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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM%2003.40 | GSM 03.40 or 3GPP TS 23.040 is a mobile telephony standard describing the format of the Transfer Protocol Data Units (TPDU) of the Short Message Transfer Protocol (SM-TP) used in the GSM networks to carry Short Messages. This format is used throughout the whole transfer of the message in the GSM mobile network. In contrast, application servers use different protocols, like Short Message Peer-to-Peer or Universal Computer Protocol, to exchange messages between them and the Short Message Service Center (SMSC).
GSM 03.40 is the original name of the standard. Since 1999 has been developed by the 3GPP under the name 3GPP TS 23.040. However, the original name is often used to refer even to the 3GPP document.
Usage
The GSM 03.40 TPDUs are used to carry messages between the Mobile Station (MS) and Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) using the Short Message Relay Protocol (SM-RP), while between MSC and Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) the TPDUs are carried as a parameter of a Mobile Application Part (MAP) package.
In emerging networks which use IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Short Messages are carried in the MESSAGE command of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Even in these IP-based networks an option exists which (due to compatibility reasons) defines transfer of Short Messages in the GSM 03.40 format embedded in 3GPP 24.011 as Content-Type: application/vnd.3gpp.sms.
TPDU Types
GSM 03.40 defines six types of messages between Mobile Station (MS) and SMS Center (SC), which are distinguished by the message direction and the two least significant bits in the first octet of SM-TP message (the TP-MTI field):
SMS-SUBMIT is used to submit a short message from a mobile phone (Mobile Station, MS) to a short message service centre (SMSC, SC).
SMS-SUBMIT-REPORT is an acknowledgement to the SMS-SUBMIT; a success means that the message was stored (buffered) in the SMSC, a failure means that the message was rejected by the SMSC.
SMS-COMMAND may be used to query for a message buffered in the SMSC, to modify its parameters or to delete it.
SMS-DELIVER is used to deliver a message from SMSC to a mobile phone. The acknowledgement returned by the mobile phone may optionally contain a SMS-DELIVER-REPORT. When home routing applies, SMS-DELIVER is used to submit messages from an SMSC to another one.
SMS-STATUS-REPORT may be sent by the SMSC to inform the originating mobile phone about the final outcome of the message delivery or to reply to a SMS-COMMAND.
TPDU Fields
The fields of SM-TP messages, including their order and size, are summarized in the following table, where M means a mandatory field, O an optional field, E is used for fields which are mandatory in negative responses (RP-ERR) and not present in positive responses (RP-ACK), x is a field present elsewhere:
The first octet of the TPDU contains various flags including the TP-MTI field described above:
By setting the TP-More-Messages-to-Send (TP-MMS) bit to 0 (reversed logic), the SMSC signals it has more |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcite | Xcite (part of Alghanim Industries) is an electronics store currently based in Kuwait. Their product line includes computers & tablets, mobile phones, cameras, TVs, gaming products, major appliances, small appliances, perfumes, watches and gift cards.
Xcite Kuwait has 45 showrooms located in different areas in Kuwait - Sultan Center Hawally Express, Sultan Center Sulaibiya Express, Sultan Center Salmiya Express, Sultan Center Shuwaikh Express, Sultan Center Souq Sharq Mall, Sultan Center Mangaf Express, Sultan Center Al Kout Mall, Sultan Center Aqeelah Arabia Mall, Sultan Center Boulevard Mall, Sultan Center Jahra Mall Of the Tent, Sultan Center Dajeej Mall, 360 Mall Basement, City Centre Salmiya Main, City Centre Dajeej, City Centre Shuwaikh, City Centre Jahra, City Centre Dasma, Fahaheel Industrial, Al Rai, Fahaheel, Hawally, Farwaniya, Qurain CO-OP, Salmiya Main, Jahra, Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, The Avenues (Kuwait) Mall, Baitek Tower, Jabriya CO-OP Express, Khaldiya CO-OP Express, Marina Mall Express, Fintas (Liwan Mall), Sahari Mall, Cube Mall, Shuwaikh Plot 101 Express, Khaitan Sama Center, Mekhyal Mall, Al Kout Mall 2, Gate Mall, Avenues Electra Phrase 4, Kuwait International Airport Terminal 1,Jazeera Airport Terminal 5, Assima Mall, Al Rai Express.
Xcite Saudi Arabia has 4 showrooms located in different areas in Riyadh, King Abdullah Road, Granada District, Khurais Road and Imall.
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017, Alghanim Industries, one of the largest privately owned companies in the region, inaugurated its brand new X-cite and Safat Home showroom in Al Jahra, Kuwait.
E-Commerce Portal
In December 2011, X-cite launched their e-commerce portal xcite.com. in Kuwait and xcite.com.sa in KSA
Awards
X-cite has received the following awards:
Best Retailer 2010’ by the Middle East Retail Academy Awards
‘Best Retailer’ and ‘Best Retail IT Executive’ by the 2011 Middle East Retail Academy Awards
‘Best Retailer’ and ‘Best Retail IT Executive’ by the 2012 Middle East Retail Academy Awards
Facebook ‘Best Interactive Award’ for the electronics category in the GCC region by the Pan Arab Web Awards Academy
‘Best Overall Retailer’ by the Gamestream 12 Awards
‘Best In-Store Experience of the Year 2012’ by Middle East Retail Academy Awards
‘Best Post Paid Sales 2012’ award from VIVA Telecom
References
Retail companies of Kuwait |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20wireless%20sensor%20network | A mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) can simply be defined as a wireless sensor network (WSN) in which the sensor nodes are mobile. MWSNs are a smaller, emerging field of research in contrast to their well-established predecessor. MWSNs are much more versatile than static sensor networks as they can be deployed in any scenario and cope with rapid topology changes. However, many of their applications are similar, such as environment monitoring or surveillance. Commonly, the nodes consist of a radio transceiver and a microcontroller powered by a battery, as well as some kind of sensor for detecting light, heat, humidity, temperature, etc.
Challenges
Broadly speaking, there are two sets of challenges in MWSNs; hardware and environment. The main hardware constraints are limited battery power and low cost requirements. The limited power means that it's important for the nodes to be energy efficient. Price limitations often demand low complexity algorithms for simpler microcontrollers and use of only a simplex radio. The major environmental factors are the shared medium and varying topology. The shared medium dictates that channel access must be regulated in some way. This is often done using a medium access control (MAC) scheme, such as carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA), frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) or code-division multiple access (CDMA). The varying topology of the network comes from the mobility of nodes, which means that multihop paths from the sensors to the sink are not stable.
Standards
Currently there is no standard for MWSNs, so often protocols from MANETs are borrowed, such as Associativity-Based Routing (AR), Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (GPSR). MANET protocols are preferred as they are able to work in mobile environments, whereas WSN protocols often aren't suitable.
Topology
Topology selection plays an important role in routing because the network topology decides the transmission path of the data packets to reach the proper destination. Here, all the topologies (Flat / Unstructured, cluster, tree, chain and hybrid topology) are not feasible for reliable data transmission on sensor nodes mobility. Instead of single topology, hybrid topology plays a vital role in data collection, and the performance is good. Hybrid topology management schemes include the Cluster Independent Data Collection Tree (CIDT). and the Velocity Energy-efficient and Link-aware Cluster-Tree (VELCT); both have been proposed for mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs).
Routing
Since there is no fixed topology in these networks, one of the greatest challenges is routing data from its source to the destination. Generally these routing protocols draw inspiration from two fields; WSNs and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). WSN routing protocols provide the required functionality but cannot handle the high frequency of topology changes. Whereas, MANET routing protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Coffee%20Prince%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes of Coffee Prince, a Filipino romantic-comedy series adapted by Des Garbes Severino, which premiered on GMA Network on October 8, 2012, on GMA Telebabad block. The series ended on November 23, 2012, with the total of thirty five episodes.
The series is based on Sun-mi Lee's novel and MBC's 2007 hit Korean television series, The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince. The series is directed by Ricky Davao.
The forty-five-minute scripted drama follows the lives and loves of Andy, a girl who disguises herself as a man just to get the job in a coffee shop and Arthur, a happy-go-lucky and wealthy bachelor whose paternal grandmother pushes him to settle down and start a family. In order to avoid the constant request from his relatives, he will hire Andy to pretend as his gay lover without even knowing that the latter is a real woman.
Plot
A romance brews between the most unlikely of couples at a coffee shop—Andy is a tomboy who works at the coffee shop owned by Arthur, the charming heir to a food and beverage company. Because of his good looks, Arthur is hounded by a lot of ladies, a situation he does not find amusing. To avoid this unwanted attention, Arthur pretends to be gay and woos Andy to be his fake lover, not knowing Andy's true identity.
Main casts
Kris Bernal as Andrea "Andy" Gomez
Aljur Abrenica as Arthur Ochoa
Benjamin Alves as Errol Ochoa
Max Collins as Arlene Manahan
List of episodes
References
External links
Official GMA Network website
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servi%C3%A7o%20Federal%20de%20Processamento%20de%20Dados | Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados (Federal Data Processing Service), or Serpro, is the biggest government-owned corporation of IT services of Brazil. It was created by Law n. 4.516, of December 1, 1964 to modernize and give agility to strategic sectors of public administration. It's a company linked to the Ministry of the Economy of Brazil and it grown developing software and services to let more control and transparency about government revenue and government spending.
References
External links
Business services companies established in 1964
Companies based in Brasília
Software companies of Brazil
Government-owned companies of Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajama%20Sam%3A%20Life%20Is%20Rough%20When%20You%20Lose%20Your%20Stuff%21 | Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff! (also known as Pajama Sam 4) is a computer game made for children ages 5-8.
Sam's Pajama Man comic book is lost in a strange world, where he meets a dirty sock who needs to get to his other sock, who is clean. He goes on a journey to find a way to clean the dirty sock and to find clothes (a shirt, shoes, and the socks) to get to Grubby Corners Mall, where his comic has found its way to. In this game, Pajama Sam's voice is provided by Elisha Ferguson rather than Pamela Adlon. This is the only Pajama Sam game without a demo, possibly because the game was only released after Atari's takeover along with Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise.
Plot
After watching an episode of his favorite Pajama Man cartoon, Sam sees a breaking news story announcing that Pajama Man is coming to the local shopping mall to sign autographs. Excited, Sam asks his mom if he can go. After she agrees, Sam decides to get his "Rare Pajama Man Issue No. 1" comic book for the autograph. While looking for it in his messy room, Sam finds the comic book being pulled into a big pile of junk. After finding his cape in all the buildup, Sam leaps into the junk pile and falls into a land filled with junk.
Shortly after entering the strange land, Sam encounters a dirty sock, who explains in a song that he was kicked out of his dresser's drawer and not allowed to be with his matching sock (and best friend) due to his filth. When Sam tells the sock about his missing comic book, the sock says that he saw a half-eaten cheese sandwich with that comic book to get it signed by Dr. Grime (Pajama Man's arch enemy) at the Grubby Corners Mall. Horrified at the thought of Dr. Grime getting his comic book dirty, Sam agrees to find a way to get the dirty sock clean and reunite him with his friend, as well as try to get into the mall.
When Sam tries to enter the mall, the mall guard stops him, telling him about the mall's "no shirt, no shoes, no socks, no service" rule, in which he must get a shirt (as pajamas don't count), shoes and socks for the mall's strict dress code to enter the mall. Eventually, Sam is able to wash the dirty sock in Agitator Lake and reunite him with his friend, catch a pair of shoes with a net and have a sweater called Grandma Sweater knit a shirt for him. He takes his clothes to show to the mall guard, who lets them all enter.
While at the mall, Sam becomes the 30th customer at Leavins n' Squeezins, the mall's cheesy restaurant, and wins a Prizewinner pass to the head of the line to Dr. Grime. On the way there, however, Sam is mistaken for Dr. Grime by a bunch of Grime fans. He hides in Dr. Grime's dressing room, where he finally finds his comic book. Just as he is about to grab it, Sam is horrified to find dirt all over himself (explaining why he was mistaken for Dr. Grime).
Looking around the room, he notices a sprinkler and decides that's the way to get himself clean. A delivery person from Leavins n' Squeezins then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars%20in%20Mexico%20City | Mexico City once had an extensive network of streetcars. Most streetcar lines in Mexico City radiated from the city's central square, the Zócalo towards many parts of the city. By the 1980s only one streetcar line survived, which itself was converted into the Xochimilco Light Rail line in 1986.
History
At the beginning of the 19th century, Mexico City was in need of new means of transportation. Since the 1830s efforts had been made to build a railway.
In 1840, 1849, and 1959, various concessions were granted to build a permanent urban railway without any result.
In 1856, an American Texan, George Louis Hammeken, was granted a concession to build an animal-powered street railway from the Zócalo, Mexico City's central square, to Tacubaya, now in the west-central part of the city. The Ferrocarril de Tacubaya opened on January 1, 1858.
July 4, 1858, president Ignacio Comonfort opened the first railway line between Mexico City and Villa Guadalupe (La Villa).
In 1868 the "Ferrocarril de Chalco" opened a second street railway to Tacubaya along Avenida Chapultepec. This network was extended to San Ángel and Tlalpan in 1869; however it never was extended to the line's namesake town of Chalco.
The Ferrocarril de Tacubaya opened a second line to Popotla, near the Calzada México-Tacuba (Tacuba causeway).
After these initial lines, different companies were created for the exploitation of street railways.
The Compañía de Ferrocarriles del Distrito Federal, organized in 1878, began to install lines for animal-powered street railways including one in the Calzada de Tlalpan (Tlalpan Causeway), and controlled street railway lines until 1901. In 1882 it was reorganized and absorbed a large part of the street railway network in the city.
In 1890 that company had 3000 mules, 600 cars, and of rail line. Lines ran north as far as Tlalnepantla, as far south as Tlalpan, as far east as Peñón de los Baños.
Electric streetcars
In 1896 the then-municipal government of Mexico City (the Ayuntamiento de México) authorized the Federal District Railways to change from animal to electric power. This order did not result in an immediate switch, because an analysis needed to be performed of the benefits and issues that switching would cause. The advantages of switching to electric included:
Better conservation of the street paving
Shorter trip times
Increased frequency
The Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos (STE; translates as "Electric Transport Service") was organized in 1947, to replace the privately run Compañía de Tranvías de México ("Street Railway Company of Mexico").
January 15, 1900, was the first day of electric streetcar service between Chapultepec and Tacubaya. Animal-powered street railways would continue to operate in the city along with electric streetcars for another thirty years.
March 1, 1901, the Compañía de Tranvías Eléctricos de México took ownership of the city's street railway network.
In 1909 the first phase of the Necaxa Dam was complet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Green%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Joe Green is a serial social entrepreneur and investor based in San Francisco, CA. He is the co-founder and President of the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative, a nonprofit donor network that supports research on psychedelic medicine. Green is also the co-founder of Treehouse, a company that develops community living apartment complexes in Los Angeles, CA.
He was the co-founder (along with Sean Parker) of Causes, a company most famous for its Facebook app designed to encourage philanthropy and make giving a social experience. He was also the founding president and is one of the founders (along with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg) of FWD.us, a bipartisan political advocacy group created to support comprehensive immigration reform.
Life and career
Early life
Green grew up in Santa Monica, where he attended public schools. His father Mark Green is a math professor at UCLA, and his mother Kathryn Kert Green is an artist. While in high school in Santa Monica, Green was interested in politics and community activism. According to a Los Angeles Times story, Green "ran for the local school board when he was 17 and campaigned for a living wage for Santa Monica hotel and restaurant workers." Green is Jewish, and attended Leo Baeck Temple in his childhood.
College
In the Fall of 2003, while an undergraduate at Harvard University, Green helped Mark Zuckerberg (who would later found Facebook) create Facemash, a website that allowed users to compare and rate the faces of Harvard undergraduates for attractiveness. Both Green and Zuckerberg were threatened with expulsion by Harvard's administrative board.
Green had reportedly attempted to persuade Mark Zuckerberg to create a social network centered around politics, but Zuckerberg created Facebook instead.
In light of the trouble with Facemash, Green's father advised him against collaborating with Zuckerberg on projects similar to Facemash in the future. As a result, Green declined Zuckerberg's offer of shares in Facebook. Had Green accepted, these shares would have been worth billions of dollars at the time of the Facebook IPO.
Green studied under Marshall Ganz, who sparked his interest further in community activism and grassroots organizing. In 2004, Green worked on Democratic nominee John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. In 2005, Green started Essembly, a nonpartisan social network that helped connect people with others who shared their political views.
Causes
In 2007, Green co-founded Causes (a for-profit business) along with Sean Parker, famous for co-founding Plaxo and for his early involvement with Facebook and Napster. The Causes platform enabled users to create grassroots groups that take action on a social issue or support a specific non-profit organization. These groups, individually called a "cause," are building blocks for most activity on the site. Causes allowed anyone, or any organization, to start a campaign regardless of size. Small nonprofits were offered an opportunity t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314%20Brazilian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2013–14 network television schedule for the five major Brazilian Portuguese commercial broadcast networks in Brazil covers primetime hours from March 2013 to February 2014.
The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series or telenovelas (soap operas), and series canceled after the 2012–13 season.
Band was the first to announce its schedule on October 16, 2012, followed by Record on March 26, 2013, then Globo on March 27, 2013 with the television special Vem aí and SBT, on March 30, 2013.
Legend
Light blue indicates Local Programming.
Gray indicates Encore Programming.
Light green indicates live sporting events.
Red indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
From June 15–30, 2013 part of Globo prime time programming will be preempted in favor of coverage of the 2013 Confederations Cup (something also applied to TV Bandeirantes).
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
By network
Band
Returning series:
CQC
Pânico na Band
A Liga
Mulheres Ricas
Polícia 24h
Quem Fica em Pé?
New series:
Quem Quer Casar com Meu Filho?
Quem Quer Ser Milionário?
Not returning from 2012-13:
Globo
Returning series:
A Grande Família
The Voice Brasil
Tapas & Beijos
Louco por Elas
Profissão Repórter
Pé na Cova
Amor & Sexo
Big Brother Brasil
Telenovelas
Lado a Lado
Guerra dos Sexos
Salve Jorge
New series:
O Dentista Mascarado
A Teia
Doce de Mãe
A Mulher do Prefeito
O Caçador
A Segunda Dama
Amores Roubados
Os Experientes
Assombrações
Telenovelas
Flor do Caribe
Sangue Bom
Amor à Vida
Saramandaia
Joia Rara
Além do Horizonte
Em Família
Not returning from 2012-13:
Casseta & Planeta
Record
Returning series:
A Fazenda
Legendários
O Aprendiz
Telenovelas
Balacobaco
New series:
José do Egito
Got Talent Brasil
A Bíblia
Telenovelas
Dona Xepa
Pecado Mortal
Not returning from 2012-13:
Ídolos
Fazenda de Verão
SBT
Returning series:
Amigos da Onça Astros
A Praça é Nossa
Esquadrão da Moda
Supernanny
Telenovelas
CarrosselNew series:Telenovelas
ChiquititasNot returning from 2012-13:'''
Cante se Puder''
References
Television in Brazil
2013 in Brazilian television
2014 in Brazilian television
Brazilian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Place%20to%20Call%20Home%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the Seven Network television series A Place to Call Home, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered on 28 April 2013 and concluded on 21 July 2013.
Production
A Place to Call Home was announced in Channel Seven's 2012 line-up. Seven Network's Angus Ross said that it would potentially premiere in late 2012, but wouldn't rush the show to air by a certain date unless "casting and other elements" were right.
Plot
Set in Australia in the 1950s, A Place to Call Home is a compelling and romantic story of one woman's journey to heal her soul and of a privileged family rocked by scandal. Acclaimed actress Marta Dusseldorp leads the cast as Sarah Adams, a woman with a mysterious past who returns to Australia after 20 years in Europe.
Working her passage home aboard an ocean liner, Sarah becomes involved in the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy Australian pastoralist family. She develops an immediate connection with handsome and charming widower George (Brett Climo), as well as his modern young daughter Anna (Abby Earl) and withdrawn daughter-in-law Olivia (Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood). But it is when Sarah unwittingly discovers a potentially scandalous Bligh family secret that her future becomes forever linked with theirs.
Only the uncompromising matriarch of the family, Elizabeth (Noni Hazlehurst), and her grandson James (David Berry), know Sarah has uncovered this family skeleton. Elizabeth is intent on keeping it that way - and Sarah at arm's length. Bearing the scars of war and facing the animosity of a determined matriarch, it is time for Sarah to face life again and begin her journey towards healing and hopefully finding a place to call home.
Cast
Main
Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Adams
Noni Hazlehurst as Elizabeth Bligh
Brett Climo as George Bligh
Craig Hall as Dr. Jack Duncan
David Berry as James Bligh
Abby Earl as Anna Bligh
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood as Olivia Bligh
Aldo Mignone as Gino Poletti
Frankie J. Holden as Roy Briggs
Recurring
Deborah Kennedy as Doris Collins
Krew Boylan as Amy Polson
Michael Sheasby as Bert Ford
Dominic Allburn as Harry Polson
Jacinta Acevski as Alma Grey
Dina Panozzo as Carla Poletti
Sara Wiseman as Carolyn Bligh
Jenni Baird as Regina Standish
Tristan Maxwell as Colin Walker
Angelo D'Angelo as Amo Poletti
Judi Farr as Peg Maloney
Lisa Peers as Miriam Goldberg
Kris McQuade as Grace Stevens
Guest
Scott Grimley as Norman Parker
Paul Holmes as Reverend Green
Erica Lovell as Eve Walker
Adam Gray as Dr. René Nordmann
Heather Mitchell as Prudence Swanson
Nicole Shostak as Maude Carvolth
Jeremy Lewis Hubbard as Clem
Avital Greenberg-Teplitsky as Leah Goldberg
Sean Taylor as Henry Swanson
Matt Levett as Andrew Swanson
Siena Elchaar as Gilda Poletti
Martin Sacks as Itzaak Goldberg
Russell Queay as William Brackley
Alan Dearth as Robert Menzies
Notes
Casting
On 28 June 2012, it was reported that Noni Hazelhurst had been secured in a lead role as Elizabeth Bligh. A week later |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShopClues | ShopClues is an Indian online marketplace, owned by Clues Network Pvt. Ltd. The company was established in July 2011 by Sanjay Sethi, Sandeep Aggarwal and Radhika Aggarwal. In 2015, ShopClues was valued at US$1.1 billion, with Tiger Global, Helion Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners as major investors. In 2019, the company was acquired by Singapore-based Qoo10 in an all-stock deal valued at approximately US$70 million, representing one of the largest valuation meltdowns for an Indian-based startup.
