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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyeongju%20station%20%281918%E2%80%932021%29 | Gyeongju station is a railway station in the city of Gyeongju. It operates on the Jungang Line and the Donghae Line.
References
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Gyeongju
Railway stations opened in 1918
Railway stations closed in 2021
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20and%20News%20Network | Knowledge & News Network (KNN) is a community-owned not-for-profit alternative media platform established to address the problems of Indian MSMEs arising from gaps in information and knowledge flows. It is promoted by GIZ-German Agency for International Cooperation and the Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME) under the aegis of an umbrella bilateral development programme jointly supported by Government of Federal Republic of Germany and Government of India.
KNN provides news and information to the mainstream media – both print and electronic, fed through a national network of over 156 KNN member industry associations. and 110 institutions.
The Micro, small and Medium Enterprises. (MSME) are considered the back bone of the Indian economy. Over 40 million in number, cumulatively they are the second largest employer after agriculture and contribute over 35% to exports and almost 40% to industrial production. However, the MSME sector is largely unorganized and operates in informal setting. Due to their unorganized nature, their views and news seldom reach to policy makers. This results in a structural gap in information-feedback-loop critical for formulation of demand driven policies and schemes. While MSMEs rightly complain about bad policies, the policy makers do not have sufficient information to frame right response. KNN aims to enable two-way flow of information from MSMEs to both policy makers and institutions and vice versa.
Operating Architecture
KNN's back-end is based on a unique architecture with its Central hub, KNN bureau and its studio located in New Delhi and its regional hubs at Bangalore and Hyderabad connected through video-conferencing facilities. Run by a team of journalists with well-equipped news bureau and studio, its 260 nodes comprising MSME associations (both geographic and sectoral) and institutions (MSME and research and development institutions, engineering colleges, management institutes) feed text reports and video from the ground which is uploaded after validation.
History
Knowledge & News Network (KNN) was conceived and implemented through 2012-13 by FISME with support of GIZ. KNN became operational on 25 July 2013. It was flagged off by Union Minister of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Mr. K.H. Muniyappa in New Delhi in presence of senior officials of the Ministry Mr. Madhav Lal and Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner Mr. Amarendra Sinha. Also present during the occasion of were CEO of Prasar Bharati Mr. Jawhar Sircar, Mr. Manfred Haebig, Director, Private, Sector Development, GIZ India and President FISME Mr. D. Gandhikumar.
References
Additional sources
Knowledge & News Network (KNN) launched by MSME Minister (25 July 2013) FISME.
MSME Ministry in favour of raising investment cap for SMEs (26 July 2013)The Economic Times.
Media service for MSME Knowledge & News Network launch (27 July 2013) Indian Muslim observer.
Knowledge and News Network celebrates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Averbukh | Alexander Vladimirovich Averbukh – journalist, television and radio anchorman, chemistry and computer science teacher, engineer of manufacturing automation, author and performer of songs.
Biography
Alexander was born on December 14, 1957, in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow technical university he worked in his field, until eventually abandoning the career in engineering and becoming a middle school chemistry teacher. Obtained his master's degree. Taught chemistry and computer science, became a teacher and teaching instructor. In parallel, he worked as a freelance author for the “Youth” radio station, was published in “Moskovskiy Komsomolets”, “Teacher’s newspaper” and other publications. From the time he was a student he wrote and performed songs. In the end of the 1980s he became interested in Zionist teachings, from 1990 – a member of the All-union Zionist organization presidium. He was the founder and the first director of the Jewish children's organization “Banim Banot” (still operating).
After moving to Israel he changed his profession again and became a journalist. Worked as an author and an editor in the humorous newspaper “Beseder?”, and later as the economic editor of the newspaper «Vesti». The newspaper created an addition called “Treasurer” (still exiting) of which Alexander was the chief editor. In addition, for many years he authored a weekly column called “Buhes’ reaction”. In 1997 he began working part-time on the «Arutz sheva» (“Seventh channel) radio station, where he founded and hosted a weekly program called “The Republic” for 5 years. In April 2002 he began working at the television channel «Israel Plus (Channel 9), as one of the founders of the channel. After the channel went on air at November 2002, he was the editor of the programs “Servants of the people” and “Of legal age”, editor and host of “Three opinions” and “Wunderkind show”, author, editor and host of “Money time”, and the host of the documentary series “Tmol’-shilshom”. He participated in the programs “Seven forty”, “Contact” and others.
Activities
Engineer
In 1979, he graduated from the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics and automation of chemical production of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering. Was assigned to the Institute of Biomedical Problems, however, he was rejected due to his nationality. He acquired a position in SKB Turbo-refrigerating machinery as a senior engineer. In 1980, he transferred to SKTB Himmash as a lead engineer. In 1982, he graduated with honors from the Moscow People's State University of technological progress and economic knowledge in the field of chemical engineering. In March 1989, shortly before his departure to Israel, he opened a private cooperative called "Center of New Information Technologies" in Moscow.
Teacher
In September 1984, changed his profession and went to work in middle school number 682 of the Leningrad district of Moscow as a chemistry teacher. After the integration of the foundations of comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20digital%20audio |
A~C
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Audio codec
Audio compression (data)
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Digital audio
Wikipedia glossaries
Wikipedia glossaries using description lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Pop%20Male%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Male Artist of the Year is an award presented annually by American network Univision. It was first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since. 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. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to Mexican singer José José. Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias holds the record for the most awards, winning on six occasions. Mexican artist Luis Miguel won five times in the 90's. Puerto-Rican American singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi have won in four ceremonies. Puerto-Rican American performer Chayanne have received three awards. American artist Marc Anthony earned the accolade for Pop Male Artist and also Tropical Male Artist, likewise, Mexican singers Alejandro Fernández and Cristian Castro have received both the Pop and Regional Mexican Male Artist. Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, with eight nominations, holds the record for most nominations without a win.
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
Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album
References
Pop Male Artist
Pop music awards
Awards established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone%20Campbell | Simone Campbell, SSS (born October 22, 1945), is an American Catholic religious sister, lawyer, lobbyist and executive director of NETWORK. She belongs to the Sisters of Social Service. She is known as an outspoken advocate for social justice.
Early life and education
When Campbell was born in Santa Monica, California, to parents who had recently moved from Colorado, she was given the first name "Mary" in honor of her paternal grandmother. She was the eldest of four siblings.
She joined the Sisters of Social Service, an international Catholic religious congregation rooted in the Benedictine tradition, in 1964 and took her final vows in 1973, adopting the name "Simone."
She received a bachelor's degree in 1969 from Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. In 1977, Campbell received the degree of Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where she had been an editor of the UC Davis Law Review.
Career
In 1978 Campbell founded the Community Law Center in Oakland, California, which she served for the next 18 years as its lead attorney. She practiced family law and worked on the needs of the working poor of her county in Probate Court.
Between 1995 and 2000, Campbell was the General Director of her religious institute and oversaw its activities in the United States, Mexico, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
NETWORK
Campbell was first recruited to lead NETWORK in 2004 and continues to serve as its executive director.
In March 2010, the United States Congress debated reforms to healthcare, known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H. R. 3590). As a part of her work with NETWORK, Campbell wrote the "nuns' letter" supporting the reforms and asked leaders of women's religious orders to sign it. Sixty heads of religious orders and umbrella groups signed and the letter was sent to all members of Congress. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops did not support the healthcare reforms. The letter contributed to the momentum in favor of the legislation. Campbell attended the signing ceremony for the law and received a hug of gratitude from President Obama.
Campbell led the Nuns on the Bus project, in which she also participated. Campbell and a small group of religious sisters (commonly, "nuns") make tours on a dedicated bus to highlight social issues. In 2012, the first year of the project, the Nuns aimed to draw attention to nuns' work with the poor and to protest planned aid cuts. In honor of her advocacy work she was the 2014 recipient of the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award, which commemorates the 1963 encyclical of Saint John XXIII of the same name.
Campbell addressed the Democratic National Convention held in September 2012, and again in 2020.
On July 7, 2022, the White House awarded Campbell the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Views
Campbell was among the people attentioned by then Pope Benedict XVI in his investigation of American nuns for communist views and promoting "certain radical feminist th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecency | In computing, frecency is any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure.
Heuristic
In its simplest form, the frequency and recency rating can be added to form a frecency rating. The ratings can be found by sorting items by most recent and most frequent respectively. A decayed calculation using logarithms can also be used.
Examples
Some web browsers use frecency to predict the likelihood of revisiting a given web page or reusing a given HTTP cache entry
"Frecency is a score given to each unique URI in Places, encompassing bookmarks, history and tags. This score is determined by the amount of revisitation, the type of those visits, how recent they were, and whether the URI was bookmarked or tagged."
Frecency can be computed from a list of use dates, either as pro-actively while a user browses the web or as needed. Some frecency measures can also be computed in a rolling manner without storing such a list.
The ZFS filesystem uses this concept in its adaptive replacement cache (ARC) cache with a most recently used (MRU) and most frequently used (MFU) list.
References
Heuristics
Measurement
Web browsers
Internet terminology
External links
Frecency implementation in Firefox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20Software | Rocket Software is a privately held software development firm founded in 1990. Using the IBM Z, IBM Power, and embedded database platforms, Rocket provides predictive analytics with deep data, develop AI and machine learning capabilities, and design mobile and browser applications. Rocket operates in markets including the financial, banking, health care, government, insurance, aerospace, auto manufacturing, and retail industries. Rocket has a business partnership with IBM that began in 1994 with a licensing agreement for Rocket QMF tools. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
History
Rocket Software was founded in Boston in 1990 with a focus on IBM DB2 tools.
Rocket's software runs on multiple platforms and operating systems, including mainframe, IBM z/OS, IBM i, UNIX, Windows and other platforms and offers tools to access non-SQL data with standard SQL queries.
In June 2022, Rocket released the latest version of its ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator (AEO) DevOps value stream orchestration platform.
Reception
Since 2013 when the list was inaugurated, Rocket was included in Database Trends and Applications magazine's annual “DBTA 100,” a list of the companies that matter most in data.
In 2017, former Rocket CEO Andy Youniss was named a New England Entrepreneur of the Year by professional services firm EY. Youniss was also presented the Leadership Award by Boston-based food rescue nonprofit Lovin' Spoonfuls in November 2017.
In December 2017, Rocket was named Ellucian Growth Partner of the Year for providing support to the higher education IT services company in its transition to its current cloud-based service offerings and SaaS licensing model.
In 2020, Rocket was named in Inc.'s list of America's 1,000 Largest and Most Inspiring Private Companies.
In 2021, Rocket acquired the database and tools products of Zumasys including jBASE MultiValue DB
References
External links
Rocket Software at GitHub
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Information technology consulting firms of the United States
Data processing
Software companies of the United States
1990 establishments in Massachusetts
Software companies established in 1990
American companies established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASCAD | On 26 October 1992 the London Ambulance Service started to use a new computer-assisted dispatch (CAD) system, known as LASCAD. Poorly designed and implemented, its introduction led to significant delays in the assigning of ambulances, with anecdotal reports of 11-hour waits. Media reports at the time claimed that up to 30 people may have died as a result of the chaos, despite a lack of evidence. The then-chief executive, John Wilby, resigned shortly afterwards. This failure is often cited in case studies of poor engineering management.
See also
List of failed and overbudget custom software projects
Software crisis
References
Further reading
Custom software projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20Parts | "Boy Parts" is the second episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on October 16, 2013, on the cable network FX. The title is a reference to a line in this episode spoken by Madison Montgomery.
The episode sheds light on how Delphine LaLaurie (Kathy Bates) managed to remain alive in the present day, it also reveals the fate of Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett). The character of Misty Day (Lily Rabe) is introduced a little more in-depth than from what was seen in the first episode. Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe guest star as Marie Laveau and Queenie, respectively. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
Plot
Detective Sanchez and Stiles interrupt to talk to Madison and Zoe about the deaths of the fraternity brothers. Zoe cracks and reveals to the detectives that they're all witches. Cordelia and Fiona cover for her.
Zoe and Madison cast a resurrection spell in order to bring Kyle back to life. When Kyle reanimates as a scared, angry monster, Zoe must seek help from a reclusive Necromancer, Misty Day.
At a gynecology appointment, Cordelia gets bad news that her fertility drugs aren't working after a year of taking them. Dr. Morrison suggests in-vitro. Hank, her husband, asks if she wants to keep trying and asks her to use magic, but she doesn't want to become like her mother.
Still seeking to be perpetually young and beautiful, Fiona questions her new captive, Madame Delphine LaLaurie. Delphine tells Fiona that 180 years ago, a voodoo priestess named Marie Laveau gave her an immortality elixir, killed her family, and buried her alive. In hopes of becoming immortal as well, Fiona visits the still-living Laveau in a 9th Ward beauty salon and confides that she wants to know her secret to immortality. Marie mocks her and calls her muscle to toss Fiona out, so Fiona lights her racks of wigs on fire, promising she'll be back.
Reception
In its original American broadcast, "Boy Parts" received a 2.5 18–49 ratings share and was watched by 4.51 million viewers.
"Boy Parts" was critically acclaimed. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 100% approval rating, based on 15 reviews. The critical consensus reads, ""Boy Parts" is escapist camp and perfect fodder for the enormously talented female cast." Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B rating for "Boy Parts", stating that the episode was "all good fun". Matt Fowler from IGN gave the episode a 7.9/10 rating, calling it a good episode, though stating, "I'm still waiting for something truly great to pop out at me in American Horror Story: Coven."
At Vulture, Rakesh Satyal gave the episode 3 of 5 stars, calling it "a slower episode after the premiere" and criticizing it for "long swaths of exposition." However, Satyal praised Lange, Bates, and Bassett's performances and expressed excitement for the storylines involving Marie Laveau and Kyle.
The Huffington Post Chris Jancelewicz criticized the show for "an entire segment...that isn't quite w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOUD | SOUD, standing for System of Joint Acquisition of Enemy Data was a computerized intelligence exchange system where information acquired by the intelligence and security agencies from participating Warsaw pact countries was stored.
The intelligence exchange organization was founded in 1977, and its initial goal was to safeguard the USSR from 'foreign threats' during the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
Stasi engineers conceived the system using stolen Western technology, and it was operational in 1979. Its main computer was based in Moscow, the input language was Russian and the USSR had control over access to the system. Nevertheless, the Stasi was the foremost contributor of the intelligence exchange system, with around a quarter of the entries submitted, followed only by the KGB. Other members of SOUD were Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia and Cuba. They were later joined by Vietnam.
Because of the boycott of the Summer Olympics of 1980, most of the potential threats did not materialise, but the system remained operational. Its databases include names of agents, zionists, hostile religious organisations, organisations of emigrants, journalists, diplomats, cultural and commercial attachés, representatives of airlines, etc. etc. Information found in Stasi documents reveals that in 1989 more than 11,100 names were collected. Most of them included a personal description, the maiden name of the mother and a sample of the handwriting. A query could be handled in less than four hours time.
Notes
References
Soviet computer systems
Science and technology in the Soviet Union
Stasi
KGB
Telecommunications equipment of the Cold War
Communications in the Soviet Union
Warsaw Pact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwabon%20station | Hwabon station is a railway station in Gunwi County. It is on the Jungang Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Gunwi County
Railway stations opened in 1938
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeongcheon%20station | Yeongcheon station is a railway station in the city of Yeongcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is on the Jungang Line and the Daegu Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Yeongcheon
Railway stations opened in 1918
Cultural Heritage of early modern times of South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uiseong%20station | Uiseong station is a railway station in Uiseong County, North Gyeongsang, South Korea. It is on the Jungang Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Gyeongsang Province
Uiseong County
Railway stations opened in 1940
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1940s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongseon%20station | Jeongseon station is a railway station on the Jeongseon Line in Jeongseon, Gangwon, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in Gangwon Province, South Korea
Jeongseon County
Railway stations opened in 1967
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1960s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taebaek%20station | Taebaek station is a railway station in the city of Taebaek. It is on the Taebaek Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in Gangwon Province, South Korea
Taebaek
Railway stations opened in 1962
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1960s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20range%20of%20use | Besides the Linux distributions designed for general-purpose use on desktops and servers, distributions may be specialized for different purposes including computer architecture support, embedded systems, stability, security, localization to a specific region or language, targeting of specific user groups, support for real-time applications, or commitment to a given desktop environment. Furthermore, some distributions deliberately include only free software. , over four hundred Linux distributions are actively developed, with about a dozen distributions being most popular for general-purpose use.
Desktop
The popularity of Linux on standard desktop computers and laptops has been increasing over the years. Most modern distributions include a graphical user environment, with, , the three most popular environments being the KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce and GNOME.
No single official Linux desktop exists: rather desktop environments and Linux distributions select components from a pool of free and open-source software with which they construct a GUI implementing some more or less strict design guide. GNOME, for example, has its human interface guidelines as a design guide, which gives the human–machine interface an important role, not just when doing the graphical design, but also when considering people with disabilities, and even when focusing on security.
The collaborative nature of free software development allows distributed teams to perform language localization of some Linux distributions for use in locales where localizing proprietary systems would not be cost-effective. For example, the Sinhalese language version of the Knoppix distribution became available significantly before Microsoft translated Windows XP into Sinhalese. In this case the Lanka Linux User Group played a major part in developing the localized system by combining the knowledge of university professors, linguists, and local developers.
Performance and applications
The performance of Linux on the desktop has been a controversial topic; for example in 2007 Con Kolivas accused the Linux community of favoring performance on servers. He quit Linux kernel development out of frustration with this lack of focus on the desktop, and then gave a "tell all" interview on the topic. Since then a significant amount of development has focused on improving the desktop experience. Projects such as systemd and Upstart (deprecated in 2014) aim for a faster boot time; the Wayland and Mir projects aim at replacing X11 while enhancing desktop performance, security and appearance.
