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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geworkbench | geWorkbench (genomics Workbench) is an open-source software platform for integrated genomic data analysis. It is a desktop application written in the programming language Java. geWorkbench uses a component architecture. , there are more than 70 plug-ins available, providing for the visualization and analysis of gene expression, sequence, and structure data.
geWorkbench is the Bioinformatics platform of MAGNet, the National Center for the Multi-scale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks, one of the 8 National Centers for Biomedical Computing funded through the NIH Roadmap (NIH Common Fund). Many systems and structure biology tools developed by MAGNet investigators are available as geWorkbench plugins.
Features
Computational analysis tools such as t-test, hierarchical clustering, self-organizing maps, regulatory network reconstruction, BLAST searches, pattern-motif discovery, protein structure prediction, structure-based protein annotation, etc.
Visualization of gene expression (heatmaps, volcano plot), molecular interaction networks (through Cytoscape), protein sequence and protein structure data (e.g., MarkUs).
Integration of gene and pathway annotation information from curated sources as well as through Gene Ontology enrichment analysis.
Component integration through platform management of inputs and outputs. Among data that can be shared between components are expression datasets, interaction networks, sample and marker (gene) sets and sequences.
Dataset history tracking - complete record of data sets used and input settings.
Integration with 3rd party tools such as Genepattern, Cytoscape, and Genomespace.
Demonstrations of each feature described can be found at http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/workbench/index.php/Tutorials.
Versions
geWorkbench is open-source software that can be downloaded and installed locally. A zip file of the released version Java source is also available.
Prepackaged installer versions also exist for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
See also
Genome Compiler
References
External links
, includes installation, tutorials, FAQs, known issues
- geworkbench release downloads
- geWorkbench plugins
Bioinformatics software
Free software
Cluster analysis
Systems biology
Protein structure
Gene expression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamba%20%28wamba.com%29 | Wamba is a global social networking service for meeting new people, which was first launched as “Mamba” in 2003. According to the company, it was the first freemium social networking site in the world.
Background
Wamba was first launched as “Mamba” in 2003. According to the company, it was the first freemium social networking site in the world. Mamba was created by a small team interested in the future of social communication online.
In July 2012, the service was rebranded internationally as Wamba. The service can be accessed through other domains belonging to white-label partners, (such as Msn, Icq, Yahoo, or Mail.ru) and through Wamba's own domains such as Mamba and Mamboo.
Audience
Over 100 million users have registered with Wamba, and the service currently has over 25 million active users worldwide.
Funding
70% of the company is held by the investment company Finam, the other 30% belongs to Digital Sky Technologies (DST) (Mail.ru Group).
References
Russian social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadatabad%2C%20Kohgiluyeh%20and%20Boyer-Ahmad | Sadatabad (, also Romanized as Sādātābād) is a village in Dasht-e Rum Rural District, in the Central District of Boyer-Ahmad County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 40, in 11 families.
References
Populated places in Boyer-Ahmad County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20T.%20Riedl | John Thomas Riedl (January 16, 1962 – July 15, 2013) was an American computer scientist and the McKnight Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota. His published works include highly influential research on the social web, recommendation systems, and collaborative systems.
Life and work
John Riedl received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 1983 and his M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1985. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University in 1990. He became an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in 1990 and was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and again to professor in 2003.
At the university, he led the GroupLens Research group. In 2012 he was awarded the McKnight Distinguished Professor position. During his time as a professor he advised 16 Ph.D. students who went on to take faculty positions and work at technology companies like Google, PARC, Intel, eBay, and the Wikimedia Foundation. He was also the faculty advisor for a long-running project in which twelve undergraduates each year would hone their entrepreneurial and software-development skills by taking charge of the development and maintenance of Chipmark, an online bookmark-sharing service.
He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems. In 1996, he co-founded Net Perceptions to commercialize recommender systems research, which had "an enormous impact on e-commerce and information portals." At the height of the dot-com bubble, Net Perceptions was valued at $1.5 billion and had over 300 employees, but the company was liquidated in 2004.
Riedl died on July 15, 2013, after three years with melanoma.
Honors and awards
Riedl was honored with the ACM Software System Award in 2010 for his work on recommender systems. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2009 and was also named an IEEE Fellow in 2012. He received numerous awards for his conference publications including best papers at CSCW, IUI, and WikiSym. He has also received commendations for his teaching, including the Outstanding Teacher Award at the University of Minnesota four times (1990–1993, 2010–2011) and the George Taylor Award for Exceptional Contributions to Teaching (1995–96).
Publications
Highly cited articles
References
Further reading
– profile of collaborative filtering, recommendations, and Net Perceptions' recommender system
2013 Profile of Riedl's work, from UMN research
John T Riedl Memorial Fund. This fund supports undergraduate and graduate students through an annual teaching award and other scholarship and fellowship funding. You can give money to the fund on the website.
External links
Personal Blog
In memoriam: John Riedl
1962 births
2013 deaths
University of Notre Dame alumni
Purdue University alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
American computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Fellows of the Association for Compu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 1995 is the first year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 1995 Fighting Network Rings held three events beginning with, Rings: Budokan Hall 1995.
Events list
Rings: Budokan Hall 1995
Rings: Budokan Hall 1995 was an event held on January 25, 1995, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Holland: Free Fight
Rings Holland: Free Fight was an event held on February 19, 1995, at Sporthallen Zuid in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1995 Opening Round
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1995 Opening Round was an event held on October 21, 1995.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
1995 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Manager%20%28HP%20LX%29 | The HP LX System Manager is the application manager and GUI for HP LX-series Palmtop computers.
Overview
The App Manager page is made up of 2 rows of 8 icons, with an additional shorter row on the next page down by default. (More applications can be added as the user wishes.) The menu bar options that are available can be opened (on a HP 200LX) by using the Menu key or the Alt key. These include task management, booting out of the GUI into DOS and opening help for the palmtop.
Flaws
One of the major flaws in the System Manager is its limited icon space in Application Manager. You can put only 32 icons there. You can delete some default icons to get space but some are undeletable.
Another item of interest that some people have referred to as a flaw is that the HEXCALC built-in application is missing from the System Manager by default. To add the program to the list, it is necessary to manually add an entry with the following fields:
Name: He&x Calc
Path: D:\BIN\HEXCALC.EXM.
See also
HP 200LX
References
Microcomputers
History of software
HP palmtops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mark%20%282012%20film%29 | The Mark is a 2012 Christian film about the Rapture, directed by James Chankin and starring Craig Sheffer.
Plot
Chad Turner (Craig Sheffer) is implanted with a biometric computer chip (the Mark of the Beast). The Rapture occurs, and Joseph Pike (Gary Daniels) searches for Turner in hopes of gaining control of the Mark. Cooper (Eric Roberts), the security head of the company that created the chip, Avanti; is held hostage by Pike in order to locate Turner. Chad Turner must stay alive against all odds and keep the chip from falling into the wrong hands.
Cast
Craig Sheffer as Chad Turner
Gary Daniels as Joseph Pike
Eric Roberts as Cooper
Sonia Couling as Dao, Flight Attendant
Byron Gibson as Jenson
Art Supawatt Purdy as Jock
Sequel
A sequel titled The Mark 2: Redemption was released in 2013, taking place right after the ending of the first film. The plot follows the main cast from the first film right after the events of the last film, just as the Antichrist rises to power. The film features all of the original cast reprising their roles. The ending of the film hints for a sequel, but none has been confirmed as of yet.
References
External links
2012 films
2012 drama films
Films set in the future
Films about the rapture
Films set on airplanes
Films produced by Russell Wolfe
Films produced by David A. R. White
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20road | The term regional road (or route) is used in a number of places to designate roads of more than purely local but less than national strategic importance in a country's highway network.
It is used formally and officially in reference to:
Regional road (Ireland)
Regional road (Italy)
Regional road (Ontario)
Regional route (South Africa)
See also
List of numbered roads in York Region (Canada)
Transport in Senegal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Azcorra | Arturo Azcorra (born November 8, 1962, in Santurce, Spain) is a Spanish scientist and telecommunications engineer who is recognized as a pioneer of internet and network science research in Spain, as well as a promoter of telematics as a scientific and academic discipline born from the integration of telecommunications and informatics.
Life and career
Azcorra graduated from Loy Norrix High School (Michigan, USA) in 1980. In 1986, he received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), with "Sobresaliente" (Outstanding) grade, and was subsequently awarded the Price Waterhouse Prize for Best Student in 1986. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the same university in 1989, receiving the National Award COIT-AEIT-ANIEL (AMETIC) to the Best PhD Thesis (Premio Nacional a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral). In 1993, he obtained an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa, graduating first in his class.
He began his career in the Madrid Subway Company (Compañía del Metropolitano de Madrid), while simultaneously performing research work in telecommunications at UPM. He was an associate professor at UPM from 1989 to 1998, when he moved to University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) where he became Full Professor and founder of the NETCOM Research Group on Networks and Communication Technologies, which he has coordinated since, at the Department of Telematics Engineering. He was later appointed Deputy Vice-Provost for Academic Infrastructures at the UC3M and held this post from 2000 to 2007. He was a Visiting Researcher at ICSI University of California at Berkeley (USA) in 1999 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA) in 2002. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the UC3M Telefónica Chair and worked in this role until 2009. In June 2002 he earned the distinction of being named IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior Member. From 2003 to 2008 he was Director of REDIMadrid, the Telematics Research Network of the Community of Madrid. He was the founder, and Director from 2006 to April 2021, of the international research institute IMDEA Networks.
In November 2009 he was appointed Director General for Technology Transfer and Corporate Development at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN), a position he held until his appointment as Director General at the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial - CDTI), the Spanish agency to fund research in private companies, on May 30, 2010. In February 2012 he returned to his post as full professor at the Department of Telematics Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid and Director of IMDEA Networks Institute. In April 2021, he took leave from these posts, and incorporated to the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation as Director General of Telecommunications and Organization of Audiovisual Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabed%20Survey%20Data%20Model | The Seabed Survey Data Model'' (SSDM''') is an industry-standard for how seabed survey data is stored and managed by oil and gas companies. The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) developed and published this standard in October 2011. Many surveys have been successfully delivered in SSDM.
The SSDM template is provided as an Esri ArcGIS geodatabase, but other implementations of the model are allowed.
Significance
Outputs of seabed surveys usually contain CAD files, log imagery, surface grids and many other documents. Such a mix of data types makes the task of integrating existing enterprise data very complicated. Data models that were used by survey contractors before SSDM include ArcGIS Pipeline Data Model (APDM) and Professional Petroleum Data Management (PPDM). It is very difficult for both of these data models to manage their internal data. To fix this specific problem, IOGP defined the SSDM to better manage the data.
SSDM provides a complete survey data management workflow with improved integration with geoscience software. It is an industry data model that comes with complete software support that survey contractors can use. It enables the simple exchange of seabed survey data between two partners. Exploration and production companies may also extend the data model to fulfill their specific requirements.
Area of application
As of today, the main area of the SSDM's application includes:
Sweep and bathymetric surveys (sonar scan and multi-beam)
Platform and drilling hazard site surveys
Pipeline route surveys
SSDM is currently not capable of doing ROV-based pipeline inspection surveys. That is the domain of the existing data model such as APDM and PPDM. However, this will not be a limitation of SSDM, because SSDM is expected to be used in conjunction with existing data models to capture the full range of acquired data and referenced data sets.
Conceptual model
The conceptual model is a powerful idea of SSDM; it is used to help people know, understand, and simulate what SSDM represents. SSDM's conceptual model includes class, object inheritance, and other features.
Class
A class is a program code template of an object. It provides initial values and implementations of an SSDM object. A class can be defined as either abstract or concrete. A concrete class can be directly used to create an object. Concrete classes can be thought of as feature classes or object classes in the ESRI geodatabase. On the other hand, an abstract class must be inherited to create a concrete class. SSDM abstract classes such as Feature, Feature Archive, and the SSDMSurveyObject describe the core attributes of an SSDM object.
Object inheritance
The mechanism of object inheritance is based on the idea that many SSDM classes share similar features and it would be inefficient for all of them to define their own version of those features. Object inheritance allows an object using the same implementation with its parent class to best reuse t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District%20Councils%27%20Network | The District Councils' Network (DCN) is a special interest group in the Local Government Association. It represents 164 non-metropolitan district councils in England, representing over 40% of the population and 68% of the land. It is funded by membership subscriptions and its purpose is to "act as an informed and representative advocate for districts to government and other national bodies, based on their unique position to deliver for 'local' people".
It shares offices with the Local Government Association in Westminster.
History
District Councils were created in 1974 following the restructure of local government in England. District Councils were created alongside County Councils and are responsible for running services such as housing, economic development, waste collection, planning and community services.
Following the re-organisation of local government the Association of District Councils (ADC) was set up in April 1974. This replaced the Rural District Councils Association and Urban District Councils Association as the representative body of non-metropolitan district councils in England. In March 1997, the ADC was wound up and merged with other local authority organisations to form the Local Government Association (LGA).
The District Councils' Network was formed as a special interest group of the LGA to give a distinct voice for District Councils. In 2011, the DCN inherited funds from the defunct ADC.
Members' Board and Chief Executives' Group
The DCN has a Members' Board consisting of 22 councillors representing the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats and independent groups from all areas of the country. As of 2021 this is chaired by Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen, Leader of Breckland.
Alongside the DCN Members' Board sits the Chief Executives' Group (CEG) made up of District Chief Executives from across the country. The chair of the CEG is Bill Cullen, Chief Executive at Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.
The Director of the DCN is James Hood.
The DCN Assembly meets four times a year including an annual DCN Conference; previous keynote speakers include Liz Truss, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, James Brokenshire, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
About
The DCN provides a voice for district councils to the Local Government Association, Central Government and other national bodies. This work includes informing and influencing national and local stakeholders. The DCN has worked on a variety of issues; including local government finance, welfare reform, planning, housing, economic regeneration and health and wellbeing.
The DCN has released a number of publications on issues affecting district councils in England. In 2015 the DCN commissioned renowned health think-tank The Kings Fund to explore the scope for districts playing a greater preventative role in the public health agenda in a groundbreaking study 'A time o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclophora%20dataria | Cyclophora dataria is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America, from British Columbia to California, east to Arizona and north to Montana. The habitat consists of mixed or deciduous woods with Quercus species.
The wingspan is 23–25 mm. The forewings are uniform yellowish to light brown with fine dark speckling and lines. The hindwings are similar. Adults are on wing in late spring and summer.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Quercus species. The colour of the larvae varies from tan brown to grey. Larvae can be found in July and August.
References
Moths described in 1887
Cyclophora (moth)
Moths of North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20Wars | Formal Wars is an Australian reality television series produced by Matchbox Productions that premiered on the Seven Network on 25 July 2013. In each episode, two high school students hand over control of their school formal to their parents. The series is hosted by Melanie Vallejo.
Format
The series sees high school students handing over control of their high school formal preparations to their parents. Each week, two high school students receive $2,000 towards the cost of their school formal but their parents are given control and must decide their date, their attire and their transport to the venue.
Series One (2013)
The first series premiered on the Seven Network on 25 July 2013 at 8:30 pm.
References
2013 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
Television series by Matchbox Pictures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimero | Nimero is Bulgarian software company created in 2009. Its main product is Envision. The software allows interaction between students and teacher via one computer, one projector and multiple mice.
The company participated in multiple competitions such as:
Start-up of the year, 2011, Bulgaria, 1st place
Imagine Cup, UK, April 2010, 2nd place
IBTEC worldwide finals, USA, November 2009
NovaTechCEE finals, Israel, October 2009, 3rd place (participated with different name – MindPoint)
NovaTech, Bulgaria, July 2009, 3rd place (participated with different name – MindPoint)
Imagine Cup worldwide finals, Egypt, July 2009 (participated with different name – MindPoint)
Imagine Cup, Bulgaria, May 2009, 1st place (participated with different name – MindPoint)
The software of the company is used in Bulgaria, the USA, Cyprus and Spain.
See also
Economy of Bulgaria
References
External links
Software companies of Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridging%20%28programming%29 | In computer science, bridging describes systems that map the runtime behaviour of different programming languages so they can share common resources. They are often used to allow "foreign" languages to operate a host platform's native object libraries, translating data and state across the two sides of the bridge. Bridging contrasts with "embedding" systems that allow limited interaction through a black box mechanism, where state sharing is limited or non-existent.
Apple Inc. has made heavy use of bridging on several occasions, notably in early versions of Mac OS X which bridged to older "classic" systems using the Carbon system as well as Java. Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, introduced with the .NET Framework, was designed to be multi-language from the start, and avoided the need for extensive bridging solutions. Both platforms have more recently added new bridging systems for JavaScript, Apple's ObjC-to-JS and Microsoft's HTML Bridge.