Background
ShopClues provides unstructured categories of home and kitchen, fashion, electronics and daily utility items. Around 70% of its Gross Merchandising Value (GMV) is received from Tier – II and Tier – III cities.
In June 2016, the online marketplace reached half a million sellers on its platform, claimed to be the highest in the Indian e-commerce industry. The employee strength as of 2017 is more than 700 people.
Key people
Sanjay Sethi - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Sandeep Agarwal - Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer (COO)
Radhika Aggarwal - Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer (CBO)
Mobile application
In 2015, the e-commerce player launched its Android app for sellers, and later added iOS apps.
Growth
In June 2015, ShopClues launched a financing platform Capital Wings to fund its merchants' businesses.
In May 2016, joined hands with GoDaddy to assist its small and medium entrepreneurs in starting their own e-commerce websites.
In July 2016, launched an ad platform, AdZone wherein sellers may market their products with the help of native and custom advertising.
Acquisition
In July 2016, ShopClues collaborated with a hybrid e-commerce company, StoreKing to promote its products on the latter's app. In the same year, the company acquired Momoe, a Bangalore-based mobile payments company.
In 2016 ShopClues acquired the IP of a SaaS platform from Squeakee Media which was founded by Abrar Shaikh in Mumbai, India.
In 2019, ShopClues was acquired by Singapore-based Qoo10 with stock valued at US$70 million.
Investment
In December 2015, the company invested towards seed funding in HeyBiz, which is a real-time shopping assistant app.
Funding
In January 2016, ShopClues raised US$100 million from Tiger Global Management and joined the Unicorn Club.
Controversy
In August 2015, the owner of the brand Ray-Ban, Luxottica Group accused ShopClues of allegedly selling fake products and took up the issue in court. The Delhi High Court pulled up ShopClues for breaching its earlier order and continuing the sale of Ray-Ban products.
The site has had a number of complaints both from customers and from other businesses claiming that the site is selling fake products.
In 2013, founder and CEO Sandeep Agarwal was charged with insider trading and arrested in the US. Agarwal subsequently pleaded guilty and entered a plea bargain on the charges. Agarwal resigned from ShopClues in 2013.
Awards and recognition
In 2016, received the G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laqueur | Laqueur is a surname, and the people with the surname include.
Ludwig Laqueur (1839—1909), German ophthalmologist
Marianne Laqueur (1918–2006), German Jewish refugee to Turkey, computer scientist and local politician
Richard Laqueur (1881—1959), German historian and philologist
Thomas W. Laqueur (born 1945), American historian, sexologist and writer
Walter Laqueur (1921-2018), American historian and political commentator
Surnames of Jewish origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion%20Tales | Scorpion Tales was a British thriller television series, originally screened in 1978. Produced by ATV, the series was transmitted on the ITV network. It lasted just one season.
Overview
The series comprised one-off hour-long plays, which featured a twist-ending. The format was similar in genre to the Thriller series, which had run successfully during the early to mid-1970s. The series was produced by David Reid who would go on to oversee similarly-themed series such as Sapphire & Steel and Hammer House of Horror. Reid also directed three of the stories, with Don Leaver, Shaun O'Riordan and John Bruce directing the others. The stories were written by experienced television scriptwriters such as Ian Kennedy Martin (The Sweeney), Jeremy Burnham (The Avengers), and Bob Baker and Dave Martin (Doctor Who). The opening credits featured a title sequence by Alastair McMunro depicting two scorpions fighting on a black background, with a theme by Cyril Ornadel. Among the guest casts were noted actors Trevor Howard, Don Henderson, Geoffrey Palmer, Susan Engel, Christopher Benjamin and Stephen Murray.
Scorpion Tales was first screened on ITV on 29 April 1978, running each Saturday until 29 May. The final episode was delayed until 12 August. The series failed to recapture the success of Thriller and was eclipsed by Armchair Thriller, which ITV were screening around the same time and was not renewed for a second series. Scorpion Tales was released on DVD by Network in December 2010, with a 15 certificate.
Episode guide
References
External links
1970s British drama television series
ITV television dramas
British fantasy drama television series
1978 British television series debuts
1978 British television series endings
1970s British anthology television series
1970s British television miniseries
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Associated Television (ATV)
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Kerman | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Ekhtiarabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 917, in 238 families.
References
Populated places in Kerman County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20A%20Place%20to%20Call%20Home%20episodes | A Place to Call Home is an Australian television drama series created by Bevan Lee. It debuted on the Seven Network on 28 April 2013. Set against the backdrop of the post-war social change, it follows Sarah Nordmann (Marta Dusseldorp), who has returned to Australia after twenty years abroad to start a new life and ends up clashing with wealthy matriarch Elizabeth Bligh (Noni Hazlehurst).
The sixth and final season premiered on 19 August 2018.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014–15)
Season 3 (2015)
Season 4 (2016)
Season 5 (2017)
Season 6 (2018)
Specials
References
External links
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raita%20algorithm | In computer science, the Raita algorithm is a string searching algorithm which improves the performance of Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm. This algorithm preprocesses the string being searched for the pattern, which is similar to Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm. The searching pattern of particular sub-string in a given string is different from Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm. This algorithm was published by Timo Raita in 1991.
Description
Raita algorithm searches for a pattern "P" in a given text "T" by comparing each character of pattern in the given text. Searching will be done as follows. Window for a text "T" is defined as the length of "P".
First, last character of the pattern is compared with the rightmost character of the window.
If there is a match, first character of the pattern is compared with the leftmost character of the window.
If they match again, it compares the middle character of the pattern with middle character of the window.
If everything in the pre-check is successful, then the original comparison starts from the second character to last but one. If there is a mismatch at any stage in the algorithm, it performs the bad character shift function which was computed in pre-processing phase. Bad character shift function is identical to the one proposed in Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm.
A modern formulation of a similar pre-check is found in , a linear/quadratic string-matcher, in libc++ and libstdc++. Assuming a well-optimized version of , not skipping characters in the "original comparison" tends to be more efficient as the pattern is likely to be aligned.
C Code for Raita algorithm
#include <limits.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#define ALPHABET_SIZE (1 << CHAR_BITS) /* typically 256 */
/* Preprocessing: the BMH bad-match table. */
static inline void preBmBc(char *pat, size_t lpat, ptrdiff_t bmBc[]) {
size_t i;
for (i = 0; i < ALPHABET_SIZE; ++i)
bmBc[i] = lpat;
for (i = 0; i < lpat - 1; ++i)
bmBc[pat[i]] = lpat - i - 1;
}
void RAITA(char *pat, size_t lpat, char *s, size_t n) {
ptrdiff_t bmBc[ALPHABET_SIZE];
/* Quick edge cases. */
if (lpat == 0 || lpat > n)
return;
if (lpat == 1) {
char *match_ptr = s;
while (match_ptr < s + n) {
match_ptr = memchr(match_ptr, pat[0], n - (match_ptr - s));
if (match_ptr != NULL) {
OUTPUT(match_ptr - s);
match_ptr++;
} else
return;
}
}
preBmBc(pat, lpat, bmBc);
/* The prematch-window. */
char firstCh = pat[0];
char middleCh = pat[lpat / 2];
char lastCh = pat[lpat - 1];
/* Searching */
ptrdiff_t j = 0;
while (j <= n - m) {
char c = s[j + lpat - 1];
/* This could harm data locality on long patterns. For these consider reducing
* the number of pre-tests, or using more clustered indices. */
if (lastCh == c && middleCh == s[j + lpat / 2] && firstCh == s[j] &&
memcmp(&pat[1], &s[j+1], lpat - 2) == 0)
OUTPUT(j);
j += bmBc[c];
}
}
Example
Pattern: abddb
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Wentworth%20episodes | Wentworth is an Australian television drama series. It was first broadcast on SoHo on 1 May 2013. The series serves as a contemporary reimagining of Prisoner, which ran on Network Ten from 1979 to 1986. Lara Radulovich and David Hannam developed Wentworth from Reg Watson's original concept. The series is set in the modern day and begins with Bea Smith's (Danielle Cormack) early days in prison.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2015)
Season 4 (2016)
Season 5 (2017)
Season 6 (2018)
Season 7 (2019)
Season 8 (2020−21)
Ratings
Notes
References
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes
Lists of LGBT-related television series episodes
Wentworth (TV series) episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolts%20and%20Blip | Bolts and Blip is a computer-animated television series aired on Teletoon from 2010 to 2011. The show has also aired on 3net at 10:30 am on Sundays, and The CW's Saturday morning block, Vortexx, from July 13, 2013 at 8:30 a.m.
Plot
The series is a comic action adventure set on the Moon in 2080. It follows two central city misfits, Bolts and Blip, who accidentally find themselves as members of the Lunar League's last placed team the Thunderbolts. With the help of their rag-tag band of teammates, the two friends discover what they are made of in this intergalactic sports circuit.
Characters
Main cast
Blip (Voiced by Matt Murray) - One of the two main titular protagonists. Blip is a bumbling Civi-Bot who attempts to keep within societal norms, but is not very successful. He is best friend and roommate to the wacky Bolts, and often must drag his impulsive friend out of trouble. He is the more mature, level-headed of the duo. He along with Bolts were accidentally drafted into the Lunar League's bottom team, The Thunderbolts. He has a huge crush on Saedee, who spends most of the series ignoring his displays of affection, while occasionally letting slip possible mutual feelings, before revealing in the season finale she too loves Blip. Late in the series he is revealed to be Dr. Tommy's Secret Bot, and has latent powers, which he calls his "Super Mode"; in this state he is taller, stronger, faster, and can fly. He has a pet mouse like robot named Squeaker, who prior to undergoing training was very violent and attacked everyone, But nowadays he only attacks Bolts.
Bolts/Blood's Bot/Darth Boltor (Voiced by Terry McGurrin) - The other titular protagonist. Bolts is immature, impulsive and has a talent for getting himself into trouble; including one time where he put himself under huge debt to a Robot Mafia Leader Vinnie Two-Chimes, after losing a bet in a (fixed) sock fight match. But he does occasionally show he has some common sense as seen in Little Squeaker when he thinks it's a bad idea to show Squeaker around to the Thunderbolts after Squeaker viciously attacked both him and Saedee's housewarming present. He also shows some signs of intelligence and ingenuity as also seen in little Squeaker when he modified an illegal weapon to bring up to legal standards only to have his talented creation shot down by Gridiron telling the sport was a croquet sport match and not a battle. He's the team's jokester and often drives Coach Gridiron insane. He once entered a secret (and illegal) wrestling tournament under the name Bolto de Fuego (a play on Bola de Fuego), and has continued using the name Boltor as his screen name. Like Blip he has latent powers, where his eyes will turn red and he gains monstrous strength. He is eventually revealed to be "Blood's Bot", the ultimate creation of Dr. Blood.
Saedee (Voiced by Melissa Altro) - The gorgeous heroine Saedee, who is Captain of the Thunderbolts. She is a prototype model from her production line, and as a result |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroclystis%20ambundata | Chloroclystis ambundata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found on the Marquesas Archipelago.
References
Moths described in 1929
Chloroclystis
Moths of Oceania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalization%20%28learning%29 | Generalization is the concept that humans, other animals, and artificial neural networks use past learning in present situations of learning if the conditions in the situations are regarded as similar. The learner uses generalized patterns, principles, and other similarities between past experiences and novel experiences to more efficiently navigate the world. For example, if a person has learned in the past that every time they eat an apple, their throat becomes itchy and swollen, they might assume they are allergic to all fruit. When this person is offered a banana to eat, they reject it upon assuming they are also allergic to it through generalizing that all fruits cause the same reaction. Although this generalization about being allergic to all fruit based on experiences with one fruit could be correct in some cases, it may not be correct in all. Both positive and negative effects have been shown in education through learned generalization and its contrasting notion of discrimination learning.
Overview
Generalization is understood to be directly tied to the transfer of knowledge across multiple situations. The knowledge to be transferred is often referred to as abstractions, because the learner abstracts a rule or pattern of characteristics from previous experiences with similar stimuli. Generalization allows humans and animals to recognize the similarities in knowledge acquired in one circumstance, allowing for transfer of knowledge onto new situations. This idea rivals the theory of situated cognition, instead stating that one can apply past knowledge to learning in new situations and environments.
Generalization can be supported and partly explained by the connectionism approach. Just as artificial intelligences learn to distinguish between different categories by applying past learning to novel situations, humans and animals generalize previously learned properties and patterns onto new situations, thus connecting the novel experience to past experiences that are similar in one or more ways. This creates a pattern of connections that allows the learner to classify and make assumptions about the novel stimulus, such as when previous experience with seeing a canary allows the learner to predict what other birds will be like. This categorization is a foundational aspect of generalizing.
Research on generalization
In scientific studies looking at generalization, a generalization gradient is often used. This tool is used to measure how often and how much animals or humans respond to certain stimuli, depending on whether the stimuli are perceived to be similar or different. The curvilinear shape of the gradient is achieved by placing the perceived similarity of a stimulus on the x-axis and the strength of the response on the y-axis. For example, when measuring responses to color, it is expected that subjects will respond to colors that are similar to each other, like shades of pink after being exposed to red, as opposed to a non-similar s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-driven%20clause%20learning | In computer science, conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) is an algorithm for solving the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Given a Boolean formula, the SAT problem asks for an assignment of variables so that the entire formula evaluates to true. The internal workings of CDCL SAT solvers were inspired by DPLL solvers. The main difference between CDCL and DPLL is that CDCL's back jumping is non-chronological.
Conflict-driven clause learning was proposed by Marques-Silva and Karem A. Sakallah (1996, 1999) and Bayardo and Schrag (1997).
Background
Boolean satisfiability problem
The satisfiability problem consists in finding a satisfying assignment for a given formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF).
An example of such a formula is:
( (not A) or (not C) ) and (B or C),
or, using a common notation:
where A,B,C are Boolean variables, , , , and are literals, and and are clauses.
A satisfying assignment for this formula is e.g.:
since it makes the first clause true (since is true) as well as the second one (since is true).
This examples uses three variables (A, B, C), and there are two possible assignments (True and False) for each of them. So one has possibilities. In this small example, one can use brute-force search to try all possible assignments and check if they satisfy the formula. But in realistic applications with millions of variables and clauses brute force search is impractical. The responsibility of a SAT solver is to find a satisfying assignment efficiently and quickly by applying different heuristics for complex CNF formulas.
Unit clause rule (unit propagation)
If an unsatisfied clause has all but one of its literals or variables evaluated at False, then the free literal must be True in order for the clause to be True. For example, if the below unsatisfied clause is evaluated with and we must have
in order for the clause to be true.
The iterated application of the unit clause rule is referred to as unit propagation or Boolean constraint propagation (BCP).
Resolution
Consider two clauses and .
The clause , obtained by merging the two clauses and removing both and , is called the resolvent of the two clauses.
Algorithm
Conflict-driven clause learning works as follows.
Select a variable and assign True or False. This is called decision state. Remember the assignment.
Apply Boolean constraint propagation (unit propagation).
Build the implication graph.
If there is any conflict
Find the cut in the implication graph that led to the conflict
Derive a new clause which is the negation of the assignments that led to the conflict
Non-chronologically backtrack ("back jump") to the appropriate decision level, where the first-assigned variable involved in the conflict was assigned
Otherwise continue from step 1 until all variable values are assigned.
Example
A visual example of CDCL algorithm:
Completeness
DPLL is a sound and complete algorithm for SAT. CDCL SAT solvers implement DPLL, but can l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT%20traversal%20with%20session%20border%20controllers | Network address translators (NAT) are used to overcome the lack of IPv4 address availability by hiding an enterprise or even an operator's network behind one or few IP addresses. The devices behind the NAT use private IP addresses that are not routable in the public Internet.
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has established itself as the de facto standard for voice over IP (VoIP) communication. In order to establish a call, a caller sends a SIP message, which contains its own IP address. The callee is supposed to reply back with a SIP message destined to the IP addresses included in the received SIP message. This will obviously not work if the caller is behind a NAT and is using a private IP address.
Probably the single biggest mistake in SIP design was ignoring the existence of NATs. This error came from a belief in IETF leadership that IP address space would be exhausted more rapidly and would necessitate global upgrade to IPv6 and eliminate the need for NATs. The SIP standard has assumed that NATs do not exist, an assumption, which turned out to be a failure. SIP simply didn't work for the majority of Internet users who are behind NATs. At the same time it became apparent that the standardization life-cycle is slower than how the market ticks: Session Border Controllers (SBC) were born, and began to fix what the standards failed to do: NAT traversal.
In case a user agent is located behind a NAT then it will use a private IP address as its contact address in the contact and via headers as well as the SDP part. This information would then be useless for anyone trying to contact this user agent from the public Internet.
There are different NAT traversal solutions such as STUN, TURN and ICE. Which solution to use depends on the behavior of the NAT and the call scenario. When using an SBC to solve the NAT traversal issues the most common approach for SBC is to act as the public interface of the user agents. This is achieved by replacing the user agent's contact information with those of the SBC.
SBC handling of user registration and NAT traversal
In order for a user agent to be reachable through the public interfaces of an SBC, the SBC will manipulate the registration information of the user agent. The user includes its private IP address as its contact information in the REGISTER requests. Calls to this address will fail, since it is not publicly routable. The SBC replaces the information in the contact header with its own IP address. This is the information that is then registered at the registrar. Calls destined to the user will then be directed to the SBC.
In order for the SBC to know which user agent is actually being contacted the SBC can keep a local copy of the user agent's registration. The local copy includes the private IP address and the user's SIP URI as well as the public IP address included in the IP header that was assigned to the SIP message by the NAT.
Alternatively the SBC can store this information in the forwarde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vino%20%28operating%20system%29 | Vino was a project at Harvard University that sought to develop an extensible-kernel operating system based on NetBSD. The project is now inactive.
There is also a current project named Vino hosted on CodePlex that seeks to develop a Java-based operating system similar in concept to the legacy JavaOS.
Vino Group at Harvard
During the 1990s, a Vino Group within the Harvard School of Engineering worked to develop an "extensible" Unix-like operating system. According to the project's main web page:
"The VINO OS project at Harvard is an extensible operating system. This means that application software, running with the privileges of an ordinary user, can provide extensions to operating system (specifically, operating system kernel) functionality. More importantly, this can be done both safely and reasonably securely, and also efficiently; efficiently enough to make it worthwhile".
In essence, Vino was a fork of and ran on the same Intel 486 hardware platform as NetBSD did at that time. Two alpha versions of Vino were released (under a "BSD-like" license) — 0.40 in December, 1997, and 0.50 in December, 1998. That software and its companion documentation are currently available from the Systems Research at Harvard (SYRAH) Group, which also maintains the Vino web pages.
References
External links
The NetBSD-based Vino OS project at Systems Research at Harvard (SYRAH)
The Java-based Vino OS project at Codeplex
Unix variants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP%20Rozrywka | TVP Rozrywka is a Polish free-to-air television channel. It was launched on 15 April 2013 and focuses its programming on entertainment TV series.
It is broadcast from the Telewizja Polska (TVP) headquarters in Warsaw .
Availability
Now
Terrestrial
From September 4, 2020 channel is available from DVB-T2 test in Katowice and Krakow (from November 18, 2020 also in Warsaw, Gdańsk and Poznań)
Satellite
Channel is available on Cyfrowy Polsat (Ch57), Platforma Canal+ (Ch19) and Orange TV (DTH) (Ch337)
Formerly
Since 2013 it was available in DVB-T via MUX3, until June 7, 2018 when it was replaced by TVP Sport. It returned to DVB-T on December 22, 2018 and was available via MUX8. From March 28 to April 2, 2020 it was available simultaneously via MUX3 and MUX8, and from April 2, 2020 to June 9, 2020 only via MUX3 (TVP HD was temporarily available on MUX8, downscaled to SD). This was due to the Szkoła z TVP project. On June 9, 2020, the channel returned to MUX8 replacing TVP HD (SD) and left MUX3. On March 8, 2021, channel was replaced on MUX8 by TVP Kobieta. Since then, it is not available on the nationwide DVB-T.
External links
References
Telewizja Polska
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Television channels in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland%20%28TV%20series%29 | Graceland is an American drama television series created by Jeff Eastin that premiered on the USA Network on June 6, 2013.
On October 1, 2015, USA Network cancelled Graceland after three seasons.
Premise
A group of undercover agents from various United States law-enforcement agencies, including the DEA, the FBI, and ICE, live together in a confiscated Southern California beach house known as "Graceland". Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren is assigned to the house fresh out of Quantico training.
Cast and characters
Main
Recurring cast
Jay Karnes as Supervising Agent Gerry Silvo (pilot) is an FBI supervisory agent responsible for overseeing all operations at Graceland. He is not seen after the pilot episode.
