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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMDAO | OpenMDAO is an open-source high-performance computing platform for systems analysis and multidisciplinary optimization written in the Python programming language.
The OpenMDAO project is primarily focused on supporting gradient based optimization with analytic derivatives to allow you to explore large design spaces with hundreds or thousands of design variables, but the framework also has a number of parallel computing features that can work with gradient-free optimization, mixed-integer nonlinear programming, and traditional design space exploration.
The OpenMDAO framework is designed to aid in linking together separate pieces of software for the purpose of combined analyses. It allows users to combine analysis tools (or design codes) from multiple disciplines, at multiple levels of fidelity, and to manage the interaction between them. OpenMDAO is specifically designed to manage the dataflow (the actual data) and the workflow (what code is run when) in conjunction with optimization algorithms and other advanced solution techniques.
The development of OpenMDAO is led out of the NASA Glenn Research Center.
Features
Library of built-in solvers and optimizers
Tools for metamodeling
Data recording capabilities
Support for analytic derivatives
Support for high-performance computer clusters and distributed computing
Extensible plugin library
Applications
NASA’s motivation in supporting the OpenMDAO project stems from the demands of unconventional aircraft concepts like Turbo-Electric distributed propulsion. Although NASA’s focus is on analyzing aerospace applications, the framework itself is general and is not specific to any discipline.
Framework structure
OpenMDAO is designed to separate the flow of information (dataflow) from the process in which analyses are executed (workflow). It does that by using four specific constructs: Component, Assembly, Driver, and Workflow.
The construction of system models begins with wrapping (or writing from scratch) various analysis codes as Components. A group of components is linked together inside an Assembly, specifying the dataflow between them. Once the dataflow is in place, one can select specific Drivers (optimizers, solvers, design of experiments, etc.) and set up a Workflow to determine exactly how the problem should be solved.
OpenMDAO also includes a web-browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) for visual construction, execution, and optimization of models.
See also
ModelCenter
Simulink
Multidisciplinary design optimization
External links
Notes
Mathematical optimization software
Free software programmed in Python
Cross-platform software
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRENum.net | The NRENum.net service is an end-user ENUM service run by TERENA and the participating national research and education networking organisations (NRENs), primarily for academia. NRENum.net is considered as a complementary service and a valid alternative to the Golden ENUM tree. The domain nrenum.net is being populated in order to provide the infrastructure in DNS for storage of E.164 numbers. The NRENum.net service includes the operation of the Tier-0 root Domain Name Server(s) and the delegation of county codes to NRENum.net Registries. NRENum.net is a registered community trademark of TERENA.
Service description
E.164 Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) is a standard protocol that is the result of work of the Internet Engineering Task Force's Telephone Number Mapping working group. ENUM translates a telephone number into a domain name. This allows users to continue to use the existing phone number formats they are familiar with, while allowing the call to be routed using DNS. This makes ENUM a quick, stable and cheap link between telecommunications systems and the Internet.
RFC 3761 discusses the use of the Domain Name System for storage of E.164 numbers. More specifically, how DNS can be used for identifying available services connected to one E.164 number. The RIPE NCC provides DNS operations for e164.arpa (known as Golden ENUM tree) in accordance with the instructions from the Internet Architecture Board.
The NRENum.net service is an end-user ENUM service run by TERENA and the participating NRENs primarily for academia. NRENum.net is considered as a complementary service and a valid alternative to the Golden ENUM tree. The domain nrenum.net is being populated in order to provide the infrastructure in DNS for storage of E.164 numbers. The NRENum.net service includes the operation of the Tier-0 root Domain Name Servers and the delegation of county codes to NRENum.net Registries. NRENum.net is a registered community trademark of TERENA. NRENum.net facilitates services such as Voice over IP and videoconferencing.
NRENum.net tree refers to the tree structure where:
Tier-0 root Domain Name Servers (technically one master and several secondary servers ensuring resilience) are run by the hosting organisations and coordinated by the NRENum.net Operations Team.
Tier-1 Domain Name Servers are run by the NRENum.net (national or regional) Registries responsible for the country code(s) delegated.
Tier-2 and lower DNS sub-delegations may be implemented, regulated by the national service policies.
An NRENum.net Registry is an entity that is authorised by the NRENum.net Operations Team to operate the national or regional Tier-1 Domain Name Server and be responsible for the county code(s) delegated. In many countries there is a National Research and Education Networking organisation (NREN) that acts as the Registry of the country.
An NRENum.net Registrar is responsible for the number/block registration in the Tier-1 DNS and a Number Validation Entity is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz%20Yilmaz | Öz Yılmaz is the Chief Technology Officer of GeoTomo LLC and the founder of Anatolian Geophysical. He is the author of Seismic Data Processing and Seismic Data Analysis, the principle reference volumes for the seismic processing industry.
Education
Born in Ardahan, Turkey, Dr. Yılmaz graduated from Haydarpasha Lyceum in Istanbul and went on to earn a BS in geology with geophysics option from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He earned a MS in 1972 from Stanford University working on rock physics. After five years in the oil and gas industry, he earned his PhD from Stanford in 1979. His dissertation on prestack partial migration was a major contribution to seismic processing.
Career
Dr. Yılmaz started his career at the Turkish Petroleum Company between earning his MS and PhD. After earning his PhD in 1979 he worked for Western Geophysical and Paradigm. In 1987 he published Seismic Data Processing, a SEG best-seller. In 1991 he was awarded the Conrad Schlumberger Award by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers for "his sustained contributions to the theory and practice of seismic data processing."
In 2000 he founded Anatolian Geophysical and is currently CTO for GeoTomo LLC.
Seismic Data Processing and Seismic Data Analysis
In 1987 Dr. Yılmaz published Seismic Data Processing through the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. In the preface he points out the three main steps in exploring for oil and gas using reflection seismology; data acquisition, data processing, and interpretation. The intended purpose of the book was to help seismic processors understand the fundamentals of processing seismic data. He pointed out the main challenges in seismic processing:
Selecting the proper sequence of processing steps appropriate for the field data under consideration.
Selecting an appropriate set of parameters for each processing step.
Evaluating the resulting output from each processing step, then diagnosing any problem caused by improper parameter selection.
In 2001 Dr. Yılmaz published the follow-up two volume Seismic Data Analysis which incorporated emerging technologies in seismic exploration such as 3D seismic, time-lapse seismic, and 4-component seismic.
References
Chief technology officers
Living people
Turkish geophysicists
Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni
Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeslaTeam | TeslaTeam is a group of computer hackers. Using denial of service attacks, defacement, and other methods, it mainly targets political groups and Albanian websites, including news organizations and human rights groups. TeslaTeam is currently the only virtual army in Serbia to openly launch cyber attacks.
Targets
TeslaTeam mainly targets websites of political organisations, NGOs, and websites of anti-Serb organisations.
Attacks
TeslaTeam's attacks began in February 2013, during a demonstration against the introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet and Serbian language in Vukovar. They began operation Cirilica which led to defacement and security breaches on over 100 websites across Croatia.
Timeline of notable defacements
9 February 2013: Vukovar Institute for Peace Research and Education
13 February 2013: Polytechnic Lavoslav Ružička Vukovar
18 February 2013: Croatian Bishops' Conference
20 February 2013: University of Osijek
25 February 2013: Croatian Pure Party of Rights
13 August 2013: 200 Montenegro sites defaced
30 October 2013: Website of Librazhd Municipality in Albania
14 December 2013: 100 Croatian websites defaced
Timeline of notable security breaches
7 November 2012: TeslaTeam claimed to have hacked the website of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy of Albania
9 November 2013: TeslaTeam claimed to have hacked the website of the Chicago Tribune
13 November 2013: TeslaTeam claimed to have hacked the database of Vevo
18 November 2013: TeslaTeam claimed to have hacked the website of E! News
29 November 2013: Websites of Bulgarian and Albanian Government
29 November 2013: Cambridge University database hacked
3 December 2013: Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
Hacker groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita%20cordata | Cucurbita cordata is a species of flowering plant in the squash family. It is similar to Cucurbita californica, Cucurbita cylindrata, Cucurbita digitata, and Cucurbita palmata and all these species hybridize readily. These species form the only restricted xerophyte species group in the genus Cucurbita. Each member of this species group is native to the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico where they are relatively uncommon. Each group member is found in hot, arid regions with low rainfall. They prefer soil that is loose, gravelly, and well-drained. C. cordata is found only in the vicinity of Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja California. Botanists Bemis and Whitaker suggest that C. cordata and C. cylindrata may be a case of sympatric speciation. The juvenile leaves of C. cylindrata, C. cordata, C. digitata, and C. palmata show a high degree of similarity, but their mature leaves are visibly different, as are their root structures. C. cordata fruits are gray green, striped, and round.
It was first identified by Sereno Watson in 1889.
References
External links
cordata
Plants described in 1889
Squashes and pumpkins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita%20cylindrata | Cucurbita cylindrata is a species of flowering plant in the squash family. It is similar to Cucurbita californica, Cucurbita cordata, Cucurbita digitata, and Cucurbita palmata and all these species hybridize readily. These species form the only restricted xerophyte species group in the genus Cucurbita. Each member of this species group is native to the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico where they are relatively uncommon. Each group member is found in hot, arid regions with low rainfall. They prefer soil that is loose, gravelly, and well-drained. C. cylindrata is found only in the middle portion of Baja California, mostly in Baja California Sur. Botanists Bemis and Whitaker suggest that C. cordata and C. cylindrata may be a case of sympatric speciation. The juvenile leaves of C. cylindrata, C. cordata, C. digitata, and C. palmata show a high degree of similarity, but their mature leaves are visibly different, as are their root structures. C. cylindrata fruits are dark green, striped, and round.
It was first identified by Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1943.
References
cylindrata
Plants described in 1943
Squashes and pumpkins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Bird%20Monitoring%20of%20India | The Common Bird Monitoring Program is a citizen science bird monitoring program of India. It is a pioneer project that aims to engage general public in the collection of baseline data on 18 common bird species. Data collected will be used to map species abundance and distribution throughout the Indian subcontinent.
The program is an initiative of the Nature Forever Society, supported by the Jaypee Group. It was launched in the city of Mumbai on World Sparrow Day, 20 March 2012. Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, launched its Common Bird Monitoring Program in 2015. BNHS follows a scientific methodology and recommends following the Line Transect Method. In this method the participant walks along a predetermined route at a fixed pace and records the birds on or near the line. The observations are recorded in a standard data sheet provided by BNHS. It is recommended that each site be visited thrice in a year covering three major seasons in India, summer, winter and monsoon. The count should ideally start around 0700 hrs and not later than 0900 hrs. The monsoon bird count was conducted on 11 September 2016. BNHS is conducting workshops of bird watchers across the country to train them in this methodology so that the data is robust and correct.
Importance of monitoring
Biological monitoring helps to establish a baseline for natural variability in species abundance and distribution. Once established, this baseline can serve as an important tool for identifying changes that might indicate population decline in some areas. This can act as an early warning system to initiate conservation measures to help prevent further population decline, and ultimately help support biodiversity.
In this project, data gathered will help to map the abundance and distribution of 18 species of birds common to India. Over a period of time, these baseline data will fill a critical gap in the knowledge of these birds' ecologies. In the future, statistical analyses of these data can be utilized for directing conservation efforts and may help to initiate measures to protect these bird species from decline.
These data are important for avian biodiversity in India and can be used as an advocacy tool. This program will also help to raise awareness and interest in the public regarding the conservation of common birds.
Past examples of species that might have been helped by this kind of program include the critically endangered white-rumped vulture. A once abundant and widespread species in Southeast Asia, this species declined rapidly in the 1990s. A detailed monitoring program may have alerted researchers to the decline of its populations and provided opportunities to conserve it.
History of common bird monitoring programs
International examples of bird monitoring programs involving citizens include the Christmas Bird Count in the United States, an annual event since 1900.
Monitoring format
Participants spend a minimum of fifteen minutes observing birds fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYBM | DYBM (99.1 FM), broadcasting as Yuhum Radio 99.1, is a radio station owned by Mareco Broadcasting Network and operated by RYU Group of Companies. The station's studio and transmitter are located at GM Cordova Ave., Brgy. Mandalangan, Bacolod.
History
The station was established in 1997 as 99.1 Crossover, the first provincial affiliate of then 105.1 Crossover Manila, with its soft launch in February and inaugural broadcast on June 5. The station, then located at Mountain View Subdivision, Mandalagan District, was staffed by seven disc jockeys. It had the same format as in Manila, a smooth jazz with a blend of pop-jazz and R&B, and aired hourly international news from CNN.
On November 16, 2020, the station, along with other MBNI provincial stations, started carrying the Q Radio brand and switched to a CHR/Top 40 format. Prior to the reformat, Horizon of the Sun Communications (producers of Chinatown TV) took over the operations of the Manila flagship station at the end of 2019.
On June 19, 2023, Q Radio announced on its social media pages and livestream that the station will permanently go off-air on July 1, 2023 due to financial problems.
Earlier that month, RYU Group of Companies of Ramel Uy took over the station's operations. On August 13, 2023, the station began its test broadcast as Yuhum Radio, carrying a mass-based format. Official launching will be held on a later date.
References
Radio stations in Bacolod
Radio stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis%20Ware | Howard George Willis Ware (August 31, 1920 – November 22, 2013), popularly known as Willis Howard Ware was an American computer pioneer who co-developed the IAS machine that laid down the blueprint of the modern day computer in the late 20th century. He was also a pioneer of privacy rights, social critic of technology policy, and a founder in the field of computer security.
Biography
As an undergraduate, Ware read electrical engineering at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his master's degree in the same subject at MIT, in 1942.
During World War II, Ware worked for the Hazeltine Corporation (1942–1946) on classified military projects. After the war (1946–1951), he joined the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton to work with John von Neumann on building an early computer. After completing his PhD there, he moved to North American Aviation (1951–1952), helped to move the aviation industry from punch-card machines to early computers, and in 1952 began teaching a class in computing at the UCLA Extension Division; it continued for 12 years. In 1952 he joined the RAND Corporation, where he stayed until 1992. He was an early design engineer on the RAND JOHNNIAC computer.
In 1961, he was the founding president of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies, an early technical computing society. Ware predicted that increased reliance on computers would create new privacy issues, and in 1972 he chaired the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Special Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems, which developed policy recommendations including the Code of Fair Information Practice that significantly influenced the Privacy Act of 1974. He continued to study and write about privacy for many years.
Ware influenced many aspects of computing including the initiation and direction of one of the first computing courses, at UCLA and authored some of the first textbooks in the field of computer security. In addition, he chaired several influential studies, including one in 1967 that produced a groundbreaking and transformational report to the Defense Science Board for ARPA (now DARPA) that was known thereafter as "the Ware report". The European Union's Data Protection Directive was strongly influenced by his research.
Ware died at his home in Santa Monica, California in 2013.
Professional activities
Ware was an active and influential member of many industry organizations including:
Chair of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Group on Computers (1958 - 1959)
Founding President of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (1961)
Chair of the Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now HHS) (1972)
Vice Chair of the IFIP TC 11 (1985-1994)
Founding Chair of the Information System and Privacy Advisory Board (1987 - 1998)
US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
NSA Scientific Advisory Board
Member of the Ele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Hummingbird | Hummingbird is the codename given to a significant algorithm change in Google Search in 2013. Its name was derived from the speed and accuracy of the hummingbird. The change was announced on September 26, 2013, having already been in use for a month. "Hummingbird" places greater emphasis on natural language queries, considering context and meaning over individual keywords. It also looks deeper at content on individual pages of a website, with improved ability to lead users directly to the most appropriate page rather than just a website's homepage.
The upgrade marked the most significant change to Google search in years, with more "human" search interactions and a much heavier focus on conversation and meaning. Thus, web developers and writers were encouraged to optimize their sites with natural writing rather than forced keywords, and make effective use of technical web development for on-site navigation.
History
Google announced "Hummingbird", a new search algorithm, at a September 2013 press event, having already used the algorithm for approximately one month prior to announcement.
Features
The "Hummingbird" update was the first major update to Google's search algorithm since the 2010 "Caffeine" search architecture upgrade, but even that was limited primarily to improving the indexing of information rather than sorting through information. Amit Singhal, then-search chief at Google, told Search Engine Land that "Hummingbird" was the most dramatic change of the algorithm since 2001, when he first joined Google. Unlike previous search algorithms, which would focus on each individual word in the search query, "Hummingbird" considers the context of the different words together, with the goal that pages matching the meaning do better, rather than pages matching just a few words. The name is derived from the speed and accuracy of the hummingbird.
"Hummingbird" is aimed at making interactions more human, in the sense that the search engine is capable of understanding the concepts and relationships between keywords. It places greater emphasis on page content, making search results more relevant, and looks at the authority of a page, and in some cases the page author, to determine the importance of a website. It uses this information to better lead users to a specific page on a website rather than the standard website homepage.
Search engine optimization changes
Search engine optimization changed with the addition of "Hummingbird", with web developers and writers encouraged to use natural language when writing on their websites rather than using forced keywords. They were also advised to make effective use of technical website features, such as page linking, on-page elements including title tags, URL addresses and HTML tags, as well as writing high-quality, relevant content without duplication. While keywords within the query still continue to be important, "Hummingbird" adds more strength to long-tailed keywords, effectively catering to the opt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20tunnels%20in%20Thailand | This is a list of tunnels on Thailand's railway network.
See also
Railway Bridges in Thailand
Thai Railways: Past and Present - Facebook Group
Thai Railway videos, including tunnels
External links
Railway tunnels in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20Network | The Mosaic Network is a charitable initiative founded by Charles, Prince of Wales in 2007 as part of 'The Prince's Programmes' at his charity "Business in the Community". The catalyst was a memorandum from The Prince of Wales to Julia Cleverdon, who was the chief executive officer of BITC, and John O'Brien MBE, who was the director of personal programmes. Although it sat well outside the normal focus of BITC, Cleverdon gave O'Brien a free remit to see what he could create. The initiative very quickly became formed a multiple set of initiatives which included, The Mosaic Schools Network, chaired by Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordon, The Mosaic Speakers Bureau with individuals including Pinky Lilani, Asad Ahmad and many others. It also consisted of a media network launched at Channel 4.
The name Mosaic was settled upon between Cleverdon and O'Brien in a meeting at BITC, where, after approval via Clarence House from The Prince of Wales, this was presented to initial supporters. O'Brien also engaged the Marketing company M&C Saatchi, to create an engaging identity and succinct message and identity. The original logo was a mosaic type form and the lasting message "The Power of Positive Thinking" was crafted. This message was particularly apposite at this time, when so much negative thinking was pertaining to those from a Muslim background.
The Original Funders of the initiative were identified by O'Brien through his personal networks and invited to meet with the Prince of Wales at Clarence House in 2007. At that meeting Rumi Verjee (now Lord Verjee); Naguib Kheraj a senior Banker; Malik Karim, founder of Fenchurch Advisory Partners and Khawar Mann of SX2 Ventures agreed to follow up with O'Brien and their original donations initiated a pilot project in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The programme, specifically crafted by O'Brien & Mann proved so successful that with subsequent funding from the UK Government, could be rolled out further. The initial uk Government funding was as a result of O'Brien meeting with Minister Hazel Blears, then Labour Secretary of State at The Department For Communities and Local Government (Now Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government). At this time Jonathan Freeman who was later to be seconded into Mosaic, was a senior civil servant in charge of such grant assessments and Muslim community engagement. O'Brien met with Freeman and that started an association which proved useful for the further development of the programme. Some two years later Freeman joined to become O'Brien's deputy running the UK schools programme.
O'Brien is universally credited as being the creative and entrepreneurial force behind the early years of Mosaic with him personally creating the Enterprise Challenge, The Media network, the speakers bureau and then the Mosaic International Leadership School, which he presented to the Prince of Wales as a 60th Birthday present in 2008 at a major gala dinner held at London's Natura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheOfficialBoard | The Official Board is a France-based online contact database. The database maintains up-to-date corporate organizational and data charts for all the world's private and public companies exceeding $100 million in revenue, which includes over 50,000 companies. The data is updated by industry experts and members of the site and is verified by each company. It is used to research organizational structures and find contact information for corporate executives.
The Official Board was founded by Amazon and Apple Inc. executive Thomas Lot in 2009. It is based in France.
Studies and corporate developments
On June 12, 2014, The Official Board released an iPhone application.
On August 26, 2014, The Official Board released an 18-month-long survey study on the presence of female executives and board members in the world's largest companies, which concluded that women were least represented in chairman of the board and chief executive officer functions.
References
External links
The Official Board on Twitter.
Internet properties established in 2009
Database companies
Database servers
French companies established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%27s%20Diamond%20Jubilee | Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) is a two-hour TV special that aired on October 24, 1954, on all four U.S. television networks of the time, DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC. The special won a Primetime Emmy Award for Victor Young for Best Music for a Variety or Dramatic series.
The special was produced by David O. Selznick, had seven directors, and featured major stars of the day. The special was sponsored by General Electric in honor of the 75th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas Edison. In 1929, a previous celebration of "light's golden jubilee" was produced by General Electric and created by PR pioneer Edward Bernays.
Robert Benchley's appearance was a segment from his MGM short film How to Raise a Baby (1938).
