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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGOsearch | ARGOsearch allows users to search within recordings, such as audio recordings, call notes, transcriptions, and meta-data, for key information—including spoken words, phone numbers, and dates.
ARGOsearch is a spin-off from Calltrunk—a cloud-based call recording and call management business that provides services to consumers, SMBs, and large enterprises. ARGOsearch was developed on Calltrunk's OpenVoice Platform.
How it works
The ARGOsearch software is available on computers and mobile devices, enabling users to record phone calls and search them for verbal information.
Subscribers store spoken data from mobiles, landlines, Skype, or a Dictaphone, and upload them into an online storage bank. They can then search the recorded conversations for dates, times, words, or phrases. ARGOsearch's word indexation accuracy is around 80%.
ARGOsearch enables individuals and small companies to capture, store and search conversations, in the way that large companies already can in-house.
ARGOsearch is currently free, though an OP3Nvoice spokesman said the company would eventually charge for it. It works in Web browsers and on iPhone, and Android phones.
ARGOsearch is available in beta across the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
References
External links
ARGOsearch Official Website
Calltrunk Official Website
OP3Nvoice Official Website
Telephony
Software companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Steven%20Universe%20episodes | Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around Steven Universe (voiced by Zach Callison), who protects his hometown of Beach City alongside Garnet (voiced by Estelle), Amethyst (voiced by Michaela Dietz) and Pearl (voiced by Deedee Magno Hall), three magical alien guardians known as the Crystal Gems. During the original run of the series, episodes of Steven Universe were variously broadcast once a week; in blocks of multiple new episodes in the course of a week, marketed as "Stevenbombs"; or back-to-back as specials with an umbrella title.
A television film, Steven Universe: The Movie, was released on September 2, 2019, following the fifth and final season. A concluding limited series, Steven Universe Future, premiered on December 7, 2019, and ended on March 27, 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
The order and length of the first three seasons is inconsistent between official sources; this list uses the "intended order" of the episodes as specified by co–executive producer Ian Jones-Quartey, which re-orders six episodes from the first two seasons compared to the broadcast order.
Pilot (2013)
Season 1 (2013–15)
26 half-hours (52 episodes) were produced for Season 1; this list includes a 53rd, "Say Uncle," which was produced and aired as part of Season 2, but which in terms of story chronology is placed by Jones-Quartey's list late in Season 1.
Episode premieres initially occurred weekly on Monday nights, but moved to Wednesday nights beginning with the episode "Steven the Sword Fighter," then to Thursday nights beginning with the episode "Coach Steven". The episodes "Open Book", "Shirt Club", and "Story for Steven" were bumped to air during the second season in order to facilitate airing the final 'arc' of season one over five consecutive nights.
Ian Jones-Quartey was the supervising director for each episode, but is uncredited in "Say Uncle".
Season 2 (2015–16)
Season 2 and Season 3 were produced as one season of 26 half-hours, comprising 49 regular episodes, 1 double-length special, and 6 shorts. When the season was officially split in two after the fact, 26 of the regular episodes and the shorts were aired as "Season 2". This included "Say Uncle," but as previously noted, this list moves that episode to Season 1.
Jasmin Lai is the art director for every episode, with Elle Michalka co-directing "Full Disclosure".
Season 3 (2016)
Season 3 consists of the remaining 23 regular episodes and 1 double-sized episode produced alongside season 2.
The episodes "Super Watermelon Island", "Gem Drill", "Same Old World", "Barn Mates", and "Hit the Diamond" aired as a four-week special event titled In Too Deep.
The remaining episodes of the season all aired during another four-week special event titled Summer Adventures.
Season 4 (2016–17)
Season 4 was initially ordered together with Season 5, as a set of 26 half-hours, but the two were split into separate seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%2014%3A%20The%20Show | MLB 14: The Show is a baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, based on Major League Baseball (MLB). It is the ninth entry of the MLB: The Show franchise. Announced on November 4, 2013, the game was released on April 1, 2014 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The PlayStation 4 version was released on May 6, 2014. Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera is the featured athlete on the cover. As with the previous two entries, Canada has a unique cover, with Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie on the cover.
Matt Vasgersian, Eric Karros, and Steve Lyons did the play-by-play action. Mike Carlucci returned as P.A. Announcer.
In March 2015, Sony announced the multiplayer support of the game would be shut down on June 18, 2015.
Reception
Matt Beaudette of Hardcore Gamer gave the game a 4/5, calling it "excellent", going onto say that "it seems quite apparent most of the work on this year’s game went into getting it up and running on the PS4 with shiny new graphics."
Ryan McCaffrey of IGN gave the game an 8.1/10, saying it was "yet again, a stellar baseball simulation that's packed with enough quality game modes to occupy and entertain me for the entire season, but there are few exciting new features, and online is currently a very laggy experience."
Jack DeVries of GameSpot gave the game an 8/10, and commented "The presentation in The Show remains stellar, offering lively, informative commentary that holds more humor than you might expect."
The PlayStation 4 version of the game became the fastest-selling entry in the series to date within the first week of the game's release on the platform.
Soundtrack
References
External links
Official site
2014 video games
Major League Baseball video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Vita games
Video games set in Canada
Video games set in the United States
Sports video games with career mode
14
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Maryland
San Diego Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Abdi%20Hassan | Mohamed Abdi Hassan (, ), commonly known as Afweyne, is a Somali entrepreneur, diplomat and pirate leader. He founded the Hobyo-Harardhere Piracy Network in 2005 and rapidly grew to become one of Somalia's preeminent pirates. In 2012 he began to leave the piracy "industry" and diversified his holdings into a multinational business empire. Hassan was arrested that year in Malaysia but was released as he had managed to obtain diplomatic immunity from Mogadishu. Finally, in 2013 Hassan was lured to Belgium and sentenced in 2016 to twenty years' imprisonment for his many crimes.
Personal life
Nicknamed "Afweyne" ("Big Mouth" in Somali), Hassan is from Harardhere, a port town in the south-central Galmudug region of Somalia. He hails from the Habar Gidir sub-clan of the Hawiye. Hassan has a son, Abdiqaadir, who works closely with him in his business operations.
Career
General
Hassan began his career in piracy in 2005. According to Belgian authorities, he made millions in illegal activities over the next eight years.
The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea linked Hassan with over seven vessel hijackings in 2009. Secondary reports alleged that he was also involved in the capture of dozens of other ships, among which were the MV Sirius Star supertanker and the Ukrainian tank-laden MV Faina in 2008. At his height, Hassan enjoyed a cult following. The late Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who hailed him as a national hero, also invited Hassan to the four-day celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Revolution in 2009.
In 2010 Al-Shabaab militants began encroaching on Hassan's pirate strongholds of Harardhere and Hobyo. He subsequently entered into a formal agreement with the insurgents, agreeing to hand over a US$100,000 tax per hijacking ransom in return for no interference in his operations. Hassan indicated in an interview with the Spanish daily newspaper ABC that there was "no political relationship, only one based on money", adding that he was paying 5 percent of his ransom profits as a security fee. He later denied all involvement with the militant group. However, Hassan's son asserted in April 2012 that the partnership with the outfit was still extant.
In 2010 Hassan received an official pardon from Mohamed Aden ("Tiiceey"), who was at the time the governor of Somalia's south-central Himan and Heeb region. Hassan concurrently handed over management of his piracy operations to his son Abdiqaadir so that he could then focus exclusively on managing his multi-national business empire. He subsequently began to diversify his investments in an effort to minimize risk. A 2011 UN report asserted that Hassan had used his ransom profits to purchase the drug khat in Kenya for later resale to pirates in Harardhere and elsewhere along Somalia's coast.
In 2012 a leaked UN report alleged that Hassan was "one of the most notorious and influential leaders of the Hobyo-Harardhere Piracy Network", an area in the autonomous Galmudug region in south- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurhessenbahn | The Kassel-based Kurhessenbahn (KHB) is the first of six regional networks to be created by Deutsche Bahn AG as part of its middle class offensive. It forms a unit that is formally split into DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH and DB RegioNetz Infrastruktur GmbH in order to comply with the legal requirements after separation of network and operations.
The aim is to maintain low capacity utilisation by changing the organisational structure and local activities in the long term.
Financial figures
The Kurhessenbahn has a total of 65 stations (50 of its own) on a 275-kilometre network of five lines. 25 diesel railcars travel 2.5 million train kilometers (140 trains per day) and carry 6,500 passengers per day. This service is provided by 208 employees. The Kurhessenbahn also has a DB Class 218 diesel locomotive for freight and special transports. This is mainly used in timber traffic, which originates from the Breidenstein loading station at the Scheldetalbahn, which was established in 2007.
History
The company was launched on 7 December 2000 as the first regional network and founded in early September 2002 as DB RegioNetz Verkehrs GmbH / Infrastruktur GmbH Kurhessenbahn. The Kurhessenbahn has leased several branch lines in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia from DB Netz AG for a period of twenty years from 1 January 2002. At the same time, a long-term transport contract was concluded with the responsible authorities. This included the operation of the local transport lines Brilon Wald-Korbach, Kassel-Korbach, Marburg-Frankenberg and Marburg-Erndtebrück. A special feature was the Wabern-Bad Wildungen line, which was operated by the Hessische Landesbahn between 1998 and 2008 and therefore could not fulfil the synergy effects between network and operation, which was highlighted by those responsible.
At the end of 2003, the Willingen-Korbach section of the line, which was closed for four years due to dilapidated viaducts, was put back into operation. At the same time, the line was comprehensively rehabilitated and the top speed increased, reducing the travel time between Korbach and Brilon Wald by 13 minutes. In 2006, the Kassel-Korbach line was closed for several months and rehabilitated and upgraded for the operation of the Kassel RegioTram. From December 2006, the regional railway in the Kassel-Wolfhagen section was replaced by the Kassel RegioTram RT4 line with two-power railcars, whereby a second external transport company operates local transport services on the Kurhessenbahn network. Since then, the Kurhessenbahn has only operated the regional express trains between Kassel and Korbach.
At the same time, free-cutting work began in 2005 in the Frankenberg-Herzhausen section to reactivate the section of line. With the financial support of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district, excursion traffic was introduced every two hours on Sundays and public holidays in the Herzhausen-Frankenberg-Battenberg (Eder) section from 2005. This traffic should be a precursor to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparx%20%28video%20game%29 | SPARX (Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts) is a free online computer game intended to help young people with mild to moderate depression, stress or anxiety. Through the game, this e-therapy will teach them how to resolve their issues on their own, according to a talking psychotherapeutic approach called cognitive behavioural therapy.
Before taking part in this game, a personality test is required to determine if SPARX will be suited and helpful for the future user.
Game scenario
Based in a 3D fantasy world, the game leads players through seven realms (each lasting between 30 and 40 minutes). At the beginning of SPARX, the user meets the Guide who explains what SPARX is and how it could help. Then the user customizes an avatar and starts to journey within the seven provinces in order to complete different quests. In the first level, gamers challenge GNATS (Gloomy Negative Automatic Thoughts). These GNATS fly towards the avatar and say negative things like, for example: "you're a loser". Further, in the game, the user meets different characters, solves puzzles, and completes mini-games. As soon as a quest is completed, the Guide explains how to use new skills in order to feel better, solve problems, and enjoy real life. Players complete one or two levels in the game each week, during three to seven weeks.
Development
Behind the SPARX project is a team of researchers and clinicians from The University of Auckland.
Pr Sally Merry, Dr Karolina Stasiak, Dr Theresa Fleming, Dr Matt Shepherd and Dr Mathijs Lucassen created it.
Associate Professor Sally Merry is a child and adolescent Psychiatrist, Head of Department of Psychological Medicine and Director of The Werry Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Dr Stasiak also coordinated the main study of SPARX.
Drs Fleming, Shepherd and Lucassen carried out doctoral studies of SPARX.
In 2011, SPARX won the World Summit Award, supervised by the United Nations, in the category of e-Health and Environment which honors excellence in multimedia and e-Content creation.
SPARX was also rewarded by the 2013 International Digital Award from Netexplo, hosted by UNESCO, for being the first out of ten most innovative and promising digital initiative of the year.
After a such success, in 2012 Dr Lucassen decided to develop another version of SPARX entitled Rainbow SPARX to help adolescents attracted to the same sex, or both sexes, or unsure of their sexuality. According to a small study carried out by Mathijs Lucassen, himself, more than 80% of the participants said that the game helped them to deal with their sexuality, and would recommend it to other people.
References
External links
The effectiveness of SPARX
2013 video games
Video games developed in New Zealand
Video games set in 2013
Educational video games
Fantasy video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai%20Petkov | Nicolai Petkov (born 1956) is Dutch computer scientist, and professor of Intelligent Systems and Computer Science at the University of Groningen, known for his contributions in the fields of brain-inspired computing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and parallel computing.
Life and work
Petkov received his doctoral degree at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany. After graduation he worked at several universities and in 1991 he was appointed Professor of Computer Science (chair of Intelligent Systems and Parallel Computing) at the University of Groningen. He was PhD thesis director (promoter) of Michael Wilkinson (1995), Henk Bekker (1996), Marc Lankhorst (1996), Frank Schnorrenberg (1998), Thomas A. Lippert (1998), Peter Kruizinga (1999), Michel Westenberg (2001), Simona E. Grigorescu (2003), Cosmin Grigorescu (2004), Anarta Ghosh (2007), Gisela Klette (2007), Lidia Sanchez Gonzalez (2007), Erik Urbach (2008), Easwar Subramanian (2008), Giuseppe Papari (2009), Georgeos Ouzounis (2009), Arie Witoelar (2010), Petra Schneider (2010), Florence Tushabe (2010), Kerstin Bunte (2011), Panchalee Sukjit (2011), George Azzopardi (2013), Ioannis E. Giotis (2013), Fred N. Kiwanuka (2013), Ando C. Emerencia (2014), Ugo Moschini (2016), Nicola Strisciuglio (2016), Laura Fernandez Robles (2016), Andreas Neocleous (2016), Jiapan Guo (2017), Eirini Schiza (2018). At the University of Groningen he was scientific director of the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (now Johann Bernoulli Institute) from 1998 to 2009, and he is member of the University Council and chairman of the Science Faction since 2011.
Petkov is associate editor of several scientific journals (e.g. J. Image and Vision Computing). He co-organised and co-chaired the 10th International Conference of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns CAIP 2003 in Groningen, the 13th CAIP 2009 in Münster, Germany, the 16th CAIP 2015 in Valletta, Malta, and the Workshops Braincomp 2013 and 2015 on Brain-Inspired Computing in Cetraro, Italy.
Petkov's initial research in the late 1980s was in the field of systolic parallel algorithms. His current research interests are in the field of development of pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms that he applies to various types of big data: image, video, audio, text, genetic, phenotype, medical, sensor, financial, web, and heterogeneous. He develops methods for the generation of intelligent programs that are automatically configured using training examples of events and patterns of interest.
Selected publications
Petkov is author and editor of several books and more than 150 other scientific publications.
Books:
N. Petkov. Systolische Algorithmen und Arrays. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1989.
N. Petkov. Systolic Parallel Processing. Amsterdam: North-Holland, Elsevier Sci. Publ., 1993
Edited books:
G. Azzopardi and N. Petkov (Eds.). Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 16th International Conference, CAIP 2015, Valletta, M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethuraman%20Panchanathan | Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator, and the 15th Director of National Science Foundation since June 2020.
He previously served at Arizona State University as executive vice president of knowledge enterprise development and chief research and innovation officer. He was also director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Foundation Chair of Computing and Informatics at the university, and a professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Early life and education
Panchanathan was born and raised in Chennai in India. He attended the Vivekananda College (University of Madras), graduating in 1981 with a B.Sc. in physics. Subsequently, in 1984, he earned a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.
In 1986, he completed his M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He later enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Ottawa in Canada and received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 1989 while working under the direction of Morris Goldberg.
Career
University of Ottawa
In 1989, Panchanathan was hired by the University of Ottawa as an assistant professor and was later promoted to associate professor in 1994 after receiving tenure.
Arizona State University
In 1997, Panchanathan was hired as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. In 2001, he was promoted to full professor and founded the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), which is focused on designing technologies and devices for assisting individuals with disabilities. In the same year, Panchanathan was elevated to IEEE fellow for contributions to compressed domain processing and indexing in visual computing and communications. He also founded and led the School of Computing and Informatics (2006-2009) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (2005-2007).
Panchanathan was appointed as the university's chief research officer in 2009, where he was responsible for conceptualizing and building large interdisciplinary initiatives at ASU. In 2011, he was promoted to senior vice president of the university's Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, responsible for the advancement of research, entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development activities.
In 2016, Panchanathan was promoted to executive vice president of ASU Knowledge Enterprise Development and chief research and innovation officer at the university. In this role, Dr. Panchanathan leads the advancement of research, innovation, entrepreneurship, corporate engagement and strategic partnerships, and international development. Under his leadership, ASU's research has grown exponentially, with annual research expenditures quadrup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20Rage | Alien Rage is a 2013 first-person shooter video game for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 (through Xbox Live Arcade), and PlayStation 3 (through PlayStation Network) developed by CI Games, then known as City Interactive, using Unreal Engine 3. The game has single-player and competitive multiplayer modes. In its single player campaign, players are put in control of an elite soldier named Jack which is sent to destroy a mining facility and its aliens after they turned against and killed the humans that they had shared the facility with.
Announced as Alien Fear in April 2012, the game was renamed in May of the following year. It was released on 24 September 2013 for Windows, 18 October 2013 for the Xbox 360, and 21 October 2013 for the PlayStation 3. Alien Rage was met with mixed reviews upon release, with critics viewing the game as generic and prone to major glitches.
