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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20defined%20storage | Data defined storage (also referred to as a data centric approach) is a marketing term for managing, protecting, and realizing value from data by combining application, information and storage tiers.
This is achieved through a process where users, applications, and devices gain access to a repository of captured metadata that allows them to access, query and manipulate the relevant data to transform it into information, while providing a flexible and scalable platform for storage of the underlying data. The technology abstracts the data entirely from the storage, allowing fully transparent access to users.
Core technology
Data defined storage focuses on metadata with an emphasis on the content, meaning and value of information over the media, type and location of data. Data centric management enables organizations to take a single, unified approach to managing data across large, distributed locations which includes the use of content and metadata indexing. The technology pillars include:
Media Independent Data Storage: Data defined storage removes media centric data storage boundaries within and across solid-state drive, hard disk drive, cloud storage and tape storage platforms, enables linear scale out functionality through a grid based Map Reduce architecture that leverages enterprise object storage technology and provides transparent data access across globally distributed repositories for high volume storage performance.
Data Security & Identity Management: Data defined storage allows organizations to gain end-to-end identity management down to the individual user and device level to address growing enterprise mobility requirements and enhanced data security and information governance.
Distributed metadata repository: Data defined storage enables organizations to virtualize aggregate file systems into a single global namespace. At ingestion; file, full text index and custom metadata is collected and stored in a distributed metadata repository. This repository is leveraged to enable speed and accuracy of search and discovery, and to extract value leading to informed business decisions and analytics.
Data defined storage builds on the benefits of both object storage and software-defined storage technologies, however, object and software-defined storage can only be mapped to media independent data storage, which enables a media agnostic infrastructure - utilizing any type of storage, including low cost commodity storage to scale out to petabyte-level capacities. Data defined storage unifies all data repositories and exposes globally distributed stores through the global namespace, eliminating data silos and improving storage utilization.
Usage
The first marketing using this term was by Tarmin, in its GridBank product. The data defined storage term might have been mentioned in 2013. Tamrin issued press releases about customers.
The data defined storage term was used for object storage with open protocol access for file system virtualizati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Wyche | Steve Wyche (; born May 28, 1966) is an American reporter for NFL Network. He appeared in the weekday morning show NFL AM.
Early years
Wyche is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He played quarterback, running back and outside linebacker in high school and went on to play college football at the University of Missouri. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Howard University in 1989.
Career
In 2008, Wyche joined NFL Network as a reporter and the senior writer for NFL.com. Prior to working at NFL Network, he spent four years as the beat writer of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering the Atlanta Falcons. In 2012, he would appear in NFL Network's new weekday morning show NFL AM. In 2016, he broke the story of Colin Kaepernick's protesting during the national anthem.
References
External links
NFL Network bio
1966 births
American television reporters and correspondents
Howard University alumni
Living people
NFL Network people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LendUp | LendUp was an American online direct lender. It offered payday loans, installment loans, and credit cards to consumers with low credit scores using publicly available data to assess creditworthiness. The company referred to its customers as “the emerging middle class.” LendUp also issued credit cards in partnership with Tom Steyer's Beneficial State Bank.
LendUp was co-founded in 2011 by stepbrothers Sasha Orloff and Jake Rosenberg and incubated at Y Combinator. The company positioned itself as a "socially responsible lender" and claimed to provide access to financial services for "underbanked" Americans in addition to lower cost credit and credit-building opportunities.
LendUp received $325 million in equity and debt financing from PayPal, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator and QED Investors, among others. In an article published shortly after the company's launch, Time Magazine wrote that LendUp "says it’s not like other payday lenders. Yet the fees it charges — a little over $30 to borrow $200 for two weeks — are similar to what its competitors charge."
In 2016, LendUp raised $150 million to grow a credit card product in January, then paid $6.3 million in fines for deceptive practices and widespread violations of payday and installment loan laws in September. In 2020, it was again sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for violating the Military Lending Act.
In January 2019, LendUp announced Anu Shultes as the new CEO and split its credit card operations into Mission Lane.
In December 2021, as a result of deceptive marketing and fair lending violations, LendUp was fined $100,000 by The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Additionally, the company was required to stop issuing new loans and stop attempts to collect on certain loans. The action was taken to resolve a September 2021 lawsuit that alleged LendUp practiced illegal and deceptive marketing in violation of the 2016 finding. It ceased loan operations in January 2022.
As of March 1, 2023, LendUp last filed an annual report in 2020 and purportedly owes $390,332 in taxes.
Ahead Financials
In December 2020, LendUp launched Ahead Financials, which went live the following May. Within a year of launching, Ahead informed customers via email that a “new app was coming,” which appears to have been LendUp preparing to shut down and liquidate its remaining assets — and transfer Ahead’s users to another company.
Ahead was reportedly acquired by Kinly, although customer service hotlines claimed Ahead simply "rebranded its name to Kinly." According to social media, several users were unable to transfer funds or open new accounts. Kinly's sites failed to mention customer transitions and blocked transfers. Additionally, some accounts were closed without notice, blocking access to funds.
Kinly was acquired by Greenwood in May 2023.
References
External links
Official Website
Companies based in San Franci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Fonts | Google Fonts (formerly known as Google Web Fonts) is a computer font and web font service owned by Google. This includes free and open source font families, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for using the fonts via CSS and Android. Popular fonts in the Google Fonts library include Roboto, Open Sans, Lato, Oswald, Montserrat, and Source Sans Pro.
History
Google Fonts was launched in 2010 and revamped in 2011, 2016, and 2020.
On March 3, 2020, Google updated the catalog website with support for variable fonts. On March 2, 2021, the Google Fonts team announced they were adding support for open source icons.
Font library
, Google Fonts had 1,569 font families, including 346 variable font families.
The library is maintained through Google Fonts' GitHub repository, where all font files can be obtained directly. Source files for many of the fonts are available from git repositories within the Google Fonts' GitHub organization, along with libre software tools used by the Google Fonts community.
Licenses and distribution
Most of the fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, while some are released under the Apache License; both are libre licenses.
The font library is also distributed by Monotype's SkyFonts and Adobe's Edge Web Fonts and Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) services.
Privacy issues
In February 2022, a German court ruled that a website using Google Fonts violated the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by passing personally identifiable information (IP address) to Google without the user's consent or a legitimate interest in doing so.
References
External links
Typography
Fonts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Kauers | Manuel Kauers (born 20 February 1979 in Lahnstein, West Germany) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is
working on computer algebra and its applications to discrete mathematics. He is currently
professor for algebra at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria, and leader of the Institute for Algebra at JKU.
Before that, he was affiliated with that university's Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC).
Kauers studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany from 1998 to 2002 and then moved to RISC, where he completed his PhD in symbolic computation in 2005 under the supervision of Peter Paule. He earned his habilitation in mathematics from JKU in 2008.
Together with Doron Zeilberger and Christoph Koutschan, Kauers proved two famous open conjectures in combinatorics using large scale
computer algebra calculations. Both proofs appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The first concerned a conjecture
formulated by Ira Gessel on the number of certain lattice walks restricted to the quarter plane. This result was later generalized by Alin Bostan and Kauers when they showed, also using computer algebra, that the generating function for these walks is algebraic. The second conjecture proven by Kauers, Koutschan and Zeilberger was the so-called q-TSPP conjecture, a product formula for the orbit generating function of totally symmetric plane partitions, which was formulated by George Andrews and David Robbins in the early 1980s.
In 2009, Kauers received the Start-Preis, which is considered the most prestigious award for young scientists in Austria.
In 2016, with Christoph Koutschan and Doron Zeilberger he received the David P. Robbins prize of the American Mathematical Society.
References
1979 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
German expatriates in Austria
German computer scientists
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Johannes Kepler University Linz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%20Montealegre | Gloria Montealegre is a former television reporter and former deputy press secretary for ex-New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine. She was a longtime television news reporter for New Jersey Network and was the first female on-air reporter for New York's Channel 47, now Telemundo.
She immigrated to the United States from Colombia in the 1960s. She graduated from Dover High School in 1973.
Montealegre was the host of Images/Imagenes, a Latino public affairs show on the former New Jersey Network television station. The show was the longest public service television show on national public television.
References
American television reporters and correspondents
Colombian emigrants to the United States
American press secretaries
People from Dover, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20X8%20Mobile%20Computing%20System | Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System is a chipset from Motorola for Android-based smartphones, based on Qualcomm Snapdragon System on a chip S4 Pro. CPU of S4 Pro is ARM-compatible dual-core Krait, and GPU of this chip is 4-core Adreno 320. Several low-power DSP chips were added by Motorola to S4 Pro in the chipset to process audio and inputs from other sensors.
Composition
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC (MSM8960, DT version), built with 28 nm process node, with:
1.7 GHz dual-core ARM-compatible Krait processor
quad-core Adreno 320 GPU
natural language processor - single-core
contextual awareness processor - single-core
Loaded smartphones
Motorola Droid Ultra
Motorola Droid Maxx
Motorola Droid Mini
Motorola Moto X
References
External links
Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System official website (Archived)
Motorola's 'X8 Computing System', Brought To You By Qualcomm And Texas Instruments? // Forbes, 2013-08-28
Computer-related introductions in 2013
ARM-based systems on chips
Embedded microprocessors
Motorola products
Qualcomm
System on a chip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20previously%20broadcast%20by%20Southern%20Broadcasting%20Network | Below the programs previously aired by Southern Broadcasting Network and ETC. Broadcasts a variety of programming through its UHF terrestrial television station SBN-TV 21 Manila. For the current shows on SolarFlix of this network, see List of programs broadcast by SolarFlix.
Local defunct shows
News
Ito Ang Balita (2002-2004)
Philippine Headline News (1992-2007)
PSE Live: The Stock Market Today (1995-1998)
Solar Daybreak1 (2012–2013)
Solar Headlines1 (2012–2013)
Solar Network News1 (2012–2013)
Solar News Cebuano1 (2013)
Solar Newsday1 (2012–2013)
Solar Nightly News1 (2012-2013)
Solar Sports Desk1 (2012–2013)
Public affairs
Biblia at Balita (2001)
Elections 20131 (2012-2013)
Fora Medica
Gabay at Aksyon
Inform In 100 (Election Special Reports)1 (2013)
Legal at Espiritual (2001)
Legal Help Desk1 (2012-2013)
MedTalk1 (2012-2013)
The New Bob Garon Debates (2001)
News Café1 (2012-2013)
News.PH1 (2012-2013)
Opposing Views1 (2013)
TownHall: The Solar News-PPCRV Election Series1 (2013)
Usapang Legal with Willie (2006-2007)
Informative
Amazing Lifestyle (2001-2003)
Barangay Uniting For Chess (2006-2007)
Buhay Pelota (2003-2007)
Buhay Pinoy (2002-2007)
Talk TV/Solar News Channel: Billboard1 (2011-2013)
ETC Hotlist1 (2009-2011, 2013-2022)
ETC Location1 (2016-2022)
ETC Vibe1 (2008-2011, 2013-2016)
Morning! Umaga Na! (2006-2007)
Something to Chew On1 (2013)
Talk TV/Solar News Channel: The Scoop1 (2011-2013)
What I See1 (2012–2013)
Entertainment
Celebrity Night of Dance and Music (2006-2007)
Chill Spot1 (2008-2009)
Cyber Jam (1996-1999)
ETC HQ (December 3, 2013)
ETCETERA1 (2013-2015)
For Women Only
Friday Night Live (2001)
Gen M1 (2010-2011)
The Journey to the Crown1 (2016-2017)
Let The Music Live (2001)
Rated Oh!1
SBN 21 Live (1996-2001)
Stylized (2014)
World TV Mag (1992-1996)
XYZ Young Women's TV
Reality
I Am Meg (2013-2015)
Mega Fashion Crew (2013-2014)
Project Runway Philippines1 (2008-2009, 2015)
Religious
Ang Dating Daan (1998-2004)
Ang Tamang Daan (2001-2004)
Bible Quiz Bee (2001)
Bible Stories : Comics on T.V. (2001)
Friends Again (2003-2007)
Give Us This Day! with Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy (2003-2006; now aired on SMNI)
Jesus: Lord Of The Nations (2004-2007)
Kerygma TV (2004-2007)
Oras ng Himala (2001-2007)
Oras ng Katotohanan (2004-2007)
Tinig ng Kanyang Pagbabalik (2004-2007)
Other programs
Eventure (2001)
The H-Files (2001)
Movie blocks/specials
ETC A-List (2008-2011)
ETCinema (2020-2022)
ETC Flix (2013-2018, 2020-2022)
ETC Music Specials (2013-2019)
ETC Presents (2013-2019)
Mondays Hollywood Big Hits
Thursday Ninja Specials
Tuesday War Movies
Wednesday Sci-Fi Theatre
Music
SBN Karaoke (2001-2006)
SBN Music Videos (2000-2007)
TV shopping
EZ Shop (2022)
Home Shopping Network (2004-2007)
Metro TV
New Life TV Shopping
Sell-A-Vision
The Quantum Channel (1996-2005)
TV Window Shop
Value Vision (1998-2007)
Winner TV Shopping (2002-2007)
Sports
Jai-A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakalidis | Tsakalidis () is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Athanasios Tsakalidis (born 1950), Greek computer scientist
Jake Tsakalidis (born 1979), Georgian/Greek basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association
Greek-language surnames
Surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious%20Mission | Glorious Mission () is a Chinese first-person shooter computer game. It is the first online, military-themed video game released by the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Development
Glorious Mission was developed by Giant Interactive Group, a company which develops and operates a number of popular online games in China, including the ZT Online 1 Series, ZT Online 2, Elsword and Allods Online. The game took 32 months to develop. The goal of this game is to train people in combat skills and technological awareness. A non-public, military version was also developed by China's People's Liberation Army. The main story focuses on the conflict between Japan and China over a group of islands for which sovereignty is disputed, known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China.
The final version of the game was launched on June 20, 2011. An update that allows gameplay on the Diaoyu Islands was released on Armed Forces Day in China to coincide with the 86th anniversary of the formation of the People's Liberation Army.
Background
Glorious Mission has been used to recruit potential soldiers for the People's Liberation Army as well as to train and educate current PLA combat troops. Glorious Mission accurately recreates the details of firearms, uniforms, and vehicles used by the People's Liberation Army. The game has been criticized for trivializing the reality of war by presenting it as a video game.
There are two versions of the game. The public release version supports online service and is free to play, but requires new players to register an account using their personal Resident Identity Card. The military version includes eight single-player campaigns and a multiplayer mode used by the People's Liberation Army for recreational use. The military version is also available for purchase through an activation code after a free download.
Gameplay
Glorious Mission is similar to popular American first-person shooter games such as the Call of Duty series, allowing players to make their way through basic training before being deployed in a number of combat missions. The game is divided into three parts: basic training, individual soldier tasks, and squad/team confrontation. Glorious Mission levels heavily feature scripted events, such as plane flyovers and explosions. The game often forces players on a fixed path without giving them freedom to approach situations tactically. In the first level, after a brief amphibious landing, players follow a somewhat direct line through narrow trenches. In another level, after some stationary sniping, players are pushed through a narrow cave. Other levels consist of players working their way up a fenced path.
The public release version includes player versus player and Co-op modes. Co-op battles are designed to inspire patriotism in players, with missions such as "Dream to return to Shanghai" (梦回上海 meng hui shanghai) where players fight against the Imperial Japanese Army as PLA soldiers during the Battle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20DZBB | These are the programs aired on DZBB, the flagship AM station of GMA Network in Metro Manila. Selected programs are also simulcasted via its television counterpart Dobol B TV block on GTV.
Current programs
Ano'ng Say N'yo?
Editoryal ng Bayan
Balitang Balita sa Dobol B
Bahay at Buhay Kasama si Lala Roque
Bangon na, Bayan!
Bigtime Balita
Buena Manong Balita
Dobol B: Bantay Balita sa Kongreso
Dobol B Insider
Dobol Weng sa Dobol B
DZBB Executive Summary
DZBB Super Serbisyo: Trabaho at Negosyo
Harana at Balita
Hataw sa Hapon!
The "Long Tall" Howard Medina Show
Konsyumer Atbp.
Markado
Melo del Prado sa Super Radyo DZBB
MX3 Prayer Watch: Oras ng Panalangin
One on One: Walang Personalan
Pinoy M.D. sa Super Radyo DZBB
Presinto 594 Overload
Radyo Romantiko
Riding in Tandem sa Balita
Round Up Kasama si Orly Trinidad
MMDA sa GMA
Weekend Round Up
Saksi sa Dobol B
The Secret of Health
SOS: Serbisyo on the Spot
SumasaPuso
Sunday Guwapo
Super Balita
Super Balita sa Umaga Nationwide
Super Balita sa Umaga (Weekends)
Super Balita sa Tanghali Nationwide
Super Balita sa Tanghali (Weekends)
Super Balita sa Hapon (Weekdays)
Super Balita sa Hapon (Weekends)
Super Balita sa Gabi (Weekdays)
Super Radyo DZBB Flash Report
Super Radyo DZBB News Flash
Super Radyo DZBB Special Coverage
TKO: Talakayan, Komentaryo at Opinyon
Umaga Na, Balita Na!
Usap Tayo: Super Kwentuhan with Mark and Susan
Television programs simulcast over GMA Network
24 Oras
24 Oras Weekend
Fast Talk with Boy Abunda (delayed simulcast from 5:10 pm to 5:30 pm)
Resibo: Walang Lusot ang May Atraso
Saksi (delayed simulcast from Monday - Thursday, 11:30 pm to 12:00 mn on the next day, and Live on Friday, 11:15 pm to 12:00 mn on the next day)
Previously aired programs
Ako Naman (1992–1997)
Aksyon Oro Mismo (2008–2014)
Aksyon: Roco at Raul (1998–2001)
Aldabes with Al Mendes
Ang Inyong Kabalikat (1989–1998)
Ang Inyong Kabisig (1989–1997)
Ating Pagmasdan (1987–1991)
Balitanghali (Q and GMA News TV simulcast) (2006–2014)
Balita Oro Mismo
Balita Na, Harana Pa
Balitang Panghapon (1987–1989)
Balitang Panggabi (1987–1989)
Balitang Todo-Todo (2011–2019)
Bantay sa Balita (1990–1999)
Bantayog sa Araw
Barangay Love Stories (2020–2022)
Bidang-Bida (1995-1999)
Bidang-Bida sa Dobol B (2019–2020)
Dear BB Presents
ASAL: Ang Sa Akin Lang
Da Hu?
Bisig Bayan Network Balita (1989–1999)
Morning
Midday
Afternoon
Weekend
Bisitang Artista / Balitang Showbiz / Master Showman sa Dobol B (1975–2016)
Buhay at Kalusugan (2007–2012)
Buhay-Buhay (2018–2020)
Boses ng Balita (2011–2021)
Boses N'yo Sa Senado (1987–1992)
Break Muna Tayo!
Brigada Siete
Radio edition
GMA Network simulcast (1996–2001)
Camay Theater of the Air (1950–1972)
Cathay Broadcasting (Chinese language radio program)
CelebriTV (GMA Network simulcast) (2015–2016)
Chevrolet Sunday Concert Hour (1965–1972)
Compañero y Compañera (1998–2000)
D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20Naming%20System | The Color Naming System (CNS) is a systematic notation for named colors for computer applications using English terms created by Berk et al. in 1982.
System
CNS uses ten color names, three of which (black, white, gray) are special, and has them combined or prefixed with several modifiers.
