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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20FM%20%28disambiguation%29 | Power FM is the former name of Capital South Coast, a regional radio station in South Hampshire, England, UK.
Power FM may also refer to:
Power FM (radio network), a radio network in Australia
Power FM (Bulgaria) - Bulgarian radio station in Bulgaria
Power FM 89.2, a defunct radio station in Jakarta, Indonesia
Power FM 98.1, a radio station in New South Wales, Australia
Power FM 102.5, a radio station in New South Wales, Australia
Power FM 103.1, a radio station in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Power FM (South Australia), a radio station in South Australia, Australia
Power FM (South Africa), a radio station in Gauteng, South Africa
Power FM Canary Islands, a radio station in the Canary Islands
KAWA (FM) (Power FM), a radio station in Dallas, Texas, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20News%20Network | The Georgia News Network or GNN is a news agency that provides newscasts, sportscasts, and talk programming for approximately 150 radio stations across the state of Georgia. GNN is owned by iHeartMedia.
News output
The Georgia News Network provides newscasts, sportscasts and weather forecasts 7 days a week to affiliate stations across the state of Georgia. This includes 2-minute and 1-minute hourly newscasts each day. The network also broadcasts major breaking news events and provides special reports during elections. Affiliate stations receive content either via satellite feed, FTP download or the GNN OnDemand website. This site provides links to audio downloads, such as newscasts, commercials and PSA announcements and historic radio broadcasts.
Georgia Focus is a 28-minute, self-contained public affairs broadcast. John Clark hosts the show, which features a new topic every week. Issues covered range from health care to public safety, from non-profits to authors and state government. GNN also broadcasts high school football playoffs annually on the same channel.
Weather
GNN measures weather conditions in all of Georgia state every half-hour over a period of 24 hours. Warnings are provided to the public in the event that there is severe weather in the region, such as a tornado
Former channels
News Room-Flagship WGST
Georgia Focus
Dave Merlino Show
Southern Race Week
Sports Conversations with Loran Smith
High School Football
On-air personalities
Matt McClure, executive producer and morning anchor
Liz Kennedy, PM anchor
John Clark, director and host of 'Georgia Focus'
Mitch Evans, news & sports anchor/reporter
Rebecca Hubbard, anchor/reporter
Scott Kimbler, anchor/reporter
Charley O'Brian, anchor/reporter
Rocio Rivera, anchor/reporter
Kathy White, anchor/reporter
Mark Woolsey, anchor/reporter
Tyrik Wynn, anchor/reporter
John Wetherbee, meteorologist
Laura Huckabee, meteorologist
Seth Everett, sports anchor
Frank Garrity, sports anchor
Former on-air personalities
Matt Cook, news director/morning anchor (retired)
Doug Nodine, PM anchor (retired)
Rob Stadler, PM anchor (now with the Impact Partnership)
References
News agencies based in the United States
Companies based in Atlanta
IHeartMedia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportTV | Sport TV is a Hungarian sports television channel, associated with AMC Networks.
References
Television networks in Hungary
Sports television in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco%20DOS | Cromemco DOS or CDOS (an abbreviation for Cromemco Disk Operating System) is a CP/M-like operating system by Cromemco designed to allow users of Cromemco microcomputer systems to create and manipulate disk files using symbolic names.
Overview
CDOS was written in Zilog Z80 machine code. Due to the number of available programs available to run under Digital Research CP/M at that time, CDOS was designed to be upwards CP/M-compatible. Many programs written for CP/M versions up to and including version 1.33 run without modification under CDOS. However, programs written for CDOS generally do not run under CP/M.
The Cromemco Z-2 had the ability to run Cromemco DOS. Besides CP/M 2.2 and Cromix, the Cromemco System One can also run Cromemco DOS. The Cromemco C-10 personal computer, introduced in 1982, also ran CDOS.
An emulator for a Cromemco CDOS system exists.
Commands
The following list of commands are supported by Cromemco DOS.
Intrinsic commands
BYE
DIR
ERA
REN
SAVE
TYPE
Later versions also support the ATTR command.
Extrinsic command programs
@ (Batch)
DUMP
EDIT
INIT (Initialize)
STAT (Disk Status)
WRTSYS (Write System)
XFER (Transfer)
Later versions also support the MEMTEST command.
See also
Harry Garland
Roger Melen
References
External links
x:\static\S100\cromemco\CDOS
Discontinued operating systems
Disk operating systems
Microcomputer software
Proprietary operating systems
Cromemco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag%2091.1 | Tag 91.1 (stylized TAG 91.1) is a radio station in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is one of the nine radio stations under the Arabian Radio Network (ARN). It caters to the Filipinos in the UAE, as it is the first Filipino-language premium station there.
Tag 91.1 was launched on March 24, 2013 and started airing a day later (March 25).
Disc jockeys
Tag 91.1 calls its disc jockeys as RJs (radio jocks).
Bluebird (Joselito F. Echivarria)
Keri Belle
Pepper Reu
Louie da Costa (Louise Serrano - da Costa) (formerly of Citylite 88.3 (now Jam 88.3) and Virgin Radio 104.4)
Maria Maldita (Jonaphine Caraan) (former DJ of 101.1 Yes FM (now 101.1 Yes The Best))
Johnny Biryani (formerly of 103.9 iFM Baguio)
Georgia Fritada
Alfred Ryce
Andy Sal
Programs
See also
Radio and television channels of Dubai
Awards
Ahlan Best in Dubai - Best Radio Station Oct 2013
References
External links
Filipino diaspora
Filipino-language radio stations
Mass media in Dubai
Radio stations established in 2013
Radio stations in the United Arab Emirates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWFH%20Heritage%20Heavyweight%20Championship | The UWN Heritage Championship is a title controlled by, and defended in United Wrestling Network.
On May 5, 2013, Scorpio Sky pinned Shaun Ricker in a rematch from the Red Carpet Rumble tournament, from earlier that day, to win the CWFH Heritage Heavyweight Championship. On August 24, 2014, Hobo challenged Ricky Mandel to a dumpster match, in which he won by putting Mandel in the Dumpster.
Title history
Names
Reigns
Combined reigns
As of , .
See also
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
NWA Heritage Championship
UWN Television Championship
References
External links
"Championship Wrestling from Hollywood" TV series website
KDOC-TV Los Angeles website
CWFHollywood MAVTV site
Picture gallery of CWFH Heritage championship belt
CWFH Heritage Heavyweight Championship
Heavyweight wrestling championships
Regional professional wrestling championships
United Wrestling Network championships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodeclipse | Nodeclipse is a set of third-party developer solutions for Eclipse for programming in JavaScript, CoffeeScript with focus on Node.js.
Nodeclipse also refers to the team that makes this software as free open-source on GitHub.
Nodeclipse Eclipse plug-in (Nodeclipse-1 on GitHub) is core that other solutions are based on. It is available via update site or Eclipse Marketplace. Other solutions are "Eclipse Node.js IDE" (Enide), set of plugins and "Node Tool Suite" (NTS), an integrated development environment (IDE).
History
Nodeclipse was originally created by Chinese software developer LambGao 金氧.
Project has contributors from 4 countries, while the original author has not participated for several months.
In April 2013 the Nodeclipse-1 plugin got 1072 installs through Marketplace clients alone.
In 2019 after 3rd disruption for need to pay to domain registrar,
the main site (and Eclipse update site aka p2 repository) was moved to https://nodeclipse.github.io
Features
Features set varies based on solution.
Below there are some basic features available:
Code completion
Debugger
CoffeeScript support
Nodeclipse NTS & Enide Studio features
Editor with code completion
Debugger
Generating Express project
JSHint integration
Passing arguments to Node application and Node.js
Open Explorer or command line for current project'''
Markdown editor
See also
Eclipse
Comparison of JavaScript integrated development environments
References
External links
Eclipse software
Free computer libraries
Free integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Wonderland is an Australian television romantic comedy drama series. It was first broadcast on Network Ten on 21 August 2013. The series was co-created by Jo Porter and Sarah Walker. The series is set in an apartment building and focuses on four couples as they navigate love, life and friendships. Wonderland features an ensemble cast and is filmed on location in Sydney. Three seasons of Wonderland were broadcast, before it was announced on 26 October 2015 that the show had been cancelled. The series has also aired in Europe and the United States.
Premise
Wonderland focuses on the lives and loves of four couples, who live in an apartment block in Sydney, Australia. Womaniser Tom Wilcox (Michael Dorman) places a bet that he will not have sex with a female flatmate for 12 months – otherwise he will lose his beloved car. However, his ideal woman, Miranda Beaumont (Anna Bamford) soon moves in with him. The other couples are the recently married Steve Beaumont (Tim Ross) and Dani Varvaris (Jessica Tovey), teacher Colette Riger (Emma Lung) and husband Rob Duffy (Ben Mingay), and lawyer Grace Barnes (Brooke Satchwell) and her new lover Carlos Dos Santos (Glenn McMillan).
Production
Conception
On 23 October 2012, Network Ten announced its slate of new programming, with Wonderland being one of five new dramas commissioned for the channel. Michael Idato from The Age reported that Ten hopes the series will "tap into" Offspring's established audience. Wonderland is billed as "a contemporary romantic comedy" and was co-created by Jo Porter and Sarah Walker. The drama has drawn comparisons to The Secret Life of Us. The 22-part project is being produced by FremantleMedia Australia. Of the series, Ten's executive producer of drama, Rick Maier, said "Wonderland is an escapist treat with a great production team and with a perfectly-balanced ensemble cast. As the song says: the world really is wonderful and we can't wait to showcase this new series on Ten." The first series of Wonderland began airing from 21 August 2013.
After 13 episodes, the finale aired in November 2013, with the remaining nine episodes scheduled to air as season two from 13 August 2014. Wonderland was commissioned for another 22 episodes, taking the episode count to 44. Of the second series, cast member Ben Mingay said "Season two steps it up a level and dives into really cool storylines and there is more comedy and drama than the first season, it's a whole other beast. Wonderland fans of the first season are going to love season two." The second season concluded after 15 episodes, airing on 19 November 2014.
On 26 October 2015, it was announced that Wonderland had been cancelled after it "failed to find a sufficient audience". Most of the third-season episodes fell below the 500,000 audience mark.
Casting
Casting for the series was announced on 28 April 2013. Brooke Satchwell was cast as lawyer Grace Barnes. Describing her character, Satchwell stated "Grace is a very linear, bottled up de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condition%20monitoring%20of%20transformers | Condition monitoring of transformers in electrical engineering is the process of acquiring and processing data related to various parameters of transformers to determine their state of quality and predict their failure. This is done by observing the deviation of the transformer parameters from their expected values. Transformers are the most critical assets of electrical transmission and distribution systems, and their failures could cause power outages, personal and environmental hazards, and expensive rerouting or purchase of power from other suppliers. Identifying a transformer which is near failure can allow it to be replaced under controlled conditions at a non-critical time and avoid a system failure.
Transformer failures can occur due to various causes. Transformer in-service interruptions and failures usually result from dielectric breakdown, winding distortion caused by short circuits, hots spots caused by localized deviations in winding and electromagnetic fields, deterioration of insulation, effects of lightning and other electrical disturbances, inadequate maintenance, loose connections, overloading, or failure of accessory components (e.g.: OLTCs, bushings, etc). Accounting for these causes through monitoring can allow for the determination of the overall condition of the transformer.
Aspects
The important aspects of condition monitoring of transformers are:
Thermal modelling – The useful life of a transformer is partially determined by the ability of the transformer to dissipate its internally generated heat to its surroundings. The comparison of actual and predicted operating temperatures can provide a sensitive diagnosis of the transformer condition and might indicate abnormal operation. Consequences of temperature rise include gradual deterioration of insulation, damage which is very costly. To predict this, thermal modelling is used to determine the top transformer oil temperature and hot spot temperature (the maximum temperature occurring in the winding insulation system) rise.
Dissolved gas analysis – The degradation of transformer oil and solid insulating materials produces gases, which are generated at a more rapid rate when an electrical fault occurs. By evaluating the concentration and proportion of hydrocarbon gasses, hydrogen, and carbon oxides present in the transformer, it is possible to predict early stage faults in three categories: corona or partial discharge, thermal heating, and arcing.
Frequency response analysis – When a transformer is subjected to high currents through fault currents (abnormal currents), the mechanical structure and windings are subjected to severe mechanical stresses causing winding movement and deformations. It may also result in insulation damage and turn-to-turn faults. Frequency response analysis (FRA) is a non-intrusive and sensitive technique for detecting winding movement faults and assessing the deformation caused by loss of clamping pressure or by short-circuit forces. FRA techni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaSmarts | MediaSmarts (; formerly the Media Awareness Network, MNet) is a Canadian non-profit organization and registered charity based in Ottawa, Ontario, that focuses on digital and media literacy programs and resources. In particular, the organization promotes critical thinking via educational resources and analyzes the content of various types of mass media.
Surveys and studies performed by MediaSmarts have explored youth media consumption, such as television and internet use, as well as media issues. In recent years, the organization's focus has shifted more heavily to digital literacy, although it continues to produce resources on traditional media. The funding for MediaSmarts is primarily derived from private sector sponsors and federal government grants. The group has also partnered with Microsoft and Bell Canada to produce web resources for teachers and parents to protect kids online.
MediaSmarts has received a number of awards for its work, including awards from UNESCO Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, as well as several online awards for web-based content.
Activities
Research
The organization's educational resources, public awareness campaigns, and policy recommendations are grounded in original research. In collaboration with various partners, MediaSmarts designs and facilitates qualitative and quantitative research projects and conducts evaluations of their programs and resources.
The organization's Young Canadians in a Wireless World (YCWW) study is Canada’s longest running and most comprehensive research study on young people’s attitudes and behaviours regarding the internet, surveying over 20,000 parents, teachers and students since 2000.
The findings from YCWW are used to set benchmarks for research on children’s use of the internet, technology and digital media and inform policy on the digital economy, privacy, online safety, online harms and digital well-being, digital citizenship and digital media literacy, among other topics.
These findings have also been used to develop MediaSmarts’ USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE: Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools. This research study informs other projects at MediaSmarts and other organizations, including academic institutions.
YCWW is currently in its fourth phase. Phase IV began with a name change to the study – from Young Canadians in a Wired World to Young Canadians in a Wireless World. This change in language speaks to shifts in digital technology and the internet (since 2000) from a ‘wired’ to ‘wireless’ world that presents new opportunities and challenges for youth, parents/guardians, educators, policymakers and the technology sector.
In addition to YCWW research, MediaSmarts produces papers—both independently and in partnership with other organizations—on a variety of media issues, including digital literacy, privacy education, online civic engagement, food marketing, and Internet governance.
Educatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable%20Event%20Logging%20Protocol | Reliable Event Logging Protocol (RELP), a networking protocol for computer data logging in computer networks, extends the functionality of the syslog protocol to provide reliable delivery of event messages. It is most often used in environments which do not tolerate message loss, such as the financial industry.
Overview
RELP uses TCP for message transmission. This provides basic protection against message loss, but does not guarantee delivery under all circumstances. When a connection aborts, TCP cannot reliably detect whether the last messages sent have actually reached their destination.
Unlike the syslog protocol, RELP works with a backchannel which conveys information back to the sender about messages processed by the receiver. This enables RELP to always know which messages have been properly received, even in the case of a connection abort.
History
RELP was developed in 2008 as a reliable protocol for rsyslog-to-rsyslog communication. As RELP designer Rainer Gerhards explains, the lack of reliable transmission in industry-standard syslog was a core motivation to create RELP. Originally, RFC 3195 syslog was considered to take up this part in rsyslog, but it suffered from high overhead and missing support for new IETF syslog standards (which have since been published as RFC 5424, but were not named at that time).
While RELP was initially meant solely for rsyslog use, it became adopted more widely. Currently tools both under Linux and Windows support RELP. There are also in-house deployments for Java. While RELP is still not formally standardized, it has evolved into an industry standard for computer logging.
Technical details
RELP is inspired by RFC 3195 syslog and RFC 3080. During initial connection, sender and receiver negotiate session options, like supported command set or application level window size. Network event messages are transferred as commands, where the receiver acknowledges each command as soon as it has processed it. Sessions may be closed by both sender and receiver, but usually should be terminated by the sender side. In order to facilitate message recovery on session aborts, RELP keeps transaction numbers for each command, and negotiates which messages need to be resent on session reestablishment.
The current version of RELP does not specify native TLS support. However, practical deployments use wrappers around the RELP session in order to provide that functionality.
Implementations
Only publicly available implementations are listed. This list is not exhaustive.
librelp - the original C RELP library
rsyslog
MonitorWare (Windows)
logstash
rlp_01 - Java RELP Library
jla_01 - RELP Logback Plugin
jla_04 - Java Util Logging RELP Handler
jla_05 - Log4j RELP Plugin
References
Internet protocols
Internet Standards
System administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20You%20Think%20You%20Can%20Dance%20%28American%20season%2010%29 | So You Think You Can Dance, a televised American dance competition, began broadcast of its tenth season on May 14, 2013. It airs on the FOX Television Network and was hosted by Cat Deeley and featured returning permanent judges Nigel Lythgoe, who also serves as one of the show's executive producers, and Mary Murphy. The show featured many of the format changes instituted in the previous season, including notably a single episode per week/voting round (seasons two through eight featured two episodes per week). It was also the first season in the show's history that a tap dancer not only made it past the third week of competition, but made the finale. It is also the first season to last longer than nine weeks. Lythgoe announced in the finale that the show has been renewed for the eleventh season.
Auditions
Open auditions for season 10 were held in the following locations:
Las Vegas Week
The Las Vegas callbacks were held at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Paradise, Nevada. Contestants had to learn and perform various styles of choreography with cuts being made after every round. By the end of the week, only 33 dancers remained to be selected for the Top 20.
* Only participated on the judge's panel on the round they choreographed.
** Brought in as special guest judges.
Finals
Top 20 Finalists
Contestants' dance styles and hometowns are based on those listed on the official website.
Female Contestants
Male Contestants
Elimination chart
* Due to Tucker Knox being injured on August 6, he was automatically placed in the Bottom 4 for the next show.
Performances
Meet the Top 20 (June 18, 2013)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Adam Shankman
Performances:
*Emilio Dosal, a hip-hop dancer, was originally selected in the Top 20. Shortly after, he sustained an injury forcing him to withdraw from the competition. Aaron Turner, number 11 in the list of male dancers, took his place in the Top 20 finalists.
Week 1 (June 25, 2013)
Group dance: "Puttin' on the Ritz"—Herb Alpert feat. Lani Hall (Jazz-Funk; Choreographers: Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Wayne Brady
Performances:
Week 2 (July 2, 2013)
Group dance: "The Heroic Weather Conditions of the Universe Part 1 – A Veiled Mist" from Moonrise Kingdom (Contemporary, Choreographer: Tyce Diorio)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Christina Applegate
Solos:
Performances:
Due to the format change, the contestants who were already eliminated will still be dancing providing their partner is still in the competition.
Week 3 (July 9, 2013)
Group dance: "Pretty Face" (Nathan Lanier remix)—Sóley (Jazz Choreographers: Christopher Scott & Sonya Tayeh)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Paula Abdul, Erin Andrews
Solos:
* Due to a meniscus injury, Jade Zuberi withdrew from the competition. Marko Germar (who was not a competitor on the show) danced in his place with Zuberi's partner Malece Miller.
Week 4 (July 23, 2013)
Group dance: "New World"—The Irrepressib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20keyboard | A wireless keyboard is a computer keyboard that allows the user to communicate with computers, tablets, or laptops with the help of radio frequency (RF), such as WiFi and Bluetooth or with infrared (IR) technology. It is common for wireless keyboards available these days to be accompanied by a wireless mouse.
Wireless keyboards based on infrared technology use light waves to transmit signals to other infrared-enabled devices. But, in case of radio frequency technology, a wireless keyboard communicates using signals which range from 27 MHz to up to 2.4 GHz. Most wireless keyboards today work on 2.4 GHz radio frequency. Bluetooth is another technology that is being widely used by wireless keyboards. These devices connect and communicate to their parent device via the bluetooth protocol.
A wireless keyboard can be connected using RF technology with the help of two parts, a transmitter and a receiver. The radio transmitter is inside the wireless keyboard. The radio receiver plugs into a keyboard port or USB port. Once the receiver and transmitter are plugged in, the computer recognizes the keyboard and mouse as if they were connected via a cable.
Types
Standard size wireless keyboard: These keyboards are standard size wireless keyboard.
Foldable - hinges allow for folding of keyboard
Portable keyboard with touchpad: Keyboard comes with integrated touch pad.
Portable with Stand - comes with tablet/smartphone stand
Roll-up wireless keyboard: wireless keyboard that can be rolled up when not in use.
Mini Wireless Keyboard: Palm sized keyboard with an integrated touch pad; uses thumb typing
slim keyboard
With touch pad - combined keyboard and touchpad
Bluetooth keyboard
A Bluetooth keyboard is a wireless keyboard that connects and communicates with its parent device via the Bluetooth protocol. These devices are widely used with such portable devices as smart phones and tablets, though they are also used with laptops and ultrabooks. Bluetooth keyboards became popular in 2011, coincident with the popularity of portable devices.
Most bluetooth keyboards have standard qwerty layouts, though some mini Bluetooth keyboards may have a different layout. Bluetooth keyboards are compatible with all the leading operating systems such as Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Since they are used primarily for portable devices Bluetooth keyboards have special function keys for Android and iOS operating systems. Most bluetooth keyboards, except a few, are not compatible across operating systems, so compatibility of the keyboard needs to be checked before purchasing one; this is because of the special function keys which differ between Android and iOS.
See also
Apple Wireless Keyboard
Logitech Unifying receiver
Remote control
References
Computer keyboard types
Remote control
American inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Repenning | Alexander Repenning is the Director of the Scalable Game Design project, a computer science professor adjunct, a founder of AgentSheets Inc., and a member of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Repenning is the inventor of drag and drop blocks programming. His research interests include computer science education, end-user programmable agents, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence.
Contributions
Repenning is the creator of the AgentSheets and AgentCubes Cyberlearning tools used for game design and computational science applications. As the Director of the Scalable Game Design project, using AgentSheets, he leads an effort to reinvent computer science education in public schools through game design starting at the middle school level. With over 10,000 students, and with funding from the National Science Foundation (ITEST and CE21 programs) and Google, the Scalable Game Design project is conducting the largest US study of computer science education at the middle school level including inner city schools, remote rural areas, and Native American communities. Results indicate that students, across genders and ethnicities, are not only highly motivated to learn computer science through game design but they also learn essential computational thinking skills. They acquire skills through game design, which later they can leverage in STEM simulation creation. Repenning's theoretical contributions include a pedagogical framework called the Zones of Proximal Flow combining Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development with Csikszentmihalyi’s state of Flow.
