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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%21 | Pyatnitsa! (, literally Friday!) is an all-Russian entertainment TV channel. Its broadcast network is based on original entertainment programs of its own production, as well as those produced by Ukrainian TV channels. Friday! began broadcasting on 31 May 2013 on MTV Russia.
Programming
Shows
In-house productions
Oryol i Reshka (Heads or Tails)
Oryol i Reshka. Shopping (Heads or Tails. Shopping)
Revizorro (Auditor)
Magazzino (Shopping Auditor)
Veryu — Ne veryu (Believe — Don't Believe)
#ZhannaPozheni (#ZhannaMarryUs)
Bitva salonov (Battle of Beauty Salons)
Bitva restoranov (Battle of Restaurants)
Eda, ya lyublyu tebya! (Food, I love you!)
Bogach — Bednyak (Rich Man — Poor Man)
Blokbastery (Blockbusters)
Sdelka (Deal)
Kanikuly v Meksike (Vacations in Mexico)
Pyatnitsa! News (Friday! News)
Robin Fud (Robin Food)
Na nozhah (Kitchen Nightmares)
Opasnye gastroli (Dangerous Tour)
Bitva Rieltorov (Battle of Realtors)
Baryshnya - Krestyanka (Mistress Into Maid)
Patsanki (She's like a boy)
Konditer (Confectioner)
Takiye roditeli (Such parents)
Oryol i Reshka. Na svyazi (Heads or Tails. In touch)
Boy s Gerls (Fight with the Girls)]
Oryol i Reshka. Sidim Doma (Heads or Tails. Sitting at home)
Oryol i Reshka. Bezumnyye vykhodnyye (Heads or Tails. Crazy weekend)
Oblozhka (Cover) ]
Doktor Bessmertnyy (Dr. Immortal)
Lyubov' na vyzhivaniye (Love for survival)
Mir naiznanku (World inside out)
Oryol i Reshka. Ivleyeva VS Bednyakov (Heads or Tails. Ivleeva VS Bednyakov)
Utro Pyatnitsy (Friday morning)
Dikari (Savages)
Dve devitsy za granitsey (Two girls abroad)
Mylodrama (Mylodrama)
Turisticheskaya politsiya (Tourist police)
Sekretnyy millioner (Secret Millionaire)
Oryol i Reshka. Rossiya (Heads or Tails. Russia)
Adskaya kukhnya (Hell's Kitchen)
Chernyy spisok (Black list)
Oryol i Reshka. Sem'ya (Heads or Tails. Family)
Oryol i Reshka. Chudesa sveta (Heads or Tails. Wonders of the World)
Chetyre svad'by (Four weddings)
Dve devitsy na meli (Two girls are aground)
Regina +1 (Regina +1)
Insaydery (Insiders)
Teper' ya Boss (Now i'm the boss)
Meykapery (Makeupers)
YA tvoye schast'ye (I am your happiness)
Russo Latino. Peru (Russo Latino. Peru)
Poprosi u neba (Ask from the sky)
Podium (Podium)
Khuligany (Hooligans)
Kletka (Cell)
Rabochiy eksperiment (Working experiment)
Zov Krovi (Call of blood)
Patsanki za granitsey (Boys Abroad)
Tatu navsegda (Forever tattoo)
Instagramshchitsy (Instagram women)
Patimeykery (Party makers)
Pyatnitsa s Reginoy (Friday with Regina)
Zhizn': zabesplatno (Life: free)
Selfi-Detektiv (Selfie Detective)
Revizorro-Meditsinno (Auditor Medical)
Khelou, Rasha (Hello, Russia)
Na nozhah (Kitchen Nightmares. Hotels)
Bliznetsy (Twins)
Revizolushka (Auditor. Kids)
General'naya uborka (Spring-cleaning)
Golos ulits (The voice of the streets)
Nasledniki (The heirs)
Mozhem povtorit (Can repeat)
Lyubimtsy (Favorites)
Bednyakov +1 (Bednyakov +1)
Istorii Pobedy (Victory Stories)
#Zhann |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%20ay%20Ikaw%20na%20Nga | Sana ay Ikaw na Nga may refer to:
Sana ay Ikaw na Nga (2001 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on GMA Network, starring Dingdong Dantes and Tanya Garcia
Sana ay Ikaw na Nga (2012 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on GMA Network, starring Mikael Daez and Andrea Torres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solavei | Solavei was a social commerce network offering contract-free mobile service in the United States, known for its use of incentivized referral plans and its social network advertising program. In addition to its mobile phone services, Solavei operated a social commerce network for its users. Ryan Wuerch founded the company in 2012. As of 2013, Solavei had 140 employees and was valued by investors at $120 million. The company has been described as a multi-level marketing (MLM) company, or of being very similar to a MLM company.
On June 18, 2014, the company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Solavei announced its carrier partner, T-Mobile USA on the 19th of November of 2015, had terminated its agreement to provide service under the condition that Solavei did not meet expectations. Solavei customers were allowed to migrate to T-Mobile Prepaid for a $10 monthly credit for 6 months and a free month of service. Wireless service was discontinued on December 4, 2015.
Background
Solavei was launched in September 2012 and operated as an MVNO through its partnership with T-Mobile US. The company's initial offering was a $49 per month, no-contract mobile phone plan for unlimited voice, text, and data. In September 2013 the company implemented the loyalty card program Solavei Marketplace. The program enabled users to receive discounts at participating retailers.
The company utilized a customer-to-customer marketing model, paying its customers on a recurring basis for referrals. As of August 2013, Solavei had paid out more than $14.4 million to its near 280,000 members.
Leadership
Ryan Wuerch, former CEO and founder of Motricity, was the founder and CEO of Solavei.
In February 2012, Wuerch and his team raised $5 million in initial seed funding.
Some of Solavei's financial backers included Jonathan Miller of News Corp and David Limp of Amazon.com.
Marketing model
Solavei paid its customers for referrals. At its simplest, users earned $5 per month for every customer that they signed up for mobile service. The income generated was deposited on the Solavei Visa PayCard, which could be used wherever Visa is accepted. Solavei Visa PayCard also allowed members to gain access to Solavei Marketplace that was launched on October, 2013, which featured cash-back discounts for a variety of retailers.
The company used its advertising and sponsorship funds to compensate its members to build distribution networks. Through sharing on social media outlets, grassroots campaigns on YouTube, and regional events, Solavei had developed a business model that relied on customer-to-customer interaction.
References
External links
Solavei — Official Website
Mobile phone companies of the United States
American social networking websites
Companies based in Bellevue, Washington
American companies established in 2012
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2014
Defunct multi-level marketing companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS%20X%20Mavericks | OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) is the 10th major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. OS X Mavericks was announced on June 10, 2013, at WWDC 2013, and was released on October 22, 2013, worldwide.
The update emphasized battery life, Finder improvements, other improvements for power users, and increased iCloud integration, as well as bringing more of Apple's iOS apps to OS X. Mavericks was named after the surfing location in Northern California. It also removed some of the skeuomorphic designs from OS X Mountain Lion, and it is the final version of macOS that features the Lucida Grande typeface as the standard system font since Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000.
Mavericks was the first OS X release to be named after a location in California, and the first to be a free upgrade since Mac OS X 10.1 Puma.
History
Apple announced OS X Mavericks on June 10, 2013, during the company's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote (which also introduced iOS 7, a revised MacBook Air, the sixth-generation AirPort Extreme, the fifth-generation AirPort Time Capsule, and a redesigned Mac Pro). During a keynote on October 22, 2013, Apple announced that the official release of 10.9 on the Mac App Store would be available immediately, and that unlike previous versions of OS X, 10.9 would be available at no charge to all users running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) or later.
On October 22, 2013, Apple offered free upgrades for life on OS X and iWork.
System requirements
All the Macs supporting OS X Mountain Lion support OS X Mavericks. As with Mountain Lion, 2 GB of RAM, 8 GB of available storage, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard or later are required. Mavericks and later versions are all available for free.
The full list of compatible models:
iMac (Mid 2007 or later)
MacBook (Aluminum, Late 2008 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2007 or later)
Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)
System features
The menu bar and the Dock are available on each display. Additionally, AirPlay compatible displays such as the Apple TV can be used as an external display. Mission Control has been updated to organize and switch between Desktop workspaces independently between multiple displays.
OS X Mavericks introduced App Nap, which sleeps apps that are not currently visible. Any app running on Mavericks can be eligible for this feature by default.
Compressed Memory is a virtual memory compression system which automatically compresses data from inactive apps when approaching maximum memory capacity.
Timer coalescing is a feature that enhances energy efficiency by reducing CPU usage by up to 72 percent. This allows MacBooks to run for longer periods of time and desktop Macs to run cooler.
Apple now supports OpenGL 4.1 Core Profile and OpenCL 1.2. Server Message Block version 2 (SMB2) is now the default protocol for sharing files, rather than AFP. This is to increase p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon%20Pride | The Saskatoon Pride Festival, commonly shortened to Saskatoon Pride, is an LGBT pride festival held annually in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Organized by the Saskatoon Diversity Network, a non-profit organization incorporated in 2002, the event takes place in early June each year.
In its current form, Saskatoon Pride was first held in 2001. Community groups in the city had held their own pride-themed events prior to this date, but 2001 marked the first time they were coordinated into a conventional Pride festival with a parade.
The event kicks off with a raising of the rainbow flag at Saskatoon City Hall on the Monday of Pride Week, and concludes with a parade and community fair on the Saturday.
References
External links
Pride parades in Canada
Festivals in Saskatoon
LGBT in Saskatchewan
2001 establishments in Saskatchewan
Festivals established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20busiest%20airports%20in%20Greece | This is a list of Greece's busiest airports per year by passenger traffic.
2021
Data taken from the official websites of the airports
2020
Data taken from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
2019
Data taken from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and from the official websites of the airports
2018
Data taken from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and from the official websites of the airports
2017
Data taken from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and from the official websites of the airports
2016
2015
2014
2013
References
Gr
Airports in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-healing%20hydrogels | Self-healing hydrogels are a specialized type of polymer hydrogel. A hydrogel is a macromolecular polymer gel constructed of a network of crosslinked polymer chains. Hydrogels are synthesized from hydrophilic monomers by either chain or step growth, along with a functional crosslinker to promote network formation. A net-like structure along with void imperfections enhance the hydrogel's ability to absorb large amounts of water via hydrogen bonding. As a result, hydrogels, self-healing alike, develop characteristic firm yet elastic mechanical properties. Self-healing refers to the spontaneous formation of new bonds when old bonds are broken within a material. The structure of the hydrogel along with electrostatic attraction forces drive new bond formation through reconstructive covalent dangling side chain or non-covalent hydrogen bonding. These flesh-like properties have motivated the research and development of self-healing hydrogels in fields such as reconstructive tissue engineering as scaffolding, as well as use in passive and preventive applications.
Synthesis
A variety of different polymerization methods may be utilized for the synthesis of the polymer chains that make up hydrogels. Their properties depend on how these chains are crosslinked.
Crosslinking
Crosslinking is the process of joining two or more polymer chains. Both chemical and physical crosslinking exists. In addition, both natural polymers such as proteins or synthetic polymers with a high affinity for water may be used as starting materials when selecting a hydrogel. Different crosslinking methods can be implemented for the design of a hydrogel. By definition, a crosslinked polymer gel is a macromolecule that solvent will not dissolve. Due to the polymeric domains created by crosslinking in the gel microstructure, hydrogels are not homogenous within the selected solvent system. The following sections summarize the chemical and physical methods by which hydrogels are crosslinked.
Chemical crosslinking
Physical crosslinking
Interface chemistry of self-healing hydrogels
Hydrogen bonding
Hydrogen bonding is a strong intermolecular force that forms a special type of dipole-dipole attraction. Hydrogen bonds form when a hydrogen atom bonded to a strongly electronegative atom is around another electronegative atom with a lone pair of electrons. Hydrogen bonds are stronger than normal dipole-dipole interactions and dispersion forces but they remain weaker than covalent and ionic bonds. In hydrogels, structure and stability of water molecules are highly affected by the bonds. The polar groups in the polymer strongly bind water molecules and form hydrogen bonds which also cause hydrophobic effects to occur. These hydrophobic effects can be exploited to design physically crosslinked hydrogels that exhibit self healing abilities. The hydrophobic effects combined with the hydrophilic effects within the hydrogel structure can be balanced through dangling side chains that mediates the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes%20Radio | iTunes Radio was an Internet radio service by Apple Inc. that let users listen to automatically generated playlists based on direct input as well as collected data on music preferences. It was launched on September 18, 2013, as part of iOS 7 and was available in the Music app on iOS devices and Apple TV (2nd generation and newer) as well as in iTunes 11.1 on OS X (10.7 Lion; it requires Mac OS 10.7.5 or newer to run) and Windows. It was only available in the United States and Australia.
With the release of iOS 8.4 and iTunes 12.2, nearly all functions of iTunes Radio have become part of Apple's music streaming service Apple Music and was henceforth called just Radio or Apple Music Radio. On January 15, 2016, Apple announced that effective January 28, 2016, iTunes Radio stations, barring Beats 1, will only be accessible by Apple Music subscribers.
History
Apple announced the Internet radio service at its June 10, 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote speech. The service launched in the United States on September 18, 2013, the same day as the release of iOS 7, and in Australia on February 11, 2014. Reports of a streaming music service from Apple circulated for weeks before the announcement.
, iTunes Radio was only available in the United States and Australia. Apple had announced plans to offer the service in other countries. In October 2013, Bloomberg reported that Apple had plans to expand the service to the UK, Canada, and New Zealand by early 2014. With the release of Apple Music, most functions of iTunes Radio had become available in 100 countries, although iTunes Radio itself remained limited to the United States and Australia as a free service.
On January 15, 2016, Apple announced that effective January 28, 2016, iTunes Radio stations, barring Beats 1, will only be accessible by Apple Music subscribers. On January 29, 2016, the iTunes Radio channel was automatically removed from Apple TV devices (3rd Generation and earlier).
Features
iTunes Radio was a free, ad-supported service available to all iTunes users, featuring Siri integration on iOS. Users were able to skip tracks, customize stations, and purchase the station's songs from the iTunes Store. Users could also search through their history of previous songs. The number of track skips was limited like Pandora Radio's service. iTunes Match subscribers could be able to use an ad-free version of the service. The service has pre-loaded stations, including a playlist of trending songs on Twitter.
The service also generated a radio station based on input like a single artist with songs by them and others similar. The service's selection was expected to learn the user's preferences from input whether the user likes or dislikes the track.
Apple Music integration
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was previously opposed to the idea of music subscription services. Through its purchase of audio equipment maker Beats Electronics in 2014, Apple gained ownership of its own service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV-TEST | AV-TEST is an independent organization which evaluates and rates antivirus and security suite software for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Android operating systems, according to a variety of criteria. The organisation is based in Magdeburg, Germany.
Every other month, the researchers publish the results of their testing, where they list which products they awarded their certification. They regularly test antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall software for the software publishers and for magazines. In the field of product certification they work together with Tekit Consult Bonn GmbH (TÜV Saarland group).
The tests are performed on desktop computers and servers running Windows 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP, 2003; Novell NetWare, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Lotus Domino/Notes and Microsoft Exchange.
AV-TEST is a member of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization.
History
It was founded by Andreas Marx (CEO) and Guido Habicht.
Criticism
In 2013, the security specialist and CEO of IT security company Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, criticized AV-TEST for changing their certification process.
See also
AV-Comparatives
References
External links
Antivirus software
Information technology companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki%20%28company%29 | Anki (stylized as "anki") was an American robotics and artificial intelligence startup that put robotics technology in products for children. Anki programmed physical objects to be intelligent and adaptable in the physical world, and aimed to solve the problems of positioning, reasoning, and execution in artificial intelligence and robotics.
The company debuted Anki Drive during the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote.
The company received $50 million in Series A and Series B venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Two Sigma. In September 2014, Anki announced that it has raised another $55 million in Series C venture funding led by JP Morgan. In June 2016, the company announced its latest round of funding, which amounted to $502.5M, also led by JP Morgan. Total funding to date is $182.5 million. Marc Andreessen and Danny Rimer serve on the company's board, in addition to the three co-founders.
It went bankrupt in April 2019 after losing a critical round of funding and shut down the following month.
In December 2019, Anki assets, including OVERDRIVE, Cozmo, and Vector, were acquired by Digital Dream Labs.
History
Anki was founded by Boris Sofman, Mark Palatucci, and Hanns Tappeiner, founded officially in 2010 and was headquartered in San Francisco. It also had locations in Europe. (Anki Germany GmbH )
Products
Anki Drive and Anki OVERDRIVE
Anki's first product, Anki Drive, was released in Apple stores in the U.S. and Canada, on Apple.com and Anki.com starting October 23, 2013. It retailed for $149.99, with additional cars available for $49.99 and Expansion Tracks for $69.99
Anki Drive is a racing game that combined an iOS app, called "Anki Drive," with physical race cars. Each car is equipped with optical sensors, wireless chips, motors, and artificial intelligence software. Anki OVERDRIVE, an upgraded version of Drive with different cars and modular tracks, was released in September 2015.
Cozmo
In October 2016, Anki launched Cozmo in the US. Cozmo is a robot about 4 inches by 3 by 2 inches. It is mostly white, with red details, and gray on the end of its robot arm. There is a light on top of its body, with a gray border, which can shine different colors. A "collector's edition" Cozmo was released in 2017, with a "Liquid Metal" smoked gray chrome finish. A "limited edition" Cozmo, with an "Interstellar Blue" blue, white, and gray finish, was released in 2018.
Cozmo comes with three illuminated cubes it communicates with in order to play games and can autonomously move, lift and roll the cubes, and the cubes are powered by LR1, N, AM5, E90, batteries for power.
Production of Cozmo ceased in May 2019 when Anki shutdown due to lack of funding.
Vector
In August 2018, Anki launched Vector. It was designed to be more helpful, instead of being purely a toy. It is approximately the same size as Cozmo, and its design and shape is essentially the same, except Vector is mostly black with gray details and ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki | Anki may refer to:
Anki (software), spaced repetition software
Anki (company), a now-defunct American robotics and artificial intelligence startup
Anki (Finnish company), a manufacturer of rugs
Anxi County () (Anki), Quanzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China
Anki (SNS), SNS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbids%20Invasion | Rabbids Invasion () is a French computer-animated television series based on Ubisoft's Rabbids video game series. It is a co-production of Ubisoft Motion Pictures, TeamTO and CNC. The show was developed by Jean-Louis Momus, and stars Damien Laquet as the voice of the Rabbids.
The show premiered on 3 August 2013 on France 3. The first three seasons, each with 26 episodes, aired between 2013 and 2017. A fourth season aired on France 3 in 2018 and it was released worldwide through Netflix on 1 July 2019. An hour-long follow-up after the fourth season, titled Rabbids Invasion: Mission to Mars, premiered in France on 29 September 2021 and on Netflix as an original film on February 18, 2022.