Concepts
Functions, libraries and runtimes
Most programming languages include the concept of a subroutine or function, a mechanism that allows commonly used code to be encapsulated and re-used throughout a program. For instance, a program that makes heavy use of mathematics might need to perform the square root calculation on various numbers throughout the program, so this code might be isolated in a sqrt(aNumber) function that is "passed in" the number to perform the square root calculation on, and "returns" the result. In many cases the code in question already exists, either implemented in hardware or as part of the underlying operating system the program runs within. In these cases the sqrt function can be further simplified by calling the built-in code.
Functions often fall into easily identifiable groups of similar capabilities, mathematics functions for instance, or handling text files. Functions are often gathered together in collections known as libraries that are supplied with the system or, more commonly in the past, the programming language. Each language has its own method of calling functions so the libraries written for one language may not work with another; the semantics for calling functions in C is different from Pascal, so generally C programs cannot call Pascal libraries and vice versa. The commonly used solution to this problem is to pick one set of call semantics as the default system for the platform, and then have all programming languages conform to that standard.
Most computer languages and platforms have generally added functionality that cannot be expressed in the call/return model of the function. Garbage collection, for instance, runs throughout the lifetime of the application's run. This sort of functionality is effectively "outside" the program, it is present but not expressed directly in the program itself. Functions like these are generally implemented in ever-growing runtime systems, libraries that are compiled into programs but not necessarily visible within the code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20P6060 | The Olivetti P6060 was the first personal computer with a built-in floppy disk. It was presented in April 1975 by the Italian manufacturer Olivetti at the Hannover fair alongside the smaller P6040 that stored data on proprietary 2.5-inch mylar floppies called Minidisk (3 KB).
Description
The engineering team that devised the P6060 wanted to enclose into the machine everything the user would need, by integrating not only the printer but also the floppy drive. Thus it became the first Personal Computer to have this unit built into its interior. Its central processing unit was on two cards, code named PUCE1 and PUCE2, with TTL components. It had an 80-column graphical thermal printer, 48 Kbytes of RAM, and BASIC language. It was in competition with a similar product by IBM that had an external floppy disk drive.
The assembly line was located in the Olivetti factories of Scarmagno, some modules forming subsets of the machine as a printer or floppy disks were manufactured at plants in San Bernardo d'Ivrea.
External links
Description of the P6060 in website Old Computers Museum
Description, manuals and photos of the P6060 and P6066 (Italian)
Restoration work on a P6060 (Italian)
Olivetti personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N8VEM | N8VEM was a homebrew computing project. It featured a variety of free and open hardware and software. N8VEM builders made their own homebrew computer systems for themselves and shared their experiences with other homebrew computer hobbyists. N8VEM homebrew computer components are made in the style of vintage computers of the mid to late 1970s and early 1980s using a mix of classic and modern technologies. They are designed with ease of amateur assembly in mind.
In November 2015 the N8VEM project was ended by its creator Andrew Lynch and the community reconvened under the new name of Retrobrew Computers.
Creation and operation
There are several N8VEM designs starting with a single-board computer carrying a Z80 microprocessor designed to run CP/M and similar operating systems. It was created in 2008 by Andrew Lynch. Contrasted with the P112, which has some surface-mount components, the N8VEM SBC uses only through-hole components, consistent with the design philosophy that building should be within the skills and resources of non-professional hobbyists. The project has also developed boards for other processors including Z180, Intel 80188, MOS 6502, Motorola 6809, 68000 and 68030.
The N8VEM boards are designed with the free KiCad Electronic design automation (EDA) toolset. Printed circuit board routing provided by FreeRouting.net. Software is developed in Z80/8085 assembly language using the MS-DOS Telemark Cross Assembler program (TASM), as well as the open source Small Device C Compiler. A major design goal is to use freely available tools to the maximum extent possible. The printed circuit board design is supplemented using component libraries available at KiCad Libraries, specifically the Zilog Z80 CPU and Intel 8255 PPI chips.
The design philosophy encourages low cost development and assembly by hobbyist amateurs using common tools such as 25 watt soldering iron, multimeter, logic probe (optional), and common hand tools. An oscilloscope is recommended but not required. Some basic electronic skills are helpful although the printed circuit boards are designed for relative beginners.
There are numerous N8VEM components available including ECB and S-100 backplane boards, allow processor and expansion boards to be connected. Other components include video boards, disk controllers, peripheral expansion, and prototyping boards.
In response to interest from members, the N8VEM homebrew computing project has collaborated in developing a range of boards for the S-100 bus. These can be used to build new systems from scratch on that historic industry standard platform, or to restore and enhance vintage S-100 systems preserved from the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the S-100 board initial design work has been contributed by John Monahan of s100computers.com, with board layout, prototyping and testing contributed by Andrew Lynch and other N8VEM supporters. Some of these S-100 boards provide enhanced capabilities beyond what was available on original S-10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrock%20%28social%20network%20site%29 | Skyrock.com was a social networking service based in France that offered a free space on the web to allow its users to create blogs, add profiles, and exchange messages with other registered members and closed on the 21st August 2023.
Background and description
Skyrock.com began as a blogging site, Skyblog.com, founded by Skyrock CEO Pierre Bellanger in December 2002. In May 2007, after abandoning the Skyblog.com brand, Skyrock.com was launched as a full-scale social network.
As of June 2008 Skyrock was ranked as the world's seventh largest social network with over 21 million visitors.
The website was shut down on 21 August 2023. According to the Skyrock team, anonymized content has been transferred to the National Archives of France.
Controversies
Skyrock had a high penetration rate in France. In several French middle schools, students used the platform to malign school personnel resulting in their expulsion and in the issuing of alerts by schools to warn parents and students about such behavior.
Furthermore, certain American newspapers attempted to associate the breakout of the 2005 civil unrest in France to users of Skyblogs. However, institutions of the French state never filed any formal complaint indicting the usage of Skyrock Blogs.
A few prominent French institutions created a Skyrock Blog as a preferred tool to communicate messages. An example is the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2002
Internet properties disestablished in 2023
Blog hosting services
French social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
2023 disestablishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20Services%20Inc. | International Network Services Inc. (INS) was a network architecture services provider based in Mountain View, California. Previously closely associated with Cisco, it was acquired by the former Lucent in 1999 for $3.7bn. Following the collapse of the dot-com bubble, Lucent sold the unit back to employees and investors for an undisclosed sum. Then in 2007, INS was acquired by BT Group for £133 MM (now part of BT Advise Professional Services of BT (global services) based out of the US.
References
BT Group
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef%20Gaitan | Jef Gaitan (born September 21, 1989) is a Filipino actress who first started as a TV commercial model and the year 2009 she joined Survivor Philippines Palau which was aired on GMA Network. She finished the season as one of the top three in the finale episode of Survivor Philippines Palau. Gaitan later on became a semi regular in Party Pilipinas. she had a one-month stint on GMA's Dear Friend which she co-starred with Marvin Kiefer, Jennylyn Garcia and Carl Guevara.
She also appeared on various TV5 series such as Ang Utol Kong Hoodlum, Bangis as Inang Filomena and The Sisters.
In 2013, she worked on ABS CBN's late night comedy gag show Banana Nite.
From 2014 to 2015, she became a co-host for News+ in ABS-CBN Sports and Action, handling Entertainment News with Anthony Taberna as the Anchor for the news program.
In 2016, Gaitan was part of the drama fantasy series, My Super D as Apple.
In 2020, Jef was part of the drama series offering of ABS-CBN, Ang sa Iyo ay Akin, aired on Kapamilya Channel.
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards and recognition
FHM rankings
Gaitan first appeared for FHM Philippines with Wendy Valdez on "Zoo themed" cover in October 2010, 3 years later she was reappeared for Empress Schuck cover FHM 13th Anniversary special also featuring Valdez, Chloe Dauden and Karen Bordador. She also appeared on Online Babe (now FHM Idols) section for October 2013, three months later Gaitan joined with former Sexbomb Sunshine Garcia and former Wowowee dancer Aiko Climaco dubbed as Banana Nite Girls cover for January 2014.
References
1989 births
Living people
Actresses from Laguna (province)
Filipina gravure idols
Filipino female models
Participants in Philippine reality television series
Survivor Philippines contestants
GMA Network personalities
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
ABS-CBN personalities
Star Magic
Viva Artists Agency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecast | Ecast or eCast can refer to:
Companies
Ecast, Inc., a US-based place-based interactive media company
Ecast Network, a commonly used name for Ecast, Inc.
eCast Corporation, a US-based medical technology company
eCast Software, a subsidiary of eCast Corporation focusing on software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlliedWare%20Plus | AlliedWare Plus is a fully featured Layer 3 operating system developed by Allied Telesis, used on its high-end enterprise network switches, and is the successor to AlliedWare. It is a package encompassing CLI and GUI management, routing, switching and internetworking functionality into a multitasking operating system for IPv4 and IPv6 Ethernet networks. It offers many standards-based features and protocols along with some proprietary technologies such as VCStack for highly resilient stacking solutions, EPSRing for resilient ring topologies, AMF for simplified network management, and Active Fiber Monitoring for secure fiber links.
Interface
AlliedWare Plus' primary interface is its industry-standard CLI. Designed to be similar to other vendor network device CLI's, it is based on a fixed set of multiple-word commands, with the "mode" the user is in defining which of these commands are available. All commands are assigned a default privilege level, with configuration commands requiring the user to enter a higher mode (higher privilege level) than information commands.
It also features a web-based GUI.
Versioning
AlliedWare Plus uses a numerical release versioning structure, formatted as a.b.c-d.e. The first number represents the primary software version, with the second and third numbers representing the major software release. The last two numbers represent the minor and maintenance updates release, respectively. Major and minor releases typically introduce new features or product support, while maintenance releases are usually bug fixes. For example, when this article was first written, the current AW+ software version was 5.4.4-2.3.
Products supporting AlliedWare Plus
AR3050S and AR4050S Next-Generation Firewalls
AR2010V and AR2050V Secure VPN Routers
CentreCOM XS900MX Series
CentreCom GS900MX/MPX Series
CentreCom GS980MX Series
CentreCom GS980M Series
CentreCom GS980EM Series
CentreCOM GS970M Series
CentreCOM GS970EMX Series
CentreCOM FS980M Series
x210 Series
x220 Series
x230 Series
x310 Series
x320 Series
x330 Series
x510 Series
x530 Series
x530L Series
x550 Series
x600 Series
x610 Series
x900 Series
x930 Series
x950 Series
SwitchBlade x908
SwitchBlade x908 GEN2
SwitchBlade x8100 Series
IE200 Series (Industrial Switch)
IE300 Series
IE500 Series
IX5-28GPX
DC2552XS/L3
AMF Cloud
See also
Allied Telesis
References
External links
Official website
Network operating systems
Embedded operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Dorotheos%20of%20Monemvasia | Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia () is the name given to the unknown author (or compiler) of a Greek-language chronicle titled Historical Book (Βιβλίον Ιστορικόν), published at Venice in 1631. The work contains a history of the world from Creation until the early 17th century, and purports to have been written by a non-existent metropolitan of Monemvasia named Dorotheos. The book became a popular source of historical knowledge during the period of Ottoman rule in Greece.
17th-century Greek historians
Greek pseudepigrapha
Chroniclers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qunb | qunb is a cloud-based internet service startup which provides a data visualization service. Qunb was founded in Paris, France and is incorporated in Boston, USA. In 2013, Qunb took part in the Spring TechStars Boston startup accelerator program.
Services
The main product of Qunb is a B2B data visualization service on the cloud. It is used on the Qunb website but it can also be shared and embedded on external websites. The tool is used to generate charts and graphs from datasets that are uploaded on the Qunb website, which is then assembled into a slideshow. The service is only available on web browsers.
Technology: Use Case
Qunb additionally provides a standard data visualization service for Google Analytics. The Google Analytics GAPI is used to extract key performance indicators from Google Analytics dashboard metrics without the use of third-party data analysis tools. The dimensions and nodes are processed on Qunb servers.
History
Qunb was founded in 2011 by serial entrepreneurs Cyrille Vincey and Jean-Baptiste Théard as a Big Data online vendor where users could buy and analyze data. The startup was part of the second batch of the French startup accelerator program Le Camping, and later became part of LeChaudron, a spinoff from the program.
In November 2012, Qunb was selected to be part of TechStars Boston Spring 2013.
In November 2014 Qunb was acquired by Ve Interactive, a technology company headquartered in London, for a "multi-million pound cash and shares deal”.
Awards
Champion, LeWeb 2012 Startup Competition
Best French Startup, The Europas Awards 2013
Startup Accelerators:
LeCamping 2011/2
TechStars Boston 2013
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2011
Internet technology companies of France
Data visualization software
Companies based in Boston
Companies based in Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerize | Computerize or computerization may refer to:
Equipping with a general purpose computer, embedded computer, or computer system
Equipping something with or the usage of software
Business process reengineering that converts a manual process into one done by a computer
Digital transformation of a service or business
Inputting data (computing) into computers
Digitizing information for computers
Creating computer-generated content
See also
Automation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IcCube | icCube is known for its embeddable data analytics and visualization software platform tailored specifically for B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, i.e. Embedded analytics.
Its customers serve various industries, from finance and healthcare to e-commerce and logistics among many others. The software enables SaaS solutions from multiple sectors to provide data analytics, dashboards and visualization to their respective end-customers (i.e., Customer-facing analytics).
History
icCube was founded in 2010 by David Alvarez-Debrot and Marc Polizzi, recognizing the need for an analytic server that could be seamlessly integrated into third-party products.
David and Marc, who had previously worked together in developing a financial risk product at a software consulting firm, noticed the necessity for a robust, performant and reliable server for analytic calculations. After the roll-out of the financial risk product, they decided to start their own venture.
Initially considering developing an alternative financial risk solution, they later realized the potential in the market for a versatile, cross-solution product focused on analytic modeling and processing that could be easily embedded into any SaaS solution. Many B2B SaaS companies were seeking robust analytics capabilities for their platforms, and the idea behind the company was to be thought-leaders in this space by focusing exclusively on providing an embeddable analytics platform for B2B SaaS solution developers.
The technology is Java-based, ensuring compatibility with most architectures. The in-memory server uses the Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query language, which in contrast to other common query languages, is highly optimized for analytics.
Over time, the platform evolved and introduced new features and enhancements to meet the expanding needs of its customers. Noteworthy milestones in the evolution of icCube include the introduction of the Web Reporting server in 2012, the launch of a new reporting system and server calculation engine in 2016, and the release of a new dashboard module based on TypeScript, React, Redux, and Material UI (MUI) in 2022.
Technology
Architecture
The product is a fully browser-based application, with the server implemented in the Java programming language (Java 17) following J2EE standards. For the latter, it embeds both an HTTP server (Jetty) and a servlet container to handle all communication tasks. Reporting is developed in TypeScript / React / Redux.
Being an in-memory server, the server does not need to source its data from a RDBMS; in fact, any data source that exposes its data in a tabular form can be used; several plugins exist for accessing files, HTTP stream, etc. Accessing datasource that expose JSON objects is also supported (e.g., MongoDB). The platform then takes care of possibly complex relations (e.g., Many-to-many) implied by the JSON structure.
icCube uses Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) as its query language a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclophora%20rotundata | Cyclophora rotundata is a moth in the family Geometridae. Now the species is treated as Anisodes rotundata (Warren, 1897). It is found on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. The habitat consists of lowland forests.
References
Moths described in 1897
Moths of Asia
Cyclophora (moth) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bachelor%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The Bachelor Australia is a reality television adaptation of the U.S. series of the same name. The series, hosted by Osher Günsberg, first premiered on Network 10 on 8 September 2013. Its success resulted in spin-offs The Bachelorette Australia and Bachelor in Paradise Australia.
It was announced in November 2015 that unlike seasons 1–3 which were produced by Shine Australia, seasons 4–present would be produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production.
On 14 May 2023, it was announced that season 11 will commence filming in Melbourne in July 2023.
Premise
The series focuses on a single bachelor and a pool of romantic interests. The conflicts in the series, both internal and external, stem from the elimination-style format of the show. Early in the season, the bachelor goes on large group dates with the women, with the majority of women eliminated during rose ceremonies. As the season progresses, women are also eliminated on single dates, elimination two-on-one dates and in cocktail parties. The process culminates with hometown visits to the families of the final four women, overnight dates, should they choose to accept, at exotic locations with the final three women, and interaction with the bachelor's family with the final two women. In some cases, the bachelor proposes to his final selection.
All seasons of the show have been heterosexual-centric (a male seeking a female partner), however, a bisexual edition of sister series, The Bachelorette has set a precedent that The Bachelor may include editions of the show that focus on different sexual orientations.
Elimination process
Single Date
The bachelor and one woman go on a date. The bachelor is given a chance to get to know the woman on a more personal level, and the dates are usually very intimate. If the date goes well and the bachelor wishes to spend more time with the woman or get to know them further, he may present them with a rose at the date. This means that during the rose ceremony at the end of each episode, she will be safe and there will be no chance of her going home.