Many popular applications are available for a wide variety of operating systems. For example, Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and Blender have downloadable versions for all major operating systems. Furthermore, some applications initially developed for Linux, such as Pidgin, and GIMP, were ported to other operating systems (including Windows and macOS) due to their popularity. In addition, a growing number o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAISY%20Forum%20of%20India | DAISY Forum of India is a not for profit organisation involved in the production of books and other reading materials for persons with print disabilities including blindness. It is a network of more than 80 organisations working in different parts of India for the welfare of visually impaired people. The members of the Forum are categorised into different classes: Primary Members, Associate Members, Development Partners, Friends of the Society, Supporters of the Society and Partners in Governance. All categories of members, except Partners in Governance, have to pay a fixed amount to be eligible to become members. There are different committees like Technology Committee, Awareness Committee, Capacity Building Committee, and Policy and Regulations Intervention Committee to deal with various different activities of the organisation.
DAISY Forum of India is an Associate Member of DAISY Consortium, which is a global consortium working for the development and promotion of the DAISY standard.
External links
Website: DAISY Forum of India
References
Blindness organisations in India
Charities based in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9reau | Chéreau is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Fabien Chéreau (born 1980), French research engineer and computer programmer
François Chéreau (1680–1729), French engraver of portraits
Jacques Chéreau (1688–1776), French portrait engraver and printmaker
Jean-Luc Chéreau (born 1948), French former racing driver
Patrice Chéreau (1944–2013), French stage director and filmmaker
French-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20for%20mobile%20devices | Linux for mobile devices, sometimes referred to as mobile Linux, is the usage of Linux-based operating systems on portable devices, whose primary or only Human interface device (HID) is a touchscreen. It mainly comprises smartphones and tablet computers, but also some mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) portable media players that come with a touchscreen separately.
Mobile Linux is a relatively recent addition to the Linux range of use, with Google's Android operating system pioneering the concept. While UBPorts tried to follow suit with Ubuntu Touch, a wider development of free Linux operating systems specifically for mobile devices was only really spurred in the latter 2010s, when various smaller companies started projects to develop open source phones.
Lists
Operating systems
This is a list of Linux distros directly targeted towards use with mobile phones, being offered preconfigured with the mobile-oriented software listed below. There are both phone producers who develop their own operating systems and independent developments by community projects. Outside of these, several traditional distros have versions compiled for ARM architecture, which could be configured to use these components. This is done, for example, with Manjaro by the PinePhone.
Active
Android
/e/
Android-x86
Android Go
EMUI (Non GMS compliant)
Fire OS
iodéOS
Lineage OS
One UI
Replicant
VollaOS
Wear OS
GrapheneOS
Other custom Android distributions
AsteroidOS (for wearables)
ChromeOS (for 2-in-1 PC and Chrome Tablet)
EMUI/HarmonyOS (EMUI 12 onwards)
KaiOS
Kindle firmware
LuneOS (based on HP webOS)
Maemo Leste (fork of discontinued Maemo based on Devuan)
Mobian (based on Debian)
Mobile NixOS (based on NixOS)
postmarketOS (based on Alpine Linux)
PureOS
Sailfish OS (based on Nemo Mobile)
SHR
SteamOS (Powering Steam Deck)
Tizen
Ubuntu Touch (discontinued by Canonical, adopted by UBports Community)
webOS
Kali NetHunter Pro (Based on Android and Kali linux)
Discontinued
Bada
Firefox OS
MeeGo
Moblin
Openmoko Linux
OpenZaurus
Smartphones
Phones with Linux preinstalled:
Librem 5
Necuno
PinePhone
Volla Phone
XFone
Middlewares
BusyBox – small footprint alternative to GNU Core Utilities, under GNU GPLv2
Fcitx
Halium
Intelligent Input Bus
Maliit
mer
Smart Common Input Method
Toybox – BSD licensed alternative to BusyBox
Uim
UI
GPE Palmtop Environment
MauiShell (and MauiKit)
Phosh
Plasma Mobile
Lomiri (previously known as Unity8)
See also
Anbox – allows Android apps to run on Linux distributions
References
Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Weatherford | Mark Weatherford is an American cybersecurity professional who has held a variety of executive level positions in both the public and private sectors. He was appointed as the first deputy under secretary for cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security from 2011 to 2013. He is currently the Global Information Security Strategist for Booking Holdings.
Weatherford is a graduate of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and received his master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
He is a former US Navy cryptologic officer and led the Navy’s Computer Network Defense operations and the Naval Computer Incident Response Team (NAVCIRT).
Before joining the DHS, he served (2010–11) as the vice president and chief security officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), where he directed the organization’s critical infrastructure and cybersecurity program for electric utilities across North America. He was also appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the state of California's first Chief Information Security Officer in the Office of Information Security (2008–09), and was also the first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the State of Colorado (2004–07), where he was appointed by both Governor Bill Owens and Governor Bill Ritter. Most notably, he helped establish the state’s first cybersecurity program and spearheaded some of the nation's first cybersecurity legislation aimed to protect citizens.
After leaving the DHS, he was a principal with the Chertoff Group in Washington DC, and senior vice president and chief cybersecurity strategist of vArmour.
Weatherford was one of Information Security magazine’s "Security 7 Award" winners in 2008 and was awarded SC Magazines "CSO of the Year" award in 2010, In 2012 and 2013 he was named one of the "10 Most Influential People in Government Information Security" by GovInfoSecurity. He is a member of the Marysville High School, Marysville, California, Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) International Hall of Fame in October 2018.
References
External links
Chertoff Group
Obama administration personnel
United States Department of Homeland Security officials
University of Arizona alumni
Naval Postgraduate School alumni
People associated with computer security
Living people
1956 births
People from Marysville, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%E2%80%93Cerb%C3%A8re%20railway | The Barcelona–Cerbère railway is a railway line linking Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain to Cerbère in France. It is served by the Rodalies de Catalunya commuter network, Renfe regional, MD, AVE, Avlo and Avant train services, and TGV trains. The line stars at Barcelona Sants railway station, and passes through the Catalan regional cities of Girona and Figueres before reaching the French border, and then Cerbère, just across the border. It is an important commuter and High Speed line, connecting Paris, Montpellier and Perpinyà to Spain.
History
It was built between 1858 and 1878 and electrified between 1981 and 1982 . It used to start at the Estació de França in Barcelona, but now starts at the Sants station.
Major Stations Along The Railway
Barcelona Sants railway station
Plaça De Catalunya railway station
Arc De Triomf Railway Station
El Clot-Aragó Railway Station
Sant Andreu Comtal Railway Station
Granollers Centre Railway Station
Girona Railway Station
Figueres Railway Station
Portbou Railway Station
Cerbère station
Gallery
Notes
See also
Perpignan–Barcelona high-speed rail line
References
External links
Adif . Official website of the railway's owner
Iberian gauge railways
Railway lines in Catalonia
Railway lines opened in 1854
Railway lines in Spain
Transport in Alt Empordà
Transport in Baix Empordà
Transport in Figueres
Transport in Girona
Transport in Gironès
Rail transport in Barcelona
Rail infrastructure in Catalonia
Transport in Montcada i Reixac
Transport in Selva
Transport in Vallès Oriental
1854 establishments in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog%20K35 | The Dialog K35 is a dual-SIM slate smartphone that runs on the Android operating system. It is designed and developed in China by Innos and was marketed in Sri Lanka by Dialog Axiata. The device features a 1 GHz Broadcom CPU , accompanied by 512 MB of RAM. It boasts a 3.5-inch IPS QHD capacitive display with a resolution of 320x480 pixels. The handset comes with 4 GB of built-in storage and supports microSD cards up to 32 GB. It is compatible with various network technologies, including GPRS, EDGE, and 3G. Additionally, the device offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB connectivity, and it can also be use as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Dialog K35 has a 3.2 megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls. The device was launched with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich.
References
External links
Dialog K35
Android (operating system) devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail%20%28software%29 | Contrail was a cloud federation computing project that ran from 1 October 2010 until 31 January 2014. Contrail produced open-source cloud stack software including Security, PaaS components, Distributed file system, Application Lifecycle management middleware, and SLA Management. Contrail supports OVF standard and runs on OpenStack and OpenNebula. Contrail software is a full IaaS + PaaS Cloud stack ready to implement Cloud Federations.
The most recent release is version 1.3, allowing:
Cloud federation
SLA Management
Usage CONtrol
Login over Google
XtreemFS support
SAML Support
OAuth2 standard
Virtual infrastructure Network (VIN)
Virtual Execution Platform (VEP)
Single Sign On (SSO)* Cloud federations*PAAS*IAAS*
Authorization Server
Dynamic-CA
Hadoop
Contrail is partially funded by the FP7 Programme of the European Commission under Grant Agreement FP7-ICT-257438.
Contrail also allows virtualization, alongside Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service. and Hybrid clouds.
References
External links
Development Platform
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukkus.com | Rukkus was a live entertainment search engine that explored 100+ ticket sites, as well as their network of private brokers, to pinpoint the lowest prices for concert, sports, and theater tickets. They discerned the best-valued ticket by using an analytical engine that compared a seat's distance from the action to the price of the ticket. Rukkus also showed stadium layouts for arena shows to allow visualization of one's seat, and allowed users to search for specific events by city or interest.
The company launched its mobile app in February 2014; it was named one of the five best ticket finder apps by iMore and a "genuine leap forward with loads of epic potential" by iPhone Savior. The Rukkus app was free, and featured 2 tap purchasing, as well as in-app music streaming and artist recommendations. As of August 17, 2018, the Rukkus app has been replaced with a new version powered by TickPick.
History
The NYC-based startup was founded in 2011 by Manick Bhan, a Duke graduate and former Goldman Sachs employee with a vision to create "the Kayak.com of the event ticket world". Bhan worked on Rukkus with fellow former investment banker (and co-founder) Joe Messineo, third co-founder Angela McCrory, and at its peak, 17 other employees. On July 24, 2018, TickPick acquired the majority of Rukkus assets for an undisclosed amount.
References
Further reading
Product searching websites
Comparison shopping websites
Internet properties established in 2011
Retail companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Pop%20Group%20or%20Duo%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Group or Duo of the Year is an award presented annually by American network Univision. It was first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since. 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. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to Cuban-American band Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. Mexican group Camila holds the record for the most awards, winning on five occasions out of seven nominations. Mexican duo Sin Bandera, group Los Bukis (once as Marco Antonio Solís and Los Bukis), and rock band Maná, won in three ceremonies each. Only two duets have won the award: Juan Gabriel and Rocío Dúrcal in 1998 and Shakira and Alejandro Sanz in 2006. In 2019, American ensemble CNCO became the most recent recipients of the award.
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
Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocals
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica for Best Group or Duet
References
Pop Group
Pop music awards
Awards established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq%20Paris | Ensoniq Paris was a digital audio workstation available for PCs and Macintosh computers, sold by Ensoniq Corporation in 1998 and later by E-mu Systems. It was a combination of software and hardware providing its user the tools to record, edit and mix audio material in a professional environment, similar to the way that Pro Tools work. The software part which consisted of a multitrack audio sequencer, a virtual mixing console and various digital effects was developed by Intelligent Devices.
The basic system consisted of the PARIS cross-platform software, EDS-1000 a pci card with 6 on-board DSP processors, and Control 16 a dedicated hardware control surface. The pci card had to be connected to one of the three available interfaces which provided analog and digital inputs and outputs to the system. Multiple EDS-1000 cards could be installed in a computer to increase the number of audio input/output and the power of DSP processing.
References
Digital audio workstation software
Music production software
Soundtrack creation software
Windows multimedia software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those%20Who%20Kill%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Those Who Kill is an American crime drama television series developed by Glen Morgan. The series originally premiered on the American cable television network A&E on March 3, 2014, and was re-launched on its sister network, the Lifetime Movie Network, on March 30. It is based on the Danish television series Den som dræber. The show was shot on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On May 18, 2014, Morgan announced the show had been cancelled after only ten episodes.
Plot
Catherine Jensen, a recently promoted homicide detective, enlists the help of Thomas Schaeffer, a forensic psychologist, to track down serial killers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother that she thinks is linked to his stepfather, Judge Howard Burgess.
Cast
Main cast
Chloë Sevigny as Detective Catherine Jensen
James D'Arcy as Dr. Thomas Schaeffer
James Morrison as Commander Frank Bisgaard
Bruce Davison as Judge Howard Burgess
Omid Abtahi as Detective Jerry Molbeck
Kerry O'Malley as Medical Examiner Mia Vogel
Recurring cast
Anne Dudek as Benedicte Schaeffer
Michael Rispoli as Detective Don Wilkie
Dino Rende as John Schaeffer
Kathy Baker as Marie Burgess
Kyle Bornheimer as Paul Cavallo
Desmond Harrington as Detective Nico Bronte
Michael Weston as The Space Cowboy
Vinessa Shaw as Angela Early
Michelle Veintimilla as Sarah Branson
Production
In January 2012, the A&E television channel announced that it had bought the rights to develop a U.S. version of the Danish series, Those Who Kill. A pilot episode began filming in Pittsburgh in December 2012, produced by Fox 21 and written by Glen Morgan, with Chloë Sevigny starring as Pittsburgh Police homicide detective Catherine Jensen, and James D'Arcy as forensic psychologist Thomas Schaeffer.
In April 2013, A&E announced that it had greenlit a 10-episode first season of the series, which would begin production in Pittsburgh in late 2013. Drawn to the region due to state tax credits, filming lasted from September to December 2013. Producers selected locations such as warehouses, parking garages, pubs, hospitals, theaters, penitentiaries, the Allegheny County Courthouse, Riverview Park, the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny, and the abandoned Carrie Furnace to capture the mood of the series.
Reception
Those Who Kill received mixed reviews. It received 54/100 score from 22 reviews at Metacritic. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that seven out of 24 critics gave the series a "rotten" rating. The site's consensus is, "In spite of its suspenseful premise and an effective performance by Chloë Sevigny, Those Who Kill is bogged down by monotonous plots and senseless violence." The series debuted on March 3, 2014, with 1.4 million total viewers, and drew 830,000 viewers for its second episode. A&E then pulled the drama from its schedule, with plans to relaunch it in a new time slot. Instead, the series was shifted to A&E's sister network, the Lifetime Movie Network, for a re-launch.
Episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytica | Analytica may refer to:
Analytica (company), a Washington, D.C.-based consulting and information technology firm
Analytica Corporation, developer of Borland Reflex
Analytica (software), computer software for quantitative decision models
Analytica (trade fair), a trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology
Analytica Chimica Acta, a scientific journal
Analytica Priora, Aristotle 's work on deductive reasoning
Oxford Analytica, an international consulting firm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jangseong%20station | Jangseong station is a KTX station in Jangseong County, South Korea. It is on the Honam Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in South Jeolla Province
Jangseong County
Railway stations opened in 1914
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naju%20station | Naju station is a KTX & regional station in the city of Naju. It is on Honam Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in South Jeolla Province
Naju
Railway stations opened in 1913
Korea Train Express stations
1913 establishments in Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fret%20Nice | Fret Nice is a platform game developed by Pieces Interactive AB and published by Tecmo. The game was released on Xbox Live Arcade on February 4, 2010, and PlayStation Network on February 24, 2010. The game was designed to use a guitar controller, but can also be played using a normal gamepad. Players control the "Vibrant Chords", a rock band duo, as they traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding enemies and hazards. The player can defeat enemies by strumming notes that correspond with their visual appearance, and they progress through the game by earning medals through meeting thresholds in the game.
Reviewers criticized the guitar controller control scheme, noting that the way different actions were mapped to it generally made the game difficult to play. With a standard controller, most critics felt that it was a mostly standard platform game experience that did not differentiate itself from other similar offerings.
Gameplay
Fret Nice is a side-scrolling platform game where the player controls the "Vibrant Chords", a rock band duo, either in single-player or in co-op, and moves from left to right to reach the end of the level. The character uses a guitar to defeat enemies by strumming the instrument in the air. Monsters in the game have five different faces, which are visual cues to show which note must be played to defeat them. The player can achieve a combo by strumming notes together while undergoing a single leap and defeating multiple enemies. At the end of each level, the player jumps onto a helicopter and can then shoot bells to create a melody. Players earn medals in the game by defeating monsters with combos and earning a high enough score, finishing levels at particular speeds, and clearing as many monsters as possible. These medals can then be used to open up further levels in the game. The game contains a total of 12 levels, each individual one having 10 medals that can be earned through gameplay.
The game can be controlled using either a guitar controller or a standard controller. When playing with a guitar, the player must swing the neck of the guitar upwards to jump, and uses the green and yellow buttons on a guitar controller to move left and right. They must also use the other face buttons on the stem to target monsters. Some actions are assigned to the same inputs on the guitar controller: strumming the controller on the ground makes the player run, while strumming in the air makes the player freeze in place. Players can also use a standard controller, with the strumming controls mapped to the trigger and face buttons.
Development
Fret Nice was created by Swedish video game developer Mårten Brüggemann as his college thesis at the University of Skövde. Brüggemann was inspired by Donkey Kong Jungle Beat to create a game that used a guitar controller to control characters in a platform game; Brüggemann intentionally made Fret Nice play differently from Jungle Beat to differentiate it. Brüggemann noted that the guitar co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jack%20Eigen%20Show | The Jack Eigen Show was an American television show, 15 minutes in duration, which aired Thursdays 7:45 to 8:00 pm ET on the DuMont Television Network from 1947 to 1951, The show continued as a radio program from 1951 to 1971, running from 11:15pm to 12:30am ET on WMAQ (AM).
Broadcast history
Eigen (1913–1983) hosted two different television series, both local series which were briefly on the DuMont network.
WABD television series
A television version aired from 1947 to circa 1951 on New York City television station WABD, at that time part of the DuMont Television Network. An early episode featured Milton Berle as a guest. Other segments included the playing of records and the reading of gossip. In late 1950, Ansonia Clock Company became sponsor of the series.
Preservation status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
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
The Jack Eigen Show at IMDB
Eigen bio with pics at RichSamuels website
1947 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
DuMont Television Network original programming
American live television series
English-language television shows
Black-and-white American television shows
Local television programming in the United States
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion%20Stage | Opinion Stage is an online interactive content creation service (focused on polling, voting, and quizzes) integrating social networks and online advertising.
Overview
The tool permits the creation of polls and quizzes featuring text, images, and video, and is offered as a self service.
The Opinion Stage widget optionally makes use of social polling and voting (people use their social network identities to vote), intended to promote social sharing, drive social traffic to the site, improve voting authenticity, and facilitate demographic filtering.
