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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoseynabad-e%20Do%2C%20Sirjan | Hoseynabad-e Do (, also Romanized as Ḩoseynābād-e Do; also known as Hosein Abad, Ḩoseynābād, and Husainābād) was a village in Saadatabad Rural District of Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 206 in 48 households.
In 2011, the village of Saadatabad was merged with the villages of Deh Now, Dowlatabad, Hoseynabad-e Do, and Yahyaabad in the establishment of the new city of Hamashahr.
References
Sirjan County
Populated places in Kerman Province
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena%20Football%20on%20CBS | CBS Arena Football is a TV program from CBS Sports that broadcast Arena Football League games from 2013 to 2018. As part of a two-year agreement, the CBS Sports Network aired nineteen regular season games and two playoff games. When CBS aired ArenaBowl XXVI, it marked the first time since 2008 that the league's finale aired on network television.
Coverage breakdown
Regular season CBSSN broadcast games were usually on Saturday nights. As the games were shown live, the start times were not uniform as with most football broadcast packages, but varied with the time zone in which the home team was located. This meant that the AFL may have appeared either prior to or following the CBSSN's featured Major League Lacrosse game.
For the 2017 season, one AFL game per week was broadcast live nationally over CBS Sports Network. In 2017, the AFL also began streaming some games on Twitter and AFLNow, the league's streaming service. For the 2018 season, the AFL's sole national English language telecast partner was the CBS Sports Network, but all games were streamed free online and Brigade and Valor games were available over their owner Ted Leonsis' Monumental Sports Network.
Former commentators
Sherdrick Bonner (color commentator, now with ESPN)
Andrew Catalon (play-by-play)
Randy Gatewood (sideline report)
Anthony Herron (color commentator, now with ESPN)
Ben Holden (play-by-play)
Steve Papin (sideline reporter)
Brent Stover (lead play-by-play)
Ari Wolfe (lead play-by-play, now with ESPN)
References
External links
AFL on CBS - ArenaFan.com
CBS Sports Network original programming
2013 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
CBS
CBS original programming
CBS Sports Spectacular
CBS Sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20network | The notion of consumer networks expresses the idea that people's embeddedness in social networks affects their behavior as consumers. Interactions within consumer networks such as information exchange and imitation can affect demand and market outcomes in ways not considered in the neoclassical theory of consumer choice.
Economics
Economic research on the topic is not ample. In attempts to incorporate consumer networks into standard microeconomic models, some interesting implications have been found concerning market structure, market dynamics and the firm's profit maximizating decision.
It has been shown that under certain assumptions the structure of the consumer network can affect market structure. In certain scenarios, where consumers have a higher inclination to compare their habitually consumed product to that of their acquaintances, the equilibrium market structure can switch from oligopoly to monopoly.
In another model, which incorporates small world consumer networks into the profit function of the firm, it has been demonstrated that the density of the network significantly affects the optimal price the firm should charge and the optimal referral fee (paid to consumers who can convince another one to buy). On the other hand, the size of the network does not have an important effect on these.
A 2007 laboratory experiment found that increased density of consumer networks can reduce market inefficiencies caused by moral hazard. The ability of consumers to exchange information with more neighbors increases firms’ incentives to build a reputation through selling high quality products. Even a low level of density was found to isolated consumers who can rely only on their own experience.
Marketing
Exploiting consumer networks for marketing purposes, through techniques such as viral marketing, word-of-mouth marketing, or network marketing, is increasingly experimented with by marketers, to the extent that "some developments in customer networking are ahead of empirical research, and a few seem ahead even of accepted theory". These might often be more effective than more traditional forms of advertising. A key task of such forms of marketing is to target the people who are opinion leaders regarding consumption, having many contacts and positive reputation. They are, in network science language, the hubs of consumer networks.
See also
Viral marketing
Word-of-mouth marketing
Notes and references
Network
Network theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20England | Trams in England encompass various tram networks integrated into the public transport system of England. Until 1935, there had been a large and comprehensive network of tram systems in towns and cities.
Most of the country's tram systems were replaced by bus services in the 1930s or shortly after the Second World War. England's tram systems were largely dismantled, and by 1960, only Blackpool Tramway survived. Since the 1990s, trams and light rail transportation have become increasingly common again, with a second generation of tram and light rail networks operating in cities and regions such as Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, London, and the West Midlands.
Operating systems
The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system serving the redeveloped Docklands and financial districts of London. First opened on 31 August 1987, the DLR has been extended multiple times, giving a total route length of . Passenger numbers have greatly increased as the network has expanded, and in the financial year 2019/20 there were 116.8 million passenger journeys. Tramslink is a light rail tram system serving the areas in South London. It is owned by London Trams, part of Transport for London. The network consists of 39 stops along of track, on a mixture of street track shared with other traffic, dedicated track in public roads, and off-street track consisting of new rights-of-way, former railway lines, and one right-of-way where the Tramlink track runs parallel to Network Rail lines.
West Midlands Metro is a light rail tram system in the county of West Midlands. Opened on 30 May 1999, it currently consists of a single route, Line 1, which operates between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via the towns of Bilston, West Bromwich and Wednesbury, running on a mixture of reopened disused railway lines and on-street running in urban areas. The line originally terminated at Birmingham Snow Hill station, but with extensions opened in 2015 and 2019, now runs into Birmingham City Centre to terminate at Centenary Square, with a further extension to Edgbaston onging since 2021. Extensions to Edgbaston at the southern end and Wolverhampton railway station are under construction with passenger services. Construction of a new Line 2 & 3 was approved in March 2019 and started in February 2020 for the Commonwealth Games. Following the opening of the extension into the city centre in 2016, usage increased sharply. Figures for 2016/17 showed passenger numbers rose to over six million.
The Sheffield Supertram is a light rail tram network, covering Sheffield and Rotherham. The infrastructure is owned by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE), from 2008, interest had been expressed in hybrid tram train operations, which would be able to use sections of the mainline rail network as well as tramways. The Supertram network now consists of 50 stations across four colour-coded lines, the Blue, Purple, Yellow and Tram-Train (Black) routes, wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20computing%20budget%20allocation | In computer science, optimal computing budget allocation (OCBA) is an approach to maximize the overall simulation efficiency for finding an optimal decision. It was introduced in the mid-1990s by Dr. Chun-Hung Chen.
OCBA determines the number of replications or the simulation time that is needed in order to receive acceptable or best results within a set of given parameters. This is accomplished by using an asymptotic framework to analyze the structure of the optimal allocation.
OCBA has also been shown effective in enhancing partition-based random search algorithms for solving deterministic global optimization problems.
Intuitive explanation
OCBA's goal is to provide a systematic approach to run a large number of simulations including only the critical alternatives in order to select the best alternative.
In other words, OCBA focuses on only part the most critical alternatives, which minimizes computation time and reduces these critical estimators’ variances. The expected result maintains the required level of accuracy, while requiring less amount of work.
For example, we can create a simple simulation between five alternatives. The goal is to select an alternative with minimum average delay time. The figure below shows preliminary simulation results ( i.e. having run only a fraction of the required number of simulation replications). It is clear to see that alternative 2 and 3 have a significantly lower delay time (highlighted in red). In order to save computation cost (which is time, resources and money spend on the process of running the simulation) OCBA suggests that more replications are required for alternative 2 and 3, and simulation can be stopped for 1, 4, and 5 much earlier without compromising results.
Problem
The main objective of OCBA is to maximize the probability of correct selection (PCS). PCS is subject to the sampling budget of a given stage of sampling τ.
In this case stands for the total computational cost.
Some extensions of OCBA
Experts in the field explain that in some problems it is important to not only know the best alternative among a sample, but the top 5, 10, or even 50, because the decision maker may have other concerns that may affect the decision which are not modeled in the simulation.
According to Szechtman and Yücesan (2008), OCBA is also helpful in feasibility determination problems. This is where the decisions makers are only interested in differentiating feasible alternatives from the infeasible ones. Further, choosing an alternative that is simpler, yet similar in performance is crucial for other decision makers. In this case, the best choice is among top-r simplest alternatives, whose performance rank above desired levels.
In addition, Trailovic and Pao (2004) demonstrate an OCBA approach, where we find alternatives with minimum variance, instead of with best mean. Here, we assume unknown variances, voiding the OCBA rule (assuming that the variances are known). During 2010 resear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatics%20Inc. | Chromatics Inc. was a color graphics display manufacturer based in Tucker, Georgia. Their systems predated the personal computer era of inexpensive graphics displays, and were typically used as peripheral devices, connected to a mainframe or minicomputer. In some configurations, a Chromatics graphics terminal could be used as a stand-alone workstation, with disk drives and an operating system.
Chromatics pursued the higher performance end of the graphics marketplace, including such applications as flight simulation and air traffic control. They sold many systems into military and government contracts. Several configurations received Tempest certification. Others were ruggedized to withstand shock and vibration.
History
The company was founded in 1976 by Terry Hughey, who left Intelligent Systems Corporation (another manufacturer of graphics terminals) to focus on higher-end systems. Other principals included Dave Scott (Vice President of Digital Engineering) and Roger Moonen (Vice President of Analog Engineering). Chromatics was acquired by Barco NV in 1990, with Scott becoming president of U.S. operations for Barco.
Products
CG Series
The CG series included a graphics display, processor, and memory. In its most basic configuration, it would be connected via an RS-232 serial port to a larger computer. Programs running on that "host" machine would generate commands in Chromatics' proprietary graphics language, and transmit them to the CG. Such commands would cause the CG to draw primitive shapes (lines, circles, rectangles, etc.) in various colors, which could be combined to form more complex images. A typical command to draw a circle would be: <02> C 256,256,100, where the single ASCII character <02> (or STX) represents the Plot command, C indicates a circle, and the three numbers represent the circle's X-Y position and radius.
A CG system could also include 8" floppy diskette drives, a disk operating system for storing graphics images, and a version of Microsoft BASIC. These allowed the CG to be used as a standalone workstation, able to generate images without being connected to a host machine. Later enhancements included a Color Lookup Table and arithmetic processing unit.
CGC 7900
The CGC 7900 was developed as a successor to the CG. It had a larger display, a more powerful processor, and more displayable colors (256 vs. 8). It retained backward compatibility with the CG's graphics language. A Color Lookup Table allowed each of its 256 displayable colors to be mapped to any of 224 (16,777,216) colors. This enabled smooth shading of certain images, but not true photographic realism. The display hardware also included a text overlay frame buffer capable of displaying 85x48 characters in 8 colors, on top of the main graphic image. Screen resolution was 1024x768 pixels at 60 Hz refresh rate (interlaced).
The 7900 could also be configured with disk drives, including a Quantum 8" hard drive storing 40 MB. The drives could be used for simple |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20GloboNews | This is a list of programs currently and soon to be broadcast by Globo News, the news channel of the Brazilian network Globo.
Current programming
Newscasts
News features
Cidades e Soluções
Talk shows
Archive programming and specials
GloboNews Documentário
Globo News Especial
Repeats of Rede Globo's shows
Fantástico
Globo Repórter
Globo Rural
Conversa com Bial
Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negócios
See also
List of programs broadcast by Rede Globo
References
External links
Globo News website
Globo News programming
TV Globo
GloboNews
GloboNews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20Drouin | René A. Drouin is president and chief executive of the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation (NHHEAF) Network, a nonprofit entity that provides higher education loans for New Hampshire students.
Drouin holds bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration, as well as a law degree received from Lasalle University in 1996. He joined the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation Network in 1978 and was named to the position of president and CEO in 1997.
In 2004, Drouin was the focus of some criticism over his educational credentials. It was reported that his bachelor's degree was from Kensington University, an unaccredited school, and that his law degree was not from La Salle University in Philadelphia, but rather from a Louisiana diploma mill. Drouin answered the criticism by saying that he was unaware that the institutions were not legitimate and that the degrees had not aided his career.
References
External links
NHHEAF Network
Living people
People from New Hampshire
Kensington University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored%20Access%20Operations | The Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), now Computer Network Operations, and structured as S32, is a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA). It has been active since at least 1998, possibly 1997, but was not named or structured as TAO until "the last days of 2000," according to General Michael Hayden.
TAO identifies, monitors, infiltrates, and gathers intelligence on computer systems being used by entities foreign to the United States.
History
TAO is reportedly "the largest and arguably the most important component of the NSA's huge Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), consisting of more than 1,000 military and civilian computer hackers, intelligence analysts, targeting specialists, computer hardware and software designers, and electrical engineers".
Snowden leak
A document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden describing the unit's work says TAO has software templates allowing it to break into commonly used hardware, including "routers, switches, and firewalls from multiple product vendor lines". TAO engineers prefer to tap networks rather than isolated computers, because there are typically many devices on a single network.
Organization
TAO's headquarters are termed the Remote Operations Center (ROC) and are based at the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. TAO also has expanded to NSA Hawaii (Wahiawa, Oahu), NSA Georgia (Fort Gordon, Georgia), NSA Texas (Joint Base San Antonio, Texas), and NSA Colorado (Buckley Space Force Base, Denver).
S321 – Remote Operations Center (ROC) In the Remote Operations Center, 600 employees gather information from around the world.
S323 – Data Network Technologies Branch (DNT) : develops automated spyware
S3231 – Access Division (ACD)
S3232 – Cyber Networks Technology Division (CNT)
S3233 –
S3234 – Computer Technology Division (CTD)
S3235 – Network Technology Division (NTD)
Telecommunications Network Technologies Branch (TNT) : improve network and computer hacking methods
Mission Infrastructure Technologies Branch: operates the software provided above
S328 – Access Technologies Operations Branch (ATO): Reportedly includes personnel seconded by the CIA and the FBI, who perform what are described as "off-net operations", which means they arrange for CIA agents to surreptitiously plant eavesdropping devices on computers and telecommunications systems overseas so that TAO's hackers may remotely access them from Fort Meade. Specially equipped submarines, currently the USS Jimmy Carter, are used to wiretap fibre optic cables around the globe.
S3283 – Expeditionary Access Operations (EAO)
S3285 – Persistence Division
Virtual locations
Details on a program titled QUANTUMSQUIRREL indicate NSA ability to masquerade as any routable IPv4 or IPv6 host. This enables an NSA computer to generate false geographical location and personal identification credentials when accessing the Internet utilizing QUANTUMSQUIRREL.
Leadership
From 2013 to 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing%20to%20the%20Dawn%20%282008%20film%29 | Sing to the Dawn is a 2008 Singaporean computer-animated musical drama film. The film was produced by Infinite Frameworks, a Batam-based animation studio, Mediacorp Raintree Pictures, Media Development Authority and Scorpio East Pictures. It is loosely adapted from the short story by Minfong Ho that was first published in 1975.
The film was released on 30 October 2008 in Singapore, and later in Korea, Malaysia and Russia. It has screened at Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea and Santa Monica, USA.
A remake of the film, named Meraih Mimpi (Dream On), was released in Indonesia on 16 September 2009.
Synopsis
Dawan is a teenage girl who lives with her brother, father and grandmother in a small village in Batam.
Pairot is an entrepreneur and cruel landlord who is visually styled after Elvis Presley. Pairot extorts the villagers with an oppressive land tax. He claims to own the entire land of the village, and tells the villagers that he has a document from King Ramelan, the former ruler of the village. The village is unaware that Pairot is planning to evict the villagers and destroy the village to build a city with hotels and casinos.
After learning about Pairot's evil plans, Dana, with the help of her sister, struggle to save her beloved village. With help from Grandfather Wiwien, Dana tries to find the King's original will.
As a woman, Dawan's life is filled with difficulties and sadness. Dana is forced by her father to follow the village's patriarchal tradition. Her father has wanted to marry her off to Pairot's son, Benz.
Dawan and Kai are assisted by a group of jungle animals who can talk to each other, including bird parrots named Kakatu, crow named Minah, lizards, and bear named Tante Bear.
Accompanied by their animal friends, Dawan and Kai win scholarships and thwart the landlord's plan.
Voice cast
Production
Sing to the Dawn was produced by Infinite Frameworks (IFW), an animation studio based in Batam, Indonesia. The English-language version of the film was released on 30 October 2008 in Singapore, followed by Korea, Malaysia and Russia. The film was screened at Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea and in Santa Monica.