Episodes
Production
In October 2010, Ubisoft and Aardman announced a partnership to produce a TV series pilot and several shorts based on Ubisoft's Rabbids franchise. The following year, it was announced that 78 animated episodes would be made by Ubisoft's Montreuil-based studio Ubisoft Motion Pictures as its first in-house production. In the United States, the series premiered on Nickelodeon on 3 August 2013. On 17 December 2013, the series was renewed for a second season of 26 half-hour blocks, with three segments per block. On 16 June 2015, it was renewed for a third season.
A fourth season was announced in July 2018. This season was not aired by Nickelodeon, and it instead aired on France 3 and Netflix.
Broadcast
The series airs on France 3 in France. In China, Rabbids Invasion ranked as the most-watched children's television series in 2017, having gathered over a billion views. Disney Channel Asia premiered the fourth season of Rabbids Invasion on 8 July 2019.
In the United States, from 3 August 2013 onward, the first season (and several episodes of the second season) aired on Nickelodeon. The rest of the second season and all of the third season aired only on the Nicktoons channel. The fourth season was not aired in the United States until Netflix released it in July 2019. In 2023, the series was picked up by the U.S. video-on-demand service Kabillion.
Reception
Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the show two out of five stars, stating: "Rabbids Invasion tones down the violence for the characters' jump from gaming to the TV, but they still have a lot of fun at the expense of each other and unsuspecting bystanders, and a lot of their antics would be frowned upon in the real world (using chickens' buttocks as egg shooters in a mock battle, for instance). Ultimately, though, it's crude and minimally taxing on viewers' sense of comprehension, so for better or worse, it's bound to appeal to the grade-school set."
Video game
Rabbids Invasion was adapted into an interactive TV series, titled Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show. The game which combines existing television episodes with a series of challenges, was released on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 in November 2014, requiring a Kinect or PlayStation Camera, respectively.
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschutes%20Hall | Deschutes Hall is a building on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon. Opened in the Winter term of 1990, it is home to the university's Computer Science department. The four-story building contains faculty and graduate student offices, boardrooms, and research laboratories.
As part of the Lorry I. Lokey Science Complex, it connects directly to the Lewis Integrative Science Building. Deschutes Hall takes a name given by French-Canadian trappers to the Deschutes River, important to Native American livelihood.
Images
See also
University of Oregon campus
References
External links
UO Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS)
University of Oregon buildings
University and college academic buildings in the United States
1990 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon%20GP-1 | The Nikon GP-1 is a Global Positioning System (GPS) accessory receiver manufactured by Nikon that collects geographic coordinate data and places it into the Exif data of a picture. It connects to the camera via a proprietary cable and can be mounted on the flash shoe or on the camera strap.
Compatible cameras
The GP-1 is compatible with:
Nikon COOLPIX P7700
Nikon D50
Nikon D90 via CA90-Kabel
Nikon D3100 via CA90-Kabel
Nikon D3200
Nikon D3300
Nikon D5000 via CA90-Kabel
Nikon D5100 via CA90-Kabel
Nikon D5200
Nikon D5300
Nikon D5500
Nikon D7000 via CA90-Kabel
Nikon D7100
Nikon D7200
Nikon D200
Nikon D300
Nikon D300s
Nikon D500
Nikon D600
Nikon D610
Nikon D700
Nikon D750
Nikon D800
Nikon D800E
Nikon D810
Nikon D2Hs
Nikon D2X
Nikon D2Xs
Nikon D3
Nikon D3s
Nikon D3X
Nikon D4
Nikon D4S
Nikon D5
Nikon Df
See also
Nikon GP-N100
External links
Nikon GP-1 product information
GP-1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Silvoso | Ed Silvoso (born June 15, 1945) is a New Apostolic Reformation Argentinian evangelist, author, and documentarian. He founded Harvest Evangelism and the Transform Our World Network, the objective of which is to end worldwide systemic poverty in its four expressions. He was a leader in the Argentine Revival during the 1990s and is a formative figure in the modern transformation movement. Silvoso has hosted conferences, participated in symposiums, provided leadership training, and appeared in the media. He has published six books and produced a documentary library of over forty titles.
Early ministry
Ed Silvoso was born at San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina. He is the son of Omar Edmundo Silvoso and Maria Teresa Troia and has a younger sister, Maria Rosa. He formed an evangelistic team at the age of seventeen when the country was intensely anti-evangelical. He graduated from Colegio Nacional Justo Jose de Urquiza in 1962; seven years later he became a pastor in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Silvoso married Ruth Noemi Palau, the sister of evangelist Luis Palau, on April 20, 1968, and they have four daughters.
He attended Multnomah Bible College in Portland, Oregon, and later moved to Pasadena, California, to continue his studies at Fuller Seminary. Silvoso began working with Luis Palau as part of Overseas Crusades in 1970 as coordinator for International Mass Media Evangelism (1970–1976). He was full-time with Palau's evangelistic team (1977–1980) before founding Harvest Evangelism.
Career
He established Harvest Evangelism at San Jose, California, in 1980; it is now known as Transform Our World (TOW). While this ministry pioneered city transformation, its initial influence was the result of efforts in Resistencia, Argentina.
The same approach was applied to more than three hundred cities, and it expanded to six continents. Silvoso began to host international conferences that promoted local, regional, and national change through ecumenical ministry. The lessons learned were shared in Silvoso's first book, That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ through Prayer Evangelism (1994). The concepts in this volume inspired the Transform Our World Network, a voluntary association that creates alliances between local marketplaces and various faith-based assemblies.
Members are challenged to invest their resources to help eradicate systemic poverty in its four aspects. This theme is broadened in Prayer Evangelism: How to Change the Spiritual Climate Over Your Home, Neighborhood and City (2000) and Anointed for Business (2002). Five paradigms are at the core of TOW, and they involve changes in spiritual climate, public policies, and ecclesiastical institutions.
Silvoso is an acknowledged leader of the Argentine Revival, and thousands in the United States have observed his methodology over the past thirty years, both clergy and laity. As a result, they have adopted his approach to transformation, a process that affects the marketplac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing%20software%20development | Crowdsourcing software development or software crowdsourcing is an emerging area of software engineering. It is an open call for participation in any task of software development, including documentation, design, coding and testing. These tasks are normally conducted by either members of a software enterprise or people contracted by the enterprise. But in software crowdsourcing, all the tasks can be assigned to or are addressed by members of the general public. Individuals and teams may also participate in crowdsourcing contests.
Goals
Software crowdsourcing may have multiple goals.
Quality software: Crowdsourcing organizers need to define specific software quality goals and their evaluation criteria. Quality software often comes from competent contestants who can submit good solutions for rigorous evaluation.
Rapid acquisition: Instead of waiting for software to be developed, crowdsourcing organizers may post a competition hoping that something identical or similar has been developed already. This is to reduce software acquisition time.
Talent identification: A crowdsourcing organizer may be mainly interested in identifying talents as demonstrated by their performance in the competition.
Cost reduction: A crowdsourcing organizer may acquire software at a low cost by paying a small fraction of development cost as the price for award may include recognition awards.
Solution diversity: As teams will turn in different solutions for the same problem, the diversity in these solutions will be useful for fault-tolerant computing.
Ideas creation: One goal is to get new ideas from contestants and these ideas may lead to new directions.
Broadening participation: One goal is to recruit as many participants as possible to get best solution or to spread relevant knowledge.
Participant education: Organizers are interested in educating participants new knowledge. One example is nonamesite.com sponsored by DARPA to teach STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Fund leveraging: The goal is to stimulate other organizations to sponsor similar projects to leverage funds.
Marketing: Crowdsourcing projects can be used for brand recognition among participants.
Ecosystem
Architecture support
A crowdsourcing support system needs to include 1) Software development tools: requirement tools, design tools, coding tools, compilers, debuggers, IDE, performance analysis tools, testing tools, and maintenance tools.
2) Project management tools: ranking, reputation, and award systems for products and participants.
3) Social network tools: allow participants to communicate and support each other. 4) Collaborating tools: For example, a blackboard platform where participants can see a common area and suggest ideas to improve the solutions presented in the common area.
Social networks
Social networks can provide communication, documentation, blogs, twitters, wikis, comments, feedbacks, and indexing.
Organization
Processes
Any phase of software dev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano%20Ceri | Stefano Ceri (born 14 February 1955) is an Italian computer engineer and professor of database management at Politecnico di Milano. He has been visiting professor at Stanford University between 1983 and 1990, and received the ACM SIGMOD Edward Codd Innovations Award in 2013.
Career
Stanford University
He was a visiting professor at Stanford University in the 1980s and 1990s.
Scientific Research
Some of the research projects he has been responsible for at Politecnico di Milano include W3I3: "Web-Based Intelligent Information Infrastructures" (1998–2000), WebSI: "Data Centric Web Services Integrator" (2002–2004), SeCo: Search Computing (2008–2013), GenData2020: Data-Centric Genomic Computing (2013–2016), and GeCo: Genomic Computing (2016–2021).
He received two European Research Council Advanced Grants, in 2008 for the Search Computing project and in 2016 for the Genomic Computing project.
His research interests are focused on:
extending database technologies for incorporating data distribution, deductive rules, active rules, and query languages for XML
methods and languages for the specification of data-intensive Web sites, such as WebML
search computing and crowd searching methods
genomic computing
WebML inventor
He is one of the inventors of WebML, a modeling language for the conceptual design of web applications (US Patent 6,591,271, July 2003) and he is one of the co-founders of WebRatio, a spinoff of Politecnico di Milano whose mission is to promote and commercialize development tools based on WebML and model-driven development in general (spanning Interaction Flow Modeling Language, BPMN, and Unified Modeling Language).
Alta Scuola Politecnica
Until November 2013, he was director of Alta Scuola Politecnica.
Awards
1991 - VLDB Best Paper Award in 1991.
2000 - VLDB Test of Time Award in 2000.
2013 - ACM SIGMOD Edward F. Codd Innovations Award: During his ACM-Sigmod talk, he explained the "Seven Golden Rules for being Successful in Research". They are: (1) Invest in education, (2) Choose the right co-workers, (3) Take context into account when choosing your research agenda, (4) Write!, (5) Diversify your research, (6) Learn from other disciplines, (7) Don't always work.
Membership
He is member of the Academia Europaea. In 2014 he became ACM fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Books
Distributed Databases: Principles and Systems (McGraw-Hill, 1984)
Logic Programming and Databases (Springer-Verlag, 1990)
Conceptual Database Design: an Entity-Relationship Approach (Benjamin-Cummings, 1992)
Active Database Systems (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1995)
Advanced Database Systems (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997)
The Art and Craft of Computing (Addison-Wesley, 1997)
Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology (Addison-Wesley, 1997)
Database Systems: Concepts, Languages, and Architecture (McGraw-Hill, 1999)
Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002)
Web Information Retrieval (Springer-Verla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E574 | European route E 574 is a road part of the International E-road network.
It begins in Bacău, Bacău County, Romania and ends in Craiova, Dolj County, Romania.
Route and E-road junctions
(on shared signage DN11 then DN73A then then DN65)
Bacău:
Chichiș:
Braşov: ,
Piteşti: ,
Craiova:
References
E574 on OpenStreetMap
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
699671
Roads in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Inventory%20Advisor | Network Inventory Advisor is a third-party network management tool for Windows that collects relevant data on network devices in order to generate statistical reports on software and hardware usage. The application was created by ClearApps LLC, a software development company headquartered in Elk Grove, California. The first release of Network Inventory Advisor (under the name of PC Inventory Advisor) is dated March 29, 2008.
Functionality
Network Inventory Advisor allows to collect information about computers on the network, audit installed software and hardware and keep track of the related changes. The program is able to scan Windows, Linux and Mac PCs. Network Inventory Advisor has a report-building wizard for a custom report creation and a pre-defined report templates. There is a paid version and a free trail version.
Critical reception
Network Inventory Advisor was reviewed by Windows IT Pro, Techworld, 4Sysops, Softonic, and Techmixer
Release history
References
Proprietary software
Utilities for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda%20Lindell | Yehuda Lindell (born 24 February 1971) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University where he conducts research on cryptography with a focus on the theory of secure computation and its application in practice. Lindell currently leads the cryptography team at Coinbase.
Education and academic positions
Lindell received a BSc and Msc degree in computer science from Bar-Ilan University. He then obtained a PhD in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2002. Lindell received a Raviv Fellowship and spent two years at IBM's cryptography research group at the T.J. Watson Research Center. In 2004, he returned to Israel to take up an academic position at Bar-Ilan University. Lindell's work on secure computation was recognized by the award of an ERC starting grant in 2009 and an ERC consolidators grant in 2014. Lindell was appointed as an IACR Fellow in 2021.
Industry experience
Lindell worked from 2004 to 2014 as a permanent cryptographic consultant to Safenet, formally Aladdin. He co-founded the company Unbound Security, and served as its Chief Scientist from 2014 to 2018. In early 2019, he took over the role of CEO of Unbound Security, taking leave from Bar-Ilan University. In January 2022, Unbound Security was acquired by Coinbase, and Lindell now leads their cryptography team.
Research
Lindell's main contributions are in the field of secure multiparty computation. Lindell's research initially focused on theoretical feasibility, and in particular in the area of protocol composition. Lindell has carried out extensive research on efficient two-party secure computation via the Yao garbled circuit construction, and on efficient multiparty computation for the multiparty honest-majority setting based on Secret sharing. His most cited work is a joint paper with Benny Pinkas on
privacy preserving data mining in which the use of secure computation was proposed for performing data mining algorithms; in particular the ID3 algorithm. Lindell provided the first proof of security for the basic Yao protocol, and the first proof of security for the BGW protocol. Lindell has also worked on the design of two-party protocols which are secure against active adversaries, the introduction of the concept of covert adversarial models, and much more. Lindell won the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Math in 2006 for his work on the composition of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement, and the best paper award at ACM CCS 2016 for work on high-throughput MPC protocols. In 2021, Lindell published a review article on secure multiparty computation in the Communications of the ACM.
Lindell is also the co-inventor of the AES-GCM-SIV mode of operation for symmetric encryption, standardized by the IETF Crypto Forum Research Group in RFC 8452. He received the best paper award at ACM CCS 2017 for the research paper behind AES-GCM-SIV.
Lindell is also the author of a textbook wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnit%20Institute%20of%20Business%20and%20Technology | Learnit Institute of Business and Technology was an institute of business, finance, computer and information technology in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, having affiliations with UK leading institutions and universities. The institute trains over 1000 students every year and has had over 8000 graduates since 1993.
History and location
The college started its operations in Tanzania in 1993 under the umbrella of Soft-Tech Consultants Ltd as pioneers in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) and its mission today is to empower through ICT. It is registered and fully accredited by the National Council for Technical Education. The location of the college is in the Oasis Office Park building located at the Oysterbay area.
Accreditation
Learnit is accredited with the following four bodies:-
National Council for Technical Education (NACTE) Tanzania
NCC Education (NCC) United Kingdom
University of Greenwich (UoG) United Kingdom
External links
Official website
References
Universities and colleges in Tanzania
1993 establishments in Tanzania
Educational institutions established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decomposition%20method%20%28queueing%20theory%29 | In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, the decomposition method is an approximate method for the analysis of queueing networks where the network is broken into subsystems which are independently analyzed.
The individual queueing nodes are considered to be independent G/G/1 queues where arrivals are governed by a renewal process and both service time and arrival distributions are parametrised to match the first two moments of data.
References
Queueing theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Camera | The PlayStation Camera is a motion sensor and camera accessory for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation Eye for the PlayStation 3, which was released in 2007. It is also the motion sensor used to track the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset.
History
On February 21, 2013, a day after the PlayStation 4 was announced, a camera was revealed to be in development for the PlayStation 4, nicknamed the "PlayStation 4 Eye" after its predecessor, the PlayStation Eye. It was also featured in the trailer that teased the PlayStation 4. The PlayStation Camera was released on November 15, 2013, alongside the PlayStation 4.
In March 2014, Sony announced that over 900,000 PlayStation Cameras were sold alongside the PlayStation 4 console, leading to shortages of stock supply. It was estimated that 15% of PlayStation 4 owners also owned a PlayStation Camera.
Alongside the unveiling of the PlayStation 4 Pro and PlayStation 4 Slim on September 7, 2016, a design revision of the PlayStation Camera was unveiled for release on September 15, 2016. The new design has a cylindrical shape instead of the rectangular shape of the original revision, and now features a stand that can be used to adjust the camera's angle, instead of a movable part of the camera itself.
Hardware
PlayStation Camera has two 1280×800 pixel cameras with lenses having an f 2.0, with a 30 cm focusing distance, and an 85° field of view. With the dual camera setup, the camera can operate at different modes, depending on the target application. The two cameras can be used together for the depth perception of objects in its field of vision, akin to the Xbox's Kinect peripheral. Alternatively, one of the cameras can be used for recording video, and the other for motion tracking.
The camera features a four-channel microphone array, which reduces background noise and may even be used to receive voice commands. It is (width × height × depth), with a weight of . It records video in RAW and YUV formats and connects to the console via its specified port.
Compatible games
The following is a list of PlayStation 4 games and software with Camera functionality, some of which were not specifically developed for the PlayStation Camera. All PlayStation VR games require the camera for head tracking as well as the Move controllers, if they are used.
Alien: Isolation
Angry Birds Star Wars
Baila Latino
Burnout Paradise Remastered
Commander Cherry's Puzzled Journey
Dreams
FIFA 15, 16 and 17
Just Dance 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022
LittleBigPlanet 3
NBA 2K15, 2K16, and 2K17
Octodad
Omega Quintet
Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show
Singstar, SingStar Celebration
SHAREfactory (Software, not game)
Sportsfriends
Super Stardust Ultra
Surgeon Simulator
Tearaway Unfolded
The Playroom
Until Dawn
War Thunder
The PlayStation 4 system menu supports motion controls and voice commands via the PlayStation Camera (the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powernode%209080 | The PowerNode 9080 was a dual processor 32-bit Superminicomputer produced by Fort Lauderdale, Florida based electronics company Gould Electronics in the 1980s. Its UTX/32 4.3BSD Berkeley Unix-based operating system was one of the first multi-processor shared memory implementations of Unix, although the processors operated in a Master-Slave configuration with a Mutual Exclusion (MutEx) lock on all manipulations on Kernel tables. The second processor, called IPU, left all I/O operations to the main CPU. Machines could be configured for either single or dual processor operation. At launch in the mid-eighties the PowerNode 9080 was sold at $385,000.
The machine itself was housed in a number of 19 inch rack cabinets and the main CPUs consisted of 18 boards of ECL logic. The resulting system was capable of benchmark performances up to 10 MIPS, a very high rating at the time. The PowerNode systems were a very close relative of Gould Concept-32 real time computer systems running their proprietary MPX real time operating system. Only about two boards differed between PowerNode machines running Unix and the real-time versions running MPX. The most significant of these was the Memory Management board which had virtual memory mapping abilities in the Unix variant but not in the real-time variant.
A smaller model of the PowerNode was also available in the form of the Gould PowerNode 6032 and 6040 single processor systems and 6080 dual CPU which achieved a 7 MIPS performance similar to the contemporary DEC VAX-11/780 and VAX-11/785.
The PowerNode series was replaced by the Gould NP-1 series. When Gould was purchased by Nippon Mining, the computer division was divested on the instructions of the US Government for National Security concerns and became part of Encore Computer.