References
Living people
American computer programmers
American computer scientists
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Programming language designers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20Optimal%20Assembly%20Program | The Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program (SOAP) is an assembler for the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine, an early computer first used in 1954. It was developed by Stan Poley at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. SOAP is called "Optimal" (or "Optimum") because it attempts to store generated instructions on the storage drum to minimize the access time from one instruction to the next. SOAP is a multi-pass assembler, that is, it processes the source program more than once in order to generate the object program.
The first version of SOAP was succeeded by SOAP II in 1957, which supported additional hardware features such as index registers and magnetic core memory, then SOAP IIA in 1958, SOAP 2L, SOAP 2L Tape, SOAP 4000, and SOAP 42 in 1961. SOAP was used as a backend to the FOR TRANSIT compiler in 1957.
Donald Knuth independently produced versions named SOAP III in 1958 and SUPERSOAP in 1959 at Case Institute of Technology, now part of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The US National Bureau of Standards, under the direction of Herbert Howe, also wrote a version of SOAP, called ISOPAR, said to significantly improve optimization.
Optimization
The IBM 650 uses a magnetic drum as main storage. The drum holds up to 4,000 words and rotates at 12,500 revolutions per minute (RPM), 4.8 msec per rotation, or average access time of 2.4 msec. "If you placed your instructions sequentially onto the drum, you would have to wait for a complete rotation of the drum before the CPU could obtain the next instruction. Since many instructions on the 650 could execute in around 3 milliseconds, you would try to optimize your code by placing the instructions on the drum in such a way that it would not take the drum a full revolution to access your next instruction." Each instruction contains the address of the next instruction to execute; instead of a sequential array of instructions the memory appears to be a linked list. SOAP optimizes by placing instructions to be executed sequentially in locations around the drum such that the next instruction is available as soon as possible after the current instruction finishes. This optimization was said to make the assembled programs "run as much as six or seven times faster."
SOAP features
Pseudo-operations
SOAP II supports the following pseudo-operations (assembly directives):
Comments
Each source card can contain up to ten characters of comments in columns 63–72. For longer comments, up to thirty characters may be entered on a Comments Card (Type 1, '1' in column 41) in columns 43–72
References
External links
SOAP at the Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
1955 software
Assemblers
IBM software
Assembly language software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Rim%20%28video%20game%29 | Pacific Rim is a 2013 video game published and developed by Yuke's for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network based on the film Pacific Rim. It is a fighting game where players choose between the film's Jaegers and Kaiju.
It was delisted from both digital stores in 2016.
Gameplay
In single-player mode, the player engages in several one-on-one melee battles to earn achievement points and upgrades for their characters. Jaegers have two health bars (as they require two pilots) while Kaijus have one. Each character has its own set of special attacks. For example, Gipsy Danger can fire its plasma cannon or use its chain swords, while Leatherback can disrupt a Jaeger's mobility by firing an electromagnetic pulse.
Divulgation
The game was first announced by the Australian Classification Board. A NeoGAF user posted several screenshots from the game, showing the monsters and robots of the movie battling in a number of environments. On July 7, 2013, a teaser trailer was released.
Reception
The game was met with mixed to negative reviews. It has a Metacritic score of 39 out of 100, based on 14 reviews. Jake Magee of IGN gave it a mediocre rating of 5.3, calling it "a flimsy movie tie-in that chooses to concentrate on repetitive and nonsensical story missions." Ben Rayner of Xboxer360 gave it a score of 60 out of 100, calling it "a 'freemium' game disguised as an XBLA game."
Pacific Rim: The Mobile Game
Pacific Rim: The Mobile Game is a 2013 video game developed by Reliance Games and Behaviour Interactive for iOS and Android smartphone platforms. According to Reliance Games' chief executive Manish Agarwal, the game is set before the events of the film, and the company worked extensively with director Guillermo del Toro in the game's design and testing.
Gameplay
During battle, the player uses the on-screen buttons to block or dodge a Kaiju attack. Once the Kaiju gives an opening, the player swipes the screen to execute an attack. The campaign spans 30 missions, with the player earning cash to upgrade their Jaeger by changing parts or buying single-use power-ups. Cash can also be collected to buy more powerful Jaegers.
Reception
Much like its console counterpart, Pacific Rim: The Mobile Game did not fare well with critics. The iOS version has a Metacritic score of 48 out of 100, based on 12 reviews. Mike Fahey of Kotaku criticized the game for its lack of innovation, saying it "isn't a bad Infinity Blade-style mobile game. It's just another one." Scott Nichols of Digital Spy gave the game two out of five stars, commenting that it is "priced at a premium, making the free-to-play structure rather insulting to fans."
See also
List of Kaiju related games
References
Pacific Rim (franchise)
2013 video games
Alien invasions in video games
Android (operating system) games
Behaviour Interactive games
IOS games
Video games about mecha
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Video games based on films
Video games develop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20GIS%20data%20sources | This is a list of GIS data sources (including some geoportals) that provide information sets that can be used in geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial databases for purposes of geospatial analysis and cartographic mapping. This list categorizes the sources of interest.
Global
Polar region
Europe
Europe by country
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Greece
Lithuania
Czech Republic
Sweden
Brazil
Canada
Canada Regional
India
United States
United States Regional
Alabama
Alaska
Connecticut
Florida
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Washington State
South Africa
See also
Geoportal
National lidar dataset, for a list of sources of airborne lidar datasets
Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/GIS sources and palettes
References
Geographic information systems
Geographic data and information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awn%20Access%20to%20Justice%20Network%20in%20Gaza%20Strip | It used to call "Network of Legal Aid Providers Awn", in March 2013 the member of the network change the name to "Awn Access to Justice Network in Gaza Strip" AJ Net. Also known as "Awn Network" (), many people in Gaza prefer to call it Legal Clinics (), it was established by UNDP/PAPP – Gaza in ِApril-2011. It’s comprised primarily from organizations that are non-public, non-state civil society actors that are politically unaffiliated.
The Network
The members of Awn Network are; the , human right organizations, community-based organizations and academic institutions, the permanent secretariat of the Awn Network is within the Palestinian Bar Association. In 2012 network members provided legal aid services (awareness, consultation and representation) to more than 23,000 people, of whom 72% were women.
Awn Net has invested heavily in coordination and cooperation within the 20 members of the network by supporting dialogue meetings (including the Legal Task Force), referral mechanisms, the case management system and the legal aid database, while continuing to provide capacity development support to individual network members and working to ensure sustainability of the network.
Awn Network has provided legal services to mainly poor and vulnerable people, to strengthen their access to justice and solve their legal problems at the lowest and simplest level possible.
Legal services provided
Legal services start with legal information and education, giving people knowledge that they have rights under the law and how to exercise them. Such knowledge and confidence can help in solving legal problems without recourse to the courts, a cost-effective and empowering strategy. Where legal remedies are available, this can be the cheapest and simplest form of legal aid, and the one where the greatest resources should be applied.
Legal advice (explaining what the law means and how to exercise it in relation to a concrete problem) is often less costly than providing assistance – understood as helping a person to take legal steps to protect their rights.
Free judicial representation by Awn Network’s legal aid lawyers is only limited to poor individuals who can’t afford paying courts fees or lawyers’ costs.
Statistics for people Benefited from Awn Access to Justice Network in Gaza Strip, From April 2011 to May 2013.
Legal Aid Clinics
The Awn Network oversees 14 legal aid clinics. There are two types of legal clinics, university/in-campus legal clinics and community legal aid clinics. The community legal aid clinics are based at civil society organizations and aims at providing free of charge legal services to needy people and enhancing access to justice. The purpose of in-campus legal clinics is to encourage students’ engagement with the issues and concerns of the community. In addition, students are exposed to hands-on legal experience and they receive high-quality training on legal skills
Gaza Legal Aid Network Members
The Secretary-General for Awn ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u | The Chișinău trolleybus system forms an important part of the public transport network in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. The system was created shortly after the end of the World War II to replace the old electric tram system that suffered extensive damage during the war. Along with the network of minibuses known as rutierele, it forms the backbone of the Chișinău transport system, with the average daily ridership reaching 250,000 passengers per day.
History
The history of the trolleybus network in Chișinău goes back to 1949 when the city council took the decision to introduce it as a substitute for the tram network that was heavily damaged during World War II and could only be rebuilt to a limited extent. The first line connecting the Chişinău Railway Station with the University of Medicine ran along the Stephen the Great boulevard, where the former tram tracks were removed, and was served by six MTB-82D units. In 1959 the tram depot was transferred to serve the trolleybus system that comprised over 50 units at that time, and by 1961 trolleybuses had completely replaced the trams. The second and the third depots were introduced into service in 1966 and 1986, respectively.
Lines
The trolleybus network consists of 22 lines covering all the city districts and the suburb of Durlești.
Fleet
The fleet consists mainly of the various modification of the Soviet-built ZiU-9 and the recently purchased low-floor vehicles AKSM-321 manufactured by Belkommunmash in Belarus (Chișinău is the third-largest user of this model, after Minsk and Moscow). In addition, the network also operates a number of the Czech-produced Škoda 14Tr (popular with the drivers) and Ukrainian-built YuMZ-T2.
Payment system
Every vehicle has a fare collector who sells single-ride tickets valid for this particular ride only. Alternatively, one can purchase a monthly ticket, valid for a calendar month. A single-ride ticket costs (since September '22) 6 MDL, and the price of the monthly pass is 234 MDL. There are also: monthly ticket for scholars and students – 70 MDL, ticket for 15 days – 100 MDL, monthly ticket for students with social privileges – 70 MDL, monthly ticket for economic agents – 320 MDL.
References
External links
Regia Transport Electric Chisinau Facebook Page
Chisinau
Chisinau
Transport in Chișinău |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan2CAD | Scan2CAD is a commercial raster-to-vector and vector-to-vector conversion and editing computer-aided design software application which is developed and maintained in the UK by Avia Systems.
History
Scan2CAD's first version was released in April 1993. The publishing company was Softcover International. This company continued to publish the software until 2010 when Avia Systems acquired the software.
The development team has continued to be the same throughout the full lifetime of the software.
Scan2CAD is now used across the world by a very wide variety of users ranging from government and large industrial organisations to smaller individual firms. It has been translated to localised language versions including Polish, Italian, French and Japanese. The Scan2CAD software is recommended by leading imaging hardware companies such as HP, Canon and Fuji Xerox.
Code Names
From version 10.0 Scan2CAD's major version releases use code names that reference great mathematicians.
It was described that these code names are intended to "take inspiration" from the stories of these mathematicians.
Supported file types
Below lists all types of the file supported by Scan2CAD starting from version 8.
Raster file types: BMP, PCX, IMG, TIFF, CALS, JPEG, JPEG2K, GIF, PNG, CIT, PDF
Vector file types: DXF, DWG, SVG, HPGL, WMF, EMF, TXF, PDF (vector graphics)
Technologies used
A non-exhaustive list of the technologies used by Scan2CAD in the raster-to-vector and vector-to-vector conversion process.
External links
Official Scan2CAD YouTube channel
References
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PingER%20Project | PingER, an acronym for Ping End-to-end Reporting, measures round-trip travel time of a packet of data between two nodes on the Internet. The PingER' Project uses a simple tool—the ping command—to get valuable insights into performance of the Internet backbone.
High energy particle physicists began the project in 1995, because they needed to access large amounts of data at laboratories sometimes as far away as across an ocean. They needed to know how the Internet was performing, identify problems, and apply solutions.
At U.S.Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, PingER let researcher Les Cottrell "keep tabs on how parts of the network were performing and root out any problems." PingER is one of several collaborative projects having measurement infrastructures for monitoring Internet Traffic.
How PingER works
Using the ping command, monitoring nodes initiate transmissions to remote nodes, then measure and record the response times, or the lack of
responses.
Each combination of monitoring node-remote node is called a pair. PingER is easy to implement, because little special software must be installed to make measurements. Almost any networked computer will respond to a ping, and require nothing added. Monitoring nodes require only a script to issue ping commands and record results. In September 1999 there were 1977 pairs, consisting of 511 remote nodes in 54 countries.
PingER uses the data to determine latency (round-trip_time), jitter (variability of round-trip_time), and loss (percentage of packets that never return). The results of the PingER Project, including source code, are made available to the public at no cost. This collection of data shows long term world-wide Internet performance trends, covering over 750 sites in over 165 countries. Researchers at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, have been dealing with increasingly large amounts of PingER data by using a relational database. From a vantage point between Europe and Africa, researchers at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy used PingER to reveal the slow progress of improving Africa's connections to the rest of the world.
Poor results for Africa
Analysis of some of the PingER data reveal that:
Africa's internet was lagging 16 years behind Europe in 2009.
The World Soccer Cup in South Africa in 2010 led to new submarine cables, resulting in much shorter return times.
Angola, Zimbabia, Tanzania, Uganda have shown improvements as they converted from satellite to terrestrial links.
See also
Iperf
Network operations center
PerfSONAR
References
External links
The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (caida) Internet Measurement Infrastructure
Surveyor approach to performance measurement
Internet architecture
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funshion | Funshion is a Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network software and website. Target users are on the Chinese mainland. The vast majority of content is from East Asia, mostly Mainland China, Japan, Korea. It provides a free streaming service and also has its own brand of smart TV.
Company
Beijing Funshion Online Technology Co Ltd was established in 2005. The company initially focused on broadcast, content search and distributing streaming media. Funshion Online was officially founded on September 28, 2005, with headquarters in Beijing, China. The company later partnered with SMG's BesTV.
In January 2016, Luo Jiangchun was Funshion's CEO, and the company was working on product development with other companies such as Shanghai Oriental Pearl Media Co Ltd, Shenzhen MTC Co Ltd, Haier, Panda Electronics Group, and Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd. On December 10, 2016, Funshion released its first smart TV model.
Applications
Funshion Online Technologies Ltd develops video software and offers online video and audio platforms. In particular, Funshion provides on demand TV programs and movies to broadband users. Funshion uses peer-to-peer streaming technology and supports high-volume traffic. At one point the company claimed the site had 290,000,000 registered users and 60,000,000 daily users.
See also
PPLive
QQLive
References
External links
Official site
English page
Weibo
File sharing networks
Streaming television
Peercasting
Chinese brands
Peer-to-peer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Awards | Hum Awards are annual Pakistani accolades bestowed by the Hum Network Limited in recognition of excellence in programming of television, fashion and music industry of Pakistan. Winners are awarded the Hum Award of Merit. The awards were first presented in 2013 at a ceremony held at the Karachi Expo Centre.
The awards are now reputed as an official ceremony of Hum TV, and has been given in more than a dozen categories.
History
Hum TV is one of the biggest and most watched television channels in Pakistan. Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel is subsidiary of Hum TV that generate from its branch to appreciate its work and artist. Hum Network launched its first channel in 2005 and within 2 years it became a TV channel which was watched globally, surpassing others in rating and viewership.
It is the first brand of Hum Network Limited (KSE:HUMNL). Becoming one of leading entertainment media Hum Channel started its own Awards to honor its TV artist and artist or actors from fashion and music all over the Pakistan. Hum on-aired its first award ceremony on 12 March 2013 and broadcast it on 28 April 2013 worldwide. It is noted for being the first of its type of awards in Pakistan.
Hum Honor artist of its own channel in only one field of TV were panned in artist across the country. 1st Hum Awards awarded artist in 32 categories for the major field: television (Only Hum TV), ceremony garnered viewership of over 5 million people in Pakistan and overseas.
The award was first presented in 2013.
Hum statuette
Structure of Hum statuette and representation
Official name: Hum Award of Merit,
Height: 11 inches,
Weight: 6½ pounds,
Color: Dull Golden,
Represents: Hum TV logo
Design: A Urdu Alphabet "ہم", which is also a TV logo of hum channel, describe "NO ONE IS LIKE US"
Designer: Hum Channel
Manufacturing time: 6 weeks for 65 statuettes
Number of awards presented: 62 (as of 1st ceremony)
Design
Hum award is the representation of HUM channel logo, describing the tagline of channel "No One is Like Us", also it is the one of the Urdu alphabet, design manufacture by hum management. As of first ceremony this is the first style of trophy and hence Mahira Khan and Noman Ejaz become the pioneer and first holder of most important Best actress and Best actor category respectively. Total 62 awards were awarded in 1st ceremony.
Nomination
Voting
The Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC), a Hum TV sub organization holds the management system of Hum Awards, since 2013, voting generates into two types:
Viewers Choice Awards
Jury Choice Awards
in viewer's choices award some popular categories set to open for public voting and awarded that categories upon highest votes by public but the others is opposite and completely voted and viewed by Jury panel. as of 1st Hum Awards, 7 categories from TV, Music and Fashion were set to open for public voting, and that collective voting for all categories was 10,56,800, rest of awards were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigg.com | Gigg.com is a software company founded in Utah which offers businesses tools and services to build their brand using internal and external data.
History
In the beginning, Gigg was known as a platform offering opportunities for local bands to play in big venues with high-profile bands. Musicians would upload videos to the company's website, and compete to score the most Gigg Votes, Facebook Likes, and Twitter Tweets. Winners of the competitions received organized promotion and concert bookings alongside established artists.
In January 2013, the company released a mobile app (Gigg) for Android and iOS devices. The app was a search engine for music and a platform to share lyrics with friends, both within the Gigg app social interface and on Facebook. The app accesses a database 2.5 million songs, with song lyrics linked to the downloadable music on ITunes.
In 2013, the Gigg competition platform became known as "Gigg STAGE" which continues to provide opportunities for local musicians to compete in events hosted by venues, labels, and industry professionals.
Events
From 2011 to 2013, Gigg hosted the "Opening Act" competition for the Stadium of Fire event in Provo, Utah, a 4th of July concert and firework show with an attendance of about 55,000. Headlining artists have included Kelly Clarkson, Carly Rae Jepsen, and The Beach Boys.
In 2013, Gigg hosted a contest for a chance to open for P Diddy, Skylar Grey, and Warren G in the Rags 2 Riches Live event at the 2013 SXSW (South by Southwest) music festival in Austin.
In 2012, Gigg hosted a contest to open for Andy Grammer at The Venue in Salt Lake City, Utah. The winners were the Mosaic Whispers.
References
Software companies based in Utah
Software companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackdriver | Google Stackdriver was a cloud computing systems management service offered by Google. It provided performance and diagnostics data (in the form of monitoring, logging, tracing, error reporting, and alerting) to public cloud users. Stackdriver was a multi-cloud solution, providing support for both Google Cloud and AWS cloud environments.
Google ended use of the Stackdriver brand in February 2020.
History
Stackdriver the company was created in 2012 by founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri. The company's goal was to provide consistent monitoring across cloud computing's multiple service layers, using a single SaaS solution.
Stackdriver secured US$5 million funding from Bain Capital Ventures in July 2012. A beta version of the product became publicly available on April 30, 2013.
In May 2014, the Stackdriver company was acquired by Google. An expanded version of the product (adding support for logs analysis, hybrid cloud support, and deep integration with Google Cloud) was rebranded as Google Stackdriver and was launched to general availability in October, 2016.
As of October 2020, the name Stackdriver has been deprecated to Google Cloud Operations.
References
Cloud computing
Google acquisitions
Amazon Web Services
Google services
System monitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador%20Automatic%20Radar%20Control | Matador Automatic Radar Control (MARC) was a command guidance system for the Martin MGM-1 Matador ground launched cruise missile that used combination radar/computer/communication centrals ("Q" systems) for ground-directed bombing. As for the earlier ground central used with the X-10 aircraft,* MARC had an "Air Link" from the ground for control and an airborne AN/APW-11A radar transponder on the missile for ranging. A series of "MSQ sites". each with a mobile AN/MSQ-1A central in 3 vans had an automatic tracking radar to geolocate the Matador up to ~. MARC provided command guidance during the "mid-course phase" after Matador/MARC contact was established following the missile launch off the Zero Length Launcher and until an MSQ transmitted the dive ("dump") command to start the flight path toward the target. Originating in the Caltech/Martin "ZEL Project" and developed as part of weapon system "Project MX 771" at the "Air Force Missile Test Center, Cocoa, Florida"; MARC had accuracy at "crossover into enemy territory" of ~ and—at an AN/MSQ-1A range of —a CEP of .
Description
The AN/MSQ-1A developed by the Reeves Instrument Corp. Missile was by the Glenn L. Martin Company, but was the MSQ-1A by the Reeves Instrument Corporation. Company included the AN/MPS-19 automatic tracking radar and an alternating current analog OA 626 plotting computer & board vice the DC computer of the preceding AN/MSQ-1 Close Support Control Set with MPS-9 & OA-132 manufactured for Korean War bombing (cf. AN/MSQ-2 also developed by Rome Air Development Center with MPS-9 & DC OA-215.)
The AN/MPS-19 was a variant of the radar used in the Western Electric M-33 Antiaircraft Fire Control System that achieved a longer MARC range via circuitry for receiving the beacon return from an airborne transponder. Instead of, or in addition to, Matador Automatic Radar Control, the last Matador variant (TM-61C) added SHANICLE passive radio guidance.
Mid-course guidance
MARC guided the Matador to the dive point (or to the "SHANICLE hyperbolic zone") by a directional control signal to the Matador "spoilers" for momentarily deflecting wing airflow to slightly redirect the course of the missile. The OA-626 computed both the missile's course and the direction of the desired destination from the missile position, and the MARC repeated spoiler signals to reduce the difference. For MARC-commanded dives, an initial point was used as a preliminary destination to ensure the Matador subsequently had the necessary general direction of flight for the dive toward the target. During the final cruise prior to the dive, MARC continually predicted the dive point based on any variations of missile velocity measured by the MPS-19—as well as the corresponding nominal time and displacement expected during the upcoming dive When the Matador was acceptably near the "point predicted by the MARC", the dump command was initiated and the missile was self-controlled during the "semi-ballistic transonic di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves%20AN/MSQ-51%20Aerial%20Target%20Control%20Central | The Reeves AN/MSQ-51 Aerial Target Control Central (ATCC) was a combination radar/computer/communications system ("Q" system") developed 1961-3 for United States Navy "aerial target out-of-sight control". In addition to the "Target Control System AN/SRW-4D" with radios and "Antenna Assemblies for Target Control and Communications (7 Units)", the ATCC included acquisition/surveillance and tracking radars, a Mark X IFF/SIF, and an analog computer. The ATCC's automatic tracking radar was derived from the Western Electric M-33 gun laying radar and could process double-pulse 9340-9370 MHz beacon returns from transponders up to away from the AN/MSQ-51 transmitting 9215-9285 MHz radar pulses. If an ATCC was equipped with a "Telemetry Receiving Station", IRIG channels 5-14 could also be received from QF-9G and Q-2C unmanned aerial vehicles. Other ATCC-controlled drones included the QF-9F, KDA-1, KDA-4, KDB-1 and KD2R-5. For "RF communications (2 to 25 mc.)" to command the drone was a "Collins Radio Co. Model 618T-3" Single Sideband Transceiver (SST) with Control Unit 714E-2 for 28,000 channels (400 watts PEP, 100 w AM). The 1000 watt voice radio system had 2 UHF AN/GRC-27 sets "with Control-Indicator 6-806/GR" for 1750 channels (consoles had headsets, footpedals, and crew intercommunications.)
