the conceptual precursors to design-oriented programming languages. The former focus on the software experience for end users of the software application and separate editing of the user interface from the code-space. The important distinction is that design-oriented programming involves user experience of programmers themselves and fully merges all elements into a single unified code-space.
See also
User interface design
Graphical user interface builder
Elements of graphical user interfaces
Visual programming language
Experience design
User experience design
Usability
References
Visual programming
Intro to Design-Oriented Programming Languages
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars%20in%20Montreal | Prior to 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada had an extensive streetcar system. The streetcar network had its beginnings with the horsecar era of the Montreal City Passenger Railway in 1861. The initial line was along Rue Notre Dame (Notre Dame St) from Rue du Havre (Harbor St) to Rue McGill (McGill St).
Montreal Street Railway
The City Passenger Railway became the Montreal Street Railway in 1886. The decision to use electricity instead of horses for propulsion was made in 1892. On September 21 of that same year, "The Rocket," Montreal's first electric streetcar made its maiden voyage. By 1894, the remaining horsecar lines had all been converted to accommodate the new electrically powered streetcars. The Montreal Street Railway was known as one of the most innovative and progressive in North America. One of its innovations was the introduction of the "Pay As You Enter" (P.A.Y.E.) system of fare collection in 1905. Prior to that time, conductors would walk through the car collecting fares meaning many passengers probably rode for free on very crowded cars. The P.A.Y.E. system was adopted worldwide by many other transit companies. The company also designed and built two open sightseeing (another two were built later) cars that were in service until the late 1950s. The designs of those sightseeing cars were sold to transit companies in Quebec City, Calgary and Vancouver, who all built their own versions of the car.
Montreal Park and Island Railway
The Montreal Park and Island Railway was incorporated by the Legislature of Quebec in 1885 to run railway service in the suburbs of Montreal. They built lines to Lachine, St Laurent and Cartierville, and to Sault-au-Récollet. The company had an agreement with the Montreal Street Railway Co to allow MP&IR cars to run through to terminals in Montreal.
The company was formed on 1893-12-27 and was eventually consolidated with other companies to form the Montreal Tramways Company in 1911
Montreal Tramways Company
In 1911 a new corporate entity, the Montreal Tramways Company was formed consolidating the city streetcar routes of the Montreal Street Railway and the suburban routes of the Montreal Park & Island Railway and the Montreal Terminal Railway. The Montreal Tramways Company would own and operate the transportation system until the system was taken over by the city-owned Montreal Transportation Commission in 1951.
World War II
Through the war years (1939 to 1945), Montreal's streetcar system carried huge passenger loads with workers commuting to busy factories supplying the war effort. Every available streetcar was put into service. The company even bought several streetcars from U.S. systems that were converting to buses. Even private automobile owners were taking streetcars as rationing made gasoline and tires difficult to get. Most manufacturing of private automobiles was halted about halfway through the war years so assembly plants could concentrate on military vehicles. The Montreal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized%20meldable%20heap | In computer science, a randomized meldable heap (also Meldable Heap or Randomized Meldable Priority Queue) is a priority queue based data structure in which the underlying structure is also a heap-ordered binary tree. However, there are no restrictions on the shape of the underlying binary tree.
This approach has a number of advantages over similar data structures. It offers greater simplicity: all operations for the randomized meldable heap are easy to implement and the constant factors in their complexity bounds are small. There is also no need to preserve balance conditions and no satellite information within the nodes is necessary. Lastly, this structure has good worst-case time efficiency. The execution time of each individual operation is at most logarithmic with high probability.
Operations
The randomized meldable heap supports a number of common operations. These are insertion, deletion, and a searching operation, findMin. The insertion and deletion operations are implemented in terms of an additional operation specific to the meldable heap, Meld(Q1, Q2).
Meld
The basic goal of the meld (also called merge) operation is to take two heaps (by taking each heaps root nodes), Q1 and Q2, and merges them, returning a single heap node as a result. This heap node is the root node of a heap containing all elements from the two subtrees rooted at Q1 and Q2.