Gameplay
Alien Rage is a first-person shooter, in which players fight through several linear levels, killing a variety of aliens. At the end of every few levels, players fight a larger alien in a boss fight. Players score points by killing a large number of aliens in a short period of time, or by killing them in special ways, such as by using explosions or shooting them in the head. These points can be used to upgrade the player character, for example by boosting his resistance to damage or by increasing the amount of ammunition that he is able to carry. Players are able to carry two weapons at a time, and also have a pistol with unlimited ammunition. The player character can use both human- and alien-manufactured weapons in the game, and alien weapons use a cool-down period instead of having to reload. Weapons in the game include assault rifles, sniper rifles, shotguns, rocket launchers, and miniguns. The game is intentionally difficult; its easiest difficulty level is called "challenging", and the next easiest difficulty level is called "hard".
The game also offers competitive multiplayer. There are two modes – deathmatch and team deathmatch – and a small number of maps. Cooperative gameplay, which was mentioned in the game's initial announcement, did not make it into the final game.
Plot
Alien Rage takes place on an asteroid which humans and an alien species known as Vorus were jointly mining for Promethium, a highly efficient but extremely dangerous source of energy. After the Vorus turn on the humans and wipe the miners out for violating the agreement of not weaponizing Promethium as planet-cracking weapon, Jack, the player character, is sent to the mining facility to kill the aliens and destroy the facility.
Development
Alien Rage was first announced in early April 2012, under the name Alien Fear. The game was to be developed using Unreal Engine 3 by City Interactive's Bydgoszcz Studio, and would have a cooperative gameplay (co-op) mode. The first screenshots from the game were released two months later, in June 2012. In May 2013 the game's name was changed to Alien Rage, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smack%20%28software%29 | Smack (full name: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel) is a Linux kernel security module that protects data and process interaction from malicious manipulation using a set of custom mandatory access control (MAC) rules, with simplicity as its main design goal. It has been officially merged since the Linux 2.6.25 release, it was the main access control mechanism for the MeeGo mobile Operating System. It is also used to sandbox HTML5 web applications in the Tizen architecture, in the commercial Wind River Linux solutions for embedded device development, in Philips Digital TV products., and in Intel's Ostro OS for IoT devices.
Since 2016, Smack is required in all Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) implementations where it provides in association with other Linux facilities the base for the AGL security framework.
Design
Smack consists of three components:
A kernel module that is implemented as a Linux Security Module. It works best with file systems that support extended attributes.
A startup script that ensures that device files have the correct Smack attributes and loads the Smack configuration.
A set of patches to the GNU Core Utilities package to make it aware of Smack extended file attributes. A set of similar patches to Busybox were also created. SMACK does not require user-space support.
Criticism
Smack has been criticized for being written as a new LSM module instead of an SELinux security policy which can provide equivalent functionality. Such SELinux policies have been proposed, but none had been demonstrated. Smack's author replied that it would not be practical due to SELinux's complicated configuration syntax and the philosophical difference between Smack and SELinux designs.
References
Further reading
2008 software
Linux kernel features
Linux security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovivo%20Mobile | OVIVO Mobile was a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the United Kingdom, using the Vodafone UK network as its carrier. OVIVO was unique in the UK in offering a free (£0 monthly fee) advertising-funded mobile tariff, which was financed by showing an advert in the user's web browser. They charged a nominal fee to cover admin and initial SIM setup costs, returning a portion as user credit upon activation.
OVIVO raised £414,000 in exchange for 25.48% equity via crowdfunding site Crowdcube.
The service closed down on Wednesday, 19 March 2014 without prior notice.
The firm's Twitter and Facebook accounts were deactivated the same day, and email attempts were bounced back.
There was a report that a dispute over network software led to the abrupt closure of the network.
The Ovivo website posted a warning to visitors that the website would be shut down on 10 April. The website and the ability to claim a PAC was taken down in June 2014.
References
External links
Official site (UK)
Mobile virtual network operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell%20Merlino | Nell Merlino is the founding Chairwoman of the PBB (Personal BlackBox)Trust. As the Trust Chair, Nell is leading a movement to champion personal data independence and set new standards of control, value and privacy for emerging human data rights. She has also mobilized more than 20 million people to champion women's empowerment. Nell created Take Our Daughters to Work Day, founded Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence and launched Make Mine a Million $ Business.
She is the author of Stepping Out of Line: Lessons for Women Who Want it Their Way in Life, in Love, and at Work, a book for women to speak up in their work and life to get ahead.
Personal life
Nell Merlino married artist Gary Conger after meeting on a blind date in a Union Square café. Nell Merlino is the daughter of the late New Jersey State Senator, Joseph P. Merlino and Molly Merlino.
Career
Merlino began her career in the laborer movement, organizing women in unions such as the Amalgamated Clothing Textile Union and the 1199 National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. Her passion for working with women was sparked as Merlino witnessed the founding of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Nell Merlino continued her work in women empowerment when she was named a Fulbright Scholar in 1976, where she studied the role of women in the British National Healthcare System.
Merlino worked for two state governments, in New Jersey for the Department of Human Services and in New York for the State University Hospital in Brooklyn.
Merlino has spearheaded a number of campaigns to promote women's advancement in the workplace through Strategy Communication Action, Ltd. (SCA). She has worked to empower women entrepreneurs, especially veterans, through her books and partnering with organizations such as the United Nations and YMCA.
Nell Merlino was a member of the Women Business Owners Advisory Board at Walmart.
Strategy Communication Action, Ltd.
Nell Merlino is founder and President of Strategy Communication Action, Ltd. (SCA) in New York City, a firm specializing in the creation of public education campaigns that motivate people to act, including Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Earth Day, .
Campaigns
The campaigns designed by Nell Merlino through SCA are the following:
Advocacy
Merlino created Take Our Daughters to Work Day, which moved more than 25 million Americans to participate in a day dedicated to giving girls the opportunity to dream bigger about their future. She was inspired by her own experience going to work with her father. Through that initiative, Nell Merlino saw a need for an organization that directly helped women entrepreneurs grow their business, which is why she created Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence.
Founded in 1999, Count Me In was the first online micro-lender for women business owners. Today, Count Me In is fueling a mindset of success and a movement that changes the landscape of small business and how women entrepreneurs impact the na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Mazandaran | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Mianrud Rural District, Chamestan District, Nur County, Mazandaran Province, Iran hiding a secret military base. At the 2006 census, its population was 453, in 120 families.
References
Populated places in Nur County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO%20Xpress | The FICO Xpress optimizer is a commercial optimization solver for linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MILP), convex quadratic programming (QP), convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), second-order cone programming (SOCP) and their mixed integer counterparts. Xpress includes a general purpose non-linear solver, Xpress NonLinear, including a successive linear programming algorithm (SLP, first-order method), and Artelys Knitro (second-order methods).
Xpress was originally developed by Dash Optimization, and was acquired by FICO in 2008.
Its initial authors were Bob Daniel and Robert Ashford. The first version of Xpress could only solve LPs; support for MIPs was added in 1986.
Being released in 1983, Xpress was the first commercial LP and MIP solver running on PCs.
In 1992, an Xpress version for parallel computing was published, which was extended to distributed computing five years later.
Xpress was the first MIP solver to cross the billion matrix non-zero threshold by introducing 64-bit indexing in 2010.
Since 2014, Xpress features the first commercial implementation of a parallel dual simplex method.
Technology
Linear and quadratic programs can be solved via the primal simplex method, the dual simplex method or the barrier interior point method. All mixed integer programming variants are solved by a combination of the branch and bound method and the cutting-plane method. Infeasible problems can be analyzed via the IIS (irreducible infeasible subset) method. Xpress provides a built-in tuner for automatic tuning of control settings.
Xpress includes its modelling language Xpress Mosel and the integrated development environment Xpress Workbench.
Mosel includes distributed computing features to solve multiple scenarios of an optimization problem in parallel. Uncertainty in the input data can be handled via robust optimization methods.
Xpress has a modeling module called BCL (Builder Component Library) that interfaces to the C, C++, Java programming languages, and to the .NET Framework. Independent of BCL, there are Python and MATLAB interfaces. Next to Mosel, Xpress connects to other standard modeling languages, such as AIMMS, AMPL, and GAMS.
The FICO Xpress Executor executes and deploys Mosel models, using SOAP or REST interfaces. It can be used from external applications or from the FICO Decision Management Platform.
References
Numerical software
Mathematical optimization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Klavans | Judith L. Klavans (pronounced ) is a linguist and computer scientist. She has been active in academia, industry and government in furthering the development and application of computational approaches to the study of language, with publications in areas including speech synthesis, machine translation,
the development of resources and corpus analysis, internet addiction, information retrieval, and automatic summarization.
Her technologies have been applied in fields ranging from medical informatics, cybersecurity, database interoperability, cultural heritage institutions and Digital Government.
Academic background
Klavans completed her doctoral dissertation in 1980 at University College London of the University of London in the Department of Linguistics. Her dissertation was selected in the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series for updating and publication
Experience
Klavans spent nine years serving at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, New York as a research scientist and member of Technical Staff in the Computer Science Department. She then went to Columbia University in the City of New York as the founding Director of the Center for Research on Information Access, and co-director of the Digital Government Research Center. After leaving Columbia, she led the Text, Tags and Trust group at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
Public service
Klavans was appointed by the White House to serve on the President's Information Technology Advisory Board (PITAC), a bi-partisan science advisory board. PITAC was authorized by Congress under the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P. L. 102-194) and the Next Generation Internet Act of 1998 (P. L. 105-305) as a Federal Advisory Committee. During this tenure (2003-2005), Klavans participated in three major scientific studies:
Report to the President on Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology (June 2004);
Report to the President on Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization (February 2005); Report to the President on Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness (June 2005). Klavans has been invited to contribute to studies by the National Academies of Science on the role of maps in emergency response; her role in this effort was to focus on the linguistic requirements of response management.
Government service
From 2005 to 2013, Klavans was Director of Human Language Technology program at the Foreign Language Program Office of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) or DNI.
Advocacy for technical women and minorities
Klavans has been heavily involved with increasing the representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. She was active in the CRA-W (The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) and served as local New York City representative.
Klavans is a founding member of the Anita Borg I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20Computer%20Corporation | Concurrent Computer Corporation was an American computer company, in existence from 1985 to 2017, that made real-time computing and parallel processing systems. Its products powered a variety of applications including process control, simulators, data acquisition, and video-on-demand. It was based in Monmouth County, New Jersey, initially, and then later in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Duluth, Georgia.
Origins and initial efforts
The company was created in November 1985 when the computing division of Perkin-Elmer, the Data Systems Group, was spun off as a separate company. The computing group, which had started out as the company Interdata before Perkin-Elmer acquired it in 1974, had been profitable with sales of $259 million, but had tended to have reduced visibility within the computing industry due to being owned by a diversified parent. At first, the new company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Perkin-Elmer, but with the intentions of putting a minority ownership in the company up for a public stock offering. This was subsequently done, with Perkin-Elmer retaining an 82 percent stake in Concurrent; the remainder went on sale in February 1986 and opened at $20 per share. The stock traded on the NASDAQ exchange.
James K. Sims, who had been general manager of the computer unit within Perkin-Elmer, became president and CEO of the new company. It had a large presence in Monmouth County, New Jersey, with some 1,700 staff making it one of the county's largest private employers. Its plant in Oceanport had 800 employees alone.
By 1987, Concurrent had nine separate offices in various locations in Monmouth County. Corporate headquarters had initially been Holmdel, but during 1987 moved to Tinton Falls.
The initial focus of Concurrent Computer Corporation was in the 32-bit superminicomputer market, with an offering that emphasized parallel processing. Their oldest product was the Series 3200, which came from its Interdata heritage and was based around the proprietary 3280 processor and OS/32 real-time operating system. Two newer products were the Series 5000, based on a Motorola 68020 processor, and the Series 6000, based on a Motorola 68030. In these products, the company focused on the market for high-end, rapid-response applications. Aircraft simulators were an especially important market.
Many of Concurrent's customers were in the defense and aerospace industry. Accordingly, Concurrent offered a line of compilers for the Ada programming language that at the time was often mandated for such applications. The company's C3Ada product came out in 1987; it ran on OS/32 and was among the early wave of commercial products to get past the strenuous Ada Compiler Validation Capability (ACVC) validation suite. The company's languages group investigated the challenges of implementing Ada, with its built-in tasking feature, on a real-time system with multiple processors, and in how best the requirements of real-time systems could be expressed in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%20Ascend%20W2 | Huawei Ascend W2 is the second smartphone in the Huawei Ascend line of devices to run the Windows 8 operating system.
W2
Windows Phone devices
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASNEX | LASNEX is a computer program that simulates the interactions between x-rays and a plasma, along with many effects associated with these interactions. The program is used to predict the performance of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) devices such as the Nova laser or proposed particle beam "drivers".
Versions of LASNEX have been used since the late 1960s or early 1970s, and the program has been constantly updated. LASNEX's existence was mentioned in John Nuckolls' seminal paper in Nature in 1972 that first widely introduced the ICF concept, saying it was "...like breaking an enemy code. It tells you how many divisions to bring to bear on a problem."
LASNEX uses a 2-dimensional finite element method (FEM) for calculations, breaking down the experimental area into a grid of arbitrary polygons. Each node on the grid records values for various parameters in the simulation. Values for thermal (low-energy) electrons and ions, super-thermal (high-energy and relativistic) electrons, x-rays from the laser, reaction products and the electric and magnetic fields were all stored for each node. The simulation engine then evolves the system forward through time, reading values from the nodes, applying formulas, and writing them back out. The process is very similar to other FEM systems, like those used in aerodynamics.
In spite of numerous problems in very early ICF research, LASNEX offered clear suggestions that slight increases in performance would be all that was needed to reach ignition. By the late 1970s further work with LASNEX indicated that the issue was not energy as much as the number of laser beams, and suggested that the Shiva laser with 10 kJ of energy in 20 beams would reach ignition. It did not, failing to contain the Rayleigh–Taylor instability. A review of the progress by The New York Times the following year noted that the system "fell short of the more optimistic estimates by a factor of 10,000".
Real-world results from the Shiva project were then used to tune the LASNEX code, which now predicted that a somewhat larger machine, the Nova laser, would reach ignition. It did not; although Nova demonstrated fusion reactions on a large scale, it was far from ignition.
Nova's results were also used to tune the LASNEX system, which once again predicted that ignition could be reached, this time with a significantly larger machine. Given the past failures and rising costs, the Department of Energy decided to directly test the concept with a series of underground nuclear tests known as "Halite" and "Centurion", depending on which lab was handling the experiment. Halite/Centurion placed typical ICF targets in hohlraums, metal cylinders intended to smooth out the driver's energy so it shines on the fuel target evenly. The hohlraum/fuel assemblies were then placed at various distances from a small atomic bomb, detonation of which released significant quantities of x-rays. These x-rays heated the hohlraums until they glowed in the x-ray spectrum (hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLab | mLab was a fully managed cloud database service that hosts MongoDB databases. mLab runs on cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, and various platform-as-a-service providers.
History
In May 2011, mLab secured $3 million in first-round funding from Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and David Cohen.
In October 2012, mLab received a follow-on investment of $5 million and shortly thereafter, mLab was named by Network World as one of the 10 most useful cloud databases along with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud SQL, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, and others.
In June 2014, MongoDB Inc. announced a fully managed MongoDB-as-a-Service Add-On offering on the Microsoft Azure store. The offering is delivered in collaboration with Microsoft and mLab.
In February 2016, mLab changed its name from Mongo Lab to mLab to expand into new areas and products.
In October 2018, mLab announced that it will be acquired by MongoDB Inc., citing reasons of a shared vision and engineering culture. All engineers at mLab have been invited to join MongoDB Inc. All of mLab's customers will be transitioned to MongoDB Atlas instances. The acquisition "is expected to close in the fourth quarter of MongoDB’s fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2019".
MongoDB-as-a-Service
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Heroku
Further reading
References
NoSQL
Cloud computing providers
Software companies based in California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Cloud infrastructure
Defunct software companies of the United States
2011 establishments in the United States
2011 establishments in California
Software companies established in 2011
Companies established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20delivery%20network%20interconnection | Content delivery network interconnection (CDNI) is a set of interfaces and mechanisms required for interconnecting two independent content delivery networks (CDNs) that enables one to deliver content on behalf of the other. Interconnected CDNs offer many benefits, such as footprint extension, reduced infrastructure costs, higher availability, etc., for content service providers (CSPs), CDNs, and end users. Among its many use cases, it allows small CDNs to interconnect and provides services for CSPs that allows them to compete against the CDNs of global CSPs.
Rationale
Thanks to the many benefits of CDNs, e.g. reduced delivery cost, improved quality of experience (QoE), and increased robustness of delivery, CDNs have become popular for large-scale content delivery of cacheable content. For this reason, CDN providers are scaling up their infrastructure and many Internet service providers (ISPs)/network service providers (NSPs) have deployed or are deploying their own CDNs for their own use or for lease, if a business and technical arrangement between them and a CDN provider were made. Those stand-alone CDNs with well-defined request routing, delivery, acquisition, accounting systems and protocols may sooner or later face either footprint, resource or capability limits. The CDNI targets at leveraging separate CDNs to provide end-to-end delivery of content from CSPs to end users, regardless of their location or attachment network.
Example of operation
Let's consider an interconnection of two CDNs as presented in the below figure. The ISP-A deploys an authoritative upstream CDN (uCDN), and he has established a technical and business arrangement with the CSP. Because the CDN-A is authorised to serve on behalf of the CSP, a user in the network of ISP-B requests content from CDN-A (1). The uCDN can either serve the request itself or redirect it to a downstream CDN (dCDN) if, for example, dCDN is closer to the user equipment (UE). If the request is redirected, the interconnected CDNs must provide the requested content to the dCDN. If the content is not available in the uCDN, it can be acquired first from CSP (2) and then submitted to a surrogate in the dCDN (3). The UE following the redirection will request the content from the dCDN (4), and finally, the requested content will be distributed from the surrogate.
In this example, all four parties can benefit from the interconnection: the end users can benefit from better quality of service (QoS); the CSP benefits because it has to make only one business and technical arrangement with uCDN; the uCDN benefits because it does not have to deploy such an extensive CDN; and the dCDN will receive some compensation for the delivery. The procedures and algorithms responsible for choosing the right dCDN, choosing a surrogate and the procedure for acquiring the content to be submitted to the surrogate can differ, but the dCDN serves the content on behalf of the uCDN.