Configuration
Similar to the USMC's post-WWII AN/TPQ-2 and Korean War AN/MPQ-14, the AN/MSQ-51 used a Operations Trailer, a flatbed trailer with Electric Generator units, and a Maintenance Trailer. An additional flatbed was used for transporting the acquisition (surveillance) antenna assembly which included a 16' oblong dish and a ground pedestal. When emplaced, the "Operations Trailer Assembly" was the box-style fifth wheel trailer with antennas on top (tracking antenna with vertically polarized lens and conical scan, two AT-781/AU voice communications antennas, and two AT-197/GR telemetry antennas), a combination air conditioning and electric heating system, and interior operator equipment:
Tracking Console with Plan Position Indicator (PPI), A-scans for range/azimuth/elevation, AN/TPA-3 IFF/SIF electronics (e.g., Video Decoder MX1995 & Remote Switching Control C-1903), and for the surveillance antenna signal, "Acquisition Receiver Control" panel.
Tactical Control Console, a "Modified M33 Unit", with vertical 30" plotting board, command signal Transmitter Control C-2802/SRW-4, Thirty Channel Event Recorder ("on-off"/"Beep" type) and an additional PPI.
Computer cabinet with vacuum tube amplifiers for analog summing, Horizontal Range Servo for trigonometric, and mounted on the right cabinet door a Command Monitor Display Panel along with Telemetry Indicators (if equipped).
As with the M-33's computation of an enemy aircraft location, the AN/MSQ-51 computer derived "target altitude" from the elevation resolver, timed the "rate of change of altitude" using a differentiating amplifier, and "resolved horizontal plane coordinates" from the antenna's az |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20Locality | Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World (2011) is a book written by Eric Gordon and Adriana de Souza e Silva. The book revolves around a brand new concept that Gordon and de Souza e Silva call Net Locality. Net Locality is locational awareness based on mobile technologies. This book delves deep into how individuals and societies interact with their environment when virtually everything thing they do is traceable and locatable.
Contents
Chapter 1: Maps
Chapter 2: Mobile Annotations
Chapter 3: Social Networks and Games
Chapter 4: Urban Spaces
Chapter 5: Community
Chapter 6: Privacy
Chapter 7: Globalization
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Criticism
While Eric Gordon and Adriana de Souza e Silva received praise from many, including Marcus Foth of Queensland University of Technology claiming that Net Locality brings back to life the idea that place still matters, the book is still up for debate on the dichotomy of the physical/virtual world. Allen Smith who works for WHERE had this to say about the writings, “I always thought about recent phone technology as allowing the internet to come out into the world and overlay it with information, I never thought of it the other way around, “extending the idea and functionality of location into the network.” Gordon replied to this by claiming that although the term "net-locality" is about the internet presence in everyday life, it is also true that our definition of networked interactions are changing from our perception of social norms and physical location.
References
Bibliography
Gordon, Eric, and Adriana De Souza E Silva. Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
2011 non-fiction books
Textbooks
Wiley (publisher) books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Sisters | Golden Sisters is an American reality documentary television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network that debuted on June 1, 2013, at 10/9c.
Premise
The series chronicles the lives of three sisters, Mary Bartnicki (age 83), Josie Cavaluzzi (age 73) & Teresa Dahlquist (age 73). The trio became an overnight sensation after their video of them watching and commenting on the Kim Kardashian sex tape went viral. The managing of Josie's salon, giving advice to their fan base and giving their opinions on pop culture are also shown.
Episodes
References
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Brno | The Brno tramway network () was the first network of its kind to be put into operation in what is now known as the Czech Republic with its horse tram lines dating back to 1869. Today, Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, after Prague, and its tram network is also the second largest in the country.
Currently, the Brno tram system comprises 12 lines, with a total operational track length of and a total route length of . The lines not only service the urban area, but also lead to the neighboring town of Modřice located south of Brno. Before construction began on the final leg of the extension in 2008, the entire network was made up of 69.7 km of track. The trams are operated by the City of Brno, Dopravní podnik města Brna (DPMB).
In the Brno dialect of the Czech language (hantec), the word for tram is ‘šalina’. The origins of this word can be traced to the German expression ‘Elektrische Linie’ (electric lines) or 'schallen' (to sound).
History
The first horse tram
Brno was the third largest city of the Austrian part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and is today part of the Czech Republic. It was the first to install a horse-drawn tram service, which began on August 17, 1869. Its route ran to Lažanskýplatz (now called Moravské náměstí, or Moravian Square) in the north of the city center, which was still at the time an independent municipality known as Královo Pole. Its operator was the 'Brno Tramway Society' for passenger and cargo transportation. Initially there were only six cars available and gradually company bought a total of 57 passenger carriages. There was an interruption in horse-drawn tram service between 1875 and 1877.
The second horse tram
The company known today as Brno Tramway was launched in June 1876, with its first route running from the main station to Pisárky. A short while after that, a second route was launched. Both routes were operated only during the summer months.
The steam tram
Steam trams began operation in the system in 1884, under the name Steam Tramway Brno. In the 1900s, the conversion from steam to electrical power began, but steam locomotives were still used, until 1914, to transport goods.
The beginning of the electric tram
The first of the electric rail lines in Brno were put into operation on 21 June 1900. These new lines included 41 railcars and 41 trailers; the latter acquired as many as 12 vehicles from the existing steam trains. These electric lines were operated by the Company Brno. While many other areas transitioned to electric, Brno's steam-powered trams were very efficient and it was more cost-effective to keep the technology unchanged. Cities with less established tram systems were considerably faster in terms of moving to electric power, including Prague and a number of other smaller towns such as Teplice, Liberec, and Olomouc.
Within the first year of operation several new lines were constructed, and soon a total of five lines were offered as part of the system. In 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Chapman%20%28CPSR%29 | Gary Chapman (1952 – 14 December 2010) was the first executive director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).
Chapman lectured at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas where he was Director of The 21st Century Project.
He was the last recipient of the Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility when the CPSR was dissolved in May 2013.
He died of a heart attack while on a kayaking trip in Guatemala.
Bibliography
References
1952 births
2010 deaths
American ethicists
University of Texas at Austin faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%2024%20%28Bangladeshi%20TV%20channel%29 | Channel 24 () is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel airing programming relating to news and current affairs, owned by Times Media Limited, a subsidiary of the Ha-meem Group. The channel was launched on 24 May 2012 initially as a mixed entertainment channel, before moving to solely airing news programming.
History
Channel 24 was granted a license to broadcast in February 2010 by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. It began test transmissions on 22 August 2011. Although initially planning to do so in December of that year, it officially commenced transmissions on 24 May 2012.
Originally, its programming line was diversified, consisting of drama, news, television films, music, sports, talk shows, and many more. It also offered programming targeted towards viewers in Chittagong, which is broadcast from the city. It later changed its focus to mostly airing news and current affairs programming. Within two years of its launch, Channel 24 became the top news channel in Bangladesh. Channel 24 was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with Bdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called Prism in May 2016. The channel was the first in Bangladesh to introduce an AI news anchor, named 'Aparajita', who debuted on 19 July 2023.
Programming
Amar Joto Gaan
Beyond the Gallery: The daily sports program broadcast by the network. It focuses on local and international sports events, with special emphasis on cricket and football, daily events, special reports, analyses, and investigative reports.
Entertainment 24
Lifestyle 24
Mukhomukhi
Prosongo Rajniti
Sports 24
References
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels in Bangladesh
Mass media in Dhaka
24-hour television news channels in Bangladesh
2012 establishments in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20N.%20Schmitt | Michael N. Schmitt is an American international law scholar specializing in international humanitarian law, use of force issues, and the international law applicable to cyberspace. He is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Reading, the G. Norman Lieber Distinguished Scholar at the Lieber Institute of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the Charles H. Stockton Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the US Naval War College.
Education
He has a D.Litt. from Durham University; LL.M. from Yale Law School; JD from the University of Texas Law School; MA from the Naval War College; and an MA and BA from Texas State University.
Career
From 1979–99, Schmitt served in the United States Air Force as a judge advocate. He graduated first in class from the Naval War College in 1996, and his operational law experience includes service in both Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Northern Watch. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of International Law at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, eventually becoming Dean. He was subsequently Chair of Public International Law at Durham University and at the University of Exeter. He returned to the Naval War College as Chairman of the Stockton Center and Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law in 2011. Schmitt retired from the Naval War College in 2019 and is now Professor Emeritus at the institution. In 2020, he joined the faculty of the University of Reading School of Law.
In addition to his position at the University of Reading, he is G. Norman Lieberman Distinguished Scholar at West Point, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Texas, Charles H. Stockton Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the United States Naval War College's Stockton Center for International Law, and Senior Fellow at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Schmitt serves as General Editor of Oxford University Press' Lieber Studies series, and he is Editor Emeritus of International Law Studies, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He sits on the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Schmitt serves as Director of Legal Affairs for Cyber Law International, which offers international cyber law capacity-building seminars for government officials around the world. Its programs are sponsored by numerous nations and international organizations and certified as Executive Education by the University of Reading. The firm also engages in cyber law and conflict law consultancy.
International recognition
Schmitt is internationally known for his work in directing the 7+ year project leading to publication of the two Tallinn Manuals dealing with the international law applicable to cyberspace. In 2017 he was awarded the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana by the President of Estoni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20stealing | In parallel computing, work stealing is a scheduling strategy for multithreaded computer programs. It solves the problem of executing a dynamically multithreaded computation, one that can "spawn" new threads of execution, on a statically multithreaded computer, with a fixed number of processors (or cores). It does so efficiently in terms of execution time, memory usage, and inter-processor communication.
In a work stealing scheduler, each processor in a computer system has a queue of work items (computational tasks, threads) to perform. Each work item consists of a series of instructions, to be executed sequentially, but in the course of its execution, a work item may also spawn new work items that can feasibly be executed in parallel with its other work. These new items are initially put on the queue of the processor executing the work item. When a processor runs out of work, it looks at the queues of the other processors and "steals" their work items. In effect, work stealing distributes the scheduling work over idle processors, and as long as all processors have work to do, no scheduling overhead occurs.
Work stealing contrasts with work sharing, another popular scheduling approach for dynamic multithreading, where each work item is scheduled onto a processor when it is spawned. Compared to this approach, work stealing reduces the amount of process migration between processors, because no such migration occurs when all processors have work to do.
The idea of work stealing goes back to the implementation of the Multilisp programming language and work on parallel functional programming languages in the 1980s. It is employed in the scheduler for the Cilk programming language, the Java fork/join framework, the .NET Task Parallel Library, and the Rust Tokio runtime.
Execution model
Work stealing is designed for a "strict" fork–join model of parallel computation, which means that a computation can be viewed as a directed acyclic graph with a single source (start of computation) and a single sink (end of computation). Each node in this graph represents either a fork or a join. Forks produce multiple logically parallel computations, variously called "threads" or "strands". Edges represent serial computation.
As an example, consider the following trivial fork–join program in Cilk-like syntax:
function f(a, b):
c ← fork g(a)
d ← h(b)
join
return c + d
function g(a):
return a × 2
function h(a):
b ← fork g(a)
c ← a + 1
join
return b + c
The function call gives rise to the following computation graph:
In the graph, when two edges leave a node, the computations represented by the edge labels are logically parallel: they may be performed either in parallel, or sequentially. The computation may only proceed past a join node when the computations represented by its incoming edges are complete. The work of a scheduler, now, is to assign the computations (edges) to processors in a way that makes the en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberoam | Cyberoam Technologies, a Sophos subsidiary, is a global network security appliances provider, with presence in more than 125 countries.
Business field
The company offers user identity-based network security in its firewalls and Unified Threat Management appliances, allowing visibility and granular control of users' activities in business networks. For SOHO, SMB and large enterprise networks, this ensures security built around the user for protection against APTs, insider threats, malware, hackers, and other sophisticated network attacks.
Cyberoam has sales offices in North America, EMEA and APAC. The company has customer support and development centers in India with 550+ employees around the globe. It has a channel-centric approach for its sales with a global network of 4500+ partners. The company also conducts training programs for its customers and partners.
Product overview
Cyberoam’s product range offers network security (Firewall and UTM appliances), centralized security management (Cyberoam Central Console appliances), centralized visibility (Cyberoam iView ), and Cyberoam NetGenie for home and small office networks.
Cyberoam network security appliances include multiple features like Firewall – VPN (SSL VPN and IPSec), Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Anti-Spam, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Content and Application Filtering, Web Application Firewall, Application Visibility and Control, Bandwidth Management, Multiple Link Management for Load Balancing and Gateway Failover, over a single platform.
Identity based security Layer-8 technology
Cyberoam's Layer 8 Technology also known as Identity based Security, adds an 8th Layer (HUMAN layer) in the network protocol stack, thereby considering user’s identity as part of the firewall rule matching criteria. Cyberoam attaches user identity to security while authenticating, authorizing and auditing (AAA), the network allowing a network administrator to see and control the ‘user’ on a network instead of just an IP address. This enables the administrators to identify users, control Internet activity of users in the network, set user based policies and reporting by username.
Cyberoam security training academy
Cyberoam has tied up with NESCOT (North East Surrey College of Technology) – its first Master UK Training Academy. NESCOT offers Cyberoam certified security courses which includes basic-level course namely 'CCNSP' (Cyberoam Certified Security Professional) and advanced-level course namely 'CCNSE' (Cyberoam Certified Security Expert).
Security flaw in HTTPS traffic inspection
A Tor Project researcher and a Google software security engineer revealed in July 2012 that all Cyberoam appliances with SSL traffic inspection capabilities had been using the same self-generated CA certificate by default.
This made it possible to intercept traffic from any victim of a Cyberoam device with any other Cyberoam device or, indeed, to extract the key from the device and import it into othe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda%20una%20dama | Toda una dama (English title:Quite a Lady) is a Venezuelan telenovela produced and broadcast by the RCTV network in 2007. It is an adaptation by Iris Dubs of the telenovela Señora, originally by the writer José Ignacio Cabrujas and broadcast by the same network between 1988 and 1989.
It stars Christina Dieckmann and Ricardo Álamo, along with Nohely Arteaga and Roberto Messuti in secondary roles.
It was the first telenovela made by RCTV after its release on the open signal in 2007. It premiered on November 7, 2007 at 10:00 p.m. m.. She was transferred at 9:00 p.m. m.. from December 18, 2007 at the end of Mi prima Ciela. When starting La Trepadora was moved again at 10:00 p.m. m.. and ended on July 13, 2008 with excellent ratings.
Story
Valeria Aguirre's life has never been easy ; she grew up as an orphan, not knowing anything about her origins, and as she got older, she got into trouble with the law because of her lack of finances. At eighteen, she is arrested for a minor shoplifting and ends up spending several years in jail, all because of Miguel Reyes, the prosecutor who took her case to court. Seven years later, a strange woman named Encarnación visits Valeria and tells her that she is the sister of Engracia (who is sick), the woman who raised her during her first years of life, she also visits Miguel and asks him to repair her injustice, unfortunately. a tragedy occurs, Marilyn, a violent prisoner decides to take revenge on Valeria for stabbing her and after a fight Valeria is temporarily blinded and Miguel, feeling guilty, visits her several times until he sets her free, on one of those visits Valeria falls in love with him for not being able to see it. After several situations (among them discovering that Dr. Diego is Miguel) she manages to be happy but only for a while since Engracia dies leaving her a role with a female name in which is the supposed key to her past, and with only that information she decides to find out his past. While she does so, several misadventures occur, including getting involved in a crime by accident, the death of Miguel's wife. However, Miguel, for his part, cannot forget Valeria and the two end up starting a stormy relationship full of misadventures. On the other hand, Imperio Laya De Trujillo, a powerful, irresistible and unscrupulous woman, hides a secret from her past. Obsessed with Miguel, she is willing to do anything to conquer him, so Valeria is an obstacle for her. Ignacio Caballero, who is Empire's lover, leaves her to follow the object of her desire: Valeria. Abandoned by Ignacio and scorned by Miguel, Imperio's fury will be ruthless and cruel, and Valeria will lose everything but her dignity and her soul to discover the truth of her mysterious past, Imperio will try to destroy Valeria even after discovering that Valeria is the daughter he believed dead several years ago. At the age of 16, Imperio was practically sold to a man much older than her by her family, who abused her both psychologically a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Brass | Andrew M. Brass is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in the Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Life Sciences.
Education
Brass was educated at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his PhD on Solid-state physics in 1987.
Research
Following his PhD, Brass worked at McMaster University in Canada on a NATO fellowship to study aspects of high-temperature superconductivity and strongly coupled electron systems. In 1990 he moved to the University of Manchester to become a founding member of the bioinformatics group, where he has a wide range of projects in protein function prediction, gene expression analysis, intelligent integration, automated curation, and bioinformatics education.
References
British bioinformaticians
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia%20Fitzgerald | Celia Fitzgerald is fictional character from The Online Network reboot of soap opera drama series All My Children. Celia has been portrayed by Jordan Lane Price since the revival's debut episode on April 29, 2013.
Casting
Following the announcement that Prospect Park would reboot All My Children as a web series, it was reported that actress Jordan Lane Price was cast in the role of an aged Miranda Montgomery. It was later confirmed that Price was cast as the new character of Celia Fitzgerald, and that the role of Miranda would be played by Denyse Tontz. Price first appeared in the contract role when the series premiered on April 29, 2013.
Development
Introduction
Celia Fitzgerald first appears bumping into Pete Cortlandt (Robert Scott Wilson) on the street on April 29, 2013. Celia was a former student at Bramwell Hall before she remained there to teach art history after her high school graduation. In addition to teaching at Bramwell, Celia also volunteered at the Miranda Center. Her volunteer work including passing out condoms until her guardian, a man whose identity she did not know, forbade it. The message was passed from her guardian to her via Evelyn Johnson, the woman that oversaw the girls at Bramwell and had raised Celia since her parents' deaths years ago. Under the orders of Celia's guardian, Evelyn closely managed Celia's activities. Celia was allowed to continue her work with the Miranda Center but from an administrative support position instead. However when she develops a crush on Pete Cortlandt (Robert Scott Wilson), Evelyn does not approve of Celia's involvement with Pete and planned to take Celia out of the country. Instead, Pete and Celia escaped to New York City.
Relationship with Pete Cortlandt
Upon her debut and pending relationship, Omar White-Nobles of TVSource Magazine referred to Pete and Celia's relationship as a high point for the series, noting "Jordan Lane Price and Rob Wilson have good, natural chemistry. I could see them turning into something big." When Pete and Celia escaped to New York City the two shared a hotel room but Celia was not comfortable sharing a bed and admitted that she was a virgin. Pete insisted that he respected Celia. They return to Pine Valley because of Pete's work causing her believe that dating a successful entrepreneur like himself was too much for her. Celia decided to end her relationship with Pete even after he professed his love for her.
Jillian Bowe confirmed that Brooke Newton's Colby would cause problems for Celia due to Pete's past crush on Colby. When Pete slept with his friend Colby Chandler after Celia ended the relationship, Celia was convinced that she had made the correct decision. Colby flaunted her sexual relationship with Pete to Celia while the women worked together on a charity gala benefiting the Miranda Center hosted by Chandler Media. Each time Pete ran into Celia, he insisted that he only cared for her and denied any involvement with Colby. Meanwhile, Colby added |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20area%20network | An Internet area network (IAN) is a concept for a communications network that connects voice and data endpoints within a cloud environment over IP, replacing an existing local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) or the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
Overview
An IAN securely connects endpoints through the public Internet, so that they can communicate and exchange information and data without being tied to a physical location.
The IAN eliminates a geographic profile for the network entirely because the applications and communications services have become virtualized. Endpoints need to be connected only over a broadband connection across the Internet. Opposed to IAN, LAN interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, a school, a computer laboratory or an office building. The WAN also differs from the IAN, because it is a network that covers a broad area, such as any telecommunications network that links across metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries, using private or public network transports.
Hosted in the cloud by a managed services provider, an IAN platform offers users secure access to information from anywhere, at any time, via an Internet connection. Users also have access to telephony, voicemail, e-mail, and fax services from any connected endpoint. For businesses, the hosted model reduces IT and communications expenses, protects against loss of data and disaster downtime, while realizing a greater return on their invested resources through increased employee productivity and reduction in telecom costs.
History
The IAN is rooted in the rise of cloud computing, the underlying concept of which dates back to the 1950s; when large-scale mainframes became available in academia and corporations, accessible via thin clients and terminal computers. Because it was costly to buy a mainframe, it became important to find ways to get the greatest return on the investment in them, allowing multiple users to share both the physical access to the computer from multiple terminals as well as to share the CPU time, eliminating periods of inactivity, which became known in the industry as time-sharing.
The increasing demand and use of computers in universities and research labs in the late 1960s generated the need to provide high-speed interconnections between computer systems. A 1970 report from the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory detailing the growth of their "Octopus" network gave a good indication of the situation.
As computers became more prevalent, scientists and technologists explored ways to make large-scale computing power available to more users through time sharing, experimenting with algorithms to provide the optimal use of the infrastructure, platform and applications with prioritized access to the CPU and efficiency for the end users.
John McCarthy opined in the 1960s that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility.". Almost all the modern-day characteristics of cloud computing (elastic provi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And%20Then%20There%20Was%20One%20%281994%20film%29 | And Then There was One is a 1994 television film directed by David Jones and starring Amy Madigan and Dennis Boutsikaris. The film first aired on the Lifetime Television network on March 9, 1994.
Premise
Roxy and Vinnie Ventola are a successful television screenwriting couple, who are struggling to conceive a child. Aside from that the couple have the perfect, happy marriage. After years of fertility treatments, the couple manage to conceive a daughter, Miranda, who falls ill with what is at first believed to be the flu, and then pneumonia. However, the underlying cause is soon revealed when the couple learn that their newborn has AIDS. Soon afterward, the two parents are also diagnosed with the virus. The film follows the family as they struggle to deal with the social, spiritual and physical tolls that the disease exacts on its sufferers.