The system expressed in Backus–Naur form looks something like this:.
named-color := gray-color | chromatic-color
gray-color := 'black' | 'white' | lightness gray
gray := 'gray' | 'grey'
chromatic-color := [ tint | shade ] hue | [ lightness | saturation ]? hue
tint := 'whitish' | 'pale' | 'brilliant' | 'vivid'
shade := 'blackish' | 'dim' | 'deep' | 'vivid'
saturation := 'grayish' | 'moderate' | 'strong' | 'vivid'
lightness := 'moderate' | 'very'? [ 'dark' | 'light' ]
hue := splash-color? base-color | base-color '-' base-color
base-color := 'red' | 'orange' | 'brown' | 'yellow' | 'green' | 'blue' | 'purple'
splash-color := 'reddish' | 'orangish' | 'brownish' | 'yellowish' | 'greenish' | 'bluish' | 'purplish'
Derivations
There have been variations of the CNS proposed for inclusion into CSS that are more compatible with existing schemes.
color := [saturation || lightness || transparency] hue
saturation := absolute saturation-value | saturation-value relative
saturation-value := 'dull' | 'bright'
lightness := absolute lightness-value | lightness-value relative
lightness-value := 'dark' | 'light'
absolute := [modifier '-']?
modifier := 'extra' | 'semi'
relative := 'er'
transparency := ['semi-']? opacity-value
opacity-value := 'opaque' | 'transparent'
hue := prime | general | special
prime := 'red' | 'green' | 'blue' | 'cyan' | 'magenta' | 'yellow' | 'white' | 'black'
general := 'navy' | 'lime' | 'teal' | 'aqua' | 'maroon' | 'purple' | 'fuchsia' | 'olive' | 'gray' | 'silver'
special := extra | composite ; composite ≈ prime '-' prime
extra := 'pink' | 'brown' | 'tan' | 'orange'
composite := 'yellow-green' | 'green-cyan' | 'cyan-blue' | 'blue-magenta' | 'magenta-red' | …
See also
ISCC-NBS System - a competing color naming system
References
Color |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular%20%28disambiguation%29 | Reticular describes a set of connective tissue, fibers, etc., in network form such as with cross-link bonds.
Reticular may also refer to:
Reticular formation, a region in the brainstem that is involved in multiple tasks
Reticular activating system, a set of connected nuclei in the brains of vertebrates
Reticular cell, a type of fibroblast that produces reticular fibers
Reticular connective tissue, a type of connective tissue that has a network of reticular fibers
Reticular fiber, a type of fiber in connective tissue that is composed of type III collagen
Reticular dermis, the lower layer of the dermis composed of dense irregular connective tissue
Reticular dysgenesis, a rare genetic disorder of the bone marrow
Reticular erythematous mucinosis, a skin condition that tends to affect women in the third and fourth decades of life
Reticular layer, a layer in the adrenal cortex that produces androgens
Reticular pigmented anomaly of the flexures, a fibrous anomaly of the flexures or bending parts of the axillae, neck and inframammary/sternal areas
See also
Reticulation (disambiguation)
Reticulum (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KylieFever2002%20%28album%29 | KylieFever2002 is a live album by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue. It was released in the limited edition DVD version of the tour. It had all of the tour on apart from the 'Cybertronica' act, "GBI" and "Burning Up".
Track listing
External links
Kylie's website
Kylie's Twitter
Tour pics
More tour pics
References
Kylie Minogue live albums
2002 live albums
Parlophone live albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 1997 is the third year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 1997 Fighting Network Rings held nine events beginning with, Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1996 Final.
Events list
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1996 Final
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1996 Final was an event held on January 1, 1997.
Results
Rings: Budokan Hall 1997
Rings: Budokan Hall 1997 was an event held on January 22, 1997, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Holland: The Final Challenge
Rings Holland: The Final Challenge was an event held on February 2, 1997, at The Sport Hall Zuid in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Extension Fighting 2
Rings: Extension Fighting 2 was an event held on April 22, 1997, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Extension Fighting 4
Rings: Extension Fighting 4 was an event held on June 21, 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Holland: Utrecht at War
Rings Holland: Utrecht at War was an event held on June 29, 1997, in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Extension Fighting 7
Rings: Extension Fighting 7 was an event held on September 26, 1997, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Mega Battle Tournament 1997 Semifinal 1
Rings: Mega Battle Tournament 1997 Semifinal was an event held on October 25, 1997, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Mega Battle Tournament 1997 Semifinal
Rings: Mega Battle Tournament 1997 Semifinal was an event held on December 23, 1997, in Japan.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
1997 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Canal | Super Canal is a Dominican television network operating from studios in Santo Domingo and broadcasting on channel 33. The station is owned by Supercanal, S.A.
Super Canal also operates an international feed, Super Canal Caribe, which is seen on cable and satellite systems in El Salvador, Curaçao and the United States, as well as Dominican View, for the United States market with a focus on news and sports programming, and Tele El Salvador, which is an international channel carrying programs from several Salvadorean television networks.
References
Television stations in the Dominican Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%207 | Nexus 7 is a series of Android-based mini tablet computers co-developed by Google, and may refer to:
Nexus 7 (2012), the first generation
Nexus 7 (2013), the second generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrating%20the%20Healthcare%20Enterprise | Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a non-profit organization based in the US state of Illinois. It sponsors an initiative by the healthcare industry to improve the way computer systems share information. IHE was established in 1998 by a consortium of radiologists and information technology (IT) experts.
Operations
IHE created and operates a process through which interoperability of health care IT systems can be improved. The group gathers case requirements, identifies available standards, and develops technical guidelines which manufacturers can implement. IHE also stages "connectathons" and "interoperability showcases" in which vendors assemble to demonstrate the interoperability of their products.
Sponsorship
IHE is sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and the American College of Cardiology (ACC). The eye care domain is sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The radiation oncology domain is sponsored by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
Projects
IHE integration profiles describe a clinical information need or workflow scenario and document how to use established standards to accomplish it. A group of systems that implement the same integration profile address the need/scenario in a mutually compatible way.
For example, the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standards specify many different formats for image data. A given set of images that might comply with some optional parts of the standards might still not be accepted by an application in use by a particular radiologist. Profiles reduce the chances of these incompatibilities.
The Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) standard codes for use in databases are often used in IHE profiles.
A model for cross-enterprise document sharing called XDS allows hospitals to share electronic records that use the Health Level 7 (HL7) standards and LOINC codes.
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs revised its plans in 1999 to adopt IHE recommendations.
IHE integration statements are prepared and published by a vendor to list the IHE profiles supported by a specific release of a specific product.
IHE technical frameworks are detailed documents which specify the integration profiles and associated actors (systems) and transactions.
IHE connectathons are annual events where equipment vendors bring products with IHE profiles and test them with other vendors. The events are held in Europe, USA, Korea, Japan and Australia. The term "connectathon" was coined in the 1980s by Sun Microsystems for similar vendor-neutral interoperability testing of the Network File System protocols and related technologies. The first NFS Connectathon was held in 1985.
In 2008, an agreement was announced for cooperation with the Continua Health Alliance.
In 2012, a guide was published on access to health data from mobile devices.
Although |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20North%20Korean%20Democracy%20and%20Human%20Rights | The Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (북한민주화네트워크, NKnet) is a registered NGO based in Seoul, South Korea. The organization conducts research on and raises public awareness about North Korea, human rights in North Korea, and Korean unification. It also engages in movement building activities and has helped launch other organizations, most notably the Daily NK. Their stated goal is to "help bring about democracy and respect for human rights in North Korea."
History
NKnet was founded in Seoul in 1998. Its founders are veterans of South Korea’s democracy movement and most at one time formerly supported North Korea’s Juche ideology. By the mid-1990s, however, those who would go on to found the group, including prominent activist Kim Young Hwaan, publicly renounced their support for the North Korean regime in response to increasing evidence of human rights violations in the country.
Activities
Past activities have included training programs, seminars, photo exhibitions, a speaker series, and an international conference on human rights in North Korea co-sponsored with the National Endowment for Democracy in 2010. In 2004, NKnet also launched and later spun off the Daily NK, an online newspaper that has a network of sources within North Korea. The organization also started Radio Free Chosun, which broadcasts to North Korea over shortwave radio.
In 2011, NKnet hosted the world’s first annual North Korean Human Rights International Film Festival. In September 2012, it hosted its second annual film festival.
NKnet is a member of The International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK). The organization has also participated in various forums and campaigns including the “Daughter of Tongyeong Rescue Campaign" on behalf of Shin Suk-ja.
Publications
NKnet published the magazine Locks quarterly from 2001 to 2005. NKnet currently publishes NK Vision each month, a Korean magazine of North Korean news for scholars, reporters and others. Each month NK Vision carries round-table discussions, expert analysis, book reviews, and interviews with scholars, government officials, North Korean refugees, and activists. Past issues have examined in depth the succession of Kim Jung Un, marketization, the Korean Wave (Hallyu)’s reach into North Korea, missile tests and nuclear programs, and the US and ROK elections.
In 2011, NKnet published a Defector Survey on International Food Aid Distribution, based on interviews with 500 people who had left North Korea. Among other findings, 79% of respondents said they never received international food aid, while 27% of international food aid recipients reported they had to return some or all of the aid to authorities after international monitors left.
In 2012, Intermedia published A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment, a report which featured data gathered by NKnet.
Awards
On December 11, 2009, NKnet received the Human Rights Award of Korea from the N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Sweden | Sweden once had some fairly extensive narrow-gauge networks, but most narrow-gauge railways are now closed. Some were physically converted to (the latest one the line between Berga and Kalmar in the 1970s) and some remain as heritage railways. The most common narrow gauge, (3 Swedish feet), exists only in Sweden. A smaller gauge network existed, and gauge was used mostly by smaller, industrial railways.
Still other but lesser used gauges in the country were , , , and , all converted or removed.
railway lines
1,217 mm is equal to 4.1 Swedish feet. Compatible with 4 English feet ().
; , converted to in 1898
; converted to standard gauge.
; , converted to standard gauge.
; , converted to standard gauge.
railway line
1,188 mm is equal to 4 Swedish feet.
Engelsberg–Norberg Railway, converted to standard gauge in 1876.
; , closed in 1903.
railway line
is equal to 44.42 pre 1863 Swedish inches
; (converted to standard gauge)
railway line
This unique gauge was created by a measure mistake.
Köping–Uttersberg–Riddarhyttan Railway, closed in 1968.
railway lines
Southern Sweden had a small network, reaching for example Halmstad, Växjö, Torsås, Karlskrona, Ronneby, Karlshamn, and Kristianstad. As most of the railways in the province of Blekinge had this gauge, it was nicknamed "Blekinge gauge" in Sweden. All track is either demolished or rebuilt to .
A few smaller lines also had this gauge:
Åre Bergbana
Sundsvall–Torpshammar Railway
railway lines
891 mm is equal to three Swedish feet.
Two large networks existed, separated by lake Vättern. The western one covered much of the province of Västergötland, from Gothenburg in the southwest to Hjo in the east and Gullspång in the north. The eastern network covered much of the provinces of Småland and Östergötland, stretching from Växjö and Torsås in the south to Örebro in the north. There were also smaller networks on Gotland and in Uppland, as well as separate lines in other regions, among them Öland. Plans for connecting the two main networks were made but never fulfilled.
Some lines were converted to , while most lines have been demolished. In the 21st century, only the Roslagsbanan commuter rail still functions as a commercial railway. There are also tourist or heritage traffic on some lines.
railway lines
is equal to 2.7 Swedish feet.
; , partly closed, partly converted to in 1907.
; , closed in 1977
; closed in stages after 1940, finally ceased in 1970
; , converted to in 1907
; , closed in 1953
; , closed in 1932
railway lines
Numerous gauge agricultural and industrial railways were built. Nowadays a few are in use as tourist railways with steam trains.
; , defunct
; , defunct
; , , defunct (part rebuilt as a heritage railway)
Helsingborg–Råå–Ramlösa Järnväg (HRRJ); , converted to standard gauge
; , defunct
; , defunct
; near Munkedal in Bohuslän, , partly converted to standard gauge, partly remains operating as heritage.
Nättraby–Alnaryd–Älmeboda Järnväg (NAEJ); , defunct
; |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%20of%20magnitude%20%28bit%20rate%29 | An order of magnitude is generally a factor of ten. A quantity growing by four orders of magnitude implies it has grown by a factor of 10000 or 104. However, because computers are binary, orders of magnitude are sometimes given as powers of two.
This article presents a list of multiples, sorted by orders of magnitude, for bit rates measured in bits per second. Since some bit rates may measured in other quantities of data or time (like MB/s), information to assist with converting to and from these formats is provided. This article assumes the following:
A group of 8 bits (8 bit) constitutes one byte (1 B). The byte is the most common unit of measurement of information (megabyte, mebibyte, gigabyte, gibibyte, etc.).
The decimal SI prefixes kilo, mega etc., are powers of 10. The power of two equivalents are the binary prefixes kibi, mebi, etc.
Accordingly:
1 kB (kilobyte) = 1000 bytes = 8000 bits
1 KiB (kibibyte) = 210 bytes = 1024 bytes = 8192 bits
1 kbit (kilobit) = 125 bytes = 1000 bits
1 Kibit (kibibit) = 210 bits = 1024 bits = 128 bytes
See also
Data-rate units
List of interface bit rates
Spectral efficiency
Orders of magnitude (data)
Orders of magnitude (time)
References
Bit rate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Impala | Apache Impala is an open source massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL query engine for data stored in a computer cluster running Apache Hadoop. Impala has been described as the open-source equivalent of Google F1, which inspired its development in 2012.
Description
Apache Impala is a query engine that runs on Apache Hadoop.
The project was announced in October 2012 with a public beta test distribution and became generally available in May 2013.
Impala brings scalable parallel database technology to Hadoop, enabling users to issue low-latency SQL queries to data stored in HDFS and Apache HBase without requiring data movement or transformation. Impala is integrated with Hadoop to use the same file and data formats, metadata, security and resource management frameworks used by MapReduce, Apache Hive, Apache Pig and other Hadoop software.
Impala is promoted for analysts and data scientists to perform analytics on data stored in Hadoop via SQL or business intelligence tools. The result is that large-scale data processing (via MapReduce) and interactive queries can be done on the same system using the same data and metadata – removing the need to migrate data sets into specialized systems and/or proprietary formats simply to perform analysis.
Features include:
Supports HDFS, S3, ABFS, Apache HBase and Apache Kudu storage,
Reads Hadoop file formats, including text, LZO, SequenceFile, Avro, RCFile, Parquet and ORC
Supports Hadoop security (Kerberos authentication, Ldap),
Fine-grained, role-based authorization with Apache Sentry and Apache ranger
Uses metadata, ODBC driver, and SQL syntax from Apache Hive.
In early 2013, a column-oriented file format called Parquet was announced for architectures including Impala.
In December 2013, Amazon Web Services announced support for Impala.
In early 2014, MapR added support for Impala.
In 2015, another format called Kudu was announced, which Cloudera proposed to donate to the Apache Software Foundation along with Impala.
Impala graduated to an Apache Top-Level Project (TLP) on 28 November 2017.
See also
Apache Drill — similar open source project inspired by Dremel
Dremel — similar tool from Google
Trino — open source SQL query engine created by the creators of Presto
Presto — open source SQL query engine created by Facebook and supported by Teradata
References
External links
Apache Impala project website
Impala GitHub project source code
Impala
Cloud platforms
Free system software
Hadoop
2013 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopography%20of%20ancient%20Rome | The prosopography of ancient Rome is an approach to classical studies and ancient history that focuses on family connections, political alliances, and social networks in ancient Rome. The methodology of Roman prosopography involves defining a group for study—often the social ranking called ordo in Latin, as of senators and equestrians—then collecting and analyzing data. Literary sources provide evidence mainly for the ruling elite. Epigraphy and papyrology are sources that may also document ordinary people, who have been studied in groups such as imperial freedmen, lower-class families, and specific occupations such as wet nurses (nutrices).
In German scholarship, Friedrich Münzer's many biographical articles for Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft took a prosopographical approach. Matthias Gelzer, one of the founders of prosopographical methodology in relation to ancient Rome, focused on the social institution of patronage and its effects on the Roman political system.
Leading 20th-century scholars who wrote in English on the prosopography of the Roman Republic include T.R.S. Broughton, whose three-volume The Magistrates of the Roman Republic is a standard reference; Ronald Syme, whose Roman Revolution (1939) became the basis for later scholars' work on the late Republic and the transition to the Principate; T.P. Wiseman, who has studied in particular the careers and family lines of Romans from the municipia, towns outside Rome; E. Badian, particularly his 1965 work on the trial of Gaius Norbanus; Lily Ross Taylor; and Erich Gruen.
Other scholars, such as P.A. Brunt, have cautioned against an overreliance on prosopography, particularly the tendency to see court trials as "proxy wars" between political factions rather than as judicial proceedings in pursuit of just outcomes: even bitter enemies such as Cicero and Clodius Pulcher are recorded as testifying on behalf of the same party.
See also
Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukemap | Nukemap (stylised in all caps) is an interactive map using Mapbox API and declassified nuclear weapons effects data, created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons. The initial version was created in February 2012, with major upgrades in July 2013, which enables users to model the explosion of nuclear weapons (contemporary, historical, or of any given arbitrary yield) on virtually any terrain and at virtually any altitude of their choice. A variation of the script, Nukemap3D, featured rough models of mushroom clouds in 3D, scaled to their appropriate sizes. (Nukemap3D is no longer functional as Google had deprecated the Google Earth plugin.)
The computer simulation of the effects of nuclear detonations has been described both as "stomach-churning" (by Wellerstein himself) and as "the most fun I’ve had with Google Maps since… well, possibly ever" despite the admittedly abjectly grim nature of the subject. Originally intended in part as a pedagogical device to illustrate the stark difference in scale between fission and fusion bombs, Nukemap went viral in 2013, necessitating a move to new servers. The website averages five "nukes" per visitor. Wellerstein's creation has garnered some popularity amongst nuclear strategists as an open source tool for calculating the costs of nuclear exchanges. As of May 2023, more than 300 million nukes have been "dropped" on the site.
The Nukemap was a finalist for the National Science Foundation's Visualization Challenge in 2014.
See also
Computer simulation
References
External links
Nuclear weapons
Scientific simulation software
Nuclear warfare
Internet properties established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Temptation | Great Temptation was an Australian game show, produced by Reg Grundy Productions Pty. Ltd., that aired on the Seven Network from 1970 until 1974. It was hosted by Tony Barber and co-hosted by Barbara Rogers.
In addition to the daytime series known simply as (New World) Temptation, an hour-long prime time version titled $25,000 Great Temptation premiered on 5 July 1971. It initially aired once a week, but later expanded to airing twice a week in 1972 and five nights a week in 1973 and 1974.
Reg Grundy was inspired by the original Sale of the Century that first aired in the United States in 1969, but he did not gain full rights to produce his own Australian version of Sale until 1980, which ran for 21 years. The similar format of Great Temptation was a quiz with three contestants who gained a dollar amount for each correct answer. At regular times during the show, the leading contestant was able to "buy" a valuable prize for a small nominal amount that was deducted from his or her score. That prize remained his or hers regardless of his or her success on the show. The winner of each episode was able to return the next day or take a major prize and leave. The major prizes at the end of each show accumulated but were lost if the contestant was beaten on a subsequent show.
According to Barber, a contestant died onstage during the taping of a 1970s episode of Great Temptation. Barber congratulated her on winning the game; she then slumped over and the production staff cleared the studio and called paramedics. That episode was not broadcast.
The first jackpot-winning show was photographed by Ron Wormwell. Ron, a semi-professional photographer, was then-husband of Channel 7 Adelaide Publicist, Judy, and often called upon at short notice to capture publicity stills.
References
Seven Network original programming
1970s Australian game shows
1970 Australian television series debuts
1975 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Melbourne
Television series by Reg Grundy Productions
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai%20Ninja%20%28film%29 | , known as Cyber Ninja in the United States, Warlord in Canada and Robo Ninja in the UK, is a 1988 Japanese science fiction action film directed by Keita Amemiya, which was co-produced and released by Namco that premiered in October 1988 at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. Two months later, it was released as a direct-to-video film on December 2, 1988. The film is based on the arcade game of the same name which was also developed and released by Namco.
Plot
In a future time a war is being waged between humans and cyborgs. One of the elite cyberninja of the enemy goes rogue and sets out to assist the royal family after their headstrong princess is captured and destined to become the final sacrifice needed to summon the cyborg legions digital overlord from another dimension. The resistance army sends a small band of soldiers in, among whom is a determined young man out to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of the robots. After suffering many losses and battling towards the enemy castle it is revealed that the cyberninja Shiranui is in fact the lost brother, transformed into the robot and now determined to regain his human body. The survivours must storm the technological castle and rescue the princess before the resistance army fires a super cannon to prevent the summoning of the electronic evil.
Cast
Beverly Hills Video Group produced an English dubbed version of the film in 1994 directed by Carl Macek and distributed by Streamline Pictures for a 1995 release in North America.