A nice feature of this meld operation is that it can be defined recursively. If either heaps are null, then the merge is taking place with an empty set and the method simply returns the root node of the non-empty heap. If both Q1 and Q2 are not nil, check if Q1 > Q2. If it is, swap the two. It is therefore ensured that Q1 < Q2 and that the root node of the merged heap will contain Q1. We then recursively merge Q2 with Q1.left or Q1.right. This step is where the randomization comes in as this decision of which side to merge with is determined by a coin toss.
function Meld(Node Q1, Node Q2)
if Q1 is nil => return Q2
if Q2 is nil => return Q1
if Q1 > Q2 => swap Q1 and Q2
if coin_toss is 0 => Q1.left = Meld(Q1.left, Q2)
else Q1.right = Meld(Q1.right, Q2)
return Q1
Insert
With the meld operation complete, inserting into the meldable heap is easy. First, a new node, u, is created containing the value x. This new node is then simply melded with the heaps root node.
function Insert(x)
Node u = new Node
u.x = x
root = Meld(u, root)
root.parent = nil
increment node count
Remove
Similarly easy to the insert operation, Remove() uses the Meld operation to eliminate the root node from the heap. This is done by simply melding the two children of the root node and making the returned node the new root.
function Remove()
root = Meld(root.left, root.right)
if root is not nil => root.parent = nil
decrement node count
FindMin
Possibly the easiest operation for the randomized meldable heap, FindMin() simply returns th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanavir%C3%B3n%20language | Sanavirón is an extinct and unclassified language once spoken near the Salinas Grandes in Córdoba, Argentina. Loukotka (1968) classified it as a language isolate, but there is insufficient data to justify this according to Campbell (2012).
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.
{| class="wikitable"
! gloss !! Sanaviron
|-
| water || para
|-
| sun || solo
|-
| earth || lasta
|-
| house || tolo
|}
References
Languages of Argentina
Unclassified languages of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP5%20chip | The GP5 is a co-processor accelerator built to accelerate discrete belief propagation on factor graphs and other large-scale tensor product operations for machine learning. It is related to, and anticipated by a number of years, the Google Tensor Processing Unit
It is designed to run as a co-processor with another controller (such as a CPU (x86) or an ARM/MIPS/Tensilica core). It was developed as the culmination of DARPA's Analog Logic program
The GP5 has a fairly exotic architecture, resembling neither a GPU nor a DSP, and leverages massive fine-grained and coarse-grained parallelism. It is deeply pipelined. The different algorithmic tasks involved in performing belief propagation updates are performed by independent, heterogeneous compute units. The performance of the chip is governed by the structure of the machine learning workload being evaluated. In typical cases, the GP5 is roughly 100 times faster and 100 times more energy efficient than a single core of a modern core i7 performing a comparable task. It is roughly 10 times faster and 1000 times more energy efficient than a state-of-the art GPU. It is roughly 1000 times faster and 10 times more energy efficient than a state-of-the-art ARM processor. It was benchmarked on typical machine learning and inference workloads that included protein side-chain folding, turbo error correction decoding, stereo vision, signal noise reduction, and others.
Analog Devices, Inc. acquired the intellectual property for the GP5 when it acquired Lyric Semiconductor, Inc. in 2011.
References
External links
Dimple
Lyric Semiconductor, now Analog Devices: Lyric Labs
Darpa's Analog Logic program
Integrated circuits
Microtechnology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipe%20Melo%20%28writer%29 | Filipe Melo (born 13 September 1977) is a Portuguese musician, film director and comic book writer.
Early life
As a teenager, Filipe Melo was a computer hacker. At age 15, he was questioned by the police and he was denied access to computers for a few years.
Music
An accomplished jazz pianist, Melo studied at the Hotclube in Lisbon and at the Berklee College of Music with Joanne Brackeen and Ray Santisi . In Portugal, he did sideman work for many international musicians including Benny Golson, Seamus Blake, Jorge Rossy, John Ellis, Omer Avital, Peter Bernstein, Donald Harrison, Andrea Bocelli, Jesse Davis, Paulinho Braga, Sheila Jordan, Herb Geller and Martin Taylor, among many others.
He has been working as an arranger and orchestrator for many artists, and composing original soundtracks for theatre and film.
Films
His first short film was I'll See You in My Dreams, which he wrote and produced, winner of Fantasporto, a Méliès d'Argent and 12 more international awards. I'll See You in My Dreams is now considered to be the first Portuguese zombie film.
He wrote and directed "Um Mundo Catita" with Manuel João Vieira, a TV show in 6 episodes, and also directed 2 music videos for the band Moonspell. He has directed two short films: "Sleepwalk" (2018) and "The Lone Wolf" (2021). Both films won the Sophia Award for Best Short by the Portuguese Film Academy.
His short film "The Lone Wolf" became the first Portuguese entry to the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
Comic Books
Melo is an Eisner and Harvey nominated author - His work has been published in many countries and languages. His latest book, “Ballad for Sophie” was published by Top Shelf Productions in 2022.