Production was done in Batam over three years with a budget of USD 5 million. After the English version of the film was completed in 2008, it was distributed to various countries. Sing to the Dawn was not immediately released in Indonesia because IFW wanted to introduce the film to an international audience first.
The film was an adaptation of a short story by Minfong Ho at the request of the Singapore government. The film was referred to as "the film work of the nation" by IFW, because out of the 150 animators in the studio, almost all were Indonesian except for five expatriates. The total number of expatriates involved is only 10. Many animators from Yogyakarta, London, and Solo were recruited for the production of this film. By contrast, the Singapore media wrote that the film is Si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornaria | A tornaria is the planktonic larva of some species of Hemichordata such as the acorn worms. It is very similar in appearance to the bipinnaria larvae of starfishes, with convoluted bands of cilia running around the body.
It is an oval shaped, transparent larva. The diameter of the body is about 3 mm. It has an apical plate, which is a thickened region provided by a tuft of cilia and a pair of eye spots. The larva has a complete alimentary canal. The ciliary band stretches throughout the anterior and posterior region, and also the postoral region.
References
Larvae
Hemichordates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanagra%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Tanagra is a free suite of machine learning software for research and academic purposes
developed by Ricco Rakotomalala at the Lumière University Lyon 2, France.
Tanagra supports several standard data mining tasks such as: Visualization, Descriptive statistics, Instance selection, feature selection, feature construction, regression, factor analysis, clustering, classification and association rule learning.
Tanagra is an academic project. It is widely used in French-speaking universities. Tanagra is frequently used in real studies and in software comparison papers.
History
The development of Tanagra was started in June 2003. The first version was distributed in December 2003. Tanagra is the successor of Sipina, another free data mining tool which is intended only for supervised learning tasks (classification), especially the interactive and visual construction of decision trees. Sipina is still available online and is maintained.
Tanagra is an "open source project" as every researcher can access the source code and add their own algorithms, as long as they agree and conform to the software distribution license.
The main purpose of the Tanagra project is to give researchers and students a user-friendly data mining software, conforming to the present norms of the software development in this domain (especially in the design of its GUI and the way to use it), and allowing the analyzation of either real or synthetic data.
From 2006, Ricco Rakotomalala made an important documentation effort. A large number of tutorials are published on a dedicated website. They describe the statistical and machine learning methods and their implementation with Tanagra on real case studies. The use of other free data mining tools on the same problems is also widely described. The comparison of the tools enables readers to understand the possible differences in the presentation of results.
Description
Tanagra works similarly to current data mining tools. The user can design visually a data mining process in a diagram. Each node is a statistical or machine learning technique, the connection between two nodes represents the data transfer. But unlike the majority of tools which are based on the workflow paradigm, Tanagra is very simplified. The treatments are represented in a tree diagram. The results are displayed in an HTML format. This makes it is easy to export the outputs in order to visualize the results in a browser. It is also possible to copy the result tables to a spreadsheet.
Tanagra makes a good compromise between statistical approaches (e.g. parametric and nonparametric statistical tests), multivariate analysis methods (e.g. factor analysis, correspondence analysis, cluster analysis, regression) and machine learning techniques (e.g. neural network, support vector machine, decision trees, random forest).
See also
Free statistical software
Data mining
List of numerical analysis software
References
External links
Tanagra Project home page
Sipin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Black%20%28cryptographer%29 | John Richard Black, Jr. is a cryptologist, programmer, and professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder focusing on computer security. He graduated with a BA in computer science from CSU East Bay in 1988 and completed his PhD in cryptography at UC Davis with Phillip Rogaway in 2000. He has taught at CU-Boulder since 2002.
Black has been involved in the invention of several cryptographic algorithms including UMAC, PMAC, OCB, and CMAC as well as algorithms related to Format Preserving Encryption. In 2004, he worked with students Martin Cochran and Ryan Gardner to defeat the security mechanisms of the Internet Chess Club.
Notes
External links
John Black's home page at CU-Boulder
Five Questions for John Black
Living people
Modern cryptographers
American computer programmers
University of California, Davis alumni
Computer security academics
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Husband%27s%20Lover | My Husband's Lover is a 2013 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the first gay-themed drama series in Philippine television. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Dennis Trillo in the title role, Tom Rodriguez and Carla Abellana. It premiered on June 10, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up, replacing Love & Lies. The series concluded on October 18, 2013, with a total of 94 episodes.
The series was made available on YouTube, for which GMA Network edited the original 94 episodes (each with an average length of 25 minutes) together into 50 episodes with a length of 44–47 minutes each.
Premise
Vincent Soriano gets his girlfriend Lally pregnant while they were still in college. They marry and raise a family. While Vincent keeps a secret from his wife, he is gay. When Vincent's former male lover Eric returns to his life, they have an affair until Lally catches them.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Enrico "Eric" del Mundo
Tom Rodriguez as Vicente "Vincent" Soriano
Carla Abellana as Eulalia "Lally" Agatep-Soriano
Supporting cast
Pancho Magno as Paul Salcedo
Bettina Carlos as Vicky Araneta
Karel Marquez as Evelyn Agatep
Kevin Santos as Danny
Victor Basa as David
Glydel Mercado as Sandra Agatep
Chanda Romero as Sol del Mundo
Roi Vinzon as Armando Soriano
Kuh Ledesma as Elaine Soriano
Recurring cast
Antone Limgenco as Diego "Diegs" Soriano
Elijah Alejo as Hanna "Munchkin" Soriano
Guest cast
Keempee de Leon as Zandro "Zsa Zsa" Soriano
Rodjun Cruz as Martin Lizada
Roy Alvarez as Manuel Soriano
Mark Gil as Galo Agatep
Chynna Ortaleza as Stella
Ashley Cabrera as Mikaella
Jaclyn Jose as Charito Vda. de Carbonel
Ryan Agoncillo as Sam
Production
Conception and development
Series' creator Suzette Doctolero began developing the series in early 2013. It all started with her desire to create a non-traditional, out of the box yet has social relevance, truthful, emotional and with "real" characters stories. The idea for the series was conceived when Doctolero began thinking about the question: "What would you do if you find out that you husband is cheating on you... with another man?" Although the idea is not-an-easy-story-to-tell because of its controversial theme which touches on the sensitive issue of homosexual and bisexual relationships, Doctolero explained that "the show is not all about the queerness of the characters but more of a love story and a family drama. When Doctolero presented the idea to GMA Network, the management said "yes" easily because they found the concept interesting and "it was based on the relatability of the masses to the topic."
Carolyn Galve served as the executive producer of the series throughout its run. Dominic Zapata was assigned to direct the show. Zapata said "It's very refreshing for me to direct this material. The subject is really sensitive and I want to be accurate in portraying how gay people are and the dynamics of gay relationshi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneTalk | GeneTalk is a web-based platform, tool, and database for filtering, reduction and prioritization of human sequence variants from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. GeneTalk allows editing annotation about sequence variants and build up a crowd sourced database with clinically relevant information for diagnostics of genetic disorders. GeneTalk allows searching for information about specific sequence variants and connects to experts on variants that are potentially disease-relevant.
Application to diagnostics
Users can upload NGS data in Variant Call Format (VCF) onto the GeneTalk server into their accounts. All entries of the file are preprocessed and shown in the integrated VCF viewer. Filtering tools are set by the user to reduce the number of clinically non-relevant variants. After filtering and prioritization users can interpret relevant variants by retrieving information (annotations) about variants from the GeneTalk database. The communication platform allow users to contact experts about specific variants, genes, or genetic disorders, to exchange knowledge and expertise.
Analysis procedure
Steps required to analyze VCF files
Upload VCF file
Edit pedigree and phenotype information for segregation filtering
Filter VCF file by editing the filtering options
View results and annotations
Add annotations
Filtering tools
The following filtering options may be used to reduce the non-relevant sequence variants in VCF files.
Functional – filter out variants that have effects on protein level
Linkage – filter out variants that are on specified chromosomes
Gene panel – filter variants by genes or gene panels, subscribe to publicly available gene panels or create own ones
Frequency – show only variants with a genotype frequency lower than specified
Inheritance – filter out variants by presumed mode of inheritance
Annotation – show only variants with a score for medical relevance and scientific evidence
Communication platform & expert network
Users can share VCF files with colleagues and coworkers. The integrated mailing systems allows users to contact experts easily. Users can create annotations and comments and rate annotations regarding medical relevance and scientific evidence, that is helpful for the community of users for diagnosis of genetic disorders. Registered users provide information about their field of knowledge in their profile and can be contacted by other users.
Potential applications
Developing diagnostics
Genetic analysis
Capturing data generated by community
Communication and exchange of knowledge and expertise
References
External links
gene-talk.de
DNA sequencing
Web applications
Molecular biology techniques
2011 in biotechnology
2011 in science
Computer-related introductions in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghihintay%20Pa%20Rin | (International title: Bitter Sweet Life / ) is a 2013 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Bianca King, Rafael Rosell and Dion Ignacio. It premiered on June 10, 2013 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Bukod Kang Pinagpala. The series concluded on September 27, 2013 with a total of 79 episodes. It was replaced by Magkano Ba ang Pag-ibig? in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bianca King as Geneva "Gen" de Villa
Rafael Rosell as Francisco "Kiko" Sebastian
Dion Ignacio as Orlando "Orly" Ramirez
Supporting cast
JC Tiuseco as Ricky Alvarado
Tanya Gomez as Trinidad Sebastian
Julie Lee as Grace Lim
JM Reyes as Cholo Sebastian
Daniella Amable as Lita Sebastian
Sachi Manahan as Sebastian
Diva Montelaba as Milan
Lou Sison as Leni
Bryan Pagala as Francisco "Franz" de Villa Sebastian Jr.
Ynez Veneracion as Stella Ramirez
Nathalie Hart as Yvette Chua-Villafuerte
AJ Dee as Lance Villafuerte
Ayen Munji-Laurel as Catriona "Rio" de Villa
Production and development
Conceptualized by Richard Cruz and developed by Kit Villanueva-Langit, the project—which initially titled as Hindi Kita Iiwan was put on the fast track by the network for a second week of June 2013 premiere. On the mid-part of April 2013, a detailed breakdown of the script was released, containing information on the plot and characters which would be in the series. It also revealed the names of two of the three actors chosen for the lead roles. However, during the casting process of the show, several revisions were made.
Executive producer, Darling Pulido-Torres described the show a reminiscent of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but not a "stereotypical romance". She also added that the series is especially dedicated for the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) around the world.
Bianca King and Dion Ignacio were personally chosen by the network management to portray the lead characters and were the first two actors to be cast. King was signed on to play Geneva de Villa, a Richie-rich young lass "who will do everything in the name of love." King summarized her character as being intelligent, brave and compassionate – far from the usual "damsel in distress" roles she portrayed in her past projects.
Production began on the mid-part of May 2013. Most of the scenes were shot on location in Quezon City. They also filmed several scenes (good for two-week episodes) in Singapore. Filming locations were chosen by the series' director Don Michael Perez and by production designer Melvin Lacerna.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned an 11.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.4% rating.
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Clarence is an American animated television series created by Skyler Page for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around the title character and his two best friends, Jeff and Sumo. The creator of the series, Skyler Page, a former storyboard artist for Adventure Time and revisionist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, developed the series at Cartoon Network Studios as part of their shorts development program in 2012.
The pilot aired after the 2014 Hall of Game Awards show on February 17, 2014. The series officially premiered on April 14, 2014, and was seen by approximately 2.3 million viewers, outperforming shows in its same demographic in the time slot. The series' pilot was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy Award. The series completed its four-year run on June 24, 2018, after three seasons and 130 episodes.
Premise
The series focuses on the daily life of Clarence Wendle, a fun-loving and spirited 10-year-old boy, and his best friends: Jeff, who is the more intellectual type, and Sumo, who often uses drastic measures when solving problems.
Clarence lives with his divorced mother Mary and her boyfriend Chad in the fictional town of Aberdale, Arizona. Each episode focuses on the daily-life situations and problems that Clarence and his friends encounter, and their everyday adventures and life experiences as kids.
Other characters include students and faculty at Aberdale Elementary, Clarence's school. Certain episodes focus on the life of supporting characters, like the citizens of Aberdale and Clarence's classmates.
Characters
Main characters
Clarence Wendle (voiced by Skyler Page and Spencer Rothbell) – An extroverted, optimistic, and wide-eyed 10-year-old boy who wants to bring out the best in everything and everyone. In the pilot episode, he was the "new kid" in Aberdale and could not wait to make friends. He often follows his heart, reacting towards life with unfailing excitement and enthusiasm. A "nice guy" at heart, Clarence aspires to help people, especially his fellow kids, have fun and live freely, often by using unorthodox methods to do so. He can, however, occasionally let his imagination get the better of him, and has a bad habit of meddling into people's personal lives, unintentionally making their troubles worse. Clarence has a wide range of interests and hobbies, and despite sometimes coming off as a goofball, he more often than not displays an underlying intelligence. Nick Pitera provides Clarence's singing voice in "Jeff Wins".
Jeffrey "Jeff" Randell (voiced by Sean Giambrone) – Clarence's 10-year-old best friend who is intelligent, levelheaded, and morally inclined of the trio and tries his best to prevent Clarence from going down a bad road. Jeff's most well-known trait is that he has a cube-shaped head which represents his "square" personality. He is an avid fan of game shows and enjoys playing along with them.
Ryan "Sumo" Sumouski (voiced by Tom Kenny) – Clarence's 10-year-old best friend, who is fearless, unpredictable, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urturn | Urturn was a social network.
Urturn initially launched in early 2011 as Webdoc by co-founders Stelio and Alexander Tzonis. The company raised $500,000 from family and friends before its series A funding round. Webdoc was relaunched as Urturn in January 2013 followed by an accompanying iPhone app in May. With the news of the app, Urturn also announced it had completed $13.4 million Series A fundraising round with $10.7 million contributed by Balderton Capital and $2.7 million invested by the private equity arm of Debiopharm Group.
Chief executive Stelio Tzonis said that use of the funding will be prioritized for building the API and advancing development of Urturn across multiple platforms, including Android.
Marketed as a "social platform for self-expression", the site provided templates for users to customize media such as photos. The resulting content could then be shared over Urturn, as well as to Facebook and Twitter. Urturn goal at that time was to let developers create their own templates with the release of an API.
Urturn headquarters were in London and had an office in Silicon Valley. It employed up to 25 staff.
Urturn was more popular among teens and young adults and among females. The U.S., followed by the UK, and then South America accounted for most of the site's traffic. The service was also used by music brands such as One Direction. Urturn hoped these brands would be a source of revenue in addition to affiliate deals for music and other products.
The social network development stopped in December 2014, followed by a complete shutdown of the platform early 2015.
References
Defunct companies based in London
British social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20Health%20System | Atlantic Health System is one of the largest non-profit health care networks in New Jersey. It employs 18,000 people and more than 4,800 affiliated physicians. The system offers more than 400 sites of care, including six hospitals: Chilton Medical Center, Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Hackettstown Medical Center, Morristown Medical Center, Newton Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center.
Atlantic Health System serves more than half of the state of New Jersey, including 11 counties and 4.9 million people. Its medical centers have a combined total of 1,860 licensed beds and 4,796 affiliated physicians that provide a wide array of health care services. With more than 340 medical residents and several allied health certificate programs, Atlantic Health System trains New Jersey's future health care professionals and provides the most comprehensive services in the region.
The company has been ranked on the FORTUNE 100 Great Place to Work list 13 years in a row. Atlantic Health System also includes the best hospital in New Jersey, Morristown Medical Center, according to both US News & World Report and Newsweek.
The president and chief executive of Atlantic Health System is Brian A. Gragnolati, a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association.
History
25th Anniversary
Atlantic Health System was founded in 1996 through the merger of Morristown Memorial Hospital, Overlook Hospital, Mountainside Hospital, and soon after, the General Hospital Center at Passaic. Over the next quarter century, Atlantic Health System evolved to meet the expanding needs of the 11 counties and 4.9 million people it serves. Including Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center and Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Atlantic Health System grew to include Newton Medical Center (2011), Chilton Medical Center (2014) and Hackettstown Medical Center (2016), along with the new Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute (2019), new partnership with CentraState Health System (2021), and longstanding alliance with Hunterdon Healthcare (2014).