Pedro Pascal as Juan Badillo (season one) is an FBI control officer who was assigned to Mike's investigation into Briggs. While undercover as "Jangles", he confronts the drunken Briggs about his suspicions, and shot and killed by the agent. Briggs pulls down the mask covering Badillo's face and later buries him, not realizing that he is a fellow FBI agent.
Jenn Proske as Abby (season one) is a woman from Baltimore who became Mike's girlfriend, after being introduced to him by Mike's roommate, Paige. She moved out west for the summer to take a break before beginning her career in law enforcement. One day, Mike brought Abby home and upstairs (which is against the house rules), where Abby saw Paige dressed undercover and holding a gun. Frightened, she confronted Mike and broke up with him when she felt he was lying to her.
Scottie Thompson as Lauren Kincaid (season one) is a DEA agent who initially lived in Graceland before Mike moved in. Her partner, Donnie Banks, was shot during one of their undercover operations, where she was undercover working with the Russian Vzakonye crime family. Donnie got transferred out of Graceland and she tried everything in her power to bring him justice, even going as far as putting the rest of the agents and herself at risk. She gets kicked out of Graceland after Paige reports her to the DEA. In reality, Briggs set Lauren up to get transferred to keep her identity safe from the Russians.
Gbenga Akinnagbe as Jeremiah Bello (season one) is a rising criminal warlord and ex-military man from Nigeria, who resides in Long Beach and was involved in smuggling both drugs and weapons. His drug supply came from the Caza cartel, and he worked with Mike, who went undercover to get close to him. He is shown to be merciless, even towards his own men. He gets arrested, convicted, and sentenced and discovers that Mike is a federal agent.
Vincent Laresca as Rafael Cortes/Jangles (season one) is a Mexican federale who befriended Charlie and worked with her. He was revealed to be "Jangles", the mass murderer affiliated with the Caza cartel. He was named so by the FBI due to the sound of his jangling keys during his murders. He was the one responsible for torturing Briggs and getting him addicted to heroin. Charlie goes to Cortes' vac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20racial%20and%20ethnic%20demographics%20of%20the%20United%20States | The racial and ethnic demographics of the United States have changed dramatically throughout its history.
Sources of data
During the American colonial period, British colonial officials conducted censuses in some of the Thirteen Colonies that included enumerations by race. In addition, tax lists and other reports provided additional data and information about the racial demographics of the Thirteen Colonies during this time period.
People have been enumerated by race in every United States census since the first one in 1790. Collection of data on race and ethnicity in the United States census has changed over time, including addition of new enumeration categories and changes in definitions of those categories.
Historical trends
By 1471, Portuguese navigators hoping to tap the fabled Saharan gold trade had reconnoitered the West African coast as far as the Niger Delta, and traded European commodities for local crafts as well as slaves, the latter which turned out to be highly lucrative. The black population was non-existent to European regions in 1610, but awareness increased rapidly after 1620 when forced slavery of Africans was implemented building the Atlantic slave trade in the 15th century in colonial areas, Caribbean islands which later became parts of the United States. By 1490, more than 3,000 slaves a year were transported to Portugal and Spain from Africa African Americans (Blacks) made up almost one-fifth of the United States population in 1790, but their percentage of the total U.S. population declined in almost every U.S. census until 1930. From at least 1790 until the start of World War I, the overwhelming majority (around ninety percent) of African Americans lived in the Southern United States. In addition, before 1865, the overwhelming majority of African Americans were slaves. The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings, and a smaller amount of segregation/discrimination there. Due to the Great Migration, many large cities outside of the former Confederacy (such as New York City, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland) experienced huge increases in the African American percentage of their total population.
Whites (including Non-Hispanic Whites) have historically made up the overwhelming majority (usually between eighty and ninety percent) of the total United States population. The United States historically had few Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans, especially before the late 20th century. Most Asian Americans historically lived in the Western United States. The Hispanic and Asian population of the United States has rapidly increased in the late 20th and 21st centuries, and the African American percentage of the U.S. population is slowly inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNI%20College | CNI College (also Career Networks Institute) is an allied health vocational college in Santa Ana, California. The main campus is located in the City of Orange.
History
CNI College was established in 1994, and was located in Santa Ana. The vocational college was moved to the City of Orange campus in 1997. The college eventually expanded to the Costa Mesa campus to accommodate growth, but in 2009 the main campus moved back to the City of Orange. Here, all classrooms and administrative office are in one location.
Academics
The college offers an Associate Degree in Nursing, a vocational nursing course, qualifications in massage therapy, MRI technology, personal fitness training, pharmacy technician and surgical technologist programs.
Accreditations
CNI College has been accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools, American Society of Health System Pharmacists, and Commissions on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. CNI College has received approval from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, American Registry of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists, State of California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, California State Approving Agency for Veterans Education, State of California Board of Registered Nurses, and received a Certificate of Recognition from the National Strength & Conditioning Association.
Memberships
In addition to CNI College’s accreditations and approvals, CNI is a member of the following organizations: California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS), Association of Surgical Technologists (AST), Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARC/STSA), Better Business Bureau, American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), and Library and Information Resources Network, Inc.
References
External links
Official website
Nursing schools in California
Pharmacy schools in California
Private universities and colleges in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Symposium%20on%20Programming | The European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) is an annual conference devoted to fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.
According to CORE Ranking, ESOP has rank A (i.e. "excellent conference, and highly respected in a discipline area", top 14%).
According to Google Scholar Metrics (as of 20 July 2019), ESOP has H5-index 26 and H5-median 38.
Initially a biannual conference, ESOP moved in 1998 into an annual schedule and became one of the founding conferences of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).
See also
List of computer science conferences
List of computer science conference acronyms
List of publications in computer science
Outline of computer science
References
Further reading
Special issue of Theoretical Computer Science on the European Symposium on Programming
Special issue of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems on the European Symposium on Programming
Special issue of Science of Computer Programming on the European Symposium on Programming
External links
ESOP Conferences at DBLP
ESOP Conferences at SpringerLink
Computer science conferences
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Programming languages conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20in%20Biolinguistics | The International Network in Biolinguistics is an international network to do research on the biological basis of the language faculty, linking theoretical linguistics, developmental psychology, theoretical biology, evolutionary biology and psychology, molecular biology, genetics, and physics. It has members from varieties of discipline across the globe.
Members
Michael A. Arbib,
Evan Balaban,
Robert Berwick,
Thomas G. Bever,
Cedric Boeckx,
Johan J. Bolhuis,
Lisa Cheng,
Noam Chomsky,
Anna Maria Di Sciullo,
Ansgar Endress,
Simon E. Fisher,
W. Tecumseh Fitch,
Angela D. Friederici,
Roland Friedrich,
Koji Fujita,
Alessandra Giorgi,
Kleanthes K. Grohmann,
Mohamed Guerssel,
Heidi Harley,
Marc Hauser,
Lyle Jenkins,
Richard S. Kayne,
Peter Kosta,
Marie Labelle,
Richard Larson,
Howard Lasnik,
Giuseppe Longobardi,
John S. Lumsden,
Jing Luo,
James McGilvray,
Ningombam Bupenda Meitei,
Partha Mitra,
Andrea Moro,
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini,
David Poeppel,
Luigi Rizzi,
Kenneth Safir,
Uli Sauerland,
Fuzhen Si,
Karin Stromswold,
Juan Uriagereka,
Elly Van Gelderen,
Andrew Wedel,
Kenneth Wexler,
Charles Yang.
Conferences
2013
Sur la complexité des langues humaines, UQAM, February 8, 2013
This miniworkshop on language complexity is in French.
2011
New Perspectives on Language Creativity: Composition and Recursion, UQAM, September 25–27, 2011
2010
The Language Design, UQAM, May 27–30, 2010
2008
First Meeting of the INB, Tucson, Arizona, February 23–24, 2008.
2007
Biolinguistic Investigations, Santo Domingo, 2007
Biolinguistics: Language Evolution and Variation, Venice, 2007.
Papers
The list of papers is the production from different contributors and subject experts of the world.
Notes
References
International Network in Biolinguistics
Members
2013 conference in French
2011 conference
2010 conference
2008 Arizona conference
2007 Santo Domingo conference
2007 Venice conference
Papers
External links
Official site of International Network in Biolinguistics
Linguistics organizations
International scientific organizations
Philosophers of science
Philosophers of language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Disc%20Jockey | TV Disc Jockey was an early Australian television music program which is notable as it later evolved to become the Australian version of Bandstand. It aired on the Nine Network's TCN-9 from June 1957 to February 1958. The series originally consisted of host John Godson playing records (with the visual consisting of the record going round), later a live band joined and then the series began to accompany the records by inviting young people into the studio to dance to the music. In 1958 it changed its title to Accent on Youth.
Although kinescope recording had been invented, it is not known if any of the live episodes were recorded, and the series is possibly lost (Hit Parade, a Seven Network series which started 1957 in which hit recordings were danced to and lip-synced by the cast, does have preserved episodes, as do later 1950s variety series like The Bobby Limb Show (1959–1961) which featured live music).
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
1957 Australian television series debuts
1958 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Australian music television series
Pop music television series
Australian live television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20code%20page | In computing, a hardware code page (HWCP) refers to a code page supported natively by a hardware device such as a display adapter or printer. The glyphs to present the characters are stored in the alphanumeric character generator's resident read-only memory (like ROM or flash) and are thus not user-changeable. They are available for use by the system without having to load any font definitions into the device first. Startup messages issued by a PC's System BIOS or displayed by an operating system before initializing its own code page switching logic and font management and before switching to graphics mode are displayed in a computer's default hardware code page.
Code page assignments
In North American IBM-compatible PCs, the hardware code page of the display adapter is typically code page 437. However, various portable machines as well as (Eastern) European, Arabic, Middle Eastern and Asian PCs used a number of other code pages as their hardware code page, including code page 100 ("Hebrew"), 151 ("Nafitha Arabic"), 667 ("Mazovia"), 737 ("Greek"), 850 ("Multilingual"), encodings like "Roman-8", "Kamenický", "KOI-8", "MIK", and others. Most display adapters support a single 8-bit hardware code page only. The bitmaps were often stored in an EPROM in a DIP socket. At most, the hardware code page to be activated was user-selectable via jumpers, configuration EEPROMs or CMOS setup. However, some of the display adapters designed for Eastern European, Arabic and Hebrew PCs supported multiple software-switchable hardware code pages, also named font pages, selectable via I/O ports or additional BIOS functions.
In contrast to this, printers frequently support several user-switchable character sets, often including various variants of the 7-bit ISO/IEC 646 character sets such as code page 367 ("ISO/IEC 646-US / ASCII"), sometimes also a couple of 8-bit code pages like code page 437, 850, 851, 852, 853, 855, 857, 860, 861, 863, 865, and 866. Printers for the Eastern European or Middle Eastern markets sometimes support other locale-specific hardware code pages to choose from. They can be selected via DIP switches or configuration menus on the printer, or via specific escape sequences.
Support in operating systems
When operating systems initialize their code page switching logic, they need to know but have no means to determine the previously active hardware code page by themselves. Therefore, for code page switching to work correctly, the hardware code page needs to be specified.
Under DOS and Windows 9x this is accomplished by specifying the hardware code page as a parameter (hwcp) to the device drivers DISPLAY.SYS and PRINTER.SYS in CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=…\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(type,hwcp,n|(n,m))
DEVICE=…\PRINTER.SYS PRN=(type,hwcp,n)
If multiple hardware code pages are supported in OEM issues, the first hardware code page (hwcp1) in the list specifies the default hardware code page:
DEVICE=…\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(type,(hwcp1,hwcp2,…),n|(n,m))
DEVICE=…\PRINTE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureqa | Eureqa is a proprietary modeling engine originally created by Cornell's Artificial Intelligence Lab and later commercialized by Nutonian, Inc. The software uses evolutionary search to determine mathematical equations that describe sets of data in their simplest form. This task is generally referred to as symbolic regression in the literature.
Origin and development
Since the 1970s, the primary way companies have performed data science has been to hire teams of data scientists, and equip them with tools like R, Python, SAS, and SQL to execute predictive and statistical modeling. In 2007, Michael Schmidt, then a PhD student in Computational Biology at Cornell, believed that the volume of data and complexity of problems that humans could solve were ever-increasing, and the number of data scientists was not. Instead of relying on more people to fill the data science gap, Schmidt and his advisor, Hod Lipson, invented Eureqa, believing machines could extract meaning from data automatically. Eureqa is an artificial intelligence-powered "Virtual Data Scientist" that automatically builds predictive and analytical models, and allows domain experts to rapidly iterate on them. TechCrunch has called Eureqa one of the first examples of Machine Intelligence – the subfield of A.I. that automates the discovery and explanation of answers from data.
In early November 2009 the program was made available to download for free by anyone. Lipson described the machine's benefit in dealing with fields that are overwhelmed with data but lack theory to explain it. In the October 2011 edition of "Physical Biology", Lipson described a yeast experiment that predicted seven known equations. This took place after Lipson had asked scientists from different disciplines to share their work to test Eureqa's versatility.
The program was named Eureqa after Archimedes' famous expression "Eureka!", with the k replaced by a q to evoke the word equation.
Technology
Eureqa works by creating random equations with the data through evolutionary search. Most of the equations do not fit the data well, but a few of the equations will fit the data better than the others and those will be used as the basis of a new round of several billion more equations until a sufficiently good fit is reached. This has been used to discover formula with "invariant relationships", such as laws of nature.
Reception and use
As of 2015, over 80,000 people, including researchers, students, and Fortune 500 companies have made use of the program. People have used the application for many uses, such as analyzing the herding of cattle and understanding the behavior of the stock market.
References
External links
Semantic Web
Genetic programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters%20and%20Mysteries%20in%20America | Monsters and Mysteries in America is an American documentary television series that premiered March 24, 2013 to April 1, 2015 on Destination America. Repeats air on the network's sister-station, the Discovery Channel. It also sometimes airs on Animal Planet, particularly during one of their "Monster weeks". In the United Kingdom, the series airs on the Sky-owned television channel Pick as Monsters and Mysteries.
Overview
Unlike predecessors such as In Search Of... and MonsterQuest, the series includes numerous legends in each episode and features first-person witness encounters. Each episode is split into three segments, all focusing on one particular monster, legend, or phenomenon. Ron Bowman has served as show runner and writer since the series' launch. In Season 1 episodes focused on a specific region in the United States; in later seasons, stories within episodes were based on a variety of towns all around the country. Lyle Blackburn of Rue-Morgue.com has served as consultant and expert. AmericanMonsters.com co-founder Rob Morphy has served, among others, as a consultant and illustrator for the program.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2013–14)
Season 3 (2015)
Reviews
Allison Keene of The Hollywood Reporter describes the series: "This series... seems born from a genuine place, which deserves some credit. It's refreshing in its lack of snark, and even though there are many unintentionally hilarious moments... it's not the exploitation TV that is rampant in the current documentary scene."
See also
In Search Of...
Unsolved Mysteries
Sightings
MonsterQuest
References
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Paranormal reality television series
Cryptozoological television series
Destination America original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHNB-DT | CHNB-DT (channel 12) is a television station in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. It serves as the network's outlet for both New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (by way of a repeater in Lot 22 serving Charlottetown). CHNB-DT is owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment as a sister station to CIHF-DT in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The two stations share studios on Gottingen Street in Downtown Halifax; CHNB-DT's transmitter is located on Mount Champlain. Aside from the transmitters, CHNB-DT does not maintain any physical presence locally in New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island.
History
The station was launched on September 5, 1988 as CIHF-TV-2, owned by the Irving family's New Brunswick Broadcasting Company, which also owned CHSJ-TV, the CBC affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station launched with three transmitters, namely those in Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton. When MITV launched, the station took all prime time American shows from CHSJ—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all prime time American programming nationwide.
It was closely tied with sister station CIHF-TV in Halifax. Both shared the same branding, MITV (Maritimes Independent Television), and their schedules were almost identical. However, the stations offered separate newscasts to their respective provinces and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space on one or both stations. Furthermore, despite the New Brunswick station's rebroadcaster-like callsign, the stations were separately licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). At the time, MITV was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".
After losing $5 million each year since sign-on, MITV was sold to Canwest on August 29, 1994. This was part of a three-way deal, which saw the CBC taking control of CHSJ-TV, moving it to Fredericton, and renaming it CBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, MITV moved its operational and business headquarters to Dartmouth.
In 1995, MITV's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square. Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history. In 1997, as a part of Canwest's rebranding program, MITV became "Global Maritimes".
Additional retransmitters signed on in 1998, in Charlottetown, Woodstock, Miramichi, and St. Stephen.
On December 17, 2012, Global Maritimes officially began operations at its new home on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax. Previously, its operations were located on Akerley Blvd. in an industrial park in the Halifax suburb of Dartmouth.
In April 2013, CIHF-2 was rebranded |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpv%20%28media%20player%29 | mpv is free and open-source media player software based on MPlayer, mplayer2 and FFmpeg. It runs on several operating systems, including Unix-like operating systems (Linux, BSD-based, macOS) and Microsoft Windows, along with having an Android port called mpv-android. It is cross-platform, running on ARM, PowerPC, x86/IA-32, x86-64, and MIPS architecture.
History
mpv was forked by Vincent Lang, also known as wm4, in 2012 from mplayer2, which was forked in 2010 from MPlayer. The motive for the fork was to encourage developer activity by removing unmaintainable code and dropping support for very old systems. As a result, the project had a large influx of contributions.
Since June 2015, the project's source code is in the process of being relicensed from GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) or later to GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1) or later to allow using mpv as a library in more applications.
Changes from MPlayer
mpv has had several notable changes since it was forked from MPlayer; the most user-visible being the addition of an on-screen-controller (OSC) minimal GUI integrated with mpv to offer basic mouse-controllability. This was intended to make interaction easier for new users and to enable precise and direct seeking.
Video websites: By using youtube-dl, mpv natively supports playback of high-definition video (HD) content and audio on YouTube and over 1000 other supported sites. This allows mpv to replace site-specific video players based on Adobe Flash or HTML5.
High quality video output: mpv includes a customizable video output driver based on OpenGL as well as the Vulkan API, which supports over 100 options for controlling playback quality, including the use of advanced upscaling filters, color management, and customizable pixel shaders.
Audio scaling algorithm: The player is equipped with a scaletempo2 parameter for speed changing at constant pitch, for which it uses the Waveform Similarity Overlap-and-add (WSOLA) algorithm, citing more smoothness than the original scaletempo used in the original mplayer, and rubberband.
Improved client API: Beyond working as a stand-alone media player, mpv is designed to be used directly by other applications through a library interface called libmpv. This required making all mpv code thread safe. An example of an application which uses libmpv is Plex. This form of player control, along with a JSON IPC mechanism, replaces MPlayer's "slave mode".
Encoding subsystem: mpv includes a new video encoding mode that can be used to save files being played under different formats. This allows mpv to work as a transcoder, supporting many video formats. This feature serves as a direct replacement for the MEncoder component of MPlayer, which was a separate program rather than being built into the player.
Lua scripting: mpv's behavior and functions are customizable via use of small programs written in the Lua scripting language, which can be used for tasks like cropping video, prov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Studio%2023 | Below is a partial list of shows that were previously aired in Studio 23, a defunct Philippine television network.
For the final shows on ABS-CBN Sports and Action, see List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN Sports and Action.
Local defunct shows
6underground Live & Raw
The 700 Club Asia (2003–2006)
Agri Business: How It Works (2013–2014)
ANC Presents: Harapan 2013 (2013)
Ang Boyfriend Ko
Ano bang Trip Mo?
Asenso Pinoy (2013–2014)
Asian Formula 3
Auto Extreme
ASAP (2003) (simulcast from ABS-CBN)
Badminton TV
Balitang Bayan: Halalan 2013 (2013)
Barkada Nights (2003-2014)
Barkada Nights Plus (2004-2009)
Barkada Trip (2004–2009)
Behind the Brand: The Philippine Fashion Week TV
Belo Beauty 101 (2008–2009)
Bilis Balita (2011–2014)
Bites & Beyond
Biyeheng Bulilit (2010-2014)
BKTV
BLOG (Barkada Log)
The Bottomline with Boy Abunda
Breakfast (1999–2007)
Career Jam: Served with Bread n' Butter
Channel Club Kids
Chef's On The Go
Chismix
Chooks to Go Sayaw Fever: The Php 1M Chicken Dance Showdown
Citiline (1999–2003)
The Cory Quirino Show
Crissa Digital Dance Synergy Year 8 (2013)
Da Adventures of Pedro Penduko and Pedro Penduko at ang mga Engkantao
Digital Photo Plus
Digital Tour (1999–2007)
Dos Por Dos (2010–2012)
Dream Date
3oW PoWHz (Eow Powhz - Hello Po) (2010–2011)
EsKWELAHAN ni Ryan Bang (2011–2013)
ETZ (Eco Travel Zone) (2010–2011)
Everybody Can Cook (2008-2009)
F! (2003–2006)
Family Rosary Crusade (1996–2014)
Field Trip
Filipino Poker Tour
FPJ: Ang Nagiisang Alamat (also as FPJ: Hari ng Pelikula) (2012 as Barkada Nights: FPJ sa Studio 23; 2013–2014)
Friends Again (2008–2014)
Gag Ito! (2006–2007)
Gag U! (2012–2014)
Gameday Weekend with Rexona (2013)
Gameplan (1999–2007)
Generation RX (2009-2014)
The Good Life with Cory Quirino
Good Times with Mo
Gourmet Everyday
Guide To Urban Living (2000–2002) (formerly ABS-CBN from 1960–1972)
Gusto Ko Maging Beauty Queen
Hardcore Brothers Easy Ride
Healing Mass for the Homebound with Fr. Mario Sobrejuanite (produced by Rivers of Living Water (now ACTS) Catholic Community) (2008–2014) (moved to CNN Philippines)
Health Republic
Hotwire
How 'Bout My Place
I Got It! (2010–2013)
Iba-Balita (2010–2014)
Iba-Balita Ngayon (2011–2012)
Idol (ALA Promotions) (2013)
In Fitness & In Health
It's A Guy Thing
It's Showtime (2012) (simulcast from ABS-CBN)
Jeepney TV (2013–2014) (discontinued; now broadcast on 24/7 cable)
Abangan ang Susunod Na Kabanata
Arriba, Arriba!