The polls created with Opinion Stage can be shared on online social network and embedded on most types of websites. The widget software uses responsive design techniques to support various platforms and screen sizes. Opinion Stage works also as a standalone platform, the users having personalized home pages with the polls they are interested in.
The company has a dual business model, utilizing a freemium model on the one hand – offering basic functionality for free and paid plans for professional use – and on the other hand working with larger publishers on a basis of revenue sharing from advertising.
History
Founders Assaf Parag and Gil Yoffe created the company in September 2011 and launched the Opinion Stage debating website at the end of that year. Parag mentioned in an interview that the idea was inspired by the protest movements seen around the world that year: "Last summer (2011) there were all these big demonstrations all over the world. All these people would participate and go back home and express their opinions on social networks but in a very unstructured way. So you don’t know who supports what and why. This is how we came to Opinion Stage. We wanted to structure all these opinions that are out there". In early 2013, the company shifted its focus to online polling solutions, and in late 2015 expanded its scope to include more forms of interactive content, such as trivia quizzes.
References
External links
Polling companies
Web applications
Meta Platforms applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeocheon%20station | Yeocheon station is a KTX station in the city of Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, on the southern coast of South Korea. It is on the Jeolla Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in South Jeolla Province
Yeosu
Railway stations opened in 1930
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Your%20Dreams%20%28TV%20series%29 | In Your Dreams (also known as Sommer Deines Lebens) is an Australian children's drama television series that was first screened on the Seven Network's digital channel 7TWO from 22 November 2013 to 27 December 2013. A second season, known as In Your Dreams 2, was screened from 15 June 2014. The series is a Southern Star Entertainment Production for NDR Germany and the Seven Network Australia.
Synopsis
Australian teenaged twins, Samantha and Benjamin Hazelton, spend the summer with their eccentric, aristocratic relatives, the von Hasenburg family, who live in the remote German Schoneburg Castle. The family fortune has dwindled to almost nothing, so Sam and Ben must help them save the castle and turn their fortunes around before bankruptcy descends and centuries of von Hassenburg entitlement come to an end.
Cast
Tessa de Josselin as Sam
David Delmenico as Ben
Jörn Knebel as Baron Philipp
Lars Kokemüller as Marcus
Soma Alusia Pysall as Lili
Kendra Appleton as Sophie
Bardiya McKinnon as Jack
Raechelle Banno
Mia Morrissey as Lucy
Patrick Phillips as Rude File Clerk
Anna-Lena Schwing as Mia
Sheena Reyes as Constable Marsh
External links
References
7two original programming
Australian children's television series
2013 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series about siblings
Television series about teenagers
Television series about twins
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attached%20Support%20Processor | Attached Support Processor (ASP) was an implementation of loosely coupled multiprocessing for IBM's OS/360 operating system. IBM later changed the name to Asymmetrical multiProcessor but retained the acronym ASP.
ASP evolved from the design of the 7094/7044 direct coupled system, using data channel to data channel communication. By attaching an IBM 7044 as a peripheral processor throughput of the 7094 was more than doubled.
ASP was introduced in March 1967, and initially allowed connection of two System/360 computers via a channel-to-channel adapter (CTCA).
As initially defined an ASP system typically consisted of a large System/360 computer, a Model 50, 65, or 75 running OS/360, called the main processor, and a smaller System/360, Model 40 or larger, called the support processor, running the ASP supervisor as a single task under OS/360 PCP (Primary Control Program). The support processor performed functions such as printing, card reading and punching, freeing the main processor to run the application workload. It queued jobs, roughly 30 in the basic configuration, and released them to the main processor in priority order, and also did pre-execution setup of removable input/output devices such as disks and tapes on the main processor.
The main processor was configured identically to a "stand-alone processor operating under OS/360, except that the
channel-to-channel adapter replaces the normal system input
and output devices." The support processor was a minimum of a Model 40 G (G indicates memory size of 128KB) with two selector channels, a 1052 console typewriter, a 2540 card read/punch, a 1403 printer, and three 2311 disk drives. It was recommended that the support processor have access to one 2400-series tape drive for support.
The OS version on the main processor was modified to be able to overlay itself with the 7090/94 emulator program when an emulator job was to be run, and the emulator program would similarly overlay itself with OS/360 when done, to process emulated 709x jobs intermixed with standard 360 jobs. This later became unnecessary with the introduction of integrated emulation programs on the Model 85 and System/370
Later IBM allowed a single support processor to control multiple main processors and added support for Local ASP (LASP), in which the same processor serves as both a local and a main. These capabilities are standard in the final ASP version, version 3, as is support for OS/VS2 (SVS).
With the introduction of MVS for System/370 IBM rewrote and renamed ASP as Job Entry Subsystem 3 (JES3) and it is still in use as of 2015.
See also
HASP
Job Entry Subsystem 2/3
Spooling
Notes
References
IBM software
Operating system technology
Job scheduling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataNeutrality | DataNeutrality.org is a New York-based non-profit organization that is dedicated to creating socially responsible data collection protocols for the Internet.
DataNeutrality works in concert with another New York-based organization, the for-profit start-up Mezzobit, to set data rules, perform compliance for Mezzobit, and send report cards to Mezzobit customers. A primary focus of the organizations is to govern the operation of third-party data collection tags, also called web beacons, and website visitor tracking. The intention is to create a self-regulatory framework for Internet data to augment industry standard and regulatory efforts.
The pairing of these two organizations is an example of the Regulation 2.0 paradigm that encourages corporate transparency and accountability to promote sustainable and positive societal outcomes.
References
Non-profit organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20%28sociolinguistics%29 | In the field of sociolinguistics, social network describes the structure of a particular speech community. Social networks are composed of a "web of ties" (Lesley Milroy) between individuals, and the structure of a network will vary depending on the types of connections it is composed of. Social network theory (as used by sociolinguists) posits that social networks, and the interactions between members within the networks, are a driving force behind language change.
Structure
Participants
The key participant in a social network is the anchor, or center individual. From this anchor, ties of varying strengths radiate outwards to other people with whom the anchor is directly linked. These people are represented by points. Participants in a network, regardless of their position, can also be referred to as actors or members.
Relationships
There are multiple ways to describe the structure of a social network. Among them are density, member closeness centrality, multiplexity, and orders. These metrics measure the different ways of connecting within of a network, and when used together they provide a complete picture of the structure of a particular network.
A social network is defined as either "loose" or "tight" depending on how connected its members are with each other, as measured by factors like density and multiplexity. This measure of tightness is essential to the study of socially motivated language change because the tightness of a social network correlates with lack of innovation in the population's speech habits. Conversely, a loose network is more likely to innovate linguistically.
Density
The density of a given social network is found by dividing the number of all existing links between the actors by the number of potential links within the same set of actors. The higher the resulting number, the denser a network is. Dense networks are most likely to be found in small, stable communities with few external contacts and a high degree of social cohesion. Loose social networks, by contrast, are more liable to develop in larger, unstable communities that have many external contacts and exhibit a relative lack of social cohesion.
Member closeness centrality
Member closeness centrality is the measurement of how close an individual actor is to all the other actors in the community. An actor with high closeness centrality is a central member, and thus has frequent interaction with other members of the network. A central member of a network tends to be under pressure to maintain the norms of that network, while a peripheral member of the network (one with a low closeness centrality score) does not face such pressure. Therefore, central members of a given network are typically not the first members to adopt a linguistic innovation because they are socially motivated to speak according to pre-existing norms within the network.
Multiplexity
Multiplexity is the number of separate social connections between any two actors. It has been defined |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Artist of the Year is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards were first awarded since 1989 and 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. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
In 2010, the Artist of the Year award was presented for the first time and the nominees included bands Aventura and Maná and performers Flex, Luis Fonsi and Vicente Fernández. Aventura earned the award, and also was the recipient of the first Latin Artist of the Year accolade at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, which combines achievements on both the Top Latin Albums and Hot Latin Songs charts. The following year, reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel won the category, and also received the Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album and Song of the Year.
Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira was recognized as Person of the Year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in November 2011; three months later was awarded the Lo Nuestro Award for Artist of the Year. In 2012, Shakira also received the American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist. American banda performer Jenni Rivera won the accolade posthumously, and at the 2013 ceremony received a tribute by various artists, including actor Edward James Olmos and singers Thalía, Paulina Rubio, and Gerardo Ortíz, among others. Mexican band Maná is the most nominated act without a win, with four unsuccessful nominations.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
See also
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica for Artist of the Year
References
Artist of the Year
Awards established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor%20%28disambiguation%29 | A functor, in mathematics, is a map between categories.
Functor may also refer to:
Predicate functor in logic, a basic concept of predicate functor logic
Function word in linguistics
In computer programming:
Functor (functional programming)
Function object used to pass function pointers along with state information
for use of the term in Prolog language, see Prolog syntax and semantics
In OCaml and Standard ML, a functor is a higher-order module (a module parameterized by one or more other modules), often used to define type-safe abstracted algorithms and data structures.
See also
Function (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACOnet | ACOnet is the name of the national research and education network in Austria. The ACONET association promotes the development and use of that network. ACOnet is not managed and operated by ACONET, but by a unit in the Computing Centre of the University of Vienna that also operates the Vienna Internet Exchange. The University of Vienna represents ACOnet internationally, for example as a member of TERENA and as a participant in the project that funds the European backbone network GÉANT.
History
In 1981 the computer centres of the Austrian universities and the Ministry for Science and Research started the development of ACOnet. The first international connectivity was obtained in 1985, with connections to EARN and EUnet. The national EARN node was located at the University of Linz. The ACONET association, of which the computer centres of all Austrian universities are members, was founded in 1986. In that year ACOnet also joined RARE, the European association of National Research and Education Networking organisations. In 1994 the EARN association merged with RARE, and at the same time RARE changed its name to TERENA.
A common, vendor-independent communications infrastructure for ACOnet was established in the second half of the 1990s.
In its first phase, ACOnet set up a private X.25 network, which connected the universities in Vienna, Graz, Leoben, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Linz in a ring topology. Connection speeds were initially 9.6 kbit/s and later 64 kbit/s.
In 1990 the University of Vienna obtained connectivity to the Internet thanks to the European Academic Supercomputer Initiative (EASI) of IBM, with a connection to Geneva at 64 kbit/s, from where a 1.5 Mbit/s connection to NSFNET in the United States could be used (EASINET). In the same year also the other Austrian universities could relatively quickly be connected to the Internet.
The year 1992 saw the replacement of the X.25 network by an IP network. In this stage the core of ACOnet was a triangular backbone with data connections linking the multi-protocol ACOnet routers in the universities in Vienna, Linz and Graz, to which the other locations were connected. Connection speeds in this stage were 64 and 128 kbit/s.
The growing traffic on the ACOnet network and the need to introduce new services that required higher bandwidths made a further transition and upgrade necessary. In 1994 the universities of Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Leoben and Graz were connected to the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) service of Post und Telekom Austria (PTA) with a bandwidth of 2 Mbit/s. The MAN was a public service based on SMDS technology, connecting customers in the whole country.
In 1996 ATM technology was introduced in parts of the ACOnet carrier network, to cater for the fast increasing bandwidth needs in especially the locations Vienna, Linz and Graz. In 1997 also the university locations in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Leoben went over to ATM technology, so t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki-PR%20Wikipedia%20editing%20scandal | Wiki-PR was a consulting firm that marketed the ability to edit Wikipedia by "directly edit[ing] your page using our network of established Wikipedia editors and admins".
It received media attention in 2013 after a sockpuppet investigation resulted in more than 250 Wikipedia user accounts being blocked or banned. The Wikimedia Foundation changed its terms of use in the wake of the investigation, requiring anyone paid to edit Wikipedia to openly disclose their affiliations. Despite the ban, Status Labs, a firm started in 2012 by Wiki-PR founders Fisher and French, continued to edit clients' Wikipedia articles according to former employees. Wiki-PR has been inactive since 2013.
Company
Wiki-PR was created in 2010 by Darius Fisher, its chief operating officer as of 2014, and Jordan French, its chief executive officer as of 2014. Confirmed clients include Priceline and Emad Rahim, and suspected clients include Viacom, among many others. The firm claimed to have Wikipedia administrator access enabling it to manage the Wikipedia presence of more than Wiki-PR has been reported to use "aggressive email marketing" to acquire new customers.
Investigation and company reaction
An investigation of sockpuppet accounts on Wikipedia that began in 2012 implicated hundreds of accounts. Wiki-PR's involvement was confirmed after four customers of Wiki-PR spoke anonymously to The Daily Dot journalist Simon Owens, and two others, Priceline.com and Emad Rahim, spoke to Vice journalist Martin Robbins. In addition to violating rules against sockpuppeting, Wiki-PR violated Wikipedia rules by citing articles that were planted on business content farms and various other websites that accept contributions from any Internet user as sources for Wikipedia entries, creating a false impression of credibility. The same websites were used repeatedly, and their presence in various Wikipedia articles aided investigators in identifying articles the company had worked on.
The investigation led to the Wikipedia community blocking hundreds of paid Wikipedia editing accounts believed to be connected to Wiki-PR that had edited contrary to Wikipedia's rules.
In 2014 The New York Times described Wiki-PR's methods:
In The Wall Street Journal, French was quoted as saying that Wiki-PR is a research and writing firm, counseling clients on "how to adhere to Wikipedia's rules". French said that its paid work is part of the "fabric" of Wikipedia, complementing the work of unpaid volunteers. French acknowledged that Wiki-PR had sometimes made "bad calls" on the notability of articles. He also said that "We do pay hundreds of other editors for their work—they're real people and not sockpuppets." Instead, as was reported by the International Business Times, Wiki-PR had been involved in "meatpuppetry"—a practice in which editors illegitimately encourage other individuals to edit in support of their position—in addition to planting articles online to try to garner better potential notability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20L.%20Whitten | Jeffrey L. Whitten (born ) is an American computer scientist, and professor of information technology at Purdue University, known with Kevin C. Dittman and Lonnie D. Bentley as co-author of the textbook Systems Analysis and Design Methods, which is now in its 7th edition.
Biography
In the 1970s Whitten studied at the Purdue University, where he received his B.S. in industrial management with a minor in computer science in 1976, and his M.S. in computer science and management information systems in 1979.
After graduation Whitten started his academic career at the Purdue University computer technology department as assistant professor, where he developed the systems analysis and design curriculum. In 1984 he was promoted assistant professor and started with Lonnie D. Bentley developing the curriculum into book Systems Analysis and Design Methods, first published in 1988 by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. This book "defragmented its market and maintained its #1 market position through seven editions spanning twenty years. More than 700 schools adopted it during that period." In 1995 he was appointed professor of computer information systems and technology.
In 1987 at Purdue University Whitten was acting head of the department of computer technology; from 1988 to 2003 he chaired that department, and from 2003 to 2010 directed the central IT organization at Purdue University. From 2003 to 2010 Whitten was also associate vice president for IT enterprise applications (ITEA) at Purdue.
In the period 1979–1984 twice Whitten was awarded the James G. Dwyer Award as the best teacher in the Purdue University School of Technology.
Work
Whitten research interests are in the fields of business process modeling, enterprise architecture frameworks and "Systems and computational thinking and its practical applications to systems development."
Selected publications
Bentley, Lonnie D., Kevin C. Dittman, and Jeffrey L. Whitten. Systems analysis and design methods. (1986, 1997, 2004).
Whitten, Jeffrey L., and Lonnie D. Bentley. Using Excelerator for systems analysis and design. (1987).
Whitten, Jeffrey L., Lonnie Bentley, Victor M. Barlow. Projects and cases for use with Systems analysis and design methods. Irwin, 1989
Bentley, Lonnie D., and Jeffrey L. Whitten. Systems analysis and design for the global enterprise. McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2007.
Whitten, Jeffrey L., and Lonnie D. Bentley. Introduction to systems analysis and design. McGraw Hill Irwin, 2008.
References
External links
Jeffrey L. Whitten at Purdue University
1947 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Information systems researchers
Systems engineers
Purdue University alumni
Purdue University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenewFM | RenewFM is a network of Christian radio stations in New England, broadcasting Christian music and Christian talk and teaching programs.
Stations
Originally airing on WRYP, RenewFM is heard on 10 full-powered stations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, as well as 4 translators.
RenewFM's first station, WRYP, began broadcasting in 2006. In 2010, Horizon Christian Fellowship purchased WFGL and WJWT from Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa for $300,000.
Full-powered stations
Notes:
Translators
References
External links
Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
2006 establishments in Massachusetts
Radio stations established in 2006
Christian radio stations in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20DiFrancesco | David DiFrancesco, (born Nutley, New Jersey, 1949), is a photoscientist, inventor, cinematographer, and photographer. He is a founding member of three organizations which pioneered computer graphics for digital special effects and film with Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, including; New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab, Lucasfilm Computer Division, and Pixar, financed by Steve Jobs.
Life and career
Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, DiFrancesco graduated from Nutley High School in 1967.
As director of the Pixar Photoscience Team at Pixar, DiFrancesco and his team were responsible for the task of accurately transferring high resolution digital images to film. In this role, he developed the world's first laser scanning and recording devices for 35mm motion picture film and established reliable, commercially successful methods for this process, called PixarVision. This pioneering work earned him two Scientific and Engineering Technical Academy Awards and 16 patents. In 1996 the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers adopted his recommended practices for governing output of digital images to film.
Before that DiFrancesco worked at Computer Image Corp., working on Scanimate with Lee Harrison, and also at Xerox PARC with Dick Shoup working on the first 8-bit shift register framebuffer technology, and at JPL with Jim Blinn working on Carl Sagan's Cosmos Series. His prototype film recorder resides in the permanent apparatus collection of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. His recent research included the development of a prototype interchangeable light field lens for motion picture cameras that enables post-production re-focusing of motion picture images and the capturing of 3D motion pictures with a single lens and camera.
In 2004, DiFrancesco designed a custom LED-based stroboscopic lighting system to sync the animation of physical Pixar Toy Story characters in the Pixar Zoetrope, first shown at the Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with [Pixar's 20th Anniversary exhibit]. The original Pixar Zoetrope has travelled the world to various museums and several other zoetropes are on display at Disneyland's California Adventure theme park in Southern California and other Disney theme parks.