Group Date
The bachelor and a group of women participate in an activity. Sometimes the activity takes the form of a competition, with the winner or winners spending more time with the bachelor. The bachelor typically presents a rose to the woman who makes the best impression during the group date.
Rose Ceremony
The women who have not been eliminated stand in rows at one end of the room, and the bachelor faces them. The bachelor has a tray with roses.
The bachelor takes a rose and calls a woman by name. The woman steps forward, and the bachelor asks, "Will you accept this rose?" The woman accepts, takes the rose, and makes her way to the other side of the room (where all the women who have been given a rose are required to stand.)
When there is one rose remaining, host Osher Günsberg tells the bachelor, "When you're ready."
After all roses are distributed, the host tells the women who did not receive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20Up%20%28TV%20program%29 | Wake Up was an Australian breakfast television program produced by Network Ten. The show was hosted by Natarsha Belling and James Mathison. It aired weekday mornings from 6.30am to 8.30am, before Ten's morning talk show Studio 10. Wake Up, launched on 4 November 2013, was presented from Queenscliff Surf Club at Manly Beach in Sydney, with Nuala Hafner presenting national news updates from a glass studio at Federation Square in Melbourne. Due to poor ratings, the show was cancelled just six months after its debut, on 21 May 2014, with the last episode airing 23 May 2014.
Presenters
Reporters and contributors
Natasha Exelby was originally a co-host alongside Belling and Mathison, but was dropped from the show less than three weeks after its launch due to a lack of chemistry. Creator Adam Boland stated that he saw "genuine spark during show rehearsals" but that it did not translate on air.
Controversy
On 14 May 2014, the morning after the announcement of the 2014 Australian federal budget, Wake Up invited Prime Minister Tony Abbott to take part in an on-air forum involving members of the public. One of the participants, 85-year-old Brisbane pensioner Vilma Ward, began to ambush Abbott live on air, telling him "I've never heard such rubbish in all my life" referring to his plan to raise the pension age. Ward also called Abbott a "comedian". It later emerged that Ward had strong links with the Australian Labor Party dating back to the 1960s and had appeared in an election campaign brochure. Network Ten admitted they were not aware of Ward's links prior to the segment.
Reception
Following its first show, Wake Up was considered in some quarters as a vast improvement over its predecessor, Breakfast.
Wake Up's first episode averaged 52,000 viewers nationally. A week after the first episode, the show had lost around half of its audience share, even rating lower than Breakfast (Wake Up's predecessor, which had been cancelled the year before due to low ratings).
References
2013 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
Australian television news shows
Breakfast television in Australia
English-language television shows
Network 10 original programming
Television shows set in Sydney
10 News First |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20Science%20in%20Cyber%20Security | A Master of Science in Cyber Security is a type of postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. This degree is typically studied for in cyber security.
What is offered by many institutions is actually called a Master in Strategic Cyber Operations and Information Management (SCOIM) which is commonly understood to be a Master in Cybersecurity. This degree is offered by at least some universities in their Professional Studies program (GWU for one) so that it can be accomplished while students are employed - in other words it allows for "distance learning" or online attendance. Requirements for the Professional Studies program include: 3.0 or better undergrad GPA, professional recommendations letters and an essay.
Curriculum Structure
The Master of Science in Cyber Security is a one to three years Master Degree, depending on the program, some may even start with two-year preparation classes and covers various areas of computer science, Internet security, Computer security, and or Information Assurance. Programs are offered online, on-campus, or a hybrid style. Please note that some schools offer the option of a graduate certificate in Cyber Security (for those not looking to do a full program). Other schools may offer a broader professional master's degree in a field of computing or business with a specialization is cyber security, cyber defense or information assurance. The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has developed a framework for cyber security education and workforce development. Likewise, the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) framework was designed in a collaboration between the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
Topics of study may include:
Advanced persistent threat
Advertising network
Analytics
Bulletproof hosting
Browser security
Certificate authority
Computer ethics
Computer forensics
Computer insecurity
Computer security
Computer security policy
Cryptography
Cybercrime
Cyber-collection
Cyber ShockWave
Cyber spying
Cyber security standards
Cyberpsychology
Cyberterrorism
Cyberwarfare in Russia
Dark web
Denial-of-service attack
Digital forensics
Economics of security
Electronic warfare
Fully undetectable
Hacker (computer security)
Industrial espionage
Information assurance
Information security
Information warfare
Internet governance
IT risk
iWar
Legal aspects of computing
License
Malware
Open-source bounty
Password cracking
Penetration test
Phishing
Privilege escalation
Proactive Cyber Defence
Quantum cryptography
Remote administration software
Sandbox (computer security)
Security management
Signals intelligence
Swatting
User Error
Vulnerability
Watering Hole
Zero-day attack
See also
List of master's degrees
List of cyber attack threat trends
CERT Coordination Center
Committee on National Security Systems
National Security Directive
National Strategy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20CDMI%20server%20implementations | Cloud storage
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-geomorphometry%20project | The open-geomorphometry project is a 2012 open source computer code project created for the public availability of geomorphometry code. This code, written by Dr. Bob MacMillan, is known amongst its primary users as LandMapR (LandMapR has since become a copyrighted term in the U.S. for an agricultural remote sensing device). LandMapR, and the new open-geomorphometry project, operate digital elevation data to produce maps including but not limited to: hydrological flow, catchments, depression or pits, water pooling, wetness index, topographic derivatives, and landform classifications.
Origin
LandMapR performs a number of operations on Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), from calculating hydrological flow directions, water pooling, to performing sophisticated topographical landform classifications (see for example Jensen et al., (1988), or O'Callaghan et al., (1984) and references therein). LandMapR is an all-in-one tool for extracting information from DEMs. The initial version of the software was written by Dr. Bob MacMillan as part of his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Edinburgh in 1993, and was coded in a Microsoft Rapid Application Development language called FoxPro. The FoxPro version exists to today, but is not part of the open source effort due to its restriction as an interpreted language. The open-geomorphometry project makes the much faster C++ version of the software available.
Functions
The most unusual aspects of LandMapR and the open-geomorphometry project are the algorithms it implements to conduct 'pit' removal. Pits are depressions in the topography. Pits are usually seen as interfering with the flow. Typical pit removal (for example see Jensen et al. (1988)) involves simply removing depressions from DEMs in order to resolve flow paths. LandMapR also conducts these operations on 'spurious' pits, but goes beyond normal pit removal procedures to treat watersheds, which are depressions, as a potential heirachichal path for flows and figures out how one pit might flow into another to produce new flow channels in a field.
The applications for this kind of pit-removal are almost unlimited. Water and cold air pooling in vineyards and farm fields represent a serious issue in generating high yield crops. For example, a farm field has recently been fertilized with granular heavy phosphorus fertilizer. Knowing the distribution density of this fertilizer across the field it is possible to use pit removal to calculated the area to flow calculations as well as the potential residence times that would enable an estimate of how much rain is required to carry that fertilizer off into local streams. The area to flow capability of the pit removal calculations in LandMapR are unique.
The open-source open-geomorphometry project forms the basis, or the geomorphology part, of some of the work being documented on the Phytogeomorphology page, and is the chosen software tool for much of that work.
Hydrology
LandMapR as a hydrological tool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1, 2014 until May 31, 2015, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was broadcast in the U.S. by Fox. Andy Samberg hosted the show for the first time. The nominations were announced on July 16, 2015.
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 12 and was broadcast by FXX on September 19.
The Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony was held on October 28, 2015 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel.
The ceremony became notable for breaking two major milestones: Game of Thrones set a new record by winning 12 awards, the most for any show in a single year, up to this date (it was also the second HBO show, after The Sopranos, to win the Outstanding Drama Series award), while Viola Davis became the first African-American woman in Emmy history to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder.
This year also saw for the first time, two Streaming service networks win four Acting awards: Netflix, with Uzo Aduba in Orange Is the New Black and Reg E. Cathey in House of Cards; and Amazon Studios, with Jeffrey Tambor for Transparent and Bradley Whitford for the same show.
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series went to the HBO political satire Veep, which not only broke Modern Familys five-year hold on the award but became the second time a premium channel won Outstanding Comedy Series (the first was for HBO's surrealist romantic comedy Sex and the City in 2001).
Rule changes
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced new rule changes for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards. These new rules are:
All voters eligible for a category's nominations are now eligible to vote in that category, providing that they have seen the submitted material and attest to no specific conflicts of interest.
The number of nominees in the Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series categories will expand from six nominees to seven, due to the increase in series production.
To clarify the difference between a Comedy series and a Drama series, any show where episodes average a length of 30 minutes is eligible to enter as a comedy and series with episodes that average a length of 1 hour is eligible as a drama. There may be exceptions to the rules, however: producers may formally petition to a new Academy panel to have the show be considered for the alternative category. This panel, consisting of five industry leaders appointed by the Academy chairman and four appointees from the Board of Governors, will vote on a decision. A two-thirds vote was required for the show to be considered for the alternative category. So far, three petitions have been successful: Glee, Jane the Virgin, and Shameless were voted as eligible for "Outstanding Comed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeryders | Edgeryders is a social enterprise, and an open and distributed think tank of people working through an online social network and a series of conferences.
Edgeryders started out as a project of the Council of Europe and the European Commission in 2011 and evolved into a volunteer-driven online/offline community by 2013.
Today, there is also the not-for-profit company Edgeryders, living in symbiosis with the online community. As a company, Edgeryders works with communities on funded research, development and social innovation projects in a model they call "open consulting".
Among the most visible of Edgeryders' projects is the unMonastery which began with a pilot in Matera, Italy as well as the Science Fiction Economics Lab and OpenCare.
External links
Edgeryders community website
Edgeryders - Council of Europe project website
The Edgeryders Guide to the Future
References
Estonian social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoSpeech | NeoSpeech Inc. is an American company that specializes in text-to-speech (TTS) software for embedded devices, mobile, desktop, and network/server applications. NeoSpeech was founded by two speech engineers in Fremont, California, US, in 2002. NeoSpeech is privately held, headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Stephen Hawking was briefly a NeoSpeech TTS user in 2004, but soon returned to using his iconic DECtalk voice synthesizer since he identified with it so strongly. Adobe Systems has selected NeoSpeech speech synthesis for their e-learning authoring suite Adobe Captivate.
History
Neospeech was a subsidiary of Korean company named Voiceware Co., Ltd. Voiceware was established in 2000. In January 2001 Voiceware released VoiceEz natural speech recognition technology, and VoiceCop speaker verification technology. In September 2001 Voiceware released VoiceText its first American English voice, named Kate, in VoiceText English.
In February 2002 Voiceware announced the establishment of US subsidiary, NeoSpeech, Inc.(www.neospeech.com) at San Jose, CA.
in January 2006, a Japanese photographic company named Pentax acquired Voiceware Co., a producer of text-to-speech software technologies.
In 2007–2008, Pentax was acquired by HOYA Corporation.
Following the acquisition of ReadSpeaker (another text-to-speech company, the creator of rSpeak software) by HOYA in 2017, HOYA gathered all of its voice technology companies under the ReadSpeaker brand, encompassing the existing companies and brands of ReadSpeaker, rSpeak, Voiceware, VoiceText, and NeoSpeech.
Products
VoiceText speech synthesis is the NeoSpeech software component that generates synthesized speech from input text. NeoSpeech uses Unit Selection Synthesis (USS), which utilizes large databases of recorded sound segments to create synthesized speech. The VoiceText TTS Engine is mainly used to build custom stand-alone TTS applications such as AAC (Augmentative and alternative communication) products, gaming software, automated loud speaker/paging systems, educational software, and language learning apps. It also can be used simply to output a voice from an input text using a provided desktop TTS program.
Languages
Languages include US and UK variants of English, Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, with a variety of male and female voices.
The software is available for
Desktop: Microsoft Windows, Unix/Linux/Solaris
Mobile: iOS, Android, Windows CE
Other: TRON Project, QNX, Nucleus RTOS
See also
Natural language processing
Speech processing
List of screen readers
Comparison of speech synthesizers
Voicetext markup language
References
External links
Computer accessibility
Speech synthesis
Multimedia software
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Companies based in Fremont, California
2002 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Emmy%20Awards | 2013 Emmy Awards may refer to:
65th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2013 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored primetime programming during June 2012 – May 2013
40th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2013 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored daytime programming during 2012
34th Sports Emmy Awards, the 2013 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored sports programming during 2012
41st International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-light%20decomposition | In combinatorial mathematics and theoretical computer science, heavy-light decomposition (also called heavy path decomposition) is a technique for decomposing a rooted tree into a set of paths. In a heavy path decomposition, each non-leaf node selects one "heavy edge", the edge to the child that has the greatest number of descendants (breaking ties arbitrarily). The selected edges form the paths of the decomposition.
Decomposition into paths
If the edges of a tree T are partitioned into a set of heavy edges and light edges, with one heavy edge from each non-leaf node to one of its children, then the subgraph formed by the heavy edges consists of a set of paths, with each non-leaf vertex belonging to exactly one path, the one containing its heavy edge. Leaf nodes of the tree that are not the endpoint of a heavy edge may be considered as forming paths of length zero. In this way, each vertex belongs to exactly one of the paths. Each path has a head vertex, its topmost vertex.
Alternatively, the paths of heavy edges may be extended by including one light edge, the one from the head of the path to its parent. In this variation of the decomposition, some vertices belong to multiple paths, but every edge of T belongs to exactly one path.
The path tree
The paths of the decomposition may themselves be organized into a tree called the "path tree", "heavy path tree", or "compressed tree". Each node of the path tree corresponds to a path of the heavy path decomposition. If p is a path of the heavy path decomposition, then the parent of p in the path tree is the path containing the parent of the head of p. The root of the path tree is the path containing the root of the original tree. Alternatively, the path tree may be formed from the original tree by edge contraction of all the heavy edges.
A "light" edge of a given tree is an edge that was not selected as part of the heavy path decomposition. If a light edge connects two tree nodes x and y, with x the parent of y, then x must have at least twice as many descendants as y. Therefore, on any root-to-leaf path of a tree with n nodes, there can be at most log2 n light edges. Equivalently, the path tree has height at most log2 n.
Applications
Heavy path decomposition was introduced by as part of the amortized analysis of their link/cut tree structure, and by as part of their data structure for lowest common ancestors, The link/cut tree data structure uses a partition of a dynamic tree into paths that is not necessarily the heavy path decomposition; its analysis uses a potential function measuring its distance from the heavy path decomposition, and the small height of the path tree implies that each data structure operation performs only a small number of steps that cannot be charged against improvements to this function. In the lowest common ancestor data structure, the decomposition is used to embed the input tree into a complete binary tree of logarithmic depth, allowing each query to be solved by cons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cartoon%20Connection | The Cartoon Connection is an Australian children's television series aired on Seven Network in February 1985 until January 1990 every weekday and on weekends.
Following the axe of Agro's Cartoon Connection, it was later revived until February 1999 where it replaced by The Big Breakfast. (later known as The Big Arvo)
See also
List of Australian television series
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's television series
1985 Australian television series debuts
1990 Australian television series endings
1997 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIBSVM | LIBSVM and LIBLINEAR are two popular open source machine learning libraries, both developed at the National Taiwan University and both written in C++ though with a C API. LIBSVM implements the sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm for kernelized support vector machines (SVMs), supporting classification and regression.
LIBLINEAR implements linear SVMs and logistic regression models trained using a coordinate descent algorithm.
The SVM learning code from both libraries is often reused in other open source machine learning toolkits, including GATE, KNIME, Orange and scikit-learn.
Bindings and ports exist for programming languages such as Java, MATLAB, R, Julia, and Python. It is available in e1071 library in R and scikit-learn in Python.
Both libraries are free software released under the 3-clause BSD license.
References
External links
LIBSVM homepage
LIBLINEAR homepage
LIBLINEAR in R
C++ libraries
Data mining and machine learning software
Free statistical software
Java (programming language) libraries
National Taiwan University
Software using the BSD license
Taiwanese inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Media%20Examiner | Social Media Examiner is a U.S.-based media company, founded by Michael Stelzner. It publishes online magazines, blogs and podcasts about how business people can use social networks, on SocialMediaExaminer.com. The online magazine publishes original research, has a weekly podcast show and oversees multiple communities for social media marketers.
Founder
In 2006, Michael Stelzner published his first book, Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep them Engaged. He founded Social Media Examiner with the stated goal of providing free how-to information about social media. In 2011, Stelzner wrote Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition (Wiley). In 2012, Stelzner started the Social Media Marketing podcast.
Reports and conferences
In 2018, 5,700 marketers participated in Social Media Examiner's study of how marketers and businesses are using social media. The report has been cited in Entrepreneur and Inc. magazine. Social Media Examiner hosts the Social Media Marketing World conference.