Bida si Mister, Bida si Misis
Chika Chika Chicks
Goin' Bananas
Home Along Da Riles
OK Fine Whatever
Oki Doki Doc
Pwedeng Pwede
Super Laff-In
Whattamen
Jobs TV
K-High (2010–2013)
Kabarkada, Break the Bank (2007)
Kidz Rule (2005–2009)
Kiss The Cook (2007–2008)
Lactacyd CofiDance Hip-Hop Challenge (2010)
Lactacyd CofiDance Mash-Up (2011)
Lactacyd Confidence Confidance Mash-Up 2012 (2012)
Life Without Borders with Cory Quirino
Look Who's Cooking
Lunch Box Office (2003-2014)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20AksyonTV/5%20Plus | This is a list of programs previously aired by the now-defunct TV network, AksyonTV and 5 Plus. For the currently aired shows on One Sports, please see the List of programs broadcast by One Sports.
Local defunct shows
Newscasts
Aksyon (2011–2019)
Aksyon Breaking (2011–2014)
Aksyon JournalisMO (2011–2012)
Aksyon Linggo (2011–2012)
Aksyon sa Umaga (2014–2017)
Aksyon Sabado (2011–2012)
Aksyon Tonite (2014–2019)
Aksyon Weather (2011–2014)
Aksyon Weekend (2013–2014)
Andar ng mga Balita (2011–2014)
Balitaang Tapat (2011–2012)
Balitang 60 (2011–2014)
CNN Konek (2011–2013)
Good Morning Club (2012–2014)
Pilipinas News (2012–2014)
Pilipinas News Weekend (2012–2014)
Sapul sa Singko (2011–2012)
Sports newscasts
SportsCenter Philippines (2017–2019 2019–2020)
Sportspage (2020–2021)
The Game Weekend (2021)
Documentaries and public affairs
Ako Mismo (2011)
Alagang Kapatid (2011–2014)
Anggulo (2011–2012)
Balwarte (2013)
Bigtime (2014)
Bitag (2011–2012)
Buhay OFW (2011–2019)
Chicken Talk (2019)
Crime Klasik (2011–2013)
Dayo (2013–2014)
Dokumentado (2011–2013)
Dong Puno De Kalibre (2011–2013) (formerly titled "Kalibre 41")
Duelo: Barilan ng Opinyon (2011–2012)
Insider (2012)
Journo (2011–2012)
Juan Direction (2013–2014)
News5 Debates: Hamon sa Pagbabago (2011)
News5 Imbestigasyon (2012)
Pinoy U.S. Cops: Ride Along (2011–2012)
Presinto 5 (2011–2013)
Public Atorni: Asunto o Areglo (2011–2012)
Reaksyon (2012–2014, 2014–2017)
Reaksyon Weekend (2012)
Rescue5 (2013)
Talking Heads (2019–2020)
Tayuan Mo at Panindigan (2011–2012)
Teknotrip (2011)
Totoo TV (2011)
Tutok Tulfo (2011–2012)
USI: Under Special Investigation (2011–2012)
Wanted (2011–2012)
Wasak (2011–2013)
E-sports
GGNetwork.TV (2019–2020)
One Up (2019–2020)
Infotainment
Astig! (5 minute segment) (2012–2013)
Bilang Tao (2011–2012)
Political Intel (2012)
Informercials
EZ Shop (2016–2019, 2020–2021)
Shop TV (2016–2018)
Shop Japan (2015–2018)
Lifestyle
Chef vs. Mom (2012–2013)
Cocktales (2011–2013)
Cooking Na! (2011–2012)
It's More Fun with Philip (2013)
Reality
Juan Direction (2013–2014)
Radyo5 programs
Aksyon Solusyon (2011–2013, 2014–2019)
Aksyon Sports (2011, 2014–2019)
Alagang Kapatid (2015–2016, 2017–2019)
Alertado (2011–2012)
Andar ng mga Balita (2011–2012)
Balita Alas-Singko sa Radyo5 (2011–2019)
Bitag Live (2012–2017; moved to PTV 4)
Boljak (2018–2019)
Chink Positive (2011–2019)
Chilax Radio (2011–2012)
Cristy Ferminute (2011–2019)
Healing Galing (2011–2019)
Healthline (2014–2016)
Iba 'Yung Pinoy (2011–2012, 2017–2019)
Joe d' Mango's Love Notes (2012–2013)
Kasindak-sindak (2011–2012)
Love Idols (2011, 2017–2019)
Magbago Tayo (2011–2016)
Metro Sabado (2011–2016, 2017–2019)
Manila sa Umaga (2012–2013)
Morning Calls (2012–2013, 2018–2019)
Orly at Laila: All Ready! (2018–2019)
Orly Mercado: All Ready (2018–2019)
Oplan Asenso (2011–2012, 2016–2019)
Patol: Republika ni Arnelli (2011–2012)
Perfect Morning (2011–2017, 2018–2019)
Power and Play (2018–2019)
Punto Asintado (2011–2016, 2017)
Relasyon (2011– |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassandra%20Clementi | Kassandra Clementi (born 10 October 1990) is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Maddy Osborne on the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away, a role she played for over three years before leaving in May 2016.
Early life
Clementi was born in Adelaide, South Australia and dreamed of becoming a vet when she was a child. She took acting classes as a teenager and decided to pursue that career direction after high school, moving away from Adelaide to study it further. As a child, Clementi would spend time on family holidays in the coastal town of Middleton in South Australia.
Career
In 2009, Clementi appeared in a minor role in Australian/UK feature film The Boys Are Back, with Clive Owen. Clementi successfully began to receive roles in television series'. The first roles she received was that of 'Cara' in Offspring and 'Chelsea' in the television film Underbelly Files: Infiltration. Following her part in the film, she relocated to Atlanta, Georgia when she received yet another role in the American television series Single Ladies, with Queen Latifah, in which she played 'Christina' for six months.
In early 2012, Clementi travelled to Los Angeles to film the television film Christmas Twister (F6 Twister), which starred Casper Van Dien. Clementi also starred in the feature film Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood in 2012 alongside Christian Slater.
In 2012, Clementi received the role of Madeleine "Maddy" Osborne on the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away after auditioning because she was homesick and knew this opportunity would bring her back to Australia. The character of Maddy is a teenager who comes to Summer Bay with her boyfriend Spencer Harrington (Andrew Morley) after running away from home.
In 2017, Clementi joined the cast of UnReal and used an American accent for the part.
Clementi fronted the summer 2018/2019 campaign for lifestyle brand Sunnylife, that was shot in Northern Queensland.
In 2020, The Christmas High Note, a Lifetime Movie, was released with Clementi playing the part of Emma. During filming Clementi adopted a rescue dog.
Personal life
In 2014, Clementi dated Australian veterinarian and TV personality, Dr. Chris Brown.
On August 18, 2021, Clementi announced her engagement to actress, Jacqueline Toboni. Clementi currently resides in Los Angeles, USA. However, as of August 7, 2022, Kassandra confirmed via an Instagram comment that she and Jacqueline had "separated awhile ago, amicably".
Clementi is currently in a relationship with Daniel McKernan of The Animal Planet's series Saved by the Barn. On November 28, 2022, McKernan posted a picture to social media announcing he and Clementi are expecting their first child in May. The couple had a daughter in May 2023.
Filmography and Television
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
Actresses from Adelaide
Australian television actresses
Australian film actresses
LGBT actresses
Australian LGBT actors
Australian expatriate actresses in the Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20de%20Emissoras%20Independentes | Rede de Emissoras Independentes (in English: Independent Broadcasters Network) or REI, was a Brazilian television network founded in 1969, as successor to the "Emissoras Unidas". Inaugurated on September 14, 1969, it was a network initially led by TV Record (São Paulo), TV Rio (Rio de Janeiro) and TV Alvorada (Brasilia); after 1976, it was led by TV Record of São Paulo and TVS of Rio de Janeiro. It was the largest television network in Brazil, currently the Globo Network.
See also
SBT
RecordTV Rio
References
Mass media in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Mass media in São Paulo
Television channels and stations established in 1969
1969 establishments in Brazil
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1989
1989 disestablishments in Brazil
Defunct television channels in Brazil
RecordTV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Sugar | Rebecca Rea Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an American animator and screenwriter. She is best known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, making her the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network; prior to coming out as non-binary, Sugar was described as the first woman to do so. Until 2013, Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time. Her work on the two series has earned her seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Sugar is bisexual, non-binary, and genderqueer, using both she/her and they/them pronouns. Sugar's queerness has served as the inspiration for her to stress the importance of LGBT representation in the arts, especially in children's entertainment.
Early life
Sugar was raised in the Sligo Park Hills area of Silver Spring, Maryland. She simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School (where she was an arts semifinalist in the Presidential Scholar competition, and won Montgomery County's prestigious Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award), both of which are located in Maryland. While at Blair, she drew several comics (called "The Strip" for the school's newspaper, Silver Chips) which won first place for comics in the Newspaper Individual Writing and Editing Contest. "The Strip" ran a comic challenging MCPS's new grading policy from 2005. She went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York.
According to Sugar's father Rob, Rebecca Sugar and her younger brother Steven were raised with what he called "Jewish sensibilities", and both siblings observe the lighting of Hanukkah candles with their parents via Skype.
Career
Early work
During her time at the School of Visual Arts, Sugar directed short animated films, including Johnny Noodleneck (2008). In 2009, she wrote and animated Singles, in which frequent collaborator Ian Jones-Quartey acted as an assistant animator, assistant inker and voice actor on the project, while Sugar's brother Steven Sugar acted as an assistant colorist. Sugar completed this film as her thesis.
Sugar also played an important role in the creation of nockFORCE, a cartoon series created by Ian Jones-Quartey and Jim Gisriel and launched in 2007 on YouTube. In particular, she contributed to the cartoon's backgrounds and characters.
In 2010, Sugar published her first graphic novel, Pug Davis, featuring an astronaut dog and his gay sidekick Blouse.
She is also known for her comic "Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead", a story about two brothers whose shared love of The Simpsons takes a tragic turn.
Television
Sugar first joined the crew of Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist during the show's first season. Due to the quality of her work, within a month of being hired she was promoted to a storyboard artist, making her debut during the production of the second season. Her first episode was "It Came from the Nightosphere". While working on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving%20You%20the%20Business | Giving You the Business premiered on Food Network on Thursday April 25 at 10pm Eastern Time. In this program hosted by former NBA player turned motivational speaker Walter Bond, a CEO from a major food chain, handpicks four standout employees and secretly puts them to a series of tests of outrageous skills.These four employees are being recorded by covert cameras at all times. The winning candidate ultimately receives the key to their own food business, which may be valued up to $500,000 in total.
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20computer | A cognitive computer is a computer that hardwires artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms into an Integrated circuit that closely reproduces the behavior of the human brain. It generally adopts a neuromorphic engineering approach. Synonyms include neuromorphic chip and cognitive chip.
In 2023, IBM's proof-of-concept NorthPole chip achieved state-of-the-art performance at image recognition.
In 2013,IBM developed Watson, a cognitive computer implemented using neural networks and deep learning techniques. The next year it developed the 2014 TrueNorth microchip architecture, which is designed to be closer in structure to the human brain than the von Neumann architecture used in conventional computers. In 2017 Intel also announced its version of a cognitive chip in "Loihi", which it intended to be available to university and research labs in 2018. Intel (most notably with its Pohoiki Beach and Springs systems), Qualcomm, and others are improving neuromorphic processors steadily.
IBM TrueNorth chip
TrueNorth was a neuromorphic CMOS integrated circuit produced by IBM in 2014. It is a manycore processor network on a chip design, with 4096 cores, each one having 256 programmable simulated neurons for a total of just over a million neurons. In turn, each neuron has 256 programmable "synapses" that convey the signals between them. Hence, the total number of programmable synapses is just over 268 million (228). Its basic transistor count is 5.4 billion.
Details
Since memory, computation, and communication are handled in each of the 4096 neurosynaptic cores, TrueNorth circumvents the von Neumann-architecture bottleneck and is very energy-efficient, with IBM claiming a power consumption of 70 milliwatts and a power density that is 1/10,000th of conventional microprocessors. The SyNAPSE chip operates at lower temperatures and power because it only draws power necessary for computation. Skyrmions have been proposed as models of the synapse on a chip.
The neurons are emulated using a Linear-Leak Integrate-and-Fire (LLIF) model, a simplification of the leaky integrate-and-fire model.
According to IBM, it doesn't have a clock, operates on unary numbers and computes by counting up to a maximum of 19 bits. The said cores are event-driven by using both (a)synchronous logic and are interconnected through an asynchronous packet-switched mesh network on chip (NOC).
IBM developed a new network to program and use TrueNorth. It included a simulator, a new programming language, an integrated programming environment, and even libraries. This lack of backward compatibility with any previous technology (e.g. C++ compilers) poses serious vendor lock-in risks and other adverse consequences that may prevent it from commercialization in the future.
Research
In 2018 a cluster of TrueNorth network-linked to a master computer was used in stereo vision research that attempted to extract the depth of rapidly moving objects in a scene.
IBM NorthPole chip
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20over-the-air%20HSN%20affiliates | The following is a list of over-the-air affiliates of the Home Shopping Network (HSN) in the United States. The network itself owns several low-power stations throughout the United States, usually under its broadcast division Ventana Television.
Channel positions denoted with a 2 instead carry HSN2.
Listings
See also
USA Broadcasting, the final iteration of HSN's former owned stations division in the 1980s and 1990s; all stations are now owned by Univision Communications
Retailing-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Ace%203 | The Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 (GT-S7270/GT-S7272/GT-S7275R) is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. Announced and released by Samsung in June 2013, the Galaxy Ace 3 is the successor to the Galaxy Ace 2.
The Galaxy Ace 3 is a dual-core Android-based device, sold as an upper mid-range smartphone; the LTE model features a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8930 SoC, whereas the 3G model features a Broadcomm BCM21664 SoC with a 1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and a Broadcomm VideoCore IV GPU.
Features
The Galaxy Ace 3 is a 3.5G and 4G smartphone, with quad band GSM and announced with two-band HSDPA (900/2100)MHz at 14.4(DL)/5.76(UL) Mbit/s. It sports a display of a 4.0 inch PLS TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours WVGA (480x800) resolution. It has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and auto focus, capable of recording videos at QVGA (320x240), VGA (640x480) and HD (1280x720) pixels resolution with a VGA front-facing camera. The Galaxy Ace 3 comes with a 1500 mAh (3G) and an 1800 mAh (LTE) Li-Ion battery.
The Galaxy Ace 3 has social network integration abilities and multimedia features. It is also preloaded with basic Google Apps such as Google+ and Google Messenger. The Galaxy Ace 3 is available in metallic black, white and wine red.
Successor
In August 2014, Samsung released a successor to the Galaxy Ace 3; Samsung Galaxy Ace 4.
See also
Samsung Galaxy Ace
References
Samsung mobile phones
Samsung Galaxy
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2013
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa%E2%80%93Hillsborough%20County%20Public%20Library%20System | The Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System (THPL) is a public library system based in Hillsborough County, Florida. THPL is part of two larger library networks, the Tampa Bay Library Consortium, and the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative which includes Temple Terrace Public Library in Temple Terrace, Florida, and Bruton Memorial Library in Plant City, Florida. There are 33 branches of the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative. Services provided by the THPL include (but are in no way limited to) internet access, public meeting room spaces, interlibrary loans, a Bookmobile, a Cybermobile for Spanish speakers, technology classes, adult literacy programs, and downloadable eBooks. Drive-thru windows for returns and hold pick-ups are located at the Jimmie B. Keel and the Jan Kaminis Platt Regional Libraries. In 2017, THPL introduced the new HAAL Pass, which gives access to certain library resources to all students in the Hillsborough County Public Schools System. Students use their student ID number to use different online databases, borrow up to three physical items and read eBooks. The Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System is also a part of Hillsborough County government.
On January 1, 2018, the library cooperative became one of the largest in the country to go fine free. Overdue fees for borrowed materials were eliminated with the implementation of the "Just Bring It Back" initiative.
In 2019 the cooperative received the FLA Library of the Year Award. Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library was recognized for its community focused initiatives as it "reorganized its staffing model and eliminated overdue fines, yielding $1 million in savings while increasing access to library resources and expanding opportunities for community engagement through unique, scalable programs."
History
The Old Tampa Free Public Library was one of the first of only ten public libraries in Florida to receive a grant from Andrew Carnegie in order to construct and establish public community libraries. During the beginning of the 20th century, the society editor of the Tampa Tribune, Louise Frances Dodge, initiated the grab for the Carnegie funding for a library in Tampa in 1905. After much debate regarding Carnegie's money, Tampa was awarded with a $25,000 grant in 1912. In 1913, it was increased to $50,000.
That same year, the city of West Tampa also expressed interest in establishing a public library and was awarded a separate Carnegie grant of $17,500. After another lengthy debate about location, the Old Tampa Free Public Library (also known as the Exceptional Children Education Center) was erected at 102 E. Seventh Avenue and completed June 30, 1915. However, due to the refusal of Tampa's city council to fund the new library, it was not immediately available to the public. Eventually they allocated $10,000 per year to the library and it opened April 27, 1917, with only 3,800 books, donated by Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Lothridge. The bui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic%20interference | Catastrophic interference, also known as catastrophic forgetting, is the tendency of an artificial neural network to abruptly and drastically forget previously learned information upon learning new information. Neural networks are an important part of the network approach and connectionist approach to cognitive science. With these networks, human capabilities such as memory and learning can be modeled using computer simulations.
Catastrophic interference is an important issue to consider when creating connectionist models of memory. It was originally brought to the attention of the scientific community by research from McCloskey and Cohen (1989), and Ratcliff (1990). It is a radical manifestation of the 'sensitivity-stability' dilemma or the 'stability-plasticity' dilemma. Specifically, these problems refer to the challenge of making an artificial neural network that is sensitive to, but not disrupted by, new information.
Lookup tables and connectionist networks lie on the opposite sides of the stability plasticity spectrum. The former remains completely stable in the presence of new information but lacks the ability to generalize, i.e. infer general principles, from new inputs. On the other hand, connectionist networks like the standard backpropagation network can generalize to unseen inputs, but they are very sensitive to new information. Backpropagation models can be analogized to human memory insofar as they mirror the human ability to generalize but these networks often exhibit less stability than human memory. Notably, these backpropagation networks are susceptible to catastrophic interference. This is an issue when modelling human memory, because unlike these networks, humans typically do not show catastrophic forgetting.
History of catastrophic interference
The term catastrophic interference was originally coined by McCloskey and Cohen (1989) but was also brought to the attention of the scientific community by research from Ratcliff (1990).
The Sequential Learning Problem: McCloskey and Cohen (1989)
McCloskey and Cohen (1989) noted the problem of catastrophic interference during two different experiments with backpropagation neural network modelling.
Experiment 1: Learning the ones and twos addition facts
In their first experiment they trained a standard backpropagation neural network on a single training set consisting of 17 single-digit ones problems (i.e., 1 + 1 through 9 + 1, and 1 + 2 through 1 + 9) until the network could represent and respond properly to all of them. The error between the actual output and the desired output steadily declined across training sessions, which reflected that the network learned to represent the target outputs better across trials. Next, they trained the network on a single training set consisting of 17 single-digit twos problems (i.e., 2 + 1 through 2 + 9, and 1 + 2 through 9 + 2) until the network could represent, respond properly to all of them. They noted that their procedure was similar t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Test%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of the animated television series Johnny Test originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. The season was announced by Cookie Jar Entertainment on August 24, 2010, consisting of 26 episodes, with two segments each. In the United States, the season premiered on Cartoon Network on June 13, 2011. This would be the first season with Trevor Devall as the new voice of Dukey. Additionally, Brittney Wilson, who departed after Season 1, would return to voice Mary Test and Sissy Blakely. According to the credits, Warner Bros. still owns its trademark.
Cast
James Arnold Taylor as Johnny Test
Trevor Devall as Dukey
Brittney Wilson as Mary Test
Maryke Hendrikse as Susan Test
Episodes
References
Notes
2011 American television seasons
2012 American television seasons
Johnny Test seasons
2011 Canadian television seasons
2012 Canadian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Mahiwagang%20Baul | () is a Philippine television drama fantasy anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Eissen Bayubay, Sandy Talag and Carme Sanchez, it premiered on July 17, 2005. The show concluded on January 28, 2007 with a total of 74 episodes.
