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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Dunlop | Brendan Dunlop is a Canadian sportscaster known for his anchoring and hosting duties on The Score and Sportsnet television networks.
Dunlop was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, where he graduated from Catholic Central High School. Dunlop grew up a sports fan and had aspirations of becoming a sports journalist from watching Ray Ramano's character on Everybody Loves Raymond. Dunlop graduated from the University of Guelph-Humber. He originally wanted to be an actor.
Dunlop first gained attention cohosting The Footy Show on The Score. He was a co-host on The Hardcore Footy Show when this show was broadcast on Hardcore Sports Radio, Sirius XM Radio channel 98, alongside English sportscasters Kristian Jack and James Sharman. He was cohost of the Fox Soccer News, on the now-defunct Canadian channel Fox Sports World Canada. Dunlop also hosted Soccer Central on Sportsnet. He co-anchored the Sportsnet Central program's weekend edition.
In 2020, Dunlop joined the OneSoccer on-air team, providing play-by-play commentary and hosted magazine shows during their coverage of the Canadian Premier League's 2020 season.
On July 10, 2023, Brendan made his TSN debut, filling in for hosting duties on the primetime radio show, Overdrive.
References
Canadian television sportscasters
Living people
Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6stebekgiller | Köstebekgiller is a Turkish live-action/computer animated children's television series that airs on the TRT Çocuk broadcast channel.
Premise
In the garden of a house in Istanbul lives a family of moles called the Köstelbeks. The family consisting of Dede the grandfather, Baba the father, Anne the mother, Boyo, Süslü and Bebi. One time, a human girl named Pelin first meets her neighbor Caner who is a naughty boy, he and Pelin don't get along from the first moment. Caner treats Pelin badly, so she wants to stay away from him.
Cast
Real characters
İnci Türkay
Reyhan Asena Keskinci
Yiğit Ege Yazar
Oğuz Oktay
Turkish animated television series
2010 Turkish television series debuts
2010s animated television series
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation original programming
Television shows set in Istanbul
Television series produced in Istanbul
2018 Turkish television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing%20Up%20Fisher | Growing Up Fisher is an American sitcom that began airing mid-season on NBC as part of the 2013–14 United States network television schedule. The semi-autobiographical single camera series was created by D. J. Nash.
On January 10, 2014, NBC announced that Growing Up Fisher would premiere following the 2014 Olympics on Sunday, February 23, 2014, at 10:30 pm, and then move to its regular timeslot on Tuesday, March 4, at 9:30 pm following About a Boy.
On May 9, 2014, NBC canceled Growing Up Fisher after one season.
Plot
The family of 11-year-old Henry (Eli Baker) begins to function after the divorce of blind father and lawyer Mel (J.K. Simmons) and mother Joyce (Jenna Elfman). The series follows everyday situations the family goes through, often involving Henry's sister Katie (Ava Deluca-Verley) and normal situations the parents handle, usually in a comical way.
Cast
Main
J. K. Simmons as Mel Fisher
Eli Baker as Henry Fisher
Ava Deluca-Verley as Katie Fisher
Lance Lim as Runyen
Jenna Elfman as Joyce Fisher
Jason Bateman (voice only) as Future Henry Fisher
Recurring
Isabela Moner as Jenny
Matthew Glave as Principal Sloan
Carla Jimenez as Janice
Development and production
The series first appeared on the development slate at NBC in October 2012 under the title ...Then Came Elvis. The network placed a pilot order in January 2013. The pilot episode was written by D. J. Nash, and directed by David Schwimmer.
Casting announcements began in February 2013, with Parker Posey first cast in the role of Joyce Fisher, Henry's mother who attempts to reclaim her youth, post-divorce. J.K. Simmons was the second actor cast, in the series regular role of the blind family patriarch, Mel Fisher. Shortly after, Eli Baker and Ava Deluca-Verley were then added to the cast, with Baker cast in the lead role of Henry Fisher and Deluca-Verley to the role of Katie Fisher, Henry's older sister, who Joyce desperately wants to be close to.
In May 2013, NBC placed a series order for the comedy under the new title The Family Guide, and in June, it underwent another name change to Growing Up Fisher. In July 2013, Jenna Elfman replaced Parker Posey in the role of Joyce Fisher.
Episodes
Reception and cancellation
Initially sporting good ratings, viewership declined over the course of the season, ending with a 1.2 share (about five million viewers) when the show was cancelled. Only 2 of NBC's 8 sitcoms were renewed that year. It was unpopular with critics, producing a 35% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although audiences loved it twice as much, producing a 70%.
References
External links
2010s American single-camera sitcoms
2014 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Television series by Universal Television
English-language television shows
NBC original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexenclosure | Flexenclosure AB is a Sweden-based developer of hybrid power systems and pre-fabricated data centres.
History
Founded in 1989, Flexenclosure is a former subsidiary of Pharmadule Emtunga AB. It became an independent company in 2007. Flexenclosure is privately owned. Its major shareholders are Industrifonden, a Swedish investment fund; Pegroco Invest, a privately owned Swedish investment company; Andra AP-fonden (AP2), a Swedish pension fund; and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private sector global development institution which is a member of the World Bank Group. In May 2013 IFC invested US$24 million in Flexenclosure.
Flexenclosure's headquarters are in Stockholm, with design and manufacturing facilities at Vara in southern Sweden, with subsidiaries in Kenya and India, and overseas offices in Nigeria, Malaysia, Pakistan and the UAE. The company went bankrupt October 2019, e-site division lives on after acquisition of Pegroco under new name.
Products
eSite
eSite is a hybrid power management system that can work as a standalone unit with a backup generator, or with any combination of grid and renewable energy sources to power telecom base station sites.
eCentre
eCentre is a pre-fabricated data centre brand. eCentre is a pre-equipped, self-contained, technical, modular facility for housing and powering data and telecom equipment.
An eCentre can comprise one or a number of different elements including a data centre, switching centre, energy centre, sub-station and Network Operations Centre (NOC).
eCentres are custom-designed and manufactured at Flexenclosure's research, development, design and production facility at Vara, in the south of Sweden, before being transported to their intended location for final assembly and commissioning. eCentres have mostly been installed in West, Central and North African countries such as Nigeria and Mozambique.
References
Data centers
Technology companies of Sweden
Sustainable technologies
Telecommunications companies of Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Fun%20with%20Computers%20%26%20Games | Electronic Fun with Computers & Games was a video game magazine published in the United States from November 1982 to May 1984. For the last two issues it was renamed ComputerFun.
Content
The magazine was split up into the following sections:
Special Features
Regular Features
Equipment Reviews
Game Reviews
Departments
Legacy
The cover art for the November 1983 issue was used as the album art for the 1984 album Night Lines by Dave Grusin.
External links
PDF issues at archive.org
PDF Issues at Digital Press
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Video game magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1982
Magazines disestablished in 1984
Magazines published in New York City
1982 establishments in New York (state)
1984 disestablishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room%20for%20Improvement%20%28TV%20series%29 | Room for Improvement is an Australian lifestyle television series aired on the Seven Network from 2000 until 2003. It was hosted by Scott McGregor and later Tom Williams. It also featured presenters Kate Ryerson, Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Craig Russell, Rob Palmer and Sophie Ward. Series One and Series Two were directed by Helen Parker.
This premise of the series is that homeowners receive a surprise makeover to a room in their house while they are away.
References
External links
See also
Backyard Blitz
Changing Rooms
Aussie Property Flippers
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
2000 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise%20%28TV%20program%29 | Denise was an Australian morning show television series that aired on the Seven Network from 1998 until 2001. It was hosted by Denise Drysdale.
Seven Network original programming
Australian variety television shows
1998 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download%20%28game%20show%29 | Download is an Australian children's game show which aired on the Nine Network from 2000 until 2002. Scott McRae hosted the show in 2000-2001; he was replaced by Nathan Lloyd in 2001-2002, while Emily Jade O'Keefe hosted the final season of the show (which aired in mid-2002). The co-host for the final season was Miss Bytes (shown on TV in the studio).
Format
Four contestants competed in a tournament format, which consists of a series of word puzzles.
First two rounds (Small Screen Game)
At the beginning of each round, two contestants were introduced. The winner of the coin toss prior to the beginning of the round got to choose a category; the categories used for this round were as follows: Screen Dreams, Planet Earth, Sounds, True Blue, Techno, and Sweating It Out. The first letter in the word puzzle was automatically given. In order for a letter to be downloaded, a contestant had to answer a trivia question related to the category (the answer always contained the letter that was in the puzzle). The first contestant to buzz in with the correct answer earned 1 point and had that letter automatically placed into the correct position in the puzzle. Solving the puzzle earned the contestant an additional 4 points and eliminated the category from further play. Giving an incorrect answer to the trivia question or solving the puzzle incorrectly yielded no points. The first contestant to score 10 or more points (or the contestant in the lead when time was called, whichever came first) advanced to the third round, while the other contestant left the game with consolation prizes. This round was played twice throughout the game.
Third round (Big Screen Game)
The two remaining contestants who won the first two rounds faced off against each other in this round, and their scores were reset to zero. Both contestants were shown a scrambled word or phrase, and were given a maximum of five clues to try and unscramble it; the first contestant to buzz in with the correct word was awarded a number of points depending upon the number of clues given (the maximum score was five points, with one point being deducted for each additional clue). Every time a clue is read out, some of the letters in the word were unscrambled; if no one was able to unscramble the word in five clues, the word was thrown out and no points were awarded to either teams.
Once time was called, the contestants played a 60-second lightning round, where the point values for each unscrambled word were doubled (the maximum point value was 10 points). The player with the most points at the end of the round won the game and advanced to the bonus round. If both contestants were tied at the end of the round, one final puzzle was played. The player who buzzed in with the correct answer won the game, but an incorrect answer or no response awarded the win to the other contestant.
The highest margin of victory was 90 points (a score of 94–4), which was recorded in October 2002 by Kavel Gounden (who was 11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing%20Rooms%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Changing Rooms is an Australian lifestyle/home renovating television series which is based on the British series of the same name. Originally hosted by Suzie Wilks, it aired on the Nine Network from 1998 to 2005. It was part of a wave of many home improvement and lifestyle shows that were popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
A short-lived revival of the show premiered on 13 February 2019 on Channel 10 and WIN, hosted by Natalie Bassingthwaighte.
Original series
The premise of the show involved two couples who would swap houses, and with a tight budget of $AU1,500 and just two days, would renovate one room in each other's house with the aid of a carpenter and professional designer. Host Suzie Wilks was assisted by handyman James Lunday and designers Peter Everett, Deborah De Jong, Glenn T and Tim Janenko-Panaeff. The executive producers were Eric Dwyer, David Barbour and Julian Cress.
The series was axed when host Suzie Wilks quit in 2005.
Revival
The series was revived by Network Ten and premiered on Wednesday, 13 February 2019. It was hosted by Natalie Bassingthwaighte, with contestants guided by interior designers Chris Carroll, Jane Thompson, Naomi Findlay and Tim Leveson.
The show had the same structure as the first series but each couple would be matched to an interior designer who would help them renovate rooms in each others houses over a period of a week. The budget for the renovation of each house was $AU20,000 and couples chose which rooms in their houses they wanted to be renovated.
Due to a "disappointing" reception and negative reviews, the show was cancelled four episodes into the season. It is still unknown if Network Ten will air the remaining episodes in the series.
See also
Changing Rooms (UK)
Trading Spaces (U.S.)
References
External links
Changing Rooms Website
Endemol Shine - Changing Rooms
Nine Network original programming
Network 10 original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
1998 Australian television series debuts
2005 Australian television series endings
2019 Australian television series debuts
Australian television series based on British television series
Australian television series revived after cancellation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seventh%20Floor%20%281994%20film%29 | The Seventh Floor is a 1994 Australian thriller television film directed by Ian Barry and starring Brooke Shields.
Plot
Kate Fletcher lives in an apartment controlled by a high-tech computer system. The conveniences of the apartment soon end up making her a prisoner, as a psychotic murderer invades her building. The killer believes his long-dead sister is instructing him to kill again.
Main cast
Brooke Shields as Kate Fletcher
Masaya Kato as Mitsuru
Craig Pearce as Ed
Linda Cropper as Vivien
Malcolm Kennard as Greg
Russell Newman as Detective Riley
References
External links
1994 films
1994 television films
1994 thriller films
Australian television films
Films scored by Roger Mason (musician)
Films about murderers
1990s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIG%20Memsaab | BIG Memsaab is a reality show aired on Reliance Broadcast Network Limited’s regional channel BIG Magic. It provides housewives from central India a platform to showcase their skills, personality, creativity and talent. BIG Memsaab is a knock-out show wherein one contestant is eliminated at the end of every episode. It is judge by Sambhavna Seth , and Karishma Tanna with current host Pritam Singh. BIG Memsaab also has a Punjabi version called BIG Punjaban which airs on the Spark Punjabi. This is the flagship show for the channel with most number of seasons and has recently ended its seventh season on 12 July 2013.
Show Host and Co-Host
Season 5 - Host: Natasha Sharma; Co-host: Manish Goel
Season 6 & Season 7 - Host: Parul Chauhan;
Co-Host: Priyesh Sinha
References
Indian reality television series
Big Magic original programming
2013 Indian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datadog | Datadog is an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. The mascot is a dog named Bits.
History
Datadog was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, who met while working at Wireless Generation. After Wireless Generation was acquired by NewsCorp, the two set out to create a product that could reduce the friction they experienced between developer and systems administration teams, who were often working at cross-purposes.
They built Datadog to be a cloud infrastructure monitoring service, with a dashboard, alerting, and visualizations of metrics. As cloud adoption increased, Datadog grew rapidly and expanded its product offering to cover service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware, and OpenStack.
In 2015, Datadog announced the acquisition of Mortar Data, bringing on its team and adding its data and analytics capabilities to Datadog's platform. That year, Datadog also opened a research and development office in Paris.
In 2016, Datadog moved its New York City headquarters to a full floor of the New York Times Building to support its growing team, which doubled over the course of the year. Datadog announced the beta-release of Application Performance Monitoring in 2016, offering for the first time a full-stack monitoring solution. As of 2017, the company has close to 300 employees, the vast majority of which are located in the US (with offices in Manhattan, Boston, and Baltimore) and a new R&D facility in Paris.
In 2017, Datadog acquired the Paris-based Logmatic.io, a platform-agnostic service for querying and visualizing logs to monitor and troubleshoot online services. In 2019, Madumbo, an AI-based application testing platform, joined Datadog.
In 2019, Datadog established a Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo with enterprise technology veteran, Akiyoshi Kunimoto, as Country Manager for Japan.
In February 2022, Datadog acquired CoScreen, a video collaboration tool.
In August 2022, Datadog acquired Seekret, an API observability company.
In November 2022, it was announced Datadog had acquired the New York-based visualization service for cloud and system architects, Cloudcraft, for an undisclosed sum.
Technology
Datadog uses a Go-based agent, rewritten from scratch since its major version 6.0.0 released on February 28, 2018. It was formerly Python-based, forked from the original created in 2009 by David Mytton for Server Density (previously called Boxed Ice). Its backend is built using a number of open and closed source technologies including D3, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, etc.
In 2014, Datadog support was broadened to multiple cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift. Today, the company supports over 600 integrations.
Funding
In 2010, Datadog laun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCSDS%20MO%20Services | The Spacecraft Monitoring & Control (SM&C) Working Group of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), which sees the active participation of 10 space agencies and of the Space Domain Task Force of the Object Management Group (OMG), is defining a service oriented architecture consisting of a set of standard end-to-end services between functions resident on board a spacecraft or based on the ground, that are responsible for mission operations.
The CCSDS Mission Operations (MO) Services provides a set of standard operations services for the day-to-day operation of space assets and are outlined in the CCSDS Mission Operations Services Concept.
Service Definition
Each service is defined in terms of an information model that defines a set of object types that are shared by providers and consumers of the service. Examples of such object types are status parameters, control actions and notification alerts, orbit vectors, schedules, planning requests and software images.
In addition to definition of the static information model, the service defines the interactions (through extension of the patterns defined in the Message Abstraction Layer) required between service provider and consumer to allow:
the service consumer to observe the status of objects through a flow of update messages;
the service consumer to invoke operations upon the objects.
The specification of an MO service defines the structure of the objects, however, each deployment (or instantiation) of a service will also require service configuration data that defines the actual instances of those object types that exist for that service instance. For example, the M&C service may define what parameters, actions and alerts are, but it is the associated service configuration data that specifies the set of parameters, actions and alerts that exist for a particular spacecraft.
Identified Mission Operations Services
The following table lists the application-level Mission Operations services that have currently been identified by the working group. It is to be stressed, however, that the service framework is designed to be extensible and additional services may be identified in the future to address additional requirements for end-to-end interaction in mission operations.
NOTE – Services are listed together with a summary of the associated Service Objects and Operations.
See also
NanoSat MO Framework
References
29335606771
Space standards
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Login%20manager | A login manager is a login system for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It comprises a login daemon, a login user interface, and a system for tracking login sessions. When a user tries to log in, the login manager passes the user's credentials to an authentication system.
Since an X display manager is a graphical user interface for login, some people use the terms display manager and login manager synonymously.
systemd, an init daemon for Linux, has an integrated login manager; its login daemon is called logind. systemd's login manager is an alternative to ConsoleKit.
See also
BSD Authentication
Name Service Switch
passwd
Pluggable authentication module
References
Computer access control
Unix process- and task-management-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20H.%20Rodger | Susan H. Rodger is an American computer scientist known for work in computer science education including developing the software JFLAP for over twenty years. JFLAP is educational software for visualizing and interacting with formal languages and automata. Rodger is also known for peer-led team learning in computer science and integrating computing into middle schools and high schools with Alice. She is also currently serving on the board of CRA-W and was chair of ACM SIGCSE from 2013 to 2016.
Biography
Rodger was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She received a B.S. in computer science and a B.S. in mathematics from North Carolina State University in 1983. She received a M.S. in computer science from Purdue University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1989.