DiFrancesco's technical knowledge with zoetropes was put into use on a two-minute film entitled “Forza/Filmspeed,” directed by Jeff Zwart. The film revealed the world's fastest Zoetrope in the form of a high resolution still images taken from the Xbox game Forza Motorsport 5. Stills from the game were printed onto panels and staged at key intervals around a Barber Motorsports Park race track to recreate the illusion of movement known as the persistence of vision. On November 19, 2017, he was inducted into the Nutley Hall of Fame.
As a photographer, DiFrancesco's work has been displayed at the MoMa in New York City, the Yale University Library collection, V&A CG collection London, England and i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Schneider | Fred(erick) Schneider may refer to:
Fred Schneider, singer
Fred B. Schneider, computer scientist
Frederick Schneider (writer), writer on Seven Mile, Ohio
Freddy Schneider, actor in Bellisima
Fred Schneider (Detective Comics 500), fictional character
See also
Frederick Schneider House
Friedrich Schneider, composer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Webb | Geoffrey I. Webb (also known as Geoff Webb) is Professor of Computer Science at Monash University, founder and director of Data Mining software development and consultancy company G. I. Webb and Associates, and former editor-in-chief of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Before joining Monash University he was on the faculty at Griffith University from 1986 to 1988 and then at Deakin University from 1988 to 2002.
Webb has published more than 280 scientific papers in the fields of machine learning, data science, data mining, data analytics, time series analytics, big data, bioinformatics and user modeling. He is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Machine Learning.
Webb created the Averaged One-Dependence Estimators (AODE) machine learning algorithm and its generalization Averaged N-Dependence Estimators (ANDE) and has worked extensively on statistically sound association rule learning.
His early work included advocating the use of machine learning to create black box user models;
interactive machine learning;
decision tree grafting;
and one of the first approaches to association rule learning using minimum support and confidence to find the rules for the first associative classifier, FBM. He has developed multiple novel approaches to time series classification. He has worked on diverse problems including
concept drift,
scalable learning of graphical models,
human in the loop machine learning,
computational protein biology.
Webb's awards include inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science, 2017, IEEE Fellow, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Distinguished Research Contributions Award, 2022, Australian Computer Society ICT Researcher of the Year Award 2016, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Outstanding Service Award, 2013 an Australian Research Council Outstanding Researcher Award, 2014 and multiple Australian Research Council Discovery Grants.
He has twice been recognised by The Australian Research Magazine as Australia's leading Bioinformatics and Computational Biology researcher.
Webb is a foundation member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.
He has served on the Editorial Boards of the journals Machine Learning, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, User Modeling and User
Adapted Interaction, and Knowledge and Information Systems.
Webb was elected to the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Executive Committee in 2017.
External links
Webb's home page
G. I. Webb and Associates
References
Australian computer scientists
Living people
Academic staff of Monash University
People from Melbourne
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragersko%E2%80%93Sredi%C5%A1%C4%8De%20Railway | The Pragersko–Središče Railway is a long railway in Slovenia that connects the Slovenian town Pragersko with the Croatian railway network west of Čakovec. The Pragersko-Ormož section of the railway, officially designated as railway number 40 is part of the Pan-European Corridor V, which runs from Venice to Kyiv. The remaining between Ormož and Croatian–Slovene border east of Središče ob Dravi is classified as line number 44. The railway is mostly single-tracked and non-electrified.
History
The construction of this railway was planned by the Emperor-Franz-Joseph Orient-Railway, which was merged in 1858 with the Austrian Southern Railway Company. On 24 April 1860, it was opened for traffic by the Southern Railway as a part of the railway from Kanizsa to Pragerhof.
Gallery
References
External links
Railway lines in Slovenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20World%20War%20I%20centenary%20season | The BBC World War I centenary season was the marking of the centenary of the First World War across the BBC. Programming started in 2014 and lasted until 2018, corresponding to 100 years after the war. The BBC season included 130 newly-commissioned radio and television programmes which lasted over 2500 hours, including more than 600 hours of new content. The programmes were broadcast on over twenty BBC television and radio stations.
Overview
The First World War centenary season was announced on 16 October 2013 by the BBC. Adrian Van Klaveren, the BBC World War I centenary controller called the project the "biggest and most ambitious pan-BBC project ever commissioned". The series featured a wide variety of programming that according to its producers were intended to present a more neutral and accurate picture of the war than the view commonly held by the public. In support of this goal, several programmes explored lesser-known topics such as the experiences of troops from New Zealand and Australia in the Gallipoli Campaign and several others focused on presenting the impact that the war had had on the world today. Other programmes attempted to show the effect that the war had on the individuals involved in it and one documentary showed numerous veteran interviews that were filmed for the BBC documentary The Great War on the conflict's fiftieth anniversary in 1964 but were omitted from that programme.
The series also featured a number of live broadcasts on the 100th anniversaries of significant events during the war, beginning with a broadcast from Sarajevo, the site of assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, on 28 June 2014. Other event anniversaries had dedicated live broadcasts include the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 2016, the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 2016, and the Battle of Passchendaele on 31 July 2017, plus the annual Remembrance Sunday event at the Cenotaph.
The programmes were broadcast on over twenty different BBC television and radio stations including BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC Parliament, BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Alba, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Foyle, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal and BBC Asian Network.
Programmes
Documentaries
Historical debate
Arts and music
The following Arts & Music programmes were shown: Artists of War, Writers of the Somme, The Great War – An Elegy: A Culture Show Special, The Poet who Loved the War: Ivor Gurney, 1914–1918 – The Cultural Front, Music on the Brink, The Ballads of the Great War, Live in Concert – The Vienna Philharmonic in Sarajevo, A Soldier and a Maker – Ivor Gurney on Radio 3, Music in the Great War and Soldier Songs.
Drama
The following drama programmes were broadcast: The Crimson Field, The Passing-Bells, War Poems, Great War Diaries, 37 Days, Our World War, Oh, What a Lovely War, All is Calm – The Christmas Truce, War Horse, Home |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Async/await | In computer programming, the async/await pattern is a syntactic feature of many programming languages that allows an asynchronous, non-blocking function to be structured in a way similar to an ordinary synchronous function. It is semantically related to the concept of a coroutine and is often implemented using similar techniques, and is primarily intended to provide opportunities for the program to execute other code while waiting for a long-running, asynchronous task to complete, usually represented by promises or similar data structures. The feature is found in C# 5.0, C++20, Python 3.5, F#, Hack, Julia, Dart, Kotlin 1.1, Rust 1.39, Nim 0.9.4, JavaScript ES2017, Swift 5.5 and Zig, with some experimental work in extensions, beta versions, and particular implementations of Scala.
History
F# added asynchronous workflows with await points in version 2.0 in 2007. This influenced the async/await mechanism added to C#.
Microsoft released a version of C# with async/await for the first time in the Async CTP (2011). And were later officially released in C# 5 (2012).
Haskell lead developer Simon Marlow created the async package in 2012.
Python added support for async/await with version 3.5 in 2015 adding 2 new keywords, async and await.
TypeScript added support for async/await with version 1.7 in 2015.
Javascript added support for async/await in 2017 as part of ECMAScript 2017 JavaScript edition.
Rust added support for async/await with version 1.39.0 in 2019 with 1 new keyword async and a lazy eval await pattern.
C++ added support for async/await with version 20 in 2020 with 3 new keywords co_return, co_await, co_yield.
Swift added support for async/await with version 5.5 in 2021, adding 2 new keywords async and await. This was released alongside a concrete implementation of the Actor model with the actor keyword which uses async/await to mediate access to each actor from outside.
Example C#
The C# function below, which downloads a resource from a URI and returns the resource's length, uses this async/await pattern:
public async Task<int> FindPageSizeAsync(Uri uri)
{
var client = new HttpClient();
byte[] data = await client.GetByteArrayAsync(uri);
return data.Length;
}
First, the async keyword indicates to C# that the method is asynchronous, meaning that it may use an arbitrary number of await expressions and will bind the result to a promise.
The return type, Task<T>, is C#'s analogue to the concept of a promise, and here is indicated to have a result value of type int.
The first expression to execute when this method is called will be new HttpClient().GetByteArrayAsync(uri), which is another asynchronous method returning a Task<byte[]>. Because this method is asynchronous, it will not download the entire batch of data before returning. Instead, it will begin the download process using a non-blocking mechanism (such as a background thread), and immediately return an unresolved, unrejected Task<byte[]> to this function.
Wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm%20Kings | Farm Kings is a reality television show, which started in 2012 and is found on Great American Country channel. In the UK it airs on Food Network UK. The basis of the show is about the King family which consists of a divorced single mother and her nine boys and one girl, who have a passion for growing and buying local produce and meat. The King family now owns 200 acres of farm land outside of Butler, Pennsylvania. Their farm, Freedom Farms, raises chickens, cows and pigs. They are all pasture raised and free of antibiotics and hormones. They grow over 25 varieties of fruits and vegetables.
Family Dynamics
Lisa King (Divorced Mom): Mother of 10 children, Runs Boldy’s Family Bakery, She grows and sells fresh cut flowers for the family business and for weddings, Family calls her "Mama Bear Lisa"
Joe King: Oldest of the 10 children, CEO of Freedom Farms, Makes all the decisions always looking for new ways to improve and expand the farm & graduated from Penn State as a Civil Engineer
Elizabeth “Bitty” King is the only girl, helps her mom Lisa out at the family Bakery, took a year off and moved away from the farm to get away from the stressful family business and moved back to be a part of Freedom Farms as she is very close to her family
Tim King is in charge of planting and tending to all of the crops, is referred to as the “Plant Doctor”, and is very stubborn, persevering and very strong willed
Pete King is known as the “Human Harvester”, does everything from tending to the chickens, is a field hand and does sales and is very outgoing
Dan King is referred to as the “Utility Man”. He is in charge of the farmer’s markets and helps out his brothers when they need an extra hand on a job
Luke King is the “Brains of the Family”, is one of the family members to go to college. He completed medical school and is now a resident physician.
Sam King likes to think that he is the “Big Man on Campus”, is determined to succeed, and is starting to take on more responsibility when it comes to harvesting the crops
John King is the “Joker” of the family, lightens the mood when there is tension within the family, is not a complainer and will do whatever his brothers tell him to do
Paul King is very helpful and up for any challenge, is 100% committed to farming
Ben King is the youngest, has Down syndrome, works alongside his brothers, and “No one treats him differently because he has special needs”
The family is constantly growing and changing but still manages to live by this one simple quote. “It’s not easy working with family because you expect too much. Everyone has their faults, so it’s about having to deal”
References
External links
Freedom Farm Official Website
2010s American reality television series
Great American Country original programming
2012 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Wesley | Anthony Wesley (born 1965 or 1966) is an Australian computer programmer and amateur astronomer, known for his discoveries of the 2009 and 2010 Jupiter impact events.
Background
Wesley was born in Glen Innes, Australia in 1965. At as early as ten years old, he was given a small telescope, which sparked his interest in stargazing. By 2003 Wesley had become involved in planetary photography. Over time his work became more focused on Jupiter, leading to his discoveries of the 2009 and 2010 impact events. Prior to these discoveries, scientists did not believe impacts of this relatively small size could be observed from Earth. Wesleys' work also brought to light the vital role amateur astronomers play in space discovery.
Impact discoveries
2009
On 19 July 2009 at approximately 13:30, Wesley found fame after discovering a scar near Jupiter's south pole the size of the Pacific Ocean. Wesley discovered the impact at approximately 13:30 UTC on
On 19 July 2009 (almost exactly 15 years after the Jupiter impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, or SL9), Wesley discovered an impact on Jupiter that caused a black spot in the planet's atmosphere. He was at his home observatory just outside Murrumbateman, New South Wales, Australia, using stacked images on a diameter reflecting telescope equipped with a low light machine vision video camera attached to the telescope.
2010
On 3 June 2010, Wesley was away from his home visiting a friend, when with a telescope he took an image of a small celestial object burning up in the Jupiter atmosphere. The observed flash lasted about two seconds. The object was believed to be an asteroid, making it the first image of a meteorite hitting a planet.
The find was praised by NASA and fellow astronomers, who were under the impression that after the 1994 collision another would not be expected for several hundred years.
References
Living people
Amateur astronomers
1966 births
21st-century Australian astronomers
People from New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0%20Vu%20%28software%29 | Déjà Vu is a computer-assisted translation tool with its own program interface. It facilitates database-supported translation.
Development and marketing of this translation environment tool (TEnT) is handled by Atril, which has its international headquarters in Paris, France.
The latest major release of the software is Déjà Vu X3, released in July 2015, with Déjà Vu X3 9.0.807 being the most recent point release, released in March 2022.
History
The first version of Déjà Vu was published in 1993 and used the Microsoft Word interface. In 1996, this approach was abandoned, and the software was given its own program interface.
In 2004, the founder Emilio Benito died and his son, Daniel Benito, Head of R&D and Déjà Vu co-creator, continued running the company. Beginning in March 2009, PowerLing became the exclusive distributor for Déjà Vu in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They began operating in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in April, and in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the US and Canada in July. In January 2011, Powerling increased ATRIL's capital by taking out a controlling stake.
Déjà Vu has been one of the leading CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools for many years along with SDL Trados, Wordfast and others.
Supported source document formats
Déjà Vu can process many file formats: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, also embedded objects, and Access), Help Contents (CNT), FrameMaker (MIF), Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress, QuickSilver/Interleaf ASCII, Java Properties (.properties), HTML, HTML Help, XML, RC, C/Java/C++, IBM TM/2, Trados Workbench, Trados BIF (old TagEditor), Trados TagEditor, JavaScript, VBScript, ODBC, TMX, EBU, InDesign (TXT, ITD, INX, IDML), GNU GetText (PO/POT), OpenOffice, OpenDocument SDLX (ITD), ResX, XLIFF (XLF, XLIF, XLIFF, MQXLIFF, unsegmented and segmented SDLXLIFF), Visio (VDX), PDF, Transit NXT PPF, WordFast Pro TXML, SubRip, TIPP, YAML.
References
External links
Company website
Computer-assisted translation
Translation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta | OMeta is a specialized object-oriented programming language for pattern matching, developed by Alessandro Warth and Ian Piumarta in 2007 under the Viewpoints Research Institute. The language is based on Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs) rather than Context-Free Grammars with the intent of providing "a natural and convenient way for programmers to implement tokenizers, parsers, visitors, and tree-transformers".
OMeta's main goal is to allow a broader audience to use techniques generally available only to language programmers, such as parsing. It is also known for its use in quickly creating prototypes, though programs written in OMeta are noted to be generally less efficient than those written in vanilla (base language) implementations, such as JavaScript.
OMeta is noted for its use in creating domain-specific languages, and especially for the maintainability of its implementations (Newcome). OMeta, like other meta languages, requires a host language; it was originally created as a COLA implementation.
Description
OMeta is a meta-language used in the prototyping and creation of domain-specific languages. It was introduced as "an object-oriented language for pattern matching". It uses parsing expression grammars (descriptions of languages "based on recognizing strings instead of generating them") designed "to handle arbitrary kinds of data", such as characters, numbers, strings, atoms, and lists. This increases its versatility, enabling it to work on both structured and unstructured data.
The language's main advantage over similar languages is its ability to use the same code for all steps of compiling, (e.g. lexing and parsing). OMeta also supports the defining of production rules based on arguments; this can be used to add such rules to OMeta itself, as well as the host language that OMeta is running in. Additionally, these rules can use each other as arguments, creating "higher-order rules", and inherit each other to gain production rules from existing code. OMeta is capable of using host-language booleans (True/False) while pattern matching; these are referred to as "semantic predicates". OMeta uses generalized pattern-matching to allow programmers to more easily implement and extend phases of compilation with a single tool.
OMeta uses grammars to determine the rules in which it operates. The grammars are able to hold an indefinite number of variables due to the use of an __init__ function called when a grammar is created. Grammars can inherit as well as call each other (using the "foreign production invocation mechanism", enabling grammars to "borrow" each other's input streams), much like classes in full programming languages. OMeta also prioritizes options within a given grammar in order to remove ambiguity, unlike most meta-languages. After pattern-matching an input to a given grammar, OMeta then assigns each component of the pattern to a variable, which it then feeds into the host language.
OMeta uses pattern matching in order to a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreDWG | GNU LibreDWG is a software library programmed in C to manage DWG computer files, native proprietary format of computer-aided design software AutoCAD. It aims to be a free software replacement for the OpenDWG libraries. The project is managed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Motivation
The proprietary format DWG is currently the most used file format in CAD, becoming a de facto standard, without other alternative extended, forcing many users to use this software in a dominant position on the part of the owner company Autodesk.
There did exist the OpenDWG library (later named "Teigha"), to access and manipulate data stored in DWG format, which is developed by reverse engineering by an association of manufacturers of CAD software with the intention of supporting their products. As OpenDWG's license does not allow the usage in free software projects, the FSF created a free alternative to OpenDWG.
History
GNU LibreDWG is based on the LibDWG library, originally written by Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva and Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches and licensed as GPLv2 around 2005.
In July 2010 the FSF noted the creation of an alternative to the OpenDWG library as one of 13 "high priority projects".
GPLv3 controversies
In 2009 a license update of LibDWG/LibreDWG to the version 3 of the GNU GPL, made it impossible for the free software projects LibreCAD and FreeCAD to use LibreDWG legally.
Many projects voiced their unhappiness about the GPLv3 license selection for LibreDWG, such as FreeCAD, LibreCAD, Assimp, and Blender. Some suggested the selection of a license with a broader license compatibility, for instance the MIT, BSD, or LGPL 2.1.
A request went to the FSF to relicense GNU LibreDWG as GPLv2, which was rejected in 2012.
Refork
The project was stalled for a few years starting in 2011; this stall occurred for various reasons, including lack of volunteers, licensing issues and programmer motivation. In September 2013, the original project on which LibreDWG is based, LibDWG, announced that it was reactivating, re-forking its code from LibreDWG. A GPLv2 licensed alternative is the libdxfrw project, which can read simple DWGs.
The LibreDWG project has resumed active development, including the addition of more recent .dwg and .dxf formats with version 0.5 in June of 2018. The most recent release as of November 2020, version 0.12.5 includes read support for all DWG formats r13+, write support for r2000 DWG and read/write support for all r13+ DXF versions. The upcoming 0.13 release will support reading all existing DWG versions.
