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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Rumpe | Bernhard Rumpe (born 1967) is a German computer scientist, professor of computer science and head of the Software Engineering Department at the RWTH Aachen University. His research focusses on "technologies, methods, tools ... necessary to create software in the necessary quality that is as efficient and sustainable as possible."
Biography
Born and raised in Abensberg, Germany, Rumpe from 1973 to 1977 attended the Aventinus Primary School Abensberg and from 1977 to 1986 the Donau Gymnasium Kelheim. From 1987 to 1992 he studied computer science and mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In 1992 he became research assistant at the Chair for Software and Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, were in 1996 he received his PhD and in 2003 his habilitation in computer science.
From 2003 to 2008 Rumpe headed the Institute for Software Systems Engineering at the Braunschweig University of Technology (TUBS). Here in 2007 he headed the participation of the university in the DARPA Urban Challenge. Since early 2009 he is Head of the Department Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen University In 2001 he founded the Springer International Journal Software and Systems Modeling, together with his colleague Robert France and works there as an editor-in-chief.
Rumpe contributed to the semantics and the use of modeling languages in software development (requirements, architecture, code generation, system configuration, quality management) based on the work started by his group Language Workbench MontiCore.
Selected publications
1996. Formale Methodik des Entwurfs verteilter objektorientierter Systeme, München: Utz, Wiss.
2000. Software Engineering: Schlüssel zu Prozessbeherrschung und Informationsmanagement , TCW,
2001. Übungen zur Einführung in die Informatik., Manfred Broy, Bernhard Rumpe. Springer,
2001. The UML Profile for Framework Architectures, Marcus Fontoura, Wolfgang Pree, Bernhard Rumpe. Addison-Wesley.
2004. Modellierung mit UML, Berlin: Springer,
2004. Agile Modellierung mit UML, Berlin: Springer Berlin,
2011. Modellierung mit UML, 2nd edition, Berlin: Springer,
2012. Agile Modellierung mit UML: Codegenerierung, Testfälle, Refactoring, 2nd edition, Berlin: Springer Berlin,
2014. Architecture and Behavior Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems with MontiArcAutomaton, J. O. Ringert, B. Rumpe, A. Wortmann. Aachener Informatik-Berichte, Software Engineering Band 20. Shaker Verlag,
2016. Modeling with UML: Language, Concepts, Methods. Springer International.
2016: Engineering Modeling Languages: Turning Domain Knowledge into Tools., B. Combemale, R. France, J. Jézéquel, B. Rumpe, J. Steel, D. Vojtisek. Chapman & Hall/CRC Innovations in Software Engineering and Software Development Series.
2017. Agile Modeling with UML: Code Generation, Testing, Refactoring, Springer International.
2017. Towards a Sustainable Artifact Model, T. Greifenberg, S. Hillemacher, B. Rumpe. Aachener Informatik-Berichte, S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/222%20Second%20Street | 222 Second Street is a office skyscraper in the South of Market District of San Francisco, California. It is under lease by social networking company LinkedIn (headquartered in nearby Sunnyvale).
Developed by Tishman Speyer and designed by Thomas Phifer, the high rise was planned to provide of office space, of ground floor retail, and of open space accessible to the public, at the southern corner of Second and Howard Streets. Construction began in August 2013, still without a tenant on hand.
In April 2014, LinkedIn announced it was leasing the building for an undisclosed sum, to accommodate up to 2,500 of its employees, with the lease covering 10 years. The goal was to join all of its San Francisco based staff (1,250 as of January 2016) in one building, bring sales and marketing employees together with the research and development team.
The building was topped-out in August 2014 and opened in March 2016, with LinkedIn staff moving in in stages until 2017. As of mid-2022, LinkedIn was still leasing the building's entire 450,000 square feet, notwithstanding a rise in remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ground floor is open to the public during work hours, as a privately owned public space. It features three large artworks by Frank Stella, in accordance with the developers' public art proposal to the city Planning Commission, with the purchase price of $1 million matching 1% of the total "construction hard costs".
The San Francisco Chronicle's architecture critic John King characterized the building as "severe yet sleek" and expressed appreciation for the arrangement of the "panes of overlapping glass 6 feet wide and 13 feet high [that] cover a form that begins as a squat 16-story rectangle and concludes as a 10-story square. On the lower four stories the shingled pattern fans to the right; the fifth floor panels are flat, side by side, and then the shingles resume in reverse, flipping tightly to the left. The upper floors reverse the pattern yet again." However, while acknowledging their appeal in certain light situations ("a large-scale shuffle of vivid reflections"), King criticized their dark color (evoking a "dull gloom" on cloudy days). And he chastised the building - "designed and built by New Yorkers" - as being aesthetically out of place on Second Street, "an alien presence in a well-established setting where other recent buildings have done their best to add to the ambiance".
As of May 2023, in contrast to what the San Francisco Chronicle described as "Downtown San Francisco['s] worst office vacancy crisis on record" at the time, 222 Second Street retained a 0% vacancy rate.
See also
San Francisco's tallest buildings
References
External links
The First-rate Charms Of Second Street (video commentary by John King)
Skyscraper office buildings in San Francisco
South of Market, San Francisco
LinkedIn
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified buildings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Crossing%20Plaza | Animal Crossing Plaza was a discontinued free to play social networking service developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. A spin-off of Animal Crossing: New Leaf of the Animal Crossing series, Plaza was released as a tie-in to Miiverse, Nintendo's now-defunct social networking service. The application is no longer actively supported by Nintendo, and was removed from the Nintendo eShop on December 22, 2014.
Gameplay
Animal Crossing Plaza allowed users to interact with other players of the Nintendo 3DS game Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The application was similar to Nintendo's Wara Wara Plaza, and allowed users to post messages for other players, receive news and updates about New Leaf, and participate in polls. The game connected with New Leaf via SD card, allowing players to post and archive New Leaf screenshots, and share in-game clothing designs using QR codes. Users could also upload Plaza posts directly to Nintendo's Miiverse social networking service. The game's overworld was populated by non-player characters from the Animal Crossing series, who users could interact with.
Development
Animal Crossing Plaza was announced in a Nintendo Direct on August 7, 2013, and was released digitally on the Nintendo eShop that same day. Plaza was planned as a limited-time application, with Nintendo stating in its announcement of the application that it would only be supported through the end of 2014.
On December 8, 2014, Nintendo released a statement confirming that it would cease ongoing support for Plaza. The application was removed from the Nintendo eShop on December 22, 2014, and the ability to create new posts within the application was removed on December 31, 2014. Plaza remains accessible to users who downloaded the application prior to its removal from eShop, though its social features are no longer usable.
References
External links
Official English website
Official Japanese website
2013 video games
Animal Crossing video games
Wii U-only games
Wii U games
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development games
Nintendo Network games
Wii U eShop games
Video games developed in Japan
Social simulation video games
Video game spin-offs
Delisted digital-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoogloea%20resiniphila | Zoogloea resiniphila is a bacterium from the genus of Zoogloea.
References
External links
Type strain of Zoogloea resiniphila at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodocyclaceae
Bacteria described in 1999
Zoogloeaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20O-Class%20Tram | The O-class trams were a class of trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
History
A prototype (806) was built at Randwick Tramway Workshops in 1907, before the Meadowbank Manufacturing Company built a further 625 between 1908 and 1914. They were nicknamed Dreadnoughts, after a powerful British warship of the day, the Sydney press referred to them as Toastracks as all the seats were transverse or crossbench.
Between 1918 and 1946, eleven (855, 935, 943, 1007, 1089, 1170, 1241, 1372, 1383 and 1451) were rebuilt to resemble the P-class trams when heavy body repairs were required and reclassified as the O/P class. The last was withdrawn in 1958.
Design
The O-class tram has a combination of enclosed and open sections. Ladies would generally sit in the enclosed compartments, while gentlemen sat in the open compartments. In the centre are the four closed sections, accessible to the street via sliding doors and fitted with cross bench timber seats. On either side of these are the two open compartments, each fitted with two facing cross bench seats with metal armrests. These two sections have pull-down canvas blinds to protect passengers against the elements. Enclosed driver's compartments at each end are joined to the open compartments.
Service
The O-class tramcars were the backbone of the Sydney fleet for 40 years and saw service on all the Sydney electrified lines at various periods and were loved by both passengers and tram crews. They were especially suited to venues such as race meetings, sporting matches and the Royal Easter Show as they could be emptied and filled quickly by means of the numerous doorways.
Preservation
Six have been preserved:
805 owned by Powerhouse Museum on loan to Sydney Tramway Museum
1111 and 141s (Breakdown tram conversion, formerly 1030) in operational condition at the Sydney Tramway Museum
957 and 1089 (as O/P configuration) under restoration at the Sydney Tramway Museum
1187 at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Rivest%20algorithm | In computer science, the Floyd-Rivest algorithm is a selection algorithm developed by Robert W. Floyd and Ronald L. Rivest that has an optimal expected number of comparisons within lower-order terms. It is functionally equivalent to quickselect, but runs faster in practice on average. It has an expected running time of and an expected number of comparisons of .
The algorithm was originally presented in a Stanford University technical report containing two papers, where it was referred to as SELECT and paired with PICK, or median of medians. It was subsequently published in Communications of the ACM, Volume 18: Issue 3.
Algorithm
The Floyd-Rivest algorithm is a divide and conquer algorithm, sharing many similarities with quickselect. It uses sampling to help partition the list into three sets. It then recursively selects the kth smallest element from the appropriate set.
The general steps are:
Select a small random sample S from the list L.
From S, recursively select two elements, u and v, such that u < v. These two elements will be the pivots for the partition and are expected to contain the kth smallest element of the entire list between them (in a sorted list).
Using u and v, partition S into three sets: A, B, and C. A will contain the elements with values less than u, B will contain the elements with values between u and v, and C will contain the elements with values greater than v.
Partition the remaining elements in L (that is, the elements in L - S) by comparing them to u or v and placing them into the appropriate set. If k is smaller than half the number of the elements in L rounded up, then the remaining elements should be compared to v first and then only to u if they are smaller than v. Otherwise, the remaining elements should be compared to u first and only to v if they are greater than u.
Based on the value of k, apply the algorithm recursively to the appropriate set to select the kth smallest element in L.
By using |S| = Θ(n2/3 log1/3 n), we can get expected comparisons. We can get expected comparisons by starting with a small S and repeatedly updating u and v to keep the size of B small enough (O(n1/2 log1/2 n) at Θ(n) processed elements) without unacceptable risk of the desired element being outside of B.
Pseudocode version
The following pseudocode rearranges the elements between left and right, such that for some value k, where left ≤ k ≤ right, the kth element in the list will contain the (k − left + 1)th smallest value, with the ith element being less than or equal to the kth for all left ≤ i ≤ k and the jth element being larger or equal to for k ≤ j ≤ right:
// left is the left index for the interval
// right is the right index for the interval
// k is the desired index value, where array[k] is the (k+1)th smallest element when left = 0
function select(array, left, right, k) is
while right > left do
// Use select recursively to sample a smaller set of size s
// the arbitrary constants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Canada%20Line%20Site%20070%20Kempis | Mid-Canada Line Site 070 Kempis was a part of the Mid-Canada Line air defence network. During the late 1950s, the Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was developed as a secondary line of detection in case enemy aircraft penetrated the Distant Early Warning Line. This consisted of approximately 90 unmanned sites and eight Sector Control Stations located along the 55th parallel. Each site sent out a radio beam to its neighbouring site. If an aircraft interrupted the beam, an intruder alarm would sound.
Mount Kempis (near CFS Ramore) was chosen as a relay station for signals coming in from the Sector Control Site at RCAF Station Winisk. The signals would be sent to Mount Kempis via a Tropospheric scatter system and then they would forward the signals via a land-line to the RCC at RCAF North Bay. This required the installation of a large parabolic antenna to receive the signals.
MCL Site 070 ceased operations as a troposcatter repeater in April 1965 when the Mid-Canada Line was no longer economically feasible or required due to improvements in technology.
The site was remediated in 2009 and any evidence that the site ever existed has been removed. Only a plaque commemorating the team who cleaned up the site remains.
References
Royal Canadian Air Force
Radar networks
Cold War military history of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog%20K45 | The Dialog K45 is a dual-SIM slate format smartphone. It was designed and developed in China by Innos and marketed in Sri Lanka by Dialog Axiata that runs the Android operating system. It has a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A5 CPU with 768 MB LPDDR1 SD-RAM. The handset has a 540x960 pixels 4.5-inch IPS QHD Capacitive display. It has 4 GB of internal storage. Compatible networks for this device are GPRS, EDGE and 3G. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB connectivity. The device was launched with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich.
References
External links
Dialog K45
Dialog K45 – Android Smart Phone (innOS i6)
Android (operating system) devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Canada%20Line%20Site%20060%20Relay | Mid-Canada Line Site 060 Relay was a part of the Mid-Canada Line air defence network. During the late 1950s, the Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was developed as a secondary line of detection in case enemy aircraft penetrated the Distant Early Warning Line. This consisted of approximately 90 unmanned sites and eight Sector Control Stations located along the 55th parallel. Each site sent out a radio beam to its neighbouring site. If an aircraft interrupted the beam, an intruder alarm would sound.
Relay was chosen as a relay station for signals coming in from the Sector Control Site at RCAF Station Winisk and would retransmit those signals to MCL Site 070 at Mount Kempis via tropospheric scatter.
MCL Site 060 ceased operations as a troposcatter repeater in April 1965 when the Mid-Canada Line was no longer economically feasible or required due to improvements in technology.
Ths site was remediated in 2009 when all contaminated soil was removed from the area after it was determined the site was contaminated with PCBs and hydrocarbons.
References
Royal Canadian Air Force
Radar networks
Cold War military history of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Eugene%20L.%20Lawler%20Award | The ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award is awarded every two or three years by the Association for Computing Machinery to an individual or a group of individuals who have made a significant contribution to the use of information technology for humanitarian purposes in a wide range of social domains. It is named after the computer scientist Eugene Lawler. The award includes a financial reward of US$5,000.
Recipients
See also
List of computer science awards
References
Awards of the Association for Computing Machinery
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Canada%20Line%20Site%20050%20Fort%20Albany | Mid-Canada Line Site 050 Fort Albany was a part of the Mid-Canada Line air defence network. During the late 1950s, the Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was developed as a secondary line of detection in case enemy aircraft penetrated the Distant Early Warning Line. This consisted of approximately 90 unmanned sites and eight Sector Control Stations located along the 55th parallel. Each site sent out a radio beam to its neighbouring site. If an aircraft interrupted the beam, an intruder alarm would sound.
Fort Albany was chosen as a relay station for signals coming in from the Sector Control Site at RCAF Station Winisk and would retransmit those signals to Mid-Canada Line Site 060 Relay via tropospheric scatter (troposcatter).
MCL Site 050 ceased operations as a troposcatter repeater in April 1965 when the Mid-Canada Line was no longer economically feasible or required due to improvements in technology.
The site was remediated in 2010 when all contaminated soil was removed from the area after it was determined the site was contaminated with PCBs and hydrocarbons.
References
Royal Canadian Air Force
Radar networks
Cold War military history of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hills%20of%20Cornwall | This is a list of hills in Cornwall based on data compiled in various sources, but particularly the Database of British and Irish Hills, Jackson's More Relative Hills of Britain and the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer and 1:50,000 Landranger map series.
Many of these hills are important historic, archaeological and nature conservation sites, as well as popular hiking and tourist destinations in the county of Cornwall in southwest England.
Colour key
The table is colour-coded based on the classification or "listing" of the hill. The three types that occur in Cornwall are Marilyns, HuMPs and TuMPs, listings based on topographical prominence. "Prominence" correlates strongly with the subjective significance of a summit. Peaks with low prominences are either subsidiary tops of a higher summit or relatively insignificant independent summits. Peaks with high prominences tend to be the highest points around and likely to have extraordinary views. A Marilyn is a hill with a prominence of at least 150 metres or about 500 feet. A "HuMP" (the acronym comes from "Hundred Metre Prominence) is a hill with a prominence of at least 100 but less than 150 metres. In this table Marilyns are in beige and HuMPs in lilac. The term "sub-Marilyn" or "sub-HuMP" is used, e.g. in the online Database of British and Irish Hills to indicate hills that fall just below the threshold. To qualify for inclusion, hills must either be 300 metres or higher with a prominence of at least 30 metres, below 300 metres with a prominence of at least 90 metres (the threshold for a sub-HuMP) or be in some other way notable. For further information see the Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles and the individual articles on Marilyns and HuMPs. In this context, a "TuMP" is a hill with a prominence of at least 30 but less than 100 metres; by way of contrast, see also the article listing Tumps (a traditional term meaning a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus).
List of hills
See also
List of mountains and hills of the United Kingdom
List of Marilyns in England
Geography of Cornwall
References and footnotes
Cornwall
Hills |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadchurch%20%28series%202%29 | The second series of the British crime drama Broadchurch began airing on the ITV broadcast network in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2015. The eight-episode series focused on the continuing fallout of the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer in the fictional, close-knit coastal town of Broadchurch in Dorset, England. The series focuses on the effect of Joe Miller's trial on his wife, former DS Ellie Miller (now a uniformed police officer in Devon); the Latimer family's struggle to achieve a normal life during Joe's trial; and new revelations that former DI Alec Hardy is protecting a witness in the failed Sandbrook child murder case.
Although Broadchurch was conceived as a trilogy, the second series was only announced on 22 April 2013 as series one ended. Writing occurred over most of the following year, with series creator and lead writer Chris Chibnall using a plot-development process he used for the first series. The return of series stars Olivia Colman and David Tennant and some of their returning co-stars was reported by the media in late 2013, although both returning and new cast members were not formally announced by ITV until May 2014. Filming began in late May 2014 under the supervision of four directors. Extensive efforts were undertaken to keep the plot secret from the cast, crew and public. Extensive location shooting occurred along the United Kingdom's Jurassic Coast and in South West England. Icelandic musician and composer Ólafur Arnalds returned as the series' musical and sound composer. Series two debuted to very high ratings and critical praise, but subsequent episodes saw a sharp drop in viewership and a more mixed response from critics and audiences alike. Later episodes of the series, however, saw a more positive critical consensus.
Episodes
Supplement content
On 1 December 2014, a number of media outlets reported that ITV had commissioned a third series of Broadchurch. ITV later that day denied that a third series had been greenlit. Chibnall himself said on 18 December 2014 that a third season might not be possible. "Who knows who will be standing at the end (of series two)?", he told Broadcast magazine.
Minutes after the end of the Series 2 finale on 23 February 2015, ITV announced Broadchurch would return for a third series, with Tennant and Colman as the leads.
Cast
Characters in series two of Broadchurch included the following:
Police
Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (David Tennant) – invalided from Wessex Police at the end of Series 1 because of a heart problem, Hardy is now a Training Officer and awaiting an operation. He attempted to hide Claire Ripley, his key witness in the failed Sandbrook murder case, in Broadchurch.
Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) – married to Joe Miller, mother to 13-year-old Tom and two-year-old Fred. She berates herself for not recognising the problems that led her husband to have a relationship with the dead boy and suffers from guilt. Following this, she moved to Devon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StandUp%20in%20Stilettos | Standup in Stilettos is an American stand-up comedy show that aired on the TV Guide Network and was presented by Kate Flannery. It was the first all-women stand-up comedy show to air on a US television network. The series premiered on June 16, 2012 and ran for two seasons.
Premise
Each episode had three female comedians performing. This included upcoming and practiced comedians, as well as comedic actresses. The comedy routines were chosen to be for and by women.