CentraState acquisition
On October 22, 2020, officials from Atlantic Health System announced that they were acquiring a 51% stake in Freehold based CentraState Healthcare System. As a part of the deal, CentraState will continue to govern themselves while Atlantic Health System has committed to invest $135 million into the hospital.
Medicare overbilling allegations
On June 21, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that AHS Hospital Corp., Atlantic Health System Inc., and Overlook Hospital agreed to pay the United States $8,999,999 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by allegedly overbilling Medicare. The settlement was part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative. The settlement resolved allegations that Overlook Hospital, owned and operated by AHS Hospital Corporation, and Atlantic Health Systems Inc., overbilled Medicare for patients who were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | In computer graphics, tessellation is the dividing of datasets of polygons (sometimes called vertex sets) presenting objects in a scene into suitable structures for rendering. Especially for real-time rendering, data is tessellated into triangles, for example in OpenGL 4.0 and Direct3D 11.
In graphics rendering
A key advantage of tessellation for realtime graphics is that it allows detail to be dynamically added and subtracted from a 3D polygon mesh and its silhouette edges based on control parameters (often camera distance). In previously leading realtime techniques such as parallax mapping and bump mapping, surface details could be simulated at the pixel level, but silhouette edge detail was fundamentally limited by the quality of the original dataset.
In Direct3D 11 pipeline (a part of DirectX 11), the graphics primitive is the patch. The tessellator generates a triangle-based tessellation of the patch according to tessellation parameters such as the TessFactor, which controls the degree of fineness of the mesh. The tessellation, along with shaders such as a Phong shader, allows for producing smoother surfaces than would be generated by the original mesh. By offloading the tessellation process onto the GPU hardware, smoothing can be performed in real time. Tessellation can also be used for implementing subdivision surfaces, level of detail scaling and fine displacement mapping. OpenGL 4.0 uses a similar pipeline, where tessellation into triangles is controlled by the Tessellation Control Shader and a set of four tessellation parameters.
In computer-aided design
In computer-aided design the constructed design is represented by a boundary representation topological model, where analytical 3D surfaces and curves, limited to faces, edges, and vertices, constitute a continuous boundary of a 3D body.
Arbitrary 3D bodies are often too complicated to analyze directly. So they are approximated (tessellated) with a mesh of small, easy-to-analyze pieces of 3D volume—usually either irregular tetrahedra, or irregular hexahedra. The mesh is used for finite element analysis.
The mesh of a surface is usually generated per individual faces and edges (approximated to polylines) so that original limit vertices are included into mesh. To ensure that approximation of the original surface suits the needs of further processing, three basic parameters are usually defined for the surface mesh generator:
The maximum allowed distance between the planar approximation polygon and the surface (known as "sag"). This parameter ensures that mesh is similar enough to the original analytical surface (or the polyline is similar to the original curve).
The maximum allowed size of the approximation polygon (for triangulations it can be maximum allowed length of triangle sides). This parameter ensures enough detail for further analysis.
The maximum allowed angle between two adjacent approximation polygons (on the same face). This parameter ensures that even very small hum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-SOFT | was a Japanese software development company that was in business from 1980 to 2003 based in Sapporo, Hokkaido. They started as a video game developer, releasing titles for various home computer platforms (including the Family Computer), but subsequently left the gaming business to focus solely on programming software and tools as they entered the 1990s.
History
The company was founded on May 2, 1980, under the name Computer Land Hokkaido, publishing video games for various home computers under the "7 Turkey" brand name. In 1984, they officially changed their name to dB-SOFT, taking their new name from the decibel (dB) unit.
Some of the company's most commercially successful video games include Flappy (which has been released in over 20 versions) and Woody Poco. dB-SOFT also published two pornographic games under the Macadamia Soft imprint: Macadam and 177 (the latter was banned from retail by the National Diet due to its controversial premise in which the player's objective is to pursue and rape a fleeing woman). In addition to gaming software, dB-SOFT also produced programming tools such as dB-BASIC (a BASIC compiler), P1.EXE (a word processor) and HOTALL (a web designing tool).
On August 1, 2001, dB-SOFT ceased operation after being merged into NetFarm Communications (a company founded by Reiko Furuya, Sadayaki Furuya's wife). Their former office building was sold off in 2002.
Softography
Notes
References
External links
Official website (Waybacked)
dB-SOFT games available at Project EGG
dB-SOFT at Giant Bomb
Companies based in Sapporo
Defunct video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Video game publishers
Video game companies established in 1980
Video game companies disestablished in 2001
Japanese companies established in 1980
Japanese companies disestablished in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.Godmom | F.Godmom is a platform game released in 1991 for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and in 1996 for Microsoft Windows.
Gameplay
Players control a fairy godmother through levels of platforms and ladders to rescue her friends from evil crab-like monsters. Collecting all the tokens and finding the key reveals a level's exit. Players use a magic wand to transform the environment around her. The game uses a simple enemy behavior to keep them predictable.
The game includes a boss key. In order to return to the game, players must type in "FG" on the fake MS-DOS command prompt.
References
1991 video games
DOS games
Fantasy video games
North America-exclusive video games
Platformers
Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring female protagonists
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin%20network | The Bitcoin network is a peer-to-peer network of nodes which implement the Bitcoin protocol. The protocol itself implements a highly available, public, and decentralized ledger. The nodes verify that each update to the ledger follows the rules of the Bitcoin protocol.
Users broadcast cryptographically signed messages to the network using Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallet software. These messages are proposed transactions, changes to be made in the ledger. Each node has a copy of the ledger's entire transaction history. If a transaction violates the rules of the Bitcoin protocol, it is ignored, as transactions only occur when the entire network reaches a consensus that they should take place. This "full network consensus" is achieved when each node on the network verifies the results of a proof-of-work operation called mining. Mining packages groups of transactions into blocks, and produces a hash code that follows the rules of the Bitcoin protocol. Creating this hash requires expensive energy, but a network node can verify the hash is valid using very little energy. If a miner proposes a block to the network, and its hash is valid, the block and its ledger changes are added to the blockchain, and the network moves on to yet unprocessed transactions. In case there is a dispute, then the longest chain is considered to be correct.
A new block is created every 10 minutes, on average.
Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous designer of the protocol, stated that design and coding of Bitcoin began in 2007. The project was released in 2009 as open source software.
The network requires minimal structure to share transactions. An ad hoc decentralized network of volunteers is sufficient. Messages are broadcast on a best-effort basis, and nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will. Upon reconnection, a node downloads and verifies new blocks from other nodes to complete its local copy of the blockchain.
Transactions
A bitcoin is defined by a sequence of digitally signed transactions that began with the bitcoin's creation, as a block reward. The owner of a bitcoin transfers it by digitally signing it over to the next owner using a bitcoin transaction, much like endorsing a traditional bank check. A payee can examine each previous transaction to verify the chain of ownership. Unlike traditional check endorsements, bitcoin transactions are irreversible, which eliminates risk of chargeback fraud.
Although it is possible to handle bitcoins individually, it would be unwieldy to require a separate transaction for every bitcoin in a transaction. Transactions are therefore allowed to contain multiple inputs and outputs, allowing bitcoins to be split and combined. Common transactions will have either a single input from a larger previous transaction or multiple inputs combining smaller amounts, and one or two outputs: one for the payment, and one returning the change, if any, to the sender. Any difference between the total input and output amounts of a transaction goe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageless%20computing | Ageless computing refers to a section of user experience design focused around designing computer software for the elderly. This type of software addresses age specific challenges, and allows easier interaction with computers as we age.
Overview
Many existing computing services are not designed with the needs of elderly users in mind. The way information is often organized and presented (such as user experience design) and the complexity of many computer-based operations create difficulties for many elderly people. This not only makes it inconvenient for the elderly to make use of information and services but also contributes to isolation from other members of society.
As the average life expectancy increases in most countries across the globe, a greater percentage of the world's population is falling above the age of 65. This group commands major purchasing power, and possesses unique knowledge, experience, skills, and wisdom. As such, computing design paradigms must be revised to accommodate the special needs and preferences of the elderly population for the well-being of both seniors and society in general.
Definition
Ageless computing is defined as any service-oriented computing design that can achieve at least one of the following objectives:
Bridges the gap between physical services for the elderly and the online environment
Enables the elderly to effectively use computing technology without conscious physical and mental effort
Enables friends and relatives of the elderly to interact closely and meaningfully with the elderly
Enables aging societies to mobilize the elderly population as a productive force
Ageless computing should make the elderly feel ageless when using computing technologies, make their loved ones feel the elderly are ageless as part of daily life and make an aging society feel ageless by revealing the hidden potential of the elderly population.
Design Elements for Ageless Computing
UI/UX designers can help contribute to ageless computing through simple design that is intuitive for users of all ages. The following design elements can help to include the elderly:
Font Size and Style: Senior citizens benefit from larger font sizes due to the increased legibility. Some smartphone screen sizes make this a particular challenge for older adults. Default font styles (such as Roboto for Android devices) are generally the easiest to read.
Color and Contrast: The ability to distinguish certain colors fades with age. Colors and contrast can help guide users to specific design elements needed to perform tasks and remind them where they have navigated.
Language: The use of slang or lingo that is intuitive for younger populations will likely confuse senior citizens. The language used in a computing system should communicate its intended message to an older population.
Clickable Elements: Diminished hand-eye coordination and motor skills can make it difficult for seniors to navigate with a mouse. Interface elements should be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senn%20Kreol | Senn Kreol (In English: Creole Channel, French: Chaîne Créole) is a television channel in Mauritius, owned by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation.
Programming
2 Kouzin Sek
Ti Gale
Refle Nou Zil
Itinerer
Itinerer Rodrig
Dossier Senn Kreol
Sports Moris
Balad dan Villaz
Valer Artis
Arsiv MBC
Klip Kompil (Musical Show)
Bonzour Nu Zil
Kitikoui
Lavi Zoli en XXL
Morisien Kone Ou Drwa ek Devoir
Etre Femme
Memwar Nu Zanset
Beauty Queen
Morisien Kone Ou La Santé
Mazavarou (Seychellois cooking show from SBC)
Kapatya (Seychellois discovery show from SBC)
Knockout (Seychellois show from SBC)
Tremolo (Seychellois show from SBC)
References
Senn Kreol
Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation
Television channels in Mauritius
Mauritian Creole |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication%20Infrastructure%20Company | Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC) is responsible for telecommunication networks infrastructure in Iran, it is working as the governmental body of ICT Ministry with the aim of creating, developing, managing, organizing, supervising, maintaining and implementing the main communication backbone of the country and continues infrastructural activities.
The bandwidth providing and distribution (Internet, intranet, MPLS and VPLS), point-to-point services (inter-city, inter-provincial and international), cloud TDM service, international transit service (border to border), NIX and Peering services are only a few examples of the massive services provided by the Telecommunication Infrastructure Company.
Providing the internet services to mobile phone operators, ISPs, and scientific, cultural, economic and military centers are among other activities carried out by this company. The comprehensive development of telecommunication backbone network based on the modern technology to meet the present and future needs of the national and international users, effective presence in regional and international telecommunication communities and markets, and converting Iran into a strong communication hub in the Middle East are among the main goals of this company.
The Telecommunication Infrastructure Company believes that the way to increase domestic network strength and enhance the regional and international status of Iran in terms of telecommunications passes through cooperation and constructive interaction with all agents in this area.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of Iran
Internet in Iran
Holding companies of Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arndale%20Board | The Arndale Board is a high-power single-board computer featuring the ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore developed in South Korea.
Overview
The Arndale Board is composed of four parts: the CPU Board, Base Board, Sound Board, and Connectivity Board.
Hardware specifications
References
External links
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landstuhl%E2%80%93Kusel%20railway | The Landstuhl–Kusel railway is a branch line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, connecting the town of Kusel to the railway network. It was the first line built by the Palatine Northern Railway Company (Gesellschaft der Pfälzischen Nordbahnen), which was then responsible within the Palatinate for all railway lines to the north of the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway (Palatine Ludwig Railway) between Ludwigshafen and Bexbach and the first in the North Palatine Uplands. It was also the only railway in the western part of these uplands that was not threatened with closure at any time. The main purpose of its establishment was the development of the quarries in the area of the Altenglan area, leading to it being sometimes called the Steinbahn (German for "stone railway").
From 1904, the Glan-Münchweiler–Altenglan section was also part of the Glan Valley Railway (Glantalbahn), which was built for strategic reasons, but closed for passenger services between 1961 and 1986. In 1936, an extension to Türkismühle was opened for military reasons, but it was closed down in stages between 1964 and 1970. The route is operated by DB Regio using class 643 (Bombardier Talent) diesel multiple units at hourly services with additional services in the peak hour.
History
In the early 1860s, the towns of Ramstein and Kusel, which at the time were part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, formed committees to promote the construction of a railway. According to a memorandum published in Kusel in 1861, the railway would branch from the Palatine Ludwig Railway in Landstuhl and run through the Mohrbach, Glan and Kuselbach valleys to Kusel. In the memorandum, it was argued that, among other things, the railway construction would improve the rather poor economic and social conditions of the region. The construction of the proposed Landstuhl–Kusel line under a concession issued in 1866 was funded by an issue of shares for a total of 1,740,000 guilders. The company also was given a government guarantee on its interest.
The construction of the 28.7 km stretch from Landstuhl to Kusel was largely uncomplicated. Cuttings were only necessary in the country around Rammelsbach, where the work force encountered a diorite deposit, which was mined in the following years and gave an additional impetus to rail transport. The Rammelsbach Tunnel was the largest building project along the line. Construction on the section between Glan-Munchweiler and Kusel was delayed because not enough workers could be recruited. The first freight train ran on 28 August 1868.
The Kusel–Landstuhl line was officially opened on 20 September 1868. On this day, a special train also ran from Ludwigshafen to Kusel, which carried, apart from officials of the Palatinate Railway (Pfalzbahn), the former Bavarian Minister of State for Trade and Public Works, Gustav Schlör. The new line was very well received by the population, as it improved the infrastructure of the rural region northwest of Kaiserslautern. Two |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20Science%20Teachers%20Network | Los Angeles Science Teachers Network is a professional development network for science education by science teachers for science teachers committed to creating the most engaging hands-on curriculum possible through inquiry-based learning and scientific literacy.
History
The first meeting was held in Lisa Ellen Niver's home in September 2009. In October 2013, the professional development network had its fifteenth session. Over seventy teachers and forty schools have been involved to date. In Westside Today, information about teaching, science and LASTN was presented. In the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Impatient Optimists article, "Teachers Need A Village," the importance of teachers needing support from groups like LASTN is explored. "Why So Many Of America's Teachers Are Leaving The Profession?" cites Los Angeles Science Teachers Network as an example to teachers everywhere to find support and stay involved.
Advisory Council
Several teachers formed the core group and served as advisors to Niver over the first three years: Susan Bagdasarian, Sasha Moore, Joseph Rose and Judy Weiskopf. Niver was frequently asked about teaching science, she has been quoted in Parenting.com, PBS.org, Green Living Arizona (in print), the Huffington Post and on National television. While Niver is on sabbatical with We Said Go Travel, Susan Bagdasarian has been the director of the network.
List of Participating Schools
Adat Ari El
Animo High School
Berkeley Hall
Brawerman School
Brentwood School
Buckley School
Calvary Christian School
Campbell Hall
Carlthorp
Center for Early Education
Chadwick School
cosee-west
Crossroads School
Curtis School
Destination Science
Echo Horizon
Hillel Hebrew
John Thomas Dye School
Laurence School
Maimonides
Mirman School
New Roads School
Oakwood School
Poly Tech
PS 1
Saint Marks
Seven Arrows
Sinai Akiba
St James School
St Matthews Parish School
Stephen S Wise Temple Elementary School
Temple Israel
Turning Point School
Valley Beth Shalom
Viewpoint School
Village School
Westerly School
Westside Neighborhood School
Wildwood School
Willows
Windward School
Yavneh
See also
Constructivism in science education
National Science Education Standards
National Science Teachers Association
Science Education
Science, Technology, Society and Environment Education
School science technicians
STEM fields
Steve Spangler
References
External links
Resources for Teachers
Websites for Classroom Use
Science Isn't Scary
Facebook
Twitter
Science education in the United States
Academic organizations based in the United States
Educational organizations based in California
Organizations based in Los Angeles
Teacher associations based in the United States
2009 establishments in California
Organizations established in 2009
Education in Los Angeles
Science and technology in Greater Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Samples | James Donald Samples Jr. (born 1963) is an American businessman and media executive. He is best known as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of TNT Latin America and Cartoon Network Latin America from 2000 to 2001, the General Manager and Executive Vice President of Cartoon Network from 2001 to 2007, the President of HGTV from 2007 to 2011, the President of Scripps Networks International since 2011, and the President of the Management Board at TVN Group from 2016 to 2018.