Additional English Dub Voices
Richard Cansino - Clansman
Carl Macek - Shogi Subordinate
Don Pugsley - Clansman
Barry Stigler - Clansman
Daniel Woren - Clansman
Release
The film was originally screened in Japan back in October 1988 at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival for a premiere release and later first released on VHS by Pony Canyon on December 2, 1988. Later it was released in North America Cyber Ninja for VHS on July 25, 1995, with an English dub, and on region 2 DVD in 2003 (Japan, Europe, Middle East, Greenland, and South Africa). The U.S. DVD was released in 2009.
Reception
The movie met with mixed reviews from Western film critics. It holds a 44% "Rotten" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Writing in the Montgomery Advertiser, Rick Harmon was highly critical of the film, saying it does not reach the level of Star Wars as promised by promotional materials. Specifically he criticized the special effects.
References
External links
1988 films
1980s science fiction action films
Japanese martial arts films
Japanese science fiction action films
1980s Japanese-language films
Ninja films
Martial arts science fiction films
Martial arts fantasy films
1988 martial arts films
Live-action films based on video games
Films set in castles
1980s Japanese films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Ukraine | Various gauge railways operate in Ukraine as common carrier, industrial railway or children's railways.
gauge common carrier
Lines in Carpathian Ukraine
Beregovo region network, around 200 km, initially built during the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the gauge of and regauged to when Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union
Uzhgorod region, 35 km, built at the gauge of and regauged to .
Antonivka system in West Ukraine
Built around 1900 at the gauge of
Central Ukraine
Haivoron network, built around 1900 at the gauge of , 703 km.
Novopoltavka railways
Vapniarka railways, 140 km, built at the gauge by Germany, later regauged to
gauge industry, agricultural and forest railways
Industrial, peat, sugar and forestry lines
Mykhailivka sugar railway, 1932–1990.
Okhtyrka sugar railway, 56 km, 1940–1999.
Potash industrial lines, 49 km, 1933–2003.
Smyha peat railways
Teresva forestry railway, 138 km, built at the gauge of and regauged to (Between the two World Wars the region was a part of Czechoslovakia) and back to .
Vygoda system, 180 km of forest railways
pioneer railways
Ten pioneer or children's railways exist in various cities.
Dnipro pioneer railway, 2 km in the Globy Park in Dnipro, opened in 1936.
Donetsk pioneer railway, 2 km in the Leninist Komsomol Park in Donetsk, opened in 1972.
Yevpatoria pioneer railway near Yevpatoria on the Crimea Peninsula, opened around 1990, abandoned.
Kharkiv pioneer railway, 4 km in the northern part of Kharkiv, opened in 1940.
Kyiv pioneer railway, 3 km in the Syretskij Park in Kyiv, opened in 1953.
Lutsk pioneer railway in Lutsk, built 1952–1954.
Lviv pioneer railway, 1,9 km in the Strijskij Park in Lviv
Uzhhorod pioneer railway on the bank of the River Uzh in Uzhhorod, opened in 1947.
Rivne pioneer railway, 2 km, in Rivne, opened in 1949.
Zaporizhia pioneer railway, 9 km, between the main railway station of Zaporizhia and the River Dnieper, opened in 1972.
References
750 mm gauge railways in Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versive | Versive was a machine learning startup based in Seattle, Washington, US. Founded in 2012 by Stephen Purpura and Chris Metcalfe, the company sells on-premises software, cloud services, and professional service solutions to help businesses automate human expertise.
As of September 2014, Versive has raised $42 million in total investment. The company changed its name from Context Relevant to Versive in 2017. In October 2018, Versive was acquired by eSentire.
Product
Versive has developed a platform that ingests data, determines what's important, and creates a problem-specific solution that can be deployed while continually learning. The proprietary high-performance machine learning technology accelerates deployment of machine learning solutions.
Problem-specific applications provide an experience that reduces the workload on users building complicated models. Deployment options include public or private clouds, traditional servers, and Hadoop clusters.
Versive's software has been applied in various industries. The information gathered through the technology aims to help clients predict activity based on observed trends. The technology can be used to help security teams detect advanced cyber threats, and won the Best Emerging Security Product at Interop in May 2017. It is useful for calculating prices and other risks. The system can also detect fraud.
Investment history
Versive launched with $1.3 million in seed funding from Madrona Venture Group and Seattle-based angel investor Geoff Entress. Other initial investors included Mike McSherry, Cliff Kushler, and Mark Illing of Swype/Nuance. The startup received an additional $1.5 million in funding from Madrona in November 2012. In July 2013, Versive raised a total of $7 million in a round of series A funding. The round included previous investors such as Madrona and Entress, as well as Vulcan Capital and Bloomberg Beta.
In May, June, and September 2014, Versive raised an additional $35 million in total investment in three chunks from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg Beta, New York Life, Formation 8, Madrona, Work-Bench, and Seattle angel investors.
Partners
Versive has partnered with Good Harbor Security Risk Management, a company founded by Richard A. Clarke, a counterterrorism expert and former cyber-security adviser under the Bush administration. Clarke sits on Versive's advisory board and, through his company, helps Versive to repair security breaches and ensure security compliance, among other services.
Awards and recognition
In May 2014, Versive was named to DataBeat's Innovation Showdown.
In April 2014, Versive was nominated for Pacific Northwest Startup of the Year by GeekWire.
In November 2013, Versive was selected by GeekWire in collaboration with the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) and the Bezos Center for Innovation as one of the Seattle 10. This recognizes the most promising young start-up companies within the Seattle region. Context Relevant, along w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Kazakhstan | Since 1954, Kazakhstan has developed many gauge lines, in six individual networks with a total length of approximately 1150 km.
Overview
Atbasar network, 255 km
Kokchetav network, 305 km, operational since 1954, partly regauged to Russian gauge ().
Kustanay, 143 km, opened in 1953.
Utjak to Peski-Celinnie line, 264 km
Novo-Uritskoje – Kovilnaja, 94 km, opened in 1957.
Bulaevo line, approximately 99 km long, opened in 1957, closed in 1989.
Kotrbulak Acisaj line via Ujik, Kokkija and Sergo, 47 km industrial railway operated by the metallurgical combine Acpolimetall in Kentau, closed in 1980.
Children's railways
Kazakhstan has several children's (pioneers) railways located in or near cities.
Alma-Ata Children's Railway, 1.2 km long circular railway opened in 1952.
Arkaluk Children's Railway, almost nothing is known about this railway. Opened approximately 1986 and closed in 1993.
Astana Children's Railway, opened in 1946 and closed in 2002.
Atbasar Children's Railway, opened in November 1979 and has been closed and dismantled between 1991 and 1996.
Shymkent Children's Railway, 6 km long, opened in 1980.
Karaganda Children's Railway, 5.1 km long, opened on 1 May 1957.
Kokchetav Children's Railway, opened in 1984 and closed in 1995.
Kustanaj Children's Railway, 3 km and opened on 7 October 1978,closed in 1999.
Kurort-Borovoe Children's Railway, opened in 1979 and closed in 1998/1999.
Pavlodar Children's Railway, opened in 1979 and closed in 2008.
Semipalatinsk Children's Railway, 1–2 km long circular railway, opened in 1981 and closed in 1989.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Data%20Protection%20and%20Information%20Commissioner | The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) is responsible to advise, educate and ensure the protection of personal data in Switzerland. It is established by the Federal Act on Data Protection and by the Federal Act on Freedom of Information in the Administration.
The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner is responsible for the supervision of federal authorities and private bodies with respect to data protection and freedom of information legislation. It is affiliated with the Federal Chancellery of Switzerland.
The cantons also have data protection and information commissioners.
History
The position of Federal Data Protection Commissioner was created in 1993, with the entry in force (on 1 July 1993) of the Federal Act on Data Protection of 19 June 1992.
The position was renamed Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner in 2006, with the entry in force (on 1 July 2006) of the Federal Act on Freedom of Information in the Administration of 17 December 2004.
The commissioner is appointed by the Federal Council (for a term of office of four years) and approved by a vote of the Federal Assembly.
Commissioners
1993-2001: Odilo Guntern (substitute: Jean-Philippe Walter)
2001-2015: Hanspeter Thür (substitute: Jean-Philippe Walter)
2015-2016: Jean-Philippe Walter, ad interim (substitute: Marc Buntschu)
Since 2016: Adrian Lobsiger (substitute: Jean-Philippe Walter)
See also
Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Germany)
Google Street View privacy concerns (Switzerland)
Personally identifiable information (Switzerland)
Information privacy
Information commissioner
References
External links
Federal Act on Data Protection
Federal Act on Freedom of Information in the Administration
Federal Chancellery of Switzerland
Data protection authorities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%20Elite%20Force | Israeli Elite Force (iEF) is a hacktivism group founded two days before OpIsrael on April 5, 2013, that is responsible for multiple high-profile computer attacks and large scale online vandalism. Targets include ISPs, domain registrars, commercial websites, educational institutions, and government agencies. The group's core members are: mitziyahu, Buddhax, amenefus, bl4z3, r3str1ct3d, Mute, Cyb3rS74r, Oshrio, Aph3x, xxtr, Kavim, md5c, prefix, Cpt|Sparrow, gal-, gr1sha, nyxman and TheGodOfHell.
Views
The group is led by Mitziyahu, naming himself co-ordinator, instead of leader. Stating in interviews for The Daily Beast, Israeli Channel 2 News, and more, that the mission of the iEF is to regain the Israeli citizen confidence of their hackers.
OpIsrael Opposition
OpIsrael was a coordinated cyberattack by anti-Israel groups and individuals against websites they perceived as Israeli, chiefly through denial-of-service attacks. Timed for 7 April 2013, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, its stated goal was to "erase Israel from the internet". Israeli Elite Force had an early start forming two days prior to the attack, taking down websites.
OpIslam
The groups has organized a preemptive attack known as OpIslam to start a day earlier of OpIsrael. Groups known to join iEF at the planned operations include: sTz Hackers, MiSa3L Hacker Team and some single hackers.
Cyber War New website released a summary of attacks which lists the attacks and counterattacks, named Operation Israel Reloaded. The OpIslam attack has received some criticism for being somewhat offensive with this said preemptive attack, as opposed to the groups usual defensive actions.
OpBirthControl - OpIsraelBirthday opposition
Upon planning of the OpIsraelBirthday by anti-Israeli teams on April 7, 2014, iEF launched OpBirthControl, having several groups and individuals joining them.
On this op the Israeli Elite Force decided to focus its energy on exposing participants of the anti-Israel hacks. The iEF hacked named Buddhax published a PDF document with a list of hackers and personal information including pictures of them taken from their computers. The PDF document has created a "buzz" being twitted by famous hacker The Jester, and celebrity Roseanne Barr, and being talked about in the media. The group also released 45,000 usernames and passwords of government officials at the Gaza Ministry of Health
Palestinian Population Database Leak
On another counter-op named #OpIsraelRetailiate, the IEF leaked a database file of the Palestinian Authority Population Registry. This action was referred to as unprecedented by Israeli data security experts. At the same counter-op, the group also leaked Palestinian Authority unemployment office information containing 38,000 names and personal data of 700 job holders in the Palestinian Authority.
References
Hacker groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Dodgson | Neil Anthony Dodgson is Professor of Computer Graphics at the Victoria University of Wellington. He was previously (until 2016) Professor of Graphics and Imaging in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he worked in the Rainbow Group on computer graphics and interaction.
Education
Dodgson graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Physics from Massey University in 1988 and subsequently worked there as a Junior Lecturer in Computer Science for one year. He was awarded a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Prince of Wales Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where he worked on image resampling supervised by Neil Wiseman and graduating with a PhD in 1992.
Research
Dodgson worked for many years on stereoscopic 3D displays, conducting research principally into autostereoscopic methods. He has contributed to several surveys of the field and has been on the committee of the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference since 2000, co-chairing the conference four times.
With Malcolm Sabin, Dodgson has worked on subdivision surfaces since 2000. Dodgson's team produced the NURBS-compatible subdivision method in 2009.
Dodgson has supervised almost twenty research students for PhDs.
Personal life
Dodgson also takes an interest in abstract art.
See also
Mathematics and art
References
British computer scientists
Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholars
1966 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Hungary | The former Austria-Hungary empire had a narrow-gauge rail network thousands of kilometres in length, most of it using Bosnian gauge or gauge, constructed between 1870 and 1920. Landlords, mines, agricultural and forest estates established their own branch lines which, as they united into regional networks, increasingly played a role in regional passenger traffic. Following the Treaty of Trianon some railways were cut by the new border, many remained on the territory of Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Due to a lack of intact roads, following World War II in many places narrow-gauge railway was the only reasonable way to get around. In 1968 the Communist government started to implement a policy to dismantle the narrow-gauge network in favour of road traffic. Freight haulage on the few remaining lines continued to decline until 1990 from when a patchwork of railways was gradually taken over by associations and forest managements for tourist purposes. State Railways operated narrow-gauge railways at Nyíregyháza and Kecskemét that played a role in regional transport until December 2009.
Most railways have a track gauge of , unless otherwise specified.
Common carrier railways
Kecskemét narrow-gauge network (no operation since 2009)
Nyíregyháza narrow-gauge network (no operation since 2009)
Balatonfenyves Narrow Gauge Railway
Forest railways
Almamellék Forest Railway, narrow gauge
Csömödér Forest Railway
Gemenc State Forest Railway
Debrecen Forest Railway
Felsőtárkány Forest Railway, Southern Bükk Mountains, near Eger, now a tourist railway, (see below).
Kemence Forest Museum Railway, narrow gauge
Királyrét Forest Railway – Kismaros
Lillafüred Forest Train, now a tourist railway, 2 lines Miskolc – Lillafüred – Újmassa and Miskolc – Mahóca.
Mesztegnyő Forest Railway
Nagybörzsöny Forest Railway – Nagyírtás - Márianosztra - Szob
Pálháza Forest Railway
Mátra railway, 2 lines, Gyöngyös–Mátrafüred / Lajosháza
Children's railways
Budapest Children's railway, the Gyermekvasút.
Mecsek Children's railway, Pécs
Tiszakécske Children's railway (Suspended in 2009, Reopened in 2021)
Széchenyi Museum Railway (operated by children)
Heritage railways
Szalajka-Eisenbahn Szilvasvarad – Szalajka-völgy, tourist railway in a national park, 5 km, part of former extensive Felsőtárkány Forest Railway
Széchenyi Museum Railway
Vál Valley Light Railway
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%20One%20%28company%29 | Studio One is a content marketing company based in New York City. Studio One creates branded or brand-aligned content in a variety of formats that are distributed across a network of websites. On October 7, 2014, Studio One was acquired by The CHR Group, a global marketing services holding company headquartered in New York City.
Founding
Bob Blackmore and Andrew Susman founded Studio One, formally known as Studio One Networks, in 1998. American Honda was among Studio One’s first clients. In 1999, Studio One and American Honda announced plans to produce and distribute the first series of syndicated programs for the Internet.
2000s
In 2009, Studio One formed Studio One Networks Ventures, which makes equity investments in media and technology companies in exchange for participation in the company's programming. In March 2010 Studio One’s websites had about 200 million unique monthly visitors. In 2012, Studio One launched the "Content Asset Management Platform" (CAMP) as a way for companies to track brand content performance. Also, that year Studio One started a journalist certification program. The company has developed content for Intel, Pantene, Symantec and Bridgestone USA. In 2009 the company established Studio One Networks Ventures, which made equity investments in media and technology companies.
References
External links
Official Studio One website
Advertising agencies based in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuNetworks | euNetworks is a European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services.
euNetworks own and operate 17 fibre based metropolitan networks across Europe connected with a high capacity intercity backbone covering 51 cities in 15 countries.
Their metro networks are in London, Manchester, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Paris, Frankfurt, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Milan and Madrid. They also directly connect 14 cloud platforms with their network with access to additional platforms.
euNetworks is headquartered in London with offices across Europe.
euNetworks' Products
Colocation
Dark Fibre
Metro Wavelengths
Long Haul Wavelengths
Carrier Ethernet
Internet
References
Telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Serbia | Most Serbian railway lines were built as a result of an expansion of railway networks by Austro-Hungarians. Several gauge railways were planned to link the extensive narrow-gauge railways in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until the outbreak of the Balkan Wars in 1912 several of these were constructed, the first ones in Eastern Serbia:
Closed lines
Serbian railway (narrow-gauge) network began to develop in the 1880s.
in 1882, a primarily industrial, though occasionally used for passenger transport, 12 km long 600 mm wide gauge track from Majdanpek copper processing plant to Velike Livade built by the "Serbian Copper & Iron Co" (official name in English, most stock holders were British). First run on the track was in June 1882.
in 1888, the 82 km long dual purpose (industrial and passenger transport) 760 mm gauge track from Vrška Čuka mine to the port of Radujevac on the Danube, built by the Societé Anonyme "L'Industrielle Serbe" registered at Brussels in Belgian, French, (Austro-)Hungarian, and Serbian ownership (in order of the percentage of stock owned).,
in 1892, primarily for coal transport, but also for passenger service, 31.2 km long 750 mm wide line from Ćuprija to Senjski Rudnik was built. In 1908, extended to Ravna Reka and widened to now standard 760 mm Bosnian-gauge. The line was closed partially in 1962, and completely in 1967.
In the 1920s the network was extended from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Belgrade.
Boljevac–Metovnica–Zajecar; 42 km, closed 1980
Šabac–Banja Koviljača narrow-gauge railway in Western Serbia, opened in 1910. In 1950 the railway was replaced with a standard gauge line, the old narrow-gauge line was used for its construction and closed after completion.
Sarajevo–Belgrade narrow-gauge railway, the Bosnian part closed in 1974, the last common carrier traffic on the Serbian part of the railway was the Lajkovac–Mladenovac line which ceased activities in 1983.
Priboj, a terminus station on a branch line of the Bosna Railway from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Zrenjanin–Jimbolia narrow-gauge railway, 68 km, 1899–1968. Had a short tramway section in Zrenjanin, which was closed in 1932. Redirected to Srpska Klarija (now part of Radojevo) after World War 1.
Šargan Eight
The Šargan Eight is Serbia's only narrow-gauge railroad line in service, albeit as a heritage railway. It operates passenger travel from Mokra Gora to Šargan. Originally, the Šargan Eight connected Serbia with Bosnia and Herzegovina (Belgrade-Sarajevo line) when it was first constructed in 1916; the original link extended all the way to Višegrad. Today, however, the train only uses 9.6 miles of track on its trips from Mokra Gora to Šargan, reconstructed in 2003 and in service since then.
References
Narrow gauge railways in Serbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20New%20York%20Library%20Council | The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is a non-profit organization that specializes in providing research, programming, and organizational tools for libraries, archives, and museums in the New York metropolitan area. The council was founded in 1964 under the Education Law of the State of New York.
Member institutions include the Brooklyn Public Library, City University of New York Libraries, Columbia University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mercy College, Museum of Modern Art, New York Botanical Garden, New York Public Library, New York University, Queens Public Library, Rockefeller University, Westchester Library System, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Scholastic, Inc., and UNICEF.
Overview
As a membership-based organization, METRO offers archival and library training opportunities, facilitates research and local community initiatives, supports Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and provides research, programming, and organizational tools for New York libraries, archives, and museums. It is also responsible for providing funding for internships and digitization projects to member libraries. METRO digitization grants provide member libraries with the opportunity to digitize their collections, several of which are available via the Internet Archive in METRO's collection of ebooks and texts.
Programs and sponsored projects
Digitization Grant Program
myMETRO Researchers
Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) The current Documentary Heritage Program is collocated on its Keeping Collections website.
Hospital Library Services Program
Queens Memory Project
NYARC Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the Century
Wikipedia GLAM Initiative ("Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums") via Metropolitan New York Library Council
Works or publications
"Hurricane Sandy: Record, Remember, Rebuild"
See also
List of Library Associations
List of Library Associations specific to American states
References
External links
Non-profit organizations based in New York City
Library consortia in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyra%3A%20Babaeng%20Apoy | Pyra: (International title: Pyra: Fire Woman) is a 2013 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Roderick Lindayag, it stars Thea Tolentino in the title role. It premiered on August 26, 2013 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Kakambal ni Eliana. The series concluded on November 29, 2013 with a total of 70 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Thea Tolentino as Pyra del Fierro-Calida
Supporting cast
Jeric Gonzales as Jeffrey Calida
Elle Ramirez as Cindy del Fierro
Angelu de Leon as Merly Lucente
Gladys Reyes as Susan del Fierro
Ryan Eigenmann as Daniel del Fierro
Roxanne Guinoo as Barbara del Fierro
Polo Ravales as Tito
Christopher Roxas as Ramon
Tess Bomb as Lucinda
Zandra Summer as Ena
Teejay Marquez as Beto
Janno Gibbs as Aidan
Guest cast
Bembol Roco as Ferman del Fierro
DJ Durano as Cesar Lucente
Maricel Morales as Loreta Calida
Jenny Miller as Osang
German Moreno as Sirko
Rich Asuncion as Anna
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Pyra: earned a 15.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.1% rating.