References
Minicomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuru%20Nakamura | is a Japanese artist and poet who also goes by the name 326. He created new artwork for the PR campaign of a Japanese television network, and designed the art for the video game Gitaroo Man.
Published works
You're My Mommy. Letters from a Baby to his Mom
References
Japanese artists
Japanese poets
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20government%20mass%20surveillance%20projects | This is a list of government surveillance projects and related databases throughout the world.
International
ECHELON: A signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement.
European Union
Data Retention Directive: A directive requiring EU member states to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months and allowing police and security agencies to request access from a court to details such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call, and text message sent or received.
INDECT: Research project funded by the European Union to develop surveillance methods (e.g. processing of CCTV camera data streams) for the monitoring of abnormal behaviours in an urban environment.
Schengen Information System: A database kept for national security and law enforcement purposes.
National
Australia
In August 2014 it was reported that law-enforcement agencies had been accessing Australians' web browsing histories via internet providers such as Telstra without a warrant.
It was reported that Australia had issued 75% more wiretap warrants in 2003 than the US did and this was 26 times greater than the US on a per capita basis.
China
Golden Shield Project: Also known as the "Great Firewall of China", it is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the government of the People's Republic of China. The project was initiated in 1998 and began operations in November 2003.
The Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP, 一体化联合作战平台) is used by the government to monitor the population, particularly Uyghurs. The platform gathers biometrics, including DNA samples, to track individuals in Xinjiang.
Monitoring Bureau
Public Information Network Security
Social Credit System
France
Frenchelon: A data collection and analysis network operated by the French Directorate-General for External Security.
Germany
Nachrichtendienstliches Informationssystem: a searchable database operated by the German security agency Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV).
Project 6: a global surveillance project jointly operated by the German intelligence agencies Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) in close cooperation with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
India
Central Monitoring System (CMS): A data collection system similar to the NSA's PRISM program. It enables the Government of India to listen to phone conversations, intercept e-mails and text messages, monitor posts on social networking service and track searches on Google.
DRDO NETRA: Network that is capable of tracking online communications on a real time basis by harvesting data from various voice-over-IP services, including Skype and Google Talk. It is operated by the Research and Analysis Wing.
NATGRID: An intelligence grid that links the databases of several departments and ministries of the Go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN%20blocking | VPN blocking is a technique used to block the encrypted protocol tunneling communications methods used by virtual private network (VPN) systems. Often used by large organizations such as national governments or corporations, it can act as a tool for computer security or Internet censorship by preventing the use of VPNs to bypass network firewall systems.
Description
Blocking VPN access can be done a few different ways. Ports that are used by common VPN tunneling protocols, such as PPTP or L2TP, to establish their connections and transfer data can be closed by system administrators to prevent their use on certain networks. Similarly, a service can prohibit access by blocking access from IP addresses and IP address ranges that are known to belong to VPN providers. Some governments have been known to block all access to overseas IP addresses, since VPN use can involve connecting to remote hosts that do not operate under that government's jurisdiction.
As organizations have ramped up efforts to block VPN access which bypasses their firewalls, VPN providers have responded by utilizing more sophisticated techniques to make their connections less conspicuous. For instance, as the Chinese government began using deep packet inspection to identify VPN protocols, the firm Golden Frog began scrambling OpenVPN packet metadata for its popular VyprVPN service in an attempt to avoid detection.
Government use
China
Chinese internet users started reporting unstable connections in May 2011 while using VPNs to connect to overseas websites and services such as the Apple App Store. Universities and businesses began issuing notices to stop using tools to circumvent the firewall.
In late 2012, companies providing VPN services claimed the Great Firewall of China became able to "learn, discover and block" the encrypted communications methods used by a number of different VPN systems.
In 2017, telecommunications carriers in China were instructed by the government to block individuals' use of VPNs by February 2018.
India
In 2022, the government of India stated VPN providers must log a variety of user data for a minimum of five years. Due to the new ruling, many VPN service providers removed their physical servers from India and instead operate virtual servers, allowing users to still connect to India locations but without falling under the jurisdiction of Indian law.
Iran
The government of Iran began blocking access to non-government sanctioned VPNs in March 2013, a few months prior to the 2013 elections, to "prosecute users who are violating state laws" and "take offenders to national courts under supervision of judiciary service". Use of VPNs approved by the government reportedly led to surveillance and inspection of private data.
Russia
In July 2017, the State Duma passed a bill requiring the Internet providers to block websites that offer VPNs, in order to prevent the spreading of "extremist materials" on the Internet. It is unclear exactly how Russia plan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderCloud%20Wireless | SpiderCloud Wireless was founded in November 2006 as Evoke Networks by Peter Wexler, Allan Baw, and Mark Gallagher. The trio incubated the company as Copivia Inc. and hired Mike Gallagher as CEO in October 2007. After closing the Series-A funding in January 2008, the company soon changed its name to SpiderCloud Wireless. The company is now headquartered in Milpitas, California. The company is backed by investors Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners, Opus Capital, and Shasta Ventures. It has raised around US$125 million in venture capital and is generating revenue from customers such as Vodafone UK, Vodafone Netherlands, Verizon Wireless, Warid Telecom, and more. The company helps mobile operators improve service quality for enterprise customers.
SpiderCloud was acquired by Corning Inc. on July 19, 2017.
References
Mobile technology companies
Companies based in Milpitas, California
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT%20%28conference%29 | The SIGINT conference was a three-day conference held yearly on the social and technical aspects of digital society between 2009 and 2013. It was organized by the Chaos Computer Club and held in Cologne, Germany. The conference featured both lectures and workshops on various different topics. It specifically wanted to focus on the social and political aspect of technology and hacker culture. The conference was officially discontinued in January 2014.
See also
Chaos Communication Congress
Chaos Communication Camp
References
External links
Archived version of the conference website
Video recordings are available from the majority of talks: SIGINT13, SIGINT12, SIGINT10, SIGINT09
Free-software events
Computer security conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohokum | Hohokum is a 2014 art video game developed by Honeyslug and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita, and by Annapurna Interactive for Microsoft Windows. The player controls a snakelike creature to explore 17 whimsical worlds with no set objectives. The developers, who began development in 2008, compared the concept to flying a kite and were inspired by free London museums, Portmeirion, and indigenous cultures. It was released on August 12, 2014, and features a soundtrack by Ghostly International artists. The game received "generally favorable reviews", according to video game review score aggregator Metacritic. Critics appreciated the game's presentation, including its art and music, but felt that the gameplay turned to drudgery towards its end and that the objectives were too vague.
Gameplay
The player-character is a multicolored serpent creature called the "Long Mover" who glides through whimsical game worlds with loose objectives. There is no correct way to play the game, which was designed to be enjoyed without necessarily pursuing objectives. It is non-linear and has no score, time limit, or tutorial. The developer described the game as about "relaxing in a space and just enjoying the experience and the music, instead of trying to complete it to make progress", and an IGN preview said it is "simply about the beauty of exploring". USgamer Jeremy Parish wrote that the game's challenges were in distinguishing the interactive objects from the environment and then figuring out the function of those interactive objects. For example, a ball resembling a dandelion releases its spores when circled, but the player has to follow the floating spores to realize that other villagers use the spores as a vehicle. The game communicates with visual and audial cues, and uses few of the standard controller buttons: two buttons slow or accelerate the Long Mover, and the triggers make it wiggle for a boost. The Long Mover changes in color based on the direction it faces and the DualShock 4's light bar matches the color.
The game does not explicitly have a story but has a narrative line that connects the disparate worlds. There are 17 worlds, each with unique characters, a single primary goal, and secondary activities. In "Lamp Lighting", the player activates lights while flying past silhouettes, and each light adds a new layer of music. The player flies through a series of color-changing circles to access the next world. In Sponge Land, an underwater world, the player gathers fish to swim alongside the Long Mover. The player can collect seeds in the Kite Village. Another level lets the player create shapes in the sky by flying past stars. The worlds are presented in flat colors with no outlines, and all worlds are unlocked from the beginning of the game. The credits roll once a hidden multicolored serpent is freed from each level.
Development
Hohokum is an art game developed by British game developer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs%20Amaral | Luís A. N. Amaral (born 12 July 1968) is a Portuguese physicist recognized for his research in complex systems and complex networks. His specific research interests include the emergence, evolution, and stability of complex social and biological systems. He is best known for his work in network classification and cartographic methods for uncovering the organization of complex networks. He is currently professor at McCormick School of Engineering and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
Education
Amaral received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in Physics from the University of Lisbon in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He then went to Boston where he performed his doctoral work under the supervision of H. Eugene Stanley at Boston University, and received his doctoral degree in 1996. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich, MIT, Boston University, and Harvard Medical School. In 2002, he became a professor at Northwestern University.
Academic career
Amaral has published over one hundred fifty scientific peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals, with more than twelve thousand citations. His research has been featured in many media sources. He is currently editor of several academic journals including Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment and PLoS ONE. He also serves as the Graduate Program Director at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University. He will become the co-director of Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) in the fall of 2013.
Entrepreneurship
Amaral is the co-founder and Scientific Advisor of Chimu Solutions, Inc. The company's main product, Footballrrating.com, tracks the performance of soccer teams and individual players. The technique is based on a paper co-authored by Amaral and the other co-founder of the company, Jordi Duch.
Personal life
Professor Amaral currently lives in the city of Evanston with his wife and his two sons, Jordi and Ferran. Apart from science, he is interested in food and history. He is also an avid soccer fan, particularly for the Portugal national soccer team and Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
Awards and honors
Fellow, American Physical Society (2014)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
Invited Participant in NAE Japan-American Frontiers of Engineerium Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (2009)
Member of Advisory Board on "Complex Systems", James S. McDonnell Foundation (2009)
Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2009)
Invited Participant, NA-Keck Futures Initiative on Complex Systems, National Academies and W. M. Keck Foundation (2008)
Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research, W. M. Keck Foundation (2006)
Invited Participant on Workshop on Transformative Research, National Science Board (2005)
Invited speaker at German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Sciences and Humboldt Foundation (2005)
Organizer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%20Pyungse%20Lee | Luke Pyungse Lee (born March 22, 1959) is the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Biophysics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at University of California, Berkeley. He is founding director of the Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology (BIGHEART) at the National University of Singapore.
Lee has over 350 peer-reviewed publications and over 40 issued international patents. He is a pioneer in bionanophotonics, plasmonic resonant energy transfer (PRET), rapid photonic PCR, optofluidics, microfluidics for quantitative life sciences, and integrated molecular diagnostics systems. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010 and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2012. Lee received the 2009 IEEE William J. Morlock Award in 2009 and the 2010 Ho-Am Prize for his discovery of PRET and the development of quantum nanobiophotonics for optical gene regulations and molecular imaging (photonic RNA switch and gene circuit). His current research interests are quantum electron transfers in living organisms, molecular diagnostics of infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, and in vitro neurogenesis, with a focus both on studying fundamental quantum nanobiology and on solving ill-defined problems of global healthcare.
Education & Career
Luke P. Lee was born the youngest of three boys in the family of a poet father, Sang Ro Lee and a midwife, Bok Soon Ha. After the death of his father, he immigrated to America with his mother and brother in 1976. Lee spent his life in Seoul attending up to 11th grade of high school. After he moved to the US, he attended Wasson high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado for 12th grade. He received a BA in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996 and received his PhD in Applied Science and Technology (Applied Physics: major & Bioengineering: minor) from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
In 1999, he became an assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2005, he became a full professor and the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished professor of bioengineering and a professor of biophysics at Berkeley. He also served as the Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zürich) from 2006 to 2007. Lee also has a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley. He has been the co-director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center since 1999. He became the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor in 2010 and reappointed again 2015. He was Associate President (International Research and Innovation) and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore from 2016 to 2017.
Prior to his academic career, he had over ten years of extensive R&D and industrial experience in integrated optoelectronics and superconductin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20basis | In pure and applied mathematics, particularly quantum mechanics and computer graphics and their applications, a spherical basis is the basis used to express spherical tensors. The spherical basis closely relates to the description of angular momentum in quantum mechanics and spherical harmonic functions.
While spherical polar coordinates are one orthogonal coordinate system for expressing vectors and tensors using polar and azimuthal angles and radial distance, the spherical basis are constructed from the standard basis and use complex numbers.
In three dimensions
A vector A in 3D Euclidean space can be expressed in the familiar Cartesian coordinate system in the standard basis ex, ey, ez, and coordinates Ax, Ay, Az:
or any other coordinate system with associated basis set of vectors. From this extend the scalars to allow multiplication by complex numbers, so that we are now working in rather than .
Basis definition
In the spherical bases denoted e+, e−, e0, and associated coordinates with respect to this basis, denoted A+, A−, A0, the vector A is:
where the spherical basis vectors can be defined in terms of the Cartesian basis using complex-valued coefficients in the xy plane:
in which denotes the imaginary unit, and one normal to the plane in the z direction:
The inverse relations are:
Commutator definition
While giving a basis in a 3-dimensional space is a valid definition for a spherical tensor, it only covers the case for when the rank is 1. For higher ranks, one may use either the commutator, or rotation definition of a spherical tensor. The commutator definition is given below, any operator that satisfies the following relations is a spherical tensor:
Rotation definition
Analogously to how the spherical harmonics transform under a rotation, a general spherical tensor transforms as follows, when the states transform under the unitary Wigner D-matrix , where is a (3×3 rotation) group element in SO(3). That is, these matrices represent the rotation group elements. With the help of its Lie algebra, one can show these two definitions are equivalent.
Coordinate vectors
For the spherical basis, the coordinates are complex-valued numbers A+, A0, A−, and can be found by substitution of () into (), or directly calculated from the inner product , ():
with inverse relations:
In general, for two vectors with complex coefficients in the same real-valued orthonormal basis ei, with the property ei·ej = δij, the inner product is:
where · is the usual dot product and the complex conjugate * must be used to keep the magnitude (or "norm") of the vector positive definite.
Properties (three dimensions)
Orthonormality
The spherical basis is an orthonormal basis, since the inner product , () of every pair vanishes meaning the basis vectors are all mutually orthogonal:
and each basis vector is a unit vector:
hence the need for the normalizing factors of .
Change of basis matrix
The defining relations () can be summarized by a tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20operator | In pure and applied mathematics, quantum mechanics and computer graphics, a tensor operator generalizes the notion of operators which are scalars and vectors. A special class of these are spherical tensor operators which apply the notion of the spherical basis and spherical harmonics. The spherical basis closely relates to the description of angular momentum in quantum mechanics and spherical harmonic functions. The coordinate-free generalization of a tensor operator is known as a representation operator.
The general notion of scalar, vector, and tensor operators
In quantum mechanics, physical observables that are scalars, vectors, and tensors, must be represented by scalar, vector, and tensor operators, respectively. Whether something is a scalar, vector, or tensor depends on how it is viewed by two observers whose coordinate frames are related to each other by a rotation. Alternatively, one may ask how, for a single observer, a physical quantity transforms if the state of the system is rotated. Consider, for example, a system consisting of a molecule of mass , traveling with a definite center of mass momentum, , in the direction. If we rotate the system by about the axis, the momentum will change to , which is in the direction. The center-of-mass kinetic energy of the molecule will, however, be unchanged at . The kinetic energy is a scalar and the momentum is a vector, and these two quantities must be represented by a scalar and a vector operator, respectively. By the latter in particular, we mean an operator whose expected values in the initial and the rotated states are and . The kinetic energy on the other hand must be represented by a scalar operator, whose expected value must be the same in the initial and the rotated states.
In the same way, tensor quantities must be represented by tensor operators. An example of a tensor quantity (of rank two) is the electrical quadrupole moment of the above molecule. Likewise, the octupole and hexadecapole moments would be tensors of rank three and four, respectively.
Other examples of scalar operators are the total energy operator (more commonly called the Hamiltonian), the potential energy, and the dipole-dipole interaction energy of two atoms. Examples of vector operators are the momentum, the position, the orbital angular momentum, , and the spin angular momentum, . (Fine print: Angular momentum is a vector as far as rotations are concerned, but unlike position or momentum it does not change sign under space inversion, and when one wishes to provide this information, it is said to be a pseudovector.)
Scalar, vector and tensor operators can also be formed by products of operators. For example, the scalar product of the two vector operators, and , is a scalar operator, which figures prominently in discussions of the spin–orbit interaction. Similarly, the quadrupole moment tensor of our example molecule has the nine components
Here, the indices and can independently take on the values 1, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%20%28operating%20system%29 | Dyson was a Unix general-purpose operating system derived from Debian using the illumos kernel, libc, and SMF init system.
Dyson was built from scratch to be as similar to Debian as possible, i.e. most of Debian packages should build on Dyson without changes, and architecture-independent packages (arch all in Debian terms) should be installable without modification.
Features
ZFS, Solaris Containers, IPFilter, Dtrace, OpenSolaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control (also known as Crossbow)
Advanced Packaging Tool and many packages and configuration facilities, including developer (automated, testing) tools.
See also
StormOS (obsolete)
StormOS information, screenshot, download, etc. (archived)
References
External links
Dyson site
Debian
Debian-based distributions
OpenSolaris
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Wagner%20%28software%29 | Bill Wagner is an American software developer and author, known for his involvement in the C# programming language.
Early life
Wagner received a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was a self-employed consultant for eight years before joining with Dianne Marsh to cofound SRT Solutions, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based software development company, in 1999. Wagner won an Automation Alley Emerging Technology Leader award in 2011.
Career and Contributions
Wagner is known primarily for .Net development work, particularly C#. He is the author of several books, including Effective C# (now in its second edition, 2010) and More Effective C# (2004). Wagner has written a number of articles appearing in MSDN Magazine, the C# Developer Center, Visual C++ Developer's Journal, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro Magazine, .NET Developer's Journal, as well as technical articles for software developers. Wagner wrote a set of programming idioms for C#.
Wagner has stated that he has been involved with C# since public betas for C# 1.0 were released. Prior to that time, Wagner had worked with C++ and Java.
Wagner was appointed Microsoft regional director for Michigan in 2003, and he was reappointed and named a Microsoft MVP in 2006. He has since received 11 Microsoft MVP awards. Wagner also won the Automation Alley Emerging Technology Leader award in 2011.
Wagner is a founding member and past president of the Great Lakes .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group, and a contributor to the Ann Arbor Computer Society.
Notes
American computer programmers
Living people
People from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfusion%20MRI | Perfusion MRI or perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) is perfusion scanning by the use of a particular MRI sequence. The acquired data are then post-processed to obtain perfusion maps with different parameters, such as BV (blood volume), BF (blood flow), MTT (mean transit time) and TTP (time to peak).
Clinical use
In cerebral infarction, the penumbra has decreased perfusion. Another MRI sequence, diffusion weighted MRI, estimates the amount of tissue that is already necrotic, and the combination of those sequences can therefore be used to estimate the amount of brain tissue that is salvageable by thrombolysis and/or thrombectomy.
Sequences
There are 3 main techniques for perfusion MRI:
Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC): Gadolinium contrast is injected, and rapid repeated imaging (generally gradient-echo echo-planar T2 weighted) quantifies susceptibility-induced signal loss.
Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE): Measuring shortening of the spin–lattice relaxation (T1) induced by a gadolinium contrast bolus
Arterial spin labelling (ASL): Magnetic labeling of arterial blood below the imaging slab, without the need of gadolinium contrast
It can also be argued that diffusion MRI models, such as intravoxel incoherent motion, also attempt to capture perfusion.
Dynamic susceptibility contrast
In Dynamic susceptibility contrast MR imaging (DSC-MRI, or simply DSC), Gadolinium contrast agent (Gd) is injected (usually intravenously) and a time series of fast T2*-weighted images is acquired. As Gadolinium passes through the tissues, it induces a reduction of T2* in the nearby water protons; the corresponding decrease in signal intensity observed depends on the local Gd concentration, which may be considered a proxy for perfusion. The acquired time series data are then postprocessed to obtain perfusion maps with different parameters, such as BV (blood volume), BF (blood flow), MTT (mean transit time) and TTP (time to peak).
Dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging
Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) imaging gives information about physiological tissue characteristics such transport from blood to tissue and blood volume. It is typically used to measure how a contrast agent moves from the blood to the tissue. The concentration of the contrast agent is measured as it passes from the blood vessels to the extracellular space of the tissue (it does not pass the membranes of cells) and as it goes back to the blood vessels.
The contrast agents used for DCE-MRI are often gadolinium based. Interaction with the gadolinium (Gd) contrast agent (commonly a gadolinium ion chelate) causes the relaxation time of water protons to decrease, and therefore images acquired after gadolinium injection display higher signal in T1-weighted images indicating the present of the agent. It is important to note that, unlike some techniques such as PET imaging, the contrast agent is not imaged directly, but by an indirect effect on water protons. The common procedure for a DCE-MRI exam is to acquire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timer%20coalescing | Timer coalescing is a computer system energy-saving technique that reduces central processing unit (CPU) power consumption by reducing the precision of software timers used for synchronization of process wake-ups, minimizing the number of times the CPU is forced to perform the relatively power-costly operation of entering and exiting idle states.
Implementations of timer coalescing
The Linux kernel gained support for deferrable timers in 2.6.22, and controllable "timer slack" for threads in 2.6.28 allowing timer coalescing.
Timer coalescing has been a feature of Microsoft Windows from Windows 7 onward.
Apple's XNU kernel based OS X gained support as of OS X Mavericks.
FreeBSD supports it since September 2010.
See also
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC)
High Precision Event Timer (HPET)
HLT (x86 instruction)
Interrupt coalescing
Programmable interval timer
Time Stamp Counter (TSC)
References
Operating system kernels
Synchronization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Rotenberg | Jonathan Rotenberg (born April 29, 1963) is an executive coach, management consultant, and author. In 1977, he cofounded The Boston Computer Society, which became the world's largest personal computer user organization. He is currently writing a book about what he learned from his early mentor, Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Early life
Jonathan was born in Boston, MA. He is a graduate of Commonwealth School, an independent high school in Boston's Back Bay. As a 13-year-old freshman, he cofounded The Boston Computer Society in the school's library.
Education
Rotenberg has an A.B. in Economics from Brown University; an MBA from Harvard Business School; and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
Career
The Boston Computer Society
Rotenberg cofounded an organization to demystify personal computers called The Boston Computer Society, popularly known as the BCS. He was its president from 1977 to 1990. During that period, the Society became the leading international forum where personal computer companies unveiled groundbreaking new products and technologies to the public. For example, in 1979 Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston introduced the first spreadsheet program, VisiCalc.
In 1984, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made the first public presentation of the Macintosh at the BCS. Mitch Kapor introduced Lotus 1-2-3. Dozens of industry leaders — from Bill Gates to Michael Dell, Nolan Bushnell to Esther Dyson, Ray Kurzweil to Sherry Turkle, Seymour Papert to Dan Bricklin — came each month to connect with BCS members. The Society developed more than a hundred user and special-interest subgroups, many of which became the largest of their kind in the world. It published over 20 publications and sponsored nearly a hundred educational programs each month.
Before his twenty-first birthday, Rotenberg had been profiled in The Wall Street Journal (front page), PEOPLE, InfoWorld, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe and TIME magazine, and on CBS Evening News. In 1990, Jonathan moved from president of the BCS to become its chairman.
Management Consulting
Jonathan began his career in management consulting at a Cambridge, Massachusetts consulting firm, Monitor Group, which was founded in 1983 by six entrepreneurs with Harvard Business School ties.[3] He was with Monitor from 1991 to 1999. Jonathan became a strategy consultant with internet consulting firm Viant Inc. in 1999. He later joined Fair Isaac Corp. and was co-leader of its management consulting organization.
Jonathan's work as a management consultant focuses on customer-centric enterprise transformation: Helping large companies redesign sales, marketing, e-channels, customer care, and operations around the needs and desires of target customers. He has advised and guided senior leadership teams of several Fortune 500 companies on multi-year, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
Executive Coaching
Since 2012, Jona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lee%20%28television%20executive%29 | Paul Lee is a British director, producer and executive. He is currently the CEO of the television and movie studio . He founded the BBC's U.S. cable network BBC America and ran ABC Family, ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios for the Walt Disney Company. During his tenure, Lee is credited with championing racial diversity and changing the face of American television with hit shows including Black-ish, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, American Crime, The Goldbergs, Quantico and Fresh Off the Boat.
Early life
Paul Lee was born in London to South African Jewish parents Emanoel Lee and Janine Lee (born Amato) and educated at The Dragon School, Oxford, Winchester College and New College, Oxford.
Career
Lee was a director for the BBC Music and Arts department where he made Primo Levi for Bookmark, and Kalashnikov & Woody Guthrie for the BBC strand Arena. Woody Guthrie helped Arena win the British Academy Television Awards for best series in 1989. Lee was the writer and director of Oblomov (1989) for Arena. It was the first foreign scripted film to be made in the Soviet Union before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It was filmed entirely on location in Moscow and the sleepy town of Kostroma on the banks of the Volga.
In 1998, Lee was the Founder and CEO of the U.S. digital cable network BBC America. He is credited with helping introduce U.S. audiences, U.K. formats such as renovation programming Changing Rooms, reality soaps The Hotel and mockumentaries like The Office. The Office (2013) won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Television series: Musical or Comedy. It was the first British comedy in 25 years to be nominated for a Golden Globe and the first ever to win.
In 2004, Lee was recruited by the Walt Disney Company and named president of ABC Family. Programs like The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Pretty Little Liars helped ABC Family succeed with the coveted 18-34 demographic, knocking MTV out of the top spot.
In 2010, Lee took the helm of the ABC Entertainment Group where he oversaw ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios. Under Lee, ABC became known as a leader for storytelling in the areas of female empowerment and diversity. Lee championed: Scandal (2012) which, led by Kerry Washington was the first U.S. broadcast drama since Get Christie Love! (1974) to feature an African-American female lead; How to Get Away with Murder (2014), which starred Viola Davis, made history when she became the first-ever African-American woman to win an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series; Quantico (2015) which, led by Priyanka Chopra, marked the first time a South-Asian female actress headlined a network television series; American anthology crime drama American Crime (2015), created by Academy Awards winner John Ridley presaged the Black Lives Matter movement. During its run, the series received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, honoring Regina King with two consecutive wins for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20reset | A hardware reset or hard reset of a computer system is a hardware operation that re-initializes the core hardware components of the system, thus ending all current software operations in the system. This is typically, but not always, followed by booting of the system into firmware that re-initializes the rest of the system, and restarts the operating system.
Hardware resets are an essential part of the power-on process, but may also be triggered without power cycling the system by direct user intervention via a physical reset button, watchdog timers, or by software intervention that, as its last action, activates the hardware reset line (e.g, in a fatal error where the computer crashes).
User initiated hard resets can be used to reset the device if the software hangs, crashes, or is otherwise unresponsive. However, data may become corrupted if this occurs. Generally, a hard reset is initiated by pressing a dedicated reset button, or holding a combination of buttons on some mobile devices. Devices may not have a dedicated Reset button, but have the user hold the power button to cut power, which the user can then turn the computer back on. On some systems (e.g, the PlayStation 2 video game console), pressing and releasing the power button initiates a hard reset, and holding the button turns the system off.
Hardware reset in 80x86 IBM PC
The 8086 microprocessors provide RESET pin that is used to do the hardware reset. When a HIGH is applied to the pin, the CPU immediately stops, and sets the major registers to these values:
The CPU uses the values of CS and IP registers to find the location of the next instruction to execute. Location of next instruction is calculated using this simple equation:
Location of next instruction = (CS<<4) + (IP)
This implies that after the hardware reset, the CPU will start execution at the physical address 0xFFFF0. In IBM PC compatible computers, This address maps to BIOS ROM. The memory word at 0xFFFF0 usually contains a JMP instruction that redirects the CPU to execute the initialization code of BIOS. This JMP instruction is absolutely the first instruction executed after the reset.
Hardware reset in later x86 CPUs
Later x86 processors reset the CS and IP registers similarly, refer to Reset vector.
See also
Power-on reset
Power-on self test
Reset vector
Reboot (computing)
References
Computer hardware
Embedded systems
Booting
Instruction processing
Central processing unit
Computer errors
Computer jargon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Order%3A%201886 | The Order: 1886 is a 2015 third-person action-adventure video game developed by Ready at Dawn and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released for PlayStation 4 on February 20, 2015. Set in an 1886 alternate history steampunk London, the game follows the Knights of the Round Table as they battle to keep the world safe from half-breeds, such as werewolves and vampires, as well as fringe organizations rebelling against the government.
The gameplay revolves around cover-based shooting mechanics and features a variety of weapons. The player progresses through the story by journeying through linear paths, defeating enemies and traversing obstacles. Quick time events and melee takedowns are implemented and several collectibles are scattered around the environment.
The Order: 1886 received mixed reviews from critics. Praise was directed at the game's production value, graphics, and technical achievements, while criticism was given for the game's short length, story, gameplay, replay value, and limited involvement the player is given.
Gameplay
The Order: 1886 is a story-focused action-adventure game played in a third-person perspective. The player takes control of Sir Galahad of the Round Table, an order serving as protectors of an alternate history London. The gameplay mostly revolves around cover-based shooting. The game is structured in a linear manner; the player guides Galahad through the environments, following the story. Galahad and his fellow Knights battle against multiple different foes, including humans and werewolf-like creatures known as half-breeds. Galahad is equipped with several tools and weapons for use in combat, such as variations of rifles, grenades, crossbows, and pistols.
Aside from combat with firearms, Galahad utilizes melee attacks and silent kills to defeat enemies. Another major aspect of the gameplay is use of quick time events. The player is required to complete button prompts in order to progress. Several types of collectibles providing lore are scattered throughout the world for the player to collect.
Synopsis
Setting
The Order: 1886 is set in an alternate history 1886 London, where an old Order of Knights keeps the world safe from half breed monsters, which are a combination of animal and human. Around the seventh or eighth century, a small number of humans took on bestial traits, the majority of humans feared these half-breeds and war broke out. Despite the humans outnumbering the half-breeds, their animal strength gave them the upper hand in centuries of conflict.
Humanity finds new hope in King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. King Arthur and his like-minded knights take the fight to the half-breeds, but Arthur realizes it is a losing battle. Through a mysterious turn of fate, the Knights discover Blackwater, a mystical liquid that significantly extends their lifetimes and gives them healing abilities. Despite this advantage, the half-breeds continue to win battle after battle, until the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Day%20Isang%20Araw | One Day () is a 2013 Philippine television drama fantasy anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Created and developed by Senedy Que, it stars Jillian Ward, Milkcah Wynne Nacion, Joshua Uy and Marc Justine Alvarez. It premiered on June 15, 2013 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up. The show concluded on November 16, 2013 with a total of 23 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Daisy, Uno, Isang and Sunny are friends brought together by a common passion for curiosity. A tree house is their favorite hangout where they meet up every week for their storytelling sessions. They share stories of heartfelt situations and endearing characters they get to interact with.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jillian Ward as Daisy
A former city girl who moved into the province to be with her grandmother. She is an intelligent eight-year-old girl who is also a fashion enthusiast and trendy. Daisy loves the idea of storytelling and wants to become a princess.
Joshua Uy as Juan or Uno
A seven-year-old boy who loves creating /designing toys using recycled materials. He gets along well with Daisy, but at times they clash due to his "hostile" nature.
Milkcah Wynne Nacion as Isang
Comes from a lower-class family. She is an eight-year-old girl who is fond of watching TV, particularly teledramas, wherein she finds inspiration while clinging to her belief that these programs mirror her own life.
Marc Justine Alvarez as Sunny
An eight-year-old boy who comes from a well-off family. Sunny loves toys and gadgets. He practically owns the "tree house" which eventually becomes the favorite hangout place of the group for their storytelling sessions.
Recurring cast
Camille Prats as Arlene, Daisy's mother
Gloria Romero as Gracia, Daisy's grandmother
Bobby Andrews as Jun, Sunny's father
Miggy Jimenez and Nomer Limatog as Isang's older brothers
Notable episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of One Day earned a 13.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.4% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Games%3A%20The%20Packer%E2%80%93Murdoch%20War | Power Games: The Packer–Murdoch War is an Australian drama-miniseries which screened on the Nine Network in 2013. The miniseries is set in the period 1960–75, when the Murdoch and Packer families collided as they battled for control of Australia's newspaper and television industries.
Plot
Episode 1: The rivalry between the families dates back to a brawl in 1960, when Sir Frank Packer was trying to take over the Anglican Press, which owned a printing press that would help him take on the Murdoch-acquired Cumberland Press. When publisher Francis James refused to sell, Kerry Packer and some burly friends were sent down to help him change his mind. According to legend, they broke in and forcefully evicted the people still inside, cut the phone lines, changed the locks and barricaded the windows. Francis called upon Rupert Murdoch and boxer turned editor Frank Browne for help. Despite Packer having been an amateur boxer himself, he emerged with black eyes and a badly swollen face. The brawl made headlines in the Murdoch papers.
For the next year Murdoch competed with Packer and Fairfax in the suburban newspaper market, until they decided to carve out the territory between them, setting the scene for a lifelong rivalry between Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch.
Episode 2: Rupert starts "The Australian" newspaper and provides gentle editorial guidance.
There is a journalist strike with the shared newspapers, however when Frank refuses to negotiate with the union, Rupert realises that Frank is trying to bankrupt him. Rupert lies to Frank and tells him he is financially sound, so Frank ends the strike.
Rupert 'risks all' to buy "News of the World" in London. Later he does a similar deal to buy "The Sun". He makes it more competitive by taking the best ideas from other papers, and adding attractive girls to page 3. Later Rupert's wife is shocked to learn that the paper is displaying naked women. Rupert tells her he is not interested in what the 'establishment' think. Rupert's wife reminds him that he is 'the establishment'!
Rupert lends his Rolls-Royce to an editor in London while he is in Australia. The editor's wife is taken hostage after being mistaken for Rupert's wife. Frank gives Rupert advice, but the woman is killed. Rupert hires bodyguards for his family.
Rupert sacks his editor at "The Australian" for not following his instructions. Both Rupert and Frank appear to influence public opinion over their choice of prime ministers, yet Rupert has more success.
Frank struggles to relinquish control of his empire to his sons. Kerry, the younger son demonstrates more interest and a better business mind than his older brother Clyde. Although the newspapers are losing money, Frank does not want to sell them to Rupert. However Kerry's main interest is with magazines and television, so when his father falls ill, he sells the newspapers to Rupert. Kerry tells Rupert that he has won the battle. Of course history shows that Kerry doesn't do too badly himse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th%20Sports%20Emmy%20Awards | The 34th Sports Emmy Awards were presented on May 7, 2013 at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Awards
Programs
Personalities
Technical
Awards by Network Group
References
033
Sports Emmy Awards
Emmy Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%20of%20Spirits | Destiny of Spirits was a free-to-play online social strategy game with role-playing elements for the PlayStation Vita, developed jointly by Japan Studio and Q Entertainment for Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was divided into three online regions, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, each with a separate server. The game's servers were closed down on June 30, 2015, following an announcement made a few months prior.
Development
The game was announced during a pre-E3 live show in 2013. The worldwide closed beta test for the game took place during October 2013, when codes were handed out to subscribers of PlayStation Plus. Following the closure of the test, improvements were made to the game and shortcomings identified by players were addressed. The game is available in Japanese, English, and Traditional Chinese.
The game features special collaboration spirits, including Kat from Gravity Rush, and Sony mascot Toro. The game features voice acting from Kana Hanazawa and president of SCE Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida. Artists involved in creating the spirit art for the game include Shunsuke Saito and VOFAN.
In March 2015, Sony announced that the game would no longer be available for both new players and existing players on June 30, 2015. While not providing reasons regarding the cancellation of the game, Sony had revealed that the game had been downloaded by more than 1 million people.
Gameplay
The game is based on collecting and summoning legendary spirits and using them to battle against enemies in a turn-based combat system, in cooperation with other players. The player may select attacks to choose from, or let the system automatically decide on attacks; enemy weaknesses are affected by elemental attacks. As a location-based game, it uses the player's real-world location to determine the spirits the player is able to attain, based on the mythology of the local surroundings where the player resides. Players are able to summon Japanese youkai and shinto gods, Chinese mythological beasts, Native American folktale creatures, European spiritual figures, deities from ancient Egyptian and Mayan civilizations, and other various categories depending on their circumstances, with each spirit represented by a two-dimensional sprite created by various different artists.
Spirits may be merged to create stronger spirits or rented from other players using spirit points, whilst summoning spirits requires the use of summoning stones. The game offers the optional choice of purchasing Destiny Orbs using real-life money via the PlayStation Network, which grants the ability to perform advanced summons.
References
External links
Official website (Japan)
Official information site (English)
2014 video games
Free-to-play video games
Japan Studio games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation Network games
PlayStation Vita games
PlayStation Vita-only games
Role-playing video games
Strategy video games
Video games based on multiple mythologies
Video ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berman%20Jewish%20Policy%20Archive | The Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA), housed at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University is a centralized electronic database of Jewish communal policy research. Its collection contains more than 20,000 documents, with holdings spanning from 1900 until today. It also is connected to the Jewish Survey Question Bank, a freely available repository of survey tools and questionnaires. The BJPA partners with the North American Jewish Data Bank; together they source the largest publicly available collection of Jewish policy research. The BJPA was established through the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation, the Charles H. Revson Foundation, and continued with support from the Jim Joseph Foundation.
The director and founder is Steven M. Cohen.
The associate director is Ari Y. Kelman
References
External links
BJPA on OpenDOAR
Jewish society
New York University
Online archives of the United States
Jews and Judaism in the United States
Social sciences literature
Sociology of religion
Jewish archives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAROT-South%20robotic%20observatory | TAROT (, "Quick-action telescope for transient objects") is a project of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) aimed at rapidly reacting to particular data from other astronomical surveying facilities to monitor for and registering fast changing astronomical objects and phenomena. The target of this particular project is so-called gamma-ray bursts (GRB).
The TAROT-South facility is a 25 cm very fast moving optical robotic telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. Able to accelerate at to a top speed of , it can begin observing within 1–1.5 seconds of being notified by a gamma-ray telescope that a gamma-ray burst is in progress and can provide fast and accurate positions of transient events within seconds.