Early life
Samples was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree from Presbyterian College, he received a Master's degree in International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina.
Career
NationsBank
From 1989 to 1993, Samples was a relationship manager, international examination department vice president, and manager at NationsBank.
Turner Broadcasting System
Samples spent nearly fourteen years with Turner Broadcasting System in various leadership capacities spanning affiliate sales, marketing, programming and digital media. He started his career at Turner in international business development in 1993 and then became the President of Turner International Argentina, based in Buenos Aires, the following year. In 2000, Samples became Senior Vice President and General Manager of TNT Latin America and Cartoon Network Latin America, serving as such until 2001. but continued to take care of the Latin American Channel through executives Barry Koch and Cindy Kerr until his resign in 2007 and its credited with launching Toonami in 2002 and Adult Swim in 2005. He also served as the General Manager of CartoonNetwork.com around this time.
On August 22, 2001, Samples was promoted to Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cartoon Network Worldwide, replacing founder and original president Betty Cohen. Under Samples's leadership, the network included successful original series such as Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Camp Lazlo, Ben 10, and Class of 3000.
Under Samples's leadership, Cartoon Network also somewhat controversially began airing live-action "cartoon-inspired" movies in 2005, such as The Goonies and Who Framed Roger Rabbit; this move was made in response to CN's slumping ratings due to competing live-action shows on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. In 2006, the network produced their first live-action original movie, Re-Animated, a combination of live-action and animation. When asked about the project, Samples stated "We think when it's done the 'Cartoon Network' way, kids will enjoy seeing animation and the real world collide." While Cartoon Network intended to produce future shows that blend live action with animation as well as "cartoony" live-action shows, Samples maintained "we're predominately an animated network and that's not changing anytime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Geneves | Pierre Genevès is a French computer scientist born in 1980. He is research scientist at CNRS and recipient of the 2013 CNRS Bronze medal.
Biography
Born in Cahors in 1980, Pierre Genevès founded in 2001 a software company developing a graphic software, later marketed under the name of AceDesign Pro by the Canadian software company Visicom Media.
He worked at IBM Research in New York City in 2003 and 2004 where he studied the design of scalable architectures for querying and transforming flows of structured data.
He graduated from the university of Grenoble from which he received a PhD in computer science in 2006.
His thesis, concerning computational logic for reasoning on tree-shaped data, was awarded the EADS prize for the best PhD thesis in 2007, and the prize for the best PhD thesis from the INPG university in 2008.
After a post-doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) 2007, he joined CNRS where he studied and contributed to the field of modal logics, like the modal mu-calculus, that he used for modeling query languages, and allow for the automated reasoning about programs that manipulate structured data. Pioneer of the static analysis of cascading style sheets for web pages, his results in logic also apply to the fields of programming languages, software engineering and artificial intelligence.
Awards
EADS Prize in 2007
CNRS Bronze medal in 2013.
Bibliography
On the Analysis of Cascading Style Sheets, Pierre Genevès, Nabil Layaida, and Vincent Quint, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), p. 809–818, 2012.
Efficient Static Analysis of XML Paths and Types, Pierre Genevès, Nabil Layaida, and Alan Schmitt, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), p. 342–351, June 2007.
Portrait at the Pantheon, Exhibition in Paris, 2010
Footnotes
1980 births
Living people
People from Cahors
French computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Sitchinava | Data Sitchinava (; born 21 March 1989) is a Georgian professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Erovnuli Liga 2 club Kolkheti Poti.
Career
Sitchinava signed his first professional contract with Ameri Tbilisi.
The second half of 2011 he spent at Gagra who had just gained promotion to Umaglesi Liga. With this team Sitchinava made his European debut on 14 July 2011 in a Europa League qualifier against Anorthosis Famagusta.
While at Rustavi, in 2017 Sitchinava netted 30 goals and as a top scorer of the 2nd division received the Player of the Year award.
He was a top goalscorer for Sioni Bolnisi in 2021 with 20 goals, largely contributing to the team's promotion to the top flight. Moreover, this season he was named the best player of the last quarter (Round 28–36). On 24 November 2021, he scored his 100th goal in the second division in a 5–2 win over Chikhura Sachkhere in which he netted a hat-trick.
Following this successful season, Sitchinava unexpectedly joined Liga 3 side Kolkheti-1913 in February 2022 for the fifth spell. With 19 goals scored in 25 league appearances he once again proved his goalscoring abilities that helped the team achieve a long-awaited promotion.
Honours
Individual
Top scorer and Erovnuli Liga 2 Player of the Year: 2017
Sioni Bolnisi
Erovnuli Liga 2 winner: 2021
References
External links
Profile at Dinamo Brest website
1989 births
Living people
Men's footballers from Georgia (country)
Men's association football midfielders
Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country)
FC Kolkheti-1913 Poti players
FC Gagra players
FC Dinamo Batumi players
FC Dynamo Brest players
FC Sioni Bolnisi players
FC Torpedo Kutaisi players
FC Metalurgi Rustavi players
FC Merani Martvili players
FC Tskhinvali players
Dinamo Zugdidi players
Erovnuli Liga players
Erovnuli Liga 2 players
Belarusian Premier League players
Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Belarus
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
People from Poti
Sportspeople from Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20GB174 | is a detached object, discovered on 12 April 2010 on data taken at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope as part of the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. It never gets closer than 48.5 AU from the Sun (about the outer edge of the Kuiper belt). Its large eccentricity strongly suggests that it was gravitationally scattered onto its current orbit. It is, like all detached objects, outside the current influence of Neptune, so how it got its current orbit is unknown. has the third highest Tisserand parameter relative to Jupiter of any Trans-Neptunian object, after and . It has not been observed since 2015. It comes to opposition in late March each year in the constellation of Virgo.
Precovery images have been found back to 26 June 2009.
It reached perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) in mid-1951 and has moved beyond 70 AU in September 2014. It is possibly a dwarf planet.
Comparison
See also
List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun
References
External links
Minor planet object articles (unnumbered)
20100412 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicTracer | MagicTracer is a proprietary Microsoft Windows computer application for doing raster to vector conversion. This program has the capability to automatically convert raster images to vector output. There are over 100 functions that can be used to further customize and fine-tune the conversion results.
See also
Auto-tracing
Raster to vector
Raster to vector conversion software
External links
MagicTracer website
Windows-only proprietary software
Graphics software
GIS software
Raster to vector conversion software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTV%20%28Mauritian%20TV%20channel%29 | BTV (formerly MBC Digital 4) is a Mauritian free-to-air television channel owned by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation. Its programming consists of Indian Hindi-language TV series and non-fictional shows from Zee TV, Star Plus, Colors TV, Sony TV, Sony SAB, &TV and Star Bharat.
Current broadcasts
Anupamaa
Bade Achhe Lagte Hain
Bin Kuch Kahe
Yeh Teri Galiyan
Agniphera (TV series)
Mere Sai - Shraddha Aur Saburi
Kundali Bhagya
RadhaKrishn
Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein
Bhakharwadi (TV series)
Siddhi Vinayak
Motu Patlu
Naagin 2
Dance Plus (season 5)
Siya Ke Ram
ViR: The Robot Boy
See also
Kids Channel (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 1 (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 2 (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 3 (Mauritian TV channel)
List of programs broadcast by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation
References
External links
Official Schedule,^ Official MBC Digital 4 Website.
Television channels in Mauritius
Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodiophora%20bicaudata | Plasmodiophora bicaudata is a marine pathogen, an obligate parasite of seagrass of the genus Zostera and the causal agent of wasting disease in the genus. These marine plants grow in fine sediment in shallow seas and the pathogen seems to have a worldwide distribution.
Biology
The life cycle of Plasmodiophora bicaudata is complex. It includes resting spores which can lie dormant, awaiting suitable conditions to infect a new plant. Its other forms include two types of plasmodia, the feeding stage that derive their energy from the host cells, and two types of zoospores. The motile zoospores are the only form that can move outside the host cells. They have whiplash flagella and can swim to reach new seagrass plants and can also crawl on the surface of the leaves in an amoeboid way by extending pseudopodia forward. This parasite causes galls to form in the internodes of the rhizomes of its host seagrasses, species of the genus Zostera. The condition is known as wasting disease, the nodes bunch up together and root development is poor so the plants are more easily uprooted in storms. Detached floating plants may spread the infection to new areas and when the seagrass has been planted for erosion control, the target seabed cover may not be achieved. The growth of leaves seems little affected by the parasite but flowering of the seagrass does not take place. The galls contain a large number of thick-walled, dormant spores 4-6 μm in diameter that are separate from one another. The infection of seagrasses by this parasite has been little studied but it is possible that it is a vector, able to transmit disease-causing viruses between plants as happens in some terrestrial species in this genus. This has not yet been observed in the marine environment.
References
Plant pathogens and diseases by causal agent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna%20Sur%20metro%20station | Laguna Sur station is an underground metro station on the Line 5 of Santiago Metro network, in Santiago, Chile. It is located underneath the junction of Teniente Cruz Avenue with Laguna Sur Street, in the commune of Pudahuel between Las Parcelas station (1,140 meters away) and Barrancas station (1,140 meters away).
The station was opened on 3 February 2011 as part of the extension of the line from Pudahuel to Plaza de Maipú. It is one of three stations on the elevated viaduct extension of the line to Maipú.
The station structure consists of two parts: the platforms, located on an elevated viaduct, and the ticket office and entrance points on the Teniente Cruz Avenue / Laguna Sur Street junction. The platforms and ticket office are linked by a footbridge over Teniente Cruz Avenue.
The surrounding area is mainly residential,
Etymology
The station is named after Laguna Sur Street, where it is located.
History
In 2005, Chilean president Ricardo Lagos announced the extension of Line 5 to Maipú. Works began on Laguna Sur station in 2006 and were completed two years later. Construction of the full line extension was completed in 2010 and on October 5, 2010, the first train passed along the station's tracks. Laguna Sur station was finally inaugurated on February 3, 2011, by Chilean president Sebastián Piñera along with the rest of stations on the line extension between Barrancas and Plaza de Maipú stations.
The station has been a catalyst for significant change and development in the area, with improvements in the public lighting, resurfacing of the streets surrounding the station and new residential and commercial development projects.
References
External links
Metro de Santiago website
Pudahuel Municipality website, in Spanish
Santiago Metro stations
Santiago Metro Line 5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrancas%20metro%20station | Barrancas is an underground metro station on Line 5 of the Santiago Metro network in Santiago, Chile. It is located underneath the junction of Teniente Cruz Avenue and General Bonilla Avenue on the border of the communes of Pudahuel and Lo Prado, between Laguna Sur station (1140 meters away) and Pudahuel station (990 meters away). It also lies parallel to the Route 68 highway which connects Santiago with Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, and the highway crosses over the underground metro line. The station has disabled access.
The station was opened on 3 February 2011 as part of the extension of the line from Pudahuel to Plaza de Maipú.
Etymology
The station was named after the old name of this part of the city, Barrancas, which covered the nowadays communes of Pudahuel, Lo Prado, Cerro Navia and Quinta Normal during the 1960s.
While the Line 5 extension was being built, Barrancas was known as “General Bonilla” station due to its location on General Bonilla Avenue, itself named after Chilean general Óscar Bonilla.
History
In 2005, the Chilean president Ricardo Lagos announced the extension of Metro Line 5 as far as Maipú. After years of cancelled plans to extend the Metro network to Maipú, the use of Line 5 was unexpected because the Line 1 Metro stations Pajaritos station or Las Rejas station had historically received the bulk of commuters travelling up from Maipú.
Work on the project began in 2006, with the structural work completed in 2010. On October 5, 2010, the first train passed along the tracks of Barrancas station. The station was finally inaugurated on February 3, 2011, along with the other stations between Barrancas and Plaza de Maipú station.
References
External links
Metro de Santiago
Ilustre Municipalidad de Pudahuel, Pudahuel Municipality web in spanish
Ilustre Municipalidad de Lo Prado, Lo Prado Municipality web in spanish
Santiago Metro stations
Santiago Metro Line 5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza%20de%20Puente%20Alto%20metro%20station | Plaza de Puente Alto is an underground metro station and the southern terminal station of Line 4 of the Santiago Metro network, in Santiago, Chile. The station is located under the square of the same name, Plaza de Puente Alto, parallel to Concha y Toro Avenue at the junction with Manuel Rodríguez avenue in the commune of Puente Alto. The station was opened to the public on November 30, 2005 as part of the inaugural section of the line between Vicente Valdés and Plaza de Puente Alto.
The station's surroundings are dominated by municipal buildings like the civil registry office of Puente Alto, the Provincia Cordillera (Cordillera Province) building, and the old municipality building.
There is a very active community of independent retail stores along with department stores that opened after the arrival of the metro station. In Plaza de Puente Alto square there is a statue of Manuel Rodríguez, a Chilean independentist hero.
The station and square are a popular pick-up and connection point for taxis, share taxis, buses that go to different parts of south Santiago and throughout Cordillera Province, of which Puente Alto is the capital. Puente Alto is one of the most densely populated communes in the country, which is one of the reasons for the construction of the metro line and Plaza de Puente Alto metro station.
In recent years, Puente Alto has had one of the fastest growing real estate sectors of all the Chilean communes, seeing 20% of total Santiago real estate sales. This rise is mainly due to the construction of houses for middle-class sectors, partly influenced by the extension of the metro network into this part of the city.
Etymology
The station’s name comes from the Puente Alto center square which it is located beneath.
References
External links
Metro de Santiago
Ilustre Municipalidad de Puente Alto web (in Spanish)
Portal de Comunicaciones y Servicios de la provincia Cordillera web (in Spanish)
Santiago Metro stations
Santiago Metro Line 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Sports%20Network%20personalities | Past and present television personalities on The Sports Network.