Episode status
A copy of the CBS Television version of the broadcast, showing a copyright notice of Selznick Releasing Organization Inc., is in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The Library of Congress has copies available for viewing by appointment.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (March 1954 TV special aired on all four American TV networks)
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
References
External links
Light's Diamond Jubilee at BFI Database
Light's Diamond Jubilee at National Library of Australia
DuMont Television Network original programming
CBS television specials
NBC television specials
American Broadcasting Company television specials
Black-and-white American television shows
Films directed by King Vidor
Films directed by William A. Wellman
Films directed by Norman Taurog
Films directed by Roy Rowland
Films directed by Bud Yorkin
Films directed by Christian Nyby
General Electric sponsorships
Anniversaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20v.%20PMSI%2C%20Inc. | Lee v. PMSI, Inc., No. 10-2094 (M.D. Florida January 13, 2011), was a case in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida about whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) makes it illegal for an employee to violate an employer's acceptable use policy. The court ruled that violating an employer's policy did not "exceed authorization" as defined by the CFAA and was not illegal under the act.
Background
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) makes it illegal (with both civil and criminal penalties) to access a protected computer without authorization. Courts have long debated whether the statute applies to an employee who violates an employer's internal acceptable use policy. That interpretation of the CFAA could mean that any employee who surfs the Internet, checks Facebook, or logs into personal e-mail from work is guilty of a federal crime if the employer's workplace Internet use policy prohibits that behavior.
Shortly before Lee v. PMSI, in its initial hearing on the case, the U.S. Ninth Circuit court of appeals ruled in United States v. Nosal that an employee violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when he disobeyed an employer's Internet use restrictions.
Case history
After being fired from her position as a proposal developer in PMSI's marketing department, Wendi Lee sued PMSI for pregnancy discrimination barred by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Florida's analogous law. After moving the case to federal court, PMSI moved to dismiss this claim. This motion was denied and PMSI subsequently filed an amended complaint claiming Lee violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Claims
PMSI Inc. argued Lee violated the CFAA because she engaged in "excessive internet usage" by "visit[ing] personal websites such as Facebook and monitor[ing] and [sending] personal email through her Verizon web mail account." They claimed her violations of the company's computer use policy cost the company more than $5,000 in wages to her and work that had to be performed by others.
District court opinion
In May 2011 District Judge Merryday held that Lee's conduct did not exceed authorized access to her employer's computer in violation of the CFAA. He said that the CFAA was meant to target hackers who steal information or destroy functionality, not employees who use the internet instead of working. He points out that the CFAA defines "exceeding authorized access" as not just gaining access to a system without authorization, but also obtaining or altering information. Because Lee never obtained or altered information by accessing her Facebook, email or news, she was not exceeding authorized access.
The court described PMSI's claim of a $5000 loss "dubious" and held that loss productivity is not a type of loss valid for suing under the CFAA.
The court cites LVRC Holdings v. Brekka, which states that when an employer authorizes an employee to use a computer under certain limitations, the employee remains authorized to use the compute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Weekend | CBS WKND (previously known as CBS Dream Team) is an American children's programming block programmed by Hearst Media Production Group (formerly Litton Entertainment) which airs Saturday mornings on CBS under a time-lease agreement.
The block features six half-hours of live-action documentary and lifestyle series aimed at teenagers aged 10–18, all of which are designed to comply with educational programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the Children's Television Act.
History
On July 24, 2013, CBS announced that it had entered into a programming agreement with Litton Entertainment to launch a new weekend morning block featuring live-action lifestyle, wildlife, and documentary series aimed teens aged 10–18. It was the second block programming agreement Litton had made after launching Weekend Adventure for ABC stations in the fall of 2011. Unlike the ABC deal which in technicality gave the time back to the affiliates to syndicate Litton's programming, the CBS deal for Litton was a traditional time brokerage agreement where CBS retained control over the time given to Litton.
CBS' decision to restructure the block away from the traditional fare of animated and live-action scripted series – which it had been airing at the time of the deal as part of Cookie Jar TV (which had aired on the network in various forms since 2006), a block produced by the Cookie Jar Group, was done in part to comply to secure educational content and advertising regulations in the Children's Television Act.
The CBS Dream Team launched on September 28, 2013. Its initial lineup consisted mainly of newer series, though Recipe Rehab shifted from Weekend Adventure to Dream Team for its third season. The American Forces Network carries programming from the block for military children overseas. All of the block's programming features Descriptive Video Service for the visually impaired on the second audio program channel. The block was originally subtitled with the additional wording of "...It's Epic" until the tagline was quietly removed at the start of its 2020-21 season.
On September 21, 2023, it was noted in a network press release that the block would be renamed "CBS WKND" ("WKND" being a disemvoweled abbreviation of "weekend") on October 2.
Programming
Although programs featured on CBS Dream Team are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines, some CBS stations may carry syndicated educational programs to provide supplementary E/I content. Some programs aired within the block may be deferred to Sunday morning slots, or (in the case of affiliates in the western United States), Saturday afternoons due to breaking news, severe weather coverage, or regional and CBS Sports commitments for coverage of college football and college basketball, along with select PGA golf events. Some stations may air the entirety of the Dream Team block on tape delay to accommodate local weekend morning newscasts, CBS Saturday |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Foods%2025th%20Anniversary%20Show%3A%20A%20Salute%20to%20Rodgers%20and%20Hammerstein | General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein is a two-hour TV special broadcast live on March 28, 1954, on all four major TV networks of the time, DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC.
The special was hosted by Groucho Marx, Mary Martin, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan, and Edgar Bergen with his puppet Charlie McCarthy.
Songs
Sources:
"Oklahoma" from Oklahoma! – Gordon MacRae, Florence Henderson, and chorus
"It Might as Well Be Spring" from State Fair (1945) – Mary Martin
"If I Loved You" from Carousel – John Raitt, Jan Clayton
"Soliloquy" from Carousel – John Raitt
"You Are Never Away" from Allegro – Bill Hayes and Janice Rule
"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" from South Pacific – Mary Martin and chorus
"Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific – Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza
"A Puzzlement" from The King and I – Yul Brynner
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" from Oklahoma! – Gordon MacRae
"I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific – Mary Martin
"Getting to Know You" from The King and I – Patricia Morison
"The Big Black Giant" and "No Other Love" from Me and Juliet – Rosemary Clooney, Tony Martin
"People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma! – Gordon MacRae, Florence Henderson
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Light's Diamond Jubilee (October 1954 special aired on all four American TV networks)
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
References
External links
1950s American television specials
1954 in American television
1954 television specials
American Broadcasting Company television specials
Black-and-white American television shows
CBS television specials
DuMont Television Network original programming
American live television shows
Music television specials
NBC television specials
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Brazilian%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV is a Brazilian pay television channel owned by Paramount Networks Americas. The channel is the second Brazilian version of MTV after the free-to-air network MTV Brasil, founded in 1990, ended its operations. The channel premiered at 9:30 pm BRT of 1 October 2013, with the TV show Coletivation.
Programming
Current programming
Acústico MTV – television series showcasing musical artists based on the original American format MTV Unplugged.
Beija Sapo
De Férias com o Ex – reality television based on the original British format Ex on the Beach.
De Férias com o Ex: Caribe – reality television based on the original British format Ex on the Beach.
Deu Positivo
Drag Race Brasil – reality television based on the original American format RuPaul's Drag Race.
MTV Hits – two-hour program which plays only chart hits.
Rio Shore – reality television based on the original American format Jersey Shore.
MTV Top 20
From other Viacom Media Networks properties:
Ronald Rios Talk Show (from Comedy Central)
Award shows:
MTV Millennial Awards Brazil
Former programming
Adotada (2014–2017)
Are You the One? Brasil (2015–2018)
Batalha de Quiosques(2014)
Cabelo Pantene (2017)
Catfish Brasil (2016–2018)
Clickbait (2017)
Coletivation (2013–2014)
Copa do Caos (2014)
Deu Match! (2016–2018)
Feras (2019)
Móv3l (2015)
MTVixe! (2019–2022)
MTV Elektronique (2015)
MTV Sports Apresenta: Deco e Lucas na Rota Explosiva (2014)
Música.doc (2015)
Papito in Love (2013–2015)
Perrengue (2017)
Pimpa Meu Feed (2020–2021)
Pocket MTV (2013–2016)
Ridículos (2016–2017)
Trampo Zika (2019)
Hosts
Current hosts
Erick Krominski (since 2023)
Grag Queen (since 2023)
Leo David (since 2023)
Valentina Bandeira (since 2023)
Former hosts
Ana Flávia Bastos (2015)
Becca Pires (2018–2020)
Bia Coelho (2020–2022)
Bruna Louise (2021)
Caio Castro (2018)
Cauê Moura (2017)
Ciro Sales (2016–2018)
Deco Neves (2014)
Eléa Mercurio (2014)
Ellen Milgrau (2016–2017)
Felipe Titto (2015–2017)
Fernanda Pineda (2022)
Fiuk (2013)
Gabi Lopes (2021)
Gabi Prado (2019–2020)
Gui Araújo (2019–2021)
Hugo Gloss (2016–2017)
Ingrid Ohara (2021–2022)
José Trassi (2015)
Kéfera Buchmann (2014)
Laurent F (2015)
Leo Picon (2019–2020)
Lipe Ribeiro (2021–2022)
Lucas Maciel (2019)
Lucas Stegmann (2014)
Luitha Miraglia (2015–2017)
Maria Eugênia Suconic (2013–2021)
Mariana Nery (2019–2021)
Matheus Mazzafera (2020)
Mayara Lepre (2013–2014)
Michelli Provensi (2015, 2017–2019)
Olavo Junqueira (2019–2021)
Patrick Maia (2013–2014)
Paulo Chun (2013–2015)
Primo Preto (2015)
Raphael Dumaresq (2022)
Ricardo Gadelha (2016–2018)
Spartakus Santiago (2021–2022)
Ste Viegas (2020)
Talita Alves (2013–2014)
References
External links
Ask Mama MTV (used as a "preview" for the relaunched MTV)
MTV channels
Television channels and stations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Pop%20Album%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Album of the Year was an honor presented annually by American television network Univision at the Lo Nuestro Awards. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. However, since 2004, the winners are selected through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to Desde Andalucía by Spanish singer Isabel Pantoja in 1989. Spanish performer Enrique Iglesias holds the record for the most wins with four. Mexican singer Luis Miguel won consecutively in 1994 for Aries and in 1995 for Segundo Romance; both albums also earned the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance. In 1999, the Pop Album of the Year accolade was shared by Mexican band Maná and Shakira with Sueños Líquidos and Dónde Están los Ladrones?, respectively. Both albums were nominated at the 41st Grammy Awards for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance, with Maná receiving the award. Spanish band La 5ª Estación, and Mexican groups Camila, Maná, Pandora, RBD, Sin Bandera, and Santana are the only musical ensembles to receive the accolade, the latter group also won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2017, Primera Cita by American band CNCO became the last recipient of the award. Mexican singer Cristian Castro was the most nominated artist without a win, with six unsuccessful nominations.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
Multiple wins and nominations
See also
Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocals
Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
References
Pop Album
Latin pop albums
Pop music awards
Awards established in 1989
Awards disestablished in 2017
Album awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Computer%20Association | The Digital Computer Association (DCA) was established in November 1952 in Santa Monica, California. It was disbanded in 1994.
The organization held monthly 2–3 hour technical dinner meetings at local restaurants attended by early computer engineers and computer programmers. The founder was R. Blair Smith, a local IBM salesman. He had two reasons for starting the organization: to recruit the help of all 18 IBM 701 customers in combating copyright infringement, causing salaries to increase; and to provide a forum for exchanging software programs to eliminate duplication of effort.
The DCA was loosely organized, met monthly, held an annual party and put out a newsletter. The group was run by a volunteer committee who selected the president (called the Fish). According to the rules of the organization, the newly elected president had to serve or move out of town.
At the monthly meeting, resumes and ideas were exchanged before the meal, and after the dinner an invited speaker addressed the group. Computer programming was still a relatively new field and people came to the meetings to keep abreast of new developments, techniques and products, as well as to check out local job opportunities and to socialize.
By 1966, the DCA was becoming less important and was terminated, as national organizations, such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) replaced it as the place to go for professional contacts and information. Shortly thereafter some old DCA members, missing the casual nature and camaraderie of the meetings, decided to resurrect DCA as a larger yearly event. This reincarnation was held in a hotel ballroom and dispensed with serious discussions.
The annual meetings started with a cocktail hour followed by a dinner with wine. When the dessert dishes were cleared and the wait staff had left the room, short skits were presented, starting with the "Welcome to the Virgins", which brought first-time attendees up to the podium to be adorned with the customary paper toilet seat cover. This was all punctuated by corks tossed toward the podium and from table to table. People saved their wine corks all year to cut into non-lethal sizes and throw at each other. It was quite unprofessional.
In 1972, a contest was held to create a DCA logo. The winner submitted a graphic of a magnetic tape reel with a martini glass in the center. Overlaid were the concentric letters D, C, A, and around the top circumference of the reel was the phrase "Since 1952" and around the bottom "FASTER THAN A SPEEDING CORK".
The DCA continued in this fashion through 1993. In 1994, it was disbanded. This was influenced by the occurrence of the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the subsequent confusion and movement of several people away from the Los Angeles area.
References
Sources
Organizations based in Santa Monica, California
Scientific organizations established in 1952
1952 establishments in California
Organizations disestablished in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntopng | ntopng is computer software for monitoring traffic on a computer network. It is designed to be a high-performance, low-resource replacement for ntop. The name is derived from ntop next generation. ntopng is open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) for software. Source code versions are available for the operating systems: Unix, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. Binary versions are available for CentOS, Ubuntu, and OS X. A demo binary is available for Windows that limits analysis to 2,000 packets. ntopng's engine is written in the programming language C++. The optional web interface is written in Lua.
ntopng relies on the Redis key-value server rather than a traditional database, takes advantage of nDPI for protocol detection, supports geolocation of hosts, and is able to display real-time flow analysis for connected hosts.
Sample use
ntopng --dns-mode 1 --interface 5 --daemon --redis localhost:6379 --verbose
Explanation: run ntopng executable, set DNS mode to decode DNS responses and resolve all numeric IPs, use fifth network interface, operate in daemon mode, use Redis server running on local host, and operate in verbose mode.
See also
ntop
References
External links
Network analyzers
Unix network-related software
Linux security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20Asian%20Wrestling%20Championships | The following is the final results of the 1991 Asian Wrestling Championships.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
External links
UWW Database
Asia
Asian Wrestling Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Iran
International wrestling competitions hosted by India
W
W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa%20Al-Bassam | Mustafa Al-Bassam (born January 1995) is a British computer security researcher, hacker, and co-founder of Celestia Labs. Al-Bassam co-founded the hacker group LulzSec in 2011, which was responsible for several high profile breaches. He later went on to co-found Chainspace, a company implementing a smart contract platform, which was acquired by Facebook in 2019. In 2021, Al-Bassam graduated from University College London, completing a PhD in computer science with a thesis on Securely Scaling Blockchain Base Layers. In 2016, Forbes listed Al-Bassam as one of the 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs in technology.
Early life and education
Al-Bassam was born in Baghdad, Iraq in January 1995, and migrated to London, United Kingdom when he was five years old. He received a BSc in Computer Science from King's College London, and is currently a PhD student at University College London.
Hacktivism
In 2011 as a 16 year old teenager, Al-Bassam was one of the six core members of LulzSec during its 50-day hacking spree, going by the alias "tflow". The group used denial-of-service attacks and compromised a number of high profile organizations and corporations, including Sony, Fox, News International, Nintendo and the CIA.
He was also affiliated with the online association of hacktivists known as Anonymous, where he was involved with the hacking of emails from HBGary Federal, an intelligence contractor for the U.S. government. The emails revealed that HBGary Federal was working to develop astroturfing software to create an "army" of fake social media profiles, and was hired by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to spy on and smear political opponents with fake documents and communications. As a result, members of the U.S. Congress called for an investigation into HBGary Federal.
Arrest and legal proceedings
On 20 July 2011, it was announced on Fox News and other press outlets that London's Metropolitan Police had arrested a 16-year-old student in London who was alleged to have used the nickname "Tflow" in a series of high-profile attacks on fox.com, the FBI affiliate "Infragard", PBS and Sony. For legal reasons, his name could not be disclosed for nearly two more years. On 9 April 2013, Tflow's full name was revealed along with his picture on multiple news outlets throughout the Internet. He pleaded guilty to computer misuse and received a 20-month suspended sentence with 320 hours of unpaid community service work. A nearly two-year internet ban imposed by police has since expired.
Career and research
Distributed ledgers
Al-Bassam has published research on scaling blockchains and cryptocurrencies. He contributed to the design and implementation of Chainspace, a blockchain protocol that makes use of sharding to increase transaction throughput. Chainspace was later spun-out into a commercial company he co-founded, and was then acquired by Facebook in 2019 to become a part of the Libra project. Al-Bassam has since been critical of Libra, stating that "the road to dystop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdash | libdash is a computer software library which provides an object-oriented interface to the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard. It is also the official reference implementation of the ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH standard, and maintained by the Austrian company bitmovin. The libdash source code is open source, published at GitHub, and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+.
The project contains a Qt-based sample multimedia player that is based on ffmpeg which uses libdash for the playback of DASH streams.
References
External links
Video libraries
Free video conversion software
Free codecs
Multimedia frameworks
C++ libraries
Cross-platform free software
Free software programmed in C++
Free computer libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Quintana%20%282013%20TV%20series%29 | Villa Quintana is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1995 Philippine television drama series of the same title. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Janine Gutierrez and Elmo Magalona. It premiered on November 4, 2013, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Mga Basang Sisiw. The series concluded on June 6, 2014, with a total of 153 episodes. It was replaced by The Half Sisters in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The series revolves around the love story of Isagani and Lynette, with family tensions driven from the past. Everything will change when Isagani's mother discovers a secret of the Lynette's family that will affect the fate of the relationship between Isagani and Lynette.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Elmo Magalona as Isagani "Gani" Digos Quintana / Isagani Samonte
Janine Gutierrez as Lynette Mendiola Quintana
Supporting cast
Raymart Santiago as Felix Samonte
Sunshine Dizon as Lumeng Digos-Samonte
Paolo Contis as Robert Quintana
Roy Alvarez and Al Tantay as Manolo Quintana
Maricar de Mesa as Stella Mendiola-Quintana
Tanya Garcia as Amparing Mangaron
Kyla as Ruby Quintana
Marky Lopez as Chito Quintana
Juancho Trivino as Jason "Jace" Quintana
Rita De Guzman as Patrice Mendiola Quintana
Guest cast
Mona Louise Rey as young Lynette
Will Ashley de Leon as young Isagani
Carl Acosta as young Jace
Franchesca Salcedo as young Patrice
Dexter Doria as Pilar Digos
Racquel Villavicencio as Amelia Samonte
Rez Cortez as Alfonso Mendiola
Anna Marin as Felicia Mendiola
Francine Garcia as Kadyo / Megan
Mikoy Morales as Boknoy
Abel Estanislao as Miggy
Shelly Hipolito as Joanne
Nicole Dulalia as Snooky Mangaron
Rhen Escaño as Eve
Lucho Ayala as Noah Angeles
Mara Alberto as Eden
Joyce Ching as Crystal Almario
Bettina Carlos as Janice
Katya Santos as Linda Carillo
Diva Montelaba as Yvette Carillo
Ashley Cabrera as Janice's daughter
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Villa Quintana earned a 13.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 15.1% rating.
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
Philippine television series based on Philippine television series
Television series reboots
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiators%20of%20Rome%20%28film%29 | Gladiators of Rome (Italian: Gladiatori di Roma) is a 2012 Italian computer-animated comedy film produced by Rainbow, a studio co-owned by Iginio Straffi and Viacom at the time. Viacom's Paramount Pictures released the film in North America while Medusa Film handled distribution in Italy. The film was directed by Straffi, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael J. Wilson. Gladiators of Rome had its world premiere in Italy on 18 October 2012.
While conceiving the idea for the film, Iginio Straffi chose to write about ancient Rome so that he could set the story in Italy while still appealing to an international audience. Gladiators of Rome is a spoof of serious films about gladiators, which Straffi said "easily lend themselves to parody." Paramount Pictures (the film unit of Viacom, which co-owns Rainbow) worked with the Italian team on both the casting and story for the film; Paramount asked for certain scenes to be changed for American audiences. The project was in development for over five years and became one of the most expensive Italian films ever made. Its production budget alone was estimated to be around $45–55 million in U.S. dollars, with promotion and advertising costs bringing its total to almost $80 million (70 million euros).
The film was a box-office bomb, grossing just 818,913 euros in its opening weekend. Triboo Media's Federico Boni wrote that "there could not have been a worse opening for the 'blockbuster.'" According to Box Office Mojo, the film ended its theatrical release with about $10 million worldwide. In 2016, Straffi presumed that the poor performance of the film was a result of the Rainbow studio's lack of experience with cinema.