He also wrote The Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy, a series of three graphic novels Dark Horse Comics. The books feature forewords from filmmakers John Landis, George A. Romero, Tobe Hooper and Lloyd Kaufman. In 2012 he was invited to write a story for the Eisner award-winning anthology Dark Horse Presents, also featuring works by Frank Miller and Mike Mignola.
He frequently works with Argentinian artist Juan Cavia.
References
http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/21-704/The-Untold-Tales-of-Dog-Mendonca-Pizzaboy-one-shot
http://expresso.sapo.pt/bd-editora-norte-americana-dark-horse-vai-publicar-historia-de-filipe-melo-e-juan-cavia=f621461
Interview in Falar Criativo podcast
1977 births
Living people
Clean Feed Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris%20%28programming%20language%29 | Idris is a purely-functional programming language with dependent types, optional lazy evaluation, and features such as a totality checker. Idris may be used as a proof assistant, but is designed to be a general-purpose programming language similar to Haskell.
The Idris type system is similar to Agda's, and proofs are similar to Coq's, including tactics (theorem proving functions/procedures) via elaborator reflection. Compared to Agda and Coq, Idris prioritizes management of side effects and support for embedded domain-specific languages. Idris compiles to C (relying on a custom copying garbage collector using Cheney's algorithm) and JavaScript (both browser- and Node.js-based). There are third-party code generators for other platforms, including Java virtual machine (JVM), Common Intermediate Language (CIL), and LLVM.
Idris is named after a singing dragon from the 1970s UK children's television program Ivor the Engine.
Features
Idris combines a number of features from relatively mainstream functional programming languages with features borrowed from proof assistants.
Functional programming
The syntax of Idris shows many similarities with that of Haskell. A hello world program in Idris might look like this:
module Main
main : IO ()
main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"
The only differences between this program and its Haskell equivalent are the single (instead of double) colon in the type signature of the main function, and the omission of the word "where" in the module declaration.
Inductive and parametric data types
Idris supports inductively-defined data types and parametric polymorphism. Such types can be defined both in traditional Haskell 98-like syntax:
data Tree a = Node (Tree a) (Tree a) | Leaf a
or in the more general generalized algebraic data type (GADT)-like syntax:
data Tree : Type -> Type where
Node : Tree a -> Tree a -> Tree a
Leaf : a -> Tree a
Dependent types
With dependent types, it is possible for values to appear in the types; in effect, any value-level computation can be performed during type checking. The following defines a type of lists which lengths are known before the program runs, traditionally called vectors:
data Vect : Nat -> Type -> Type where
Nil : Vect 0 a
(::) : (x : a) -> (xs : Vect n a) -> Vect (n + 1) a
This type can be used as follows:
total
append : Vect n a -> Vect m a -> Vect (n + m) a
append Nil ys = ys
append (x :: xs) ys = x :: append xs ys
The function append appends a vector of m elements of type a to a vector of n elements of type a. Since the precise types of the input vectors depend on a value, it is possible to be certain at compile time that the resulting vector will have exactly (n + m) elements of type a.
The word "total" invokes the totality checker which will report an error if the function doesn't cover all possible cases or cannot be (automatically) proven not to enter an infinite loop.
Another common example is pairwise addition of two vectors that are paramet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Sweet%20Home%20%282013%20TV%20series%29 | Home Sweet Home is a 2013 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Raymart Santiago, Roxanne Guinoo, Jake Vargas, Bea Binene and Jillian Ward. It premiered on April 22, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on July 19, 2013 with a total of 64 episodes. It was replaced by Binoy Henyo in its timeslot.
Premise
The series revolves around the Caharian family and their magical adventures and misadventures as they explore and unravel the mysteries behind an old and abandoned house. In the story, whoever enters the old house will be trapped inside and a fake version (a doppelganger with opposite personality of the real one) will come out.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Raymart Santiago as Reden Caharian
Roxanne Guinoo as Dulce Caharian
Jake Vargas as Benjie Caharian
Bea Binene as Lucy Buena
Jillian Ward as Jessie Caharian
Supporting cast
Rain Quite as Ivan Caharian
Celia Rodriguez as Pandora
Gladys Reyes as Agoncilla Caharian
Rochelle Pangilinan as Wendy del Valle
Teejay Marquez as Coco Buena
Shermaine Santiago as Dessa Buena
Arthur Solinap and Patricia Ysmael as Kulay and Mikay
Marky Lopez as Caloy
Ernie Zarate as Duarte Caharian
Ken Chan as Dane
Buboy Villar as Django
Arkin Magalona as Arko Buena
Elle Ramirez as Chinggay
Guest cast
Lorna Tolentino as Azon
Gerald Madrid as Gabby Buena
Ricky Davao as Manolo
Dinkee Doo, Jr. as Sidyo
Alessandra De Rossi as the Ice Queen
Marita Zobel as a witch
Juancho Trivino as Adonis
Yassi Pressman as Ella
Production and development
The series was conceptualized and developed by RJ Nuevas in early March 2013. The show's working title was "Bahay na Bato" (literally means House of Stone) before being changed to Home Sweet Home. The show's key target demographic were children (6-12 year old age) and preteens to adolescents (13-19 year old age), and aimed to entertain in a positive manner, at the same time inculcating traditional Filipino values and practices, such as importance of honesty, respect for parental authority, importance of a strong family and sportsmanship.