Use cases
Below is an incomplete list of u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA%20Server%20Monitor | PA Server Monitor is a server and network monitoring software from Power Admin LLC. PA Server Monitor focuses primarily on server and network health through numerous resource checks, reports, and alerting options. The agentless, on-premises software can monitor thousands of devices from a single installation. The monitored devices can be desktop computers, servers, routers and other devices.
The main function of the software is to monitor performance of servers and network devices in Windows and Linux environments. Data is kept on customers servers, not stored in the cloud.
An agentless monitoring software to watch ping, CPU, memory, disk, SNMP + traps, events, with available historical reports. Apps are available for iOS and Android.
History
Power Admin LLC is a privately held company founded by IT professionals, located in Shawnee, Kansas, outside of downtown Kansas City, Missouri area. Power Admin has been providing professional grade system monitoring products since 1992 for all types of business from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
Power Admin also developed two other popular utilities that are used all over the world.
PAExec allows a user to launch Windows programs on remote Windows computers without needing to install software on the remote computer first. This was written as an alternative to Microsoft's PsExec tool (originally by SysInternals's Mark Russinovich), because it could not be redistributed, and sensitive command-line options like username and passwords were sent as clear text. Source code is readily available on GitHub.
Power Admin also developed SpeedFanHttpAgent. The SpeedFan HTTP Agent exports and allows you to access SpeedFan's (utility by Alfredo Milani Comparetti) temperature data from across the network via a simple HTTP request.
What it Does
PA Server Monitor monitors event logs, disk space, running services, web page content, SNMP object values, log files, processes, ping response time, directory quotas, changed files and directories. Equipped to monitor thousands of servers/devices from a single installation, and more via satellite monitoring services.
It has extensive reporting to get status reports for servers/devices, group summaries, uptime and historic stats, providing actions and alerts by customizable email, SMS and other types of notifications, and suppression and escalation of certain notifications. It can also automatically restart services and run custom scripts.
Other capabilities include satellite monitoring of remote offices/locations across firewalls and/or across the internet without a VPN, agentless server monitoring and a bulk config feature to speed changes across many servers/devices.
Alerts in PA Server Monitor can use event suppression to cut down on false alerts, event deduplication system to further remove noise, and event escalation to give alerts increasing visibility as a problem persists for longer. Alert Reminders can also be used to make sure problems don't get forgotten about |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20O%27Keeffe | Stuart O'Keeffe (born Stuart Denis O'Keeffe, 15 September 1981) is an Irish celebrity chef, food writer, and television personality best known for his appearance on the Food Network's Private Chefs of Beverly Hills and other TV shows. He was a brand ambassador for Tupperware and served as their North American chef from 2008 to 2011. O'Keeffe resides in West Hollywood, California.
After appearing on the Food Network, O'Keeffe was featured on Stuart's Kitchen which aired in Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. O'Keeffe has also made appearances on Marie, CBS's The Talk, The Home and Family Show, and Republic of Telly. He can also be seen in commercials for Asiana Airlines, featured in their national "Fly with Color" campaign.
Early life
O'Keeffe was born in Limerick, Ireland. He has two brothers and one sister. Growing up in Nenagh, Ireland, he developed a passion for cooking by watching his mother put together meals. O'Keeffe reports that he would abandon his homework in favour of helping his aunt and mother prepare pastries and pies, and that he became a "right handy sous-chef" in the family kitchen by age 7. His mother influenced his cooking style by inspiring him to use the fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
Career
From 2000 to 2004, O'Keeffe attended the Dublin Institute of Technology and graduated with a B.A. in Culinary Arts. Shortly after, O'Keeffe travelled through Europe, moved to France, and learned high-end French cooking in Bordeaux by working in a small restaurant. O'Keeffe specialises in Continental and New American cuisine.
At 22, O'Keeffe moved to Napa Valley and was a chef in a hotel. By 2004, he had moved to Los Angeles and was cooking for A-list celebrities, private clients and parties in Hollywood. From 2008 to 2011, O'Keeffe was a spokesperson for Tupperware and was featured in company catalogues and promotional events throughout USA and Canada.
O'Keeffe had a run on Ireland's TV3 with a show called Stuart's Kitchen. His re-location to California and filming schedule stopped the network from picking up a second season but TV3 continues to develop specials and programming with O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe offers a complementary app through iTunes which enables people to make step-by-step recipes as they watch the show.
O'Keeffe is featured on OWN's Home Made Simple. He was a contributing Food Columnist for the Evening Herald from 2011 to 2012.
O'Keeffe has done private and promotional events with celebrity clients such as Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone, Owen Wilson, Hilary Swank, the Kardashians, Jessica Lange, Joan Collins, Ryan Murphy and Kelly Clinton.
In June 2012, he was chosen to cook for a fundraising campaign dinner for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at a Beverly Hills fundraiser organised by Ryan Murphy. O'Keeffe was one of only six chefs selected for the $25,000-a-head function. Right before the event, O'Keeffe was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle and due to his injuries, was unable to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Bailes | Professor Matthew Bailes is an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. In 2015 he won an ARC Laureate Fellowship to work on Fast Radio Bursts. He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in the world. His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary and millisecond pulsars, gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars and radio astronomy data processing system design for Fast Radio Burst discovery. He is now leading his team to re-engineer the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope with a newly designed correlation system for observation of pulsars and Fast Radio (Lorimer) Bursts.
Bailes founded the organisation for development of the Virtual Room, an octagonal virtual reality system for displaying the planets, the Sun, the stars, the Milky Way, the galaxies and the universe, etc. He made the 3D film Realising Einstein's Universe.
Bailes is a committee member of the Australia Telescope Steering Committee and on advisory board of Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022. In 2023 he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
References
External links
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
Academic staff of Swinburne University of Technology
21st-century Australian astronomers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halkbank%20%28Turkmenistan%29 | Joint-Stock Commercial Bank of Turkmenistan Halkbank (, "People's Bank"), is a Turkmen state-owned bank and financial services company, headquartered in Ashgabat. A network of Halkbank offices covers the whole territory of Turkmenistan, providing a wide range of services to the public.
According to The Banker, Halkbank was in 2011 awarded the title of "Best Bank of the Year in Turkmenistan".
History
The first savings bank in the Turkmen SSR was opened on August 4, 1923.
Since January 1, 1941, 419 savings banks have been operating on the territory of the Turkmen SSR.
In 1963, the savings banks were transferred to the department of the State Bank.
After the banking reform of 1988, which resulted in the formation of a two-tier system of banks (the Central Bank and specialized banks), state savings banks from a specialized state bank serving the population and legal entities turned into a Savings Bank.
On April 30, 1993, the Turkmen Republican Bank of the State Bank of the USSR was transformed into the Savings Bank of Turkmenistan, and in 2001 it was renamed the State Commercial Bank of Turkmenistan Halkbank.
In 2021, the State Commercial Bank Halkbank was transformed into an open Joint Stock Company Halkbank. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed the decree on reorganization of the bank at a government meeting.
Building
In October 2011, new headquarters were built for Halkbank in Ashgabat and were opened on the Bank's 20th anniversary. The building has 12 stories, and is located on the central Atamyrat Niyazov Avenue 154. It has a large operating room, offices for work with VIP clients, modern ATMs, a help desk, and a conference room for 200 people. Adjacent to this building is a site which accommodates the offices of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan's assay office.
Services
The bank has several types of deposits and loans. Since early 2017, Internet banking and mobile banking have begun to operate. There is also an online payment service for communal services and payment for gas and electricity.
External links
Official Website
References
Banks of Turkmenistan
Banks established in 1993
1993 establishments in Turkmenistan
Companies based in Ashgabat
Government-owned banks
Government-owned companies of Turkmenistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Network%20Intelligence | Digital Network Intelligence or DNI is a term used in the United States Intelligence Community that refers to "intelligence from intercepted digital data communications transmitted between, or resident on, networked computers."
Programs and units gathering DNI
Pinwale, an NSA collection and retrieval system for DNI, including internet e-mail
STORMBREW, a secret NSA internet surveillance program
659th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group of the United States Air Force, an intelligence unit located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
BLARNEY, an NSA communications surveillance program started in 1978
PRISM, an NSA program, part of the PRISM program, for collecting internet communications from various U.S. internet companies
OAKSTAR, an upstream collection program of the NSA for secret internet surveillance
Fairview, a secret NSA program in cooperation with American telecommunications company AT&T
XKeyscore, a secret NSA computer system for searching and analyzing global Internet data
See also
signals intelligence (SIGINT)
References
United States intelligence agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletruth | Teletruth is an early United States television series. It is notable as an early example of a television game show for kids, though it was not a network series. It aired on New York City station WNBT from 1945 to either 1946 or 1947. It was originally hosted by Pat Barnes. Jay Marshall later took over the hosting job.
Critical response
The October 20, 1945 edition of Billboard magazine gave the series a mixed review, saying of the series "Tele-truth, despite its corny name, is the first video quiz this department has seen so far which was 100 per cent visual and perhaps 85 per cent entertaining", but also said that "Teletruth could be improved considerably if a few things were done to it".
A later review in Billboard reported that a magician's hands were not fast enough, so that sometimes "it was obvious just what he was doing." The review also found fault with the camera work and noted that "questions must still be within the kid scope and plenty of them weren't this evening."
Episode status
Practical/viable methods to record live television did not exist during the run of the series. As such, it is most likely lost today, except possibly for still photographs.
References
1945 American television series debuts
1946 American television series endings
1947 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost American television shows
1940s American game shows
Local game shows in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Nycum | Susan H. Nycum is a lawyer who specialises in computer security and intellectual property issues. She worked at the law firm of Chickering and Gregory in San Francisco and then became a partner at the law firm Baker & McKenzie where she headed its IT and intellectual property group. She was a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of its council. She was an early member of its special interest group for higher education, SIGUCCS, and was inducted into its hall of fame in 2004. She was Chairwoman of the National Information Systems Advisory Panel in the early 1980s.
Nycum earned a degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. She attended Duquesne University School of Law and graduated from Stanford Law School.
Nycum has worked with fellow information security researcher Donn B. Parker. They co-authored the 1973 study Computer Abuse, a minor classic that was one of the first attempts to define and document computer-related crime.
Nycum is a computer law scholar and has produced studies on the laws surrounding software patents. She has served as an advisor for the United States government as well as several foreign governments. She approved funding for the Internet in her role as an advisory board member for the National Science Foundation.
Publications
Computer Abuse — Stanford Research Institute, 1973
Your Computer and the Law — Prentice-Hall, 1975
Liability for Malfunction of a Computer Program — Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal Vol. 1 (1979-1980)
Troublesome Computer Contract Areas — University of Southern California, 1982
Software Proprietary Rights — Prentice-Hall, 1982
Women Leading: Making Tough Choices on the Fast Track — Stephen Greene Press, 1988
References
External links
Susan H. Nycum, Oral history interview, 5 June 2013. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Personal home page
Living people
California lawyers
Computer law scholars
Duquesne University School of Law alumni
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
Stanford Law School alumni
People associated with Baker McKenzie
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20VSP%204000%20series | The Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 series (VSP 4000) are products that, in computer networking terms, are standalone switch/routers (layer 2/layer 3) designed and manufactured by Avaya for Ethernet-based networks. The VSP 4000 hardware is a derivative of the earlier Ethernet routing switch 4000 series, leveraging certain shared components, but implementing a new, completely different, operating system derived from the virtual service platform 9000 series. The role of the VSP 4000 is to extend fabric-based network virtualization services to smaller, remote locations, thereby creating a single service delivery network.
The VSP 4000 offers a range of network virtualization services that are based on Avaya's extended implementation of Shortest Path Bridging; marketed as the 'Avaya VENA Fabric Connect' technology. The first software release supports:
Layer 2 virtualized services that extend VLANs across the fabric (including across subnets and long distances)
Layer 3 virtualized services that interconnect and extend VRFs across the fabric
Native routing between layer 2 and layer 3 virtualized services for access to shared services
IP shortcut routing that enables direct layer 3 connectivity between individual end-points without requiring deployment of an additional IGP (e.g. OSPF).
These capabilities are positioned are supporting the following deployment scenarios:
Virtualized small and mid-sized Enterprise
Distributed enterprise
Deployments would be made to facilitate the following business situations:
End-to-end traffic separation for multi-tenancy or for security / regulatory compliance (i.e. PCI DSS)
Integrated video surveillance
History
The first VSP 4000 models were made available in April 2013.
The first models delivered in the series were:
VSP 4850GTS, a 1RU Layer 2/Layer 3 Switch that is equipped with 48 x 10/100/1000BASE-T ports (including two common Uplink ports offering SFP connectivity) plus 2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports that feature SFP+ physical connectivity.
VSP 4850GTS-PWR+, a similar product the VSP 4850GTS, with the addition of supporting 802.3at Power-over-Ethernet Plus (PoE+) on the copper ports.
VSP 4850GTS-DC, a similar product the VSP 4850GTS, but with DC power instead of AC.
In June 2014, a further model was added:
VSP 4450GSX-PWR+, a 1RU Layer 2/Layer 3 Switch that is equipped with 36 x 1000BASE-SFP ports, 12 x 10/100/1000BASE-T ports that support 802.3at PoE+, plus 2 x 10GBASE-SFP+ Ethernet ports (that also support Gigabit SFPs).
See also
Avaya Government Solutions
Stackable switch
Terabit Ethernet
References
External links
Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series Fact Sheet
Avaya
VSP 4000
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwrix | Netwrix is a Frisco, Texas-based private IT security software company that develops software to help companies identify and secure sensitive data and assist with compliance auditing. After eight acquisitions the company's team geographically expanded to Latin America, UK, Germany, France, Asia, USA as well as other countries. The company's flagship products are Netwrix Auditor and StealthAUDIT that help information security and governance professionals manage sensitive, regulated and business-critical data.
The company operates in the United States, EMEA and Asia Pacific region.
History
Netwrix was founded by Mike Walters and Alex Vovk in 2006.
In 2007, Netwrix released its first product, change auditing software for Active Directory. This software was subsequently folded into the company’s Change Reporter Suite, which was later renamed Netwrix Auditor.
In 2011, Netwrix released its SCOM Management Pack for Change Reporter Suite, which integrates Netwrix’s auditing solutions with Microsoft System Center.
The company released a new version of Active Directory Change Reporter in November 2012.
In June 2013, the company renamed its flagship product, Netwrix Change Reporter, Netwrix Auditor.
On 7 February 2017 Netwrix secured Series A financing from Washington, DC-based Updata Partners.
On 5 April 2018 Steve Dickson was appointed as Chief Executive Officer by the company's Board of Directors. Steve Dickson replaced Mike Walters, previous CEO and co-founder and Alex Vovk, President and co-founder.
On 28 November 2018 Netwrix acquired Concept Searching Limited.
In August 2019, Netwrix formed a strategic partnership with Mott MacDonald, a UK-based consultancy, to offer data classification technology to clients.
In October 2020, Netwrix received a majority investment from TA Associates.
On 4 January 2021 Netwrix merged with Stealthbits Technologies Inc. Stealthbits provided data security and privacy solutions.
In February 2021, Netwrix acquired Strongpoint, a compliance, change management, and access management solution for Salesforce and NetSuite.
On 16 June 2021, Netwrix acquired New Net Technologies (NNT), provider of software for change, configuration, vulnerability and asset management.
On 24 March 2021, Netwrix acquired ANIXIS, a provider of software to enforce password policies.
Netwrix acquired PolicyPak in October 2021. PolicyPak delivered security software to manage on-prem and remote Windows 10 desktops.
In August 2022, Netwrix acquired USERCUBE, a France-based software developer of identity governance and administration solutions.
In September 2022, Netwrix acquired MATESO, a software manufacturer based in Germany that develops an enterprise password management solution.
In November, 2022, Netwrix acquired IMANAMI, US based software company that specializes in Identity and Access management solutions for Microsoft on-prem and cloud based active directory.
Products
The current Netwrix portfolio includes 13 products aimed at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer%20jumping | Pointer jumping or path doubling is a design technique for parallel algorithms that operate on pointer structures, such as linked lists and directed graphs. Pointer jumping allows an algorithm to follow paths with a time complexity that is logarithmic with respect to the length of the longest path. It does this by "jumping" to the end of the path computed by neighbors.
The basic operation of pointer jumping is to replace each neighbor in a pointer structure with its neighbor's neighbor. In each step of the algorithm, this replacement is done for all nodes in the data structure, which can be done independently in parallel. In the next step when a neighbor's neighbor is followed, the neighbor's path already followed in the previous step is added to the node's followed path in a single step. Thus, each step effectively doubles the distance traversed by the explored paths.
Pointer jumping is best understood by looking at simple examples such as list ranking and root finding.
List ranking
One of the simpler tasks that can be solved by a pointer jumping algorithm is the list ranking problem. This problem is defined as follows: given a linked list of nodes, find the distance (measured in the number of nodes) of each node to the end of the list. The distance is defined as follows, for nodes that point to their successor by a pointer called :
If is , then .
For any other node, .
This problem can easily be solved in linear time on a sequential machine, but a parallel algorithm can do better: given processors, the problem can be solved in logarithmic time, , by the following pointer jumping algorithm:
Allocate an array of integers.
Initialize: for each processor/list node , in parallel:
If , set .
Else, set .
While any node has :
For each processor/list node , in parallel:
If :
Set .
Set .
The pointer jumping occurs in the last line of the algorithm, where each node's pointer is reset to skip the node's direct successor. It is assumed, as in common in the PRAM model of computation, that memory access are performed in lock-step, so that each memory fetch is performed before each memory store; otherwise, processors may clobber each other's data, producing inconsistencies.
The following diagram follows how the parallel list ranking algorithm uses pointer jumping for a linked list with 11 elements. As the algorithm describes, the first iteration starts initialized with all ranks set to 1 except those with a null pointer for . The first iteration looks at immediate neighbors. Each subsequent iteration jumps twice as far as the previous.