Cast
Amy Madigan as Roxy Ventola
Dennis Boutsikaris as Vinnie Ventola
Jane Daly as Lorrie
Jennifer Hetrick as Janet
Martha Henry as Dr. Moore
Kenneth Welsh as David Burns
Richard Monette as Dr. Lloyd
Dawn Greenhalgh as Julia Sands
Henry Ramer as Roxy's dad
Pam Hyatt as Roxy's mom
Tabitha St. Germain as ICU nurse
Naz Edwards as Maternity nurse
Nancy Anne Sakovich as Lena Burns
Corey Sevier as Grim Reaper
Background
The film stars Amy Madigan as Roxy Ventola, Dennis Boutsikaris as Vinnie Ventola, and Jane Daly as Lorrie. Other cast members in the film include Jennifer Hetrick as Janet, Martha Henry as Dr. Moore, and Kenneth Welsh as David Burns. The film's production companies were Freyda Rothstein Productions and Hearst Entertainment Productions.
Based on real events, the film follows the story of two Los Angeles-based screenwriters who had attended a fertility clinic in order to conceive a child, before HIV testing became routine. The couple's implant was successful, but the family discovered they had the AIDS virus. Vinnie Ventola died in 1991, and the baby Miranda died of the disease only a day later. Roxy Ventola was a co-producer of And Then There was One and she remarried in 1993, to AIDS activist Matthew McGrath, before dying from AIDS on November 14, 1994.
She had become an activist herself and a successful advocate for peer counseling and peer support programs. She was president of the Board of Women at Risk, a support service for women with HIV/AIDS; a co-founding member of Women Alive, a peer group run by and for women volunteers with HIV/AIDS; a founding member of Friends for Life, a support service for heterosexuals with HIV/AIDS; and an active member of ACT UP/LA. Her play, After the Bomb, which was about a post-AIDS world, was produced in the spring of 1994, at Open Fist Theater in Los Angeles. She performed in the Michael Kerns play, "AIDS, US Women: Silent NO More."
Madigan was the winner of the CableACE award for "Actress in a Movie or Miniseries" for her performance in And Then There was One. In her acceptance speech she gave tribute to the Ventola family and mentioned th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch%20%28programming%20language%29 | Hopscotch is a visual programming language developed by Hopscotch Technologies, designed to allow young or beginner programmers to develop simple projects. It's simple UI allows its users to drag and drop blocks to create scripts that can be played when activated. The use of the language is through an iPad or iPhone supporting Hopscotch.
Software development
The idea sprang from an existing programming tool, Scratch, where the user drags blocks to create a script. The developers of Hopscotch wanted to take a step back from Scratch, making it slightly easier to grasp and use the concepts. Hopscotch's notion of events, and rules combining conditions with actions, is similar to AgentSheets.
Hopscotch includes basic programming blocks and functionalities such as variables, sprites (called objects) and text objects, but also features considered more advanced such as self-variables, maths functions and more.
Editor
The Hopscotch app uses a block based programming UI. Most code blocks can have numeric, text, or math inputs, allowing for both static and dynamic outputs. The editor work area is based on a grid divided into X and Y-coordinates.
Editor history
The Hopscotch Editor is available on iPhone and iPad. The iPhone version only supported viewing projects until early 2016, when an update supporting editing and account functionality was released. The Hopscotch iPhone projects play in an iPhone format even on the iPad and web player. A version for Android is not planned for release (as of 2021)
Event Blocks
Event blocks are conditional triggers that activate when a specific set of parameters is reached, triggering any associated Code blocks within the activated Event block. As of September 26 2023, Hopscotch contains 40 Event blocks, including interactions, comparisons, and collision detection.
Code blocks
Code blocks are individual actions triggered upon the activation of Event blocks, activated in descending order. Code blocks fall into six categories: Abilities, Movement, Looks & Sounds, Drawing, Variables, and Controls. Abilities are containers for Code blocks, creating a function which can be duplicated and reused within a project. Movement blocks control the positioning and rotation of objects. Looks & Sounds blocks control the scale and appearance of objects, text manipulation, sound playback, and transparency of objects. Drawing blocks paint preset colors to the background layer of a project, with additional options for stroke width and RGB/HSB support for custom colors. Variable blocks handle data storage and modification, with support for strings and numerical inputs. Control blocks provide miscellaneous functionality, such as if/else conditionals, message passing, and waiting a set amount of time.
Player
In-app player
The Hopscotch player activates the blocks in the scripts upon activation of their individual triggers.
Webplayer
The player is also available on the web (known as the "Webplayer"). The web player brings Hopscot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery%20simulator | A surgery simulator is computer technology developed to simulate surgical procedures for the purpose of training medical professionals, without the need of a patient, cadaver or animal. The concept goes back to the 1980s with video games, but only in the 1990s with three-dimensional graphics and the 2000s with the use of motion sensors for realistic movements (motion control) has the technology been able to simulate the real situation. The most common type of surgery taught through this method is laparoscopic surgery, although it has also been used to do a trial run before other kinds of procedures. Cataract surgery and other ophthalmic procedures are also widely taught using surgical simulators.
Uses
Surgery simulators are generally used to train medical students and surgeons in specific types of procedures without the use of animals or cadavers before working with live patients. They are best suited for two types of skills needed for surgery, eye–hand coordination and the ability to perform three-dimensional actions using a two-dimensional screen as a guide. Eye-hand coordination is improved because the simulation can give both visual feedback, by way of a screen, as well as tactile feedback that simulates the manipulation of organs and tissue.
This kind of virtual reality is most often used in the training of surgeons in laparoscopic procedures, as in reality it is not possible to see the operation being performed. The simulator uses a computer screen displaying a three-dimensional graphic of the organs being operated on. Various surgical tools or gloves are connected to motion sensors and haptic or tactile feedback mechanisms where the user can physically feel the difference in simulated tissue and organs. The user can "perform surgery" upon the virtual organs by manipulating the tools, which are also displayed on the screen as the user moves them, and the tools also provide force-feedback and collision detection to indicate to the user when they are pushing on or moving some organs or tissue. By inputting data from computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans the patient can be replicated in the virtual environment. The simulations can also provide more intensive training activity with the introduction of rare pathological cases and complications.
However, the use of these simulators has its limitations. While significant gains have been seen with their use in novices, their effectiveness diminishes as the procedure is repeated with students reaching a plateau. For more experienced surgeons, the use of these simulators have had very limited use.
Development of the technology
Virtual surgery as a means to simulate procedures and train surgeons grew out of the video game industry. Video games for entertainment has been one of the largest industries in the world for some time. However, as early as the 1980s, companies such as Atari began working on ideas of how to use these video environments for training people i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20television%20networks | Islamic television networks are thematic channels that have developed across the world in response to various Muslim audiences’ preferences. An Islamic television network may be considered a form of alternative media that appeals to some Muslims’ socio-religious values.
Historical Context
During the launch of TV broadcasting in the 1950s and 1960s, many Islamic programs were created. Many scholars identify the Islamic Iranian Revolution in 1979 as another factor that accelerated the growth of Islamic programming. The emergence of the Arab satellite TV landscape contributed to an exponential increase in Islamic networks and programming since the 1990s. While many Islamic television networks are owned by Arab Muslims, other Islamic television networks exhibit considerable diversity in terms of the ethnicity, language, and madhhab (schools of thought). Increased Internet access in the 2000s enabled online Islamic television networks gain popularity almost globally.
Some imams are interested in using the Internet and satellite media as platforms through which they may develop a more direct and widespread connection with their audience. Prior to the emergence of Islamic satellite networks, most imams in the Arab world had no official satellite media platform. They mainly spread their ideas through delivering sermons at mosques, which were often recorded and distributed as cassette tapes, cds, and books. In addition to Sunni and Sunni-Salafist stations, there are a number of Islamic television stations in other languages, such as Persian, which often cater to Shi’a audiences.
Most Sunni and Sunni-Salafi Islamic television programs are hosted by imams who are not affiliated with Al-Azhar University. Al-Azhar scholars often debate and critique aspects of Islamic television stations. Some Islamic satellite stations are considered Salafi or Wahabi in orientation. These programs tend to enjoy greater popularity amongst middle class Muslims in the Arab world, especially those who have lived in or emigrated to Arab States of the Persian Gulf countries. For Muslim minority and immigrant communities, Islamic television channels can help individuals cultivate a sense of Pan-Islamic identity.
Islamic television networks deal with a wide variety of issues related to the diverse ways in which Islam is practiced globally, and should be distinguished from Islamist television stations. An Islamist television station denotes a station that is perceived as espousing “fundamentalist” or “extremist” religious interpretations.
Growth
“Iqraa” was the first Arab Islamic television network launched by the Saudi businessman Saleh Abdullah Kamel in 1998 as part of the Arab Radio and Television Network (ART). Within three years, at least 27 new Islamic satellite networks were established, leading many to postulate that a palpable “phenomenon of religious channels” was appearing.
This phenomenon has since grown, with more than 80 Islamic television networks in exis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build%20Your%20Own%20Z80%20Computer | Build Your Own Z80 Computer: design guidelines and application notes is a book written by Steve Ciarcia, published in 1981 by McGraw-Hill.
The book explains step-by-step the process of building a computer from the ground up, using the Zilog Z80 8-bit Microprocessors, including building a power supply, keyboard, and interfaces to a CRT terminal and tape drive.
References
External links
Z8.info Support Pages
Home-Built Z-80 Computer
Build Your Own Z80 Computer: design guidelines and application notes by archive.org
Z-80 Space-Time Productions Single Board Computer
brainwagon » Build Your Own Z80 Computer
Blake's Conflabatorium | Z80 Microcomputer
Commodore Free Issue 67
1981 non-fiction books
Computer books
Electronics books
DIY culture
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hoofnagle | Chris Jay Hoofnagle is an American professor at the University of California, Berkeley who teaches information privacy law, computer crime law, regulation of online privacy, internet law, and seminars on new technology. Hoofnagle has contributed to the privacy literature by writing privacy law legal reviews and conducting research on the privacy preferences of Americans. Notably, his research demonstrates that most Americans prefer not to be targeted online for advertising and despite claims to the contrary, young people care about privacy and take actions to protect it. Hoofnagle has written scholarly articles regarding identity theft, consumer privacy, U.S. and European privacy laws, and privacy policy suggestions.
Career
Hoofnagle is a professor and attorney at Gunderson Dettmer LLP. He has served as an advisor for several student projects at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. He advised Ashkan Soltani and his colleagues on their article "Flash Cookies and Privacy".
Hoofnagle and Soltani published a follow-up on this work in 2011 documenting the use of "HTTP ETags" to store persistent identifiers. This research was also published in the Harvard Policy Law Review as "Behavioral Advertising: The Offer You Cannot Refuse," and won the CPDP 2014 Multidisciplinary Privacy Research Award.
Privacy literature contributions
Identity theft
Today, most information regarding identity theft incidents is gathered from the victims whose identities are being stolen. As a result, many aspects regarding identity theft are still unknown. This is because of missing data on synthetic identity theft (situations of identity theft where victims aren't aware of the crime), the fact that most victims don't report identity theft to criminal authorities, and the fact that the FBI may decline to investigate identity theft cases due to lack of resources. In fact, less than one in 32 victims of identity theft file an official complaint on the issue.
Because of these issues, Hoofnagle argues that identity theft information should be gathered from financial institutions. Financial institutions are a central actor during identity theft crimes as they are the institution that imposters use to steal money, they undergo nonpayment after imposters steal money, and they recharge victims after nonpayment. Thus, financial institutions have the most interaction with the imposter, which makes them the best player to gather information about identity theft, according to Hoofnagle. Hoofnagle believes that financial institutions should be required to track the number of identity theft instances that taken place or been avoided, identify the targeted product of the thief, and report the loss suffered or avoided. He argues that these policies will garner more information regarding identity theft, helping institutions avoid the problem in the future.
Hoofnagle's research also discovered that larger institutions that focused on credit card accounts had relative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland%20Business%20Chamber | The Auckland Business Chamber (known as the Auckland Chamber of Commerce until 2018), is a New Zealand business network representing the interests of businesses in the Auckland region. It is a non-governmental organisation.
History
The Chamber was founded in 1856, at a meeting of merchants on 24 January, during a period of economic depression. Active in the 1860s, the Chamber floundered somewhat before an 1869 reorganisation that opened its ranks to a wider variety of merchants, on an annual subscription basis.
Following its inception it focused on issues ranging from remedying trade abuses and obtaining adequate facilities for businesses, to standardization of grain weights and simplifying the customs tariff.
Michael Barnett was the chief executive and spokesperson for the Chamber from 1991 until 2022.
Activities and services
The Chamber provides support to businesses, hosts events and training courses, and publishes business-related information. It advocates to government on behalf of its members.
References
External links
Official website
Summary of related articles on New Zealand Herald website
Summary of related articles on National Business Review website
Chambers of commerce
1856 establishments in New Zealand
Business organisations based in New Zealand
Organisations based in Auckland
Economy of Auckland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisstory | Kisstory is a British digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Kiss Network. Playing "old skool and anthems", it is a sister station to Kiss.
As of September 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 2.5 million listeners, according to RAJAR.
History
Kisstory is also a radio programme on Kiss that first aired and was presented by Streetboy on 28 Jan 2002. On 7 May 2013 Kisstory was expanded into a full-time station in response to positive feedback from listeners and at the expense of Q Radio. At the same time Kiss Fresh, a then brand-new station playing "non-stop new beats including Hip-Hop, R&B, EDM, House and Garage", was given its own station.
DAB availability
Initially, Kisstory was available over Freeview and online, but was unavailable via DAB radio receivers. In 2014, Bauer announced plans to roll out the Kisstory station over DAB digital radio to London and other areas.
Kisstory began DAB rollout in London on 12 December 2014 with the addition of the service (and sister station KissFresh) to the Greater London I multiplex.
The DAB service of Kisstory was rolled out to more areas of the country at the start of 2015, replacing Absolute Radio 60s in some areas (including Bauer's owned digital multiplexes in northern England) and added in new space on others; this formed part of a wider reshuffle of Bauer's digital offering, which also included the withdrawal of Kerrang! Radio from areas outside London, and the launch of Magic 105.4 FM as a national station over Digital One. Following the expanded rollout, the Kisstory station was available in areas including London, Birmingham, Cambridge, Dundee and Perth, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Humberside, Central Lancashire, Leeds, Liverpool, Kent, Northern Ireland, Nottingham, South Yorkshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Sussex, Swansea, Teesside and Tyne and Wear.
From 29 February 2016 the Kisstory station was made available in DAB more-widely across the UK with the launch of the second national commercial DAB multiplex, Sound Digital. Some of the local-level DAB slots vacated by Kisstory were taken over by sister station Kiss Fresh, principally in those areas where Bauer operated or co-operated the local DAB ensemble.
On 11 February 2019, Kisstory migrated from SDL to the more-widely available Digital One multiplex, taking up the space vacated by Absolute Radio 90s moving in the other direction a week prior.
Norway
In February 2016, Kisstory was launched in Norway. The station (which does not have any presenters/DJs, just non-stop music) is managed by local teams and is broadcast with Kiss in DAB+ (48 kbit/s).
References
External links
Bauer Radio
Radio stations in London
Radio stations established in 2013
2013 establishments in England
1990s-themed radio stations
Kiss Network
Digital-only radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUCEN | The European University Continuing Education Network, stylized eucen, is a multidisciplinary European association for University-based continued education. It was created in May 1991 and registered in Belgium as a non-governmental, non-profit organization.
History
In May 1991 the representatives of 15 European universities met in the University of Bristol (UK) to discuss the theme "Towards a European Universities Continuing Education Network". The represented universities were: Aalborg (DK), Aarhus (DK), Bordeaux (FR), Bristol (UK), Cambridge (UK), Exeter (UK), Galway (IE), Granada (ES), Hannover (DE), Leiden (NL), Liege (BE), Porto (PT), Oxford (UK), Pavia (IT) and Valladolid (ES). The participants at this initial meeting were invited to become the initial Full Members of eucen. The group decided that the main activities of eucen would be the exchange of information on strategies, regulations and techniques, establishing objectives and drawing up plans to meet them, enhancing international contacts, working towards setting standards of quality, agreeing routes to credit transfer and aiming at internationally recognised qualifications through Continuing Education. It was also agreed that an important role for eucen would be to inform policy makers and encourage them to decide on and set goals for Continuing Education development for the year 2000.
New members were accepted for first time in eucen's history at the General Assembly in Barcelona in May 1993. From that date, the number of partners and countries involved progressively increased. eucen decided to have two conferences per year and started developing important European projects (for example, TheNUCE).
In May 2000, the Association made a radical change in its organization, appointing professional staff and establishing the eucen's Secretariat in Barcelona (ES). In the following years, eucen evolved from being a volunteering network into becoming a wide European multidisciplinary network trying to bring consistency to the concept of University Lifelong Learning.
2004's Professions, Competence And Informal Learning wrote that as an organization eucen was "especially prolific in publication terms" and that their conference papers were particularly useful as review on European issues of continuing education, concluding that eucen had "opened up the European professional development research community to news of the rapid changes in the field arising from the deep-seated political, social, economic and educational transformations of these former Communist countries in the past 15 years." By 2009, eucen had representative organizations and universities from around 40 countries.
In 2020, eucen initiated UniLab, a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme under KA2 – Capacity Building in Higher Education aimed at updating study programmes in Russia, Belorussia and Azerbaijan by incorporating modern competencies and skills, expanding international cooperation between universities and busin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact%20Data | Exact Data helps small and medium sized businesses acquire customers cost effectively, by selling highly targeted consumer and business email, postal and phone audiences. Exact Data is based in Chicago, Illinois and has offices in Los Angeles, California and Deerfield Beach, Florida.
History
Exact Data was founded in 2001 with the name Custom Offers LLC. The company has operated under several names, including Mosaic Data Solutions and ConsumerBase LLC. The company was renamed Exact Data in 2013. Lawrence Organ is the current CEO.
Founded as Custom Offers LLC, 2001
Acquired by Mosaic Group, renamed Mosaic Data Solutions, 2002
Acquired by Organ Worldwide, renamed ConsumerBase LLC, 2003
Board of Advisors includes Gidon Cohen, Howard Breen, 2003
Headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. Office in Sterling, Virginia
Opened technical office in Donetsk, Ukraine 2007
Jack Kraft added to Board of Advisors, 2006
Jeff Taylor added to Board of Advisors, 2011
Ranked No. 1 in data card quality by NextMark, 2 quarters, 2011
Created ListFinder.com and NetPostmaster.com, 2011
Robert Blackwell added to Board of Advisors, 2012
Opened Chicago sales office, 2012
Created FastCount.com, 2012
Ranked No. 2,471 (No. 98 in Chicago) on the fifth annual Inc. 500/5000 List of the Nation's Fastest Growing Companies, 2011
Ranked No. 1,570 (No. 61 in Chicago) on the sixth annual Inc. 500/5000 List of the Nation's Fastest Growing Companies, 2012
Created ePostmaster.com, 2013
Ranked No. 1 in data card quality by NextMark, 4 quarters in a row, 2012
Launched proprietary B2B email and postal database, 2013
Acquired by Exact Data, merged with Statlistics, March 2013
Federal Trade Commission sends informal warning letter of possible Fair Credit Report Act Violation, May 2013
Exact Data mentioned on CBS' 60 Minutes Special, "The Data Brokers: Selling your personal information"
Ranked No. 3,816 Inc. 500/5000 List of the Nation's Fastest Growing Companies, 2014
Added social media sales department, 2014
Ranked No. 1 in data card quality by NextMark for 13 consecutive quarters, 2015
Los Angeles, CA Sales Office Opened, March 2018
Boca Raton, FL Sales Office Opened, May 2018
Florida Sales Office moved from Boca Raton to Deerfield Beach, 2019
Alerts.com CCPA/privacy compliance tool added to portfolio of products, 2019
Exact Data sources consumer and business data from a national database comprising approximately 210 million names, postal addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
Products and Services
Services include consumer and business mailing, email, and phone lists, modeling, and email marketing deployment and consultation.
FTC Warns of Possible Privacy Violations
On May 7, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission issued a release stating that a test-shopping sting operation through the FTC's Worldwide Privacy Protection Effort indicated that 10 companies, Exact Data ConsumerBase included, were willing to sell consumer information without abiding by the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership%20for%20Peace%20Consortium%20of%20Defense%20Academies%20and%20Security%20Studies%20Institutes | The Partnership for Peace Consortium is a network of over 800 defense academies and security studies institutes across 60 countries. Founded in 1998 during the NATO Summit, the PfPC was chartered to promote defense institution building and foster regional stability through multinational education and research, which the PfPC accomplishes via a network of educators and researchers. It is based at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. According to the PfPC Annual Report of 2012, in 2012 eight hundred defense academies and security studies institutes in 59 countries worked with the PfPC in 69 defense education/defense institution building and policy-relevant events. The Consortium publishes an academic quarterly journal CONNECTIONS in English and Russian. The journal is run by an international Editorial Board of experts and is distributed to over 1,000 institutions in 54 countries.
Background
The PfPC was founded in 1998 in response to the speech by United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen, "Toward a Cooperative Security Network for the 21st Century". The speech was delivered during the 12 June 1998 meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) defense ministers and similar sentiments were echoed in the concluding documents of the NATO and EAPC Summits on 24 and 25 April 1999. The PfPC was originally co-sponsored by the United States and Germany to work in the spirit of the Partnership for Peace Program "to strengthen defense and military education through enhanced national and institutional cooperation." Since its founding, the PfPC’s sponsorship has expanded, with contributions from numerous partner states and organizations. In the Canadian House of Commons in 2017, the PfPC's long contribution "in promoting stability, security, and democracy" was noted by the Honorable Wayne Easter, Liberal MP for Malpeque.
Upon its establishment, the PfPC was chartered with the following objectives:
Strengthen defense, military, and security policy education through enhanced national and institutional cooperation
Strengthen civilian and military leadership capabilities in national security and strategic-level military planning
Enhance multinational education through collaborative approaches linking defense practitioners, scholars, researchers, and experts into activity-based networks that facilitate the sharing of knowledge
Extend the scope of educational cooperation throughout the Euro-Atlantic region to include not only governmental defense academies and security studies institutes, but also other governmental, non-governmental, and private organizations whether they are institutes, agencies or universities
Increase the scope of the multinational research on critical issues confronting partner nations
Organization
The PfPC is governed by a Senior Advisory Council (SAC), with high level government representatives from Austria, Canada, Germany, NATO International Staff, Poland, Sweden, Switze |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Campbell%20%28blogger%29 | Stuart Campbell (born 1967) is a Scottish blogger, video game designer and former video game journalist. Born in Stirling, he moved to Bath in 1991 to work for computer magazine Amiga Power as a staff writer, where he gained attention for his video game reviews. He has lived in Somerset ever since, and made further contributions to a number of publications both within the video game industry and in the popular media.
A long-term supporter of Scottish independence, Campbell launched the political blog "Wings Over Scotland" in November 2011.
Early career
In 1988, Campbell won the UK National Computer Games Championship's ZX Spectrum category, having been a runner-up in the Scottish heats earlier that year. The event was organised by Newsfield Publications and the National Association of Boys' Clubs, with sponsorship from video game publisher US Gold. In late 1989, US Gold and Computer and Video Games magazine sponsored a team of UK players, which included Campbell, to take part in the European Video Games Championship at the Salon de la Micro show in Paris. The UK team won, beating out the French and Spanish competitors.