She immediately joined the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor. In 1994 she moved to Duke University as an assistant professor of the Practice of Computer Science. She was promoted to associate professor of the practice of computer science in 1997 and to professor of the practice in 2008.
Awards
2006: Rodger was named an ACM Distinguished Member.
2007: Finalist in the NEEDS Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware (for the software JFLAP).
2014: ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.
2019: IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award.
2019: David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Award
2023: SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education
See also
Owen Astrachan
Alicia Nicki Washington
Duke University
JFLAP
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
North Carolina State University
Alice (software)
References
External links
Duke University: Susan H. Rodger, Department of Computer Science
Duke University: Susan H. Rodger, Department of Computer Science
Susan H. Rodger, Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing
American women computer scientists
Duke University faculty
Living people
American computer scientists
People from Columbia, South Carolina
North Carolina State University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Computer science educators
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGCSE%20Technical%20Symposium%20on%20Computer%20Science%20Education | The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium is the main ACM conference for computer science educators. It has been held annually in February or March in the United States since 1970, with the exception of 2020 when it was cancelled due to COVID-19. In 2019, there were 1,809 attendees and 994 total submissions from over 50 countries, with a total of 2,668 unique authors representing over 800 institutions and organizations. There were 526 paper submissions (up 15% on 2018), with 169 papers accepted across the three paper tracks (CS Education Research, Experience Reports & Tools, and Curricula Initiatives) which was up 5% over 2018. It is a CORE A Conference.
SIGCSE members often refer to the Symposium as "SIGCSE" (pronounced SIG-see), as in "Are you going to SIGCSE this year?" or "I attended her talk at last year's SIGCSE". Thus, while "SIGCSE" refers to the ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) that is SIGCSE, it also refers to the SIGCSE Technical Symposium.
Conferences
Susan Rodger maintains a page with the history of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium and other SIGCSE conferences.
SIGCSE 2023 - Toronto, Quebec, Canada - March 16-18, 2023 - 54th conference
SIGCSE 2022 - Providence, Rhode Island - March 2–5, 2022 - 53rd conference
SIGCSE 2021 Toronto, Canada (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic) - March 13–20, 2021
SIGCSE 2020 Portland, Oregon - March 11–14, 2020 - 51st conference
SIGCSE 2019 Minneapolis, Minnesota - February 27 - March 2, 2019 - 50th conference
SIGCSE 2018 Baltimore, Maryland - February 21–24, 2018 - 49th conference
SIGCSE 2017 Seattle, Washington - March 8–11, 2017 - 48th conference
SIGCSE 2016 Memphis, Tennessee - March 2–5, 2016 - 47th conference
SIGCSE 2015 Kansas City, Missouri - March 4–7, 2015 - 46th conference
SIGCSE 2014 Atlanta, Georgia - March 5–8, 2014 - 45th conference
SIGCSE 2013 - Denver, Colorado - 44th conference
SIGCSE 2012 - Raleigh, NC - 43rd conference
SIGCSE 2011 - Dallas, Texas - 42nd conference
SIGCSE 2010 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 41st conference
SIGCSE 2009 - Chattanooga, Tennessee - 40th conference
SIGCSE 2008 - Portland, Oregon - 39th conference
SIGCSE 2007 - Covington, Kentucky - 38th conference
SIGCSE 2006 - Houston, Texas - 37th conference
Nifty Assignments
The Nifty Assignments session is one of the most popular sessions at the conference. Started by Nick Parlante in 1999, the session serves as a place for educators to share ideas and materials for successful computer science assignments. Nifty assignments are shared publicly for general reference and usage.
Presenters have included Owen Astrachan, Allison Obourne, Richard E. Pattis, Suzanne Matthews, Joseph Zachary, Eric S. Roberts, Cay Horstmann, Michelle Craig, Mehran Sahami, David Malan, and Mark Guzdial.
References
External links
Nifty Assignments
SIGCSE Technical Symposium
Computer conferences
Computer science education
Association for Computing Machinery co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through%20the%20Looking%20Glass%20%28video%20game%29 | Through the Looking Glass, also known as Alice, was a 1984 video game written for the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh computers. Written by a member of the Lisa and Mac teams, Steve Capps, it was one of the earliest video games on the Mac platform, part of the only games disk officially sold by Apple Computer during that era.
In the game, the player takes the role of Alice from Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland, who is opposed by the computer playing a complete set of chess players. Alice moves about the board in realtime while attempting to capture the computer's pieces, while at the same time avoiding the computer's attempts to capturing her. To increase the skill level, Alice's moves are increasingly limited, while the computer increases the number of players it actively moves.
The game was re-released for iOS on the 25th anniversary of the Mac's release.
History
In the fall of 1981, Steve Capps was a core member of the Lisa team working on printer support. In his spare time, he wrote Alice on the Lisa and started demonstrating the game to members of the team. Bruce Daniels, manager of the Lisa software team, demoed the game to Andy Hertzfeld and other members of the Mac team. They were impressed, and Daniels suggested that a Mac port would be possible if the Mac team lent him a prototype to use for porting.
Two days later, Capps returned with a working version. It soon became a favourite among the Mac team. Joanna Hoffman became particularly good at it, and complained that it was too easy. Capps changed several parts of the game to make it increasingly challenging. Steve Jobs saw the game and was duly impressed. He soon started agitating for Capps to join the Mac team, but as a key member of the Lisa team this was not possible. Jobs eventually arranged a deal that Capps could move after the Lisa was released, which occurred in January 1983.
Capps became a key member of the Mac team, working on the Finder team and producing several pieces of early software, including the "Guided Tour" diskette that shipped with early machines. He continued making improvements to the game throughout this period as well. Several variations of the basic game appeared, including one where squares of the board would randomly disappear. This version was shown in the attract mode display for the game.
By the fall of 1983, Capps was looking for routes to release the game commercially. The recently formed Electronic Arts was explored, but Jobs convinced Capps that Apple would do a better job of it. The game was featured during the release of the Mac in the spring of 1984. However, while progressing to commercial release, they discovered that the name "Alice" was being used by a database management program, so the name was changed to "Through the Looking Glass".
Although not the first Mac game—the first Macintosh shipped with Puzzle, a built-in Desk Accessory—Through the Looking Glass remains the only game ever written and published directly by Apple, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20social%20science | Computational social science is the academic sub-discipline concerned with computational approaches to the social sciences. This means that computers are used to model, simulate, and analyze social phenomena. Fields include computational economics, computational sociology, cliodynamics, culturomics, nonprofit studies, and the automated analysis of contents, in social and traditional media. It focuses on investigating social and behavioral relationships and interactions through social simulation, modeling, network analysis, and media analysis.
Definitions
There are two terminologies that relate to each other: Social Science Computing (SSC) and Computational Social Science (CSS). In literature, CSS is referred to the field of social science that uses the computational approaches in studying the social phenomena.
On the other hand, SSC is the field in which computational methodologies are created to assist in explanations of social phenomena.
Computational social science revolutionizes both fundamental legs of the scientific method: empirical research, especially through big data, by analyzing the digital footprint left behind through social online activities; and scientific theory, especially through computer simulation model building through social simulation. It is a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach to social survey focusing on information processing by means of advanced information technology. The computational tasks include the analysis of social networks, social geographic systems, social media content and traditional media content.
Computational social science work increasingly relies on the greater availability of large databases, currently constructed and maintained by a number of interdisciplinary projects, including:
The Seshat: Global History Databank, which systematically collects state-of-the-art accounts of the political and social organization of human groups and how societies have evolved through time into an authoritative databank. Seshat is affiliated also with the Evolution Institute, a non-profit think-tank that "uses evolutionary science to solve real-world problems."
D-PLACE: the Database of Places, Languages, Culture and Environment, which provides data on over 1,400 human social formations
The Atlas of Cultural Evolution , an archaeological database created by Peter N. Peregrine
CHIA: The Collaborative Information for Historical Analysis, a multidisciplinary collaborative endeavor hosted by the University of Pittsburgh with the goal of archiving historical information and linking data as well as academic/research institutions around the globe
International Institute of Social History, which collects data on the global social history of labour relations, workers, and labour
Human Relations Area Files eHRAF Archaeology
Human Relations Area Files eHRAF World Cultures
Clio-Infra a database of measures of economic performance and other aspects of societal well-being on a global sample of societies from 1800 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapmans%20Torg%20tram%20stop | Chapmans Torg is a tram stop of the Gothenburg tram network, located not far from the Spar Hotel Majorna and the Majorna bibilothek. Like Masthuggstorget, is one of the only tram stops which separated via a grass path.
Rail transport in Gothenburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby%20Jack | Barnaby Michael Douglas Jack (22 November 1977 – 25 July 2013) was a New Zealand hacker, programmer and computer security expert. He was known for his presentation at the Black Hat computer security conference in 2010, during which he exploited two ATMs and made them dispense fake paper currency on the stage. Among his other most notable works were the exploitation of various medical devices, including pacemakers and insulin pumps.
Jack was known among industry experts for his influence in the medical and financial security fields. In 2012 his testimony led the United States Food And Drug Administration to change regulations regarding wireless medical devices. At the time of his death, Jack was Director of Embedded Device Security at IOActive.
"Jackpotting" ATMs
At a Black Hat conference in 2010, Jack gave a presentation on "jackpotting", or causing automated teller machines to dispense cash without withdrawing it from a bank account using a bank card. The scenario was first described in fiction in the 1995 cult movie Hackers. Jack gave demonstrations of different kinds of attacks involving both physical access to the machines and completely automated remote attacks. In both cases, malware was injected into the operating system of the machines, causing them to dispense currency fraudulently on the attacker's command. During the physical attack on an automated teller machine (ATM) as demonstrated by Jack, the attacker takes advantage of their physical access to the target machine and uses a flash drive loaded with malware to gain unauthorised access to the machines allowing control over their currency dispensing mechanism. During the remote attack, malware is installed onto the target system via exploited vulnerabilities in the remote management system, most notably the use of default passwords and remote management TCP ports. The attacker then executes the malware, causing the target ATM to dispense currency.
Insulin pumps
At the McAfee FOCUS 11 conference in October 2011 in Las Vegas, while working for McAfee Security, Jack first demonstrated the wireless hacking of insulin pumps, one worn by a diabetic friend and another of the same model on a bench set up for demonstration. Interfacing with the pumps with a high-gain antenna, he obtained complete control of the pumps without any prior knowledge of their serial numbers, up to being able to cause the demonstration pump to repeatedly deliver its maximum dose of 25 units until its entire reservoir of 300 units was depleted, amounting to many times a lethal dose if delivered to a typical patient.
At the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco in February 2012, using a transparent mannequin he demonstrated that he could wirelessly hack the insulin pump from a distance of up to 90 metres using the high-gain antenna.
Pacemakers
In 2012 Jack demonstrated the ability to assassinate a victim by hacking their pacemaker. Jack demonstrated delivering such a deadly electric shock live at the 2012 Bre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMAWK%20algorithm | The SMAWK algorithm is an algorithm for finding the minimum value in each row of an implicitly-defined totally monotone matrix. It is named after the initials of its five inventors, Peter Shor, Shlomo Moran, Alok Aggarwal, Robert Wilber, and Maria Klawe.
Input
For the purposes of this algorithm, a matrix is defined to be monotone if each row's minimum value occurs in a column which is equal to or greater than the column of the previous row's minimum. It is totally monotone if the same property is true for every submatrix (defined by an arbitrary subset of the rows and columns of the given matrix). Equivalently, a matrix is totally monotone if there does not exist a 2×2 submatrix whose row minima are in the top right and bottom left corners. Every Monge array is totally monotone, but not necessarily vice versa.
For the SMAWK algorithm, the matrix to be searched should be defined as a function, and this function is given as input to the algorithm (together with the dimensions of the matrix). The algorithm then evaluates the function whenever it needs to know the value of a particular matrix cell. If this evaluation takes O(1), then, for a matrix with r rows and c columns, the running time and number of function evaluations are both O(c(1 + log(r/c))). This is much faster than the O(r c) time of a naive algorithm that evaluates all matrix cells.
Method
The basic idea of the algorithm is to follow a prune and search strategy in which the problem to be solved is reduced to a single recursive subproblem of the same type whose size is smaller by a constant factor. To do so, the algorithm first preprocesses the matrix to remove some of its columns that cannot contain a row-minimum, using a stack-based algorithm similar to the one in the Graham scan and all nearest smaller values algorithms. After this phase of the algorithm, the number of remaining columns will at most equal the number of rows.
Next, the algorithm calls itself recursively to find the row minima of the even-numbered rows of the matrix. Finally, by searching the columns between the positions of consecutive even-row minima, the algorithm fills out the remaining minima in the odd rows.
Applications
The main applications of this method presented in the original paper by Aggarwal et al. were in computational geometry, in finding the farthest point from each point of a convex polygon, and in finding optimal enclosing polygons. Subsequent research found applications of the same algorithm in breaking paragraphs into lines, RNA secondary structure prediction, DNA and protein sequence alignment, the construction of prefix codes, and image thresholding, among others.
References
Combinatorial algorithms
Matrix theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masthuggstorget%20tram%20stop | Masthuggstorget is a tram stop of the Gothenburg tram network, located on Första Långgatan, and is one of the other tram stops that are on a grassway. It's the last before it joins routes 1 and 6, at Järntorget. At the next stop, Hagakyrkan, because line 3 is part of the lines that go to Brunnsparken via Valand and Kungsportsplatsen, there is junction. At Grönsakstorget, line 2 joins and forms lines that go to Brunnsparken via Domkyrkan (station currently closed for renovations).
Tram stops in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RX100 | RX100 may refer to:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100, a digital camera
Yamaha RX 100, a motorcycle
RX-100, an Indonesian RX-family rocket
RX 100, a 2018 Indian Telugu-language film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaegerdorffsplatsen%20tram%20stop | Jaegerdorffsplatsen is a tram stop of the Gothenburg tram network located in Majorna, and is the last tram stop on Karl Johansgatan. After Jaegerdorffsplatsen in order to rejoin with line 11, it turns on Älvsborgsgatan.
Tram stops in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinder%20%28app%29 | Tinder is an online dating and geosocial networking application launched in 2012. On Tinder, users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles, which include their photos, a short bio, and some of their interests. Tinder uses a "double opt-in" system, where both users must like each other before they can exchange messages.
In 2020, Tinder had 6.2 million subscribers and 75 million monthly active users. As of 2021, Tinder has recorded more than 65 billion matches worldwide.
History
Sean Rad launched Tinder at a hackathon at the Hatch Labs incubator in West Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States in 2012.
Sean Rad and engineer Joe Munoz built the original prototype for Tinder, "MatchBox", during a hackathon in February 2012. The hackathon was hosted by Hatch Labs, a New York-based startup incubator with a West Hollywood outpost. Realizing the name MatchBox was too similar to Match.com, Rad, his co-founders, and early employees renamed the company Tinder. The company's flame-themed logo remained consistent throughout the rebranding.
2012: Prototype and launch
In January 2012, Rad was hired as general manager of Cardify, a credit card loyalty app launched by Hatch Labs. During a hackathon in his first month, he presented the idea for a dating app called Matchbox. Rad and Munoz built the prototype for MatchBox and presented the app on February 16, 2012.
In March, co-founder Jonathan Badeen (front-end operator and later Tinder's CSO), and Chris Gulczynski (designer and later Tinder's CCO) joined Cardify.
In May, while Cardify was going through Apple's App Store approval process, the team focused on MatchBox. During the same period, Alexa Mateen (Justin's sister) and her friend, Whitney Wolfe Herd, were hired as Cardify sales reps.
In August 2012, Cardify was abandoned, Matchbox was renamed Tinder, and co-founder Justin Mateen (marketer and later Tinder's CMO) joined the company.
In September 2012, Tinder was soft-launched in the App Store. It was then launched at several college campuses and started to expand quickly.
2013: Swipe feature developed
Tinder's selection function, which was initially click-based, evolved into the company's swipe feature. The feature was established when Rad and Badeen, interested in gamification, modeled the feature on a deck of cards. Badeen then streamlined the action after a trial on a bathroom mirror. Tinder has been credited with popularizing the swipe feature many companies now use.
2014–2016: Growth
By October 2014, Tinder users completed over one billion swipes per day, producing about 12 million matches per day. By then, Tinder's average user generally spent about 90 minutes a day on the app.
Rad served as Tinder's CEO until March 2015, when he was replaced by former eBay and Microsoft executive Chris Payne. Rad returned as CEO in August 2015.
In 2015, Tinder released its "Rewind" function and its "Super Like" function and retired its Tinder "Moments" and "L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Iron%20and%20Steel%20Technology | The Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) is a non-profit professional organization focused on promoting the international iron and steel industry through networking and education. The AIST has over 17,500 members in over 70 countries, though the majority of its members are from North America, reflecting its historical link to the American Steel industry. The AIST was formed from a merger from two older organizations, the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers and the Iron and Steel Society in 2004. AIST is a member organization of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). The head office of the organization is in Warrendale, Pennsylvania. From these offices is published the monthly Iron and Steel Technology magazine. The Association also runs an international conference each year called AISTech. AIST also offers training courses and local events organized by its various member chapters and technical committees.
Technology Divisions
The AIST has a number of active Divisions reflecting the diversity of technological interests in the steel industry, these are:
Safety and Environment
Cokemaking and Ironmaking
Steelmaking
Refining and Casting
Rolling and Processing
Metallurgy
Energy and Control
Plant Services and Reliability
Materials Movement and Transportation
These divisions are served by a number of committees that organize sessions at the AISTech conference and oversee training and education activities relating to these areas of knowledge.
References
Trade associations based in the United States
Engineering societies based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raigarh%20Airport | Raigarh Airport is located near Kondatarai, south of Raigarh, in Chhattisgarh, India. The air strip is used mainly for small aircraft and choppers.
References
Defunct airports in India
Airports in Chhattisgarh
Raigarh district
Airports with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-F828 | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F828 is a 8.0 megapixel digital bridge camera announced by Sony on August 15, 2003.