Plot
It is the age of Imperial Rome, during the reign of Emperor Domitian. Young Timo is an orphan of Pompeii's terrible eruption, adopted by general Chirone and raised in the most famous Gladiators' Academy in Rome. However, Timo is not exactly gladiator material. He just wants to hang out with his friends, Ciccius and Mauritius, and avoid his stepfather's bizarre training sessions at all costs. When Timo meets and falls in love with the beautiful Lucilla, he decides to change his life and bring out the valor inside himself - valor that has never shown itself before. Through spells, crazy raids in the woods and the terrible trainings of a very personal lady trainer, Timo has to transform himself into the greatest gladiator of all time. And as they say, if "fortune favors the bold" in Rome hard times are awaiting for Timo and the gang.
Voice cast
Production
In November 2007, Iginio Straffi first mentioned that he was working with Michael J. Wilson on a comedy film, but it was "still a top-secret topic." The film was officially announced in October 2008 under the working title Versus Roma. It was tentatively scheduled for a release date in 2010.
Soundtrack
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
"The Final Countdown"
"The Best"
"Symphony No. 5"
"Everyday"
"Tears and Rain" - James Blunt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CipherGraph%20Networks | CipherGraph Networks is a computer networking software company specializing in cloud security based in Pleasanton, California.
History
CipherGraph was founded in 2011 by Jitender Sharan. The company was accelerated by Microsoft Startup Accelerator graduating in January 2013. CipherGraph won several awards like Microsoft BizSpark Startup Challenge, Nasscom Emerge 50 2012 among others. CipherGraph was added to the Amazon Web Services Partner Network in 2012.
CipherGraph was funded by Chamath Palihapitiya in 2012 through his investment fund Social+Capital Partnership, who joined their board.
Overview
CipherGraph Networks offers businesses security for data and applications hosted on public and private clouds. Their flagship offering is the CipherGraph Cloud Access Gateway.
CipherGraph Cloud Access Gateway
CipherGraph Cloud Access Gateway is a virtual appliance offering secure remote access for corporate employees with claimed connectivity from any location and device. CipherGraph Networks promotes its use to create a secure perimeter for cloud servers. It aims to be a replacement for VPN hardware in the cloud targeting businesses that are migrating to the cloud from their existing datacenter.
The virtual appliance is available for a number of cloud solutions such as AWS, OpenStack, Microsoft Azure as well as for various Virtualization Platforms. It is available in both free and paid versions through Amazon Web Services Marketplace. The paid versions are priced on an hourly basis with customers paying for actual usage as with other SaaS solutions. CipherGraph Networks claims compatibility with other cloud and virtualization platforms.
Features mentioned include features for the cloud along with enterprise grade Role-based access control, native Multifactor authentication and in-browser HTML5 apps for Remote Desktop Protocol and Secure Shell (SSH). The vendor mentions special focus on Regulatory compliance including support for the PCI DSS standard.
References
Companies established in 2011
Software companies based in California
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest%20Pipkin | Everest Pipkin is a drawing, game, and software artist from Central Texas, who produces intimate work with large data sets.
Early life
Pipkin's parents worked with a nonprofit organization called The Nobelity Project, and they began their artistic career as a young teen taking photographs for the organization's work. Pipkin graduated from Westlake High School in 2008, studied on a Young Masters grant at the Art Academy of San Francisco and Paris American Academy and finished by receiving a BFA at the University of Texas and an MFA Carnegie Mellon University.
Work
Pipkin makes drawings, computational artwork, generative poetry and other software, including games.
From 2011 to 2013, Pipkin ran Wardenclyffe Gallery, an Austin multidisciplinary art space. In 2013, Pipkin was a part of exhibitions at Greyduck Gallery, The Texas Biennial, and Fusebox Festival.
In 2016, Pipkin contributed to the art game anthology Triennale Game Collection with the piece The Worm Room, using images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. An updated standalone release was published in 2020.
In 2020 Pipkin created a tool called "Image Scrubber" in response to Black Lives Matter protests that allowed protesters to blur out faces and remove metadata from their images, this tool became widely used during the movement to protect protesters' safety. That same year they also created Shell Song, an interactive audio narrative game that explores deepfake voice technologies and the data sets behind them.
Awards
As an undergraduate student, Pipkin was named All State Artist by the Texas Art Education Association. In 2012, Pipkin won Artist of the Year - Early Career in the Austin Visual Arts Awards. Pipkin was a Hunting Art Prize finalist in 2015 and 2016.
References
External links
Living people
University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts alumni
Artists from Austin, Texas
21st-century American artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
American LGBT artists
American non-binary artists
Non-binary artists
Texas socialists
American socialists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro | SeaMicro, Inc. was a subsidiary of AMD that specialized in the ultra-dense computer server industry. It ceased operations on 16 April 2015.
History
In July 2007, Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, and Anil Rao founded SeaMicro. Series A investments from Crosslink Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson closed in December 2007. Khosla Ventures led the series B investment round in 2009. In 2012, SeaMicro was acquired by AMD for $334 million. The application of MicroSea servers were most prominent in data centers, such as the Gene Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for scientific research. In 2013, SeaMicro AMD collaborated with Verizon Communications to power their new cloud services. It has empowered Verizon to introduce fine-grained server configuration options that allow for more flexibility in instance-sizing by allowing administrators to select a processor speed between 500 MHz and 2 GHz and to scale DRAM up and down in 512 MB increments.
Products
The first product from SeaMicro was the SM10000, along with the SM10000-XE, which achieved Red Hat Certification in 2011 when operating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A more recent model, The SeaMicro SM15000 was also designed to support Citrix Xen Servers, VMware ESXi software, and both Linux and Microsoft Windows Operating systems. Specifications of newer versions have reached computing benchmarks of 5 petabytes of storage, 64 CPUs, a 1,000 Virtual machine capacity, and 1.28 Tb/s of bandwidth.> Another product of interest is the 10U Rack Unit, which can provide a total of 2,048 CPU cores, and 16 TBs of RAM and data is transferred through a custom "Freedom Fabric" for supercomputers unique to SeaMicro microservers.
Awards
GigaOM: GreenNet 2011: 10 Big Ideas Winners
Silicon Valley/ San Jose Journal: Best Emerging Cleantech Company 2011
2011 Best Electronic Design Winners: Computer Category
Platts: 2011 Rising Star award
References
External links
Architectural tradeoffs in the Sea Micro SM 10000 Server - Talk given at Stanford University by SeaMicro founder & CTO, Gary Lauterbach. (video archive)
2007 establishments in California
2012 mergers and acquisitions
2015 disestablishments in California
AMD
Computer storage devices
Supercomputers
Servers (computing)
Ultra-dense servers
American companies established in 2007
American companies disestablished in 2015
Computer companies established in 2007
Computer companies disestablished in 2015
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose%20%28company%29 | Bottlenose.com, also known as Bottlenose, is an enterprise trend intelligence company that analyzes big data and business data to detect trends for brands. It helps Fortune 500 enterprises discover and track emerging trends that affect their brands. The company uses natural language processing, sentiment analysis, statistical algorithms, data mining, and machine learning heuristics to determine trends, and has a search engine that gathers information from social networks. KPMG Capital has invested a "substantial amount" in the company.
Bottlenose processed 72 billion messages per day, in real-time, from across social and broadcast media, as of December 2014.
History
In 2010, Nova Spivack and Dominiek ter Heide co-founded Bottlenose with a team of web engineers. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. Bottlenose is a real-time trend intelligence tool that measures social media campaigns and trends. The company also provides a free version of its Sonar tool that shows real-time trends across social media.
In October 2012, the company received $1 million of funding from ff Venture Capital and Prosper Capital. By 2014, the company raised about $7 million in funding. In December 2014, KPMG Capital announced further investment in the company. In February 2015, the company confirmed it had raised $13.4 million in Series B funding led by KPMG Capital.
Bottlenose partnered with the nonprofit No Labels during the 2014 State of the Union Address to analyze Twitter conversations for bipartisanship. The company also partnered with media monitoring company Critical Mention to analyze broadcast analytics. The Bottlenose Nerve Center integrated with the Critical Mention API to analyze real-time trends in television and radio broadcasts.
In June 2014, Bottlenose updated its trend detection product to Nerve Center 2.0. It creates a newsfeed to show changes in trends and sends alerts when trends occur. It also has "emotion detection," which will displays the emotions associated with specific comments on trending topics. In 2016, Bottlenose released its Nerve Center 3.0 platform, which was designed to automate the work of data scientists and lower the cost of artificial intelligence for businesses.
See also
Sentiment analysis
Big data analysis
References
External links
Official website
Bottlenose Offers Real-Time Trend Intelligence For Social Media and Beyond
American social networking websites
Social media companies
Natural language processing
Research support companies
Technology companies established in 2010
American companies established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetle%20Mice | Meetle Mice is a self-released studio album by electronic artist Dan Deacon. Released on CD-R in 2003, it is a compilation of student work featuring computer music and various live recordings by Deacon during his schooling in 2003 at Purchase College. In 2011, Carpark Records re-released the album on vinyl.
Background
Looking back on the album in a 2011 interview with FACT Magazine, Deacon states: ”I was a very different musician back then trying to figure out how to interact with sound, what could be done with it, where it could go, learning music software for the first time, and discovering many more genres of experimental music than what I was exposed to in my youth on Long Island. It was an exciting time! Since then my aesthetic has shifted, my absurdist mindset subdued and I’ve been exposed to a global audience.”
Track Listing
"Sine Waves With Edited Vocals" – 2:10
"Never Do That" – 2:52
"Biggle Hat Was Ice–Cream Time (Card Shark Nose Nose)" – 6:40
"30" – 1:30
"Electronic With Clarinet And Bari Sax" – 3:06
"Song For Dina" – 4:28
"My Own Face Is F Word" – 5:20
"Drinking Out of Cups" – 2:43
"sdajhgthjk4gtjh4egwfhjdsgvnmxcbf4" – 7:38
"The Adventures Of Mr Bumbersine Featuring Dr Witherbean" – 3:33
"That's A Nice Shirt (Dad)" – 1:29
"Aerosmith Layer (Aerosmith Permanent Vacation 24162–2)" – 5:31
"Plums" – 2:37
"I'm So Gay With The Boner" – 2:03
"Aw Ah Ah Ah (Party Cakes)" – 1:43
"My Weasle Is Married" – 4:37
"I Have AIDS" – 2:42
"005 Sept22 BE" – 1:34
References
External links
"Dan Deacon's Official Site"
"Dan Deacon's MP3 Archive"
2003 albums
Dan Deacon albums
Carpark Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20hub | A sensor hub is a microcontroller unit/coprocessor/DSP set that helps to integrate data from different sensors and process them. This technology can help off-load these jobs from a product's main central processing unit, thus saving battery consumption and providing a performance improvement.
Intel has the Intel Integrated Sensor Hub. Starting from Cherrytrail and Haswell, many Intel processors offers on package sensor hub. The Samsung Galaxy Note II is the first smart phone with a sensor hub, which was launched in 2012.
Examples
Some devices with Snapdragon 800 series chips, including HTC One (M8), Sony Xperia Z1, LG G2, etc., have a sensor hub, the Qualcomm Snapdragon Sensor Core, and all HiSilicon Kirin 920 devices have sensor hub embedded in the chipset with its successor Kirin 925 integrated an i3 chip with same function into it. Some other devices that are not using these chips but with a sensor hub integrated are listed below:
References
Integrated circuits
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processors
Embedded microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Ackroyd | Ryan Ackroyd, Kayla and also lolspoon, is a former black hat hacker who was one of the six core members of the computer hacking group "LulzSec" during its 50-day spree of attacks from 6 May 2011 until 26 June 2011. Throughout the time, Ackroyd posed as a female hacker named "Kayla" and was responsible for the penetration of multiple military and government domains and many high profile intrusions into the networks of Gawker in December 2010, HBGaryFederal in 2011, PBS, Sony, Infragard Atlanta, Fox Entertainment and others. He eventually served 30 months in prison for his hacking activities.
After his release from jail, Ackroyd publicly stated during "a conversation with Lulzsec" that he believes Anonymous, other activists and like-minded should come together and attempt to change issues legally.
In December 2014, he gave his first ever lecture in an over-capacity lecture auditorium at Sheffield Hallam University for over 200 students, where he spoke about Lulzsec and their "50 days of lulz".
On his Twitter account, Ackroyd vowed to help the security of the systems he once breached, stating that he would "help secure and defend the systems in hopes we can all learn from each other, should I be given the chance to do so". He also added "For me, it wasn't about stealing people's information, I just wanted to show people how flawed their so-called secure systems are. People need to fix their stuff… I sent countless emails to companies and even government organisations and I was ignored. I soon realised I'd have to show them why they should secure themselves before they would listen. I'm like Jiminy Cricket, only when you don't listen I'd hit you really hard with my tiny umbrella so you'd do the right thing," he joked.
Rise to prominence
In 2011, Ackroyd was part of the small group of hackers who breached the security of HBGaryFederal.com through an SQL injection and is said to have social engineered the administrator of rootkit.com, HBGary's CEO's personal website to gain root access to their entire systems.
During the rise of the group "LulzSec", Ackroyd is said to be its most talented hacker, doing much of the security penetration along with Hector Monsegur. He hacked into fox.com, UK Bank Machines, Sony, PBS, the FBI, Bethesda Softworks, Senate.gov, Arizona Department of Public Safety, AT&T, AOL, Navy.mil, Infragard Atlanta, NATO Bookshops and others during LulzSec's infamous "50 Days of Lulz".
Ackroyd is responsible for the hack on Booz Allen, where Edward Snowden was an employee. He was also responsible for the hack into Gawker Media's computer networks in December 2010, in retaliation to what Ackroyd perceived to be behaviour condescending of Anonymous and other affiliated hackers.
During this time, Ackroyd hacked into hundreds of military domains to show vulnerabilities were in excess even in the most sensitive areas.
Arrest and legal proceedings
On 1 September 2011, Ackroyd's "lolspoon" Twitter feed went silent for the last time, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Xiaowei | Li Xiaowei (; born September 1964 in Feixi, Anhui) is a Chinese computer scientist. He is a professor and the Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Lab of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS).
Professional activities
Li has been vice-chair of the IEEE Asian Pacific Regional Test Technology Technical Council since January 2004. He was steering committee chair for the IEEE workshop on RTL and High-Level Testing from 2007 to 2010, and the IEEE Asian Test Symposium from 2011 to 2013. Li is also currently an executive member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), chair of the CCF Technical committee on Fault-tolerant computing and Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Computer Science and Technology..
Honors and awards
Li received the National Technology Invention Award (2012), by State Council of China, the China Quality Technical Award (2011), by China Association for Quality, the Wang Xuan Prize (2008), by China Computer Federation, and the Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize (2004), by Chinese Academy of Sciences.
References
1964 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
People from Hefei
Scientists from Anhui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asean%20cyber%20university%20project | ASEAN Cyber University (ACU) Project is an international project which was initiated by Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea (ROK). The main purpose of this Project is to contribute to reinforcing higher education in ASEAN region by the means of e-learning, and strengthening international relationships between ROK and ASEAN Member States.
As of 2013, five Member States, four Member Institutes, and one Institution have joined the ACU membership.
History
When a series of ASEAN-ROK Summits were held in 2009, Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN suggested ROK to establish a global cyber university to advance international human resource exchange and the overall educational programs in the ASEAN region. Propelled by this comment, Korean government undertook establishing an international online university.
As a follow-up step, ROK officials were invited to the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Education (SOM-ED) in November 2009 to brief the proposed ASEAN-ROK Cyber University.
After SOM-ED in 2011, the ASEAN Secretariat, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and ASEAN University Network (AUN) shared the “Master Plan for ASEAN Cyber University” and the Project began in earnest. Seoul Cyber University was nominated as an implementing partner of the Project by the Ministry of Education of ROK, for being acknowledged its know-how and experience in online education. ACU Project Task force was launched in 2012 and it has changed to ACU Secretariat located in Seoul Cyber University in 2013.
In March 2012, the 1st Meeting of ACU Project Steering Committee was held in Hanoi, Vietnam with representatives from Initial Members, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, AUN, and ROK in order to discuss and resolve agendum for the promotion of ACU Project. The Initial Members attended the MOU signing ceremony and promised to commit to the formalization of ACU Project. Thailand has joined ACU membership in 2013, and ACU Project is expected to expand its membership to 10 ASEAN Member States.
Structure
Ministry of Education (MOE) of ROK and ACU Secretariat are taking the lead of this Project.
ACU Secretariat organizes meetings of ACU Project Steering Committee which are held twice a year to discuss and decide key issues of ACU Project with members of Steering Committee attending. Representative from MOE chairs a meeting and Director General of ACU Secretariat serves as a secretary.
Hub Center, located in Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, is a head office where administrators and managers can control local e-learning centers and manage ACU Learning Management System (LMS) to activate the Credit Exchange Program among ACU Member Institutes. It also monitors contents operation and examines system and networks. Each Member Institute has its own e-learning center which can manage ACU online courses via ACU or local LMS.
Member States and Institutes
Cambodia: The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport , Institute of Technology of Cambodia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20Girls%20Night | Hollywood Girls Night is an American reality television series that aired on the TV Guide Network from November 27, 2011 to April 1, 2012. The series focuses on Ali Landry and Alison Sweeney as they host a girls night. The series is executive produced by Landry and Sweeney. No word has been announced on whether or not the series will return
Premise
The series follows Landry and Sweeney (known as the two "Ali's") and their attempt to throw their own girls night with their celebrity guests. Guests include Carnie Wilson, Tamera Mowry, Kristian Alfonso, Debbie Gibson, Patti Stanger, Daisy Fuentes, Garcelle Beauvais, Brooke Burns, Cheryl Burke, Kendra Wilkinson, Robin Givens, Tracey Gold, Kyle Richards, Sheryl Underwood, Denise Richards, La La Anthony and Niecy Nash
Episodes
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
Pop (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent%20on%20Youth%20%28TV%20series%29 | Accent on Youth was an Australian music variety television series that aired briefly on the Nine Network in 1958, from 25 January to around October, on Sydney station TCN-9. It evolved into a new series titled Bandstand, based on the United States series American Bandstand, which debuted shortly after Accent on Youth ended. Originally presented by John Godson, it quickly acquired TV news anchor Brian Henderson as new host. A music series aimed at teenagers, it evolved from the Nine's former music program TV Disc Jockey series. Broadcast on Saturdays, Accent was originally a 30-minute show aired at 6:00pm, later moved to 2:30pm and expanded to an hour at 2:00pm.
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
1958 Australian television series debuts
1958 Australian television series endings
Australian music television series
Pop music television series
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Monfries | Alice Monfries (born 13 February 1987) is a journalist and news presenter for the Nine Network in Adelaide.
Career
Monfries studied journalism at the University of South Australia and began her career at Messenger Newspapers, where she was recognised by the SA Press Club as the Best Up and Coming Journalist in 2010.
In 2011, she moved to the Sunday Mail, and in 2012 was named South Australian Young Journalist of the Year.
Later that year she moved to Network Ten Australia, where she worked as a reporter for Adelaide's Ten Eyewitness News and filled in as Weather Presenter.
In 2014, Monfries moved to the Nine Network as reporter for Nine News Adelaide.
She began presenting Nine Adelaide's Afternoon News bulletin in 2016 and the same year was named Broadcaster of the Year by the SA Press Club.
In 2017, she was announced as co-presenter of the new afternoon bulletin Nine Live Adelaide and began filling in for Will McDonald on Nine Adelaide's Weekend bulletin.
On October 31, 2017, Monfries reported from New York on the New York City truck attack after narrowly avoiding the terror attack while holidaying in the city.
In 2018, she moved to Sydney and began reporting for Nine News Sydney and the Today Show, and filling in as presenter on Nine News Early Edition, Nine's Afternoon News and Weekend Today.
In July 2018, she led the network's coverage of the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand, also filing for TVNZ and radio stations across Australia. In the moments after the final boy was rescued, she interviewed a member of the rescue team who broke into song, singing John Lennon's Imagine. The footage went viral around the world.
Personal life
Monfries is married to former professional cricketer Cameron Borgas.
In August 2019, she gave birth to their son, Max.
Monfries is an ambassador for the Leukaemia Foundation, hosting their flagship Light the Night events in Sydney.
She is also an ambassador for the RSPCA and the Women's and Children's Hospital.
References
Australian television journalists
Living people
Mass media people from Adelaide
Journalists from South Australia
Place of birth missing (living people)
Australian women television journalists
1987 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConceptDraw%20Office | ConceptDraw OFFICE is a proprietary office software suite of business productivity tools, developed by Computer Systems Odessa for use with either Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems.
ConceptDraw OFFICE is composed of mind mapping, project management and business diagramming tools.
The three components use the cross-format exchange technology, allowing users to employ a visual approach to information management whereby the same set of data can be shown as a mind map, Gantt chart, or business graphic design.
Components
ConceptDraw MINDMAP - Mind mapping and brainstorming tool. Developed for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
ConceptDraw PROJECT - Project management package. Developed for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
ConceptDraw DIAGRAM (previously known as ConceptDraw PRO) - Diagramming and vector graphics software. Developed for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
ConceptDraw Solutions - An online collection of add-ons, samples, and templates designed to solve specific professional tasks in education, project management, writing, business process modeling, software development, or engineering, among others. The suite uses its own proprietary set of file formats.