References
External links
Project wiki
Computer file formats
Computer-aided design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement%20against%20Intimidation%2C%20Threat%20and%20Revenge%20against%20Activists | Movement against Intimidation, Threat and Revenge against Activists (MITRA) is a network of NGOs and activists based in Mumbai to protect people taking up public interest causes through Right to Information, grass root activism, or public-interest litigation (India) against intimidation from threat and attack from vested interests they may oppose in the course of their work. MITRA was founded in 2004 after an attack on activist Sumaira Abdulali by the politically led sand mafia at Kihim Beach, Alibag. MITRA was chaired by late Mr. B.G Deshmukh IAS, Retired Cabinet Secretary of India.
Attacks on activists
After activist and Convenor of Awaaz Foundation Sumaira Abdulali was attacked by the son and employees of a local Alibag politician during a sand mining site visit, a public meeting was held in Mumbai and MITRA was formed under the Chairmanship of Mr. B.G. Deshmukh, IAS and retired Cabinet Secretary of India. A number of prominent NGOs and activists networked for the first time to provide a common platform to fight against vested interests and show solidarity in the face of violence. Activists under threat or those who were attacked were identified and joint NGO representations made at various levels including to the Government of Maharashtra the Police and the Bombay High Court. Recently, Attacks on RTI activists in India are escalating along with attacks on other public spirited citizens taking up grass root activism or public interest litigation.
Representations to authorities
MITRA made a number of representations to the Commissioner of Police, the Home Minister of Maharashtra, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the Home Minister of India, Prime Minister of India and Chairperson of the UPA Smt Sonia Gandhi. Attacks and murders of known activists, journalists and government and police officers acting in the public interest were brought to their attention and included a second attack on Sumaira Abdulali and journalist Viju B at Mahad, an attack on Citispace Convenor Nayana Kathpalia in Mumbai, an attack on AGNI Co ordinator Jamesh John in Mumbai, an attack on Citispace Trustee H S D’Lima in Mumbai, the murder of activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal, the murder of Right to Information activist Satish Shetty in Pune, the murder of journalist J Dey in Mumbai, the murder of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune.
Suo Motu public interest litigation
In 2010, following an attack on Citispace Convenor Nayana Kathpalia who had filed public interest litigation in the Bombay High Court and the murder of RTI Activist Satish Shetty in Pune for exposing an active land mafia, the Bombay High Court took up suo motu public interest litigation to protect citizens working in the public interest. MITRA intervened in the petition and obtained an order for the legal status of ongoing cases of attack or murder of activists pending with the police to be placed before the Court. In most cases, no arrests had been made. The Court also ordered the poli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionella%20geestiana | Legionella geestiana is a gram-negative bacterium from the genus Legionella.
References
External links
Type strain of Legionella geestiana at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Legionellales
Bacteria described in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Computer%20Emergency%20Response%20Team | The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In or ICERT) is an office within the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Government of India. It is the nodal agency to deal with cyber security threats like hacking and phishing. It strengthens security-related defence of the Indian Internet domain.
Background
CERT-IN was formed in 2004 by the Government of India under Information Technology Act, 2000 Section (70B) under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. CERT-IN has overlapping responsibilities with other agencies such as National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) which is under the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) that comes under the Prime Minister's Office and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) which is under Ministry of Home Affairs.
Functions
In December 2013, CERT-In reported there was a rise in cyber attacks on Government organisations like banking and finance, oil and gas and emergency services. It issued a list of security guidelines to all critical departments. It liaisons with the Office of National Cyber Security Coordinator, National Security Council and National Information Board in terms of the nation's cyber security and threats. As a nodal entity, India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) plays a crucial role under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY).
September 2022, CERT-In hosted exercise 'Synergy' in collaboration with Cyber Security Agency, Singapore. It had a participation of 13 countries and was conducted as a part of the International Counter Ransomware Initiative-Resilience Working Group.
Agreements
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in May 2016 between the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and the Ministry of Cabinet Office, UK.
Earlier CERT-In signed MoUs with similar organisations in about seven countries - Korea, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan.
The Ministry of External Affairs has also signed MoU with Cyber Security as one of the areas of cooperation with Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. With the MoUs, participating countries can exchange technical information on Cyber attacks, respond to cybersecurity incidents and find solutions to counter the cyber attacks. They can also exchange information on prevalent cyber security policies and best practices. The MoUs helps to strengthen the cyber space of signing countries, capacity building and improving the relationship between them.
Incidents and reports
In March 2014, CERT-In reported a critical flaw in Android Jelly Bean's VPN implementation.
In July 2020, CERT-In warned Google Chrome users to immediately upgrade to the new Chrome browser version 84.0.4147.89. Multiple vulnerabilities that could allow access to hackers were reported.
In April 2021, issued a "high severity" rating advisory on the vulnerability detected on WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business for An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Conrad%20%28biologist%29 | Michael Earl Conrad (1941–2000) was an American theoretical biologist. He was a professor of computer science at Wayne State University. His book Adaptability (1983) has been very influential in theoretical biology.
Conrad was the first to publish theory on the evolution of evolvability, beginning in 1972, with the idea that mutations which smoothed the adaptive landscape would increase the chance that other adaptive mutations could be continually produced, and would thereby hitchhike along with those mutations, thus "bootstrapping the adaptive landscape" to produce the "self-facilitation of evolution".
Career
Conrad received his A.B. in Biology at Harvard University in 1964. He entered Stanford University Medical School but was persuaded by faculty there to pursue a Ph.D. in Biophysics with Professor Howard H. Pattee, which he obtained in 1969.
Conrad continued with postdoctoral research at the Center for Theoretical Studies at the University of Miami, and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley working with Hans Bremermann. Not finding theoretical biology positions in the United States, Conrad took an Assistant Professorship at the new Institute for Information Processing at the University of Tubingen in 1973, and a temporary position with the Logic of Computers group in the Department of Computer Science and Communication at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Conrad finally obtained a tenure-track position in the Computer Science department of Wayne State University in 1979, where he remained for the rest of his career.
References
Theoretical biologists
1941 births
2000 deaths
Harvard College alumni
Stanford University alumni
Wayne State University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle%20Pop%20Adventures | Paddle Pop Adventures is a Thai animated television series computer animation with its first release in 2005. The animations were created by The Monk Studios and is owned by the British-Dutch company Unilever - aside from one made by Egg Story Studio in 2013.
The series is based on the mascot of the Australian ice cream brand Paddle Pop lion. It was released as a film to promote the brand worldwide, but eventually became a series.
It was launched in more than 33 countries including Indonesia, Spain, France, India, Italy, Portugal and Brazil. In Australia, the series was called "Paddle Pop Adventures", where each season has been condensed into a single movie.
Synopsis
The story follows the adventures of Max, or Paddle Pop, a young lion heir to the throne of the Lion Kingdom. He lost his parents to the antagonist Shadow Master, who had attempted to steal the Lion Crystals and achieve supreme power. However Max is saved by his tutor Professor Higgabotton. Together, he and his friends Higganbottom, Leena, Twitch, Spike, Kara and others attempt to collect the crystals themselves and stop the Shadow Master.
Movies
The main set of movies are animated in 3D.
Galaktika (2005) - 102 minutes long.
Cyberion (2007) - 30 minutes long.
Pyrata (2008) - 45 minutes long.
Kombatei (2009) - Originally released as 13 eight-minute episodes. 92 minutes long.
Elemagika (2010) - Originally released as 13 eight-minute episodes. 92 minutes long.
Begins (2011) - Originally released as 11 twenty-minute episodes tied with Begins 2. These episodes were later split in half to make two full movies. Episode 1 was released in April 2011. Begins (2011) is 108 minutes long.
Begins 2 (2012)
Dinoterra (2013) - 103 minutes long.
Magilika (2014) - 86 minutes long.
Magilika 2 (2014)
Atlantos (2015) - 90 minutes long.
Atlantos 2 (2016) - Originally released as 11 twenty-four minute episodes. 85 minutes long.
Spin-offs
Magilika (2006) - 2D animated. ~36 minutes long.
The New Adventure of Paddle Pop/Max The New Adventure (2017) - A TV show set in high school.
Video games
Pyrata - An ARG based on the movie. Was handed out to people purchasing a Paddle Pop ice cream confectionery product at the time.
Rise of the Lions - A level-based mobile game.
Max Dash - A swiping mobile game.
Characters
Max/Paddle Pop - The lion protagonist of the series. Max is the prince (later king) of the Lion Kingdom, being the son of King Adisa and Queen Shifa, and the only survivor of the family having been rescued by Professor Higgabottom as a baby during the attacks of the Shadow Master and being taken to a forest. Early in the series he's on a journey to collect the Lion Crystals along the Leena, Professor Higgabottom, Twitch, Spike and Kara to defeat and deter the Shadow Master.
Leena/Liona - A young lioness pilot of the Phoenix Ship. Like Max she is also an orphan, having lost her father Lionel as a child by the army of the Shadow Master and being cared for by Professor Higgabo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six%20Degrees%20patent | The Six Degrees patent, United States patent #6,175,831, "Method and apparatus for constructing a networking database and system", granted to Andrew Weinreich, et al., has been considered the definitive patent covering social networking by the owners of Tribe.net and LinkedIn. The patent claims covered the building of an online social network by having participants identify contacts who are related to them (i.e. their online friends), and then obtaining from each of these contacts a confirmation accepting the connection or not. The patent was sold along with SixDegrees to YouthStream Media Networks in 2000 and later to Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Mark Pincus of Zynga and Tribe.net for $700,000 at an auction in 2003. When explaining his reasoning for purchasing the Six Degrees patent, Hoffman stated, "Right now you're hearing a lot of spurious patent threats (...) And that's why I moved quickly to get a patent that was foundational." He also commented on other entrepreneurs' views of social networking: "The general attitude among entrepreneurial people is that they think that they were first and that there is no history to what they are doing (...) Both Mark and I had tracked six degrees as an intellectual precursor to our own businesses." Andrew Katz of Fox Rothschild, specialist in Internet intellectual property, said of Hoffman's and Pincus' acquisition of the patent: "It should be taken very seriously by everybody in the industry because it is in the hands of people who have the means and the business acumen to enforce it properly."
References
Social networks
American inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6.0 | 6.0 may refer to:
6.0, a numerical designation commonly used for computer software versioning
6.0 (album), an album by Sister Machine Gun
6.0 system, a judgement system used in competitive figure skating until 2005
See also
6 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ItsOn | ItsOn was an American software company based in Redwood City, California that developed cloud computing software for enhancing the performance of mobile networks. ItsOn's software platform gave mobile network operators the ability to offer granular and flexible, user-customizable services. Users could select and change mobile voice, text, and data services, as well as manage devices, plan sharing and permissions, directly from smart devices at any time.
ItsOn launched a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service, Zact Mobile, in 2013. Zact Mobile received the National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval for its family-oriented features and pricing. In January 2018, ItsOn filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and entered into liquidation.
Technology platform
ItsOn was the first company to develop and commercialize a network function virtualization (NFV) platform that replaced the traditional hardware-based 3GPP policy control plane. ItsOn's cloud-based software enabled mobile operators to create and sell new services and provide users the ability to purchase mobile services in real-time directly from their smart devices.
The ItsOn technology platform overlaid existing infrastructure and extended service policy control to the edge of the network. The platform worked with existing billing systems and networks. The overlay consisted of a service controller, a service design center, and device clients.
Services
ItsOn's services enabled mobile operators to respond to mobile users’ changing needs. Rather than choose from a limited selection of predefined plans, mobile users could purchase exact amounts of each type of service desired. Data could be purchased by quantity (for all uses) or for specific applications (such as Facebook). Service plans could be shared between devices and family members as determined by the account owner. Service plans could be changed as devices and user habits changed. Child curfews could be defined and applied to both mobile and Wi-Fi networks. Users were notified as they approached usage limits.
ItsOn's services allowed operators to introduce self-service capabilities that reduced the need for expensive and time-consuming telephone and in-store support. Users could add devices to their plans, monitor and purchase desired types and quantities of service, and control the use of specific applications via the ItsOn client application.
ItsOn's services enabled advertisers and businesses with rewards programs to provide sponsored services. Operators could offer “MVNO-in-a-box” solutions that allow value-added resellers to package devices with services. The ItsOn client application also served as a vehicle for upselling premium services such as international roaming.
The ItsOn platform could be employed by mobile device OEMs, device OS developers, and M2M developers (as well as mobile network operators and MVNOs) to create, test, and deliver new features and services. The platform could be used to conduct init |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Uschold | Michael F. Uschold (born 1955) is an American computer scientist, Artificial Intelligence researcher, and consultant, known for his work on knowledge representation and ontology.
Biography
Uschold received his BA in Mathematics and Physics in 1977 from the Canisius College, his MS in Computer Science in 1981 from Rutgers University, and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 1991 from the University of Edinburgh.
In 1983 Uschold joined the faculty of the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence as researcher and lecturer, and later moved to its Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute. In 1997 he left the academic world and became Research Scientist at Boeing Phantom Works, a division of The Boeing Company, specialized in advanced prototyping. In 2007 he became Senior Ontologist in a computer science consultancy firm, in 2009 he started as independent consultant, and since 2010 participates in a management consultancy firm.
Uschold's research interests and expertise is in the field of "Software concept design and architecture; Facilitation, Analysis & Modeling; Asking probing question, getting to the heart of the matter; Communication of complex information in simple terms. Writing, speaking, presenting; Constructive reviewing and critiquing; and Semantic technology."
Selected publications
Papers and articles, a selection:
Uschold, Michael, and Martin King. Towards a methodology for building ontologies. Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1995.
Uschold, Michael. Building ontologies: Towards a unified methodology. Technical. Report AIAI-TR-195, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, The University of Edinburgh, 1996.
Uschold, Mike, and Michael Gruninger. "Ontologies: Principles, methods and applications." Knowledge engineering review 11.2 (1996): 93–136.
Uschold, M., King, M., Moralee, S., & Zorgios, Y. (1998). "The enterprise ontology." The knowledge engineering review, 13(01), 31–89.
Jasper, Robert, and Mike Uschold. "A framework for understanding and classifying ontology applications." Proceedings 12th Int. Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling, and Management KAW. Vol. 99. 1999.
References
External links
semanticarts.com
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
American computer scientists
Canisius University alumni
Rutgers University alumni
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Enterprise modelling experts
1955 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20LeGate | William LeGate (born September 3, 1994) is an American entrepreneur, Thiel Fellow, computer programmer and activist.
A self-taught programmer from the age of 12, LeGate was brought to the public's attention three years later when The New York Times recommended one of the iOS applications he had programmed during middle school.
When LeGate graduated from high school at age 18, billionaire PayPal co-founder and investor Peter Thiel awarded him a Thiel Fellowship, a US$100,000 grant, given annually to around 20 people under 20 years of age on the condition that they drop out of school in order to pursue an entrepreneurial path. The apps that he made had been downloaded over 7 million times as of April 2017.
Early life
LeGate was born on September 3, 1994, in Atlanta, Georgia, son of a real estate entrepreneur father and stay-at-home mother. He was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta and is a graduate of The Walker School in Marietta, Georgia.
Career
Thiel Fellowship
Having taught himself computer programming from online courses at Stanford, starting at the age of 13, LeGate stated in a 2011 interview that he had always had a passion for entrepreneurship. Throughout high school, he created over a dozen iPhone applications which were being used by 1 in 12 American teenagers upon his graduation.
His early success caught the attention of billionaire PayPal co-founder and investor Peter Thiel who awarded LeGate—then aged 18—with a Thiel Fellowship—a $100,000 (USD) grant given annually to around 20 people under 20 years of age on the condition that they drop out of school in order to pursue an entrepreneurial path.
Imagination Research Labs
At age 14, LeGate created an iOS app development company called Imagination Research Labs, after teaching himself how to code in Objective C.
Ponder
Toward the end of his Thiel Fellowship, LeGate began creating the Ponder mobile application, of which he was listed as co-founder and CEO. The New York Post dubbed Ponder the "anti-Kardashian" photo sharing app, with Teen Vogue adding that Ponder is "drama-free. No trolls, bullying, or negativity. Just cool photos & videos."
Tinder co-founders Sean Rad and Justin Mateen both invested in the app, and Justin's brother Tyler Mateen was a co-founder of Ponder.
GoodPillow
In February 2021, American anti-gun violence activist David Hogg announced that he and LeGate would start GoodPillow to compete with MyPillow, whose CEO Mike Lindell had spread unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud as a staunch supporter of former President Trump. GoodPillow originally started out as a Twitter joke by LeGate. In April 2021, Hogg announced that he had left the company to focus on his education.
In June 2021 the company tweeted that "the first Good Pillow has arrived from the factory." The company committed themselves to progressive causes, promising to have their pillows made in Texas by workers earning a living wage.
In April 2022, news leaked that GoodPillow and Pillow-Fight had |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDT | xDT (aka KVDT) is a family of data exchange formats that are used by physicians and health care administration in Germany. They were created by initiative of the Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians - NASHIP).
Formats
As of October 2013 the following formats have been implemented:
ADT (Abrechnungsdatentransfer): A format for transferring billing data
BDT (Behandlungsdatentransfer): A format for exchange of complete electronic health records among electronic health record software systems
GDT (Gerätedatentransfer): A format to transfer data among medical devices and software systems
LDT (Labordatentransfer): A format to transfer orders of laboratory tests and their results.