Overview
As successor of the DSC-F717, F828 was widely considered "revolutionary" at launch. Major changes / improvements over its predecessor, the 2002 F717 include:
"Carl Zeiss T*" lens with 7x (28-200mm) zoom range, wider compared to F717's 5x (38-190mm)
Mechanically-linked zoom ring
8.0 megapixel, 2/3 inch, 4-color RGBE CCDs, highest pixel counts in any consumer camera sensors at launch.
Upgraded electronics for faster focus and post-processing. Continuous AF, and VGA-quality (640x480) filming were made possible.
Addition of a CompactFlash slot as an alternative to Sony's proprietary Memory Sticks. Although, a Memory Stick Pro is required for VGA-quality filming.
Shutter speed up to 1/3200s
The F828, along with the "Cyber-shot F" series designation, was discontinued in 2005.
Reception
Despite having attractive on-paper specs, F828 did not fare as well as its predecessor among camera reviewers and photographers. F828 received a "Recommended / Above average" rating from DPReview, in contrast to a "Highly recommended" given to F717.
Visible picture noise, associated with increased pixel density and underdeveloped noise reduction algorithm, was of primary concern. Moreover, the novel RGBE sensor did not bring in much improved color accuracy as expected; this led Sony to drop any further development on such sensors, making F828 the first and the last commercial camera ever to use a 4-color sensor. Many photographers also noted more severe purple fringing on F828s than on its predecessors.
References
http://www.dpreview.com/products/sony/compacts/sony_dscf828/specifications
F828
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F828
Digital cameras with CCD image sensor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velotrace | The Velotrace, first described in 1987, is a mechanical device that monitors and records analogue data on the position of the soft palate, or velum. The device comprises two levels connected through a "push rod" that carried on a "support rod", which itself rests on the floor of the nasal cavity. The internal lever rests on the nasal surface of the soft palate, and the external lever deflects toward the speaker when the internal level deflects upwards. Changes in position and motion are monitored and can be recorded with an optoelectronic camera and a tape recorder.
The Velotrace can provide information about the pattern, timing, and coordination of movement of the soft palate during speech and swallowing.
References
Electrodiagnosis
Speech and language pathology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagnhallen%20Majorna%20tram%20stop | Vagnhallen Majorna is a Gothenburg tram network stop. It has two platforms with trees that separate the tram tracks from the road. It is one of the only two stations to have this structure; the other one is Ostindiegatan.
Vagnhallen Majorna is an important tram stop because it is near the Vagnhallen Majorna where the tram stop depot is. There are many trams that use the tram stop.
References
Tram stops in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20McNally%20Cahill | Julie Annabelle McNally Cahill (née McNally; born March 5, 1966) is an American producer, writer and animator who co-created the Cartoon Network series My Gym Partner's a Monkey with her husband Tim Cahill. She, along with her husband, have co-created and are story editors for the 2012 Littlest Pet Shop series. She and her husband also worked at Warner Bros. on shows like The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Histeria, Detention, Animaniacs, Baby Looney Tunes, Mucha Lucha, and Krypto the Superdog.
Screenwriting
Television
series head writer denoted in bold
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1997-1998)
Histeria! (1998-2000)
Detention (1999-2000)
Baby Looney Tunes (2002)
Tutenstein (2004)
¡Mucha Lucha! (2004-2005)
Krypto the Superdog (2005)
My Gym Partner's a Monkey (2005-2008)
Sherm! (2006)
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange (2012-2013)
Littlest Pet Shop (2012-2016)
Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2017)
The Tom and Jerry Show (2018-2019)
The Gumazing Gum Girl! (TBA)
Films
Carrotblanca (1995)
Tweety’s High-Flying Adventure (2000)
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2001)
Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure (2003)
References
External links
1966 births
American television directors
American writers
American animators
American women television directors
American women writers
American women animators
Living people
Cartoon Network Studios people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Sony%20SAB | This is the list of original programming currently and formerly broadcast by the Indian television channel, Sony SAB.
Current broadcasts
Upcoming broadcasts
Former broadcasts
Comedy series
A Mad House (2005)
Aadat Se Majboor (2017–2018)
Aaj Ke Shrimaan Shrimati (2005)
Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon (2003)
Aflatoon (2001)
Akting-Akting (2002–2003)
Ammaji Ki Galli (2011)
Apna News Aayega (2019–2020)
Bade Miya Chhote Miya (2003)
Badi Doooor Se Aaye Hai (2014–2016)
Bhakharwadi (2019–2020)
Band Baaja Bandh Darwaza (2019)
Baavle Utaavle (2019)
Beechwale - Bapu Dekh Raha Hai (2018–2019)
Bhaago KK Aaya (2008)
Bhai Bhaiya Aur Brother (2012)
Bhootwala Serial (2009)
Carry on Alia (2019–2020)
Chandrakant Chiplunkar Seedi Bamba Wala (2014)
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi...Let's Go (2015–2016)
Chamcha in Chief (2005–2006)
Chidiya Ghar (2011–2017)
Chintu Chinki Aur Ek Badi Si Love Story (2011–2012)
Chhupke Chhupke (2014)
Daddy Samjha Karo (2000–2001)
Dhaba Junction (2003–2004)
Dil Deke Dekho (2016–2017)
Don't Worry Chachu (2011–2012)
Dr. Madhumati On Duty (2016)
F.I.R. (2006–2015)
Full Masti 88.2 (2008)
Funhit Mein Jaari (2020–2021)
Gilli Gilli Gappa (2010–2011)
Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai (2012)
Gopi Gadha Aur Gupshup (2012)
The Great Indian Family Drama (2015)
Gunwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (2009)
Gupp Chupp (2016)
Gutur Gu (2010–2014)
Hansi He Hansi...Mil Toh Lein (2015)
Hassi Woh Phassi (2003)
Hansi He Hansi...Mil Toh Lein (2015)
Hum Aapke Ghar Mein Rehte Hain (2015)
Hum Aapke Hain In Laws (2013)
Humse Hai Zamana (2008)
I Luv My India (2012)
Jasoos 005 (2008)
Jaankhilavan Jasoos (2010–2011)
Jeannie Aur Juju (2012–2014)
Jijaji Chhat Per Hain (2018–2020)
Jijaji Chhat Parr Koii Hai (2021)
Jugni Chali Jalandhar (2008–2010)
Jo Biwi Se Kare Pyaar (2013)
Kaatelal & Sons (2020–2021)
Khatmal E Ishq (2016–2017)
Khidki (2016)
Krishna Kanhaiya (2015)
Lapataganj (2009–2014)
Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Iss Ghar Ki (2008–2009)
Maddam Sir (2020–2023)
Main Kab Saas Banoongi (2008–2009)
Malegaon Ka Chintu (2011–2014)
Mangalam Dangalam (2018–2019)
Maniben.com (2009–2010)
Masti (2005)
Mohalla Mohabbat Wala (2008)
Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale (2010–2011)
Mrs. Tendulkar (2011)
My Name Ijj Lakhan (2019)
Namune (2018)
Office Office (2001–2004)
Papad Pol (2010–2011)
Partners Trouble Ho Gayi Double (2017–2018)
Peterson Hill (2015)
Platform No. 9 (2005)
Police Factory (2015–2016)
Pritam Pyare Aur Woh (2014)
Public Hai Sab Janti Hai (2003)
Raamkhilavaan (CM) ‘n’ Family (2002–2003)
Ring Wrong Ring (2010–2011)
R. K. Laxman Ki Duniya (2011–2013)
Rumm Pumm Po (2015)
Saat Phero Ki Hera Pherieman. (2018)
Sab Ka Bheja Fry (2007)
Sab Kuch Ho Sakta Hai (2005–2006)
Sabse Bada Rupaiya (2005)
Saheb Biwi Aur Boss (2015–2016)
Sahib Biwi Ka Ghulam (2003)
Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo (2009–2012)
Sajan Re Phir Jhoot Mat Bolo (2017–2018)
Sajan Tum Jhuth Mat Bollo! (2002)
Shankar Jaikishan 3 in 1 (2017)
Shree Adi Manav (2009)
Shri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Munro%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | James Ian Munro (born July 10, 1947) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is known for his fundamental contributions to algorithms and data structures (including optimal binary search trees, priority queues, hashing, and space-efficient data structures).
After earning a bachelor's degree in 1968 from the University of New Brunswick and a master's in 1969 from the University of British Columbia,
Munro finished his doctorate in 1971 from the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Allan Borodin. In , he formalized the notion of an implicit data structure, and has continued work in this area. He is currently a University Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design (Tier I), a research title that was first given in 2001 and was renewed most recently in 2016.
Awards and honours
Munro was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003. He became an ACM Fellow in 2008 for his contributions to algorithms and data structures.
In 2013 a conference was held at Waterloo in his honor, and a festschrift was published as its proceedings.
Partial bibliography
References
1947 births
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Theoretical computer scientists
University of New Brunswick alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepaldalitinfo | Nepaldalitinfo is an international network with an email listserve, which is an invaluable informational resource for Dalits of Nepal.
The network was founded in 2003 by Dr. Drona Prakash Rasali, with small group of Dalits intellectuals, working on a set of working demands of Nepalese Dalits to bring out the ground realities, contemporary issues and relevant information for their dignity and freedom from the traditional neglect and oppression in the mainstream society of Nepal.
Currently, the Nepaldalitinfo has on its membership, nearly 700 Dalit intellectuals and friends of Dalits from all walks of life including academics and rights groups in Nepal and other countries around the world including Europe and Americas.
References
Indigenous organisations in Nepal
2003 establishments in Nepal
Organizations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Black-Eyed%20Susan%20Stakes | The 2005 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 81st running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place on May 20, 2005, and was televised in the United States on the Bravo TV network owned by NBC. Ridden by jockey John Velazquez, Spun Sugar, won the race by three and three quarter lengths over runner-up R Lady Joy. Approximate post time on the evening before the Preakness Stakes was 5:14 p.m. Eastern Time and the race was run for a purse of $200,000. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:53.27. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 23,994.
Payout
The 81st Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (6–5) paid $17.60
$2 Trifecta: (6–5–1) paid $78.40
$1 Superfecta: (6–5–1–2) paid $80.80
The full chart
Winning Breeder: Adena Springs; (KY)
Final Time: 1:53.27
Track Condition: Sloppy
Total Attendance: 23,994
See also
2005 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
2005 in horse racing
2005 in American sports
2005 in sports in Maryland
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
Horse races in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cartoon%20Company | The Cartoon Company was an Australian children's television morning cartoon, airing every Saturday on the Nine Network.
It first broadcast on 19 July 1986 and was hosted by Young Talent Time star's Bob Driessen and Karen Dunkerton, as well as Craig Campbell, Kathy Hopper (who had also presented the early Melbourne edition of The Bugs Bunny Show in the 1980s) and Michelle Marr from 1986 to 1989 and later Robyn Gorrell (only from 1989), Tony Johnston (from 1989 to 1991), Kristine Davis (only from 1990) and Nerida Leishman (only from 1991).
Synopsis
The series featured jokes, competitions, guest stars and cartoons
List of Cartoons
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| Rocky and Bullwinkle
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|Hero High
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| Dinosaucers
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| Scooby-Doo
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| Garfield
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| The Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour
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| Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
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| The New Archies,
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| The Karate Kid
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| Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
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| Magilla Gorilla
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| The Adventures of the Little Koala
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| Valley of the Dinosaurs
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| The New Adventures of Zorro
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| Yogi's Space Race
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| Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch
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| Pandamonium
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| Heathcliff
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| Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
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| The Real Ghostbusters
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| Richie Rich
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| The New Archie and Sabrina Hour
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| C.O.P.S.
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| Teen Wolf
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| Superman'
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| Sherlock Hound, BraveStarr|-
| Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters|-
| The Littles|-
| Heathcliff and Marmaduke|-
| The Lone Ranger|-
| The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
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| The Care Bears Movie|}
Spin off series
The series also had a spin-off series for younger children called The C Company presented by Tony Johnston, Kristine Davis and Nerida Leishman who were The Cartoon Company's final three hosts.
It was first broadcast on 3 March 1990 and featured several cartoons such as Denver, the Last Dinosaur, the first three Dot movies and The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Showwhilst live action shows including Woof!, Professor Poopsnaggle's Steam Zeppelin, The Curiosity Show, KTV, Hills End, C'mon Kids, Pugwall, The Girl from Tomorrow, Bush Beat, Goodsports and Elly & Jools'' plus live-action movies and specials including works from the Children's Film Foundation.
Both of these shows were axed on 23 November 1991 on the same day.
Nine Network original programming
Australian children's television series
Television programming blocks in Australia
1986 Australian television series debuts
1991 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Daryl%20and%20Ossie%20Cartoon%20Show | The Daryl and Ossie Cartoon Show is an Australian afternoon children's television block aired on the Nine Network in 1977 every weekday at 4pm. It was hosted by Daryl Somers and Ossie Ostrich played by Ernie Carroll.
Nine Network original programming
Australian children's television series
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
1977 Australian television series debuts
1977 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus%20Networks | Cumulus Networks was a computer software company headquartered in Mountain View, California, US. The company designed and sold a Linux operating system for industry standard network switches, along with management software, for large datacenter, cloud computing, and enterprise environments.
In May 2020, American semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia announced it was acquiring Cumulus. Post acquisition the company was absorbed into Nvidia's networking business unit, along with Mellanox. Nvidia still offers Cumulus Linux.
Background
Cumulus Networks was founded by JR Rivers and Nolan Leake in 2010. The company raised a first round of seed funding in 2012. Cumulus Networks emerged publicly in June 2013 after previously operating in stealth mode. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Peter Wagner and 4 of the 5 original VMware founders.
In 2014 Dell began offering the option of the Cumulus Linux network OS on Dell's switches.
In 2015, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) began offering the option of Cumulus Linux on HPE's switches.
In 2016, Mellanox began offering Cumulus Linux on their Spectrum switches.
In 2018, Lenovo began offering Cumulus Linux on their ThinkSystem Rackswitch line of switches.
On June 20, 2019, the company announced the departure of co-founder JR Rivers, who had been the original CEO and, since March 2016, the CTO. According to the company's website, neither Rivers nor Leake remain on the Board of Directors.
In January 2020, Hewlett Packard announced a partnership with Cumulus to include Cumulus' Linux NetQ software on HPE's network storage products. On May 4, Nvidia Corporation announced plans to acquire Cumulus Networks for an undisclosed amount.
Products
Cumulus Linux
Cumulus Linux was their open Linux based networking operating system for bare metal switches. It's been based on the Debian Linux distribution.
In a 2017 Gartner report Cumulus Networks was highlighted as a pioneer of open source networking for developing an open source networking operating system in a market where hardware vendors usually delivered proprietary operating systems pre-installed. According to Gartner, Cumulus Networks had worked around the lack of vendor support for open source networking by deploying bare metal switches with the Cumulus Linux operating system in large corporate networks. 32 percent of the Fortune 50 companies used the Cumulus Linux operating system in their data centers in 2017.
NetQ
NetQ is network state validation software, used during regular operations and for post-mortem diagnostic analysis.
Host Pack
Host Pack includes software that brings the host to the network through NetQ and FRRouting. Host Pack improves network visibility through NetQ’s end-to-end fabric validation, and helps network connectivity through FRRouting’s open source routing protocol. It enables the host to be part of the layer 3 network, while supporting layer 2 overlay networks.
Open source projects
Ope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PANTHER | In bioinformatics, the PANTHER (protein analysis through evolutionary relationships) classification system is a large curated biological database of gene/protein families and their functionally related subfamilies that can be used to classify and identify the function of gene products. PANTHER is part of the Gene Ontology Reference Genome Project designed to classify proteins and their genes for high-throughput analysis.
The project consists of both manual curation and bioinformatics algorithms. Proteins are classified according to family (and subfamily), molecular function, biological process and pathway. It is one of the databases feeding into the European Bioinformatics Institute's InterPro database.—Application of PANTHER—The most important application of PANTHER is to accurately infer the function of uncharacterized genes from any organism based on their evolutionary relationships to genes with known functions. By combining gene function, ontology, pathways and statistical analysis tools, PANTHER enables biologists to analyze large-scale, genome-wide data obtained from the current advance technology including: sequencing, proteomics or gene expression experiments.
Shortly, using the data and tools on the PANTHER, users will be able to:
Obtain information about a particular gene of interest.
Discover protein families and subfamilies, pathways, biological processes, molecular functions and cellular components.
Create lists of genes related to a particular protein family/subfamily, molecular function, biological process or pathway.
Analyze lists of genes, proteins or transcripts.
PANTHER history
1998:Project was launched at Molecular Application Group.
1999:Acquired by Celera Genomics.
2000:PANTHER 1 released in Celera Discovery Systems (CDS).
2001: PANTHER 2 released, which is used in the annotationon of the first published human genome Celera.
2002: PANTHER 3 released. PANTHER annotations are integrated in FlyBase. Moved to ABI.
2003: PANTHER 4 released with the public release of PANTHER Classification System.
2005: PANTHER 5 released with PANTHER Pathway and analysis tool. Establish collaboration with InterPro.
2006: PANTHER 6 released. Move to SRI.
2010: PANTHER 7 released.
2011: Move to USC.
2012: PANTHER 8 released.
2014: PANTHER 9 released.
2015: PANTHER 10 released.
2016: PANTHER 11 released.
Phylogenetic tree
In PANTHER there is a phylogenetic tree for each of the protein families. The annotation of tree is done based on the following criteria:
Each node is annotated by gene attributes including “subfamily membership”, “protein class”, “gene function”. These attributes are heritable. Swiss-Prot protein names are usually used to name subfamilies. Since PANTHER is part of the GO reference genome project, the Gene Ontology (GO) terms are used for gene function. PANTHER/X ontology terms are used for protein class.
Each internal node is annotated by evolutionary events such as “speciation”, “gene duplication” and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamocypris%20unicaudata | Potamocypris unicaudata is a species of ostracod crustacean in the family Cyprididae, subfamily Cypridopsinae. It is abundantly found in ditches and ponds near the sea shore, where freshwater slightly mingles with sea water. It is known from both Europe and North America.