The series is executive produced by Joy Lumboy-Pili and directed by Gil Tejada, Jr. Although predominantly a family drama, the program does have some fantasy-adventure, comedic and thriller overtones. The story revolves mainly around the Caharian family, and their adventures and misadventures inside an old enchanted house—the most significant aspect of the series, both the main setting and the focus of the story's themes. Every door in that house leads to a new world (reminiscent of The Chronicles of Narnia). There, they will meet some lovable mythical creatures, as well as ferocious fiends, that will either help them or keep them from getting back into the real world. The show also highlights several characters [such as relatives, friends, neighbors of the core family] and their personal and background stories.
The cast came first before |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medan%E2%80%93Binjai%20Toll%20Road | Medan–Binjai Toll Road is a toll road connecting to Medan from Binjai. This toll road is part of Banda Aceh-Medan corridor of Trans-Sumatra Toll Road network.
History
On October 10, 2014, the construction of this toll road was inaugurated by the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Chairul Tanjung. While the groundbreaking ceremony was carried out by President Joko Widodo on 27 January 2015. The construction of this toll road was planned to last for 3 years.
The Medan–Kualanamu–Tebing Tinggi Toll Road and Medan–Binjai Toll Road were officially operational after being inaugurated by President Joko Widodo on October 13, 2017. Even though they are already in operation, not all toll roads can be traversed due to land acquisition constraints.
Sections
The toll road is 17 kilometers long, with sections below,
Helvetia-Binjai-Semayang: 10.45 kilometers
Tanjung Mulia-Helvetia: 6.75 kilometers
Exits
Because this expressway is a part of Trans-Sumatra Toll Road Network, the KM 0 exit is located at the Bakauheni Port. For the sake of simplicity, the distance counter will start around Tanjung Mulia Junction/IC
References
Toll roads in North Sumatra
Transport in Medan
See also
Trans-Sumatra Toll Road |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Automatic%20Identification%20and%20Mobility | Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) is an industry trade group that developed and standardized bar codes, automatic identification and data capture. It is based in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
When AIM was formed in 1973, it consisted of four member organizations. In the years since, it was grown to over 400 members worldwide, including Intel and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
References
External links
Butler County, Pennsylvania
Barcodes
Automatic identification and data capture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerode%20Prize | The EATCS–IPEC Nerode Prize is a theoretical computer science prize awarded for outstanding research in the area of multivariate algorithmics. It is awarded by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation. The prize was offered for the first time in 2013.
Winners
The prize winners so far have been:
2013: Chris Calabro, Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets, Ramamohan Paturi, and Francis Zane, for their research formulating the exponential time hypothesis and using it to determine the exact parameterized complexity of several important variants of the Boolean satisfiability problem.
2014: Hans L. Bodlaender, Rodney G. Downey, Michael R. Fellows, Danny Hermelin, Lance Fortnow, and Rahul Santhanam, for their work on kernelization, proving that several problems with fixed-parameter tractable algorithms do not have polynomial-size kernels unless the polynomial hierarchy collapses.
2015: Erik Demaine, Fedor V. Fomin, Mohammad Hajiaghayi, and Dimitrios Thilikos, for their research on bidimensionality, defining a broad framework for the design of fixed-parameter-tractable algorithms for domination and covering problems on graphs.
2016: Andreas Björklund for his paper Determinant Sums for Undirected Hamiltonicity, showing that methods based on algebraic graph theory lead to a significantly improved algorithm for finding Hamiltonian cycles
2017: Fedor V. Fomin, Fabrizio Grandoni, and Dieter Kratsch, for developing the "measure and conquer" method for the analysis of backtracking algorithms.