With the show Flannery wanted to introduce a new audience to talented female comedians.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2012)
References
External links
Full Episodes Currently on PopTV.com (Pop Media Group LLC, a ViacomCBS company)
About StandUp In Stilettos at TVGN
Huffington Post "Kate Flannery On 'StandUp In Stilettos': 'The Girls Can Play Just As Hard As The Boys'"
2010s American stand-up comedy television series
2012 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
Pop (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GadgetTrak | Until 2019, GadgetTrak was a company based in Portland, Oregon, that developed theft recovery and data protection software under the same name. The company was founded in February 2007 by Ken Westin with the launch of the first theft recovery product for USB mass storage devices, tracking stolen devices including iPods, flash drives, digital cameras and other devices when connected to a computer. The company was issued a patent for the technology on February 24, 2009. GadgetTrak's technology was featured during a special segment by Dateline on iPod theft where they tracked stolen iPods and confronted the thieves. A customized version of the technology was embedded in FLIR thermal imaging cameras as part of an exclusive licensing agreement under the name ThermaTrak utilized for both theft recovery as well as export controls.
Patents
The company was issued two patents for its technologies:
Patent No. 9,083,624 applies to the process of tracking lost or stolen computing devices by the use of Wi-Fi and/or GPS and/or cellular triangulation.
Patent No. 7,496,201 applies to the process of tracking and recovering devices such as iPods, flash drives, and digital cameras.
Mobile software
Windows and Blackberry In October 2008, the company launched its GadgetTrak Mobile Security app for Blackberry and Windows mobile devices.
Apple iPhones On November 4, 2008, the company launched its first mobile security software app for the Apple iPhone
Android devices At CES 2012, the company launched a version of GadgetTrak Mobile Security for Android devices. Along with the Android release, other upgrades were added, including a web-based control panel to activate tracking, remotely wipe data from the device, encrypt and backup data as well as an enterprise group management console.
Just after launch, the application was put to test by a chain of Sprint stores that installed the software on their demo units. One store in Tigard, Oregon had several devices stolen. With the help of the GadgetTrak Mobile Security app, they were able to recover the devices and apprehend the thieves.
Laptop software
Mac Laptops On November 12, 2008, the company launched the Mac laptop version of its software that utilizes the web camera to capture a photo of a thief, as well as the utilization of Wi-Fi positioning to provide location within 10–20 meters. Shortly after the product launch, there were a number of stolen laptop recoveries using the software, the first being in Brooklyn, New York where a stolen iMac was tracked to a tattoo parlor where police recovered the stolen computer along with other stolen property.
Windows Laptops In April 2009, the company launched a Windows version of their laptop software further expanding their product offering.
Highlighted recoveries
GadgetTrak claimed many "firsts" with regards to devices that have been recovered and methods used.
June 2007 (Newmarket, ON) First known recovery of a stolen iPod ever using tracking technology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW46 | CW46 may refer to one of current or former The CW Television Network affiliates:
WBSF Bay City/Saginaw/Flint, Michigan (Affiliate)
KRNS-CD Reno, Nevada (Affiliate)
WJZY Former CW affiliate of Belmont/Charlotte, North Carolina (Now Fox Affiliate) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20P-Class%20Tram | The P-class trams were a class of trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
History
Between 1921 and 1929, 258 P class trams were built by Randwick Tramway Workshops, Meadowbank Manufacturing Company, and the Walsh Island Dockyard. As with the preceding O class trams, the P class were cross bench cars with 80 seat capacity. They were a big improvement over the O-class in that all compartments offered protection from bad weather on both sides of the bodies when running. Fitted with folding canvas doors in each compartment, conductors only had to push open one half of a door.
The P-class trams were based at all depots on the main system except Rushcutters Bay, but worked to the Sydney Stadium, just past the depot between 1947 and 1959 out of Waverley and Dowling Street for special events, plus out to Watsons Bay for picnic specials. Most were withdrawn in 1959/1960. Four (1517 & 1573 at Randwick Tramway Workshops and 1562 & 1582 Eveleigh Railway Workshops) were refitted with the same windows, centre door and internal layout as the R1 class.
Preservation
Six have been preserved:
1497, 1517 and 1573 at the Sydney Tramway Museum
1729 (first tram to North Bondi) under restoration at the Sydney Tramway Museum
1501 previously sleeping quarters at a ‘Tram-O-Tel’ in Lightning Ridge now under restoration for Sydney Tramway Museum at Bendigo Tramways
1700 at the Seashore Trolley Museum, Maine
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltz%20%28surname%29 | Waltz, as a surname, may refer to:
People:
Christoph Waltz (born 1956), Academy Award-winning Austrian-German actor
David Waltz (1943–2012), American computer scientist and professor
Gustavus Waltz, (fl. 1732-1759) English opera singer
Ian Waltz (born 1977), American discus thrower
Jacob Waltz, the "Dutchman" (actually a German immigrant) of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine legend
John Waltz (baseball) (1860-1931), American baseball manager (for eight games) and executive
Kenneth Waltz (1924-2013), American professor and scholar of international relations
Michael Waltz (born 1974), American politician
Marilyn Waltz (1931-2006), Playboy Playmate of the Month for February (as Margaret Scott) and April 1954 and April 1955
Patrick Waltz (1924-1972), American film and television actor
Sasha Waltz (born 1963), German choreographer, dancer and leader of the dance company Sasha Waltz and Guests
Susan Waltz, American political scientist
Fictional characters:
Count Waltz, the main antagonist in the video game Eternal Sonata
See also
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Polish politician
Walz, a surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20R1-Class%20Tram | The R1-class trams were a class of trams operated on the Sydney tram network. Their design was a development of the R class.
History
When Clyde Engineering were delivering the last of the R class in 1935, it was decided to modify the final five to a design with a reduced drop-centre, eight more seats, no internal partitions, and one less door each side. These modified trams were classified as R1 class, and a further 50 were ordered from Clyde. In the late 1940s, a further 250 were ordered from Commonwealth Engineering. Steel shortages delayed their construction, with the first not delivered until September 1950. During construction the order was reduced to 100, with the last delivered to North Sydney depot on 17 September 1953.
The original five tramcars modified in 1935 (numbers 1933 to 1937) could be distinguished from later production runs by their side windows (which indicated the original door spacing for the R class) and the underframe which was built to accommodate a larger drop-centre.
One car, 2029, was fitted with dynamic braking, for use on the steep Neutral Bay line, from 1952 to when the line closed in 1956.
One (2018) was written off after a single day in a traffic accident at Petersham. Most remained in service until the end of tram operations in 1961.
When the Sydney tramway system closed, some of the class were disposed of by burning at Randwick Workshops, despite some being less than 8 years old at time of being burnt.
Preservation
Ten have been preserved:
1933, 1951, 1979, 2001 and 2044 at the Sydney Tramway Museum
1971 on loan from the Sydney Tramway Museum to the Tramway Museum, St Kilda
1995 the last tram to run in Sydney, statically displayed Tramsheds in the old Rozelle Tram Depot
1936 at The Brisbane Tramway Museum, Ferny Grove (yet to be restored)
1948 and 2064 retained privately
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC%20Televisi%C3%B3n | TC Televisión is a state-owned television network in Ecuador. The network was founded in 1969 and was commercially funded for many years until 2011 when The Isaias Group went into a lawsuit and was sold to a state government unit, Since then the channel been owned by SERTVSA. (Sistema Ecuatoriano de Radio y Televisión)
Programming
DespierTC
El Noticiero
Entre ellas
De Casa en Casa
Rendón y la Bombón
De Boca en Boca
Soy el Mejor
Casi 40tonas
Vera: ¡a su manera!
Alerta Roja
El Show de Tiko Tiko
Impacto Semanal
Punto Final
Antuca me Enamora - Reposition
La Santa Misa
Quiropraxia Neural
Turcafé
TC Deportes
Juntos y revueltos - Reposition
Mega Pekes
Puro Teatro - Gamavisión TV Series
Verdades Urbanas
El Informante
Telenovelas and Series
This network dedicates for its international shows, mainly telenovelas from Miami-based Venezuelan production company RCTV International and Colombian television network RCN among other networks. TC airs international series and also produces and airs local programs such as Estas secretarias, Mi recinto and Soy el mejor among others, the network also distributes over 5000 hours of programming to networks around the world.
Slogans
2002 - 2010: PonTC (PutTC)
2010: Estamos trabajando por ti (We are working for you)
2011: Ponte 10 (Get 10)
2012 – 2018: Mi Canal (My Channel)
2014: Mi Mundial (My World Cup)
2016 - 2017: Líder Absoluto (Absolute Leader)
2020 - 2021: Somos Todos, Va conmigo (We're all, Go with me) 2021 - Present: #SoyTC (#IamTC)
References
External links
Television channels in Ecuador
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Spanish-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckles%3A%20The%20Tarbosaurus | Speckles: The Tarbosaurus (점박이: 한반도의 공룡 3D: Jumbagi: Hanbandoui gongryong 3D; ENG: Speckles: Dinosaurs of the Korean Peninsula) is a 2012 3D South Korean computer-generated epic adventure drama film directed by Han Sang-Ho. The film was released under the title Dino King: An Amazing Adventure in the United States. The Dino King was released sometime after a two-part documentary movie that serves as prequel/predecessor, Tarbosaurus: The Mightiest Ever, and is followed by Dino King 3D: Journey to Fire Mountain, both also being directed by Han Sang-Ho.
Plot
80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, a young Tarbosaurus named Speckles, for his unique birthmark, lives with his older brother, Quicks, twin sisters, and mother. Speckles is left alone when a rogue Tyrannosaurus named One-Eye causes a massive stampede to kill Speckles' siblings, and personally kills his mother, in order to usurp their territory.
Four years later, Speckles has scraped by on his own, scavenging and raiding nests. One day while attempting to steal food from One-Eye, Speckles encounters a female Tarbosaurus named "Blue-Eyes" and the pair team up to hunt and survive together. Over the years, Speckles and Blue-Eyes attempt to maintain a hunting territory away from One-Eye. Eventually, however, One-Eye discovers their hunting grounds and again attempts to usurp their territory. After Blue-Eyes is hurt by One-Eye, Speckles fights him, and eventually defeats and drives away his old nemesis.
After defeating One-Eye, Speckles and Blue-Eyes reclaim Speckles' old family nest and hunting grounds. Now a mature adult pair with three young offspring, the family is happy until forced to flee from their territory due to a volcanic eruption. During the disaster, one of the children is killed and Blue-Eyes is wounded. After this, Speckles becomes the de facto alpha of a large migratory herd of dinosaurs fleeing the natural disaster. Two weeks into the journey, Blue-Eyes collapses from exhaustion. Seeing this, a pack of Velociraptors attacks the family, and though Speckles tries to hold them off, Blue-Eyes dies from her injury, forcing Speckles to leave her body behind in order to save their children.
After a long journey, the herd arrives at a new, fertile area in which to settle. However, Speckles once again encounters One-Eye, who has been driven out by the same natural disaster. Just as he did before, One-Eye causes the herbivores to stampede in order to ambush Speckles and his two babies. One-Eye kills one of Speckles' remaining children whilst the last, Speckles Jr., is knocked off a cliff into the ocean during the ensuing fight. Speckles dives into the sea to save him, but pursued by One-Eye. After a long fight in the ocean, One-Eye is attacked and eaten by a pair of Tylosaurus. Speckles eventually reaches Speckles Jr. and returns him safely to shore.
In the closing monologue, Speckles wishes a peaceful, happy life for his son.
Cast
Korean
Lee Hyung Suk ... Speckles (yo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmportal.de | filmportal.de is an online database of information related to German film. It includes extensive information on films and filmmakers as well as articles on film issues. The website was released on occasion of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival on 11 February 2005. filmportal.de was revised and expanded in 2011/2012.
Content
The database provides information on about 85 000 German cinema and television films (as of June 2015) from 1895 to the present. About 8 000 films are presented in detail with content descriptions, stills and/or posters. In addition, filmportal.de catalogues about 190 000 names of filmmakers, 5 000 of these entries feature a biography.
The lexical information is supplemented by trailers, film clips from German classics, and, increasingly, full-length films. Moreover, editorial texts link the information with the history of film in the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the GDR.
Organising institutions
filmportal.de was established by Deutsches Filminstitut (Frankfurt) in collaboration with CineGraph - Hamburg Center for Research on Film and with support of the other members of the German Kinematheksverbund and the associations of the German film industry. The website is cooperating with the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (ACE), Arte, DEFA Foundation, Goethe-Institut, German Films Service + Marketing GmbH, Deutsche Filmakademie and Berlin International Film Festival.
References
Kino (May 2005) D. Holloway Issues 78-90:cxxviii
The Hollywood Reporter (2006) Volume 393:92
External links
(in German)
Online film databases
German film websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Hanson | Janet Hanson is an American financier and the founder of 85 Broads, a global network community of 30,000 women. In 1986 she became the first woman to be promoted to sales management of Goldman Sachs.
Early life and education
Hanson graduated from Wheaton College and Columbia Business School.
Career
Hanson joined Goldman Sachs in 1977 and remain for 14 years. She then founded Milestone Capital, a money market fund company managing over $2 billion in assets.
After recovering from a serious health issue in 2002, Hanson became a Managing Director and Senior Advisor to the President & COO of Lehman Brothers.
Hanson founded 85 Broads to stay in touch with women at Goldman Sachs. After an investment of about $5 million, the network evolved to include women from other companies, professions and countries to have about 30,000 members in 2014. In 2013, 85 Broads was acquired by Sallie Krawcheck,
Hanson is a member of the Forbes Executive Women’s Board and of the Kellogg Center for Executive Women’s Steering Committee. She is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Wheaton College (MA) and a board member of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. She is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Talent Innovation. She has received a number of awards, including an honorary degree from Middlebury College in 2007.
In 2006 she led a project to write More than 85 Broads, a book co-written with other 85 Broads members offering advice and career histories.
Personal
Hanson has two children and is divorced.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cheminformatics%20toolkits | Cheminformatics toolkits are notable software development kits that allow cheminformaticians to develop custom computer applications for use in virtual screening, chemical database mining, and structure-activity studies. Toolkits are often used for experimentation with new methodologies. Their most important functions deal with the manipulation of chemical structures and comparisons between structures. Programmatic access is provided to properties of individual bonds and atoms.
Functionality
Toolkits provide the following functionality:
Read and save structures in various chemistry file formats.
Determine if one structure is a substructure of another (substructure matching).
Determine if two structures are equal (exact matching).
Identification of substructures common to structures in a set (maximal common substructure, MCS).
Disassemble molecules, splitting into fragments.
Assemble molecules from elements or submolecules.
Apply reactions on input reactant structures, resulting in output of reaction product structures.
Generate molecular fingerprints. Fingerprints are bit-vectors where individual bits correspond to the presence or absence of structural features. The most important use of fingerprints is in indexing of chemistry databases.
List of notable cheminformatics toolkits
References
Computational chemistry
Cheminformatics
Drug discovery
Cheminformatics toolkits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Severance%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Charles Russell Severance, popularly known as Dr Chuck, is an American computer scientist and academic who currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan, he runs https://www.wa4e.com/.
Severance studied at Michigan State University, gaining his BS in 1984, his MS in 1990, and his PhD in 1996, all in computer science. After graduation, he became an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Michigan State, also serving as Director of the Division of Engineering Computer Services. He left this role in 1999 to become associate director for Advanced Technology at the University of Michigan's Media Union, and left the institution entirely in 2001 to serve as Director of Product Development for Strategic Interactive. In August 2002, he returned to the University of Michigan as the first Chief Architect of the Sakai Project, later becoming a member of the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors, and then its first executive director.
In 2007, he resigned from his position as the executive director of the Sakai Foundation, becoming Clinical Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. In 2012, he was hired by Blackboard Inc. to lead their initiatives involving Sakai projects. He announced his departure from this role in March 2014. Outside of teaching and the private sector, Severance helped write the POSIX P1003 standard and has hosted several television shows, including Nothin but Net and Internet:TCI.
Severance has created a number of popular computer science and programming courses and specializations on Coursera. His courses are amongst the all time top enrolled courses on the platform.
Books
References
External links
Living people
University of Michigan faculty
American computer scientists
Michigan State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave | An algorave (from an algorithm and rave) is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques. Alex McLean of Slub and Nick Collins coined the word "algorave" in 2011, and the first event under such a name was organised in London, UK. It has since become a movement, with algoraves taking place around the world.
Description
Algoraves can include a range of styles, including a complex form of minimal techno, and the movement has been described as a meeting point of hacker philosophy, geek culture, and clubbing. Although live coding is commonplace, any algorithmic music is welcome which is "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals", which is a corruption of the definition of rave music (“wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”) in the UK's Criminal Justice Act. Although algorave musicians have been compared with DJs, they are in fact live musicians or improvisers, creating music live, usually by writing or modifying code, rather than mixing recorded music.
At an algorave the computer musician may not be the main point of focus for the audience and instead attention may be centered on a screen that displays live coding, that is the process of writing source code, so the audience can not just dance or listen to the music generated by the source code but also to see the process of programming.
History
Algorithmic approaches have long been applied in electronic dance music from the 1970s when Brian Eno established randomised musical practises which evolved into generative music over the course of his long career. This, in turn, influenced rave culture and techno of the 1990s by Farmers Manual, Autechre, and Aphex Twin. The Anti EP was an explicit response to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 - specifically the track "Flutter" as a means of creating "non-repetitive beats" at raves which had been outlawed by the wording of the Act. The snare rush famously featured on the Girl/Boy EP of 1996 is an earlier form of digital algorithmic coding and featured in drum and bass influenced electronic music of the early to mid 1990s, this approach later evolving into glitch music. Traditional use of algorithms include Maypole dancing, where they are applied to the dance itself as a form of Algorithmic Choreography and bell-ringing. The first self-proclaimed "algorave" was held in London as a warmup concert for the SuperCollider Symposium 2012. However, the name was first coined in 2011, after live coders Nick Collins and Alex McLean tuned into a happy hardcore pirate radio station on the way to a performance in the UK. Since then, algorave has been growing into an international movement, with algoraves having been held mainly in Europe and Asia; and few events in Australia and North America.
Community
Algorave can also be considered an international music movement with a community of electronic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pore%20%28bread%29 | Pores are the air pockets found in leavened bread, where carbon dioxide from the fermentation process creates a network of primarily interconnected void structures. The degree to which pores form are a major determiner in the texture ("crumb") of the bread. Pore size varies between varieties of bread. Sourdough bread is a variety with larger pores. Rye bread has smaller pores and a denser crumb.
See also
References
Further reading
"Digital bread crumb: Creation and application"
Breads
Baking
Fermentation in food processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pengyou | Pengyou () is a popular social network by Tencent, also well known for QQ Video, Tencent Weibo, QQ, Qzone, WeChat, etc.
It has often been considered as the Asian language version of Tagged. Because of its multiple open platforms, it's the biggest online community in China in terms of registered users. Pengyou says it has over 200 million users.
The site uses real names with an emphasis on real friendships, and allows users to register with any valid email address. The site has both a social area but also a section for corporate outreach, where friends can become ‘fans’ of various companies, and companies can use the site to engage with their consumers.
References
External links
https://www.pengyou.com
https://www.wechat.com
Chinese social networking websites
Chinese companies established in 2010
Companies based in Shenzhen
Tencent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopluramycin | Neopluramycin is an antibiotic that inhibits nucleic acid synthesis. It has been isolated from the cultured broth of a strain of Streptomyces pluricolorescens as orange crystals, and analytical data and molecular weight determination are consistent with the empirical formula .
Neopluramycin resembles pluramycin A, but is differentiated by its antibacterial spectrum, toxicity, thin-layer chromatography, and infrared absorption spectrum.
Neopluramycin inhibits growth of Gram-positive bacteria, leukemia L-1210 in mice and Yoshida rat sarcoma cells in tissue culture.