Versions
References
External links
Office suites for Windows
Office suites for macOS
Office suites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Broadcasting%20Co.%20v.%20Dish%20Network%2C%20LLC | Fox Broadcasting Co. v. Dish Network, LLC (C.D. Cal. January 12, 2015) is a copyright case in which the United States District Court for the Central District of California, by granting partial summary judgment, denied most parts of the copyright claims presented by Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) against Dish Network (Dish) for its service, a DVR-like device that allowed users to record programming that could be accessed later through any Internet-connected device (Dish Anywhere). The service offered by Dish also allowed users to record any or all Fox's (and the four major broadcast networks) prime-time programs (Prime Time Any Time or PTAT) and to automatically skips commercials (AutoHop).
Fox argued that Dish Network was guilty of copyright infringement and breach of contract. The district court held that Dish Anywhere did not infringe Fox's public performance right because the service only could be used by subscribers to get access to their own recordings. The recording action and the later transmission depended on the subscribers' engagement in a volitional action. Therefore, there was no direct infringement from Dish. Neither was there a secondary infringement of the company because Dish's users did not publicly perform by using Dish Anywhere.
Dish had a license from Fox that allowed it to transmit Fox's programing to its subscribers. When a user transmits programing from one device to another, he or she accesses something that is already in his or her possession from a different device, and this action is not a public performance within the meaning of the statute. The court held that PTAT did not directly infringe Fox's reproduction right because Dish did not engage in a volitional conduct. The recording was made in exclusive response to the user's command. Also, the court ruled that PTAT used by Dish's subscribers was fair use according Sony case.
Most, but not all, of Fox's claims were dismissed; ultimately an agreement was reached whereby AutoHop would only become available for Fox stations seven days after a program is transmitted; terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Background
According to the courts' previous holdings, and the summary judgment decision the factual background was as follows:
Procedural background
On May 24, 2012, Fox sued Dish for copyright infringement and breach of contract. On August 22, 2012, Fox filled a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin Dish from operating, distributing, selling, or offering Dish Anywhere, PTAT, AutoHop and any comparable features. On November 7, 2012, the district court denied the motion. Fox appealed the ruling to the 9th Circuit. On July 25, 2013, 9th Circuit affirmed. Fox's petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc was denied. On January 12, 2015, the District court granted partial summary judgment.
Challenged products and features
Hopper
In 2012, Dish started offering a Set-top box (STB) with digital video recorder (DVR) feature and video on demand (VOD) feature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demandbase | Demandbase is an account-based marketing (ABM), advertising, sales intelligence and data company. Its products provide business-to-business (B2B) companies sales and marketing support that helps users discover, manage, and measure target audiences. This includes identifying web visitors, targeting and engaging accounts, closing deals, and helping to grow customers. Demandbase One, the company’s suite of cloud products, provides account-based marketing (ABM) and ABX, B2B advertising, sales intelligence, and data capabilities. These products integrate into other advertising, marketing, and sales technologies including marketing automation, customer relationship management, web analytics, content and personalization, and other services.
History
Headquartered in San Francisco, Demandbase was founded in 2007 by then CEO Chris Golec. Golec was replaced as CEO by the company's Chief Revenue Officer Gabe Rogol in 2019, and left the company in 2021.
The company released Demandbase Central in August 2008. Demandbase Professional followed in February 2009.
Demandbase bought data provider WhoToo in 2015. This helped the company extend its targeting capabilities. In June 2016, Spiderbook, a data science startup, was acquired. In 2018, the company was the Forrester Wave Leader for account-based marketing.
In 2020 and 2021, Demandbase broadened its offering through significant acquisitions. In June 2020, the company announced the acquisition of another ABM solution, Engagio, which added the capability of nurturing accounts based on first-party data to Demandbase's ability to identify and target accounts through third-party data. Jon Miller, co-founder of Engagio, and previously of Marketo became Chief Marketing Officer at Demandbase.
In November 2020, Demandbase released Demandbase One, a new version of its platform, built by integrating Demandbase Classic and Engagio.
In May 2021, the company announced the acquisitions of B2B data and sales intelligence platform InsideView and technographics vendor DemandMatrix. This allowed the Demandbase suite, going forward, to incorporate a Sales Intelligence Cloud and a Data Cloud to complement its existing ABX (Account Based Experience) Cloud and Advertising Cloud.
Demandbase was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Account-Based Marketing Platforms.
Investors
In March 2013, Demandbase announced it had raised $15 million in its most recent funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. Demandbase's investors also include Sigma Partners, Altos Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Adobe Systems.
By 2017, Demandbase had raised a total of $158 million from investors including Salesforce Ventures, and Jackson Square Ventures.
References
Companies established in 2007
Companies based in San Francisco
2007 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem%20Heiser | Willem Jan Heiser (born 19 January 1949) is a Dutch social scientist who was Professor of Psychology, Statistical Methods and Data Theory at the Leiden University between 1989 and 2014.
Biography
Heiser was born on 19 January 1949 in Rotterdam. He received his PhD in 1981 from the Leiden University with a thesis entitled "Unfolding analysis of proximity data" advised by John van de Geer and Jan de Leeuw. In the year 1981-82 he performed Postdoctoral research at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Back at the University of Leiden in 1982 he joined the Department of Data Theory, were in April 1989 he was appointed Professor of Psychology & Statistics. Since 2007 he has been Scientific director of the Interuniversity Graduate School for Psychometrics and Sociometrics, and since 2008 also scientific director of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Leiden. From 2002 to 2015 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Classification.
Heiser's research interests are in the fields of "multivariate categorical data using multidimensional scaling and classification techniques... advanced clustering and classification methodology for FMRI data."
At his farewell speech on 31 January 2014, Heiser was knighted in the Order of the Dutch Lion by the mayor of Leiden, Henri Lenferink.
Publications
Heiser has authored and co-authored numerous publications
1981. Unfolding analysis of proximity data. Doctorate thesis Rijksuniversiteit Leiden.
1994. Models for Asymmetric Proximities. With Berrie Zielman.
2001. SPSS Categories 11.0. With Jacqueline Meulman. Chicago: SPSS, 2001.
Articles, a selection:
Heiser, Willem J. "Convergent computation by iterative majorization: theory and applications in multidimensional data analysis." Recent advances in descriptive multivariate analysis (1995): 157-189.
Groenen, Patrick JF, and Willem J. Heiser. "The tunneling method for global optimization in multidimensional scaling." Psychometrika 61.3 (1996): 529-550.
Meulman, Jacqueline J., Anita J. Van der Kooij, and Willem J. Heiser. "Principal components analysis with nonlinear optimal scaling transformations for ordinal and nominal data." Handbook of quantitative methodology for the social sciences (2004): 49-70.
References
External links
Prof. dr. Willem J. Heiser at Leiden University
Curriculum Vitae
1949 births
Living people
Dutch social scientists
Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of Leiden University
Scientists from Rotterdam
Psychometrika editors
Quantitative psychologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%2014 | Big Brother Brasil 14 was the fourteenth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 14, 2014, with the season finale airing April 1, 2014 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by journalist and interviewer Pedro Bial. The season is officially confirmed since March 2012 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo, which guaranteed the show's rights until 2016.
The grand prize is R$1.5 million with tax allowances, with a R$150,000 prize offered to the runner up and a R$50,000 prize offered to the 3rd place.
For the first time ever, three women reached together the Big Brother final. Also, for the first time, BBB had two female winners in back-to-back seasons.
Fitness model Vanessa Mesquita won the competition over lawyer Angela Munhoz and cam-girl Clara Aguilar with 53% of the final vote.
Production
Cast
Regional applications were due from March 26, 2013 to September 30, 2013. Regional auditions were held from June 22, 2013 to November 22, 2013 in ten different cities over Brazil.
National applications started on October 1, 2013 until November 15, 2013. The semi-finalist interviews were held late in November 2013 and the final casting interviews took place early in December 2013.
The game
Big Brother in fiction
A plot line on Rede Globo's primetime telenovela Amor à Vida, involved the character of Valdirene (Tatá Werneck) becoming a Big Brother Brasil housemate.
In the series, having dreamed of competing on the show, Valdirene ends up in a fake Glass house with Murilo (Emílio Orciollo Neto) and Jefferson (Celso Bernini). The trio was joined by blonde bombshell Ellen (Dani Vieira), who instantly became Val's greatest enemy. Ultimately, Valdirene "received" the most votes from the public (who did not actually vote) and secured a place in the Big Brother house.
Valdirene entered the actual Big Brother house on January 15, 2014, and her journey can be described as an emotional rollercoaster. During a 12 hour-stay, Valdirene kissed, celebrated and got involved in arguments with her fellow housemates (the actual Big Brother housemates who were instructed by the producers to play along with her).
In the morning of January 16, 2014, Valdirene was "evicted" after came in last in a fictional elimination challenge. She refused to leave and had to be carried by security on her way out of the house. Real footage of Valdirene in the house aired on the same day during episode 208 of Amor à Vida, with Tatá Werneck's improvisation acting skills being heavily praised by the critics and the public.
Big Brother Turbo
During the first week, for the first time ever, three housemates were evicted from the House (the first on day 3, the second on day 6 and the third on day 8) after separate rounds of nominations and public vote. This '3 weeks in 1' event was billed by the producers as BBB Turbo. On week 2, three more housemates left the game (the first on day 10, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary%20exposure%20assessments%20in%20the%20United%20States | Dietary exposure assessments in the United States involve the evaluation of dietary consumption and chemical residue data while taking into consideration additional factors that may affect a specified population of interest or sensitive population. The process of conducting a dietary exposure assessment involves the determination of the chemical residues on a particular food or foods and the calculation of the dietary exposure to these chemicals based on consumption data for the specified food or foods. A dietary exposure assessment allows a comparison to a relevant health standard such as the acceptable daily intake(ADI), the acute reference dose.
Definition
Dietary exposure assessments in the US involve the evaluation of dietary consumption and chemical residue data while taking into consideration additional factors that may affect a specified population of interest or sensitive population. The process of conducting a dietary exposure assessment involves the determination of the chemical residues on a particular food or foods and the calculation of the dietary exposure to these chemicals based on consumption data for the specified food or foods./ In the most simplified form, a dietary exposure assessment can be summarized with the following calculation:* Dietary exposure = food consumption X food chemical concentration
Purpose
Estimating or calculating the dietary exposure to a given chemical or contaminant allows a comparison to a relevant health standard such as the acceptable daily intake(ADI), the acute reference dose (ARfD) or a reference dose (RfD), or a level known to cause adverse effects in animal or human health studies. From this comparison, one can begin to assess the risk of adverse effects from a chemical or contaminant due to dietary exposure.
Components
Consumption data
In order to assess dietary exposure, it is necessary to understand the dietary consumption of the population being assessed. One must understand the diet of the population of interest, including the quantity and types of foods consumed, in order to determine the exposure to a chemical via the diet. Consumption data for a population of interest can be generated through various types of consumption surveys or it may be available in databases maintained by various government agencies and world organizations. These consumption surveys and databases are discussed in the following sections.
Surveys
Food consumption surveys are conducted by government agencies and world organization in order to maintain their respective databases. These consumption surveys are also conducted independently to generate data for specific assessment needs. Different types of surveys are used to generate consumption data. It is important to understand the strengths and weaknesses associated with the different types of surveys in order to choose the appropriate survey and interpret existing survey data properly.
Food supply surveys
Food supply surveys, also known as food balance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Harris%20%28journalist%29 | Sarah Harris (born 13 July 1981) is an Australian television presenter and journalist. She is currently a co-host on Network 10's The Project and previously co-hosted the morning talk show Studio 10.
Early life
Harris grew up in a block of housing commission flats in Mount Druitt, a western suburb of Sydney. She has one younger brother. Her father died of prostate cancer at 50. She is of Croatian descent through her grandparents, who emigrated to Australia.
Career
Harris studied journalism and international business at Queensland University of Technology. Her journalism career started in 1997 at the Seven Network in Brisbane, where she filed reports for Seven News and later Today Tonight.
In June 2001, she joined Prime Gold Coast News where she was a freelance television reporter and presenter. She then moved back to the Seven Network in Brisbane where she was a cadet news reporter and writer.
In 2002, Harris joined the Nine Network and became a reporter, researcher, and fill-in presenter on Extra. She also joined National Nine News as a reporter and Today. She delivered live reports from the scene of the Cairns Tilt Train derailment in November 2004, as well as Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s funeral in Kingaroy in 2005. She left Today in 2005 to become a reporter and fill-in presenter on National Nine News in Brisbane.
In 2007, Harris moved to Sydney to become a Today reporter and a fill-in news presenter. She was also a fill-in news presenter on Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News, Nine News Sydney and Weekend Today.
In 2012, Harris was the main fill-in presenter for Sonia Kruger on Mornings. She also filled in for Leila McKinnon on Weekend Today whilst she was on maternity leave.
In August 2013, she resigned from the Nine Network to join Network Ten's then new morning program, Studio 10 as a co-host with Ita Buttrose, Joe Hildebrand and Jessica Rowe.
She has also been a fill-in host on Network Ten program The Project.
In November 2014, Harris was announced as the host of Shark Tank.
In February 2016, Harris was welcomed to the No Agenda round table as a Black Dame by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak.
On 31 October 2016, Harris gained a Guinness World Record for Most Pumpkins Smashed in One Minute while dressed as Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family.
On 23 November 2022, Sarah announced that she would be leaving Studio 10 after hosting the show for nine years to become a new co-host of The Project in 2023 after the departure of the show's longest running co-host Carrie Bickmore in December 2022.
Personal life
Harris married information technology specialist Tom Ward in Sydney in 2014. Harris and Ward have two children. In March 2021, Harris announced that she and Ward are "taking time apart however we remain good friends and deeply committed to co-parenting our two beautiful boys".
In October 2017, Harris and Ward bought a $2.175 million home in Sydney's North Shore.
References
External links
Sarah Harris at Studio 10
Living peop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBox | A PirateBox is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a Wi-Fi router and a device for storing information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected to share files anonymously and locally. By design, this device is disconnected from the Internet.
The PirateBox was originally designed to exchange data freely under the public domain or under a free license.
History
The PirateBox was designed in 2011 by David Darts, a professor at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University under Free Art License. It has since become highly popular in Western Europe, particularly in France by Jean Debaecker, and its development is largely maintained by Matthias Strubel. The usage of the PirateBox-Concept turns slowly away from common local filesharing to purposes in education, concerning public schools or private events like CryptoParties, a crucial point also being circumvention of censorship since it can be operated behind strong physical barriers.
On 17 November 2019, Matthias Strubel announced the closure of the Pirate Box project, citing more routers having locked firmware and browsers forcing https.
Set up
As of version 1.0, there is an improved installation path, with only a few steps followed by an automatic install.
Raspberry Pi Setup
The PirateBox can be set up in Raspberry Pi. The steps can be followed in the reference article.
Uses
Users connect to the PirateBox via Wi-Fi (using a laptop, for example) without having to learn the password. They can then access the local web page of the PirateBox to download or upload files, or access an anonymous chat room or forum. All such data exchanges are confined to the PirateBox's local network and are not connected to the Internet.
Several educational projects use the devices to deliver content to students allowing them to share by chat or forum. The PirateBox is also used in places where Internet access is rare or impractical.
Devices which can be converted to a PirateBox
Android (v2.3+) devices: unofficial porting allowing to run a PirateBox on some rooted Android devices (example: smartphone and tablet computer). PirateBox for Android is available from Google Play (since June 2014).
PirateBox Live USB: allows one to turn a computer temporarily into a PirateBox
Raspberry Pi
Chip
Wi-Fi routers
Not an exhaustive list:
TP-Link MR3020 – the first device modified by Darts
TP-Link MR3040
Zsun WiFi Card Reader - hacked by installing OpenWRT, and there are efforts to produce easy installation instructions for PirateBox on this device.
The PirateBox official wiki has an up-to-date hardware-list of compatible devices.
See also
AirDrop
Nearby Share
FreedomBox, a project similar to the PirateBox (plug computer version)
Router (computing)
Shoutr, a similar Android solution
Sneakernet
USB dead drop, a similar concept
References
External links
Official Page, official forum
Linuxjournal.com
A Pirate Box for Sharin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radyo%201 | Radyo 1 is a major radio station of TRT. This network is the earliest radio network in Turkey. Radyo-1 is not a specialized network and presents programs of general interest, including news, science, art, literature, drama, sports, environment, economy, magazine and music.
Technical details
Originally the broadcast was on long wave and medium wave. But the infrastructure for MW transmission is now used by the regional radio services of TRT, and Radyo 1 is broadcast on FM band, except for the MW 927 kHz one which is still used for Radyo 1. Although there are many transmitter stations only those stations which are mainly directed to province capitals are shown below. The ERP power of these FM transmitters are 50 kW or more.
References
External links
Turkish radio networks
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias%E2%80%93variance%20tradeoff | In statistics and machine learning, the bias–variance tradeoff describes the relationship between a model's complexity, the accuracy of its predictions, and how well it can make predictions on previously unseen data that were not used to train the model. In general, as we increase the number of tunable parameters in a model, it becomes more flexible, and can better fit a training data set. It is said to have lower error, or bias. However, for more flexible models, there will tend to be greater variance to the model fit each time we take a set of samples to create a new training data set. It is said that there is greater variance in the model's estimated parameters.
The bias–variance dilemma or bias–variance problem is the conflict in trying to simultaneously minimize these two sources of error that prevent supervised learning algorithms from generalizing beyond their training set:
The bias error is an error from erroneous assumptions in the learning algorithm. High bias can cause an algorithm to miss the relevant relations between features and target outputs (underfitting).
The variance is an error from sensitivity to small fluctuations in the training set. High variance may result from an algorithm modeling the random noise in the training data (overfitting).
The bias–variance decomposition is a way of analyzing a learning algorithm's expected generalization error with respect to a particular problem as a sum of three terms, the bias, variance, and a quantity called the irreducible error, resulting from noise in the problem itself.
Motivation
The bias–variance tradeoff is a central problem in supervised learning. Ideally, one wants to choose a model that both accurately captures the regularities in its training data, but also generalizes well to unseen data. Unfortunately, it is typically impossible to do both simultaneously. High-variance learning methods may be able to represent their training set well but are at risk of overfitting to noisy or unrepresentative training data. In contrast, algorithms with high bias typically produce simpler models that may fail to capture important regularities (i.e. underfit) in the data.
It is an often made fallacy to assume that complex models must have high variance; High variance models are 'complex' in some sense, but the reverse needs not be true.
In addition, one has to be careful how to define complexity: In particular, the number of parameters used to describe the model is a poor measure of complexity. This is illustrated by an example adapted from: The model has only two parameters () but it can interpolate any number of points by oscillating with a high enough frequency, resulting in both a high bias and high variance.
An analogy can be made to the relationship between accuracy and precision. Accuracy is a description of bias and can intuitively be improved by selecting from only local information. Consequently, a sample will appear accurate (i.e. have low bias) under the aforementioned sel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magrunner%3A%20Dark%20Pulse | Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a puzzle game developed by Frogwares. It was released as a downloadable title on Microsoft Windows on 20 June 2013, PlayStation Network on 23 October 2013, and Xbox Live Arcade on 25 October 2013. Magrunner: Dark Pulse is set in a cyberpunk reimagining of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Storyline
The story begins as Xander, the CEO of Gruckezber Corporation, who is interviewed on 3D television as he announces the start of the contest using the corporation's magnetic technology, and that several contestants, known as "magrunners" will compete for the prize.
The player takes on the role of Dax, one of seven "magrunners" competing for the prize of being selected for a trip to outer space. Dax has to perform various puzzles in several large rooms, using the magnetic attraction and repulsion properties of some of the objects and equipment to be able to exit each room and go on to the next one. Dax is the only player without a corporate sponsor, and whose only assistance comes from Gamaji, a six-armed mutant who can communicate in 3D holography through a clandestine channel Gruckezber Corporation does not know about which can be activated when Dax is between puzzle rooms.
Dax faces the first of the nightmarish monstrosities of the mythos that now infest the realm. Gamaji reveals Xander's insane past to Dax as Kram goes mad with his exposure to the eldritch environment. Dax discovers the Soul Pillars feeding its power to the ritual gate that Xander has devised to free his master, Cthulhu. When Dax confronts Xander, he faces a greater threat — one of the Spawn of Cthulhu emerging through The Gate to herald the arrival of the Great Old One.
The eventual change from a clean, high-tech environment to a dirty, old-looking technology system, and later into interplanetary regions, is similar to the change from high-tech, "sterile" testing rooms into the "internal" systems and equipment in the game Portal.
Gameplay
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a first-person action puzzle game. Using Magtech glove, the player can power any other Magtech objects with different, colored charges: either green/blue or red. Objects charged with the same color will attract each other, while objects charged with different colors will repel each other. The developer has intentionally changed the real physics approach of conventional bipolarity of Magnets when the similar colors repel each other to expand game mechanics. Interacting with three or more objects simultaneously proves the necessity of this change.
The player navigates through training modules, solving dynamic puzzles, interacting with platforms, cubes, catapults, cube transformers, and other elements. As the game progresses, its mechanics evolve in different directions, allowing for varied gameplay as puzzles become more and more complex and elaborate. Eventually, the protagonist is joined by a robotic dog, Newton, to be used when the player needs a movable, chargeable object. If powered with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%20Prime%20Beast%20Hunters%3A%20Predacons%20Rising | Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising is a 2013 American computer-animated action adventure television film that concludes the Transformers: Prime television series. It was first broadcast on Hub Network on October 4, 2013. After the Autobots' victory on Earth, Unicron returns in possession of Megatron's body with the intent on destroying Cybertron, forcing Autobots, Decepticons, and Predacons to form an unlikely alliance to counter this threat.