Description
The carapace of P. unicaudata is sub-reniform in shape and laterally compressed. The valve surface appears smooth in the stereomicroscope at magnifications of 20 to 60 x. In the scanning electron microscope, at magnifications of 500 x and above, tiny pits become visible.
The carapace length ranges from 0.70 to 0.85 mm. Colour: uniformly green to yellowish green.
The second antennae carry swimming setae distinctly extending beyond the tips of the terminal claws.
Reproduction
No males of P. unicaudata have so far been found and it is therefore inferred that the species reproduces parthenogenetically.
See also
Potamocypris mastigophora
Potamocypris steueri
Potamocypris variegata
References
External links
Cyprididae
Crustaceans described in 1943
Taxa named by Frank Schäfer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa%20Donovan | Theresa Donovan (introduced as Jeannie Donovan) is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Introduced in September 1990, she was portrayed by several child actors until the character left the series in 1992, with further guest appearances in both 1996 and 1997. The character was reintroduced to the series in July 2013, under the portrayal of actress Jen Lilley, best known for her portrayal of Maxie Jones on General Hospital, and departed in November 2016. Lilley reprised the role in May 2018 for a three-month stint, departing again in July. Lilley briefly returned to the role in September 2023, with Emily O'Brien assuming the role in the following month.
Theresa is the daughter of supercouple Shane Donovan and Kimberly Brady (Charles Shaughnessy and, most prominently, Patsy Pease). With the casting of Lilley in the role, the character entered her first major story line, opposite Casey Moss who portrays JJ Deveraux.
Casting
In April 2013, it was announced by Soap Opera Digest and several other sources that Jen Lilley joined the cast of Days of Our Lives in a newly created role with ties to the canvas. Due to the show's advanced filming schedule, Lilley began filming in the (then-unknown) role in March 2013. Lilley made her on-screen debut as Theresa on July 3, 2013.
In May 2016, Daytime Confidential reported that Lilley had quit the soap after three years. Lilley made her final appearance on November 18, 2016. On November 17, 2017, it was announced that Lilley would reprise the role of Theresa; she returned on May 3, 2018. Lilley once again exited the role on July 19, 2018.
On August 14, 2023, it was announced Lilley would return to the role in honor of the character of Victor Kiriakis following the passing of John Aniston earlier that year, Lilley returned on September 1, 2023. Weeks later, it was announced Lilley's return would be brief and the role would be recast; Lilley last appeared on September 22.
On October 2, 2023, it was announced Emily O'Brien, who joined the cast in 2020 as Gwen Rizczech, would assume the role of Theresa; she first appeared in the final moments of the October 6 episode.
Character development
With the casting of Lilley, executive producer Ken Corday admits that seeing the actress' work on General Hospital helped with the casting of the actress in the role of Theresa. Upon Theresa's re-appearance on the canvas, she was characterized as the "bad girl". In an interview with MSN Entertainment on her role, Lilley spoke: "Part of me doesn't want to make excuses for her, because you can have horrible upbringing and make something positive of it. Some of the most amazing, well-grounded people have come from the wrong side of the tracks. Obviously, the Brady-Donovan family is a great family, but her dad Shane is a spy and I watched the episode where he leaves the kids with Kimberly. Theresa was probably one, at most, so she didn't have a dad growing up, which is a formu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panvalet | Computer Associates Panvalet (also known as CA-Panvalet) is a revision control and source code management system originally developed by Pansophic Systems for mainframe computers such as the IBM System z and IBM System/370 running the z/OS and z/VSE operating systems.
CA-PAN/LCM is a similar product for PCs.
Overview
Panvalet can be used to manage program source code, JCL, Macros/commands for utilities such as Easytrieve and object module files.
History
Panvalet was developed by Pansophic Systems in 1969 as a program to store and manage computer program source code on direct-access storage devices. Before Panvalet code was saved as paper punch cards, typically with 500 to 3,000 cards per program, often 1,000,000 or more per data center. Cards were bulky, difficult to store and transport, difficult and costly to back up, and prone to catastrophic errors since one misplaced card could prevent a program from running correctly.
Pansophic began selling the program in 1970 at a price of $2,880 per copy. It was immediately successful.
In 1978, it was reported that Panvalet, at the time a product of Pansophic Systems, Inc, was in use at over 3,000 sites.
Throughout much of its existence, the main competitor to Panvalet was The Librarian product from Applied Data Research. It had roughly the same number of installations as Panvalet. As recollected by Piscopo, "Panvalet and Librarian basically divided the program library market between the two of them.... Virtually everyone ended up with one or the other of the products."
Computer Associates acquired Panvalet in 1991 when it purchased Pansophic Systems for $390M. Broadcom acquired Panvalet in 2018 when it purchased Computer Associates.
See also
CA Technologies
References
External links
Configuration management
Proprietary version control systems
IBM mainframe software
CA Technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360%20Object%20File%20Format | The OS/360 Object File Format is the standard object module file format for the IBM DOS/360, OS/360 and VM/370, Univac VS/9, and Fujitsu BS2000 mainframe operating systems. In the 1990s, the format was given an extension with the XSD-type record for the MVS Operating System to support longer module names in the C Programming Language. This format is still in use by the z/VSE operating system (the follow-on to the DOS/360 Operating System). In contrast, it has been superseded by the GOFF file format on the MVS Operating System (the follow-on to the OS/360 Operating System) and on the z/VM Operating System (the follow-on to the VM/370 Operating System). Since the MVS and z/VM loaders will still handle this older format, some compilers have chosen to continue to produce this format instead of the newer GOFF format.
Use
This format provides for the description of a compiled application's object code, which can be fed to a linkage editor to be made into an executable program, or run directly through an object module loader. It is created by the Assembler or by a programming language compiler. For the rest of this article, unless a reason for being explicit in the difference between a language compiler and an assembler is required, the term "compile" includes "assemble" and "compiler" includes "assembler."
Weaknesses
This format was considered adequate for the time it was originally developed, around 1964. Over time, it had a number of weaknesses, among which is that
it supports only 8-byte long names (and typically there is a convention that the names are UPPER CASE only, and are restricted to certain symbols in the name, see the discussion below).
alignment cannot be specified.
a module that is pure data and is not executable cannot be specified.
a reentrant module (as opposed to one merely read-only) cannot be specified.
cannot distinguish between a subroutine (a routine that handles data only through arguments) vs. a function (a routine that returns data through a return value).
a module designed so that it is movable (as opposed to merely reentrant) cannot be specified.
address constants can't be identified as pointers (such as for access to a data structure) as opposed to, say, access to a table (that is not changed) or to a virtual method in a dynamic record.
attributes cannot be assigned to external references (a reference is to code vs. a reference to data).
no means to allow procedures or functions to check or validate argument types or validate external structures.
no means to declare an object, where part of the structure is data and part is code (methods that operates upon the data of the object).
the SYM symbolic table is limited in the information it can provide.
These and other weaknesses caused this format to be superseded by the GOFF module file format. But, it was a good choice as it was satisfactory for the needs of programming languages being used at the time, it did work and was simple to implement (especially where |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo%20Entertainment | Geo Entertainment or Har Pal Geo is a Pakistani entertainment television channel owned by Geo Television Network was established in May 2002. Its test transmission started on 14 August 2002 on the PAS 10 digital satellite whereas on 1 October 2002 the regular transmission of Geo Entertainment was started.
History
GEO has been one of the oldest Pakistani networks, and regularly has received good TRPs on various daily soaps, reality series, and drama serials since inception. Geo used to show a lot of daily soaps when it was in its initial years and the soaps got popular too. Some shows from the 2000s that aired on the network which are still recognized include Tere Pehlu Main, Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan, Kaash Main Teri Beti Na Hoti, Tum Ho Kay Chup, Doraha, Yeh Zindagi Hai and various more. The channel continued to do well in ratings but in 2014 the network was banned in the country for promoting blasphemy on its morning show Utho Jago Pakistan. The channel was eventually unbanned but the ratings took a hit and the channel was panned for making below average content, and it took a while for the channel to get back onto the charts with well ratings. In 2017, GEO launched Khaani and the series went on to become a huge success for the network with worldwide success and was later added on Netflix due to its major popularity. Similarly around the same time Ghar Titli Ka Par also was a big success for the network domestically and garnered many views on YouTube as well. The two drama serials helped GEO break ground just like it did before its ban and become the most viewed channel in Pakistan. Since that time, Geo joined hands with 7th Sky Entertainment and has produced various shows that have been record-breaking on television and social media platforms. In 2019, the network created two records for the most watched show in the 9:00 pm slot with the beginning of Bharosa Pyar Tera and ending of Dil-e-Gumshuda , both the series garnered 17.0 TRP In 2020, Munafiq created a record for the most watched show in the 7:00 pm slot with 22.75 TRP, and is also the second highest rated serial in the history of Pakistani television, as well as being in the top trending list in India on YouTube. In recent times, criticism of Geo Entertainment includes the flak for its low picture quality on television compared to HUM HD and ARY Digital which are in higher quality, and making very Indian-ized dramas by copying daily soaps from Indian networks and turning them into weekly drama serials or daily soaps as well in order to get ratings. Popular programming which have gotten ratings as well as international popularity in recent years includes: Mohabbat Tumse Nafrat Hai, Piya Naam Ka Diya, Ramz-e-Ishq, Yaariyan, Meharposh, Aye Dil Tu Bata, Deewangi, Kahin Deep Jalay , Rang Mahal and many more. The network also has various series on Amazon Prime Video such as Hiddat and Yaar-e-Bewafa.
SD Feed Shutdown
Since June 2021, the Geo Entertainment is available in HD along with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Sung-hyun | Lee Sung-hyun (; born January 10, 1991) is a South Korean kickboxer who competes in the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight divisions. He has held World Kickboxing Network welterweight title and RISE Middleweight champion.
Known for his speed and sophisticated combinations, Lee debuted in K-1 in March 2009 and further established himself by winning the RISE Korea Super Lightweight Championship in June 2011. He then went on compete regularly for RISE in Japan and had a breakout year in 2013 by winning the K-1 Korea MAX 2013 Tournament and the RISE lightweight title.
As of April 2013, Lee is ranked the #4 lightweight in the world by LiverKick.com.
Career
Early career
Lee Sung-hyun first came to prominence by winning the KMAA Korean Welterweight Championship and debuted in K-1 on March 20, 2009, beating Kim Tae-hwan by unanimous decision at K-1 Award & MAX Korea 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. In his sophomore appearance in the promotion, he took another unanimous decision over Kizaemon Saiga at the K-1 World MAX 2010 in Seoul World Championship Tournament Final 16 on October 3, 2010. After a slow opening round, Lee began to pull ahead in the second as he dropped Saiga twice in quick succession; firstly with a seven strike combination that culminated in a liver punch and then with a left hook and right low kick combo.
Winning the RISE Lightweight title
He was then recruited by Krush to compete in the tournament to crown the promotion's inaugural 63 kg/138 lb champion. At the Krush First Generation King Tournaments ~Round.2~ in Tokyo, Japan, on January 9, 2011, he fought Koya Urabe at the quarter-final stage. The bout was scored a draw after the regulation three rounds and so an extension round was needed to decide a winner, after which Urabe was awarded the unanimous decision. Lee returned to his home country and won a four-man tournament in Seoul on June 17, 2011, beating both Son Jun-hyuk and Park Don-fa by unanimous decision to be crowned the RISE Korea Super Lightweight (-65 kg/143.3 lb) Champion. This further established him as a top prospect in the region and he was soon employed to fight on the main RISE events headquartered in Tokyo. At RISE 85 on November 23, 2011, Lee's momentum was slowed down as he lost in a non-title bout against RISE Super Lightweight Champion Koji Yoshimoto via unanimous decision. Had he not been deducted a point before the start of the fight for missing the contracted weight, he would have gotten a majority draw.
Lee bounced back with an extension round points win over Park Byung-kyu at The Khan 3: New Generation in Seoul on January 15, 2012 before taking on another reigning RISE champion, lightweight titlist Yuki, in a 64 kg/141 lb non-title affair at RISE 88 on June 2, 2012, and winning a majority decision. In the main event of RISE 89 on July 1, 2012, Lee Sung-hyun was able to beat Yuto Watanabe by technical knockout in an extension round. Although he was floored with a spinning back kick in round two, Le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RatingsIntel | Ratings Intelligence is an online subscription-based service that monitors and analyzes television network performance and programming trends. The website was originally launched in 2006 under the name CableU and became RatingsIntel on July 9, 2013, after the company formed a new ratings agreement with Nielsen and expanded its offering to cover broadcast networks as well as cable.
In 2014, the company was acquired. by NewBay Media--a New York-based holding company backed by private equity firm The Wicks Group
References
External links
ratingsintel.com website
Mass media companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner%20Date%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Dinner Date, also known as Dinner Date with Vincent Lopez, is a musical variety show that was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network on Saturdays from 8 to 8:30 pm ET from January 28, 1950, to July 22, 1950 or July 29, 1950.
The show, "a relaxed program of music and song", hosted by bandleader Vincent Lopez, was broadcast from the Grill Room at the Hotel Taft in New York City, where Lopez and his orchestra performed from 1942 to 1962. Besides Lopez's longtime vocalists Lee Russell and Ann Warren, the show featured guest stars such as Cab Calloway, Arthur Tracy, and Woody Herman.
Episodes often featured content related to letters sent in by viewers or to names of some of the viewers. The shows were unscripted, but Lopez planned "to the second" what he, the orchestra, and other performers would do. Unlike some contemporary variety programs, performers appeared only once in each episode.
Warren Russell and George Putnam were the announcers.
Dinner Date'''s competition included Saturday Night Revue, TV Teen Club, and Ken Murray's show.
Critical reception
A review in the trade publication Variety said the program "looks like one of the first successful entertainment programs to be aired from a remote location." It commended Warren and Russell for their singing and director Harry Coyle for his handling of the "usual difficult conditions imposed by working outside a TV studio."
Episode status
None of the episodes are known to survive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcastsThe Vincent Lopez Show (1949–1950, 1957), a TV series also hosted by Lopez
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
References
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1950s American variety television series
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partha%20Pratim%20Chakraborty | Partha Pratim Chakrabarti (Chakraborty) is an Indian computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor and the former director of IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Chakrabarti has made pioneering research contributions and has solved a number of open problems. His work has been incorporated in standard text books as well as industry level tools of major international companies. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences and supervised two dozen PhD students. He is also an honorary awardee of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, for the engineering category in 2000.
Education
He did his schooling from St.Patrick's Higher Secondary School, Asansol. Following this, he completed his B.Tech in 1985 and PhD in 1988 from the Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He joined the same department as a faculty member in 1988 and is currently a Professor.
Awards and honours
President of India Gold Medal (1985)
INSA Young Scientist Award (1991)
INAE Young Engineer Award (1994)
Anil K Bose Award (1995)
Swarnajayanti Fellowship (1998)
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2000)
INAE Viswesvarya Chair Professor (2007)
Rotary Award for Science & Technology (2010)
S Ramanujam Memorial Lecture of IE (2012)
J C Bose Fellowship (2013)
Academic career
He was the professor-in-charge of the state of the art VLSI Design Laboratory which he helped set up and has been the Dean of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy at IIT Kharagpur and Head of the Advanced Technology Development Centre. He was also the co-Director of the strategic General Motors-IIT Kharagpur Collaborative Research Laboratory on Electronics, Control and Software. He pioneered the development of the Incubation Programme at IIT Kharagpur. His areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Formal Methods, CAD for VLSI & Embedded Systems, Fault Tolerance and Algorithm Design.
He has worked closely with Govt as well as industry on various problems and has successfully led and completed large projects and programmes at national and international levels. Important among them include DST, CSIR, IGSTC, Volkswagen Foundation, National Semiconductor Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Intel Corporation, Synopsys, General Motors, Xerox, etc. He is a well-known teacher and mentor who has not only graduated a large number of students and developed well appreciated teaching modules but has also motivated and championed many student innovation and entrepreneurial activities which have achieved unique successes.
Prof. Chakrabarti is well-known for his teaching and supervision skills. His notable students include Pallab Dasgupta and Aritra Hazra who also joined IIT Kharagpur to serve the nation.
Dr Chakrabarti received the President of India Gold Medal (1985), the INSA Young Scientist Award (1991), Anil K Bose Award (1995), INAE Young Engineer's Award (1997) and the Swarnajayanti Fellowsh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntraFi%20Network | IntraFi Network (Formerly Promontory Interfinancial Network), LLC, is a privately held firm with a network of financial institutions that has approximately one-third of all U.S. commercial banks and thrifts as members. The company is located in Arlington, Virginia.
History
The company was founded by a number of former federal banking regulators, and BNY Mellon provides issuance, custody, settlement, and recordkeeping services for IntraFi. IntraFi was included in the Washington Post's list of Top Workplaces 2018. The company was also ranked first as the best place to work for in fintech by American Banker, in 2018 and 2021.
The Cofounder and CEO of the company is Mark Jacobsen, a former chief of staff of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and inventor of 13 patents related to IntraFi's FDIC-insured deposit placement services.
The company changed its name to IntraFi Network in 2020.
Products
IntraFi offers FDIC-insured deposit placement services, including IntraFi Network Deposits and IntraFi Funding. These services combined the company's former offerings: Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service, or CDARS; Insured Cash Sweep service, or ICS; and the Insured Network Deposits service, or IND. IntraFi also publishes a quarterly business outlook survey of banks. IntraFi's services help bank depositors to access FDIC insurance above the $250,000 limit through a single bank relationship. As Reuters has noted, IntraFi's services "rose in popularity during the 2008 financial crisis. Money is spread around in chunks across a network of 'well-capitalized' banks, with maturities of four weeks to five years." In some cases, however, the yields are lower than those on CDs and money market accounts.
References
Financial services companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%20mafia | The Georgian mafia () is regarded as one of the biggest, most powerful, dangerous and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the largest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries and controls and regulates most of the Russian-speaking and fully controls Russia and Georgia mafia groups. They are very active in Russia and Europe. The Georgian mafia has two major criminal clans from Tbilisi and Kutaisi. Georgia always had a disproportionately high number of crime bosses and still has a majority of the 700 or so still operating in the post-Soviet space and western Georgia (Kutaisi Clan) is particularly well represented.