References
Antibiotics
Oxygen heterocycles
Heterocyclic compounds with 4 rings
Dimethylamino compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FemTechNet | FemTechNet (FTN) is a feminist network of scholars, artists, and activists known for its feminist, decentralized pedagogy experiments. FemTechNet became the focus of various media outlets when it broadcast its efforts to "storm" Wikipedia under its "wikistorming" initiative. Beyond its 2013 Wikipedia project, FemTechNet has been described as "a new approach to collaborative learning", and a "feminist anti-MOOC." Through its website, FemTechNet provides "resources for learning more about feminism, cyberfeminism, and feminist theories of technology, including videos with major scholars and subject matter experts, reading lists and bibliographies, projects to do with classmates or undertake on your own as a do-it-yourselfer, and syllabi from past and present FemTechNet classes."
Background
The network began in Southern California in 2012 with Anne Balsamo and Alexandra Juhasz as co-founders and co-facilitators. FemTechNet describes itself as “an activated network of scholars, artists and students who work on, with, and at the borders of technology, science and feminism in a variety of fields including STS, Media and Visual Studies, Art, Women's, Queer and Ethnic Studies.” In a peer-reviewed concept paper, the founders more concretely described the project as one of interdisciplinary community building.
Distributed open collaborative courses (DOCC), FemTechNets primary initiative, uses networked technologies in many innovative ways, including developing “nodal” classes around shared themes that are augmented by video discussions available on FemTechNet's website by participating university instructors. The first DOCC, "Dialogues in Feminism and Technology," was initiated in 2013 as for-credit courses at the following institutions:
Rutgers University
The New School
CUNY
University of California at San Diego
University of Illinois
Ohio State University
Bowling Green State University
Pitzer College
Colby-Sawyer College
Penn State University
California Polytechnic University
Ontario College of Art and Design
Brown University
Yale University
California State University, Fullerton
Non-traditional students take the course via the FTN website's free, self-directed learner component. In 2014 - 2015 the second Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) series was offered at the following nodes.
In 2013 FemTechNet launched "Storming Wikipedia", which aimed to encourage students to engage in Wikipedia editing. Described as a response to Wikipedia's gender imbalance, the assignment is also used to highlight "the significant contributions of feminists to technology". "Wikistorming" got the attention of mainstream media networks, including a story by Fox News and CampusReform.org, which derisively framed the effort as counter-factual.
See also
Cyberfeminism
Feminist technoscience
Networked feminism
References
External links
FemTechNet (Old Site)
FemTechNet (New site)
"We Are FemTechNet" (Group Manifesto)
Technical Report on t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel%20Wieringa | Roelf Johannes (Roel) Wieringa (born 1952) is a Dutch computer scientist who was a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Twente, specialized in the "integration of formal and informal specification and design techniques".
Biography
Wieringa received his MA in 1987 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science for the thesis Machine intelligence and explication, and his PhD in 1990 under supervision of Reinder Pieter van de Riet for the thesis Algebraic Foundations for Dynamic Conceptual Models.
Early 1990s he continued to work at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit. In 1998 he joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Twente as Professor of Information Systems. From 2006 to 2011 he was Scientific Director of the School of Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), and from 2009 to 2012 he headed the computer science department at the University of Twente.
Circa 1996, Wieringa and Frank Dehne wrote the Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling, for Wieringa's conceptual modeling courses and book, Requirements Engineering: Frameworks for Understanding.
Wieringa has been Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Software journal from 2004 to 2007, and is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Business Information Systems, the Journal of Software and Systems Modeling, and the Requirements Engineering Journal.
In 2019, Wieringa retired from academia, and now works and blogs at The Value Engineers, which was founded in 2017 with Jaap Gordijn and Dan Ionita.
The engineering cycle
Main article: Engineering cycle
The engineering cycle is a framework used in Design Science for Information Systems and Software Engineering, proposed by Roel Wieringa in his book "Design Science Methodology for Information Systems and Software Engineering".
The engineering cycle consists of:
Problem investigation.
Treatment design.
Treatment validation.
Treatment implementation.
Implementation evaluation.
The design cycle consists of the first 3 tasks of the engineering cycle: investigation, design, and validation.
The engineering and design cycles do not prescribe a mandatory, rigid sequence of activities. Moreover, they are often applied recursively for sub-problems of the main research objective.
The engineering cycle and the design cycle are often applied in several iterations (hence “cycle”). In such a case, the evaluation may become the investigation part of the next engineering cycle.
Validation vs. evaluation in the engineering cycle
According to the Design science methodology of (Wieringa, 2014), validation is part of the design cycle. It involves checking if the designed artifacts support the initial assumptions. It is executed in a theoretical, “laboratory” environment; such as through discussions and interviews with practitioners and experts. Validation is executed before the implementation in practice.
On the other hand, ev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magkano%20Ba%20ang%20Pag-ibig%3F | (International title: Wealth and Passion / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Heart Evangelista. It premiered on September 30, 2013, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Maghihintay Pa Rin. The series concluded on February 14, 2014, with a total of 100 episodes. It was replaced by Innamorata in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Heart Evangelista as Eloisa Aguirre
Supporting cast
Sid Lucero as Luciano "Lucio" Aragon / Chino Aguirre
Dominic Roco as Bobby Buenaventura
Katrina Halili as Margarita "Margot" Cruz
Alessandra de Rossi as Geraldine "Gigi" Buenaventura
Isabel Oli as Richelle Mangahas
Ana Capri as Lualhati Macaraeg
Pen Medina as Andoy
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino as Loida Aguirre
Luz Valdez as Rosing Villasanta
Vangie Labalan as Sonia Aguirre
Rommel Padilla as Oscar Ramos
Celia Rodriguez as Doña Hilaria Buenaventura
Guest cast
Ella Cruz as young Eloisa
Francis Magundayao as young Lucio
Kiel Rodriguez as young Chino
Leandro Baldemor as young Bobby
Mona Louise Rey as young Gigi
Lloyd Samartino as young Lualhati
Jillian Ward as young Richelle
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 12.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 15.9% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImmuniWeb | ImmuniWeb is a global application security company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. ImmuniWeb develops Machine Learning and AI technologies for SaaS-based application security solutions provided via its proprietary ImmuniWeb AI Platform.
Early Security Research
Security Advisories
The ImmuniWeb Security Research Team (formerly known as High-Tech Bridge) has released over 500 security advisories affecting various software, with issues identified in products from many well-known vendors, such as Sony, McAfee Novell, in addition to many web vulnerabilities affecting popular open source and commercial web applications, such as osCommerce, Zen Cart, Microsoft SharePoint, SugarCRM and others.
The Security Research Lab was registered as CVE and CWE compatible by MITRE. It is one of only 24 organizations, globally, and the first in Switzerland, that has been able to achieve CWE certification.
The company is listed among 81 organizations, as of August 2013, that include CVE identifiers in their security advisories.
Free Online Services and Related Research
ImmuniWeb launched an SSL/TLS configuration testing tool in October 2015. The tool can validate email, web or any other TLS or SSL server configuration against NIST guidelines and checks PCI DSS compliance, it was cited in articles covering the TalkTalk data breach.
Security and Privacy Research
The discovery of vulnerabilities in Yahoo! sites by the company was widely reported, leading to the t-shirt gate affair and changes in Yahoo's bug bounty program. The firm identified and reported four XSS vulnerabilities on Yahoo! domains, for which the company was awarded two gift vouchers to the value of $25. The sparse reward offered to security researchers for identifying vulnerabilities on Yahoo! was criticized, sparking what came to be called t-shirt-gate, a campaign against Yahoo! sending out T-shirts as thanks for discovering vulnerabilities. The company's discovery of these vulnerabilities and the subsequent criticism of Yahoo!'s reward program led to Yahoo! rolling out a new vulnerability reporting policy which offers between $150 and $15,000 for reported issues, based on pre-established criteria.
In December 2013, the firm's research on privacy in popular social networks and email services was cited in a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating its members' privacy by scanning private messages sent on the social network.
In October 2014, the company discovered a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in PHP. In December 2014, they identified the RansomWeb attack, a development of Ransomware attacks, where hackers have started taking over web servers, encrypting the data on them and demanding payment to unlock the files.
In April 2014, the discovery of sophisticated Drive-by download attacks, revealed how drive-by download attacks are used to target specific website visitors after their authentication on a compromised web resource.
In December 2015, the company tested the most popular f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation-free%20modeling | Equation-free modeling is a method for multiscale computation and computer-aided analysis. It is designed for a class of complicated systems in which one observes evolution at a macroscopic, coarse scale of interest, while accurate models are only given at a finely detailed, microscopic, level of description. The framework empowers one to perform macroscopic computational tasks (over large space-time scales) using only appropriately initialized microscopic simulation on short time and small length scales. The methodology eliminates the derivation of explicit macroscopic evolution equations when these equations conceptually exist but are not available in closed form; hence the term equation-free.
Introduction
In a wide range of chemical, physical and biological systems, coherent macroscopic behavior emerges from interactions between microscopic entities themselves (molecules, cells, grains, animals in a population, agents) and with their environment. Sometimes, remarkably, a coarse-scale differential equation model (such as the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow, or a reaction–diffusion system) can accurately describe macroscopic behavior. Such macroscale modeling makes use of general principles of conservation (atoms, particles, mass, momentum, energy), and closed into a well-posed system through phenomenological constitutive equations or equations of state. However, one increasingly encounters complex systems that only have known microscopic, fine scale, models. In such cases, although we observe the emergence of coarse-scale, macroscopic behavior, modeling it through explicit closure relations may be impossible or impractical. Non-Newtonian fluid flow, chemotaxis, porous media transport, epidemiology, brain modeling and neuronal systems are some typical examples. Equation-free modeling aims to use such microscale models to predict coarse macroscale emergent phenomena.
Performing coarse-scale computational tasks directly with fine-scale models is often infeasible: direct simulation over the full space-time domain of interest is often computationally prohibitive. Moreover, modeling tasks, such as numerical bifurcation analysis, are often impossible to perform on the fine-scale model directly: a coarse-scale steady state may not imply a steady state for the fine-scale system, since individual molecules or particles do not stop moving when the gas density or pressure become stationary. Equation-free modeling circumvents such problems by using short bursts of appropriately initialized fine-scale simulation, and, in spatial problems, on small well-separated patches of space. A free Matlab/Octave toolbox empowers people to use these equation-free methods.
The coarse time-stepper
Dynamic problems invoke the coarse time-stepper. In essence, short bursts of computational experiments with the fine-scale simulator estimate local time derivatives. Given an initial condition for the coarse variables at time , the coarse time-stepper involve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil%20K.%20Jain%20%28computer%20scientist%2C%20born%201948%29 | Anil Kumar Jain (born 1948) is an Indian-American computer scientist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University, known for his contributions in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. He is among the top few most highly cited researchers in computer science and has received various high honors and recognitions from institutions such as ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, SPIE, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Born in India, Anil K. Jain received his Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1969. He received his MS and PhD from the Ohio State University in 1970 and 1973, respectively. His PhD advisor was Robert B. McGhee, and his PhD thesis was titled Some Aspects of Dimensionality and Sample Size Problems in Statistical Pattern Recognition. Jain taught at Wayne State University from 1972 to 1974 and joined the faculty of Michigan State University in 1974, where he is currently a University Distinguished Professor.
Jain is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and Indian National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the engineering and practice of biometrics". In 2007, he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award, the highest technical honor awarded by the IEEE Computer Society, for his pioneering contributions to theory, technique, and practice of pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition systems. He has also received numerous other awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Humboldt Research Award, IAPR Pierre Devijver Award, Fulbright Fellowship, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award, IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, and IEEE ICDM Research Contribution Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE for contributions to image processing, AAAS, IAPR and SPIE. He also received best paper awards from the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1996) and the Pattern Recognition journal (1987, 1991, and 2005).
He served as a member of the U.S. National Academies panels on Information Technology, Whither Biometrics and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). He also served as a member of the Defense Science Board, Forensic Science Standards Board, and AAAS Latent Fingerprint Working Group. In 2019, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Based on his Google Scholar profile, he had an h-index of 200 in 2020, which was the highest among computer scientists identified in a survey published by UCLA at the time, however he was since surpassed by Yoshua Bengio, a researcher of similar subjects (neural networks and deep learning for artificial intelligence). As of August 2023, Jain's h-index on Google Scholar is 211 and Bengio's is 224.
Another source reported that as of December 2022, he had |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20C-Class%20Tram | The C-class trams were a class of single bogie end-loading electric trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
History
Between 1896 and 1900, 97 C-class trams were built by three Sydney firms; Bignall & Morrison, Hudson Brothers and Clyde Engineering with bogies supplied by the Peckham Motor Truck & Wheel Co, Kingston, New York. There were four different body types, with variations in width, length, number of windows, and seating capacity (20-26). Three (289-291) were built as trailer cars, later being fitted with power equipment.
A typical C-class tram featured a single saloon passenger area comprised two longitudinal timber benches facing inwards, accommodating 22 seated passengers, with standing room in the centre aisle. The interior featured varnished timberwork, and there was a clerestory roof with sidelights of coloured glass. Sliding doors at each end led to outside platforms where the driver controlled the tram. The driver was protected by an overhanging canopy, where passengers entered and left the car.
C-class trams towed steam tram and cable tram trailers, and many ran coupled together. There were also examples of C and D classes being coupled. Some of these C/C and C/D combinations became permanent, with the inner end driving controls being removed. They mainly operated from Ridge Street Tram Depot, and to a lesser extent from Rushcutters Bay, Ultimo and Waverley.
In 1905, three (14-16) were sold to Ballarat. In 1907, four (23, 25, 38 and 39) were sold to the Victorian Railways as replacements for trams destroyed by a fire at Elwood depot. Mass withdrawals began in 1917 with all out of service by 1926. From 1924 until 1963, one tram (37) saw service on the jetty at Byron Bay as a locomotive-hauled car.
Numbers
Bignall & Morrison: (1896/97) 4-8, 289-291
Hudson Brothers: (1898) 9-17, 29, 33, 59 (1899) 19, 22-28, 30-32, 34-51, 53-58, 60-66, 76, 77 (1900) 18, 20, 21, 52, 67-75
Clyde Engineering: (1899) 78-91, 94-97 (1900) 92, 93
Preservation
Seven have been preserved:
11 by the Powerhouse Museum restored in 1961 to original livery at Randwick Tramway Workshops
29 and 290 in operational condition at the Sydney Tramway Museum
12, 33 and 37 under restoration at the Sydney Tramway Museum. Sadly No.12 was destroyed by fire during a vandalism attack in 2016
95, at the Illawarra Light Railway Museum, Albion Park as a carriage
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HER%20Foundation | The HER Foundation is the world’s largest grassroots network of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) survivors and experts, as well as the leading website for HG information. It was founded in 2002 by Kimber Wakefield MacGibbon, Ann Marie King, and Jeremy King. The Foundation’s main goals are (1) to minimize the suffering and complications related to HG through education, (2) to develop an effective HG treatment protocol, (3) to eliminate the need to terminate pregnancy due to ineffective HG treatment, and (4) to raise awareness of the debilitating effects of HG.
Affiliated with the University of Southern California and University of California Los Angeles, the HER Foundation regularly works with experts in psychology, genetics, nutrition, and obstetrics to improve healthcare and outcome for HG sufferers. HER researchers created a registry of women with HG, and has undertaken a variety of online survey studies about women's experiences that have been used for research purposes at institutions including UCLA and USC, and published in numerous major medical journals.
The HER Foundation recently started the HER5K, an annual 5K race that takes place in the Washington D.C. metro area to raise awareness of HG and support for the foundation. The 1st Annual HER5K took place at the National Harbor on May 12, 2013. The HER Foundation has been featured in magazines and on TV, and its directors have advocated for HG sufferers at a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC in 2005, as well as at medical conferences in the US and UK.
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Health issues in pregnancy
Organizations based in California
Organizations established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20S.%20Yu | Philip S. Yu (born 1952) is an American computer scientist and professor of information technology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a prolific author, holds over 300 patents, and is known for his work in the field of data mining.
Biography
Yu received his BS in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, and his MS and PhD also in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1978, and received an MBA from New York University in 1982.
He started his career in private enterprise, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he eventually became manager of the Software Tools and Techniques group. Currently he is Distinguished Professor and Wexler Chair in Information Technology at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Illinois at Chicago
Yu holds over 300 U.S. patents, is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, is editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, has chaired numerous conferences, and received several awards, including from IBM, the IEEE and, in 2022, he and his coauthors, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, and Tianyi Wu, received the Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc. (VLDB) 2022 Test of Time award, for their 2011 research paper, PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks.
His research interests are in the fields of "data mining (especially on graph/network mining), social network, privacy preserving data publishing, data stream, database systems, and Internet applications and technologies." Yu is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. According to Google Scholar, Yu's H-index is among the ten highest in computer science.
Selected works
Yu has authored or co-authored several books and over 650 academic articles, including:
Zhang, Jiawei, Philip S. Yu. Broad Learning Through Fusions: An Application on Social Networks, Springer, 2019
Park, Jong Soo, Ming Syan Chen, and Philip S. Yu. An effective hash-based algorithm for mining association rules. Vol. 24. No. 2. ACM, 1995.
Chen, Ming-Syan, Jiawei Han, and Philip S. Yu. "Data mining: an overview from a database perspective." Knowledge and data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 8.6 (1996): 866–883.
Aggarwal, Charu C., et al. "Fast algorithms for projected clustering." ACM SIGMOD Record. Vol. 28. No. 2. ACM, 1999.
Aggarwal, Charu C., et al. "A framework for clustering evolving data streams." Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases-Volume 29. VLDB Endowment, 2003.
Wang, Haixun, et al. "Mining concept-drifting data streams using ensemble classifiers." Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. ACM, 2003.
Ross Quinlan, Qiang Yang, Zhou Zhihua and David Hand et al. Top 10 algorithms in data mining. Knowledge and Information Systems 14.1: 1-37. 2008
References
External links
Philip S. Yu homepage at University of Illinois at Chicago
American computer scientists
American people of T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%20%28Brazilian%20band%29 | Girls were a Brazilian girl group of pop music formed in 2013 through the program Fábrica de Estrelas, transmitted by the network-TV Multishow. The group is composed of Ani Monjardim, Bruna Rocha, Caroline Ferreira, Jennifer Nascimento and Natascha Piva. The group's first album, the homônio Girls, was released on September 3 by Sony Music, bringing the participation of Negra Li, Mika Borges, Aggro Santos and Suave, besides compositions of integral NX Zero, Gee Rocha and Di Ferrero. The first single, "Acenda a Luz", was released on August 8, and the disc also removed two promotional singles, "Monkey See Monkey Do" and "Shake Shake".
On January 30, 2014, it was announced the end of the group by producer Rick Bonadio amid great controversy due to own Sony Music claims not to have more interest in the work of girls, thereby precluding the continuity of the group.
Formation
On March 3, 2012 the producer Rick Bonadio revealed in an interview for the Folha de S.Paulo that had closed a partnership with Sony Music and producer Forest to launch a reality show along the lines of Popstars. The aim would be to form a girl group pop music with five girls with distinct personalities, inspired by the success of the Rouge and Spice Girls, where they sing and dance. On October 31 registrations are open on the site of the Multishow for the program, Fábrica de Estrelas, for girls 15–25 years old, sending in a video singing a song of choice until Nov. 30. In all, 4000 which entered during the first phase, only 120 were chosen chicks through the videos. In the second phase, the selected were divided into four groups and went through a dance audition with music "Run the World (Girls)" by Beyoncé, plus a vocal test. This selection were only 25 girls in the program. After being divided into five groups consistent with their personalities - Princess, Moleca, Warrior, Sexy and Surprise - the girls went through a stage where they should learn and record a new song "Monkey See Monkey Do", of which only 20 remained.