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis%20%28company%29 | Redis Ltd. (originally Redis Labs, Garantia Data) is a private computer software company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Redis is the sponsor of the open-source in-memory NoSQL database of the same name and the provider of Redis Enterprise software, cloud services, and tools for global companies. The company’s research and development center is based in Tel Aviv and it has additional offices in London, Austin, and Bengaluru.
History
Redis Ltd was founded under the name Garantia Data in 2011 by Ofer Bengal, previously the founder and CEO of RiT Technologies, and Yiftach Shoolman, previously the founder and president of Crescendo Networks, acquired by F5 Networks.
In June 2012, the company announced a beta version of its cloud services at GigaOm's Structure LaunchPad. Redis Enterprise Cloud became generally available in February 2013.
In October 2013, Redis acquired MyRedis, a competing hosted Redis provider. On January 29, 2014, the company changed its name from Garantia Data to Redis Labs.
In early 2015, Redis made available Redis Enterprise Pack. On July 15, 2015, the creator of Redis and lead developer, Salvatore Sanfilippo, joined Redis to lead open source development, and Redis became the official sponsor of the open source project.
In May 2016, the company announced a mechanism for developers to extend Redis, and opened an online marketplace that offers modules certified to work with both open source Redis and Redis' Enterprise products.
In August 2018, the company changed the license of its Redis modules from AGPL to Apache2 modified with Commons Clause.
In February 2019, the company changed the license of Redis modules to Redis Source Available License (RSAL).
In April 2019 the company acquired RDBTools, a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage Redis from HashedIn. Later in the year the company launched the tool as RedisInsight with expanded capabilities to visualize data in Redis modules.
On August 11, 2021, the company changed its name from Redis Labs to Redis.
The company’s Redis Enterprise platform is presently used by companies such as Capital One, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Kabam.
Funding
The company secured $4 million in seed funding from angel investors in August 2012, an additional $9 million in series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures (now known as Viola Ventures), an additional $15m in Series B funding led by the existing investors and Silicon Valley Bank, and an additional $14 million in series C funding led by the same investors. In August 2017 it raised $44 million in series D funding led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, and in February 2019 $60 million in series E funding led by Francisco Partners with participation by existing investors.
Series F funding was concluded in August 2020 raising another $100 million, with TCV joining as a new investor in the company. Another $110 million was raised in April 2021 and two new investors joined the company as part of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%203%207.0 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 is a 7-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the third generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, which also includes the 8-inch Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 and the 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 3 10.1. It was announced on 29 April 2013 and launched in the US on 7 July 2013.
History
The Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 was announced on June 24, 2013. It was shown along with the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 at the 2013 Mobile World Conference. Samsung confirmed that the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 would be released on 7 July, with a price of $199 for the 8GB model.
Features
Upgrade to Android 4.4.2 KitKat in September 2014 does not support Miracast (Wi-Fi display).
The Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 was released with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. But the Wi-Fi model has also received the Android 4.4.2 Update. Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz UX software. As well as apps from Google, including Google Play, Gmail and YouTube, it has access to Samsung apps such as ChatON, Smart Remote (Peel), S Voice, Group Play , Multi-Window and All Share Play.
The Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 is available in WiFi-only, WiFi with an IR Blaster depending on region, 3G & Wi-Fi, and 4G/LTE (selected countries) variants. Internal storage ranges from 8 GB to 32 GB, depending on the model, with a microSD card slot for expansion (up to 64GB). It has a 7-inch TFT LCD screen with a resolution of 1024x600 pixels, and both front- and rear-facing cameras.
Reception
Reception for the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 has been generally mixed. PC World Australia reviewer Ross Catanzariti commented, "The Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 is an update to the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 but there's not much that's new." Both Catanzariti and blog.gsmarena's Vince Lockford praised the slimmer size and lighter weight of the device, as well as the unified Samsung design language also used in the S4 and Note series. Like its predecessor, some criticism was made of the screen quality, with Lockford describing it as "dull and uninspiring", and CNET Australia's Nic Healey criticizing it as a "barebone or no-frills" compared to the 2013 Google Nexus 7, despite otherwise finding it worth a look.
Special editions
As a special edition of this tablet, Samsung also released a Hello Kitty edition in November 2013.
Another special edition is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Kids Edition. This is a children's tablet that has all the normal features of the tablet, but has an additional user interface for children in addition to protective casing. It was launched on 10 November 2013.
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2013
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Shub | Michael Ira Shub (born August 17, 1943) is an American mathematician who has done research into dynamical systems and the complexity of real number algorithms.
Career
1967: Ph.D. and early career
In 1967, Shub obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkeley with a thesis entitled Endomorphisms of Compact Differentiable Manifolds. In his Ph.D. thesis, he introduced the notion of expanding maps, which gave the first examples of structurally stable strange attractors. His advisor was Stephen Smale.
From 1967 to 1985, he worked at Brandeis University, the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Queens College at the City University of New York. In 1974, he proposed the Entropy Conjecture, an open problem in dynamical systems, which was proved by Yosef Yomdin for mappings in 1987.
1985–2004: IBM research
From 1985 to 2004, he joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In 1987, Shub published his book Global Stability of Dynamical Systems, which is often used as a reference in introductory and advanced books on the subject of dynamical systems. In 1993, Shub and Stephen Smale initiated a rigorous analysis of homotopy-based algorithms for solving systems of nonlinear algebraic equations, which has inspired much of the work in that area during the last two decades.
From 1995 to 1997, Shub was the founding chair of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics. In 2001, Shub became a founding editor of their journal, Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
1986: Blum Blum Shub
Shub, along with coauthors Lenore and Manuel Blum, described a simple, unpredictable, secure random number generator (see Blum Blum Shub). This random generator is useful from theoretical and practical perspectives.
1989: Blum–Shub–Smale machine
In 1989, he proposed with Lenore Blum and Stephen Smale the notion of Blum–Shub–Smale machine, an alternative to the classical Turing model of computation. Their model is used to analyse the computability of functions.
2004–2010: Post-IBM
From 2004 to 2010, he worked at the University of Toronto. After 2010, he became a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Since 2016, he has been Martin and Michele Cohen Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department at City College of New York.
Awards and recognition
1972: Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
2000: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2012: A conference, From Dynamics to Complexity, was organized at the Fields Institute in Toronto celebrating his work.
2015: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to smooth dynamics and to complexity theory."
2016: Fulbright Specialist.
Selected publications
References
External links
Personal website at the City College of New York.
1943 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of California, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%203%2010.1 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 is a 10.1-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the third generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, which also includes a 7-inch and an 8-inch model, the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0. It was announced on 3 June 2013, and launched in the US on 7 July 2013.
History
The Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 was announced on 24 June 2013. It was shown along with the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 at the 2013 Mobile World Conference. Samsung confirmed that the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 would be released in the US on 7 July, with a price of $399.99 for the 16GB model.
Features
The Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 was released with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. In 2022 it still ran perfectly on LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1.2). Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz Nature UX software. As well as apps from Google, including Google Play, Gmail and YouTube, it has access to Samsung apps such as ChatON, S Suggest, S Voice, Smart Remote (Peel) and All Share Play.
The Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 is available in WiFi-only, 3G & Wi-Fi, and 4G/LTE & WiFi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has a 10.1-inch WXGA TFT screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixel. It also features a 1.3 MP front camera without flash and 3.15 MP rear-facing camera. It also has the ability to record HD videos.
The Micro USB connector on the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 supports MHL 1.
Special Edition
In January 2014, Samsung announced that it would release a special edition called Galaxy Tab for Education, starting in April. This special edition features support and features for the K-12 education sector. Among additional specs, Samsung have given it NFC.
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2013
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Linz | Trams in Linz () is a network of tramways forming the backbone of the urban public transport system in Linz, which is the capital city of the federal state of Upper Austria in Austria.
The network is operated by the Linz Linien division of Linz AG, the city-owned utility company, and uses the unusual track gauge of . It consists of four lines, including the Pöstlingbergbahn mountain tramway with which it has been integrated since 2009. Linz Linien also operates the and the .
History
The first trams operated in the city of Linz in 1880, when a long horse-drawn tramway was opened from the main station, then known as the Westbahnhof, through the city centre and across the Danube to a terminus at the present Hinsenkampplatz. The line was built to the unusual tramway gauge of , which, outside the Linz area, is only used by the trams in Lisbon. In 1895, the line was extended by at its northern end to the Linz Urfahr railway station, popularly known as the Mühlkreisbahnhof. In 1897, the tramway was electrified.
In 1898, the then-independent Pöstlingbergbahn opened from Linz Urfahr railway station to the summit of the Pöstlingberg. This line was built to and there was therefore no possibility of trams running through from Linz city centre to the Pöstlingberg. Instead passengers changed trams at Linz Urfahr.
In 1902 the main tram network was expanded by a line linking Blumauerplatz, on the existing line south of the city centre, with the northern side of the bridge over the Traun river in Kleinmünchen, giving a total length of . With this extension, the Linz tramway took on the form it was to retain for many years, with a long north to south line and a short branch to the main railway station. In 1914, the transverse route M opened, whilst the north-south line was covered by routes B from Urfahr to the station and E from Urfahr to the southern terminus.
In 1929, the north-south axis was lengthened to the south, with a new bridge to the suburb of Ebelsberg. Here a connection was made with the independent Florianerbahn to Sankt Florian. The tram lines were damaged during the second world war, and the situation post-war was not helped by the Danube bridge forming a control point between the US and Russian occupied sectors of Austria, forcing passengers to change trams there.
After 1955, some reconstruction took place, but in 1969, the transverse route M was replaced by buses. In 1985 a branch was opened from Kleinmünchen to Auwiesen. Between 2002 and 2005 the route to Ebelsberg was extended in sections to solarCity. In 2004, the main north-south route was diverted in a tunnel via the main railway station, thus removing the need for a separate branch to that location. In 2011, a new branch diverging from this tunnel at the railway station was extended to Doblerholz.
Meanwhile, in 2008, the previously separate Pöstlingbergbahn was closed and rebuilt to the same gauge as the Linz trams. A connection between the two systems was created at Urfahr, en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%203%208.0 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is an 8-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the third generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, which also includes a 7-inch and a 10.1-inch model, the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and Galaxy Tab 3 10.1. It was launched in the US in July 2013. Unlike the 7-inch and 10.1 inch tablets, the Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is a new size category of tablet in the Tab series and making its debut at this generation of Galaxy Tablets.
History
The Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 was announced on 24 June 2013. It was shown along with the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 at the 2013 Mobile World Conference. Samsung confirmed that the Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 would be released in the US on 7 July 2013 with a price of $299.99 for the 16 GB model.
Features
The Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is released with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. It was expected as of the Summer 2013 release that an upgrade to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean would be made available in the future; as of early 2014, the most recent news shows 4.3 being skipped with an upgrade to Android 4.4 KitKat coming sometime in 2014. Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz UX software. As well as apps from Google, including Google Play, Gmail and YouTube, it has access to Samsung apps such as ChatON, S Suggest, S Voice, S Translator, S Planner, Smart Remote (Peel), Smart Stay, Multi-Window, Group Play, and All Share Play.
The Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is available in WiFi-only, 3G & Wi-Fi, and 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has an 8-inch WXGA Super Clear LCD screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels. It also features a 1.3 MP front camera without flash and 5.0 MP AF rear-facing camera. It also has the ability to record HD videos.
See also
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2013
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Tenali%20Raman | The Adventures of Tenali Raman is an Indian animated television series that premiered on Cartoon Network on 14 June 2003. It was based on one of the most popular and best-loved characters of Indian folklore. It was produced by Toonz Animation Studios, Trivandrum. Promoted with the tagline "Get Ready for the Rama Effect", the series aired every Saturday and Sunday on Cartoon Network in India.
The Adventures of Tenali Rama is the first Indian animated television series. It was available in English and Hindi languages on Cartoon Network. Shortly after that, it was made available in Tamil (Original dub for Cartoon Network) and also dubbed in Malayalam which was telecasted on Asianet in the same year but got stopped abruptly. It was redubbed once again in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada when it was aired on Chutti TV, Kochu TV and Chintu TV respectively.
Tenali Rama is a part of the Cartoon Network's localisation strategy for India. It was the fourth Indian produced animated series acquired by the network. Talking about the reasons for acquiring such India-centric animated series, Ian Diamond, senior vice-president and general manager, Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, said, "Providing content based on the Indian story-telling heritage is a critical mandate for Cartoon Network in its mission to contextualise the Network for our Indian audiences."
Roger Dondis, the creative director of the Tenali Raman series, recalled: "When I landed at the Toonz Animation Studios in 2001 they had the basic idea and several drawings. The folk tales of Tenali Raman were very short and many of them were not appropriate for modern cartoons so the scriptwriter Arial Prendergast had to take the basic idea and stretch it out. And we had to constantly hold meetings with our Indian colleagues to get the nuances just right."
Dan McHale, the animation director of the series, came to train the artists to do the in-betweens and clean up. He also did the voiceover of the character Raj Guru and the theme song for the series. He said, "Though I have done voices before this is the first time I have done the music." P. Jayakumar, Director of Operations, Toonz Animation, said, "To produce a half-hour animation episode in any of the studios in the United States costs around $300,000 and in an [sic] Hollywood Studio it costs around $500,000. While in India it only costs $60,000 to $70,000. The only problem is the quality of animation produced in India is not of international standards even now and many studios fail to make on time delivery. To overcome this problem, Toonz Animation ensures at least 10 percent of their staff has international exposure. These expatriates then train their Indian counterparts. Toonz has been able to curb costs by doing everything here in India, and the 26 episode series of Tenali Raman just cost $50,000 for two 11-minute episodes."
The series was also shown in France (at Cannes) where it was appreciated. A comic book edition of Tenali Raman was publishe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element%2014%20%28disambiguation%29 | Element 14 may refer to:
Silicon, the 14th element in the periodic table of elements
Element 14 (company), a former developer of DSL equipment created from the restructuring of Acorn Computers
Farnell element14, a brand and subsidiary of electronic parts distributor Premier Farnell
Newark element14, a high-service distributor of technology products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk%20Arnold | Arnold is a computer program for rendering three-dimensional, computer-generated scenes using unbiased, physically-based, Monte Carlo path tracing techniques. Created in Spain by Marcos Fajardo and later co-developed by his company Solid Angle SL (now owned by Autodesk) and Sony Pictures Imageworks, Arnold is one of the most widely used photorealistic rendering systems in computer graphics worldwide, particularly in animation and VFX for film and TV.
Notable feature films that have used Arnold include Monster House, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Alice in Wonderland, Thor, Captain America, X-Men: First Class, The Avengers, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Elysium, Pacific Rim, Gravity, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. Notable television series include Game of Thrones, Westworld, Trollhunters, LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, Jelly Jamm and The Mandalorian.
Technology
Originally written in C99 and progressively rewritten in C++, Arnold runs natively on x86 CPUs, where it tries to take advantage of all available threads and SIMD lanes for optimal parallelism. Since March 2019 it supports Nvidia RTX-powered GPUs through the use of OptiX. Its ray tracing engine is optimized to send billions of spatially incoherent rays throughout a 3D scene composed of geometric primitives including polygons, hair splines, and volumes. It often uses multiple levels of diffuse and specular inter-reflection so that light can bounce off of a wall or other object and indirectly illuminate a subject. For complex scenes such as the space station in Elysium, it makes heavy use of geometry instancing, which helps it render trillions of visible polygons in a reasonable amount of memory. It can render large numbers of high-resolution texture maps thanks to its integration of the OpenImageIO library. It has a fully programmable API, and uses shaders written in C++ or Open Shading Language to define the materials and textures.
Arnold is based on the Monte Carlo Path Tracing algorithm, making extensive use of importance sampling and other numerical techniques to improve the quality of rendered images. Throughout the 2010s, its team published research that popularized the use of solid angle-based sampling of area lights in production rendering, equi-angular sampling for volumetric scattering, ray-traced sub-surface scattering, and blue-noise dithered sampling.
History
Marcos Fajardo is the chief architect of Arnold. The beginnings of what is now Arnold emerged in 1997 when Fajardo decided to write his own renderer. That year, he attended SIGGRAPH, where his interest in stochastic ray tracing (a foundational part of Arnold's rendering technology) was piqued in discussions with friends attending the conference.
Early versions of Fajardo's renderer were called RenderAPI. The name Arnold emerged when one of Fajardo's friends suggested it after mocking an Arnold Schwarzenegger film they saw in a theater.
In 2004, Fajardo entered a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste%20Waldner | Jean-Baptiste Waldner (born 30 March 1959) is a French engineer, management consultant and author, known for his contributions in the fields of computer-integrated manufacturing, enterprise architecture, nanoelectronics, nanocomputers and swarm intelligence.
Biography
Waldner received his engineering degree in mechanical engineering from the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard in 1983, his Dr Engineer in Electronics in 1986 from the École Supérieure d'Électricité, and his doctoral engineering degree in nuclear science and engineering in 1986 from the Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires.
In 1986 Waldner started as consultant for the French Information Technology and Services company Bull, where he specialized in Computer Integrated Manufacturing. From 1990 to 1993 he was senior manager at Deloitte, senior partner at Computer Sciences Corporation from 1993 to 1996, Program Director for IT and Shared Services Centers at Carrefour from 1999 to 2001, and co-founded his own management consulting firm Waldner Consulting in 2004.
Work
Waldner's research interests ranges from Manufacturing Resource, Planning Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Enterprise Architecture, to Nanoelectronics and Nanocomputers.
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP/MRP2)
The Manufacturing Resource Planning concept has evolved over the past 30 years from a simple means of calculating materials requirements and components (which does not even take into account the production capacity of the company) - to integrated ERP MRP concepts and software to automated management of the entire company.
During the 1980s the increasing changes of sales forecasts, which resulted in continuous and manual adjustments of the production plan, has in led to the MRP (Material Requirement Planning) model, which was strictly limited to the supply of materials. Eventually this evolved in means for wider production resources management, MRP2 (Manufacturing Resources Planning).
Waldner (1992) showed, that MRP and MRP2 are essential principles of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). In the planning process of the enterprise they are the essential link between General Planning and execution and control. Thereby MRP2 covers three phases (see image):
Production programme
Material requirements,
Calculation of workload
According to Oliveira (2003) the work of Waldner (1992) and others became "an important effort towards the goal of increasing the competitiveness of manufacturing companies through the introduction of automation and wider use of computers."
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
According to Waldner (1992) Computer Integrated Manufacturing is used to describe the complete automation of a manufacturing plant, with all processes running under computer control and digital information tying them together. There are three major challenges to development of a smoothly operating computer-integrated manufacturing system:
Integration of components from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paauwe | Paauwe can refer to
Bas Paauwe (1911–1989), Dutch footballer
Cees Paauwe (born 1977), Dutch footballer (goalkeeper)
Mark Paauwe (born ca. 1970), Dutch computer scientist and developer of Dragon1
Patrick Paauwe (born 1975), Dutch footballer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20television%20drama | Hong Kong television drama () refers to televised dramatic programming produced mainly by the territory's two free-to-air TV networks of Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Asia Television (ATV) until its license expired. Locally produced television dramas have helped contribute to a unique cultural identity among the Hong Kong population and serve as a cultural resource for the Cantonese Chinese speaking community worldwide.
History
Local broadcast television in Hong Kong was first produced in 1957 with the launch of Rediffusion Television, making it the first territory in Greater China and colony of the British Empire to be served by local TV. TVB was later founded in 1967 to become the territory's first free-to-air television network. With a massive influx of refugees from Mainland China coming into a rapidly industrializing Hong Kong during the 1960s and 1970s, the television medium became a prominent force in shaping local identity and formed a cultural resource. The development of early television dramas in the 1970s and early 1980s proved to be enormously successful, with viewership of the ending for primetime serials sometimes creating ratings as high as 70%. Television dramas tended to stray away from Chinese traditionalism, with themes relating more to those of industrialized societies, such as personal survival over collective good, reflecting Hong Kong's global position as a modernizing Asian Tiger economy.