In addition to its own observations, an important purpose of the telescope is to find an accurate source location. With its wide field of view, it can take an approximate location (±1°) from a gamma-ray detector and produce a location accurate to 1″ within a minute, for the benefit of follow-on observations by larger telescopes with longer reaction times.
It is a duplicate of the original TAROT telescope located at the Calern observatory, in France.
References
See also
Rapid Eye Mount telescope, a larger, somewhat slower companion telescope also located at La Silla.
Robotic telescopes
European Southern Observatory
Space Situational Awareness Programme
2006 establishments in Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol-Explorer | Phenol-Explorer is a comprehensive database on natural phenols and polyphenols including food composition, food processing, and polyphenol metabolites in human and experimental animals.
See also
Food composition data
References
External links
Phenol-Explorer
Polyphenols
Natural phenols
Food databases
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Sunday%20Night%20Movie | The NBC Sunday Night Movie was a weekly film block which ran on NBC on Sunday nights from 9 to 11pm or 8:30pm until 11pm. Often for miniseries programming, it would air the first night of the series, with the second night as part of the NBC Monday Night Movie.
The last film to air was Friday Night Lights on September 6, 2009 with 2.6 million viewers. During the mid-1980s the Sunday Night Movie was aired consistently enough to be ranked in the top 30 highest-rated programs for 1985–1988.
Between 1976 and 1981, the Sunday Night Movie was re-titled as The Big Event; though it continued to be made up of mostly films, at that time it was also a block for specials and made-for-TV sporting events. replaced by an umbrella program, The Big Event. Although much of the Big Events run featured film premieres, made for TV movies and installments of miniseries, some were specials and sports events.
References
1981 American television series debuts
1980s American anthology television series
1990s American anthology television series
2000s American anthology television series
English-language television shows
American motion picture television series
NBC original programming
American television films
American film series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Stopford%20Kenny | William Stopford Kenny (1788 – 16 November 1867 ) was a British schoolmaster, a writer and compiler of educational works, and an accomplished chessplayer who published and translated several works on the game.
Kenny ran a Catholic day-school at 5 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square. He edited, compiled, and wrote many educational works, such as The History of England (1850, with William Godwin), Kenny's School Geography (1856), and Tales About the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Comets (1862, with Samuel Goodrich). Kenny was a chessplayer - several of his games were recorded - and published several works on the game, including Practical Chess Grammar (1817) and Practical Chess Exercises (1818). He also translated Philidor's Analysis of the Game of Chess into English, with notes.
Family works
His son William David Kenny was also a schoolmaster, and wrote and edited works similar to those of his father. William David Kenny's son Charles Stopford Kenny, a government clerk, married Louisa Tussaud, a granddaughter of Marie Tussaud, and was involved (financially at least) with the Tussauds' wax museum business.
Death
William died in London, aged 79.
References
English chess players
British textbook writers
British chess writers
1788 births
1867 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Essential%20laptops | The HP Essential line of laptop computers consist of entry-level, inexpensive Microsoft Windows based laptops offered by HP Inc. These products include the HP Laptop and HP Notebook and also products solely branded as HP. There is also a similar line called HP Stream of low-end consumer-oriented laptops and tablets.
Models
HP Laptop
HP Laptop 17t (Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7, Intel N200)
HP Laptop 17z (AMD Ryzen 5, AMD Athlon Gold)
HP Laptop 15t (Intel Core i7, Intel Core i5)
HP Laptop 15z (AMD Athlon Silver, AMD Ryzen 5)
HP Laptop 14t (Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel N200)
HP Laptop 14z (AMD Athlon Silver, AMD Ryzen 5)
HP Notebook
HP Notebook 15 (2020) - (AMD A6)
HP Notebook 15 (2016) - (Intel Core i5)
HP
200 Series
HP 255 notebook is a budget laptop. The latest (as of 2023) ninth generation model (G9) is equipped with AMD Ryzen 3, 5 or 7 mobile processors.
300 Series
400 Series
HP 450 notebook comes in a choice of Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium, and Intel Core i3.
500 Series
HP 520 notebook, a low-end business laptop with either Core Duo T2400 or other Celeron M processors, and either with Windows Vista Business or Basic preinstalled, or if chosen, Red Hat 10.
600 Series
HP 620 notebook from 2010 featured a dual-core Intel Pentium CPU.
HP 630 was released in 2011 with a Intel Pentium P6200 dual-core processor. The HP 635 instead had an AMD Zacate E-350.
HP Stream series
The HP Stream series was first introduced in November 2014.
First generation comparison
Laptops
HP Stream 10
HP Stream 11
HP Stream 11 Pro
The first generation Stream 11 Pro was introduced in January 2015, with the same 1366x768 11.6-inch display as Stream 11, but with a different keyboard.
Since then more generations of the 11 Pro have been released:
G1 (2015)
G2 (2015)
G3 (2017)
G4 (2017)
G5 (2020)
HP Stream 13
The first HP Stream 13 came with a 2.16GHz Intel Celeron N2480 processor and Intel HD graphics, retailing for $230.
HP Stream 14
HP Stream 14 came out in 2014 with a AMD A4 Micro-6400T APU (model no. series 14-Z0).
An updated version came in 2016 (model no. series 14-AX, 14-CB?) with 1.6GHz Intel Celeron N3060.
Another Stream 14 revision (model no. series 14-DS) was released in 2020.
HP Stream 14 Pro
HP Stream x360
The Stream x360 is a 2-in-1 convertible that came in 11.6" (model. 11-P0) and 13.3" variants when released in 2015. It had a Intel Celeron dual-core 2.16GHz N2840 chip with 2GB of RAM.
A second generation (11-AA) was released in 2016 with CPU upgraded to Celeron N3060.
Tablets
HP Stream 7
The HP Stream 7 is a tablet computer that runs the Microsoft Corporation's Windows operating system. It was announced on September 29, 2014.
HP Stream 8
The HP Stream 8 is a tablet computer designed by Hewlett-Packard that runs the Microsoft Corporation's Windows operating system.
See also
HP Slate
References
HP laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNAP%20Systems | QNAP Systems, Inc. () is a Taiwanese corporation that specializes in network-attached storage (NAS) appliances used for file sharing, virtualization, storage management and surveillance applications. Headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, QNAP has offices in 16 countries and employs over 1000 people around the world.
QNAP has been a member of the Intel Intelligent Systems Alliance since 2011.
Company history
QNAP originally existed as a department within the IEI Integration Corporation, an industrial computing service provider located in Taiwan. In 2004, QNAP Systems Inc. was spun off into a separate company.
Product overview
QNAP primarily produces Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. The company also produces Network Video Recorders (NVR) and a series of networking equipment.
QTS – an operating system for NAS devices
QES (QNAP Enterprise Storage)
QuTS hero – an operating system similar to QTS that implements ZFS
QuTScloud
QNE
QSS
QuRouter
The QNAP QHora-301W supports high-speed Wi-Fi 6 and 10GbE connections, while also providing an enterprise-grade SD-WAN VPN to allow multi-site VPN deployment via the cloud.
Vulnerabilities and attacks
In 2021, SAM security group reported that it had discovered critical vulnerabilities in QNAP NAS devices. SAM security group said that these would mean that remote attackers could "execute arbitrary shell commands ... [or] create arbitrary file data on any (non-existing) location ... [or] execute arbitrary commands on the remote NAS". The company said that it had informed QNAP of the vulnerabilities in 2020 but that, four months after being informed, QNAP had not addressed these. The article was later updated to clarify that QNAP had resolved the problems for the most recent devices, but not for older systems, and then that QNAP had revised and released firmware for older devices.
These critical vulnerabilities were reported by Bleeping Computer to be implicated in a massive ransomware attack on QNAP NAS devices in April 2021. This attack, named "Qlocker", compressed all files smaller than 20 MiB into 7z files using 7-Zip with a 32 character long password. In order to retrieve the password, users had to access an .onion webpage and pay 0.01 BTC. This caused losses of at least $260,000 for users.
In January 2022 some QNAP NAS devices were affected by a ransomware infection known as DeadBolt. There were further attacks in March and May 2022.
Achievements
2019
TS-1677X named Best NAS Device of European Hardware Awards 2019
2018
Received the COMPUTEX Best Choice Award 2018
2017
TS-451+ named Best NAS Device of European Hardware Awards 2017
2016
Received the COMPUTEX Best Choice Award 2016
2014
Received ISO 27001:2013 certification in information security management
Received 2014 iF Product Design Award
Featured in PCWorld's 50 Best Tech Products of 2013
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
QNAP Blog
Manufacturing companies based |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin%20registry | A twin registry is a database of information about both identical twins and fraternal twins, which is often maintained by an academic institution, such as a university, or by other research institutions.
Investigative use
The use of twins can improve the statistical power of a genetic study by reducing the amount of genetic and/or environmental variability. "Identical twins" (monozygotic (MZ) twins) share virtually all their genes with each other, and "fraternal twins" (dizygotic (DZ) twins), on average, share about 50% of their genes with each other (about the same amount of sharing as non-twin siblings). Both types of twin pairs in twin registries almost always share similar prenatal and early childhood environments as well. By determining what are called "concordance" rates for a disease or trait among identical and fraternal twin pairs, researchers can estimate whether contributing factors for that disease or trait are more likely to be hereditary, environmental, or some combination of these. A concordance rate is a statistical measure of probability - if one twin has a specific trait or disease, what is the probability that the other twin has (or will develop) that same trait or disease. In addition, with structural equation modeling and multivariate analyses of twin data, researchers can offer estimates of the extent to which allelic variants and environment may influence phenotypic traits.
Where maintained
Some twin registries seek to cover all twins in an entire country, including Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Australia, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. The Swedish Twin Registry is the largest twin database in the world, with approximately 85,000 twin pairs.
Other twin registries cover a more limited geographic scope and are maintained by researchers at academic institutions, such as the Michigan State University Twin Registry, a registry of twins produced by researchers at Michigan State University, the Washington State Twin Registry, a registry of twins produced by researchers at Washington State University, and the Minnesota Twin Registry project by researchers at the University of Minnesota related to the Minnesota Twin Family Study. The largest twin registry in the United States is the Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry (MATR) at Virginia Commonwealth University, which has more than 51,000 registered participants, with approximately 46,000 of these representing intact twin pairs.
Limitations
Many twin registries depend on the voluntary participation of twins – that is, participation in these twin registries is not compulsory, and twins must voluntarily elect whether or not to register with a twin registry (and later, whether to participate in research projects). This characteristic limitation of many twin registries leads to standard issues known as "recruitment bias" or "volunteer bias". Recruitment biases include an over-inclusion of twins who share similar characteristics, and over-inclusion of identical twins and female |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Brother%2C%20Big%20Trouble%3A%20A%20Christmas%20Adventure | Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure (also known as Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble, or simply Niko 2), is a 2012 Finnish-Danish-Irish 3D computer-animated comedy/adventure film, produced by Finnish Anima Vitae and Cinemaker OY with co-producers Ulysses (Germany), A. Film (Denmark), Tidal Films (Ireland). The animation was produced in Finland, Germany and Denmark, with post-production carried out in Ireland. It is the sequel to The Flight Before Christmas and is written Hannu Tuomainen, and Marteinn Thorisson and directed by and . It was released in Finland on October 12, 2012. Anima Vitae and Cinemaker OY were nominated for Cartoon Movie Tributes 2013 in the category “European Producer of the Year”. Like a predecessor, it is one of the most expensive Finnish films.
Plot
The sequel takes places a couple of months after the events of the first film, and follows the story of Niko the reindeer. He must deal with his mother Oona getting remarried. He gains a stepbrother named Jonni, whom Niko hates at first. However, when Jonni gets kidnapped by eagles, Niko flies off to rescue him.
During his journey, Niko is joined by an old, near-blind reindeer named Tobias, who is revealed to be the former leader of Santa Claus's reindeer, Santa's Flying Forces. However, standing in Niko's way is also White Wolf, Black Wolf's younger sister, who is the leader of the eagles and wants revenge on Niko for her brother's death.
Now, Niko and the rest of the team must come up with a plan to save Jonni, defeat White Wolf and return home. At the end of the film, Oona is revealed to have given birth to an unnamed fawn and introduces Niko and Jonni to their new half-sister.
Cast
English Version
Matthew Boyle as Niko
Darragh Kelly as Julius
Ned Dennehy as Tobias
Callum Maloney as Jonni
Michael Sheehan as Lenni
Niamh Shaw as White Wolf
Susan Slott as Oona
Aileen Mythen as Wilma
Carly Baker as Saga
Roger Gregg as Dasher
Paul Tylak as Prancer
Mark Ryan as Lockdown
Leigh Whannell as Jatt
Angus Sampson as Jutt
Finnish Version
Kari Hietalahti as Armas
Juha Veijonen as Raavas
Kari Ketonen as Spede
Risto Kaskilahti as Uljas
Erik Carlson as Niko
Elina Knihtilä as Oana
Mikko Kivinen as Julius
Vuokko Hovatta as Wilma
Aarre Karén as Topias
Riku Nieminen as Lenni
Juhana Vaittinen as Jonni
Katariina Kaitue as White Wolf
Release
Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival on 29 September 2012.
It was released in Finland on October 12, 2012. The film opened in 115 theatres and was seen by 150,889 viewers, grossing €1,384,148.
It was released in Japan on August 9, 2013, after being shown at the Kinder Film Festival.
It entered into limited European distribution in November and December 2013 in Germany, Denmark, Poland, France, Iceland, Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, Estonia, and in Asia in Korea, Israel in March 2013.
Later in the fall of 2013 it was released in Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Fonepad | Asus Fonepad is a series of 6", 7" and 8" tablet computers with mobile cellular telephony capability (and is therefore considered a "phablet") developed by ASUS. The first model, the Fonepad ME371MG, was launched on April 24, 2013 in India, and April 26 in UK. Six months later, in September 2013, the Asus Fonepad 7 2014 Edition was launched, followed by the Fonepad 8, and an upgraded 7, in June 2014.
On August 26, 2014, Asus launched the Asus Fonepad 7 2014 edition (FE7530CXG), which is a 3G phone calling tablet with an Intel Atom Z3560 processor, 1GB RAM, a 7-inch 1280x800 screen, and Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.
In 2014 Asus appointed PT Dragon Computer & Communication and PT Metrodata Electronics to distribute Asus Fonepad devices in Indonesia.
References
External links
Fonepad
Asus mobile phones
Android (operating system) devices
Phablets
Mobile phones introduced in 2013
Portable media players
Products introduced in 2013
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliomata%20cycladata | Heliomata cycladata, the common spring moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1866. It is found in eastern North America, with records from southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, northern Mississippi and Arkansas.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are on wing from March to July.
The larvae feed on Robinia pseudoacacia and Gleditsia triacanthos.
References
External links
Macariini
Moths described in 1866
Moths of North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates%20Network%20for%20Translator%20Training | The Socrates Network for Translator Training (SNTT) is a group of EU universities created in 1990 which provides training for professional translators and interpreters. Its aim is to widen skills and competences through different exchange programmes which offer various courses related to translation and joint research projects.
This structured network of academic and professional experience allows students and teaching staff mobility at all levels of university training (BA, MA, PhD).
The network is part of the Erasmus Programme and represents a new approach to cooperation and knowledge sharing.
Members
The university members of SNTT all have a Translation and/or Interpretation department and are located in 14 different countries. All members meet regularly to highlight main problems and achievements, in order to continually improve the programme.
Funding
Since 1997 all universities are bound by a contract with the European Commission which regulates the distribution of funds.
External links
Erasmus programme
SNTT members
Organizations established in 1990
Translation organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Radio%20Sports%20Network | The Regional Radio Sports Network is a radio network that broadcasts high school and college sports in northern Indiana.
History
Regional Radio Sports first broadcast in 1992 on WWJY (now WXRD) in Crown Point, Indiana. In order to establish a footprint in the Michiana region, RRS soon joined forces with WAMJ in South Bend to create the first network. WAMJ was the first home for RRSN's coverage of Penn High School football, which now airs on affiliate WGCS. The network later added coverage of Bethel College basketball, baseball and softball to fill out the winter and spring. Since 2012, RRSN has partnered with the Indiana High School Athletic Association and Emmis Communications to produce the Indiana High School Sports Report that airs weekly around the state. They also now are the voices of Holy Cross Men's and Women's basketball, IUSB Men's and Women's basketball, and Ancilla College Women's volleyball, basketball, and softball, as well as Ancilla College's Men's soccer, basketball, and baseball.
Awards
RRSN founder Paul Condry was named Indiana Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2010. Colleague Mike Knezevich won the same award in 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2013. Matt Kopsea was the 2005 winner while working for the South Bend Tribune before joining RRSN in 2011. The team has two members of the Indiana Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Famers and three ISSA annual awards, and more than half a dozen coaches' association media awards.
Other awards won by the staff include the following:
Two IHSAA Distinguished Media Service Awards (Condry 1999, Knezevich 2009)
ISSA Sportscaster of the Year (Condry 2005, Knezevich 2006, Donnie Smith 2014)
ISSA Hall of Fame (Paul Condry 2010, Mike Knezevich 2012, & Matt Kopsea 2016)
Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Distinguished Service Award (Condry 1999)
Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Media Award (Kopsea six times)
Indiana Football Coaches Association Media Awards (Condry 1995, Kopsea 2007)
Indiana Football Hall of Fame (Chris Geesman, 1996)
IHSAA State Champions (Doug Miller, 1976; Geesman, 1983, 1995-1997, 2000)
Indiana Football Hall of Fame (Condry, 2020)
Gary Old Timers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (Paul R. Condry, 2022)
Hobart High School Athletic Hall of Fame (Paul R. Condry, 2109
Football awards
RRSN publishes the annual Indiana Football Digest, the largest high school football magazine in the country, which covers every high school team in the state (of Indiana) and weighs in at more than two pounds! They also organize The Griddy's, an annual event recognizing the best high school football players and coaches in the state, in association with the Indianapolis Colts.
Properties
The Coaches Box, weekly talk show on 91.1 the Globe
Bethel College Men's and Women's basketball, baseball, and softball
Holy Cross College Men's and Women's basketball
Ancilla College soccer, volleyball, baseball, so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20literacy | Data literacy is the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information. Much like literacy as a general concept, data literacy focuses on the competencies involved in working with data. It is, however, not similar to the ability to read text since it requires certain skills involving reading and understanding data.
Background
As data collection and data sharing become routine and data analysis and big data become common ideas in the news, business, government and society, it becomes more and more important for students, citizens, and readers to have some data literacy. The concept is associated with data science, which is concerned with data analysis, usually through automated means, and the interpretation and application of the results.
Data literacy is distinguished from statistical literacy since it involves understanding what data means, including the ability to read graphs and charts as well as draw conclusions from data. Statistical literacy, on the other hand, refers to the "ability to read and interpret summary statistics in everyday media" such as graphs, tables, statements, surveys, and studies.
Role of libraries and librarians
As guides for finding and using information, librarians lead workshops on data literacy for students and researchers, and also work on developing their own data literacy skills.
A set of core competencies and contents that can be used as an adaptable common framework of reference in library instructional programs across institutions and disciplines has been proposed.
Resources created by librarians include MIT's Data Management and Publishing tutorial, the EDINA Research Data Management Training (MANTRA), the University of Edinburgh's Data Library and the University of Minnesota libraries' Data Management Course for Structural Engineers.