Awards
Technorati ranks the site as one of the Top 100 Business and Top 100 Small Business blogs. Social Media Examiner has been discussed in several books including, The New Relationship Marketing: How to Build a Large, Loyal Profitable Network using the Social Web by Mari Smith, and The Entrepreneur’s Information Source Book: Charting the Path to Small Business Success, 2nd ed. by Susan C. Awe.
References
External links
Social Media Examiner website
Social Media
American blogs
Audio podcasts
Websites about digital media
Mass media in San Diego County, California
Poway, California
Companies based in San Diego County, California
Internet properties established in 2009
Mass media companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRT.CZ | CSIRT.CZ is a national CSIRT (Cyber Security Response Team) team operated by CZ.NIC (operator of the .CZ top-level domain). CSIRT.CZ's main task is to handle security incidents in computer networks operated in the Czech Republic.
Overview
The .CZ domain registry took over the agenda of the national security team from the academic association CESNET, which had operated a security team as part of a research grant since 2008. The memorandum with the Ministry of Interior on the operation of a National CSIRT was replaced on 1 October 2012 and a new provision was made with the National Security Authority of the Czech Republic. CSIRT.CZ now fulfills the role of National CERT on the basis of a public contract with the Czech National Security Agency.
The organization handles incident resolution, provides education on cybersecurity and co-operates with various stakeholders in the Czech Republic such as ISPs and banks.
International cooperation
Since security incidents often go beyond national borders, international cooperation while solving security incidents and threats can be important. CSIRT.CZ collaborates with other CSIRT/CERT teams in different territories. The security team participates in the preparation and implementation of solutions and recommendations on appropriate approaches in the event of potential threats to cyberspace on both a European and global level. CSIRT.CZ holds the status of an accredited team in Trusted Introducer and is member of FIRST.
References
External links
CZ.NIC - operator of the CZ top-level domain
ENISA - European Network and Information Security Agency
FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
TF-CSIRT– Task force CSIRT
Trusted Introducer
Internet in the Czech Republic
Computer emergency response teams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ4%20%28compression%20algorithm%29 | LZ4 is a lossless data compression algorithm that is focused on compression and decompression speed. It belongs to the LZ77 family of byte-oriented compression schemes.
Features
The LZ4 algorithms aims to provide a good trade-off between speed and compression ratio. Typically, it has a smaller (i.e., worse) compression ratio than the similar LZO algorithm, which in turn is worse than algorithms like DEFLATE. However, LZ4 compression speed is similar to LZO and several times faster than DEFLATE, while decompression speed is significantly faster than LZO.
Design
LZ4 only uses a dictionary-matching stage (LZ77), and unlike other common compression algorithms does not combine it with an entropy coding stage (e.g. Huffman coding in DEFLATE).
The LZ4 algorithm represents the data as a series of sequences. Each sequence begins with a one-byte token that is broken into two 4-bit fields. The first field represents the number of literal bytes that are to be copied to the output. The second field represents the number of bytes to copy from the already decoded output buffer (with 0 representing the minimum match length of 4 bytes). A value of 15 in either of the bitfields indicates that the length is larger and there is an extra byte of data that is to be added to the length. A value of 255 in these extra bytes indicates that yet another byte is to be added. Hence arbitrary lengths are represented by a series of extra bytes containing the value 255. The string of literals comes after the token and any extra bytes needed to indicate string length. This is followed by an offset that indicates how far back in the output buffer to begin copying. The extra bytes (if any) of the match-length come at the end of the sequence.
Compression can be carried out in a stream or in blocks. Higher compression ratios can be achieved by investing more effort in finding the best matches. This results in both a smaller output and faster decompression.
Implementation
The reference implementation in C by Yann Collet is licensed under a BSD license. There are ports and bindings in various languages including Java, C#, Rust, and Python. The Apache Hadoop system uses this algorithm for fast compression. LZ4 was also implemented natively in the Linux kernel 3.11. The FreeBSD, Illumos, ZFS on Linux, and ZFS-OSX implementations of the ZFS filesystem support the LZ4 algorithm for on-the-fly compression. Linux supports LZ4 for SquashFS since 3.19-rc1. LZ4 is also supported in newer zstd command line utility by Yann Collet.
LZ4 available in extended 7zip-Version.
References
External links
Lossless compression algorithms
Free data compression software
C (programming language) libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harter%20%28surname%29 | Harter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ali Harter (born 1984), American singer-songwriter
Andy Harter (born 1961), English computer scientist
Carol Harter (born 1941), American university president
Dick Harter (1930–2012), American basketball player and coach
Dow W. Harter (1885–1971), American politician
Frank Harter (1886–1959), American baseball player
George Loyd Foster Harter (1852–1920), British barrister and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire
J. Francis Harter (1897–1947), American politician
J. Michael Harter (born 1979), American singer-songwriter
Michael D. Harter (1846–1896), American politician
Rachel M. Harter, American statistician
Roy Harter (born 1973), American composer and musician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Morning%20Melbourne | Good Morning Melbourne is an Australian local morning show which aired on Network Ten in Victoria only, between 1981 until 1988. It was hosted by Roy Hampson and Annette Allison.
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian variety television shows
1981 Australian television series debuts
1988 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Melbourne
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskey | Ruskey may refer to:
Frank Ruskey, combinatorialist and computer scientist
Roosky, a village in counties Leitrim and Roscommon, Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Til%20Ten | Til Ten was an Australian local morning show aired on Network Ten in between 30 January 1989 until 27 December 1991, hosted by Andrew Harwood and Joan McInnes.
Network 10 original programming
Australian variety television shows
1989 Australian television series debuts
1991 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%20Chiappa | Joseph Noel Chiappa is an American retired researcher who worked in the area of information systems architecture and software, principally computer networks.
Education
Chiappa attended Saltus Grammar School in Bermuda, and Phillips Academy and MIT in the US.
Career
Chiappa started work on the multiprotocol Proteon router in 1980 router.
Chiappa designed the original version of Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). He is acknowledged in several other RFC's, such as RFC-826, RFC-919, RFC-950 and others. He has worked extensively on the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP). In 1992, Chiappa was also credited for fixing the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" protocol bug as well as other document problems.
Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford. He served as the first Internet Area Director on the Internet Engineering Steering Group, from 1989 to 1992.
From 2012, Chiappa was working on long-term issues in both the Internet Research Task Force and Internet Engineering Task Force and its predecessors; he served as the initial Area Director for Internet Services of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 1987-1992.
He was also involved in the development of the IPv6, objecting to the IPng selection process.
Other interests
Among many non-technical interests, he is particularly interested in Japanese woodblock prints, and helps maintain online catalogue raisonnés for two major woodblock artists, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Utagawa Hiroshige II
Personal life
Chiappa lives in Yorktown, Virginia with his family.
Notes
External links
Official homepage
RFC-1251 "Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members
Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869)
1956 births
Living people
History of the Internet
Bermudian emigrants to the United States
People from Yorktown, Virginia
Internet pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Catalog%20Vocabulary | Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. By using DCAT to describe datasets in catalogs, publishers increase discoverability and enable applications to consume metadata from multiple catalogs. It enables decentralized publishing of catalogs and facilitates federated dataset search across catalogs. Aggregated DCAT metadata can serve as a manifest file to facilitate digital preservation.
The original DCAT vocabulary was developed at DERI, as an idea from Vassilios Peristeras and his master student Fadi Maali together also with Richard Cyganiak. The vocabulary was further developed by W3C's eGov Interest Group, then brought onto the Recommendation Track by W3C's "Government Linked Data" Working Group. DCAT is the foundation for open dataset descriptions in the European Union public sector and was adapted by the ISA programme of the European Commission. A2022 report reviews DCATAP compliance on national data portals.
DCATv2 was published as a W3C Recommendation 2020-02-04. Version2 adds support for cataloguing data services or APIs, and has stronger support for expressing relationships between datasets. An alignment to Schema.org is included.
As DCAT is extensible, more specific extensions have been created in the statistical and geodata domains.
An open-source licensed porting of the version DCAT-AP 2.0.1 compatible with NGSI-LD API standard is available in the DCAT-AP subject at Smart Data Models program.
References
Resource Description Framework
Metadata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20for%20Local%20Observations%20and%20Knowledge%20of%20the%20Arctic | The Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic, or ELOKA, is an Arctic research data management program that combines local traditional knowledge (LTK) and local observations data from Indigenous Arctic residents utilizing effective and appropriate western methods to properly share Arctic Indigenous Knowledge. The LTK data the program stewards consists of observations of sea ice, weather, wildlife and comes in many forms such as written interview transcripts, audio or video tapes and files, photographs, artwork, illustrations and maps.
Housed at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder Cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Sciences (CIRES), ELOKA is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Arctic Observing Network (AON) research program that came out of the 2007-2008 International Polar Year (IPY).
Data Sets
ELOKA data and information resources represent international and interdisciplinary collaboration between the physical and social sciences; between researcher(s) and communities and addresses cultural sensitivity issues that are not usually seen in standard physical science data management norms, but are critically important when administering documented forms of LTK and community-based monitoring. A variety of methods and tools are used on each data set as each project has different needs in presenting their data.
History and philosophy
Established in 2006 under an initial National Science Foundation (NSF) exploratory grant to address the need for an effective and appropriate system for recording, preserving and sharing data and information collected in Indigenous Arctic communities, ELOKA developed partnerships and defined the broad needs of the system defined as a set of people, communities, and technological components sharing information and working together to achieve particular goals. Its philosophy is "“LTK and scientific expertise are complementary and reinforcing ways of understanding the Arctic system. Collecting, documenting, preserving, supporting, and sharing knowledge is a cooperative endeavor, and ELOKA is dedicated to fostering understanding and shared knowledge between Arctic residents, scientists, educators, policy makers, and the general public. ELOKA operates on the principle that all ways of knowing should be treated ethically, and intellectual property rights should be respected.”
In 2009 NSIDC was awarded two more NSF awards to established an operational ELOKA data management and networking system for community-based research that keeps control of data in the hands of community data providers, while still allowing for broad searches and sharing of information.
Building on the accomplishments of the first and second phases of ELOKA, the third phase of the program is to make it a sustained program at NSIDC and sustained presence in the Arctic research landscape. The critical next challenge is to sustain and evolve the established system to ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binade | In software engineering and numerical analysis, a binade is a set of numbers in a binary floating-point format that all have the same sign and exponent.
In other words, a binade is the interval
or
for some integer value , that is, the set of real numbers or floating-point numbers of the same sign such that
.
Some authors use the convention of the closed interval instead of a half-open interval,
sometimes using both conventions in a single paper.
Some authors additionally treat each of various special quantities such as NaN, infinities, and zeroes as its own binade,
or similarly for the exceptional interval of subnormal numbers.
See also
Floating-point arithmetic
IEEE 754
Significand
References
Computer arithmetic
Floating point |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20technology%20in%20Bangladesh | The information technology sector in Bangladesh had its beginnings in nuclear research during the 1960s. Over the next few decades, computer use increased at large Bangladeshi organizations, mostly with IBM mainframe computers. However, the sector only started to get substantial attention during the 1990s. Today the sector is still in a nascent stage, though it is showing potential for advancement. Nonetheless, Bangladesh IT/ITES industry has fared comparatively well by achieving US$1.3 billion export earnings in FY 2020-21 and holding US$1.4 billion equivalent market share in the local market contributing 0.76 per cent to the GDP creating more than 1 million employment opportunities so far amid Covid-19 havoc that suddenly shattered businesses last year. Consequentially, riding on the successes of IT/ITES sector-supported export-led industries as well as pro-private sector and conducive policies pursued by Bangladesh Government, the country is now poised to become a Developing Country by 2026, as recommended by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UNCDP), besides, Bangladesh now seeks to transform itself into a knowledge-based and 4IR-driven cashless economy, aiming to become a developed country by 2041. The Bangladesh government has formulated a draft 'Made in Bangladesh– ICT Industry Strategy' aimed at turning Bangladesh into an ICT manufacturing hub, enhancing export of local products, attracting foreign investment and creating employment proposing to implement in three
Notif-info
terms— short term from 2021 to 2023, mid-term from 2021 to 2028 and long term from 2021 to 2031 for implementation of the 65 action plans.
History
The first computer in East Pakistan was an IBM mainframe 1620 series, installed in 1964 at the Dhaka center of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (later the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission). Computer use increased in the following years, especially after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971; more-advanced IT equipment began to be set up in different educational, research and financial institutions. In 1979, a computer centre, later renamed Department of Computer Science & Engineering, was established at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET); the centre has been playing a pivotal role in Bangladeshi IT education since its inception. Through the introduction of personal computers, the use of computers witnessed a rapid increase in the late 1980s. In 1985, succeeding several individual initiatives, the first Bengali script in computers was invented, paving the way for more intense computer activities. In 1995, use of the Internet began and locally made software started to be exported.
In 1983, the Ministry of Science and Technology established a National Computer Committee to create the required policies. The committee was also responsible to carry out programs to expand and promote the efficacious use of the sector. In 1988, the committee was replaced by the National C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20location%20data | Vehicle location data is the big data collection of vehicle locations, including automatic vehicle location data. This usually includes times and often photographs as well.
Common methods of data collection include automatic number plate recognition of vehicle registration plates from images collected by cameras mounted on vehicles or fixtures along roads,
as well as radio-frequency identification (RFID) from dedicated short-range communications transponders
(such as those used for electronic toll collection and parking lots). Databases of this information may be maintained by government or private entities. Private companies use vehicle location data for vehicle repossession and consumer profiling. Government databases have been subjected to legal orders for location data. Access may be restricted to use in criminal cases, but may also be available for civil cases, such as divorce.
Automatic number plate recognition
Vehicle registration plates may be automatically scanned with equipment, mountable on vehicles, that identifies an image characteristic of a registration plates, takes a photograph, and reads and records the registration number. Such scanning may be done by government or private industry. Private industry collects this information for profit through, directly or indirectly, activities such as consumer profiling and repossession. Companies have collected over 1 billion scans of registration plates in the United States, stored in multiple national databases.
Transponders
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) read from dedicated short-range communication transponders voluntarily obtained by citizens for electronic toll collection enable recording of time and location data at toll crossings. Scanning equipment has also been installed at additional, non-toll locations, enabling further data collection. Transponders have also been hacked, allowing reading and tracking by unauthorized parties.
Privacy concerns
The American Civil Liberties Union issued a report on license plate tracking, finding that the vast majority of scans collected are the vehicles of innocent persons.
See also
Indoor positioning system (IPS)
Parking lot
References
Automatic number plate recognition
Mass surveillance
Geographic position
Geopositioning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy%20embedding | In distributed computing and geometric graph theory, greedy embedding is a process of assigning coordinates to the nodes of a telecommunications network in order to allow greedy geographic routing to be used to route messages within the network. Although greedy embedding has been proposed for use in wireless sensor networks, in which the nodes already have positions in physical space, these existing positions may differ from the positions given to them by greedy embedding, which may in some cases be points in a virtual space of a higher dimension, or in a non-Euclidean geometry. In this sense, greedy embedding may be viewed as a form of graph drawing, in which an abstract graph (the communications network) is embedded into a geometric space.
The idea of performing geographic routing using coordinates in a virtual space, instead of using physical coordinates, is due to Rao et al. Subsequent developments have shown that every network has a greedy embedding with succinct vertex coordinates in the hyperbolic plane, that certain graphs including the polyhedral graphs have greedy embeddings in the Euclidean plane, and that unit disk graphs have greedy embeddings in Euclidean spaces of moderate dimensions with low stretch factors.
Definitions
In greedy routing, a message from a source node s to a destination node t travels to its destination by a sequence of steps through intermediate nodes, each of which passes the message on to a neighboring node that is closer to t. If the message reaches an intermediate node x that does not have a neighbor closer to t, then it cannot make progress and the greedy routing process fails. A greedy embedding is an embedding of the given graph with the property that a failure of this type is impossible. Thus, it can be characterized as an embedding of the graph with the property that for every two nodes x and t, there exists a neighbor y of x such that d(x,t) > d(y,t), where d denotes the distance in the embedded space.
Graphs with no greedy embedding
Not every graph has a greedy embedding into the Euclidean plane; a simple counterexample is given by the star K1,6, a tree with one internal node and six leaves. Whenever this graph is embedded into the plane, some two of its leaves must form an angle of 60 degrees or less, from which it follows that at least one of these two leaves does not have a neighbor that is closer to the other leaf.
In Euclidean spaces of higher dimensions, more graphs may have greedy embeddings; for instance, K1,6 has a greedy embedding into three-dimensional Euclidean space, in which the internal node of the star is at the origin and the leaves are a unit distance away along each coordinate axis. However, for every Euclidean space of fixed dimension, there are graphs that cannot be embedded greedily: whenever the number n is greater than the kissing number of the space, the graph K1,n has no greedy embedding.
Hyperbolic and succinct embeddings
Unlike the case for the Euclidean plane, every ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%20CD-ROM%20Core%20Rules | Advanced Dungeons & Dragons CD-ROM Core Rules is computer program designed as an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, originally published in 1996 and updated in 1999.