The show features retelling popular Philippine myths, legends and folktales. It was originally slated for seven episodes, was later extended due to viewership ratings and feedback from the viewers. Some episodes were released on DVD by GMA Records and Home Videos in 2007 in three volumes. The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Eisen Bayubay as Epoy
Sandy Talag as Jewel
Carme Sanchez as Lola Tasya
John Feir as Rextor
Recurring cast
Shamaine Centenera as Lourdes
Nonie Buencamino as Emil
Bella Flores as Lola Gelay
Patricia Ysmael as Yayang
Marian Rivera as Rahinda
Accolades
References
External links
2005 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Coleman | Trevor Coleman is a co-founder of InteraXon, a Canadian company specializing in software for Non-invasive Brain-computer interfaces. The company presented an installation at Ontario House during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games that allowed users in Vancouver to control the lights on the CN Tower, Niagara Falls and the Canadian Parliament Buildings. Interaxon also created the world's first thought-controlled in-flight entertainment system, which they demonstrated at the On the Wings of Innovation conference organized by the Ontario Government and Ontario Aerospace Council in Windsor in June 2010.
Before co-founding InteraXon, Trevor Coleman studied Cognitive Science at York University while he worked in the entertainment industry, booking and promoting shows at non-traditional venues, and referred to himself as "King of the Hipsters" Venues he worked with included The Boat, a former Portuguese seafood restaurant that is more commonly used as a music venue, Teranga, a Senegalese restaurant & bar and Baby Dolls, a Toronto strip club.
He was also invited to be a guest booker at Wavelength, a long-running Toronto independent music series and was invited to participate in a panel entitled "Torontopia vs Dystopia" at Wavelength 300, a festival to celebrate the series' anniversary.
In 2010, Trevor Coleman was invited to be a featured speaker at the North by North East Interactive conference, where he gave a talk entitled "Thought Controlled Everything.", in 2011 he spoke at the FITC Emerging Technology in Advertising conference, the Canadian Marketing Association's Digital Day and Strategy Online's ATOMIC conference.
In November, 2011 he was vocal in declaring the Project Black Mirror brainwave-to-Siri hack a hoax and his blog post on the subject was cited as an authority by a number of blogs and websites.
References
External links
Toronto Star - Naked Ambition in Deejay Scene
Canadian business executives
Canadian technology company founders
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK%20Schools | SPARK Schools is an independent school network in South Africa. SPARK Schools was founded by Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison in 2012. Their schools use a blended learning model with adaptive software and individualised learning to accelerate learning and increase student achievement. SPARK Schools uses a hybrid funding model, having attracted funding from both non-profit foundations focused on high impact philanthropy and from for-profit impact investors.
There are 19 primary schools and 1 high school in the SPARK Schools Network.
History
SPARK Schools was started to provide internationally competitive high quality academic achievement to South African communities. The original motivation and concept for SPARK Schools was developed at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) where Stacey Brewer, Bailey Thomson and Ryan Harrison are alumni. South Africa is consistently ranked among the worst performing education systems in the world. SPARK Schools was built on the belief that quality and affordability are not mutually exclusive when it comes to excellent education. SPARK Schools emerged as a pioneer of blended learning in Africa and implemented the first blended primary school model in Africa.
SPARK Ferndale was launched as the first SPARK school in 2013. SPARK Schools became an ISASA full member and accredited network in 2013.
SPARK core values
SPARK is an acronym for the schools' core values: Service, Persistence, Achievement, Responsibility and Kindness. The name of the network also took inspiration from the quotation often misattributed to William B. Yeats quote; "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". While this quotation is often attributed to the Irish poet W.B. Yeats there is no evidence that he ever wrote or said those words.
Founding team
The founding team consisted of Stacey Brewer (Executive Director & Founding Principal), Ryan Harrison (Non-executive director), Bailey Thomson (Director of Leadership and Development) and Caitlin Burkholder-Travis (Director of Student Achievement).
Education model
Foundation phase
SPARK Schools uses a lab rotation blended learning model that combines classroom instruction with adaptive software intended to accelerate learning and increase student achievement. SPARK Schools uses a lab rotation blended learning model, that was pioneered by Rocketship Education.
The blended education model allows for a high level of individualised learning as student receive instruction in the classroom as well as through adaptive education technology.
Intermediate phase
SPARK Schools uses a flex model for students in Grade 4–7 (intermediate phase). At this level, scholars are in ability groups based on their own individual performance in the subjects. This allows for an even more individualised form of education.
High school
SPARK Schools launched their first high school in January 2019. SPARK Randburg High School is located in Ferndale, Randburg, and focuses on aca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearby | Nearby (previously named WNM Live / Who's Near Me) was a location-based social networking service. Nearby was originally launched in June 2010.. The site closed in September 2021 following a significant data break.
Background
Nearby was founded by Brian Hamachek. The company is located in Palo Alto, California. The company is a member of the Microsoft Bizspark program. On November 11, 2013, Nearby was accepted into the Fall 2013 session of the Stanford StartX accelerator. In January 2014, the company name was changed from WNM Live to Nearby.
Nearby uses the GPS unit in a phone or computer to determine your location and returns a list of users nearby based on relative proximity. Unlike several other location-based social networks such as Skout, WhosHere, and Grindr, Nearby explicitly declares that the service is not intended to be used for dating purposes.
Platforms and users
A Windows Mobile 6 application was released on 6/2010. It was followed by a Windows Phone 7 application which was released on 10/2010. A web and mobile web portal for the service was launched 4/2011. An iPhone application was released 1/2012. A Windows 8 application was released in 5/2012. An Android application was released in the first half of 2013. The service has a combined membership of just over 5 million users. The highest percentage of users were located in the United States, United Kingdom, and India (in that order). An Android app was released in January 2015.
Awards and recognition
The Windows Phone application was selected at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference as the 2nd best application in the Marketplace.
Nearby was selected by Microsoft as a Bizspark Featured Startup on April 30, 2013.
The Nearby app for Windows Phone was runner-up in Nokia's Create competition within the NFC category.
Trademark dispute
Nearby was officially known as Who's Near Me until 6/2012. In 2011, WhosHere, a competitor in the location-based social network landscape, approached Who's Near Me and requested that they change their name. They alleged that the name was too similar to their own product's name of WhosHere and that it constituted trademark infringement. Although Who's Near Me originally agreed to change the name of the company, they continued to use Who's Near Me. In 5/2012, WhosHere filed a legal complaint of trademark infringement, unfair competition, cybersquatting, and breach of contract against the company. News of the lawsuit was made public when Nearby CEO Brian Hamachek wrote a blog post about the matter in which he made a number of allegations against WhosHere. The blog post was picked up by a number of media organizations, including TechCrunch. Hamachek eventually agreed to change the name of the company to WNM Live (and later changed again to Nearby for unrelated reasons) and posted a joint statement written by both WNM Live and WhosHere.
See also
Location-based service
References
External links
Official website
Geoso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twimight | Twimight was an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter. The client let users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.
Added value
In addition to being a fully functional, ad-free and open-source Twitter client, Twimight allowed communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). Twimight was also equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode", which users could enable or disable at will. When the disaster mode was enabled and the cellular network was down, Twimight used peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstance. Enabling the disaster mode enabled on the phone's Bluetooth transceiver and connected the user to other nearby phones. This created a mobile ad hoc network or MANET, which could be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure had failed.
History
Twimight started out as a project for a Master thesis at ETH Zurich in the spring of 2011.
References
External links
The Twimight development website
Free mobile software
Mobile social software
Free and open-source Android software
Android (operating system) software
Twitter services and applications
2013 software
Wireless networking
Microblogging software
Geosocial networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy%20and%20Computing | Astronomy and Computing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on applications computer science in astronomy published by Elsevier. It was established in 2013 and is abstracted and indexed in the Astrophysics Data System, INSPEC and Scopus. The current editor-in-chief is Fabio Pasian (Astronomical Observatory of Trieste).
History
The importance of astronomical software to generating research results has grown, and indeed, much of modern research depends on software. Though occasionally discussed casually, the idea for a journal devoted to computational methods in astronomy was formally discussed at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XX conference in a Birds of a Feather session in 2010, where it was demonstrated that the major astronomy publications are often reluctant to include purely computational articles, though other journals may be more accepting. The publication of computational methods is seen as an important step to bring those who write research software into the academic credit production system.
The development of Astronomy & Computing was presented in 2012 in a poster session at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XXII conference, and the journal's first issue was published in February, 2013.
References
External links
Astronomy journals
Academic journals established in 2013
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Computer science journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20Ops%3A%20Battles%20from%20the%20Bulge | Command Ops: Battle from the Bulge (commonly abbreviated BFTB) is a strategic command level computer wargame developed and by Panther Games in Australia and published by Matrix Games in 2010. The game is set around the historical WWII Western Front German offensive and Allied counter-offensive of 1944-45 launched through the Ardennes mountain region of Belgium, France and Luxembourg.
Synopsis
During the bitter cold of winter just before Christmas, 1944, Nazi Germany launched their last major Western Front offensive of the Second World War, Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"). The goal was to break the Allied line and push to Antwerp, Belgium. This would cut off the Allied forces to the north and force the Allied commanders to consider peace terms, allowing Nazi Germany to concentrate on the war on the Eastern Front with the Soviet Union.
The offensive caught the Allied forces by surprise as they too were developing and in the stages of implementing their own offensive plans to break the German line. The Allies had to re-evaluate and re-deploy their armies from the north shoulder to counter the offensive without air-support initially as poor weather conditions grounded the air force until conditions improved a few days later. Once the Allied air force was operational the Allied counter-offensive overwhelmed the German supply-lines, crippling the offensive and ensuring a German retreat.
Gameplay
Command Ops: Battle from the Bulge is an operational Command level wargame played through a pausable real-time game engine that puts the player in the shoes of a Corps, Division and Brigade commander as you examine your intelligence and operational information, make your plans and deliver your orders to your subordinates.
The game stretches over twenty seven scenarios and maps that cover events and battles from the original German offensive right through to the Allied counter-offensive. The game allows for endless re-playability with a number of changeable scenario options including multiple random reinforcement schedules.
Players have the choice to micromanage their units or utilise the game's AI to macro-manage their armies as the game's AI can manage subordinate commanders and handle micromanagement for you. This sophistication enables you more time to strategies and assess your situation and to formulate the best plans going forward to achieve your objectives and claim ultimate victory over your enemy. However, if micromanagement is your thing you can still issue orders to individual battalions (units). Units have a number of can be adjustable parameters, including aggressiveness, rates of fire, loss tolerance, frontage and depth, as well as eight different adjustable formations, from road column to arrowhead attack.
The menu of commands a player has at their disposal is simple enough for a player to get right into the action: move, fire, bombard, seize bridge crossings and so on. Set the objective and the waypoints, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Marine%20Board | The European Marine Board is a pan-European network of national organizations involved in marine research which are either research funding organizations (e.g. research councils or ministries), research performing organizations (e.g. national marine research institutes), or nationally based consortia of third-level institutes (e.g. university consortia). The European Marine Board (EMB) is the leading European think tank in marine science policy. The Board
provides a platform for its member organizations to develop common priorities, to advance marine research, and to bridge the gap between science and policy to meet future marine science challenges and opportunities.
Established in 1995, it is a partnership facilitating enhanced cooperation between European organizations involved in marine science towards development of a common vision on the research priorities and strategies for marine science in Europe. It also facilitates enhanced cooperation between stakeholders involved in supporting, delivering and using marine research and technology.
The European Marine Board was established in 1995 as an expert Board of the European Science Foundation (ESF). In 2016, the European Marine Board established its own legal organization as an international non-profit organisation under Belgian law, EMB-IVZW. Eight Founding Members signed the deed in the presence of a Notary Public at a dedicated founding meeting in Brussels on 20 January. EMB-IVZW became fully independent of ESF as of 1 January 2017.
The Secretariat of the European Marine Board is based at the InnovOcean site in the harbour of Ostend, Belgium, with office accommodation and support provided by the Flemish Government, through the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).
Objectives and Modes of Operation
Mission statement
The Marine Board provides a pan-European platform for its member organizations to develop common priorities, to advance marine research, and to bridge the gap between science and policy in order to meet future marine science challenges and opportunities.
Aim
The European Marine Board facilitates enhanced cooperation between European marine science organizations (research performing and research funding organizations) towards the development of a common vision on the research priorities and strategies for marine science in Europe. The European Marine Board provides the essential components for transferring knowledge from the scientific community to decision makers, promoting Europe's leadership in marine research and technology. Adopting a strategic role, the European Marine Board serves its member organizations by providing a forum within which marine research policy advice to national agencies and to the European Commission is developed, with the objective of promoting the establishment of the European Research Area for marine research.
Activities and Instruments
1. Production of strategic publications on marine science issues:
Position papers
Policy Briefs
Future Science B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golub%20%28surname%29 | Golub is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Golub (1950–2000), an American pianist
Gene H. Golub (1932–2007), mathematician and computer scientist
Harvey Golub (1939–), former chief executive officer of American Express
Jeff Golub (1955–2015), American jazz guitarist
Leon Golub (1922–2004), an American artist
Todd Golub, a Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School
Irina Golub (1980–), ballerina with the Mariinsky Ballet
Ivan Golub (born January 10, 1989) a Ukrainian professional boxer
See also
Slavic-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-informed%20decision-making | Data-informed decision-making (DIDM) gives reference to the collection and analysis of data to guide decisions that improve success. Another form of this process is referred to as data-driven decision-making, "which is defined similarly as making decisions based on hard data as opposed to intuition, observation, or guesswork." DIDM is used in education communities (where data is used with the goal of helping students and improving curricula) and is also used in other fields in which data is used to inform decisions. While "data based decision-making" is a more common term, "data-informed decision-making" is the preferred term, since decisions should not be based solely on quantitative data. Data-driven decision-making is commonly used in the context of business growth and entrepreneurship. Many educators have access to data system for analyzing student data. These data systems present data to educators in an over-the-counter data format (embedding labels, supplemental documentation, and a help system, making key package/display and content decisions) to improve the success of educators' data-informed decision-making. In business, fostering and actively supporting data-driven decision-making in their firm and among their colleagues may be one of the central responsibilities of CIOs (Chief Information Officers) or CDOs (Chief Data Officers).
Assessment in higher education is a form of data-driven decision-making aimed at using evidence of what students learn to improve curriculum, student learning, and teaching. Standardized tests, grades, and student work scored by rubrics are forms of student learning outcomes assessment. Formative assessments, specifically, allow educators to use the data from student performances more immediately in modifying teaching and learning strategies. There are numerous organizations aimed at promoting the assessment of student learning through DIDM including the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, the Association for the Assessment of Student Learning in Higher Education, and, to an extent, the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
References
Data analysis
Standards-based education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraGo | TerraGo is a private company based in Sterling, Virginia with offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and the UK that develops location intelligence, geospatial collaboration, GIS applications, GPS data collection software. Founded in 2005, TerraGo is an In-Q-Tel portfolio company. In 2012, TerraGo acquired fellow In-Q-Tel portfolio company Geosemble. Aside from being an In-Q-Tel portfolio company, TerraGo is notable in part for pioneering the patented technology, related standards and best practices upon which GeoPDF and geospatial PDF are based and programs related thereto.
US National Map
TerraGo is the platform used by the USGS to deliver the US Topo Quadrangles over the web. The platform is based on a combination of software from multiple vendors, including Esri, TerraGo and others. The maps are delivered as GeoPDF products, which can be consumed by any PDF consuming software, including Adobe Reader.
US Army Geospatial Center
The US Army Geospatial Center distributes a wide variety of products, including USGS topos, and a variety of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency maps as GeoPDF maps. Raymond Caputo won the USGIF Geospatial Intelligence Achievement Award in 2008 for his work on the AGC's GeoPDF project, with the citation "This project has been instrumental in getting geospatial information out of the hands of GIS/mapping professionals and into the hands of anyone and everyone who can benefit from its use within the DoD and other sectors in and out of government."
References
External links
TerraGo homepage
US7562289
AGC GeoPDF Gallery
GIS User Article on TerraGo Lightweight GIS Applications
Earth Imaging Journal Article, Gaining True ROI on Geospatial Tech Investments, April 1, 2015
Consumer Electronics Article on CM-Accuracy on Smartphone with TerraGo Edge
American Surveyor
GIS companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Television%20Network | Eastern Television Network (ETN TV) is a Somali private television channel.
Overview
ETN was founded in 2005. Along with the Somali Broadcasting Corporation, it is one of two stations with headquarters in Bosaso, the commercial capital of the northeastern Puntland region of Somalia.
The channel also has a branch in Garowe.
Programs
Eastern Television Network airs programs six hours per day.
Its broadcast schedule includes news, cultural, music and sports programming, as well as advertisements.
Management
The station is owned by Abdirahman Sheikh.
It has a staff of 17 employees.
See also
Media of Somalia
Somali National Television
Horn Cable Television
Somaliland National TV
Shabelle Media Network
Universal Television (Somalia)
References
Television channels in Somalia
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transshipment%20%28information%20security%29 | In information security, transshipment is a technique for protecting software services and applications by ensuring they only receive data that they are known to be able to handle safely. The term is analogous to that in the logistics industry where cargo is offloaded from one means of transport and on to another at a port of entry. With transshipment, information is extracted from the data used to send it and then encoded as data that can be handled safely.
Method
With transshipment, messages are intercepted and the business information they carry is extracted. This information is then encoded in a new message using a data format that the receiving application can safely handle.
Example
For example, an email client may be known to handle messages with a simple structure without failure but not the full generality allowed by the standards. Transshipment can then be used to protect the mail client from attackers who can exploit weaknesses in its ability to handle the general case. The transshipment process extracts the business information in the email messages and creates a new message that conveys the same information but using simple structures. So the mail client is protected without knowing details of any weaknesses in its implementation.
Implementation
The transshipment function must handle any and all data sent to it by potential attackers. To be useful the function must be implemented without it being vulnerable to attack. This can be achieved by using Guard technology that separates the implementation into three parts - a destination proxy that interacts with the message originator and extracts the business information from messages, a verifier and a source proxy that creates a new message to carry the business information and interacts with the message recipient. The verifier's role is to ensure that the source proxy is only presented with the business information using the simple data format it is expecting. As a result, the attack surface is limited to the verifier's interface and that part of the source proxy's interface which is visible through the verifier.
Advantages
Unlike antivirus software the use of transshipment defends against unknown attacks, and hence zero-day attacks, and does not require routine updates to signatures or Heuristics.
References
Data security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Illinois%20Department%20of%20Computer%20Science | The University of Illinois Department of Computer Science is the academic department encompassing the discipline of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. According to U.S. News & World Report, both its undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top five among American universities, and according to Computer Science Open Rankings, the department ranks equally high in placing Ph.D. students in tenure-track positions at top universities and winning best paper awards. The department also ranks in the top two among all universities for faculty submissions to reputable journals and academic conferences, as determined by CSRankings.org. From before its official founding in 1964 to today, the department's faculty members and alumni have contributed to projects including the ORDVAC, PLATO, Mosaic (web browser), JavaScript and LLVM, and have founded companies including Siebel Systems, Netscape, Mozilla, PayPal, Yelp, YouTube, and Malwarebytes.
History
In 1949, the University of Illinois created the Digital Computer Laboratory following the joint funding between the university and the U.S. Army to create the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I computers under the direction of physicist Ralph Meagher. The ORDVAC and ILLIAC computers the two earliest von-Neumann architecture machines to be constructed. Once completed in 1952, the ILLIAC I inspired machines such as the MISTIC, MUSASINO-1, SILLIAC, and CYCLONE, as well as providing the impetus for the university to continue its research in computing through the ILLIAC II project. Yet despite such advances in high-performance computing, faculty at the Digital Computer Laboratory continued to conduct research in other fields of computing as well, such as in Human-Computer Interaction through the PLATO project, the first computer music (the ILLIAC Suite), computational numerical methods through the work of Donald B. Gillies, and James E. Robertson, the 'R' co-inventor of the SRT division algorithm, to name a few. Given this explosion in research in computing, in 1964, the University of Illinois reorganized the Digital Computer Laboratory into the Department of Computer Science, and by 1967, the department awarded its first PhD and master's degrees in Computer Science. In 1982, UIUC physicist Larry Smarr wrote a blistering critique of America's supercomputing resources, and as a result the National Science Foundation established the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1985. NCSA was one of the first places in industry or academia to develop software for the 3 major operating systems at the time – Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. NCSA in 1986 released NCSA Telnet and in 1993 it released the Mosaic web browser. In 2004, the Department of Computer Science moved out of the Digital Computer Laboratory building into the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science following a gift from alumnus Thomas Siebel.
Degrees and programs
Undergraduate
The department offers 14 undergraduate degree program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallows%20Parade | Swallows Parade was an Australian radio and television series. The radio version was broadcast by Melbourne station 3DB in the 1950s, and was also heard on other Major Broadcasting Network stations on a Thursday evening, with auditions being held on Tuesdays. It was presented in front of a live audience from various towns and cities with Major Network outlets.
Television series
The television version was hosted by Doug Elliot and telecast on Melbourne station HSV-7 (early Australian series often aired on a single station as opposed to being networked), and is described as being a talent show, and is notable as one of the first such shows produced for Australian television.
It aired at 8:30PM on Saturdays during 1957. During this period, the same station broadcast another, longer-lived talent show, titled Stairway to the Stars, which ran from 1956 to 1958.
Although HSV-7 was likely making at least some use of kinescope recording by 1957 (it being the method used to record live television prior to the introduction of video-tape to Australia), it is not known if any such recordings of exist of Swallows Parade or Stairway to the Stars. A later Swallow's-sponsored talent contest, a special from 1959 that was hosted by Bert Newton, exists as a 16mm kinescope recording.