Current
Analysts
Jack Armstrong – Basketball analyst
Janine Beckie - Soccer analyst
Craig Button – TSN Hockey Director of Scouting
Steven Caldwell – Soccer analyst
Darren Dreger – TSN Hockey insider / studio analyst
Julian de Guzman – Soccer analyst
Matt Dunigan – CFL on TSN studio analyst / colour analyst
Duane Forde – CFL on TSN colour analyst
Cathy Gauthier – Curling on TSN colour analyst
Mike Johnson – TSN Hockey studio analyst / colour analyst
Russ Howard – Curling on TSN colour analyst
Kevin Kilbane - Soccer analyst
Pierre LeBrun – TSN Hockey insider
Bob McKenzie – TSN Hockey insider / studio analyst
Jamie McLennan – TSN Hockey studio analyst / colour analyst
Jeff O'Neill – TSN Hockey studio analyst
Jesse Palmer – NFL on TSN analyst
Steve Phillips – baseball insider
Dave Poulin – TSN Hockey studio analyst
Leo Rautins – Basketball analyst
Davis Sanchez – CFL on TSN contributor
Kevin Sawyer – Hockey analyst
Milt Stegall – CFL on TSN studio analyst
Glen Suitor – CFL on TSN colour analyst
Bob Weeks – Golf analyst
Anchors/Hosts
Kate Beirness – SportsCentre anchor / CFL on TSN studio host
Tessa Bonhomme - SportsCentre anchor / TSN Hockey fill-in studio host
Darren Dutchyshen – SportsCentre anchor / TSN Hockey fill-in studio host
James Duthie – TSN Hockey studio host
Kayla Grey – SportsCentre anchor/reporter
Jennifer Hedger – SportsCentre anchor
Bryan Mudryk – SportsCentre anchor
Jay Onrait - SC with Jay Onrait host
Gino Reda – That's Hockey host / TSN Hockey fill-in studio host (SportsCentre: Insider Trading)
Rod Smith – SportsCentre anchor
Cory Woron – SportsCentre anchor
Play-by-play
Dennis Beyak – International hockey play-by-play
Dan Robertson – Jets on TSN play-by-play
Matt Devlin – Raptors on TSN play-by-play
Gord Miller – Leafs on TSN, Sens on TSN, World Junior / World Hockey Championships and CFL on TSN play-by-play (also appears on ESPN)
Bryan Mudryk – Habs on TSN play-by-play, Curling on TSN play-by-play (morning draw)
Vic Rauter – Curling on TSN, MLS on TSN play-by-play
Rod Smith – CFL on TSN play-by-play
Reporters
Paul Hollingsworth - Atlantic reporter
Farhan Lalji – Vancouver reporter
Ryan Rishaug – Edmonton reporter
Former
Analysts
Jock Climie – CFL on TSN studio analyst
Gurdeep Ahluwalia – SportsCentre anchor
David Archer – CFL on TSN colour analyst
Matthew Barnaby – hockey analyst
Cheryl Bernard - Season of Champions on TSN analyst
Kerry Fraser – NHL refereeing analyst
Less Browne – CFL on TSN studio analyst
Dirk Hayhurst – baseball analyst
Peter Burwash – tennis analyst
Aaron Ward - TSN Hockey studio analyst
Jason de Vos – Toronto FC and MLS colour analyst
Marc Crawford – NHL on TSN studio analyst
Terry Dunfield – soccer analyst
Brian Engblom – Jets on TSN color analyst
Ray Ferraro - TSN Hockey colour/studio analyst
Gary Green – NHL on TSN colour analyst
Glenn Healy – NHL on TSN colour analyst
Shane Hnidy – Jets on TSN colour analyst
Dick Howard – socce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Mobile | PC Mobile is a licensed white label prepaid wireless service operated in Canada. Its mobile telephone products and services operate on the network infrastructure operated by Bell Mobility and formerly Telus Mobility (the two companies managed one of the service types each with Telus discontinuing the postpaid service in October 2018), but licensed the proprietary branding and payment media with the President's Choice supermarket store brand owned by Loblaws Inc. It also operates mobile phone kiosks in Loblaws banner stores under the name The Mobile Shop.
The postpaid wireless service was owned and operated by Telus while the prepaid service continues to be owned and operated by Bell Mobility.
History
PC Mobile started in mid-2005 as another President's Choice product of Loblaws Inc., although the domain name PCmobile.ca was registered on January 17, 2005. It offered prepaid products and services as a licensed white label of Bell Mobility services in Canada. There are also PC long distance cards sold with competitive international rates. The company originally only sold CDMA feature phones. Various HSPA+ feature phones, Android smartphones and SIM cards were added throughout the early 2010s, as CDMA handset models have been gradually discontinued. In 2013, PC Mobile announced the sale of postpaid phones and monthly services at its full-service The Mobile Shop kiosks. The postpaid service was discontinued on October 2, 2018 however.
Closure of postpaid division
On May 24, 2018, PC Mobile decided to cease its postpaid operation. Although still operating as The Mobile Shop across the country, customers were moved from the PC brand to Koodo Mobile. The venture between Telus still remains for the foreseeable future as well, and it continues to operate and offer postpaid services via all three national carriers and respective flanker brands at its Mobile Shop locations. PC Mobile's exit did not have any effect on its existing plans to expand its own wireless presence. PC Mobile moved existing customers to Koodo on October 2, 2018. This did not affect the prepaid service offered by PC Mobile operated by Bell Mobility however.
References
Mobile phone companies of Canada
Loblaw Companies
Mobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UASP | UASP may refer to:
USB Attached SCSI Protocol, in computing
Pavlodar Airport (ICAO code), Kazakhstan
Three Unit Assessments or UASPs, part of the Scottish Higher school exams
Anarchist Union of São Paulo, an organisation; see Anarchism in Brazil
USA Perpignan, a French rugby union club officially named Union Sportive Arlequins Perpignanais |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena%20Football%20League%20on%20NFL%20Network | NFL Network held the broadcast television rights the revived Arena Football League from 2010 to 2012. NFL Network broadcast a weekly Friday Night Football package every week at 8:00 ET, with the season running from March to August. The NFL stated that unlike when the NFL last showed interest in arena football, there would be no attempts to buy into the league.
Broadcast overview
As previously mentioned, the NFL Network broadcast the regular season each Friday and went through the playoffs, culminating with the ArenaBowl. All AFL games not on the NFL Network could be seen for free online, provided by Ustream.
NFL Network ceased airing Arena Football League games partway through the 2012 season as a result of ongoing labor problems within the league. The remaining games in the season were carried on a tape delay to prevent the possibility of the players staging a work stoppage immediately prior to a scheduled broadcast and the resulting embarrassment. Once the labor issues were resolved, the NFL Network resumed the practice of broadcasting a live Friday night game before the network dropped the league outright at the end of the season. The rights were picked up by CBS Sports.
Commentators
Broadcasters included Kurt Warner, Tom Waddle, Paul Burmeister, Fran Charles, Charles Davis, and Ari Wolfe.
Notable moments
In 2009, the Arena Football League suspended operations to refinance and restructure its business plan. After a one-year layoff, the AFL and Chicago Rush returned in 2010 with a single entity model. On December 10, 2009, it was announced that the Rush will be returning for 2010 under new ownership as a member of Arena Football 1. The ownership obtained the rights to the name after a court auction granted the AF1 control of the AFL's assets. Two months later, the AF1 decided to adopt the former Arena Football League name.
Chicago returned to the field on April 2, 2010 on the road against the Iowa Barnstormers. The game was broadcast on the NFL Network and Chicago won 61–43. The Rush began the season 4–0 and were in first place in the division at 10–4. However, the team lost its last two games, first to the 1–13 Dallas Vigilantes and then closed out the year on the road losing to the Spokane Shock. It cost the team a chance at the division title and forced the team to go on the road for the playoffs. The team ended the regular season at 10–6, and lost to the Milwaukee Iron in the playoffs.
References
NFL Network original programming
Arena football on television
2010 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoder%20%28film%29 | Decoder is a 1984 West German film directed by Muscha. It is a cyberpunk and counter-cultural film roughly based on the writings of William S. Burroughs, who also acts in the film. Bill Rice plays Jaeger ("Hunter"), an agent of the government in charge of suppressing dissidents, while FM Einheit plays a musician who discovers that by changing the background music at a burger shop from pleasantly calming to industrial "noise" music, he can incite riots and a revolution against the looming power of the government.
Decoder was made on a small budget, and was written by Muscha, Klaus Maeck, Volker Schäfer, and Trini Trimpop. Nevertheless, the project was able to attract a number of notable people within the countercultural and industrial music "scenes" to perform in it. Actors included Burroughs, Genesis P-Orridge, Christiane Felscherinow, and bands included Soft Cell, Psychic TV, Einstürzende Neubauten, and The The.
The film was considered "oddly forgotten", and for numerous years was not in wide circulation. In 2019, however, the film was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD.
Cast
F.M. Einheit as F.M.
Bill Rice as Jaeger
Christiane F. as Christiana
Berthold Bell as H-Burger trainer (as Britzhold Baron De Belle)
Matthias Fuchs as H-Burger manager
William S. Burroughs as Old Man
Genesis P-Orridge as High Priest
Ralf Richter
See also
The Electronic Revolution, by Burroughs
References
External links
1984 films
West German films
1980s German-language films
Cyberpunk films
Films about conspiracy theories
German avant-garde and experimental films
Punk films
William S. Burroughs
1980s avant-garde and experimental films
1980s German films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20recoverable%20shale%20gas | This is a list of countries by recoverable shale gas based on data collected by the Energy Information Administration agency of the United States Department of Energy. Numbers for the estimated amount of recoverable shale gas resources are provided alongside numbers for proven natural gas reserves.
Table
* indicates "Natural resources in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
See also
Shale gas by country
Hydraulic fracturing by country
References
Energy-related lists by country
List
Lists of countries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Miharbi | Ali Miharbi (born in İstanbul in 1976) is a kinetic and new media artist from Turkey. He graduated from Northwestern University in the US, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Art Theory & Practice in 2000. In 2010, he completed his MFA in Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. His work not only makes relationships about culture and technology visible, but also explores the modes of emotional and physical confinement that persist in the contemporary world. He creates graphic as well as sculptural work, including sound installations and dynamic systems driven by live or stored data and has been featured in exhibitions internationally, including in Turkey, USA, Mexico, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, and UK.
References
External links
Ali Miharbi's Personal Site
"Contemporary Art" Interview Series, 2010
Turkish contemporary artists
Turkish digital artists
Living people
1976 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cin%C3%A9%2012 | Ciné 12 is a television channel, owned by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, which broadcasts French and English TV shows and films.
Programming
Fringe
Desperate Housewives
Painkiller Jane
La Maison d'à Côté
Sacrifice De Femme
Un Palace Pour Deux
Downton Abbey
Bones
L'Heure de La Peur
Sons of Anarchy
Alphas
US Marshals : Protection de témoins
Former programming
Pobre Diabla
Psych
Gossip Girl
Half and Half
Ugly Betty
The Wizards of Waverly Place
Everybody Hates Chris
Knight Rider
Terra Nova
Glee
Un Palace Pour Deux
Homeland season 3
Against the Wall
Fringe season 4
Scandal 2
The Good Wife season 4
Hawaii 5-0 season 4
Nikita
Rosario
Bones season 9
Grimm
Salvation
Sanctuary
The Blacklist
The Mentalist
Chicago Med
White Collar
Dexter
Sons of Anarchy
The Secret Circle
Revenge
The Magicians
Being Human
CSI: Miami
Counterpart
Supernatural
Charmed
The Vampire Diaries
See also
Kids Channel (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 1 (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 2 (Mauritian TV channel)
Television channels in Mauritius
Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration%20Management%20Specialist%20Group | The Configuration Management Specialist Group (CMSG) is a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer Society (BCS) a professional body, registered charity (incorporated by Royal Charter in 1984) and a learned society representing those working in Information Technology both in the United Kingdom and internationally. The CMSG was set up in 1995 and conforms to the rules for BCS Member Groups.
Its original aim was to provide a forum for the promotion of Configuration Management as a discrete management process. Its remit now extends across configuration, IT asset, change and release management with the aim being to provide an accessible resource of expertise based on experience, exchange, education, professional development and promoting industrial standards. Its key strength is facilitating the open exchange of experiences and ideas across configuration, IT asset, change and release management both between members and sources of expertise in the wider community.
The group organises a number of regular and ad-hoc events and meetings each year to cover relevant topics and provide for discussion and debate on configuration management topics for its members. Events that the group has run include 2 day residential conferences, and joint events with the itSMF
and other industry bodies.
Conference proceedings have been published
and have influenced books such as Configuration Management: Expert Guidance for IT Service Managers and Practitioners.
The CMSG also works with other BCS Specialist Groups and Branches to share knowledge and experience.
The CMSG has influenced national and international standards through Shirley Lacy (former Chair and committee member) who is the ITIL V3 Service Transition co-author
, and project mentor for the ITIL 2011 Update
.
Shirley has also presented for the group together with other ITIL Authors. Another member of the committee, Rory Canavan sits on the working group of
ISO/IEC addressing standards in IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM)
There is a strong sub group with regular networking events for software asset management (SAM). Meetings are held every two months, and attendance is typically 80+ people. A report on one of these meetings entitled The Five Constants of IT Asset Management and delivered by the CMSG's treasurer, Kylie Fowler was published in The Register.
The CMSG's 10th annual conference was held at the BCS's London Offices in June 2015 and the next SAM conference entitled Info Sec - Intersections and Interactions will take place in Manchester on 14 April 2016. Abstracts and available presentations from the June 2015 conference can be found here.
References
External links
"BCS CMSG Website"
BCS Specialist Groups
British Computer Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgabus | Volgabus (known as Volzhanin until 2008) is a Russian bus manufacturing company located in the city of Volzhsky Volgograd region, and includes leasing company, a distribution center, a network of dealers, and logistics center. The general manager is Alex Bakulin, son of the vice-speaker of the Volgograd Regional Duma.
History
The company was founded in 1993, the first five years leasing buses made by the Likinskiy Bus plant. Volgabus was the first company in Russia to manufacture low-floor buses with aluminum body and electronic control systems. Revenues in 2004 exceeded 625 million rubles. In 2005, they produced 240 buses.
In 2011 it announced the launch of a compressed natural gas-powered bus, in partnership with Gazprom. In 2015 the company had revenues of 3.2 billion rubles, making it the third largest bus manufacturer in the country.
In 2016 Volgabus presented a prototype of an electronic driverless bus at the Skolkovo Innovation Center, the first such vehicle to be developed in Russia.
Products
The company currently produces urban, suburban, and intercity buses, and special purpose vehicles under the brand "Volzhanin", or "Volgabus" in foreign markets.
Urban buses
Volzhanin-32901 – small alternative to the minibus
Volzhanin-5270 – large bus, designed for multi-purpose use on regular routes
Volzhanin-6270 – one-section, large capacity bus
Volzhanin-5270.06 "Sitiritm-12" – low-floor bus with a body made of aluminum alloy
Volzhanin-6270.06 "Sitiritm 15" – low-floor city high capacity bus with a body made of aluminum alloy
Volzhanin-6271 "SITIRITM-18" – urban low-floor bus with extra-large capacity and a jointed body made of aluminum alloy
Volgabus-4298
Volgabus-6271 – built upon the technical requirements for Moscow; has an articulated 18-meter stainless steel body, automatic transmission and a new generation of engine, similar to the bus LiAZ 6213
Commuter buses
Volzhanin-32901 – small commuter bus
Volzhanin 52701 – large commuter bus
Intercity coaches
Volzhanin 52851 – designed for long-distance intercity routes
Volzhanin-52702 – mid-range intercity coach
Special purpose buses
Volzhanin-52851 VIP – designed for comfort to accommodate business trips of senior executives
Mobile library Volzhanin 52701 – Library bus
Volzhanin-6216 Invalid – intercity bus transportation for wheelchair users
Volzhanin-6216 Sports – sports freight and passenger bus to transport the team Motocross
Volzhanin-52702 Blood Service – a mobile blood collection point
Volzhanin-52851 Fire – Mobile fire headquarters
Gallery
References
Literature
External links
Official site
Bus manufacturers of Russia
Companies based in Volgograd Oblast
Russian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amirabad-e%20Sukhek | Amirabad-e Sukhek (, also Romanized as Amīrābād-e Sūkhek; also known as Amīrābād) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 218, in 52 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshaqabad%2C%20Sirjan | Eshaqabad (, also Romanized as Esḩāqābād; also known as Eshagh Abad) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 150, in 36 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagh-e%20Khoshk | Bagh-e Khoshk (, also Romanized as Bāgh-e Khoshk and Bāgh Khoshk) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 155, in 40 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid%20Khvab | Bid Khvab (, also Romanized as Bīd Khvāb, Bīd-e Khvāb, and Bīd-i-Khwāb; also known as Bīd Khab and Bīd Khvāh) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 34, in 11 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenarbarin | Chenarbarin (, also Romanized as Chenārbarīn; also known as Chenal Bari and Chenal Parin) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 52, in 13 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh-e%20Davai | Deh-e Davai (, also Romanized as Deh-e Da‘vā’ī and Deh Da‘vā’ī; also known as Da‘vā’ī and Davā’ī) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 56, in 11 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh-e%20Morghi | Deh-e Morghi (, also Romanized as Deh-e Morghī and Deh Morghī; also known as Morghi Deh Morghi) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 121, in 35 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh-e%20Seraj | Deh-e Seraj (, also Romanized as Deh-e Serāj and Deh Serāj) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 330, in 85 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh%20Now%2C%20Sirjan | Deh Now (, also Romanized as Deh-e Now) was a village in Saadatabad Rural District of Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 380 in 91 households.
In 2011, the village of Saadatabad was merged with the villages of Deh Now, Dowlatabad, Hoseynabad-e Do, and Yahyaabad in the establishment of the new city of Hamashahr.