Publication history
The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons CD-ROM Core Rules was published by TSR. TSR funded a start-up, Evermore Entertainment, to produce the product, with Victor Penman as Project Manager. As the title suggests, it released as a CD-ROM for PC only.
In 1999, Wizards of the Coast released a new CD-ROM titled Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Core Rules 2.0.
Contents
The AD&D CD-ROM Core Rules contains several rulebooks, both in Rich Text Format and as Windows Help files, including the Dungeon Master's Guide, the Player's Handbook, the Monstrous Manual, Tome of Magic, and Arms and Equipment Guide. It also includes a Key Topics book which summarizes the main AD&D rules and an Instructions booklet, which explains how to use all of the rest. Hypertext links have been created for all of the main entries and rulings. There are a number of extra features, including the character generator, and tools to enable a user to update characters created with the disc and enter the details of a character which has been created using the traditional method. For the DM there is a tool which enables a user to quickly create non-player characters, a handout generator, a treasure generator based on the standard random treasure tables, a monster generator, an encounter generator and a map builder.
The 2.0 version added for inclusion Dungeon Master Option: High-Level Campaigns, Player's Option: Combat & Tactics, Player's Option: Skills & Powers, and Player's Option: Spells & Magic.
Business impact
The original 1996 release of the Core Rules resulted in unhappiness with TSR from retail stores that stocked the product. The product's release date was in mid-1996, and at the time, the computer supplies store Babbage's was undergoing severe financial difficulties that would result in their bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings by late 1996. TSR and Babbage's had arranged a large order of around 10,000–30,000 copies at the start of 1996, when the financial situation of Babbage's was less obviously dire. TSR elected to ship the order to Babbage's anyway, despite the fact many of its mall stores were moving to sell all remaining inventory and close. The deeply discounted copies of the Core Rules at Babbage's tanked the overall market, as rather than pay the suggested retail price, interested buyers could grab cheap copies from Babbage's. Other retailers would have to choose between discounting their own stock or seeing very slow sales. The incident weakened the remaining trust retailers had in TSR, making them hesitant to place large orders.
The reason why TSR pressed ahead with this shipment, despite warnings from its own employees, was due to a financial arrangement mid-90s TSR used known as "factoring". Factoring worked like this: TSR first arranged contracts wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbermann%20%28TV%20series%29 | Olbermann was a television sports talk show hosted by Keith Olbermann on the American cable network ESPN2. The show, broadcast live daily from Times Square Studios in New York City, premiered on August 26, 2013, and featured Olbermann offering commentary and analysis on issues in the sports world.
Olbermann was originally a sixty-minute nightly program, usually starting at 11:00 PM Eastern. For a brief period of time, specifically during the ESPN networks’ coverage of the Australian Open, the show temporarily aired at 6:00 PM in a thirty-minute format. During this period a repeat of the program aired on ESPNEWS at 2:00 AM.
In September 2014, Olbermann was moved from its nightly spot to a late afternoon time slot and began airing at 5:00 PM Eastern in a thirty-minute format. ESPNEWS added two additional repeat airings; the first aired at 6:30 p.m., the second one in the usual 2:00 a.m. slot, and the last at 5:00 a.m.
On July 10, 2015, two days after ESPN declined to renew his expiring contract, Olbermann announced on air that the series would be coming to an end on July 24. The announcement came after The Hollywood Reporter claimed that ESPN wanted Olbermann to tone down his critical commentary, but the network claimed the move was to cut costs related to Olbermann's salary and the use of the space at Times Square Studios, claims later confirmed by an aborted move of Mike & Mike to the same facility and releases of other network talent at the end of their contracts throughout 2015 and into 2016.
Background
Olbermann marked the second tour of duty for Keith Olbermann with the ESPN organization, having served as a popular co-anchor (alongside Dan Patrick) of the main network's SportsCenter between 1992 and 1997; it's also Olbermann's second stint at ESPN's secondary network, ESPN2, where he briefly served as original anchor of the network's SportsNight in 1993–1994. In the decade before Olbermann's debut, Olbermann gained notice as an anchor/commentator on hard news and political discussion, serving as host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, which aired on MSNBC and, briefly, Current TV.
Since Olbermann's return to the ESPN family was formally announced in July 2013, much mention had been made in media coverage of the anchor's abrasive off-screen demeanor and his acrimonious partings with several of his previous employers, including his 1997 departure from ESPN. Both Olbermann and ESPN executives had reported "no friction" between them in the run-up to Olbermann's debut (ESPN VP/Programming Jamie Horowitz has noted Olbermann's openness to ideas and suggestions for the program); the anchor himself has owned up to his tempestuous past and his efforts to rebuild bridges with his old colleagues. Olbermann had also indicated he is happy returning to covering sports on a regular basis, telling The New York Times, "If you cover politics for eight years without interruption like I did, you need a change."
Format
The format rundown below was the fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby%20Howard | Toby L. J. Howard is an Honorary Reader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. He was appointed Lecturer in 1985, and was Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department 2011–2019. He retired from the University in August 2020 and took an Honorary position.
Education
Howard was educated at Birkenhead School, and then the University of Manchester receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master of Science degree in 1983 for work on the graphics facilities of the MU6 network.
Research
Howard's research interests are computer graphics and virtual environments. as a member of the Advanced Interfaces Group (AIG) and has supervised several doctoral students. Howard's research projects have included:
Virtual reality as a rehabilitative technology for phantom limb experience, investigating using virtual environments for treating phantom limb pain in amputees.
Augmented reality, with preliminary work on an interactive display for public engagement.
Virtual environments for psychology research. Telepresence and telepathy in immersive virtual reality; used immersive virtual environments to test for telepathic effects:
Augmented Reality Image Synthesis (ARIS): augmenting photographs with correctly illuminated objects in real time.
Virtual environments for crime scene investigation. We worked with Greater Manchester Police on the REVEAL project, investigating reconstructing crime scenes using virtual environments with accurate global illumination.
VR for large-scale applications" (VRLSA) – concentrated on the development of industrial applications and resulted in the release of MAVERIK VR kernel.
Teaching
Howard taught on the undergraduate courses COMP27112 Computer Graphics and Image Processing and COMP37111 Advanced Computer Graphics. At Masters level he taught computer graphics and databases.
Other activities
Howard founded and led the annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition from 2008 to 2018. From 1989 to 1998 he was joint editor (with Steve Donnelly) of Britain's The Skeptic magazine. He founded and edited Elephant Talk, the newsletter for Robert Fripp/King Crimson enthusiasts, from 1991 to 2006. Howard is active in documenting the history of computers developed at the University of Manchester.
References
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arteris | Arteris, Inc. is a multinational technology firm that develops the Network-on-Chip (NoC) on-chip interconnect IP and System-on-Chip (SoC) integration automation software used to create semiconductor designs for a variety of devices, particularly in automotive electronics, artificial intelligence/machine learning and consumer markets. The company specializes in the development and distribution of Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect Intellectual Property (IP) and SoC integartion automation products used in the development of systems-on-chip.
It is best known for its flagship product, Arteris FlexNoC, which by 2022 has shipped in over 3 billion devices. The company offers a cache coherent interconnect IP product line called Ncore as well as a last level cache called CodaCache. As a result of its acquisition of Magillem Design Services and Semifore, the company also offers a suite of IEEE-1685 IP-XACT and SystemRDL standards-based SoC Integration automation software products.
Arteris, Inc. is headquartered in Campbell, California. K. Charles Janac is the company’s President and CEO.
In 2021, Arteris filed its initial public offering (IPO), listing on Nasdaq under AIP.
History
Arteris was founded in 2004 by Philippe Boucard and two other engineering executives who had worked together at T.Sqware, a startup that was acquired by Globespan. Company executives wished to address problems with existing monolithic bus and crossbar interconnect technologies, such as wire and routing congestion, increased heat and power consumption, failed timing closure, and increased die area. The firm’s leadership sought and received venture capital totaling $44.1 million for the creation of its new technology from investors, including ARM Holdings, Crescendo Ventures, DoCoMo Capital, Qualcomm, Synopsys, TVM Capital, and Ventech.
By 2006, Arteris developed the first commercially available NoC IP product, called NoC Solution, followed in 2009 by a more advanced product, FlexNoC. The products used “packetization and a distributed network of small interconnect elements to address congestion, timing, power and performance issues.” Arteris marketed FlexNoC as an improvement on traditional SoCs interconnect fabrics, citing its reduction in gate count by 30 percent, reduction of wires by 50 percent, and a more compact chip floor as compared to a functionally equivalent hybrid bus or crossbar.
Designers of SoCs began to take advantage of the technology’s increased design efficiency, flexibility, and a significant reduction in production costs. By 2012, the company had over 40 semiconductor customers, including Qualcomm, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and LG Electronics, with 200 million SoCs being produced with Arteris IP. The company’s volume is projected to grow to over 1 billion units per year by 2015.
In October 2013, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. acquired the FlexNoC network-on-chip product portfolio, but Arteris retained existing customer contracts and to continu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMNI%20Newsline%20Philippines | SMNI Newsline Philippines (formerly known as Newsline Pilipinas) is the flagship weekday newscast of Sonshine Media Network International and SMNI News Channel. It aired from June 5, 2006 to December 30, 2016. The newscast airs every noontime Monday to Friday at 12:00 NN (PST).
Anchors
Final
Jean B. Domingo
Rafael Eniola
Jason Fabular
Dianne Hortaleza
Past
Carlo Catiil
Kathy Villanueva
Rowel Villanueva
Nancy Tan
Jhomel Santos
Vanessa Reyes
Ruben Sumipo
Reynald Tapel
Gretchen Belleza
Ryan Castillo
Praya Tupan
See also
Sonshine Media Network International
Sonshine Media Network International
Philippine television news shows
Television in Davao City
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
2000s Philippine television series
2010s Philippine television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Black-Eyed%20Susan%20Stakes | The 2013 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 89th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place on May 17, 2013, and was televised in the United States on the NBC Sports Network. Ridden by jockey Joel Rosario, Fiftyshadesofhay won the race by a scant neck over runner-up Marathon Lady. Approximate post time on the Friday evening before the Preakness Stakes was 4:47 p.m. Eastern Time. The Maryland Jockey Club raised the purse to $500,000 for the 89th running. This made The Black-Eyed-Susan Stakes the third highest payout for a race restricted to three-year-old fillies. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:52.73. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 39,957. The attendance at Pimlico Race Course that day was a record crowd for Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day.
Payout
The 89th Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (3–9) paid $54.00
$2 Trifecta: (3–9–8) paid $333.40
$1 Superfecta: (3–9–8–6) paid $532.30
The full chart
Winning Breeder: WinStar Farm; (KY)
Final Time: 1:52.73
Track Condition: Fast
Total Attendance: 39,957
See also
2013 Preakness Stakes
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Stakes "top three finishers" and # of starters
References
External links
Official Black-Eyed Susan Stakes website
Official Preakness website
2013 in horse racing
Horse races in Maryland
2013 in American sports
2013 in sports in Maryland
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHT%20algorithm | In quantum computing, the Brassard-Høyer-Tapp algorithm or BHT algorithm is a quantum algorithm that solves the collision problem. In this problem, one is given n and an r-to-1 function and needs to find two inputs that f maps to the same output. The BHT algorithm only makes queries to f, which matches the lower bound of in the black box model.
The algorithm was discovered by Gilles Brassard, Peter Høyer, and Alain Tapp in 1997. It uses Grover's algorithm, which was discovered the year before.
Algorithm
Intuitively, the algorithm combines the square root speedup from the birthday paradox using (classical) randomness with the square root speedup from Grover's (quantum) algorithm.
First, n1/3 inputs to f are selected at random and f is queried at all of them. If there is a collision among these inputs, then we return the colliding pair of inputs. Otherwise, all these inputs map to distinct values by f. Then Grover's algorithm is used to find a new input to f that collides. Since there are n inputs to f and n1/3 of these could form a collision with the already queried values, Grover's algorithm can find a collision with extra queries to f.
See also
Element distinctness problem
Grover's algorithm
References
Quantum algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Flume | Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available software for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic application.
See also
List of Apache Software Foundation projects
Hortonworks DataFlow
References
Data mining and machine learning software
Flume
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
System administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20Cowan | Madison Cowan is a British-born American celebrity chef, and consulting chef. He was the first Grand Champion of Food Network's Chopped. He co-stars in BBC America’s travel series No Kitchen Required, appeared as a judge on Food Network’s Extreme Chef and in cooking segments on NBC’s Today Show and CBS This Morning. Cowan resides in New York City.
Early life
Madison Cowan was born in Brixton, South London, his father is from Jamaica and his mother is an African-American. He started cooking at age 14.
His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which ran in their family, and was a catalyst for his own advocacy work for the disease.
Restaurant and food career
Early in Cowan's career he worked at Tavern on the Green, under Patrick Clark. Cowan was an executive chef at Ashbells in London.
Cowan was a co-owner of Avenue Inc., a supper club and cater company in New York City. From March 2013 to 2014, Cowan was the consulting chef for the restaurant Slide, located at 174 Bleecker Street, New York City.
In 2018, he was a participant in Michelle Obama's "Chefs Move to Schools" project.
Television appearances
In 2010, Cowan was awarded the first title of "Grand Champion" of the culinary reality television show Chopped (Food Network), which also had a cash prize of $50,000 USD.
In April 2012, he won "Battle: Kale" on Food Network's Iron Chef America (season 10, episode 3), with Amanda Freitag and his runner-up on Chopped Lance Nitahara serving as his sous chefs, defeating Iron Chef Jose Garces.
References
External links
American television chefs
American male chefs
Food Network chefs
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Chefs from New York City
British chefs
BBC television presenters
Iron Chef contestants
African-American chefs
British people of Jamaican descent
British people of American descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Morning%20Sydney | Good Morning Sydney is an Australian local morning show which aired on Network Ten in New South Wales only in between 1978 until 1989. It was hosted by Maureen Duval from 1978 to 1988.
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian variety television shows
1978 Australian television series debuts
1989 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Sydney
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whonix | Whonix (, ) is a Kicksecure-based security hardened Linux distribution. Its main goals are to provide strong privacy and anonymity on the Internet. The operating system consists of two virtual machines, a workstation and a Tor gateway running Debian. All communications are forced through Tor.
Both Whonix and Kicksecure have documentation that spans from basic operating system maintenance to more advanced topics.
History
TorBOX (February July 2012)
The initial concept was announced by Patrick Schleizer under the pseudonym Proper, and later changed to Adrelanos in 2012 before revealing his identity in 2014. His idea was to leverage a virtual machine acting as a transparent proxy to route all Internet traffic through the Tor network. This would have allowed one to mask one's IP address, prevent DNS leaks and avoid having to configure proxy settings for individual applications (or ones who do not support them).
TorBOX was at its beginning only a guide released on the Tor Project website which also provided some shell scripts. Other contributors provided more information as TorBOX became more popular.
As the project's complexity grew, leak tests became increasingly necessary. Some contributors developed utilities to automate many steps and improve user-friendliness. Nonetheless, maintaining the build instructions for TorBOX while simultaneously updating the shell scripts became too much of a burden for the developers, who decided to drop the manual creation instructions, migrating them and focusing exclusively on the shell scripts.
Even then, complexity was still growing due to additional features or changes in line with security research. On March 25, 2012 with the release of TorBOX's 0.1.3, the programmers agreed to completely automate the build process and improve codability with a change in the developing process, brought by a new website with better capabilities than the old project's wiki.
The TorBOX/aos wiki listed seven released versions. With the advent of the third release, proper released his GPG public-key containing his contact information,
The sixth version saw the first rename of the developer proper to adrelanos. However, the former username was maintained on the Tor Website until the seventh and final version.
Development of TorBOX continued until version 0.2.1, release July 16, 2012. The project was renamed the following day.
Rename into AOS (July September 2012)
Andrew Lewman (Then the Tor Project Executive Director) privately advised adrelanos to rename the project, stating that even if TorBOX mentioned on its website about being unaffiliated with the Tor Project, it was still being mistaken by some people. Adrelanos renamed the project aos, acronym of "anonymous operating system".
The choice of the name aos was quickly regretted and described as "suboptimal" by adrelanos. He noted that search engines didn't return relevant results due to the name being shared with many other acronyms. A secondary reason was the pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20Up%20Doc%3F%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | What's Up Doc? was a children's program which aired on the Nine Network in Australia from 31 July 1993 until 24 December 1999. It centred on the showing of Warner Bros. cartoons and hosted segments with additional original elements. It followed on from The Bugs Bunny Show, a similar program hosted by Sophie Lee, which aired from 1990 until 1992.