Using the prize fund from the first two competitions—£1,000 of computer hardware and US Gold software—Campbell was able to set up an independent videogame fanzine, Between Planets. Campbell maintained contact with US Gold's PR department, ensuring a steady stream of review material for the fanzine. Campbell's PR contact was also able to convince Ocean Software to send new games to the fanzine for review. With the cachet of legitimate journalism these contacts conferred, Campbell and Between Planets co-founder Simon Reid were able to convince other video game publishers to send them free review copies of their games. The fanzine ran to four issues; Campbell had sent issue three to Future Publishing, which hired him as a full-time staff writer for the Amiga games magazine Amiga Power.
Video game journalism
Campbell contributed to Amiga Power magazine from January 1991, before the magazine launched in April of that year, to May 1994, being promoted to various positions and culminating with deputising as its editor for ten issues between June 1993 and April 1994. Despite regularly professing his love for titles such as Rainbow Islands and Sensible Soccer, and compiling "top 100" lists, he is perhaps better known for his unreserved and often highly disparaging critiques. In 1993, he awarded the game International Rugby Challenge two marks out of a possible hundred, declaring that the Bosnian War was "Not nearly as bad."
Issues 27 to 36 of Amiga Power have subsequently been cited as belonging to "The Stuart Campbell Era". Campbell remained at the publication until issue 39, which is considered part of "The Jonathan Davies Era" in the chronology of AP.
In 1993, the magazine had to issue an apology during the Cannon Fodder Controversy after Campbell remarked "Old soldiers? I wish them all dead." A few months later Campbell left Amiga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge%20of%20the%20Assassin | Badge of the Assassin is a 1985 television film starring James Woods, Yaphet Kotto and Alex Rocco. It was directed by Mel Damski. The film first aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System network on November 2, 1985. The film's production company was Blatt-Singer Productions.
Plot
Three black revolutionaries (Anthony Bottom, Albert "Nuh" Washington, and Herman Bell) gun down two New York City police officers. The policemen were gunned down in cold blood by the self-styled terrorists, who first elude to the law and then, for want of crucial evidence, conviction for their crime. Assistant District Attorney, Robert Tanenbaum, the man responsible for bringing the three cop killers to justice leads a tireless nationwide investigation that moves to San Francisco, New Orleans and Mississippi and finally back to a climax in a New York City courtroom, during the desperate search for the killers. Tanenbaum is aided by his partner, a resourceful and equally determined detective, Cliff Fenton.
Cast
James Woods as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
Yaphet Kotto as Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD
Alex Rocco as Detective Bill Butler NYPD
David Harris as Lester Bertram Day
Steven Keats as Harold Skelton, Defense Attorney
Larry Riley as Herman Bell
Pam Grier as Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
Rae Dawn Chong as Christine Horn
Richard Bradford as L.J. Delsa
Kene Holliday as Albert Washington
Toni Kalem as Diane Piagentini
Tamu Blackwell as Gloria Lapp
Richard Brooks as Anthony 'Tony' Bottom
Akosua Busia as Ruth
Lewis Arquette as Foreman #1
Alan Blumenfeld as Charlie
Ernie Lively as U.S. Marshal
Ray Girardin as FBI Agent King
David Wohl as Ken Klein
Kelly Jo Minter as Rachel Torres
Noble Willingham as Airport Guard
Paul Perri as Joseph Piagentini
Henry G. Sanders as Foreman #2
Miguel Sandoval as Francisco Torres
John Brandon as Court Clerk #2
Production
Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, the telefilm, Badge of the Assassin, is based on the 1979 book of the same name – a true-crime account from the former district attorney and New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum and Philip Rosenberg. Woods played Tanenbaum in the film, whilst Tanenbaum was a co-executive producer. Writer Lawrence Roman transferred the book into a script for a television film. The film is an account of the detective work and prosecution that resulted in the convictions in 1975 of the Black Liberation Army members who, four years earlier, had shot to death two New York City police officers, Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini, in an unprovoked attack.
Reception
Sandra Brennan of Allmovie gave the film three out of five stars. Digiguide.tv gave the film three out of five stars. In the Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos, 1996, published by Dell Pub. on 1 August 1995, the film was given a four out of five star rating.
On November 1, 1985, the New York Times writer Lawrence Van Gelder reviewed the film under the article h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataMotion | DataMotion, Inc. is a privately held company based in Florham Park, NJ. The company was founded in 1999 by Mahesh Muchhala and Bob Janáček as a spin-off of SafetyNet.
Originally called CertifiedMail.com and based in Springfield, NJ, the company changed its name to DataMotion in October 2008. Corporate offices were moved to Morristown in 2004. The company also maintains an office in Portland, Oregon.
DataMotion provides secure information transport services and products to businesses, including email encryption, secure file transfer and secure electronic form delivery. It enables organizations to leverage no-code and low-code experiences to quickly and efficiently integrate secure data exchange into their workflows. The company sells its services and products primarily to entities with 100 employees or more, in industries including healthcare, financial services and government.
History
In September 2009 DataMotion was placed in the visionary quadrant of the 2009 Gartner File Transfer Magic Quadrant. In April 2010 the company announced a reseller partnership with EasyLink Services. EasyLink re-sold DataMotion SecureMail and other document delivery solutions.
In March 2011 an agreement with Jamcracker Services Delivery Network was announced, offering DataMotion SecureMail through Jamcracker's delivery network.
In April 2012 the company announced the second generation DataMotion Platform, making it available to systems integrators and solutions providers as well as enterprise end users. This platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provides a secure data delivery hub that can be leveraged for unified data delivery.
In October 2012 the company announced DataMotion Direct, a secure email service that enables healthcare industry organizations to integrate with the Direct Project. The Direct Project enables healthcare organizations and providers to comply with Meaningful Use Stage 2 data transfer requirements established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). DataMotion also began operations as a health information service provider (HISP) in October 2012.
All products are available as on-premises, SaaS (Software-as-a-service) or hybrid solutions.
Patents
Mr. Janacek and Mr. Muchhala filed for a patent in May 2000 for developing a method for secure transmission of a message via a network where a recipient of the message need not be a party to the network or maintain an active address in the network, US patent # 6684348. The patent was granted in 2004. This patent was the basis for the company's first product, self-provisioning email encryption.
On May 21, 2013, DataMotion was issued a second patent, US patent No. 8447967 for its system for the secure transmission of messages that may be included with existing automated message handling software applications.
Products
The company first introduced SaaS-based email encryption in 1999. An updated version of this product is still offered today as SecureMail Desktop. Several pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Rafsanjan | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Eslamiyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Rafsanjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,148, in 267 families.
References
Populated places in Rafsanjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetbank | The Streetbank is a UK-based network and Website that helps users share items with their neighbours which was launched in July 2010 by Sam Stephens and Ryan Davies in West London. Sam Stephens initially set it up to encourage neighbors to share items that they own but do not use every day, such as ladders, drills, and hedge cutters, as well as to "save money, cut down on waste, and reduce their carbon footprints". The purpose of Streetbank is to boost local communities by encouraging people to get to know their neighbours. Streetbank also allows its users to share advice, skills, language teaching, cooking, and DIY.
The website has 60,000 members worldwide. It had 15,000 members in September 2012. More than £1 million worth of skills and items had been listed on the site by October 2013. The organization has 300 members per square mile in West London, its busiest area.
In 2013, The Times listed the site as one of the "50 websites you can’t live without".
Accounts are free to set up. Once the account is set up the user will receive emails from other users living nearby. Users can offer items for free or to lend, or offer skills. Members can also make requests and provide information ("notices"). User can choose the size of their "neighbourhood" and can opt to receive messages from other users living within one, five or ten miles. After a user joins Streetbank, they receive a weekly newsletter about local announcements and new offers and wants.
History
The Streetbank was founded in 2010, as a not for profit organization. Founder Sam Stephens says he got the idea when he saw a neighbour using a pair of hedge cutters and realised he needed to borrow some.
In 2012 and 2013, Streetbank was awarded funding by Nesta.
In October 2013, Streetbank 2.0 was launched.
In 2014, Streetbank merged with Freeconomy, a similar organisation set up by Mark Boyle (the moneyless man). Mark continued as part of the Streetbank leadership team.
Press articles
Aljazeera "Local Hero: Sam Stephens ... founded Streetbank website with Ryan Davies in 2010, a "people's bank" for more sustainable existence".
The Huffington Post "Putting the 'Social' Back into Social Networks..."
Daily Candy "Borrow from, Lend to and Share with Your Neighbours"
London Evening Standard "Local website for neighbours who like to give and share"
The Big Issue "Streetbank shows that everyone can have good neighbours"
The Guardian "Students: where to find free stuff"
References
External links
Neighborhood associations
Sharing economy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks%20and%20Recreation%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of Parks and Recreation originally aired in the United States on the NBC television network, from September 26, 2013, with an hour long premiere, and concluded on April 24, 2014, with an hour-long finale. It premiered in its new Thursday 8:00 pm timeslot. This season consisted of 22 episodes. It stars Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O'Heir, and Retta. The show moved to Thursdays at 8:30 pm beginning with its 100th episode.
Much like the other seasons, Season 6 follows Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her co-workers in local government of fictional Indiana town, Pawnee. The season chronicles Leslie facing the recall vote from City Council, Ann Perkins's (Rashida Jones) and Chris Traeger's (Rob Lowe) move to Michigan to start their family, Andy Dwyer's (Chris Pratt) career in London, and the city merger of Eagleton and Pawnee, resulting in the Unity Concert organized by Leslie.
Cast
Main
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, the councilwoman for the town of Pawnee who loves her home town. She has not let politics dampen her optimism; her ultimate goal is to become President of the United States. Poehler departed from the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where she was a cast member for nearly seven years, to star in Parks and Recreation. It was only after she was cast that Daniels and Schur established the general concept of the show and the script for the pilot was written.
Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins, a nurse and political outsider who gradually becomes more involved in Pawnee government through her friendship with Leslie. Jones was among the first to be cast by Daniels and Schur in 2008, when the series was still being considered as a spin-off to The Office, where Jones had played Jim Halpert's girlfriend Karen Filippelli.
Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Leslie's sarcastic and underachieving subordinate, who eventually begins to consider leaving his city hall job to pursue his own entrepreneurial interests. As with Jones, Daniels and Schur had intended to cast Ansari from the earliest stages of the development of Parks and Recreation.
Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson, the deadpan parks and recreation director who, as a libertarian, believes in as small a government as possible. As such, Ron strives to make his department as ineffective as possible, and favors hiring employees who do not care about their jobs or are poor at them. Nevertheless, Ron consistently demonstrates that he secretly cares deeply about his co-workers.
Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate, a cynical and uninterested parks department intern who eventually becomes the perfect assistant for Ron. The role was written specifically for Plaza; after meeting her, casting director Allison Jones told Schur, "I just met the weirdest girl I've ever met in my life. You have to meet her and put her on your show."
Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer, a goofy and dim-witted but lovable slacker. Pratt was origi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/247Sports | 247Sports is an American network of websites that focus mainly on athletic recruitment in college football and basketball. It is owned and operated by Paramount.
The website hosts a large network of team-specific subsites, with each subsite being dedicated to a specific school. , there is a subsite for every NCAA Division I FBS team, as well as many notable NCAA Division I FCS teams from conferences such as the Big Sky Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, and Southland Conference.
History
The network was started in 2010 and gained popularity as other sports news media publications began citing 247Sports as a source. Early examples include the Dallas Morning News and The Washington Post. The site also provided special reports on recruiting to sports news media including Sports Illustrated.
In November 2012, 247Sports announced a content partnership with CBS Sports, in which 247Sports would provide content for its digital platforms (including CBSSports.com), and CBS Sports Digital would handle advertising sales for the site. In May 2013, 247Sports reached a long-term agreement to become the official online selection partner of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl and the U.S. Army National Combine, replacing its competitor Rivals.com. In December 2015, CBS announced that it had acquired 247Sports. As of 2022, 247Sports' content operations remain closely aligned with CBSSports.com. In addition, 247Sports personalities frequently appear as expert analysts on CBS Sports HQ.
In February 2017, 247Sports acquired Scout.com. In October 2017, 247Sports announced a partnership with Pro Football Focus, in which it would provide coverage of Division I FBS college football for the website, including a PFF College microsite and integration of its player grades and rankings across 247Sports.
In early 2020, 247Sports.com hired Columbus, Georgia native sportscaster Josh Pate to host a show on the 247Sports YouTube channel called "Late Kick Live". As of November 27, 2022, the Late Kick YouTube channel had 37,333,585 total views.
In August 2020, founder and CEO Shannon Terry left the company.
In Summer 2021, the company relocated from its original home in suburban Brentwood, Tennessee to downtown Nashville, where it now shares facilities with Paramount's CMT.
247Sports Composite
247Sports features two ratings for high school football and basketball recruits: its own in-house evaluations done by its scouting staff, and 247Sports Composite ratings. The Composite aggregates the public ratings for a prospect by the major recruiting services using a propriety algorithm. The Composite combines recruitment ratings from 247Sports' in-house ratings, Rivals.com, and ESPN in order to provide an overall rating for each recruit. The resulting rankings can be considered an industry consensus on the top recruits in the nation.
The Composite does not include any athletes that do not yet have a recruiting profile on 247Sports in order to prevent spoofs from other sites.
Rat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APOPT | APOPT (for Advanced Process OPTimizer) is a software package for solving large-scale optimization problems of any of these forms:
Linear programming (LP)
Quadratic programming (QP)
Quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP)
Nonlinear programming (NLP)
Mixed integer programming (MIP)
Mixed integer linear programming (MILP)
Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP)
Applications of the APOPT include chemical reactors,
friction stir welding, prevention of hydrate formation in deep-sea pipelines, computational biology, solid oxide fuel cells, and flight controls for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
Benchmark Testing
Standard benchmarks such as CUTEr and SBML curated models are used to test the performance of APOPT relative to solvers BPOPT, IPOPT, SNOPT, and MINOS. A combination of APOPT (Active Set SQP) and BPOPT (Interior Point Method) performed the best on 494 benchmark problems for solution speed and total fraction of problems solved.
See also
APOPT is supported in AMPL, APMonitor, Gekko, Julia, MATLAB, Pyomo, and Python.
References
External links
Web interface to solve optimization problems with the APOPT solver
Download APOPT for AMPL, MATLAB, Julia, Python, or APMonitor
Numerical software
Mathematical optimization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity%20plot | A parity plot is a scatterplot that compares a set of results from a computational model against benchmark data. Each point has coordinates (x, y), where x is a benchmark value and y is the corresponding value from the model.
A line of the equation y = x, representing perfect model performance, is sometimes added as a reference. Where the model successfully reproduces a benchmark, that point will lie on the line.
Parity plots are found in scientific papers and reports, when the author wishes to validate a model in a visual way. However, when the data have a wide range, the large scale makes important discrepancies invisible and the model appears better than it actually is. In that case, a plot of model errors [(y-x) vs. x] is better for evaluating the performance of the model.
See also
Q–Q plot
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20silico%20medicine | In silico medicine (also known as "computational medicine") is the application of in silico research to problems involving health and medicine. It is the direct use of computer simulation in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease. More specifically, in silico medicine is characterized by modeling, simulation, and visualization of biological and medical processes in computers with the goal of simulating real biological processes in a virtual environment.
History
The term in silico was first used in 1989 at a workshop "Cellular Automata: Theory and Applications" by a mathematician from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The term in silico radiation oncology, a precursor of generic in silico medicine was coined and first introduced by G. Stamatakos in Proceedings of the IEEE in 2002. The same researcher coined and introduced the more generic term in silico oncology. In silico medicine is considered an extension of previous work using mathematical models of biological systems. It became apparent that the techniques used to model biological systems has utility to explain and predict dynamics in the medical field. The first fields in medicine to use in silico modeling were genetics, physiology and biochemistry. The field saw a dramatic influx of data when the human genome was sequenced in the 1980s and 1990s. Concurrently the increase in available computational power allowed for modeling of complex systems that were previously impractical.
Rationale
There are numerous reasons why in silico medicine is used. For example, in silico medical modeling can allow for early prediction of success of a compound for a medicinal purpose and elucidate potential adverse effects early in the drug discovery process. In silico modeling can also provide a humane alternative to animal testing. It has been purported by a company in the field, that computer-aided models will make the use of testing on living organisms obsolete.
Examples
The term in silico medicine is exemplified in initiatives such as the Virtual Physiological Human by the European Commission and in institutes such as the VPH Institute and the INSIGNEO Institute at the University of Sheffield.
The In Silico Oncology Group (ISOG) at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical Institute of Athens (ICCS-NTUA) aims at developing clinically driven and oriented multiscale simulation models of malignant tumors (cancer) to be utilized as patient individualized decision support and treatment planning systems following completion of clinical adaptation and validation. An additional aim of the Group's research is to simulate oncological clinical trials which would otherwise be too costly or time intensive and to this direction, grid computing infrastructures have been exploited, such as the European Grid Infrastructure, to increase the performance and effectiveness of the simulations. ISOG has led the development of the first technologically integra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cp%C4%81rara%20Basin | The Ōpārara Basin is a basin drained by the Ōpārara River at north of Karamea, at the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand. With its large natural rock arches, a network of caves rich in fossils, and a beautiful, unspoiled natural environment typical of temperate rainforests, it is one of the most striking places of the Kahurangi National Park.
The Ōpārara Basin is also famous for its unique remains in paleozoology and for being the sole habitat of several plant and animal species.
History
With its natural environment relatively closed and isolated, the Ōpārara Basin has long been protected from human influence. However, the locations of natural rock arches have been indicated in maps as early as from the 1880s.
Logging of native timber in the area started in the late 19th century, with the building of the McCallum's sawmill. As the logging areas progressed to be further away from the sawmill, it became necessary to build an access road into the rugged environment. Eventually, maintenance costs and extensions of this road escalated, and after changes of ownership and a belated attempt at reforestation, the sawmill went bankrupt. Selective logging continued in the forest until it was banned in 2002.
At the time of the bankruptcy, a major campaign was launched to ensure the protection and enhancement of the basin, as well as road maintenance, culminating in the founding of the Ōpārara Valley Project Trust and the purchase of the area on 1 October 2004.
Miners and deer hunters have often reported spectacular rock formations in the Honeycomb Hill area, but it was not until an exploration of the Buller Caving Group in the 1980s that an inventory of the 70 entrances to 13 km of galleries located in the Honeycomb Hill Cave system was compiled. These explorations revealed the scientific significance of the cave system by discovering the largest collection of bird fossils ever found in New Zealand.
A six-year project to complete a 30 km network of walkways and mountain biking tracks was completed in 2009, opening up more of the Ōpārara Basin to tourists who would have originally only visited the Heaphy Track.
Several placenames in the area are inspired by The Lord of the Rings, such as Galadriel Creek, Nimrodel Creek, and Moria Gate Arch.
Geology and climate
The Ōpārara Basin resides on a foundation of 350 million year old granite, which was covered with a 15-60m thin layer of limestone approximately 35 million years ago. The surface layer consists of blue-grey mudstone.
The limestone layer has been extensively eroded by annual rainfall of up to 6m and the roots of the lush vegetation. Tectonic activity as well as changes in the level of the nearby sea have supported the appearance of unique geological formations. The basin currently contains many of the typical features found in a karst landscape, as well as some impressive rock arches and caves, and sites rich in limestone fossils.
Fauna of the past
The Ōpārara Basin i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales%20Academy | Thales Academy ( ) is a network of private non-sectarian community schools located primarily in central North Carolina. The school was founded in 2007 by Robert L. Luddy and graduated its first senior class in 2016 with three seniors. As of 2021, there are over 3600+ students stretched across 12 campuses mainly based in North Carolina, but also a campus located in Virginia and Tennessee.
The Pre-K–12 college preparatory school was named for the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often credited as the father of Greek Philosophy.
History
Thales Academy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit school, was established in 2007 by Robert L. Luddy, a North Carolina entrepreneur, educator, philanthropist, and founder of CaptiveAire Systems. Prior to Thales, Luddy founded Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, one of the state’s largest charter schools, and St. Thomas More Academy in Raleigh, an independent Catholic college preparatory school. Luddy founded Thales in an effort to create a model school to offer a higher quality education than local schools at a more affordable cost.
Since its founding, Thales Academy has opened eight locations, with more in development.
Locations
Current locations for Thales Academy are Clayton, Rolesville, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Raleigh, Apex, Wake Forest, and Waxhaw, North Carolina, with developing campuses in Cary, and Pittsboro. The newly constructed, two-story brick buildings consist of approximately 20 classrooms on 34,000 square feet (grades K–5 campuses) or 55,000 square feet (grades 6–12 campuses). The buildings feature Greek columns, polished concrete floors, large windows, and painted classical murals in hallways in an effort to instill “the importance of order and beauty.” K–5 campuses offer playgrounds with artificial turf. Junior high and high school campuses offer full-sized gymnasiums and auditoriums as well as outdoor soccer fields.
Education methods
Thales Academy uses a classical education method to educate its students. In grades K–5, the school uses a methodology known as Direct Instruction (DI). DI uses repetition and frequent assessment to verify student achievement before moving to the next lesson. Lessons are fast-paced with choral responses to maintain student engagement. In grades 6–12, DI is phased out as students begin to use the Socratic Method through education in the trivium. Classes are grouped by student ability, allowing for larger class sizes. As a college-preparatory school, Thales Academy offers a STEM-focused elective track called the “Luddy Institute of Technology,” which teaches pre-engineering classes for high school students.
References
External links
Private schools in North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriya%20al-Ghad | Suriya al-Ghad (Arabic سوريا الغد) was a television news channel associated with the Syrian opposition. The channel broadcast both online and on the Nilesat satellite network. The station shut down in 2022.
Founding
According to the website of the Dr. Mohamed AL Shabk Global Investment Group, the channel was launched in Paris in 2011. An article on the Al-An news site, however, identifies activists in Cairo as the channel's founders.
References
External links
Official Website
Arabic-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20law%20wiki | Comparative law wikis are wikis that allow users to create empirical cross-reference datasets for the analysis of the world's myriad legal systems.
Examples
Over the past decade, there have been several attempts to create a global legal wiki, though as of April 2017 none have gained primacy. Examples include the World Encyclopedia of Law, by LAWi and Wex, the online legal encyclopedia created by Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute. Parallel efforts to create crowdsourced data structures to map global legal/regulatory authorities include projects like Intellipedia, an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC).
Usefulness
Comparative law wikis are an efficient method of performing comparative legal analysis. Wikis are particularly useful for comparative global analysis because of the use with which sources from multiple jurisdictions can be gathered in one place. Crowdsourcing permits gathering up-to-date legal authorities from contributors who have local expertise, particularly knowledge of languages and administrative structures that background implementation of particular legal/regulatory norms.