See also
Information literacies
Information literacy
Media literacy
Numeracy
Statistical literacy
Transliteracy
References
Computer literacy
Mathematics education
Big data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca%20Data | Seneca Data was a private company categorized under computers, peripherals, and software. The company originally manufactured custom computers out of their location in Syracuse, NY.
Operations
Seneca Data was a custom computer manufacturer and distributor of computer and information technologies. They engineered products for businesses, education, healthcare, digital signage, digital security and surveillance, and digital broadcast customers around the world. Seneca produced the Nexlink brand of custom-built desktops, notebooks, and servers, along with the Xvault brand of storage appliances; as well as media players for digital signage and video wall controllers for broadcast applications. Seneca manufactured custom computers out of Syracuse, NY and produced the Nexlink brand of computer technologies.
Acquisition By Arrow Electronics
On August 14, 2014 Arrow Electronics (NYSE:ARW) acquired Seneca Data Distributors Inc for 172.6 million in cash which they completed during the first nine months of 2014.
(https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ARROW-ELECTRONICS-INC-11687/news/Arrow-Electronics-Inc-acquired-Seneca-Data-Distributors-Inc-38629814/)
Closure Of The Syracuse, NY Facility
At the beginning of April 2023 Arrow Electronics made the decision to consolidate operations and move the entire manufacturing and warehouse portion of the Syracuse, NY location to their facility located in Phoenix, AZ. As of 7/1/2023 there is no longer any warehouse or manufacturing entity at the Syracuse, NY location. There is still some engineers and technical support housed there to service their customers.
(Source: I am a former employee for Seneca and was separated from the company as of 6/30/2023 due to the consolidation taking place.)
Original Executives
Kevin Conley, CEO
Jim Petrie, Senior VP, CFO
Steve Maser, VP of Sales and Marketing
Mike Smith, Vice President of Engineering Technology
Nexlink
Nexlink computer systems was a product line manufactured by Seneca, it covered a range of products including desktops, notebooks, computer servers, and data storage. Nexlink was built using Intel motherboards and processors. Seneca Data is a Platinum Intel Technology Provider and all Nexlink products meet Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) approval.
Markets
Healthcare
Digital Signage
SMB
Government
Education
ISV
OEM
Commercial
Retail
Products
Nexlink 7100 Workstation
References
Companies based in Syracuse, New York
Electronics companies of the United States
Information technology companies of the United States
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed%20%28surname%29 | Breed is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Colin Breed (born 1947), English politician
Lawrence M. Breed (20th century), American computer scientist
London Breed (born 1974), American politician
Mary Bidwell Breed (1870-1949), American chemist
Michael Breed (born 1962), American golfer
Mildred Breed (born 1947), American bridge player
Urban Breed, Swedish singer
William J. Breed (1928–2013), American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist and writer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSOS | PSOS, PSOs or pSOS may refer to:
pSOS (real-time operating system)
Provably Secure Operating System
Project Support Open Source
Protective services officers
The Police Service of Scotland
See also
pSOS+ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriant | Coriant was incorporated as an independent company in 2013 as a spin-out from Siemens Optical Networks (NSN ON). The launch of the company was announced for the OFC/NFOEC in March 2013 and on May 6, 2013 Coriant became independent from Nokia Siemens Networks under the ownership of Marlin Equity Partners.
Coriant merged with Sycamore Networks (acquired by Marlin Equity in January 2013 and headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts), which continued operating as Coriant America Inc.
Marlin Equity merged Coriant and Tellabs (acquired by Marlin Equity in December 2013 Naperville, Illinois), which continued as Coriant. Later, the telco and GPON related components of the company were spun back out as a new company, also called Tellabs.
Coriant was acquired by Infinera in 2018.
History
Coriant originates from the Transmission Technology department of Siemens based in Munich, Germany, (Übertragungstechnik - ÜT as it was called in the 1990s). In those days the technology evolved from Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) to Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) in the STM-4 / STM-16 (2.5 Gbit/s) level.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s DWDM emerged to allow for even higher transmission capacity (in the terabit per second region). This technology is also named optical transport network (OTN), where a set of multiplex and encapsulation hierarchies is standardized.
References
External links
Networking hardware companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Telecommunications companies established in 2013
Manufacturing companies established in 2013
Manufacturing companies based in Munich
Manufacturing companies based in Illinois
Companies based in Naperville, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyglet | pyglet is a library for the Python programming language that provides an object-oriented application programming interface for the creation of games and other multimedia applications. pyglet runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux; it is released under the BSD Licence. pyglet was first created by Alex Holkner.
It supports windowed and full-screen operations as well as multiple monitors. Images, video, and sound files in a range of formats can be done natively, with more additional capabilities supplied by the optional AVbin plugin, which uses the Libav package to provide support for audio formats including MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio, and video formats such as DivX, MPEG-2, H.264, WMV, and XviD.
An advantage of pyglet over many other libraries is that it requires no external dependencies, and uses the ctypes library, a pure-Python C compiler. It builds on OpenGL.
Comparison to other libraries
Pygame
pygame is another library used for making games and is much more widely known than pyglet. This is what it would take to display the window shown in the example. It takes more lines of code and also is harder to understand.
Compared to pyglet, pygame is not object-oriented and has less functionality. For example, there is no rich and formatted text, fast drawing commands, etc. The graphics and images have to be drawn again and again and can not be cached. This is one of the performance features of object-oriented programming, where most of the steps do not have to be repeatedimport pygame
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))
pygame.display.set_caption("Hello world!")
running = True
while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type in pygame.QUIT:
running = False
pygame.quit()
Features
As a multimedia library, pyglet comes with batteries included. Using OpenGL gives it speed benefits, and is also written entirely in Python, meaning no external dependencies that have to be installed. The ffmpeg library can be optionally installed to support more audio formats.
Text display and formatting
Rich text formatting (bold, italic, underline, color change, background color, indent, lists) (pyglet.text.formats)
Built-in layouts to support editable text
Carets (pyglet.text.caret.Caret)
HTML support (pyglet.text.layout.IncrementalTextLayout)
Image and sprite work
Fast image processing and rendering
Built-in sprites (pyglet.sprite)
Animated images (*.gif)
Graphics
OpenGL shaders supported
Simple built-in shapes (rectangles, circles, triangles) (pyglet.shapes)
Batched rendering (pyglet.graphics.Batch)
3D model rendering
Events and file system
Resource management (pyglet.resource)
Clock for processing events and time (pyglet.clock.Clock)
Window events (pyglet.window.Window)
Event dispatchers for your own event dispatching (pyglet.event.EventDispatcher)
Context management
These features make pyglet much faster than many other multimedia libraries. Batched rendering is a te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPPS%20%28research%20group%29 | TOPPS is a research group at Datalogisk institut, Copenhagen University (DIKU). TOPPS is an abbreviation of the Danish "Teori Og Praksis for ProgrammeringsSprog", which roughly translates into "Theory and practice of programming languages". The group web site states that they are a group of researchers with interest in "Semantics-based Program Analysis and Manipulation".
References
University of Copenhagen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20American%20Heritage%20Center | The Irish American Heritage Center (Irish: Ionad na Oidhreachtas Éire-Mheiriceánach) is a non-profit organization located in Chicago that seeks to enhance the study of Irish culture with programming centered on Irish dance, literature, heritage, music, and Irish American cultural contributions to the United States. The center also supports Irish immigrants, and three Presidents of Ireland have attended ceremonies at the center.
The center's building in the Mayfair neighborhood of Chicago houses a library, museum, art gallery, archives, auditorium and classrooms, as well as an Irish pub and gift shop. Founded in 1976, it opened its building in 1985. The center oversees and administers the Irish American Hall of Fame. It is a member organization of the Chicago Cultural Alliance.
References
External links
Conan Visits Irish American Heritage Center. Conan. TBS, aired Jun 12, 2012.
Irish-American culture in Chicago
Museums in Chicago
Irish-American organizations
Ethnic museums in Illinois
Irish-American museums
Cultural centers in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20multi-channel%20networks | This is a list of notable multi-channel networks. Multi-channel networks (MCNs) are organizations that work with video platforms such as YouTube to offer assistance in areas such as "product, programming, funding, cross-promotion, partner management, digital rights management, monetization/sales, and/or audience development", usually in exchange for a percentage of the AdSense revenue from the channel.
Based in Asia
Adober Studios formerly Chicken Pork Adobo (Philippines)
afreecaTV (South Korea)
Diwan Videos (Dubai, UAE)
Hololive Production (Japan)
Nijisanji (Japan)
TV Derana (Sri Lanka)
Uturn Entertainment (Saudi Arabia)
UUUM (Japan)
Based in Australia
Valleyarm
WTFN
Based in the EU
Studio71 (Germany)
Zoomin.TV (Netherlands)
Based in North America
Above Average Productions (Broadway Video)
Alloy Entertainment (Warner Bros. Discovery)
AwesomenessTV (Paramount Global)
BroadbandTV Corp (Bertelsmann)
Channel Frederator Network (Wow Unlimited Media)
Curse: Union for Gamers (Amazon)
Disney Digital Network (Formerly Maker Studios, went defunct in 2019)
Discovery Digital Networks (Warner Bros. Discovery)
Fullscreen (Warner Bros. Discovery) (Went defunct in 2021)
The Game Theorists
JETPAK
Jukin Media
Kin Community
My Damn Channel
NormalBoots Inc.
OfflineTV
Omnia Media (Enthusiast Gaming)
ONErpm (Amazon)
Rooster Teeth (Warner Bros. Discovery)
Style Haul (Bertelsmann)
Symphonic Distribution
TYT Network
Vevo (Universal / Sony)
VShojo
Warner Music Group
Based in the UK
Brave Bison
ChannelFlip (Banijay)
Diagonal View (Comcast)
WildBrain Spark (WildBrain)
The Yogscast
See also
Cost per mille
Cost per impression
References
Multi-channel networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Colt | Parallel Colt is a set of multithreaded version of Colt. It is a collection of open-source libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing written in Java. It contains all the original capabilities of Colt and adds several new ones, with a focus on multi-threaded algorithms.
Capabilities
Parallel Colt has all the capabilities of the original Colt library, with the following additions.
Multithreading
Specialized Matrix data structures
JPlasma
Java port of PLASMA (Parallel Linear Algebra for Scalable Multi-core Architectures).
CSparseJ
CSparseJ is a Java port of CSparse (a Concise Sparse matrix package).
Netlib-java
Netlib is a collection of mission-critical software components for linear algebra systems (i.e. working with vectors or matrices).
Solvers and preconditioners
Mostly adapted from Matrix Toolkit Java
Nonlinear Optimization
Java translations of the 1-dimensional minimization routine from the MINPACK
Matrix reader/writer
All classes that use floating-point arithmetic are implemented in single and double precision.
Parallel quicksort algorithm
Usage Example
Example of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD):
DenseDoubleAlgebra alg = new DenseDoubleAlgebra();
DenseDoubleSingularValueDecomposition s = alg.svd(matA);
DoubleMatrix2D U = s.getU();
DoubleMatrix2D S = s.getS();
DoubleMatrix2D V = s.getV();
Example of matrix multiplication:
DenseDoubleAlgebra alg = new DenseDoubleAlgebra();
DoubleMatrix2D result = alg.mult(matA,matB);
References
Java (programming language) libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Lifestyle/Culinary%20Show%20Host | Beginning in 2013, The Daytime Emmy Awards currently give out two awards to honor hosts of culinary and lifestyle etc. programming. The categories are Outstanding Culinary Host and Outstanding Daytime Program Host. The category originated in 1994 and was known as the Outstanding Service Host. Prior to that, hosts of service and craft shows would compete in the Outstanding Talk Show Host category. In 2007, the category name was changed to Outstanding Lifestyle Host and was changed again in 2009 to Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Host.
Winners
Outstanding Service Show Host (1994-2006)
1994: T. Berry Brazelton, What Every Baby Knows
1995: Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living
1996: Julia Child, It's Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs
1997: Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living
1998: Steve Thomas, This Old House
1999: Ming Tsai, East Meets West with Ming Tsai
2000: Christopher Lowell, It's Christopher Lowell
2001: Julia Child and Jacques Pépin, Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home
2002: Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living
2003: Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living
2004: Suze Orman, The Suze Orman Show
2005: Bobby Flay, Boy Meets Grill and Michael Chiarello, Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello (tie)
2006: Suze Orman, The Suze Orman Show
Outstanding Lifestyle Host (2007-2008)
2007: Paula Deen, Paula's Home Cooking
2008: Giada De Laurentiis, Everyday Italian
Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Host (2009-2012)
2009: Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa
2010: Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa
2011: Martha Stewart, Martha
2012: Sandra Lee, Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee
Outstanding Culinary Host (2013-)
2013: Lidia Bastianich, Lidia's Italy
2014: Bobby Flay, Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction
2015: Bobby Flay, Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction
2016: Gabrielle Hamilton and David Kinch, The Mind of a Chef
2017: Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa
2018: Lidia Bastianich, Lidia's Kitchen
2019: Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie's Home Cooking
2020: Giada De Laurentiis, Giada Entertains
2021: Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa
2022: Frankie Celenza, Struggle Meals
Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle/Travel Program (2013-2014)
2013: Leeza Gibbons, My Generation
2014: Joseph Rosendo, Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope
Outstanding Lifestyle/Travel/Children's Series Host (2015-2016)
2015: Brandon McMillan, Lucky Dog
2016: Jeff Corwin, Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin
Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle/Travel/Children's or Family Viewing Program (2017-2018)
2017: Joseph Rosendo, Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope
2018: Brandon McMillan, Lucky Dog
Outstanding Host for a Lifestyle, Children's or Special Class Program (2019)
2019: Samantha Brown, Samantha Brown's Places to Love
Outstanding Daytime Program Host (2020-)
2020: Mike Rowe, Returning the Favor
2021: Zac Efron, Down to Earth with Zac Efron
2022: Bear Grylls, You vs. Wild: Out Cold
Multiple wins
5 wins
Martha Stewart
4 wins
Ina Garten
3 wins
Bobby Flay
2 wins
Joseph Rosendo
Julia Child
Lidia Bastianich
Giada De Laurent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%20286 | DOS 286 or DOS/286 may refer to:
Concurrent DOS 286, a Digital Research CP/M- and DOS-compatible multiuser multitasking operating system variant since 1985
FlexOS 286, a Digital Research FlexOS operating system variant since 1986
OS/2 1.0, an IBM and Microsoft operating system and then-times supposed-to-be successor of MS-DOS/PC DOS since 1987
See also
DOS 2 (disambiguation)
DOS 5 (disambiguation)
DOS 386 (disambiguation)
DOS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori%20A.%20Clarke | Lori A. Clarke is an American computer scientist noted for her research on software engineering.
Biography
Clarke received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1969. She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1976.
She then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an assistant professor in 1976. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1981 and to professor in 1986. In 2011, she became the chair of the School of Computer Science. In 2015 she became an emeritus professor.
She was a board member for SIGSOFT from 1985 to 2001, including the chair from 1993 to 1997. She was a board member of CRA from 1999 to 2009. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has been a member of the CRA-W Board since 2001 and was the co-chair of CRA-W from 2005 to 2008.
Awards
In the year 1998 she was named an ACM Fellow.
Her other notable awards include:
IEEE Fellow in 2011 for contributions to software testing and verification.
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, 2011
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, 2002
References
External links
University of Massachusetts Amherst: Lori A. Clarke, Department of Computer Science
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20J.%20Osterweil | Leon Joel Osterweil is an American computer scientist noted for his research on software engineering.
Biography
Osterweil received a B. A. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1965. He received a M.A. in mathematics in 1970 and a Ph.D in mathematics in 1971 from the University of Maryland.
He then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant professor in 1971. While there he was promoted to associate professor in 1977 and to professor in 1982, he was chair of the department from 1981 to 1986. In 1988, he became a professor at the University of California at Irvine and he was department chair from 1989 to 1992. In 1993, he became a professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Awards
In the year 1998, he was named an ACM Fellow.
His other notable awards include:
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, 2003
ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award, 1997
ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award, 2010
References
External links
University of Massachusetts Amherst: Leon J. Osterweil, Department of Computer Science
American computer scientists
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20serial%20communication | Synchronous serial communication describes a serial communication protocol in which "data is sent in a continuous stream at constant rate."
Synchronous communication requires that the clocks in the transmitting and receiving devices are synchronized – running at the same rate – so the receiver can sample the signal at the same time intervals used by the transmitter. No start or stop bits are required. For this reason "synchronous communication permits more information to be passed over a circuit per unit time" than asynchronous serial communication. Over time the transmitting and receiving clocks will tend to drift apart, requiring resynchronization.
Byte-oriented protocols
Early synchronous protocols were byte-oriented protocols, where synchronization was maintained by transmitting a sequence of synchronous idle characters when the line was not actively transmitting data or transparently within a long transmission block. A certain number of idles were sent prior to each transmission. The IBM Binary Synchronous protocol (Bisync) is still in use, Other examples of byte-oriented protocols are IBM's Synchronous transmit-receive (STR), and Digital Data Communications Message Protocol (DDCMP) from Digital Equipment Corporation. Other computer manufacturers often offered similar protocols, differing mainly in small details.
Bit-oriented protocols
Bit-oriented protocols are synchronous protocols that view the transmitted data as a stream of bits with no semantics, or meaning. Control codes are defined in terms of bit sequences instead of characters. Synchronization is maintained on an idle line by transmitting a predefined sequence of bits. Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) specifies that a station continue transmitting a sequence of '1' bits on an idle line. Data to be transmitted on an idle line is prefixed with a special bit sequence '01111110'b, called a flag. SDLC was the first bit-oriented protocol developed, and it was later adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC). Other examples of bit-oriented protocols are Logical Link Control (LLC)—IEEE 802.2, and ANSI Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures (ADCCP).
References
See also
Asynchronous serial communication
Comparison of synchronous and asynchronous signalling
Iteration
Serial communication
Synchronization
Data transmission
Physical layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20%28TV%20series%29 | Power is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Courtney A. Kemp in collaboration with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. It aired on the Starz network from June 7, 2014, to February 9, 2020.
Upon release, Power gained positive reviews and it is one of Starz's most highly rated shows and one of cable's most-watched shows. Prior to the premiere of the fifth season, Starz renewed the show for a sixth and final season, which premiered on August 25, 2019.
Overview
Power tells the story of James St. Patrick, an intelligent, smooth yet ruthless drug dealer who goes by the alias of "Ghost." He wishes to leave the criminal world to pursue legitimate business interests as a nightclub owner. St. Patrick aims to balance those two lives, while also avoiding police capture, trying to navigate his crumbling marriage and manage shifting economic alliances.
The show features James' family, which consists of his wife Tasha, twins Tariq and Raina and baby Yasmine. Power also follows James' criminal partner and best friend Tommy Egan, love interest and criminal prosecutor Angela Valdes, friend-turned-rival Kanan Stark, protege and rival Andre Coleman, and Angela's colleague, Cooper Saxe. Defense attorney Joe Proctor, district attorney John Mak and politician Rashad Tate also appear in the show's later seasons.
Power utilizes episodic cliff hangers as plot devices to carry its story forward.