History
It originally aired on Saturday mornings from 9:00am until 11:00am, before moving to weekdays at 4:30pm for half an hour beginning in February 12, 1996. The show was filmed in studio on the same styled set for the whole run of the show, starting at Nine's Richmond, Victoria studios, before moving to studios in Willoughby, New South Wales. The hosts also regularly visited Warner Bros Movie World on the Gold Coast, Queensland where a weeks worth of episodes were filmed at a time.
The final episode aired on Friday December 24, 1999. The show was originally announced to return in early 2000, however a new Warner Bros cartoon themed program titled The Cool Room debuted in its place.
Hosts
Permanent
Danielle Fairclough (July 1993—July 1994)
Catriona Rowntree (August 1994—December 1995)
Steven Jacobs (February 1996—August 1996)
Kate Fischer (August 1996—October 1997)
Karen Fischer (November 1997—December 1999)
Temporary
Jo Beth Taylor (1996, 1997)
Julia Morris (1997)
Programming
When the show aired on weekday afternoons the cartoon series that were shown were Pinky and the Brain or Freakazoid! on Monday's, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies on Tuesday's and Thursday's, Animaniacs or The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries or Waynehead on Wednesday's and Batman: The Animated Series or The New Batman Adventures or Batman Beyond or Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain on Friday's.
When the show aired on Saturday mornings there were additional series shown including The Porky Pig Show, The Road Runner Show, Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, Superman: The Animated Series, Free Willy and Beetlejuice.
References
Nine Network original programming
Australian children's television series
Television programming blocks in Australia
1993 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Australia
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20House%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Our House is an Australian lifestyle and home renovation factual television series that aired on the Nine Network from 1993 until 2001. It was presented by musician and former Skyhooks band member front man Shirley Strachan, Reg Livermore, Rebecca Gilling, Tracey Dale (1993–1997), Suzie Wilks (1998–2000), Tara Dennis (2001) and Peter Harris. Strachan had previously fronted a children's TV program, Shirl's Neighbourhood.
On 29 August 2001, Strachan died in a helicopter accident. The final episode of Our House, a Christmas-themed special, paid tribute to Strachan.
In late 2001, Nine announced on their corporate site that they were planning to develop new episodes of Our House for broadcast in 2002. However, this did not materialize and the show did not return to air.
References
External links
IMDB
Nine Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
1993 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsline%20World | Newsline World is the flagship English weeknight newscast of SMNI News Channel (SMNI) aired every weeknights at 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Sonshine Media Network International and SMNI's television stations throughout the Philippines. The newscast is anchored by Jean Domingo.
In February 2016, Newsline World was reformatted and moved in a new studio located at the ACQ Tower in EDSA, Guadalupe, Makati, in time for the national elections.
See also
SMNI News Channel
External links
Official YouTube channel
Philippine television news shows
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2020s Philippine television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20A.%20Thompson%20%28geologist%29 | George A. Thompson (June 5, 1919 – May 12, 2017) was an American geologist.
Biography
Thompson was born in Swissvale, Pennsylvania. In 1964, Thompson and used gravity data where they demonstrated how the thin crust underlying the western United States during which he proved that the Basin and Range Province should be balanced by influx of mass. During the 1980s he and his students studied exposed parts of deep crust and upper mantle which explained that by combining interlayered mafic and ultramafic rocks can cause laminated and laterally discontinuous reflection of the Moho Province on deep seismic-reflections.
In 2008 he was awarded a Penrose Medal for his participation in helping to build a geophysics department. During his life he served as a chair at such departments as Geophysics from 1967 to 1986 and Geology department from 1979 to 1982. For two years, from 1987 to 1989, he was a dean of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences and served as the Otto N. Miller Professor in the same department for 9 years.
References
1919 births
2017 deaths
People from Swissvale, Pennsylvania
Penrose Medal winners
American geologists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Stanford University School of Earth Sciences faculty
Presidents of the Geological Society of America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CK3 | Ck3 or CK3 may refer to:
Crusader Kings III, a grand strategy computer game developed by Paradox Interactive
Keratin 3, also known as cytokeratin-3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Twitter | Black Twitter is an internet community largely consisting of the Black diaspora of users on the social network Twitter, focused on issues of interest to the black community Feminista Jones described it in Salon as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes." A similar Black Twitter community arose in South Africa in the early 2010s.
User base
According to a 2013 report by the Pew Research Center, 28 percent of African Americans who used the Internet used Twitter, compared to 20 percent of online white, non-Hispanic Americans. By 2018, this gap had shrunk, with 26 percent of all African American adults using Twitter, compared to 24 percent of white adults and 20 percent of Hispanic adults. In addition, in 2013, 11 percent of African-American Twitter users said they used Twitter at least once a day, compared to 3 percent of white users. BlackTwitter.com was launched as a news aggregator reflective of black culture in 2020.
User and social media researcher André Brock of the University of Iowa dates the first published comments on Black Twitter usage to a 2008 piece by blogger Anil Dash, and a 2009 article by Chris Wilson in The Root describing the viral success of Twitter memes such as #YouKnowYoureBlackWhen and #YouKnowYoureFromQueens that were primarily aimed at Black Twitter users. Brock cites the first reference to a Black Twitter community—as "Late Night Black People Twitter" and "Black People Twitter"—in the November 2009 article "What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?" by Choire Sicha, co-founder of current-affairs website The Awl. Sicha described it as "huge, organic and … seemingly seriously nocturnal"—in fact, active around the clock.
Kyra Gaunt, an early adopter who participated in Black Twitter, who also became a social media researcher, shared reactions to black users at the first 140 Characters Conference (#140Conf) that took place on November 17, 2009, at the O2 Indigo in London. Her slide deck offered examples of racist reactions to the topic #ThatsAfrican that started trending in July 2008. She and other users claimed the trending topic was censored by the platform. She and other Black Twitter users began blogging and micro-blogging about Black Twitter identity. The blogging led to buzz-worthy media appearances about Twitter. Social media researcher Sarah Florini prefers to discuss the interactions among this community of users as an "enclave."
Reciprocity and community
An August 2010 article by Farhad Manjoo in Slate, "How Black People Use Twitter," brought the community to wider attention. Manjoo wrote that young black people appeared to use Twitter in a particular way: "They form tighter clusters on the network—they follow one another more readily, they retweet each other more often, and more of their posts are @-replies—posts directed at other users." Manjoo cited Brendan M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20Reality%20Markup%20Language | The Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) is a data standard to describe and interact with augmented reality (AR) scenes. It has been developed within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) by a dedicated ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group. ARML consists of both an XML grammar to describe the location and appearance of virtual objects in the scene, as well as ECMAScript bindings to allow dynamic access to the properties of the virtual objects, as well as event handling, and is currently published in version 2.0. ARML focuses on visual augmented reality (i.e. the camera of an AR-capable device serves as the main output for augmented reality scenarios).
Data model
ARML is built on a generic object model that allows serialization in several languages. Currently, ARML defines an XML serialization, as well as a JSON serialization for the ECMAScript bindings. The ARML object model consists of three main concepts:
Features represent the physical object that should be augmented.
VisualAssets describe the appearance of the virtual object in the augmented scene.
Anchors describe the spatial relation between the physical and the virtual object.
Feature
The definition of a Feature is reused from the Geography Markup Language (GML) and describes the physical object that should be augmented. The physical object is described by a set of metadata, including an ID, a name and a description. A Feature has one or more Anchors.
Anchor
An Anchor describes the location of the physical object in the real world. Four different Anchor types are defined in ARML:
Geometries
Trackables
RelativeTo
ScreenAnchor
Geometries
Geometries describe the location of an object through a set of fixed coordinates. WGS84 (latitude, longitude, altitude) is used as the default coordinate reference system, other arbitrary coordinate reference systems can be supplied if required. ARML allows 0- (Point), 1- (LineString) and 2-dimensional (Polygon) geometries. Geometry Anchors reuse the syntax as defined in GML3. As an example, the following snippet defines the location of the Wiener Riesenrad.
<gml:Point gml:id="ferrisWheelViennaPoint">
<gml:pos>
48.216622 16.395901
</gml:pos>
</gml:Point>
Trackables
Trackables are patterns that are searched, recognized and tracked in the video screen coming from the camera of the device. A wide variety of different tracking technologies exist, including QR codes, Natural features, 3D and Face Tracking. As all these tracking types use different algorithms and technologies, the definition of a Trackable is abstracted and split into two parts, a Tracker and its associated Trackables. A Tracker describes the technology (or algorithm) with which its associated Trackables should be tracked, using URIs identifying the algorithm. The Trackable itself describes the pattern the algorithm should look for in the video stream.
Example: A natural feature tracker and an associated Trackable
<Tracker id="defaultImageTracker">
<uri xlink:href="h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Albums | Comedy Albums is a Billboard chart that lists the "top-selling spoken word and musical comedy albums" each week, as ranked by sales data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Top Comedy Albums in October 2004 (simultaneously with Top Rap Albums chart) when it was published for the first time exclusively in Billboard's websites. The first number-one album on the Top Comedy Albums chart was Lord, I Apologize by Larry the Cable Guy. The current number-one album on the chart is Inside (The Songs) by Bo Burnham.
Its Billboard Year-End chart has been active since 2006.
On May 16, 2014, Billboard published "Top 20 Best Selling Comedy Albums".
References
External links
Current Billboard Comedy Albums chart link
Billboard charts
Comedy albums
2010s in comedy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDS%20Telecom | TDS Telecom is an American telecommunications company with headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems Inc, and is the seventh-largest local exchange carrier in the U.S. TDS Telecom offers telephone, broadband Internet and television services to customers in thirty states and more than 900 rural and suburban communities, though it also serves some urban metropolitan communities. It also sells businesses communications services including VoIP (managed IP hosted) phone service, dedicated broadband Internet and hosted-managed services. With headquarters in Madison, TDS Telecom operates TDS Broadband LLC, and BendBroadband, and TDS Metrocom, LLC. Combined, the company employs nearly 3,300 people. In 2019, TDS Telecom and parent company TDS Inc. celebrated 50 years in business.
TDS Telecom is a participant in the FCC's Connect America Fund, also known as A-CAM. With this funding TDS is on a ten-year push to bring high speed internet to the furthest reaches of its rural serving areas. Depending on location, the vast majority of TDS customers in eligible rural areas are expected to receive broadband speeds of 25Mbit/s download and 3 Mbit/s upload (25/3). The remaining customers are expected to receive broadband speeds at 10/1 and 4/1Mbit/s. In less rural areas, TDS provides much higher broadband speeds, from 100 Mbps to 8 Gbps.
More recently, TDS has been launching new fiber to the home services across Wisconsin and Idaho. New markets in Wisconsin include: Deforest, Windsor, McFarland, Monona Grove, Cottage Grove, Oregon and Merrimac communities, all within Dane County Wisconsin. In Idaho the communities of Coeur d'Alene, Rathdrum, Hayden, Post Falls, all within Kootenai County. These services are offered by TDS through CLEC TDS Metrocom, LLC which is operated by TDS Telecom. Fiber to the home markets are 1 Gigabit speed markets with multiple speed offerings available to customers.
Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries include:
Butler Telephone Co., Butler, Alabama
Oakman Telephone Co., Oakman, Alabama
Peoples Telephone Co., Centre, Alabama
Cleveland County Tel. Co., Rison, Arkansas
Decatur Telephone Co., Decatur, Arkansas
Arizona Telephone Co., Quartzsite, Arizona
Southwestern Telephone Co., Quartzsite, Arizona
Happy Valley Telephone Co., Olinda, California
Hornitos Telephone Co., Olinda, California
Winterhaven Telephone Co., Winterhaven, California
Delta County Tele-Comm, Paonia, Colorado
Strasburg Telephone Co., Strasburg, Colorado
Quincy Telephone Co., Quincy, Florida (also serves Attapulgus, Georgia)
Blue Ridge Telephone Co., Blue Ridge, Georgia
Camden Telephone & Telegraph Co., St. Mary's, Georgia
Nelson-Ball Ground Telephone Co., Nelson, Georgia
Potlatch Telephone Co., Potlatch, Idaho
Camden Telephone Co., Camden, Indiana
Comm. Corp. of Indiana, Whitestown, Indiana
Comm. Corp. of Southern Indiana, Poseyville, Indiana
Home Company of Pittsboro, Pittsboro, Indiana
Home Telephone Co., Waldron, India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDrive%20Inc. | IDrive Inc. is a technology company that specializes in data backup applications. Its flagship product is IDrive, an online backup service available to Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android users.
Overview
Pro Softnet Corporation was founded in 1995 and is based in Calabasas, California, within Los Angeles County.
Pro Softnet Corporation's initial product was called IBackup, but it acquired the idrive.com domain name from defunct company I-drive around mid-2003.
IDrive products were mentioned by Lifehacker, Macworld, PC World, CNET, Tech Crunch, Notebook Review, PC Magazine and Engadget.
Pro Softnet Corporation has been plagued by patent infringement lawsuits and has spoken out publicly about how they are a drain on the company's resources.
Products
IDrive is an automated backup application that runs on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Once installed, users select folders and files to be backed up at user-specified times. IDrive offers incremental and compressed backups so users only upload modified portions of a backup file, and files may also be updated in real time with a continuous backup option. Users have the ability to limit bandwidth usage during the backup process. The previous 10 versions of a file are automatically retained and IDrive does not automatically delete backup data, even if backup files are deleted on the user's computer. Users can share their files through email, social media sites including Facebook and Twitter, and via a mobile phone application for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone.
IDrive allows a user to back up data from all compatible devices to a single account. The iDrive application runs natively on Windows, OSX, as well as on several models of NAS devices made by Synology, QNap, and Netgear.
IDrive provides multiple data retrieval options. Backup files can be accessed remotely from any Internet browser or with IDrive's client software. If a user wants access to all backup files, IDrive can ship all backup files on a 3 TB hard drive.
Files on IDrive are stored using 256-bit AES encryption allowing for an optional user-defined key that must be shared with IDrive, but which IDrive claims will not be permanently stored on their servers. IDrive also provides activity reports, backup status reports and shared file reports.
IDriveSync
IDriveSync allows a user to synchronize files across different devices.
IDrive Portable and IDrive Express
IDrive Portable is a USB hard drive designed for local backup. The hard drive has 3 terabyte of storage space and runs at 5,400 RPM.
IDrive Lite
IDrive Lite is a free application for iOS, BlackBerry and Android devices, which allows users to back up their contacts list online. Users can also restore their backup contacts to different devices, even devices that have different operating systems.
IDrive EVS
In 2012, IDrive released IDrive EVS, publicly available software development kit and API. The kit, which includes built-in encryption and a command-line A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahdatabad-e%20Mugarmun | Vahdatabad-e Mugarmun (, also Romanized as Vaḩdatābād-e Mūgarmūn; also known as Deh-e Vaḩdat and Vaḩdat) is a village in, and the capital of, Vahdat Rural District, Mugarmun District, Landeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 226 in 39 households, when it was in Tayebi-ye Garmsiri-ye Shomali Rural District of the former Landeh District of Kohgiluyeh County. The following census in 2011 counted 187 people in 38 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 102 people in 26 households, by which time the district had separated from the county in the establishment of Landeh County.
References
Landeh County
Populated places in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Populated places in Landeh County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20TK%20Yin | Phillip TK Yin is a Journalist and a communications and corporate partnerships advisor. He is currently an advisor and partner with the American Chamber of Commerce and speaks on U.S. networks including Fox Business on current events. He was previously a broadcast business journalist covering topics such as business technology, aviation, and politics for CNBC, Bloomberg News and CCTV America. In business, Yin launched Charles Schwab's portfolio management business in Hong Kong and managed the Swiss-based Unifund. Following Lehman’s bankruptcy, Phillip helped lead and investigate credit derivatives mess which later led to the recovery of $1.8 billion on behalf of over 40,000 individual investors.
Early life and education
Yin was born in Mesa, Arizona, but moved to Yakima, Washington a few months later. Yin went to Eisenhower High School in Yakima, where he played tennis.
He holds an International MBA from Georgetown University and an undergraduate business degree from the University of Washington. He also completed a special summer program at Harvard Business School.
In 2015, Yin Phillip launched his Phil and Friends American Dream Foundation Scholarship Fund with the University of Washington, awarding scholarships to 10 students.
Political activity
In 2011, Yin considered running as a Republican and challenging sitting senator Maria Cantwell in the 2012 United States Senate election in Washington State. However, he exited the race due to fundraising concerns.
On January 22, 2016, Yin announced on Sina Weibo that he was running for Lieutenant Governor of Washington State. After losing that race he declared for the Bellevue City Council.
Personal life
Yin's parents Eric and Harriet are immigrants from Hong Kong, and he is a native of Washington state. His wife is from Hong Kong, and the two met and fell in love there. Yin has four children, daughters, Kelsey, Katie and Kelly and son, Kody.