Comparative law wikis can also be useful for comparative study in federal legal systems, such as in the U.S., where 50-state law surveys are particularly useful.
See also
American Society of Comparative Law
Wex
References
Comparative law
List
Legal systems
Lists of websites
Wiki communities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherie%20Mercado | Cherie Mercado-Santos (born April 21, 1972), is a Filipino broadcast journalist of Newscaster, Reporter and Television Host of GMA Network a former personality of ABS-CBN and TV5.
Career
With 24 years of experience as a writer, reporter, producer, host and anchor, Cherie worked for the top three networks in the Philippines beginning her careers a news reporter and researcher at GMA Broadcasting Corp., then as one of the best live on-the-scene reporters for ABS-CBN News, before finally signing with TV5.
Prior to joining TV5, she hosted ABS-CBN's Morning Show “Alas Singko Y’Medya”, “Magandang Umaga Bayan”, The Global News and her own lifestyle show on ANC, Coffee Talk with Cherie Mercado.
As a senior newscaster, she is a prominent figure in the news industry and well-respected for her poise, professionalism, great sense of style and hard-hitting news stories including her coverage of the Mindanao conflict.
She was chosen by Sky News Broadcasting in London to speak about the Philippines’ coverage of the Royal Wedding.
She was the solo host and anchor for CNN Konek, a local franchise of CNN Connect the World hosted by CNN's senior anchor Becky Anderson. It aired on AksyonTV every weeknight at 7:30-8:00pm.
She was also co-hosts a radio program with news personality Paolo Bediones entitled “Trabaho Lang with Paolo and Cherie”, which airs every weeknight on Radyo5, 92.3 News FM from 8:00-9:30pm.
She was the co-anchor of late-night newscast entitled Aksyon JournalisMO together with Jove Francisco and Martin Andanar.
She was also the co-anchor of the late newscast entitled Pilipinas News, replaced Aksyon JournalisMO, together with Jove Francisco and Paolo Bediones.
On July 21, 2014, Mercado was moved to noontime newscast Aksyon sa Tanghali together with Raffy Tulfo.
On July 15, 2016, Mercado left TV5, her home network for 12 years to become the spokesperson of the Department of Transportation (DOTR). Mercado later resigned in May 2017 due to her motherhood.
On February 12, 2018, Mercado joined CNN Philippines, as she takes over as a new anchor of the Evening Edition of Newsroom replaced Mitzi Borromeo.
On September 3, 2018, Mercado moved to Mid-morning Filipino newscast Newsroom Ngayon.
Personal life
Cherie is married to Mike Santos, a stockbroker, and they have two children, Christiana and Anabella.
Filmography
Television
Radio
Trabaho Lang! (2013–2014; 2015–2016) - Radyo5 92.3 News FM (now 92.3 Radyo5 True FM)
References
1972 births
Living people
Filipino television news anchors
Filipino radio journalists
People from Bulacan
ABS-CBN personalities
ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs people
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
News5 people
CNN people
Duterte administration personnel
Filipino women journalists
Women radio journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20system | A computer-based protocol system is a paradigm providing a set of tools which allow health care providers access to current guidelines which they can apply in practice. Studies have shown that protocols can aid in optimising patient care. There are two types of protocol systems: passive and active.
In a healthcare setting, a protocol, also called a medical guideline, is a set of instructions which describe a process to be followed to investigate a particular set of findings in a patient, or the method which should be followed to control a certain disease.
Protocol systems
Passive
Passive protocol systems are a source of information which health care providers have the freedom to choose to consult or not; they are not intrinsically incorporated into the healthcare process. The purpose of a passive protocol system is to give healthcare providers access to information which may remind healthcare providers of steps during patient care which may otherwise be forgotten or changed.
Active
Active protocol systems are specific guidelines for healthcare providers to follow. They are a central way which healthcare is delivered. Examples of active protocol systems include trigger-automated order entry systems and appointment scheduling. Active protocol systems may provide an explanation function which offers background information, definitions, risks, and the rationale that supports specific recommendations.
References
Health informatics
Medical terminology
Health care quality
Medical guidelines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany%20Eyewear | Epiphany Eyewear are smartglasses developed by Vergence Labs. The glasses record video stored within the glasses' hardware for live-stream upload to a computer or social media. The glasses use smartphone technology. The head mounted display is a mobile computer and a high-definition camera. The glasses take photographic images, record or stream video to a smartphone or computer tablet.
The style of the eyewear frames is similar to the basic designer-like frames made famous and worn by Buddy Holly. The multifunction plastic titanium framed glasses are controlled by pressing tactile buttons on the sidebar of the frame to activate the camera or determine the darkness of the sun glass lens. If a prescription eye glass lens is needed, a prescription lens with a Nominal Base Curve of 2 diopters can be installed by an optometrist.
Hardware
The eyewear are point of view shot (POV) video glasses with a computer inside the frames with multi-core processing, Wi-Fi and USB connectivity. The computer inside powers a high-definition camera to either take photographs or record motion picture video with sound. The eyewear software and apps allow integration with mobile devices to live-stream recordings and sound to social networks and YouGen.tv. The YouGen.tv website is an app platform provided and developed by Vergence Labs for Epiphany Eyewear users.
The built-in physical computer memory can store 8 GB, 16 GB or up to 32 GB of data. The power is supplied by a rechargeable lithium ion battery. Operations are powered by a tiny USB connection from the eyewear frames to a power source.
Vergence Labs acquisition
Snap Inc. acquired Vergence Labs, Inc. and its subsidiary Epiphany Eyewear in order to develop a product called Spectacles (product). Vergence Labs, Inc., the stockholders and Vergence Labs’ CEO Erick Miller as the stockholders’ agent, approved the stock purchase agreement and Vergence Labs, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Snapchat in early 2014.
Epiphany Eyewear were developed by Vergence Labs Co-Founder & CEO Erick Miller; Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer Jon Rodriguez, a former Facebook Engineer Peter Brook, Product Designer David Meisenholder who designed the GL-20 Polaroid video glasses for Lady Gaga, and a former Lenovo Global Product Marketing Manager Cory Grenier.
See also
Smartglasses
References
Augmented reality
Display technology
Eyewear
Wearable computers
Eyewear brands of the United States
Epiphany Eyewear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Lumia%20928 | The Nokia Lumia 928 is a high-end smartphone developed by Nokia that runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system. It was announced on May 10, 2013, as a Verizon-exclusive variant of the Nokia Lumia 920. It became available on May 16, 2013, on a two-year contract for $99.99 in the United States. It is exclusive to the U.S. and Canadian markets.
Key features
The main features of the Nokia Lumia include:
1280 x 768 AMOLED 334 PPI touchscreen display
8.7 MP PureView camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon Flash
Optical Image Stabilization
1080p HD video and photo recording
Availability
The phone was released for sale exclusively through Verizon in the United States for $99 with a 2-year contract or $500 with no contract. Currently, the phone is available for free with a 2-year contract. In other countries, the aluminum-made Nokia Lumia 925 is offered instead of 928, although the 925 is also available on T-Mobile US.
Reception
Armando Rodriguez from PC World wrote: "The Nokia Lumia 928 is excellent for capturing images in low-light environments, but the phone falls victim to Windows Phone's various shortcomings."
Alex Colon from PCMag wrote: "For $100, the Nokia Lumia 928 is a lot of phone, both literal and figurative. I do wish it were smaller still, like the just-announced Lumia 925, but you're getting plenty of bang for your buck here. The biggest question is how much you care about apps. The Lumia 928 is competitive in many ways with some of the best smartphones available, but it just can't keep up when it comes to apps."
See also
Microsoft Lumia
References
External links
Microsoft Lumia
Nokia smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2013
Discontinued smartphones
Windows Phone devices
PureView |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth season of the American reality television series Food Network Star premiered Sunday, June 2, 2013.
Season 8 chef mentors Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, and Alton Brown returned for season 9, but they were not assigned to a team, nor did they hold a final elimination challenge between the bottom contestants. Season 9 featured 12 contestants, just three short of the prior season.
Contestants
Winner
Damaris Phillips, 31, Culinary Teacher - Louisville, Kentucky
Runner-Up
Rodney Henry, 47, Pie Shop Owner - Baltimore, Maryland
Russell Jackson, 49, Underground Chef - San Francisco, California
Eliminated
(In order of elimination)
Daniela Perez-Reyes, 28, Caterer/Bartender - Haleiwa, Hawaii
Andres Guillama, 26, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coach - Waynesville, North Carolina
Danushka Lysek, 37, Private Chef/Model - New York City
Connie "Lovely" Jackson, 27, Caterer - Los Angeles, California (Returned to competition after winning Star Salvation)
Viet Pham, 33, Chef/Restaurant Owner - Salt Lake City, Utah
Chris Hodgson, 26, Chef/Restaurateur - Cleveland, Ohio
Chad Rosenthal, 37, Restaurant Owner - Ambler, Pennsylvania
Connie "Lovely" Jackson, 27, Caterer - Los Angeles, California
Nikki Dinki, 29, Food Blogger/Online Host - New York City
Stacey Poon-Kinney, 34, Restaurant Owner - San Diego, California
At least six competitors have appeared on other Food Network programs. Pham defeated Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America and also competed on Extreme Chef. Lysek and Henry appeared on Chopped; both were eliminated before the final round. Henry also appeared on Throwdown with Bobby Flay, while Lysek also won during an appearance on 24 Hour Restaurant Battle. Poon-Kinney appeared on Restaurant: Impossible, where Robert Irvine gave her family's restaurant a makeover. Hodgson competed on The Great Food Truck Race; his truck, Hodge Podge, was a runner-up on season 2.
Contestant progress
: Lovely won Star Salvation and returned to the competition, but was eliminated the same week she came back.
: Russell was eliminated from the final three midway through the finale.
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became the next "Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but could not make it.
(WIN) The contestant won the 'Star Challenge' for that week.
(SAFE) The contestant won 'immunity' from elimination by winning the Camera Challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's favorites for that week.
(IN) The contestant was neither one of the Selection Committee's favorites nor their least favorite. They were not up for elimination.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's two least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the Selection Committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Episode summarie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenophaga%20pseudoflava | Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava is a bacterium from the Comamonadaceae family.
References
External links
Type strain of Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Comamonadaceae
Bacteria described in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Elizabeth%20Mitchell | J. Elizabeth Mitchell (born June 29, 1969) is an American politician and health advocate from Maine. Since 2013, Mitchell has been the CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement. A Democrat, Mitchell served two terms (1994-1998) in the Maine House of Representatives representing the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine.
In 1994, Mitchell, at the age of 25, ran uncontested in both the Maine Democratic Party primary and the November general election for District 30. She replaced Anne Rand, who won a seat in the Maine Senate.
In March 2013, Mitchell was hired as the CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement. She had previously directed the Maine Health Management Coalition since its foundation in 2008.
Personal
Mitchel was born on June 29, 1969, in New Haven, Connecticut. She earned a B.A. in religion from Reed College in 1991.
References
1969 births
Living people
Politicians from Portland, Maine
Democratic Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Reed College alumni
Women state legislators in Maine
Politicians from New Haven, Connecticut
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup.io | Soup.io was an Austrian social networking and microblogging site.
History
Soup.io allowed the user to publish (editable in HTML) text, images, videos, links, quotes and reviews. It allowed users to share files (within the limit of 10 MB) and create events. Its interface followed the Keep it Simple, Stupid principle (KISS). By March of 2015, Soup.io had accumulated a monthly user base of almost 3.8 million.
In January 2017, Soup.io suffered data loss, and had to be restored over several weeks from a 2015 backup.
On 10 July 2020, a shutdown warning was sent to all users with less than 10 days notice, citing "high costs and low revenue streams", with a shutdown date of 20 July 2020.
Awards
1. Soup.io received an investment during Seedcamp 2008.
2. Soup.io was classified by the Guardian as one of the essential 100 websites of 2009.
3. Soup.io was named "Innovative IT-Challenger" by APA – IT in September 2009.
References
Microblogging software
Blog hosting services
Austrian social networking websites
Internet properties disestablished in 2020
Internet properties established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Breakfast%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | The Big Breakfast was an Australian children's breakfast television series presented by Tim Bailey that aired on Network Ten from 21 December 1992 until 5 July 1995. The series aired every weekday from 7:00am to 8:30am and later from 6:30am to 8:30am (same timeslots as several over Australian children's breakfast television series such as Cheez TV and Agro's Cartoon Connection) and featured competitions, music videos and cartoons such as X-Men, Biker Mice from Mars, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Dungeons & Dragons, Bobby's World, The Incredible Hulk, Speed Racer, Eek! The Cat, The Transformers, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Mighty Mouse and Friends, Bionic Six, Casper and Friends, The Adventures of T-Rex, Alvin and the Chipmunks (Ruby Spears version), Fievel's American Tails, Piggsburg Pigs!, Back to the Future, Garfield and Friends, Transformers: Generation 2, Exo-Squad, Conan the Adventurer, Peter Pan and the Pirates, Little Wizards, Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!, Capitol Critters and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and a few live-action shows such as the American sitcoms Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, the very first The Lone Ranger TV series and the American children's super hero series Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad as well as the Australian children's wildlife series Totally Wild in which Bailey also presented.
The show ended on 5 July 1995 and was then replaced by Cheez TV another Australian children's morning series that also showed cartoons.
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
Television shows set in Sydney
English-language television shows
1992 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
Breakfast television in Australia
Australian music television series
Australian preschool education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%207%29 | The sixth season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block: Sky High, premiered on Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 6:30 pm on the Nine Network. Scott Cam (host) and Shelley Craft (Challenge Master) returned from the previous season, as did the three judges: Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer. Production for the series returned to Melbourne, which was the location for the fourth and fifth seasons, in the suburb of []].
Contestants
This season introduces five couples (an increase from the four couples in preceding seasons) with each couple originating from a different state of Australia. The couples selected were as follows:
Score history
Results
Room Reveals
Judges' Scores
The Block contestants were told to score each other's rooms. The scores were then tallied up to give a total "Blockheads" score which was then added to the judges' scores.
John McGrath filled in for Neale Whitaker in judging the rooms this week.
The prize for this week, is a trip to Lizard Island for 2 nights instead of $10,000 cash. Panic Room - as their second room for the week, they were told to redo the room that the judges disliked the most:-
Alisa and Lysandra - Guest Bedroom #1
Matt and Kim - Guest Bedroom #1
Bec and George - Study Room
Madi and Jarrod - Foyer
Trixie and Johnno - Dressing Room
Challenge Scores
The contestants had to use the bedhead they made, in one of the bedrooms of their apartment. Since there were two winners, they took home $2,500 each.
Contestants were given $3,000 to open their own stall. They got to keep any amount they made over the three days the stalls were open. The teams made a total of $10,270 over the three days. Five safety deposit box keys were also up for grabs for the best designed/dressed stall. The winner got three safety deposit keys, the runner-up was given two keys.
George and Jarrod went on the catwalk as a couple, and ended up with 1 key each. Bec and Madi were thus forced to be a couple for the catwalk.
The contestants raced on the home straight inside a zorb ball on Family Day at the Caulfield Races.
Cutouts of Scott Cam were placed along the race track, cutout also had a prize, being a tradie for a day:-
Alisa and Lysandra - Plumber
Matt and Kim - None
Bec and George - Tiler
Madi and Jarrod - Plaster
Trixie and Johnno - Sparky (Electrician), Carpenter
The $10,000 prize money was split between the levels depending on the number of votes that they received. The amount that each team received is listed in brackets after the number of votes they received. Each vote was worth $20; 25 'votes' went missing, so the total amount won is $500 short.
Alisa and Lysandra & Matt and Kim joined forces and agreed to split the money they both won 50/50.
Auction
• Alisa & Lysandra win the block with $4000 profit lead over Madi & Jarrod
Ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating episode and week during the series
– Lowest rating episode and week during the series
Ratings data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolis%20Sfakianakis | Manolis Sfakianakis (; born 9 February 1963) is a Greek retired police officer of the Hellenic Police who served as the Head of the Cyber Crime Division (Greek: ) of the Hellenic Police from 2004 to 2016, attaining the rank of Police Lieutenant General (Retired) in 2017.
Early life
Manolis Sfakianakis (or Emmanouil, Manos, Greek: ) was born, in Chania, Crete, and was raised in the village of Spilia (Greek: ). He has a sister and a brother. He attended Technical Lyceum of Chania (now the Vocational Lyceum of Chania) with a chosen subject area in electronics, and then enrolled at the private secondary vocational school Korelko (now IEK Korelko), in Athens in the 2-year program in computer programming.
In 1982 he entered into the Enomοtarchon School of the Hellenic Gendarmerie (Greek: ; now-defunct) in Rhodes, which was a Non-Commissioned Officers’ Academy. After a 10-month program he graduated as Sergeant Major (Greek: ). Subsequently, from 1986 to 1990, he attended the Officers' School of the Hellenic Police Academy in Athens.
Career
Assignments to the positions include, the Police Department of the village of Salakos in Rhodes island; Police Department of Ialysos in Rhodes; Police Department of Agios Nikolaos, Chalkidiki; Police Security Department of Syntagma in Athens in 1992 where at first he served as the Deputy Director and then from the following year as Director, succeeding the previous Director who dismissed from it; Financial Crime Unit of the Security Directorate of Attica in 1995; Subsequently, he was assigned Head of the Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) in the time of Unit's founding in 2004 hosted in the General Police Directorate of Attica (GADA) and, from then on, he remained to hold that assignment for almost twelve consecutive years.
While in charge of the Unit, he took part in the Unit's 2011 reform when it was upgraded into a Subdivision renamed Cyber Crime Subdivision and later in the 2014 upgraded into a Division changed its name to the Cyber Crime Division in order to full its operational standards in dealing with the aftermath of the technological advancements and greater internet accessibility which has seen a growth in crimes committed over the internet. Although, since the founding in 2004, it still continues to be colloquially known to as Cyber Crime Unit or Cyber Crime Center. By the time he has promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in a press release of 2 March 2013, he assigned Deputy Head of the Authority of Financial Police and Cyber Crime Subdivision () where he held concurrently with that of Head of the Cyber Crime Subdivision.
In a press release issued by the Hellenic Police HQ on 18 February 2016 he was assigned Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Hellenic Police Headquarters where he was responsible to the Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Zacharoula Tsirigoti. In a press release on 21 January 2017 was issued by the Hellenic Police HQ announced that he promoted to the rank of Police Lieutenant General (Ret |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Kohler |
Eddie Kohler is a computer scientist specializing in networks and operating systems. He is currently a professor of computer science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Prior to Harvard, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Kohler co-founded Mazu Networks in 2000 and served as its Chief Scientist until it was acquired in 2009.
In 2006, he was named as one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review magazine. In 2014, he received the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, an award given annually to a researcher who has made "contributions that are highly creative, innovative, and possibly high-risk, in keeping with the visionary spirit of Mark Weiser."
He is also the author of the HotCRP conference management software.
In 2005, Kohler (with David Mazières) wrote a paper titled "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List" and sarcastically submitted it to a conference from which the two did not wish to receive further communications. Years later, the paper (submitted by another scientist to an ostensibly peer-reviewed technical journal) was accepted for publication, despite a nonsensical body text.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
S.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
S.B., Music, 1995. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
References
External links
Personal web page
Systems Research at Harvard (SYRAH)
Living people
American computer scientists
Harvard University faculty
American LGBT scientists
MIT School of Engineering alumni
1973 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang%20Related%20%28TV%20series%29 | Gang Related is an American action drama television series that aired on Fox from May 22 to August 14, 2014. The network placed the original series order on May 8, 2013, for 13 episodes. On September 2, 2014, Fox cancelled the series.
Plot
The series follows the personal and professional lives of the members of the elite Los Angeles Police Department's multi-agency Gang Task Force as they take on the city's most dangerous gangs, including one with which a task force member has ties.
Opening narration: (by Ramon Rodriguez)
Cast
Main cast
Ramon Rodriguez as Ryan Lopez: an LAPD detective and former U.S. Army Ranger who was taken in and raised by the Acosta family at a young age after the death of his father at age ten. He was born in a poor town in Mexico, and moved to the United States illegally with his new family at that time.
Jay Hernandez as Daniel Acosta: son of the Acosta family who is working as an investment banker and is Ryan's childhood best friend.
RZA as Cassius Green: DEA Agent and Ryan's second partner.
Sung Kang as Tae Kim: FBI Agent and Veronica's partner. He has a sister, who suffered a brain injury and lives in a long-term care facility.
Inbar Lavi as Veronika "Vee" Dotsen: ICE Agent and Tae's partner. She was stuck by a needle and is uncertain if she will be HIV positive. Her brother, Anton, is in prison for life. They are Russian.
Rey Gallegos as Carlos Acosta: older son of Acosta family who is a lieutenant of the "Los Angelicos" gang.
Shantel VanSanten as Jessica "Jess" Mary Chapel: Assistant District Attorney of Los Angeles County who is also Sam Chapel's daughter and Ryan's girlfriend.
Cliff Curtis as Javier Acosta: Head of the Los Angelicos and patriarch of the Acosta family. His parents were illegally working at a restaurant when it burned down and the illegal workers all died. Javier and other people still in the basement escaped, but not his parents.
Terry O'Quinn as Sam Chapel: Head of the LAPD Gang Task Force and father of Jessica Chapel. Chapel goes rogue at times to achieve justice.
Recurring cast
Emilio Rivera as Tio Gordo: right-hand man of the Los Angelicos
Jay Karnes as Paul Carter: an LAPD Internal Affairs detective investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ryan's partner
Konstantin Lavysh as Anton Dotsen: brother of Vee Dotsen
Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Billy Cabrera: undercover agent working at Daniel's bank
Lela Loren as Silvia: Daniel's fiancée, she is implied to have lingering feelings for Ryan. She was Ryan's girlfriend before he joined the Army. They went their separate ways. Her name is tattooed on his arm. When he came back, she was with Daniel.
Amaury Nolasco as Matias: killer working for the Metas. He's famous for using his signature sledgehammer in executions.
Episodes
Critical reception
Reviews for the show were mixed. It holds a 41% approval rating with an average score of 5.69/10 on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. The consensus states: "Gang Related foc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20Metro%20Line%204 | Santiago Metro Line 4 is one of the seven lines that currently make up the Santiago Metro network in Santiago, Chile. It has 23 stations and of track. The line intersects with Line 1 at Tobalaba, with Line 3 at Plaza Egaña at northeast, and with Line 4A at Vicuña Mackenna and with Line 5 at Vicente Valdés in southeast. It will also intersect with the futures Line 8 at Macul and Line 9 at Plaza de Puente Alto. Its distinctive colour on the network line map is blue.