Analyzing the algorithm yields a logarithmic running time. The initialization loop takes constant time, because each of the processors performs a constant amount of work, all in parallel. The inner loop of the main loop also takes constant time, as does (by assumption) the termination check for the loop, so the running time is determined by how often this inner loop is executed. Since the pointer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 2002 is the eighth year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2002 Fighting Network Rings held 7 events beginning with, Rings: World Title Series Grand Final.
Events list
Rings: World Title Series Grand Final
Rings: World Title Series Grand Final was an event held on February 15, 2002 at The Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Kanagawa, Japan.
Results
Rings Lithuania: Bushido Rings 4
Rings: World Title Series 5 was an event held on May 4, 2002 at The Kaunas Sport Hall in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Results
Rings Holland: Saved by the Bell
Rings Holland: Saved by the Bell was an event held on June 2, 2002 at The Sport Hall Zuid in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Results
Rings Lithuania: Rampage
Rings Lithuania: Rampage was an event held on August 2, 2002 in Palanga Beach Palanga, Lithuania.
Results
Rings Lithuania: Bushido Rings 5: Shock
Rings Lithuania: Bushido Rings 5: Shock was an event held on November 9, 2002 at The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Results
Rings Holland: One Moment In Time
Rings Holland: One Moment In Time was an event held on December 1, 2002 at The Vechtsebanen Sport Hall in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings Lithuania: Bushido Rings 6: Dynamite
Rings Lithuania: Bushido Rings 6: Dynamite was an event held on December 14, 2002 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
2002 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTEP%20Open%20Source%20Research%20Lab | The UTEP Open Source Research Lab's goal is to build the most comprehensive unclassified database on group-based violence in the Western Hemisphere. It performs open source research, exploitation, and analysis of transnational criminal activities including:
Cartel-related violence
Cross-border violence
Immigration-related extremist activities
Immigration-related terrorist activities
Narcotics trafficking
Transnational organized crime activity
The region that the Open Source Research Lab focuses on is in Mexico and along the US border with Mexico, and Latin America.
Criticism
The lab is under scrutiny because it was started and run until recently by S. Fernando Rodriguez, then director of UTEP's Criminal Justice Program. Rodriguez is on paid administrative leave while administrators decide what to do because he did not report outside work worth more than $1 million as required by university rules.
References
External links
- dead link 23:36, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
University of Texas at El Paso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20A%20Country%20Practice%20episodes | The following is an episode list for the Australian drama A Country Practice on Seven Network. From 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993, a total of 1058 original episodes of A Country Practice aired over its thirteen-season run. Some of the show's episode titles are used more than once during the series' run. After its cancellation by Seven, A Country Practice was picked up by Network Ten and between April and November 1994, 30 more episodes aired taking the total episode count to 1088.
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (1981)
Season 2 (1982)
Season 3 (1983)
Season 4 (1984)
Season 5 (1985)
Season 6 (1986)
Season 7 (1987)
Season 8 (1988)
Season 9 (1989)
Season 10 (1990)
Season 11 (1991)
Season 12 (1992)
Season 13 (1993)
Season 14 (1994)
References
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Be%20the%20Judge | You Be the Judge is a United States television game show, which aired on New York City television WCBW beginning January 4, 1946. It is notable as an early example of television programming, though it was not a network series. In each episode, a real-life court case would be re-enacted, and three "amateur judges" (contestants) would make their decisions on the case. The "judge" who came closest the actual verdict would win a prize.
Personnel
Ed Stasheff wrote for the program and was its master of ceremonies, and John Southwell and Phil Booth were the directors.
Reception
A review of the show's first episode in the trade publication Billboard provided a positive outlook: " if its first showing is any criterion, [it] is a program headed for a long, successful and honorable life on television". The reviewer felt, however, that the program would be improved if viewers were allowed to register their decisions in cases via telephone. A subsequent review in Billboard, after the program had been on almost seven months, described it as "still a sock show, with real mental action and plenty of suspense". It noted that viewers at home had been "brought in only casually" and praised the camera work that "brought the performers right into the home".
Episode status
Methods to record live television did not exist during the run of the series. As such, the series is likely lost today except possibly for still photographs.
References
1946 American television series debuts
American live television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
1940s American game shows
Lost American television shows
Local game shows in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20Pesquera%20Blanco | Santiago Pesquera Blanco (born April 21, 1973, in La Rioja) is a boccia player from Spain. He has had cerebral palsy since birth and is a BC3 type athlete. His job is working with computers. He started playing sport when he was 17 years old. He also plays wheelchair track and field.
He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in boccia. He competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. He finished second in the BC3 two person event. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He finished second in the BC3 two person event. He finished second in the BC3 one person event. He competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He finished first in the BC3 one person event.
In April 2008, he was one of four Navarre sportspeople on the short list to attend the Beijing Paralympics.
References
Spanish boccia players
Living people
1954 births
Paralympic gold medalists for Spain
Paralympic silver medalists for Spain
Boccia players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Boccia players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Boccia players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Boccia players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Sportspeople from La Rioja
Paralympic boccia players for Spain
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in boccia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliachna%20hemicordata | Eliachna hemicordata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Argentina (Neuquén, Río Negro) and Chile (Malleco, Bio Bio and Cautín).
The length of the forewings is . The ground colour of the forewings is pale orange-cream with tiny black specks. The hindwings are pale grey brown with darker mottling. Adults have been recorded on wing from December to February.
Etymology
The species name refers to the half-hearted shape of the distal portion of the valva.
References
Moths described in 2002
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Tortricidae of South America
Euliini
Moths of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchmate | Touchmate is a computer products manufacturing company founded in 1988 by "Vasant Menghani". One of the leading computer product manufacturing company in UAE, it was rated "Best IT Brand of UAE" by Reseller-Magazine in 2012.
Ranging from products from tablets to smartphones.
References
Computer companies established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shots%20Podcast%20Network | Shots Podcast Network is a podcasting company founded by brothers John Shahidi and Sam Shahidi.
The company was originally founded as a software development company named Rock Software in 2009, creating mobile games along with YouTube channels with celebrities. The first iPhone game and YouTube channel was created in partnership with Mike Tyson.
With the support of a team of investors including Justin Bieber, podcasts underneath the Shots Podcast Network include Full Send Podcast, The Pivot and Hotboxin with Mike Tyson.
Podcast Network and YouTube
In November 2019, Spotify announced a suite of podcasts and included a partnership with Shots Podcast Network for a podcast hosted by Lele Pons. "Best Kept Secrets with Lele Pons" debuted exclusively on Spotify on August 19, 2020.
In 2020, Shots released 2 podcasts, I Am Athlete with Brandon Marshall and Hotboxin with Mike Tyson.
In 2021, Shots released Full Send Podcast with the Nelk Boys.
In 2022, after parting ways with I Am Athlete, Shots released The Pivot Podcast.
Shots & Consumer Goods
Shots Podcast Network has expanded to consumer goods and merchandise.
In August 2020, Shots became a retailer of NRG Esports merchandise after forming a partnership with the gaming company.
On April 3, 2020, WWD announced a partnership between Shots Podcast Network and Syllable, a beauty product company, to create Loops Beauty, a line of sustainable face masks. Shots Studios creators model and promote the product.
In June 2021, Shots helped launch Happy Dad Hard Seltzer with the Nelk Boys.
Company History
Rock Software: 2009 - 2011
The company launched as Rock Software in 2009 by brothers John and Sam Shahidi in Southern California. They started as a mobile gaming company focused on iOS and Android apps, with its first commercial release being RunPee, an app which gives users the best time to use the restroom during a movie. The app was featured on The Today Show. Through a mutual friend on the Cincinnati Bengals, the Shahidi brothers met star wide receiver Chad Ochocinco which led to a partnership and creation of two apps, the Chad Ochocinco Experience and MadChad.
RockLive: 2011 - 2013
During this time the company continued to grow and rebranded as RockLive. They expanded their focus on mobile gaming apps and created apps for celebrities and athletes including Mike Tyson, Usain Bolt, and Cristiano Ronaldo. In 2011, the company launched a mobile game called Mike Tyson's Main Event. Across their various platforms, RockLive saw more than 3 million active users.
Shots App: 2013 - 2017
In 2013 the company began moving away from mobile games and working on a new social media app. With a large investment from Justin Bieber earlier that year, they released the Shots app on November 12, 2013. The app was a selfie picture sharing app with a focus on anti-bullying. Other investors include Floyd Mayweather, King Bach, Marlon Wayans, Omar Epps, Shervin Pishevar, Ben Parr, WI Harper, Upfront Ventures and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeTransfer | WeTransfer is a Dutch internet-based computer file transfer service company that was founded in 2009. It is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
History
WeTransfer was founded in 2009 by Rinke Visser, Bas Beerens and Ronald Hans (Nalden) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It was created to enable the sharing of large files (up to 2GB) free of charge.
In 2012, WeTransfer implemented a re-design and introduced a 'Plus' service with support for much larger file transfers (up to 5GB) and storage (50GB) as well as sending files to a maximum of 100 recipients for a price.
In 2013, WeTransfer reached profitability.
In 2014, WeTransfer launched "creative-class.tv", an ongoing video series. The company initiated its first bursaries that year through a collaborative partnership with Central Saint Martins. These bursaries supported two students from around the globe in their full-time studies.
In 2015, WeTransfer raised a US$25 million Series A funding round from Highland Capital Partners Europe. They also added venture capitalist Troy Carter to its board.
WeTransfer file transfer limit is 200GB for pro subscribers as of September 2021.
2016 – present
In 2016, WeTransfer announced the acquisition of digital design studio Present Plus, established in 2010 by Damian Bradfield and WeTransfer co-founder Nalden. In September, WeTransfer opened its first office in the United States at Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
In early 2017, Gordon Willoughby became the company's Chief Executive Officer, taking over from Bas Beerens, who became Executive Chairman.
In January 2018, WeTransfer launched content arm "WePresent". In August, WeTransfer acquired app developer FiftyThree, who owned sketching app Paper and collaborative presentation app Paste. In October, WeTransfer relaunched its mobile app with the name "Collect by WeTransfer".
In June 2019, WeTransfer experienced a security incident in which files were "sent to the wrong people". In August, the company closed a €35 million secondary funding round led by HPE Growth.
In May 2020, India banned the WeTransfer app, citing security reasons. In June, the company became a certified B Corporation.
In February 2021, WeTransfer achieved carbon-neutral certification, having pledged the previous year to reduce emissions by 30% by 2025. In March, the 2020 short film "The Long Goodbye" by Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed commissioned by WeTransfer through WePresent won the 2022 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. In April, the WeTransfer Foundation, "Supporting Act", focused on helping emerging creative talent was launched and the company pledged to donate 1% of revenues from 2022 onwards. In October, WeTransfer announced sales in 2020 of €65m.
In April 2021, Reuters reported that the WeTransfer logos and likeness were used in high-profile phishing scams.
In January 2022, WeTransfer planned for an IPO for a valuation of up to $800 million but ended up cancelling the offering shortly before listing citing market volat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Leaf | Robert Stephen "Bob" Leaf ( August 9, 1931 - June 10, 2021) was an American public relations executive. He is best known for creating the international network of offices which made Burson-Marsteller the world's largest public relations firm in the 1980s, where he eventually rose to be international chairman. Debrett's have recognised him as one of Britain's 500 most influential people.
Early life
Leaf was born in New York City on August 9, 1931. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.
Education
After high school Leaf enrolled in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, the world's first school of journalism. Initially he was interested in pursuing a career in sports journalism, but after attending classes in advertising and public relations he decided that was where his future lay. At college, Leaf also developed a keen interest in history and international relations and, after receiving his bachelor of journalism degree with honors in 1952, he received an MA with honors in history in 1954.
Army
After graduation, Leaf served in the United States Army for two years. After basic training, he was posted to Fort Eustis, Virginia for a few months, then army headquarters at Orléans, France as an information and education specialist, who lectured to the troops. Among his subjects were the different cultural attitudes they would encounter while stationed overseas, and how best to get on with the British, French and Germans.
Burson-Marsteller
Leaf moved back to the United States in 1956 and went to live with his widowed mother in New York, while searching for a job. For a short while he worked for a show business publicist where his main clients included Milton Berle, who helped start television in the United States, Tony Bennett and Pearl Bailey. He then obtained an interview with a small PR firm called Burson-Marsteller which was looking for its first trainee, and got the job.
He joined Burson-Marsteller on July 1, 1957, alongside its then six executives. The business grew rapidly and soon Leaf was promoted and given assistants, one of whom was Mary Travers – soon far better known as the Mary in the vocal group Peter, Paul and Mary.
Harold Burson had also been stationed overseas in the army and felt that it offered great opportunities for the firm to represent American clients there. He appointed Leaf head of international operations and, in 1965, he was sent to Brussels on a one-year assignment. Three years later he was transferred to London, where he still resided.
Overseas growth
Credited as "the father of public relations", Leaf went on to create a global network of offices which helped Burson-Marsteller become the world's biggest PR firm during his tenure.
After giving a speech in Moscow, B-M was hired by Vneshtorgreklama, the Russian state advertising agency during the Cold War, and helped set up the first PR firm in the Soviet Union. Leaf also signed a partnership agreement with the Chinese government in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncitidae | Uncitidae is an extinct family of brachiopods.
References
Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric protostome families
Brachiopod families
Devonian animals
Late Devonian animals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PISO%20algorithm | PISO algorithm (Pressure-Implicit with Splitting of Operators) was proposed by Issa in 1986 without iterations and with large time steps and a lesser computing effort. It is an extension of the SIMPLE algorithm used in computational fluid dynamics to solve the Navier-Stokes equations. PISO is a pressure-velocity calculation procedure for the Navier-Stokes equations developed originally for non-iterative computation of unsteady compressible flow, but it has been adapted successfully to steady-state problems.
PISO involves one predictor step and two corrector steps and is designed to satisfy mass conservation using predictor-corrector steps.
Algorithm steps
The algorithm can be summed up as follows:
Set the boundary conditions.
Solve the discretized momentum equation to compute an intermediate velocity field.
Compute the mass fluxes at the cells faces.
Solve the pressure equation.
Correct the mass fluxes at the cell faces.
Correct the velocities on the basis of the new pressure field.
Update the boundary conditions.
Repeat from 3 for the prescribed number of times.
Increase the time step and repeat from 1.
Steps 4 and 5 can be repeated for a prescribed number of times to correct for non-orthogonality.
Predictor step
Guess the pressure field and get velocity field components and using discretized momentum equation. The initial guess for the pressure may or may not be correct.
Corrector step 1Velocity component obtained from predictor step may not satisfy the continuity equation, so we define correction factors p',v',u' for the pressure field and velocity field. Solve the momentum equation by inserting correct pressure field and get the corresponding correct velocity components and .
where ; :correct pressure field and velocity component
:correction in pressure field and correction in velocity components
:guessed pressure field and velocity component
We define as above.
By putting the correct pressure field into the discretized momentum equation we get the correct velocity components and . Once the pressure correction is known we can find the correction components for the velocity: and .
Corrector step 2
In piso another corrector step can be used.
;
;
;
where : are the correct pressure field and the correct velocity components, respectively
and are second corrections to the pressure and velocity field.
Set
where; are correct pressure and velocity field
Advantages and disadvantages
Generally gives more stable results and takes less CPU time but not suitable for all processes.
Suitable numerical schemes for solving the pressure-velocity linked equation.
For laminar backward facing step PISO is faster than SIMPLE but it is slower concerning flow through heated fin.
If momentum and scalar equation have weak or no coupling then PISO is better than SIMPLEC.
PISO is most time effective method
See also
Fluid mechanics
Computational fluid dynamics
Algorithm
SIMPLE algorithm
SIMPLER algorithm
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202013%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the Monitor Latino number-one songs of 2013. Chart rankings are based on airplay across radio stations in Mexico using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are ranked from Monday to Sunday.
Chart history
Besides the General chart, Monitor Latino published "Pop", "Regional" and "Anglo" charts. Monitor Latino provides two lists for each of these charts: the "Audience" list ranks the songs according to the estimated number of people that listened to them on the radio during the week.
The "Tocadas" (Spins) list ranks the songs according to the number of times they were played on the radio during the week.
General
Pop
Regional
English
See also
List of Top 100 songs for 2013 in Mexico
List of number-one albums of 2013 (Mexico)
References
2013
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Intruder%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Intruder is a British drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network and was broadcast on Sundays from 2 January to 20 February 1972. There were eight episodes made, all of them running 25 minutes.
The series was based on the children's book of this same name by John Rowe Townsend, published in 1970. The novel was well received, and won numerous awards, it was adapted for television in 1971, before being shown on television the following year. The series was shot on location, predominantly in the Cumbrian village of Ravenglass with some scenes filmed in Manchester and Anglesey.
Plot
The life of Arnold Haithwaite (James Bate) a sixteen-year-old English boy begins to change when an overbearing and sinister one-eyed stranger called Sonny (Milton Johns) arrives in the small seaside village of Skirlston, claiming to be the real Arnold Haithwaite.
Episodes
This episode guide features information which appears on the ITN Source website (http://www.itnsource.com/)
Episode One: The Stranger (broadcast: 2 Jan 1972)
Synopsis: Young Arnold Haithwaite's happy and uneventful life is turned around by a stranger called Sonny, claiming that he is the real Arnold Haithwaite. Arnold also meets two newcomers to his sleepy village, a 17-year-old girl and her younger brother Peter.
Episode Two: Jane (broadcast: 9 Jan 1972)
Episode Three: Norma (broadcast: 16 Jan 1972)
Episode Four: Miss Binns (broadcast: 23 Jan 1972)
Episode Five: Peter (broadcast: 30 Jan 1972)
Note: The character of Peter was played by musician, songwriter, composer, producer and actor Simon Fisher Turner.