References
External links
Phillip TK Yin on Twitter
CCTV Biz Asia America Broadcasts Featuring Phillip TK Yin on YouTube
Media clips featuring Phillip TK Yin on Vimeo
American television journalists
Living people
American male journalists
Politicians from Yakima, Washington
McDonough School of Business alumni
Washington (state) Republicans
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Layer | Second Layer were an English post-punk band formed in 1979 by Adrian Borland (vocals, guitar) and Graham Bailey (keyboards, bass guitar, drum programming), both members of the Sound.
History
The duo's first release was the Flesh as Property EP, released in 1979 by Tortch Records. This was followed by another EP the following year, State of Emergency. The band's only studio album, World of Rubber, was recorded in France and released in 1981 by Cherry Red Records.
Borland died on 26 April 1999.
In 2015, Dark Entries Records reissued the band's entire discography, augmented by five unreleased demo tracks, as the World of Rubber collection.
Musical style
Andy Kellman of AllMusic wrote that the band "retained some of [the] feel" of the Sound, "albeit in a slightly detached fashion that's to be expected when synths and drum machines replace more human elements".
In a 2015 retrospective review, The Quietus said, "The first thing that's noticeable on listening to World of Rubber is how utterly different the sound and aesthetic of Second Layer is compared to that of The Sound. While The Sound had songs of gloomy introspection and a sweeping romanticism, Second Layer strips all of that away, leaving in its place a monochrome worldview morbidly obsessed with the dehumanising effect of war, nuclear weapon annihilation, and the fracturing and negation of the self within an increasingly distorted and technologically mediated society."
Discography
Studio albums
World of Rubber (1981, Cherry Red Records)
EPs
Flesh as Property E.P. (1979, Tortch Records)
State of Emergency E.P. (1980, Tortch Records)
Compilation albums
World of Rubber (2015, Dark Entries Records)
References
External links
English post-punk music groups
Musical groups established in 1979
English musical duos
Rock music duos
Male musical duos
Cherry Red Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldinger | Waldinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adolf Waldinger (1843–1904), Croatian painter
Richard Waldinger, American computer scientist
Robert J. Waldinger (born 1951), American psychiatrist and professor
See also
Gallery Waldinger, art museum in Croatia
German toponymic surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent%20%28Android%29 | An Intent in the Android operating system is a software mechanism that allows users to coordinate the functions of different activities to achieve a task. An Intent is a messaging object which provides a facility for performing late runtime binding between the code in different applications in the Android development environment. Its most significant use is in the launching of activities, where it can be thought of as the glue between activities: Intents provide an inter-application messaging system that encourages collaboration and component reuse.
An Intent is basically a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an action to be performed. For Dummies likens an Intent to flicking a switch: "Your intent is to turn on the light, and to do so, you perform the action of flipping the switch to the On position."
Description
The concept was created as a way to allow developers to easily remix different apps and allow each type of task (called activity) to be handled by the application best suited to it, even if provided by a third party. Although the concept was not new, the Android architecture doesn't require elevated privileges to access the components, which makes it an open platform.
Activities in Android are defined as classes that control the life cycle of a task in the user interface. The activities supported by an application are declared in a manifest, so that other applications can read what activities are supported. Intents in one application can start particular activities in a different application, if the latter supports the message type of the Intent.
An analysis in 2011 by researchers from The University of California at Berkeley found that Intents can pose a security risk, allowing attackers to read content in messages and to insert malicious messages between applications.
References
Android (operating system)
Inter-process communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Prophecies%20of%20Nostradamus | The Prophecies of Nostradamus (also known as The Man Who Saw Tomorrow) is a 1979 Australian made-for-TV documentary film based on the writings of Nostradamus. Produced for (7) Network Australia, the film is hosted by actor John Waters and narrated by Kirk Alexander.
References
External links
Australian television films
1979 television films
1979 films
1970s English-language films
1970s Australian films
Works by Alan Hopgood |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCMDB | UCMDB is a software product from Micro Focus that generates and maintains a Configuration Management Database of information technology items. It includes a mechanism for automated discovery of IT infrastructure components, such as computers and network devices.
UCMDB is included in several HP products and supports ITIL-based configuration management and change management processes.
DDMA
The DDMa component (Discovery and Dependency mapping Advanced) of UCMDB works by scanning ranges of IP addresses within pre-set probe IP ranges, using ping, ICMP echo requests and Nmap to locate live IP addresses and open TCP ports, and IP address harvesting techniques by querying ARP/Cache tables of level 3 network devices. Resulting current IP addresses are then translated into CIs which function as input for deeper level discovery. The pyramid model is designed to ensure that only relevant sources are being queried, resulting in lower network and node load.
See also
ITIL
ITSM
CMDB
External links
References
HP software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation%20Domination%20High-Def | Animation Domination High-Def (also called Animation Domination HD, Fox ADHD, and ADHD) was a late-night programming block broadcast by Fox. Originally premiering on July 21, 2013 as a spin-off of Animation Domination, the block originally focused on new, original adult animation series—similarly in style to Adult Swim. The ninety-minute block and its content were primarily produced by Friends Night, a television animation studio headed by Adult Swim alumni Nick Weidenfeld, Hend Baghdady, and creative director Ben Jones (who also created The Problem Solverz for Cartoon Network)—including its programs, along with interstitials and other content featured during its programming.
In April 2014, it was reported that Fox planned to discontinue the ADHD block on television that June, citing an inability to reach the correct demographics among viewers; however, ADHD's digital outlets, which feature additional content such as online shorts, continued to operate until March 5, 2016. The block's last airings on Fox consisted only of reruns.
History
2013
On January 8, 2013, Fox announced that it would launch a spin-off adult animation block – similar in format to Adult Swim – called Animation Domination High-Def. The block (alternately known as ADHD) ran Saturday late nights, originally airing for 90 minutes from 11:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. local time in most markets – later reduced to 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on September 7, 2013 with the 12:00 a.m. half-hour being given back to its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates to carry other programming – with some affiliates delaying the block by 30 minutes to an hour to run late evening newscasts. Overruns of Fox Sports broadcasts caused further delays on many evenings.
Animation Domination High-Def was created to fill the first-run programming hole in Fox's Saturday late night schedule left by the 2010 cancellations of The Wanda Sykes Show (a short-lived satirical talk show that replaced MADtv the year prior) and Talkshow with Spike Feresten, with the 90-minute block being filled thereafter by reruns of the network's primetime series. Fox Entertainment Group's president at the time, Kevin Reilly, announced the block would feature alternative programming, highlighting short films and extended film trailers in between the episodes. Nick Weidenfeld, former development head at Adult Swim, was tapped to oversee the block. The block uses various animated bumpers that were produced each week (in comparison to Adult Swim) with a new "Week In Review" piece that aired each Saturday.
Weidenfeld stated in an interview with The New York Times that Animation Domination High-Def would celebrate "the paramount importance of youth and love and friendship and hanging out and being awesome – not ironically awesome, just awesome." His intent was for the block to offer viewers new content with a significant lack of cynicism, which he believed contrasts his former employer (Williams Street, programmer of Adult Swim), which he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%2064%20Game%20Pak | Nintendo 64 Game Pak (part number NUS-006) is the brand name of the ROM cartridges that store game data for the Nintendo 64. As with Nintendo's previous consoles, the Game Pak's design strategy was intended to achieve maximal read speed and lower console manufacturing costs through not integrating a mechanical drive, with a drawback of lower per dollar storage capacity compared to a disk. From the console's first year from late 1996 through 1997, Game Pak sizes were with a typical third party retail price of , then available in in 1998, and finally from 1999 onwards.
As with the Famicom Disk System floppy drive of the 1980's, Nintendo sought a higher-capacity and cheaper medium to complement the Game Pak, resulting in the 64DD—a Japan-only floppy drive peripheral which launched late in 1999 and was a commercial failure.
Some developers such as Factor 5, Rare, and Nintendo were supportive of the solid-state medium due to fast read speeds and bank switching. Some other developers had vastly heavier designs, such as the use of full-motion video, but sufficient data compression techniques had not yet been invented and ROM chips were not yet cost-efficient, leading many developers like Square to target CD-ROM based platforms instead.
The Nintendo 64 was the last major home console to have cartridge as its primary storage format until the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. Portable systems such as the PlayStation Vita, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS also use cartridges.
History
Development
Nintendo had already invested into high-capacity secondary storage devices with the Famicom Disk System and the cancelled SNES-CD for their previous two home consoles. In a 1994 interview, Nintendo of America (NOA) summarised its analysis of the advantages of cartridges and CD's with respect to its next console—eventually the Nintendo 64.
That sentiment was soon revised in the same year when NOA's Vice President of Sales & Marketing Peter Main stated that "The choice we made is not cartridge versus CD, it's silicon over optical. When it comes to speed, no other format approaches the silicon-based cartridge."
At Shoshinkai 1995, Nintendo announced the complementary 64DD, a rewritable magnetic disk drive for the then-upcoming Nintendo 64 with several times faster transfer rates and seek time than competing CD-ROM consoles. In 1997, Nintendo game designer Shigesato Itoi explained, "CD holds a lot of data, [64]DD holds a moderate amount of data and backs the data up, and [cartridge] ROMs hold the least data and processes the fastest. By attaching a DD to the game console, we can drastically increase the number of possible genres. ... I think we'll make the game on a cartridge first, then ... finish it up as a full-out 64DD game." Many 64DD games entered development; however, after the device's launch was delayed several years until 1999 and restricted to Japan, many of these games switched to the Game Pak or were outright cancelled. The 64DD was a commerc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixman | Mixman Technologies, Inc. is an American interactive music company that develops computer software that allows for the creation and manipulation of music files. Founded by Josh Gabriel and Eric Almgren, Mixman launched in April 1994 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
History
Early development
The original concept came from prototypes Gabriel developed while a student at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. He had developed a system to control individual music loops and later a hardware configuration that involved projected light beams and sensors. A musician and computer programmer, he had long wanted to make composing and recording music accessible to the average person. After Gabriel and Almgren became partners in the early 1990s, they built a team to develop a hardware device prototype that could work with music cartridges much like video game cartridges. Within a year, the prototype was built and contained a hardware controller and music cartridges that held data for each song. The industrial designs of the hardware controller were designed by Scott Summit of Summit Industrial Design. Fundamental patents were also filed on the synchronization technology.
The original mission was to create powerful but easy-to-use interactive music creation tools that enabled the user to make and perform music with the digital song elements of their favorite artist or music style in real time. In other words, users could edit and rebuild the raw ingredients of a song. Later, the company turned to developing software as well as publishing dance music.
Products and technology
In 1996, Mixman released the first interactive CD that allowed users to perform live with their PC with zero latency and auto-beat matching. After partnering with record companies in 1996 and publishing one music title, Mixman launched Mixman Studio in 1997 and Mixman StudioPro in 1998, which shifted Mixman from a consumer activity toward a more sophisticated production and creativity tool. Mixman products were sold in both retail consumer outlets like Best Buy, Comp USA, Fry’s and Circuit City, as well as in the Music Instrument channel such as Guitar Center and other Music Instrument Stores.
Artist and label promotion
Mixman developed an online version that in conjunction with its online community promoted independent and major label artists for Mixman’s label and artist clients. The online community included user services such as an online radio station for user uploads (similar to Soundcloud) and community services (similar to what became offered by MySpace). From 2000-2001, Mixman launched online remixing songs called Mixman eMixes with Britney Spears, NSYNC, David Bowie, LL Cool J and forty other major artists.
Mixman the software company
Starting in 1996, Mixman developed and released several software SKUs to retail, licensed its software to OEMs and record companies and developed its online, self-publishing community. Mixman Studio Pro licensed software to sev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%B3n | Bolón may refer to:
Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Spanish computer scientist
Peruvian plantain disch tacacho, known in Ecuador as bolón de verde
Mountain in Elda, Alicante, Spain
Urban district in Umán Municipality, Mexico
Waterfall in Chiapas
See also
Bolon (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysfunctional%20Friends | Dysfunctional Friends is a 2012 American comedy drama film starring Stacey Dash, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Wesley Jonathan, Datari Turner, Tatyana Ali, Meagan Good, Jason Weaver, Persia White, Terrell Owens, Stacy Keibler, Hosea Chanchez, Meghan Markle, and Christian Keyes. The film was released in theaters on February 3, 2012.
Plot
The unexpected death of a friend has reunited former friends at the funeral years after graduating college and going their separate ways. After the funeral they learn from Ms. Stevens that they are all eligible for a big inheritance if they can just spend five days together at his former estate in which she will oversee. The stipulations of their friend's will is if anyone leaves before the five-day period, everyone sacrifices their portion of the estate. What first seems like a lighthearted reunion quickly turns for the worst as old wounds are reopened, and lingering grudges are resurrected. Many of the issues resurrected are created by Ebony's persistent eavesdropping. The unstable engagement between Lisa and Jackson is revealed as Jackson and Storm struggle to keep it a secret that they had a sexual relationship a few years ago when Jackson began to date Lisa. Storm didn't know about the relationship at the time and it increases the tension. Gary has become a porn director much to the disgust of all the women in the estate and is desperate to escape the porn industry. However, he is reluctant to admit it and when he approaches Trenyce with screenplay for a movie whom is a struggling actress she assumes it's to do pornography which increases the tension in the household even more. An attempt to have a peaceful dinner with everyone fails as tempers flare and dark secrets are revealed creating new wounds between them all. A few of the friends begin feeling trapped in a mansion with people who know their darkest secrets grows increasingly unbearable and forces them to reconcile their ways. Some of which truly finding their way realizing one of their greatest mistakes was abandoning their friends.
Cast
Stacey Dash as Lisa
Reagan Gomez as Ebony
Wesley Jonathan as Brett
Datari Turner as Aron
Tatyana Ali as Alex
Meagan Good as Victoria Stevens
Jason Weaver as Gary
Persia White as Trenyce
Terrell Owens as Jackson
Stacy Keibler as Storm
Hosea Chanchez as Jamal
Meghan Markle as Terry
Christian Keyes as Stylz
References
External links
2012 films
American comedy-drama films
2010s English-language films
2012 comedy-drama films
2010s American films
English-language comedy-drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season | The 1857 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest season documented by HURDAT – the official Atlantic hurricane database – to feature no major hurricanes. A total of four tropical cyclones were observed during the season, three of which strengthened into hurricanes. However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea are known, so the actual total could be higher. An undercount bias of zero to six tropical cyclones per year between 1851 and 1885 has been estimated. Additionally, documentation by Jose Fernandez-Partagas and Henry Diaz included a fifth tropical cyclone near Port Isabel, Texas; this storm has since been removed from HURDAT as it was likely the same system as the fourth tropical cyclone.
The first storm was tracked beginning on June 30 offshore North Carolina. It moved eastward and was last noted on the following day. However, no tropical cyclones were reported in the remainder of July or August. Activity resumed when another tropical storm was located southeast of the Bahamas on September 6. It intensified into a hurricane before making landfall in North Carolina and was last noted over the north Atlantic Ocean on September 17. The SS Central America sank offshore, drowning 424 passengers and crew members. Another hurricane may have existed east of South Carolina between September 22 and October 26, though little information is available. The final documented tropical cyclone was initially observed east of Lesser Antilles on September 24. It traversed the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, striking the Yucatán Peninsula and later Port Isabel, Texas. The storm dissipated on September 30. In Texas, damage was reported in several towns near the mouth of the Rio Grande River.
The season's activity was reflected with a low accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 43. ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied by the length of time it existed, so storms that last a long time, as well as particularly strong hurricanes, have high ACEs. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity.
Timeline
Systems
Tropical Storm One
The ship Star of the South experienced heavy gales offshore the East Coast of the United States on June 30. HURDAT lists the first tropical cyclone of the season beginning at 0000 UTC, while located about southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The storm moved slightly north of due east with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h). It was last noted about 265 miles (425 km) north-northwest of Bermuda by the bark Virginia late on July 1.
Hurricane Two
The S.S. Central America Disaster Hurricane of 1857
A tropical storm was first observed east of the Bahamas on September 6. It moved slowly northwestward towards the coast of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acokanthera%20rotundata | Acokanthera rotundata (commonly known as round-leaved poison-bush) is a plant in the family Apocynaceae. It grows as a shrub or small tree, with fragrant flowers featuring a white corolla, often pink to red on the corolla tube. The fruit is red to purple when ripe. Its habitat is in rocky areas of dry woodland. Acokanthera rotundata is native to Zimbabwe, Eswatini and South Africa.
References
rotundata
Flora of Zimbabwe
Flora of Swaziland
Flora of South Africa
Plants described in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%207%20%282013%29 | The second-generation Nexus 7, also commonly referred to as the Nexus 7 (2013), is a mini tablet computer co-developed by Google and Asus that runs the Android operating system. It is the second of three tablets in the Google Nexus tablet series (Nexus 7 (2012), this Nexus 7 (2013), and the Nexus 9), the Nexus family including both phones and tablets running essentially stock Android which were originally marketed for developer testing but later marketed by Google to consumers as well, all of which were built by various original equipment manufacturer partners. Following the success of the original Nexus 7, this second generation of the device was released on July 26, 2013, four days earlier than the originally scheduled date due to early releases from various retailers. The tablet was the first device to ship with Android 4.3.