In many of its rules or "laws", the Georgian mafia parallels the Sicilian Mafia.
History
Soviet period
Georgia is a small Eurasian state with a population of about four million, of whom two thirds are Georgians, and the national minorities are mainly Russian, Armenian, and Azeri. The geographical position of the country is due to the strategically advantageous junction of important communications from Europe to Asia.
According to foreign researchers, the Georgian criminal traditions were formed long before the October Revolution. It is thanks to cooperation with the Georgian crime that the young and energetic Joseph Stalin so successfully engaged in robbing banks, extorting money and expropriating property from wealthy citizens. In addition to the profit, the revolutionary criminal environment in Georgia contributed to the intimidation of competitors and the holding of high-profile terrorist acts. The rudiments of this system can be seen a century later, as they still permeate the country.
The October Revolution transformed the Georgian underworld just as much as it changed other parts of society. Stalin's ascension to power was accompanied by the corresponding upward movement of representatives of Georgian society. Due to this, the degree of representation of Georgians in the Soviet hierarchy of power was disproportionately high. Interestingly, a similar process was observed in the Soviet criminal underground, where up to a third of strategically important positions were taken by immigrants from Georgia, while the share of the Georgian ethnic group in the general population of the USSR did not exceed 2%.
This trend has often attracted the attention of international scientists. They often pointed out that in Soviet times the Georgian SSR had a very high standard of living due to its well-developed shadow economy, and the Georgian “thieves in law” held key positions in the criminal communities of the entire Soviet Union. Natives of Georgia were engaged in underground production and unrecorded trade throughout the USSR, often siphoning significant resources from the legitimate economy. Georgian farmers earned on the supply of scarce fruits to large Soviet cities a lot of money, and their income could be ten times higher than the average Soviet worker’s earnings. The clan system of the underworl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antena%20Sarajevo | Antena Sarajevo is a Bosnian commercial radio station, broadcasting from Sarajevo.
History and programming
RSG1 Sarajevo radio was founded 6 April 2009 and was conceived as an urban radio service for Sarajevo.
Since December 2012, a new Radio format is presented as a result of the positive experiences of RSG1 Sarajevo, and European and regional trends in the radio industry.
Antena Sarajevo is formatted as a city radio service that broadcasts only the greatest hits. Antenna Sarajevo is part of the informal media group in the radio market of Bosnia and Herzegovina called RSG Group.
RSG Group consists of two radio programs RSG Radio and Antena Sarajevo, marketing agency and production – Netra, radio news production services – Media servis, and Web portals and .
The station focuses on contemporary pop music. Antenna Sarajevo also has traffic service for the city of Sarajevo, where listeners can find more information by calling the toll-free call center (0800 51 011). Latest national news broadcast for five minutes before the full hour, while the Sarajevo city news are broadcast every half-hour. Media servis produces all the news for Antenna Sarajevo.
The program is currently broadcast at one frequency (Sarajevo ), estimated number of potential listeners is around 426,581.
Frequencies
Sarajevo
See also
List of radio stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Antena Sarajevo in Facebook
Antena Sarajevo in Twitter
Sarajevo
Radio stations established in 2009
Mass media in Sarajevo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Croatia | There are currently no operational narrow-gauge railway lines in Croatia. In some cities there are still metre-gauge tram networks.
Metre gauge
Osijek–Donji Miholjac, 51 km, closed 1970.
Bosnian gauge
Parenzana railway, Trieste (Italy) – Capodistria–Koper (Slovenia)–Parenzo (Poreč, Croatia). Dismantled, in formerly Italian territory. Single track, 122,88 km.
Samoborček railway, Zagreb–Samobor via Podsused. Single track, 19 km. Later extended to Bregana, now dismantled.
The former Steinbeis railway starting in Knin and crossed the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina, replaced with the standard-gauge "Unska pruga" route in 1948.
railway, Split–Sinj, dismantled 1963
Railway from Gabela to Zelenika
Branch: Uskoplje–Dubrovnik–Gruž
Decauville
Raša (Štalije)–Mine, single track, ~ 7 km
Plomin Luka to mine, single track, ~12 km
Metre-gauge trams
Current
Osijek tram system
Zagreb Tramway
Former
Dubrovnik tram
Opatija tram
Trams in Pula
Trams in Rijeka
Narrow gauge railways in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20wealth%20per%20adult | This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult or household, from sources such as UBS's annual Global Wealth Databook and the OECD's Better Life Index. Wealth includes both financial and non-financial assets.
UBS Global Wealth Databook's list of countries by wealth per adult (USD)
UBS publishes various statistics relevant for calculating net wealth. These figures are influenced by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities, debts, adult percentage of the population, human resources, natural resources and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.
During periods of equity market growth, the relative national and per capita wealth of countries where people are more exposed to those markets, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, tends to rise. But when equity markets are down, the relative wealth of countries where people invest more in real estate or bonds, such as France and Italy, tends to drop instead. Countries with older populations, like Germany and Italy, would have higher relative wealth, if calculated per capita and not per adult.
Mean wealth is the amount obtained by dividing the total aggregate wealth by the number of adults. Median wealth is the amount that divides the population into two equal groups: half the adults have wealth above the median, and the other half below. In nations where wealth is highly concentrated in a small percentage of people, the mean can be much higher than the median (e.g. the United States). To see this, click on the header of the median wealth column and put it in descending order.
By region
* indicates "Economy of LOCATION" links.
By country
Gini: Higher Gini coefficients signify greater inequality in wealth distribution, with 0 being complete equality, whereas a value near 100% can arise in a situation where everybody has zero wealth except a very small minority.
* indicates "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links. See categories: Wealth by country. And: Economies by country.
More countries (rough estimates)
For some countries, Credit Suisse could not provide mean or median wealth numbers. For those countries they only provide "GDP per adult" numbers.
* indicates "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links.
OECD's list of countries by mean household wealth (USD)
* indicates "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links.
See also
Wealth distribution by country
Wealth distribution in Europe
Financial and social rankings of sovereign states in Europe
High-net-worth individual
List of countries by financial assets per capita
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita
List of countries by income equality
List of countries by total wealth
High-net-worth individual
Wealth inequality in the United States
Wealth
References
External links
Where is the Wealth of Nations, World Bank 2006
Animated Chart: Whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam%20Internet%20Network%20Information%20Center | The Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC; ) is the National Internet Registry in Vietnam that manages several aspects of Internet operations, including the allocation of IP addresses and AS numbers. VNNIC is the administrative agency responsible for Internet affairs under the Ministry of Information and Communications (Vietnam).
Historically, VNPT managed the .vn top-level domain; in 2001 the management of the .vn domain was transferred to the VNNIC.
External links
VNNIC website
Internet in Vietnam
Government agencies of Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20in%20Hand%20International | Hand in Hand International is a registered non-profit organisation based in London, UK. It is part of the Hand in Hand network, whose shared vision is to fight poverty through job and business creation. Hand in Hand was founded by Percy Barnevik and Dr Kalpana Sankar.
Hand in Hand’s mission is to work for the economic and social empowerment of the poorest and most marginalized people by helping women beat the odds and succeed as entrepreneurs. Since 2003, the Hand in Hand network has helped start and sustain 3 million businesses and generated 4.5 million jobs. Hand in Hand works in the same field as BRAC, Opportunity International, CARE, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Aga Khan Foundation.
History
The story of Hand in Hand begin in the late 1980s with two Swedish teachers – Olle and Gunnel Blomqvist – visiting the district of Kancheepuram. Children traditionally constituted a cheap source of labour for the weaving industry in Kancheepuram, and parents who did not have permanent jobs would send their children to master weavers. Bringing such children out of labour was Hand in Hand's initial focus.
At the end of 1990 the Blomqvists came in contact with Percy Barnevik, who became a sponsor to the organization. Barnevik was interested in the teachers' work in India.
Hand in Hand India was founded in 2003 by Barnevik and Dr Kalpana Sankar in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Hand in Hand network has operated programs in 10 countries across Asia (Afghanistan, India, Cambodia and Myanmar) and East Africa (Kenya and Rwanda).
Hand in Hand receives funding from a number of different sources including individuals, corporations, bi-lateral and multi-lateral institutions and trusts and foundations. Recent supporters include the FMO, Sida, Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust, Nationale Postcode Loterij and Voxtra (philanthropic foundation based in Oslo, Norway). Hand in Hand Afghanistan also received a US $1.16 million (€840 K) grant from the European Union.
In 2007, Hand in Hand Afghanistan was set up with Seema Ghani as chair. On 19 February 2014, Ghani gave an interview with the BBC about the economic challenges facing Afghanistan and how job creation will help solve many of the challenges. She also gave an interview to Forbes magazine regarding the positive effect of micro-businesses on Afghanistan.
Since 2011, Hand in Hand has organised an annual Social Enterprise Program (SEP). The course showcases the role of social entrepreneurs in reducing poverty.
As of 2021, Hand in Hand International's board of trustees included Bruce Grant (Chair), Dr John Barrett, Dr Madhvi Chanrai, Carsten Jorgensen, Lars G Josefsson, Paola Uggla and Stephanie Whittier.
In 2013, Hand in Hand launched the Enterprise Incubation Fund (EIF), through which philanthropists can provide loans to micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya.
Hand in Hand network
The organizations within the Hand in Hand group actively support each other, although they are independent and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilsimsa%20Hash | Nilsimsa is an anti-spam focused locality-sensitive hashing algorithm originally proposed the cmeclax remailer operator in 2001 and then reviewed by Ernesto Damiani et al. in their 2004 paper titled, "An Open Digest-based Technique for Spam Detection". The goal of Nilsimsa is to generate a hash digest of an email message such that the digests of two similar messages are similar to each other. In comparison with cryptographic hash functions such as SHA-1 or MD5, making a small modification to a document does not substantially change the resulting hash of the document. The paper suggests that the Nilsimsa satisfies three requirements:
The digest identifying each message should not vary significantly (sic) for changes that can be produced automatically.
The encoding must be robust against intentional attacks.
The encoding should support an extremely low risk of false positives.
Subsequent testing on a range of file types identified the Nilsimsa hash as having a significantly higher false positive rate when compared to other similarity digest schemes such as TLSH, Ssdeep and Sdhash.
Nilsimsa similarity matching was taken in consideration by Jesse Kornblum when developing the fuzzy hashing in 2006, that used the algorithms of spamsum by Andrew Tridgell (2002).
Several implementations of Nilsimsa exist as open-source software.
References
Anti-spam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma%20%28company%29 | Karma Mobility, Inc. is a wireless internet site that operates on Sprint's 4G LTE Network. The company provides hardware and data. The company is currently headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company was founded in 2012 through Techstars.
Controversy
Karma became a center of controversy in January 2016, over changing their Neverstop plan and cutting customer's data multiple times. Some customers accused the company of using bait and switch tactics. Newer customers were offered a refund for their devices, based on Karma's standard 45–day return policy. However, customers who purchased Karma "Go" hotspots with Neverstop, outside of that standard return period, were explicitly told "no refunds". Many customers also report not receiving refunds even within the standard return period.
Karma offered a program called "Neverstop" where users got unlimited data at up to 5 Mbit/s for US$50 a month. After 2 months, Karma blamed customers for "misuse" of the unlimited data service and began throttling users speeds from 5 Mbit/s to 1 Mbit/s. After over a week of throttled speeds, Karma decided to change the "Neverstop" program from unlimited to 15 GB for the same US$50 price. Karma's website stated that they would give users 30 days notice if any changes occur. However, their users were given no warning for the sudden change from unlimited 5 Mbit/s to throttled 1.5 Mbit/s and then to a data cap of 15 GB. After just one month, the "Neverstop" service changed again and this time Karma decided to use a new program called "Pulse". Neverstop ended and Pulse became the new service for Karma users.
Network
Karma's first generation ran on Sprint's WiMax network which shut down in November 2015. Their second generation, Karma Go, runs on Sprint's 4G LTE network. Karma encountered some issues adapting to Sprint's LTE network. However, after a long waiting period, they were able to fully convert over to the Sprint network. As of 2016, Karma has had to change a lot of their services due to high data usage from customers. Karma buys mass bulk data from Sprint and thus, currently cannot support unlimited plans. Karma has updated its services to stay on the Sprint network, and Karma and Sprint still maintain a relationship as of 2016.
References
External links
Internet service providers of the United States
American companies established in 2012
Software companies established in 2012
Telecommunications companies established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%20Magnenat%20Thalmann | Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a computer graphics scientist and robotician and is the founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. She has chaired the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2009 to 2021.
Biography
Thalmann received an MS in Psychology, an MS in Biology and a Master in Biochemistry at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Quantum Physics in 1977 from the same university. She started her career as an assistant professor at the University Laval in Canada, then became a professor at HEC, University of Montreal until 1988. In 1989, she moved to the University of Geneva where she founded the MIRALab laboratory.
Thalmann has authored and co-authored more than 600 papers in the area of Virtual Humans, social robots, VR, and 3D simulation of human articulations. She has participated in more than 45 European research projects. She has served the Computer Graphics community by creating the Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) in Geneva in 1988, as well as managing Computer Graphics International (CGI). She is the editor-in-chief of the journal The Visual Computer published by Springer, Germany and co editor-in-chief of the Computer Animation Journal published by Wiley.
Research
Thalmann has made numerous research contributions in the general area of computer graphics and is best known for her work on simulating realistic virtual humans. She also made early contributions in computer graphics during her PhD by simulating and visualizing 3D electronic densities of the Schrödinger equation's approximate solutions (1977).
Later on, she pioneered the modelling of realistic Virtual Humans, particularly producing the first simulation of a 3D version of Marilyn Monroe in the film Rendez-vous in Montreal (1987)
This film was shown in world premiere at the Place des Arts in Montreal to celebrate 100 years of engineering in Canada. She also showed her film at the Modern Art Museum in New York in 1988 along with Canadian computer artists.
She made several original contributions in MRI segmentation methods correlated with clinical findings. She also modelled the simulation of Virtual Ballerinas where their hip cartilage deformations can be visualized while dancing. She further demonstrates see-through knee articulations of real soccer players. Since 2008, she has started at MIRALab, University of Geneva, a research with the humanoid robot EVA and demonstrated a first model of a realistic robot showing emotions and having a memory model. She has worked on the social autonomous robot Nadine, modeled in her image, that is able to speak, recognize people and gestures, express mood and emotions, and remember actions. Nadine has been shown at the ArtScience Museum, in the exhibition HUMAN+: The Future of our Species, in Singapore, which has attracted more than 100 000 visitors.
Honors and awards
Honorary degrees
In 2009, she was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa in Natural scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thauera%20aromatica | Thauera aromatica is a species of bacteria. Its type strain is K 172T.
References
Further reading
External links
Type strain of Thauera aromatica at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodocyclaceae
Bacteria described in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung%20Hsiang-lung | Tung Hsiang-lung (; born 21 September 1952) is a Taiwanese politician and retired Admiral. He has a doctoral degree in computer science from Northwestern University, a master degree from U.S. Naval Institute, and graduated from U.S. Naval War College.
Career
He was the commander of the ROCN from 16 May 2011 to 31 July 2013. He was also the Minister of the Veterans Affairs Council (VAC) from 1 August 2013 to 20 May 2016.
In early October 2013 during a legislative session, he said the VAC will stop issuing subsidies to ROC veterans that are found to hold PRC citizenship, citing the amendment to article 27 of the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area that was passed in March 2004. He added that the VAC had found a total of 12 veterans who currently reside in Mainland China and hold PRC nationality. However, if those 12 veterans give up their PRC nationality and apply to reinstate their ROC nationality in the future, they could again apply for the annual subsidy from the VAC.
Commenting on the vast number of retired ROC generals attending the 90th anniversary of Whampoa Military Academy, he said that there were a total of 3,000 retired ROC generals, and that the council had no authority to question the movement and schedule of every retired general since they are basically civilians after retiring from the ROC Armed Forces.
Researches
Park, Young-chul; P. Scheuermann; Hsiang-lung Tung. (1995). A Distributed Deadlock Detection and Resolution Algorithm Based on A Hybrid Wait-for Graph and Probe Generation Scheme. Conference: CIKM '95, Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 28 - December 2, 1995, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Scheuermann, P.; Hsiang-Lung Tung. (1993). A recovery scheme for multidatabase systems. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management: Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management; 01-05 Nov. 1993, 1993, p.665-673.
Scheuermann, P.; Hsiang-lung Tung. (1992). A deadlock checkpointing scheme for multidatabase systems. Research Issues on Data Engineering International Workshop (RIDE '92, 1992, p.184-191).
Hsiang-lung Tung. (1992). Deadlock detection and resolution in distributed database systems and multidatabase systems. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University.
References
Taiwanese Ministers of the Veterans Affairs Council
Naval War College alumni
Living people
1952 births
Republic of China Navy admirals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20350001%E2%80%93351000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdev%20Sydney%20Ferries | Transdev Sydney Ferries, formerly Harbour City Ferries, is a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia, and is the operator of ferry services in the Sydney Ferries network since July 2012. It currently operates the ferry network under a contract until June 2028. As part of the operation contract, Transdev Sydney Ferries leases both the Balmain Maintenance Facility and the fleet from the government agency Sydney Ferries.
History
In 2011, the NSW government decided to contract out ferry services to the private sector. Harbour City Ferries was formed as a 50/50 joint venture between Transfield Services (later Broadspectrum) and Veolia Transdev (later Transdev). In May 2012, Harbour City Ferries was announced as the successful tenderer to operate the services on a seven-year contract starting 28 July 2012.
In December 2016, Harbour City Ferries became fully owned by Transdev Australasia after Transdev bought out Broadspectrum's 50% shareholding. , Harbour City Ferries employs more than 650 people and its fleet consisted of 32 vessels. The government acquired six more ferries in 2017 that were added to the Harbour City Ferries fleet.