Currently, it is the only line in the system to leave the Santiago Province, serving Puente Alto in the Cordillera Province.
In 2015, Line 4 accounted for 18.1% of all trips made on the metro system with a ridership of 328,200.
In October 2019, the line suspended operations as a result of the 2019 Santiago protests, however by 2020 all of its stations have reopened.
History
The first section of the new Line 4 was opened to the public on November 30, 2005 by President Ricardo Lagos Escobar running between Tobalaba station and Grecia station and between Vicente Valdés station - Plaza de Puente Alto station. The gap in the line between Grecia station and Vicente Valdés station was initially covered by Transantiago buses.
Later, Los Presidentes station, Quilín station, Las Torres station, Macul station and Vicuña Mackenna station were opened to the public on March 2, 2006, connecting the first two sections.
On December 9, 2007, an express service began to run on Line 4 at peak times, stopping at certain stations only to allow for faster journeys.
On June 1, 2018 Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced in the public account the extension of Line 4 to the sector of Bajos de Mena in Puente Alto that will be operational in 2026.
October 2019 protests
In October 2019, as a result of the protests caused by the rise in the subway fare, major damage occurred throughout the metro network. Line 4 was the most heavily damaged line out of all the metro's services. The Los Quillayes, San José de la Estrella, Macul, Protectora de la Infancia, Trinidad and Elisa Correa stations were completely burned; the latter two stations suffered the worst amount of damage to their structures and tracks, which would prevent normal operation of Line 4 for a period lasting 10 to 12 months. Line 4 partially reopened between Tobalaba and Quilín stations on October 28.
On November 6, the electrification of the tracks in the section between the stations Las Torres and Plaza de Puente Alto was restored, which suffered considerable damage, while evaluating the repairs to the line. On November 15, 2019, it was announced that service on the entirety of Line 4 would resume (with the exception of Vicuña Mackenna, Vicente Valdés, Hospital Sótero del Río, Las Mercedes and Plaza de Puente Alto stations) from November 18. On August 12, 2020, the Macul station was reopened. On September 14, the Elisa Correa, Los Quillayes and San José de la Estrella stations were reopened. Finally, on September 25, the Trinidad and Prot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20Metro%20Line%205 | Santiago Metro Line 5 is one of the seven lines that currently make up the Santiago Metro network in Santiago, Chile. It has 30 stations and of track. The line intersects with Line 1 at Baquedano station and San Pablo station, with Line 2 at Santa Ana station, with the Line 3 at both Plaza de Armas station and Irarrázaval station, with Line 4 at Vicente Valdés station, and with line 6 at Ñuble station. It will also intersect and the future Line 7 at Baquedano station. Its distinctive colour on the network line map is green.
In 2015, Line 5 accounted for 20.8% of all trips made on the metro system with a daily ridership of 396,100.
History
Line 5 was opened to the public on April 5, 1997 by President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle at Bellavista de La Florida station. It initially ran only between Bellavista de La Florida station and Baquedano station and used modern NS-93 trains imported from France. It was particularly welcomed by people living in the southern districts of Santiago and the area around Vicuña Mackenna Avenue, who saw their commute time to the centre of the city drastically reduced.
It was the first train line in Chile to make mass use of elevated viaducts in its structure, the viaduct carrying the section of track between Ñuble station and Mirador station, with the remainder running underground (However it wasn't the first line to incorporate elevated viaducts; that honor belongs to the line 2, with Parque O'Higgins metro station being the only elevated station on the aforementioned line, with an elevated viaduct running briefly to the north.)
On March 4, 2000, Line 5 was extended to the east from Baquedano station to Santa Ana station. This extension included a station at Plaza de Armas central square, allowing commuters to interchange with Line 2 (in Santa Ana), reducing travel time between the centre and the east of the city.
The line was extended again on March 31, 2004, opening Quinta Normal station and Cumming station to the public. Quinta Normal station is one of the biggest on the Metro network, with space for hosting cultural events, and connects to Quinta Normal Park, where the Chilean National Museum of Natural History and a branch of the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art are located.
On November 30, 2005, Vicente Valdés station was opened at the southern end of Line 5, serving as an interchange point with Line 4. It also provided a larger hub for the influx of people coming up from Line 4 than Bellavista de La Florida station.
On November 17, 2008, an express service began to run on Line 4 at peak times, stopping at certain stations only to allow for faster journeys.
The first section of a new extension to Pudahuel station in the east of Santiago opened on January 13, 2011, followed by the second part, to Plaza de Maipú station, in December of the same year.
On November 2, 2017, Line 6 was inaugurated, intersecting line 5 with line 6 at Ñuble station.
Libertad station
Libertad is a ghost station on Line 5 locate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe%20%28TV%20series%29 | Believe is an American fantasy drama television series that was broadcast as part of the 2013–14 United States network television schedule on NBC as a mid-season entry. Originally 13 episodes were to be aired, but only 12 were aired in the U.S. The series was created by Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Friedman. The series began on March 10, 2014, and was canceled on May 9, 2014. The final episode aired on June 15, 2014.
Plot
Bo is a young girl who was born with special supernatural abilities that she could not control. As these powers started evolving, the people who were protecting her were forced to turn to an outsider for help. This led them to William Tate, a wrongfully convicted death-row inmate, whom they break out of prison. Although he is reluctant to take on the role as her protector, the two eventually form a bond that guide them to helping each other, as well as others, while staying one step ahead of the evil forces that want the girl.
Cast and characters
Main
Jake McLaughlin as William Tate, Jr. – Originally a death row inmate in a national security prison, Tate is weathered and jaded from seven years of imprisonment and the painful loss of his soul mate Nina Adams (not knowing Skouras forced her to end their relationship). Tate has recurring anger problems, leading to a long history of violence and brushes with the law. Minutes before his execution for two counts of felony murder (of which he claims he is innocent, something no one ever believed, having been framed by his friends during a robbery), Winter (disguised as a priest) visits him and offers a chance at freedom if he agrees to protect Bo. Tate reluctantly agrees to accept Winter's assistance, and later his employment offer as Bo's protector. Originally he is unaware that he is actually Bo's father (a fact known by Winter's team, the Orchestra Project and the FBI), but Winter is later encouraged by Bo to tell him – while the news sounds unbelievable, he senses he somehow knew all along. Afterwards, he becomes a more kind and supportive parent figure.
Johnny Sequoyah as Bo Adams – An extraordinarily gifted girl with the power to change the world. She was one of Winter's most promising subjects, born and raised at Orchestra and displaying extraordinary psychic and telekinetic powers inherited from her mother, Nina. To the government, Bo's existence is highly classified government property and is officially a national defense priority. Bo herself is regarded as a federal asset and ward of the U.S. government, with no family. Winter is the only person Bo knows she can trust, and also she considers his team the closest thing to a family she has, but she steadily develops a bond with Tate after he repeatedly risks his life and freedom for her. Originally, she was unaware that Tate is her father, although later correctly guesses, and accepts, the truth.
Jamie Chung as Janice Channing – Winter's second in command and an Orchestra fugitive. Dedicated, tough and strong-willed, Channing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20%2445-million%20ATM%20looting | In December 2012 and February 2013, a cyber-ring of criminals, operating in more than 24 countries, stole $45 million from thousands of automated teller machines (ATMs) in an ATM looting. Roughly $5 million was stolen around the world on December 21, 2012. Success led to expansion of the crime, when an additional $40 million was stolen on February 19, 2013.
The thefts included $2.4 million withdrawn from almost three thousand ATMs in New York City in a matter of hours during the February 2013 theft. Eight suspects were charged in May 2013 for the New York portion of the thefts – though one of the eight had already been found dead in the Dominican Republic, the previous month.
The thefts were reported to be based on a sophisticated computer hacking procedure, whereby prepaid debit card information was stolen from the computers of financial institutions. The cards were then adjusted to have unlimited balances, so that gangs of criminals across the world could use the cards to withdraw the maximum amount the ATMs would allow in their target region. By using prepaid debit cards rather than customer bank cards or customer credit cards, the criminals were able to avoid the alarms or suspension-of-activity that might happen with these other types of cards. The resulting $45 million theft was from the accounts of financial institutions themselves, rather than customer accounts.
See also
List of large value US robberies
References
Bank thefts
2012 crimes
2013 crimes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2045%20Initiative | The 2045 Initiative is a nonprofit organization that develops a network and community of researchers in the field of life extension, focusing on combining brain emulation and robotics to create forms of cyborgs. It was founded by Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov in February 2011 with the participation of Russian specialists in the field of neural interfaces, robotics, artificial organs and systems. Philippe van Nedervelde serves as the Director of International Development.
The main goal of the 2045 Initiative, as stated on its website, is "to create technologies enabling the transfer of an individual’s personality to a more advanced non-biological carrier, and extending life, including to the point of immortality. We devote particular attention to enabling the fullest possible dialogue between the world’s major spiritual traditions, science and society".
Future prospects
The 2045 Initiative has a roadmap for developing cybernetic immortality. The Initiative has the goal for an avatar controlled by a "brain-computer" interface to be developed between 2015 and 2020, between 2020 and 2025 creating an autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot, between 2030 and 2035 creating a computer model of the brain and human consciousness with the means to transfer it into an artificial carrier, and by 2045 create a new era for humanity with holographic bodies.
Avatar Project
One of the featured life-extension projects is to design an artificial humanoid body (called an "avatar") and an advanced brain–computer interface system. On the biological side, a life support system will be developed for hosting a human brain inside the avatar and maintaining it alive and functional. A later phase of the project will research into the creation of an artificial brain into which the original individual consciousness may be transferred.
Avatar A
A robotic copy of a human body remotely capable of interpreting commands directly from the mind, and sending information back to the mind in a form that can be interpreted via brain–computer interface. It is estimated to be popularized in or before 2020. This, however, has failed to transpire.
Avatar B
An avatar in which a human brain is transplanted at the end of one's life. Avatar B has an autonomous system providing life support for the brain and allowing it interaction with the environment, possibly mounted into an existing Avatar A Chassis. Deadline of this phase is year 2025.
Avatar C
An avatar with an artificial brain to which a human personality is transferred for emulation at the end of one's life. The first successful attempt to upload one's personality to a computer is estimated to happen around 2035.
Avatar D
A hologram- or diagram-like avatar. This is the ultimate goal of this project but is optional since, assuming either the upload is involuntary or all humans chose to upload, biological diseases are prevented in the previous phase, and it is far away from current technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Paton | Norman William Paton is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK where he co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Carole Goble.
Education
Paton was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science in 1986 and a PhD in 1989 for research into object-oriented database systems using Prolog supervised by Peter Gray.
Research
Paton's research interests are currently in distributed information management including dataspaces, query processing in wireless sensor networks, autonomic computing, workflow management, and data management for systems biology. His research has been funded by the EPSRC, the BBSRC and the European Union.
Paton has also been active in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) and the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB).
Teaching
Paton has taught on several database courses at undergraduates and postgraduate level.
Administration
Paton has had a variety of roles in the School of Computer Science including director of the research school, director of teaching strategy, and
head of school from
November 2008
to November 2011.
References
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenConnect | OpenConnect is a free and open-source cross-platform multi-protocol virtual private network (VPN) client software which implement secure point-to-point connections.
The OpenConnect client supports the following VPN protocols:
Cisco AnyConnect
Juniper Secure Connect (since 7.05)
Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect (since 8.00)
Ivanti/Pulse Connect Secure (since 8.04)
F5 BIG-IP and
Fortinet FortiGate and
Array Networks AG SSL VPN (since 8.20)
It was originally written as an open-source replacement for Cisco's proprietary AnyConnect SSL VPN client, which is supported by several Cisco routers.
, support for several other proprietary VPN protocols is desired or in development:
SonicWall NetExtender VPN support
Check Point SNX VPN support
H3C VPN support
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall VPN support
Huawei VPN support
Architecture
The OpenConnect client is written primarily in C, and it contains much of the infrastructure necessary to add additional VPN protocols operating in a similar flow, and to connect to them via a common user interface:
Initial connection to the VPN server via TLS
Authentication phase via HTTPS (using HTML forms, client certificates, XML, etc.)
Server-provided routing configuration, in a protocol-agnostic format, which can be processed by a vpnc-script
Data transport phase via a UDP-based tunnel (DTLS or ESP), with fallback to a TLS-based tunnel
Built-in event loop to handle Dead Peer Detection, keepalive, rekeying, etc.
OpenConnect can be built to use either the GnuTLS or OpenSSL libraries for TLS, DTLS and cryptographic primitives.
Platforms
OpenConnect is available on Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, MacOS, and has graphical user interface clients for Windows, GNOME, and KDE. A graphical client for OpenConnect is also available for Android devices,
and it has been integrated into router firmware packages such as OpenWrt.
Server
The OpenConnect project also offers an Cisco AnyConnect-compatible server, ocserv, and thus offers a full client-server VPN solution.
OpenConnect and ocserv now implement an extended version of the Cisco AnyConnect VPN protocol, which has been proposed as an Internet Standard. Both OpenConnect and ocserv strive to maintain backwards-compatibility with Cisco AnyConnect servers and clients.
Notable uses
OpenConnect's implementation of the Cisco AnyConnect protocol is sufficiently complete, such that some of Cisco's own IP phone devices embed a very old release of OpenConnect in order to connect to Cisco SSL VPNs.
References
External links
OpenConnect project homepage
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenConnect
Tunneling protocols
Free security software
Unix network-related software
Virtual private networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Sikhs | City Sikhs (formerly City Sikhs Network) (Punjabi: ਸਿਟੀ ਸਿੱਖ) is a nonprofit organisation, and a registered charity which describes itself as "A voice for progressive Sikhs". It promotes networking, education and volunteering amongst Sikh professionals and provides a platform for engagement with the British Sikh community.
History
City Sikhs was launched in London in October 2010 by a group of Sikh professionals. The idea for the organisation came about after the founder of City Sikhs, Param Singh became friends with Dhruv Patel OBE, the founder of the City Hindus Network through a leadership training programme they both attended. In 2018, the organisation had over 7,000 members and was the largest Sikh organisation in the UK and Europe.
City Sikhs is a member of the Faiths Forum and has worked with a variety of organisations including City Hindus Network, Deloitte Diversity Networks, National Sewa Day, the Faith and Belief Forum (formerly Three Faiths Forum), Limmud, the Islamic Society of Britain, and The Football Association
In 2021, Rita Chadha, who was the former Small Charities Coalition chief executive, was appointed as its first director.
City Sikhs' work
Some of the events that City Sikhs has organised include:
17 August 2011: "Sikhs, the City and Success", hosted by Barclays Wealth
2 April 2012: "Mayoral Hustings in the City", hosted by Deloitte
17 October 2012: "Celebrating British Asian Sporting Success", hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
4 April 2013: "Recipes for Success", hosted by State Street Bank
31 July 2013: "Launch of the British Sikh Report", hosted by Ernst & Young
10 February 2014: "Women in Faith", co-hosted by St Paul's Cathedral
9 April 2015: "Hustings in the City", hosted by the Chartered Insurance Institute and co-organised with the City Hindus Network.
"Recipes for Success", hosted by UBS Bank in 2014, Lloyds Bank in 2016, BDO in 2017 and Parliament in 2018.
15 April 2019: The Grand Trunk Project and Faiths Forum for London in partnership with City Sikhs, City Hindus Network and the Association of Muslim Lawyers held an event in Parliament to commemorate 100 years on since the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
22 July 2019: The Faiths Forum for London in partnership with City Sikhs organised the parliamentary launch of the first South Asian Heritage Month
29 July 2019: City Sikhs in partnership with the Indian High Commission organised a photo exhibition on the life and philosophy of Guru Nanak Dev Ji as part of his global 550th birth anniversary celebrations.
City Sikhs supports interfaith initiatives such as the St George's Day Declaration and CAASE. City Sikhs has also supported British Sikh projects such as the Warrior Saints book, the British Sikh Report, and the Khanda Poppy Project
In February, 2022 they also authored an open letter about religious freedom in collaboration with British South Indians and think tank, Bridge India in response to the move to ban head scarves in schools in Karnataka.
Memb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelia%20la%20Texana | Camelia la Texana is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Campanario Entertainment and Argos Comunicación and distributed by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami. The story is based on the song titled "Contrabando y Traición" by Los Tigres del Norte.
As part of the 2014 season, Telemundo aired Camelia la Texana from February 25, 2014, to May 22, 2014, weeknights at 10pm/9c, replacing Santa Diabla. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
Synopsis
The story of a naive and beautiful young woman who tries to escape
her destiny. The story begins in the 1970s when young Camelia and her mother flee one of Mexico's most dangerous capos, Don Antonio. Camelia's beauty attracts a lot of
attention, jealousy from other women and infatuation on the part of many men, who fall powerless at her feet. Her mother tries to protect her from the fate that pursues her, but as she sets off in search of adventure Camelia meets the man who will be the love of her life, and also her betrayer: Emilio Varela. Emilio promises Camelia the moon and the stars, but instead he breaks her heart.
Production
The telenovela was shot in Mexico City and filming began in June 2013 and ended in early 2014.
Cast
Main
Sara Maldonado as Camelia Pineda "La Texana"
Erik Hayser as Emilio Varela / Aarón Varela
Andrés Palacios as Teniente Facundo García
Dagoberto Gama as Don Antonio Treviño
Secondary
Luis Ernesto Franco as Gerardo Robles "El Alacrán"
Arcelia Ramírez as Ignacia "La Nacha"
Eréndira Ibarra as Alison Bailow de Varela
Rodrigo Oviedo as Dionisio Osuna
Claudette Maillé as Rosaura Pineda
Tamara Mazarraza as Lu Treviño
Estefania Villarreal as Mireya Osuna
Víctor Alfredo Jiménez as Xiang Treviño
Peter Theis as Carson
Iñaki Goci as Jacinto Garabito
Ana Paula de León as Alma Treviño
Cosmo González Muñoz as Emilio Varela Bailow, Jr.
Joaquín Garrido as Arnulfo Navarro
Recurring
Liz Gallardo as Concepción Olvera "La Cuquis"
Bárbara Singer as Ofelia Osuna
Arnulfo Reyes Sánchez as Teniente Pedro Ruìz
Alejandro Belmonte as Salvador "Chava"
Germán Valdés III as Ricardo "Rico"
Guest
Danna García as Rosa
Paco Mauri as Timoteo Treviño
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Camelia: La Texana Website (Telemundo)
Website
American television series based on telenovelas
Telemundo telenovelas
Spanish-language American telenovelas
Mexican telenovelas
2014 telenovelas
2014 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
Television series about organized crime
Works about Mexican drug cartels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20impostora | La impostora (English: The Impostor), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is based on the Chilean telenovela Cerro Alegre, produced by Canal 13 in 1999. It stars Lisette Morelos, Sebastián Zurita and Christian Bach, together with Manuel Landeta, Begoña Narváez, Mauricio Hénao, Jonathan Islas and Alpha Acosta.
As part of the 2014 season, Telemundo is broadcasting La impostora as of 14 January 2014 weeknights at 8pm/7c, replacing Marido en Alquiler. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network is broadcasting English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
Plot
Blanca Guerrero (Lisette Morelos) is a cheerful and resourceful girl with a big heart, who works as a waitress dreaming of an acting career. At an early age, she began helping her father Memo as much as she could, due to her mother's early death. When Memo is unjustly fired by Raquel Altamira from his job at her family's company, where he worked for years, Blanca decides to go to the Altamira's end of the year costume party and notify Don Leonidas, the company's owner of the situation with her father, and hopefully convince him of rehiring him, and thanks to her amazing acting skills she is able to sneak her way in.
At the party, Blanca meets Eduardo, the very shy yet romantic son of Raquel, with whom she shares a passionate kiss at midnight, all while hiding her identity. The party goes however awry when Adriano Ferrer (Manuel Landeta), a rich businessman, crashes the party to reveal a secret affair, and child that he had years prior with Valentina Altamira, Raquel's younger sister. Adriano also accuses the Altamira family for the death of his young love Valentina, not knowing that she is actually alive, but is being detained in a psychiatric hospital by orders of her older sister Raquel.
A few days later, Adriano finds out that Memo, Blanca's father knows the truth about what happened to his and Valentina's child and goes to visit him at his home, but finds Blanca, the girl that had helped him while at the party days before, and she tells him that her father is in the hospital after being run over by a car. That same day, as Adriano goes to visit Memo at the hospital, he runs into Blanca disguised as a nurse and makes her an offer she can't refuse, promising her to help her pay her father's medical bills if she becomes "the impostor", helping him uncover the truth of what really happened to Valentina and his child. In the process, Blanca has to become Victoria San Marino, a millionaire investor from New York, get into partnership with the Altamira family and get Raquel Altamira to confide in her until she tells her the truth.
She then meets Raquel Altamira (Christian Bach), the eldest daughter of Leonidas, a cold and calculating woman who not only fired her father, but is also responsible for her dad being run over. While seeming as a widow who cherishes her late husband's memory and the perfect mother to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20geometry%20correction | Image Geometry Correction (often referred to as Image Warping) is the process of digitally manipulating image data such that the image’s projection precisely matches a specific projection surface or shape. Image geometry correction compensates for the distortion created by off-axis projector or screen placement or non-flat screen surface, by applying a pre-compensating inverse distortion to that image in the digital domain.
Usually, Image geometry correction is applied such that equal areas of projection surface are perceived by the viewer map to equal areas in the source image. It can also be used to apply a special effect distortion. The term “Image” Geometry Correction, implying a static image, is slightly misleading. Image geometry correction applies to static or dynamic images (i.e. moving video).
Overview
Image geometry correction is generally implemented in 2 different ways:
Graphics processing
Signal processing
Both techniques involve the real time execution of a spatial transformation from the input image to the output image, and both techniques require powerful hardware. The spatial transformation must be pre-defined for a particular desired geometric, and may be calculated by several different methods (more to follow).
In Graphics Processing, the spatial transformation consists of a polygon mesh (usually triangles). The transformation is executed by texture mapping from the rectilinear mesh of the input image to the transformed shape of the destination image. Each polygon on the input image is thus applied to an equivalent (but transformed in shape and location) polygon in the output image.
Graphics Processing based Image Geometry Correction, may be performed with inexpensive PC-based graphics controllers. The sophisticated software that uses the texture mapping hardware of a graphics controller is not standard, and is available only through vendors of specialty software (i.e. Mersive Technologies and Scalable Display Technologies).
Graphics Processing based image geometry correction is very effective for content that originates in the PC. Its major drawback is that it is tied to the graphics controller platform, and cannot process signals that originate outside the graphics controller.
In Signal Processing based image geometry correction, the spatial transformation consists of spatially defined 2-dimensional image re-sampling or scaling filter. The scaling operation is performed with different scaling ratios in different parts of the image, according to the defined transformation. Special care must be taken in the design of the scaling filter to ensure that spatial frequencies remain balanced in all areas of the image, and that the Nyquist criterion is met in all areas of the image.