The second iteration of the tablet, code named "Razor", has various upgrades from the previous generation, including a 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2 GB of RAM, a pixel display (323 pixels per inch; 127px/cm), dual cameras (1.2 MP front, 5 MP rear), stereo speakers, built-in inductive Qi wireless charging, and a SlimPort (via micro USB connector) capable of full high-definition video output to an external display.
Features
Software
Nexus 7 was the first device to be shipped with Android 4.3 "Jelly Bean". All Nexus devices, including the Nexus 7, run a version of Android free of manufacturer or wireless carrier modifications (e.g., custom graphical user interfaces or 'skins' such as TouchWiz and HTC Sense) commonly included on other Android devices. Nexus products also feature an unlockable bootloader, which enabled "rooting" the device, thereby enabling user access to privileged control over the Android environment, which in turn enables further development or modification of the operating system or replacement of the device's firmware. An update to Android 4.4 was released in November 2013, followed by another update to Android 4.4.2 one month later and eventually an update to Android 4.4.3 in June 2014 and 4.4.4 in July. The Wi-Fi only variant of the Nexus 7 was one of the two devices of which the Android L developer preview was officially available for, with the other being the Nexus 5. Android 5.0 "Lollipop" was released in November 2014 for the Wi-Fi only version. In July 2015, Android 5.1.1 was rolled out to the Nexus 7, containing a fix for the Stagefright bug.
In November 2015, Nexus 7 started receiving Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" update across the world. Following which Nexus 7 became one of the first devices to get an Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update in December 2015. The Nexus 7 (2013) will not receive an official Android 7.0 "Nougat" update, meaning that Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow is the last officially supported Android version for the device.
In December 2020, LineageOS announced official builds of LineageOS 17.1 (a distribution of Android 10 "Q") for the Nexus 7. These require repartiti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20by%20Sainsbury%27s | Mobile by Sainsbury's was a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the UK, operated by Sainsbury's between July 2013 and January 2016, using the Vodafone UK network.
Sainsbury's operated an earlier mobile virtual network that was launched in 2001 but only lived until 2003. Their second iteration, Mobile by Sainsbury's, launched in July 2013, following similar launches by supermarket rivals Tesco and Asda. In October 2015, Sainsbury's announced that it would close the service on 15 January 2016.
History
On 18 October 2000, Sainsbury's announced that they would be launching a new MVNO in the UK, called Sainsbury's One, which would be using the BT Cellnet network (which became O2 in 2002). It would offer the lowest prices in a 'Rate and Compare' customer strategy. The service commenced on 2 January 2001. The 'One' brand name was later dropped.
Sainsbury's Mobile ended up in a commercial failure. In autumn 2002, Sir Peter Davis admitted in a letter written to a complaining customer that the standard of service had not been of the standard expected. Near the end of its lifetime it only managed to gain 60,000 subscribers, and one of its partners, Mosaic Group Inc., became defunct. On 18 July 2003, Sainsbury's announced that its mobile customers will be transferred to O2's tariffs, marking the end of Sainsbury's mobile virtual network. Two months later in September 2003, rival supermarket Tesco launched its Tesco Mobile network.
On 23 September 2008, it was reported that Sainsbury's was to launch a mobile network again. Three years later on 28 October 2011, Sainsbury's got the go-ahead and was close to sealing a deal with a network operator. After several delays, the new Mobile by Sainsbury's service was announced on 1 July 2013 in a partnership with Vodafone UK. The service launched on 24 July 2013.
In February 2014 a new set of bundles were launched reducing the costs of the 2 larger bundles, increasing the minutes available for the 2 cheapest tariffs, and doubling the amount of data available.
Mobile By Sainsbury's SIM cards were available in most local and large supermarkets, together with a range of handsets in over 300 stores. Sainsbury's started opening standalone phone shops in its large stores in 2012.
On 13 October 2015, Mobile by Sainsbury's ceased accepting new SIM card orders before closing down permanently on 15 January 2016. Sainsbury's continues to sell a range of branded networks in its larger stores.
Plans
SIM only price plans
£8 for 300 minutes, unlimited texts, and 500MB data
£10 for 500 minutes, unlimited texts, and 1GB data
£12 for 800 minutes, unlimited texts, and 2GB data
Bundles
£10 for 300 minutes, unlimited texts, and 500MB data
£12.50 for 500 minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB data
£15 for 800 minutes, unlimited texts, and 2GB data
Rolling Bundles
£8 for 300 minutes, unlimited texts, 500 MB data
£10 for 500 minutes, unlimited texts, 1 GB data
£12 for 800 minutes, unlimited texts, 2 GB data
Customers could choose to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Boyle%3A%20An%20Unlikely%20Superstar | Susan Boyle: An Unlikely Superstar is a documentary made in 2011 by filmmaker Osca Humphreys and produced by Firecracker Films for UK network ITV. The documentary was distributed internationally by Zodiak Rights.
The film crew followed Susan Boyle around the world for 3 months from Shanghai, China, to New Zealand, to New York City, to her back garden in Blackburn, Scotland.
The documentary attempted to answer the question of whether having achieved her dream of becoming a professional singer and with more wealth and fame than she ever imagined or even desired, she is now happy and as stated in the documentary "living the dream".
Content
The documentary starts with Susan Boyle preparing for a performance at the Shanghai Grand Stadium as a guest star on China's Got Talent, in front of a live audience of 58,000 people and a television audience of 560 million. The narrator notes that "In 2009 the biggest selling album in the world was not by Beyonce or Lady Gaga ... It was by an unknown, unemployed, lonely woman from Scotland." Many of the songs from her 3rd album "Someone To Watch Over Me" play in the background during the documentary, and scenes from the recording studio are included, as she works on the album with her producer and prepares the music with her vocal coach, Yvie Burnett.
Memorable scenes from the documentary allow us in to the private world of Susan Boyle attending a meeting in London with her manager and Simon Cowell, an emotional and uplifting meeting with some of her fans in New York in August 2011, being honoured at her local village Blackburn Gala Day on 11 June 2011, recording a track for "Someone to Watch Over Me", and attending rehearsals for the musical I Dreamed a Dream, which tells Boyle's life story. She becomes very emotional as the musical rehearses Boyle's painful life episodes. The documentary shows the close connection that Boyle has with her manager.
In Boyle's home in Blackburn, the viewer is shown the plaque from Sony for her 14,000,000 sales in 14 months. Boyle states, "I get embarrassed. I'm nobody special." In one scene, Boyle is sitting alone on a bench in the back garden of her home. She reads the plaque on the bench "In loving memory of our dear mum & dad Pat & Bridie Boyle always in our hearts from their loving family". Since her parents died, and her siblings have moved away, Boyle expresses that she often has feelings of loneliness. She has a few friends in Blackburn, but she still has a longing to meet that "special person" with whom to share her life.
Promotion and Reception
The documentary first aired in the UK on ITV on 4 November 2011. As reported in the media:
"SuBo perks up ITV's Friday night ratings On Friday night The 9pm hour belonged to ITV's Susan Boyle: An Unlikely Superstar, which averaged 5.5 million viewers and a 22.4% audience share, rising to 5.8 million with ITV +1."
In the U.S. the documentary first aired on 6 November 2011 on the TLC cable channel and is still avail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 1996 is the second year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 1996 Fighting Network Rings held four events beginning with, Rings: Budokan Hall 1996.
Events list
Rings: Budokan Hall 1996
Rings: Budokan Hall 1996 was an event held on January 24, 1996, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Holland: Kings of Martial Arts
Rings Holland: Kings of Martial Arts was an event held on February 18, 1996, at Sport Hall Zuid in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Maelstrom 6
Rings: Maelstrom 6 was an event held on August 24, 1996, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1996 Opening Round
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1996 Opening Round was an event held on October 25, 1996.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
1996 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Smeeton | George Smeeton (fl. 1800–1828) was an English printer and compiler of biographical collections.
Life
Smeeton rose to the proprietorship of a printing business in the neighbourhood of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields in Westminster. He became a strong ally of James Caulfield, of Wells Street, off Oxford Street. He moved to the Old Bailey, and then to Tooley Street, Southwark, by 1828,
Publications
Smeeton brought out Boxiana as a serial from 1812. He printed and published, in 1814, The Eccentric Magazine for Caulfield containing lives and portraits of misers, dwarfs, and idiots. In 1820 he issued, in two volumes, Reprints of Rare and Curious Tracts relating to English History, containing 16 seventeenth-century pamphlets, with reproductions of contemporary portraits and a few notes.
Following in Caulfield's footsteps, Smeeton issued in 1822 Biographia Curiosa; or Memoirs of Remarkable Characters of the Reign of George III, with their Portraits (London; with 39 portraits, and a plate of the Beggars' Opera at St. Giles). From 1825, he published four volumes of The Unique, a series of engraved portraits of eminent persons, with brief memoirs. In 1828 he issued Doings in London: or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis, illustrated with designs engraved by George Wilmot Bonner after Isaac Robert Cruikshank. This is a medley based to some extent on Edward Ward's The London Spy and the compilations of Pierce Egan and Charles Molloy Westmacott.
Notes
Attribution
Year of birth missing
Publishers (people) from London
Year of death missing
English biographers
19th-century English people
English printers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Policy%20and%20Legal%20Analysis%20Network%20to%20Prevent%20Childhood%20Obesity | The National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity, or NPLAN for short, is a nonprofit organization funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and which, according to its website, plays an important role in the Foundation's effort to reverse the obesity epidemic by 2015, a commitment that was announced in 2007. Their partners include, in addition to the RWJF, Active Living by Design and the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. They are run by ChangeLab Solutions, originally known as Public Health Law and Policy, which focuses not only on obesity but also on tobacco regulation. The NPLAN advocates for a soda tax, specifically an excise tax, and have published model legislation which earmarks the funds raised to go to programs to prevent and treat obesity.
According to the American Public Health Association, they provide "legal technical assistance focused on childhood obesity prevention policy." The Network has also "developed model menu labeling ordinances, requiring chain restaurants to post calorie and other nutrition information on menus." NPLAN has advocated for the use of licensing and zoning laws to "shape the way land is used and how businesses operate," and has praised regulations requiring nutrition standards on foods sold in snack machines in schools. According to their website, they "work on four broad issue areas: healthy community food systems, healthy schools, healthy land use planning, and food marketing." The American Bar Association's director of public health and policy Marice Ashe wrote the following soon after the NPLAN's founding was announced: "NPLAN will serve as an incubator where lawyers, policymakers, advocates, and scientists collaborate to produce legal and policy tools and resources. As research and products are developed, NPLAN will also operate as a national one-stop source for access to practical, efficient, and effective legal technical assistance products."
References
External links
Official website
Obesity organizations
Medical and health organizations based in California
Obesity in the United States
Organizations based in Oakland, California
Organizations established in 2007
2007 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuncio%20de%20Se%C3%B1ales%20y%20Frenado%20Autom%C3%A1tico | Anuncio de Señales y Frenado Automático (ASFA; "Announcement of Signals and Automatic Braking") is an Automatic Train Protection system widely deployed on the Spanish rail network. It consists of a mechanism that stops a train if the driver does not properly heed signals.
Operation
ASFA makes use of inductive coupling between a transceiver on the rolling stock and a balise (tuned electronic beacon) that oscillates at one of nine preset frequencies when activated by a magnetic field emanating from said transceiver. The balise requires no external power, however, there is a cable for controlling small relays inside the transponder which switch capacitors in/out of the coil circuit and determine which frequency is detected by the passing train. The nine frequencies lie in the 60-100 kHz range (although only five frequencies are used in ASFA) and the wayside balises are mounted between the rails offset from the track centerline to provide directionality. Each balise is protected from debris strikes by a wooden ramp on each side and are typically placed at distances of about 5 and 300 meters before a signal.
The frequency picked up by the transceiver is sent to the driver's cab. In the cab, a light signal is activated and sometimes play a sound that indicates the status of the signal. The train driver must press and release a button within three seconds to acknowledge the signal. Trains passing a signal at "Caution" will receive a speed control indication requiring the train to reduce speed until it passes the 300 meter balise at which point it will be required to reduce speed further or be released to proceed at normal speed. If power is lost the balise defaults to the most restrictive condition. If the signal indicates any reduction in speed, the train must slow down to the required speed limit in time, otherwise the emergency brakes are automatically applied. The emergency braking occurs when a train passes a signal at danger or if a previous balise signal indicates a stop at the next signal and the speed at which the train is travelling is more than that required to stop the train.
If an automatic brake application occurs due to a violation of an ASFA signal, the train has to come to a complete halt and a manual reset of the ASFA system in the train must be performed.
Implementation
ASFA is a development of the Westcab intermittent train control technology commercialized by WABCO's Italian subsidiary and licensed to Dimetal of Spain for use on various Iberian rail systems. RENFE, the Spanish state-owned railway operator, was put in charge of the rail system in 1975. Before this, the rail networks of other countries had previously deployed similar systems which gave ASFA a technological advantage over its competitors.
It was progressively rolled out on all of the lines belonging to RENFE beginning with the principal lines and extending to practically the entire Spanish rail network totaling over 13,000 km of track, leaving few lines without |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%207%20%28Poland%29 | National road 7 (, abbreviated as DK 7) is a route of the Polish national roads network running from Żukowo near Gdańsk, through Warsaw and Kraków to the border with Slovakia at Chyżne. Along its entire length the road forms the Polish part of the European route E77. Between Gdańsk and Elbląg it is also a part of the European route E28.
Since the beginning of 1990s segments of the DK 7 are being gradually rebuilt to expressway standards and form parts of the Expressway S7. A section forming the beltway of Kraków is concurrent with Autostrada A4 motorway.
A segment of the road from Kraków to Rabka Zdrój together with the National road 47 continuing from there to the popular tourist resort Zakopane in the Tatra mountains is commonly referred to as Zakopianka.
Prior to its modernization, the DK 7 was the most dangerous road in Poland along with DK 1. In 2007 there were 765 road accidents on DK 7, with 170 people dead and 1157 injured. The following year the accident count dropped to 696. DK7 is planned to be a four-lane road in the following years as of 2023 directly connected with The S7 Expressway.
Parts of the road are concurrent with pre-war German Reichsstraße 128 and 130.
References
07 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20Cooking%3F%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | What's Cooking? was an Australian cooking television series, that aired on the Nine Network in 1991 until 1999.
Hosts
It was originally hosted by chef Gabriel Gaté and television actress Colette Mann until 1993 when production cuts forced the hosts to leave the program. Geoff Jansz took over in 1993. In 1999, Kerri-Anne Kennerley co-hosted the show with Jansz.
References
Nine Network original programming
Australian cooking television series
1991 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20O%27Neil | Catherine ("Cathy") Helen O'Neil is an American mathematician, data scientist, and author. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller Weapons of Math Destruction, and opinion columns in Bloomberg View. O'Neil was active in the Occupy movement.
Education and career
O'Neil attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1999, and afterward held positions in the mathematics departments of MIT and Barnard College,. She left academia in 2007, and worked for four years in the finance industry. After becoming disenchanted with the world of finance, O'Neil became involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement, participating in its Alternative Banking Group.
O'Neil operates the blog mathbabe.org and is a contributor to Bloomberg View.
Her first book, Doing Data Science, was written with Rachel Schutt and published in 2013. In 2016, her second book, Weapons of Math Destruction was published, long-listed for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and became a New York Times best-seller. A third book, The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, was published March 2022.
She is the founder of O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing (ORCAA), an algorithmic auditing company.
Awards
In 1993 O'Neil was awarded the Alice T. Schafer Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics and in 2019 she won the MAA's Euler Book Prize for her book Weapons of Math Destruction.
Personal life
O'Neil lives in Massachusetts and has three sons.
Bibliography
With Rachel Schutt, Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline (O'Reilly 2013, ).
On Being a Data Skeptic (O'Reilly Media 2013, ).
Weapons of Math Destruction (Crown 2016, ).
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (Crown 2022, ).
References
External links
ORCAA - O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing
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Women data scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaptensgatan%20tram%20stop | Kaptensgatan is a tram stop of the Gothenburg tram network, on Karl Johansgatan between Stigberget and Majorna, on lines 3 and 9. Like in the middle in UK there is a level crossing, where most minor UK stations, it features Kaptensgatan. The southbound platform is after the intersection with Kaptensgatan, while the northbound is before. It's the last station (if travelling towards the city centre) before it joins with line 11 at Stigbergstorget.
Tram stops in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess%20%28disambiguation%29 | Jess is a given name and a surname. It may also refer to:
Jess (falconry), the strap that tethers a hawk or falcon
Jess (programming language)
Jess (novel), by H. Rider Haggard
JESS (Joint Expert Speciation System), chemistry software
See also
Jes (disambiguation) |
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