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
1957 Australian television series debuts
1957 Australian television series endings
Australian variety television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Television series based on radio series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save%20Me%2C%20Save%20Me | "Save Me, Save Me" is a song written by Barry Gibb and Albhy Galuten in 1977. It was recorded by the group Network from New York City. The flipside was "Not Love at All". This song is the first track credited to Gibb and Galuten. George Bitzer was hired to play synthesizers and keyboards and he later worked with Barry and Andy Gibb. It was recorded in Criteria Studios, Miami around April 1977, same session as Samantha Sang recorded her well-known hit "Emotion". The song was issued in Netherlands and the B-side was "Holly". John Vinci on vocals Richie Cerniglia as "Richie C" on guitar Mike Maniscalco as "Mike Coxton" on keyboardHowie Blume as "Howard Davidson" on bass Butch Poveromo as "Jean Paul Gaspar" on percussion, Mike Ricciardella — drums and George Bitzer on keyboard, synthesizer.
Cover versions
Frankie Valli recorded this song as a follow-up to "Grease" also written by Barry. It appeared on his album Frankie Valli... Is the Word. According to Billboard, Valli's vocal performance generates similar enthusiasm as his performance of "Grease." Record World said that "It has a bit of Bee Gees' flavor with Valli's vocals set off perfectly by Bob Gaudio's production."
Teri DeSario covered this track and released on the album Pleasure Train (1978), along with "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" also written by Barry
Rare Earth recorded this song after they recorded "Warm Ride" credited to Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb.
Dusty Springfield covered "Save Me, Save Me" for Living Without Your Love.
References
1977 songs
1977 singles
Songs written by Barry Gibb
Song recordings produced by Barry Gibb
Disco songs
Funk songs
Epic Records singles
Song recordings produced by Albhy Galuten
Songs written by Albhy Galuten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exp4j | exp4j is a small Java library for evaluation of mathematical expressions. It implements Dijkstra's Shunting-yard algorithm to translate expressions from infix notation to Reverse Polish notation and calculates the result using a simple Stack algorithm.
Features
Variables can be used in expressions
exp4j comes with a set of common built-in functions
Users can create and use their own custom operators
Users can create and use their own custom functions
License terms
exp4j is released under the terms of the Apache License 2.0
Examples of usage
Calculating the result of
can be done in the following way:
Expression e = new ExpressionBuilder("3 * (sin(pi) - 2 )/ e")
.variables("pi", "e")
.build()
.setVariable("pi", Math.PI)
.setVariable("e", Math.E);
double result = e.evaluate();
See also
mXparser - Mathematical Expressions Parser / Evaluator
References
Java (programming language) libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20Metro%20Line%202 | Santiago Metro Line 2 is one of the seven rapid transit lines that currently make up the Santiago Metro network in Santiago, Chile. It has 22 stations and of track. The line intersects with Line 1 at Los Héroes, with the Line 3 at Puente Cal y Canto, with Line 4A at La Cisterna, with Line 5 at Santa Ana, and Line 6 at Franklin. It will also intersect with the future Line 7 and Line 9 at Puente Cal y Canto. Its distinctive colour on the network line map is banana yellow.
In 2015, Line 2 accounted for 18.8% of all trips made on the metro with a daily ridership of 325,400.
History
The first section on Line 2 opened to the public on March 31, 1978 running between Los Héroes and Franklin. Later the same year, in December, the next section opened running between Franklin and Lo Ovalle.
Plans for an extension southeast towards Rodrigo de Araya were postponed after a major earthquake in 1985; in fact, only two stations opened separately at the line's northern end in 1987 (Santa Ana and Puente Cal y Canto). Two decades later, with a change of plans, it was decided that Line 2 would continue northwards instead of southeast, owing to recent availability of Tunnel Boring Machines, and on September 8, 2004, two further stations opened to the north, Patronato and Cerro Blanco. These stations marked a new feat in Santiago and overall Chilean engineering by building under the Mapocho River and the Costanera Norte freeway. That year, the line was also extended to the south with the opening of El Parrón and La Cisterna.
Another section opened in the north on November 25, 2005, running from Cerro Blanco station to Einstein station. Finally, on December 22, 2006, the three most recent stations opened: Vespucio Norte, Zapadores and Dorsal.
On October 26, 2009, the express service began to run on Line 2, stopping at certain stations only at peak times, allowing for faster journeys.
On November 2, 2017, line 6 opened to the public, intersecting line 2 with line 6 at Franklin.
On July 30, 2019, the construction of a southward extension began, where 4 new stations will be added; the extension will be operational by 2023, enabling the metro to serve El Bosque and San Bernando, specifically the El Pino hospital in the latter.
In October 2019, a series of protests resulted in damage to the metro network. Line 2 was closed because of a fire in the mezzanine of Vespucio Norte on October 18, which resulted in moderate damage; a few other stations on Line 2 suffered minor damage. Service on the line was partly restored on October 25 with trains running express between La Cisterna and Zapadores. Full service was restored to Line 2 on November 11. The protests didn't affect the works on the southward extension to San Bernardo.
Communes served by Line 2
This line serves the following communes from North to South:
Huechuraba (Indirectly)
Recoleta
Independencia
Santiago
San Miguel
La Cisterna
El Bosque (2023)
San Bernardo (2023)
Tren Expreso (Express Service) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet%20%26%20Clank%20%28film%29 | Ratchet & Clank is a 2016 computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and distributed by Gramercy Pictures. Based on Insomniac Games' video game series of the same name, the film was directed by Kevin Munroe, co-directed by Jericca Cleland, and stars the voices of Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, Bella Thorne, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Tong, Andrew Cownden and Sylvester Stallone. James Arnold Taylor and David Kaye reprise their roles as the titular characters alongside Jim Ward and Armin Shimerman as their respective characters.
The film features an original story, loosely based on the 2002 video game (with additional elements from the sequels), written by Munroe, Gerry Swallow, and former Insomniac senior writer T.J. Fixman, who began writing for the series with the Ratchet & Clank Future trilogy. Alongside several cast members from the games, Insomniac contributed to the film's production with character development, screenplay, and animation assets.
Released on April 29, 2016, the film received mostly negative reviews and grossed $14 million worldwide on a $20 million budget. It was the first and only animated film from Gramercy Pictures, as the label was quietly discontinued shortly thereafter.
Plot
In the Solana Galaxy, Chairman Drek and his people, the Blarg, are systemically dismantling multiple planets to extract desirable material for the construction of an artificial planet, New Quartu. The Blarg need this new world as their home, Quartu, has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution. The destruction attracts the attention of the peacekeeping Galactic Rangers. At a factory that produces Drek's warbots on Quartu, a defective robot is produced due to a black-out, and flies to Kerwan to inform the Rangers of Drek's plan. After getting shot down, he encounters a young lombax spaceship mechanic named Ratchet on the planet Veldin. Ratchet names him Clank, and the two fly to Kerwan, where they save the Rangers from Drek's army of warbots. Their actions gain both Ratchet and Clank immense popularity, which pressures the commander of the Rangers, Captain Qwark, to name them honorary Rangers.
Qwark, jealous of Ratchet and Clank's acclaim, is approached by Drek to help him, an offer he accepts so long as Drek never harms the other Rangers. Drek has him disable the Rangers' weapons during an assault on his planet-destroying superweapon, the Deplanetizer. Drek's lieutenant, Victor Von Ion, boards the Rangers' flagship and attacks Clank, who manages to reduce him to a rusty wreck using a rainstorm-producing weapon. After Drek breaks apart the planet Novalis, his chief scientist, Doctor Nefarious (who orchestrated Qwark's betrayal), suddenly fires a sheep transforming gun at Drek, stuffs him in an escape pod and ejects him to New Quartu. He takes control of the Deplanetizer, intending to destroy the entire Solana Galaxy in revenge for Qwark's mistreatment of him when he was a Ranger. His plan is to destroy the planet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus%20Gross | Markus Gross (born June 14, 1963, Saarland, Germany) is a Professor of Computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH), head of its Computer Graphics Laboratory, and the director of Disney Research, Zurich. His research interests include physically based modeling, computer animation, immersive displays, and video technology. He has published more than 430 scientific papers on algorithms and methods in the field of computer graphics and computer vision, and holds more than 30 patents. He has graduated more than 60 Ph.D. students.
Education and academic career
Gross received a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Graphics and Image Analysis, both from Saarland University in Germany in 1986 and 1989. From 1990 to 1994, he was a research scientist at the Computer Graphics Center of the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt from where he received his habilitation in 1995. In 1994, he joined the computer science faculty at ETH Zurich and founded the Computer Graphics Laboratory. From 2004 to 2008 he served as a director of the Institute of Computational Sciences at ETH. Since 2008, he is the director of Disney Research in Zurich, one of three worldwide research laboratories of the Walt Disney Company.
Gross has served on papers committees of the major graphics conferences multiple times, including ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, Pacific Graphics, and others. In 2005 he became the first European papers chair of ACM SIGGRAPH. In addition, he has been the co-organizer of various international symposia. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of various journals and was associate editor of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications.
Disney Research Zurich
In 2008 Gross was appointed Director of Disney Research Zurich, one of the six research laboratories worldwide that was launched by The Walt Disney Company.
Research applications
Gross' research has been successfully adopted in the film industry and led to the establishment of multiple companies and the creation of software platforms.
The “Wavelet-Turbulence software” for which he received the “Tech-Oscar” from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has become the standard procedure for animated smoke and explosions effects within a few years; it was employed in more than 20 Hollywood productions, such as “Avatar,” “Kung Fu Panda,” “Monsters vs. Aliens,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “Iron Man 3”, “Man of Steel,” “Battleship” and others.
His work on physically-based modeling for facial surgery simulation (FACE Project) eventually led to the spin-off company Cyfex founded in 2000.
In 2002 he co-founded Novodex, a company focusing on middleware for physics modeling in computer games. The firm was chosen by Ageia as a software platform to support their upcoming PhysX PPU card, which became the basis of the PhysX SDK 2. x series. Aegia acquired Novodex in 2004, and Gross b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Turismo%206 | Gran Turismo 6 is a 2013 racing simulation game developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the sixth main installment and the eleventh overall in the Gran Turismo series. It was released worldwide on December 6, 2013. It was met with positive reception and was a financial success. New features included the addition of more cars and tracks, improvements to the car customisation options, and partnerships with the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Ayrton Senna Institute, the FIA and NASCAR. Gran Turismo 6 is the first game to feature officially FIA-certified content.
Development
In November 2011, the Gran Turismo series' creator, Kazunori Yamauchi, said that he and his team at Polyphony Digital were working on Gran Turismo 6. In March 2012, employees were seen on site at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, photographing and scanning the track. They revealed that Mount Panorama would be included in Gran Turismo 6, making it the first Australian race track to be featured in the series.
In February 2013, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s senior vice president Michael Denny claimed that Gran Turismo 6 would remain a PlayStation 3 title, despite the unveiling of the PlayStation 4.
Gran Turismo 6 was announced on May 15, 2013, when Sony Computer Entertainment Europe hosted a celebration of the 15th anniversary of Gran Turismo at Silverstone Circuit in the United Kingdom. Kazunori Yamauchi said at the official announcement that Gran Turismo 6 would feature 71 layouts of 33 tracks, 1200 cars, a more flexible rendering engine that features adaptive tessellation, and a more simplistic user interface with faster loading times. An early build of Gran Turismo 6's updated physics was shown to the public when GT Academy 2013 was released on the PlayStation Store on July 2 the same year.
The developers announced that the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb course would be included on the game. The 1.16 mile strip of road that runs through the grounds of the Earl of March's family home hosts the annual Festival of Speed, where a variety of cars from throughout motorsport and the automobile industry as a whole try to set the best time they can along the narrow course. This gave the game developers the idea to base a track here due to the wide variety of vehicles that use the hill climb in front of 185,000 spectators. Yamauchi said, "I have always been a huge admirer of the Festival of Speed and what Lord March has achieved, I love the incredible range of cars on display – from the priceless, rare and exotic, to the latest family hatchbacks and full on racing cars – I love the challenge of the Hill Climb and the rally stage. Goodwood represents every type of motoring and motor sport which very much mirrors what we aim to achieve with Gran Turismo and so it is very special that we have forged this partnership. There will be no better feedback than that provided by the Goodwood fans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohri%20Junction%20railway%20station | Rohri Junction Railway Station (, ) is located in Rohri, Sukkur district of Sindh province, Pakistan. It is a major railway station on the Pakistan Railways network, serving as the junction between the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line and Rohri-Chaman Railway Line. The station serves as a stop of all express trains. The station is staffed and has advance and current reservation offices. Food stalls are also located on its platforms. The land of the station is taken on lease for 100 years from Nawab Mir Yakoob Ali Shah.
Train routes
The routes are Rohri from linked to Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Jhang, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Khanewal, Nawabshah, Larkana, Sibi, Attock and Nowshera
Services
The following trains stop at Rohri Junction station:
Workshop
A railway workshop is located near the station, which is locally known as Loco Shed. It is used to clean carriages of the railway, maintenance of engines, and related work.
See also
List of railway stations in Pakistan
Pakistan Railways
References
Railway stations in Sukkur District
Railway stations on Rohri–Chaman Railway Line
Railway stations on Karachi–Peshawar Line (ML 1)
Railway stations in Sindh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation%20%28cognitive%20psychology%29 | Percolation (from the Latin word percolatio, meaning filtration) is a theoretical model used to understand the way activation and diffusion of neural activity occurs within neural networks. Percolation is a model used to explain how neural activity is transmitted across the various connections within the brain. Percolation theory can be easily understood by explaining its use in epidemiology. Individuals whom are infected with a disease can spread the disease through contact with others in their social network. Those who are more social and come into contact with more people will help to propagate the disease quicker than those who are less social. Factors such as occupation and sociability influence the rate of infection. Now, if one were to think of neurons as individuals and synaptic connections as the social bonds between people, then one can determine how easily messages between neurons will spread. When a neuron fires, the message is transmitted along all synaptic connections to other neurons until it can no longer continue. Synaptic connections are considered either open or closed (like a social or unsocial person) and messages will flow along any and all open connections until they can go no further. Just like occupation and sociability play a key role in the spread of disease, so too do the number of neurons, synaptic plasticity and long-term potentiation when talking about neural percolation.
Percolating cluster
A key aspect of percolation is the concept of percolating clusters, which are single large groups of neurons that are all connected by open bonds and take up the majority of the network. Any signals that originate at any point within the percolating cluster will have a greater impact and diffusion across the network than signals that originate outside of the cluster. This is similar to a teacher spreading an infection to a whole community through contact with the students and subsequently with the families than an isolated businessman that works from home.
History and background
Percolation theory was originally purposed by Broadbent and Hammersley as a mathematical theory for determining the flow of fluids through porous material. An example of this is the question originally purposed by Broadbent and Hammersley: "suppose a large porous rock is submerged under water for a long time, will the water reach the center of the stone?". Since its founding, percolation theory has been used in both applied fields and mathematical modeling, areas such as engineering, physics, chemistry, communications, economics, mathematics, medicine and geography. From a mathematical perspective, percolation is uniquely able to exhibit both algebraic and probabilistic relationships graphically. In network and cognitive sciences, percolation theory is often used as a computational model that has the benefit of testing theories on neural activity before any physical testing is necessary. It can also be used as a model to explain experimental observati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh%20rat | The Aceh rat (Rattus blangorum) is a species of rodent from the family Muridae. The Aceh rat is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List because only two specimens have ever been recorded, and little is known about the species. The species was first regarded as its own species and then as a subspecies of the Malayan field rat (Rattus tiomanicus), but was once again considered distinct due to its small body size.
The Aceh rat is native to Indonesia, known only in the type locality of Blangnanga Base Camp in the Aceh foothills of Gunung Leuser National Park at . It is believed that the Aceh rat prefers lowland forests.
See also
Malayan field rat
References
Rattus
Mammals described in 1942 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Fedor%20%28director%29 | Paul Fedor is an American music video director and visual effects designer.
Fedor studied illustration at the Parsons School of Design and has been a part of the computer graphics industry since 1994. He directed music videos and commercials.
He is the founder of the production company Natural Selection.
He has authored one book, "Essence: The Face" by Ballistic Publishing. "The Face" was the first book on modern texturing and look development of CG Humans and Digi-Doubles for Video Games, TV, and Film.
Filmography
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
2012 (2009)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
Unstoppable (2010)
The Next Three Days (2010)
All Good Things (2010)
Immortals (2011)
The Devil Inside (2012)
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Mockingbird Lane (2012)
Pacific Rim (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Divergent (2014)
Godzilla (2014)
Game of Thrones (2014)
Furious 7 (2015)
San Andreas (2015)
Pan (2015)
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Sleepy Hollow (2017)
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Siren (2018)
Shadow and Bone (2021)
Moonfall (2022)
The Batman (2022)
Stranger Things (2022)
The Gray Man (2022)
Black Adam (2022)
Slumberland (2022)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
Videography
"Get Born Again", Alice in Chains (1999)
"Giving In", Adema (2001)
"The Nobodies", Marilyn Manson (2001)
"The Middle", Jimmy Eat World (2001)
"Youth of the Nation", P.O.D. (2001)
"Running Away", Hoobastank (2002)
"Fine Again", Seether (2002)
"Capricorn (A Brand New Name)", Thirty Seconds to Mars (2002)
"The Game of Love", Santana featuring Michelle Branch (2002)
"Fallen", Sarah McLachlan (2003)
"Minerva", Deftones (2003)
"Pain", Jimmy Eat World (2004)
"Worn Me Down", Rachael Yamagata (2004)
"World on Fire", Sarah McLachlan (2005)
"Attack", Thirty Seconds to Mars (2005)
"The Great Divide", Scott Stapp (2005)
"Boston", Augustana (2006)
"Lithium", Evanescence (2006)
"All Around Me", Flyleaf (2007)
References
External links
American music video directors
Visual effects supervisors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeasuringWorth | MeasuringWorth is a free online service to calculate relative economic value over time using price indexes. It has data sets, charts, and comparators for prices in several currencies and economic time series for stock markets and the price of gold. The site's comparisons over time were used in over 200 academic works each year in 2018 and 2019.
Services
MeasuringWorth.com has calculators offering measures of the price of gold since the year 1257, comparisons of the British pound sterling to the U.S. dollar since 1791, and other "comparators." Such conversions make implicit assumptions about opportunity costs, and how the potential buyers and sellers would have used their resources given the available alternatives. Therefore there are multiple comparators for the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Spain. The site also hosts essays and academic papers on the subject of long-term comparisons of economic value.
History
The site spun off from online comparators at EH.net, the Economic History Association's web site, which continues to host several of the relevant data sets. Economic historians founded the service in 2006 and since 2019 the site is owned by the not-for-profit MeasuringWorth Foundation.
See also
Price indexes
Purchasing power
Measuring economic worth over time
References
Economic history
History of money
Macroeconomic indicators
Internet properties established in 2006
2006 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Heart%20It | We Heart It is an image-based social network. We Heart It describes itself as "A home for your inspiration" and a place to "Organize and share the things you love." Users could in the past collect (or "heart") their favorite images to share with friends and organize into collections but this option no longer exists after they abruptly without warning deleted every users accounts. Users can access the site through We Heart It's iOS and Android mobile apps.
History
We Heart It was founded in 2008 by Fabio Giolito, a native of Brazil. He started the site as an alternative to the popular invite-only website FFFFOUND!, when he was unable to get an invitation. We Heart It was based around the idea of "hearting" photos and saving them for sharing with friends. What started as a tool for himself and friends, the product grew organically from there. When growth began to surge, Fabio brought on co-founder Bruno Zanchet to help focus on infrastructure. The two took on some seed funding and the site became an incorporated business in California in 2011.
Business
We Heart It was incorporated in the United States in 2011. Its headquarters are located in San Francisco and has a team of 25 employees.
As of June 2013, We Heart It raised $8 million in Series A funding from White Oak and IDG Ventures.
As of February 2014, We Heart It ranks 754 in Alexa's global traffic rank.
In May 2014, We Heart It rolled out mobile advertising in the app.
As of January 2016, We Heart It announced a video content partnership with Popular TV.
As of June 2016, We Heart It formed a strategic partnership with influencer marketing company The Blu Market, led by co-CEOs Steven Forkosh and Jonas Brothers singer Kevin Jonas, in hopes of attracting more users and advertisers.
We Heart It is no longer incorporated in the United States. It is now owned by Super Basic, LLC. It no longer has an office or any employees in San Francisco. In 2023 We Heart It removed the ability to upload photos from its app, only allowing users to download their previously collected images through the website.
Features
We Heart It is primarily a visual platform that supports still images and animated GIFs. In recent years, the platform has been updated to allow written posts, known as Articles. It has also introduced a Podcasts feature that includes listenable audio episodes of various podcasts.
It offers follow icons, live widgets, and share buttons for users who want to incorporate We Heart It on their website or blog.
We Heart It lacks features for commenting or "dislikes". As a result, users posting content will not potentially receive negative comments as they might on other social networks.
In December 2015, the companion app Easel was released. With Easel, users can create custom images with quotes, filters, and colors to share on We Heart It or other social media apps.
Since 2015, Weheartit has launched a Heartist program to award its top users. These 'Heartists' are leaders in creativ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Weatherhead | Christopher Weatherhead, also known by his alias Nerdo, is a British convict who was jailed for his involvement in several cyberattacks by Anonymous.
Anonymous
Weatherhead has been an active leader for Anonymous, a loose-knit group of "hacktivists". It was reported that Weatherhead hosted an election of Anonymous members to pick the group's next target.