By the 1980s, television dramas had become a cultural icon of Hong Kong throughout East and Southeast Asia, with the territory becoming a center for television and film production. Furthermore, the success of the Hong Kong television industry later served as a major influence for television in mainland China and other industrializing Asian nations, most notably Taiwan and South Korea.
Audience and reception
Hong Kong television dramas, along with cinema, have fostered an identity for the Cantonese speakers separate to those of Standard Mandarin. As a result, Cantonese has been able to maintain a prominent standing relative to other non-Mandarin Chinese dialects.
The success of early Hong Kong television dramas throughout East and Southeast Asia has resulted in their continued popularity throughout the regions, as well as with Chinese immigrant populations around the world. In fact, Hong Kong media became so influential in China's neighboring Guangdong Province (which is traditionally Cantonese-speaking) in the 1980s, that in 1988 the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television allowed for the local production of Cantonese television broadcasts in order to countermeasure against Hong Kong influence. This is a notable exception from the Chinese government's strict measures against the broadcasting and public usage of local dialects, which usually must be given approval by local and national authorities. The popularity of Hong Kong television programs in Taiwan has resulted in the launch of a TVB affiliate network in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeoch | McGeoch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alex McGeoch (1854–1922), Scottish footballer
Catherine McGeoch, American computer scientist
Charles McGeoch (1899–1985), American football coach
Ian McGeoch (1914–2007), British Royal Navy officer
John McGeoch (1955–2004), Scottish guitarist
John Alexander McGeoch (1897–1942), American psychologist and educator
Lillian McGeoch (1903–1992), Canadian painter and sculptor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Image%20Processing%20with%20Sound | DIPS (Digital Image Processing with Sound) is a set of plug-in objects that handle real-time digital image processing in Max/MSP programming environment. Combining with the built-in objects of the environment, DIPS enables to program the interaction between audio and visual events with ease, and supports the realization of interactive multimedia art as well as interactive computer music.
Summary of Features
A plug-in software for Max/MSP (Max 5 and 6)
More than 300 Max external objects and abstractions
More than 90 OpenGL objects included
More than 110 visual effect objects (Dfx library, Core Image Filters)
A utility library for the easy of programming (prefix Dlib)
A comprehensive set of sample patches, and a detailed tutorial
Handling images & movie files (QuickTime, OpenGL)
Render and move 3D models (OpenGL)
Video signal input (QuickTime, video texture)
Video input analysis: motion detect, face tracking (OpenCV, OpenGL)
Importing 3D models (.obj file)
Importing Quartz Composer files
OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) programming interface
Easy integration of visual events using DIPSWindowMixer (OpenGL)
Description
DIPS is a free plug-in software (a set of external objects) for Max/MSP. It supports the designing of the interaction between sound and visual events in Max using Apple’s Core Image, OpenGL and OpenCV technologies, and consequently, provides a powerful and user-friendly programming environment for the creation of interactive multimedia art.
DIPS can be used to detect a performer’s motions and to track positions of subtle details, such as the face, mouth, and eyes. It can also be used to measure the distance between objects and a Kinect sensor system, and offers powerful tools for realtime image processing of incoming video stream and stored movie files. In addition, it can be used to create complex images in a virtual three-dimensional space.
The DIPS consists of a library of more than 300 Max external objects and abstractions, a comprehensive set of sample patches, and a detailed tutorial. Some of its strong points, in comparison with other similar plug-ins and software, are its ease of programming, power, and efficiency.
The sample patches and tutorial contained in the installation package allows composers and artists who are interested in the creation of interactive art to realize sophisticated realtime video effects on a live video signal at their first practice. And because of its ease of programming, it is likely that one will soon acquire skills needed to create state-of-the-art interactive performance works, multimedia installations, interactive multimedia artworks, and Max VJ applications using DIPS.
History
Initially developed by Shu Matsuda in 1997, DIPS was a plug-in software for Max/FTS running on SGI Octane and O2 computers. Since 2000, it has been developed by the DIPS Development Group supervised by Takayuki Rai. Current active group members are Shu Matsuda, Yota Morimoto, Takuto Fukuda, and Keitaro Takahashi. Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20archives%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | This is a list of archives in the United Kingdom. there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives.
UK-wide archives
UK Data Archive, Colchester
UK Government Web Archive
UK Web Archive
Archives in England
Archaeology Data Service, York
Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies, Dagenham
Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
Bath Record Office
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home Archive, London
BBC Archives
BBC Sound Archive
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Bedford
Berkshire Record Office, Reading
Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, London
Birmingham City Archives
Bishopsgate Institute, London
Black Cultural Archives, Brixton
Borthwick Institute for Archives, York
BFI National Archive, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire and Gaydon, Warwickshire
BP Archive, near Coventry (shares premises with the Modern Records Centre)
Bristol Archives
Bromley Historic Collections, Kent
BT Archives, London
Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, Cambridge and Huntingdon
Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, London
Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury
Cheshire Record Office, Chester
City of Westminster Archives Centre
Cornwall Record Office, Truro
Coventry Archives
Cumbria Archive Service, Barrow, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven
Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock
Devon Record Office, Exeter
Doncaster Archives
Dorset History Centre, Dorchester
Downside Abbey Archives, Somerset (includes archives of the English Benedictine Congregation)
Dudley Archives and Local History
Durham County Record Office
East London Theatre Archive
East Riding of Yorkshire Archive Service
East Sussex Record Office, Lewes
EMI Archive Trust, Hayes
Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), London
Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Saffron Walden and Southend
Family Records Centre, London
George Padmore Institute, London
Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester
Greater Manchester County Record Office
Hackney Archives
Hampshire Record Office
Harrow School Archives, Harrow
Herefordshire Record Office
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Historic England Archive, Swindon
Hull City Archives
Hull History Centre: Hull City Archives, Hull University Archives and Local Studies Library
Hyman Archive, London
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Archives
India Office Records at The British Library
Islington Local History Centre, London
Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone
Kingston History Centre, Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth Archives
Lambeth Palace Library
Lebrecht Photo Library, St John's Wood, London
Lichfield Record Office
Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln
Liverpool Record Office
London Metropolitan Archives
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Manchester Digital Music Archive
Media Archive for Central England
Medway Archives, Strood
Mills Archive, Reading
Modern Records Centre, near Coventry
The National |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20C.%20Lethbridge | Timothy Christian Lethbridge (born 1963) is a British/Canadian computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Ottawa, known for his contributions in the fields of software engineering, knowledge management and computer animation, and the development of Umple.
Biography
Born in London in 1963, Lethbridge grew up in Denmead and attended St John's College in Portsmouth until he immigrated with his family to Canada in 1975. He received his BSc in 1985 and his MSc in 1987 in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick. In 1994, he received his PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Ottawa under supervision of Douglas Skuce for a thesis about tools for knowledge management, entitled "Practical Techniques for Organizing and Measuring Knowledge."
In 1983, still studying, he started working as programmer and analyst for the Government of New Brunswick, where he assisted in the development of software for statistics, health insurance programs, and management information applications. At the university he also taught courses in Fortran programming and Interactive Computing. After graduation in 1987 he became researcher at the Bell-Northern Research, where he developed software for Computer Aided Design applications. From 1990 to 1995 he worked as consultant in multiple research projects.
In 1994 Lethbridge started his academic career at the department of computer science of the University of Ottawa as assistant professor, in 2001 associate professor, and since 2005 professor of computer science and software engineering at the University of Ottawa. He specializes in "Human Computer Interaction, Software Modeling, UML, Object Oriented Design, Software Engineering Education".
Publications
Lethbridge published one textbook and over 100 articles. Books:
1994. Practical Techniques for Organizing and Measuring Knowledge. phd thesis, University of Ottawa.
2001. Object Oriented Software Engineering: Practical Software Development using UML and Java. With Robert Laganière. 2nd ed. 2005.
Articles, a selection:
Anquetil, Nicolas, and Timothy C. Lethbridge. "Experiments with clustering as a software remodularization method." Reverse Engineering, 1999. Proceedings. Sixth Working Conference on. IEEE, 1999.
Lethbridge, Timothy C. "What knowledge is important to a software professional?." Computer 33.5 (2000): 44-50.
Forward, Andrew, and Timothy C. Lethbridge. "The relevance of software documentation, tools and technologies: a survey." Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Document engineering. ACM, 2002.
Lethbridge, Timothy C., Janice Singer, and Andrew Forward. "How software engineers use documentation: The state of the practice." IEEE Software 20.6 (2003): 35-39.
Lethbridge, Timothy C., Susan Elliott Sim, and Janice Singer. "Studying software engineers: Data collection techniques for software field studies." Empirical Software Engineering 10.3 (2005): 311-341.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20custom%20Android%20distributions | This is a list of Android distributions, that is, Android-based operating systems (OS), including, but not limited to, custom ROMs, forked from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without Google Play Services included officially in some or all markets, yet maintained independent coverage in notable Android-related sources.
The list may include distributions that come pre-installed on a device (stock ROM) or modifications of them. Only builds considered official are listed.
Table
See also
ClockworkMod – custom recovery image
Comparison of mobile operating systems
F-Droid – community-maintained Software Repository for Android
MicroG – replacement for Google Play Services
Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) – custom recovery image
Notes
References
Android
Google lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INaturalist | iNaturalist is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. iNaturalist may be accessed via its website or from its mobile applications. iNaturalist includes an automated species identification tool, and users further assist each other in identifying organisms from photographs. , iNaturalist users had contributed approximately 161,278,660 observations of plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms worldwide, and around 350,000 users were active in the previous 30 days.
iNaturalist describes itself as "an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature", with its primary goal being to connect people to nature. Although it is not a science project itself, iNaturalist is a platform for science and conservation efforts, providing valuable open data to research projects, land managers, other organizations, and the public. It is the primary application for crowd-sourced biodiversity data in places such as Mexico, southern Africa, and Australia, and the project has been called "a standard-bearer for natural history mobile applications." Most of iNaturalist's software is open source.
History
iNaturalist began in 2008 as a UC Berkeley School of Information Master's final project of Nate Agrin, Jessica Kline, and Ken-ichi Ueda. Agrin and Ueda continued work on the site with Sean McGregor, a web developer. In 2011, Ueda began collaboration with Scott Loarie, a research fellow at Stanford University and lecturer at UC Berkeley. Ueda and Loarie are the current co-directors of iNaturalist.org. The organization merged with the California Academy of Sciences on April 24, 2014. In 2017, iNaturalist became a joint initiative between the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.
Since 2012, the number of participants and observations has roughly doubled each year. In 2014, iNaturalist reached 1million observations and there were 181million observations (163million verifiable).
On 11 July 2023, iNaturalist became registered as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Platforms
Users can interact with iNaturalist in several ways:
through the iNaturalist.org website,
through two mobile apps: iNaturalist (iOS/Android) and Seek by iNaturalist (iOS/Android), or
through partner organizations such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) website.
On the iNaturalist.org website, visitors can search the public dataset and interact with other people adding observations and identifications. The website provides tools for registered users to add, identify, and discuss observations, write journal posts, explore information about species, and create project pages to recruit participation in and coordinate work on their topics of interest.
On the iNaturalist mobile app, registered users can create and share nature observat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devavrat%20Shah | Devavrat Shah is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. He is director of the Statistics and Data Science Center at MIT. He received a B.Tech. degree in computer science from IIT Bombay in 1999 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 2004, where his thesis was completed under the supervision of Balaji Prabhakar.
Research
Shah's research focuses on the theory of large complex networks which includes network algorithms, stochastic networks, network information theory and large scale statistical inference. His work has had significant impact both in the development of theoretical tools and in its practical application. This is highlighted by the "Best Paper" awards he has received from top publication venues such as ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE INFOCOM and NIPS. Additionally, his work has been recognized by the INFORMS Applied Probability Society via the Erlang Prize, given for outstanding contributions to applied probability by a researcher not more than 9 years from their PhD and the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star award, given for outstanding contributions to computer/communication performance evaluation by a research not more than 7 years from their PhD. He is a young distinguished alumnus of his alma mater IIT Bombay.
Awards
Shah has received many awards, including
Erlang Prize from Applied Probability Society of INFORMS 2010
ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance best student paper award 2009 (supervised)
ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award 2008
Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) outstanding paper award 2008 (supervised)
ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance best paper award 2006
NSF CAREER Award 2006
George B. Dantzig best dissertation award from INFORMS 2005
IEEE INFOCOM best paper award 2004
President of India Gold Medal at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay 1999
Industry
Shah co-founded Celect, Inc. in 2013.
References
Stanford University alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Indian computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DukeNet%20Communications | DukeNet Communications was a telecom and internet infrastructure company that serves the southeastern United States. Products include a metro and long haul fiber-optic network capable of 100 Gbit/s bandwidth.
Formed in 1994 as the telecommunications arm of Duke Energy, DukeNet primarily offered wholesale fiber transport services until moving into the newly developing Fiber to the Tower (FTTT) space in 2006. , DukeNet is among the top 10 FTTT providers in the United States.
In December 2010, Duke Energy and Alinda Capital Partners LLC formed a joint venture to grow DukeNet Communications in the enterprise and data center space.
On October 7, 2013, Time Warner Cable (later bought by Charter Communications in 2016) announced that it had agreed to acquire DukeNet Communications LLC for $600 million, and on January 6, 2014, the deal officially closed.
References
Fiber optics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20and%20the%20Dragon%20%28TV%20series%29 | George and the Dragon is a British situation comedy made by ATV for the ITV network which was transmitted in four series comprising 26 episodes between 19 November 1966 and 31 October 1968.
The regular cast was Sid James, Peggy Mount, John Le Mesurier and Keith Marsh. The show was written by Harry Driver and Vince Powell; Shaun O'Riordan was the director, and Alan Tarrant was the main producer.
Outline
George Russell (James), a handyman and chauffeur, and Gabrielle Dragon (Mount), a housekeeper, are both employed by Colonel Maynard (Le Mesurier). Also among the staff is Ralph (Marsh), a gardener. George's lascivious behaviour has been responsible for the resignation of 16 previous housekeepers, but Gabrielle, a formidable widow in her forties, will have none of it. The two leading characters are frequently at crossed swords with each other and George regularly schemes to remove her from her job.
Mount herself was unlike the 'battleaxe' characters she tended to play, and had known James for many years by the time of this series. They had worked together in the screen adaptation of the Brian Rix-associated farce Dry Rot (1956). Mount reminded James of his own mother, while Mount found James a convivial colleague. It was while the second series was in production on 13 May 1967 that James had his first heart attack.
Cast
Sid James as George Russell
Peggy Mount as Gabrielle Dragon
John Le Mesurier as Colonel Maynard
Keith Marsh as Ralph
DVD release
Unlike many British television series of its era, George and the Dragon survives in its entirety with no episodes missing, and has been issued as a DVD boxset.
References
External links
1966 British television series debuts
1968 British television series endings
1960s British sitcoms
1960s British workplace comedy television series
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television shows set in London
Television shows shot at ATV Elstree Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutthroat%20Kitchen | Cutthroat Kitchen is an American cooking show hosted by Alton Brown that aired on the Food Network from August 11, 2013 to July 19, 2017. It features four chefs competing in a three-round elimination cooking competition. The contestants face auctions in which they can purchase opportunities to sabotage one another. Each chef is given $25,000 at the start of the show; the person left standing keeps whatever money they have not spent in the auctions. The show ended on its 15th season in July 2017. The series shares some basic elements with other four-chef, three-round elimination-style competitions on Food Network including Chopped and Guy's Grocery Games. Numerous Cutthroat Kitchen contestants have competed on these shows.
Format
Each episode features four chefs competing in a three-round elimination contest. Brown gives each chef $25,000 cash before the first round; for insurance reasons, prop money is used instead of actual currency. The chefs each have their own stations to prepare and cook food, and the kitchen includes a wide range of other tools and equipment as well as a pantry stocked with ingredients.
In each round, the chefs are assigned a dish to create. Although most dishes are specific, such as macaroni and cheese, French toast, or fish and chips, Brown occasionally issues a broader challenge such as British pub food or a skillet breakfast. Other than in the first season, and a handful of later episodes, the first two rounds typically feature savory dishes and the third features a dessert. After the dish is announced, the chefs have one minute to collect all of the ingredients they need from the pantry in one trip, using metal hand-held shopping baskets. When the time runs out, Brown shuts the pantry doors and confiscates one ingredient from any chefs who are still inside before letting them leave.
In each of the first two rounds, Brown follows the shopping time by auctioning off a series of items that the chefs can use to sabotage one another. Sabotage types include equipment/ingredient changes, restrictions on movement freedom, and loss of cooking time. Sabotages are often loosely themed around the assigned dish, such as being required to follow a maze of velvet ropes in order to move between prep and cook stations while making red velvet cake. The highest bidder pays for the item out of their remaining funds, and if necessary, decides which opponent(s) will face the sabotage. The auctions are followed by the chefs preparing and plating their dishes within a set length of time, most commonly 30 minutes. Brown occasionally offers additional auctions during the cooking time. In the final round, the two remaining chefs begin cooking immediately after shopping for their ingredients, and the auctions take place while they are working. As each round progresses, Brown offers comments (delivered as a piece to camera) on the chefs' cooking methods and strategies to compensate for the sabotages. On occasion, Brown holds an auction before |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisi%20Network | The Assisi Network was an underground network in Italy established by Catholic clergy to protect Jews during the Nazi Occupation. The churches, monasteries, and convents of Assisi served as a safe haven for several hundred Jews.
General History of Assisi
Holocaust historian Martin Gilbert credits the Assisi Network, established by Bishop Giuseppe Placido Nicolini and Father Rufino Nicacci, with saving 300 Jews.
When the Nazis began to murder Jews, Monsignor Nicolini, Bishop of Assisi, under orders from Monsignor Montini, ordered Father Aldo Brunacci to lead a rescue operation using shelters in 26 monasteries and convents, and providing false transit papers. Many of the papers claimed the person was from Southern Italy, an area liberated by American forces. Among those that were helped by Nicolini were the Baruch, Viterbi and Kropf families.
Nicolini hid Jews in places that were regularly closed to outsiders by papal monastic regulations. His "Committee of Assistance" transformed Assisi into a shelter for many Jews, and assisted others with transit through the town to other places of safety. Respect for Jewish religious practices saw Yom Kippur celebrated at Assisi in 1943, with nuns preparing the meal to end the fast.
The activities of the network were the subject of a 1978 book, The Assisi Underground by Alexander Ramati, and a 1985 film starring Ben Cross and James Mason as Bishop Nicolini.
Assisi was liberated on June 16, 1944.
Righteous among the Nations: Father Aldo Brunacci
Father Aldo Brunacci was the head of the Committee for Assistance and a canon in the Cathedral of San Rufino. He was recognized as Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem's publication in the year of 1977. Brunacci owned a huge library where he taught Latin to several people, including Mira Baruch, that enabled her to resume her studies after the war.
On May 15, 1944, Father Brunacci was arrested by governor Rocchi Perugia, who suspected his involvement in the rescue missions. Through the Bishop of Assisi's intervention, Brunacci was released, but forced to leave Assisi.
Testimony of Father Aldo Brunacci is available here
Famous Quotes
"God is our father and we are all brothers and sisters."
"There are times in everyone's life in which it is easy to confuse prudence with a calm life; there are times when heroism is required. Monsignor Nicolini took the path of heroism."
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
The actions of Pope Pius XII, also known as Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), during the Holocaust remain highly controversial. He kept a public front of neutrality. Though he made public speeches condemning injustices of the world, Pope Pius XII did not take any direct or public action against Hitler and the Nazi regime. He privately sheltered a small number of Jews and encouraged select officials to help Jews.
In 1933, while a cardinal, before being elected Pope, Pracelli signed a concordant with German diplomat Franz Von Papen that was considered a diplo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20kernel | In machine learning, tree kernels are the application of the more general concept of positive-definite kernel to tree structures. They find applications in natural language processing, where they can be used for machine-learned parsing or classification of sentences.
Motivation
In natural language processing, it is often necessary to compare tree structures (e.g. parse trees) for similarity. Such comparisons can be performed by computing dot products of vectors of features of the trees, but these vectors tend to be very large: NLP techniques have come to a point where a simple dependency relation over two words is encoded with a vector of several millions of features. It can be impractical to represent complex structures such as trees with features vectors. Well-designed kernels allow computing similarity over trees without explicitly computing the feature vectors of these trees. Moreover, kernel methods have been widely used in machine learning tasks (e.g. SVM), and thus plenty of algorithms are working natively with kernels, or have an extension that handles kernelization.