Episode Six: Jane Again (broadcast: 6 Feb 1972)
Episode Seven: Mavis (broadcast: 13 Feb 1972)
Synopsis: Arnold discovers the secret of his identity, whilst the villainous Sonny finds the opposition getting tougher.
Note: This episode features an early television appearance from Lynne Perrie, who plays Mavis.
Episode Eight: Me (broadcast: 20 Feb 1972)
Acclaim
When first broadcast, The Intruder won the top award as Britain's best TV show for children, and was repeated on Malaysia television in 1980. In 1973, Peter Plummer, who worked as a writer on the show won a BAFTA TV award for his contribution to the series. Speaking about the first episode in 2011 which had been released on DVD, Les Anderson wrote online: "Shot entirely on location on film this is not only atmospheric but also really creepy and unsettling. I look forward to seeing more."
Commercial release
In 2010 Network included the first episode The Stranger as part of their DVD compilation Look-Back on 70s Telly - Issue 3. They then released the complete series on Blu-ray in October 2022.
References
1972 British television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition%20fiber%20tracking | High definition fiber tracking (HDFT) is a tractography technique where data from MRI scanners is processed through computer algorithms to reveal the detailed wiring of the brain and to pinpoint fiber tracts. Each tract contains millions of neuronal connections. HDFT is based on data acquired from diffusion spectrum imaging and processed by generalized q-sampling imaging. The technique makes it possible to virtually dissect 40 major fiber tracts in the brain. The HDFT scan is consistent with brain anatomy unlike diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Thus, the use of HDFT is essential in pinpointing damaged neural connections.
History
Traditional DTI uses six diffusivity characteristics to model how water molecules diffuse in brain tissues and makes axonal fiber tracking possible. However, DTI had a major limitation in resolving axons from different tracts intersected and crossed en route to their target. In 2009, Learning Research & Development Center (LRDC) at University of Pittsburgh launched the 2009 Pittsburgh Brain Competition to invite the best research team to work on this problem. A prize of $10,000 was offered to the team that could track optic radiations, and teams from 168 countries took part in the competition. A winning team from Taiwan revealed Meyer’s loop, which no other team had successfully tracked. The key of the method was multiple observations of water molecules and improved algorithms to better capture how axons connects brain regions. The technique was further developed as HDFT between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
HDFT is currently used by UPMC neurosurgery department to provide neurosurgical planning, neuro-structural damage assessment, intraoperative navigation, and evaluation of changes and responses to rehabilitation therapy after brain surgery.
Applications
HDFT has been applied to traumatic brain injury (TBI) to identify which brain connections have been broken and which are still intact. HDFT allows neurosurgeons to localize fiber breaks caused by traumatic brain injuries to provide better diagnoses and prognoses. It could also provide an objective way of identifying brain injury, predicting outcome and planning rehabilitation. HDFT can also be used to determine the optimal surgical approach for difficult-to-reach tumors and vascular malformations.
See also
Diffusion MRI (DTI), uses the magnetic properties of water
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), measures blood flow to infer neural activity
References
External links
Fiber Tractography Lab
pitt.edu: Concept | HDFT
thejns.org: High-definition fiber tracking for assessment of neurological deficit in a case of traumatic brain injury: finding, visualizing, and interpreting small sites of damage Case report (2012-04-30)
upmc.com: New High Definition Fiber Tracking Reveals Damage Caused by Traumatic Brain Injury, Pitt Team Reports (2012-03-02)
hdft.info: HDFT for Connection Disorders
pitt.edu: Featured in this “60 Minutes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygopidae | Pygopidae is an extinct family of brachiopods.
References
Paleobiology Database
Terebratulida
Prehistoric protostome families
Brachiopod families
Prehistoric brachiopods
Late Jurassic first appearances
Early Cretaceous extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sofia%20the%20First%20episodes | Sofia the First is an American computer-animated television series that incorporates characters from the Disney Princess franchise. The series stars Ariel Winter as Sofia, a young girl who becomes a princess when her mother, Miranda, marries King Roland II of the kingdom of Enchancia.
On April 14, 2015, the series was renewed for a fourth season by Disney Junior, which released on April 28, 2017.
The series finale aired on September 8, 2018.
Episodes
Pilot (2012)
Season 1 (2013–14)
Some episodes are directed by Jamie Mitchell.
Season 2 (2014–15)
All episodes in this season are directed by Jamie Mitchell.
Notes:
Season 3 (2015–17)
Notes
Season 4 (2017–18)
All episodes in this season are directed by Jamie Mitchell and Mircea Kyle Mantta.
DJ Melodies (2015)
"Brave Adventure" – April 4, 2015
"The More the Merrier" – April 9, 2015
References
Sofia the First
Lists of Disney Channel television series episodes
Episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugart | Shugart may refer to:
Shugart Associates, computer peripheral manufacturer
Shugart bus, floppy disk drive interface
Alan Shugart, founder of Shugart Associates
Clyde Shugart, College and Professional American Football player
Kenneth Shugart, American naval officer and All-American college basketball player
Matthew Søberg Shugart, orchardist and professor of political science
Rita Shugart, American bridge player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinohrady%20tram%20depot | Vinohrady tram depot () is a former tram and trolleybus depot at Vinohrady that was part of the Prague tram network from 1897. The last Prague trolley bus left from here in 1972.
History
The trams started in Prague with the horse drawn network extending to Vinohrady in 1883. In 1891 electrification was gradually introduced. The line from Vinohrady to Prague had 15 stations in a route that was less than six kilometres long. The unification of the trams into one company was not complete until the twentieth century and electrification was complete in 1905.
A memorial plaque and sculpture were installed in 2010 to record the place where the last trolleybus in Prague left for its final journey on 15 October 1972.
The buildings were part of the tram system until 1933 but it was then used for temporary storage since then.
The building was opened as part of European Heritage Days in 2012 where visitors can see the buildings which still date from 1897.
Description
Just outside the depot is a sculpture designed by Michal Gabriel which includes the message Orionka and a preservation of part of the turning circle used by Prague trolley buses until 1972. The tramlines can still be seen in the cobbled entrance to the depot.
References
Rail transport in Prague
Tourist attractions in Prague
Buildings and structures in Prague
Railway stations opened in 1897
Tram depots
1897 establishments in Austria-Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange%20Cable%20Network | The Interchange Cable Network is a series of subsea fiber optic cables owned by Vanuatu-based company Interchange Limited. The first cable, ICN1 (Interchange Cable Network 1) links Fiji to Vanuatu and has been in service since 15 January 2014.
The cable landing points are:
Blacksands Beach, Port Vila, Efate, Vanuatu
Suva, Fiji
Alcatel Subsea Cable Vessel “Isle De Re” commenced cable laying on 10 November 2013 at the Fijian end of the cable. The cable arrived in Port Vila on 25 November 2013, 3 days ahead of schedule. This cable provides 20Gbit/s, which is more than 200 times the previous capacity of Vanuatu's satellite system.
Two more cables are planned that will provide back-up to the Interchange Cable Network in case of a disruption. ICN2 (Interchange Cable Network 2) will link Port Vila with Honiara, Solomon Islands, and ICN3 will link the Vanuatu island Tanna with Noumea, New Caledonia. A spur is planned to connect ICN2 with Vanuatu's largest island by land area, Espiritu Santo.
References
Communications in Vanuatu
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
2014 establishments in Vanuatu
2014 establishments in Fiji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweta%20Singh | Sweta Singh is an Indian journalist and news presenter. She is a news anchor and Senior Executive Editor of Special Programming at Aaj Tak.
Career
Singh started her career while still in first year of graduate studies in Patna University. She has several bylines to her name in The Times of India Patna edition and Hindustan Times Patna edition, before she switched to electronic media in 1998. She worked for Zee News and Sahara, before joining Aaj Tak in 2002. She is known for her expertise in covering sports-related news. Her show Sourav ka Sixer won the award for best sports programme by Sports Journalism Federation of India (SJFI) in 2005.
She has also made appearances in some films, like Chak De! India, Chakravyuh and Jhund as an Aaj Tak news presenter. Singh also did the show History of Patliputra during 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.
Singh has been criticized for not questioning the ruling NDA government. In 2016, after the NDA government announced the demonetisation of Indian banknotes, she had incorrectly stated that the then newly introduced Indian 2000-rupee note will contain advanced nanochips.
References
External links
Official Website
Indian opinion journalists
Writers from Patna
Journalists from Bihar
Patna University alumni
Living people
Indian women columnists
Indian columnists
Indian women television journalists
Indian television journalists
Women writers from Bihar
Indian women journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20House%20Data | Green House Data, now known as Lunavi, was a data center and managed services provider headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States that rebranded as Lunavi in 2020.
Cheyenne is home to a campus with 45,000 square feet of data center space, as well as administrative and technical support offices. The company has additional data center locations in Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Georgia, Texas, New Jersey, and New York, with sales and marketing offices in Laramie and in Denver, Colorado. As of 2019, the company also operates an IT consulting focused office in Toronto, Ontario.
History
In 2007, three friends hatched the idea for a data center powered exclusively by renewable energy over coffee and soon after began the process of retrofitting a former office building to provision 3000 square feet of colocation space. By March 2012, Green House Data had doubled the footprint in the Cheyenne location, added cloud hosting products, and expanded its footprint to the west coast. In December 2013, an east coast expansion was announced, and by August 2013, the company had broken ground on a new facility in Cheyenne. The second Cheyenne location officially opened on July 30, 2014. In September 2014, 1547 Critical Systems Realty and Green House Data announced that the company would be an anchor tenant in a redevelopment at 1 Ramland Road in Orangeburg, New York.
In April 2015, the company acquired FiberCloud, a Seattle, Washington-based provider of colocation, cloud hosting, and other data center services. With this acquisition, Green House Data added three data centers in Washington state, as well as nearly 20 employees and several hundred customers.
In April 2017, the company acquired Cirracore, a cloud-focused infrastructure provider based in Atlanta, Georgia. In November 2017, the company acquired Ajubeo, a cloud hosting service provider based in Denver.
Green House Data announced a merger via acquisition of Infront Consulting Group in May 2018, expanding operations to Toronto and Las Vegas, as well as other satellite sites, while adding over 30 IT consulting staff focusing on Microsoft Azure, cloud automation, and IT consulting.
Emerging markets
The company is part of a new surge in data center construction in the Cheyenne region and across the Rocky Mountains. Cheyenne has been ranked as a top 5 location for data centers, with Microsoft, Echostar, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research all operating facilities in the city.
In addition, Green House Data's most facility in Orangeburg represents entry into the Rockland County market, which is just beginning to emerge as a new data center cluster. It is home to facilities operated by both Bloomberg L.P. and Verizon.
Everett and Bellingham, Washington represent markets on the I-5 Corridor that have been historically underserved.
Sustainable energy
As a whole, the data center industry has been highly criticized for heavy electrical use, and in recent years has actively tried to reduc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Radio%20Network | Star Radio Network (also known as Hunt Broadcasting) is a series of radio stations in Texas and Louisiana. It is owned by Leon Hunt.
Radio affiliates
Radio affiliates for Star Radio Network are KIVY licensed in Crockett, Texas and KMVL licensed in Madisonville, Texas.
External links
KIVY Website
KMVL Website
References
American radio networks
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20discretization | In applied physics and engineering, temporal discretization is a mathematical technique for solving transient problems, such as flow problems.
Transient problems are often solved using computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulations, which require discretizing the governing equations in both space and time. Temporal discretization involves the integration of every term in various equations over a time step ().
The spatial domain can be discretized to produce a semi-discrete form:
The first-order temporal discretization using backward differences is
And the second-order discretization is
where
is a scalar
is the value at the next time,
is the value at the current time,
is the value at the previous time,
The function is evaluated using implicit- and explicit-time integration.
Description
Temporal discretization is done by integrating the general discretized equation over time. First, values at a given control volume at time interval are assumed, and then value at time interval is found. This method states that the time integral of a given variable is a weighted average between current and future values. The integral form of the equation can be written as:
where is a weight between 0 and 1.
yields the fully explicit scheme.
yields the fully implicit scheme.
yields the Crank-Nicolson scheme.
This integration holds for any control volume and any discretized variable. The following equation is obtained when applied to the governing equation, including full discretized diffusion, convection, and source terms.
Methods for evaluating function F(φ)
After discretizing the time derivative, function remains to be evaluated. The function is now evaluated using implicit and explicit-time integration.
Implicit-time integration
This methods evaluates the function at a future time.
Formulation
The evaluation using implicit-time integration is given as:
This is called implicit integration as in a given cell is related to in neighboring cells through :
In case of implicit method, the setup is unconditionally stable and can handle large time step (). But, stability doesn't mean accuracy. Therefore, large affects accuracy and defines time resolution. But, behavior may involve physical timescale that needs to be resolved.
Explicit-time integration
This methods evaluates the function at a current time.
Formulation
The evaluation using explicit-time integration is given as:
And is referred as explicit integration since can be expressed explicitly in the existing solution values, :
Here, the time step () is restricted by the stability limit of the solver (i.e., time step is limited by the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition). To be accurate with respect to time the same time step should be used in all the domain, and to be stable the time step must be the minimum of all the local time steps in the domain. This method is also referred to as "global time stepping".
Examples
Many schemes use explicit-time integration. Some of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20in%20use | Data in use is an information technology term referring to active data which is stored in a non-persistent digital state typically in computer random-access memory (RAM), CPU caches, or CPU registers.
Scranton, PA data scientist Daniel Allen in 1996 proposed Data in use as a complement to the terms data in transit and data at rest which together define the three states of digital data.
Alternative definitions
Data in use refers to data in computer memory. Some cloud software as a service (SaaS) providers refer to data in use as any data currently being processed by applications, as the CPU and memory are utilized.
Concerns
Because of its nature, data in use is of increasing concern to businesses, government agencies and other institutions. Data in use, or memory, can contain sensitive data including digital certificates, encryption keys, intellectual property (software algorithms, design data), and personally identifiable information. Compromising data in use enables access to encrypted data at rest and data in motion. For example, someone with access to random access memory can parse that memory to locate the encryption key for data at rest. Once they have obtained that encryption key, they can decrypt encrypted data at rest.
Threats to data in use can come in the form of cold boot attacks, malicious hardware devices, rootkits and bootkits.
Full memory encryption
Encryption, which prevents data visibility in the event of its unauthorized access or theft, is commonly used to protect Data in Motion and Data at Rest and increasingly recognized as an optimal method for protecting Data in Use.
There have been multiple projects to encrypt memory. Microsoft Xbox systems are designed to provide memory encryption and the company PrivateCore presently has a commercial software product vCage to provide attestation along with full memory encryption for x86 servers. Several papers have been published highlighting the availability of security-enhanced x86 and ARM commodity processors. In that work, an ARM Cortex-A8 processor is used as the substrate on which a full memory encryption solution is built. Process segments (for example, stack, code or heap) can be encrypted individually or in composition. This work marks the first full memory encryption implementation on a mobile general-purpose commodity processor. The system provides both confidentiality and integrity protections of code and data which are encrypted everywhere outside the CPU boundary.
For x86 systems, AMD has a Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature introduced in 2017 with Epyc. Intel has promised to deliver its Total Memory Encryption (TME) feature in an upcoming CPU.
CPU-based key storage
Operating system kernel patches such as TRESOR and Loop-Amnesia modify the operating system so that CPU registers can be used to store encryption keys and avoid holding encryption keys in RAM. While this approach is not general purpose and does not protect all data in use, it does protec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopina%20condata | Anopina condata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Veracruz, Mexico.
References
Moths described in 2000
condata
Moths of Central America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teejay%20Marquez | Teejay Marquez is a Filipino actor, dancer, television personality and commercial model who was recently seen in GMA Network's shows. He is known for his lead roles in Philippine BL series like Ben X Jim, B X J Forever and My Story.
As of 2015 he is under ABS-CBN management. He also works as an actor in Indonesia.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards
2011 PMPC Star Awards for Television's "Best Male New TV Personality" for Tween Hearts 2009 (tied with his co-star/nominee Derrick Monasterio).
References
External links
Biodata Teejay Marquez
Living people
Filipino male child actors
Filipino male television actors
Male actors from Manila
Male actors from Quezon City
1993 births
Filipino expatriates in Indonesia
GMA Network personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVNet | The OpenVNet adds a Network Virtualization layer on top of the existing physical network and enables data center network administrators to tremendously simplify the creation and operation of multi-tenant networks. It is based on edge overlay network architecture and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization such as SDN controller, virtual switch, virtual router, and powerful APIs.
The OpenVNet project started in April 2013. Almost part of the implementation had already done in the Wakame-vdc project in the beginning of 2012.
See also
Open vSwitch
References
External links
External links
OpenVNet presentation on SlideShare
Computer networking
Free virtualization software
Virtualization software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruptly | Ruptly GmbH is a Russian state-owned video news agency specializing in video-on-demand, based in Berlin, Germany. It is a subsidiary of the Russian state-controlled television network RT. Ruptly owns the media channel Redfish and is the major shareholder of the digital content company Maffick. Its chief executive is Dinara Toktosunova. Upon Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the company faced a staff exodus. In January 2023, Toktosunova was sanctioned by Ukraine.
History
Ruptly joined the German Commercial Register as a Berlin-based GmbH in July 2012, before officially launching operations on 4 April 2013. It is a subsidiary of the Russian state-controlled TV network RT, and operates as a German commercial entity. ANO TV Novosti, an organization that is primarily funded by a Russian government grant, oversees the broadcasts of RT.
In February 2021, it signed a deal with Chinese state-owned CCTV+ to open up access to China news coverage. In May 2021, it won a Shorty Award for Best Live Event Coverage, for its footage from the impact and aftermath of the 2020 Beirut port blast.
Ruptly employees, including multiple staff members in senior positions, resigned in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after the Russian government restricted news outlets from describing the military offensive as an invasion.
Notable videos
In October 2017, a Ruptly-produced viral video about an American restaurant creating a special burger to celebrate Vladimir Putin's birthday turned out to be fabricated. Ruptly removed the video from its YouTube channel and stated that its employees and not the restaurant were involved in the creation of the video, "which, unfortunately, compromised the reliability of the video. We are grateful to our audience for drawing attention to the discrepancy in our story".