During the fourth stage the girls went through a workshop body expression, which sang songs befitting the theme requested by the preparer, and dance classes, with only 15 girls followed. During the fifth stage the selected entered the studio to record the track "Monkey See Monkey Do" in a professional manner, and a sound track chosen by themselves, and these, only 10 remained. Na sexta etapa as semi-finalistas passaram pelos testes de vídeo e fotografia, de onde as duas participantes deixaram o programa. The 8 finalists of the program a few months at home to perform requested improvements, and in return the girls went into the studio to record an unprecedented "Acenda a Luz", and perform for the President of the Sony Music. At the end of the program, the finalists performed at the stage of a theater in many different combinations of five girls to jurors singing tracks "Monkey See Monkey Do" and the new "Shake Shake". In order to integrate the chosen group were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20KitKat | Android KitKat is the codename for the eleventh Android mobile operating system, representing release version 4.4. Unveiled on September 3, 2013, KitKat focused primarily on optimizing the operating system for improved performance on entry-level devices with limited resources. The first phone with Android KitKat was the Nexus 5.
1.39% of Android devices run KitKat. On July 24, 2023, Google announced that Google Play Services would no longer support KitKat in August of that year.
History
Android 4.4 "KitKat" was officially announced on September 3, 2013. The release was internally codenamed "Key lime pie"; but John Lagerling, director of Android global partnerships, and his team, decided to drop the name, arguing that "very few people actually know the taste of a key lime pie". Aiming for a codename that was "fun and unexpected", his team pursued the possibility of naming the release "KitKat" instead. Lagerling phoned a representative of Nestlé, who owns the Kit Kat brand and produces the confectionery (outside the United States, where it is produced by The Hershey Company under license), and quickly reached a preliminary deal for a promotional collaboration between the two companies, later finalized in a meeting at Mobile World Congress in February 2013. The partnership was not revealed publicly, or even to other Google employees and Android developers (who otherwise continued to internally refer to the OS as "KLP"), until its official announcement in September.
As part of the promotional efforts, Kit Kat bars in the shape of the Android robot logo were produced, while Hershey ran a contest in the United States with prizes of Nexus 7 tablets and Google Play Store credit.
The Nexus 5, developed by LG Electronics, was unveiled on September 30, 2013, as the launch device for KitKat.
Up to October 2017, Android 4.4 was still supported with security patches by Google for the source code.
Development
Continuing on from the focus on improving visual performance and responsiveness on Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean", the main objective of Android 4.4 was to optimize the platform for better performance on low-end devices, without compromising its overall capabilities and functionality. The initiative was codenamed "Project Svelte", which Android head of engineering Dave Burke joked was a weight loss plan after Jelly Bean's "Project Butter" added "weight" to the OS. To simulate lower-spec devices, Android developers used Nexus 4 devices underclocked to run at a reduced CPU speed with only a single core active, 512 MB memory, and at 960×540 display resolution—specifications meant to represent a common low-end Android device.
A development tool known as ProcStats was developed in order to analyze the memory usage of apps over time, especially those that run background services. This data was used to optimize and decouple Google apps and services found to be inefficient, thus helping to reduce the overall memory usage of Android. Additionally, 4.4 was desig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani-Jam | Ani-Jam was an annual two-day anime convention held during August at the Fresno Convention Center in Fresno, California.
Programming
The convention offered anime screenings, a cosplay masquerade, live music, table top games, vendors, video game tournaments, and workshops.
History
The first event in 2003 was produced by Japanese entertainment website, Neo-Tokyo 2099 and cosplay website, Cosplay Underground as a mini con/test event held on March 28, 2003 at the Ramada Inn in Fresno, California to find out if an anime convention was plausible in Central Valley of California.
The mini convention lasted for six hours and what was estimated to bring in 150-250 attendees, the event attracted over 500 attendees.
The event would then return as a multi-day convention in 2006 under new ownership and was held at the Fresno Fairgrounds, followed by the Radisson Hotel in 2007 and the convention would later relocate to the Fresno Convention Center in 2012.
Ani-Jam celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013. The convention held a day zero (Friday) event before the start of the 2014 convention where pre-registered attendees could attend a formal ball.
Event history
Ani-Vent
Ani-Vent was a one-day convention held in 2010 with the goal of expanding into different events.
Event history
References
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Ani-Jam KSEE, Retrieved 2013-09-03
Fresno Convention Center To Hold Ani-Jam 2013 KMPH, Retrieved 2013-09-03
External links
Ani-Jam official website
Defunct anime conventions
Annual events in California
Conventions in California
Culture of Fresno, California
Tourist attractions in Fresno, California
Recurring events established in 2003
2003 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Gamal%20%28singer%29 | Ahmad Gamal (; born 2 April 1988) is an Egyptian singer who rose to fame as the runner-up of the second season of Arab Idol 2013, broadcast by the MBC network. Gamal was among the top three who reached the finals, but he ended up in the second place. Despite his ending as a runner-up, he won the hearts of millions around the Arab world. The Egyptian singer and composer also has a degree in chemistry and is a licensed pharmacist. Before Arab Idol, Gamal caught the attentions of many big musicians such as Ammar El Sherei, Hany Mahanna and Mohammed Elhelw. Gamal likes both Eastern and Western music, especially the Egyptian Folk music and House Music. Most of his songs are of his composition. Gamal was distinguished in Arab Idol with his deep strong sensitive voice, that one of the critics said: "his voice is like a violin and doesn't need music while singing". Gamal became widely known with his title Esultan (The Sultan), given to him by Arab Idol judges. Moreover, his fans have given him many titles such as, Elking Elsagheer (The Little King), and Elandaleeb Elgedeed (the New Nightingale).
References
Living people
People from Tanta
21st-century Egyptian male singers
Singers who perform in Egyptian Arabic
Contestants from Arabic singing competitions
Idols (franchise) participants
1988 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze%20and%20the%20Monster%20Machines | Blaze and the Monster Machines (or shortened to BATMM) is a computer-animated interactive children's television series with a focus on teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that premiered on Nickelodeon on October 13, 2014. The series revolves around Blaze, a monster truck, and his human driver, AJ, as they have adventures in Axle City and learn about various STEM concepts which help them on their way. Joining them is the human mechanic Gabby and their monster truck friends Stripes, Starla, Darington and Zeg as well as their rival Crusher and his goofy sidekick Pickle. Then later on, Watts joins the main cast in Season 3.
Plot
Blaze and the Monster Machines focuses on Blaze, an orange-red monster truck, and his smart, young driver, AJ. They live in a world that involves many living monster trucks called "Monster Machines". Their friends include their truck friends, Starla, Stripes, Zeg, Darington, and Watts (as of Season 3), as well as Gabby, who is a mechanic who can fix anything and later on Watts' Monster Machine driver and close friend (as of Season 3). Each episode also features Crusher, a very evil sneaky blue lightning bolted tractor-trailer who cheats in races, but slowly evolves into a nicer character. Crusher is always accompanied by a small truck named Pickle, his goofy sidekick.
Format
Each episode has Blaze and AJ go on various adventures and solve problems along the way, normally three per episode, with "assistance" from the viewing audience. Blaze might also transform into a different vehicle or artifact depending on the situation. Blaze may sometimes get a task done with the help of his Blazing Speed, a special power that allows him to go super fast. Animals in this Monster Machine world have blended windows (which have been removed as of season 5) and wheels. Despite this, AJ and Gabby are both humans. In some episodes, Blaze, AJ and their friends are in a race against Crusher. During the race, Crusher cheats, usually with the help of his gray robot parts. However, Blaze and AJ manage to get through his traps, and they always beat him in time. Not all episodes involve a proper race, but still have Blaze competing against Crusher, sometimes by racing against him to get an item. Other episodes involve helping a truck friend such as Starla, Zeg, Darington, Stripes, Watts, or even Crusher and/or Pickle. Each episode features two or three original songs usually performed by Blaze and AJ offscreen, when they are setting off on their adventure or demonstrating the episode's STEM concept.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Blaze (voiced by Nolan North, Donald Reignoux in the French version, Lorenzo Scattorin in the Italian version and Karlo Hackenberger in the German version) is the show's host and central character, an orange-red monster truck who is good-hearted, loyal, and brave. He has blue eyes, and is the only main Monster Machine character to have an eye color in the entire series. He is based on the first- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20R-Class%20Tram | The R-class trams were a class of drop-centre saloon car type trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
History
Class leader 1738 was unveiled in a ceremony at Randwick Tramway Workshops on 29 September 1933. All 195 cars were in service by mid-1935. Passengers were accommodated in two saloons featuring 16 tip-over upholstered seats in each, plus wooden seating for 16 in the centre section. The relatively low seating capacity of only 48 (compared to the older toastrack trams) and their inability to operate in service as multiple units went against the class. The last five of the order for 200 tramcars were altered during construction to a modified design with increased seating capacity, becoming prototypes for the R1 class, resulting in only 195 being completed to the original (R class) design.
Rushcutters Bay was the first depot to be allocated trams, Fort Macquarie followed next, then Waverley, North Sydney and Newtown. Ultimo received its first R cars in 1940, with Rozelle and Tempe gaining them in 1949. Dowling Street finally received R cars when Fort Macquarie Depot closed in 1955.
Two North Sydney R cars plunged into Sydney Harbour when running out of control on the steep descent to Athol Wharf, both were repaired. Withdrawals commenced in mid-1958 when the North Sydney system closed and these cars went into storage, mainly at Waverley. The last of the R class trams were withdrawn on 22 November 1958, the last day of operation of Rozelle Depot and the last day of services in George Street and the Western suburbs.
Preservation
Eleven have been preserved:
1738 at the Powerhouse Museum
1740 in operational condition at the Sydney Tramway Museum
1741, 1798, 1819 (since lost in a fire), 1917 and 1923 in storage at the Sydney Tramway Museum
1753 has been restored and is incorporated as a static display in Warringah Council's Tramshed Arts & Community Centre, Narrabeen
1808 on loan from the Sydney Tramway Museum to Welcome Board Limited's Christchurch Tramway from 2017, where it runs with the number of 1888 for marketing reasons. Previously at the Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland, New Zealand 2009–2017, operated in Melbourne in 2003
1845 Stored at the Newport Railway workshops, owned by Victrack, allocated to Sydney Tramway Museum.
1849 previously a shop at Big Bear Shopping Centre, Neutral Bay now restored and privately owned
1892 converted to a Harry's Cafe de Wheels, Newcastle
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNLD | The PNLD (Police National Legal Database) is an English online police information resource of criminal justice legislation. PNLD's legal database contains Acts of Parliament, Common Law, Regulations, Orders and Byelaws, Case Summaries and the National Standard Offence Wordings and Codes that are used in the court system of England and Wales.
PNLD is a national organisation governed by West Yorkshire Police. PNLD is funded through subscriptions. In addition to all 43 Home Office police forces in England and Wales and the British Transport Police, PNLD's subscribers include the Crown Prosecution Service, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service.
Background
PNLD was developed using the criminal law notes used by the Detective Training Wing of the West Yorkshire Police. By 1994, it was transitioned to a computer database that could be more easily updated as case law and national standard offence wordings changed. The resource was initially rolled out to nineteen forces, before gaining accreditation as a Home Office product under the umbrella of PITO (Police Information Technology Organization). By 2001, all 43 Home Office police forces used it.
In 2004, an internet version of the PNLD became available on subscription via PDMS Limited. Beginning in 2005, PNLD has run an annual Criminal Law conference. Previous conferences have been hosted at Police Mutual HQ and sponsored by Oxford University Press.
In 2014, PNLD developed a free online resource for victims and witnesses with the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire. The website launched in October 2014 with the support of Baroness Helen Newlove, the then Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales. The website contained 400 Q&A's on how victims and witnesses should be treated within the criminal justice system under the Victims’ Code and the Witness Charter, with links to national supporting organisations. This site is no longer available nationally. PNLD launched a Motoring & The Law app in November 2015 with the support of the Cabinet Office. The content is now included within the legal database.
PNLD's legal team have authored and contributed to OUP's Blackstone's Handbooks: Police Operational Handbook: Law and Blackstone's Counter-Terrorism Handbook. Other publications include Blackstone's Handbook of Ports and Border Security and Blackstone's Handbook of Cyber Crime Investigation.
In addition to the police, other users include the Trading Standards service, Ofcom, the NHS, and colleges and universities.
References
https://www.pnld.co.uk/
https://www.askthe.police.uk/
https://www.askthe.scottish.police.uk/
https://www.pnld.co.uk/products-services?id=1
Databases in England
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20D-Class%20Tram | The D-class trams were a class of single bogie Californian Combination type trams operated on the Sydney tram network with open cross benches at the ends and a saloon in the centre.
History
In 1896, Clyde Engineering delivered car 123 with an elliptical roof. The 24 others numbered 93-121 had a clerestory roof and were built by Clyde Engineering and Ritchie Brothers in 1899.
The composite design and terminology was adapted from a popular style of car tram operating in California. They were introduced to give more room for smokers who were previously confined to car entrances. They were four wheel cars, seating capacity being originally 32, later being increased to 34. The last was withdrawn in 1925. Some were converted to track scrubbers with one sold to Brisbane.
Preservation
Two have been preserved:
102 at the Sydney Tramway Museum, converted to track scrubber in 1930 and renumbered 134s, operational, was used as a track scrubber on the Wentworth Park light rail line in 1997
117 at the Sydney Tramway Museum, converted to breakdown car 112s in 1913 and is currently halfway through being returned to passenger configuration.
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcela%20Valladolid | Marcela Luz Valladolid (born July 19, 1978) is an American chef and author. She was the host of the Food Network television series Mexican Made Easy, and a judge on the Food Network series Best Baker in America.
Early life
Valladolid was born in San Diego, California. Her interest in pursuing a career as a chef was sparked when she began working at her Aunt Marcela's cooking school in Tijuana, Mexico. Valladolid graduated from the Los Angeles Culinary Institute as a "Certified cook" and then moved to Paris, France, where she graduated as a classically trained pastry chef at the Ritz-Escoffier Cooking School.
She then returned to Tijuana and started her own catering company and taught cooking techniques to classes of 40 students out of her home there.
Career
Valladolid joined the staff of Bon Appétit magazine as an editor and recipe stylist. She also competed on the 2005 series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, in which she came in fourth place.
Valladolid's first cooking show was Relatos con Sabor on Discovery en Español which aired in the U.S. and Latin America. In the series, she showed viewers how local Hispanic homes preserve and revive traditional recipes.
Valladolid's first cookbook, Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor, debuted in August 2009 and has since received positive reviews.
Valladolid's second cooking show, "Mexican Made Easy", debuted in January 2010 on the Food Network. Her second cookbook, Mexican Made Easy, was released in September 2011 as a companion book to her show. Both Valladolid's book and the show, filmed in San Diego, were designed to show the world there is no "yellow cheese" in traditional Mexican cooking and that her Mexican culinary style can be done with "fresh flavor that fits all."
Valladolid has also appeared in other Food Network shows. On Throwdown! with Bobby Flay she was a judge for a fish taco-themed competition. She and Flay teamed up to defeat Masaharu Morimoto and teammate Andrew Zimmern on a New Year's edition of Iron Chef America in 2012. Also in 2012, she competed in a celebrity version of Chopped in which she advanced to the final round and finished second (out of four competitors). In 2013, she served as a judge on Guy's Grocery Games.
Valladolid was one of two judges on the CBS reality TV cooking competition series The American Baking Competition.
On November 27, 2013, Valladolid was a guest model on the Thanksgiving episode of The Price Is Right, and long before that was a contestant in 2004 playing "That's Too Much", winning a car.
In January 2014, Valladolid debuted as one of the co-hosts on Food Network's show The Kitchen. and left the show in October 2017.
Personal life
She has a son named Fausto Gallardo (2004) with her ex-husband Fausto Gallardo, son David Button-Valladolid (2015) and daughter Anna Carina Button-Valladolid (2016) with her current husband Philip Button.
In 2013, Valladolid had a brief affair with her The American Baking Competition co-host Pau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow%20%28Jackson%20and%20His%20Computerband%20album%29 | Glow is the second studio album by Jackson and His Computerband. It was released via Warp in 2013.
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69% based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Jackson Tennessee Fourgeaud – production, songwriting, composition, performer
Sami Osta – guitar (1)
Natas Loves You – vocals, songwriting (1, 13)
Planningtorock – lead vocals, composition, songwriting, performer (3)
Cosmobrown – backing vocals (4)
Mara Carlyle – vocals, performer (5)
Lisa Lewis - songwriting (7)
Anna Jean – vocals (7), lead vocals, songwriting, performer (11)
Philippe Zdar – mixing
Mike Marsh – mastering
Raphael Garnier – artwork
Douglas Lee – artwork
Marco Dosantos – photography
Charts
References
External links
2013 albums
Jackson and His Computerband albums
Warp (record label) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Sahara%20Resource%20Watch | Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) is a network organization working on the natural resource situation in Western Sahara.
WSRW consists of organizations and campaigners from more than 40 countries researching and campaigning against the companies working in partnership with the Moroccan government in occupied Western Sahara. The organization was established in 2004, and works in solidarity with the Polisario. The organization believes that the occupation of Western Sahara will continue as long as Morocco profits from it.
A part of Western Sahara is controlled by Morocco. The United Nations (UN) Legal Counsel, Ambassador Hans Corell expressed in 2002 that the natural resources management in Western Sahara only would be in line with international law if it took into account the "wishes and interests of the people of Western Sahara".
WSRW works to inform international companies about the UN Legal Opinion and of the ethical aspects of business practice in the territory. The organization also launches campaigns, encouraging multinational companies and governments not to invest and participate in trade in the occupied territories of Western Sahara until a peaceful solution to the conflict has been found.
Previous campaigns
WSRW has previously carried out campaigns against the phosphate, oil and fish industries. Since 2006, the organization has worked to prevent the European Union entering agreements with Morocco covering the territory of Western Sahara, most importantly its Fisheries Partnership Agreements. In 2011 the EU parliament terminated the last Fisheries Partnership Agreements with Morocco for the waters of Western Sahara.
References
External links
Organizations based in Western Sahara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20Cycle%20Offset%20Optimisation%20Technique | Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique (SCOOT) is a real time adaptive traffic control system for the coordination and control of traffic signals across an urban road network. Originally developed by the Transport Research Laboratory for the Department of Transport in 1979, research and development of SCOOT has continued to present day. SCOOT is used extensively throughout the United Kingdom as well as in other countries.
SCOOT automatically adjusts the traffic signal timings to adapt to current traffic conditions, using flow data from traffic sensors. Sensor data is usually derived from inductive loops in the carriageway but other forms of detection are increasingly being used.
Adjacent signal controlled junctions and pedestrian/cycle crossings are collected together into groups called "regions". SCOOT then calculates the most appropriate signal timings for the region. SCOOT changes the stage lengths or the splits to ensure that the delays are balanced as much as possible, changes the cycle time to ensure that delays are minimised and finally changes the offset between the signal installations to ensure that the timings are co-ordinated as well as possible.
SCOOT has been demonstrated to yield improvements in traffic performance of the order of 15% compared to fixed timing systems.
In early 2021, TRL released SCOOT7, having updated the algorithm to work with future mobility needs.
See also
Traffic light control and coordination
References
Traffic signals
Road transport in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Pascal%20Runtime%20Library | The Free Pascal Runtime Library, abbreviated RTL, is Free Pascal's runtime library.
The RTL consists of a collection of units that provide components and classes for general programming tasks. It acts as a basis for Free Pascal's Free Component Library (FCL) and the Lazarus Component Library (LCL). The RTL is licensed under the LGPL with a static linking exception.
Further reading
External links
RTL documentation in the Free Pascal Wiki
Complete online reference
Free Pascal
Pascal (programming language) libraries
Computer libraries
Platform-sensitive development
Software using the LGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Component%20Library | The Free Component Library, abbreviated FCL, is a software component library for Free Pascal.
The FCL consists of a collection of units that provide components and classes for general programming tasks. Although it is intended to be compatible with Delphi's Visual Component Library (VCL) the FCL is restricted to non-visual components. On the other hand, its functionality partly exceeds that of the VCL.
Visual components are provided by the Lazarus Component Library (LCL).
The FCL is based on the Free Pascal Runtime Library (RTL).