External links
NASHIP interface description (in German)
xDT field directory in gms Wiki
Healthcare in Germany
Standards for electronic health records
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Collaboration%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Collaboration of the Year is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards were first awarded in 1989 and were 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. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
In 2010, the Collaboration of the Year (an all-genre award) was included in the General Field of the Lo Nuestro Awards, and in the first time that was presented the nominees included "Aquí Estoy Yo" by Puerto-Rican American pop singer Luis Fonsi featuring Aleks Syntek, David Bisbal and Noel Schajris; "All Up 2 You" by American bachata band Aventura featuring Akon and Wisin y Yandel; "Eso de Quererte" by Mexican banda performer Fidel Rueda and Los Buitres; "Imparable" by Puerto-Rican American singer-songwriter Tommy Torres and Jesse & Joy; and Puerto-Rican American urban band "No Hay Nadie Como Tú" by Calle 13 featuring Café Tacuba. "Aquí Estoy Yo" earned the award, and also was the recipient of the Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The following year, Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias won the category with "Cuando Me Enamoro", a collaboration with Dominican performer Juan Luis Guerra, and also received the Hot Latin Song of the Year accolade at the Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Puerto-Rican reggaeton performer Daddy Yankee won in 2012 for his collaboration with American singer Prince Royce titled "Ven Conmigo", which was also nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song. In 2013, Prince Royce became the most awarded performer in the category, winning for the second consecutive year, since his collaboration with Mexican band Maná titled "El Verdadero Amor Perdona" won for collaboration of the year and also reached number-one in the Billboard Latin Songs chart.
In 2015, the Collaboration of the Year Award was separated into four fields: Pop, Tropical, Regional Mexican, and Urban. The following year it returned to the General Field and was awarded to Nicky Jam and Enrique Iglesias for "El Perdón" and in 2017 nominations were presented in the General and Urban Field.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
See also
Billboard Latin Music Awards
References
Collaboration
Musical collaboration awards
Awards established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Mini%202 | The iPad Mini 2 (formerly marketed as the iPad mini with Retina display, officially iPad mini 2 with Retina display) is a tablet computer produced and marketed by Apple Inc. It has a nearly identical design to its predecessor the first-generation iPad Mini, but features internal revisions such as the addition of the A7 system-on-a-chip and 2,048 x 1,536 resolution Retina Display. Internally, the second-generation iPad Mini has nearly the same hardware as its sibling device, the iPad Air (1st generation). Apple released the second-generation iPad Mini in space gray and silver colors on November 12, 2013.
History
The second-generation iPad Mini was announced during a keynote at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 22, 2013. The theme of the keynote was 'We still have a lot to cover.' The iPad Mini 2 was then released on October 23, 2013, in Silver and Space Grey colors. It was initially released with IOS 7.0.3, but cellular models were initially released with iOS 7.0. Rumours of the iPad mini 2 being released with iOS 6 spanned around the web; however, it was unveiled supporting iOS 7. On March 21, 2017, the iPad mini 2 was discontinued along with the iPad Air 2 with the announcement of the 2017 iPad and was no longer sold through Apple but continued to support major software revisions. iOS 12 is the last major software release supported by the iPad mini 2. Apple has confirmed the A7 SoC used on the iPad mini 2 is not powerful enough to run iPadOS 13 or higher, leaving the only models in the iPad mini line supporting newer iOS versions as of May 1, 2023, being the IPad Mini (5th generation), and iPad Mini (6th generation). The last version the iPad mini 2 supported was iOS 12.5.7, released on January 23, 2023.
Features
Software
The second-generation iPad Mini was released with the iOS 7 operating system, which debuted shortly earlier than the iPad, on September 18, 2013. Apple's chief designer, Jony Ive, described the update of iOS 7's new elements as "bringing order to complexity", highlighting features such as refined typography, new icons, translucency, layering, physics, and gyroscope-driven parallaxing as some of the major changes to the design. The design of both iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) noticeably departed from previous skeuomorphic design elements such as green felt in Game Center, wood in Newsstand, and leather in Calendar, in favor of a flat, colourful design.
The iPad mini can act as a hotspot with some carriers, sharing its Internet connection over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or USB, and also access the Apple App Store, a digital application distribution platform for iOS. The service allows users to browse and download applications from the iTunes Store that were developed with Xcode and the iOS SDK and were published through Apple. From the App Store, GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, and the iWork apps (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) are available.
The second-generation iPad Mini comes with several pre-installed applica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Lumia%202520 | The Nokia Lumia 2520 is a Windows RT tablet computer originally developed by Nokia. It is Nokia's first and only Windows-based tablet, and the company's first tablet since its Nokia Internet Tablet line. Sharing its design and marketed with the Nokia Lumia series of Windows Phone products, the device incorporates a quad-core Snapdragon 800 chip with 4G LTE support, along with a 10.1-inch (26 cm) 1080p display and an optional "Power Keyboard" dock adding additional battery capacity, USB ports, and a physical hardware keyboard. Following a period of speculation and leaks, the Lumia 2520 was officially unveiled on 22 October 2013, and released in North America on 21 November 2013.
The 2520 was met with mostly positive reviews, praising its design, display, and for being the first Windows RT tablet to offer cellular data (although Microsoft's own Surface 2 was soon available with such an option). However, the device also received criticism for the lack of available software for its operating system (due to the inability of Windows RT to run full Windows desktop programs), along with the design of its keyboard dock.
From April 2014 it was maintained and sold by Microsoft Mobile. The Nokia Lumia 2520 was discontinued by Microsoft on February 2, 2015, being the last Windows RT device, coming a month after the production halt of the Surface 2.
After Nokia's phone business was sold to Microsoft, Nokia started making the Nokia N1. The Nokia N1 ultimately succeeded Nokia's former Lumia 2520.
In September 2017, HMD global gained rights for design patent of Lumia 2520.
Development and release
In mid-August 2013, details began leaking surrounding a Windows RT tablet being produced by Nokia codenamed "Sirius", which featured a 10.1-inch (26 cm) screen, LTE support and a design similar to Nokia's Lumia series of Windows Phone devices. A press render leaked in October 2013, along with its branding as the "Lumia 2520". The Lumia 2520 was officially unveiled during a Nokia press event on 22 October 2013 at a Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi, where it also unveiled Lumia 1320 and 1520 running Windows Phone 8. The device marks Nokia's first Microsoft Windows-based tablet device, and its first tablet product since its Internet Tablet range.
The Lumia 2520 was first released in the United States by Verizon Wireless on November 21, 2013. In the U.S., carrier-branded versions were released by Verizon and AT&T. The Verizon Wireless model differs only in its use of different LTE bands, and a lack of support for GSM networks, unlike the international and AT&T version. No Wi-Fi-only version of the Lumia 2520 was released.
In April 2014, Nokia recalled the AC-300 travel charger for the Lumia 2520 after it was discovered that the cover on its plug could separate and expose internal parts, posing an electric shock hazard when in use. While sold as an accessory in the United States, it was bundled with European models; as a result, Nokia also suspended sales of the Lumia 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optelian | Founded in 2002, Optelian Access Networks Corporation (Optelian) is a privately owned and operated Intuitive Packet Optical Networking company. Optelian has two headquarters – one in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) and the other in Marietta, Georgia (U.S.). The company has both product development and local manufacturing based in Ottawa. Initially producing passive networking components, Optelian has added active products for service providers, wireless applications, utilities, research and education, cloud and data center, or any other enterprise.
In 2012, Deloitte ranked Optelian as #39 on Canadian Fast 50 and #302 on North American Fast 500. Optelian has also won the Ottawa Business Journal Top 10 Fastest Growing Companies in Ottawa award for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
History
In 2002, Dave Weymouth and Mike Perry founded Optelian after realizing that there was a gap they could fill in the optical transport market. The company began creating passive optical components, and then expanded to active solutions, including packet optical networking, based on customer feedback.
Optelian now designs and develops optical transport network components for over 200 service providers, utilities, research and development, data center and cloud, and other enterprises in North America and around the world. Optelian has delivered more than 20,000 systems with over 300,000 wavelengths installed.
Versawave - division of Optelian
In January 2012, Optelian acquired Versawave Technologies Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, a leader in the field of ultra-high bandwidth gallium arsenide based optical modulators with patented polarization modulation technology.
Acquisition by DZS
On February 08, 2021, DZS completed its acquisition of Optelian, less than a month after the announcement that DZS had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Optelian on January 20, 2021.
North American manufacturing
Optelian both designs and manufactures optical components in the Ottawa, Ontario location.
Products and services
Optelian’s products are organized into categories that fall within the Optelian FLEX Architecture. Prior to the introduction of the Optelian FLEX Architecture, all of the products were divided into LightGAIN, which largely represented active components, and LightMUX, which mostly covered passive components. However, as the active product portfolio grew a single category was not sufficient to distinguish where the components fit within the operator’s network.
Optelian leadership
David Weymouth – Chief Executive Office and Co-founder
Mike Perry – Strategic Advisor and Co-founder
Dr. Sheldon Walklin – Chief Technology Officer
Dave Mills – Vice President of Sales and Services
Brenda Snarr – Vice President of Finance
Dennis Isotti – Vice President of Operations
See also
Optical communication
ROADM
Wavelength Division Multiplexing
OSI model
References
Companies based in Ontario
Privately held companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Companies established in 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves%20AN/MSQ-1%20Close%20Support%20Control%20Set | The Reeves AN/MSQ-1 Close Support Control Set produced by Reeves Instrument Corporation was a trailer-mounted combination radar/computer/communication ("Q" system) developed under a Rome Air Development Center program office (MPS-9 radar & OA-215) for Cold War command guidance of manned aircraft (e.g., those equipped with AN/APS-11A or AN/APW-11 avionics.) Developed for Korean War ground-directed bombing (e.g., B-26 bombers), one detachment of the 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron bombed itself with an MSQ-1 because it mistakenly used procedures for the earlier SCR-584/OA-294 system (the MSQ-1 was later replaced by the Reeves AN/MSQ-2 Close Support Control Set.) The MSQ-1 was subsequently used for nuclear testing during Operation Teapot, and for aircraft tests such as for "MSQ-1 controlled pinpoint photography" in 1954 (RB-57A Canberra "Night Photo Bombing").
The set had a direct current analog computer and was modified to use an alternating current computer for Matador Automatic Radar Control (AN/MSQ-1A) to guide MGM-1 Matadors and other unmanned aerial vehicles. The MSQ-1 was considered for guidance of the "XQ-5 Target" drone in 1957,
Air Force MSQ-1A units were carried aboard the USS Tarawa (CVS-40) and the USS Neosho (AO-143) to track Lockheed X-17s launched during the Operation Argus nuclear tests.
Radar stations
In addition to the Tadpole radar stations of the Korean War, a downrange AN/MSQ-1 for the Atlantic Missile Range had been at Florida's Jupiter Missile Guidance Annex in 1952, and an MSQ-1 radar station on the United States Gulf Coast for the RB-57A tests.
References
1951 in military history
Aerial warfare ground equipment
Cold War military computer systems of the United States
Ground radars
Military equipment introduced in the 1950s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl%20%28disambiguation%29 | NaCl is the chemical formula for sodium chloride, table salt.
NaCl may also refer to:
Saline (medicine), the salt solution used as a medication
NaCl (software), a public domain networking and cryptography library
Google NaCl, a sandboxing technology
See also
Naci (disambiguation)
NAC1 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Wrestling%20Network | The United Wrestling Network (UWN) is a governing body for professional wrestling promotions in the United States and Japan that formed in 2013.
History
On October 21, 2013, David Marquez, promoter of Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CWFH), announced the creation of a new governing body called the United Wrestling Network (UWN). Similar to the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), of which CWFH was formerly a member promotion, the UWN sees its affiliated promotions "pool their resources" and work together to secure national television advertising. For a wrestling company to join the group, they must have a television broadcast agreement or agree to produce their own broadcasts. Soon after its formation, an offshoot promotion called Championship Wrestling from Arizona was launched. In the summer of 2014, CWFH announced a tournament to crown the first UWN World Heavyweight Champion, who would be recognized across the UWN's affiliates.
On August 10, 2020, UWN announced a partnership with the NWA to produce Primetime Live, a series of events aired weekly from Long Beach, California at the Thunder Studios. Debuting on September 15, Primetime Lives first event saw NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis defend the title against Mike Bennett in the main event. On the October 13 Primetime Live event, David Marquez revealed the UWN World Championship for the first time and announced an eight-man tournament to crown the inaugural champion. The tournament and inaugural championship was won by Chris Dickinson.
During the summer of 2021, UWN announced the launch of Championship Wrestling from Atlanta, which will air on Peachtree TV, and be taped from Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia. On July 15, Marquez announced on Twitter that Championship Wrestling from Atlanta would premiere on Saturday September 2 at 10 p.m
On February 17, 2022, UWN announced in a press release that they will be merging the Hollywood, Arizona and Atlanta Championship Wrestling programs into a singular broadcast called Championship Wrestling presented by CarShield. The first taping for the new show will take place at the Irvine Improv in Irvine, California on March 22.
Championships
Members
Current
Former
See also
List of independent wrestling promotions in the United States
References
External links
United Wrestling Network
American professional wrestling promotions
Sports organizations established in 2013
2013 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Lumia%201320 | The Nokia Lumia 1320 smartphone is a phablet smartphone in the Lumia series developed by Nokia that runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system. It was announced at the Nokia World event on October 22, 2013. It was released in Asia in the first quarter of 2014, including the India release in January 2014. It has ClearBlack IPS LCD display, making it the biggest display for Windows phones along with the Nokia Lumia 1520.
It was discontinued with the introduction of the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL, its successor, in April 2015.
Model variants
See also
Microsoft Lumia
Microsoft Lumia 640 XL
References
Nokia smartphones
Microsoft Lumia
Windows Phone devices
Phablets
Mobile phones introduced in 2013
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Google%20Nexus%20smartphones | The following is a comparative list of smartphones belonging to the Google Nexus line of devices, using the Android operating system.
See also
Comparison of Google Pixel smartphones
Comparison of Google Nexus tablets
Comparison of Samsung Galaxy S smartphones
Comparison of smartphones
List of Google Play edition devices
Pixel (smartphone)
References
Nexus smartphones, Comparison of
Google Nexus
Lists of mobile phones
Computing comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Mini%20%281st%20generation%29 | The first-generation iPad Mini (stylized and marketed as iPad mini) (known retrospectively as the iPad Mini 1) is a mini tablet computer designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced on October 23, 2012, as the fourth major product in the iPad line and the first of the iPad Mini line, which features a reduced screen size of , in contrast to the standard . It features similar internal specifications to the iPad 2, including its display resolution.
The first generation iPad Mini received positive reviews, with reviewers praising the device's size, design, and availability of applications, while criticizing its use of a proprietary power connector, its lack of expandable storage, its under-powered Apple A5 chip with 512 MB RAM, and the lack of a Retina display.
History
On October 16, 2012, Apple announced a media event scheduled for October 23 at the California Theatre in San Jose, California. The company did not predisclose the subject of the event, but it was widely expected to be the iPad Mini. On the day of the event, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced a new version of MacBook family and new generations of the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and the iMac before the iPad Mini and the higher end fourth-generation iPad.
It was released on November 2, 2012. The US list price started at $329 for the 16 GB model; the UK list price was £269 for the 16 GB model, £349 for the 32 GB model and £429 for the 64 GB model. Similar releases were made in nearly all of Apple's markets. The 32 GB and 64 GB models were discontinued with the release of its successor, the iPad Mini 2 and the iPad Air 1 on October 22, 2013. After almost 3 years on June 19, 2015, the remaining 16 GB model was discontinued as well. As well as being discontinued from stores, the iPad mini no longer receives software updates and is not supported by Apple.
Features
Software
The iPad Mini shipped with IOS 6.0.1. It can act as a hotspot with some carriers, sharing its Internet connection over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or USB, and also access the App Store, a digital application distribution platform for iOS that is developed and maintained by Apple. The service allows users to browse and download applications from the iTunes Store that were developed with Xcode and the iOS SDK and were published through Apple. From the App Store, GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, and the iWork apps (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) are available. Currently the latest versions are IOS 9.3.6 (for Wi-Fi+Cellular models) and iOS 9.3.5 (for Wi-Fi only models)
The iPad Mini comes with several pre-installed applications, including Siri, Safari, Mail, Photos, Video, Music, iTunes, App Store, Maps, Notes, Calendar, Game Center, Photo Booth, and Contacts. Like all iOS devices, the iPad can sync content and other data with a Mac or PC using iTunes, although iOS 5 and later can be managed and backed up with iCloud. Although the tablet is not designed to make telephone calls over a cellular network, users can use a headset |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Agora | Agora, Inc. is a Baltimore, Maryland-based network for over thirty companies in the publishing, information services, and real estate industries. Agora was founded in 1978, in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The Agora Companies operate independently from cities around the world.
History
Agora was founded by Bill Bonner in 1978. Agora began with one flagship publication in 1979, International Living. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Agora expanded to include publishing subsidiaries, real estate holdings, and restaurants. As of 2015, Agora's publications claimed to have around one million readers throughout the world.
In 2016, Agora, previously Agora, Inc., was reintroduced as The Agora. The company represents a private network for businesses that publish financial, heath, travel research, and analysis as well as special interest books and newsletters.
Operations
As of 2015, the combined revenue of all of The Agora Companies is around $500 million. Companies included in The Agora network have purchased access to the email lists of conservative politicians, including Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich, to advertise its products.
Companies
Each Agora company is independently operated. U.S.-based member companies of The Agora's network include: Agora Financial, Laissez Faire Books, Common Sense Publishing, The Oxford Club, Money Map Press, Wall Street Daily, Bonner and Partners, TradeSmith, NewMarket Group, Institute of Natural Healing, Banyan Hill Publishing, and Omnivista Health.
Agora's non-U.S.-based members include:International Living Publishing, International Living, International Living Properties, Agora Publishing UK, Agora Lifestyles, Fleet Street Publications, FSP Financial Services, Southbank Investment Research, and Fat Tail Investment Research.
Books and newsletters
As of 2016, The Agora Companies published a combined total of nearly 300 books and over 120 newsletters through thirty-six publishers. Their titles include:The Daily Reckoning, an email newsletter with more than 500,000 subscribers, and the UK-based investment magazine, MoneyWeek, which from January to June 2011 had an Audit Bureau of Circulation certified circulation of 47,366.
Authors published by the Agora companies have written bestselling books, including:
Michael Masterson
Bill Bonner and Lila Rajiva
Marc Lichtenfeld
Addison Wiggin and Bill Bonner
Empire of Debt: Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis
Litigation against Agora Inc.
In Ginsburg v. Agora, Inc., 915 F. Supp. 733 (1995), Agora defended itself against a civil suit claiming violations of state and federal securities laws. The court dismissed the complaint, holding that Agora, as the publisher of a subscription investment newsletter, was protected by the First Amendment against liability for factual misstatements.