In July 2019, Harbour City Ferries commenced a new contract to operate the ferries until June 2028. To coincide with the contract, Harbour City Ferries was rebranded Transdev Sydney Ferries. Its website was updated prematurely in June 2019 to reflect the name change. Ten new River-class ferries were commissioned in 2021. 3 Emerald Class Ferries entered service in 2021 however were withdrawn in 2022 due to multiple steering failures.
Ferry classes
Fleet
References
Ferry companies of New South Wales
Ferry transport in Sydney
Transdev
Transport companies established in 2012
Australian companies established in 2012
Companies based in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeover%20%281988%20film%29 | Takeover is a 1988 Australian film directed by Robert Marchand and starring Barry Otto, Anne Tenney, and Paul Chubb. The film is about George Oppenheimer, a computer inventor.
Cast
Barry Otto as George Oppenheimer
Anne Tenney as Hilda Oppenheimer
Paul Chubb as Frank
Mark Hennessy as Alan
Bruce Kerr as Doctor
Kate Hood as Nurse
References
External links
Takeover at AustLit
Takeover at Ozmovies
1988 television films
1988 films
Australian television films
1980s English-language films
Films directed by Robert Marchand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%20Weekend | Boys Weekend is an Australian cooking television series that originally aired in 2009 on Australia's Network Ten. The 13-part series was hosted by the four Australian-based chefs Gary Mehigan, Manu Feildel, Miguel Maestre and Adrian Richardson, who visit different locations across Australia to sample and cook local produce. The series was sold to more than 100 countries and a DVD of the series was released in 2010. The four chefs have since become regular hosts on Australian TV, with Maestre on The Living Room, Feildel on My Kitchen Rules, Mehigan on MasterChef Australia and Richardson on Good Chef Bad Chef. In March 2016 the series started screening on the SBS Food Network.
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian cooking television series
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShow%20%28TV%20series%29 | SlideShow was an Australian light entertainment game show television series hosted by Grant Denyer, which first screened on the Seven Network on 7 August 2013.
SlideShow was based on a French program Vendredi Tout est Permis Avec Arthur. Two teams of three celebrities competed in a number of challenges and parlour games, including one on a huge set that slides. The weekly team captains were Cal Wilson and Toby Truslove.
In February 2014, the show was officially cancelled after not being renewed for a second season.
Episodes
Games
Slide on Over
The showpiece game takes place inside a sliding room set at a 22.5 degree angle. Each team acts out an improvised scene (with the occasional prompt from host Denyer) while also negotiating the steep incline.
Photo Mime
One team-member looks at a screen and mimes out the image projected for their team members to guess. The image may be anything from an object to a well-known personality.
Trapezier Said Than Done
One team member suspended from the roof by a harness acts out common expressions for their teammates to guess – all while being lifted higher and higher off the floor.
ABC Story
All three team members act out a scene where every new line must start with the next letter of the alphabet. The first sentence starts with "A", the next with "B" and so forth until the scene ends with a sentence starting with "Z".
Shadow Puppets
Two team members are placed behind a shadow screen with props to mime out a movie title for their third team member to guess.
Danswers
One team member tries to get their teammates to guess a word – all while being twirled around by professional dancers. Includes cameos from Dancing with the Stars' Carmelo Pizzino and Jessica Raffa.
Alpha Body
This game involves two team members lying on the floor and contorting their bodies in unison to create letters individually to spell out a word. This can be seen from an overhead camera to make sure performers spell correctly.
Drawn Out
One team member sketches while the other team members guess what they're drawing.
Just Say It
One team member must get the other to guess certain words by explaining them, without saying the specific word – while the two act out a scene together.
Release
Shine International's parent company represents the format internationally, and apart from the Australian and French versions, local-language versions of the show have screened in Thailand, Finland, Portugal, Denmark, Spain, Brazil, Ukraine, Romania and Vietnam
International versions
The international rights are produced by Satisfaction – The Television Agency and distributed by Endemol Shine Group.
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
2010s Australian game shows
2013 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings
Australian variety television shows
Television shows remade overseas
Television series by Banijay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCdiger%20Valk | Rüdiger Valk (born 5 August 1945) is a German mathematician. From 1976 to 2010 he was Professor for Theoretical Computer Science (Informatics) at the Institut für Informatik (later Fachbereich Informatik) of the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Valk studied mathematics at the University of Bonn (Germany). Supervised by Wilfried Brauer, he continued studying for a postgraduate degree at Bonn and received his PhD in Mathematics in 1974. In 1976 he became Professor for Theoretical Computer Science (Informatics). From 1985 until 2010 he was head of the research group on theoretical foundations of computer science (Theoretische Grundlagen der Informatik, TGI) at the University of Hamburg.
Research career
His early research is characterised by work on topological automata and systems, decision problems and structural properties of Petri nets.
He has published conference and journal articles as well as textbooks.
His later career was devoted to his brainchild Object Petri Nets and the Nets within Nets paradigm; i.e., the idea of using Petri nets as tokens within Petri nets.
During a considerable period of his research career, Rüdiger Valk worked in close collaboration with Carl Adam Petri, the inventor of Petri nets, who held an honorary professorship at the University of Hamburg.
Furthermore, Valk contributed to the debate of how computers affect society, how Informatics should be viewed as a scientific discipline and undertook interdisciplinary research on models of sociology and the derived discipline of socionics as an intersection of sociology and informatics.
References
1945 births
Living people
German computer scientists
20th-century German mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Hamburg
University of Bonn alumni
21st-century German mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaosdorf | Chaosdorf is a hackerspace operated by non-profit association (Eingetragener Verein) Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf e.V. in the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. It is Düsseldorf’s Chaos Computer Club chapter.
The association
Chaosdorf is operated by non-profit association Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf e.V. and is mainly financed by member fees and donations. A membership in the association is not required to take part in the mostly cost-free workshops and meetings.
The purpose of the association is the creation of an environment for adult education, modern information privacy and socializing between communities.
History
Founding
Chaosdorf was founded 24 April 2001. Their first rooms were located on Fürstenwall 232 in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt.
Second hackerspace
After a lengthy renovation process Chaosdorf moved into a new building on Hüttenstrasse that used to be a "rather sketchy nightclub" in 2011.
The space itself consists of four rooms: A large lounge-cum-hackerspace, a kitchen, a media room, and a workshop. Chaosdorf owns different kinds of equipment to help members fulfilling their projects and offering services.
Nationwide awareness
Chaosdorf is known in the German hackerspace culture for organizing Easterhegg 2002 – the first Easterhegg event outside of Hamburg – and OpenChaos: Hackerspace Design Patterns.
It gained mainstream attention in 2013 for organizing a large-scale street protest in Cologne demanding net neutrality after Deutsche Telekom announced to throttle web traffic.
Chaosdorf gained even more widespread mainstream attention after Der Spiegel published a story about its non-commercial in-house OwnBeer microbrewery.
On 30 December 2013 Rheinische Post, a major German regional daily newspaper, published a two page feature about Chaosdorf.
The hackerspace also supports friendly organizations such as Forum Freies Theater, Free Software Foundation Europe, Freifunk Rheinland e.V., and Sub-Etha by providing room for meetings, storage for hardware, or infrastructure.
International awareness
In October 2013 members of the technology online magazine Hack a Day published a story about Chaosdorf – their first visit in a German hackerspace.
New hackerspace "Chaosdorf 4.0"
In 2020 Chaosdorf moved to a bigger building on Sonnenstrasse. The new space provides the following rooms: class room, electronic lab, wet lab, hackerspace, kitchen/lounge, and fab lab (Werkstatt).
Renowned members
Among the members of Chaosdorf are a few renowned people such as former member of parliament North Rhine-Westphalia Marc Olejak of the Pirate Party Germany, visual artist Rachid Maazouz and the security researchers Ilias Morad, Alexander Karl, and Martin Dessauer.
External links
References
Hackerspaces
Computer clubs in Germany
Non-profit organisations based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Education in Düsseldorf
Culture in Düsseldorf
Organisations based in Düsseldorf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waihopai%20Station | The Waihopai Station is a secure communication facility, located near Blenheim, run by New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau. The station started operating in 1989, and collects data that is then shared with New Zealand's allies. In 2021, it was announced that the parts of the station would be deconstructed and removed from the site. Several protests and disputes surrounding its use and the wider implications of the information gathered has gained the facility some local and international notoriety.
Function
The construction of a new station on 30 hectares of stony ground was authorised by the Prime Minister David Lange and Finance Minister Roger Douglas in 1987. Gerald Hensley comments that Lange: "was ready to work with the Australians [as] … international communications were shifting to satellites … Lange was regularly briefed by me and despite his later claims knew exactly what was involved and why the station was needed. … The Australians were building a similar one at Geraldton [Western Australia] and their Defence Minister explained to the PM why the two installations separated by five time zones would enhance the benefit to both countries."
It has been operating since 1989, and was expanded with the construction of a second interception dish in 1998. It is described as a satellite communications monitoring facility in the Waihopai Valley, near Blenheim. The facility has been identified by MP Keith Locke as part of ECHELON, the worldwide network of signals interception facilities run by the UKUSA consortium of intelligence agencies, which shares global electronic and signals intelligence among the intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The dishes are shielded by giant radomes. Few details of the facility are known, but it is believed that it intercepts and processes all phone calls, faxes, e-mail and computer data communications. It is thought that this data is then sorted and shared with the other members of the UKUSA group. In June 2007, a torus antenna was installed, which is able to receive the signals of up to 35 satellites simultaneously. This antenna is not covered by a radome.
In October 2021, the GCSB announced that the two dishes, and their radomes, would be deconstructed and removed from the station as the technology they used was deemed to be obsolete. For example, in 2021 only 0.5% of the data that the GCSB collected was from the two dishes. In April 2022 the satellites and radomes were deconstructed. Other data collection and information gathering will continue at the station.
Southern Cross Cable interception
In August 2014, it was revealed that an engineer from the United States National Security Agency had visited New Zealand and held a meeting at Waihopai Station. The topic of discussion was interception of all traffic on the Southern Cross Cable. Due to New Zealand's isolated location, the cable is the only point of international internet and telecommunications ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahdat%20Rural%20District%20%28Landeh%20County%29 | Vahdat Rural District () is in Mugarmun District of Landeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Vahdatabad-e Mugarmun.
At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 864 in 220 households. The largest of its 26 villages was Bonah Aliyari, with 187 people.
References
Landeh County
Rural Districts of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Populated places in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Populated places in Landeh County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheSuitest | TheSuitest was a hotel price-comparison website based in California. The site aggregated data from third party travel websites and displayed it in lists and interactive graphs. The site was acquired by ClickTripz in 2015 and was subsequently deactivated.
History
TheSuitest was co-founded in 2012 in Venice Beach, California by Jeremy Murphy (CEO), a former analyst in the investment management division of Goldman Sachs, and Mike Aucoin (CTO), a former software developer for Microsoft and DreamWorks. After a series of disappointing hotel stays, the pair designed algorithms to cull and analyze billions of room prices and amenities from third-party sources, which would become TheSuitest.
Description
The search engine compares hotel rooms based on granular amenities such as square footage, television size, view, bathtub type, dining areas, industry awards, and consumer ratings. Users can sort and filter hotel rooms based on a suite score (how a room measures-up to its peers based on the size, amenities, view and hotel quality) and deal grade (how the price of the room compares with its statistical fair value). Users can also opt to incorporate common fees into prices, including in-room WiFi, parking, and resort fees. When the website launched, it covered the 30 most popular tourist cities in the United States of America.
References
American travel websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Haarlow | Rebecca Haarlow (born December 20, 1978) is an American sideline reporter for MSG Network, NBA TV, the NBA on TNT, and the Big Ten Network. Previously she served as a sideline reporter for Fox Sports Net, and as an anchor and reporter for the NFL Network.
Early years
Haarlow is a native of western suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She attended Hinsdale Central High School where she won six Class AA state track and field medals. Haarlow finished eighth in the 800-meter medley relay, eighth in the 400 relay and also finished sixth in the triple jump in 1996. In 1997, she finished second in the 100 high hurdles, fifth in the 300 low hurdles and sixth in the triple jump while in high school. She also graduated from Princeton University. She scored 4,700 in the 1999 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Championships in which is the second-highest mark in Princeton history, finishing in third place with that score.
Career
In 2003, Haarlow was the Public Relations Coordinator for Silicon Valley Sports and Entertainment, until she became the sideline Reporter for the Portland Trail Blazers in 2007. In 2011, she joined NFL Network at the beginning of the 2011 NFL season as a news anchor. Prior to working at NFL Network, she was a sideline reporter for the FOX Sports Network. On January 8, 2013, she joined NBC 5 in Chicago on a part-time basis. on September 6, 2015 she joined MSG Network as a reporter for New York Knicks telecasts, replacing Tina Cervasio.
References
External links
MSG Network bio
NFL Network bio
Living people
1978 births
American television sports anchors
MSG Network people
New York Knicks announcers
Princeton Tigers women's track and field athletes
Sportspeople from Chicago
National Basketball Association broadcasters
College football announcers
National Football League announcers
NFL Network people
Track and field athletes from Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Wierman | Adam Wierman is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on scheduling (computing), heavy tails, green computing, queueing theory, and algorithmic game theory.
Academic biography
Wierman studied at Carnegie Mellon University, where he completed his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2001 and his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 2004 and 2007. His PhD work was supervised by Mor Harchol-Balter. His dissertation received the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 2007.
Research
Wierman's research has centred on resource allocation and scheduling decisions in computer systems and services. More specifically, his work has focused both on developing analytic techniques in stochastic modelling, queueing theory, scheduling theory, and game theory, and on applying these techniques to application domains such as energy-efficient computing, data centres, social networks, and electricity markets.
Awards and honors
Wierman was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2009 and the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star award in 2011. His work has received "Best Paper" awards at the ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE INFOCOM, and IFIP Performance conferences, among others. An extension of his work was used in HP's Net-zero Data Center Architecture, which was named a 2013 Computerworld Honours Laureate. His work received the 2014 IEEE William R. Bennet Prize.
References
California Institute of Technology faculty
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
1979 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Walrand | Jean Camille Walrand is a professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been on the faculty of that department since 1982. He is the author of "An Introduction to Queueing Networks" (Prentice Hall, 1988), "Communication Networks: A First Course" (2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1998), "Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: An Application-Driven Course" (Amazon, 2014), and "Uncertainty: A User Guide" (Amazon, 2019), and co-author of "High-Performance Communication Networks" (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000), "Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction" (Morgan & Claypool, 2010), "Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing networks" (Morgan & Claypool, 2010), and "Sharing Network Resources" (Morgan & Claypool, 2014). His research interests include stochastic processes, queuing theory, communication networks, game theory, and the economics of the Internet.
Walrand has received numerous awards for his work over the years. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE for the development of highly efficient techniques for the analysis, control, and simulation of stochastic networks and stochastic resource allocation problems.Additionally, he is a recipient of the Lanchester Prize, the Stephen O. Rice Prize., the IEEE Kobayashi Award, and the ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement award.
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UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
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Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBL%20Productions | PBL Productions was an Australian television film production company. It was an offshoot of the Nine Network, which broadcast many films and series produced by PBL.
Maura Fay worked as Head of Production for PBL Productions.
PBL's first drama series was Kings, which ran for 19 hour-long episodes that began on 12 July 1983.
Other films and series produced or distributed by PBL included:
Bullseye (1987)
I Can't Get Started (1985)
Cyclone Tracy (1986)
Double Sculls (1985)
An Indecent Obsession (1985)
High Country (1983)
Skin Deep (1984)
See also
List of companies of Australia
List of film production companies
List of television production companies
References
Film production companies of Australia
Nine Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXWZ | DXWZ (94.3 FM), broadcasting as 94.3 Wild FM, is a radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located along Osmena Ext., Brgy. 26, Cagayan de Oro. It operates 24 hours a day. It was formerly known as Wild Zee.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden%20Run%203D | Snowden Run 3D is an endless runner video game created by Belgian computer programmer Michele Rocco Smeets. The program was released in July 2013 for Android operating systems, PC, and Mac computers. The game is very loosely based on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Gameplay
Snowden Run 3D plays as a free-to-play endless runner. Played in a behind the back, third person viewpoint, "Snowden" automatically runs forward, and the player must direct Snowden through the levels with swiping motions using a touch screen, to avoid obstacles and collect certain items. Specifically, the player is to direct Snowden into USB sticks and laptops in order to collect "sensitive information", while trying to avoid "Agent Jake", who chases after Snowden with the intent of imprisoning him. The player at times also has the option to call "Uncle Putin" on a cell phone, who will drop a hydrogen bomb on the location, which helps clear a path and further the distance between Snowden and Agent Jake.
The game contains three different randomly generated levels; NSA Headquarters, Hong Kong and Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. The levels play out infinitely, with no way to win or finish. Upon inevitably being captured, Snowden is captured and sent to Guantanamo Bay, where the game ends.
The game's soundtrack features music from Peruvian born American rapper and social activist Immortal Technique.
Development
The game was developed by programmer Michele Rocco Smeets, who states that the game took only 30 hours of development time. Smeets had noted how many spinoffs of Temple Run existed on the Google Play and iOS App Store, and was inspired to attempt to create one of his own. In early planning stages, at one point, he imagined the game as being more in the vein of a traditional platform game, such as Super Mario Bros., but eventually felt that the constant running of an endless runner was more appropriate and symbolic of the nature of Edward Snowden and the NSA. The game was originally intended as a Ludum Dare entry, an accelerated video game development contest. Smeets states that the game is meant to be a neutral and unbiased parody of Edward Snowden's involvement in the Global surveillance disclosures of 2013, and was not made out of any political motivation or affiliation.
A version of the game for iOS has been announced, but has not been released or given a release date.
Reception
Reception for the game was generally mixed. GameZone criticized the game for being difficult and buggy, but overall advocated at least giving the game a try as "amusing way to pass time", and compared it favorably to Hudson Soft's Adventure Island video game from the 1980s. Kotaku was less enthusiastic, referring to the game as "pretty awful".