Further reading
External links
FCL documentation in the Free Pascal Wiki
Complete online reference
Free Pascal
Pascal (programming language) libraries
Computer libraries
Component-based software engineering
Platform-sensitive development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Europe | Europe inherited a diversity of rail gauges. Extensive narrow-gauge railway networks exist in Spain, Central Europe and Southeastern Europe.
Austria
Some two dozen lines were built in gauge, a few in gauge. Two tram networks were built with the gauge of .
Bulgaria
From the 19th into the early 20th there were many and gauge railways in existence Bulgaria, some were dismantled and others were converted to standard gauge.
The picturesque Septemvri–Dobrinishte narrow-gauge line is 125 km long and features 25 stations, 35 tunnels, many bridges, spiral loops. It is the only remaining gauge railway in Bulgaria.
Belarus
Some industrial narrow-gauge railways and a children's railway can still be found in Belarus particularly associated with the peat extraction industry.
World War I field railway from Dūkštas, (Lithuania) to Druja. After takeover by Poland, the PKP regauged the line to in 1932. After World War II the large part of the line was in Belorussia, the railway closed in the 1970s.
Minsk pioneer railway, gauge, opened in 1955, 4 km.
Rudensk peat railway, gauge, opened in 1929, 111 km of which 40 km is operational
Belgium
The Vicinal or Buurtspoorwegen were a system of narrow-gauge local railways or tramways covering the whole country and having a greater routage than the mainline railway system. They were gauge and the system included electrified city lines as well as rural lines using steam locomotives and railcars; half of the system was electrified. Many lines carried freight. Only the coastal line and two routes near Charleroi are still in commercial use, four museums hold significant collections of former SNCV/NMVB rolling stock, one of which is the ASVi museum in Thuin. The tramway networks in Antwerp and Ghent are also metre gauge.
The Stoomcentrum Maldegem has a gauge line laid on the former standard-gauge trackbed to Donk.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Until the 1970s, Bosnia and Herzegovina had an extensive gauge network exceeding 1500 km.
Croatia
Croatia had three Bosnian gauge () railways, a tram and some gauge mining railways.
Czech Republic
Several lines were built in the nineteenth century. The most notable lines are Obrataň-Jindřichův Hradec-Nová Bystřice and Třemešná ve Slezsku-Osoblaha, that are still in operation.
Denmark
A few narrow-gauge lines were built in Denmark, the majority in gauge. Most railway lines in Denmark were built with standard gauge from the beginning, since the country was fairly densely populated in the 19th century.
Estonia
All Estonian narrow-gauge railways were built at the gauge of . Four museum lines and some industrial peat railways survive. The tram network of Estonian capital city Tallinn has the gauge of 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in).
Finland
The vast majority of Finnish narrow-gauge railways were owned and operated by private companies. There are only a few instances where narrow-gauge railways were in direct connection with each other, and those interchanges did n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios%20B.%20Giannakis | Georgios B. Giannakis (born 27 February 1958) is a Greek-American Computer Scientist, engineer and inventor. He has been an Endowed Chair Professor of Wireless Telecommunications, he was Director of the Digital Technology Center, and at present he is a McKnight Presidential Chair with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Giannakis is internationally known for his work in the areas of statistical signal processing, distributed estimation using sensor networks, wireless communications and cross-layer network designs, on topics such as auto-regressive moving average system identification using higher-order statistics, principal component filter banks, linear precoding, multicarrier modulation, ultra-wideband communications, cognitive radios, and smart grids. Seminal work includes the development of linear precoding wireless communication systems, which provided a unified approach for designing space–time block codes that achieve data high rates and reliability, and proposal of zero-padding as an alternative to the cyclic prefix for multi-carrier communication systems, which had impact in the multi-band ultra wide band standard. Current research focuses on big data, graph learning, and network science with applications to social, brain and power networks with renewables.
Giannakis has left a substantial academic legacy as an advisor of more than 58 Ph.D. dissertations and mentor of more than 27 postdoctoral researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Minnesota.
Early life
Born in Piraeus and raised in Corinth, Greece, Giannakis received his MEng in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1981, his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1983, his M.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Southern California in 1986, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California also in 1986. After completing his Ph.D., he started his academic career at the University of Virginia in 1987 and moved to the University of Minnesota in 1999. As a professor, he built a distinguished research group making contributions in many areas including statistical signal processing, wireless communications, sensor and mobile ad hoc networks and data analytics.
Awards and honors
In 2023, Giannakis became an International Fellow of UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2022, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California; and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Advising at the University of Minnesota. In 2021, Giannakis became a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, Greece.
In 2020, he was inducted as International Member of Academia Europaea.
In the same year, he won the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) "Athanasios Papoulis," Society Award,
and was elected Fell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees%20van%20Prooijen | Kees (Cornelis) van Prooijen (born 7 August 1952) is a creator of computer art. Although it does not bear his name, he independently discovered the Bohlen-Pierce scale, a non-octave-repeating scale based on the tritave and spectra containing odd harmonics, in 1978. Van Prooijen came across the scale through an investigation of continued fractions.
He also invented the Kees height, or an "expressibility" measure for complexity of just intonation pitch classes.
Sources
Further reading
Wolfgang Auhagen, ed. (2005). Science and Music: The Impact of Music: Leopoldina Symposium, Halle/Saale, May 13 to 15, 2004, . Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. .
Dutch digital artists
Dutch electronic musicians
Dutch software engineers
Living people
1952 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20D%27Alba | Greg D'Alba is the former President of CNN News Networks, and Turner Digital Ad Sales and Marketing. D'Alba oversaw all advertising sales, marketing strategies, and business operations for the CNN series of networks and Turner's digital news operations. Previously he served as CNN's executive vice president and chief operating officer. He subsequently served as division President at WME-IMG.
Education and background
Growing up in Buffalo, New York, D'Alba went on to graduate from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a B.A. in communications in 1981. His colleague, Wolf Blitzer, is also an alumnus of Buffalo. Five years after graduating, D'Alba joined CNN as an account executive. His first television job was for WKBW-TV Channel 7 in Buffalo, New York.
Career
Having started working for CNN in 1986, D'Alba worked with Ted Turner to change the public's perception of CNN to that of an innovative and technological news broadcaster. He has focused on working with advertisers and collaborating with them on their messages shown on the network. As executive vice president and COO, D'Alba established a campaign to redesign CNN's ad sales. D'Alba departed CNN in 2014 after 27 years, leaving for WME-IMG. D'Alba served as President of Global Sales & Marketing at WME-IMG through 2017. From 2017 he has run a media consultancy.
Philanthropy and civic service
He is a board member of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
References
Living people
University at Buffalo alumni
CNN executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridesharing%20company | A ridesharing company (also known as a transportation network company, ride-hailing service; the vehicles are called app-taxis or e-taxis) is a company that, via websites and mobile apps, matches passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire that, unlike taxis, cannot legally be hailed from the street.
Ridesharing companies were founded after the proliferation of the Internet and mobile apps: Uber was founded in 2009, Ola Cabs was founded in 2010, Yandex Taxi was launched in 2011, Sidecar was launched in 2011, Lyft was launched in 2012, DiDi was launched in 2012, Careem began operations in 2012, Bolt was founded in 2013, and Free Now was founded in 2019.
The legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction varies; in some areas they are considered to be illegal taxi operations, while in other areas, they are subject to regulations that can include requirements for driver background checks, fares, caps on the number of drivers in an area, insurance, licensing, and minimum wage.
Studies have shown that ridesharing companies have created net jobs and improved the efficiency of drivers of vehicles for hire due to advanced algorithms that pair riders with drivers.
Terminology: ridesharing vs. ridehailing
Although the term "ridesharing" is used by many international news sources, in January 2015, the Associated Press Stylebook, the authority that sets many of the news industry's grammar and word use standards, officially adopted the term "ride-hailing" to describe the services offered by these companies, claiming that "ridesharing" doesn't accurately describe the services since not all rides are shared, and "ride-sourcing" only is accurate when drivers provide rides for income. While the Associated Press recommended the use of "ride-hailing" as a term, it noted that, unlike taxis, ridesharing companies cannot pick up street hails.
The term "ride-sharing" has also been defined to refer to on-demand carpooling or shared transport, whereas "ride-hailing" has been defined as the hiring of a private driver for personal transportation.
Criticism
Criticism from taxi companies and taxi drivers
Values of taxi medallions, transferable permits or licenses authorizing the holder to pick up passengers for hire, have declined in value significantly. In 2018, this led to failures by credit unions that lent money secured by taxi medallions and suicides by taxi drivers.
Legal cases by taxi companies and taxi drivers
No lawsuit against Uber in which the plaintiffs were taxi companies has ended with a judgment in favor of the taxis. The only case that proceeded to trial, Anoush Cab, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc., No. 19-2001 (1st Cir. 2021), which alleged that Uber caused asset devaluation by competing unfairly, resulted in a full verdict for Uber.
Flywheel, the largest operator of taxis in San Francisco, sued Uber in 2016, alleging antitrust violations and predatory pricing. In 2021, a federal judge threw out the bulk of the case and Uber settled the remainde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangsu%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation (JSBC) () is China's third biggest television network after China Central Television (CCTV) and Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS). The television network is owned by the Jiangsu provincial government. The network is based in Nanjing in Jiangsu.
History
Before the establishment of Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation, the local television stations first aired in Nanjing and southern Jiangsu in October 1952. JSBC was established in June 2001 to compete with other major Television networks and expanded its network through nationwide satellite television in January 1997.
Television channels
Jiangsu Television
JSBC City Channel
JSBC Arts Channel
JSBC Films and Series Channel
JSBC Sports and Leisure Channel
JSBC Public and News Channel
Youman Cartoon
JSBC International Channel
Haoxiang Shopping Channel
JSBC Educational Channel
JSBC Learning Channel
JSBC Adornments Channel (pay channel)
Fortune Land Channel (pay channel)
Jiangsu Mobile Channel
nowJelli (cooperation channel between JSBC and Hong Kong now TV)
Former television
Jiangsu Preschool Channel (pay channel, stopped airing on January 6, 2016)
English Learning Channel (pay channel, stopped airing in 2010)
Programming
JSBC has broadcast notable programming such as If You Are the One, often referred to as the Chinese version of the Australian dating game show Taken Out.
Celebrity Battle
If You Are the One
Fei De Will Watch
Kunlun Fight
Raid the Cage
Who's Still Standing?
Win in China
The Brain
King of Mask Singer
Mask Singer
Masked Dancing King
Dating with the Parents
See also
Zhi Lai Zhi Wang (2010)
References
External links
Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Mass media in Nanjing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac%20Mantilla | Tupac Mantilla (born October 21, 1978) is a percussionist from Bogotá, Colombia. He is the founder and director of the Global Percussion Network PERCUACTION and the director of the percussion group Tekeyé. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Esperanza Spalding, Zakir Hussain, Bill Cosby, Danilo Perez, Julian Lage, Bob Moses, and Medeski, Martin and Wood.
As a scholar, Mantilla is associated with institutions such as Stanford University through the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and the Berklee College of Music through the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), and gives workshops and lectures and runs rhythm/percussion oriented programs worldwide, through PERCUACTION's Global Rhythm Institute (GRI).
Career
Mantilla has appeared at festivals, institutions and venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Stanford University, The New England Conservatory, Kennedy Center, Berklee College of Music, London's Barbican, Tanglewood, The Montreal, North Sea, Perugia, Montreux, Gent, Nice, Newport Jazz Festivals among many others; as well as several percussion-oriented workshops and lectures for prestigious multi-national companies and organizations around the world.
He has a Master of Music Honors Degree from the New England Conservatory and was the first prize recipient of the 2002 Bogotá's Philharmonic Orchestra's Classical Soloist Competition, Mantilla has collaborated and performed with artists including Bobby McFerrin, Bill Cosby, Zakir Hussain, Savion Glover, Danilo Perez, Reinhard Flatischler, Kenny Werner, John Patitucci, Tisziji Muñoz, Bob Moses, Steve Smith, John Medeski, Michael Cain, Cecil McBee, Jamey Haddad, Anders Koppel, Deepak Ram, Medeski Martin & Wood, Lisa Fischer, Selene Muñoz, Ulita Knaus, Opus 4, Sofia Rei, Edmar Castañeda, Juanito Pascual, Tia Fuller, Julian Lage and the Bogotá's Philharmonic Orchestra's.
Mantilla is the founder, CEO and artistic director of the Global Percussion Network PERCUACTION, with which he leads several educational and social projects and initiatives worldwide. He is the artistic director of Colombia's experimental Percussion Group TEKEYÉ and devotes much of his time to work on his SOLO PERCUSSION project.
Discography
As sideman
Anders Koppel, Past Present Future (Cowbell Music 2017)
Rolf Kühn, Yellow + Blue (MPS, 2018)
Brian Landrus, Forward (Cadence, 2009)
Julian Lage, Gladwell (EmArcy, 2011)
Julian Lage, Sounding Point (EmArcy, 2009)
References
External links
www.tupacmantilla.com
www.percuaction.com
www.tekeye.net
Musicians from Bogotá
Living people
Colombian percussionists
1978 births
New England Conservatory alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Stormy%20Nights | Operation Stormy Nights was an early major anti-human-trafficking operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Operations took place in Oklahoma and brought to light organized crime networks trafficking female minors along United States Numbered Highways, where the girls were forced into prostitution to service truck drivers.
Onset
The operation was undertaken in 2004 and resulted in the release of 23 girls from child prostitution. Twelve pimps were arrested. Most of these traffickers' victims were between 12 and 17 years of age. Lieutenant Alan Prince said that operations like Stormy Nights "are difficult because the girls are always on the move... and when you find them, it's hard to talk to them." This sting operation was headed by FBI agent Mike Beaver, who was working as an undercover agent.
Sex trafficking
One of the human trafficking victims rescued in Stormy Nights was a girl named Angie. Beaver called Angie "a normal, typical American teenager." Angie, from Wichita, Kansas, was being forced into prostitution with another girl, Melissa, in the Midwestern United States. They were both teenagers at the time.
Short film
Angie was later interviewed in the documentary film Not My Life, in which Angie explains how she and Melissa were expected to engage in sexual intercourse with truck drivers at a truck stop and steal their money. Angie said that, while looking through one of these drivers' wallets, she found pictures of the man's grandchildren and realized that he was old enough to be her and Melissa's grandfather. She recounts this story disgustedly and almost crying, and says, "I wanted to die." Beaver also appears in the film, saying, "It's not just truck drivers. We're seeing them purchased and abused by both white collar and blue collar individuals." Robert Bilheimer, the film's director, said that Angie did not fit the stereotype for a girl at risk of being sexually trafficked: she was from the Heartland, attended a private school and, when her parents divorced, she began acting out as a way of seeking attention. A man abducted her when she was 12 years old, violated the Mann Act by transporting her to another state, and began trafficking her sexually. While being trafficked, Angie was expected to engage in 40 sex acts every night, charging $20 for oral sex, $40 for vaginal sex, and $80 for both. Her trafficker threatened to kill her if she refused to perform these acts. Bilheimer said that the truck drivers Angie was expected to service either did not know or did not want to know what would happen to her if she did not give all of the money she earned to her pimp.
Another girl who was rescued in Stormy Nights, one of Angie's friends, was sent to a district attorney in order to facilitate the preparation of her testimony, and the DA told the girl that he wouldn't talk to her until she had performed fellatio on him. Bilheimer said that, while there is no way of being certain how many girls like Angie are being sexually tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun%20%28decryption%20program%29 | Bullrun (stylized BULLRUN) is a clandestine, highly classified program to crack encryption of online communications and data, which is run by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). The British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a similar program codenamed Edgehill. According to the Bullrun classification guide published by The Guardian, the program uses multiple methods including computer network exploitation, interdiction, industry relationships, collaboration with other intelligence community entities, and advanced mathematical techniques.
Information about the program's existence was leaked in 2013 by Edward Snowden. Although Snowden's documents do not contain technical information on exact cryptanalytic capabilities because Snowden did not have clearance access to such information, they do contain a 2010 GCHQ presentation which claims that "vast amounts of encrypted Internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable". A number of technical details regarding the program found in Snowden's documents were additionally censored by the press at the behest of US intelligence officials. Out of all the programs that have been leaked by Snowden, the Bullrun Decryption Program is by far the most expensive. Snowden claims that since 2011, expenses devoted to Bullrun amount to $800 million. The leaked documents reveal that Bullrun seeks to "defeat the encryption used in specific network communication technologies".
Naming and access
According to the NSA's Bullrun Classification Guide, Bullrun is not a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) control system or compartment, but the codeword has to be shown in the classification line, after all other classification and dissemination markings. Furthermore, any details about specific cryptographic successes were recommended to be additionally restricted (besides being marked Top Secret//SI) with Exceptionally Controlled Information labels; a non-exclusive list of possible Bullrun ECI labels was given as: APERIODIC, AMBULANT, AUNTIE, PAINTEDEAGLE, PAWLEYS, PITCHFORD, PENDLETON, PICARESQUE, and PIEDMONT without any details as to what these labels mean.
Access to the program is limited to a group of top personnel at the Five Eyes (FVEY), the NSA and the signals intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (GCHQ), Canada (CSE), Australia (ASD), and New Zealand (GCSB). Signals that cannot be decrypted with current technology may be retained indefinitely while the agencies continue to attempt to decrypt them.
Methods
Through the NSA-designed Clipper chip, which used the Skipjack cipher with an intentional backdoor, and using various specifically designed laws such as CALEA, CESA and restrictions on export of encryption software as evidenced by Bernstein v. United States, the U.S. government had publicly attempted in the 1990s to ensure its access to communications and ability to decrypt. In particular, technical measures such as key escrow, a euphemism for a backd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotion | Commotion may refer to:
Commotion (animation) - an animation and visual effects application
Commotion (horse) - a thoroughbred racehorse
Commotion Wireless - an open-source wireless mesh network
"Commotion" (song), a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival on the 1969 album Green River |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knucklebones%20%28film%29 | Knucklebones () is a 1971 Iranian film directed by Zakaria Hashemi. It stars Naser Malek Motiee, Bahman Mofid, Shahrzad, and Morvarid.
Cast
References
External links
Se-ghap in Internet Movie Database
Iranian drama films
1970s Persian-language films
1971 films
Iranian black-and-white films
1971 drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20League%20of%20Their%20Own%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | A League of Their Own is an Australian comedy panel game, which first aired on Network Ten on 16 September 2013. It is hosted by Tommy Little and features Pat Cash and Eamon Sullivan as team captains. The show was cancelled to immediate effect after posting a disappointing rating in the show's ninth week. The tenth episode, which never aired, is available online for viewing.
Format
The show is based on the British game show of the same name. The show is a standard panel quiz show where two teams of three, compete for points awarded in three rounds, in order to find the overall winning team by points total.
Round 1 involves both teams either having to rank three different sports persons according to a specific criterion, or match sports persons to specific criteria.
Round 2, Battle of the Codes, involves a member from each an AFL and an NRL team go head-to-head, where as the teams must choose which party they lend their support.
Round 3, Human Clock, sees one or two members of each team have to answer questions for as long as the other team members can sustain a physical challenge in the studio.
Often within the first round, teams have to complete short physical tasks, which are usually linked to either one of the guests on the teams or to the question they have to answer.
Episodes
The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:
– Eamon's team won
– Pat's team won
Notes:
Ratings
References
External links
2010s Australian comedy television series
2010s Australian game shows
2013 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings
Australian panel games
Australian sports television series
Australian television series based on British television series
Network 10 original programming
Television series by Freehand Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20E-Class%20Tram | The E-class trams were a class of single bogie (four-wheel) single-ended cross-bench design trams operated on the Sydney tram network. They always operated in permanently-coupled pairs because they were fitted-out electrically as if the pair was a single bogie car.