In Lubin v. Agora, Inc., 882 A.2d 833 (2005), pursuant to an investigation into potential violations of Maryland securities laws, the Maryland Securities C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chess%20Engine%20Championship | Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since 2010. It was organized, directed, and hosted by Martin Thoresen until the end of Season 6; from Season 7 onward it has been organized by Chessdom. It is often regarded as the Unofficial World Computer Chess Championship because of its strong participant line-up and long time-control matches on high-end hardware, giving rise to very high-class chess. The tournament has attracted nearly all the top engines compared to the World Computer Chess Championship.
After a short break in 2012, TCEC was restarted in early 2013 (as nTCEC) and is currently active (renamed as TCEC in early 2014) with 24/7 live broadcasts of chess matches on its website.
Since season 5, TCEC has been sponsored by Chessdom Arena.
Overview
Basic structure of competition
The TCEC competition is divided into seasons, where each season happens over a course of a few months, with matches played round-the-clock and broadcast live over the internet. Each season is divided into several tournaments: a Leagues Season, a Cup, a Swiss tournament, a Fischer Random Chess tournament. Additionally, seasons contain various bonus contests, like the 'Viewer Submitted Opening Bonus'.
Prior to season 21, there was originally one tournament in each season. This tournament consisted of several qualifying stages and one "superfinal", and the winner of the superfinal is called the "TCEC Grand Champion" until the next season. Prior to season 11, the tournament used a cup format, while starting in Season 11, the tournament used a division system. Starting in season 13, there was also a cup tournament consisting of the top 32 engines in the main tournament, resulting in a 5-round single elimination tournament.
Engine settings/characteristics
Pondering is set to off. All engines run on mostly the same hardware and use the same opening book, which is set by the organizers and changed in every stage. Large pages are disabled, but access to various endgame tablebases is permitted. Engines are allowed updates between stages; if there is a critical play-limiting bug, they are also allowed to be updated once during the stage. In previous seasons, if an engine crashes 3 times in one event, it is disqualified to avoid distorting the results for the other engines; however starting in TCEC Season 20, an engine is allowed to crash as many times as possible without being disqualified from the current event; however, the engine will still be disqualified from future events unless the crash is fixed. TCEC generates an Elo rating list from the matches played during the tournament. An initial rating is given to any new participant based on its rating in other chess engine rating lists.
Criteria for entering the competition
There is no definite criterion for entering into the competition, other than inviting the top participants under active development from var |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Rock/Alternative%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Rock/Alternative Artist of the Year was an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards have been held since 1989 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 Arthur Andersen. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy is shaped in the form of a treble clef. The categories awarded were for the Pop, Tropical/Salsa, Regional Mexican and Music Video fields before the 2000 awards, and from the following year onwards categories were expanded and included a Rock field for Album and Performer of the Year.
The award was first presented to Colombian singer Shakira, the only female winner. Colombian performer Juanes was the most nominated and biggest winner in the category, with six wins out of nine nominations. Mexican band Maná won the award four times. Mexican singer Alejandra Guzmán and ensembles Café Tacuba and Motel were the most nominated acts without a win, with three unsuccessful nominations each. In 2013, all the categories in the Rock Field (Artist, Album and Song of the Year) were merged into the Pop Field.
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
Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album
Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Album
References
Rock music awards
Latin rock albums
Rock/Alternative Artist of the Year
Awards established in 2010
Awards disestablished in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga%20Cable%20System | Tonga Cable System is a submarine fiber-optic cable system connecting Tonga with Fiji, where it connects to other international networks. It is long and was activated in 2013. It has cable landing points at Sopu, a suburb of Nukuʻalofa in Tonga, and Suva, Fiji. The project was funded by Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
An extension of the cable to Haʻapai and Vavaʻu was commissioned in April 2018.
History
On January 20, 2019, the cable broke and disrupted Internet services to Tonga. Satellite communications were used as a backup.
Three years later, the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption disrupted it again. A specialist repair ship from SubCom could take days to get to the fault site, as it was deployed from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. It was expected to take at least two weeks to repair the system, assuming no new eruption affected the zone. Repair of the cable to Nukuʻalofa, of which 55 kilometres had disappeared, presumed buried by an underwater avalanche, was completed on 21 February, with testing and recommissioning expected within 24 hours. The extension from Nukuʻalofa to Haʻapai and Vavaʻu remained damaged.
References
External links
Tonga Cable System Landing Stations
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
2013 establishments in Tonga
2022 in Tonga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharuch%20Junction%20railway%20station | Bharuch Junction (station code: BH) is a railway station on the Western Railway network, located in Bharuch, Gujarat, India. It is 'A' category railway station of Western Railway zone of Indian Railways. It serves Bharuch city. It has 6 platforms. Bharuch Junction is well connected to Dahej Port by rail.
It is an important halt for all trains that are bound for Ahmedabad Junction, Jaipur Junction, Mumbai, Amritsar and Delhi.
Lines
The main lines passing through Bharuch Junction are :
New Delhi–Mumbai main line via Kota Junction
Ahmedabad–Mumbai main line via Vadodara Junction
Gallery
Trains
Some of the following trains that start from Bharuch Junction are:
69175/76 Bharuch–Anand MEMU
69195/96 Bharuch–Dahej MEMU
69171/72 Bharuch–Surat MEMU
69149/50 Virar–Bharuch MEMU
References
Railway stations in Bharuch district
Vadodara railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat
Transport in Bharuch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagda%20Junction%20railway%20station | Nagda Junction is a major railway station of Western Railway network. Nagda Junction is A – category railway station of Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways. Its code is NAD. It serves Nagda town. The station consists of five platforms.
It is an important halt for all trains that are bound for Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Bilaspur, Dehradun, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mysore, Patna, Kanpur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Muzaffarpur, Varanasi, Darbhanga, Guwahati, Kolkata, Katra, Nagpur, Ahmedabad and Somnath.
Gallery
References
Railway junction stations in Madhya Pradesh
Railway stations in Ujjain district
Ratlam railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madgaon%20Junction%20railway%20station | Madgaon Junction Railway Station (station code: MAO) is a railway junction and major station on the Indian Railways network, specifically on the South Western Railway line to Vasco da Gama, Goa and the Konkan Railway, in Madgaon, Goa, India. The station is progressing by getting electrified and double-tracked with the addition of new platforms.
The station offers free Wi-Fi.
Administration
Madgaon Junction falls under Karwar railway division of Konkan Railway in Goa.
Connectivity
Madgaon railway junction in the state of Goa has direct rail connection with several major cities in India. All the major metropolitan cities of India, namely, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. The other cities of India, Bangalore,Miraj,Hubli, Mangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi (), Surat, Vadodara, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Kota, Agra, Jhansi, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Gwalior, Chandigarh, Dehradun and Patna.
Two Rajdhani Express, i.e., Trivandrum Rajdhani and Madgaon Rajdhani connect Madgaon Junction with Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station in New Delhi along with other trains like Mangala Lakshadweep Express, Kerala Sampark Kranti Express and Goa Express.
Many trains including the Konkan Kanya Express, Mandovi Express, Matsyagandha Express, Netravati Express, Dadar–Madgaon Jan Shatabdi Express connect Madgaon to Mumbai.
Lines
The South Western Railway's Guntakal–Vasco da Gama section and the Konkan Railway from Mumbai, Maharashtra to Mangalore, Karnataka pass through this junction.
Gallery
References
External links
Karwar railway division
Railway stations in South Goa district
Railway junction stations in Goa
Transport in Margao
Buildings and structures in Margao |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking%20Industry%20Architecture%20Network | The Banking Industry Architecture Network e.V. (BIAN) is an independent, member owned, not-for-profit association to establish and promote a common architectural framework for enabling banking interoperability. It was established in 2008.
BIAN's goal is to establish a semantic framework to identify and define IT services in the banking industry. The underlying architectural pattern originates from a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The community focuses on creating a standard semantic banking services landscape, while ensuring consistent service definitions, levels of detail and boundaries. This will enable banks to achieve a reduction of integration costs and use the advantages of a service-oriented architecture of implementing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software.
Financial institutions, software vendors, and system integrators, along with technology partners, are invited to join the association and play a collaborative role with other industry leaders in defining, building and implementing next-generation banking platforms.
Mission
Banks are facing challenges that will eventually force them to decompose their business and IT landscape into independent but interlinked units and are therefore looking for better means of interaction in their systems.
The banking environment consists of many legacy systems that have, over the years, grown in complexity and become increasingly inflexible.
BIAN is defining a common framework as a base for a shared service-oriented catalogue for the banking industry with the goal of establishing a common language. Based on broad consensus from within the banking industry, this will enable faster, more efficient strategic and operational changes in banks.
To assist and guide the banking industry in achieving an architecture closely aligned with business objectives, leading banks are sharing their requirements for core services with leading software and services vendors to implement these services based on formally defined semantics. BIAN is a global, open, independent and unique community where banks, software providers, and system integrators openly exchange banking IT requirements with regard to interaction and integration.
Strategy
BIAN brings banks, vendors of banking applications, and service providers together as a community to achieve synergies by collaborating on a consensus understanding of the requirements for banking enterprise services within an SOA framework and a formal description of a banking services landscape canonical definitions.
Employing an architectural framework to foster proper definition of services, BIAN will help banks and providers move from proprietary to broadly accepted and standardized services. BIAN also represents a repository of non-proprietary knowledge and experience dedicated to supporting the roadmaps for all banks moving towards SOA.
BIAN will offer the industry assistance in:
Standards: a definition of IT standards for SOA in banking ensures the highest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20Sports | Spectrum Sports (abbreviated as SPECTSN), also known under the corporate names Spectrum Networks, or Charter Sports Regional Networks, is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned and operated by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016. Charter also operates two other channels under the alternative name Spectrum SportsNet. The channels previously were branded as either Time Warner Cable Sports Channel or Time Warner Cable SportsNet.
Each of the networks carry regional broadcasts of sporting events from various professional, collegiate and high school sports teams (with broadcasts typically exclusive to each individual network, although some are shown on more than one Spectrum Sports network within a particular team's designated market area), along with regional and national sports discussion, documentary and analysis programs.
Depending on their individual team rights, some Spectrum Sports outlets maintain overflow feeds available via digital cable channels in their home markets, which may provide alternate programming when not used to carry game broadcasts that the main feed cannot carry due to scheduling conflicts. Spectrum Sports' business operations are based in New York City, New York and Los Angeles, California.
History
Time Warner Cable (TWC) launched its first regional sports network in Kansas City in 1996. The network then known as Metro Sports featured mostly college and high school games. The second of these networks was formed in 1998 as Central Ohio Sport! Television. That network began as a partnership with Insight Communications which Time Warner would later acquire. Other networks would soon follow under various names. It wasn't until Fall 2013 that TWC decided to unify these channels under one brand, Time Warner Cable Sports Channel. All of these channels were rebranded as Spectrum Sports after TWC was acquired by Charter in 2016. At that time, Bright House Sports Network was also rebranded Spectrum Sports Florida as Charter had acquired Bright House Networks in the same deal as TWC. With the exception of the Kansas City network (which is also carried by Comcast), all of these networks have exclusive carriage on Charter Spectrum systems only.
Time Warner Cable has also partnered with major league sports teams to form regional sports networks. The first of these was SportsNet New York in 2006 of which the New York Mets are the majority owners. In 2012, Time Warner Cable SportsNet (currently Spectrum SportsNet) was formed in a partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers. This was followed by the less successful Time Warner SportsNet LA (currently Spectrum SportsNet LA) as joint-venture with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Since taking over, Charter has shut down most of these networks. In some cases they have been replaced by Spectrum News.
Networks
Owned and operated
Partnerships
Former networks
See also
NBC Sports Regional Net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Katz%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Jonathan Katz is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland who conducts research on cryptography and cybersecurity. In 2019–2020 he was a faculty member in the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University, where he held the title of Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity. In 2013–2019 he was director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center at the University of Maryland.
Biography
Katz received BS degrees in mathematics and chemistry from MIT in 1996, followed by a master's degree in chemistry from Columbia University in 1998. After transferring to the computer science department, he received M.Phil. and PhD degrees in computer science from Columbia University in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Katz's doctoral advisors were Zvi Galil, Moti Yung, and Rafail Ostrovsky. While in graduate school, he worked as a research scientist at Telcordia Technologies (now ACS).
Katz was on the faculty in the computer science department of the University of Maryland from 2002 to 2019. From 2013 to 2019 he was director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center there. He joined the Department of Computer Science of George Mason University as professor of computer science and Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity in 2019, before returning to the University of Maryland one year later. Katz has held visiting positions at UCLA, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and the Ecole Normale Superieure. He was a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group in 2009–2010. He also works as a consultant in the fields of cryptography and computer security.
Research
Katz has worked on various aspects of cryptography, computer security, and theoretical computer science. His doctoral thesis was on designing protocols secure against man-in-the-middle attacks, most notably describing an efficient protocol for password-based authenticated key exchange. He has also worked in the areas of secure multi-party computation, public-key encryption, and digital signatures. He has served on the program committees of numerous conferences, including serving as co-program chair for the annual Crypto conference in 2016 and 2017 and co-program chair for the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in 2019–2020. He is also currently an editor of the Journal of Cryptology, the premier journal of the field.
Awards
Katz received the Humboldt Research Award to support collaborative research with colleagues in Germany during 2015. He also received the University of Maryland "Distinguished Scholar-Teacher" award in 2017. In 2019 Katz was named an IACR Fellow for his research contributions in public-key cryptography and cryptographic protocols along with his service and educational contributions to the cryptographic field. He also received the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award in 2019 for "his commitment to education in cryptography, through teaching and research, and for dedication to the advancement and increased influence of cryptographic research. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KILTR | KILTR was a social networking site focusing on Scottish content. It was founded in 2009 by Brian Hughes and Stewart Fraser as a startup company using venture capital and investment from angel investors.
The company was featured alongside Path and Foursquare in Rory Cellan-Jones's BBC Radio 4 series, The Secret History of Social Networking, as one of a number of smaller social networking sites which are offering an alternative to Facebook.
KILTR was built in Glasgow, Scotland by its sister technology company, CollectivWorks.
On 5 June 2018 the site closed; all registered users were sent an email explaining that the service had ceased and it was "all About Swipe to Connect " from CollectivWorks
History
Public beta of KILTR was established in 2010, followed by the first version of the platform in April 2012, with a focus on being a professional networking site, connecting Scottish businessmen and women around the world. Version 2 of KILTR was launched in August 2013 with a different focus - moving from being a professional network to a cultural, social, political platform.
Version 3 of KILTR will be launched in 2016, with an emphasis on blogging and citizen journalism, focussing on radical politics, art and culture, exemplified by the platform's new branding, designed by artist Jim Lambie.
References
External links
Scottish websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-in-one%20computer | An all-in-one (AIO) computer or all-in-one PC is a personal computer that integrates the system's internal components into the same case as the display, thus occupying a smaller footprint (with fewer cables) than desktops that incorporate a tower.
Advantages and disadvantages
Some advantages of the all-in-one computer compared to other form factors include being easier to set up, a reduced physical footprint, ease of transportation, and the option to interface with the computer via touchscreen (a now-common fixture on all-in-ones). Some disadvantages include generally being more expensive than desktop computers, a lack of customizability—most of the internal hardware such as the RAM and the SSD, especially in post-late-2010s machines, is soldered onto the system board—a lack of upgrade paths for the CPU, RAM, and technology of the display, and the difficulty of repair. The design causes it to overheat, it forces all of the components to be close together and causes minimal airflow. Having more powerful processors and graphic cards causes overheating which leads to inefficiencies.
History
This form factor was popular during the early 1980s for personal computers intended for professional use such as the Commodore PET, the Osborne 1, the TRS-80 Model II, and the Datapoint 2200. Many manufacturers of home computers like Commodore and Atari included the computer's motherboard into the same enclosure as the keyboard; these systems were most often connected to a television set for display. Apple has manufactured several popular examples of all-in-one computers, such as the original Macintosh of the mid-1980s and the iMac G3 of the late 1990s and 2000s. By the mid 2000s, many all-in-one designs have used flat-panel displays (chiefly LCDs), and later models have incorporated touchscreen displays, allowing them to be used similarly to a mobile tablet.
Since the early 2000s, some all-in-one desktops, such as the iMac G4, have used laptop components in order to reduce the size of the system case. Like most laptops, some all-in-one desktop computers are characterized by an inability to customize or upgrade internal components, as the systems' cases do not provide convenient access to upgradable components, and faults in certain aspects of the hardware may require the entire computer to be replaced, regardless of the health of its remaining components. There have been exceptions to this; the monitor portion of HP's Z1 workstation can be angled flat, and opened like a vehicle hood for access to internal hardware.
See also
2-in-1 PC
Internet appliance
Laptop
Portable computer
References
Classes of computers
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVpad | TVpad was a series of set-top box devices that connected television to various Asian channels. It used a broadband connection and used a version of Android as the operating system. TVpad's main market was Chinese consumers worldwide. The label on an M358 device identifies the manufacturer as Create New Technology (HK) Limited.
TVpad ended service in 2017, following a lawsuit from various television broadcasters.
Versions
There were four generations of TVpads:
TVpad: M121S, M121 and M120
TVpad 2: M233
TVpad 3: M358
TVpad 4: M418
There were two editions of M418: CN and GCN. CN edition was tailored for mandarin-speaking overseas Chinese.
Hardware Specifications
TVPad2: M233
CPU: TCC892x (ARM Cortex-A5) processor
ARM instruction set: ARMv7
Chipset TCC8920 ???
RAM 377MB
ROM 4G onboard eMMC NAND storage
Extended memory Supports external 8GB microSD
Output port HDMI / AV
Power DC 5V, P<5W, P(Standby)<0.5W
USB port USB2.0
Firmware 3.94
TVpad3: M358
CPU TCC8925 Single Core
RAM 512MB
ROM 4GB
Extended memory Supports external 8GB TF-card
Output port HDMI / AV
Power DC 5V, P<5W, P(Standby)<0.5W
USB port USB2.0
Firmware M358
Internet Ethernet port and Built-in WiFi
Required Internet 2MB/S
Operating System Android 3.70
Max video resolution Up to 1920 x 1080 pixels at 60 Hz
Picture formats JPEG, PNG
Video encoding MPEG-1/2/4, H.264, WMV7/8/9, DivX, Xvid, RV10/20/30/40 etc.