Operation Payback
Weatherhead played a large role in Operation Payback, a series of cyberattacks conducted by Anonymous against various organizations because the hackers "did not agree with their views." In particular, Weatherhead was known for his work on Operation Avenge Assange, which was part of Operation Payback as a whole. Operation Avenge Assange focused on disrupting PayPal and other payment sites that despite transferring funds indiscriminately for other organisations, including neonazi organisations, would not process transfers to the Wau Holland Foundation, which raises funds for WikiLeaks, after attention shifted from companies involved in digital rights. Weatherhead reportedly was instrumental in bringing down PayPal for 10 days, resulting in £3.5million in losses for the company.
In January 2013, Weatherhead was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his part in the denial-of-service attacks on PayPal, Visa and MasterCard in December 2010. An officer involved in bringing in Weatherhead said that he was particularly easy to find because he had been using the nickname "Nerdo" for "quite some time".
References
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
Anonymous (hacker group) activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Northampton
Hacktivists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%20Global%20Environmental%20Model | The Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) is a global numerical weather prediction computer simulation run by the United States Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. This mathematical model is run four times a day and produces weather forecasts. Along with the NWS's Global Forecast System, which runs out to 16 days, the ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System (IFS) and the CMC's Global Environmental Multiscale Model (GEM), both of which run out 10 days, and the UK Met Office's Unified Model, which runs out to 7 days, it is one of five synoptic scale medium-range models in general use.
The NAVGEM became operational in February 2013, replacing the NOGAPS. It uses the same forecast range as the NOGAPS did (three-hour intervals out 180 hours) but also uses a refurbished dynamic core and improvements to the physics simulations compared to its predecessor.
References
Official Website: https://www.usno.navy.mil/FNMOC
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Naval meteorology
Numerical climate and weather models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20patents%20under%20Canadian%20patent%20law | Neither computers nor software are specifically mentioned in the Canadian Patent Act. Canadian courts have held that the use of a computer in an invention neither lends, nor reduces patentability. Therefore, that an invention involves a computer is not determinative of patentability; instead, whether a computer-using invention is patentable turns on whether that invention meets the general requirements for patentability as would apply to any invention.
Law
Substantive law
Computers, software, or related terms do not appear anywhere in the Patent Act. Therefore, as with any other invention, to be patentable a computer-using invention must meet the general requirements for patentability of any invention as found in the Act.
"Invention" is defined in Section 2 of the Patent Act as:
"[A]ny new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter".
So, any invention must be new and useful. Inventions must also be non-obvious as provided in section 28.3. Inventions must also fall into one of the five categories of patentable subject matter found in the definition of "invention" above.
The Patent Act has an additional prohibition in section 27(8) that "No patent shall be granted for any mere scientific principle or abstract theorem." This requirement, though it does not relate directly to software, has been found by the courts to limit the patentability of some computer-using inventions.
The above patentability requirements are general and apply to any invention. The case law and patent office practice determine how these general requirements are applied to patent applications for computer-using inventions.
Case law
Schlumberger Canada Ltd. v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents)
In 1981, the Federal Court of Appeal considered the question of the patentability of an invention that involved software in the case of Schlumberger. In Schlumberger, the applicant sought to patent a process for analysis of measurements from boreholes for oil and gas exploration. The application described a process where the measurements were processed by a computer for mathematical analysis and display to a human operator.
The court held, in the most often quoted passage of the decision, that the calculations involved in the present invention would, if done by a man, be "mathematical formulae and a series of purely mental operations". The court also found that a mathematical formula fell within the prohibition in the Patent Act against patents for scientific principles or abstract theorems. The court went on to find that "the fact that a computer is ... used to implement a discovery does not change the nature of that discovery." Therefore, the application was rejected as unpatentable for not falling within the definition of "invention" found in the Patent Act.
The holding in Schlumberger is that the use of a computer neither adds to, nor subtracts fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomondo | Endomondo was a social fitness network created by Endomondo LLC which allowed users to track their fitness and health statistics with a mobile application and website. Endomondo launched in 2007 with the goal of motivating people to lead healthier lives.
History
Endomondo started in Denmark in 2007 by Mette Lykke, Christian Birk and Jakob Nordenhof Jønck. In 2011, the company opened an office in Silicon Valley, USA, but kept its research and development department in Denmark. In 2013, Endomondo LLC was listed in Red Herring as a European finalists for promising start-ups. The same year, Christian Birk and Jakob Nordenhof Jønck left the daily operation of the company, but kept co-ownership.
In February 2015, Endomondo LLC was acquired by athletic apparel maker Under Armour for $85 million. Endomondo, at that time, had over 20 million users.
In October 2020, Under Armour announced that Endomondo would be shutting down and selling off MyFitnessPal to the private equity firm Francisco Partners for $345 million. Service stopped on 31 December 2020, giving customers until 15 February 2021 to download an archive of their historic data.
Features
Endomondo could track numerous fitness attributes such as running routes, distance, duration, and calories. The software could help analyze performance and recommend improvements.
There was a free and a paid version available of Endomondo. The free version had advertisements. The paid Premium version was free of advertisements and included additional features such as the possibility to create one's own training plan. The offering of additional features was different between the Android, IOS and Windows platforms, and had significantly better features for tracking performance over time than UnderArmours suggested replacement.
Endomondo offered challenges of various types to the user and allowed users to create their own challenges.
References
External links
GPS sports tracking applications
Mobile social software
American health websites
Fitness apps
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Windows Phone software
BlackBerry software
Web applications
2007 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Humanitarian%20Network | The Digital Humanitarian Network is a consortium allowing Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) to interface with humanitarian organizations that seek their services.
The Digital Humanitarian Network’s (DHNetwork) website was launched on April 9, 2012, by co-founders Andrej Verity from OCHA and Patrick Meier from iRevolution.
In late 2019, DHN noted the maturation of the ability of traditional relief organizations to use modern tools, and announced that they would no longer be activating crisis response teams.
Mission
The DHNetwork's purpose is to support humanitarian organizations in their disaster response efforts around the world.
The network consists of member Volunteer and Technical Communities (entities that manage networks of technically trained volunteers around the globe, who can be activated to backstop disaster response operations and produce information with limited turn over time). These groups have a range of skills from GIS mapping, crowdsourcing, and data analysis and collection, to volunteer management and process design.
The DHNetwork puts groups that have existed for years under one umbrella and provides a single outlet for traditional responders to access the organizations.
The DHNetwork also makes it simpler for organizations to define collaborative projects with the V&TCs.
History
The DHNetwork was created to coordinate action with a coordinator's group at its heart.
The network brings together multiple Volunteer and Technical Communities thereby increasing their visibility both among themselves and the traditional humanitarian community, and has defined an activation process between the VT&Cs and coordinators, so that traditional organizations can submit one request and rely on the DHNetwork to build a solution team with the relevant V&TC members.
Digital Humanitarian Network Coordinators
The DHNetwork is composed of several members who form Solution Teams when the network is activated. DHNetwork Coordinators review activation requests and liaise with the different volunteer & technical teams who are members of Digital Humanitarians to build a Solution Team best able to act on a request.
The Current Coordinators of the DHNetwork are Heather Milton, Evert Bopp, Oludontun Babayemi, and Hilary Nicole Zainab Ervin. They have picked up the baton from past Coordinators Justine Mackinnon, Helen Campbell, in 2014. In 2013, the team included Cat Graham from Humanity Road, Kate Chapman, from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, Luis Capelo who was a volunteer member of the StandBy Task Force and Willow Brugh from Geeks Without Bounds.
Previous activations
During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, members of online technology communities cooperated to gather, process and share crucial information resources to help aid agencies on the ground, without contributing to 'data noise', by focusing on the information needs of aid agencies and other responders. This collective action was recognised and legitimized after the Haiti earth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner%20Literarische%20Aktion | Berliner Literarische Aktion (Berlin Literary Action) is a literary organization based in Berlin.
History and functions
The association was founded in the year 2005 by a network of international literary activists (authors, translators, literary scholars and coordinators), chaired by the writer Martin Jankowski. The Berliner Literarische Aktion produces and disseminates different forms of literary presentation and performance, creates public platforms for German and international literature and supports international cultural exchange as well as cross-genre art productions.
The non-profit incorporated association maintains an office on a volunteer basis in Berlin.
Employees and partners develop new forms of literary events and create public spaces for the presentation of German and international contemporary literature with specially designed lectures, festivals, debates, performances, symposiums, charity events, art, etc. Multilingual events and the support of the two-way publication of translations encourage international cultural exchange in which theater, visual arts and music also play a role besides literature. In addition to public performances and exhibitions, own publications are also developed. As part of regular educational work, new recipient groups for literature are targeted (youth work, prison readings, etc.). Fundamental to this is the view that literature in the multimedia age more than ever possesses big social effects whose powers have to be developed actively.
Projects
The Berliner Literarische Aktion organizes regular literary salons in the city of Berlin (Literatursalon Karlshorst, Der Berliner Weltliteratursalon, Wahlverwandtschaften im Maschinenhaus, Literatursalon am Kollwitzplatz, Literatursalon Mitte), similar events have been organized in Italy and Indonesia.
Online literary Magazine Stadtsprachen, freely accessible to everyone, introduces and publishes Berlin's current multilingual contemporary literature. More than 167 international Berlin authors are presented there with altogether over 200 texts in 30 languages - also in German translation - and new ones are constantly being added.
The Berliner Literarische Aktion promotes cultural exchange and organizes various Literary Festivals that connect artists coming different languages, countries and artistic expressions.
Of international importance are the multi-lingual presentation forms of poetry slams, which are realized regularly with renowned partners (e.g. 2002-2010 "The international SLAM!Revue") at the international literature festival berlin. Also, the association's development of a new type of slam event the "Slam Revue" in 2002 has since found countless imitators worldwide. The program "Literature behind bars", which was initially developed only for prisons in Berlin and brings international authors in contact with detainees, also attracted interest and found imitators all over Europe. As a result, the Berliner Literarische Aktion participated in researc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20Resource%20Metadata%20Initiative | The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project led by Creative Commons (CC) and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) to establish a common vocabulary for describing learning resources.
External links
LRMI (official site)
LRMI (creativecommons.org)
Educational projects
Metadata
Creative Commons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20a%20Horse%21 | Get a Horse! is a 2013 American animated comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by Lauren MacMullan. Combining black-and-white hand-drawn animation and color computer animation, the short features the characters of the late 1920s Mickey Mouse cartoons.
The film features archival recordings of Walt Disney in his posthumous role as Mickey Mouse alongside Billy Bletcher as Peg Leg Pete and Marcellite Garner as Minnie Mouse. ("Goodbye, goodbye, little feller!" is an uncredited line by Jimmy MacDonald sourced from an archival recording.) Disney's voice is also heard as Minnie Mouse in one instance (crying out "Help! Help! Help!"), though he is uncredited in that role.
It is the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical animated short since Runaway Brain in 1995, and the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in a Disney animated production in 75 years.
Plot
Mickey Mouse walks from his house and spots Horace Horsecollar pulling a hay wagon with all his friends playing music. He hops on the wagon and helps up Minnie Mouse and Clarabelle Cow onto the wagon. Just then, Peg-Leg Pete shows up in his jalopy as his horn bellows in a high-pitched voice, "Make way for the future!". Pete spots Minnie and gives her a flirty gaze, only for Mickey to put Clarabelle in the gaze in Minnie's place, much to Pete's disgust and horror. Angry at being pranked, Pete kidnaps Minnie and rams his car into the wagon, sending Mickey and Horace flying toward the screen. Seeing Mickey and Horace bounce off the fabric, Pete hurls them even harder into the screen until they burst from their two-dimensional, black and white world to the three-dimensional, modern movie theater in full color. As Pete taunts Mickey from inside the screen and closes the hole in the screen, Mickey tries to get back into his world, pulling back the curtains to reveal a wider screen.
Horace then walks onto the stage wearing a Captain America T-shirt and sunglasses, as well as carrying items such as an iPhone, a box of Milk Duds, a soft drink, and a tub of popcorn. Mickey decides to use Horace as a mock biplane to fly around the theater and fire at Pete with the Milk Duds. When they crash-land onto the stage, Mickey immediately sees and finds the iPhone Horace brought onto the stage, so he calls Pete on his candlestick phone and Horace sprays foam from a fire extinguisher into the stolen phone and out from Pete's phone after he answers it.
Pete's car then lands in a frozen lake and the screen fills with water, giving Mickey the idea to poke a hole in the screen with his tail and let the water leak out, causing Pete, Minnie and the other cartoon animals to flood out onto the stage. Mickey and Minnie's reunion is short-lived, however, as Pete gives chase to the characters in and out of the screen until he grabs Minnie again, hits Mickey with his car onto a support beam and nails the screen shut. Horace and the others work together to swing from the beam and try to br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIXIR | ELIXIR (the European life-sciences infrastructure for biological information) is an initiative that allows life science laboratories across Europe to share and store their research data as part of an organised network. Its goal is to bring together Europe's research organisations and data centres to help coordinate the collection, quality control and storage of large amounts of biological data produced by life science experiments. ELIXIR aims to ensure that biological data is integrated into a federated system easily accessible by the scientific community.
Mission
ELIXIR's mission is to build a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to medicine and the environment, the bio-industries and society.
The results from biological experiments produce vast amounts of results that are stored as data using computer software. European countries have invested heavily in research that produces, analyses and stores biological information. However, the collection, storage, archiving and integration of these large amounts of data presents a problem that cannot be tackled by one country alone. ELIXIR represents the joining of independent bioscience facilities to create an integrated network that addresses the complex problem of biological data storage and management.
By providing a sustainable and distributed structure for handling data and data retrieval tools, ELIXIR hopes to secure Europe-wide investment in bioinformatics, providing the stability to conduct research in all areas of life science, both in academia and industry.
Organisation and structure
ELIXIR is an inter-governmental organisation which brings together existing bioinformatics resources. It is coordinated by the ELIXIR Hub, based alongside the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge.
The members of the ELIXIR consortium are European countries, represented by their governments and ministries; the scientific community in each member country develops their national Node, which operates the services and resources that are part of ELIXIR. Each ELIXIR Node is itself a network of national life science organisations, coordinated by a lead institute.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory is an intergovernmental organisation so it is the only Node that is not associated with a country.
ELIXIR focuses efforts around five central areas of activity, referred to as Platforms. These cover Data, Tools, Compute, Interoperability and Training. Work in these areas is intended to improve access to open data resources and tools by improving connectivity, discoverability and access to computational power, as well as developing training for users and service providers to meet these aims.
ELIXIR supports users addressing the Grand Challenges in life science research across diverse domains. ELIXIR supports a range of self-selected C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20forms | A mobile form is an electronic or digital form application that functions on a smartphone or tablet device. Mobile forms enable users to collect data using mobile devices, and then to send the results back to the source. Mobile forms exist to replace paper forms as a more productive means of data collection, eliminating the need to transcribe or scan paper data results into a back office system.
Depending on the mobile form application provider, some mobile form solutions allow offices to dispatch data to mobile form applications. In addition, other mobile form applications can be connected with various cloud services, servers, and social media platforms.
Depending on the business, the motivating factors to deploying mobile forms may vary. Some businesses implement mobile forms to speed up processes, while others institute mobile forms with field users to reduce costs associated with transporting paper forms back and forth. Furthermore, green-minded businesses implement mobile forms in order to be more environmentally friendly, thus reducing their reliance on paper, ink printing, and subsequent waste.
Advanced mobile form features include signature capture, bar code capture, photo capture, GPS location form info, time form info, and skip logic.
Location-based Mobile Forms
Location-based mobile forms are applications that associate a specific GPS location to the form data. Theses types of application fall into the category of data collection systems and are used by field personnel to collect data at precise locations in the field. Data collected with these applications is georeferenced and is can be transferred to geographic information systems for further data analysis. Location-based mobile forms act as a bridge between field personnel and geomatics specialists.
Uses for mobile forms include:
Safety inspections
Work orders
Expense reports
Inventory reports
Merchandise requisition
Invoicing
Environmental surveying
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal%20nexus | The dorsal nexus is an area within the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex that serves as an intersection point for multiple brain networks. Research suggests it plays a role in the maintenance and manipulation of information, as well as supporting the control of cognitive functions such as behavior, memory, and conflict resolution. Abnormally increased connectivity between these networks through the dorsal nexus has been associated with certain types of depression. The activity generated by this abnormally high level of connectivity during a depressive state can be identified through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET).
Anatomy and function
The brain's intrinsic connections are divided into different networks that enable communication between the different structures: The cognitive control network, or executive network (EN), the affective network or somatic network, and the default mode network. These regions are dependent on the dorsal nexus to communicate.
The EN is located in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and lateral parietal cortex, and is responsible for the maintenance and manipulation of the information in working memory. The EN also plays an important role as support of adaptive, goal-directed behaviors, which is why it is colloquially referred to as "the problem solver."
The affective (or salience) network includes connections between the limbic area and subcortical areas, and is important during fear and vigilance states, as well as for autonomic and visceral regulation. It also generates the somatic sensations that accompany emotions.
The default mode is most active when the brain is at rest, or when a person is communicating socially. Its activity decreases during the performance of cognitively demanding tasks.
Dorsal nexus and depression
Neuroimaging studies have shown that many neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders are associated with abnormalities in the functional connectivity of neural networks. MRIs indicate that the dorsal nexus is responsible for connecting these networks, and this might explain how symptoms of depression are influenced by the state of brain networks. The increased connectivity can produce symptoms of decreased focus and increased vigilance, which can present as paranoia, rumination or autonomic, visceral and emotional imbalance.
Subjects with depression were observed to have abnormal connectivity in the bilateral parahippocampal cortex, as well as an increase of hyperintensity of white matter. Increased default-mode network connectivity, mediated via a region of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, may underline the characteristics of depression. In this pathology, the dorsal nexus is strongly connected to the task-positive, task-negative and affective networks. The function of this node is to allow enhanced “cross-talk” between networks, and this may explain how the diverse symptoms seen in depression converge The dorsal nexus can be related to two differ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot%20%28TV%20network%29 | Pivot was an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by Participant Media that aired programming that focused on social issues and activism. The channel, targeted at young adults between 18 and 34 years old, debuted on August 1, 2013. The channel ceased operations on October 31, 2016.
History
In December 2012, Participant Media acquired Halogen TV and the Documentary Channel. On March 27, 2013, the launch of Pivot was announced, and was described as a "disruptive TV" service, focusing on social advocacy. The channel would take over the space held by the aforementioned channels, giving Pivot an initial subscriber base of about 40 million cable and satellite television homes. The channel launched on August 1 at 6 a.m. with a rendition of the song that launched MTV in 1981 (coincidentally, also on August 1), "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, by several indie music artists, followed by a brief introduction to Pivot by Participant Media founder Jeffrey Skoll, and the first program, the 2010 documentary ReGeneration.
With the launch, Pivot became the first television channel to offer broadband-only subscriptions that allows live streaming of the linear channel and video on demand offerings without requiring a subscription to a pay television service. It was later announced that NeuLion had been selected to design and deliver the new cable network's downloadable interactive app which allows Pivot's content to be delivered to multiple digital devices. It offered its entertainment programming, live and on-demand, to authenticated pay TV subscribers and broadband-only subscribers.
Closure
On August 17, 2016, Participant Media announced that the channel would cease broadcasting by early 2017, citing low ratings, small viewing audiences, and an overall shift away from television by Participant under current CEO David Linde; the channel's last day of operation was later confirmed to be on October 31. The channel officially left the air at 6 a.m. EDT that morning; the last programs to air on the network were five consecutive airings of the film Good Night, and Good Luck from 8 p.m. on the 30th onward until the closure (the film choice was likely a nod to the final words spoken on Pivot's half-predecessor, Documentary Channel). No signoff message was given at the end (other than a commercial thanking viewers for watching and telling them what they watch does make a difference, having been run over the last few weeks of the channel's broadcast, being shown as a split screen during the film's end credits); rather, the channel merely faded to black after the end of the film, shortly after replaced with a slide from the cable services notifying viewers of the closure, after which the channel spaces, originally occupied by The Documentary Channel and Halogen TV from 2006 and 2009 respectively until 2013, both folded and ceased to exist.
Programming
Programming seen on Pivot included original programs like HitRecord on TV, a va |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20%28TV%20network%29 | get ("great entertainment television") is an American digital multicast television network owned by the Sony Pictures Television Networks subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television. Originally known as getTV, the network was initially formatted as a movie-oriented service, and over time transitioned into a general entertainment network featuring primarily classic television shows from the 1960s through the 2000s.
The network is available in many media markets via the digital subchannels of broadcast television stations and on the digital tiers of select cable providers through a local affiliate of the network. It is also carried by several streaming services such as Philo and Amazon Freevee, and broadcasts in 480i standard definition.
History
Sony Pictures announced the formation of getTV on April 22, 2013; with an initial main focus on pre-1980s films, Sony scheduled the network's formal launch for that fall. On its website, the network had originally announced that it would launch in October 2013; the premiere date was later pushed back to February 3, 2014. getTV launched at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on that date, initially debuting on the subchannels of twelve Univision and fourteen UniMás stations owned and/or managed by Univision Communications; the inaugural program shown on the network was the 1957 comedy film Operation Mad Ball.
On May 2, 2016, getTV switched its programming format from a largely exclusive focus on movies to a general entertainment network featuring a mix of television series and feature films (with its film focus shifting more towards movies released after 1960, outside its core Saturday western block). With the addition of series to its weekday daytime schedule, the network separated these programs into three daily blocks, consisting of sitcoms during the early morning, Westerns during the mid- and late-morning, and action and crime drama series during the afternoon and prime access dayparts (programs of the latter genre were also incorporated into the network's early morning schedule, preceding the comedy block, in September 2016).
getTV started Christmas programming in 2015 with two days. In 2016, the programming event expanded to 29 days starting on November 27 and was then named "The Most Wonderful Month of the Year". The Most Wonderful Month event also featured the network's first original program, A Nashville Christmas music variety special, in 2017.