2018: Stefan Kratsch and Magnus Wahlström for their work using matroid theory to develop polynomial-size kernels for odd cycle transversal and related problems.
2019: Noga Alon, Raphael Yuster, and Uri Zwick, for inventing the Color-coding technique, a vastly important ingredient in the toolbox of parameterized algorithm design.
2020: Daniel Marx, Jianer Chen, Yang Liu, Songjian Lu, Barry O’Sullivan, Igor Razgon, for inventing the concepts of separators and cuts which have become elegant and efficient tools used to establish the fixed parameter tractability of graph problems.
2021: C. S. Calude, S. Jain, B. Khoussainov, W. Li, F. Stephan, for their quasipolynomial time algorithm for deciding parity games.
2022: B. Courcelle for his work on the definability of graph properties in monadic second-order logic.
See also
List of computer science awards
References
Theoretical computer science
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%27s%20Music%20Writer | In computing, Philip's Music Writer or PMW, formerly known as Philip's Music Scribe or PMS, is a music scorewriter written by Philip Hazel. It was mentioned in the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities publication Computing in Musicology in 1993 and remains under active development as free software.
Development
The software was originally written in order for Hazel to typeset recorder music for his children. It was written in BCPL for an IBM mainframe at the University of Cambridge and also ran on a system running Panos, which was later sold as the Acorn Business Computer. The program was subsequently ported to Acorn's Archimedes running Arthur and later ported to Unix-like systems. It began as commercial software and was later released as free software.
On-screen proof-reading was rudimentary on the Acorn Business Computer, which used the BBC Micro for screen output. The Arthur version initially ran at the command line, but was later converted to use the WIMP and outline fonts. Sibelius was released in 1993. Hazel later observed that composers and arrangers generally preferred such WYSIWYG editors, while music engravers tended to prefer text input scorewriters, because of the increased degree of control available. The learning of such text input requires more time investment by the user, so the notation was designed with the aim of being "both compact and easy to learn". The Linux version (ported in 2003) is "back to its roots", being command line driven.
The software uses PostScript fonts named PMW-Music and PMW-Alpha, which were conceived by the author and Richard Hallas. The fonts were originally designed as outline fonts.
, it remains under active development as free software.
Features
Musical notation is provided to the software in textual form, which generates output to a printer or for saving in PostScript or Drawfile format. Simple MIDI files and sound output can also be generated.
Reception
The software was mentioned in the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities publication Computing in Musicology in 1993, and chapter 18 in Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes, MIT Press (1997, ).
References
Cross-platform software
Free music software
Free software programmed in C
Free typesetting software
Music notation file formats
RISC OS software
Scorewriters
Scorewriters for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaconsfield%20%28film%29 | Beaconsfield is an Australian television film produced for Nine Network. The film is a dramatisation of the 2006 Beaconsfield Mine collapse. It premiered on Nine Network on 22 April 2012.
References
External links
2012 television films
2012 films
Nine Network original programming
Australian drama television films
Films set in Tasmania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20candidata | Eupithecia candidata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Peru.
References
Moths described in 1907
candidata
Moths of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings%20of%20Comedy%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Kings of Comedy is an Australian comedy documentary series for blokey men, aired on Nine Network. It gets repeated annually during the TV Week Logies after party. Contains scenes from Dave Allen, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Graham Kennedy, and The Two Ronnies.
Nine Network original programming
2000s Australian comedy television series
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20emendata | Eupithecia emendata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by András Mátyás Vojnits in 1983. It is found in Nepal.
References
Moths described in 1983
emendata
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIsrael | OpIsrael (#OpIsrael), is an annual coordinated cyber-attack where hacktivists attack Israeli government and even private websites with DDoS attacks and more. The inaugural campaign was launched in 2013 by Anonymous hackers on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The campaign has since been held annually.
The inaugural OpIsrael was reported to have no physical damage and was assessed by the Israeli Government's National Cyber Bureau and by all security experts and journalists to have been a failure.
Targeted websites
Larger than Life, an Israeli NGO devoted to "improving the quality of life and welfare of cancer-stricken children and their families regardless of sex, religion and nationality", stated that in the week leading up to #OpIsrael, its website was targeted repeatedly by pro-Palestinian hackers who defaced it with "flags, a skull, symbols, and all sorts of hate-related things".
In the leadup to the attack, Israeli organizations made preparations to defend their websites, and cyber-security experts called on home users to increase awareness and take precautions such as changing passwords, not opening strange or suspicious emails, and maintaining especial vigilance when using Facebook. The Israel Internet Association (ISOC) operated a hotline for people to report attacks and published real-time status reports on its website.
Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust museum, came under a "fairly massive attack". Nevertheless, its website was fully operational on the day of the attack, which overlapped with Holocaust Remembrance Day.
At midday, #OpIsrael activists announced on Twitter that they had defaced the website of an Israeli hair salon, Peter Hair, in Ramat HaSharon. The salon's home page showed a masked person holding a sign saying "Indonesian Security Down #OP ISRAHELL" and was signed with the message "We are Muslims, Soldier [sic] of Allah". The owner of the salon, Peter Imseis, said he had not been aware that the site had been hacked and that it had not affected his business.
Government websites that experienced problems on 7 April 2013 included those of the Israeli Ministry of Education and Central Bureau of Statistics, but it was unclear whether these problems were caused by #OpIsrael.
During the day, attackers posted numerous false and grandiose claims of successes, such as "Anonymous causes Israel to lose $5 billion" in stock market losses and "Tel Aviv loses all Internet connection".
Responses
The attack was praised by Hamas, the militant Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas spokesman Ihab al-Ghussain wrote: "May God protect the spirit and mission of the soldiers of this electronic war".
A statement on the website of the Tunisian Renaissance Party, signed by party leader Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, expressed "condemnation of all those who do not pursue a policy of dialogue to reach its objectives and follow the methods of terrorists to reach its goals", and threatening "to prosecute anyone involved from Tunisi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra%20%28Otep%20album%29 | Hydra is the sixth studio album by the heavy metal band Otep. It was released in 2013 on Victory Records. Hydra is a concept album. This is their only album to feature drum programming as opposed to live drums. It is the band's last album on Victory, as they completed their three-album contract with this record.
Background
Hydra is a concept album, based on a novel Otep Shamaya was working on from two years earlier, called None Shall Sleep. Otep explained the album's concept in a series of postings to Facebook:"It's a concept album about a girl corrupted by the world, corrugated by evil, ripped away from the golden, molten elixir of creativity, and abandoned on the placid, jagged rocks of a cruel and barbaric island where the rats poison themselves. This is a story of her personal alchemy of theophagy, revenge and righteousness. Her rise from the smoldering ash as a bruise that never heals transmuting, therianthropic, to the infinite, still-born messiah, a vigilante serial assassin, codename: Hydra."
Recording
The album was produced by Ulrich Wild, who had produced the band's previous two albums, Smash The Control Machine and Atavist.
Otep's writing was based on the character of Hydra themselves, and attempted to write with the mindset of the character; “I realized I was not writing this record,” she explained in an interview to Albuquerque Journal. “Hydra was writing this record. I thought, ‘Why not hand it over to her?’ It was a difficult process to do that, living as that character … I wanted to do that, to live through this person, feel things that she was writing.” In several interviews for the album, Otep spoke about the album's songs in the third person, crediting "Hydra" for writing the songs.
The album was written in four weeks, with Otep going in to record the album "12 hours a day, six days a week and four hours on Sunday" over a period of sixteen weeks.
Otep recalled the creation of the album as "beautiful madness. I allowed the personality of the creature I've created to take hold. I can see with her eyes, double vision, the strength in my own, the terror and envy and hate with hers. I can taste her cold soul forming an armor around mine. She is me, or could be, if I allowed it, if I didn't have art to release this demon of fire and iron from me. Hydra. Hydra. Hydra." She compared the album to her second album, House Of Secrets; "It's theater of the mind, it's a journey, a story."
Songs
Blowtorch Nightlight
Otep described the song as Hydra's attempt to "create an anthem based on her search for the one who made her and to give a glimpse of the processes that created and summoned this dark thing that now inhabits her."
Voyeur
"Voyeur" is a largely spoken word song where an animal abuser who recorded himself torturing animals is tortured and murdered. Otep called the song "My most scariest ever and I’m happy about that." The song was inspired by a video Otep saw online about a young man in Eastern Europe videoing himself hur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJDE-CD | WJDE-CD (channel 23) is a low-power, Class A television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with several digital multicast networks. Owned by the Word Broadcasting Network, the station has a transmitter off Interstate 65 at the corner of Dickerson Pike and Maplewood Trace. Master control and most internal operations are based at the studios of flagship station WBNA on Fern Valley Road (just north of State Route 1747) in Okolona, a suburb of Louisville.