On 27 November 2018, Polygraph.info alleged that Ruptly published a misleadingly edited video of an altercation between Ukrainian and Russian ships during the Kerch Strait incident in which a Ukrainian tugboat was rammed by a Russian Coast Guard vessel. Polygraph later updated the story to advise that Ruptly had contacted it to say Ruptly "acquired and published without editing" a short version of the ramming video which it had received on 25 November 2018 and that it published the full version, "as soon as" it was able to obtain it. Polygraph confirmed that Ruptly did publish the full version of the video on 26 November but that the full version was published by other Russian media on 25 November. In its update, Polygraph stated that it had "no means to independently confirm that Ruptly.tv did not edit the first, shorter version, of the video".
In April 2019, Ruptly provided exclusive video coverage of Julian Assange being forcibly removed from the Embassy of Ecuador, London. Ruptly obtained the footage by videoing the embassy using a crew of five working in shifts 24 hours per day for the week leading up to Assange's arrest. Ruptly's twitter video of the arrest ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire%20%28social%20networking%20service%29 | Spire, formerly known as LifeKraze, was a web-based social networking service founded in April 2010. Members shared "real-world" personal accomplishments with their friends, and were rewarded by other members. Members awarded each other points for each accomplishment. Members used the points they've collected to buy rewards from brand partners.
Spire was founded by two Covenant College alumni, Ben Wagner and David Nielson, as the brainchild of their senior project in 2010. The site quickly developed into an expanding social media platform, gaining significant traction at South by Southwest in 2011. On October 29, 2013 the named was changed from LifeKraze to Spire. With these changes was an updated logo, colors, and minor changes to the website and apps.
The site's membership was open to the general public, and was associated with dozens of brands. Spire launched an iOS app on the App Store on July 24, 2012, and an Android app on the Google Play store on January 23, 2013.
Purpose
Spire was founded to encourage and reward an active lifestyle among its members. It was intended as a tool to promote productive, healthy, active living through using social media. The company's mission was "to connect the world through healthy competition, to focus current passions and to inspire new exploration."
Structure
When members sign up, they were encouraged to build their network of followers in a similar way to other social media like Facebook or Twitter. They then post their activities online in status updates, and then their followers reward them points as they see fit. These points can be redeemed for rewards from companies that encourage an active lifestyle (e.g. health food stores and outdoor equipment outfitters).
Members posted in two categories of status updates: accomplishments and thoughts. Accomplishments were intended to record a user's active lifestyle, and thus are eligible to receive points from followers. Thoughts however, are intended only to foster community among followers, and thus they are not eligible to receive points.
Awards
In 2011, LifeKraze was recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the 100 Brilliant Companies of the year.
In 2012, LifeKraze was recognized by CNN as one of the "10 Great Mobile Health Apps"
References
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Forrest | Stephanie Forrest (born circa 1958) is an American computer scientist and director of the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. She was previously Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is best known for her work in adaptive systems, including genetic algorithms, computational immunology, biological modeling, automated software repair, and computer security.
Biography
After earning her BA from St. John's College in 1977, Forrest studied Computer and Communication Sciences at the University of Michigan, where she received her MS in 1982, and in 1985 her PhD, with a thesis entitled "A study of parallelism in the classifier system and its application to classification in KL-ONE semantic networks."
After graduation Forrest worked for Teknowledge Inc. and at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1990 she joined the University of New Mexico, where she was appointed Professor of Computer Science and directs the Computer Immune Systems Group, and the Adaptive Computation Laboratory. From 2006 to 2011 she chaired the Computer Science Department. In the 1990s she was also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, where she was Interim Vice President for the 1999–2000 term.
In 1991, Forrest was awarded the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and in 2009 she received the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software. In 2011, she was awarded the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award.
Work
Forrest's research interests are in the field of "adaptive systems, including genetic algorithms, computational immunology, biological modeling, automated software repair, and computer security."
According to the National Academies her research since the 1990s has included "developing the first practical anomaly intrusion-detection system; designing automated responses to cyberattacks; writing an early influential paper proposing automatic software diversity and introducing instruction-set randomization as a particular implementation; developing noncryptographic privacy-enhancing data representations; agent-based modeling of large-scale computational networks; and recently, work on automated repair of security vulnerabilities. She has conducted many computational modeling projects in biology, where her specialties are immunology and evolutionary diseases, such as Influenza and cancer."
Selected bibliography
Forrest has authored and co-authored many publications in her field of expertise. A selection:
Forrest, Stephanie, et al. "Self-nonself discrimination in a computer." Research in Security and Privacy, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on. Ieee, 1994.
Forrest, Stephanie, et al. "A sense of self for unix processes." Security and Privacy, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE Symposium on. IEEE, 1996.
Hofmeyr, Steven A., Stephanie Forrest, and Anil Somayaji. "Intrusion detect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Wales%20Metro | The South Wales Metro () is an integrated heavy rail, light rail and bus-based public transport services and systems network currently being developed in South East Wales around the hub of . The first phase was approved for development in October 2013. Works are currently under way, with a brand new depot under construction at Taff's Well and new trains being built by Stadler Rail in Switzerland. The development will also include the electrification of the core Valley Lines and new stations.
Background
The rail-based transport system in South Wales was heavily cut down following the Beeching report. By the 1970s Wales kept less than half of the track it had in 1914. There were closures of some lines and many sub-branches, mainly serving the ex-mining communities, and their easy links to ports and resorts on the coast. Since 1987, five of the main closures have been reversed: services were reinstated on Cardiff's City Line that year, the Aberdare Line the following year, the Maesteg Line in 1992, the Vale of Glamorgan Line between Barry and Bridgend in 2005, and the Ebbw Vale Line in 2008.
Development
In February 2011, Cardiff Business Partnership (CBP) and the Institute of Welsh Affairs published a report by Professor Mark Barry of Cardiff University, calling for an investment of £2.5billion over 10years to connect Cardiff, Newport and the South Wales Valleys. The report concluded that with the stated investment in a regional metro system, by 2025 it would be possible to travel from the Heads of the Valleys to Cardiff or Newport in 40minutes, by combining electrified heavy rail and light rail systems and boosted by faster rail links to London and Heathrow Airport.
After the Welsh Government, supported by parties including a CBP team led by Mark Barry, lobbied at Westminster for the extension of the Great Western Main Line electrification programme west to , and north into the South Wales Valleys, Barry developed a more detailed blueprint plan for Cardiff. After internal consultation, this was submitted by CBP to the Welsh Government's Business Minister Edwina Hart in December 2012. The scheme proposed a £200million investment in a Cardiff cross-rail scheme based on trams, between St Mellons in the east via Cardiff Central, south into Cardiff Bay, north to , converting a number of Valley Lines heavy rail routes to light rail, and a new route north-west via Ely and Radyr Court to the M4 motorway near Creigiau.
From Autumn 2012, Barry led the private sector Metro Consortium, with the common aim of promoting the South Wales Metro project, which included representatives from Capita, Jones Lang LaSalle, The Urbanists and Steer Davies Gleave. They produced a further interim report, "A Cardiff City Region Metro: transform | regenerate | connect" published in February 2013.
Hart then commissioned Barry to lead a more detailed analysis of the potential benefits: The Metro Impact Study of October 2013. This more substantive report concluded that an ini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip%20Maertens | Filip Maertens (born 1978) is a Belgian founder with a background in cyber-security and artificial intelligence.
He was founder of Securax (1999), a Belgium-based cyber-security consulting company (acquired), and founder of Argus Labs (2011), an Antwerp-based artificial intelligence company.
As a cyber-security researcher in 1999-2001, Maertens published multiple software vulnerabilities on Microsoft and Linux platforms, and was a global trainer on the Extreme Hacking courses.
As a public speaker, Filip has been on TEDx, Cannes Lions, LeWeb, TheNextWeb, Strata and more.
Maertens was named Belgium's Top 50 Entrepreneur (2014) and Innovator (2015).
References
External links
TEDx Leuven Filip Maertens profile at TEDxLeuven, 2012
TEDx UHasselt Salon Filip Maertens profile at TEDxUHasselt, 2013
Living people
1978 births
Belgian businesspeople
Flemish businesspeople
21st-century Belgian businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal%20tree%20index | In computer science, a fractal tree index is a tree data structure that keeps data sorted and allows searches and sequential access in the same time as a B-tree but with insertions and deletions that are asymptotically faster than a B-tree. Like a B-tree, a fractal tree index is a generalization of a binary search tree in that a node can have more than two children. Furthermore, unlike a B-tree, a fractal tree index has buffers at each node, which allow insertions, deletions and other changes to be stored in intermediate locations. The goal of the buffers is to schedule disk writes so that each write performs a large amount of useful work, thereby avoiding the worst-case performance of B-trees, in which each disk write may change a small amount of data on disk. Like a B-tree, fractal tree indexes are optimized for systems that read and write large blocks of data. The fractal tree index has been commercialized in databases by Tokutek. Originally, it was implemented as a cache-oblivious lookahead array, but the current implementation is an extension of the Bε tree. The Bε is related to the Buffered Repository Tree. The Buffered Repository Tree has degree 2, whereas the Bε tree has degree Bε. The fractal tree index has also been used in a prototype filesystem. An open source implementation of the fractal tree index is available, which demonstrates the implementation details outlined below.
Overview
In fractal tree indexes, internal (non-leaf) nodes can have a variable number of child nodes within some pre-defined range. When data is inserted or removed from a node, its number of child nodes changes. In order to maintain the pre-defined range, internal nodes may be joined or split. Each internal node of a B-tree will contain a number of keys that is one less than its branching factor. The keys act as separation values which divide its subtrees. Keys in subtrees are stored in search tree order, that is, all keys in a subtree are between the two bracketing values. In this regard, they are just like B-trees.
Fractal tree indexes and B-trees both exploit the fact that when a node is fetched from storage, a block of memory, whose size is denoted by , is fetched. Thus, nodes are tuned to be of size approximately . Since access to storage can dominate the running time of a data structure, the time-complexity of external memory algorithms is dominated by the number of read/writes a data structure induces. (See, e.g., for the following analyses.)
In a B-tree, this means that the number of keys in a node is targeted to be enough to fill the node, with some variability for node splits and merges. For the purposes of theoretical analysis, if keys fit in a node, then the tree has depth , and this is the I/O complexity of both searches and insertions.
Fractal trees nodes use a smaller branching factor, say, of . The depth of the tree is then , thereby matching the B-tree asymptotically. The remaining space in each node is used to buff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20J.%20Lomonaco%20Jr. | Samuel John Lomonaco, Jr. is an American academic and mathematician who is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Background
Lomonaco earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Saint Louis University and a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University. Lomonaco specializes in quantum computation, topology, quantum information science, knot theory, and quantum algorithms.
References
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
Topologists
University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty
Saint Louis University alumni
Princeton University alumni
1942 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Jaar | Ricardo Jorge Jaar is a Honduran academic and businessman, known for his contributions in higher education and corporate social responsibility. He was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Personal data
His parents are Mr. Jorge E. Jaar Q.D.D.G., and Mrs. Elena J Larach de Jaar. He has two sisters and three brothers.
Higher education
In February 1991, Jaar received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Systems Analysis and Engineering from The George Washington University, Washington, DC, and in May 1993, he received a Master of Arts Degree in Applied Economics at The American University, Washington, DC.
Academic career
In 1994 after graduating from The American University, Washington DC., Ricardo J. Jaar returned to his home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and became a professor at the local university, Universidad de San Pedro Sula in 1995. His teaching responsibilities included a wide range of subjects from economics to operations research. He became a member of the Board of Directors of this institution and today, eventually becoming the Director of that Board, Executive President of the university, and President of Campus Television, the first HD TV station in the country;. In 2004, Ricardo J. Jaar founded Fundacion Educar, a non-profit organization that provides refurbished computers free of charge to public schools and to less fortunate communities in Honduras www.fundaeducar.org with the support of Computadores Para Educar from Colombia.
Jaar was part of the organization committee of the XXVII Model OAS General Assembly (MOAS) celebrated in San Pedro Sula, Honduras 27–30 April 2009 and has successfully organized presidential debates in Honduras for the past 2 presidential elections ., and has organized for several years, along with the US Embassy in Honduras and Fundacion Covelo, the program " Sueño Hondureño" to encourage students from public schools to form their own micro-enterprises and provides real-world business experience
Awards and honors
Dean's Commendation List at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Ricardo J. Jaar has also received numerous awards for his efforts in the education field, among them: Galardón La Concordia, given by The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), and COHEP the Honduran National Business Council, for best practices in Social responsibility. in 2008 Consejo Iberoamericano en Honor a la Calidad Educativa awarded Mr. Jaar the Title Honoris Causa de Iberoamerica and the Honorific Title of Master en Gestión Educativa de Iberoamérica
Other activity
Other positions held by Mr. Jaar in the Honduran community are: Member of the Board of Directors of INTERLEASE S.A. de C.V. (Commercial Vehicles Dealership and leasing company) and Counselor to the Board of Directors of Fundación Hondureña de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (FUNDAHRSE).
References
1968 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of San Pedro Sula
Honduran businesspeople
American University alumni
George Washingt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vax%20%28disambiguation%29 | Vax or VAX is a computing instruction set architecture by DEC.
VAX or Vax may also refer to:
VAX (band), a musical band co-founded by Alex P
Vax (brand), Vax UK Ltd, a floorcare brand, including vacuum cleaners
V Air, a low-cost carrier based in Taiwan, ICAO code VAX
Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar, a fictional half-elf rogue / paladin / druid in the D&D web series Critical Role
Clipping of vaccine
See also
VAX Unit of Performance or VUP, an obsolete measurement of computer performance
VAXELN, a real-time operating system for the VAX architecture.
Andrew Vachss (born 1942), American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths
E*vax, American electronic music artist and half of New York based indie/electronic band Ratatat
Anti-vax, a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated
Vacs
Vaks
VAC (disambiguation)
Vack
Vak (disambiguation)
VAQ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistanis%20in%20Somalia | Pakistanis in Somalia are residents of Somalia who are of Pakistani ancestry. They were historically a small community of retail traders and businesspeople.
Demographics
No official data exists on the current number or ethnic subdivisions of Pakistanis in Somalia. Under 1,000 Shia Indo-Pakistanis were reported to reside in the country in 2001.
As of 1989, a group of ethnic Baloch also lived in Somalia. An Iranic community, they were estimated at 8,200 residents.
Community
There has been a small community of Pakistanis in Somalia since at least the 1960s. Historically, they were mainly shopkeepers, concentrated in Mogadishu and other southern urban areas. Pakistanis were among the main expatriate communities in the country, which also included Indians, Yemenis and Italians.
After the civil war broke out in Somalia in the early 1990s, most of the resident Pakistanis left the country. Around 5,700 Pakistani troops contributed to the ensuing UN peacekeeping operation in southern Somalia.
In the 2000s, some Pakistanis were reported to be among the ranks of foreign fighters involved in the Al-Shabaab-led Islamist insurgency in Somalia. Pakistani missionaries from the Tablighi Jamaat also frequently journeyed to the country, where they would engage in missionary work and dawah.
Organizations
The Pakistani community in Somalia was diplomatically represented by the Pakistani embassy in Mogadishu. Established in 1973, it provided services to the resident Pakistanis.
See also
Somalis in Pakistan
Pakistan–Somalia relations
References
Immigration to Somalia
Somalia
Somalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20phenomenology | String phenomenology is a branch of theoretical physics that uses tools from mathematics and computer science to study the implications of string theory for particle physics and cosmology. In cosmology, string phenomenology studies, among others, implications of string theory for inflation, dark matter and dark energy. In particle physics, efforts include finding realistic or semi-realistic models of particle physics within the string theory landscape. The term "realistic" is usually taken to mean that the low energy limit of string theory yields a model which bears a resemblance to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) or the Standard Model (SM). The latter is obtained after supersymmetry breaking or by starting from a string theory without (target space) supersymmetry. A complementary approach to studying the landscape of string theory solutions is to look at the swampland, which consists of low-energy theories that are not compatible with string theory or sometimes even any quantum theory of gravity.
See also
String cosmology
String theory landscape
Swampland
References
String theory
Physics beyond the Standard Model
Physical cosmology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sacred%20Taking | "The Sacred Taking" is the eighth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on December 4, 2013, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Ryan Murphy and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.
In this episode, Fiona (Jessica Lange) must take her life in order to undertake a ritual to find the next Supreme. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV). Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, Danny Huston, and Patti LuPone guest star as Marie Laveau, Queenie, the Axeman, and Joan Ramsey, respectively.
Plot
After an encounter with Queenie under an overpass, Zoe and Madison are summoned by Cordelia to plot against Fiona. During the plan, however, a scared Misty appears at the front door, revealing she seeks protection from a witch hunter. She reveals Myrtle - who is now almost fully healed - is with her, who determines that Misty's resurrection abilities mean she is in fact the next Supreme.
Luke's mother - Joan - chastises him for visiting the girls at the Academy, making him an enema, and forcing him to strip. At the Academy, Nan hears his screams and wants to help him, but Cordelia wants her assistance in the plot against Fiona. The Coven prepares for the Sacred Taking: a ritual that is invoked to protect the Coven in which the current Supreme takes her own life to ensure the safety of the Coven. Misty is resistant to becoming the next Supreme, though Cordelia assures her no one gets to choose.
Fiona - whose health is deteriorating quickly as a result of one of the younger witches obtaining her Supreme powers - discovers Madison in her room, who lies that she is the next Supreme before giving Fiona pills to take her own life. Myrtle appears thereafter, convincing Fiona to do so by casting an illusion over Fiona. Fiona takes the pills and lies in her bed, asking that Myrtle take care of Cordelia. However, she later sees Spalding, who scolds her for taking the "coward's way out" before telling her the Coven lied to her. Fiona vomits the pills and vows revenge on Spalding's life and her own.