Signal Processing based image geometry correction is implemented by specially designed hardware in the projection system (i.e. IDT, Silicon Optix or GEO Semiconductor), or in stand-alone Video Signal Processors (i.e. Flexible Pictu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314%20Fleetwood%20Town%20F.C.%20season | The 2013–14 season was Fleetwood Town's second-consecutive season in Football League Two.
League Two Data
League table
Result Summary
Result by round
Kit
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Squad
Statistics
|}
Goalscorers
Disciplinary record
Contracts
Transfers
In
Loan In
Out
Loans out
Fixtures and results
Pre-season
League Two
Football League Cup
FA Cup
Johnstone's Paint Trophy
Overall summary
Summary
Score overview
References
2013-14
2013–14 Football League Two by team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Dollar%20Listing | Million Dollar Listing is an American reality television series franchise on the Bravo network. Each show chronicles the professional and personal lives of real estate agents based in a major American city as they sell high-end properties, giving viewers an inside look at the world of high-priced real estate.
The franchise began with the show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (originally Million Dollar Listing), which debuted on August 29, 2006. That series has since aired 14 seasons.
The success of the Los Angeles based version of the show spawned three other shows in the same franchise:
Million Dollar Listing Miami - 1 season, 2014
Million Dollar Listing New York - 9 seasons, 2012-2021
Million Dollar Listing San Francisco - 1 season, 2015
Additionally, Million Dollar Listing New York spawned two shows starring broker Ryan Serhant: Million Dollar Listing New York: Ryan’s Wedding and Sell it Like Serhant.
The first international version is Million Dollar Listing UAE produced by imageNation and streaming Exclusively on Starzplay as of September 15th 2023 with a featured cameo from Josh Altman and matt Altman stars of the LA version. The bi-lingual series, which is available to stream on the Middle East and North African region video-on-demand platform Starzplay, offers viewers a glimpse into the lives of five prominent UAE-based brokers as they navigate the competitive real estate business in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, all while balancing their personal lives.
Following the hit series from Bravo in the US, the first international version of the show in the UAE follows the journeys of Ben Bandari, Zay Brown, Riad Gohar, Nassira Sekkay and Rami Wahood.
The Million Dollar Listing franchise was parodied in the 2016-19 streaming comedy series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.
References
Bravo (American TV network) original programming
Reality television series franchises
Property buying television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown%2C%20Spokane%2C%20Washington | A fair sized Chinatown existed in the U.S. city of Spokane, Washington, for years that started when the railroad came through in 1883. It consisted of a network of alleys between Front Avenue (today's Spokane Falls Boulevard) and Main Avenue that stretched east from Howard Avenue to Bernard Street for approximately four blocks. The Chinese population gradually thinned out until the alley became abandoned by the 1940s. Virtually all that remained of the Chinatown alleys were demolished as part of construction projects spurred by Spokane's Expo '74.
History
In the 1880s, immigrants from China who had come to work on the railroad established a "bustling Chinatown" in Spokane which was as big as three to four blocks "... stretching from Howard Street to Bernard Street ..." parallel to what is now Spokane Falls Boulevard. It was also known by the nickname "Japanese Alley" or "Trent Alley". More sources said that the Chinatown swelled even more during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt era with the internment of Asian peoples due to the war against Japan. An old newspaper article shows that an annual convention for the Chinese Hip Sing organization was held in 1924.
References
Chinese-American culture in Washington (state)
Spokane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NodeXL | NodeXL is a network analysis and visualization software package for Microsoft Excel 2007/2010/2013/2016. The package is similar to other network visualization tools such as Pajek, UCINet, and Gephi. It is widely applied in ring, mapping of vertex and edge, and customizable visual attributes and tags. NodeXL enables researchers to undertake social network analysis work metrics such as centrality, degree, and clustering, as well as monitor relational data and describe the overall relational network structure. When applied to Twitter data analysis, it showed the total network of all users participating in public discussion and its internal structure through data mining. It allows social Network analysis (SNA) to emphasize the relationships rather than the isolated individuals or organizations, allowing interested parties to investigate the two-way dialogue between organizations and the public. SNA also provides a flexible measurement system and parameter selection to confirm the influential nodes in the network, such as in-degree and out-degree centrality. The software contains network visualization, social network analysis features, access to social media network data importers, advanced network metrics, and automation.
Codebase
NodeXL is a set of prebuilt class libraries using a custom Windows Presentation Foundation control. Additional .NET assemblies can be developed as "plug-ins" to import data from outside data providers. Currently-implemented data providers for NodeXL include YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia (the MediaWiki understructure), web hyperlinks, Microsoft Exchange Server.
Contributors
NodeXL is a collaborative effort of a number of individuals from different universities and other organizations forming the NodeXL Team. Notable contributors include:
Microsoft Research established a NodeXL research project on November 20, 2008.
Features
NodeXL is intended for users with little or no programming experience to allow them to collect, analyze, and visualize a variety of networks. NodeXL integrates into Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 and opens as a workbook with a variety of worksheets containing the elements of a graph structure such as edges and nodes. NodeXL can also import a variety of graph formats such as edgelists, adjacency matrices, GraphML, UCINet .dl, and Pajek .net.
Data import
NodeXL Pro imports UCINet and GraphML files, as well as Excel spreadsheets containing edge lists or adjacency matrices, into NodeXL workbooks. NodeXL Pro also allows for the quick collection of social media data via a set of import tools which can collect network data from e-mail, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. NodeXL asks for the user's permission before collecting any personal data and focuses on the collection of publicly available data, such as Twitter statuses and follows relationships for users who have made their accounts public. These features allow NodeXL users to instantly get working on relevant social media data and integ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20Order%2012999 | Executive Order 12999 is a United States Presidential Executive Order signed on April 17, 1996, by President Bill Clinton which
permits U.S. federal agencies to transfer excess computers and related peripherals to educational and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations.
This order extended Executive Order 12821, which was signed by President George H.W. Bush on November 16, 1992.
Provisions of 12999: Educational Technology
The Executive Order has three core elements for the development of American education and educational organizations.
1) Protection of Educationally Useful Federal Equipment
Executive departments and agencies shall protect and safeguard such equipment, particularly when declared excess or surplus, so that it may be recycled and transferred in accordance with 12999.
2) Efficient Transfer of Educationally Useful Federal Equipment to Schools and Nonprofit Organizations
All agencies shall give preference to schools and nonprofit organizations, including community-based educational organizations, in the transfer, through gift or donation, of educationally useful Federal equipment.
3) Assisting Teachers’ Professional Development: Connecting Classrooms
Each agency that has employees who have computer expertise shall, to the extent permitted by law and in accordance with the guidelines of the Office of Personnel Management, encourage those employees to:
(A) help connect America’s classrooms to the National Information Infrastructure
(B) assist teachers in learning to use computers to teach
(C) provide ongoing maintenance of and technical support for the educationally useful Federal equipment transferred pursuant to this order.
See also
Bayh–Dole Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-517)
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980
References
External links
Executive orders of Bill Clinton
Technology transfer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Mobility%20Architecture | Smart Mobility Architecture (SMARC) is a computer hardware standard for computer-on-modules (COMs).
SMARC modules are specifically designed for the development of extremely compact low-power systems, such as mobile devices.
Specification
The SMARC hardware specification V1.0 was published by the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies (SGET). SGET had its first meeting in 2012, headed by Engelbert Hörmannsdorfer. The specification is freely available as a download on the SGET website. Generally, SMARC modules are based on ARM architecture processors, they can, however, also be fitted with other low-power system on a chip (SoC) architectures, like, for example, ones based on x86 processors. Typically, SMARC modules’ power requirement is in the range of a few watts.
Computer-on-modules integrate the core function of a bootable computer, as well as additional circuitry, including DRAM, boot-flash, voltage distribution, Ethernet and display transmitter. The modules are deployed together with an application-specific carrier board, whose size and form can be defined to meet customer-specific requirements. The carrier board executes the required interfaces and can integrate, if required, any further functionalities, such as audio codecs, touch controller, wireless communication interfaces, etc.
The SMARC specification outlines both the dimensions of the module and the positioning of the anchor points as well as the connector to the carrier board and the executed interfaces with the pin-out. The pin-out is optimized for ARM and low-power SoC interfaces and is distinguished from classical PC interfaces by its target-oriented focus on low-power and mobile applications.
SMARC is based on the ultra-low power (ULP-COM) form factor which was introduced by the companies Kontron and Adlink in February, 2012.
During the specification process by the SGET the standard was renamed to SMARC. SGET approved the 1.0 specification in December, 2012.
Dimensions
SMARC defines two module sizes:
82 mm × 50 mm for extremely compact low-power designs
82 mm × 80 mm for SoCs with higher performance and with increased space and cooling requirement
Connector
SMARC Computer-on-Modules have 314 card edge contacts on the printed circuit board (PCB) of the module which is plugged via a low-profile connector on the carrier board. In most cases, the connector has a construction height of 4.3 mm. It is also used for Mobile PCI Express Module 3.0 graphic cards, which naturally have completely different pin assignments.
Signal lines and pin assignments
Signal transmission is carried out via a total of 314 pins. 33 of these are reserved signal lines for power supply and grounding, so that with SMARC a total of 281 signal lines are effectively available. ARM- and SoC-typical energy-saving interfaces, like, for instance, parallel LCD for display connection, mobile industry processor interfaces for cameras, Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) for general peripheral connect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Lumia%20925 | Nokia Lumia 925 is a smartphone developed by Nokia that runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system. It was announced on 14 May 2013, described as a "new interpretation" of the Nokia Lumia 920, and released in June 2013. A separate 925T version was announced for the TD-SCDMA networks in China.
The Nokia Lumia 930, successor to the Lumia 920 and 925, was announced at Build 2014 on 2 April 2014.
Hardware
Compared to the Nokia Lumia 920, the Lumia 925 is both thinner and lighter, at 8.5 mm thick and weighing 139 g. The body is no longer fully made of polycarbonate, instead having a rounded aluminium frame. Display technology is changed from LCD to AMOLED, and wireless charging is supported only through an add-on sleeve. The base model has 16 GB of storage space, half that of the Lumia 920. A sixth, glass lens has been added to the camera, which protrudes slightly from the back.
Software
The Lumia 925 ships with the Lumia Amber firmware update, which includes Windows Phone GDR2 as well as several new features like Glance Screen, double-tap-to-wake and Smart Camera.
Availability
The phone is available in major European markets starting in June 2013, with an estimated price of 470 Euros. It is now available for sale in India through various online shopping sites. The phone is Nokia's flagship device at T-Mobile in the United States and became available for sale on July 17, 2013.
Model variants
Reception
Reviews of the Lumia 925 were generally positive, with most critics noting significant improvements compared to its predecessor, the Lumia 920.
Andrew Hoyle of CNET commended the design, describing it as "luxurious" and "more mature-looking" compared to Nokia's previous, more colourful models. Praise was also given to the camera's low-light capabilities as well as the display. However, the removal of built-in wireless charging and the lack of any improvement in key specifications compared to the Lumia 920 were seen as the main downsides.
Tom Warren of The Verge called the Lumia 925 "[a] reliable workhorse", praising the overall design but criticising some decisions like the lack of colours or the placement of the loudspeaker. While the Windows Phone ecosystem was said to be "still lagging behind on the software front", the review commended the strong out-of-the-box software experience, in particular innovative new features like Glance and Smart Cam.
Mat Smith of Engadget considered the Lumia 925 to be an all-round improvement on the Lumia 920, but reported having mixed feelings about the colour scheme, describing the phone as "a lot safer, design-wise, and, well, a little blander than what we've seen before". The review also highlighted the Smart Camera app that debuted with the Lumia 925, as well as the energy-saving benefits of an AMOLED display.
Trusted Reviews awarded the Lumia 925 a score of 8/10, with reviewer Andrew Williams praising the phone's build quality and camera performance. The display was found to be "near-pin sha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Safeground | Norman Safeground AS develops and sells data security software such as anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware and backup
with local support. The company headquarters is in Oslo, Norway. Norman Safeground has a global partner-network, and the main market is Europe.
Norman competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, BullGuard, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Panda Security, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro among others.
History
Norman was founded on 1 October 1984 in Oslo. The company was a pioneer in proactive security software and forensics malware tools, utilizing a patented sandbox technology.
In 1995, Norman acquired 50 percent of IBAS AS, a Norwegian data recovery company. The company was listed on Oslo Stock Exchange on 11 August 1997.
Norman ASA bought the remaining 50 percent stake in IBAS in 1999.
In 2004, the two companies were de-merged and IBAS was listed as a separate entity on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
Norman was de-listed from Oslo Stock Exchange in October 2009 as it was acquired by the private equity fund FSN Capital Partners. In late 2012, Norman ASA was split into two companies, Norman Safeground AS focusing on consumers and SMEs and Norman Shark AS focusing on the enterprise market with their intrusion prevention services.
In November 2014, Norman Safeground was acquired by AVG Technologies, which two years later was acquired by Avast.
References
Companies based in Oslo
Computer security software companies
Software companies of Norway
Software companies established in 1984
1984 establishments in Norway
Norwegian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England%20and%20Wales%20Precipitation | The England and Wales Precipitation (EWP) record is a historical meteorological dataset which was originally published in the journal British Rainfall in 1931 and updated in a greatly revised form by a number of climatologists including Janice Lough, Tom Wigley and Phil Jones during the 1970s and 1980s. The monthly mean rainfall and snowfall for the region of England and Wales are given (in millimetres) from the year 1766 to the present, though the original 1931 dataset went as far back as 1727.
Data quality
The England and Wales Precipitation series for its earlier years was based on the work of amateur observers whose observations were collected by George James Symons in British Rainfall and analysed extensively in 1931 to form a monthly series as far back as 1727. Detailed analysis during the early 1980s showed by use of principal component analysis that England and Wales could be climatologically divided into five regions corresponding closely to present-day meteorological divisions; however, because of the absence of data from South West England between 1813 and 1816 and from North West England before 1766, the modern series begins in January 1766. Separate data for each region of England go back only to 1873.
Recent analysis suggests that the sparse data (besides the absence of data from South West England for four years, only one station was used per region until the 1820s) from early years can lead to bias towards drier conditions since higher and wetter areas are not likely to be accounted for, though no effort has yet been made to examine the data. There has also been a suggestion that many of the very earliest values, before circa 1780 and for a few years near 1800 and between 1809 and 1813, are rather too low compared to other estimates from A.F. Jenkinson of the University of East Anglia.
Trends revealed by the series
Research into the EWP series since it was compiled have revealed that, overall, annual rainfall has not changed significantly despite some suggestions of a rising trend, but that winter half-year rainfall has substantially increased especially in the more northerly areas of England. Up to 2000, summer rainfall, especially in July and August, over the southern parts of England, showed a substantial decline; however, the very wet summers of 2007 and 2012 may suggest this is not a permanent change. Nonetheless, it is known that the maximum in rainfall during autumn (typical of high latitude maritime climates) has moved towards a later date since the 1960s, especially compared to the 1890s.
Extrema
Taking the 247-year period for the series as a whole:
Wettest
Apart from the record wet October and November, the only other month with over 200 millimetres has been November 1770 with .
The wettest two consecutive months were August and September 1799 with .
The wettest three consecutive months were October to December 2000 with ; the only other non-overlapping period to reach being November 1929 to January 1930 with . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Government%20G-Cloud | The UK Government G-Cloud is an initiative targeted at easing procurement by public-sector bodies in the United Kingdom of commodity information technology services that use cloud computing. The G-Cloud consists of:
A series of framework agreements with suppliers, from which public sector organisations can buy services without needing to run a full tender or competition procurement process
An online store – the "Digital Marketplace" (previously "CloudStore"), which allows public sector bodies to search for services that are covered by the G-Cloud frameworks
The service began in 2012, and had several calls for contracts.
By May 2013 there were over 700 suppliers—over 80% of which were small and medium-sized enterprises. £18.2 million (US$27.7 million) of sales were made by April 2013. With the adoption of "cloud first" policy in UK in May 2013 the sales have continued to grow, reportedly hitting over £50M in February 2014. These are based on procurement of some 1,200 providers and 13,000 services, including both cloud services and (professional) specialist services as of November 2013.
Overview
The UK Government initiated the G-Cloud programme to deliver computing based capability (from fundamental resources such as storage and processing to full-fledged applications) using cloud computing.
G-Cloud established framework agreements with service providers; and lists those services on a publicly accessible portal known as the Digital Marketplace. Public Sector organisations can call off the services listed on the Digital Marketplace without needing to go through a full tender process.
After plans were announced in March 2011, the government aimed to shift 50% of new government IT spending to cloud based services by 2015 and diversify the supplier base to give greater opportunity to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).. The "cloud first" approach to IT, mandated that the central government purchases IT services through the cloud unless it can be proven that an alternative is more cost effective.
In June 2013 G-Cloud moved to become part of Government Digital Service (GDS) with the director Denise McDonagh moving to be CTO of the Home Office. Tony Singleton, COO of GDS, took over as director of G-Cloud.
A new version of the G-Cloud framework is normally released about every 6 to 9 months, for example G-Cloud version 9 went live in May 2017. G-Cloud 12 was initially to run from 28 September 2020 to 27 September 2021 but it was extended in April 2021 and now runs to 27 September 2022.
Framework agreements
Calls
G-Cloud had several calls for contract to establish framework agreements.
Major US vendors Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google were initially excluded by the UK government in 2012 (G-Cloud 3) but AWS has since been added in 2013 (G-Cloud 4) and Google in 2018 (ref).
Following hints by the head of the programme, GDS chief operating officer Tony Singleton, that the call for G-Cloud 4 would be open by the "end of July", the G-C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20for%20Scotland | Business for Scotland is a business network and business and economic policy think tank consisting of and representing business people who support Scottish independence.
Formation
Business for Scotland was founded by six Scottish business owners and directors, and generated over 250 members by word-of-mouth prior to the launch of its website. The organisation's membership had risen to 350 by the time of its official launch in May 2013, where it was publicly backed by Falklands War veteran and Scottish entrepreneur, Tony Banks. Business for Scotland membership at the time of the referendum was approximately 3,000.
Prominent business people
Tony Banks (Balhousie Care Group), Graeme McCormick (Conveyancing Direct), Ian McDougall (McDougall Johnstone/ The Glasgow Distillery), Gillian O'Neill (29 Studios), Rob Aberdein (Walker Morris), Jil Murphy (Thin Red Line/ Head of BfS Edinburgh), Donald Maclean (Business Cost Consultants), Kenny Anderson (Anderson Construction), David Cairns (PrismTech/ Head of BfS Perth), Sandy Adam (Springfield Properties), Brian Souter (Souter Investments). Jim Mather, who was a member of the Scottish Parliament for the Scottish National Party (SNP) between 2003 and 2011, and served as Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism under the 2007-11 SNP government, was a director at the organisation. Michelle Rodger died in August 2021 having been Head of BfS Glasgow.
Scottish referendum
Business for Scotland Ltd registered with the Electoral Commission as a "permitted participant" on the Yes side in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. It spent £143,027 campaigning at the independence referendum making it the largest spender of all the registered participant groups. After the referendum it was revealed that Business for Scotland received a £100,000 donation from Stagecoach founder Brain Souter.
The Founder and Chief Executive of the organisation, and registered responsible person with the electoral commission was Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp. The organisation was chaired during the referendum by Tony Banks.
Pro-Unionist blogger Kevin Hague put a complaint in to the Electoral Commission to consider whether the SNP and Business for Scotland had worked together during the Scottish referendum. The Electoral Commission "found no evidence during its assessment that the SNP and BFS worked together" and consequently stated there was no need to open a full investigation into the allegations. This was reported in the Herald that the Electoral Commission gave the accusations extremely short shrift.
In 2017 a pro-union Scottish Business UK group was set up by Scottish businesses to argue against independence in opposition to Business for Scotland.
Membership
By March 2014, membership of the organisation was claimed to be in excess of 1300. As of July 2017 the membership of the organisation was claimed to be 4,000.
Company formation
Business for Scotland, SC430989, was first registered on 23 August 2012 by a sole director named as G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20and%20the%20Knights%20of%20Valour | Justin and the Knights of Valour (Spanish: Justin y la espada del valor) is a 2013 computer-animated fantasy film whose working title was Goleor: The Scales and the Sword. It is the story of a boy named Justin, who wants to become a knight like his grandfather Sir Roland. It was produced, created, developed and animated by Kandor Graphics, the second of their two animated films (the first was the 2008 film, The Missing Lynx). It was produced by Antonio Banderas, Marcelino Almansa, Kerry Fulton and Ralph Kamp. It was written by Matthew Jacobs and Manuel Sicilia with music by Ilan Eshkeri. It was edited by Claudio Hernández and directed by Manuel Sicilia. Sony Pictures Entertainment distributed it in Spain, and Entertainment One in the United Kingdom.
The film premiered on 13 September 2013. It received negative reviews, criticizing the writing, characters and pacing, though the voice acting and music received praise. It flopped at the box-office only grossing $19 million off of a $30 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes reported a 13% approval rating for the film with an average rating of 3.93/10 based on 15 reviews.
Plot
Justin lives in the kingdom of Gabylonia and dreams of becoming a Knight of Valour like his grandfather, Sir Roland. Unfortunately, knights were outlawed and replaced by lawyers after the King's death. Justin's father Reginald, the Queen's Chief Lawyer, grew to hate knights following Roland's death and insists Justin become a lawyer. Justin notices that Roland's sword is missing and decides to go on a quest to find it. His grandmother Lilly tells him to go to the Tower of Wisdom to receive training. Before departing Justin visits his crush, Lara, a spoiled nobleman's daughter, hoping to receive a token of luck. Lara is so self-absorbed she barely notices him and gives him a dirty sock which Justin swears to return after completing his quest.
Justin heads to the traditional quest starting point, the Broken Eagle Inn, but finds it has become a fast food restaurant. There he meets weary barmaid Talia, and talentless wizard Melquiades. Justin attempts to defend Talia from the inn's bullying guards, Igor and Slamski, causing her to develop a crush on him.
Sir Heraclio, the knight who killed Justin's grandfather, returns from exile and recruits an army of criminals to seek retribution on the Queen and Reginald for outlawing knights. The Queen fears she made a mistake outlawing knights as there is no-one to defend the kingdom. Clorex, an armour polisher and opportunistic thief, overhears the Queen and steals armour to pose as a knight. Styling himself Sir Clorex he begins residing at the Broken Eagle, charging customers money for his autograph. Talia is threatened by her boss to keep quiet as Clorex is good for business.
Justin finds the tower and trains with monks Braulio and Legantir and knight Sir Blucher. Blucher informs Justin that Heraclio stole his grandfather's sword after killing him. For his final test Justin must face a drago |
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