Plot
Not long after Megatron's demise and the restoration of Cybertron, the Autobots celebrate as Optimus Prime knights Bumblebee a warrior. Optimus and Wheeljack embark on a journey to find the AllSpark, the source of Cybertronian life, leaving the other Autobots to hunt down the missing Decepticons Shockwave and Starscream. Meanwhile, at the bottom of Earth's ocean, Megatron is revived and possessed by Unicron, intending to destroy Cybertron. While searching for Shockwave and Starscream, Ultra Magnus and Smokescreen are attacked by their Predacon creations Skylynx and Darksteel, forcing Ratchet to return to Cybertron to treat their wounds.
Bumblebee, Smokescreen, Bulkhead, and Arcee track down Predaking in an attempt to find the new Predacons, but Predaking refuses to help them. After Bumblebee's team heads to Megatron's old fortress in Kaon on the imprisoned Knock Out's suggestion, they are confronted by Unicron and are forced to escape. Meanwhile, in the Theta Scorpii asteroid belt, Optimus and Wheeljack find the AllSpark's container. Despite an oncoming plasma storm that damages Wheeljack's ship, Optimus retrieves the container and begins returning to Cybertron. With Ultra Magnus wounded in action and Optimus unable to communicate with them, Bumblebee assumes temporary leadership of the Autobots.
Predaking begins searching for Skylynx and Darksteel, but finds Unicron instead. After easily defeating him, Unicron encounters Shockwave, Starscream, Darksteel, and Skylynx harvesting bones from a massive Predacon graveyard. Unicron overpowers Skylynx and Darksteel and resurrects the ancient corpses into undead Terrorcons; Starscream flees and Shockwave is seemingly killed by the Terrorcons. As the undead horde heads for the Well of All Sparks, the Autobots prepare to fight back while Ratchet stays behind with Ultra Magnus. Starscream sneaks on board the Nemesis and frees Knock Out and the captive Vehicon troops, but Knock Out defects and incapacitates Starscream before he can commandeer the ship and flee Cybertron. Predaking finds Skylynx and Darksteel at the Predacon graveyard, and the resulting brawl is interrupted by a wounded Shockwave, who suggests that they assist the Autobots. Unicron's undead army is confronted by the Nemesis and the Predacons at the Well of AllSpark, but the ship is shot down and Starscream escapes.
Optimus and Wheeljack return, but Unicron shoots down Wheeljack's ship, defeats Optimus, and seemingly claims the AllSpark. However, his Anti-Spark is pulled into the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20re%20Zappos.com%2C%20Inc.%2C%20Customer%20Data%20Security%20Breach%20Litigation | In re Zappos.com, Inc., Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, 893 F. Supp. 2d 1058 (D. Nev. 2012), was a United States District Court for the District of Nevada case in which the Court held that Zappos.com's customers were not held to the browsewrap terms of use because of their obscure nature. The courts also held that the agreement was unenforceable because Zappos had reserved the right to change it at any time without informing the customers.
This court decision set a precedent for businesses that use browsewrap agreements and/or include a clause in their agreements that allow them to change the agreements at any time.
The decision encouraged conversation on how a business should most fairly display its terms of use and how to avoid unfairness and ambiguity when writing them.
Background
Zappos has a customer base of over 24 million people. In January 2012, Zappos suffered a data security breach that gave hackers personal information of their customers. While the security breach exposed names, addresses, and phone numbers of Zappos customers, it did not expose the customers' credit card information.
After Zappos became aware of the security breach, Zappos sent an email to its customers notifying them of the security breach and advised that they change their login credentials on the site.
Several Zappos customers independently filed suit against Zappos claiming that their business model did not protect the valuable information of their customers.
Plaintiffs listed twelve causes of action for the suit accusing Zappos of not taking adequate measures to safeguard customers' personally identifiable information.
By June 2012, there were nine lawsuits in progress, originating from five court districts.
After the lawsuits multiplied, Zappos moved to consolidate these pre-trial proceedings into a centralized forum.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation agreed that centralization would help move the cases along by avoiding duplicate work. The most time-saving implementation being a resolution of the facts involved in the case and series of events leading to and following the security breach.
Because of the location of the plaintiffs, many suggested their home districts for the centralized proceedings: the District of Nevada, the Western District of Kentucky, the Southern District of Florida, and the District of Massachusetts.
The Judicial Panel concluded that the District of Nevada was most appropriate because the breached Zappos servers and their administrators were based in Hendersonville, Nevada.
On 14 June 2012, Zappos filed a motion to compel arbitration and stay action.
Such a motion would require that the Court stop proceedings on the consolidated suits that were arranged to take place in a single class action. Zappos would now require each individual plaintiff to go through an arbitration process.
This motion was held in a clause in Zappos's terms of use, which declared that disputes shall be resolved through confidentia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MemoQ | memoQ is a proprietary computer-assisted translation software suite which runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is developed by the Hungarian software company memoQ Fordítástechnológiai Zrt. (memoQ Translation Technologies), formerly Kilgray, a provider of translation management software established in 2004 and cited as one of the fastest-growing companies in the translation technology sector in 2012 and 2013. memoQ provides translation memory, terminology, machine translation integration and reference information management in desktop, client/server and web application environments.
History
memoQ, a translation environment tool first released in 2006, was the first product created by memoQ Translation Technologies, a company founded in Hungary by the three language technologists Balázs Kis, István Lengyel and Gábor Ugray. In the years since the software was first presented, it has grown in popularity and is now among the most frequent TEnT applications used for translation (it was rated as the third most used CAT tool in a Proz.com study in 2013 and as the second most widely used tool in a June 2010 survey of 458 working translators), after SDL Trados, Wordfast, Déjà Vu, OmegaT and others. Today it is available in desktop versions for translators (Translator Pro edition) and project managers (Project Manager edition) as well as site-installed and hosted server applications offering integration with the desktop versions and a web browser interface. There are currently several active online forums in which users provide each other with independent advice and support on the software's functions as well as many online tutorials created by professional trainers and active users.
Before its commercial debut, a version of memoQ (2.0) was distributed as postcardware.
Configuration
As of 2018, all supported memoQ editions contained these principal modules:
File statistics Word counts and comparisons with translation memory databases, internal content similarities and format tag frequency. memoQ was the first translation environment tool to enable the weighting of format tags in its count statistics to enable the effort involved with their correct placement in translated documents to be considered in planning. Another innovation introduced for file statistics was the analysis of file homogeneity for identifying internal similarities in a file or a group of files which might affect work efforts. Previously such similarities had only been identified in the form of exact text segment repetitions or in comparisons with translation unit databases (translation memories) from previous work.
File translation and editing grid A columnar grid arrangement of the source and target languages for translating text, supported by other information panes such as a preview, difference highlighting with similar information in reference sources and matches with various information sources such as translation memories, stored reference files, terminology databa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Pop%20Song%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year is an honor presented annually by American television network Univision at the Lo Nuestro Awards. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. However, since 2004, the winners are selected through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to "Qué Te Pasa" by Mexican singer Yuri. Spanish performer Enrique Iglesias holds the record for the most awards, winning four times on three different decades, "Si Tú Te Vas" (1996), "Experiencia Religiosa" (1997), "¿Dónde Están Corazón?" (2009), and "Bailando" (2015). Puerto Rican-American singer Ricky Martin has received the award three times, and is the current holder (as of 2016) with "Disparo al Corazón". Mexican performers Camila, Ana Gabriel, Juan Gabriel, and Luis Miguel, and Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira received the award twice. Puerto Rican singer Chayanne is the most nominated artist without a win, with eight unsuccessful nominations.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
See also
Billboard Latin Music Award for Latin Pop Song of the Year
Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Song
References
Pop Song
Latin pop songs
Pop music awards
Song awards
Awards established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash%20%26%20Grab | Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers is a 2013 documentary by Havana Marking based upon the international jewel thief network called the Pink Panthers. The film had a limited release on 31 July 2013 and had a wider release in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2013. It was pitched at the 2010 Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket prior to completion.
Synopsis
The film features Closed-circuit television footage from several of the jewel heists attributed to the Pink Panthers, who are credited with over 300 jewel thefts throughout the world. Interspersed throughout the documentary are interviews with various personas such as crime experts as well as anonymous interviews with persons claiming to be members of the Pink Panthers. Smash & Grab also features several segments that follow Mike (Tomislav Tom Benzon), Mr. Green (Daniel Vivian), and Lena (Jasmin Topalusic), fictionalized depictions of members of the Pink Panthers.
Reception
Critical reception has been largely positive. As of October 2, 2013, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has the film listed as 83% "fresh" based upon 15 reviews. The Guardian gave the film four stars, commenting that it "asks some fascinating questions – and has fascinating footage to match".
References
External links
2013 documentary films
2013 films
Documentary films about crime
British documentary films
Films about the Serbian Mafia
American documentary films
Serbian documentary films
Montenegrin documentary films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
2010s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vankya%20ornithogali | Vankya ornithogali is a plant pathogen, also called yellow star-of-Bethlehem smut. It may infect the plant Gagea spathacea.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Ustilaginomycotina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%20Office%20%28disambiguation%29 | A post office is a facility that is part of a postal network.
Post Office may also refer to several national postal services, including:
General Post Office, the former English and British postal service
Post Office Limited, retail post office company in the United Kingdom
United States Post Office Department, the former U.S. postal service
United States Postal Service, the present U.S. postal service
Canada Post, the present Canadian postal service
It may also refer to:
St Paul's tube station, originally known as Post Office from its position near the GPO East
Post office (game), a kissing game played by boys and girls
The Post Office (play), a 1912 play by Rabindranath Tagore
Post Office (short story), a 1923 short story by Dhumketu
Post Office (novel), a 1971 novel by Charles Bukowski
"Post Office" (2 Stupid Dogs), an episode of 2 Stupid Dogs
See also
Postal service (disambiguation)
General Post Office (disambiguation)
Central Post Office (disambiguation)
Old Post Office (disambiguation)
Post (disambiguation)
Palazzo delle Poste (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Little%20%28comedian%29 | Thomas Little (born 23 February 1985) is an Australian comedian, writer, actor, television and radio presenter. He currently co-hosts Carrie & Tommy on the Hit Network with Carrie Bickmore. He formerly was a co-host on The Project on Network 10.
Career
In 2013, Little performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and appeared at the festival's Gala show, which showcases five-minute sets of dozens of comedians. In early 2014, he returned to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a new show, "Ass Gangster", in 2019 with his show "Self Diagnosed Genius" and in 2021 "I'll See Myself Out".
Little has also performed live on Foxtel.
Television
Little has appeared on Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Celebrity Name Game, Studio 10, The Project and Hughesy, We Have a Problem.
In 2008, Little began writing for Channel 31's talk show, Studio A hosted by Dave Thornton and produced by RMITV. By 2010, he was promoted to host. After the sixth season of Studio A, RMITV management stated in a press release that they would be making changes to their Flagship Production in 2012 and announced that a new program, Live on Bowen, would be the show's successor.
In 2012, Little appeared at the Warehouse Comedy Festival, which converts an old warehouse into a pop-up comedy venue and films one-hour shows for viewing on the ABC.
In 2013, Little was announced as host of Network Ten's comedy and entertainment series, A League of Their Own and co-host of comedy chat show This Week Live alongside Dave Thornton, Tom Gleeson and Meshel Laurie. He also played Claudia Karvan's love interest on the ABC drama Time of our Lives
Little has been the comedic panelist on Ten's prime time entertainment news program The Project, filling the spot of regular Peter Helliar since 2014.
In 2016, Little hosted Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia, an improvisational comedy show, based on the British show of the same name on Foxtel network's The Comedy Channel.
In 2020 following lockdowns in Melbourne Little performed a show with live audience at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 'Tommy Little: Self-Diagnosed Genius' which was distributed on Amazon.
Radio
Little regularly filled in for Hughesy & Kate on Nova 100 whilst they were on holidays. In October 2013, Nova 100 announced that Little would join Meshel Laurie to host Meshel & Tommy early December 2013, replacing Hughesy & Kate. In October 2015, Little announced that he would be leaving Nova 100 at the end of the year.
In January 2017, Southern Cross Austereo announced that Little and Carrie Bickmore would host Carrie & Tommy across the Hit Network. The show airs weekdays from 3pm to 6pm.
Charity
In December 2018, Little set out and completed the Antarctic Ice Marathon in an effort to raise money for Project Rectum. They raised over $114,000.
References
External links
Tommy Little
Nova 100
Australian male television actors
Australian male comedians
Nova (radio network) announcers
Living peopl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudBioLinux | CloudBioLinux is an open-source project providing machine images for bioinformatics on cloud computing platforms. CloudBioLinux provides a build and deployment system which can deploy directly to desktop machines, to desktop Virtual Machines (VMs), or to cloud providers such as the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The project also provides a pre-built Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on Amazon EC2, and downloadable pre-built virtual machine images for the desktop virtual machine software VirtualBox and for use on a private Eucalyptus cloud.
Related projects
BioLinux provides linux distributions configured for bioinformatics. The CloudBioLinux project grew out of the BioLinux project.
The open-source CloudMan project builds on CloudBioLinux and Galaxy to provide pre-configured Galaxy virtual clusters on cloud computing platforms.
References
External links
CloudBioLinux website
CloudBioLinux repository on github
Bioinformatics software
Open-source cloud applications
Linux software
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20McCarey | Kevin McCarey is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning filmmaker and author. He has worked extensively for National Geographic Television and the Turner Networks as producer, writer and director of documentaries. His narrative film work includes festival winners Coyotes, San Juan Story and Extinction.
Early career
McCarey was raised in the Hudson River Valley of New York. He graduated from SUNY Maritime College with a B.S. degree and a merchant marine deck officer's license. From 1967–1970, he sailed on merchant ships as third mate. Most were tramp freighters carrying explosive cargoes bound for Vietnam. These early adventures at sea are recounted in his memoir Oceans Apart: the Wanderings of a Young Mariner.
In 1970, he took a job as captain of a small research vessel in Puerto Rico. There, McCarey became involved in the controversy over the naval bombardment of the island of Culebra. This experience is recounted in his memoir Islands Under Fire: The Improbable Quest to Save the Corals of Puerto Rico, a book described as "rich with humor, misadventure and triumph" in a starred review by Publishers Weekly.
In the 1970s, McCarey worked on environmental studies in the Hudson River, and oceanographic studies in the North Atlantic and South Pacific.
Career in film
In 1978 he left the sea to pursue a career in film. McCarey graduated from the University of Oregon in 1980 with an M.A. in Film Studies. In 1981, he was hired by Turner Broadcasting as a documentary filmmaker. There he worked as writer-director on the Peabody Award winning series Portrait of America. This acclaimed series, hosted by Hal Holbrook, created a portrait of America through its people and its landscape. McCarey's films documented such far-flung locales as American Samoa, Guam and the Marianas Islands—as well as Oregon, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In 1985, he produced and directed Trumpet of Conscience—a visual and musical interpretation of the last Christmas sermon of Martin Luther King Jr. Called "a rousing special" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and given four stars by the Chicago Tribune, the film aired on the Turner Networks every Christmas for twelve years.
In 1995, McCarey was series writer-director for Pirate Tales, a four-hour special blending dramatic reenactments and documentary footage. It was shot on location in the British Isles, the Caribbean, North Africa and aboard period sailing ships. Roger Daltrey hosted. "Writer-director Kevin McCarey pulls off an intelligent, densely detailed documentary/dramatization ..." wrote Variety.
His narrative work includes San Juan Story (1991), a comedy short he wrote and directed starring Jacobo Morales ("Bananas") and Rosana DeSoto ("La Bamba"). Premiering at the Kennedy Center, it won the Cine Golden Eagle and was among the final ten for a Best Live Action Short Oscar nomination.
McCarey's feature debut as writer-director, Coyotes (1999), stars Leo Gannon ("Prince of Tides") and Kirsten Carmod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Package | Hot Package is an Adult Swim entertainment variety show, created by Derrick Beckles. The show parodies network entertainment shows such as Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood. Instead of sourcing its news from real celebrities, TV shows, and films, all of Hot Package's "entertainment" news comes from found footage, including clips from forgotten B films and bizarre TV shows. The show is hosted by Derrick Beckles, Pat O'Brien, Anastasia Roark, and Mark McGrath, and features colorful guests, makeovers, and interview segments. Hot Package, produced by Abso Lutely Productions, Abominable Pictures, TV Carnage, and Williams Street, premiered on October 4, 2013, and has currently aired eleven episodes. On May 9, 2014, Adult Swim confirmed that Hot Package would be returning for a second season.
The second season of Hot Package premiered on February 27, 2015. Special guest stars include: Mark McGrath, celebrity stalker Jeff Deane Turner, paperback hunk Fabio, ex-Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, and cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger.
Segments
The show features a wide variety of segments parodying those found in entertainment news shows. Some of these segments include:
HP Exclusive – Fake entertainment news based on an out-of-context film, TV, or found footage clip.
Ones on One – Derrick interviews an obscure figure from film or television as if he/she were a celebrity guest.
Hollywood Makeover – Derrick gives someone a makeover based on a "Hollywood hunk" from an obscure film/TV clip (such as Jon McBride in Cannibal Campout). Despite a wide number of film sources being used as inspiration, from action B-movies to LSD scare films, the makeovers largely turn out the same each time, usually with no reference to the film in question.
Countdowns – A list of themed film clips.
Curtain Raiser – Movie reviews. Again, the movie is always obscure, but treated like a recent Hollywood film.
Bloopers – Embarrassing found footage.
Hot Package episodes
References
Notes
Sources
Jefferies, Adrianne. "Adult Swim shows Comic-Con its weird new 'Hot Package'" on The Verge. (July 20, 2013)
Lynn, Steve. "Hot Package at Comic Con on I Heart Comix (July 25, 2013)
External links
Official Facebook page
2013 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
2010s American late-night television series
2010s American satirical television series
2010s American sketch comedy television series
2010s American variety television series
Adult Swim original programming
American news parodies
2010s American video clip television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Abso Lutely Productions
Television series by Williams Street |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabWare | LabWare, Inc. is an American developer of laboratory informatics software, such as laboratory information management systems, electronic laboratory notebooks and laboratory data analytics. It is a Delaware corporation, with offices in Wilmington, Delaware.
History
The company was founded in 1987 by Vance Kershner, who is president and CEO. It has offices in fifteen countries, with customers in ninety. The head office is in Wilmington, Delaware, with a training facility at Oberod Estate in Centreville.
Pharmaceutical clients include Wyeth, Teva, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb; other users are in the food and beverage, forensics, nuclear power, environmental and water testing industries. The software is used to test for water, soil, food and air quality in the United States, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa.
In March 2022, LabWare acquired CompassRed, a data analytics company.
Awards
LabWare won the Scientific Computing and Instrumentation’s Readers’ Choice Award in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) category each year between 2000 and 2008. LabWare LIMS won a Frost & Sullivan Product Quality Leadership Award in 2004, and the company won Frost and Sullivan's European Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Company of the Year Award in 2008.
References
External links
Official Site
Software companies based in Delaware
Research support companies
Companies based in Wilmington, Delaware
Software companies established in 1987
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Boom%20%28TV%20series%29 | Sonic Boom is a computer-animated television series produced by Sega of America, Inc. and Technicolor Animation Productions in collaboration with Lagardère Thématiques and Jeunesse TV, respectively for Cartoon Network, Canal J and Gulli. Loosely based on the video game franchise Sonic the Hedgehog created by Sega, the series is the fifth animated television series based on the franchise and the first to be produced in computer-generated imagery animation and in high-definition.
The series premiered in November 2014. The series is a part of the Sonic Boom spin-off franchise, which also consists of three video games: Rise of Lyric, Shattered Crystal, and Fire & Ice; a comic series by Archie Comics, and a toyline by Tomy.
Premise
The series focuses on the adventures of Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles and Sticks—the main characters in the Sonic Boom series of video games—as they protect their home village on Seaside Island from attacks by Doctor Eggman and his robot creations, as well as other villains and hostile beings. Each episode mainly features a stand-alone plot that mainly features comedic elements, with characters facing various issues and problems that impact their efforts to defend their homes.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Sega confirmed various cast and characters for Sonic Boom on February 25, 2014. On May 29, 2014, Sega announced that Nika Futterman will play the role of Sticks, a jungle badger, who joined the franchise as a major character.
Several new characters were also created for Sonic Boom, such as Mayor Fink, Fastidious Beaver and Perci. Jack Fletcher works as the show's voice director, a role he has also held for the video game series since 2010.
Sonic the Hedgehog (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) is Team Sonic's leader in the series, a blue hedgehog with super speed. Sonic is good-natured and brave, but can be inconsiderate of others' feelings, sarcastic, and impatient. He also enjoys the benefits of being a hero and dislikes competition. Unlike most incarnations, the Sonic Boom version of Sonic has blue-furred arms and wears a brown neckerchief around his neck and athletic sports tape on his wrists and shoes.
Miles "Tails" Prower (voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey) is a two-tailed yellow fox who is Sonic's sidekick and best friend and the youngest of the group. He sports goggles and a tool belt and serves as the group's mechanic and technology expert. Tails' inventions do not always work out as intended, though he's highly competent in his abilities. He maintains the same personality overall, though he can be immature and cynical at times.