History
The station signed on in 1986 by South Central Communications, under the call sign W24AE and broadcast programming from the Home Shopping Network (HSN) 24/7. In 1995, the station's call sign was changed to WJDE-LP, and in 2011, when the station converted to digital, the call sign became WJDE-LD.
WJDE-LD continued in this format until 2012, when it began broadcasting classic television programming from MeTV, added Christian programming from the Sonlife Broadcasting Network to a second subchannel, and moved HSN's programming to a third digital subchannel. The station was sold to its current owner, Word Broadcasting Network, a subsidiary of Evangel World Prayer Center of Louisville, Kentucky, around the same time. It then added a fourth subchannel, TV Scout, which broadcast TV listings 24 hours a day. TV Scout was replaced by Soul of the South Network in 2014.
On January 8, 2015, WJDE added the Heroes & Icons (H&I) and Decades channels. On September 4, WJDE discontinued its long-time HSN affiliation after HSN briefly moved to the station's fourth subchannel from January to September 2015. Programming from HSN was replaced by infomercials. Also, on September 4, the Soul of the South Network affiliation was discontinued and was replaced with Movies!.
In October 2015, Soul of the South Network returned to WJDE's line-up on the second subchannel with Decades moving to the third subchannel. Home Shopping Network was re-added to the fourth subchannel.
The MeTV affiliation was scheduled to move to WKRN-DT3 when Live Well Network announced that it would cease operations. However, MeTV was never added to WKRN's third subchannel. Instead, Justice Network was added and MeTV moved to WKRN-DT2, replacing the Nashville WX Channel, with H&I returning to the main channel on February 1, 2016.
On March 12, 2018, The Country Network replaced The Soul of the South Network on DT2.
On January 1, 2019, NewsNet replaced HSN on its DT4. HSN still continued to be available on Ion Media station WNPX-TV's sixth digital subchannel, until June 30, 2021, when it would be replaced by the new women's reality television network, TrueReal. HSN would make its return a few months later on a new thirteenth subchannel of WJDE on September 1, 2021.
On January 14, WJDE added two more subchannels, Faith USA on 31.7 and GEB America on 31.8.
On September 23, 2019, WJDE discontinued Heroes & Icons, Decades, Movies! (these three networks moved to WJFB and WKUW-LD at the same time they were discontinued |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automate%20This | Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World is a book written by Christopher Steiner and published by Penguin Group. Steiner begins his study of algorithms on Wall Street in the 1980s but also provides examples from other industries. For example, he explains the history of Pandora Radio and the use of algorithms in music identification. He expresses concern that such use of algorithms may lead to the homogenization of music over time. Steiner also discusses the algorithms that eLoyalty (now owned by Mattersight Corporation following divestiture of the technology) was created by dissecting 2 million speech patterns and can now identify a caller's personality style and direct the caller with a compatible customer support representative.
Steiner's book shares both the warning and the opportunity that algorithms bring to just about every industry in the world, and the pros and cons of the societal impact of automation (e.g. impact on employment).
See also
Technological unemployment
Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
References
2012 non-fiction books
Books about automation
Algorithms
Portfolio (publisher) books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-maintenance%20problem | In computer science, the order-maintenance problem involves maintaining a totally ordered set supporting the following operations:
insert(X, Y), which inserts X immediately after Y in the total order;
order(X, Y), which determines if X precedes Y in the total order; and
delete(X), which removes X from the set.
Paul Dietz first introduced a data structure to solve this problem in
1982. This data
structure supports insert(X, Y) in (in Big O notation)
amortized time and order(X, Y) in constant time but does
not support deletion. Athanasios Tsakalidis used BB[α] trees with the same performance bounds that supports
deletion in and improved insertion and deletion performance to
amortized time with indirection. Dietz and Daniel Sleator published an improvement to worst-case constant time in 1987.<ref
name="DietzSleator">. Full version,
Tech. Rep. CMU-CS-88-113, Carnegie Mellon
University, 1988.</ref> Michael Bender, Richard Cole and Jack Zito published significantly simplified alternatives in 2002. Bender, Fineman, Gilbert, Kopelowitz and Montes also published a deamortized solution in 2017.
Efficient data structures for order-maintenance have applications in
many areas, including data structure persistence,<ref
name="Driscoll">.</ref> graph algorithms<ref
name="Eppstein">.</ref> and fault-tolerant data structures.<ref
name="Aumann">.</ref>
List labeling
A problem related to the order-maintenance problem is the
list-labeling problem in which instead of the order(X,
Y) operation the solution must maintain an assignment of labels
from a universe of integers to the
elements of the set such that X precedes Y in the total order if and
only if X is assigned a lesser label than Y. It must also support an
operation label(X) returning the label of any node X.