Video formats AVI, VOB, WMV, H.264, RMVB suffixes and more
Size 104 x 104 x 28mm
Lawsuit
On March 13, 2015, Chinese broadcaster CCTV, Hong Kong broadcaster TVB, and American television provider Dish Network filed a complaint in the United States District Court of California alleging: Direct Copyright Infringement, Secondary Copyright Infringement, Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition, and Violation of Business and Professions Code 17200.
TVPad4 stopped streaming on July 15, 2017.
References
External links
TVPad VAR Home Page (redirected to Go Daddy)
TVPad Shut Down by Lawsuit
Television technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dead%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "The Dead" is the seventh episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on November 20, 2013, on the cable network FX. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
In this episode, Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) questions her place in the Coven; Fiona (Jessica Lange) takes advantage of a love affair with the Axeman (Danny Huston); and Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) makes a fateful decision about her mother. Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, and Danny Huston guest star as Marie Laveau, Queenie, and the Axeman, respectively.
Plot
Madison has been experimenting with potions to improve her resurrected appearance, her insensitivity to physical pain and an insatiable hunger. After trying a bunch of potions, she finds one that makes her look normal and then proceeds to eat all the food in the house as she feels an emptiness inside. After a drunken phone call from a heavily armed Hank, Cordelia searches blindly through the hallways and stumbles into Madison. A vision shows Cordelia how Fiona killed Madison.
Delphine and Queenie go to a fast food drive-thru. Delphine and tells Queenie that Queenie's efforts to bond with the other witches will fail due to her race. Queenie decides to pay a visit to Marie, who knows all about her. Over gumbo, Marie tells Queenie about Delphine and offers Queenie amnesty in exchange for Delphine. Queenie leaves, considering the offer.
The Axeman and Fiona enjoy a nightcap in an apartment that Fiona believes to be his. A primp in the mirror results in some hair falling out from Fiona's head. The Axeman seduces her into staying for some jazz-inspired sex.
Zoe starts trying to rehabilitate Kyle to functional humanity. Zoe leaves Madison and Kyle alone and Madison describes their shared afterlife experiences. They conspire to kill Fiona. Zoe re-enters her room to find Kyle having rough sex with Madison.
Zoe casts a spell to restore Spalding's tongue and interrogates him. She forces him to admit that Fiona killed Madison and stabs him to death for his betrayal of the coven and covering up Madison's death. After washing off the blood in the shower, she runs into Madison and tries to act nonchalant about witnessing Madison and Kyle's sexual encounter. While unwilling to give him up, Madison is sympathetic to Zoe's feelings and proposes that they share Kyle; she then leads Zoe to Kyle, and they have a threesome.
Reception
"The Dead" received a 2.2 18–49 ratings share and was watched by 3.995 million viewers, winning the night for cable.
"The Dead" received critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 100% approval rating, based on 15 reviews. The critical consensus reads, ""The Dead" throws outlandish preposterousness at the wall, not the oddest of which is monstrous Franken-sex, and it sticks – with extra stickiness." Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B rating, saying, "There were some genuinely eerie and even touching moments throughout the hour, especially when it came |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Google%20Nexus%20tablets | The following is a comparative list of tablet computers belonging to the Google Nexus line of devices, using the Android operating system.
See also
Comparison of Google Nexus smartphones
List of Google Play edition devices
References
Computing comparisons
Google Nexus
Nexus tablets, Comparison of
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heussallee%20station | Heussallee/Museumsmeile is a station on the Bonn Stadtbahn served by SWB lines 63, 66, 67 and 68 and KVB's line 16.
It is an important station in Bonn's Stadtbahn network as the station is used heavily by commuters who work in nearby offices. Close to Heussallee/Museumsmeile is World Conference Center Bonn as well as the headquarters of Deutsche Post DHL Group and Deutsche Welle and offices of the United Nations. Additionally, the second seats of office of the German president (Villa Hammerschmidt) and the German chancellor (Palais Schaumburg) are located there. The former Federal Chancellery is now used by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development as its main office.
Nonetheless, the station is also used by people interested in the arts and culture. Heussallee/Museumsmeile serves Bundeskunsthalle (Federal Art Exhibition Hall), Kunstmuseum Bonn (Art Museum Bonn) and Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Gallery
References
Cologne-Bonn Stadtbahn stations
Buildings and structures in Bonn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%207 | The GR 7 is a long-distance footpath in Spain, Andorra and France. It is part of both the Spanish network of Senderos de Gran Recorrido and the French network of Sentiers de Grandes Randonnées. Part of GR 7 forms the south-westernmost part of the European walking route E4 in Spain. GR 7 runs from Tarifa, near Gibraltar, across Spain, through France into Andorra, and back into France to Mont Aigoual and Aire-de-Côte in the Cevennes. GR 7 continues north from the Cevennes mountains and the final 250 km end on the top of the Ballon d'Alsace, Alsace, northern France; here it meets E5.
Spain
The Spanish GR 7 is 1900 km long. It was the first long-distance footpath to be marked out in Spain, and was initiated in 1974. It runs up the east side of peninsular Spain, but at some distance from the coast. From south-west to north-east, it runs through the Spanish regions of:
Andalucía, from Tarifa to Puebla de Don Fadrique
Murcia, from Cañada de la Cruz to Torre del Rico
Valencia, from Pinoso to Fredes
Catalonia, from Fredes to Andorra
Like all the Gran Recorrido paths, the GR 7 is marked with red and white waymarks. These waymarks, at least on some segments of the trail, are few and faded.
There is a choice of two routes around the Spanish Sierra Nevada, one to the north of the mountains, and one to the south below. The Southern Route through the Alpujarra foothills is popular, linking numerous small Spanish villages.
France and Andorra
The French part of GR 7 is 1400 km long. From Andorra, the GR 7 continues in France, through the Cevennes to Mont Aigoual and Aire-de-Côte, and then north to Alsace.
E 7 path
GR 7 appears to coincide with European walking route E7 in northern Spain, in Andorra, and in France as far as the Cevenne. From the Cevenne the European walking route E7 continues south along Gr 6, through the South of France, Italy, Slovenia, and Hungary. It will eventually end in Romania, so as to create a route that will reach from the Atlantic (Lisbon, Portugal) to the Black Sea; however, some stages, including parts of the route through Italy, are still in planning.
Bibliography
Shirra, Kirstie, Lowe, Michelle. Walking the GR7 in Andalucia. Millnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone, 2010.
Links
Path in Spain: http://www.rutasyviajes.net/gr/gr7/gr7-index.html
Path in France: GR7 From Ballon d'Alsace to Darney (Vosges)
GR7 From Darney (Vosges) to Langres (Haute-Marne)
GR7 From Langres (Haute-Marne) to Velars-sur-Ouche (Cote d'Or)
GR7 From Velars-sur-Ouche (Cote d'Or) to Le Puley (Saone et Loire)
GR7 From Le Puley (Saone et Loire) to Les Sauvages (Rhone)
GR7 From Les Sauvages (Rhone) to Col de la Charousse (Haute-Loire, Ardeche)
GR7 From Col de la Charousse (Haute-Loire, Ardeche) to La Bastide-Puylaurent (Lozere)
GR7 From La Bastide-Puylaurent (Lozere) to L'Esperou (Gard)
GR7 From L'Esperou (Gard) to Boussagues (Herault)
GR7 From Boussagues (Herault) to Mazamet (Tarn)
GR7 From Mazamet (Tarn) to Mirepoix (Ariege)
GR7 From Mirepoix (Ariege) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluenz%20%28language%20learning%20software%29 | Fluenz is a digital language learning platform developed by Fluenz Inc., a U.S. entrepreneurial company. The interactive content can be downloadable or accessed online on computers and mobile devices. The product range consists of programs to learn Spanish as spoken in Latin America, Spanish as spoken in Spain, French, Italian, Mandarin, German, and Portuguese.
Each Fluenz program is available to users for installation on computers via DVDs as well as full access to an online platform in addition to supplementary tools such as practice CDs, downloadable podcasts, and digital Flashcards optimized for iPads and other tablets.
History
Fluenz Inc. was founded by Cornell graduate Sonia Gil and a group of recent college graduates from Harvard, Oxford and MIT. Fluenz was founded in the idea that the digital teaching of languages could be significantly improved by adding tutor led explanations, by teaching relevant content that would lead to immediate communication, and by trying to use technology to create a more immersive learning process. The company released Fluenz Mandarin for desk and laptops on 31 January 2007. In July of that same year the company launched Fluenz Mandarin Mobile, which contained the entire Mandarin program for Windows Mobile telephones. This was one of the first comprehensive mobile learning programs anywhere.
Programs for learning Spanish followed in September 2007, for learning French in May 2008, for learning Italian in June 2008, for learning Spanish from Spain in April 2012, for learning German in April 2012, and for learning Portuguese in October 2013. The Fluenz Commons24, a community of Fluenz users, was launched in 2011, and an online platform of digital Flashcards optimized for iPads, Fluenz Flashcards, came out in beta in March 2011 and in 1.0 version in December 2013.
Learning system
Learning is structured through an immersive user interface that blends a "one on one tutor" on video (over 150 tutorial videos per level of Fluenz) with extensive workouts and a recording tool that allows the user to hear their own pronunciation and compare to that of a native learner’s. Fluenz’ system also focuses first on useful vocabulary, claiming "you’ll be able to order coffee on day one". For example, words like phone and bathroom are prioritized over words like elephant.
One of the key aspects of Fluenz is the notion that it is easier to learn a second or third language by leveraging what the learner already knows. This approach is in contrast to the best-known commercial theory of language learning, "immersion", championed by companies such as Berlitz and Rosetta Stone. Language learning by immersion is based on teaching exclusively in the language being learned. Fluenz refers to their approach as "leverage", as opposed to "immersion".
In practical terms, this means learning a language by understanding its connections with English and emphasizing logic, long-term memory and internalization in the learning process. For exa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Trade | Family Trade is an American reality television series broadcast by Game Show Network (GSN). The show premiered on March 12, 2013, its eighth and final episode aired on April 16, 2013. Filmed in Middlebury, Vermont, the series chronicles the daily activities of G. Stone Motors, a GMC and Ford car dealership that employs the barter system in selling its automobiles. The business is operated by its founder, Gardner Stone, his son and daughter, Todd and Darcy, and General Manager Travis Romano. The series features the shop's daily interaction with its customers, who bring in a variety of items that can be resold in order to receive a down payment on the vehicle they are leasing or purchasing. Commentary and narration are provided by the Stone family and Romano during the episodes.
Family Trade was a part of GSN's intent to broaden their programming landscape since the network had historically aired traditional game shows in most of its programming. The series was given unfavorable reviews by critics, and its television ratings fell over time, losing almost half of its audience between the series premiere and finale.
Format
The series depicts interactions and negotiations between customers and staff at G. Stone Motors, a car dealership in Middlebury, Vermont that allows its customers to bring in anything they believe is resalable (including pigs, maple syrup, and collectible dolls) to the dealership to help cover the cost of a new or used vehicle rather than paying for it with cash. Gardner Stone, founder and owner of the dealership, explains, "I feel everything is worth something. Lots of times you'll get into the middle of a deal and the customer won't be able to go any further. So we always ask them, 'What else you got that you're not using?'" His son Todd also claims that the barter system creates deals that would otherwise not be possible: "It's helped us get some deals that we wouldn't have gotten, and most of the time we do make good money. Even if we break even, we still sold the automobile, and we made money on that."
The customers negotiate the value of their items, usually with Gardner, but occasionally also with other members of the shop's staff. The trade usually is not enough to cover the full value of the car or truck, because of this, the value of the trade provides the customers with a down payment on the vehicle. Once the trade is completed, Gardner's son and daughter, Todd and Darcy, work with Travis to resell the items they have acquired, which is where the dealership either earns an additional profit or loses some of their earnings.
Cast
Gardner Stone – President and founder of G. Stone Motors. Born and raised in Middlebury, Stone started the company in 1974 before moving it to its current location in 1983. He is a staunch supporter of American-manufactured cars.
Todd Stone – Gardner's son and the dealership's Vice President. Stone began working at G. Stone Motors in 1985 by washing cars while he was still in school. Stone o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A.%20Frock%20Stars | L.A. Frock Stars is a documentary television series on the Smithsonian Networks. The reality show stars Doris Raymond, owner of Los Angeles-based high-end vintage clothing boutique The Way We Wore. The first season was released in early 2013; a second season was released in 2015. Episodes follow Raymond and Sarah Bergman, Kyle Edward Blackmon, Jascmeen Busch, Shelly Reiko Lynn as they shop at estate sales and auctions, and interact with celebrities and celebrity stylists shopping in the store.
References
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Linux%20Programming%20Interface | The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook is a book written by Michael Kerrisk, which documents the APIs of the Linux kernel and of the GNU C Library (glibc).
Book
It covers a wide array of topics dealing with the Linux operating system and operating systems in general, as well as providing a brief history of Unix and how it led to the creation of Linux. It provides many samples of code written in the C programming language, and provides learning exercises at the end of many chapters. Kerrisk is a former writer for the Linux Weekly News and the current maintainer for the Linux man pages project.
The Linux Programming Interface is widely regarded as the definitive work on Linux systems programming and has been translated into several languages. Jake Edge, writer for LWN.net, in his review of the book, said, "I found it to be extremely useful and expect to return to it frequently. Anyone who has an interest in programming for Linux will likely feel the same way." Federico Lucifredi, the product manager for the SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE distributions, also praised the book, saying that "The Linux Programming Encyclopedia would have been a perfectly adequate title for it in my opinion" and called the book "…a work of encyclopedic breadth and depth, spanning in great detail concepts usually spread in a multitude of medium-sized books…" Lennart Poettering, the software engineer best known for PulseAudio and systemd, advises people to "get yourself a copy of The Linux Programming Interface, ignore everything it says about POSIX compatibility and hack away your amazing Linux software".
At FOSDEM 2016 Michael Kerrisk, the author of The Linux Programming Interface, explained some of the issues with the Linux kernel's user-space API he and others perceive. It is littered with design errors: APIs which are non-extensible, unmaintainable, overly complex, limited-purpose, violations of standards, and inconsistent. Most of those mistakes can't be fixed because doing so would break the ABI that the kernel presents to user-space binaries.
See also
Linux kernel interfaces
Programming Linux Games
References
External links
The Linux Programming Interface at the publisher's (No Starch Press) Website
The Linux Programming Interface Description at Kerrisk's Website
API changes
The Linux Programming Interface Traditional Chinese Translation
Computer programming books
Books about Linux
2010 non-fiction books
No Starch Press books
Interfaces of the Linux kernel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Factory | Food Factory is a Canadian television series produced by Cineflix airing in that country on the Food Network, and in the United States on National Geographic, Quest, and FYI. The show features the industrial production lines of major food companies, mostly in Canada, but also in the United States, and occasionally in other countries. It is co-narrated by Colleen Rusholme and Todd Schick.
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2013-2014)
Season 4 (2014-15)
Season 5 (2015)
Season 6 (2016-17)
Food Factory USA
Between the original program's third and fourth seasons, the first season of Food Factory USA was produced for FYI and featured only U.S. factories. The style of the show, including the theme music, text graphics, and two narrators, is identical to the original three seasons of Food Factory. However, the format is somewhat different, catering to the demands of American programmers by eliminating one of the four segments to make room for more TV commercials, and putting those commercials in the middle of each of the three remaining segments instead of between them. In addition, each break is preceded by a trivia question related to the segment, whose answer is given following the break (similar to other series such as Pawn Stars). In the spring of 2015, a second season began airing on May 23, two at a time each week as with season four of Food Factory. The only noticeable difference is the use of graphical text in various colors (consistent within each episode), instead of the silvery grey used in all four previous seasons of the two series.
In the FYI telecasts, Food Factory USA also uses only US customary units, instead of the metric system measurements used in the original three Food Factory seasons. Those seasons, as seen on Food Network Canada (as well in the United States as FYI and its predecessor, Bio), used metric measurements in the narration, with the FYI broadcasts also including metric with English conversions in the graphics. As aired in the U.S., the fourth season of Food Factory has no metric units of any kind (narration, graphics, or captions), but the closed captioning still uses Canadian spelling.
Home Factory
Also in May 2015, a true spinoff began airing in the U.S. on FYI. Home Factory is nearly identical to the original series, except that its products are non-food items found in and around the home, ranging from towels and brooms to rubber ducks and lawn flamingos.
See also
How It's Made
References
External links
Food Factory - Episode Guide locatetv.com
CT Foodnex Food Factory ctfoodnex.com
2012 Canadian television series debuts
Television series by Cineflix
Documentary television series about industry
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
2010s Canadian documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60%20Minutes%20Sports | 60 Minutes Sports is a newsmagazine that aired on Showtime from January 2013 to March 2017. It was a spin-off of 60 Minutes, a program aired by Showtime's parent network CBS, with a focus on sport-related topics, interviews with notable figures, and sports-related stories from the archives of 60 Minutes. The series also featured contributions from CBS Sports personalities.
CBS News chairman Jeff Fager stated that the program would "offer the same high-quality, original reporting and great storytelling our viewers have come to expect every Sunday night on CBS"; the premiere episode featured a story on Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, an interview with Lionel Messi, and an update to a past story on Alex Honnold. The Los Angeles Times noted that the series was likely intended as a competitor to Real Sports, a similar sports newsmagazine broadcast by HBO.
In January 2017, a CBS News spokesperson confirmed to TVNewser that 60 Minutes Sports had been cancelled. Its final episode aired on March 7, 2017.
On May 26, 2020 as schedule filler due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS announced that it would air a six-episode compilation of 60 Minutes Sports segments on weekend afternoons from May 30 to June 14, under the title 60 Minutes Sports: Timeless Stories.
References
2013 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
CBS News
Television series by CBS Studios
Current affairs shows
60 Minutes
English-language television shows
Showtime (TV network) original programming
American sports television series
2010s American television news shows
American television spin-offs |
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