References
External links
2013 video games
Android (operating system) games
Cultural depictions of Edward Snowden
Video games based on real people
National Security Agency
Parody video games
Video games set in 2013
Video games set in Hong Kong
Vid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Geman | Stuart Alan Geman (born March 23, 1949) is an American mathematician, known for influential contributions to computer vision, statistics, probability theory, machine learning, and the neurosciences. He and his brother, Donald Geman, are well known for proposing the Gibbs sampler, and for the first proof of convergence of the simulated annealing algorithm.
Biography
Geman was born and raised in Chicago. He was educated at the University of Michigan (B.S., Physics, 1971), Dartmouth Medical College (MS, Neurophysiology, 1973), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D, Applied Mathematics, 1977).
Since 1977, he has been a member of the faculty at Brown University, where he has worked in the Pattern Theory group, and is currently the James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics. He has received many honors and awards, including selection as a Presidential Young Investigator and as an ISI Highly Cited researcher. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Work
Geman's scientific contributions span work in probabilistic and statistical approaches to artificial intelligence, Markov random fields, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, nonparametric inference, random matrices, random dynamical systems, neural networks, neurophysiology, financial markets, and natural image statistics. Particularly notable works include: the development of the Gibbs sampler, proof of convergence of simulated annealing, foundational contributions to the Markov random field ("graphical model") approach to inference in vision and machine learning, and work on the compositional foundations of vision and cognition.
Notes
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
1949 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Probability theorists
American statisticians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Brown University faculty
Geisel School of Medicine alumni
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associations%20of%20environmental%20journalists | Around the world, journalists who report on environmental problems such as deforestation, pollution and climate change, are forming networks and associations. The largest of these—the Society of Environmental Journalists in the United States—was formed in 1990 and has over 1400 members. Since then, journalists have formed new networks in Africa, Asia and other regions. These activities that these groups undertake include training programmes, advice to journalists, and advocacy to raise the prominence of environmental topics in the media. In Africa and Asia, these networks also act to raise funds to support better quality reporting on environmental issues. James Fahn, director of the Earth Journalism Network, notes however that donors generally seem less willing to support these journalism associations than they do environmental advocacy groups.
Networks of environment journalists are able to work in ways that would be impossible for individual reporters. The Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists has, for instance, built an SMS-based news service that connects hyperlocal reports on environmental issues and disaster events to a national audience. The project included the development of a new website and trainings held with local journalists and their audiences.
Another way that such networks have acted is to protest the dangers that environmental journalists face because their reporting challenges powerful elites. In September 2012, the Earth Journalism Network and the Society of Environmental Journalists circulated a joint petition calling on the Cambodian government to launch a full investigation into the murder of environmental journalist Hang Serei Oudom.
Global networks and associations
Earth Journalism Network
Africa: regional and continent-wide associations
African Federation of Science Journalists
African Network of Environmental Journalists
Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa
Pan-African Media Alliance on Climate Change
Africa: national associations
Benin: Association des Journalistes et Communicateurs Scientifiques du Benin
Burkina Faso: Association des Journalistes et Communicateurs scientifiques du Burkina Faso
Cameroon: SciLife—Cameroon's Association of Science Journalists and Communicators
Democratic Republic of Congo: Réseau National des Journalistes Congolais Pour l'Environnement
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Environment Journalists Association
Mozambique: Rede de Jornalistas Ambientais de Mozambique
Niger: Association des Journalistes Scientifiques du Niger
Nigeria: Nigeria Association of Science Journalists
Rwanda: Rwanda Association of Science Journalists
Sierra Leone: Federation of Environmental Journalists in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: The Sierra Leone Environmental Journalists Association
Sierra Leone: Union of Environmental Journalists
South Africa: South African Science Journalists’ Association
Sudan: Sudanese Environmental Journalists Association
Sudan: Sudanese Society for Scientists and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-ALM | DB-ALM stands for Database Service on Alternative Methods to animal experimentation, a service run under the auspices of European Commission's Directorate General Joint Research Centre. Categories at present include: in vitro toxicology methods, test results, a bibliographic section and contact details of persons and institutions active in the field of alternatives to animal testing.
External links
DB-ALM Homepage
JRC
EURL ECVAM
European Union regulations
Toxicology
Chemical safety
Alternatives to animal testing
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20Reign | Satellite Reign is a cyberpunk real-time tactics video game developed and published by 5 Lives Studios. The game was released for Windows, macOS, and Linux in August 2015. It is a spiritual successor to the Syndicate series, which co-founder and programmer Mike Diskett had worked on. The name of the game is derived from one of the weapons featured in Syndicate Wars called "Satellite Rain". It received positive reviews from critics.
Development
After the release of the Syndicate reboot in 2012, the Syndicate Wars producer and lead programmer, Mike Diskett, expressed his displeasure over the game's lack of similarity to previous entries in the series:"A lot of Syndicate fans, including myself, got our hopes up when we heard a new Syndicate game was in development, but in the end it turned out to be nothing like the original games."This encouraged him to create the Brisbane-based 5 Lives Studios (which included team members who had worked on other video game series such as Grand Theft Auto, L.A. Noire, and Darksiders) and develop a spiritual successor to the game he made back in 1993:"I've decided to take it upon myself to deliver what the fans really wanted."Unlike the reboot, which was a first-person shooter, 5 Lives Studios tried to build upon the real-time tactics gameplay experience found in the original games by introducing a fixed camera system and character classes.
On June 28, 2013, Satellite Reign was announced on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with a (US$546,875) goal. On July 29, 2013, the project was successfully funded with (US$720,832) raised.
The game was released for Windows, macOS, and Linux on August 28, 2015. A post-launch update introducing four-player cooperative gameplay was released in July 2016.
The soundtrack was composed by Russell Shaw, who worked on both Syndicate and Syndicate Wars.
Plot
Satellite Reign takes place in an unnamed fictional city referred to as "The City". A corporation named Dracogenics rises to prominence after releasing a prototype named Resurrection-Tech that is capable of providing immortality. Dracogenics turns to corporate crime and bribes politicians with immortality in exchange for control and influence. This eventually leads to the privatization of The City's services and full corporate control over The City's police force. Civil unrest arises and is suppressed by Dracogenics, but a rival corporation soon comes to light and launches anti-Dracogenics attacks. The player controls this rival corporation and must overthrow Dracogenics from The City.
Reception
Satellite Reign received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
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External links
2015 video games
Crowdfunded video games
Cyberpunk video games
Kickstarter-funded video games
Linux games
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Science fiction video games
Steam Greenlight games
Video games developed in Australia
Video game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonWave | DragonWave-X (formerly just DragonWave) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and a global supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access IP networks.
History
Incorporated in February 2000, DragonWave introduced its first wireless broadband product in 2002.
In 2007, the company saw the launch of its all-outdoor Horizon Compact microwave radio with transport speeds of 800Mbit/s.
DragonWave was first listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2007,
and then listed on the NASDAQ exchange in 2009.
In 2011 DragonWave introduced two products, the Avenue and Horizon Compact+.
In October 2017 DragonWave was acquired by Transform-X, and was re-branded DragonWave-X.
Products
DragonWave designs and builds Ethernet microwave products to support existing and emerging backhaul requirements employing three key technologies: packet microwave, hybrid microwave and small cell solutions.
References
Telecommunications companies of Canada
Manufacturing companies based in Ottawa
Companies formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Prodromou | Evan S. Prodromou (born 14 October 1968) is a software developer and open source advocate. He is a co-editor of ActivityPub, the W3C standard for decentralized social networking used by platforms such as Mastodon.
His other major contributions have been Wikitravel (with Michele Ann Jenkins), Identi.ca, and StatusNet, and Fuzzy.ai, an artificial intelligence service for developers.
Biography
Prodromou was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and grew up in Texas and California. He has lived in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Lisbon, and currently lives in Montreal.
Prodromou graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1990 (Physics, English), and worked for Microsoft and various Web development companies in the late 1990s. In 2003 he started Wikitravel, and in 2007 founded Control Yourself, which developed the software for Identi.ca, a microblogging service. Control Yourself was renamed to Laconica, StatusNet in 2010, and finally to GNU social in 2012. In December 2012 Prodromou started a new company, E14N.com, to develop a new social media platform, Pump.io, a follow-up to StatusNet.
Prodromou is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and free culture. He has presented at software conferences, and is the chair of the World Wide Web consortium's (W3C) Federated Social Web Community Group.
Evan is the son of Stav Prodromou, and is married to Michele Ann Jenkins. They have two children.
Projects
Evan Prodromou is working on or has worked on these projects:
fuzzy.ai
Breather (company)
Pump.io
E14N.com (formerly Control Yourself, Laconica, and StatusNet)
Identi.ca
Wikitravel
Vinismo
kei.ki
certifi.ca
Heat.net
References
External links
Official website, archived 2016-08-18
Evan Prodromou on Mastodon (social network)
1968 births
Living people
American computer programmers
Free software programmers
People from Cincinnati
American people of Greek descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Numeracy%20Network | The National Numeracy Network (NNN) is a multidisciplinary US-based organization that promotes numeracy, i.e., the ability to reason and to apply simple numerical concepts. The organization sponsors an annual conference and its website provides a repository of resources for teaching numeracy.
Numeracy
NNN is also host to the journal Numeracy, an open-access, and peer-reviewed publication supported by the University of South Florida Libraries.
References
Educational organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%205%20Fibre%20Channel | Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the marketing name for purpose-built, data center network infrastructure for storage that provides reliability, scalability and up to 16 Gbit/s performance adopted by Brocade, Emulex, and QLogic. The name was created to move away from speed-based naming to technology generation-based naming. Gen 5 Fibre Channel is based on the 5th generation of (1, 2, 4, 8, 16 Gbit/s).
Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel
Brocade formally introduced the term "Gen 5 Fibre Channel" in a press release announcing Brocade Fabric Vision Technology. Brocade has a broad range of Gen 5 Fibre Channel platforms spanning from director-class switches (Brocade DCX 8510), to fixed-port switches (Brocade 6520/6510/6505), to embedded switches, and adapters (Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter).
Brocade platforms with Gen 5 Fibre Channel are positioned for high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and next generation flash and SSD storage.
Emulex Gen 5 Fibre Channel
Emulex first introduced Gen 5 Fibre Channel in a press release announcing ecosystem and partner adoption of Gen 5 Fibre Channel HBAs for flash storage and SAN appliances. In conjunction, the Emulex LightPulse LPe1600B HBAs were re-positioned as "The PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 LPe16000B Gen 5 Fibre Channel (16GFC/8GFC/4GFC) Host Bus Adapters"
QLogic Gen 5 Fibre Channel
QLogic first introduced Gen 5 Fibre Channel in during the Q1 2013 earnings call on July 25, 2013. In conjunction, the QLogic 2600 Series HBAs were repositioned as "2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapters".
Cisco Gen 5 Fibre Channel
Cisco has not adopted the Gen 5 Fibre Channel branding.
Other sources adopting the Gen 5 Fibre Channel name
In an IDC Link report from March 26, 2013, analyst Ashish Nadkarni provided an assessment of Brocade's March 25 product launch
Dell'Oro Senior Analyst Casey Quillin started using Gen 5 Fibre Channel in his Fibre Channel Switch reports starting in March 2013.
Gen 5 Fibre Channel Controversy
There have been heated debates within the industry about the usage of Gen 5 Fibre Channel as the marketing name for 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel. After Emulex launched their rebranded HBAs with the Gen 5 Fibre Channel branding, the Register's Chris Mellor captured this debate in an article about the controversy. Since the article was posted, QLogic began using the Gen 5 Fibre Channel name as well.
References
Fibre Channel
Storage area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Roup | Oliver Roup is an entrepreneur and computer scientist originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Roup is the founder and CEO of the content monetization service VigLink.
Professional and educational background
Before founding VigLink, Roup worked at Microsoft where he was responsible for directing products for media properties like Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Entertainment. He has also served in roles at Echo networks, Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., the BBC’s iPlayer, and the Founders Fund. Some of his patents cover micro-transactions, media, and metadata.
Roup founded VigLink, a service that connects web publishers and bloggers with affiliate advertising solutions, in 2009 and is the company’s current CEO. In a January 2012 interview with Idea Mensch, he was quoted as saying that the inspiration for VigLink came when he “wrote a crawler to count links to Amazon on the web and found that less than 50% were enrolled in the affiliate program (meaning the publisher would be compensated if a purchase resulted from the click)” and that he viewed the discovery as “an indicator that there was room for improvement in the space. Publishers either weren’t aware that affiliate programs existed or found them too time consuming and difficult to use.”
Education
Roup holds a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from MIT as well as a MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Leadership positions
In addition to being the founder and CEO of VigLink, Roup is on the board of directors for the Performance Marketing Association and chairs the Council on Content Monetization.
Early attempts at fundraising
Roup began to raise seed funding for his business ideas in 2009 during his final semester at Harvard Business School. After 95 pitches, Josh Kopelman at First Round Capital offered to invest in the business. He eventually decided to buy Driving Revenue, a competitor with strong sales, and was able to raise $1.1 million from investors.
Views on affiliate marketing
Roup has commented that he believes the area of affiliate marketing has become more mainstream. He cites the transition to mainstream practices as a reason for the term “affiliate marketing” being replaced by “content monetization” or “content-driven commerce.” He has charted the growth of the industry from websites offering coupons to media service providers like Huffington Post providing affiliate marketing-oriented content.
References
Canadian chief executives
Canadian computer scientists
Businesspeople from Toronto
Living people
Harvard Business School alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Davies%20%28activist%29 | Brian Davies (4 February 1935 – 27 December 2022) was a British animal welfare activist who founded three major international animal welfare organisations, Network for Animals (NFA), Animal Survival International (ASI) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW. Davies retired from IFAW in 2003 but remained active in Network for Animals and ASI, which was formerly known as the Political Animal Lobby.
Early life
Davies was born on 4 February 1935 in the Welsh mining village of Tonyrefail. Much of his early childhood was spent with his grandparents while his parents served in the war effort. His father was a rear gunner in the Royal Air Force (RAF), posted to India, and his mother worked in a munitions factory, returning home only on weekends. At the end of the war, when Davies was 11, the family moved to England. He left school at 14, because of ill health, and worked at various manual jobs throughout his youth.
Davies met his first wife, Joan, in 1955. The couple emigrated to Canada where they had two children, Nicholas and Toni. When Davies joined the Canadian army in the following year, the family relocated to the town of Oromocto in the province of New Brunswick.
Beginnings of a career in animal welfare
Davies’ interest in animal welfare began in 1958, when a car struck a dog outside the family's home. Because there was no local vet, Davies contacted the Fredericton SPCA and took the dog to the Fredericton Animal Hospital. This incident resulted in Davies becoming the Oromocto representative for the SPCA on an unofficial and unpaid basis.
Upon being offered the job of field secretary for the New Brunswick PCA (NB SPCA) in 1961, Davies resigned from the military. From 1964-1969, Davies served as executive secretary for the NB SPCA, which was considered by some of its prominent members to be lacking in influence and drive, according to the society's minutes. Over the period of Davies’ tenure, he oversaw the group's transformation from one focused primarily on humane education for school children and the inspection of cases of animal cruelty, to an organisation that sought to address animal welfare issues at multiple societal levels. It was through his involvement with the NB SPCA that Davies learned of the commercial seal hunting industry in North East Canada.
Opposition to Canadian seal hunt
Davies’ first visit to the Canadian harp seal hunt, accompanied by Jacques Vallée, the general manager of the Canadian SPCA, was on 12 March 1965 – a year which saw a total of 182,758 seals killed for their pelts and fat.
On returning to his base in Prince Edward Island, Davies found two live seal pups on the shoreline that had been taken there by sealers. He took them to his home in Oromocto where they were raised by the Davies family. A local paper ran a story on their efforts to save the seals, resulting in national media attention and an influx of funding with which the Davies would run the “Save the Seals” campaign.
International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20K.%20Levin | Adam K. Levin, the former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, is the co-founder of Credit.com and the founder of CyberScout . He is the author of the Amazon Best Seller Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves, and is host of the Webby-nominated podcast What the Hack with Adam Levin.
Education
Levin received an A.B. from Stanford University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974.
Career
As Director of Consumer Affairs in New Jersey, he worked with the New Jersey Legislature and various state regulatory agencies to enact over 40 major consumer protection laws and regulations. He led the fight to force 15 million unsafe Firestone 500 tires off the road. Levin advised consumers on symptoms that indicated failing tires and the proper way to check tires for defects. He developed new consumer educational materials and distribution channels and made over 1,200 consumer educational presentations in five years. Other accomplishments as Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs include the promotion of statewide financial literacy programs, two major tire recalls, and a national effort to secure the right for professionals to advertise- an occurrence which created favorable conditions for price competition and established greater consumer protections in the health spa industry.
In 1982, he resigned his post as Director of Consumer Affairs to run for office. He won the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District. Levin ran against the Republican Matthew Rinaldo but was unsuccessful in unseating Rinaldo who had been the five term incumbent in the 7th Congressional District. Once the election was over, Levin entered the real estate business and co-founded Kingswood Management, the Regal Management (formerly Bellmarc-Regal Management), one of the largest residential property management companies in New York City.
In 1994, he co-founded Credit.com Inc, an online financial services educator and resource for consumers to manage their credit finances. In 2003, he founded CyberScout, an online provider of identity management, identity theft recovery services, breach services and data risk management for businesses.
Levin is also the president of the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation (which is a major contributor to the renovation of 19th-century paintings galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and is on the board of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies.
Levin's speaking topics include a broad range of security and personal finance topics, the benefits and perils of credit, the continuing struggle between convenience and security online; how professionals and businesses can better protect consumer and employee data, as well as trade secrets and intellectual property, privacy issues and the "Internet of Things", protecting data in a world of connected devices, the grow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Zaloumis | Nicole Zaloumis is a news anchor for KPIX. Additionally, Zaloumis was previously the host of NFL Network's weekday morning show NFL AM and formerly a sports broadcaster, who previously worked as a co-host of "Left Coast Live" on Mad Dog Sports Radio on SiriusXM Satellite Radio.
Early years
Zaloumis was raised in Danville, California and is of Greek descent. She also graduated at the University of San Francisco in 2003.