An example application is classification of sentences, such as different types of questions.
Examples
Here are presented two examples of tree kernel applied to the constituency trees of the sentences "A cat eats a mouse." and "A mouse eats a cat.". In this example "A" and "a" are the same words, and in most of the NLP applications they would be represented with the same token.
The interest of these two kernels is that they show very different granularity (the subset tree kernel being far more fine-grained than the subtree kernel), for the same computation complexity. Both can be computed recursively in time O(|T1|.|T2|).
Subtree kernel
In the case of constituency tree, a subtree is defined as a node and all its children (e.g., [NP [D [A]] [N [mouse]]] is a subtree of the two trees). Terminals are not considered subtree (e.g. [a] is not a subtree). The subtree kernel count the number of common subtrees between two given trees.
In this example, there are seven common subtrees:
[NP [D [a]] [N [cat]]],
[NP [D [a]] [N [mouse]]],
[N [mouse]],
[N [cat]],
[V [eats]],
[D [a]] (counted twice as it appears twice).
Subset tree kernel
A subset tree is a more general structure than a subtree. The basic definition is the same, but in the case of subset trees, leaves need not be terminals (e.g., [VP [V] [NP]] is a subset tree of both trees), but here too single nodes are not considered as trees. Because of this more general definition, there are more subset trees than subtrees, and more common subset trees than common subtrees.
In this example, there are 54 common subset trees. The seven common subtrees plus among others:
[NP [D] [N]] (counted twice),
[VP [V [eats]] [NP]]...
See also
Graph kernel
Parse tree
Notes
References
Jun Sun, Min Zhang and Chew Lim Tan. Tree Sequence Kernel for Natural Language
Alessandro Moschitti. Making Tree Kernels practical for Natural Langua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERSIANN | PERSIANN, "Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks", is a satellite-based precipitation retrieval algorithm that provides near real-time rainfall information. The algorithm uses infrared (IR) satellite data from global geosynchronous satellites as the primary source of precipitation information. Precipitation from IR images is based on statistical relationship between cloud top temperature and precipitation rates. The IR-based precipitation estimates are then calibrated using satellite microwave data available from low Earth orbit satellites (e.g., Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager, Special Sensor Microwave Imager, Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer‐Earth observing system). The calibration technique relies on an adaptive training algorithm that updates the retrieval parameters when microwave observations become available (approximately at 3 hours intervals).
The PERSIANN satellite precipitation data sets have been validated with ground-based observations and other satellite data products. The PERSIANN data has been used in a wide variety of studies including hydrologic modeling, drought monitoring, soil moisture analysis, and flood forecasting. The PERSIANN data are freely available to the public.
References
External links
G-WADI Near Real-Time Precipitation Website
Weather prediction
Meteorological data and networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFX | CFX may refer to:
Central Florida Expressway Authority
ANSYS CFX, a computation fluid dynamics program
Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier
AMD CrossFireX, a computer graphics multiprocessing technology
Compact form factor, a form factor of power supply unit (computer)
Californium neutron flux multiplier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20Radio%20presenter%20history | The presenter history of Smooth Radio includes many well-known British radio personalities who made their names on networks such as Radio 1, Radio 2, and other stations. The Smooth Radio brand began life in 2004 with the Manchester-based 100.4 Smooth FM, and gradually expanded to encompass a number of regional stations; these were subsumed into a UK-wide station in 2010. The regional stations were reintroduced in 2014.
Several prominent broadcasters and disc jockeys have been recruited to the line-up. Current and former presenters on Smooth include Emma B, Simon Bates, Tony Blackburn, Paul Coia, Kate Garraway, Mark Goodier, Kevin Greening, David Jensen, Myleene Klass, Lynn Parsons, Eamonn Kelly, Andy Peebles and Graham Torrington. As a national broadcaster, the station's flagship breakfast show was presented by Simon Bates, who left Classic FM after more than a decade to join Smooth. Breakfast and Drivetime shows are currently fronted by a number of regional presenters. In addition, Smooth has also played featured one-off specials presented by personalities such as Russell Grant, Denise Van Outen and Dionne Warwick.
Pre-2010
Kevin Greening was a presenter on 102.2 Smooth Radio, and had worked for its predecessor, 102.2 Smooth FM. Lynn Parsons joined 102.2 Smooth Radio along with Capital FM's Mike Allen in March 2007. Mark Goodier also joined Smooth in London in March 2007 to present his first daily radio programme for a decade, which was networked from September of that year. In September 2012 he announced he would leave Smooth in mid-December to focus on his company, Wise Buddah Productions.
Carlos hosted a show on 105.7 Smooth Radio in Birmingham until joining the national Smooth Radio in 2010. Dave Hickmanformerly of BRMB and 100.7 Heart FMalso presented on 105.7 Smooth Radio from 2008. After joining 102.2 Smooth Radio in February 2008, veteran broadcaster Tony Blackburn presented a syndicated weekend breakfast show for Smooth later that year. He left the station in October 2010 to present Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2 because the BBC would not allow him to continue working for a rival broadcaster. Fiona Phillips was signed to present a networked Sunday afternoon show from 23 March 2008, but after disappointing audience figures she was dropped from the schedule a year later. Chris Tarrant joined the station in 2008 and presented a weekly Saturday morning show for several GMG stations to compete with Jonathan Ross's programme on Radio 2. The show aired for twelve months, after which Tarrant's contract with GMG Radio was not renewed. Former BBC Radio Scotland and Pebble Mill presenter Paul Coia was a Drivetime presenter on 102.2 Smooth Radio from December 2008, having previously been a stand-in presenter.
Andy Peebles began presenting a networked weekday evening show from March 2009, having presented Soul Train on 100.4 Smooth Radio upon its launch in 2004. His weekday evening show ended in January 2013, but he continued to present Soul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabelo | Sabelo is a South African given name that may refer to:
Sabelo Yalezo (born 1991), Research Technologist and Data Enthusiast
Sabelo Mlangeni (born 1980), South African photographer
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South
Sabelo Ndzinisa (born 1991), Swazi football player
Sabelo Nhlapo (born 1988), South African rugby union player
Sabelo Stanley Ntwasa, a priest in the South African Anglican Church
Sabelo Nyembe, (born 1991) South African football player
Sabelo Phama, (1949–1994) South African revolutionary
Sabelo Radebe (born 2000), South African soccer player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%20Station%20%28novel%29 | Angel Station is a 1990 cyberpunk space opera science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams.
Plot introduction
Using faster-than-light technology based on captured singularities, the human race has colonized dozens of star systems.
Ubu Roy and his sister Beautiful Maria are down-on-their-luck traders on the edge of human space. In a last-ditch effort to make money to pay their debts and repair their aging spacecraft, they are reduced to searching uncharted space for singularities to capture and sell.
In a rare stroke of luck, Ubu and Maria happen upon an alien spacecraft and make humanity's first contact with an alien race. As chance would have it, the alien ship is also in dire economic straits.
The alien technology is stronger than humanity's in some areas (such as biotechnology) and weaker in other areas (such as applied physics), providing ample opportunities for trade between the two ships. Both ships become rich in their respective societies by repeated trade with each other. Each thinks they are taking advantage of the other.
However, Ubu and Maria's secret is discovered by their trading rivals, resulting in a struggle to determine who will control the lucrative trade with the aliens.
Ubu and Maria ultimately succeed through Ubu's better understanding of the alien race's psychology and Maria's genetically-engineered psychic abilities.
References
1990 American novels
1990 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Cyberpunk novels
Tor Books books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Levay | Nick Levay (1977–2021) also known as Rattle was an American computer security expert and hacker. He was the Chief Security Officer at the Council on Foreign Relations and other organizations such as Carbon Black and the Center for American Progress. From 2018–2021 he was the President of the NGO-ISAC, an Information Sharing and Analysis Center nonprofit serving US-based non-governmental organizations.
Early career as Rattle
Levay was born in 1977 in New Jersey, and learned at a young age that he had an affinity for hardware and liked to take things apart to see how they worked. When he was four, his parents gave him a toolbox, which he says he immediately used to take apart the clothes dryer. When he was six, his father gave him an IBM PCjr, but he found that programming didn't hold his interest. He preferred things such as radio and remote-controlled cars. When he received an Apple IIc and a 300 baud modem though, he was much more intrigued when he realized that computers could be used to communicate.
Origin of the Rattle name
When he was 12 and was talking to someone on CB Radio, he was asked for his handle, but didn't have an answer. The person on the other end spontaneously dubbed him as Rattle. Levay liked the name and continued to use it, and then when he got involved with computers and needed a pseudonym for BBSes, he kept the same name. He self-identified as a hacker, and also set up his own BBS.
When it came time for college, Levay decided that he wanted to combine his interests in hardware and music, and to study audio engineering. He moved to Nashville where he attended Middle Tennessee State University, receiving a degree in music business and communications management. He continued to connect with other hackers in the area, joining the Nashville chapter of se2600, a splinter group of the national 2600 culture. He and his friends organized an annual convention for hackers and technology enthusiasts in the Nashville area, PhreakNIC. They also became the subjects of a pioneering profile of hacker culture in 1999, "Cyber Pirates" in the Nashville Scene.
Computer security professional
In 2001, Levay and computer security expert Tom Cross co-founded the company Industrial Memetics, building an early social-networking website and blog, MemeStreams. He also began contractor work with various organizations as a computer security consultant. He was the director of global systems engineering for iAsiaWorks, building data centers in southeast Asia.
In 2007 he started as a contractor at the Center for American Progress, where he established monitoring systems and redesigned the organization's network. Over the next few years he was promoted to the Director of Technical Operations and Information Security. He left in 2013 to become Chief Security Officer at Bit9 (later VMware Carbon Black), joining after that company suffered a major data breach.
In 2015 he moved on to become the Chief Security Officer at the Council on Foreign Relations, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone%20log | A phone log is metadata collected from telephone or mobile phones for the purpose of surveillance or espionage. This metadata may include: length of calls, phone numbers of both parties, phone-specific identification information, GPS location, call proximity, and/or computer converted voice-to-text transcripts of the phone call conversation. The advantage of converting audio to ASCII text metadata is that this makes it easy to search for keywords and phrases, and ASCII text metadata can be easily stored on conventional database systems for several years. Phone logs are not limited to governmental collection. For example, some private sector companies, such as banks, are known to collect phone log data on their internal phone network of all calls within and between the company and outside parties.
DICE is a known governmental phone log database maintained by the DEA consisting largely of phone log and Internet data gathered legally by the DEA through subpoenas, arrests and search warrants nationwide. DICE includes about 1 billion records, and records are kept for about a year and then purged.
The Phone Log also refers to a program or app that allows people to manually log their interactions from different sources (such as phone, SMS, email, face to face).
References
See also
Pen Register
Hampton Roads Telephone Analysis Sharing Network
Counterterrorism in the United States
Privacy of telecommunications
Privacy in the United States
Mass surveillance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CounterSpy%20%28video%20game%29 | CounterSpy is a side-scrolling stealth video game developed by American independent studio Dynamighty and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as a cross-buy and cross-save title for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. Subsequently, the game was released on Android and iOS on September 5, 2014.
The games received mixed to positive reviews and was praised for its art and soundtrack.
Gameplay
CounterSpy is a 2.5D side-scroller with stealth elements and randomly generated levels. Set in an alternate version of the Cold War, players play as a counter agent sent to infiltrate the bases of opposing countries in order to prevent either of them from launching nuclear weapons. Movement largely takes place on a 2D plane, whilst specially marked areas allow the player aim their weapon in 3D space. The game's atmosphere is heavily inspired by 1960s spy fiction such as James Bond, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Score multiplier is awarded for making consecutive stealth kills. The main aim of the game is to collect enemy plans which help to further the story and shut down the base's weapon at the end of each level. Players can also collect intel, which serves as the game's currency, as well as plans which unlock new weapons and special formulas. Prior to each mission, players can spend intel to refill ammo, purchase and equip unlocked weapons, or equip up to three single use formulas which make the game easier, such as increased stealth or health. If a player beats a rival player's score, they can encounter them during the next level and retrieve bonus intel from them.
The main thing the player must be cautious about is the DEFCON status of both sides. This raises if the player is caught by security cameras or if a guard is allowed to radio in after becoming suspicious, and will automatically go up a level if the player is killed. Players can lower the DEFCON status by forcing white-uniformed officers to surrender without killing them, or by using a certain formula. If the DEFCON status reaches DEFCON 1, the player will have a limited amount of time to reach the end of the level and shut down the weapon before it is launched, at which point the game will end.
Development
The game was developed with assistance from Foster City Studio. While historically known for collaborating with the series' respective large development studios, CounterSpy marks the first time they've teamed up with an indie development team, Dynamighty. The team comprises past staff from LucasArts and Pixar.
Reception
Hardcore Gamer gave the game a 3/5, saying "CounterSpys awesome improvisational take on stealth can be hindered by both framerate inconsistencies and occasional perspective oddities." IGN rated it 7/10, praising the game's concept, art and soundtrack while citing the inconsistent AI and "occasional control issues". Polygon also praised the game's overall presentation, "but its interactivity is ugly enough to make for an unfortunate pairing when the b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICE%20%28DEA%20database%29 | DICE is a DEA database that consists largely of phone log and Internet data gathered legally by the DEA through subpoenas, arrests, and search warrants nationwide. DICE includes about 1 billion records, and they are kept for about a year and then purged.
References
Drug Enforcement Administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan%20Action%20Network | The Franciscan Action Network (FAN) is a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in Washington DC composed of Franciscan sisters, friars, secular Franciscans, and others. The organization was created to address issues regarding ecology, human rights, poverty, and general peacemaking in the United States.
FAN is led by active volunteers across the country, supported by a small staff. As of August 2013, its board members consisted of the national minister of the Secular Franciscans, three Franciscan sisters, five Franciscan Friars (from different orders: Friars Minor, Friars Minor Conventual, Friars Minor Capuchins, Third Order Regular, and Atonement Friars), and four lay people.
History
The Franciscan Action Network was formed in 2007 in Baltimore Maryland by a group of more than 150 Franciscans who gathered from across the United States. It has grown to include membership of over 50 Franciscan groups. While Catholics make up a majority of FAN, its membership also includes Episcopal, Lutheran, and Ecumenical Franciscan groups.
Advocacy
FAN promotes the positions of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), including advocating for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, legislation to reduce greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change, and economic policies aimed at assisting the middle and lower class. FAN also maintains a "pro-life" stance on abortion and its members participate at the annual March for Life in Washington, DC.
Franciscan Earth Corps
In 2012, the FAN initiated the Franciscan Earth Corps (FEC), a ministry aimed at encouraging young adults to participate in FAN advocacy activities. FEC provides training and resources in sustainable living projects, spiritual reflection, retreat, community building, and advocacy work. In 2013, there are Franciscan Earth Corps chapters in ten cities, mostly located in the Eastern and Midwestern United States.
Immigration reform
Following the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi, who called Franciscans to be migrating people of prayer, FAN directs a significant part of its efforts to promoting immigration reform, advocating for a clearly defined pathway to US citizenship which prioritizes family unity. To this end, FAN collaborates with the Justice for Immigrants Campaign of the USCCB and the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
The FAN has stood in resistance to the possibility of a registry of all Muslims living in the United States. They have also opposed the travel ban against several Middle Eastern countries as proposed by President Trump and his administration.
Climate change
In accord with their understanding of the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of those who promote ecology, FAN works with other Franciscans to bring public officials into conversation about action to mitigate climate change. FAN members participate in public protests on this issue. This advocacy has led to criticism from other Catholic groups.
Human t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20McKeown%20%28physician%29 | Thomas McKeown (1912–1988) was a British physician, epidemiologist and historian of medicine. Largely based on demographic data from England and Wales, McKeown argued that the population growth since the late eighteenth century was due to improving economic conditions, i.e. better nutrition, rather than to better hygiene, public health measures and improved medicine . This became known as the "McKeown thesis".
Personal life
McKeown was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland and then moved to Vancouver, Canada with his parents. His parents were William McKeown and Mathilda (Duff) McKeown.
McKeown graduated in physiology at the University of British Columbia (1932) and obtained his first doctorate at McGill University (1935) before returning across the Atlantic to study as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he gained his DPhil in 1938. During wartime, he studied medicine at London University where he obtained a Bachelor in Surgery in 1942. In the early 1940s, the Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust offered to finance a chair of social medicine at the newly founded University of Birmingham McKeown was appointed in 1945 as professor, not yet 33 years old, and held the chair until his retirement in 1977. In Birmingham, he also did his MD graduation in 1947. He is also known for his work in geriatrics and maternal-fetal medicine.
He was a consultant for the World Health Organization, Josiah Macy Foundation, Commonwealth Fund, and Rockefeller Foundation.
He died in 1988, and was survived by his wife Esmé and their son and daughter.
Scientific contribution
McKeown developed his theories over a period of more than three decades between 1955 and shortly before he died in 1988. The seeds of his work can be found in four seminal papers published in the academic journal Population Studies, a book on Medicine in Modern Society in 1965, and a textbook (with C.R. Lowe) An Introduction to Social Medicine from 1966.
These earlier publications did not attract much attention beyond the academic community until he merged these publications in two controversial books: The Modern Rise of Population and, endowed by a Rock Carling Fellowship of the Nuffield Trust, a lecture with the provocative title The Role of Modern Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis?
In his last book, The Origins of Human Disease, published shortly after he died in 1988, he had found a milder tone to express his critical relativism of medicine and health. Here he had found the right balance between responding to legitimate criticism of the limitations of his thesis, without showing much mercy for unjust critics.
McKeown challenged four theories about the increase of the western population since the 18th century:
McKeown stated that the growth in population, particularly surging in the 19th century, was not so much caused by an increase in fertility, but largely by a decline of mortality particularly of childhood mortality followed by infant mortality,
The decline of mortality could |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carto%20%28company%29 | CARTO (formerly CartoDB) is a software as a service (SaaS) cloud computing platform that provides GIS, web mapping, and spatial data science tools. The company is positioned as a Location Intelligence platform due to tools with an aptitude for data analysis and visualization that do not require previous GIS or development experience.
CARTO users can use the company's free platform or deploy their own instance of the open source software. It was first released in Beta at FOSS4G in Denver in September 2011, and officially debuted as a final release at Where2.0 in April 2012.
Since 2014, CARTO is a company independent from Vizzuality.
The Spanish start-up raised $7 million from a consortium of investors in September 2014. In September 2015, CARTO received a $23 million in Series B financing. In May 2019, CARTO acquired Geographica, in an effort to boost their professional services offering.
Technology
CARTO is an open source software built on PostGIS and PostgreSQL. The tool uses JavaScript extensively in the front end web application, back end Node.js based APIs, and for client libraries. CARTO's platform consists of several primary components.
CARTO Builder
The first is the web application called Builder where users can manage data, run user side analysis and design custom maps. Builder is intended for non-developers and beginners to have access to, and be able to use advanced geospatial tools. In Builder, advanced users also have access to a web interface where SQL can be used to manipulate data and CartoCSS, a cartography language similar to CSS, can be used for data driven map design.
CARTO Engine
The CARTO Engine, which is a set of APIs and developer libraries for building custom map and data visualization interfaces.
APIs
The Maps API: acts as a dynamic tile service, which creates new tiles based on client requests. This allows users to design maps in the web application, then use those styles and data in custom web applications.
The SQL API, where PostgreSQL-supported SQL statements can be used to retrieve data from the database. The SQL API serves data in various formats including Shapefile, GeoJSON, and CSV.
The Data Services API allows for easily building functionalities such as routing, geocoding, and vector basemaps.
JavaScript libraries
Finally, there are the Carto.js and CARTO VL libraries, which can wrap the APIs into complete visualizations or be used to integrate data into other web applications with raster or vector renderings, respectively.
CARTOframes
CARTOframes is a Python package for integrating CARTO maps, analysis, and data services into data science workflows via Jupyter notebooks.
Data Observatory
CARTO offers a wide range of datasets from around the globe accessible though their Data Observatory, which acts as their spacial data repository. Data scientists can augment their data and broaden their analysis with the location data available in the Data Observatory.