Meanwhile, Queenie discretely brings food to an imprisoned Delphine, who begs for release. Marie Laveau arrives and taunts Delphine, who remains proud until Marie Laveau chops off her hand.
Nan falls out with Zoe and Madison over their belief that she is not the next Supreme, storming off to pay a visit to Luke. Joan discovers the two of them but is soon shot by a rifle, followed by Luke (who was attempting to protect Nan). Misty appears and Fiona - having surprised the Coven that she is still alive - follows after her, under the belief that Misty is the next Supreme. Fiona challenges Misty to bring Joan back to life, which she does before collapsing. Zoe warns Kyle that the Coven is under attack. Kyle professes his love for Zoe while a distraught Madison listens on.
The next morning, Fiona reveals to Cordelia she in fact admires her daughter's attempt to kill her. A package arrives at the Coven, which Fiona op |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Head" is the ninth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on December 11, 2013, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Tim Minear and directed by Howard Deutch.
In this episode, Fiona (Jessica Lange) looks to form an alliance with Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) while Cordelia (Sarah Paulson)'s attacker is revealed. Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, and Patti LuPone guest star as Marie Laveau, Queenie, and Joan Ramsey, respectively. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
Plot
Fiona offers truce and alliance to Marie Laveau, suggesting both the Coven and voodoo witches are a target of witch hunters, but Marie refuses, secretly working with the hunters herself. She orders to Queenie to burn Delphine's head, but Queenie instead attempt to redeem Delphine by exposing her to human rights art.
Throwing a lunch for the Witches' Council, Myrtle poisons and murders Cecily and Quentin to avenge herself and extract their eyes, using them to restore Cordelia's eyesight, seemingly at cost of Cordelia's visions.
Nan bonds with Luke's mother Joan by reading the comatose boy's mind, but upon revealing Joan murdered her unfaithful husband, Joan shuns Nan away, and suffocates Luke with a pillow.
Hank, who was trained to be a witch hunter since childhood and married Cordelia to infiltrate the Coven, is urged by Marie and his father Harrison Renard, head of a witch hunter organization, to carry out the eradication of witches as soon as possible. Failing to reconnect with Cordelia, Hank decides to assassinate the voodoo witches, killing many of them. Before he murders Marie, Queenie uses her wound transference ability and shoots herself, killing Hank and seemingly herself. Marie seeks refuge at Miss Robichaux's.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 77% approval rating, based on 13 reviews. The critical consensus reads, ""Head" churns out terrific dialogue and a series of surprising plot twists, even as the sheer number of narrative arcs and political themes induce a certain amount of viewer fatigue." Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C− rating, saying, "There's a lot of "Head" that sort of feels like it works, particularly in the closing passages, where the episode almost manages that American Horror Story thing where a bunch of disparate elements the series has been building all season come together in a giant gumbo of wackadoo... But then I look at the episode and the season as a whole, and I'm just exhausted by it, and not in a good way." Matt Fowler from IGN gave the episode a 7.7/10 rating, stating, "The Hank storyline and his unexpected, violent turn on Laveau was very well done. The rest of "Head" felt undercooked though... I appreciate that the show takes risks with its mesh of tones, but there also comes a point where you just can't take away anything meaningful from a scene featuring a sassy head. Even if it's Kathy Bates."
"Head" received a 2.1 18–49 ratings sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniROM | OmniROM is an open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. It involves a number of prominent developers from other projects.
Development
OmniROM was founded in reaction to the commercialisation of ROM project CyanogenMod. At launch, the project provided custom firmware based on Android Jelly Bean, and they moved to Android KitKat shortly after its release. Their KitKat firmware included support for the Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Note, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (2012), LG Optimus G, Galaxy S2, HTC One (2013), Oppo Find 5, Sony Xperia T, Acer Iconia A500, HTC Explorer and Lenovo A6000.
OmniROM quickly gained popularity during development of Android 4.4 KitKat.
In June 2015, the project started to release nightly builds based on Android Lollipop for the Asus Transformer Pad, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Oppo Find 7/7a, OnePlus One, Sony Xperia Z and Sony Xperia ZL.
OmniROM was one of the first custom ROMs to provide patches for the KRACK security vulnerability.
As of January 2018, Oreo builds were on a weekly update schedule.
OmniROM was one of several ROM development teams being courted by ASUS, teaming with XDA, to help seed development for ZenFone 6.
OmniROM was the first custom ROM for OnePlus 7T.
In March 2020, OmniROM began offering builds including MicroG.
Reception
In 2013, Russell Holly of Geek.com said "OmniRom is the ultimate Android tweaker ROM." A later review said OmniROM is "one of the few community-focused Android builds available today that is focused on supporting as many devices as possible while adding new features as often as possible."
In 2017, Tomek Kondrat of XDA Developers, after an interview of two developers, said OmniROM has a distinct and polished Android experience, with a history of introducing excellent features, and said "Innovation, transparency, community, and freedom are the founding ideas behind the project!"
In a 2017 detailed review on the OnePlus 5T for XDA Developers, Jeff McIntire concluded "OmniROM has some unique features" and called it "a no-frills, easy-to-configure ROM that won't bog down your phone with bloatware."
In 2018, Williams Pelegrin of Android Authority said OmniROM is one of the more popular Android ROMs available, and it contains little to no bloatware; however, he criticized OmniROM's camera app for taking pictures that are over-exposed and blurrier, particularly in low-light conditions.
OmniROM has been mentioned in books.
See also
Android Open Source Project
List of custom Android firmware
References
External links
Custom Android firmware
Free mobile software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Barcelona | Historically, the city of Barcelona, in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, had a large tramway network. The city's first tram line opened in 1872, but almost all of these historic lines had closed by 1971, being replaced by buses and by the expanding Barcelona Metro. The one remaining line, the Tramvia Blau, was retained as tourist attraction, using historic rolling stock. However at the beginning of the 21st century, two new tram systems, the Trambaix and Trambesòs, opened in the suburbs of the city.
History
The first tramway line in Barcelona was the Barcelona-Gràcia (Josepets), a horse tramway that opened by the Barcelona Tramways company on June 28, 1872. Within a few years, lines were built throughout Barcelona and many of its surrounding villages. As the tramways helped to integrate the metropolis, these villages became quarters of today's Barcelona.
Lines were built by a number of companies, but by the 1900s the two main companies were Barcelona Tramways and Compañía General de Tranvías. Electrification took place in the 1900s, with the introduction of route numbers following from 1910 onwards. In 1925, the two main companies merged to Tranvías de Barcelona (TB). The Spanish Civil War (1936–39) caused major damage to the tramways.
Services recovered in the 1950s and 1960s, and double-decker trams were used to operate some services. In the early 1960s, a fleet of 101 PCC cars were purchased second-hand from the United States city of Washington and, after modification, placed in service in Barcelona.
However closures then started to happen. With the exception of the Tramvia Blau, the last two tramway lines operated on March 18, 1971. For the next thirty years or so, this one short line was the only tramway in Barcelona.
Towards the end of the 1980s a number of new tramways were opened in other European cities, and Barcelona started to consider the possibility of building new lines. To test this idea, in 1997 a short test tramway was built along the Diagonal with just two tram stops. Tests were conducted with a tram from the Grenoble tram system in June 1997, and a month later with a Siemens Combino.
The tests were successful, and the decision was made to build two new tram systems, both operating on parts of the Diagonal, although not interconnected. Both lines commenced operation in 2004, with TramBaix in the west starting on April 5, whilst Trambesòs in the east commenced on May 8.
Current situation
Tramvia Blau
The Tramvia Blau is a long heritage streetcar line serving a hilly area of the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. It links the Avinguda Tibidabo terminus of Barcelona Metro line L7 with the lower station of the Funicular del Tibidabo, thus providing part of a through link from the city centre to Tibidabo.
Tramvia Blau is operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), albeit not part of Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM) and therefore not fare-integrated with the other public transportation network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20cascading | In object-oriented programming, method cascading is syntax which allows multiple methods to be called on the same object. This is particularly applied in fluent interfaces.
For example, in Dart, the cascade:
a..b()
..c();
is equivalent to the individual calls:
a.b();
a.c();
Method cascading is much less common than method chaining – it is found only in a handful of object-oriented languages, while chaining is very common. A form of cascading can be implemented using chaining, but this restricts the interface; see comparison with method chaining, below.
Application
Cascading is syntactic sugar that eliminates the need to list the object repeatedly. This is particularly used in fluent interfaces, which feature many method calls on a single object.
This is particularly useful if the object is the value of a lengthy expression, as it eliminates the need to either list the expression repeatedly or use a temporary variable. For example, instead of either listing an expression repeatedly:
a.b().c();
a.b().d();
or using a temporary variable:
n = a.b();
n.c();
n.d();
cascading allows the expression to be written once and used repeatedly:
a.b()..c()
..d();
Comparison with method chaining
Given a method call a.b(), after executing the call, method cascading evaluates this expression to the left object a (with its new value, if mutated), while method chaining evaluates this expression to the right object.
Chaining
The following chain (in C++):
a.b().c();
is equivalent to the simple form:
b = a.b();
b.c();
Cascading
The following cascade (in Dart):
a..b()
..c();
is equivalent to the simple form:
a.b();
a.c();
Cascading can be implemented in terms of chaining by having the methods return the target object (receiver, this, self). However, this requires that the method be implemented this way already – or the original object be wrapped in another object that does this – and that the method not return some other, potentially useful value (or nothing if that would be more appropriate, as in setters). In fluent interfaces this often means that setters return this instead of nothing.
Languages
Pascal
Within the component statement of the with statement, the components (fields) of the record variable specified by the with clause can be denoted by their field identifier only, i.e. without preceding them with the denotation of the entire record variable. The with clause effectively opens the scope containing the field identifiers of the specified record variable, so that the field identifiers may occur as variable identifiers. with date do
if month = 12 then
begin month := 1; year := year + 1 end
else month := month + 1
{ is equivalent to }
if date.month = 12 then
begin date.month := 1; date.year := date.year + 1 end
else date.month := date.month + 1
Smalltalk
Method chains and cascades were both introduced in Smalltalk; most subsequent object-oriented languages have implemented chains, but few have implemented |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Vision%20BV | Prime Vision BV is a Dutch company that specializes in computer vision systems and robotics for the recognition, identification and automation of sorting processes for the postal, logistics and e-commerce markets.
Headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, Prime Vision operates globally.
The company's shareholders include PostNL - the national mail delivery company in the Netherlands - and First Dutch Innovations (FDI).
History
In 1956 what would become Prime Vision starts life as a research department of the PTT.
A few years later, in 1961, The High Yield Character Reader (HYCR), the core technology of Prime Vision, was invented. The HYCR has been developed for capturing hand written as well as machine printed text and has found a particular niche as the basis for secondary OCR engines. In this role, Prime Vision's HYCR-based systems complement other OCRs that have been principally designed for machine printed text. With the systems working in tandem the net read rate of letters, flats and parcels is boosted significantly. HYCR is now in use throughout the world and includes various language sets, including Hebrew, Chinese and Tamil.
In 2003 KPN Research (formerly known as PTT) was acquired by TNO Companies. Additional investments prepared the company for its first sales outside the Netherlands.
One year later, TNT (now known as PostNL) acquired 60% of the shares of Prime Vision from TNO. Additional investment led to an independent entity Prime Vision BV.
The majority of the TNO Companies shares are taken over in 2017 by First Dutch Innovations who became the new shareholder of Prime Vision.
Awards
Postal Technology International Award 2010 in category Automation Technology of the Year.
Postal Technology International Award 2015 in category Last Mile Delivery of the Year for Digital Mail Man.
Postal Technology International Award 2016 in category Sorting Centre Innovation of the Year for MMS Dynamic Mail Processing Solution.
Postal Technology International Award 2017 in category Sorting Centre Innovation of the Year for Projection Sorting.
Postal Technology International Award 2017 in category Supplier of the Year.
Logistica Award 2017 for Autonomous Sorting.
References
Companies based in South Holland
Technology companies established in 1956
Postal system of the Netherlands
Optical character recognition
Automatic identification and data capture
1956 establishments in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefire%20Reader | Bluefire Reader is an e-book reader application for Android (superseded by Cloudshelf Reader), iOS and Windows operating systems that supports white-labelling. It supports the EPUB and PDF formats for digital publications and incorporates facilities for browsing online catalogs, and downloading them directly into the user's personal library. The application features a library that lets users navigate their collection of eBooks, as well as provides a customizable reading experience through configurable font and background color, font size and type, margin size, display brightness, page turn mode, etc. Additionally, the application allows users to import their own books to read them on the go.
Features
In-app browsing and downloading capability
Read detailed descriptions before purchase & download
Adjust front, background, link, layout & text alignment
Day/Night themes: switch between day/night mode when reading in high/low-luminosity areas
Brightness Control
Customizable navigation modes
Full support for Table of Contents
Bookmarks: allows users to create their own bookmarks anywhere in a book to remember sections of interest
Progress: allows users to check their reading progress in a chapter and in a book
Share: allows users to recommend books to others via email, Facebook, Twitter, SMS...
The reading engine automatically adjusts to the size of the device’s display
Library management: books can be organized by Collections
Edit detailed book information (title, author, tag, collection, rating)
Sort books by title, author, download late, last read date or rating
Import: allows users to import their own books to read them on the go
Open images within a book in a separate viewer
Open links within a book on browser
Full text search: allows users to search any word globally within a book
Dictionary lookup: allows users to look up any word definition in an online dictionary using Google define.
Option to lock display orientation on iOS
Option to set text alignment to left, justify or right
Go To: allows users to quickly access any position within a book
Support for Adobe DRM
References
External links
Bluefirereader.com, Bluefire Reader's official website
Bluefire Cloudshelf Reader, Google Play Store Link (Free)
iOS App Store Link
See also
Bluefire jellyfish
EPUB readers
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Department%20of%20Energy%20Global%20Energy%20Storage%20Database | The United States Department of Energy's Global Energy Storage Database (GESDB) is a free-access database of energy storage projects and policies funded by the U.S. DOE, Office of Electricity, and Sandia National Labs.
In 2013, the database covered 409 projects; it aimed to cover all energy storage projects globally by 2014. By 2020, it covered 1,686 projects, comprising 22 GigaWatt power of US grid storage capacity. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is around 90% of the energy capacity. Storage facilities are 80% efficient.
See also
List of energy storage projects
Energy storage
Hydroelectricity
Hydropower
United States Department of Energy
References
External links
U.S. Dept of Energy - Energy Storage Systems
U.S. Dept of Energy - Energy Storage Systems Database
Dams in the United States
Energy storage
Pumped storage power stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora%20TV | Ora TV is a television production studio and on-demand digital television network launched in 2012 by television host Larry King and his wife Shawn Southwick King and funded by América Móvil, a business venture of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Ora (which means "now" in Italian and is also Shawn Southwick King's middle name) both produces and distributes television shows including Emmy-nominated Larry King Now, Politicking with Larry King, Off the Grid with Jesse Ventura, The Real Girl's Kitchen, and Brown Bag Wine Tasting with William Shatner. Ora has production offices and studios in New York City and Los Angeles.
History
Ora TV was founded by Larry King, his wife Shawn Southwick-King, and Carlos Slim in 2012 as an outlet to produce a new show for Larry King after leaving CNN. Larry King Now was launched as Ora's first show in July 2012 and aired both on Ora TV and Hulu. In 2014, Larry King Now episode "Head Trauma in the NFL" was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis category.
In April 2013, Ora TV acquired Stick Figure Studios, an Emmy award-winning documentary and reality series production company based in New York. Stick Figure is the producer of Catching Hell, a spearfishing docu-drama that aired on The Weather Channel in the summer of 2014, with exclusive digital content on Ora TV.
Ora TV's other content includes Haylie Duff's The Real Girl's Kitchen food & lifestyle series that aired on both Ora TV and the Cooking Channel, the Laugh Factory video archive, and road trip adventure show Wayward Nation, which launched in September 2014.
On June 30, 2015, Ora TV severed ties with American real estate tycoon Donald Trump. Arturo Elías Ayub, Slim's son-in-law and chairman of Ora TV, called his remarks about illegal aliens racist and an insult.
An Episode of Politicking which aired on September 8, 2016, and featured 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump was the spark of a controversy. Numerous media outlets erroneously reported the interview was done by Russian state-owned, 'Kremlin-backed' television. Ora TV released a statement clarifying that the content is licensed to RT America, but produced independently from the network.
On March 1, 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ora TV suspended production on several shows it produced for RT America, which would cease operations on March 3, 2022.
Ora-produced shows
References
External links
Television networks in the United States
Internet properties established in 2012
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Video on demand services
Internet television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Resch | Ron Resch (Ronald Dale Resch) was an artist, computer scientist, and applied geometrist, known for his work involving folding paper, origami tessellations and 3D polyhedrons.
Resch studied art at the University of Iowa receiving his Master of Fine Arts. Subsequently, he was a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He went on to become a professor of computer science at the University of Utah.
He famously designed the Vegreville egg, the first physical structure designed entirely with computer-aided geometric modeling software.
References
External links
The Ron Resch Paper and Stick Film
Ron Resch Official Web Site (restored recently)
Some of Resch's works
1939 births
2009 deaths
American computer scientists
Origami artists
University of Utah faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20DuMont | Major League Baseball on DuMont refers to the now defunct DuMont Television Network's coverage of Major League Baseball. More specifically, DuMont broadcast the World Series (during its very early years as a televised event) from 1947-1949.
World Series coverage
Gillette, which produced World Series telecasts from roughly 1947-1965 (before 1966, local announcers, who were chosen by the Gillette Company, the Commissioner of Baseball, and NBC television, exclusively called the World Series), paid for airtime on DuMont's owned-and-operated Pittsburgh affiliate, WDTV (now KDKA-TV) to air the World Series. In the meantime, Gillette also bought airtime on ABC, CBS, and NBC. More to the point, in some cities, the World Series was broadcast on three different stations at once. For example, the 1947 World Series (for which DuMont only televised Games 2, 6–7 with Bill Slater on the call) was only seen in four markets via coaxial inter-connected stations: New York City, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Schenectady, New York; Washington, District of Columbia; and, environs surrounding these cities. Outside of New York, coverage was pooled.