Career
Prior to working at NFL Network, in 2004, she was the weekend sports anchor at WRC-TV in Washington, DC, where she also was the host of a weekly sports show on the Washington Redskins. She also reported on the three Arizona professional sports teams during her time as a weekend anchor for ABC 15 in Phoenix. She previously worked at the Big Ten Network along with Comcast SportsNet New England where she was a daily sports anchor. In the summer of 2012, She joined NFL Network to become the host of the new weekday morning show NFL AM. In June 2014, It was announced her departure from NFL AM was to spend more time with her family. She appeared as a guest host on the August 14, 2014 edition of Fox Sports Live on Fox Sports 1. On August 14, 2023, She joined KPIX as the new weekday morning news anchor.
References
External links
Nicole Zaloumis Website
Living people
1980 births
American television sports anchors
NFL Network people
People from Danville, California
University of San Francisco alumni
Television anchors from Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIVA%20%28Hungarian%20TV%20channel%29 | VIVA Hungary was a Hungarian pay television music channel that was launched on 27 June 1997 as Z+. Like its sister channels MTV and VH1, VIVA Hungary featured localised music videos, programming, presenters and chart shows. It shut down on October 3, 2017, replaced by Comedy Central Family or MTV Hits, depending on the providers.
Programmes
VIVA VEKKER
VIVA SOUNDS
VIVA NIGHT SOUNDS
PARTY SOUNDS
MEGÁLLÓ
RANDOMMARCI
MAYO CHIX DIVATVILÁG
EGYTŐL HÁROM!
SZÜLINAP LUXUSKIVITELBEN
PLAIN JANE
SPONGYABOB KOCKANADRÁG
VIVA INTERAKTÍV
VIVA CHART SHOW
HAZAI PÁLYA (LOCAL CHART)
VIVA ONLINE CHART
US CHART
UK CHART
WORLD STAGE
CHILLOUT ZONE
NAPI TOP 10
RANDIKOMMANDÓ
ÚT A CSÚCSRA
Presenters:
VJ Ada (2003−2010)
VJ Ben (2008−2010)
VJ Zola (2006−2011)
VJ Eszti (2010–2017)
VJ Marci(2011–2012)
Sanyóca (only in Megálló, 2012–2014)
Pizsu (2012-2015)
Marcell (2012-2017)
Logos
References
External links
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VIVA (TV station)
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
1997 establishments in Hungary
2017 disestablishments in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Orson%20Welles%20Almanac | The Orson Welles Almanac (also known as Radio Almanac and The Orson Welles Comedy Show) is a 1944 CBS Radio series directed and hosted by Orson Welles. Broadcast live on the Columbia Pacific Network, the 30-minute variety program was heard Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET January 26 – July 19, 1944. The series was sponsored by Mobilgas and Mobiloil. Many of the shows originated from U.S. military camps, where Welles and his repertory company and guests entertained the troops with a reduced version of The Mercury Wonder Show. The performances of the all-star jazz band that Welles brought together for the show were an important force in the revival of traditional New Orleans jazz in the 1940s.
Production
"The Orson Welles Almanac was a format that intrigued Welles throughout the early 1940s," wrote radio historian John Dunning. "It consisted of everything from odd facts to jazz."
The idea of doing such a variety show occurred to Welles after his success as substitute host of The Jack Benny Program, radio's most popular show. When Jack Benny contracted pneumonia on a performance tour of military bases, Welles hosted four consecutive programs (March 14–April 4, 1943) and was Benny's first guest when he returned to the show April 11, 1943.
Orson Welles's variety show was auditioned in New York December 2, 1943, with the Compton advertising agency representing Mobilgas. The cast included Welles (host) and Duke Ellington (music), with guest spots by Rita Hayworth and Jimmy Durante on an audition record. Billboard reported that plans were under way for scheduling the show.
The 30-minute program was heard Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET January 26 – July 19, 1944. The wartime variety show presented readings from classic works, drama, music, sketch comedy, magic, mindreading and personal commentary by Welles. Many of the shows originated from U.S. military camps where Welles and his repertory company and guests entertained the troops with a reduced version of The Mercury Wonder Show. The program aired on the Columbia Pacific Network, heard in California and neighboring states, but no further east than Denver.
"Originating in Los Angeles, the program was only aired regionally, not at all in New York," wrote Welles biographer Bret Wood. "Had it been a major network presentation, there might have been enough publicity to build a successful program, for the content and production are both of a quality far above the norm."
Welles had an ongoing battle with the program's sponsor, Mobil, which shortened the life of the series. For example, Welles bristled at a suggestion that if Duke Ellington appeared on the show he should play the role of Welles's servant.
Twenty-six broadcasts were produced; all but three shows have survived in private collections and in the Welles archives at the Lilly Library.
All Star Jazz Group
A passionate and knowledgeable fan of traditional New Orleans jazz, Welles was part of the social network of Hollywood's Jazz Man Record Shop, a bus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrangeFS | OrangeFS is an open-source parallel file system, the next generation of Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS). A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data across multiple servers and provides for concurrent access by multiple tasks of a parallel application. OrangeFS was designed for use in large-scale cluster computing and is used by companies, universities, national laboratories and similar sites worldwide.
Versions and features
2.8.5
Server-to-server communication infrastructure
SSD option for storage of distributed metadata
Full native Windows client support
Replication for immutable files
2.8.6
Direct interface for applications
Client caching for the direct interface with multi-process single-system coherence
Initial release of the webpack supporting WebDAV and S3 via Apache modules
2.8.7
Updates, fixes and performance improvements
2.8.8
Updates, fixes and performance improvements, native Hadoop support via JNI shim, support for newer Linux kernels
2.9
Distributed Metadata for Directory Entries
Capability-based security in 3 modes
Standard security
Key-based security
Certificate-based security with LDAP interface support
Extended documentation
2.10
Bug fixes and build changes to support recent distributions.
The Linux upstream kernel client is the primary access method for Linux, the out-of-tree kernel module is deprecated.
The OrangeFS Windows client has been refreshed
History
OrangeFS emerged as a development branch of PVFS2, so much of its history is shared with the history of PVFS. Spanning twenty years, the extensive history behind OrangeFS is summarized in the time line below.
A development branch is a new direction in development. The OrangeFS branch was begun in 2007, when leaders in the PVFS2 user community determined that:
Many were satisfied with the design goals of PVFS2 and needed it to remain relatively unchanged for future stability
Others envisioned PVFS2 as a foundation on which to build an entirely new set of design objectives for more advanced applications of the future.
This is why OrangeFS is often described as the next generation of PVFS2.
1993
Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) was developed by Walt Ligon and Eric Blumer under a NASA grant to study I/O patterns of parallel programs. PVFS version 0 was based on the Vesta parallel file system developed at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and its name was derived from its development to work on Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM).
1994
Rob Ross rewrote PVFS to use TCP/IP, departing significantly from the original Vesta design. PVFS version 1 was targeted to a cluster of DEC Alpha workstations on FDDI, a predecessor to Fast Ethernet networking. PVFS made significant gains over Vesta in the area of scheduling disk I/O while multiple clients access a common file.
Late 1994'''
The Goddard Space Flight Center chose PVFS as the file system for the first Beowulf (early implementations of Linux-based comm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bus%20Lines%20in%20Lausanne | The Lausanne bus network has 34 regular bus lines including 11 trolley, 23 urban, and five regional.
City lines
Regional lines
See also
Lausanne Metro
Public transport in the Lausanne Region
References
External links
Network maps indicating fare zones
Individual Bus Line Route Maps
Transport in Lausanne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexon%20Computer%20Museum | The Nexon Computer Museum is a museum on Jeju Island, South Korea. It opened on July 27, 2013. It is known as one of the first permanent museum in Korea that is dedicated for the history of computer and video games. As of 2017, the museum houses 6,900 items including personal computers, video game consoles, arcades, and software. The museum's supporters include institutions such as Computerspielemuseum Berlin and International Center for the History of Electronic Games, and IT companies such as Nexon, Softmax, Gamevil, Oculus VR, Thalmic Labs, Take-Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment, etc.
The principle of Nexon Co. Ltd.'s museum is to interact and communicate with a range of visitors from across boundaries, by collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and educating historic digital artifacts.
General
The Nexon Computer Museum is displaying one of the original Apple I. Purchased from Sotheby's on June 15, 2012 for $374,500, their Apple I is one of only six that are still fully operational. This Apple I successfully operated in 2010 and 2013. A video footage of their year 2013's Apple I operating test was revealed in G-Star 2013, as part of the Nexon Computer Museum's moving exhibition PC Road Show. Their collection also includes the original Altair 8800, Commodore PET, IBM Personal Computer and classic Korean computers such as Zemix V, SPC-1500A, IQ-1000, FC-100D etc. that were developed and/or distributed by Samsung, Daewoo, and Goldstar (now LG). The museum also provides several gaming software available for visitors to play, such as Space Invaders, Galaga, Prince of Persia (1989 video game), Hanme-Type Writing Teacher and various others. It also offers various education programs to local communities.
1st Floor: Welcome_Stage "Computer as Theatre" - concentrates on the history of personal computers
2nd Floor: Open_Stage "Between Reality and Fantasy" - concentrates on the history of video games and next-gen technologies
3rd Floor: Hidden_Stage "The Real Revolution" - concentrates on education programs and open source based inventions
B1 Floor: Special_Stage "Crazy Arcade" - concentrates on the history of arcade games
Projects
The museum also aims to research and archive MMO games, which is one of the strongest video game genres in South Korea. In 2014, Nexon Computer Museum restored and preserved the earliest (year 1996) version of graphical MMORPG Kingdom of Winds, which is also available to play online. In addition, it provides regional education program such as 'NCM Kids Panel', 'Integrated Kids Workshop HAT', 'Open Workshop', etc.
On June 17, 2015, the museum released its '360 Virtual Museum', which offer a virtual tour of the Nexon Computer Museum's collection.
April 6, 2016, free mobile application 'NCM Mobile Application' was launched for both iOS and Android, which allows users to look for and share pictures and information of 440 major artifacts.
From April to November 2016, Nexon Computer Museum held its first |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20TV | DOGTV is an American premium cable television network and the first television network that is made specifically for dogs. The network was founded in equal parts by Ron Levi and Guy Martinovsky, its first CEO, that sold his shares later To Jasmine Group. DOGTV provides 24/7 digital TV programming that is designed to provide entertainment for dogs.
The programming, created with the help of dog behavior specialists, is color-adjusted to appeal to dogs, and features 3-6 minute segments designed to relax, to stimulate, and to expose the dog to scenes of everyday life such as doorbells or riding in a vehicle. In 2012, the San Diego Humane Society in Escondido installed DOGTV for their shelter dogs.
Founding
The idea for DOGTV came from founder, Ron Levi and his cat named Charlie. “He just gave me the saddest eyes one day,” Levi said of Charlie when he was leaving the house one day. This prompted Levi to edit videos of squirrels, birds and fish for Charlie to enjoy while he was away.
Launch
DOGTV initially launched in Israel. In February 2012, DOGTV launched in a test market in San Diego, California through Cox and Time Warner, where people and dogs were able to experience the channel for free. The successful launch in this test market set the stage for a commercial launch nationwide on DirecTV.
Programs
DOGTV has three types of programs that cycle throughout the day.
Stimulation
Stimulation episodes show dogs playing in a field, graphics accompanied by engaging sounds and visits to the dog park from the dog's perspective.
Relaxation
Relaxation episodes play soft music, with calm scenes like animals at a safari, or dogs napping at home.
Exposure
Exposure episodes focus on potential sounds a dog might hear in common environments such as thunderstorms, vacuum cleaners and fireworks.
Available markets
DOGTV is available in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, South Korea, China, UK, Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S. the channel is available on DirecTV, Dish, Xfinity, Cox, RCN, Sling TV and supported streaming devices.
Supported devices
Supported DOGTV devices include:
Streaming media players
Apple TV (4th generation & 4K)
Amazon Fire TV
Roku
Chromecast
Smart TVs
Samsung Smart TV (2016 & higher models only)
Roku Smart TV
Game consoles
Xbox Series (Series S and Series X)
Mobile
iOS mobile devices (10.x or higher)
Android mobile devices
Computer
macOS
Windows
Discovery partnership
In 2014 Discovery made a strategic investment in DOGTV, and became a minority stake holder in the company.
References
External links
Official website
Dog equipment
English-language television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Penna | Sarah Penna is the co-founder of Big Frame, a YouTube Multi Channel Network. Before starting Big Frame, Penna was Phillip DeFranco's manager. According to Forbes, Penna was "one of the first people ever hired to manage a YouTube career."
Personal life
Sarah has been married to Joe Penna (also known as MysteryGuitarMan) since 2011.
On February 19, 2014, both Sarah and Joe Penna announced on Twitter that Sarah is pregnant with their first child.
On September 3, 2014, Sarah gave birth to her and Joe Penna's first child, a boy named Jonah Lane Penna.
References
American businesspeople
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women in business
Big Frame people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland%27s%20Honorary%20Consulate | The Honorary Consulate of Finland is an extension of Finland's diplomatic activities beyond its standard network of embassies and consulates. The Honorary Consulate appoints private individuals (usually Finns living abroad or people of Finnish descent) to serve as a diplomatic and cultural liaison on a part-time, volunteer basis.
Tasks
Honorary Consuls of Finland:
Monitor the rights of Finns and Permanent Residents of Finland in the area in which the consulate is located
Provide guidance and advice for Finnish citizens or Permanent Residents traveling abroad to that area
Provide some notarized certificates
Promote economic and cultural relations between Finland and the country in which the honorary consulate is located
Locations in the United States
Honorary Consuls of Finland in the United States can be found in:
Boston, MA
Anchorage, AK
Atlanta GA
Baltimore, MD
Birmingham, AL
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Hancock, MI
Honolulu, HI
Houston, TX
Lake Worth, FL
Miami, FL
Minneapolis, MN
New Orleans, LA
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Norwich, CT
Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix, AZ
Portland, OR
Salt Lake City, UT
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
St. Louis, MO
Virginia, MN
Locations in Sweden
Honorary Consuls of Finland in Sweden can be found in:
Borlänge
Karlskoga
Karlstad
Västerås
Locations in Canada
Honorary Consuls of Finland in Canada can be found in:
Toronto, ON
Vancouver, BC
Past and present Honorary Consuls
Andy Bingham, Salt Lake City, UT
Hanna Eklund, Anchorage, AK
Jon Jurva, Chicago, IL
Leonard Kopelman, Boston, MA
Jarl Lindfors, San Francisco, CA
Pertti Lindfors, San Francisco, CA
James Kurtti, Hancock, MI
References
Other sources
Foreign relations of Finland
Finnish expatriates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devex%20algorithm | In applied mathematics, the devex algorithm is a pivot rule for the simplex method developed by Paula M. J. Harris. It identifies the steepest-edge approximately in its search for the optimal solution.
References
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Cahill%20%28producer%29 | Tim Cahill is an American producer, writer, director, and animator who co-created the Cartoon Network series My Gym Partner's a Monkey with his wife Julie McNally Cahill. He, along with his wife, have co-developed and are story editors for the 2012 Littlest Pet Shop series, and is a writer for The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange. He and his wife also worked for Warner Bros. on Histeria, Detention, Animaniacs, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes, Mucha Lucha, and Krypto the Superdog.
Screenwriting
Television
series head writer denoted in bold
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1997-1998)
Histeria! (1998-2000)
Detention (1999-2000)
Baby Looney Tunes (2002)
Tutenstein (2004)
¡Mucha Lucha! (2004-2005)
Krypto the Superdog (2005)
My Gym Partner’s a Monkey (2005-2006)
Sherm! (2006)
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange (2012-2013)
Littlest Pet Shop (2012-2016)
Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2017)
The Tom and Jerry Show (2018-2019)
The Gumazing Gum Girl! (TBA)
Films
Carrotblanca (1995)
Tweety’s High-Flying Adventure (2000)
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2001)
Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure (2003)
Director
series director denoted in bold
My Gym Partner's a Monkey (2005-2008)
References
External links
Living people
American male writers
American animators
American animated film producers
American television producers
Cartoon Network Studios people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33d%20Reconnaissance%20Squadron | 33d Reconnaissance Squadron may refer to:
The 422d Bombardment Squadron, designated the 33d Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) from March 1942 to April 1942.
The 33d Network Warfare Squadron, designated the 33d Reconnaissance Squadron (Night Photographic) from November 1947 to June 1949.
The 33d Reconnaissance Squadron (Fighter), active with this designation from April 1943 to August 1943. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Stara%20Zagora | The Stara Zagora trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
Opened in November 1987, it is one of the 10 trolleybus systems currently operating in Bulgaria.
History
The Stara Zagora trolleybus system was constructed in the 1980s as many other trolleybus systems in Bulgaria. The system was designed with two major lines, connecting the north parts of the city with the south, and the east parts - with the west. The two major lines are connected in the city center close to the Alana park.
The first trolleybuses that ran through the streets of Stara Zagora were second-hand Škoda 14Tr trolleybuses that used to serve the Sofia network. In the following years, new ZiU and DAC-Chavdar vehicles were delivered to complete the system fleet. Due to poor reliability the DAC-Chavdar trolleybuses were already withdrawn by the end of the 1990s.
The next delivery of new vehicles occurred 22 years later in 2009, when 6 low-floor trolleybuses were delivered by the Ukrainian Lviv Bus Factory.
In 2014 Stara Zagora received 8 brand new Škoda Solaris 26Tr trolleybuses as part of a joint order with the municipalities of Burgas, Varna and Pleven sponsored by a European Union program.
In 2015 14 similar trolleybuses followed, this time from the Solaris Trollino 12 type. The older Škoda and ZiU trolleybuses were scrapped except for one unit of each type which were purchased for preservation in Sofia. The newer LAZ trolleybuses were withdrawn and are stored in the depot awaiting disposition.
Lines
The four lines of the present Stara Zagora trolleybus system are as follows:
Fleet
Current fleet
, the Stara Zagora trolleybus fleet consists of :
Former fleet
References
External links
Stara Zagora
Stara Zagora
Stara Zagora |
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