Episodes
Cast and characters
Notes
Main
Omari Hardwick as James "Ghost" St. Patrick, a high-level drug distributor and nightclub owner. A smart, well dressed and calculated man, yet will not hesitate to kill if necessary. He is married to Tasha, is the father of Tariq, Raina, and Yasmine St. Patrick, and is also romantically involved with AUSA Angela Valdes.
Joseph Sikora as Thomas "Tommy" Egan, Ghost's hot headed partner, best friend, and the godfather to his children. Egan is seen as an honorary member of his family.
Lela Loren as Angela Valdes, an Assistant United States Attorney tasked with prosecuting Ghost unaware of his real identity. She went to the same high school as St. Patrick and Egan. She is St. Patrick's love interest and mistress.
Naturi Naughton as Tasha St. Patrick, Ghost's wife and criminal accomplice. She has romantic affairs with Kanan's son Shawn and attorney Terry Silver. She is also Q's new love interest.
Curtis Jackson as Kanan Stark, a fellow drug dealer and Ghost's and Tommy's former mentor-turned rival. Prior to the events of the series, he was set up by Ghost and Tasha to go to prison for ten years.
Michael Rainey Jr. as Tariq James St. Patrick, Tasha and James's son. An honor student, he has a strained relationship with James/Ghost because of his marriage-ending relationship with Angela and lying about being involved in the drug game and being mentored by Kanan. Tariq has two sisters: a twin, Raina St. Patrick, who is later murdered by a crooked police officer, named Raymond "Ray Ray" Jones, when Tariq was invol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamemaster%27s%20screen | A gamemaster's screen, also called a GM's screen, is a gaming accessory, usually made out of either cardboard or card stock, and is used by the gamemaster to hide all the relevant data related to a tabletop role-playing game session from the players in order to not spoil the plot of the story. It also hides any dice rolls made by the gamemaster that players should not see. In addition, screens often have essential tables and information printed on the inside for the gamemaster to easily reference during play.
History
The first commercial gamemaster's screen was the Judge's Shield, produced by Judges Guild in 1977 for use with Dungeons & Dragons. This featured three pieces of 8.5" x 11" cardstock designed to be taped together to form a three-panel screen, the two outer pieces in a vertical (portrait) orientation, and the middle piece in a horizontal (landscape) orientation. This design allowed the gamemaster to peer over the lower middle section more easily. The Judge's Shield had tables on both sides of the screen, with information relevant to the players on their side, and information for the gamemaster on the other side. Information included "Attack matrices with minus armor classes, saving throws, weapons' strikes & damages, weapon priority, phantasmal forces, encounters, experience points & levels, monster compendium of statistics." The Judge's Shield proved to be a popular item, and less than a year after it was introduced, it had become Judges Guild's second best-selling product.
In 1979, Judges Guild also produced a gamemaster screen for Game Designers' Workshop's science fiction role-playing game Traveller. This consisted of four pieces of 8.5" x 11" green cardstock, designed to be taped together to form a four-panel screen. Once again, tables and information relevant to the players and the gamemaster were printed on their respective sides.
Seeing the commercial success of these accessories, TSR, Inc. published the Dungeon Masters Screen in 1979 for their new Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. This product differed from the two Judges Guild screens in several ways. While the Judges Guild screens came as separate pieces of cardstock that had to be taped together, the TSR product included two ready-made screens: a two-panel 17" x 11" screen, and a three-panel 25.5" x 11" screen. And while, like the Judges Guilds screens, the gamemaster's side of the screen was covered in tables and information, TSR designed the player's side to be purely decorative, with art by Dave Trampier. (A second printing later the same year featured art by Errol Otus). The first edition version of the Dungeon Masters Screen garnered a Gamer's Choice award that year. The use of artwork on the player's side became the industry standard from that point on.
Other game companies quickly followed suit. In 1980, Flying Buffalo created a "Project Director's Screen" for the science fiction role-playing game The Morrow Project; in 1981, Metagaming released its "Fantasy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E013 | E 013 is a European B class road in Kazakhstan, connecting the cities Sary-Ozek - Koktal.
Route
Sary-Ozek
Koktal
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
European routes in Kazakhstan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E014 | E 014 is a European B class road in Kazakhstan, connecting the cities Usharal - Dostyk.
Route
Usharal
Dostyk
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
European routes in Kazakhstan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E015 | E 015 is a European B class road in Kazakhstan, connecting the cities Taskesken - Bakhty.
Route
Taskesken
Bakhty
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
European routes in Kazakhstan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20chart%20language | Flow chart language (FCL) is a simple imperative programming language designed for the purposes of explaining fundamental concepts of program analysis and specialization, in particular, partial evaluation. The language was first presented in 1989 by Carsten K. Gomard and Neil D. Jones. It later resurfaced in their book with Peter Sestoft in 1993, and in John Hatcliff's lecture notes in 1998. The below describes FCL as it appeared in John Hatcliff's lecture notes.
FCL is an imperative programming language close to the way a Von Neumann computer executes a program. A program is executed sequentially by following a sequence of commands, while maintaining an implicit state, i.e. the global memory. FCL has no concept of procedures, but does provide conditional and unconditional jumps. FCL lives up to its name as the abstract call-graph of an FCL program is a straightforward flow chart.
An FCL program takes as input a finite series of named values as parameters, and produces a value as a result.
Syntax
We specify the syntax of FCL using Backus–Naur form.
An FCL program is a list of formal parameter declarations, an entry label, and a sequence of basic blocks:
<p> ::= "(" <x>* ")" "(" <l> ")" <b>+
Initially, the language only allows non-negative integer variables.
A basic block consists of a label, a list of assignments, and a jump.
<b> ::= <l> ":" <a>* <j>
An assignment assigns a variable to an expression. An expression is either a constant, a variable, or application of a built-in n-ary operator:
<a> := <x> ":=" <e>
<e> := <c> | <x> | <o> "(" <e>* ")"
Note, variable names occurring throughout the program need not be declared at the top of the program. The variables declared at the top of the program designate arguments to the program.
As values can only be non-negative integers, so can constants. The list of operations in general is irrelevant, so long as they have no side effects, which includes exceptions, e.g. division by 0:
<c> ::= "0" | "1" | "2" | ...
<o> ::= "+" | "-" | "*" | "=" | "<" | ">" | ...
Where , , ... have semantics as in C. The semantics of is such that if x-y<0, then x-y=0.
Example
We write a program that computes the nth Fibonacci number, for n>2:
(n)
(init)
init: x1 = 1
x2 = 1
fib: x1 = x1 + x2
t = x1
x1 = x2
x2 = t
n = -(n 1)
if >(n 2) then fib else exit
exit: return x2
Where the loop invariant of is that x1 is the (i+2-1)th and x2 is the (i+2)th Fibonacci number, where i is the number of times has been jumped to.
We can check the correctness of the method for n=4 by presenting the execution trace of the program:
Where marks a final state of the program, with the return value .
References
Programming languages
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E016 | E 016 is a European B class road in Kazakhstan, connecting the cities Zapadnoye - Astana.
Route
Zapadnoye
Astana
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
European routes in Kazakhstan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Borderline | The Borderline () is a police procedural television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. Each episode costs HK$1 million to produce. The first episode premiered on November 19, 2014.
Cast
Liu Kai-chi as To Yat-fei
Dominic Lam as Cheung Gwan
Leila Tong as Ting Siu-hoi
Lawrence Chou as Choi Ying-yeung
Joman Chiang as Fong Jou-man
Annie Liew as Yip Mei-gyun
Philip Keung as Tse Dai-hak
Crystal Leung as Hui Lok-sa
Calvin Lui as Chan Jeun-tai
Deon Cheung as Ho Yi
Lam Lei as Wong Chi-gin, guest star
Yu Mo-lin as Yu Chat-hei
Felix Lok as Cheuk Bak-san
Wong Ching as Cheng Chiu
Kathy Yuen as Rachel, guest star episode 11, 14, 16
Luvin Ho as Pepper
Wu Kwing-lung as Mok Siu-lung
Oscar Li as Shek Bak-chung
Dexter Young as Fung Wai-hung
Karen Lee as Sum Yeuk-tung
References
External links
Official website
2013 Hong Kong television series debuts
Hong Kong Television Network original programming
2010s Hong Kong television series
Hong Kong police procedural television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Hard%20to%20Be%20a%20Baby | It's Hard to Be a Baby is the sixth album by Electric Company, released on February 4, 2003 through Tigerbeat6.
Track listing
Personnel
Brad Laner – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, programming, production
References
2003 albums
Electric Company (band) albums
Tigerbeat6 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Brinsmead | Duncan Brinsmead (born January 26, 1960 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian software programmer and developer of simulations of natural environments in 3D computer graphics (CGI). He created the Maya Paint Effects for digitally painting instances like plants or hair in a virtual 3D environment. In 2008, together with Jos Stam, Julia Pakalns and Martin Werner he received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the design and implementation of the Maya Fluid Effects system. Fluid Effects are based on the simulation of fluid mechanics in software and used for simulating natural phenomena such as fog, steam or smoke.
Education and career
Duncan Brinsmead is the son of Alan and Aveleigh Brinsmead, and grandson of Percy and Fern Brinsmead. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta. From 1977 to 1980 he attended the faculty of music at the University of Toronto as a French Horn performance major. In 1983, he graduated with a Bachelors in French Horn Music Performance from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and in 1984 received his Masters in music performance (French Horn) from Juilliard School of Music in New York City.
In the early 1980s Duncan Brinsmead used a first generation graphics computer by Silicon Graphics to create an animation showing fractals: "Fractal Fantasy". The film short was shown
at the SIGGRAPH Art and Video show.
As a self-taught software programmer, he joined the computer graphics company Alias Systems Corporation (later "Alias Inc.", "Alias Wavefront", today Autodesk) and contributed to the development to computer graphics software such as Power Animator, Terra Forma and Maya. As a principal scientist at Autodesk's R&D department in Toronto he invented Maya Paint Effects, Maya Hair, and Maya Toon. His more recent works are Maya nHair, nCloth (for the simulation of clothing) and the Nucleus dynamics solver framework. Brinsmead's tools are being used all over the film industry and especially in special effects houses such as Weta, Industrial Light & Magic, Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks. His effects simulated natural topics in countless movies like Spiderman, and Toy Story, Shrek, Alice in Wonderland.
Duncan Brinsmead lives in Toronto and is married to Anne-Marie. Their son, Alan Brinsmead, is a musician living in Spain.
External links
Interview with Duncan Brinsmead
References
1960 births
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
Computer graphics researchers
Canadian computer scientists
Scientists from Edmonton
Silicon Graphics people
Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners
Curtis Institute of Music alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayen%20Munji-Laurel | Maria Yllena Munji Laurel, better known as Ayen Munji Laurel (born November 21, 1971) is a Filipino actress and singer. Part of GMA Network from 2009, she transferred to ABS-CBN in late 2015; she later returned to GMA in 2022. She is currently part of the cast of Start-Up PH, the Philippine adaptation of the South Korean TV series Start Up.
Munji was previously married to Jefri Bolkiah, Prince of Brunei, with whom she had a son.
Career
In 2007, she made her acting debut on GMA Network as a full-time actress in evening and primetime programs such as Amaya, co-starring Marian Rivera and an ensemble cast in 2011, 2012 as part of Hiram na Puso with Gina Alajar, Kris Bernal, and also Amaya co-star Gardo Versoza in the critically acclaimed series. She then later starred in the remake of the Korean turned Filipino adaptation of Temptation of Wife in 2012-2013 as Lady Armada with co-star Marian Rivera her second time in that same year. She had a short stint in the 2013 afternoon soap Maghihintay Pa Rin as Bianca King's protagonist mother in a short stint of the series she primarily exited out to star in the film Ang Huling Henya in the sci-fi comedy flick with award-winning comedian Rufa Mae Quinto. In 2014, she resumed her acting in primetime through the romantic-comedy family melodrama My Destiny. In 2015, she jumped to rival station, ABS-CBN, after doing Beautiful Strangers and appeared on various television dramas of the network in either villain or anti-hero roles. Later in 2022 She returned to her home network GMA Network after 7 years with ABS-CBN. And she is now part of the Philippine adaptation of Start-Up PH.
Filmography
Drama
Films
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
Filipino television actresses
Filipino film actresses
GMA Network personalities
ABS-CBN personalities
Actresses from Manila
Singers from Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20A%20Grande%20Fam%C3%ADlia | A Grande Família (English: Big Family) is a Brazilian television comedy, and is one of the most watched primetime shows. The show airs on the Globo Network, and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
The family consists of a working father, Lineu, a housewife and mother, Nenê, their son Tuco, their daughter Bebel, and Bebel's fiancée, Agostinho, a taxi driver portrayed as the typical carioca malandro. The family's grandfather, Floriano, was written out of the story after the death of actor Rogério Cardoso.
Awards and nominations
It has won many different awards, including 7 Extra Awards, 3 Arte e Qualidade, one APCA award and a nomination for an Emmy Award for the role of actor Pedro Cardoso.
References
Lists of awards by television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris%20%28TV%20series%29 | Kris, also known as Kris Jenner Show, is a former talk show broadcast on the Fox network hosted by Kris Jenner. It premiered on July 15, 2013 on Fox stations in Los Angeles; New York City; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Phoenix, Arizona. The show finished its six-week trial on August 23, 2013. The show was not picked up for a full season.
On January 17, 2014, FOX officially announced that the show had been cancelled.
The show is most notable for having her son-in-law Kanye West as a guest on the final episode, in which he released the first photos of North West, his child with Kim Kardashian. It was Kanye's first television interview in three years and was one hour long. The episode had the highest ratings of the six-week test run.
References
2010s American television talk shows
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television shows related to the Kardashian–Jenner family
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing%20USA | Manufacturing USA (MFG USA), previously known as the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, is a network of research institutes in the United States that focuses on developing manufacturing technologies through public-private partnerships among U.S. industry, universities, and federal government agencies. Modeled similar to Germany's Fraunhofer Institutes, the network currently consists of 16 institutes. The institutes work independently and together on a number of advanced technologies.
History
In June 2011, United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recommended that the federal government launch an advanced manufacturing initiative of public-private partnerships to support "academia and industry for applied research on new technologies and design methodologies." The recommendation called for $500 million per year to be appropriated to the Departments of Defense, Commerce and Energy, increasing to $1 billion per year over four years.
The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation was proposed in the President's fiscal year 2013 budget and formally unveiled by the administration several weeks later in March 2012. The proposal called for a joint federal effort between the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a network of 15 regional institutes, funded by a one-time investment of $1 billion and carried out over a period of 10 years. The administration reprogramed $45 million of existing resources from the Departments of Defense, Energy, Commerce and the National Science Foundation through executive action to fund a pilot, proof-of-concept institute for the program. In May the Department of Defense solicited proposals from consortiums led by nonprofit organizations and universities to establish an additive manufacturing (which includes 3D printing) research institute to serve as the prototype facility.
In August, 2012 the government announced the winning proposal, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), also known as AmericaMakes led by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining and based in Youngstown, Ohio. The consortium's members include 40 companies, nine research universities, five community colleges and 11 nonprofit organizations. AmericaMakes was established with an initial federal government investment of $30 million, while the consortium contributed almost $40 million in additional funding. The administration stated that it expected AmericaMakes to become financially self-sustaining. In May 2013, the administration announced the establishment of three additional institutes using $200 million in funding through two federal agencies: the Departments of Defense, and Energy.
In September 2016, the program adopted the name "Manufacturing USA". , Manufacturing USA consists of sixteen institutes. Nine are managed in part by the D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20%28Frozen%29 | Anna of Arendelle () is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' computer-animated fantasy film Frozen (2013) and its sequel Frozen II (2019). She is voiced by Kristen Bell as an adult. At the beginning of the film, Livvy Stubenrauch and Katie Lopez provide her speaking and singing voice as a young child, respectively. Agatha Lee Monn portrayed her as a nine-year-old (singing). In Frozen II, Hadley Gannaway provided her voice as a young child while Stubenrauch is the archive audio.
Created by co-writers and directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, Anna is loosely based on Gerda, a character from the Danish fairytale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Disney film adaptation, Anna is depicted as the princess of Arendelle, a fictional Scandinavian kingdom, and the younger sister of Elsa (Idina Menzel), who is the heiress to the throne and possesses the elemental ability to create and control ice and snow. When Elsa exiles herself from the kingdom after inadvertently sending Arendelle into an eternal winter on the evening of her coronation, fearless and faithful Anna is determined to set out on a dangerous adventure to bring her sister back and save both her kingdom and her family.
The original fairytale in general and the character of the Snow Queen in particular posed long-term problems to adapt into a feature-length production. Several film executives, including Walt Disney, made their attempts towards the story and numerous adaptations were shelved as the filmmakers could not work out the characters. Finally, directors Buck and Lee solved the issue by portraying Anna and Elsa as sisters, establishing a dynamic relationship between the characters.
Film critics praised Anna's determination and enthusiasm in her personality and Bell for her performance in the films.
Development
Origins and conception
Attempts to produce an adaption of "The Snow Queen" in the Disney studio dated back to 1943, when Walt Disney considered collaborating with Samuel Goldwyn to produce a biography film of Hans Christian Andersen. However, the story and particularly the Snow Queen character proved to be too problematic to Disney and his animators. Namely one of the troubles they encountered was that the original story lacked necessary interaction between the main protagonist, Gerda (who later served as an inspiration for Anna), and the Snow Queen. Most obviously, Andersen's version did not feature any confrontation between them: when brave little Gerda enters the Snow Queen's ice castle and sheds her tears on Kay, the Snow Queen is nowhere to be seen. There just was not enough character conflict to form a full-length feature. Later on, Glen Keane, Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, Harvey Fierstein, Dick Zondag and Dave Goetz were among other Disney executives to make efforts towards translating this potential material to the big screen, but none of them made their way. Around 2008, Chris Buck pitched Disney his version of The Snow Quee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Marine%20Observation%20and%20Data%20Network | The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a web portal that brings together marine data, data products and metadata from diverse sources within Europe in a uniform way. It was initiated by the European Commission in response to the EU Green Paper on Future Maritime Policy, launched in June 2006. The main purpose of EMODnet is to unlock fragmented and hidden marine data resources and to make these available to individuals and organisations without restriction, except in special cases. The primary motivation for EMODnet is to stimulate investment in sustainable coastal and offshore activities through improved access to quality-assured, standardised and harmonised marine data.
Now fully operational, the EMODnet web portal provides access to various sub-portals, each of which pertains to a specific thematic group, with some overlap. The thematic groups allow the appropriate experts to define a common structure for the data within each theme, thus ensuring interoperability. There are seven sub-portals: the Bathymetry Portal, the Geology Portal, the Physics Portal, the Chemistry Portal, the Biology Data Portal, the Seabed Habitats Portal, and the Human Activities Portal. The result will be a portfolio of seamless data layers across European and adjacent sea basins. Individuals and organisations are encouraged to contribute marine data on a voluntary basis to ensure that the system remains current. The Data Ingestion portal facilitates this process to ingest marine data for further processing, publishing as open data and contributing to applications for society.
EMODnet Development
The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a network of organisations supported by the EU’s integrated maritime policy of the European Commission.