Knuckles (voiced by Travis Willingham) is a red echidna and the muscle of Team Sonic, whose redesign for Sonic Boom is the most drastic of any Sega character altered for the series; Knuckles is considerably taller than most versions of the character, appears more muscular and wears sports tape around his hands as opposed to spiked boxing gloves. Whereas other versions of Knuckles have a history o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20H.%20Sussenguth | Edward H. Sussenguth Jr. (October 10, 1932 – November 22, 2015) was an American engineer and former IBM employee, known best for his work on Systems Network Architecture (SNA). He was also a contributor to the architecture of IBM's Advanced Computer System (ACS).
Biography
Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Sussenguth received a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in 1954 from Harvard University, a Master of Science (M.S.) in electrical engineering in 1959 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1964 from Harvard.
After he served at the United States Navy as an officer in the Pacific Fleet, Sussenguth joined IBM in 1959. Sussenguth started in 1959 in the Research Division in the development of formal language descriptions.
This work led to Sussenguth meeting Kenneth E. Iverson and Adin Falkoff. Iverson had developed a formal notation, which was documented in a book A Programming Language. It was the original version of the programming language APL. Chapter 2 of A Programming Language had used Iverson's notation to describe the IBM 7090 computer. In early 1963, Falkoff, later joined by Iverson and Sussenguth, proceeded to use the notation to produce a formal description of the IBM System/360 computer then under design. The result was published in 1964 in a double issue of the IBM Systems Journal, thereafter known as the "grey book" or "grey manual". The book was used in a course on computer systems design at the IBM Systems Research Institute.
In 1965, Sussenguth joined the IBM Advanced Computer Systems project (ACS-1) to work on high performance computers. In 1970, he became Director of Architecture and Planning in the new Communications Systems Division, where he turned his attention to networking and high speed communications. In the last year before his retirement in 1990, he was appointed first President of the IBM Academy of Technology, which he held for a year.
Sussenguth was an advisor to the National Bureau of Standards and a visiting professor at some universities. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and received multiple awards and honors, including: in 1981, an IBM Fellowship for "technical leadership in the development of system network architecture"; in 1988, the Data Communications Interface Award; in 1989, the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal; in 1992, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (computer science).
Publications
Sussenguth has authored and co-authored multiple publications, including:
References
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National Academy of Engineering (NAE): Dr. Edward H. Sussenguth
1932 births
2015 deaths
21st-century American engineers
Harvard University alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
IBM employees
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Systems Network Architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA%20Express | SATA Express (sometimes unofficially shortened to SATAe) is a computer bus interface that supports both Serial ATA (SATA) and PCI Express (PCIe) storage devices, initially standardized in the SATA 3.2 specification. The SATA Express connector used on the host side is backward compatible with the standard SATA data connector, while it also provides two PCI Express lanes as a pure PCI Express connection to the storage device.
Instead of continuing with the SATA interface's usual approach of doubling its native speed with each major version, SATA 3.2 specification included the PCI Express bus for achieving data transfer speeds greater than the SATA 3.0 speed limit of 6 Gbit/s. Designers of the SATA interface concluded that doubling the native SATA speed would take too much time to catch up with the advancements in solid-state drive (SSD) technology, would require too many changes to the SATA standard, and would result in a much greater power consumption compared with the existing PCI Express bus. As a widely adopted computer bus, PCI Express provides sufficient bandwidth while allowing easy scaling up by using faster or additional lanes.
In addition to supporting legacy Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) at the logical interface level, SATA Express also supports NVM Express (NVMe) as the logical device interface for attached PCI Express storage devices. While the support for AHCI ensures software-level backward compatibility with legacy SATA devices and legacy operating systems, NVM Express is designed to fully utilize high-speed PCI Express storage devices by leveraging their capability of executing many I/O operations in parallel.
History
The Serial ATA (SATA) interface was designed primarily for interfacing with hard disk drives (HDDs), doubling its native speed with each major revision: maximum SATA transfer speeds went from 1.5 Gbit/s in SATA 1.0 (standardized in 2003), through 3 Gbit/s in SATA 2.0 (standardized in 2004), to 6 Gbit/s as provided by SATA 3.0 (standardized in 2009). SATA has also been selected as the interface for gradually more adopted solid-state drives (SSDs), but the need for a faster interface became apparent as the speed of SSDs and hybrid drives increased over time. As an example, some SSDs available in early 2009 were already well over the capabilities of SATA 1.0 and close to the SATA 2.0 maximum transfer speed, while in the second half of 2013 high-end consumer SSDs had already reached the SATA 3.0 speed limit, requiring an even faster interface.
While evaluating different approaches to the required speed increase, designers of the SATA interface concluded that extending the SATA interface so it doubles its native speed to 12 Gbit/s would require more than two years, making that approach unsuitable for catching up with advancements in SSD technology. At the same time, increasing the native SATA speed to 12 Gbit/s would require too many changes to the SATA standard, ending up in a more costly and less |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Taffer | Jonathan Peter Taffer (born November 7, 1954) is an American entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known for hosting the reality series Bar Rescue on Paramount Network and Face the Truth on CBS with Vivica A. Fox.
Early life
Taffer was born in Great Neck, New York on November 7, 1954, to Russian-Jewish parents. He graduated from William A. Shine Great Neck South High School in Great Neck in 1972 and, after a short time at the University of Denver studying political science and minoring in cultural anthropology, he relocated to Los Angeles.
Career
Taffer was born into a family of entrepreneurs. He first worked as a bartender in 1973 for Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood while performing as a drummer in a band.
Taffer's first bar management job was at The Troubadour night club in West Hollywood in 1978. He was given full control of the bar in 1981 where staff theft was rife. He opened his first bar as owner in 1989.
In 1989, Taffer patented an apparatus and method for selecting and playing music.
Taffer is credited with creating the NFL Sunday Ticket pay programming package, which was launched in 1994, and was instrumental in the marketing, distribution and sales programs of that endeavor, for which he served on the board of NFL Enterprises for three years.
In 2010, he was appointed as president of the Nightclub and Bar Media Group, a division of Questex Media Group, which is responsible for Nightclub & Bar Magazine as well as the annual Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show.
He was one of the first six inductees in the Nightclub Hall of Fame. On July 17, 2011, a reality television series, Bar Rescue, premiered on Spike TV (now the Paramount Network), that follows Taffer as he revitalizes failing bars and nightclubs across the United States. His wife Nicole occasionally appears on the show as a mystery shopper who assesses the quality of the bar before Taffer does the makeover.
In October 2013, New Harvest published Raise the Bar: An Action-Based Method for Maximum Customer Reactions, a book by Taffer and co-writer Karen Kelly, detailing the knowledge that Taffer acquired over the course of 40 years in the bar and nightlife business.
In November 2014, Taffer developed BarHQ, an all-inclusive bar and nightclub management app.
Taffer has a podcast called No Excuses, in which he interviews celebrity guests and discusses current events. New episodes premiere on Tuesdays on the PodcastOne network.
In 2018, Taffer became one of the hosts on CBS television series Face the Truth.
In May 2019, it was announced that Taffer would host a spinoff Paramount Network show called Marriage Rescue, where he would work to save couples' failing relationships. The spinoff series premiered on June 2, 2019. The series follows 12 couples as Taffer uses the Gestalt therapy to help them work through their issues.
Personal life
Taffer lives in Las Vegas. He has been married to his wife Nicole, since 2000. Taffer also has a daughter named S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPAdes%20%28software%29 | SPAdes (St. Petersburg genome assembler) is a genome assembly algorithm which was designed for single cell and multi-cells bacterial data sets. Therefore, it might not be suitable for large genomes projects.
SPAdes works with Ion Torrent, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, and Illumina paired-end, mate-pairs and single reads.
SPAdes has been integrated into Galaxy pipelines by Guy Lionel and Philip Mabon.
Background
Studying the genome of single cells will help to track changes that occur in DNA over time or associated with exposure to different conditions. Additionally, many projects such as Human Microbiome Project and antibiotics discovery would greatly benefit from Single-cell sequencing (SCS). SCS has an advantage over sequencing DNA extracted from large number of cells. The problem of averaging out the significant variations between cells can be overcome by using SCS.
Experimental and computational technologies are being optimized to allow researchers to sequence single cells. For instance, amplification of DNA extracted from a single cell is one of the experimental challenges. To maximize the accuracy and quality of SCS, a uniform DNA amplification is needed. It was demonstrated that using multiple annealing and looping-based amplification cycles (MALBAC) for DNA amplification generates less biasness compared to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or multiple displacement amplification (MDA). Furthermore, it has been recognized that the challenges facing SCS are computational rather than experimental. Currently available assembler, such as Velvet, String Graph Assembler (SGA) and EULER-SR, were not designed to handle SCS assembly. Assembly of single cell data is difficult due to non-uniform read coverage, variation in insert length, high levels of sequencing errors and chimeric reads. Therefore, the new algorithmic approach, SPAdes, was designed to address these issues.
SPAdes assembly approach
SPAdes uses k-mers for building the initial de Bruijn graph and on following stages it performs graph-theoretical operations which are based on graph structure, coverage and sequence lengths. Moreover, it adjusts errors iteratively.
The stages of assembly in SPAdes are:
Stage 1: assembly graph construction. SPAdes employs multisized de Bruijn graph (See below), which detects and removes bulge/bubble and chimeric reads.
Stage 2: k-bimer (pairs of k-mers) adjustment. Exact distances between k-mers in the genome (edges in the assembly graph) are estimated.
Stage 3: paired assembly graph construction.
Stage 4: contig construction. SPAdes outputs contigs and allows to map reads back to their positions in the assembly graph after graph simplification (backtracking).
Details on SPAdes assembly
SPAdes was designed to overcome the problems associated with the assembly of single cell data as follows:
1. Non-uniform coverage.
SPAdes utilizes multisized de Bruijn graph which allows employing different values of k. It has been suggested to use smaller values of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco%20Hudl | The Tesco Hudl was a tablet computer launched by British retailer Tesco in 2013. The device featured a seven-inch screen, a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor and 16 GB of internal flash memory (expandable up to 64 GB). The Hudl ran the Android Jelly Bean operating system and was manufactured by Wistron.
In April 2014, it was announced that Tesco had sold 500,000 Hudl tablets since launch, and a new model was planned. The second generation Hudl 2 was announced in October 2014. However, in October 2015 the brand was discontinued.
Rooting
The Tesco Hudl was mostly vanilla Android with only some vendor customisation, and therefore could be rooted. The root required users to flash an altered file which grants root permissions.
Accessories
A range of accessories were available for the device, including a leather case, a soft-touch case, ear-bud headphones, children's headphones, a protective bumper case, a screen protection kit and recharging cables.
Discontinuation and Server Shut Down
On the 26 June 2020 one of Tesco's main support server SSL certificates expired and Tesco did not renew it. This meant that whilst the server was still available, technical workarounds were required in order to access it. This does not effect the day-to-day use of the Hudl tablet, but causes massive problems when a factory reset is performed. During part of the start up process the tablet attempts to access this server, but the attempt is always unsuccessful (because of the invalid SSL certificate). This effectively blocks the start up process and completely bricks the device. The error is displayed as a WiFi problem. As stated, there are workarounds that can fix the problem (by changing the system date on the tablet), but they will only work for as long as the Tesco server remains operational - a Tesco server switch off is an inevitability with an unknown timeframe. For this reason it is strongly recommended that users do not factory reset Hudl devices.
References
External links
Tablet computers
Tesco
Touchscreen portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20and%20Care%20Research%20Wales | Health and Care Research Wales is a networked organisation, supported by the Welsh Government, which brings together a wide range of partners across NHS Wales, universities and research institutions, local authorities, and others.
The organisations works in close partnership with other government agencies and research funders; industry partners; patients; public and other stakeholders. Work together to promote research into diseases, treatments, services and outcomes that can lead to discoveries and innovations which can improve and even save people's lives.
Vision, aims and objectives
Health and Care Research Wales' goal is to ensure that today's research makes a difference to tomorrow's care.
Health and Care Research Wales’ mission is to promote, support and provide collective oversight of health and social care research in Wales to ensure it is of the highest international scientific quality, is relevant to the needs and challenges of health and care in Wales, and makes a difference to policy and practice in ways that improve the lives of patients, people and communities in Wales.
Involving patients, service users, carers and the public is key to our work in order to ensure the research we support is relevant and effectively delivered.
References
Medical and health organisations based in Wales
Research organisations based in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prva%20Plus | Prva Plus is a Serbian cable television channel owned by Antenna Group.
Programmings
Series and miniseries
2 Broke Girls (Dve devojke bez love)
Betty White's Off Their Rockers (Beti Vajt i otkačeni matorci)
Budva na pjenu od mora
Scream Queens (2015 TV series) (Kraljice Vriska)
Cold Case (Zločini iz prošlosti)
Crni Gruja
Friends (Prijatelji)
Gilmore Girls (Gilmorove)
Gossip Girl (Tračara)
Hart of Dixie (Južnjačko srce)
Human Target (Živa meta)
La Femme Nikita (Nikita)
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes (Lasko – božja pesnica)
Lilyhammer (Lilihamer)
Lipstick Jungle (Štiklama do vrha)
Lost (Izgubljeni)
My So-Called Life (Moj takozvani život)
Nadrealna televizija
Nikita (Nikita)
Otvorena vrata
Person of Interest (Stalna meta)
Pevaj, brate!
Revolution (Revolucija)
Royal Pains (Privatni doktor)
The Following (Sledbenici)
The O.C. (Okrug Orindž)
The Vampire Diaries (Vampirski dnevnici)
Two and a Half Men (Dva i po muškarca)
Without a Trace (Bez traga)
Animated series
Shaun the Sheep (Ovčica Šone)
The Flintstone Comedy Show (Kremenkov šou)
The Flintstone Kids (Kremenčići)
The Tom and Jerry Show (Tom i Džeri šou)
TV and reality series/shows
America's Funniest Home Videos (Najsmešniji kućni video)
Dama bez blama (local version of Ladykracher)
Dođi na večeru (local version of Come Dine with Me)
Dosije
Keš taksi (local version of Cash Cab)
Moja mama kuva bolje od tvoje (local version of My Mom Cooks Better Than Yours)
Moje novo JA (local version of Extreme Makeover)
Paklena kuhinja (local version of Kitchen Nightmares)
Prvi glas Srbije (local version of Rise or Fall)
Radna akcija (local version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition)
Šatra (local version of Among the Gypsies)
Spot Central (Najsmešnije reklame)
The Amazing Race (Trka oko sveta)
Logo
The logo has designed in October 2013, using the font for upper-case word "PRVA" of original Prva logo with thicker letters above upper-case word "PLUS". From 2013 to 2017, the logo was put into upper left corner of the screen. From 2017 onwards, the logo puts into upper right corner of the screen and has now dropped from upper left corner.
References
External links
Television stations in Serbia
Television channels and stations established in 2013
ANT1 Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential%20Policy%20Directive%2020 | Presidential Policy Directive 20 (PPD-20), provides a framework for U.S. cybersecurity by establishing principles and processes. Signed by President Barack Obama in October 2012, this directive supersedes National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-38. Integrating cyber tools with those of national security, the directive complements NSPD-54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-23.
Classified and unreleased by the National Security Agency (NSA), NSPD-54 was authorized by George W. Bush. It gives the U.S. government power to conduct surveillance through monitoring.
Its existence was made public in June 2013 by former intelligence NSA infrastructure analyst Edward Snowden.
Background
Because of private industry, and issues surrounding international and domestic law, public-private-partnership became the, "cornerstone of America's cybersecurity strategy". Suggestions for the private sector were detailed in the declassified 2003, National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Its companion document, National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD-38), was signed in secret by George W. Bush the following year.
Although the contents of NSPD 38 are still undisclosed, the U.S. military did not recognize cyberspace as a "theater of operations" until the U.S. National Defense Strategy of 2005. The report declared that the, "ability to operate in and from the global commons-space, international waters and airspace, and cyberspace is important ... to project power anywhere in the world from secure bases of operation." Three years later, George W. Bush formed the classified Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI).
Citing economic and national security, the Obama administration prioritized cybersecurity upon taking office. After an in-depth review of the, "communications and information infrastructure," the CNCI was partially declassified and expanded under President Obama. It outlines "key elements of a broader, updated national U.S. cybersecurity strategy." By 2011, the Pentagon announced its capability to run cyber attacks.
General
After the U.S. Senate failed to pass the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 that August, Presidential Policy Directive 20 (PPD-20) was signed in secret. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Freedom of Information Request to see it, but the NSA would not comply. Some details were reported in November 2012. The Washington Post wrote that PPD-20, "is the most extensive White House effort to date to wrestle with what constitutes an 'offensive' and a 'defensive' action in the rapidly evolving world of cyberwar and cyberterrorism." The following January, the Obama administration released a ten-point factsheet.
Controversy
On June 7, 2013, PPD-20 became public. Released by Edward Snowden and posted by The Guardian, it is part of the 2013 Mass Surveillance Disclosures. While the U.S. factsheet claims PPD-20 acts within the law and is, "consistent with the values that we promote domestically and inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Weinreich | Andrew Weinreich ( ) is an American serial entrepreneur. He is a pioneer in the field of social networking and has been starting and building businesses since 1997.
Education & career
Weinreich graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He also holds a J.D. from Fordham University.
After graduating from law school, Weinreich practiced law as General Counsel and served as Vice President for the Hertz Technology Group. He had also worked as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co.
Weinreich has served as Chairman of Xtify, Founder and Chairman of MeetMoi LLC, Director of AskIt Systems, Director of Drop.io, Inc., Chairman of Board of Organic Network Inc., and Director of Organic Network Inc. He has also served as Member of Advisory Board at Visible Path Corporation and at SNAP Interactive, Inc. since September 2012.
Entrepreneurship
SixDegrees
In 1997, Weinreich launched SixDegrees. The online company was the first of its kind to allow users to identify relationships with people they know and then query for people they didn’t know through established connections, based upon the Six degrees of separation theory by Stanley Milgram. Though other services existed with similar features, SixDegrees was the first social media network to allow users to create a profile, show their friends list, and search through their friends list. Weinreich authored the first patent on social networking, “Method and apparatus for constructing a networking database and system,” commonly known as the Six Degrees patent, which secured the social media network's software code. At its height, SixDegrees had close to 100 employees and 3,500,000 fully registered members. The company was sold to YouthStream Media Networks in 1999 for $125 million. The site was closed in 2000. Weinreich later said, in reference to SixDegrees preceding the advent of widespread digital photography, "We had board meetings where we would discuss how to get people to send in their pictures and scan them in. The real difference in 2002 was that by then people had digital cameras."
Joltage
In 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots. The company was considered "slightly ahead of its time", hoping to "spread Wi-Fi's footprint one base at a time to neighborhoods, office parks and campuses." Joltage was forced to shut down in 2003 when the company ran out of funding.
I Stand For
In 2003, Weinreich started I Stand For, Inc., a technology solution to transfer political fundraising online with content management and community solutions. He said about the venture: "My vision five years ago was to revolutionize social networking (...) Now, it’s to revolutionize building member and constituent bases for political campaigns, not-for-profit organizations and other member-based businesses.” He sold the company in February 2006.
MeetMoi
In February 2006, Weinreich co-founded MeetMoi with Jeremy Levy. MeetMoi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20%28website%29 | State is a semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd. Announced in 2013, and launched in 2014, State aims to build a global opinion network using natural language processing, databases and sentiment analysis. It seeks to "democratiz[e] online conversations" by giving equal representation of each person's opinion. As of 2020, the site is inactive.
History
Equal Media was founded by Jawbone founder Alex Asseily and his brother Mark Asseily, who raised $14 million in seed financing in May 2012 from funders such as Atomico.
State launched in closed alpha in May 2013 with around 10,000 users and at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2013 it launched an invite-only beta release. When State launched its mobile app and the platform to the public in February 2014, it had about 30 employees, most of whom work at headquarters in London. It also has an office in San Francisco.
Its advisors include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Deepak Chopra, Troy Carter, Eli Pariser, Andrew Paulson, and Nigel Shadbolt.
Features
State has a large dictionary of "headlines", or structured expressions organized semantically. This allows users to opine more specifically, as Asseily explained: "The world isn’t as thumbs-up/thumbs-down as we may have imagined. They are adding texture to their opinions." Furthermore, users can “tune”—i.e., follow— in to specific topics such as politics or technology, and can also import friends from Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter. Because opinions are computer-readable, they can automatically be summarized and cross-referenced.
Re/code writer Liz Gannes described it as an "interest graph" startup.
Business model
Asseily envisions State "eventually becom[ing] a research-on-demand service" with a "database that brands can access". For example, "insights reports" based on aggregated opinions could "aim to capture sentiment about a concept, brand, or event, which are currently free for State users".
Examples of such insights include the following. State users generally viewed "Facebook as a whole" negatively while opinions of the company's new Paper app were overwhelmingly positive. Regarding the surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden, some people held conflicted opinions towards Edward Snowden and the Prism programme. As Asseily explained, "In general terms, some people who thought Snowden was a villain, also thought Prism was bad and likewise, some thought Snowden was a hero but that Prism was a good thing".