History
In 1901, two prototypes were built by the Randwick Tramway Workshops. Deemed a success, a further 200 were built by Clyde Engineering and Meadowbank Manufacturing Company in 1902/03. They were introduced for the electrification of the Eastern Suburbs lines, but also operated services on the North Shore lines.
Withdrawals commenced in 1934; two pairs (499+500 and 529+530) were fitted with track brakes for the Neutral Bay service, with 529+530 lasting in service until 1955.
Numbers
Randwick Tramway Workshops: (1901) 396, 397
Clyde Engineering: (1902/03) 413-560, 611, 612
Meadowbank Manufacturing Company: (1902/1903) 561-610
Preservation
Two have been preserved:
529 & 530 at the Sydney Tramway Museum
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20F-Class%20Tram | The F-class trams were a class of two-bogie California combination car trams operated on the Sydney tram network with longitudinal seating in the open part of the car. They were later rebuilt as the L-class trams and some again as the L/P-class trams.
History
In 1899, F122 was built by Clyde Engineering as a prototype. Deemed a success, a further 250 were built by Clyde Engineering between 1900 and 1902. They were introduced for the electrification of the Eastern Suburbs, South-Western and Western lines. Between 1906 and 1914, all were converted to L class trams at Randwick Tramway Workshops with the open seating altered to a cross-bench configuration, like the K and O class trams, rather than the original cable-tram style outward-facing longitudinal seating. F393 was not included, having been converted to a driver training car.
Between 1918 and 1930, all L class were rebuilt to resemble the P class trams as the L/P class. In 1920, 16 were allocated to the Rockdale Line while 98 were transferred to the Newcastle network between 1923 and 1926. Ten of those at Newcastle had air hoses installed at their number 1 end, enabling them to tow trailers, including two hearses, as explained in the Newcastle electric text. On the main system they operated out of Dowling Street, Newtown, Tempe and Waverley depots. The last was withdrawn in 1951.
Preservation
Five have been preserved:
154 (first electric tram preserved in Australia), 257, 298, 341 (in L/P Configuration) & 393 (in original condition) at the Sydney Tramway Museum
284 at the Newcastle Museum
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20K-Class%20Tram | The K-class trams were a single truck all crossbench design, with closed compartments at one end and open seating at the other operated on the Sydney tram network. Withdrawals commenced in 1939. By 1949, only 1295 and 1296 remained in service on the Neutral Bay line, being withdrawn in the mid-1950s. Two were sold as track scrubbers in 1959 to Melbourne.
Preservation
Two have been preserved:
Nos. 1295 and 1296 were preserved at the Sydney Tramway Museum. However, 1295 was destroyed by fire during a vandalism attack in 2016.
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20M-Class%20Tram | The M-class trams were built by the Randwick Tramway Workshops for use on tourist services on the Sydney tram network to replace two modified G class trams. Originally allocated to Fort Macquarie Tram Depot, they later moved to Newtown and again to Ultimo before being scrapped in 1941.
References
Further reading
External links
Trams in Sydney
Tram vehicles of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten | Shorten may refer to:
Shorten (file format), for compressing audio data
Shorten (surname), an English surname
See also
Short (disambiguation)
Shorton (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackman%E2%80%93Tukey%20transformation | The Blackman–Tukey transformation (or Blackman–Tukey method) is a digital signal processing method to transform data from the time domain to the frequency domain. It was originally programmed around 1953 by James Cooley for John Tukey at John von Neumann's Institute for Advanced Study as a way to get "good smoothed statistical estimates of power spectra without requiring large Fourier transforms." It was published by Ralph Beebe Blackman and John Tukey in 1958.
Background
Transformation
In signal processing, transformation from the time domain to another domain, such as the frequency domain, is used to focus on the details of a waveform. Many of the waveform's details can be analyzed much easier in another domain than the original. Different methods exist to do transformation from time domain to frequency domain; the most prominent is the Fourier transform, which the Blackman–Tukey method uses. Prior to the advent of fast computers and the 1965 rediscovery of the fast Fourier Transform, the large number of computations necessary for the discrete Fourier Transform motivated researchers to reduce the number of calculations required, resulting in the (now obsolete) Blackman–Tukey method based on the Wiener-Khinchin theorem.
Statistical estimation
Statistical estimation is used to determine the expected value(s) of statistical expected values of statistical quantities. Statistical estimation also tries to find the expected values. The expected values are those values that we expect among the random values, derived from samples of the population in probability (group of subset). In time series analysis, discrete data obtained as a function of time is usually the only type of data available, instead of samples of population or group of subsets taken simultaneously.
Difficulty is commonly avoided using an ergodic process, that changes with time and probability gets involved with it, and it's not always periodic at all portions of time.
Blackman–Tukey transformation method
The method is fully described in Blackman and Tukey's 1958 journal publications republished as their 1959 book "The measurement of power spectra, from the point of view of communications engineering" and is outlined by the following procedures:
Calculate the autocorrelation function with the data
Apply a suitable window function, and finally
Compute a discrete Fourier transform (now done with FFT) of the data to obtain the power density spectrum
Autocorrelation makes the wave smoothed rather than averaging several waveforms. This function is set to window, the corresponding waveform toward its extremes.
Computation gets faster if more data is correlated and if memory capacity of the system increases then overlap save sectioning technique would be applied. If the autocorrelation function in Blackman–Tukey is computed using FFT, then it will name fast correlation method for spectral estimation.
References
External links
Electrical engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%206153 | NGC 6153 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered in 1883 by Ralph Copeland.
An analysis of Gaia data suggests that the central star may be a binary system.
References
External links
Planetary nebulae
Scorpius
6153 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangjeong%20station%20%28Busan%20Metro%29 | Yangjeong Station is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 in Yangjeong-dong, Busanjin District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Busanjin District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting%20Memories%20Network | Sporting Memories Network CIC is a UK registered social enterprise that runs community-wide sports reminiscence projects. These projects (provided by the "Sporting Memories Network CIC") introduce the use of archival sports images, reports, and memorabilia. It works in conjunction with a registered charity – The Sporting Memories Foundation that trains and supports volunteers to deliver sports reminiscence in England and Wales.
Startup
Founded in 2011, Sporting Memories Network Community Interest Company (CIC) ran an initial pilot project with fifteen care homes in Leeds, to test and refine their approach. The project, funded by Skills for Care, was evaluated by Dr Michael Clark, Research Programme Manager, Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics. The project tested the effectiveness of training care staff and sought to engage relatives, volunteers, and more able residents in facilitating group activities. After receiving background training, each home was supplied with archival images and a training manual. They also received a weekly sports reminiscence newspaper called The Sporting Pink. In his evaluation report, Dr Clark wrote: "The Sporting Memories work is appealing to people (staff and residents) and draws out enthusiasm and personal information that would otherwise have been dormant".
Enthusiasm for an idea is important if it is to be widely used and effective. Training people in approaches that they do not believe in means that either the intervention will not be used, or will be used unenthusiastically. Consequently, it is unlikely to benefit anyone. By tapping into widespread enthusiasm for, and connections with, sports, "Sporting Memories" can be inspirational both to care home staff and to residents. In addition, the training can be readily passed on, and used in a flexible, creative and sustainable manner. The materials can be used many times and adapted to the interests of residents over time. Those who had experienced it reported that they would continue to use the work in their homes.
The network also works with professional sports clubs by raising awareness of dementia through scheduled league matches which are designated Memories Games. This aspect of the Sporting Memories Network's work was acknowledged in the first annual report on the progress of the Prime Minister's challenge on dementia and their work with Everton Football Club was published as an example of best practice in the Alzheimer's Society 2013 report on Creating Dementia-Friendly Communities
The majority of the group activities utilize reminiscence therapy which is widely recognized as having a beneficial effect on people living with dementia, memory problems or depression. As identified in a study by Tolson et al. (2012), the use of football as a subject may be more attractive to older men living with dementia than traditional topics covered in reminiscence sessions or group activities. In the Journal of Dementia Care, North Berwi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Note%2010.1%202014%20Edition | The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is a 10.1-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the new generation of the Samsung Galaxy Note series tablets, which also includes an 8-inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 and a 12-inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. It was announced on 4 September 2013, and was launched worldwide in October 2013. It is the successor to the original Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. The model numbers were originally going to be GT-N8100, GT-N8110, and GT-N8120 for the 3G, Wi-Fi, and LTE variants, respectively, before becoming SM-P601/P602, SM-P600, and SM-P605.
History
The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition was announced on 4 September 2013. It was shown along with the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear at the 2013 IFA at Berlin and at the New York Times Square simultaneously. On September 26, Samsung announced that the tablet would be released in October, starting from $549, and start shipping in the US on October 10.
Features
The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 was released with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. 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 (discontinued in March 2015), S Suggest, S Voice, Peel Smart Remote and AllShare Play. Additional pen-oriented features and apps have been added to the Note 10.1 2014 Edition, namely the Air Command menu which provides shortcuts to pen-oriented features such as Action Memos (on-screen sticky notes that use handwriting recognition to detect their contents and provide relevant actions such as looking up addresses on Google Maps and dialing phone numbers), Screen Write, which is an annotation tool, Pen Window, which allows users to draw pop-up windows to run certain apps inside, the search tool S Finder, Scrapbook, My Magazine, which is a news aggregator app powered by Flipboard that is accessible by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, and an updated version of S Note.
The original Note 10.1 may not have come with the latest version of Android out of the box, but the 2014 edition did when it was released. An update to Android 4.4.2 KitKat began for the SM-P605 model in June starting from the Nordic countries, while the upgrade for the WiFi only edition (SM-P600) began in April and started from Colombia. Late in September 2015, the 2014 editions started receiving an update to install Android 5.0.2 Lollipop.
The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is available in Wi-Fi-only, 3G & Wi-Fi, and 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 64 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has a 10.1-inch WQXGA TFT screen with a pixel resolution of 2560x1600. It also features a 2 MP front camera and an 8 MP rear-facing camera. It also has the ability to record HD videos.
The SM-P607T is a 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi version released exclusively for T-Mobile USA.
See also
Samsung Gal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invizimals | Invizimals is an augmented reality video game franchise developed by Novarama and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The series, which originally began in 2009 as a video game on PSP, has since inspired toys, trading cards, comics and an animated television series telling an interconnected transmedia story.
Games
Invizimals
Invizimals is a PlayStation Portable augmented reality video game developed by Novarama, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is a collectible creature game, and was bundled with the PSP's camera attachment on launch.
Invizimals: Shadow Zone
Invizimals: Shadow Zone is a PlayStation Portable augmented reality video game developed by Novarama, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is the sequel to 2009's Invizimals. As such, it is a collectible creature game, and requires the PSP's camera attachment for play. It was released on November 12, 2010 in Europe and on October 25, 2011 in North America. The game also includes a needed trap card to play but can be easily replaced by printing a new one.
Invizimals: The Lost Tribes
Invizimals: The Lost Tribes is a PlayStation Portable augmented reality video game developed by Novarama and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is the sequel to 2009's Invizimals, and 2010's Invizimals: Shadow Zone. As such, it is a collectible creature game, and requires the PSP's camera attachment for play. It was released on November 2011 in Europe and September 2014 in North America.
Invizimals: The Alliance
Invizimals: The Alliance is an augmented reality video game for the PlayStation Vita. It features cross-play multiplayer interactivity with the PlayStation 3 title Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom. It was released on 30 October 2013 in Europe simultaneously with Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom.
Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom
Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom is a video game for the PlayStation 3, and was released on 30 October 2013 in Europe simultaneously with Invizimals: The Alliance.
Invizimals: Hidden Challenges
Invizimals: TV Tracker
Invizimals: New Alliance
Invizimals: Revolution
Invizimals: The Resistance
Invizimals: Battle of the Hunters
Animated Series
In September 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced that a 26 episode Invizimals computer animated series would be produced by BRB International. The show was created by BRB's Screen21 division and Novarama, who are both based in Barcelona, with writers from North America and animation done in China. It billed itself as the first augmented-reality cartoon TV series, with on-screen scannable markers that would unlock content in Invizimals: The Alliance on PlayStation Vita and the Invizimals: TV Tracker app for iOS and Android devices.
The series launched in Spain on December 6, 2013 with a television movie on Super3 and Clan called Invizimals: The Alliance. A second TV movie, entitled Invizimals: A Tale of Two Dimensions, aired on both channels on December 27 and 31, r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20Defined%20Network | Application Defined Network (ADN) is an enterprise data network that uses virtual networks and security components to provide a dedicated logical network for each application. This allows customized security and network policies to be created to meet the requirements of that specific application. ADN technology allows for a simple physical architecture with fewer devices, less device configuration and integration. ADN solutions simplify businesses' need to securely deploy multiple applications across the enterprise footprint and partner networks, regardless of where the application resides. ADN platforms provide policy-based, application-specific delivery to corporate data centers, cloud services and third-party networks securely and cost-effectively. Some ADN solutions integrate 3G/4G wireless backup services to enable a second internet connection automatically and instantly when connectivity is lost on the primary access connection. The ADN design provides an application-to-application (A2A) based model that evolves enterprise networks beyond the site-to-site (S2S) private model.
ADN fundamentals
ADN solutions addresses the need to enable multiple different applications, such as guest Wi-Fi (Hotspot) while securing regulated applications such as payment on the same network. Traditionally, in site-to-site networks, having multiple applications introduces security policy conflicts. Technologies, such as guest Wi-Fi, mobile payment and cloud services open the traditional private network to outside security threats and create complexity in security policies and network administration. ADNs can be customized with security features that address specific application needs. They can also be enhanced with performance and reliability features such as traffic management for application prioritization and fail-over for back-up connection services.
Complexity breeds vulnerability. Application Defined Networks (ADNs) reduce complexity and the resulting costs of multiple device investment and management, configuration, integration, and problem isolation and resolution. ADNs are typically enabled on a secure appliance at distributed enterprise locations. These locations integrate with a cloud network to connect applications to corporate data centers, cloud services, payment gateways and partner networks. ADNs eliminate the potential for route conflicts, security cascades across applications, and problem cascades caused by one application misbehaving and affecting other applications on the same network.
Route Conflicts – traditional site-to-site networks facilitate multiple applications over single connections (ex. VPNs, MPLS VPNs, and Ethernet) and require complex security rules to partition applications from one another. Simple errors in device configurations can create routing problems that can breach strict security and compliance-based applications such as PCI-DSS and HIPAA certifications. The ability to completely segment these applications into thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20G%20Pad%208.3 | The LG G Pad 8.3 (also known as LG G Tab 8.3) is an Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by LG Electronics. It belongs to the LG G series, and was announced on 4 September 2013 and launched in November 2013. Unlike its predecessor which had an screen, the G Pad 8.3 has a smaller screen.
History
The G Pad 8.3 was first announced on 31 August 2013. It was officially unveiled at the 2013 Mobile World Conference. At that time, LG confirmed that the G Pad 8.3 would be released worldwide in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2013.
On 14 October 2013, the G Pad 8.3 was released in Korea for 550,000 won. It was later released to the US market on 15 November 2013 for US$349.99.
On 10 December 2013, a version of the G Pad 8.3 with stock Android 4.4 (similarly to one of its competitors, the Nexus 7) was released on Google Play Store.
Starting in March 2014, Verizon Wireless began offering a version of the G Pad 8.3 for Verizon's 4G/LTE network, known as the LG G Pad 8.3 LTE. It launched at $99.99 from March 6–10, and then was offered at $199.99—both with a two-year activation. It was also available without a contract at $299.99.
Features
The G Pad 8.3 is released with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. LG has customized the interface with its Optimus UI software. As well as apps from Google, including Google Play, Gmail and YouTube, it has access to LG apps such as QPair, QSlide, KnockOn, and Slide Aside.
The G Pad 8.3 has been available in four variants:
LG G Pad 8.3 LTE (VK810) for the Verizon Wireless LTE network
LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition (V510) with Google apps and automatic updates
LG G Pad 8.3 Black (V500 Black) for WiFi-only
LG G Pad 8.3 White (V500 White) for WiFi-only
Internal storage is 16 GB, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has an WUXGA TFT screen with a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels. It has a 1.3 MP front camera without flash and 5.0 MP AF rear-facing camera, as well as the ability to record HD videos.
In April 2014, LG released Android 4.4.2 KitKat with some improvements to the UI and the browser, as well as some new graphical details such as the transparent status bar and the white indicators included with KitKat. In late June 2014, LG released the Android 4.4.4 KitKat update for the G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition. In April 2015 the GPE versions were updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop.
References
G Pad 8.3
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers
Tablet computers introduced in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol | Vol, VOL or Vols may refer to:
Vol (command), a computer operating system command
Vol (heraldry), a heraldic charge
Volatility (finance)
Volume (disambiguation)
Volunteer (Irish republican)
Nashville Vols, an American minor league baseball team
Nea Anchialos National Airport (IATA: VOL), an airport located near the town of Nea Anchialos in Greece
Tennessee Volunteers, the sports teams of the University of Tennessee
Republic of Upper Volta, a country in Africa now called Burkina Faso
Vigilantes of Love, an American rock band
Volans, a constellation
Volapük, a constructed international auxiliary language
Volunteer State Community College, a community college in Gallatin, Tennessee
Vol, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
Vol Dooley (1927–2014), former sheriff of Bossier Parish, Louisiana
"Vol", a 2021 song by Merel Baldé
See also
Völs (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter%20Murray | Carter Murray is an investor and public speaker and formerly chief executive officer of FCB (Foote, Cone & Belding), one of the world’s largest global advertising agency networks.
On March 6, 2013, holding company parent Interpublic Group (IPG) announced that Murray would become CEO of Draftfcb (now FCB). Murray officially joined the agency in his new role on Sept. 9, 2013. Based in New York, he oversees the agency’s 120 offices in 80 countries. Previously, Murray served as president and CEO of Young & Rubicam’s (Y&R) North American operations. He also served as a member of the Global Y&R Executive Committee.
Prior to Y&R, Murray worked for Publicis Worldwide in Paris. During his time at Publicis, he held a variety of positions including chief marketing officer, worldwide new business director and worldwide account director for Nestlé.
Originally from the U.K., Murray began his advertising career at Leo Burnett in Chicago. While at Leo Burnett, he worked as a regional account director in Germany and as the European regional new business director in London.
During his career, he has partnered with brands such as Nestlé, Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble, Hilton Worldwide, Land Rover, Barclays, Marlboro, Del Monte Foods, Coca-Cola and most importantly, Butterball.
Murray graduated from Duke University in Durham, N.C.
References
External links
Carter Murray bio
Duke University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grim%20Adventures%20of%20Billy%20%26%20Mandy%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States from August 24, 2001, to October 22, 2004. It consisted of 18 episodes, including the 49 Grim & Evil episodes, one exclusive episode, and the half-hour Halloween special (also made originally for Grim & Evil), in which Billy, Mandy, and Grim face against Jack O'Lantern. The 2003 episodes were also produced originally for Grim & Evil, but were only aired as part of the series, due to Cartoon Network and Maxwell Atoms having a decision to split Grim & Evil into two separate shows in 2003.
This season introduces the three title characters, boy-wizard Nigel Planter and supporting characters such as Dean Toadblatt, which constitutes a parody of the Harry Potter franchise. Other characters that make major appearances include Mandy's nemesis, the popular and snobby Mindy; Nergal Junior, the son of Nergal, and Billy's aunt Sis; and Jeff the Spider, who is hatched from an egg by Billy.
Other characters that were also introduced are Hoss Delgado, who battles zombie brownies alongside Billy; and Eris, who keeps scheming to create chaos with the Apple of Discord.
The only exclusive original episode of this season, and to not be made for Grim & Evil, is "Five O' Clock Shadows", which aired alongside Evil Con Carne's "Ultimate Evil" on October 22, 2004, and later aired in reruns alongside "Terror of the Black Knight", which became its sister episode since its second airing.