Separate from the network's broadcast affiliation agreements, on December 17, 2015, Sony Pictures Television announced that the satellite provider would begin carrying getTV nationally on channel 373, available at minimum to subscribers of its "America's Top 120" programming tier. As a result of the deal, in which the network was added as part of a renewed carriage agreement with Dish Network for sister networks Sony Movie Channel and Cine Sony Television, getTV became the first digital multicast network to be carried by Dish, which (as with other satellite and IPTV pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Fernando%20Rodilla | José Fernando Martínez Rodilla (born 3 March 1950 in Vigo, Galicia) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.
External links
National team data at BDFutbol
Celta de Vigo biography
1950 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Vigo
Men's association football forwards
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Tercera División players
RC Celta de Vigo players
UP Langreo footballers
Real Valladolid players
CE Sabadell FC footballers
CF Reus Deportiu players
Spain men's under-23 international footballers
Spain men's international footballers
Yeclano CF players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRC%20II%20Extreme | WRC II Extreme (also known as WRC 2002) is a 2002 off-road video game released for the PlayStation 2. The game was developed by Evolution Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
Gameplay
WRC II Extreme contains 115 stages across 15 different countries with officially licensed WRC cars that are available to the player. An action replay mode is made available which includes a wide range of camera angle shots. All 14 rallies from the official 2002 WRC calendar appear on the game.
21 drivers and 7 teams appear on the game. Although Citroën did not participate in a full season in 2002, they are featured on all events in the game and are therefore eligible to score team points in championship mode. Because Colin McRae had his own video game series at this time, Sony could not acquire the license for him to appear, so he was replaced on the game by François Duval.
Production
WRC II Extreme was developed by British-based Evolution Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The game was designed with a new physics model for the cars controlled by the player. This was developed with assistance for rally motorsport engineers. The geography of the tracks was modeled after satellite photography and DEM data to create a more realistic and accurate look for each rally stage. Audio samples from the engine noises are based on real-life WRC rally cars. The action replay mode editing was developed with the assistance of World Rally Championship broadcaster Chrysalis TV with the editing of the replay footage and GUI design. Each car is made from around 20,000 polygons, an increase from 8000 in the first game.
Reception
WRC II Extreme received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.
References
External links
2002 video games
Evolution Studios games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
World Rally Championship video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin%20Yu | Bin Yu () is a Chinese-American statistician. She is currently Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
Yu earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1984 from Peking University, and went on to pursue graduate studies in statistics at Berkeley, earning a master's degree in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1990. Her dissertation, Some Results on Empirical Processes and Stochastic Complexity, was jointly supervised by Lucien Le Cam and Terry Speed.
After postdoctoral studies at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and an assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she returned to Berkeley as a faculty member in 1993, was tenured in 1997, and became Chancellor's Professor in 2006. She also worked at Bell Labs from 1998 to 2000, while on leave from Berkeley, and has held visiting positions at several other universities. She chaired the Department of Statistics at Berkeley from 2009 to 2012, and was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2014. In 2023, she was awarded the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship.
Research
Yu's work leverages computational developments to solve scientific problems by combining statistical machine learning approaches with the domain expertise of many collaborators, spanning many fields including statistics, machine learning, neuroscience, genomics, and remote sensing. Her recent work has focused on solidifying a vision for data science, including a framework for veridical data science and a framework for interpretable machine learning. Yu has also developed a PCS (predictability, computability, and stability) framework for veridical data science to unify, streamline and expand on ideas and best practices of machine learning and statistics. Yu has received recent news coverage regarding her veridical data science framework, investigations into the theoretical foundations of deep learning, and work forecasting COVID-19 severity in the US.
Other research included research in the area of statistical machine learning methods/algorithms (and associated statistical inference problems) such as dictionary learning, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), EM and deep learning (CNNs and LSTMs), and heterogeneous effect estimation in randomized experiments (X-learner).
Honors and awards
Yu is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the IEEE, the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. In 2012, she was the Tukey Lecturer of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. In 2018, she was awarded the Elizabeth L. Scott Award. She was invited to give the Breiman lecture at NeurIPS 2019 (formally known as NIPS), on the topic of veridical data science.
References
External links
A conversation with Pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolie%20%28programming%20language%29 | Jolie (Java Orchestration Language Interpreter Engine) is an open-source programming language for developing distributed applications based on microservices. In the programming paradigm proposed with Jolie, each program is a service that can communicate with other programs by sending and receiving messages over a network. Jolie supports an abstraction layer that allows services to communicate using different mediums, ranging from TCP/IP sockets to local in-memory communications between processes.
Jolie is currently supported by an interpreter implemented in the Java language, which can be run in multiple operating systems including Linux-based operating systems, OS X, and Windows. The language comes with formal semantics, meaning that the execution of Jolie programs is mathematically defined. For this reason, Jolie is used in research for the investigation of language-based techniques for the development of distributed systems, and it is also used for teaching at some universities.
The Jolie open source project was started by Fabrizio Montesi in 2006, as part of his studies at the University of Bologna. The project initially began as an implementation of the SOCK process calculus, a formal model proposed by Claudio Guidi et al. at the University of Bologna inspired by the CCS process calculus and the WS-BPEL programming language. Jolie extends SOCK with support for, e.g., tree-like data structures (inspired by XML, but with a syntax resembling that of C and Java), message types, typed session programming, integration with Java and JavaScript, code mobility, application containment, and web programming. A complete list of the project contributors is available at.
The project is currently maintained by Fabrizio Montesi and its evolution is driven by Fabrizio Montesi and Claudio Guidi.
Since it supports the orchestration of web services, Jolie is an alternative to XML-based orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL as it offers a concise (C-like) syntax for accessing XML-like data structures.
References
External links
Programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava%20Jerome | Ava Jerome is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The role is portrayed by three-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Maura West, who made her first appearance on May 8, 2013.
Ava is part of the Jerome crime family; she is the only daughter of Victor Jerome (Jack Axelrod) and Ryan's Hopes Delia Ryan (Ilene Kristen), and the younger half-sister of Evan Jerome, Olivia St. John (Tonja Walker) and Julian Jerome (Jason Culp, William deVry). Introduced by executive producer Frank Valentini and created by head writer Ron Carlivati, Ava is introduced as the ex-lover of Robert "Franco" Frank (James Franco, Roger Howarth), and mother of his presumed daughter Lauren Katherine "Kiki" Jerome (Kristen Alderson, Hayley Erin), the missing heiress to the Quartermaine family fortune. An art dealer by day, in July 2013, Ava is revealed to be the previously unmentioned youngest child of the infamous Jerome crime family, introduced to the series in the late 1980s. Ava's attempt to use her daughter's faked paternity to get power at ELQ Industries is a part of her scheme with big brother, Julian Jerome to reclaim their family's territory from resident mob boss, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard).
West's performance has been met with critical acclaim, winning her the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2015.
Casting and creation
In early April, Jamey Giddens and Jillian Bowe of Daytime Confidential reported a rumor that the Daytime Emmy Award winner Maura West, best known for her role as Carly Snyder on As the World Turns was set to join the cast in a top secret role. On April 24, nearly two weeks after Confidential's original report, Soap Opera Digest and other soap opera media confirmed the news and revealed that West had joined the cast in the newly created role of Ava Jerome, and was slated to appear sometime in May. Soaps In Depth editor Richard M. Simms immediately speculated that the character shared a connection to the infamous '80s crime family, the Jerome family. West made her debut on May 8, 2013.
In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, West revealed that her agent, Mamie Sparer was contacted by General Hospital casting director, Mark Teschner who had her come in to meet with executive producer, Frank Valentini and that the meeting prompted her to sign on to appear as Ava. Of her role, West admitted the part was only scheduled as a five-day stint, however, was offered a contract before she even began work on the soap. In an interview with TV Guides Michael Logan, West was asked what made her take on the role of Ava. She admitted, "Next to nothing. You have to put your faith in people, which was hard because I'd never met [executive producer] Frank Valentini and [head writer] Ron Carlivati, but they are so fun, so infectious! But, then, Ava was not intended to hang around all that long."
When asked about the casting of West in the role, Valentini and Carlivati admitted they bot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2058%20%28Poland%29 | Droga krajowa nr 58 (translates from Polish as national road 58) – route belonging to Polish national roads network. It runs through Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeships, leading from junction with expressway S51 in Olsztynek through Szczytno, Ruciane-Nida, Pisz and Biała Piska to Szczuczyn where ends on crossing with road 61.
Towns along the route
Olsztynek (expressway S7, expressway S51)
Zgniłocha
Jedwabno
Szczytno (national road 53, national road 57)
Babięta
Stare Kiełbonki (national road 59)
Zgon
Ruciane-Nida
Pisz (national road 63)
Biała Piska
Szczuczyn (national road 61)
58 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Rexford | Jennifer Rexford is an American computer scientist who is currently the Provost, Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and formerly the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Her research focuses on analysis of computer networks, and in particular network routing, performance measurement, and network management.
Life and career
Rexford did her undergraduate studies at Princeton, earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1991, and then moved to the University of Michigan for graduate studies in computer science and engineering, earning a master's degree in 1993 and a doctorate in 1996. Her thesis, titled "Tailoring router architectures to performance requirements in cut-through networks", was supervised by Kang G. Shin. She worked at Bell Labs for two summers as a graduate student, and then returned to what had since become AT&T Labs, working there from 1996 to 2005, when she joined the Princeton faculty.
Rexford won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (the award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution at or before age 35) in 2005, for her work on introducing network routing subject to the different business interests of the operators of different subnetworks into Border Gateway Protocol. In 2016, Rexford was named the recipient of the ACM Athena Lecturer award, which recognizes women who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. She became a fellow of the ACM in 2008, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Rexford was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for contributions to the operational stability of large computer networks. She was also elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
See also
Frenetic (programming language)
References
External links
Home page at Princeton
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Princeton University alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Princeton University faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Place of birth missing (living people)
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal%20inferential%20reasoning | In statistics education, informal inferential reasoning (also called informal inference) refers to the process of making a generalization based on data (samples) about a wider universe (population/process) while taking into account uncertainty without using the formal statistical procedure or methods (e.g. P-values, t-test, hypothesis testing, significance test).
Like formal statistical inference, the purpose of informal inferential reasoning is to draw conclusions about a wider universe (population/process) from data (sample). However, in contrast with formal statistical inference, formal statistical procedure or methods are not necessarily used.
In statistics education literature, the term "informal" is used to distinguish informal inferential reasoning from a formal method of statistical inference.
Informal Inferential Reasoning and Statistical Inference
Since everyday life involves making decisions based on data, making inferences is an important skill to have. However, a number of studies on assessments of students’ understanding statistical inference suggest that students have difficulties in reasoning about inference.
Given the importance of reasoning about statistical inference and difficulties that students have with this type of reasoning, statistics educators and researchers have been exploring alternative approaches towards teaching statistical inference. Recent research suggests that students have some sound intuitions about data and these intuitions can be refined and nudged towards prescriptive theory of inferential reasoning. More of an informal and conceptual approach that build on the previous big ideas and make connection between foundational concepts is therefore favorable.
Recently, informal inferential reasoning has been the focus of research and discussion among researchers and educators in statistics education as it is seen as having a potential to help build fundamental concepts that underlie formal statistical inference. Many advocate that underlying concepts and skills of inference should be introduced early in the course or curriculum as they can help make the formal statistical inference more accessible (see published reaction of Garfield & Zieffler to).
Three essential characteristics
According to Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy forum, three essential principles to informal inference are:
generalizations (including predictions, parameter estimates, and conclusions) that go beyond describing the given data;
the use of data as evidence for those generalizations; and
conclusions that express a degree of uncertainty, whether or not quantified, accounting for the variability or uncertainty that is unavoidable when generalizing beyond the immediate data to a population or a process.
Core Statistical Ideas
Informal inferential reasoning involved the following related ideas
Properties of aggregates. This includes the ideas of distributions, signal (a stable component of population/process such as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Kentucky%20Derby | The 139th running of the Kentucky Derby commenced at 6:33 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on May 4, 2013, at Churchill Downs. The race was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. The favorite, Orb, won a purse of $1.4 million with a final time of 2:02.89, with Golden Soul finishing second and Revolutionary placing third.
The attendance for the race was 151,616. Security was increased in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings; coolers and large purses were banned.
Qualification
For the first time, the colts making the field in the Kentucky Derby qualified under a new points system. In years past, colts qualified based on graded stakes earnings. A total of thirty-six races, with the first coming last year, gave Derby starters an opportunity to accumulate points towards an entry into the race. Twenty horses qualified for the Kentucky Derby with two other horses (Fear the Kitten and Carving) listed as "also eligible" in case one of the starters would be scratched prior to the opening of betting.
Payout
The 139th Kentucky Derby Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (16–4) $981.60
$1 Trifecta: (16–4–3) $3,462.80
$1 Superfecta: (16–4–3–5) $28,542.00
Field
After the draw of the field, Orb, the Florida Derby winner, was the 7-2 favorite. Trainer Todd Pletcher had five different horses in the race, including the winners of the Arkansas Derby (Overanalyze), Louisiana Derby (Revolutionary) and Wood Memorial (Verrazano). Among jockeys, noteworthy entrants were Kevin Krigger, who rode Goldencents, trying to become the first black jockey to win since Jimmy Winkfield in 1902, and Rosie Napravnik, riding Mylute, attempting to become the first female jockey to win the Derby.
Scratches
Black Onyx was scratched late after early betting began. As a result, it was too late for Fear the Kitten, who would have been eligible in the case of scratch, to enter the race. Connections for Carving, who was listed as "also eligible" after Fear the Kitten, elected not to make the trip to the Derby.
Race
On race day, rain fell steadily throughout the morning and early afternoon. The rain stopped before the start of the Derby, but the track conditions remained cold and "sloppy". All the pre-race favorites drew favorable posts. Black Onyx drew lane one, which was left open when he scratched.
The Derby got off to a very fast start as Palace Malice took the early lead. As Normandy Invasion seized the lead, Orb was just about in last place. "I was so far behind. I just let him be calm and relaxed, and he was able to do it," said Orb jockey Joel Rosario. "He was very relaxed and did exactly what I wanted. It was a perfect trip."
Orb rallied down the stretch, winning by 2 1/2 lengths in a time of 2:02.89. The win gave Hall of Fame trainer and native Kentuckian Shug McGaughey his first career Kentucky Derby victory. His horses were 0–6 in six previous Derby starts. "I've always dreamed of this day and it finally came," McGaughey remarked. "I'm thrilled fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk%20and%20Talk%20%28film%29 | Walk and Talk is a 2009 computer-animated short film produced by WaterMelon Studios, Kochi. The film was directed jointly by Binoy Mathew and Sajeev Kumar. The premiere took place at The Third International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala 2010, in the competition section of animation films.
Premise
When a person is engaged in a conversation on the mobile phone, it leaves the other person feeling left out.
Production
Walk and Talk is the second directorial venture of Binoy Mathew and Sajeev Kumar whose first project is a 3D animation short film titled, The Stealth. It was selected for ATHENS ANIMFEST of 2009. Only two films were selected from India for Athens Anim Fest'09.
References
2009 films
Indian animated short films
2000s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Anandan | Padmanabhan Anandan is the ex-CEO of Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an independent not-for-profit Research institute focused on developing artificial intelligence based applications for social good. He was formerly vice president for research at Adobe Systems and prior to that a distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research. He was managing director at Microsoft Research India, which he founded in January 2005 in Bangalore. He joined Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington in 1997, where he founded and built the Interactive Visual Media group. He was also previously a professor of Computer Science at Yale University.
Education
Anandan holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, a master of science in computer science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Career
Anandan's research work has been in computer vision, in the area of visual motion analysis, video surveillance and 3D scene modeling from images and video. He has published over 60 papers in leading journals and conferences, leading to several awards and honors. His own papers published in 1987 and 1991 on these topics as well as his joint paper with his student Michael Black are essential reading in many computer-vision curricula. He has over 17,000 citations by other researchers in the field of computer vision.
The "Black and Anandan" method helped popularize robust statistics in computer vision. This was facilitated by several papers that connected robust penalty functions to classical "line processes" used in Markov Random Fields (MRFs) at the time.
His research has been used in real world applications in entertainment (movies and games), defense and civilian security. The “Black and Anandan” optical flow algorithm has been widely used, for example, in special effects. The method was used to compute optical flow for the painterly effects in What Dreams May Come , Prince of Egypt and for registering 3D face scans in The Matrix Reloaded.
Anandan assumed consecutive posts at Yale University, Sarnoff Corporation and Microsoft Research (MSR). At Yale, he was a founding member of the computer-vision research group. At Sarnoff, he led the video information processing group that invented "video mosaics". Based on a white paper he wrote and with the help of the research community, the US Defense Research Projects Agency started the Video Surveillance and Monitoring research program which funded research at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and other major research universities. Many of the techniques such as mosaics and moving object detection (and tracking) that were pioneered in the VSAM program and at Sarnoff are now part of various defense and civilian video surveillance and security systems, and several new companies such as ObjectVideo have been formed that use these technologies.
At Microsoft Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xait | Xait (pronounced "excite") is a software development company, specializing in Web-based database services. The company provides its customers with software for document publishing and collaboration. Its product, XaitPorter, is a collaborative-writing software and is used by clients worldwide to create bids, proposals, financial reports, contracts and other business critical documentation. In Norway, the majority of all Oil operators use XaitPorter for writing their drilling license applications. At the 22nd licensing round in Norway, 100% of the oil & gas operator licenses on Norwegian continental shelf were awarded to XaitPorter clients. The company has been ISO/IEC 27001 certified since 2016, and has since received re-certification the following years.
Xait is headquartered in Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway with a sales and support office in Austin, Texas, United States.
Managed Collaborative Authoring Process
The Managed Collaborative Authoring Process is a document creation technique and term invented by Xait in 2001 by which a structured and controlled collection of tasks and events create repetitive business value through quality, efficiency and security improvements, when applied to a group of writers, reviewers and/or approvers.
The reuse of documentation and a means to improve the processes surrounding this has been an issue since the late-1980s early-1990s, when wordprocessing was embraced by the masses as the main tool for document production. David M. Levy wrote a paper on this back in 1993, highlighting some of the issues regarding document reuse. "The world, though continually changing, is changing incrementally. Much remains the same (unchanged) at any one time, at least at the granularity of description we typically care about. This means that documents only need to be updated incrementally; and incremental updating is more easily achieved when existing material is reused."
Allowing the company to structure and control the rate and quality of the re-use of content, as well as keeping in line with compliance and security, gives an approach for Best practice when reusing content.
XaitPorter is currently one of the commonly used document collaboration software packages that is in line with the managed collaborative authoring process.
History
Early years
The company was founded in 2000 in Stavanger. Xait first started developing a content management system called XaitExposure and a customer relationship management product called XaitExonerate. In 2002 however, the company announced collaborative writing software called Publish-As-You-Go, later renamed XaitPorter.
Recent years
In 2016, Xait received investment from the Nordic venture fund Viking Venture, resulting in an ownership stake of 43%. On December 16, 2019, Xait was awarded 10.8 million NOK by the Norwegian Research Council to improve quality and efficiency in the RFP to production lifecycle. In 2020, Xait acquired BlueprintCPQ, a provider of enterprise-class configure, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therion%20%28software%29 | Therion is free and open-source cave surveying software designed to process survey data, generate maps and 3D models of caves, and archive the data describing the cave and the history of exploration.
Therion was developed by the Slovak cavers Martin Budaj and Stacho Mudrak but is available in English. It runs on a wide variety of platforms including Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Therion is available as part of standard distribution of Debian and Ubuntu (operating system) Linux distributions.
It is free software, released under the terms of GNU GPL, with source code available. It does not require any other commercial software to run. The format of all files is human readable plain text (excluding 3D models), which semantically describe the cave, and are compiled by the program into various output forms such as 2D PDF or SVG maps, or 3D models. Other files like map overlays, terrain models and pictures can be incorporated into the output. A graphical editor is provided to help with the drawing process, and a 3D viewer ('loch') for viewing the models. Survex is used for the centreline error distribution if installed.
The separation of drawing/semantic data entry and output rendering makes the program both complex to learn to use, but also capable of dealing with cave systems still being explored, where new finds and surveys need the drawing to morph to fit. It also allows a survey to be rendered with different national cave-symbol sets.
The (UK-based) Cave Surveying Group has been using Therion along with PocketTopo and DistoXs to train cavers and improve the quality of surveying by the use of real time measurement that is available in Paperless surveying.
Therion is used in several large projects for the documentation of cave systems. It is listed among 10 of the Best Free Linux Earth Science Software. It was used in a number of scientific projects.
Not everyone finds the results satisfying: "Beginning in 2003, the Mulu Caves Project attempted to use Therion on several cave surveys. After many attempts over several years by many different cave surveyors, one of whom was closely affiliated with the software itself, no aesthetically pleasing results were produced."
The unmatched feature of Therion software among other software tools for cave surveying is straightforward creating of 3D presentation for WEB pages. One may export 3D model from Therion to 3D format .lox, open it in Therion's 3D viewer Loch and export data as VTK. ParaView software is able to open such data and export them in WebGL format.
To draw the maps the Speleo-Vulcain group from France is using Visual Topo for simple systems. However, because of the difficulties to build a rigorous synthesis and to update the survey of the complex Jean-Bernard System, they passed to the open source software Therion.
Therion was analysed and used in thesis of Eliška Rákocy
Two articles in the Annual Report of Cave Administration of the Czech Republic 2010 describe how Therion was used to do |
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