References
Sirjan County
Populated places in Kerman Province
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowlatabad%2C%20Sirjan | Dowlatabad (, also Romanized as Dowlatābād) was a village in Saadatabad Rural District of Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 83 in 23 households.
In 2011, the village of Saadatabad was merged with the villages of Deh Now, Dowlatabad, Hoseynabad-e Do, and Yahyaabad in the establishment of the new city of Hamashahr.
References
Sirjan County
Populated places in Kerman Province
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firuzabad%2C%20Pariz | Firuzabad (, also Romanized as Fīrūzābād) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 169, in 41 families.
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Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fereydun%2C%20Kerman | Fereydun (, also Romanized as Fereydūn, Farīdun, and Fereidoon) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 56, in 18 families.
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Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gush%20Torki | Gush Torki (, also Romanized as Gūsh Torkī) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11, in 4 families.
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Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendim | Hendim (, also Romanized as Hendīm and Handīm) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 37, in 9 families.
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Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahyaabad%2C%20Pariz | Yahyaabad (, also Romanized as Yaḩyáābād) was a village in Saadatabad Rural District of Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 565 in 128 households.
In 2011, the village of Saadatabad was merged with the villages of Deh Now, Dowlatabad, Hoseynabad-e Do, and Yahyaabad in the establishment of the new city of Hamashahr.
References
Sirjan County
Populated places in Kerman Province
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korran | Korran (, also Romanized as Korrān; also known as Khorram, Khorrān, Khurram, and Kooran) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District of Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 369 in 103 households. The following census in 2011 counted 283 people in 92 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 533 people in 183 households. It was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Sirjan County
Populated places in Kerman Province
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesmun | Kesmun (, also Romanized as Kesmūn; also known as Gesmān and Kesmān) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 17, in 6 families.
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Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgah | Kurgah (, also Romanized as Kūrgāh; also known as Kūrān) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 297, in 64 families.
References
Populated places in Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat-e%20Tut | Qanat-e Tut (, also Romanized as Qanāt-e Tūt and Qanāt Tūt; also known as Ghanat Toot) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 79, in 23 families.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyMagic%2B | MyMagic+ is a suite of technologies first implemented at the Walt Disney World Resort that enable a number of services and enhancements to guests of the resort. Influenced by wearable computing and the concept of the Internet of Things, the system is primarily designed to consolidate various functions, such as payments, hotel room access, ticketing, FastPass, into a digital architecture consisting primarily of radio systems, RFID-enabled wristbands known as MagicBands, and features accessible via online services and mobile apps.
Development
Conceptualization
Development of the MyMagic+ system began in 2008 at the request of Walt Disney World president Meg Crofton, who requested the development of a system to address the various "pain points" that visitors had encountered throughout the company's properties and had affected their likelihood to return to the resorts, and other "barriers to getting into the experience faster".
A former Disney executive stated that in regards to technology, the company was "failing to recognize key consumer trends that were starting to influence how people interacted with brands", such as social networking, and increased use of devices such as smartphones. They believed that the parks' inability to adopt new technologies to enhance the guest experience was harming their "relevancy".
The project, codenamed "Next Generation Experience" (NGE) and backed by Disney Parks chairman Jay Rasulo, president Al Weiss, and Crofton, was initially staffed by a group of Disney Parks executives known as the "Fab Five" (a term referring to the five main characters of the Mickey Mouse universe); including Andy Schwalb, Eric Jacobson, John Padgett, Kevin Rice, and Jim MacPhee.
The group aimed to address how families navigate Walt Disney World and "maximize" their time there: MacPhee felt that the park was becoming "dangerously complex and transactional" in its operations, citing long queues, complicated ticketing systems, the need to carry various passes and other items with them, and analysis showing that families often backtracked towards Cinderella Castle in their efforts to navigate Walt Disney World.
The team took influence from other sources, such as a magnet therapy wristband Padgett saw within a SkyMall catalog en route to Orlando, and wearable devices such as the Nike+ activity tracker. Work on rudimentary prototypes of the end-user component of the system, codenamed the "xBand", began in a lab within the former Epcot Body Wars attraction.
The system was to incorporate RFID technology, which would allow the band to serve as a contactless smart card to consolidate several common functions (including FastPass, hotel room key, and payments), help track guests for park traffic management, and for analytics. With the help of external contractors, as well as the design agency Frog, concepts for uses of the system were brainstormed, including a digital reservation system, and personalized experiences—such as summoning charac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolyMorphic%20Systems | PolyMorphic Systems was a manufacturer of microcomputer boards and systems based on the S-100 bus. Their products included the Poly-88 and the System 8813. The company was incorporated in California in 1976 as Interactive Products Corporation d/b/a PolyMorphic Systems. It was initially based in Goleta, then Santa Barbara, California.
S-100 boards
PolyMorphic Systems' first products were several interface boards based on the then-popular S-100 bus. These were compatible with other microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080. The first was an A/D and D/A converter board. This was followed by a video terminal interface (VTI) card which became the primary display device for their systems. Later board-level products included CPU, RAM, and disk controller cards.
Poly-88
With the release of their CPU card, PolyMorphic began selling complete systems. Their first was the Poly-88, housed in a 5-slot S100 chassis, with additional side-mounted S-100 connectors for the purpose of joining chassis together. This unit earned the nickname "orange toaster" due to its orange metal cover, and the fact that the S-100 cards generated noticeable heat. The Poly-88 was available in kit form, or assembled. It was originally called the Micro-Altair, but after objections from MITS, manufacturers of the Altair, the name was changed.
Hardware
The Poly-88 board set consisted of the following:
Central Processing Unit (CPU) with an Intel 8080 chip, and an 8251 USART for serial communication to a modem, printer, or cassette tape interface. The cassette tape interface supported program storage and loading from consumer-grade cassette tape recorders, using either Kansas City standard or higher speed Manchester encoded signals. The board contained 512 bytes of RAM and one 1024-byte ROM.
Video Terminal Interface (VTI) which produced a 16-line display of 64 characters per line. The VTI was intended to drive a television using an RF modulator, or to be connected directly to a TV monitor's composite video input (not commonly available in the 1970s). The VTI also displayed low-resolution graphics (today called text semigraphics). Each character position was divided into a grid 2 dots wide and 3 high, giving a graphics resolution of 128 horizontal and 48 vertical pixels, the same as the original TRS-80. A TTL-level, parallel keyboard interface was also included on the VTI. Several keyboards were available, including the Keyboard III which included a numeric keypad.
Random Access Memory (RAM) cards were also available, with capacities ranging from 8,192 (8K) bytes up to 56K (the maximum supported in their system architecture). Since the systems were based on the S-100 bus, other manufacturers' memory card could be used in Poly systems as well.
Software
The Poly-88 ROM contained a boot loader program, capable of reading programs from the cassette tape interface. Available programs included games, utilities, a BASIC interpreter, and an 8080 assembler.
System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%20box%20model | In mathematics, statistics, and computational modelling, a grey box model combines a partial theoretical structure with data to complete the model. The theoretical structure may vary from information on the smoothness of results, to models that need only parameter values from data or existing literature. Thus, almost all models are grey box models as opposed to black box where no model form is assumed or white box models that are purely theoretical. Some models assume a special form such as a linear regression or neural network. These have special analysis methods. In particular linear regression techniques are much more efficient than most non-linear techniques. The model can be deterministic or stochastic (i.e. containing random components) depending on its planned use.
Model form
The general case is a non-linear model with a partial theoretical structure and some unknown parts derived from data. Models with unlike theoretical structures need to be evaluated individually, possibly using simulated annealing or genetic algorithms.
Within a particular model structure, parameters or variable parameter relations may need to be found. For a particular structure it is arbitrarily assumed that the data consists of sets of feed vectors f, product vectors p, and operating condition vectors c. Typically c will contain values extracted from f, as well as other values. In many cases a model can be converted to a function of the form:
m(f,p,q)
where the vector function m gives the errors between the data p, and the model predictions. The vector q gives some variable parameters that are the model's unknown parts.
The parameters q vary with the operating conditions c in a manner to be determined. This relation can be specified as q = Ac where A is a matrix of unknown coefficients, and c as in linear regression includes a constant term and possibly transformed values of the original operating conditions to obtain non-linear relations between the original operating conditions and q. It is then a matter of selecting which terms in A are non-zero and assigning their values. The model completion becomes an optimization problem to determine the non-zero values in A that minimizes the error terms m(f,p,Ac) over the data.
Model completion
Once a selection of non-zero values is made, the remaining coefficients in A can be determined by minimizing m(f,p,Ac) over the data with respect to the nonzero values in A, typically by non-linear least squares. Selection of the nonzero terms can be done by optimization methods such as simulated annealing and evolutionary algorithms. Also the non-linear least squares can provide accuracy estimates for the elements of A that can be used to determine if they are significantly different from zero, thus providing a method of term selection.
It is sometimes possible to calculate values of q for each data set, directly or by non-linear least squares. Then the more efficient linear regression can be used to predict q using c th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonnon | Zonnon is a general purpose programming language in the line or family of the preceding languages Pascal, Modula, and Oberon. Jürg Gutknecht is the author.
Its conceptual model is based on objects, definitions, implementations, and modules. Its computing model is concurrent, based on active objects which interact via syntax controlled dialogs. The language is being developed at ETH Zürich Institute for Computer Systems by Professor Jürg Gutknecht. Zonnon introduces the concept of 'active objects' which are used to represent real world concurrent objects within computer programs. The Zonnon Language Report was written by Brian Kirk (director at Robinsons Associates), and David Lightfoot (Oxford Brookes University) working with Gutknecht (ETH, Zürich) and Dr. Eugene Zueff (Евгений Зуев) (Moscow State University).
The first book about Zonnon was published by the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (a.k.a., Nizhni Novgorod State University).
Overview
Zonnon is a member of the Pascal family of languages, which has two beneficial consequences: a) it is a general purpose language and b) it is immediately familiar to programmers who have used Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon. Most Pascal programs from the domain of algorithms and data structures are successfully compiled by the Zonnon compiler after a few minor modifications. However, from the perspective of programming in the large, Zonnon is much more elaborate compared to its predecessors. Zonnon has four different kinds of program units: objects, modules, definitions, and implementations. The first two are instantiated at runtime, the third is a compile time unit of abstraction, and the fourth is a unit of composition. Here is a brief characterization:
Object is a self-contained run-time program component. It can be instantiated dynamically under program control in arbitrary multiplicity.
Module can be considered as a singleton object which creation is controlled by the system. In addition, a module may act as a container of logically connected abstract data types, operators, and structural units of the runtime environment. In combination with the import relation, the module construct is a powerful system structuring tool.
Definition is an abstract view on an object (or on a module) from a certain perspective. It is a facet of the object or, in other words, an abstract presentation of one or more of its services.
Implementation typically provides a possibly partial default implementation of the corresponding definition. It is a unit of reuse and composition that is aggregated into the state space of an object (or module), either at compile time or at runtime.
Compositional model
Zonnon uses a compositional inheritance model based on aggregation. Typically, an object (or module) is composed of several functional components, each of them presenting itself to clients in the form of an abstract definition. The set of definitions plus the object’s intrinsic interface (that is the set |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data.gov.in | Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India or data.gov.in is a platform for supporting Open data initiative of Government of India. This portal is a single-point access to datasets, documents, services, tools and applications published by ministries, departments and organisations of the Government of India. It combines and expands the best features of India government's India.gov.in and the U.S. government's data.gov project.
History
After announcing the launch of the site in June 2011, the site was launched in October 2012. part of the Open Government Initiative was launched during October 2012, in compliance with the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) of India, Gazette notified in March 2012.
According to the preamble of NDSAP, there has been an increasing demand by the community that data collected with the deployment of public funds should be made more readily available to all, for enabling rational debate, better decision making and use in meeting civil society needs.
The policy envisages proactive dissemination of data by Government ministries, departments, organizations.
Overview
The site is based on Drupal Framework, and has four major modules:
Data Management System (DMS): This facilitates publishing of datasets/applications by authorised users from Ministries/Departments/Organisations.
Content Management System (CMS): This module is used to update or create content and functionalities for Data Portal India.
Visitor Relationship Management (VRM): This module facilitates collation and dissemination of feedback/suggestions received on Data Portal India.
Communities: People with specific interest can connect through online communities.
The product is developed based on the Open Government platform and its source code is available on GitHub.
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India was developed jointly by India & US government as a result of announcement made by President Obama and Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh during the Indo-US Open Government Dialogue in 2010.
Open data platform is a being implemented in US as their data.gov. In India the platform was further customised by National Informatics Centre (NIC) in line with the National Data Sharing Accessibility Policy to develop the Data Portal India.
Open data platform is also being offered to other countries. Ghana and Rwanda are also being powered by Open data platform.
See also
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – Government of India
data.gov
data.gov.uk
India.gov.in
My Gov
USAFacts
India Data Portal
References
External links
Data Portal of India
NDSAP
Open data
Government services web portals in India
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
Open government in India
Open data portals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20History%20of%20Hacking | The Secret History of Hacking is a 2001 documentary film that focuses on phreaking, computer hacking and social engineering occurring from the 1970s through to the 1990s. Archive footage concerning the subject matter and (computer generated) graphical imagery specifically created for the film are voiced over with narrative audio commentary, intermixed with commentary from people who in one way or another have been closely involved in these matters.
Film summary
The film starts by reviewing the concept and the early days of phreaking, featuring anecdotes of phreaking experiences (often involving the use of a blue box) recounted by John Draper and Denny Teresi. By way of commentary from Steve Wozniak, the film progresses from phreaking to computer hobbyist hacking (including anecdotal experiences of the Homebrew Computer Club) on to computer security hacking, noting differences between these 2 forms of hacking in the process. The featured computer security hacking and social engineering stories and anecdotes predominantly concern experiences involving Kevin Mitnick. The film also deals with how society's (and notably law enforcement's) fear of hacking has increased over time due to media attention of hacking (by way of the film WarGames as well as journalistic reporting on actual hackers) combined with society's further increase in adoption of and subsequent reliance on computing and communication networks.
Cast
John Draper, Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick are prominently featured while the film additionally features comments from or else archive footage concerning Denny Teresi, Joybubbles, Mike Gorman, Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Paul Loser, Lee Felsenstein, Jim Warren, John Markoff, Jay Foster, FBI Special Agent Ken McGuire, Jonathan Littman, Michael Strickland and others.
See also
List of films about computers
References
External links
Hacking (computer security)
Computing culture
Phreaking
Documentary films about the Internet
American documentary films
2001 documentary films
2001 films
Works about computer hacking
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DloHaiti | dloHaiti, Inc. is a private company providing safe, affordable drinking water to consumers in underserved neighborhoods across Haiti. The company is building a network of wells serviced by solar-powered kiosks that are equipped with hi-tech purification systems and information technology. dloHaiti is led by a team of Haitian and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with previous water experience in Haiti, and is supported by several prominent international investors.
Background
Due to severe inadequacies in Haiti's municipal water system, drinking water is often treated centrally and delivered by trucks to low income neighborhoods lacking access to water. Trucked water is expensive (US 12¢ per gallon) and of uncertain quality, and delivery schedules may be unreliable. dloHaiti's approach aims to reduce costs while increasing quality and convenience by offering continuous access to purified water.
Business
dloHaiti uses decentralized water purification and distribution through kiosks to reduce reliance on water transport by trucks. The company utilizes energy-efficient water treatment technology and renewable solar energy to power its facilities. dloHaiti's distribution model aims to provide local employment opportunities and a reliable supply of cleaner, cheaper drinking water.
In May 2013, dloHaiti launched a 40-facility pilot for a duration of 18–24 months. A post-pilot scale-up of 300 kiosks could reach 5-8% of the population of Haiti who are beyond the limits of public infrastructure.
Socioeconomic impact
It is estimated that dloHaiti's pilot project will create over 600 jobs, 95% of which will be outside of Port-au-Prince. The scale-up phase is projected to create an additional 3,790 jobs and serve over one million beneficiaries, saving low-income Haitian consumers over $2 million annually.
Funding
dloHaiti raised $3.4 million in Series A Funding from Leopard Capital's Leopard Haiti Fund, the International Finance Corporation's InfraVentures Fund, the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), Miyamoto International, and Jim Chu, dloHaiti's CEO and Founder.