Communities
In addition to several |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt%20and%20the%20Mandelbrots | Benoît and the Mandelbrots, named after French American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, is a Computer Music band formed in 2009 in Karlsruhe, Germany. They are known for their live coded and Algorave performances, the Digital Arts practice of improvising with programming languages that gradually dissolves the distinction between composer and performer.
The band consists of Juan A. Romero, Holger Ballweg, Patrick Borgeat and Matthias Schneiderbanger, who met while studying at the Institute for Musicology and Music Informatics at the University of Music Karlsruhe in Germany. They perform live using the SuperCollider programming language, writing code to improvise music in a range of electronic music genres, from techno to noise.
As an improvising group focused on live performance, they have performed at major venues on the international stage, and were recognised with an honorary mention at the highly prestigious Prix Ars Electronica awards in 2012, and had a live recording published by the esteemed Computer Music Journal in 2011. In 2016 they released their first album as double vinyl and digital download, featuring live coded improvisation.
References
External links
Official website
Interview November 2012 (TOPLAP.org)
German experimental musical groups
Computer music
Live coding
Algorave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipe%20to%20Riches%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Recipe to Riches is an Australian television reality show that screened on Network Ten from 27 August 2013. It involves cooks from around the country, competing to have their recipe become a brand product in supermarkets. Competitors cook their dishes, create a brand for their product and devise strategies to launch it to the public. The contestants are mentored by Carolyn Creswell, owner of Carman's Fine Foods, David Nobay, an advertising industry expert, and chef Darren Robertson. The mentors are joined by a representative from Woolworths supermarkets to decide the winning product, which will by made available for sale in Woolworths the day after the episode airs. The winner of the whole series receive $100,000 and a partnership with Woolworths.
The show is based on the Canadian reality television show, Recipe to Riches.
Season 1 was won by Garth Midgley with his product Chocorn on 12 November 2013.
Season 2 was won by Michael Cainero with his Chunky Pork and Apple Sausages on 9 December 2014.
Experts
Season 1
References
Network 10 original programming
2013 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
Australian cooking television series
Television series by Fremantle (company)
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Mulligan | Geoff Mulligan is an American computer scientist who developed embedded internet technology and 6LoWPAN. He was chairman of the LoRa Alliance from its creation in 2015 until 2018, was previously founder and chairman of the IPSO Alliance, is a consultant on the Internet of Things, and in 2013, was appointed a Presidential Innovation Fellow.
Life
Raised in Palo Alto, California, Mulligan attended Henry M. Gunn High School. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and a Master Of Science (M.S.) from the University of Denver.
Career
While in the Air Force, he worked on the ARPAnet.
The ARPAnet evolved into the Defense Data Network, where he worked on security and performance and also designed and directed installation of the Pentagon data networks that used cable TV technology.
Mulligan returned to the Air Force Academy, where he oversaw the design and installation of the Academy's local area network, FALCONnet.
In 1990, Mulligan joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Palo Alto. He focused on network security, electronic mail, TCP/IP networking, networking tools and firewall technology. He worked on the DEC SEAL firewall, and on the IPv6 protocol working group.
Mulligan began working at Sun Microsystems in 1992. He developed and maintained the Solaris TCP/IP utilities and kernel. He also worked on Sun's wide area network and firewall complex. He continued with the IPv6 design team and wrote a PC-based implementation, called N6AFV, along with a packet decoder, and worked on the development of an IPv4/IPv6 border gateway. He was the principal architect of Sun's firewall product, Sunscreen SPF 100.
Mulligan further developed Sunscreen, adding network address translation, an internal Java interpreter and topology hiding technologies. In 1997, he created HZ.COM, an electronic mail information retrieval system for two-way pagers and early cellular phones. When the HZ.COM domain was hijacked in 2002, the incident was featured in the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Security and Stability Advisory Committee's report of 2005. He took a sabbatical from Sun to start USA.net, one of the first e-mail outsourcing providers. He left Sun to co-found Geocast Network Systems, where he was responsible for operating system design and support, as well as network architecture for the evolving Internet multicast communication technology that the company was developing. Following Geocast, Mulligan co-founded Interosa as chief technology officer and, subsequently, chief executive. Interosa was building a new policy-based privacy technology for digital content and an email privacy system that was based on their new technology. The company was shut down in November 2000.
In 2001, Mulligan was hired by Invensys as the chief scientist for the Home Controls Division, where he worked on resource and energy management technology, including home gateway design and dev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20WatchON | Samsung WatchON, first introduced on Galaxy S4 devices, was a service that allowed users to view programming information on their TV or set-top box, and choose programs directly from their mobile devices. Samsung WatchON also provides real-time programming and VOD content recommendations based on the user's viewing patterns; it also includes a virtual remote controller which uses the built-in IR Blaster of the device to control televisions, home theater systems, and media players of any brand, provided they are IR compatible. Samsung WatchON is available on the Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy S5, Galaxy S5 Mini, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note 3 Neo, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy Alpha, Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, Galaxy Note Pro 12.2, Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, Galaxy Tab 4 7.0, Galaxy Tab 4 8.0, Galaxy Tab 4 10.1, Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1, Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, Galaxy Tab S 8.4, Galaxy Tab S 10.5, and Gear 2 devices.
App is discontinued on December 31, 2014 worldwide except US and Korea, and June 15, 2015 in those remaining two countries.
Features
Personalized Recommendation
Samsung WatchON provides customized content recommendations based on a user's personal viewing history.
One stop Search
Samsung WatchON provides movies and TV shows in one place.
Universal Remote Control and TV Guide
Samsung WatchON allows users to control TVs, set-top boxes, and other media devices, from a compatible Samsung Galaxy Phone/Tablet.
Multi Device Experience
Samsung WatchON allows users to watch digital content on a mobile device and then continue to watch the item on a compatible TV, or vice versa.
External links
WatchON |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapped%3A%20Killer%20Couples | Snapped: Killer Couples (known as Killer Couples from seasons 7 to 15) is an American true crime television series currently airing on the Oxygen Network. The program details couples who commit crimes together. The program is a spin-off of the Oxygen series Snapped and has a similar format to the Investigation Discovery program Wicked Attraction. As of summer 2022 the show has aired sixteen seasons, each with ten episodes. The current narrator is Anna Vocino.
Synopsis
The series is similar to parent show Snapped, except that each episode features a couple who have committed murder or attempted murder or have been accused of committing or attempting to commit murder. Like the original series, the program is presented in a documentary style, using a central voice-over narration by actress Anna Vocino, as well as interviews with people who have first-hand knowledge of the case.
Production
Snapped: Killer Couples first aired on March 10, 2013, with the episode, "Amanda Logue & Jason Andrews". The series is currently in its tenth season of production at Jupiter Entertainment. A successful spinoff of the original Snapped series, the show played an important part in Oxygen's transition to a completely crime-focused network in mid-2017. From 2016 to 2021, Oxygen simply referred to the program as Killer Couples, with no mention of the original Snapped series in the title. In the show's sixteenth season in 2022, Oxygen reverted to using the series' original title Snapped: Killer Couples.
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2013–14)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2014–15)
Season 5 (2015)
Season 6 (2015)
Season 7 (2016)
Season 8 (2016)
Season 9 (2018)
Season 10 (2018–19)
Season 11 (2019)
Season 12 (2019)
Season 13 (2020)
Season 14 (2020)
Season 15 (2021)
Season 16 (2022)
References
2013 American television series debuts
2010s American documentary television series
2020s American documentary television series
2010s American crime television series
2020s American crime television series
English-language television shows
True crime television series
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Control%20Systems | Information Control Systems (founded in 1962) was a computer programming and data processing company serving clients in the Midwestern United States.
Overview
Founded in the mid 1960s, by a graduate student from the University of Michigan at a time when the first general purpose transistorized logic modules and low-cost general-purpose computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation were available on the market, ICS provided industrial automation hardware and software design services to industries in the Detroit, Michigan area .
Initially focused on software services only, as these low cost-computers began to become available from many companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Varian, Computer Automation, Microdata, Data General and others, ICS began a transition from a software company into a “system” house with both software and hardware staffs.
By the late 1960s, ICS’s management recognized the significance of IBM’s magnetic tape/Selectric typewriter (MT/ST) automated typing system, introduced in 1964 and gaining attention in office typing pools as a productivity improvement tool for documentation creation and editing. Even though the MT/ST was limited in its capabilities, it was a large step forward towards creating “clean” documents without erasure, or whiteout correction fluid/tape.
Having gained design experience with hardware automation and control systems, as well as real-time process control programming, ICS believed that the MT/ST could be improved on in many ways using the PDP-8 general purpose computer coupled with the unique (pseudo "disk like") DECtape drive offered by Digital Equipment Corp. In late 1967 the company decided that it made better business sense to become more of a "product" based than contract services company, and begin design efforts to create one of the first stand-alone computer controlled Word Processing systems.
Combining the PDP-8 computer with the DECtape's small 4-inch (10 cm) reel of tape that held over 350,000 characters (versus the 25,000 characters on an MT/ST tape) and allowing random access (albeit slower) like a floppy disk, the DECtape units allowed much more flexible storage access, and thus the potential for a much more capable word processor design than the MT/ST which used a slow sprocket hole driven tape (much like a film strip) to record a single character at a time and could only read/write a maximum of 20 characters per second, and had limited search capabilities.
The high speed, random addressable, general purpose DECtape computer drive, coupled with a general purpose mini-computer appeared to offer a significant opportunity for an extremely capable word processing system. This design approach also offered an economic advantage as additional terminals could be added (up to 7 additional) to the initial single station system, resulting in a very capable system with approximately the same price per station (~$10,000) as a collection of MT/ST units but with far more capability.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEB%20decompiler | JEB is a disassembler and decompiler software for Android applications and native machine code. It decompiles Dalvik bytecode to Java source code, and x86, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V machine code to C source code. The assembly and source outputs are interactive and can be refactored. Users can also write their own scripts and plugins to extend JEB functionality.
Version 2.2 introduced Android debugging modules for Dalvik and native (Intel, ARM, MIPS) code. Users can "seamlessly debug Dalvik bytecode and native machine code, for all apps [...] including those that do not explicitly allow debugging".
Version 2.3 introduced native code decompilers. The first decompiler that shipped with JEB was a MIPS 32-bit interactive decompiler.
JEB 3 ships with additional decompilers, including Intel x86, Intel x86-64, WebAssembly (wasm), Ethereum (evm), Diem blockchain (diemvm).
JEB 4 was released in 2021. A RISC-V decompiler was added to JEB 4.5. A S7 PLC block decompiler was added to JEB 4.16.
JEB 5 was released in 2023.
History
JEB is the first Dalvik decompiler to provide interactive output, as reverse-engineers may examine cross-references, insert comments, or rename items, such as classes and methods. Whenever possible, the correspondence between the bytecode and the decompiled Java code is accessible to the user. Although JEB is branded as a decompiler, it also provides a full APK view (manifest, resources, certificates, etc.). An API allows users to customize or automate actions through scripts and plugins, in Python and Java.
The name may be a reference to the well-known security software IDA, as "JEB" = rot1("IDA").
Decompilers
JEB ships with the following proprietary and open-source decompiler plugins:
Dalvik bytecode to Java
Java bytecode to Java
Intel x86/x86-64 machine code to C
ARM machine code to C
MIPS machine code to C
RISC-V machine code to C
S7 (MC7) bytecode to C
WebAssembly bytecode to C
EVM bytecode (compiled Ethereum smart contracts) to Solidity-like source code
Diem bytecode (compiled diemvm modules run on the Diem blockchain) to mvir-like (Move IR) source code
Other Plugins
JEB ships with a sizable number of disassemblers and debugger plugins.
JEB allows parsing of any file format, via the addition of native or third-party plugins. Examples include: a PDF parser plugin (proprietary), an XLS document plugin (open-sourced).
See also
IDA
Ghidra
JD Decompiler
References
External links
Java decompilers
Disassemblers
Debuggers
Software for modeling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally%20Australia | Totally Australia is an Australian children's documentary television series aired on Network Ten in 1997 until 2008 at 6am.
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
1990s Australian documentary television series
1997 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Television series by Endemol Australia
2000s Australian documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20previously%20broadcast%20by%20RJTV | This is a list of programs previously aired by RJTV. For the current shows on RJTV of this network, see List of programs broadcast by RJTV.
Local defunct shows
News programs
Newsline Citybeat
Newsline Consumers Front
RJTV Interactive News with Tony Israel.
RJ TeleRadio (2019)
Insider Exclusive Kapihan (2018-2020; simulcast on DZRJ 810 AM)
Public service
Doc Willie and Liza
HealthLine with Makati Med (2018-2019; simulcast on DZRJ 810 AM)
Heartbeat Philippines
Interactive Health
On Scene: Emergency Response
Current affairs
Insight
Legally Speaking
Open House with Gerry Cornejo
Pag-usapan Natin
Rapido sa RJTV
Unbiased (2018-2019)
Kasangga Mo Ang Langit (2019-2022)
Biyaheng Langit (2019-2022)
Talk shows
Hearts on Fire Jorel Of All Trades Talk to Harry (now on Global News Network)
sportZtackle (hosted by sportscaster Noel Zarate)
Travel shows
Only Gemma Biyaheng Langit (2019-2022)
Variety shows
Acoustic Show with Paul Toledo Alternatives Bistromania (1993-1994)
Catch a Rising Star Dance Upon A Time with Becky Garcia (1993-1997)
Executive Lounge with Dale Adriatrico (2006-2007)
Gimme a Break! (2006-2007)
Hapi Our (2006-2007)
Intimate Sessions with Charlie Ysmael (1995)
Itchy Feet (2019)
La Salle Night on a Blue Monday (2019)
Live by Request Livewire Local Jam New Generation Party Central Pinoy Arts Exposed RJ Penthouse (2002-2004)
Saturday Night Live with Jorel Tan Seasons On-Stage Wednesday Underground A Wonderful Evening with Arthur ManuntagCelebrity talk shows
All The Way Show (previously aired on QTV, TV5, GMA Network & now on PTV as Medyo Late Night Show with Jojo A. All The Way, 2018)
All The Way With Jojo A. The Bill Bailey Show The Lynn Sherman Show Medyo Late Night Show with Jojo A. All The Way (previously aired on QTV, TV5, GMA Network & now on PTV as of 2018)
Youth-oriented shows
Blazin' RnB (2003)
Kaibigan (2007)
Livewire (1993)
Local Jam (1993-1995)
Saturday Night Live with Jorel Tan (2007)
Wednesday Underground (2007)
Showbiz oriented
Look Who's Talking with Chito AlcidReligious shows
Ang Dating Daan (1994-1998, now aired on UNTV 37: 2004–present)
Armor of God (2001-2004)
The Chaplet Of The Divine Mercy (1993–2007)
Oras ng Katotohanan (2001–2007)
Oras ng Himala (2020-2023)
Reality shows
New Generation (2005-2007)
Two Stops Over With Paco Guerrero1 (2010-2012)
Lifestyle shows
Body and Face by Mendez For Sharing Home Buddies In Her Shoes1
Slice of Life with Melissa Gecolea1
Suzy's Cue with Suzy Guttler (2005)
You've Been Served with Chef Red1
Privilege Card (2019)
Drama
Sta. Zita At Si Mary Rose (1989; moved to ABS-CBN, 1989-1992)
Kids' programs
Junior Jam Kiddeo Kiddie News Worlds of Fun TV Game ShowSports
Pinoy Wrestling (1993-2002)
Pinoy Wrestling Reloaded (2002-2003)
Sportzblitz SportztackleGame shows
Spin 2 Win (2006-2008)
Infomercials
EZ Shop (2019, 2022-2023)
Home TV Shopping (1993-1997)
Shop TV (2008-2018)
New Life Shopping TV Value Vision (1998-2007)
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select%20Model%20Management | Select Model Management was established in London in 1977, by founders Tandy Anderson and sisters Clare and Chrissie Castagnetti, Select Model Management is a global network of model and talent agencies.
Company
In their early days, Select was one of the first modelling agencies to find models by "scouting" them on the street. They adopted that method of recruitment to quickly establish a client list and reputation. In the 1980s, competitor agencies also used the technique to grow their businesses.
For two seasons (in 2005 and 2006), Anderson served as a judge on Make Me a Supermodel after which the winning competitors received a modelling contract with Select. In 2011, the agency launched a mobile app to be used by prospective models.
In 2019, Select Model Management announced a global expansion through an integration with MP Management.
Select has offices in 8 countries across the world; London, Milano, Paris, Stockholm, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami.
Select Model Management is part of the Silva International Investments portfolio, owned by Riccardo Silva.
In September 2023, TGI Holdings led by Alfred Tagliaferro became a co-owner of the business
Models
Select Model Management represents the likes of David Gandy, Irina Shayk, Jon Kortajarena, Oliver Cheshire, Camille Kostek, Lucan Gillespie, Will Chalker, Marjan Jonkman, Shanelle Nyasiase, Aliet, and Amanda Murphy.
Models and talent currently represented include:
Adam Senn
Anna Selezneva
Alexis André Jr.
Barbara Fialho
Brad Kroenig
Lewis Helim
Bregje Heinen
Camilla Rutherford
Camille Kostek
Daphne Groeneveld
David Gandy
Devon Aoki
Eliza Cummings
Ellen Golding
Fei Fei Sun
Frederikke Sofie
Frida Aasen
Gracie Carvalho
Heather Marks
Heloise Guerin
Ieva Lagūna
Irina Shayk
Jessica Hart
Jon Kortajarena
Josh Cuthbert
Kirsten Owen
Lais Ribeiro
Lilah Parsons
Maryna Linchuk
Mickey Hardt
Mila Miletic
Natasha Poly
Nicole Neumann
Noah Mills
Oliver Cheshire
Oliver Stummvoll
Patrick Kafka
Paul Sculfor
Pixie Geldof
Primrose Archer
Rianne ten Haken
Sam Webb
Sofia Richie
Tasha Tilberg
Teddy Quinlivan
Thom Morell
Tony Ward
Tumi Fani-Kayode
Will Chalker
Xenia Tchoumitcheva
See also
List of modeling agencies
References
Bibliography
Boyd, Marie Anderson: Model: The Complete Guide for Men and Women - Foreword by Clare Castagnetti. London: Collins & Boyd, 1997. .
External links
Official Website
Select Model Management in the Fashion Model Directory
Models.com: Top-ranked Models - Select Model Management
Models.com: Models - Select Model Management
Modeling agencies
Companies based in the City of Westminster |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio%20Ahuett%20Garza | Horacio Ahuett Garza (born May 21, 1964) is a Mexican engineer, professor and researcher specializing in rapid prototypes, computerized processing and manufacturing and mold design. His work has been recognized with Level II membership in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
Ahuett Garza earned his bachelor’s in mechanical and electrical engineering from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Campus Monterrey (1986), during which time he also taught at the fluids laboratory. He earned his masters and doctorate in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University in 1992 and 1996, working as a researcher with the department of industrial and systems engineering and as a teaching assistant.
From 1987 to 1990 he worked with the machinery for a company named Fabricación de Máquinas as an engineer in charge of processes and new products. From 1990 to 1998, he taught mechanical engineering classes at the Monterrey campus becoming full-time in 1997, then from 1990 to 2000 was the director of the Centro de Sistemas de Manufactura del Tecnológico de Monterrey in León. During this time, he also collaborated with the Cámara de Calzado (a shoe industry promoter) in Guanajuato to develop and implement manufacturing cells in local factories.
Since 2000, Ahuett Garza has worked with the Centro de Diseña e Innovación de Productos at Campus Monterrey. His research specialties are the rapid development of prototypes, analysis of smelting techniques and the design of molds. He has also done research in computerized numerical control, computer-assisted manufacturing, analysis of aluminum smelting and injection molding. His more recent work has focused on the development of high precision machinery and microprocesses.
He has published chapters in several books including a chapter on die casting in the book Modeling for casting and solidification processing and has written various articles for journals such as Materials Processing Technology.
Ahuett Garza’s work has been recognized by the Mexican government with Level II membership in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. In 2000 the central campuses of ITESM awarded him the “Mejor Proyecto de Apoyo al Desarrollo Sustentable” recognition. He has a patent in process for a machine designed to polish surfaces semi-automatically.