Note that order(X, Y) can be implemented simply by
comparing label(X) and label(Y) so that any
solution to the list-labeling problem immediately gives one to the
order-maintenance problem. In fact, most solutions to the
order-maintenance problem are solutions to the list-labeling problem
augmented with a level of data structure indirection to improve
performance. We will see an example of this below.
For a list-labeling problem on sets of size up to , the cost of list labeling depends on how large is a function of . The relevant parameter range for order maintenance are for , for which an amortized cost solution is known, and for which a constant time amortized solution is known
O(1) amortized insertion via indirection
Indirection is a technique used in data structures in which a problem
is split into multiple levels of a data structure in order to improve
efficiency. Typically, a problem of size is split into
problems of size . For
example, this technique is used in y-fast tries. This
strategy also works to improve the insertion and deletion performance
of the data structure described above to constant amortized time. In
fact, this strategy works for any solution of the list-labeling
p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Taggart%20episodes | Taggart was a Scottish detective fiction television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the Glasgow City Chambers. It was one of the UK's longest-running dramas and is the longest-running police drama after the cancellation of The Bill.
The series was preceded by the pilot miniseries "Killer", in 1983.
Series Overview
Pilot
Regular Series
Specials
Episodes
Pilot (1983)
Series 1 (1985)
Series 2 (1986)
Series 3 (1987)
Christmas Special (1987)
Series 4 (1988)
Christmas Special (1988)
Series 5 (1989)
New Year Special (1990)
Series 6 (1990)
Christmas Special (1990)
New Year Special (1992)
Series 7 (1992)
Series 8 (1992)
New Year's Special (1993)
Series 9 (1993)
New Year's Special (1994)
Series 10 (1994)
Series 11 (1995)
Series 12 (1996)
Series 13 (1997)
Series 14 (1998)
Series 15 (1999)
Series 16 (2000)
New Year's Special (2001)
Series 17 (2002)
Series 18 (2002–03)
Series 19 (2003–04)
Series 20 (2005)
Series 21 (2005)
Series 22 (2006)
Series 23 (2007)
Series 24 (2008)
Series 25 (2008)
Series 26 (2009)
Series 27 (2010)
References
External links
Lists of British crime television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20uncovering%20in%20Hong%20Kong | Online uncovering, also called doxing, is the practice of revealing private information about an individual or organization gathered from online sources. Methods include searching public databases, social media and email accounts, and hacking. When done by private individuals it is a form vigilantism. It can also be used by law enforcement departments. For example, it helped the Hong Kong Police Force to investigate the background information of suspects. Driven by the prevalence of the internet and online forums such as the Golden Forum, online uncovering has become a social phenomenon in Hong Kong. It is used to shame, harass, and tarnish of reputation of the victims.
Details
Online uncovering is a kind of cyber bullying. With online uncovering, the personal information, like the occupation, family members, home address, and telephone numbers, of the victims will be disclosed without any permission, which causes a great nuisance to them. People may spread out one's information to humiliate one, make one ashamed and infringe on one's privacy. Also, people tend to share videos of people's misconduct in public to the Internet, stirring up discussions and debates, also online uncovering of the people in the videos.
Examples
Method Used
There are various uncovering methods. Most cases are attributed to the victims’ mismanagement of personal information online.
Search Engine
Hackers will utilize engines such as Google to uncover the personal information through blogs, social networking websites or forums.
Software cracker
Hackers will uncover the IP address of the targeted person through interception software. They can also uncover personal information by discovering the Internet Services Provider of the IP address. Installing spyware and virus to the computer could misappropriate personal information either easily.
Social Engineering
Social Engineering means hackers tempt the target to disclose personal information via multiple approaches. They may also collect and gather information from the cyber friends of the target. Such actions may likely breach the law.
Forum
Some HK online forums such as Golden Forum have set the (Betray Friends page) to encourage netizens to post the photos of their fellows. But information disclosure is forbidden.
Impacts on Victims
Positive side
Most of the victims in online uncovering were doing something inappropriate, from maltreating animals to impolite actions. Through online uncovering, victims’ inappropriate actions would be pointed out. They would realize they were doing something wrong and make apologies or follow up actions. Just take the case of maltreating cat last year as an example. A student from City University maltreated his cat in hall and a picture was taken and posted on social networks. After the online uncovering, he made apology and promised maltreatments would not happen again.
Negative side
After online uncovering, victims’ personal information would be found out and circulated on the in |
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