Episodes
DVD releases
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Season 1 was released on Region 1 DVD on September 18, 2007. It contains the episodes "Meet the Reaper" – "Love is 'Evol' Spelled Backwards" and "Battle of the Bands". Along with bonus features, it also includes the Evil Con Carne episodes "Evil Con Carne", "Emotional Skarr", "Evil Goes Wild", "Evil on Trial", and "The Smell of Vengeance".
Other releases including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy season one episodes:
"Billy and Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween" – Cartoon Network Halloween: 9 Creepy Cartoon Capers (August 10, 2004)
"Son of Nergal" – Cartoon Network Christmas: Yuletide Follies (October 5, 2004)
"Night of the Living Grim" – Cartoon Network Halloween 2: Grossest Halloween Ever (August 9, 2005)
"Crushed!" – Codename: Kids Next Door: Sooper Hugest Missions: File Two (August 23, 2005)
"Battle of the Bands" – Cartoon Network: Christmas Rocks (October 4, 2005)
The first thirteen episodes and "Battle of the Bands" – 4 Kid Favorites: The Hall of Fame Collection Vol. 3 (June 23, 2015)
References
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy seasons
2001 American television seasons
2002 American television seasons
2003 American television seasons
2004 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blau%20Mobilfunk | The brand blau (previously: blau Mobilfunk GmbH), is a mobile network brand owned by Telefonica Germany. The key brands are the discount tariff "blau.de" for calls within Germany and "blauworld" for calls outside Germany.
History
The company was founded by three entrepreneurs, Martin Ostermayer, Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise in 2005. The money came from the sale of the website handy.de to Bertelsmann.
A company for the distribution of mobile phone service with E-Plus was the base to establish Blau Mobilfunk GmbH as the first independent mobile phone discounter.
Blau Mobilfunk took over the mobile virtual network operator in the discount sector, debitel-light, in November 2006. Debitel received a minority share of the Blau Mobilfunk GmbH as compensation. 2007 blau.de already had 600,000 customers.
Blau Mobilfunk was taken over by the Dutch E-Plus-mother KPN in April 2008.
The key brands blau.de and blauworld were continued.
Blau.de also offered an allnet flatrate like Yourfone in addition to normal prepaid cards in 2012.
Thus blau.de is not only a pure prepaid discounter, but also offers handy tariffs by invoice.
Blau Mobilfunk has belonged to E-Plus since 1 January 2013. It became a brand of Telefonica Germany, which after the E-Plus acquisition in 2014 migrated customers to their main company in 2015.
Cooperations
blau.de offers branded reseller partnerships to other companies, i. e. the usage of the blau.de tariff under the brand name of the partner. Hereby the customers should be connected to the brands of the partners.
At the moment there are the following cooperations:
Netto: NettoKOM
ATG (Arora Trading GmbH): simVOICE
ECO World Connect GmbH: Mobilka
In cooperation with KPN Spain the discount tariff blau.es was established in Spain in October 2008. The Network of Orange Spain is used for this.
Technology
blau.de initially used the network and all the technical equipment of E-Plus, which was later merged with the Telefónica O2 Germany network. The network accessibility reached 98% of the population in Germany in 2011. Connections of up to 384 kbit/s via UMTS-network and of up to 7,2 Mbit/s via HSDPA as an enhancement of UMTS were possible in 2011.
References
German brands
Mobile phone companies of Germany
Companies based in Hamburg
Telecommunications companies established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus%20UI | Optimus UI is a front-end touch interface developed by LG Electronics with partners, featuring a full touch user interface. It is sometimes incorrectly identified as an operating system. Optimus UI is used internally by LG for sophisticated feature phones and tablet computers, and is not available for licensing by external parties.
The latest version of Optimus UI, 4.1.2, has been released on the Optimus K II and the Optimus Neo 3. It features a more refined user interface as compared to the previous version, 4.1.1, which would include voice shutter and quick memo.
Optimus UI is used in devices based on Android.
Phones running LG Optimus UI
Android
Smartphones/Phablets
LG GT540 Optimus
LG Optimus One
LG Optimus 2X
LG Optimus 4X HD
LG Optimus 3D
LG Optimus 3D Max
LG Optimus Slider
LG Optimus LTE
LG Optimus LTE 2
LG Optimus Vu
LG Optimus Black
LG Optimus Chat
LG Optimus Chic
LG Optimus Net
LG Optimus Sol
LG Optimus HUB (E510)
LG Optimus L3
LG Optimus L5
LG Optimus L5 II
LG Optimus L7
LG Optimus L9
LG Optimus L9 II
LG Optimus L90
LG Optimus F3
LG Optimus F3Q
LG Optimus F5
LG Optimus F6
LG Optimus F7
LG Optimus G
LG Optimus G Pro
LG G2
LG G Pro 2
LG Vu 3
LG G Pro Lite
LG G Flex
LG L40 Dual
LG L65 Dual
LG L70 Dual
LG L80 Dual
LG L90 Dual
LG G3
LG G3S
LG Spectrum 2
LG G2 Mini
LG G Flex 2
Tablets
LG Optimus Pad
LG Optimus Pad LTE
LG G Pad 7.0
LG G Pad 8.3
Windows Phone
LG Optimus 7
LG Quantum
References
Mobile operating systems
LG Electronics
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul%20Panicker | Rahul Alex Panicker is a technology leader and entrepreneur, formerly Chief Innovation Officer at the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and best known as the President and Co-founder of Embrace Innovations and Embrace, a social enterprise startup that aims to help premature and low-birth-weight babies, through a low-cost infant warmer.
Until early 2016, Panicker served as the President of Embrace Innovations, a social enterprise that designs and brings to market healthcare technologies for the developing world, starting with an infant warmer. The Embrace infant warmer costs less than 1% of a traditional incubator, and is currently being distributed across clinics in India, and over 15 developing countries. He is also a member of the FICCI Health Innovation Task Force in India. Starting 2016, he has been engaged in exploring and speaking about the potential impact of AI and what societies can do to prepare for the future, including at TEDx IIT Kharagpur.
Early life and education
Panicker was born in Mavelikara, Kerala, India to Moly and P.C. Mathen Panicker of Kottarakara. He attended Indian Community School, Kuwait, and Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Trivandrum, India, and hails from Vayalikada, Thiruvananthapuram.
Panicker holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering, and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India. He is also an alumnus of the design school at Stanford.
As part of his Ph.D. at Stanford, Panicker worked at the interface of machine learning and optics. His thesis work used machine learning techniques to demonstrate a 10 to 100 fold increase in capacity of multimode optical communication systems. His work combined convex optimization, machine learning, adaptive optics and spatial light modulators. He also worked at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, applying artificial neural networks to accelerator-beam controls.
Career
Before starting Embrace, Panicker worked briefly at Infinera Corporation. While there, he worked in a team led by co-founder, President, and member of the Infinera Board, David F. Welch, Ph.D., in the new products group, working on ultra hi-speed optical telecom systems.
Embrace
In 2007, while studying at Stanford, Panicker and a few other fellow graduates were part of a class, Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, at the d.school at Stanford University. They were asked to create a low-cost infant incubator that could be used in developing countries. They designed an infant warmer that worked without electricity, was expected to be low-cost and was designed for use even by rural mothers in developing countries. After the class, they co-founded Embrace (non-profit), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, in 2008 to bring their project to life. The non-profit entity, Embrace, donates infant warmers to clinics in need, and the for-profit social enterprise, Embrace Innovations, sells the warmers to other clinics.
Embrace has also been awarde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Neutron | James Isaac Neutron is the titular and main character from the film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and its spin-off Nickelodeon computer animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. Created by showrunner John A. Davis, he is voiced by Debi Derryberry since the test pilot premiered in 1998.
The character originated in the 1980s, created by Davis and series co-creator Keith Alcorn under the name of Johnny Quasar, and was developed in a 13-minute long short film pitched to SIGGRAPH sometime in 1997, and with production beginning in that year. However, since the name sounded similar to Jonny Quest, Davis brain-stormed various other monikers before coming up with the current name. Characterized by his distinctive gravity-defying hairstyle and ridiculously high IQ of 210, Neutron is an aerospace engineer, physicist, astronaut/astronomer, biochemist, computer programmer, and architect. He is considered one of the most intelligent people in Retroville and possibly the show's universe. Throughout the series, he is often seen with his companion, a silver-gray robot dog named Goddard and a rocket ship nicknamed the Strato XL which he uses in the opening sequence, both of which he invented. Furthermore, Neutron has a perennial rivalry with Cindy Vortex, who calls him "Nerd-tron" throughout the show.
Role in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Jimmy Neutron is an intelligent 11-year-old boy, lives in Retroville with his parents, Judy and Hugh, and his robot dog, Goddard. Jimmy's friends are overweight Carl Wheezer and hyperactive Sheen Estevez, and he has a long-standing rivalry with his intelligent classmate, Cindy Vortex. Though Vortex teases him, she often acts as a voice of reason when his inventions become too immoral or dangerous.
Character
Conception and creation
In the 1980s, Keith Alcorn and John A. Davis created the character, originally named Johnny Quasar (inspired by a facetious nickname that his Summer co-workers had coined for him in his youth), who builds a rocket ship and runs away from his parents. He later stumbled across the idea while moving into a new house in the early 1990s. He re-worked it as a short film titled Johnny Quasar and presented it at SIGGRAPH, where he met Steve Oedekerk and worked on a television series of the short as well as the movie. In fall 1995, the idea was pitched to Nickelodeon, who expressed immediate interest. Albie Hecht, the then-president of Nick, was particularly impressed- coining him to be "half Bart Simpson and half Albert Einstein," he strongly praised Johnny's blended personality as an adventurous and intelligent character and one grounded in the reality of childhood, which, according to him, made him "the perfect Nick kid." Following positive reception, Nickelodeon commissioned for a 13-minute pilot episode to be created. After several years of going through the review process, the episode began production in late 1997, and was completed in 1998. The name "Johnny Q |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severin%20Hacker | Severin Hacker (born July 6, 1984) is a Swiss computer scientist who is the co-founder and CTO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform.
Biography
Hacker was born and raised in Zug and studied at ETH Zurich. In a 2020 interview, Hacker specified that gaming played a large role in his interest in computer science: "What originally drew me to computers was video games and the desire to build your own games and understand how those games are built. I was somewhat obsessed."
He moved to Pittsburgh to study at Carnegie Mellon University where he co-founded Duolingo with Luis von Ahn in 2009.
He received his BS in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014.
Founding of Duolingo
Initially, Hacker and his former graduate advisor, Luis von Ahn, wanted to develop an application that could translate internet sites, so that they would be accessible for non-English speakers. They felt that automated translation software wasn't as effective as using the skills and knowledge of bilingual speakers. During Hacker's doctoral studies, Duolingo became a by-product of this idea, or "happy mistake." Hacker's goal for Duolingo was to make it "100% free" so the most disadvantaged person with an internet connection would still have access to it.
Duolingo
Hacker and his team of PhD students used machine learning to personalize Duolingo to each user. Specifically, they wanted to predict what language concepts the user was on the verge of forgetting. In 2012, a study by American universities showed that spending 34 hours of learning on Duolingo was equivalent to a full-semester of a college language course. In 2015, Hacker and von Ahn started selling translations, such as to the Spanish tech news group of CNN.
Retention Philosophy
There are two parts to Hacker's "Retention Philosophy": learning should be fun and motivation should remain high. Through Duolingo, Hacker wants users to have the option to increase their 'stay-tuned quota' which involves adjusting the learning time and difficulty of the course. Another idea derived from Hacker's philosophy was to apply gamification to Duolingo. This was to apply game elements and principles instead of classroom learning tools to the course.
Awards and honors
In 2014, Hacker received the Crunchie Award for Best Startup.
In 2014, Hacker was included in the MIT Technology Review's "Top Innovators under 35."
In 2016, Hacker and Luis von Ahn received the Tech 50 award.
In 2019, Hacker received One Young World's Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
External business ventures and investments
IAM Robotics, a robotics company focused on autonomous fulfillment.
ViaHero, a trip-planning service creating personalized itineraries.
Brainbase, a platform that helps companies manage and monetize their intellectual property.
Gridwise, an app that provides information for driver demand throughout a city.
Abililife, a company developing technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss%20Does...%20Rave | Kiss Does... Rave is a compilation album released by the Kiss Network on 30 April 2007. It was released on both a two-CD album and on a 1GB USB flash drive – it was the first album in the UK to be released in USB format, and was sold exclusively through HMV stores and on Kiss and HMV's websites. Steve Parkinson, Kiss's managing director, described releasing the album on USB as "another example of Kiss being ahead of the game, knowing its audience and engaging with them in ways that will inspire and entertain".
The first disc of the CD version of the album comprised 19 rave tracks from the 1990s; the second disc contained 18 new rave songs from the 2000s. The USB version held 26 tracks in 256kpbs WMA format. NME described Kiss Does... Rave as being "the first album to draw the line between original and nu rave".
Track listings
References
External links
2007 compilation albums
Kiss Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG-RAST | MG-RAST is an open-source web application server that suggests automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes. It is also one of the biggest repositories for metagenomic data. The name is an abbreviation of Metagenomic Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology.
The pipeline automatically produces functional assignments to the sequences that belong to the metagenome by performing sequence comparisons to databases in both
nucleotide and amino-acid levels. The applications supply phylogenetic and functional assignments of the metagenome being analysed, as well as tools for comparing different metagenomes. It also provides a RESTful API for programmatic access.
The server was created and maintained by Argonne National Laboratory from the University of Chicago. In December 29 of 2016, the system had analyzed 60 terabase-pairs of data from more than 150,000 data sets. Among the analyzed data sets, more than 23,000 are available to the public.
Currently, the computational resources are provided by the DOE Magellan cloud at Argonne National Laboratory, Amazon EC2 Web services, and a number of traditional clusters.
Background
MG-RAST has been developed in an effort to have a free, public resource for the analysis and the storage of metagenome sequence data. The service removes one of the primary bottlenecks in metagenome analysis: the availability of high-performance computing for annotating data.
Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic studies involve the processing of large datasets, and therefore they can require computationally expensive analysis. Nowadays, scientists are able to generate such volumes of data because, in recent years, the sequencing costs have reduced dramatically. This fact has shifted the limiting factor to the computing costs:for instance, a recent study of the University of Maryland, estimated a cost of more than $5 million per terabase using their CLOVR metagenome analysis pipeline. As the size and number of sequence datasets continue to increase, costs related to their analysis will continue to rise.
Additionally, MG-RAST also works as a repository tool for metagenomic data. Metadata collection and interpretation is vital for genomic and metagenomic studies, and challenges in this regard include the exchange, curation, and distribution of this information. The MG-RAST system has been an early adopter of the minimal checklist standards and the expanded biome-specific environmental packages devised by the Genomics Standards Consortium, and provides an easy-to-use uploader for metadata capture at the time of data submission.
Pipeline for metagenomic data analysis
The MG-RAST application offers automated quality control, annotation, comparative analysis and archiving service of metagenomic and amplicon sequences using a combination of several bioinformatics tools. The application was built to analyze metagenomic data, but it also supports amplicon (16S, 18S, and ITS) sequences and metatranscriptome (RNA-seq) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20MPX | Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions) are discontinued set of extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture. With compiler, runtime library and operating system support, Intel MPX claimed to enhance security to software by checking pointer references whose normal compile-time intentions are maliciously exploited at runtime due to buffer overflows. In practice, there have been too many flaws discovered in the design for it to be useful, and support has been deprecated or removed from most compilers and operating systems. Intel has listed MPX as removed in 2019 and onward hardware in section 2.5 of its Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 1.
Extensions
Intel MPX introduces new bounds registers, and new instruction set extensions that operate on these registers. Additionally, there is a new set of "bound tables" that store bounds beyond what can fit in the bounds registers.
MPX uses four new 128-bit bounds registers, BND0 to BND3, each storing a pair of 64-bit lower bound (LB) and upper bound (UB) values of a buffer. The upper bound is stored in ones' complement form, with BNDMK (create bounds) and BNDCU (check upper bound) performing the conversion. The architecture includes two configuration registers BNDCFGx (BNDCFGU in user space and BNDCFGS in kernel mode), and a status register BNDSTATUS, which provides a memory address and error code in case of an exception.
Two-level address translation is used for storing bounds in memory. The top layer consists of a Bounds Directory (BD) created on the application startup. Each BD entry is either empty or contains a pointer to a dynamically created Bounds Table (BT), which in turn contains a set of pointer bounds along with the linear addresses of the pointers. The bounds load (BNDLDX) and store (BNDSTX) instructions transparently perform the address translation and access bounds in the proper BT entry.
Intel MPX was introduced as part of the Skylake microarchitecture.
Intel Goldmont microarchitecture also supports Intel MPX.
Software support
glibc removed support in version 2.35.
GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 5.0 added support for MPX. In 2018, support for these extensions waned due to maintenance burdens and Intel developers intermittently contributing patches, resulting in a proposal to drop support in GCC 9.0. Support was removed in GCC 9.1.
Intel C++ Compiler (icc) 15.0 added support for Intel MPX.
Kernel-level software support for Intel MPX was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 3.19, which was released on February 8, 2015. In 2018, Thomas Gleixner proposed removing MPX support from Linux kernel 4.18. The pull request with its removal was posted in December 2018, during 4.20 development cycle, but wasn't accepted. The second attempt was made in July 2019. MPX support was removed in 5.6.
QEMU supported MPX since version 2.6 and dropped its support in 4.0 release.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 added experimental support fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a job is a unit of work or unit of execution (that performs said work). A component of a job (as a unit of work) is called a task or a step (if sequential, as in a job stream). As a unit of execution, a job may be concretely identified with a single process, which may in turn have subprocesses (child processes; the process corresponding to the job being the parent process) which perform the tasks or steps that comprise the work of the job; or with a process group; or with an abstract reference to a process or process group, as in Unix job control.
Jobs can be started interactively, such as from a command line, or scheduled for non-interactive execution by a job scheduler, and then controlled via automatic or manual job control. Jobs that have finite input can complete, successfully or unsuccessfully, or fail to complete and eventually be terminated. By contrast, online processing such as by servers has open-ended input (they service requests as long as they run), and thus never complete, only stopping when terminated (sometimes called "canceled"): a server's job is never done.
History
The term "job" has a traditional meaning as "piece of work", from Middle English "jobbe of work", and is used as such in manufacturing, in the phrase "job production", meaning "custom production", where it is contrasted with batch production (many items at once, one step at a time) and flow production (many items at once, all steps at the same time, by item). Note that these distinctions have become blurred in computing, where the oxymoronic term "batch job" is found, and used either for a one-off job or for a round of "batch processing" (same processing step applied to many items at once, originally punch cards).
In this sense of "job", a programmable computer performs "jobs", as each one can be different from the last. The term "job" is also common in operations research, predating its use in computing, in such uses as job shop scheduling (see, for example and references thereof from throughout the 1950s, including several "System Research Department Reports" from IBM Research Center). This analogy is applied to computer systems, where the system resources are analogous to machines in a job shop, and the goal of scheduling is to minimize the total time from beginning to end (makespan). The term "job" for computing work dates to the mid 1950s, as in this use from 1955:
The term continued in occasional use, such as for the IBM 709 (1958), and in wider use by early 1960s, such as for the IBM 7090, with widespread use from the Job Control Language of OS/360 (announced 1964). A standard early use of "job" is for compiling a program from source code, as this is a one-off task. The compiled program can then be run on batches of data.
See also
Job queue
Job scheduler
Remote job entry
Further reading
References
Computing terminology
Job scheduling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Media%20Lab | The Human Media Lab (HML) is a research laboratory in Human-Computer Interaction at Queen's University's School of Computing in Kingston, Ontario. Its goals are to advance user interface design by creating and empirically evaluating disruptive new user interface technologies, and educate graduate students in this process. The Human Media Lab was founded in 2000 by Prof. Roel Vertegaal and employs an average of 12 graduate students.