Awards
In May 2013, dloHaiti was named a finalist in Imagine H2O's annual water-tech innovation competition that recognizes the world's most promising water startups.
References
External links
dloHaiti
Leopard Haiti Fund
2012 establishments in Haiti
Environment of Haiti
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Health in Haiti
Drink companies of Haiti
Companies based in Port-au-Prince |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e%20Lawless | Renée Lawless-Orsini (born November 30, 1960) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for starring as the bitter and distant matriarch, Katheryn Cryer, in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots.
Life and career
Lawless was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and moved with her family to Jacksonville in at age 19 and graduated from Sandalwood High School, Stetson University, and University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music. She began singing in church and school plays and later in regional theater. As of the mid 1990s she appeared primarily in stage productions, like national touring of Beauty and the Beast, and Wicked for five years.
In 2013, Lawless began starring as Katheryn Cryer in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
Living people
1960 births
American musical theatre actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
American soap opera actresses
Musicians from Knoxville, Tennessee
Actors from Knoxville, Tennessee
Actresses from Atlanta
Stetson University alumni
University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo%20network | The Bamboo network () or the Chinese Commmonwealth () is a term used to conceptualize connections between businesses operated by the Overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia. The Overseas Chinese business networks constitute the single most dominant private business groups outside of East Asia. It links the Overseas Chinese business community of Southeast Asia, namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Myanmar with the economies of Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). The Overseas Chinese play a pivotal role in Southeast Asia's business sector as they dominate Southeast Asia's economy today and form the economic elite across all the major Southeast Asian countries. The Chinese have been an economically powerful and prosperous minority for centuries and today exert a powerful economic influence throughout the region. Overseas Chinese wield tremendous economic clout over their indigenous Southeast Asian majority counterparts and play a critical role in maintaining the regions aggregate economic vitality and prosperity. Since the turn of the 21st century, postcolonial Southeast Asia has now become an important pillar of the Overseas Chinese economy as the bamboo network represents an important symbol of adumbrating itself as an extended international economic outpost of Greater China.
Structure
As Overseas Chinese communities grew and developed in Southeast Asia, Chinese merchants and traders began to develop elaborate business networks for growth and survival. These elaborate business networks provide the resources for capital accumulation, marketing information, and distribution of goods and services between the Chinese business communities across Southeast Asia. Overseas Chinese businesses in Southeast Asia are usually family owned and managed through a centralized bureaucracy. The family becomes the centerpiece focus of the firm's business activities and provides the capital, labor, and management. The strength of the family firm lies in its flexibility of decision making and the dedication and loyalty of its labor force. The businesses are usually managed as family businesses to lower front office transaction costs as they are passed down from one generation to the next. Many firms generally exhibit a strong entrepreneurial spirit, family kinship, autocratic leadership, intuitive, parsimonious, and fast decision making style, as well as paternalistic management and a continuous chain of hierarchical orders. These bulk of these firms typically operate as small and medium-sized businesses rather than large corporate conglomerate entities typically dominant in other East Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea. Trade and financing is guided on extensions of traditional family clans and personal relationships are prioritized over formal relationships. This promotes commercial communication and more fluid transfer of capital in a region where financial regulation and the rule o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talari%20Networks | Talari Networks is a San Jose, CA-based manufacturer of networking equipment that allows businesses to combine private wide area networks (WANs) with less expensive broadband connections such as DSL or cable. It was founded in 2007 and launched its initial beta product in early 2008. The company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2018.
History
Talari Networks was founded in 2007 by Andy Gottlieb and John Dickey, former colleagues at Applied Micro. Gottlieb became the company’s first CEO, and Dickey became Vice President of Engineering. The company launched its initial beta product in early 2008. Mark Masur was then named CEO of Talari. In 2017 Dell veteran, Patrick Sweeney, was named CEO.
On November 15, 2018, Oracle Corporation announced that it had agreed to acquire Talari Networks. The transaction was expected to close by the end of 2018.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerato%20Mbele | Lerato Mbele is a South African journalist and broadcaster working for the BBC. Mbele currently presents Talking Business Africa for the network. She previously presented the Africa Business Report and Newsday.
Early life
Mbele was born in Soweto, South Africa and grew up in Pimville. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in politics and international relations from the University of Cape Town and a master's in development studies from a university in London.
Career
Mbele began working for the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1999, rising to become an anchor for its programme News at Ten. In 2007 Mbele joined CNBC Africa at its launch as one of the channel's senior business presenters. While at CNBC she hosted regular programmes on the channel in addition to coverage of many other business events, such as the World Economic Forum.
In 2012 Mbele joined BBC News to help launch and present Newsday on the BBC World Service with Lawrence Pollard. The two presented from 6–8.30am (UK time) each weekday. Now she is the presenter of “Talking Business Africa” a lifestyle business show focusing on prominent entrepreneurs and their business mindset in the boardroom and on the factory floor, which Mbele explores alongside them for a hands on experience. She was also the long standing presenter for Africa Business Report, a weekly programme that provided analyses on different sectors of the economy across African countries. It also featured leading business personalities from the African continent. Interviews by Mbele also appear on BBC World News and on World Business Report.
In 2014 Mbele was named a Young Global Leader by the Switzerland based World Economic Forum, in the cohort selected that year.
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BBC World Service presenters
Living people
Alumni of St Mary's School, Waverley
Alumni of the University of London
University of Cape Town alumni
South African expatriates in the United Kingdom
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Bergmann | Theodore Gerard Bergmann (September 12, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was an American television and radio producer, screenwriter, announcer, network and advertising executive. He worked for the Dumont Television Network in the 1940s and 1950s. He worked as a writer for the CBS-TV series The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour starting in 1967 and worked as producer and production manager for several other TV series from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Career
In early 1947, after responding to an ad in the New York Times, Bergmann landed a job at the Dumont Television Network, where he was hired as a time salesman at WABD Channel 5, the Du Mont station in New York. Despite his inexperience he was hired on the spot. The first advertising sale he ever made was to the Jay Day Dress Company who sponsored Birthday Party, a children's daytime show, for $200 an episode. He was responsible for selling commercial advertising time to clients for such early Dumont TV shows such as The Original Amateur Hour, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Cavalcade of Stars, and Life Is Worth Living. (He created the title for "Cavalcade of Stars"). Bergmann often had troubles finding advertisers for the network because the big television stars were being lured away from DuMont to the other networks.
Bergmann worked his way up through the company and finished as the managing director of the broadcast division until the network shut down. He was later offered a job to head the ABC network but declined. He remained good friends with creator of the DuMont Network, Allen DuMont, until DuMont died in 1965.
Production work
By 1976, Bergmann developed and was executive in charge of production for the ABC-TV sitcom Three's Company, serving in that capacity during the series' eight-season run. He also would serve in the same capacity for its spinoff series The Ropers and Three's A Crowd. He also would serve as the producer for the made-for-TV films Death Stalk (1970), Chelsea D.H.O. (1973) and The Good Ol' Boys in 1979.
Later years and death
Bergmann retired from television in 1998 and resided in Southern California. He died after an unspecified surgery on March 2, 2014, aged 93.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Kasarskis | Andrew Kasarskis (born November 2, 1972) is an American biologist. He is the Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Sema4. He was previously CDO and an Executive Vice President (EVP) at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City and, before that, vice chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Co-director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Kasarskis is known for taking a network-based approach to biology and for directing the first medical school class offering students the opportunity to fully sequence and analyze their own genomes.
Early life and education
Kasarskis completed bachelor's degrees in chemistry and biology at the University of Kentucky in 1992. In 1998, he completed his PhD in molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Kathryn Anderson.
Career and research
Throughout his career in industry and academia, Kasarskis' research has focused on the use of genetic and genomic data together with high-performance computing and advanced analytical tools to address biomedical needs and improve clinical treatment.
After completing his PhD in 1998, Kasarskis worked at Stanford University for two years, contributing to the development of various genome databases. In 2000, he entered industry, working in computational biology at DoubleTwist and later Rosetta Inpharmatics (acquired by Merck Research Laboratories). His work there centered on generating and mining complex biological data sets and using that information to build, predict, and model human disease. Kasarskis also worked for Sage Bionetworks and Pacific Biosciences before returning to academia.
In 2011, Kasarskis became Vice Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Co-director, along with Eric Schadt, of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, where Kasarskis's research focuses on improving health outcomes through better data mining, and his research program includes sequencing-based pathogen surveillance; pharmacogenomics; electronic health records; and systems biology of sleep, behavior, and stress. In 2019, Kasarskis was appointed Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Mount Sinai Health System, where he leads efforts to improve clinical data infrastructure and leverage data to improve patient outcomes while accelerating research and innovation.
Kasarskis is known for directing the first graduate course that allowed medical and PhD students to fully sequence and analyze their own genomes, along with co-instructors Michael Linderman, George Diaz, Ali Bashir, and Randi Zinberg. He has said that courses like this will be critical for training teams of people capable of performing this type of analysis in a medical setting. He chose whole genome sequencing because he expects the more limited exome sequencing will not be a relevant technological approach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DX10%20%28disambiguation%29 | DX10 is an operating system for the Texas Instruments TI-990 CPU.
DX10 or DX-10 may refer to:
DirectX 10
Direct3D 10, a part of Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface
Fujifilm DX-10, an early digital camera made by Fujifilm
See also
DX9
DX11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction%20and%20Research%20Moored%20Array%20in%20the%20Atlantic | The Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic (PIRATA) is a system of moored observation buoys in the tropical Atlantic Ocean which collect meteorological and oceanographic data. The data collected by the PIRATA array helps scientists to better understand climatic events in the Tropical Atlantic and to improve weather forecasting and climate research worldwide. Climatic and oceanic events in the tropical Atlantic, such as the Tropical Atlantic SST Dipole affect rainfall and climate in both West Africa and Northeast Brazil. The northern tropical Atlantic is also a major formation area for hurricanes affecting the West Indies and the United States. Alongside the RAMA array in the Indian Ocean and the TAO/TRITON network in the Pacific Ocean, PIRATA forms part of the worldwide system of tropical ocean observing buoys.
Partners
The project is a tripartite cooperation between Brazil, France and the United States. The principal agencies involved are NOAA in the United States, IRD and Météo-France of France plus INPE and from Brazil.
PIRATA network
The PIRATA buoy network consists of seventeen Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System, or ATLAS, buoys. Twelve buoys were originally deployed in 1997. Two of these buoys were decommissioned in 1999 because of vandalism by fishing craft. Three extensions of the original network have been added. Three buoys were deployed off the coast of Brazil in 2005 and four more in 2006/2007 to extend coverage to the north and the north-east. As a demonstration exercise one buoy was deployed to the south-east of the region, off the coast of Africa, between June 2006 and June 2007.
In addition to the ATLAS buoys, PIRATA has three island based meteorological stations, one at Fernando de Noronha, another on the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago and one on São Tomé. A tidal gauge is also maintained at São Tomé. Dedicated hydrographic cruises and annual buoy maintenance voyages are also undertaken under the auspices of the PIRATA project.
ATLAS buoys
Each ATLAS buoy measures
wind speed and direction,
air temperature,
rainfall,
humidity,
solar radiation,
pressure, temperature and conductivity to 500 metres below sea level.
In addition one buoy has an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler fitted alongside to measure water current velocities and four buoys are equipped to measure net heat flux.
Daily mean observations from the ATLAS buoys are received in near real time via both the Argos System and Brazilian satellites. The data is processed by the TAO Project Office of NOAA and also placed on the Global Telecommunications System for real time distribution to weather centres and other users. High frequency measurements are stored on the buoys and retrieved during maintenance operations. The array provides 4,000 to 4,500 unique hourly values per month.
Notable locations
One of the buoys is positioned at 0°N 0°E, where the Equator and Prime Meridian intersect, off the coast of Africa. This buoy is sometimes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWBC-TV | DWBC-TV is a commercial relay television station owned by GMA Network Inc. Its studio is located at Brgy. Bayubay Sur, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur and the location of transmitter is at Mt. Caniao, Bantay, Ilocos Sur.
About DWBC-TV
2011 - GMA TV-48 Ilocos Sur began its broadcast via transmitter based at Mt. Caniao, Bantay, Ilocos Sur.
June 7, 2012 - GMA Ilocos launched as an originating station, which primarily covers the provinces of Ilocos Norte (via Channel 5), Abra (Channel 7) and Ilocos Sur (via Channel 48).
June 25, 2012 – November 7, 2014 - GMA Ilocos launched its flagship local newscast Balitang Ilokano.
November 10, 2014 – April 24, 2015 - GMA Ilocos relaunched its flagship local newscast 24 Oras Ilokano.
October 3, 2016 - GMA Ilocos began to simulcast GMA Dagupan's Balitang Amianan.
February 5, 2021 - GMA Ilocos started digital test broadcasts on UHF 15 covering Vigan and the provinces of Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte.
April 13, 2022 - GMA Ilocos inaugurates its state-of-the-art facilities and studios located at Brgy. Bayubay Sur, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur.
2022 - GMA Ilocos begins to split into two: GMA Ilocos Sur and GMA Ilocos Norte.
Currently aired program
One North Central Luzon - flagship afternoon newscast (simulcast on GMA TV-10 Dagupan)
Mornings with GMA Regional TV - flagship morning newscast (simulcast on GMA TV-10 Dagupan)
Previously aired programs
Balitang Ilokano
24 Oras Ilokano - defunct regional newscast, cancelled due to streamlining of regional operations
Personalities
Present
Ivy Hernando as correspondent of One North Central Luzon and Mornings with GMA Regional TV
Past
Jorge Guerrero
Brigette Mayor – now a lawyer
Argie Lorenzo - now with 103.7 Joy FM Abra
Zion Palacay - now working at Mariano Marcos State University
Mark Masudog - now working at the OCD Region 1
Manny Morales - now a Barangay Kagawad in Laoag
Zenna Nacino
Franzes Ivy Carasi - now working as Public & Media Relations Officer at Civil Defense Cordillera.
Angelica Maglanoc
Teresa Sundayon
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 15 (479.143 MHz)
Area of coverage
Primary areas
Vigan
Ilocos Sur
Abra
Secondary areas
Portion of Ilocos Norte
See also
List of GMA Network stations
References
Digital television stations in the Philippines
Television stations in the Philippines
Television stations in Ilocos Sur
Television channels and stations established in 2011
GMA Network stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWBG-TV | DWBG-TV, channel 7, is a commercial television station owned by GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at Brgy. Lusuac, Peñarrubia, Abra. This station currently carries the signal of GMA Dagupan via GMA Ilocos.
Currently aired program
One North Central Luzon (Formerly as Balitang Amianan) - flagship afternoon newscast (simulcast on TV-10 Dagupan)
Mornings with GMA Regional TV - flagship morning newscast (simulcast on GMA TV-10 Dagupan)
Previously programs
Balitang Ilokano
24 Oras Ilokano
NOTE: 24 Oras Ilokano (previously known as Balitang Ilokano) is simulcast via GMA Ilocos, which covers Ilocos provinces, Abra and parts of La Union.
See also
D-5-AS-TV
DWBC-TV
DWGD-TV
List of GMA Network stations
References
GMA Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20D%C3%A9sautels | Michel Désautels (born May 7, 1951) is a Canadian writer and journalist, best known as the host of Désautels, the afternoon news and information program on the Première Chaîne radio network from 2003 to 2013.
He announced in May 2013, soon after returning from a six-month leave of absence for health reasons, that he would be retiring from the daily program, instead launching a new Sunday morning program for the network (which was relaunched as "Ici Radio-Canada Première") in fall 2013. The new program, Désautels le dimanche, debuted in fall 2013.
He has also published two novels, Smiley (1998) and La Semaine prochaine, je veux mourir (2000).
He was formerly married to broadcaster Chantal Jolis from 1980 to 1990.
References
1951 births
Canadian radio journalists
CBC Radio hosts
Canadian male novelists
Writers from Quebec
Living people
Canadian talk radio hosts
Canadian novelists in French
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Garrod | Neil W. Garrod is a British academic.