Phase I
The portals are presently operational, delivered during phase I of EMODnet development by a network of 53 organisations. Their progress was guided and monitored by an independent group of experts, in addition to the European Commission services and the European Environment Agency. An interim evaluation has since confirmed the soundness of the approach, recommending advancement to phase II of EMODnet development.
The operation of the portals is largely intuitive, each one granting access to data archives managed by EU Member States and international organisations. This complements ongoing efforts by Member States to ensure proper stewardship of data in accordance with the INSPIRE directive. Via the portals, public and private users of marine data can access standardised observations and data quality indicators, as well as data products, from a limited number of sea basins.
Phase II
Phase II of EMODnet development involved generating medium-resolution maps of all of Europe's seas and oceans for each of the seven thematic groups (including the Human Activities portal) by 2014. A total of 112 organisations contributed, some with cross-cutting interests. A secretariat was appointed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berman%20Jewish%20DataBank | The Berman Jewish DataBank, founded as the North American Jewish Data Bank, is the central online source for social scientific studies of North American Jewry and world Jewish populations and communities. The DataBank's primary functions are to acquire and archive materials from quantitative studies of North American Jews, including data sets and reports, and to encourage and aid the production and utilization of quantitative research on North American Jews.
The DataBank maintains partnerships with the Berman Jewish Policy Archive and the University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.
The DataBank holds more than 375 surveys and studies of North American Jews, including more than 200 local community studies usually commissioned by local Jewish federations.
Funding for the DataBank comes from an endowment provided by the Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundation and from The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), and management is provided by JFNA. The DataBank's professional staff includes Laurence Kotler-Berkowtiz, Director of the Berman Jewish DataBank; Ron Miller, Senior Research Consultant at the Berman Jewish DataBank; and Arnold Dashefsky, Director Emeritus and Senior Academic Consultant of the Berman Jewish DataBank.
The Berman Jewish DataBank was founded as the North American Jewish Data Bank in 1986 and operated under that name until July 2013. Funded throughout that time by the Berman Foundation under an arrangement with the Jewish Federation system, the North American Jewish Data Bank was located at the City University of New York from 1986 until 2002, at Brandeis University (2003–04) and the University of Connecticut (2004-2013) before moving to JFNA and changing names as of July 2013.
See also
Arnold Dashefsky, Director Emeritus
Ron Miller, Senior Research Consultant
Mandell L. Berman, founder of the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation
The Jewish Federations of North America
Notes
External links
http://www.bjpa.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130921185835/http://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/research.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150420011832/http://databib.org/repository/343
https://web.archive.org/web/20150907210804/https://www.lib.umn.edu/indexes/moreinfo?id=13726
https://web.archive.org/web/20130702162135/https://libraries.ucsd.edu/info/resources/north-american-jewish-data-bank
http://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/north-american-jewish-data-bank
http://bcldatabases.blogspot.com/2010/09/home-north-american-jewish-data-bank.html
Jewish society
Demographics of North America
University of Connecticut
Online archives of the United States
Jews and Judaism in the United States
Social sciences literature
Sociology of Jewry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20%28computer-aided%20design%29 | A constraint in computer-aided design (CAD) software is a limitation or restriction imposed by a designer or an engineer upon geometric properties of an entity of a design model that maintains its structure as the model is manipulated. These properties can include relative length, angle, orientation, size, shift, and displacement. The plural form constraints refers to demarcations of geometrical characteristics between two or more entities or solid modeling bodies; these delimiters are definitive for properties of theoretical physical position and motion, or displacement in parametric design. The exact terminology, however, may vary depending on a CAD program vendor.
Constraints are widely employed in CAD software for solid modeling, computer-aided architectural design such as building information modeling, computer-aided engineering, assembly modeling, and other CAD subfields. Constraints are usually used for the creation of 3D assemblies and multibody systems.
A constraint may be specified for two or more entities at once. For instance, two lines may be constrained to have equal length or diameter of circles can be set to have the same dimension (e.g., radius or length). Moreover, the constraint may be applied to solid models to be locked or fixed in a specified space. Concept of constraints is applicable for both two- (2D) three-dimensional (3D) sketches (including the ones used to create extrusions and solid bodies).
The concept of constraints initially emerged in the 1960s and were further developed in the 1970-80s.
History
The original idea of "constraints" was introduced by Ivan Sutherland in 1975. It is derived from ideas employed in Sketchpad system made in 1963. In his work he argued that the usefulness of a technical drawing made by a computer program relied on their structured nature. Compared to traditional drawings that lack this feature the virtual ones had advantages in keeping track of and recalculating dimensions of entities (lines, angles, areas etc.). These ideas were integrated into a CAD system that maintained this structure as a designer manipulated geometric model.
In the 1970s the idea was further extended into three-dimensional space. In the 80s, a more generalized constraint-based programming language approach emerged and found some application in CAD software. At least one conceptual prototype was built in 1989.
Overview
The purpose of constraints in a design is to control and limit the behavior of the entities and bodies in relation to another entity, plane or body. Effective constraints or mates between two or more bodies may exist at the assembly level of these or between two or more entities in defining a sketch, but adding conflicting, unnecessary or redundant constraints may result in an overdefined sketch and an error message.
Degrees of freedom
Development of a good constraining system might be a time-consuming process. One approach to this situation may be referred as removing degrees of freedom (DOF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-if%20rule | The standard for the C++ programming language allows compilers for this language to apply any optimizing transformation to a program during compilation, provided that such optimizations make no change in the "observable behavior" of the program, as specified in the standard; this mostly means that any actions the program performs on its environment occur in the specified order. This rule is commonly referred to as the as-if rule.
The rule has three main exceptions in which behavior-changing optimizations are permitted. The first is that programs exhibiting undefined behavior are exempt; since the observable behavior is not well-defined anyway, any transformation is valid. The other two exceptions concern the copying of objects, and are called copy elision and the return value optimization.
The effect of the as-if rule depends on the specific compiler implementation. As an example, in the Microsoft C++ compiler, it causes omission of certain optimizations such as instruction reordering around calls to library functions, since such calls may cause input/output actions or accesses to memory locations marked , and changes in the order of those change observable behavior.
The as-if rule is not specific to C++; many other programming languages, including C, Rust, Go, Ocaml, etc. have a similar rule, to permit optimization (notably inlining).
References
C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin%20%28assembler%29 | Merlin is a MOS Technology 6502 macro assembler developed by mathematics professor Glen Bredon for the Apple II under DOS 3.3. It was published commercially by Southwestern Data Systems, later known as Roger Wagner Publishing. Merlin continued to be updated as successors to the 6502 became available: first the 65C02 and later the 65816 and 65802. A ProDOS version was made available as Merlin Pro (this package also included the DOS 3.3 version). The 8-bit version of Merlin was later renamed Merlin 8, and a 16-bit version, dubbed Merlin 16, was released for the Apple IIGS. Versions for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 were released as Merlin 64 and Merlin 128 respectively.
Merlin includes an integrated source code editor (initially a line editor; later versions include a full-screen editor) and also a disassembler, called Sourceror. A related utility, Sourceror.FP, can generate a commented disassembly of the Apple II's Applesoft BASIC, the source code for which had never been released by Apple, from the customer's own ROM.
Reception
Ahoy! called Merlin 64 "an excellent little assembler with many value added features. For ease of use, I couldn't imagine how it could be better ... an outstanding value".
Legacy
On August 24, 2000, what would have been the author's 68th birthday, his widow released all of his Apple II software and source code (e.g. DOS.MASTER) as public domain software.
In January, 2015 a Windows edition of Merlin titled "Merlin 32" was released by Brutal Deluxe.
References
Apple II software
Assemblers
Commodore 64 software
Commodore 128 software
Public-domain software with source code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVOE%20%28AM%29 | KVOE (1400 AM) is an area news, talk, and sports radio station that airs local programming such as Talk of Emporia, The Emporium, and Area Coach's Corner in Emporia, Kansas. KVOE also carries national programs such as ABC News Radio. KVOE is licensed to Emporia, Kansas and owned by Emporia's Radio Stations, Inc.
History
KVOE AM was established in 1939 under the call sign "KTSW" broadcasting out of the Broadview Hotel at 6th and Merchant. The call letters stood for the names of its founders Kermit Trimble and Selleck Warren. KTSW initially broadcast on 1370 kHz with 100 watts of power. Under the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, KTSW would change frequency to 1400 kHz on March 29, 1941 and increase power to 250 watts. By early 1951 the station had moved out of the Broadview to a new location near the south city limits of Emporia. Then, in 1956, KTSW saw a change in ownership and a call sign change to KVOE to reflect "Kansas' Voice of Emporia". Since 1952 KVOE has been the only radio station in Emporia that provides live news updates.
KVOE became a Keystone affiliate in the 1950s with Bluestem Broadcasting acquiring ownership in 1957. In March 1965 the FCC authorized KVOE to increase its daytime power to 1000 watts, broadening its coverage area. By the 1970s, KVOE was listed as an ABC affiliate, with easy listening/middle of the road music, and some country programming. The license transferred to Valu Broadcasting in 1987 after which the station altered its music programming to mostly adult contemporary with some oldies. KVOE signed on an FM translator at 96.9 MHz in the fall of 2014.
Awards
KVOE has won numerous awards from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 2011, KVOE won KAB's Website of the Year. In 2010, KVOE won the KAB's Tony Jewell Community Service Award. On April 17, 2012, KVOE's general manager Ron Thomas, went to Las Vegas, Nevada to accept the Crystal Radio Award from the National Association of Broadcasters, one of which 10 out of 50 radio stations are awarded.
Community service
Every year, KVOE puts on a Drive for Food campaign in partnership with the Salvation Army collecting "non-perishable food items" for their food pantry. KVOE also hosts an auction over the radio for the National Teachers Hall of Fame. In 2014, KVOE partnered with Emporia State University to help defeat the school's rival, Washburn University.
References
External links
VOE (AM)
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Sports radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiter%20bis%20t%C3%B6dlich | Heiter bis tödlich is a crime series first broadcast on 25 October 2011 by German television network Das Erste. It is made up of several different shows, which all share a common brand and theme.
The lineup of these different shows was inspired by a long-term success of the show Großstadtrevier ("Big City Precinct"). Initially ARD (parent company of Das Erste) had planned additional series to be based in other large cities, however it was later decided to also include smaller regions and the humorous side of their quirks. Prior to determining the title "Heiter bis tödlich" Das Erste used the term "Schmunzelkrimis" in press releases and the working title "Crime & Smile" due to the theme of all of these shows being the funny side of the police.
The series is broadcast Tuesdays through Thursdays at 6:50 pm.
Line-up
Former shows
2011–2012: Heiter bis tödlich: Henker & Richter
2011–2012: Heiter bis tödlich: Nordisch herb
2012–2013: Heiter bis tödlich: Fuchs und Gans
Current shows
Since 2011: Heiter bis tödlich: Hubert & Staller
Since 2012: Heiter bis tödlich: Akte Ex
Since 2012: Heiter bis tödlich: Alles Klara
Since 2012: Heiter bis tödlich: Hauptstadtrevier
Since 2012: Heiter bis tödlich: Morden im Norden
Since 2012: Heiter bis tödlich: München 7
2013: Heiter bis tödlich: Zwischen den Zeilen
Since 2014: Heiter bis tödlich: Koslowski & Haferkamp
Since 2014: Heiter bis tödlich: Monaco 110
External links
Heiter bis tödlich on DasErste.de
References
2011 German television series debuts
German-language television shows
Das Erste original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IVEC | iVEC is the government-supported high-performance computing national facility located in Perth, Western Australia. iVEC supported researchers in Western Australia and across Australia through the Pawsey Centre and resources across the partner facilities. iVEC was rebranded to the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in December 2014.
iVEC is an unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia. Funding comes from the joint venture partners, the Western Australian Government and the Australian Government. iVEC services are free to members of the joint venture. Free access to supercomputers is also available to researchers across Australia via a competitive merit process. Services are also provided to industry and government.
iVEC provides infrastructure to support a computational research workflow. This includes supercomputers and cloud computing, data storage and visualisation. The infrastructure is located at the joint venture members, linked by a dedicated high speed network.
iVEC is an integral component of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio astronomy telescopes. A dedicated network links the telescopes directly to the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, where the data is processed, stored and remotely visualised. This network is operated by AARNet, with the Perth-Geraldton link funded by the Australian Government Regional Blackspot Program.
History
IVEC was established in June 2000 as an unincorporated joint venture among Central TAFE, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Curtin University and The University of Western Australia (UWA). The Government of Western Australian was a major supporter of the venture, contributing $1 million cash that leveraged $1 million of Commonwealth funding through iVEC becoming a partner in the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). The IVEC partners also contributed $1 million. The Premier of Western Australia officially opened IVEC in May 2002. IVEC was an acronym; the Interactive Virtual Environments Centre.
The Premier of Western Australia announced in July 2005 that $3.1 million of State Government funds had been allocated to continue funding IVEC, in addition to almost $1.3 million from the partners and $1.2 million from APAC. This commitment was used to leverage $2.4 million of additional cash from the Australian Research Council (ARC), UWA and CSIRO for supercomputing hardware. This includes $1.3 million for a Cray XT3 from the ARC under the name Western Australian Supercomputer Program. IVEC was renamed to iVEC, with the acronym no longer being used.
In May 2006, the State Treasurer, The Hon. Eric Ripper, announced that the WA Government had set aside $1.95 million per year over the next four years for iVEC. The iVEC partners, with Edith Cowan University joining and Central TAFE withdrawing, agre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename%20One | Codename One is an open-source cross-platform framework aiming to provide write once, run anywhere code for various mobile and desktop operating systems (like Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, and others). It was created by the co-founders of the LWUIT project (Chen Fishbein and Shai Almog) and was first announced on January 13, 2012. It was described at the time by the authors as "a cross-device platform that allows you to write your code once in Java and have it work on all devices specifically: iPhone/iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7 and 8, J2ME devices, Windows Desktop, Mac OS, and Web. The biggest goals for the project are ease of use/RAD (rapid application development), deep integration with the native platform and speed."
Codename One took the LWUIT platform abstraction and extended it by adding a simulator and a set of cloud-based build servers that build the actual native applications from the Java bytecode.
Architecture
Developers using Codename One build their app using Eclipse, NetBeans or IntelliJ IDEA; they need the Codename One plugin to be installed on either IDE. Applications can be created either via the GUI builder tool or via code using standard Java. Running/debugging the application is possible via the standard IDE tools and the Codename One simulator.
To build a native application, developers sign in and register with the Codename One build server. They then send builds to the cloud based build server. Then they can download the native app from the build server to run on the device or submit it to the store. Since the build server performs static translation of the code into a native application, it is no longer required after the application has been compiled.
Codename One also supports the ability to use an offline "in-house" build cloud which removes the use of Codename One build servers completely. This is important for governments and other businesses, which may have regulatory requirements that preclude the use of the cloud.
Native
The developers of Codename One define the platform as a native code generator but clarify that native widgets are usually not used to render the user interfaces of Codename One applications. This allows for great portability but has also come under fire from some critics of the lightweight approach.
Open source
The Codename One project is a combination of open source and SaaS. Most of the client-side code is open source, including the iOS, Android, Windows, JavaScript, RIM and J2ME ports. The server build code and the Codename One LIVE! Tool are proprietary.
Community
Codename One claimed 200,000 downloads of its SDK as of release 1.1 on May 20, 2013. It has since released version 3.0 and claims 180 million applications installed on devices and 40,000 developers using the tool.
References
Software frameworks
Mobile software development
Mobile software programming tools
Cross-platform mobile software
Cross-platform software
Java platform
Java development tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20Informatics%20Society | The Swiss Informatics Society (Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft), short "SI", is a Swiss organization of computer science educators, researchers, and professionals.
The Swiss Informatics Society was founded in 1983. Helmar Burkhart was the president from 1990 to 1992, Bernhard M. Hämmerli has been president from 2009 to 2014, Jürg Gutknecht was president from 2014 to 2018. Since 2020, the president is Francis Baud. SI has about 2000 members, academics in research and science and representatives from business, administration and education. It is the largest organization of IT specialists in Switzerland. A focus of SI is the exchange of IT education on university and college level and IT practice in companies. It maintains working groups, including computer science education, computer graphics and computer security. A working group, coordinated by the ETH Zurich, deals with data bases, their theory and application, including aspects such as "web information systems, ontologies, XML data management, service-oriented architectures and information retrieval systems". SI serves as a network for its members and represents their interests in politics and education.
SI collaborates with the US Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). The organization is a member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It is the Swiss partner for the international certificate European Computer Driving License (ECDL). Collaborations include for example a conference on the "role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in energy efficiency and sustainable development" in Zurich in 2013.
SI celebrated a history of 30 years on 25 June 2013 at the Fachhochschule Westschweiz in Fribourg. The program includes events of working groups, lectures by scientists from the University of Zurich and others, prizes for bachelor's and master's theses, and a final discussion on the future of IT education in Switzerland.
References
External links
The Swiss Informatics Society SI Official website
Professional Groups Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
1983 establishments in Switzerland
Organizations established in 1983
Computer science organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzura | Panzura is a privately owned American software company based in San Jose, California, that provides hybrid-cloud data management software and services for the enterprise software market. Its software helps users access, manage, analyze, and store unstructured data using techniques in distributed data consolidation, artificial intelligence, and network load balancing.
The company's core offering is a global file system promoted as a unified data engine. It supports large-scale multi-site data workflows and applications in the cloud, and has data protection and disaster recovery capabilities derived from its Immutable object architecture. Panzura licenses software as a service data management and data analytics services for observability, search and auditing over data and storage infrastructure.
History
Panzura was founded in 2008 by Randy Chou and John Taylor, who were both members of the founding software team at Aruba Networks. The company was initially funded by Matrix Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Chevron Technology Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Chevron Corporation. Panzura received $15 million in funding in 2012, followed by a $25 million funding round in 2013 which included Meritech Capital Partners. SanDisk became a strategic investor in 2013, with Alex Lam joining as a board observer.
Panzura was acquired outright in 2020 by Chicago-based private equity firm Profile Capital Management.
After most executives were replaced,
it reorganized under new management and in 2021, the company announced a new brand image.
Products
Panzura CloudFS is a global file system that uses cloud object storage. It overcomes latency to provide users with simultaneous, real-time access to petabyte-size files from any widely distributed location. It is used to migrate or re-platform data, workloads and applications to the cloud, and to consolidate data across multiple on-premises servers and the cloud, without having to refresh existing IT systems. CloudFS integrates with public and private cloud object storage platforms including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud Object Storage, EMC Atmos, Google Cloud Platform, Virtustream, Scality, Cloudian and Wasabi Technologies.
Panzura Data Services is a multi-cloud management and data analysis overlay to CloudFS. It offers a unified view and management of unstructured data, whether it is stored in a cloud, on premises in a data center, or at the edge. It also offers search and audit capabilities.
Panzura Mobile adds enterprise file sync and share capabilities to CloudFS, using the same authoritative data source.
As of November 2021, Panzura holds 34 patents,
Panzura has FIPS 140-2 security certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use by U.S. government agencies and contractors.
Panzura provides secure-erase capabilities for data destruction in compliance with guidelines for media sanitization as set out in the NIT special publication 800-88.
Reference |
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