References
See also
List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty
Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
1964 births
Living people
Mechanical engineers
Mexican engineers
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickstar%20Games | Trickstar Games was a computer game developer founded in 2009, developing content for Nintendo and Sony-based platforms, as well as Microsoft desktop-based computers. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Trickstar Games is led by Mike Fegan and Tony Parkes, and titles include International Cricket 2010, JASF: Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters and the ill-fated Ashes Cricket 2013.
An application was made to wind up Trickstar Games Pty Ltd on 12/05/2015.
Ashes Cricket 2013
Shortly after release on 21 November 2013 the game received significant negative reviews as well as several YouTube videos featuring significant bugs in gameplay owing to the newly developed game engine for the title which was not ready for release. Four days after release, it was removed from sale and production officially cancelled, with all the game's users receiving a refund and all links removed from the Trickstar Games website. It was strongly criticised as one of the worst games of 2013.
References
External links
Official website
Trickstar Games Director Mike Fegan on Ashes Cricket 2013, 29 May 2013
Ashes Cricket 2013 game taken off sale, 28 November 2013
Companies based in Melbourne
Video game companies established in 2009
Australian companies established in 2009
Video game development companies
Defunct video game companies of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang%20Invasion | Clang Invasion is an animated television series produced for the Canadian children's programming channel YTV It also aired on Nicktoons Network Clan TVE K2 Gloob MBC 3 Canal J Carousel ABC Me and Pop. 26 episodes were produced.
Plot
Three alien robots, Rivet, Widgit and Socket, accidentally crashed their spaceship on a backyard tree on Earth. Human twins Robin and Daisy Harrison, and their pet dog Sam went to investigate the crash, where they encounter the robots. Not capable of returning to Planet Clang, the robots becomes friends with Robin and Daisy, made Sam speak by installing a voice box, and utilise a spectrum of gadgetry for their goals. The twins also have to keep the robots a secret. Before rivet widget and socket return to planet Clang.
Characters
Rivet: (voiced by Patrick McKenna) The captain of the spaceship, Rivet is a male robot and inventor that serves as a genius to the kids, offering them his inventions. He discovered information about Earth from its old commercial broadcasts into space.
Widgit: (voiced by Linda Kash) The spaceship's navigator and maintainer, Widgit is a female robot who performs poorly technologically compared to the other robots but sympathizes with living things. She can contact with any living thing after accidentally devouring one of Rivet's gadgets.
Socket: (voiced by Doug Hadders) The spaceship's security officer, Socket is a simpler robot, unlike the others. As an old robot, his parts frequently fall off, with Rivet reattaching back socket’s parts. His head also acts as an object storage.
Robin Harrison: (voiced by Julie Lemieux) A 7-year-old human boy and Daisy's twin brother, Robin thinks the arrival of the robots in his background is the best thing in his life.
Daisy Harrison: (voiced by Annick Obonsawin) A 7-year-old human girl and Robin's twin sister, Daisy isn't as wise as her age in contrast to him, despite believing the contrary.
Sam: (voiced by Brad Adamson) The Harrisons' dog, Sam was given a voice box on his collar from the robots in order to speak. He is talkative.
Episodes
The dates that follow are when the episodes were initially developed and released in Singapore and England and not when they debuted in Canada, which was over 3 years later.
1. Countdown to Desthruction / When Life Gives You Lemons -September 12, 2009
3. I, Giant Robot / Super Excellent Fantastical Man... and Daisy - September 19, 2009
5. Home a Clone / Pause and Order -September 26, 2009
7. To Everything Learn, Learn, Learn / The Fluffy Kitten… of Death - October 3, 2009
9. The Road to Invention / Queen Bumble Bee - October 10, 2009
11. O Tannenbomb / Teleputty - October 17, 2009
13. Welcome to My Nightmare / Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat - October 24, 2009
15. Ace Up His Sleeve / The Fright Stuff - October 31, 2009
17. Hide and Seek and Destroy / Go Kart a Go-Go - November 7, 2009
19. Chicken-Pocalypse / The E.A.R.L. Files - November 14, 2009
21. Freaky Monday / You Can't Handle the Tooth - November 23, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%20Language | The Wolfram Language ( ) is a proprietary, general high-level multi-paradigm programming language developed by Wolfram Research. It emphasizes symbolic computation, functional programming, and rule-based programming and can employ arbitrary structures and data. It is the programming language of the mathematical symbolic computation program Mathematica.
History
The Wolfram Language was a part of the initial version of Mathematica in 1988.
Symbolic aspects of the engine make it a computer algebra system. The language can perform integration, differentiation, matrix manipulations, and solve differential equations using a set of rules. Also, the initial version introduced the notebook model and the ability to embed sound and images, according to Theodore Gray's patent.
Wolfram also added features for more complex tasks, such as 3D modeling.
A name was finally adopted for the language in 2013, as Wolfram Research decided to make a version of the language engine free for Raspberry Pi users, and they needed to come up with a name for it. It was included in the recommended software bundle that the Raspberry Pi Foundation provides for beginners, which caused some controversy due to the Wolfram language's proprietary nature. Plans to port the Wolfram language to the Intel Edison were announced after the board's introduction at CES 2014 but was never released. In 2019, a link was added to make Wolfram libraries compatible with the Unity game engine, giving game developers access to the language's high level functions.
Syntax
The Wolfram Language syntax is overall similar to the M-expression of 1960s LISP, with support for infix operators and "function-notation" function calls.
Basics
The Wolfram language writes basic arithmetic expressions using infix operators.
(* This is a comment. *)
4 + 3
(* = 7 *)
1 + 2 * (3 + 4)
(* = 15 *)
(* Note that Multiplication can be omitted: 1 + 2 (3 + 4) *)
(* Divisions return rational numbers: *)
6 / 4
(* = 3/2 *)
Function calls are denoted with square brackets:
Sin[Pi]
(* = 0 *)
(* This is the function to convert rationals to floating point: *)
N[3 / 2]
(* = 1.5 *)
Lists are enclosed in curly brackets:
Oddlist={1,3,5}
(* = {1,3,5} *)
Syntax sugar
The language may deviate from the M-expression paradigm when an alternative, more human-friendly way of showing an expression is available:
A number of formatting rules are used in this language, including for typeset expressions and for language input.
Functions can also be applied using the prefix expression and the postfix expression .
Derivatives can be denoted with an apostrophe .
The infix operators themselves are considered "sugar" for the function notation system.
A formatter desugars the input:
FullForm[1+2]
(* = Plus[1, 2] *)
Functional programming
Currying is supported.
Pattern matching
Functions in the Wolfram Language are effectively a case of simple patterns for replacement:
F[x_] := x ^ 0
The is a "SetDelayed operator", so that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootstrapCDN | BootstrapCDN is a public content delivery network. It enables users to load CSS, JavaScript and images remotely from its servers. Used by more than 7.9 million websites worldwide (including 30% of the top-10k websites), BootstrapCDN serves more than 70 billion requests a month. In March 2021 the ownership was transferred to the jsDelivr project.
History
NetDNA (formerly MaxCDN, acquired by StackPath) launched BootstrapCDN, the free content delivery network aspect of Bootstrap, with a beta launch on June 7, 2012, and a stable launch on July 5, 2012. Stanford University, Angry Birds and Gizmodo utilize BootstrapCDN.
Font Awesome
Font Awesome, a font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap, was incorporated into BootstrapCDN on August 21, 2012. The font offers scalable vector icons that are CSS-friendly for customization.
As of July 5, 2013 — a year after it launched — BootstrapCDN transferred 40.73 terabytes and served 3.2 billion requests, with 383 changes to its GitHub repository (git commits). Font Awesome was its most popular requested file with 338,329,273 hits.
Usage
Developers can access BootstrapCDN's CSS and Javascript content through the following links:
References
External links
Content delivery networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betul%20ke%20bohong%3F | Betul ke Bohong? (colloquial Malay for True or false?) is a Malaysian game show-formatted comedy television program provided in the Astro satellite television network which is broadcast every Monday at 10pm on Astro Warna.
Format
Betul Ke Bohong is a celebrity panel show based on reality and the story may be true or not. A team must provide a statement and the opponent has to guess the correct statement to lie if they guess wrong statement, members of the group or the group leader will be punished will be an electric shock. Two groups of 2 people artistes who are also represented by Jepp Sepahtu and Shuib Sepahtu. They will battle to get top marks for their respective groups.
Seasons
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
See also
https://web.archive.org/web/20130922181314/http://www.astrogempak.com.my/ArticleDetails/tabid/597/ArticleID/43469/Betul-Ke-Bohong.aspx
https://web.archive.org/web/20130920024433/http://m.utusan.com.my/Hiburan/20120824/hi_02/AC-terkilan
https://web.archive.org/web/20130920024429/http://m.utusan.com.my/Hiburan/20120522/hi_08/Shuib-tanpa-Sepahtu
http://kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2012&dt=0906&pub=Kosmo&sec=Hiburan&pg=hi_02.htm
Malaysian game shows
2012 Malaysian television series debuts
2012 Malaysian television series endings
2010s Malaysian television series
Astro Warna original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Park%20%281991%20TV%20series%29 | Animal Park is a 1991 children's television series on the Seven Network. The series follows the adventures of three children who rebuild a run-down animal park on the central Queensland coast.
Cast
Anthony Hayes as Damien Halliday
Zoe Bertram as Sarah Halliday
Mark Hembrow as Jim Pryor
Alyce Platt as Christina Hoffman
Erin Coombs as Becky Halliday
Goran Ristovski as Tony Medotti
Janelle Owen as Jenny Halliday
Christopher Elliott as Dad
References
External links
Animal Park at IMDb
Australian children's television series
1991 Australian television series debuts
1992 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ballad%20of%20Riverboat%20Bill | The Ballad of Riverboat Bill is a 1965 Australian TV series set on the Murray River in the 1890s.
References
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
1960s Australian drama television series
1965 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Australian children's television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuj%20railway%20station | Bhuj railway station (station code:- BHUJ) is a Class-A railway station in Bhuj, Gujarat, India, on the Western line of the Western Railway network. It is the last station on the Western Railway line in the area. It handles nine trains.
References
External links
Railway stations in Kutch district
Ahmedabad railway division
Transport in Bhuj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Cuba | The road network of Cuba consists of of roads, of which over are paved and are unpaved. The Caribbean country counts also of motorways (autopistas).
Motorways
Overview
Cuba has eight toll-free expressways named Autopistas, seven of them centralized in the city of Havana and connected to each other by the Havana Ring Road, with the exception of the motorway to Mariel. The carriageway is divided and the lanes in each direction go from two to four. Maximum speed limit is . In the Isla de la Juventud, the dual carriageway from Nueva Gerona to La Fe is classified as a motorway.
The principal motorways A1 and A4, running from the west to the east of the island and partly unbuilt (most of A1 sections), are the only one numbered and shortened with "A". As well as the Carretera Central covers the entire island, they are projected to perform the same function as motorways.
The route from Matanzas to Varadero of the Vía Blanca is the only toll road between Cuban motorways. The other autopistas have short routes and run from Havana to its suburban towns in Artemisa and Mayabeque provinces.
List of motorways
State highways
Cuba has a complex network of single carriageway highways, most of them numbered, named Carreteras or Circuitos. Some of the most prominent are:
Carretera Central (CC, Central Road, code N-1, 1,435 km), the most important one, is a west–east highway spanning the length of the island of Cuba from the municipality of Sandino, in Pinar del Río Province, to the one of Baracoa, in Guantánamo Province, for a total length of 1,435 km.
Circuito Norte (CN - Northern Road, 1,222 km): it runs from Mantua (Pinar del Río Province) to Baracoa (Guantánamo Province) crossing the northern coast of Cuba, through Viñales municipal territory, Bahía Honda, Mariel, Havana, Varadero, Matanzas, Cárdenas, Sagua la Grande, Caibarién, Yaguajay, Morón, Nuevitas, Puerto Padre, Holguín, Mayarí, Sagua de Tánamo and Moa. The Vía Blanca and the Panamericana, both classified as motorways, are part of it.
Circuito Sur (CS, Southern Road, 491 km): it runs from Artemisa to Sancti Spíritus, through Güira de Melena, Batabanó, Güines, Jagüey Grande, Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos and Trinidad.
Circuito Sur de Oriente (CSO, Southeastern Road, 347 km): it runs from Bayamo to Santiago de Cuba through Manzanillo, Niquero, Pilón and Chivirico.
See also
License plates of Cuba
Cocotaxi
Havana MetroBus
Transport in Cuba
Rail transport in Cuba
Notes
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONiq | JSONiq is a query and functional programming language that is designed to declaratively query and transform collections of hierarchical and heterogeneous data in format of JSON, XML, as well as unstructured, textual data.
JSONiq is an open specification published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. It is based on the XQuery language, with which it shares the same core expressions and operations on atomic types. JSONiq comes in two syntactical flavors, which both support JSON and XML natively.
The JSONiq syntax (a superset of JSON) extended with XML support through a compatible subset of XQuery.
The XQuery syntax (native XML support) extended with JSON support through a compatible subset (the JSONiq extension to XQuery) of the above JSONiq syntax.
Features
JSONiq primarily provides means to extract and transform data from JSON documents or any data source that can be viewed as JSON (e.g. relational databases or web services).
The major expression for performing such operations is the SQL-like “FLWOR expression” that comes from XQuery. A FLWOR expression is constructed from the five clauses after which it is named: FOR, LET, WHERE, ORDER BY, RETURN. However, it also supports clauses for doing grouping and windowing.
The language also provides syntax for constructing new JSON documents where either the field names and values are known in advance or can be computed dynamically. The JSONiq language (not the extension to XQuery) is a superset of JSON. That is, each JSON document is a valid JSONiq program.
Additionally, the language also supports a navigational syntax for extracting field names and values out of JSON objects as well as values out of JSON arrays. Navigation is resilient in the absence of values, or if values are heterogeneous, in that it silently ignores unforeseen values without raising errors.
All constructs are defined as expressions within the language and can be arbitrarily nested.
JSONiq does not include features for updating JSON or XML documents, it does not have full text search capabilities, and has no statements. All of these features are under active development for a subsequent version of the language.
JSONiq is a programming language that can express arbitrary JSON to JSON or XML to XML transformations. It also allows for transformations between JSON and XML. All such transformations have the following features:
Logical/physical data independence
Declarative
High level
Side-effect free
Strongly typed
Data model
The language is based on the JSONiq Data Model (JDM) which is an extension of the XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM). The JDM uses a tree-structured model of the information content of a JSON or XML document. It contains JSON objects, JSON arrays, all kinds of XML nodes, as well as atomic values such as integers, strings, or boolean all being defined in XML Schema.
JDM forms the basis for a set-oriented language, in that instances of the data model are sequences (a singleton v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20websites%20blocked%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | This is a list of websites blocked in the United Kingdom.
Blocked by mobile operators and ISP network filters
Resolved and erroneous blocks
Sanctioned websites
As part of UK sanctions against Russia, ISPs are required to take "reasonable steps to prevent" users accessing "an internet service provided by" a person or organisation sanctioned by the UK government. This effectively means blocking websites operated by such organisations. Organisations sanctioned are currently TV Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya. The websites currently listed by the UK government are:
rt.com
sputniknews.com
rossiyasegodnya.com
Court ordered implementations targeting copyright and trademark infringement
Sites are blocked using various methods across the "Big 5" UK ISPs, in accordance with Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, making it difficult to ascertain the extent to which a site is 'blocked' or not. In December 2014, the affected ISPs decided to publish more information about the blocking orders they received.
If a user visits a blocked site within the United Kingdom, the user will be forwarded to www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk which includes the list of blocked domains and court orders.
ISPs with over 400,000 subscribers subject to blocking orders include:
BT Group
EE
Sky Broadband
Talk Talk
Virgin Media
Indirect blocking
In furtherance of the above-mentioned goal of restricting access to The Pirate Bay and similar sites, the BPI believes that "ISPs are required to block the illegal sites themselves, and proxies and proxy aggregators whose sole or predominant purpose is to give access to the illegal sites." As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others:
See also
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
Censorship in the United Kingdom
Computer and network surveillance
Copyright infringement
Copyright in the United Kingdom
Child abuse image content list
Digital Economy Act 2010
Digital Economy Act 2017
EU Copyright Directive
File sharing in the United Kingdom
Internet censorship in the United Kingdom
Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia
Legal aspects of file sharing
Web blocking in the United Kingdom
References
External links
wiki.451unavailable.org.uk – The repository for UK court orders requiring domains, IP addresses and URLs to be blocked by Internet service providers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Educativo | Canal Educativo is a Cuban television channel devoted to educational programming. Operated by the ICRT, it began operations on 9 May 2002.
History
Prior to the establishment of Canal Educativo, there was no designated home for educational programming among Cuba's national television portfolio. The establishment of this network enabled the delivery of telecourses and the use of school hours to broadcast content. Canal Educativo covers 87.9% of the Cuban population.
In 2004, a second network, Canal Educativo 2 (currently abbreviated ce2 on air), was launched.
Programming
Canal Educativo's programming includes telecourses, documentaries, historical programs, and arts programming including opera, ballet and musical performances. It also reportedly airs cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants.
Television in Cuba
Education in Cuba
Educational and instructional television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele%20Rebelde | Tele Rebelde is Cuba's second national television network, founded in 1968.
History
Tele Rebelde was officially launched on July 22, 1968, in the city of Santiago de Cuba. It broadcast its signal to the then Oriente province and aimed to reflect the region in which it was based. It broadcast a wide variety of programs for six hours a day from Monday through Saturday and on Sunday afternoons. In 1975, it became the first station to switch to NTSC color, followed by Channel 2 in Havana.
In 1979, Tele Rebelde from Santiago de Cuba and Channel 2 in Havana were merged into a unified brand, the new network retained most of the programming and the name of the Santiago de Cuba station while also opening a new studio facility.
Programming
The channel's programming is primarily sports, with the exception of the evening magazine, which is also transmitted by Cubavisión International, with the inclusion of domestic and foreign programs distributed by thematic blocks depending on the schedule. From Monday to Saturday, the channel begins with the news magazine Good Morning, Awakening All Cuba, and reports of world and national events, emphasizing culture and sport, with the rest of the morning programming block dedicated to sports and fitness. Aside from its local and international coverage of different sports such as football, cycling, motor sports among others in which the country takes part, its flagship sports coverages are on baseball, primary on the Cuban baseball league system and is the official television partner of the Cuba national baseball team. One of its high rating broadcasts are those of the Cuban National Series season matches, from the opening day leading up to the playoffs and the national finals, as well as of the mid-year Super Series, and since 2014 is also the national broadcaster of the Caribbean Series.
The channel also broadcasts cultural programming, including those in the performing arts and Cuban cinema.
Sports coverage
These sporting events are broadcast by Tele Rebelde and are produced by the ICRT for the channel.
Football
Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba
La Liga
Copa del Rey
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Europa League
2024 Copa América
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
UEFA Super Cup
Bundesliga
DFB-Pokal
Premier League
FA Cup
Serie A
Coppa Italia
Ligue 1
Coupe de France
Major League Soccer
including MLS All Star Game and MLS Cup Playoffs
CONCACAF Champions League
CONCACAF Gold Cup
UEFA Euro
FIFA World Cup
Baseball
Cuban National Series - flagship broadcast
Cuban Elite League
Caribbean Series
Major League Baseball
including All Star Game, postseason games and the World Series
World Baseball Classic
WBSC Premier12
All WBSC Baseball World Cups (U-12, U-15, U-18, U-23)
Basketball
National Basketball Association
EuroLeague
EuroCup
Liga Superior de Baloncesto
Liga de las Américas
FIBA Americ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digicable | Digicable Network India Pvt Ltd is a cable television company based in Mumbai, India, that also provides telephone, data, and internet services. The company provides services in 46 cities and 14 states across India and, as of June 2012, had approximately 8.7 million subscribers. It was founded in 2007.
In July 2010 Reliance Communications announced it agreed to acquire Digicable and would rename it Reliance DigiCom. However, a year later, the deal was still under review.
In 2012 the company became a takeover target after new rules introduced by the Indian government required cable firms to convert to digital television technology, which analysts thought would lead to consolidation in the cable television industry.
References
Television networks in India
2007 establishments in Maharashtra
Mass media companies based in Mumbai
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Reliance Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNA%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | In computing, SNA (Sandybridge's New Acceleration) is a graphics acceleration architecture for the X.Org Server developed by Intel as a replacement for UXA.
See also
EXA
UXA
Direct Rendering Infrastructure
Glamor
References
X-based libraries |
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