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Technology companies based in London
Internet properties established in 2013
Technology companies established in 2013
British social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EShop%20%28disambiguation%29 | eShop Inc. was an American computer software company acquired by Microsoft in 1996
eShop or e-shop may also refer to:
Nintendo eShop, an online marketplace for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
e-shop, online shopping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapi%20railway%20station | Vapi railway station (station code:- VAPI) is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat. It is located in Vapi city. It is a major railway station in South Gujarat after .
Vapi is "A" category railway station of Mumbai WR railway division of Western Railway Zone. It is well connected by rail to all major cities of India. Some Passenger trains start from here.
Trains
Following trains start and terminate at Vapi railway station:
09069 Vapi–Surat Passenger Special
59040 Vapi–Virar Shuttle
59045 Bandra Terminus–Vapi Passenger
09072 Valsad–Vapi Passenger Special
09005 Vapi-- Izzatnagar Express Special
See also
Vapi
Notes
References
Railway stations in Valsad district
Mumbai WR railway division
Vapi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WibiData | WibiData was a software company that developed big data applications for enterprises to personalize their customer experiences. It developed applications based on open-source technologies Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro and the Kiji Project. Wibidata was founded under the name Odiago in 2010 by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball, and Garrett Wu. Based in San Francisco, California, WibiData was backed by investors such as Canaan Partners, New Enterprise Associates, SV Angel, and Eric Schmidt.
In 2014, WibiData laid off much of their staff, stating that they are "reorienting itself".
References
Companies based in San Francisco
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in California
Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2015 disestablishments in California
2010 establishments in California
Software companies established in 2010
American companies established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharanpur%20Junction%20railway%20station | Saharanpur Junction railway station is a junction railway station on the Northern Railway network in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Its station code is SRE.
Gallery
References
External links
See also
Saharanpur district
Saharanpur
Railway stations in Saharanpur district
Ambala railway division
Transport in Saharanpur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Computer%20Vision | The International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) is a journal published by Springer. The senior editor-in-chief is Jean Ponce, and the editors-in-chief are Jiri Matas, Yasuyuki Matsushita, and Svetlana Lazebnik.
References
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1987
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia%20Boldyreff | Cornelia Boldyreff is very active in encouraging girls into computing, is a Council Member of The BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT (previously British Computer Society ), a Committee member of the BCSWomen and a visiting professor in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Greenwich in London.
Academic posts
February 2013 to date visiting professor, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich
2009 - 2013 Associate dean (research and enterprise), School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering at the University of East London
2004 Professor of software engineering, University of Lincoln
Reader, Computer Science Department, University of Durham
Academic and professional qualifications
Fellow of the British Computer Society
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
PhD in Software Engineering, University of Durham
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of the IEEE Computer Society
Member of British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG)
Centres, specialist groups and committees
Co-founder and Director, Centre for Research in Open Source Software.
Founding member of BCS Women Specialist Group
Committee member, BCS e-Learning Specialist Group
Chair BCS Open Source Specialist Group
Grants committee of Funds for Women Graduates (FfWG)
Reviewing and programme committee work
EPSRC Peer Review College
Programme Committee/Organising Committee for various conferences/workshops
Recent journal papers
Mariano Ceccato, Andrea Capiluppi, Paolo Falcarin, Cornelia Boldyreff, A Large Study on the Effect of Code Obfuscation on the Quality of Java Code, Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, (under review).
Andrea Capiluppi, Paolo Falcarin and Cornelia Boldyreff, Decompile, Defactor, Decouple: Measuring the Obfuscation Tirade to Protect Software Systems, Journal of Software Evolution and Process, Wiley (invited paper for special issue - under review).
Andrea Capiluppi, Klaas-Jan Stol, Cornelia Boldyreff: Software Reuse in Open Source: A Case Study. IJOSSP 3(3): 10-35 (2011)
Andrea Capiluppi, Cornelia Boldyreff, Karl Beecher, Paul J. Adams: Quality Factors and Coding Standards - a Comparison Between Open Source Forges. Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. 233: 89-103 (2009)
Karl Beecher, Andrea Capiluppi, Cornelia Boldyreff: Identifying exogenous drivers and evolutionary stages in FLOSS projects. Journal of Systems and Software 82(5): 739-750 (2009)
Awards
Cornelia Boldyreff was one of the 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014. Who were then featured in the e-book "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free downloade-book, from various sources.
References
British women computer scientists
British computer scientists
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Dee | Hannah-Mary Dee is a British cognitive scientist and computer scientist specialising in computer vision, with specialisms in plant science, navigation, art, and medical imaging. In 2014, she was one of 30 women identified by the British Computer Society in the "BCS Women in IT Campaign.
Dee has organised many events for women in computing and for broader groups with a women-friendly stance, including an android programming family fun day (materials available in Welsh and in English).
Education
Dee received a BSc in Cognitive Science (1996), an MA in Philosophy (1998), and a PhD in Computing (2005), all from the University of Leeds.
Career and research
Dee has held postdoctoral researcher at Kingston University (2005-2006), University of Leeds (2006-2009), and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (2009-2010). Since 2010, she is a Senior Lecturer in computer science at Aberystwyth University.
She has served deputy chair of her local BCS branch (BCS Mid Wales) since 2011.
Dee developed and runs the annual BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, the one-day conference for women and non-binary computing students to encourage networking for women and gender non-conforming students from around the UK, in addition to gaining career development advice from successful women in computing.
Her research interests are in computer vision for the analysis of human behaviour; shadow detection and reasoning; and student attitudes to the study of computer science. She is noted for championing the cause of women in IT.
Publications
Dee's publications include:
Roscoe, Dee, Zwiggelaar, Coping with Noise in Ultrasound Images: A review, MIUA 2012
Ngoc-Son Vu, Hannah M. Dee and Alice Caplier "Face Recognition using the POEM descriptor", Pattern Recognition
Hannah M. Dee, Cohn, A. G. and Hogg, D. C. "Building semantic scene models from unconstrained video" Volume 116, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 446.456
Paul Robson, Michal Mos, Hannah Dee, John Clifton-Brown and Iain Donnison (2011). Improving bioenergy crop yield and quality through manipulating senescence. In: Biomass and Bioenergy Crops IV. Aspects of Applied Biology 112, pp. 323–328.
Hannah M. Dee & Paulo E. Santos (2011): The Perception and Content of Cast Shadows: An Interdisciplinary Review, Spatial Cognition & Computation, 11:3, 226–25.
Dee, H. M. and Caplier, A. "Crowd behaviour analysis using histograms of motion direction", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010, Hong Kong.
Santos, P. E., Dee, H. M. and Fenelon, V. "Knowledge-based adaptative thresholding from shadows" Accepted at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
Awards and honours
In 2014 Dee was featured in the e-book of these 30 women in IT, Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation, produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free download e-book, from various sources. In 2016, Dee was identified as one of the 50 most influential women in UK IT 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarus%20niger | Scarus niger, common names the swarthy parrotfish, dusky parrotfish, and black parrotfish, is a species of parrotfish. It is in the phylum Chordata, class Actinopterygii, and family Scaridae. Like other members of its family, it has characteristic 10 dorsal soft rays, 9 dorsal spines, 9 anal soft rays, and 3 anal spines, It is found in Indo-West and Central Pacific, from the Red Sea, north to Japan, south to Australia and east to French Polynesia. It is found in lagoons, channels and outer reefs slopes on the depths of . The dusky parrotfish often lives in solitude, but males may also live in a small group of mating females. The dusky parrotfish is primarily herbivorous, and its main source of food is benthic algae. At maturity, the fish is approximately 230-240mm long and weighs around 240g.
Reproduction
The dusky parrotfish is a protogynous hermaphrodite, as evidenced by instances where a dominant female in a group with only females turned into a male. The dusky parrotfish is oviparous, so when breeding, the male and female fishes form pairs and the female lays eggs that later hatch. It undergoes a reproductive cycle that can be defined by the size and appearance of its gonads; after 5 stages of maturity, the gonads of the fish weigh an average of 2.54 g. After breeding, the gonads regress in size till they weigh an average of 0.37 g, decreasing over a fifth in size when not breeding in comparison to the size of the gonads during breeding season. Dusky parrotfishes release one batch of eggs per breeding season.
Feeding Behavior
The dusky parrotfish feeds primarily on algae found on hard substrate and dead coral. It has a relatively fast feeding rate of around 98.9 bites in 5 minutes in comparison to other parrotfish species; however, at the same time, it has a relatively small bite volume of 0.002 cm3. It contributes very little to bio-erosion in comparison to other parrotfish, averaging around 2.5 ± 0.9 cm3 per hour. It does not follow any set feeding pattern, but it tends to feed more in the morning and afternoon rather than at midday and sundown. The short term foraging range of the dusky parrotfish is 4.9 ± 3.6 m2 to 33.5 ± 5.9 m2. Denser coral patches that provide more cover for the fish leads to a decrease in the foraging range, as well as denser populations. In comparison to other species of parrotfishes, the dusky parrotfish tends to be less aggressive and will decrease its foraging range when it is in an environment with a high parrotfish density. Competition between parrotfishes negatively affects the parrotfish more than benefits gained from group foraging, such as reductions in predation risks. These changes in foraging range indicate that the dusky parrotfish is able to make small changes to its grazing behavior under short-term disturbances; however, it is unclear whether these compensatory mechanisms can withstand significant change in the fishes' environment.
Marine herbivores like the swarthy parrotfish rely on endosymbiot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap%20Dance%20%28film%29 | Lap Dance is a 2014 American drama produced by Datari Turner Productions and directed by Greg Carter. The film's ensemble cast includes Briana Evigan, Kenny Wormald, Robert Hoffman, Ali Cobrin, Datari Turner, James Remar, Mariel Hemingway, Omari Hardwick, Lynn Whitfield, Carmen Electra, Nia Peeples, Stacey Dash, Junie Hoang and LisaRaye.
Plot
The film is described as a modern-day Indecent Proposal, and it revolves around Monica (Ali Cobrin), an aspiring actress who, in order to care for her cancer-stricken father, makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer. However, once the pact is broken, the couple's lives are changed forever. The film was released theatrically released domestically by Entertainment One on December 5, 2014.
Production
The film was shot on location in Houston, Texas and Los Angeles in 2013. The producers of the film are Michael Becker, Gordon Bijelonic, Reggie Carter, H.M. Coakley, Camille C. Irons, Corey Large, Cain McKnight, Nenad Medic, Alan Pao, Phil Thornton, Steve Ware and Greg Carter.
References
Further reading
Black Film, First clip of Lynn Whitfield in Indie Film Lap Dance
Vibe Vixen, LisaRaye, Stacey Dash, and Lynn Whitfield appear in stripper movie
BET article: "LisaRaye McCoy, Stacey Dash Star in Lap Dance"
Atlanta Blackstar article: "Producer Datari Turner Says ‘Lap Dance’ is the Greatest Stripper Film Ever"
External links
2014 films
Films shot in Houston
2014 drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Truth%20about%20Truman%20School | The Truth about Truman School is a children's book by Dori Hillestad Butler that was first published on March 1, 2008, through Albert Whitman & Company. The book deals with the subject of cyberbullying and has been listed several times as a recommended read for middle school aged students.
The Truth about Truman School has been listed on the ALA's Joint Presidents' Program Resources list for 2012.
Synopsis
The book is told through the viewpoints of several different students at Truman Middle School such as Zebby and Amr, two students that have grown frustrated with the censorship of their school paper. They decide that the solution is to create their own website, thetruthabouttruman.com, where they and others can report on what they consider to be the "real" Truman Middle School. It's intended as a place where people can speak freely, but eventually some begin to use it as a way to post cruel things about one student, namely Lilly Clarke, a popular student at Truman. Someone anonymously posts pictures of her from years ago, when she was overweight and less attractive than she is now. Amr questions whether or not it is right to leave such a picture up, but Zebby insists that the website's purpose is to allow anyone to post and comment. This decision is slightly influenced by Zebby's dislike of Lilly. The posts about Lilly are met with mixed emotions, particularly from one student by the name of Trevor. He's unpopular and dislikes Lilly's current personality, but remembers times when Lilly had defended him when both were in elementary school.
Zebby begins to realize that she is becoming more popular from the website she and Amr began, and as such begins to turn a blind eye towards the activity on the website. Lilly's cyberbullying continues and escalates when someone by the online name of "milkandhoney" posts their own website falsely accusing Lilly of being a lesbian. Tensions at the school escalate, prompting Trevor to react when Lilly's boyfriend Reece tries to cheat off him during an exam. As a result, Reece begins to poke Trevor with his pencil and the actions are noticed by the teacher. The two are brought into the Principal's office, only for Trevor to get upset when she asks him what he did to provoke Reece's actions. This infuriates Trevor, who silently thinks to himself that everyone asks him what he did to deserve bullying while nobody has been asking Lilly what she did to deserve what is happening to her. Eventually Lilly becomes ostracized from the entire school, her boyfriend breaks up with her, and she constantly receives disparaging emails and messages. This comes to a head when some of her former friends send her an anonymous e-mail telling her that nobody wants her on the cheerleading team due to the accusations of being a lesbian.
The continuing cyberbullying prompts Lilly to run away from home and hide in a treehouse that she used to play in with Zebby and Amr. The two find her and convince her to return home. They realize a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysorabdia%20viridata | Chrysorabdia viridata is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in the Indian states of Sikkim and Assam.
References
Lithosiini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimation%20statistics | Estimation statistics, or simply estimation, is a data analysis framework that uses a combination of effect sizes, confidence intervals, precision planning, and meta-analysis to plan experiments, analyze data and interpret results. It complements hypothesis testing approaches such as null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), by going beyond the question is an effect present or not, and provides information about how large an effect is. Estimation statistics is sometimes referred to as the new statistics.
The primary aim of estimation methods is to report an effect size (a point estimate) along with its confidence interval, the latter of which is related to the precision of the estimate. The confidence interval summarizes a range of likely values of the underlying population effect. Proponents of estimation see reporting a P value as an unhelpful distraction from the important business of reporting an effect size with its confidence intervals, and believe that estimation should replace significance testing for data analysis.
History
Starting in 1929, physicist Raymond Thayer Birge published review papers in which he used weighted-averages methods to calculate estimates of physical constants, a procedure that can be seen as the precursor to modern meta-analysis.
In the 1960s, estimation statistics was adopted by the non-physical sciences with the development of the standardized effect size by Jacob Cohen.
In the 1970s, modern research synthesis was pioneered by Gene V. Glass with the first systematic review and meta-analysis for psychotherapy. This pioneering work subsequently influenced the adoption of meta-analyses for medical treatments more generally.
In the 1980s and 1990s, estimation methods were extended and refined by biostatisticians including Larry Hedges, Michael Borenstein, Doug Altman, Martin Gardner, and many others, with the development of the modern (medical) meta-analysis.
Starting in the 1980s, the systematic review, used in conjunction with meta-analysis, became a technique widely used in medical research. There are over 200,000 citations to "meta-analysis" in PubMed.
In the 1990s, editor Kenneth Rothman banned the use of p-values from the journal Epidemiology; compliance was high among authors but this did not substantially change their analytical thinking.
In the 2010s, Geoff Cumming published a textbook dedicated to estimation statistics, along with software in Excel designed to teach effect-size thinking, primarily to psychologists. Also in the 2010s, estimation methods were increasingly adopted in neuroscience.
In 2013, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association recommended to use estimation in addition to hypothesis testing. Also in 2013, the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals document made a similar recommendation: "Avoid relying solely on statistical hypothesis testing, such as P values, which fail to convey important information about effect size."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiking%20in%20Connecticut | Hiking in Connecticut consists of many individual and networked trails that include over 800 miles of Blue-Blazed Trails maintained and operated by the Connecticut Forest and Park Association. Connecticut also has a collection of nature walks that include historical American Indian trails and Underground Railroad trails that span the state. Amongst the most notable designations is the New England National Scenic Trail which consists of Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail of Connecticut and the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail which runs from Massachusetts and into New Hampshire.
References
Hiking trails in Connecticut
Connecticut
Tourist attractions in Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbar%20%28computer%20hardware%20manufacturer%29 | Crossbar is a company based in Santa Clara, California. Crossbar develops a class of non-volatile resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technology.
The company in 2013 announced its goal was a terabyte of storage on a single integrated circuit, compatible with standard CMOS semiconductor manufacturing processes.
History
Crossbar was founded in 2010, by George Minassian, Hagop Nazarian, and Wei Lu. As part of the University of Michigan Tech Transfer program, in 2010, Crossbar licensed resistive RAM (RRAM) patents from the University of Michigan. Crossbar filed patents relating to the development, commercialization and manufacturing of RRAM technology.
In August 2013, Crossbar emerged from stealth mode and announced the development of a memory array at a commercial semiconductor device fabrication facility. It was said to deliver faster write performance; lower power consumption and more endurance at half the die size, compared to NAND flash memory. Since it is CMOS-compatible, it can be fabricated without special equipment or materials.
Crossbar received $25 million in funding from Artiman Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Northern Light Venture Capital and the Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups (MINTS) program in 2012.
Another funding round of about $35 million was announced in September 2015, with investors from China and Hong Kong.
Crossbar primarily markets to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system on a chip (SOC) developers of consumer, enterprise, mobile, industrial and Internet of things products.
See also
3D XPoint
References
External links
Computer memory companies
Semiconductor companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Computer companies established in 2010
Manufacturing companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in California
American companies established in 2010
Companies based in Santa Clara, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20of%20the%20South%20Television | Soul of the South Television (sometimes referred to as SSN TV) is an African-American-focused regional broadcast network owned by SSN Media Group, LP. It primarily broadcasts in the Southern United States and secondarily in other high African-American populated cities in the north.
SSN TV uses the C.A.S.H. (Central Automated Satellite Hub) system, and a computer server “cloud-based system” originally constructed by the defunct Equity Broadcasting to send its feed to its affiliated stations. It sought affiliations from full–power television stations, Class A TV, low–power TV stations, digital subchannels and cable outlets.
Soul of the South announced plans to rename the network to Slang TV by the end of the year 2019, but as of January 2020, it has never been changed.
History
SSN TV was founded in 2011 by Edwin Avent, Carl McCaskill and Larry Morton. It purchased assets from the bankrupted Equity Media Holdings including the studio and production facilities of KKYK-TV and the C.A.S.H. system. It was planning to broadcast five hours of news per day with assistance from Independent News Network with four regional bureaus. It was also seeking to purchase TV stations. Expected original programming was: a hip hop music show; family reunion-featured programming; Drum Majors, concerning music at mostly black colleges; Radioface, an unscripted comedy; and Southern Soul Stories, a documentary series about southern African-American icons and southern events.
By April 2012, SSN TV was working to get additional affiliates to reach 50 markets for a two wave launch.
Originally planned to launch in the first quarter of 2012 and moved to fall 2012, SSN TV instead launched on May 27, 2013, with an announced 30 market launch. However, according to RabbitEars.info, it only has 11 broadcast affiliates covering 14% of the nation.
SSN TV agreed to carry some games from the first season of the Fall Experimental Football League in October and November 2014.
In April 2015, SSN TV began dropping affiliates due to financial distress and began winding down operations. The network's social media channels had largely gone defunct in late 2015. By this time, it aired infomercials, reruns of D.C. Breakdown, and Independent Network News newscasts during the day.
In 2018, SSN TV was purchased by a group of investors led by Doug McHenry. In that same year, the network gained cable coverage on Comcast and Frontier's cable lineups. In April 2019, McHenry announced SSN TV would rebrand as Slang TV by the end of the year, with a shift to a schedule mainly featuring current-day African-American films. At the same time, HC2 Station Group, Inc. inked an affiliation deal with the refreshed network to bring the network to 29 new markets, covering 44% of the network's demographic.
Affiliates
Former Affiliates
Corporate
SSN Funding, LP
SSN Funding, LP, also known as SSN Media Group, SOS Media Holdings, and doing business as Soul of the South, is a limited partnership that owns S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Swan%20Princess%3A%20A%20Royal%20Family%20Tale | The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale is a 2014 American computer-animated fantasy adventure film produced by Crest Animation Productions and Nest Family Entertainment, directed by Richard Rich and starring the voices of Laura Bailey as Odette and Yuri Lowenthal as Derek. It is the fifth film in The Swan Princess series, and follows Odette and Derek's adoption of a young girl named Alise along with their defeating the Forbidden Arts. It was released direct-to-DVD and Blu-ray on February 25, 2014 for the franchise's 20th anniversary. A sixth film titled The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today was released on September 6, 2016.
Plot
Centuries ago, a sentient evil force known as the Forbidden Arts entered Earth from the underworld, intent on destroying all of its rivals for magical power. A group of unusually large and talking flying squirrels, called the scullions, formed a community dedicated to finding and destroying the Swan Princess. When Odette, the Swan Princess, was finally born to King William, the Forbidden Arts tried to use the sorcerer Rothbart to defeat her but failed due to Rothbart being killed by Derek.