The laboratory is known for its pioneering work on flexible display interaction and paper computers, with systems such as PaperWindows (2004), PaperPhone (2010) and PaperTab (2012). HML is also known for its invention of ubiquitous eye input, such as Samsung's Smart Pause and Smart Scroll technologies.
Research
In 2003, researchers at the Human Media Lab helped shape the paradigm Attentive User Interfaces, demonstrating how groups of computers could use human social cues for considerate notification. Amongst HML's early inventions was the eye contact sensor, first demonstrated to the public on ABC Good Morning America. Attentive User Interfaces developed at the time included an early iPhone prototype that used eye tracking electronic glasses to determine whether users were in a conversation, an attentive television that play/paused contents upon looking away, mobile Smart Pause and Smart Scroll (adopted in Samsung's Galaxy S4) as well as a technique for calibration-free eye tracking by placing invisible infrared markers in the scene.
Current research at the Human Media Lab focuses on the development of Organic User Interfaces: user interfaces with a non-flat display. In 2004, researchers at the HML built the first bendable paper computer, PaperWindows, which premiered at CHI 2005. It featured multiple flexible, hires, colour, wireless, thin-film multitouch displays through real-time depth-cam 3D Spatial Augmented Reality. In May 2007 HML coined the term Organic User Interfaces. Early Organic User Interfaces developed at HML included the first multitouch spherical display, and Dynacan, an interactive pop can: early examples of everyday computational things with interactive digital skins.
In 2010, the Human Media Lab, with Arizona State University, developed the world's first functional flexible smartphone, PaperPhone. It pioneered bend interactions and was first shown to the public at ACM CHI 2011 in Vancouver. In 2012, the Human Media Lab introduced the world's first pseudo-holographic, live size 3D video conferencing system, TeleHuman.
In 2013, HML researchers unveiled PaperTab, the world's first flexible tablet PC, at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel.
Location and Facilities
The Human Media Lab is located in Jackson Hall on Queen's University campus in Kingston, Ontario. The facilities were designed by Karim Rashid.
External links
Human Media Lab website
References
Queen's University at Kingston
Human–computer interaction
Flexible displays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthodura%20trucidata | Xanthodura trucidata is a species of moth in the family Geometridae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. It is known from Madagascar.
References
Butler, A. G. (1880). "On a collection of Lepidoptera from Madagascar with descriptions of new genera and species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5)5: 333–344, 384–39.
Geometrinae
Moths of Madagascar
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe%20Sch%C3%B6ning | Uwe Schöning (born 28 December 1955) is a retired German computer scientist, known for his research in computational complexity theory.
Education and career
Schöning earned his Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart in 1981, under the supervision of Wolfram Schwabhäuser.
He was a professor in the Institute for Theoretical Informatics at the University of Ulm until his retirement in 2021.
Contributions
Schöning introduced the low and high hierarchies to structural complexity theory in 1983. As Schöning later showed in a 1988 paper, these hierarchies play an important role in the complexity of the graph isomorphism problem, which Schöning further developed in a 1993 monograph with Köbler and Toran.
In a 1999 FOCS paper, Schöning showed that WalkSAT, a randomized algorithm previously analyzed for 2-satisfiability by Papadimitriou, had good expected time complexity (although still exponential) when applied to worst-case instances of 3-satisfiability and other NP-complete constraint satisfaction problems. At the time this was the fastest guaranteed time bound for 3SAT; subsequent research has built on this idea to develop even faster algorithms.
Schöning is also the inventor of the pedagogical programming languages LOOP, GOTO, and WHILE, which he described in his textbook Theoretische Informatik - kurz gefasst.
Selected publications
Schöning is the author or editor of many books in computer science, including
Complexity and Structure (Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 211, 1985).
Logik für Informatiker (in German, Reihe Informatik, 1987; 5th ed., Springer, 2000). Translated into English as Logic for Computer Scientists (Birkhäuser, 1989).
Theoretische Informatik - kurz gefasst (in German, BI-Wiss.-Verlag, 1992; 5th ed., Spektrum, 2008)
The Graph Isomorphism Problem: Its Structural Complexity (with J. Köbler and J. Toran, Birkhäuser, 1993).
Perlen der Theoretischen Informatik (in German, Bibl. Institut Wissenschaftsverlag, 1995). Revised and Translated into English as Gems of Theoretical Computer Science (with R. J. Pruim, Springer, 1998).
Algorithmen - kurz gefasst (in German, Spektrum, 1997).
Algorithmik (in German, Spektrum, 2001).
Ideen der Informatik (in German, Oldenbourg, 2002, 2nd ed. 2005).
Mathe-Toolbox - Mathematische Notationen, Grundbegriffe und Beweismethoden (Lehmanns, 2010).
Kryptologie-Kompendium (Lehmanns, 2012).
Das Erfüllbarkeitsproblem SAT - Algorithmen und Analysen (with J. Toran, in German, Lehmanns, 2012). Translated into English as The Satisfiability Problem - Algorithms and Analyses (Lehmanns, 2013).
His research articles include:
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References
External links
Google scholar profile
1955 births
Living people
German computer scientists
University of Stuttgart alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ulm
Theoretical computer scientists
Programming language designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Dollar%20Minute | Million Dollar Minute is an Australian quiz show which aired on the Seven Network. It premiered on 16 September 2013. The show was originally hosted by Grant Denyer, and later by Simon Reeve, and aired at 5:30 pm on weeknights. The show was cancelled in September 2015 and was replaced by The Chase Australia in its timeslot. Repeats are currently shown on 7TWO in place of Home and Away's Early Years on Hiatus.
History
Million Dollar Minute was filmed at Global Television Studios in Melbourne in the same studio that was used for Deal or No Deal.
In November 2013 the original host, Grant Denyer, resigned for "family reasons" and was replaced by Weekend Sunrise sports presenter Simon Reeve for the 2014 series, with sound effects and themes also upgraded. It was announced on 30 August 2015 that the show would be axed after nearly two years, and replaced in its timeslot by The Chase Australia.
Gameplay
The game is first played by three opposing contestants in a buzzer game played over four rounds. The contestants begin with 15 points each.
Round 1
A series of six questions are asked and the first player to buzz in has a chance to answer. In the first series, more questions were often asked. A correct answer adds five points to the contestant's score, but an incorrect answer deducts five points from the score. It is possible for contestants to fall below zero—a negative score. After the questions, the contestant with the highest score is offered $2,000 of "safe money". The contestant is given five seconds to decide whether to take the money, which will drop their score down to the same as the contestant with the second highest score, or decline it. If two contestants are tied for the lead, the first contestant to buzz in during the five seconds wins the money and drops back to the other contestant with the second highest score. If no contestant buzzes in during that five seconds, no safe money is given out. If all three contestants have the same score, no safe money is offered.
Viewer question
From March 2014, before the first commercial break, the presenter usually asks a question to the viewers and the answer is revealed after the break. In 2015, the viewer question varied between picture questions and multiple choice questions similar to the Million Dollar Minute. From July 2015, a viewer question would sometimes not occur.
Round 2
The first question played in the second round is Snap Shot in which the contestants are given a visual multiple choice question. The category of the question is revealed with the three answer options and then the question related to an out of focus picture is asked. For some of the 2014 series, a category called "MDM News" was made in which, instead of an out of focus image, a newspaper heading is used. The picture with three parts is revealed one frame at a time. If no one answers, or a contestant buzzes in and chooses an incorrect option, the contestant is locked out and the next frame is revealed and so on until t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultative%20Committee%20for%20Space%20Data%20Systems | The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) was founded in 1982 for governmental and quasi-governmental space agencies to discuss and develop standards for space data and information systems. Currently composed of "eleven member agencies, twenty-eight observer agencies, and over 140 industrial associates," the CCSDS works to support collaboration and interoperability between member agencies through the establishment of data and system standards. According to the organisation's website, more than 1000 space missions have utilized data and systems standards created by CCSDS. The activities of the CCSDS are organized around six topic areas and composed of many working groups within the overall Collaborative Working Group Environment (CWE).
Publications and standards
The CCSDS is divided into 6 Technical areas:
Space Internetworking Services
Mission Operations And Information Management Services
Spacecraft Onboard Interface Services
System Engineering
Cross Support Services
Space Link Services
The CCSDS has developed data standards and information system frameworks covering a variety of areas including data creation, transmission, management, and preservation as well as the systems supporting that data. These include protocols and network notes for communication in space including contributions to Interplanetary Internet and Space Communications Protocol Specifications. Other standards include XML Telemetric and Command Exchange and frameworks such as the Mission Operations Services Concept and the Open Archival Information System, the latter a model also adopted by the broader Digital preservation and Data curation community.
Some of the Standards developed by the CCSDS are:
CCSDS Mission Operations services
CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)
Electronic Data Sheets (EDS)
Space Link Extension (SLE)
XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE)
Membership
Each nation participating in the CCSDS can have one organization serve as a member agency. The current 11 member agencies in the CCSDS are:
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) or, Italian Space Agency, Italy
Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Canada
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) or, National Centre for Space Studies, France
China National Space Administration (CNSA), China
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany
European Space Agency (ESA)
National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States
ROSCOSMOS, Russia
UK Space Agency, United Kingdom
See also
List of government space agencies
References
External links
Deep Space Network
Standards organizations
Space standards
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
Organizations established in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20RoAne | Susan RoAne (ca. 1945) is an American author and speaker. She has written several business networking self-help books including How to Work a Room.
Background
RoAne was born Susan Rosenberg in Chicago and graduated from Mather High School in 1963. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1967) and a master's degree from San Francisco State University.
RoAne has been published or quoted in newspapers and periodicals such as Men's Fitness, Success, Harper's, Inc., Today, Men's Health, USA Today, Times of India, Fresno Bee, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Cosmo, The Orlando Sentinel, CNBC, MarketWatch,<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-phone-calls-you-still-need-to-make-2013-11-21 5 phone calls you still need to make"] CNBC. Retrieved December 30, 2014.</ref> Tech Crunch, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur,"Maximizing Your Time While Helping Others" Entrepreneur. Retrieved December 30, 2014. People magazine, Wall Street Journal,"Holidays at the Office" Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 30, 2014. Forbes,"The Best Ways To Work A Room For Job Hunting" Forbes. Retrieved July 14, 2014. and The Guardian.
RoAne's books include How to Work a Room (1988), a self-help guidebook on how to socialize at parties and other events, oriented towards the business community.David Brooks. "How-To Books for Sharks and Dogs". Wall Street Journal (November 8, 1988). Abstract: Book reviews of Susan RoAne's "How to Work a Room: A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling" and Job Michael Evans's "The Evans Guide for Civilized City Canines" (Database: ProQuest) The 25th Anniversary edition,"5 Tips for Impressing Everyone You Meet" Women's Health. Retrieved February 28, 2014. How To Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections In Person and Online'', was published in 2013 by William Morrow Paperbacks. The book has sold over a million copies, was number one on Book-of-the-Month Club's list of best-selling nonfiction books in 1990 and has been published internationally.
As a keynote speaker, RoAne has spoken to Fortune 20–500 companies, conventions and presented at universities including University of Chicago, Yale University, NYU, Wharton School of Business, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Stanford University.
She has tied the formalization of rules for social networking to the women's movement, explaining that as women moved into the workforce, in particular beginning in the 1970s, they brought domestic networking skills re-applied to the business environment. For example, in 1988, RoAne described a "Scarlett O'Hara Syndrome" prevalent in women aged over 40 who do not initiate conversations because, as Scarlet said, "We haven't been properly introduced." Also in 1988, RoAne said, "I think women are afraid sometimes of being construed as being too forward".
In 2015, she was named as one of the 25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch in 2015.
Bibliography
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avare | Avare is a free open source "moving map" aviation GPS, A/FD and EFB app for phones or tablets using the Android Operating System. The app uses any internal Android or compatible external GPS receiver to determine location, allowing real-time display of location, heading, speed, distance, time, and altitude on free U.S. FAA IFR or VFR aviation charts; or on select topographic charts. Included are 3D, ADSB-In and other advanced options. The user can access all relevant static current FAA official data and some non-FAA maps and data in flight without data connection (and without GPS for VFR), once data has been downloaded to the device. With an aircraft ADSB-Out transmitter and inexpensive ADSB-In receiver Avare can also display any available FAA live ADSB data in flight. Some advanced users also interface Avare with an auto-pilot or flight simulator.
Basic Features
Displays GPS location, ground bearing to destination, heading, speed, distance, altitude and other flight data.
GPS IFR Plate and Airport Diagram location, A/FD, FAA charts, user maps and some unofficial Canada, EU and other charts.
All navigation functions require only a GPS signal, with data connection only required for adding new charts or materials.
With data or ADSB In connection, current conditions may be fetched such as: traffic, NEXRAD, winds aloft, TFR graphics and text, TAFs, and METARs.
Free ADSB In 1090Mhz or UAT reception is available on many Android devices with a $10 "RTL" SDR.
Compatible with StratuX open source dual channel ADSB In, and many commercial receivers.
Compatible external devices may be connected via Bluetooth, WiFi or USB.
It is possible to manually install the app on nearly any Android device running Android 5.01 Lollipop or higher.
Many more features are now included or being added, as outlined in the app Description.
History
Avare made its debut on September 10, 2012, as a basic open source moving map aviation GPS app with code hosted on SourceForge (now on GitHub) and free FAA charts adapted for display on Android devices. It was created by Boston area pilot and Android programmer Zubair Khan after he had grown frustrated with the selection of Android GPS aviation apps that were then available. His goal was to provide a free app with no ads and minimal permissions to eventually fully utilize all of the free FAA materials available online. Over the following year of rapid development Avare gained a greatly expanded feature set, with several volunteers actively working on extending ADSB-In options, along with selected charts and data for Canada and other countries. Many further new, extended and refined feature upgrades have been made since with contributions from an informal volunteer expert "Dev Team" (see recent Contributors List at this link:).
Reception
As of November 2, 2021, the Google Play Store listed Avare as being installed on 100,000+ devices, with an overall rating of 4.7/5 from 5,754 reviews. Sporty's, AOPA and EAA reviews have als |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%20%28laptop%29 | The SOL is a rugged, waterproof solar-powered laptop computer intended for use in African schools that do not have access to an electrical network. Sol was created by London, Ontario-based WeWi Telecommunications.
Design and features
The SOL is available in two editions, a standard edition and the Marine edition which uses hydrophobic coating to provide water repletion instead of waterproofing the laptop. The laptop has a reinforced polymer-based clam shell casing that houses the solar panels and makes the laptop more durable. The device uses four detachable monocrystalline photovoltaic panels which fold into the unit.
References
External links
Applications of photovoltaics
Laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20utility | A disk utility is a utility program that allows a user to perform various functions on a computer disk, such as disk partitioning and logical volume management, as well as multiple smaller tasks such as changing drive letters and other mount points, renaming volumes, disk checking, and disk formatting, which are otherwise handled separately by multiple other built-in commands. Each operating system (OS) has its own basic disk utility, and there are also separate programs which can recognize and adjust the different filesystems of multiple OSes. Types of disk utilities include disk checkers, disk cleaners and disk space analyzers
Disk cleaners
Disk cleaners are computer programs that find and delete potentially unnecessary or potentially unwanted files from a computer. The purpose of such deletion may be to free up disk space, to eliminate clutter or to protect privacy.
Disk space consuming unnecessary files include temporary files, trash, old backups and web caches made by web browsers. Privacy risks include HTTP cookies, local shared objects, log files or any other trace that may tell which computer program opened which files.
Disk cleaners must not be mistaken with antivirus software (which delete malware), registry cleaners (which clean Microsoft Windows Registry) or data erasure software (which securely delete files), although multifunction software (such as those included below) may fit into all these categories.
Disk compression utilities
A disk compression utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility which compresses only specified files – and which requires the user designate the files to be compressed – an on-the-fly disk compression utility works automatically without the user needing to be aware of its existence.
When information needs to be stored to the hard disk, the utility will compress the information. When information needs to be read, the utility will decompress the information. A disk compression utility overrides the standard operating system routines. Since all software applications access the hard disk using these routines, they continue to work after disk compression has been installed. The compression/expansion process adds a small amount of overhead to disk access and may complicate error recovery on the affected volume. Also, if the compression utility's device driver was uninstalled or became corrupted, all data on the disk would be lost.
Disk compression utilities were popular especially in the early 1990s, when microcomputer hard disks were still relatively small (20 to 80 megabytes). Hard drives were also rather expensive at the time, costing roughly 10 USD per megabyte. For the users who bought disk compression applications, the software proved to be in the short term a more economic means of acquiring more disk space as opposed to replacing their current drive with a larger one. A good disk compression utility could, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography-based%20optimization | Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is an evolutionary algorithm (EA) that optimizes a function by stochastically and iteratively improving candidate solutions with regard to a given measure of quality, or fitness function. BBO belongs to the class of metaheuristics since it includes many variations, and since it does not make any assumptions about the problem and can therefore be applied to a wide class of problems.
BBO is typically used to optimize multidimensional real-valued functions, but it does not use the gradient of the function, which means that it does not require the function to be differentiable as required by classic optimization methods such as gradient descent and quasi-newton methods. BBO can therefore be used on discontinuous functions.
BBO optimizes a problem by maintaining a population of candidate solutions, and creating new candidate solutions by combining existing ones according to a simple formula. In this way the objective function is treated as a black box that merely provides a measure of quality given a candidate solution, and the function's gradient is not needed.
Like many EAs, BBO was motivated by a natural process; in particular, BBO was motivated by biogeography, which is the study of the distribution of biological species through time and space. BBO was originally introduced by Dan Simon in 2008.
Underlying principles
Mathematical models of biogeography describe speciation (the evolution of new species), the migration of species (animals, fish, birds, or insects) between islands, and the extinction of species. Islands that are friendly to life are said to have a high habitat suitability index (HSI). Features that correlate with HSI include rainfall, vegetative diversity, topographic diversity, land area, temperature, and others. The features that determine are called suitability index variables (SIVs). In terms of habitability, SIVs are the independent variables and HSI is the dependent variable.
Islands with a high HSI can support many species, and islands with a low HSI can support only a few species. Islands with a high HSI have many species that emigrate to nearby habitats because of the large populations and the large numbers of species that they host. Note that emigration from an island with a high HSI does not occur because species want to leave their home; after all, their home island is an attractive place to live. Emigration occurs because of the accumulation of random effects on a large number of species with large populations. Emigration occurs as animals ride flotsam, swim, fly, or ride the wind to neighboring islands. When a species emigrates from an island, it does not mean that the species completely disappears from its original island; only a few representatives emigrate, so an emigrating species remains present on its original island while at the same time migrating to a neighboring island. However, in BBO it is assumed that emigration from an island results in extinction from that isla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahit%20Nasaan%20Ka%20Man | (International title: Love Sonata / ) is a 2013 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Julie Anne San Jose and Kristofer Martin. It premiered on September 23, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Anna Karenina. The series concluded on November 15, 2013 with a total of 40 episodes. It was replaced by Adarna in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Julie Anne San Jose as Pauline Gomez
Kristofer Martin as Leandro de Chavez
Supporting cast
Eula Valdez as Theresa de Chavez
Rita Avila as Delia
Ronaldo Valdez as Tino Gomez
Tessie Tomas as Corazon
Yayo Aguila as Medel
Michael de Mesa as Ernesto Gomez
Arthur Solinap as Luis Castillo
Vaness del Moral as Sally Castillo-Gomez
Lucho Ayala as John
Ervic Vijandre as Benjo
Guest cast
Miggs Cuaderno as young Leandro
Roseanne Magan as young Pauline
Rio Locsin as Pauline's mother
Epi Quizon as Paulo de Chavez
Franco Laurel as Medina
Djanin Cruz as Amy
Camille Prats as a TV host
Production
Actor Ricky Davao was initially cast in the series, for the role of Ernesto Gomez. The role later went to Michael de Mesa.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 24.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 20.2% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine musical television series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
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