He has published in the fields of mathematical programming, accounting, financial analysis and higher education policy (Challenging Boundaries, 2010). He graduated from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) with a B.Sc. in Management Sciences and a Ph.D. In Operations Research. He has held lecturing posts in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Union College, Schenectady, New York; University of Wales, Bangor; University of Glasgow, Scotland.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Financial Studies at the University of Glasgow before taking the position of Executive Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has held Deputy Vice-Chancellor positions at Thames Valley University and the University of Greenwich as well as Executive Director of Enterprise and Civic Engagement at Glyndwr University and was Director of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. He is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Run
In 2001 he ran from Rome to Glasgow as part of the celebrations of the 550th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Glasgow by papal bull. He ran for 64 consecutive days averaging a marathon a day.
References
External links
http://www.neilgarrod.net
21st-century British mathematicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Academics of Aberystwyth University
Union College (New York) faculty
Academics of Bangor University
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally%20Point | RallyPoint may refer to:
RallyPoint, a professional networking platform for the US military community
Rally Point (novel), a fantasy novel by David Sherman
"Rally Point", an online driving game created by Xform games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone%20on%20The%20Park | The NTT Tower (formerly Dimension Data Tower, 'Vodafone on The Quay' and 'Mobil on The Park') was designed by Peddle Thorp & Montgomery Architects and was completed in 1999. The main architect on the build was Robert Montgomery and the building was built by Mainzeal Construction. The building was engineered by Connell Wagner Structural Engineers, (now Aurecon).
NTT Tower comprises two parts, a modernist high-rise building constructed of concrete with exterior façades of blue glass and the refurbished and strengthened old Police Station buildings that flank the tower. Carparking takes up the lower tower floors to about the height of the old buildings, with office space above that.
The building stands at 93 metres high and has twenty five stories above the ground, making it the fourth tallest building in Wellington and the twenty fifth tallest building in New Zealand . The floor size is estimated at . The construction was valued at $45 million.
The building is owned by Precinct Properties and was renamed to Dimension Data Tower in March 2017. With the global name change of Dimension Data to NTT in 2019, the building's name and branding changed yet again. The building already houses, or has housed, many of New Zealand's top technology companies such as Microsoft New Zealand, Provoke Solutions, Google NZ, as well as tech start-ups such as SuiteFiles. Midland Park has built up a reputation for being the IT centre of Wellington and is surrounded by many government departments.
Associated Companies
Provoke Solutions Limited
The Group Limited
SuiteFiles
Fonterra
Microsoft NZ
Parker & Associates
Swan Legal Limited
Baldwins Intellectual Property
SAP New Zealand Limited
VMware Inc.
FMG
Forsyth Barr Leveraged Equities Assignment
Tourism New Zealand
Rabobank
Russell McVeagh
References
Buildings and structures in Wellington City
Skyscrapers in Wellington
1990s architecture in New Zealand
Skyscraper office buildings in New Zealand
Office buildings completed in 1999
1999 establishments in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eois%20chrysocraspedata | Eois chrysocraspedata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Bolivia.
References
Moths described in 1897
Eois
Moths of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eois%20cobardata | Eois cobardata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Ecuador.
References
Moths described in 1893
Eois
Moths of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2017%29 | Season seventeen of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 16, 2013, on the ABC network.
On November 26, actress Amber Riley and Derek Hough were crowned the champions, while actor Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff finished in second place, and Jack Osbourne and Cheryl Burke finished in third.
This is the first season since season one to not have a Tuesday results show. The sky box where host Brooke Burke Charvet interviewed dancers after their performances was also eliminated. Instead, the couples were accommodated in a new seating area near the judges' table, which had also been shifted to the opposite side of the ballroom. A make-up room and rehearsal room were added where Charvet could chat with the couples before and after their performances.
This season also introduced a new format of voting. Each week, the judges would give each couple a score. Since there was no results show, those scores would be added to the public votes from the previous week, and the couple with the lowest combined score from judges and viewer votes would be eliminated from the competition at the end of that week's episode.
Cast
Couples
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. The cast and their professional partners were announced on September 4, 2013, on Good Morning America. Tyne Stecklein, Emma Slater, and Sasha Farber joined the cast of professional dancers, while Gleb Savchenko and Lindsay Arnold joined Henry Byalikov and Witney Carson in the dance troupe.
Host and judges
Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet returned as co-hosts, and Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. The Harold Wheeler orchestra and singers also returned to provide the music throughout what would end up being their last season. This was also Brooke Burke-Charvet's last season as co-host.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Couples performed either the cha-cha-cha, contemporary, or the foxtrot, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: Latin Night
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: Hollywood Night
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Top 10
Individual judges scores and votes in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli.
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: Most Memorable Year Night
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 6: Switch-Up Challenge
Due to a technical error the previous week in which incorrect voting numbers were displayed for the couples, the votes were subsequently thrown out and no couple was eliminated. Instead, the judges' scores and v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Infotech%20College | National Infotech College is a college in Birgunj, Nepal, focused on science and technology. Its programs include its +2 Science Program, its Bachelor of Computer Application program, and its B.Sc. program in Computer Science and IT. The Principal of the college is Er. Manish Singh. The chairman of the college is Mr. Arjun Prasad Singh.
The college is affiliated with Nepal's National Examinations Board and Tribhuvan University.
References
Universities and colleges in Nepal
Buildings and structures in Parsa District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Pyridone%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on 2-pyridone.
Analytical data
NMR spectroscopy
1H-NMR
1H-NMR (400 MHz, CD3OD): /ρ = 8.07 (dd,3J = 2.5 Hz,4J = 1.1 Hz, 1H, C-6), 7.98 (dd,3J = 4.0 Hz,3J = 2.0 Hz, 1H, C-3), 7.23 (dd,3J = 2.5 Hz,3J = 2.0 Hz, 1H, C-5), 7.21 (dd,3J = 4.0 Hz,4J = 1.0 Hz, 1H, C-4).
13C-NMR
(100.57 MHz, CD3OD): ρ = 155.9 (C-2), 140.8 (C-4), 138.3 (C-6), 125.8 (C-3), 124.4 (C-5)
UV/Vis spectroscopy
(MeOH):νmax (lg ε) = 226.2 (0.44), 297.6 (0.30).
IR spectroscopy
(KBr): ν = 3440 cm−1–1 (br, m), 3119 (m), 3072 (m), 2986
(m), 1682 (s), 1649 (vs), 1609 (vs), 1578 (vs), 1540 (s), 1456 (m), 1433 (m), 1364 (w), 1243 (m), 1156 (m), 1098 (m), 983 (m), 926 (w), 781 (s), 730 (w), 612 (w), 560 (w), 554 (w), 526 (m), 476 (m), 451 (w).
Mass spectrometry
EI-MS (70 eV): m/z (%) = 95 (100) [M+], 67 (35) [M+ - CO], 51 (4)[C4H3+].
References
Pyridone, 2-
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS%20%28entertainment%20data%29 | TMS is an international provider of data for TV and movies. As part of its On Entertainment product line, the company supplies data to companies such as TiVo, Roku, Virgin Media, DIRECTV and Time Warner Cable to enable entertainment guides and applications. In addition, the metadata is used for media measurement and analysis. TMS also produces Zap2it, a social TV hub that connects entertainment fans to popular TV shows, movies, celebrities, and other fans. TMS is a data provider for over 4,000 companies. The company is headquartered in upstate New York.
TMS IDs (TMSID) are 14 digit alphanumeric identifiers where the first two characters identify the program type, e.g., EP is episode.
History
1965 - TV listings business TV Data is founded in upstate New York with service to newspapers nationwide
1980 - Rival TV listings business 'Torrington Data' is founded in upstate New York
1982 - Torrington Data is sold in part to the Chicago-based Tribune Company. The venture is known as 'Torrington/Tribune Data LP'
1984 - Tribune Media Services (TMS) is formed as a merger of three groups: the Tribune Company Syndicate, the Electronic Services division of the Orlando Sentinel and an experienced group exploring applications of electronic technology within the Tribune Company
1985 - Tribune Company acquires National TV Log of Pasadena, CA, which sells bold-faced ads in TV program listings on behalf of newspapers. They also acquire controlling interest in Torrington/Tribune Data (TTD). The National TV Log and Torrington/Tribune Data (TTD) groups are reorganized as Tribune TV Log and eventually moved under the Tribune Company's new Tribune Media Services (TMS) subsidiary with four offices in New York, NY; Queensbury, NY; Chicago, IL; and Pasadena, CA
1999 - TMS makes two acquisitions: JDTV, a distributor of programming information to cable and satellite system operators via print guides and owner of UltimateTV website; and Premier DataVision, a distributor of movie showtime data and advertisements. TMS launches Zap2it in the form of an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and also markets Zap2it as a multiplatform product line
2000 - Tribune Company announces its $6.5 billion purchase of the Times-Mirror Corporation, whose assets include The Los Angeles Times, Newsday and other newspaper, publishing, TV and online investments. Upon the acquisition, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate is merged into TMS
2001 - TMS announces it has purchased a majority interest in TV Data
2004 - TMS begins operating an office in Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 - TMS launches the ‘On’ product line, an evolution of the ‘Big Build’ suite of products – this data is produced in XML formats
2010 - TMS announces its purchase of CastTV
2011 - Tribune Company announces TMS will be splitting into two separate businesses: TMS restructures the Entertainment Products Division to operate as a standalone business and part of the Tribune Investments portfolio while the News & Features Division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBJSON | Universal Binary JSON (UBJSON) is a computer data interchange format. It is a binary form directly imitating JSON, but requiring fewer bytes of data. It aims to achieve the generality of JSON, combined with being much easier to process than JSON.
Rationale and Objectives
UBJSON is a proposed successor to BSON, BJSON and others. UBJSON has the following goals:
Complete compatibility with the JSON specification – there is a 1:1 mapping between standard JSON and UBJSON.
Ease of implementation – only including data types that are widely supported in popular programming languages so that there are no problems with certain languages not being supported well.
Ease of use – it can be quickly understood and adopted.
Speed and efficiency – UBJSON uses data representations that are (roughly) 30% smaller than their compacted JSON counterparts and are optimized for fast parsing. Streamed serialisation is supported, meaning that the transfer of UBJSON over a network connection can start sending data before the final size of the data is known.
Data types and syntax
UBJSON data can be either a value or a container.
Value types
UBJSON uses a single binary tuple to represent all JSON value types:
type [length] [data]
Each element in the tuple is defined as:
type
The type is a 1-byte ASCII character used to indicate the type of the data following it. The ASCII characters were chosen to make manually walking and debugging data stored in the UBJSON format as easy as possible (e.g. making the data relatively readable in a hex editor). Types are available for the five JSON value types. There is also a no-op type used for stream keep-alive.
Null: Z
No-op: N - no operation, to be ignored by the receiving end
Boolean types: true (T) and false (F)
Numeric types: int8 (i), uint8 (U), int16 (I), int32 (l), int64 (L), float32 (d), float64 (D), and high-precision (H)
ASCII character: C
UTF-8 string: S
High-precision numbers are represented as an arbitrarily long, UTF-8 string-encoded numeric value.
length (optional)
The length is an integer number (e.g. uint8, or int64) encoding the size of the data payload in bytes. It is used for strings, high-precision numbers and optionally containers. They are omitted for other types.
Length is encoded following the same convention as integers, thus including its own type. For example, the string hello is encoded as S,U,0x05,h,e,l,l,o.
data (optional)
A sequence of bytes representing the actual binary data for this type of value. All numbers are in big-endian order.
Container types
Similarly to JSON, UBJSON defines two container types: array and object.
Arrays are ordered sequences of elements, represented as a [ followed by zero or more elements of value and container type and a trailing ].
Objects are labeled sets of elements, represented as a { followed by zero or more key-value pairs and a trailing }. Each key is a string with the S character omitted, and each "value" can be any element of value or contain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Slon%20Extra | TV Slon Extra is a Bosnian local commercial television channel based in Tuzla.
The program is broadcast every day from 16 to 23 hours via cable networks and it is mainly produced in Bosnian language.
References
External links
Official website
Mass media in Tuzla
Television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binod%20Kanungo | Binod Kanungo (1912–1990) was an Odia author, freedom fighter, Gandhian, educator, social reformer and compiler of the Gyana Mandala, which is the greatest encyclopaedia in the Odia language. He also won the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award for his travelogue Runa Parishodha (1983). He was also a veteran freedom fighter and notable educationist. He was awarded with India's fourth highest civilian honour "Padmashree". He died on 22 June 1990.
Early life and education
Kanungo was born on 6 June 1912 at village Mallipur (Kishannagar) in Cuttack district of Bihar and Orissa Province, British India. He was the only son of Keshub Chandra Kanungo and Peera Dei. He had his primary education at village Naganpur and secondary school education at the famous Ranihat Highschool, Cuttack, of which he was the first ever student. Later he got a scholarship to study at Ravenshaw Collegiate School. However, in 1930, when he was in Class-X, Mahatma Gandhi's call inspired him to leave his studies and join the Indian Freedom Movement.
Career as a journalist and social reformer
Kanungo was appointed by the daily newspaper The Samaja to cover Mahatama Gandhi's Harijan Padayatra from Puri to Bhadrak in 1934. During this period Gandhiji taught, advised and groomed Binod Kanungo in the art of news reporting. Later he worked with the eminent Gandhian Gopabandhu Choudhury and joined The Samaja as an assistant editor. He was jailed for his participation in the freedom struggle. In 1952 he fought the first general elections in India and lost.
Work on Jnanmandal
In 1954 he set his sight on compiling the monumental Odia encyclopedia Jnanmandal. The first volume was released on 2 December 1960 by Harekrushna Mahatab, the then Chief Minister of Odisha. He compiled and edited major part of the Jnanmandal at his Barabati Stadium office at Cuttack. He single-handedly built the reference centre, which was visited and extolled by a great many dignitaries during his time, including Pranab Mukherjee, who later became President of India. Jnanmandal, though incomplete, has been hailed as one of the best edited and most lucid encyclopedia in any of the modern Indian languages. During his lifetime although he created the Jnanmandal Foundation, it could not complete his work which was later completed by his son Deepak Kanungo who is also an eminent reference worker in Odia language. Foundation is carrying on his work until today. After his death, the Foundation has created and published different kinds of multi-volume encyclopedias both for young and adult readers by editorial efforts of Deepak Kanungo. This new set consists of thousands of topics in popular Odia comprising all branches of human knowledge and is profusely illustrated. It is a matter of great satisfaction for the Odia people that the Encyclopedia Centre which late Kanungo created towards end of his life is active at Bhubaneswar and holds all the documents late Kanungo has collected during his lifetime.
Notable works
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hema%20TV | Hema TV is a Bosnian local commercial television channel based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The program is mainly produced in Bosnian language, 24 hours via cable networks.
References
External links
Mass media in Sarajevo
Television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Television channels and stations established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20J.%20Rives | T.J. Rives is a radio sportscaster in the Tampa Bay area. He is employed by Compass Media Networks, Fox Sports Radio, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Radio Network and has been with the Sirius XM Radio. He also owns and operates the company TAG Sports Group. He even hosts the SportsMediaWatch.com Podcast with Jon Lewis (Paulsen).
Biography
Rives is the sideline reporter for the Buccaneers Radio Network working with veteran Seminoles and Bucs play-by-play man, Gene Deckerhoff and color commentator Dave Moore and studio host Jack Harris. He is the play-by-play announcer for Tampa Bay Rays homes games on the Compass Media Networks with Rob Dibble, Steve Phillips, or Darryl Hamilton. He is a talk host for Fox Sports Radio as a host of Fox Sports Radio Saturday Night. He also called PGA Tour tournaments, World Baseball Classic tournaments in 2006, college football, and basketball for Sirius XM Radio. He was also the voice of the South Florida Bulls men's basketball for ten seasons. The Compass Media Networks hired Rives as their play-by-play announcer for Rays home games in 2013, the year after they hired, Steve Quis and Chris Carrino for their coverage of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim games. Rives is a resident of Tampa.
References
http://www.compassmedianetworks.com/sports/bio.jsp?chartID=204&bioID=-276830543000739893
http://investor.siriusxm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=395936
Living people
Radio personalities from Tampa, Florida
American talk radio hosts
American radio sports announcers
Tampa Bay Rays announcers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers announcers
Golf writers and broadcasters
National Football League announcers
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
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