In the present, Odette and Derek are pressured by Uberta to have a child, and are unaware that they're being tracked by the scullions, (two in particular, Cutter and Jojo, a pair of "Master Trapmaker" brothers). The Forbidden Arts has joined forces with Mangler, the scullion leader, but is angered at their most recent failure. The Forbidden Arts leaves its cave to burn Odette alive, but is blocked by Odette's power and has to return to the crystal in its cave to recover. A nearby house catches fire instead, where a little girl named Alise's father is murdered. Odette and Derek bring Alise to the castle, and Odette feels a kinship with her because they both lost their fathers tragically. Although Alise refuses to speak, she slowly becomes closer to Odette and Derek, and they decide to adopt her as she has no living relatives.
The scullions attack Uberta's castle, kidnapping Alise to lure Odette and Derek away, and locking everyone else in the cellar. Odette and Derek avoid the scullions' traps but Derek is poisoned by Mangler's blow dart. A friendly scullion, whom Odette names Scully, cures Derek and explains about the fake Swan Princess legend and the Forbidden Arts, and reveals that he has been keeping the magical stone safe. The group goes to rescue Alise.
While Derek acts as a distraction, Scully sneaks into the scullion village and finds Alise in the Forbidden Arts' cave, but he is unable to rescue her. When the scullions are about to execute Derek, Odette intervenes and explains that all she wants is for her loved ones to be safe. Scully tells the scullions that the legend is a lie and the true evil is the Forbidden Arts. Mangler shoots a poison dart at Odette, which is blocked by Jojo, the younger of the two brothers from before. Odette cures him with an antidote prepared by Scully, and the tablet with the corrup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim%20Ouazzane | Professor Karim Ouazzane is a computer scientist and Professor of Computing and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Computing within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Computing at London Metropolitan University in London.
Academic and professional posts
Professor of Computing and Knowledge Exchange, London Metropolitan University
Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College, University of London
Team Leader, Research and Development, PowerGen
Senior Engineer, Schlumberger
Engineer, Endress-Hauser Ltd
Academic and professional qualifications
1994 PhD 'Computational and Experimental investigation of flow through petroleum oil pipes installation packages using AI and CAD technologies', a novel concept on the design of flow sensor was made and patented (N 9319025.4.), Department of Aeronautics, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, Salford University
1989 MRes, thesis title 'Computational and Signal Processing Techniques of Flow Around a Slender Body', Department of Aerospace, Control and Mechanical Engineering, Liverpool University
1986 Ingenieur D'etat in Marine and Mechanical Engineering: Distinction, University of Oran (Algeria)
Membership of professional bodies and learned societies
Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS)
Senior Member of International Neural Network Society (INNS)
Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
Research and development
Intelligent Keyboard for disabled people (2011)
Recent publications
M. Malcangi, K.Ouazzane, P.Patel (2013) 'Audio visual fuzzy fusion for robust speech recognition' Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, Texas, USA, 4–9 August 2013, pp 284.
M. Malcangi, M.Riva, K.Ouazzane (2013) 'Hard and soft computing methods for capturing and processing phonocardiogram' International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Issue 1, Volume 7, pp 34.
J.Li, K.Ouazzane, H.Kazemian, M.S.Afzal (2013) ' Neural Network Approaches for Noisy Modelling', IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning system, Volume 24 page 1–12. DOI: 10:1109/TNNLS.2013.2263557
M.Aigbodi, K.Ouazzane, D.Mitchell, V.Vassilev and J.Li (2013) ‘ Defence in-depth for Cyber Security With Custom Anti-Virus Signature Definition' The third conference on digital information processing and communication (ICDIPC2013) , pp 150.
V.Vassilev, M.Ulman, K.Ouazzane, H.Kazemian, M.Aigbodi and R.Boyd (2013) 'OntoCarer; An ontological framework for assistive agents for the disabled' The third conference on digital information processing and communication (ICDIPC2013) , pp 406.
K.Ouazzane, M.Aigbodi and J.Li (2013) ‘ Real life pilot solution with artificial intelligence for disabled computer users' The third conference on digital information processing and communication (ICDIPC2013) , pp 310.
H.kazemian and K.Ouazzane (2012) 'Neuro-fuzzy approach to video transmission over Zigbee; Neurocomputing journal, DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2012.10.006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTI%20%28computer%20virus%29 | ANTI is a computer virus affecting Apple Macintosh computers running classic Mac OS versions up to System 6. It was the first Macintosh virus not to create additional resources within infected files; instead, it patches existing CODE resources.
The most commonly encountered strains of ANTI have only subtle effects, and thus can exist and spread indefinitely without being noticed until an antivirus application is run. Due to a bug in the virus, it cannot spread if MultiFinder is running, which prevents it from infecting System 7 and later versions of Mac OS as well as System 5 and 6 running MultiFinder.
Mode of operation
ANTI only infects applications (as opposed to system files), and therefore can only spread when an infected application is run. When such an application calls the OpenResFile function, the virus searches the computer for applications that fulfill all of the following criteria:
They have CODE (application code segment) resources with resource IDs 0 and 1
CODE 1 begins with a JSR instruction (generally the Main resource in a given application)
The application is not already infected with ANTI
The sum of the size of CODE 1 plus the size of the virus is less than or equal to 32,768 bytes
All matching applications are then infected by appending the virus to the CODE 1 resource and adding a corresponding entry to the application's jump table.
Variants
There are three strains of ANTI, with the following differences:
ANTI-A: 1,344 bytes plus 8 byte jump table entry. The first version to be isolated, in France in February 1989. Searches for ANTI-B strains and converts them into ANTI-Variant.
ANTI-B: 1,144 bytes plus 8 byte jump table entry. Discovered in France in September 1990. Despite the later discovery date, it is believed to be the earliest version of the virus. Also known as ANTI-0.
ANTI-Variant: Discovered in September 1990. The result of ANTI-A finding and modifying an ANTI-B strain. Causes the computer to hang when the infected application is run. Also known as ANTI-ANGE.
Payload
All strains carry a payload related to floppy disk access. When an infected application calls the MountVol function, the virus checks that the disk is actually a floppy disk, and if so, reads the first sector (512 bytes) of track 16. Then the virus compares the text at an offset 8 bytes into that sector against the string $16+"%%S". If the text matches, the virus executes the code at offset 0 of the sector via a JSR. No disks containing a matching string are known to exist, so in practice this payload has no effect.
Based on this search for an expected string at a specific location on the disk, Danny Schwendener of ETH Zurich hypothesised that ANTI had been intended to form part of a copy protection scheme, which would detect the reorganisation caused by a standard filesystem copy.
Side Effects
During infection, ANTI clears all resource attributes associated with CODE 1, which may cause the infected application to use more memory, partic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titwala%20railway%20station | Titwala railway station is a railway station in the Titwala town on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It is located on the route between Kalyan and Kasara. Ambivli railway station is the previous stop and Khadavli railway station is the next stop.
It is a small station with three platforms, with platforms 1 and 2 on an Island Platform in the west, and platform 1 on the east, beside the road. The station is equipped with escalators.
Gallery
See also
Siddhivinayak Mahaganapati Temple
References
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Transport in Kalyan-Dombivli
Kalyan-Igatpuri rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Jetter | Martin Jetter (born 1959 in Germany), is a computer engineer and businessman. He studied at University of Stuttgart and received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the same university.
Career
Jetter started to work for IBM Deutschland GmbH as an application engineer in 1986. He became a manager of the industrial sector of IBM Central Europe in 1999, and a director in charge of Siemens Group in 2001. He was promoted to CEO of IBM Deutschland in 2006, and an IBM Corporate Director of Strategy in 2011. In 2012, he became CEO of IBM Japan, Ltd.
In January 2015, he became the senior vice president of IBM Global Technology Services.
In February 2019, he became the senior vice president and chairman of IBM Europe.
References
External links
Martin Jetter: Executive Profile & Biography – Bloomberg Businessweek
1959 births
Living people
IBM employees
American business executives
German business executives
Japanese business executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNV%20calling%20from%20NGS%20data | SNV calling from NGS data is any of a range of methods for identifying the existence of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) from the results of next generation sequencing (NGS) experiments. These are computational techniques, and are in contrast to special experimental methods based on known population-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (see SNP genotyping). Due to the increasing abundance of NGS data, these techniques are becoming increasingly popular for performing SNP genotyping, with a wide variety of algorithms designed for specific experimental designs and applications.
In addition to the usual application domain of SNP genotyping, these techniques have been successfully adapted to identify rare SNPs within a population,
as well as detecting somatic SNVs within an individual using multiple tissue samples.
Methods for detecting germline variants
Most NGS based methods for SNV detection are designed to detect germline variations in the individual's genome. These are the mutations that an individual biologically inherits from their parents, and are the usual type of variants searched for when performing such analysis (except for certain specific applications where somatic mutations are sought). Very often, the searched for variants occur with some (possibly rare) frequency, throughout the population, in which case they may be referred to as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Technically the term SNP only refers to these kinds of variations, however in practice they are often used synonymously with SNV in the literature on variant calling. In addition, since the detection of germline SNVs requires determining the individual's genotype at each locus, the phrase "SNP genotyping" may also be used to refer to this process. However this phrase may also refer to wet-lab experimental procedures for classifying genotypes at a set of known SNP locations.
The usual process of such techniques are based around:
Filtering the set of NGS reads to remove sources of error/bias
Aligning the reads to a reference genome
Using an algorithm, either based on a statistical model or some heuristics, to predict the likelihood of variation at each locus, based on the quality scores and allele counts of the aligned reads at that locus
Filtering the predicted results, often based on metrics relevant to the application
SNP annotation to predict the functional effect of each variation.
The usual output of these procedures is a VCF file.
Probabilistic methods
In an ideal error free world with high read coverage, the task of variant calling from the results of a NGS data alignment would be simple; at each locus (position on the genome) the number of occurrences of each distinct nucleotide among the reads aligned at that position can be counted, and the true genotype would be obvious; either AA if all nucleotides match allele A, BB if they match allele B, or AB if there is a mixture. However, when working with real NGS data this sort of naive approach is no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context%20model | A context model (or context modeling) defines how context data are structured and maintained (It plays a key role in supporting efficient context management). It aims to produce a formal or semi-formal description of the context information that is present in a context-aware system. In other words, the context is the surrounding element for the system, and a model provides the mathematical interface and a behavioral description of the surrounding environment.
It is used to represent the reusable context information of the components (The top-level classes consist of Operating system, component container, hardware requirement and Software requirement).
A key role of context model is to simplify and introduce greater structure into the task of developing context-aware applications.
Examples of context models
The Unified Modeling Language as used in systems engineering defines a context model as the physical scope of the system being designed, which could include the user as well as the environment and other actors. A system context diagram represents the context graphically..
Several examples of context models occur under other domains.
In the situation of parsing a grammar, a context model defines the surrounding text of a lexical element. This enables a context sensitive grammar that can have deterministic or stochastic rules. In the latter case, a hidden Markov model can provide the probabilities for the surrounding context.
A context model can also apply to the surrounding elements in a gene sequence. Like the context rules of a grammar disambiguating a lexical element, this helps to disambiguate the role of the gene.
Within an ontology, a context model provides disambiguation of a subject via semantic analysis of information related to the subject.
In terms of a physical environment, a context model defines the external interfaces that a system will interact with. This type of context model has been used to create models for virtual environments such as the Adaptive Vehicle Make program. A context model used during design defines land, aquatic, or atmospheric characteristics (stated in terms of mathematical algorithms or a simulation) that the eventual product will face in the real environment.
In the context of large language models, a context model refers to a component or aspect of the language model that focuses on understanding and incorporating contextual information from the input text. The main purpose of a context model is to provide the language model with a better understanding of the context surrounding words, phrases, or sentences, so that it can generate more coherent and contextually appropriate responses. In deep learning-based language models like GPT-4 or BERT, the context model is an inherent part of the architecture. These models use mechanisms such as attention mechanisms and multi-layered transformer (machine learning) architectures to capture contextual information from the input sequence. The context model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Developers%20Academy | Ada Developers Academy (Ada) is a year-long intensive school in software development for women and gender expansive people with no previous professional experience in computer programming. The program is tuition-free, and students can apply for a micro loan to meet living expenses during the year. Additional supports available to students include laptops loans, childcare subsidies, free mental health therapy, and 1:1 mentors and tutors.
Overview
The program is divided into six months of classroom instruction and a five-month paid internship with a Seattle tech company. The first six months in the classroom focuses on Python, Flask, JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS, and computer science fundamentals. The last five months is an internship placement. Interns are placed at sponsor companies including Amazon, Concur, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Redfin, Tableau/Salesforce, Zillow, etc. for practical, applied learning experiences. 97% of Ada students graduate from the program, and 94% land full time roles as software developers within 180 days of graduating. The most recent graduating cohort reported an average starting salary of $125,000.
Cohorts
Ada begins new cohorts every 6 months (March & September), with in-person campuses in Seattle and Atlanta, a digital campus available nationwide, and a Washington, D.C. campus launching in 2024.
Funding
Ada began in 2013 as a project of Seattle's Technology Alliance and is funded through company sponsorship, individual donors, and public sources. Ada now operates as an independent non-profit organization headquartered in Seattle, WA with campuses in Seattle, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. (opening Fall 2023). Ada also offers a digital campus available to students nationwide. Ada's company sponsors include Amazon.com, Expedia, Zillow, and Chef. Sponsors provide applied learning internships for the students, and fund the students' education. Sponsoring companies such as Expedia stated that they participate in the program in order to recruit great talent, and also in order to improve their diversity. In 2021 Ada was one of four recipients of the Equality Can't Wait challenge grant funded by Melinda French Gates, Mackenzie Scott & Dan Jewitt, and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. This $10m grant is currently fueling Ada's national expansion, and aim to significantly shift the representation of women and gender expansive people in software development careers.
See also
Ada Lovelace
References
External links
2013 establishments in Washington (state)
Educational institutions established in 2013
Coding schools
Non-profit organizations based in Seattle
Educational organizations based in the United States
Women's education in the United States
Women in computing
Women in Washington (state)
Education in Seattle
Computer science education in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Ross%20%28academic%29 | Margaret Ross MBE, FBCS is an Emeritus Professor of Software Quality at Southampton Solent University. She serves on the BCSWomen Committee of the British Computer Society.
BCS Women is a specialist group for networking and sharing knowledge amongst women computing professionals. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Staffordshire University, Hon FBCS and the John Ivison Award from the BCS. Margaret's work was recognised in 2008 with the MBE.
Professional qualifications
Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
European Engineer (Eur Ing)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
Chartered Engineer (CEng)
Chartered Scientist (CSci)
Appointments
Conference Director of the annual series of BCS Software Quality Management international conferences (since 1992)
Conference Director of the annual series of international educational BCS INSPIRE conferences (since 1995)
Member of the editorial board, and previously associate editor, Europe, for the Software Quality Journal
Awards
Honorary Doctorate (2004), Staffordshire University.
Freeman of the City of London
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers.
John Ivison Award from the BCS.
MBE awarded at Buckingham Palace for Services to higher education, in June 2008, by Prince Charles as part of the Queens Birthday Honours List.
One of 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014 source http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/50200. Who were then featured in the e-book "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free downloade-book, from various sources.
One of the 50 women identified by the publication Computer weekly, "Most Influential Women in UK IT 2016"
References
Living people
British women computer scientists
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Members of the Order of the British Empire
English computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20web | The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets: overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the dark web, private computer networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying information, such as a user's location. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term deep web is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web.
The darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend networks, as well as large, popular networks such as Tor, Freenet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public organizations and individuals. Users of the dark web refer to the regular web as Clearnet due to its unencrypted nature. The Tor dark web or onionland uses the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing under the network's top-level domain suffix .onion.
Terminology
Definition
The dark web has often been confused with the deep web, the parts of the web not indexed (searchable) by search engines. The term dark web first emerged in 2009; however, it is unknown when the actual dark web first emerged. Many internet users only use the surface web, data that can be accessed by a typical web browser. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, but requires custom software in order to access its content. This confusion dates back to at least 2009. Since then, especially in reporting on Silk Road, the two terms have often been conflated, despite recommendations that they should be distinguished.
The dark web, also known as darknet websites, are accessible only through networks such as Tor ("The Onion Routing" project) that are created specifically for the dark web. Tor browser and Tor-accessible sites are widely used among the darknet users and can be identified by the domain ".onion". Tor browsers create encrypted entry points and pathways for the user, allowing their dark web searches and actions to be anonymous.
Identities and locations of darknet users stay anonymous and cannot be tracked due to the layered encryption system. The darknet encryption technology routes users' data through a large number of intermediate servers, which protects the users' identity and guarantees anonymity. The transmitted information can be decrypted only by a subsequent node in the scheme, which leads to the exit node. The complicated system makes it almost impossible to reproduce the node path and decrypt the information layer by layer. Due to the high level of encryption, websites are not able to track geolocation and IP of their users, and users are not able to get this information about the host. Thus, communication between darknet users is highly encrypted allowing users to talk, blog, and share files confidentially.
Content
A December 2014 study by Gareth Owen from the University of Portsmouth found that the most commonly hosted type |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemzeti%20Inform%C3%A1ci%C3%B3s%20Infrastrukt%C3%BAra%20Fejleszt%C3%A9si%20Int%C3%A9zet | NIIFI (Nemzeti Információs Infrastruktúra Fejlesztési Intézet) is the institute responsible for the development and operation of the network and services of the Hungarian national research network under the National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Program. NIIFI collaborates closely with HUNGARNET, the association of users of the national research network. The combination NIIF/HUNGARNET fulfils the role of the National Research and Education Networking organisation (NREN) of Hungary. In September 2016 NIIFI based on a decree of Hungarian Government merged to Governmental Information Technology Development Agency (KIFÜ).
Organisation
The NIIF Program is controlled by the Program Committee and managed by the NIIF Institute (NIIFI), under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education. The Program Committee consists of high-level representatives from, among others, the Ministry of Education, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Welfare, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and the Hungarian Science Foundation.
Funding for academic and research networking in Hungary comes from the central government budget through the Ministry of Education and financial management is provided by NIIFI, within the NIIF Program. The permanent core staff within NIIFI, serving the HUNGARNET community and taking care of the NIIF Program, consists of about a dozen members.
The history of the NIIF Program goes back to the mid-1980s. The present organisational framework is the outcome of a relatively long development process. The Program provides advanced technical and application services for more than 600,000 users in science, education and public collections in Hungary. The services are available for about 500 institutions throughout the country.
Services
The main services offered by NIIF to registered member institutions are Internet access (backbone network, ADSL, dial-up), registration services (domain name registration, IP address domain allocation), email, webhosting. Additional services include database services, server hosting and mailing lists. NIIF also offers Voice over IP, a videoconferencing and desk-top conferencing service, and Videotorum, a video sharing portal for higher education, research and public collections.
In the middleware area, NIIF provides a key server service, a certificate authority and an LDAP directory service. NIIFI provides digital certificates through the TERENA Certificate Service. It also operates eduroam in Hungary. NIIFI hosts the Tier-0 Domain Name Server for the worldwide NRENum.net service. NIIF provides the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) for the Hungarian academic community.
External links
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusi%20Lamola | Vusi "Computer" Lamola (born 13 March 1950) in Johannesburg, Gauteng is a retired South African association football player who played in South Africa for Orlando Preston Brothers, Germiston City and Kaizer Chiefs.
He was nicknamed "Computer" during the 1973 Life Cup final against Orlando Pirates when he replaced Ace Ntsoelengoe in the 80th minute. Trailing 2-0 he set up two goals to send the game to extra time and setup five more to win 7-3. He was named "Computer" for his vision and fast thinking.
He joined Edmonton Drillers in 1980. He played 7 NASL matches and had two assists wearing jersey number 18.
International career
Lamola represented South Africa in 1977 versus Rhodesia.
References
1950 births
Living people
Soccer players from Soweto
South African men's soccer players
South African expatriate men's soccer players
South Africa men's international soccer players
Men's association football midfielders
Kaizer Chiefs F.C. players
Edmonton Drillers (1979–1982) players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
South African expatriate sportspeople in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooligans%20%28song%29 | "Hooligans" is a song by Dutch producer Don Diablo and British musician Example. The single was released on 28 June 2009 through Data Records. The song was written by Don Diablo, who also produced it, and Example. It includes remixes by Noisia, A1 Bassline, Spor, Doorly and Don himself. It is the vocal version of Diablo's 2008 instrumental track "Hooligans Never Surrender", a single from (and the hidden bonus track of) his album Life Is a Festival. "Hooligans" marks one of Example's first moves away from the underground rap scene toward a more mainstream audience as it was his first major label release. Gleave signed to Data Records after the folding of The Streets' label The Beats. Although an independent single release, a VIP mix of the song, featuring additional production from DJ Wire's remix, was included in Example's second studio album, Won't Go Quietly.
Music video
A music video was publishing to YouTube on 6 May 2009 through the Data Records UK channel. The video itself, lasting a duration of four minutes and twenty-two seconds, starts off with an impatient man trying to get into a rave party. After getting in, Don and Example are seen performing in front of a crowd of people. In the meanwhile, the man is no longer seen throughout the video. Diablo and Example are often performing while crowd surfing. The video was deemed explicit due to its multiple references of rave party mentality with sex, drugs and alcohol.
Track listing
Chart performance
Despite the song's popularity, it has not made any major chart performances. However, it reached number 15 on the UK Dance Chart.
Weekly charts
Release history
References
2009 singles
Don Diablo songs
Example (musician) songs
2009 songs
Songs written by Example (musician)
Data Records singles
Songs written by Don Diablo |
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