For the World Series, games in Boston were only seen in the Northeast. Meanwhile, games in Cleveland were only seen in the Midwest and Pittsburgh. The games were open to all channels with a network affiliation. In all, the 1948 World Series was televised to fans in seven Midwestern cities: Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Toledo. By , World Series games could now be seen east of the Mississippi River. The games were open to all channels with a network affiliation.
Attempts at creating a regular season national package
By the start of the 1950s, Major League Baseball was, for the most part, still in the province of the local market television stations. Outside of these markets, however, televised baseball (unlike on radio) was rare. DuMont's sports programming head, Thomas McMahon was working with individual owners to televise Major League Baseball's first regular season national games in the summer of 1953.
McMahon planned (as far back as January 1953) to set up a corporation to sell the national MLB telecasts meanwhile, giving stock shares to minor league teams. More specifically, McMahon's plan was to negotiate with individual teams rather than Major League Baseball as a whole. This way, McMahon could avoid a potential antitrust suit from the Department of Justice. In order to counter the possible negative effect on the minors (which Western League president Edwin C. Johnson most predominately feared), McMahon would offer them a piece of the national television pie. Furthermore, McMahan argued that since the planned DuMont games would be held on Saturday afternoons, the minors that scheduled most of their games in the evening wouldn't have been greatly affected.
Ultimately, however, the first national Game of the Week package didn't air on DuMont, but on ABC. In April 1953, ABC set out t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASBIS | ASBISC Enterprises PLC is a multinational corporate group that is engaged in distribution of IT-products (mobile devices, computer software and hardware) in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) emerging markets and is headquartered in Limassol (Cyprus).
ASBIS distributes a wide range of A-branded finished products and IT components to assemblers, system integrators, local brands, retail and wholesale companies. The company is an official distributor of world's leading brands such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices ("AMD"), Seagate Technology, Western Digital, Samsung, Microsoft, Toshiba, Dell, Acer, Hitachi, Gigabyte, Lenovo and Apple.
The company also generates a significant part of its revenue from the sales of IT and consumer electronics products under its own brands - Prestigio, Canyon, Perenio, AENO and Lorgar.
History
The company was founded in Belarus in 1990 and signed its first agreement with the global IT vendor, Seagate Technology in 1992. In 1995 the company was incorporated in Cyprus and its headquarters moved to Limassol.
As the business was growing, ASBIS was opening local offices across Europe, and in 2000 the company opened a distribution center in Prague to serve its subsidiaries and key customers in 10 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
In 2007 the company went public by completing a successful IPO at Warsaw Stock Exchange. 36.7% of the company shares were traded in 2011.
In 2009 while coping with the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, ASBIS signed 25 new distribution agreements, including those with Apple for Georgia and 9 countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
In 2011 ASBIS started to sell tablets and in 2012 smartphones under its own brand Prestigio.
ASBIS was acknowledged for its investment in the national economy of Cyprus in 2014 at the ‘CIPA International Investment Awards’ held under the auspices of the President of the Republic.
Despite the challenges of the year 2014 when the demand in its two key markets (Russia and Ukraine) decreased due to political and economic turbulence, in 2015 ASBIS already achieved strong results and was included in the Top-10 IT distributors (by revenue) in the ‘Distributors in Europe – the top 500’ database report published by IT Europa.
Operations
The company's headquarters are located in Cyprus and coordinate the work of 2 logistics centers in the Czech Republic and the United Arab Emirates. Local offices in 27 countries enable the company to supply more than 20,000 customers in 56 countries.
ASBIS distributes mobile gadgets, computer software and hardware on the markets of the following countries:
Central and Eastern Europe – Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia.
Baltics – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
Central Asia – Kazakhstan
Middle East – United Arab Emirates
Africa – Alg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Network%20for%20Unity | The Women's Network for Unity is a sex worker organization in Cambodia which was established in 2000 and currently has about 6,400 members. It works against the stigmatization of sex work and lobbies for legal and human rights of sex workers and for safer working conditions. Accordingly, the organization aims to amend the 2008 Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation. The WNU was established by the Women's Agenda for Change Organisation that was founded by an Australian Aid Worker Rosanna Barbero. In 1999 several women's rights in Development NGO's came together to discuss sex worker rights with the aim of creating spaces and opportunities for sex workers to be at the forefront of the development Agenda. The WNU was sponsored, supported and received training from the WAC activist, both local and international staff.
See also
Prostitution in Cambodia
References
External links
WNU's website
Women's organizations based in Cambodia
Sex worker organizations
Prostitution in Cambodia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdvPL | AdvPL (Advanced Protheus Language) is a proprietary programming language based on xBase. It was released in 1999 and is used for development of applications in the ERP Protheus made by TOTVS.
References
XBase programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Goffi | Emmanuel Roberto Goffi (born December 10, 1971) is a French philosopher of technologies and, more specifically, an artificial intelligence ethicist. He has served in the French Air Force for 27 years. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Global AI Ethics Institute in Paris. He is also an instructor and research associate with the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and a research fellow with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. After having worked on military ethics, and more precisely on ethics applied to Lethal autonomous weapon, his focus has turned to ethics applied to Artificial intelligence.
Emmanuel Goffi lectured in international relations and the Law of Armed Conflict at the École de l'air (French Air Force Academy) for five years before he was appointed as a research associate at the Center for Aerospace Strategic Studies in Paris. Goffi also taught international relations at the DSI Diplomatic Studies Institute in Marseille, at the Management Institute of Paris and at the École supérieure de commerce et management (ESCEM) in Paris. He is the author of Les armées françaises face à la morale: une réflexion au cœur des conflits modernes (Paris: , 2011).http://www.bigdata.uni-frankfurt.de/ethical-implications-ai-ss2020/
Emmanuel Goffi graduated from the French Air Force Military Academy and holds a master's degree in political science from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po) and a research master's degree in political science from the Aix Institute of Political Science. He holds a PhD (highest honor) in political science from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris-Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po-CERI).
Military career
Emmanuel Goffi joined the French Air Force in 1992 as a non-commissioned officer and specialist in electrotechnics.
After a competitive exam, he was admitted to join the École militaire de l'air in Salon de Provence in 2000.
After he left the French Air Force Academy, Emmanuel Goffi was appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Force Headquarters Network Management Cell, at the Centre de gestion de l’armée de l’Air in Paris, France, in September 2001.
He was then moved to the Personal staff of the Chief of Staff of the French Air Force as a speech-writer and linguist in September 2002.
In 2003, he is posted at the Délégation à l'information et à la communication de la Défense to be an analyst in International Relations.
In 2007, after he completed his master's degree at Sciences Po and finished his scholarship at the University of Queensland in Australia, he is posted as a professor of international relations at the French Air Force Academy. He will then be Deputy Head and later Head, of the Department of Human Sciences. During his tenure, he also teaches the Law of Armed Conflict, Ethics and Communication.
While at the French Air Force Academy, he notably set up the Law of Arm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Nation | Ford Nation is an opinion and discussion programme that aired on the Canadian news channel Sun News Network. The show featured two sitting Toronto politicians, mayor Rob Ford and his brother, city councillor Doug Ford Jr., and was pulled from the network after only one airing on November 18, 2013. An online version of the show aired on YouTube for five episodes between February and April, 2014. The title is a reference to the ardent, mainly suburban supporters of the Fords and their positive conservative goal.
Background
From February 2012 to November 3, 2013, the Fords hosted The City, a weekly two-hour Sunday afternoon show on CFRB radio which Rob Ford described as "an unfiltered take on the work we do every day at Toronto City Hall." After months of controversy involving the mayor, criticism of the station for letting the Fords use the show as a "bully pulpit" where their political allies were promoted and opponents cut down, and complaints to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council alleging the show breached its code of ethics, CFRB announced in November 2013 that it and the Fords had "mutually determined" to end The City.
On November 14, the brothers were tapped by Sun News Network to host a weekly pre-taped one-hour program on the TV network, to be titled Ford Nation.
Content
The lone airing of Ford Nation was broadcast on Monday, November 18, 2013, taking the 8PM (ET) slot normally occupied by Sun News Network's The Source with Ezra Levant. The format included a back-and-forth dialogue between Rob Ford and Doug Ford, with the former readmitting the personal mistakes he has made as mayor ("It is what it is. I've admitted to my mistakes."). Segments included discussions with Levant and Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington. Levant's appearance included a commentary critical of the Toronto Star's investigations into Rob Ford, with Levant likening the media's treatment of the mayor over his recent controversies to the paparazzi's hounding of Princess Diana.
Cancellation and revival as web series
On November 19, 2013, less than 24 hours after Ford Nation's debut, Sun News Network announced it was cancelling the program after just one episode. Sun News cited high production costs involved with the premiere episode; the show, taped one day before its airing, reportedly took five hours to record and an additional eight hours to edit. Additionally, the show met with advertiser resistance about being associated with the controversial politicians. Doug Ford, in a later conversation with the National Post, insisted that the brothers entered into the project with Sun with the understanding that Ford Nation was a "one-off" project, one that was not intended to evolve into prolonged status.
Despite the show's expense and its immediate cancellation, Ford Nation's sole episode attracted an audience of 155,000 viewers for the original broadcast, plus an additional 45,000 for its replay on prime time in Western Canada and 65,000 downloads of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette%20Brindak | Juliette Brindak Blake is an American businesswoman and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the all-girl tween and teen social networking site, Miss O & Friends.
Early life
Juliette Brindak was born in New York City, and was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut by Paul and Hermine Brindak. She is one of two children.
Life and career
Miss O & Friends
Brindak runs Miss O & Friends, which she began as a hobby since 2005 when she was 16 years old. The company was inspired by drawings which Brindak did when she was ten. Miss O and Friends is a safe socialization site for tween and young teen girls that aims to empower and help build self-esteem. The website is COPPA compliant safe. The content is created by the user community making it totally by girls, for girls. In 2011, Miss O and Friends was ranked the #3 girls-only website, according to Alexa data.
As of 2012, the website's value was $15 million, according to Procter & Gamble which was an early investor. The company is based in Old Greeenwich, Connecticut and has employees across the United States and Canada. Inc. Magazine named Miss O and Friend “Coolest College Start Ups.
In 2012, Brindak was a speaker at TEDx Bay Area. The same year, she launched Moms with Girls.
In 2017, she became an executive producer of a Youtube Premium original television series, Hyperlinked, based on her story (which includes a namesake character based on her).
Bibliography
Miss O & Friends: Write On! The Miss O & Friends Collection of Rockin' Fiction, Watson-Guptill, 2006, a compilation of stories submitted by users of the site.
Personal life
On August 6, 2016 she married Christian Joseph Blake of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Brindak received her BA in anthropology and public health at Washington University in St. Louis.
References
External links
Miss O & Friends
Juliette Brindak at TEDxBayArea
Living people
1989 births
Greenwich High School alumni
American women chief executives
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
American company founders
American women company founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Memo%20Pad%208 | Asus Memo Pad™ 8 is a middle-range Android tablet computer manufactured by Taiwanese corporation Asus. The tablet was announced in September 2013 and is expected to go on sale before the end of the 2013 holiday season. The device runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean).
A second generation model was announced on June 2, 2014 with the model name Asus MeMO Pad 8 ME581CL which now had a 64-bit 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 processor, and full HD screen with 1920×1200 pixels resolution.
1st gen. Specifications
8-inch IPS LCD display
1.6 GHz quad-core processor
1 GB of RAM
5 MP rear camera
Reception
Computeractive rated the tablet 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "A good mini tablet, but for most the Nexus 7 is a far better buy."
References
External links
Official website
Tablet computers
Android (operating system) devices
Asus products
Portable media players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARY%20Films | ARY Films () is a film distribution and production company in Pakistan, part of ARY Digital Network. 35 films including 11 Urdu, six Punjabi and 17 Pashto films have been released by ARY Films since 2013. Among them, Waar, Jawani Phir Nahi Ani, Wrong No., Jalaibee, 3 Bahadur and Punjab Nahi Jaungi have topped the charts in the industry.
Films
List of films distributed/produced under the banner ARY Films
Joint ventures
An MoU was signed between ARY Films and Riaz Shahid Films on 23 November 2013, starting a joint production venture between the two companies announcing two films at the event, Arth 2 and Mission-5.
ARY Films is making a sequel of Waar, to be shot in Pakistan, U.K., Russia, Turkey and Yugoslavia.
On 7 December 2013, ARY Films & MindWorks Media joined hands to produce Pakistani movies. The collaboration started with Waar 2 and Delta Echo Foxtrot, later named Yalghaar.
In Early 2014, ARY Films signed an agreement with Summit Entertainment (Pakistan) to release Concordia Productions' feature Tamanna in cinemas across Pakistan on 6 June as part of the new wave of Pakistani films released in 2014. The film premiered on 8 June in London at the 16th London Asian Film Festival.
On 11 September 2014, ARY Films and SOC Films announced a joint venture company named Waadi Animations, in intention to produce animated content including feature films, with the debut project 3 Bahadur.
See also
ARY Film Awards
List of film distributors in Pakistan
References
Mass media companies of Pakistan
Film distributors of Pakistan
Film production companies of Pakistan
Mass media in Sindh
Companies based in Karachi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Ramblers%27%20Association | The European Ramblers Association (ERA; ; ) is a network organisation working for promotion of walking, hiking, creating trails, exchange of the know-how over the borders and secure the rights of free access to nature for the walkers. Through this work, ERA also cares for protecting and developing of European cultural heritage and for strengthening of mutual understanding between European citizens.
Already at the beginning of its existence, ERA started creating a network of European long-distance paths maintained by its member organisations to make it possible to walk all over Europe on foot to strengthen the connection people to people over the borders. From 2017 the network consists of 12 E-paths and covers more than 70,000 km crisscrossing Europe. An E-path is a long-distance path crossing a minimum of 3 European countries. Marking and maintenance of the path is the responsibility of the member organisations.
References
Hiking organizations
Hiking governing bodies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Zniber | Sam Zniber (born 1969, Casablanca) is a French radio executive who has overseen programming at radio stations and radio networks in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, and France.
Career
His career began at NRJ France in 1986, where he worked as producer, radio host, and production director for eleven years. In the 1990s, he became a TV host at France's main national television channels TF1 and France 2, presenting music shows.
In 1997, he joined RTL Group, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, to become program director of Fun TV, a youth music cable television. In 1998, he was made program director of Fun Radio in France, and in 1999, introduced the "soul & dance" rhythmic contemporary hit radio format (CHR). In 2005, Zniber returned to RTL Group France as Group Program Director for Fun Radio and RTL2.
The UK’s Chrysalis Group recruited Zniber in 2001 as program director of the Galaxy radio network stations in Manchester and Newcastle (now Capital FM). In a few months, Galaxy went from third to first place in the ratings in Newcastle.
He worked for Clear Channel with Mix 106.5 in Sydney Australia between 2003 and 2005, creating a soft adult contemporary format called "Smooth Variety" and lifted the station's lead in market share for females 25-54 to 6% ahead of its closest competitor station. In 2004 he was a speaker at the National Association of Broadcasters' European conference, and at the Science Po University in Paris.
In 2007, Zniber operated as Vice President of Programming at Lagardere Group, overseeing the programming of twenty-three radio networks in seven countries in Europe and South Africa. In June 2008 he was appointed as director of the division of music stations Virgin Radio and RFM Lagardère Active. Following an audience decrease for Virgin Radio France from 5.9% to 4.7% between September and October 2009, he departed in November 2009.
He worked from 2010 as a programming and marketing consultant for radio stations and radio networks in Brazil, France, Spain and other countries as Vice President of Radio Intelligence, a research company for radio.
From 2012 he was program director at Magic 102.7 WMXJ-FM in Miami, Florida, where market share grew to 5.1% in December 2013 from 2.8% in April 2012 in the Arbitron PPM ratings.
In August 2014 Zniber was made program director at CKBE-FM ("The Beat 92.5 FM") in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In March 2015 The Beat 92.5 had a 19.9 per cent rating overall, more than five points higher than Virgin Radio Montreal. The Beat had the highest audience figures for the first time with listeners adults 25-54, females 25-54, males 25-54, adults 18-49 and adults 18-34. "The Beat Breakfast" also had the highest audience figures for morning show in female listeners 25-54, and the highest morning show figures among all English-language FM stations in Montreal. Its morning show with Sarah Bartok and Cat Spencer, which was fourth in the market a year previously, was first in that age group, and had higher au |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon%20label | A Horizon label is an adhesive postage label that is a type of variable value stamp. The labels were introduced in the United Kingdom in 2002 as part of the computerisation of the counter services of the post office network of Royal Mail using the Horizon System.
Reception
The labels received a frosty reception from philatelists initially as they were seen as replacing postage stamps, but as they have become more complex and more stamp-like, collectors have warmed to them and they have now become a popular collecting specialism in the U.K. and an established part of modern British postal history.
Timeline
The first labels were large plain labels composed purely of text but later labels are of a gold colour with a Machin head and a repeating pattern of the words ROYALMAIL in order to prevent forgery.
The principal events in the development of the labels were:
14 February 2002 – First labels used in about 1000 post offices. Plain white with straight edges.
30 April 2002 – Security slits added to prevent reuse.
August & September 2002 – Labels rolled out nationally.
April 2009 – Labels with simulated perforations appear.
8 June 2009 – First gold labels appear featuring the Machin head for Special Delivery only from the Camden High Street P.O., London. Gold labels gradually introduced nationally.
20 April 2010 – First labels with dual English-Welsh language inscriptions available from Welsh post offices.
23 August 2010 – Straight-edged labels reintroduced first at Old Street then nationally.
29 September 2011 – Value Added Tax codes added.
May 2015 – "Pre-cancelled" labels trialled at the Europhilex exhibition with corner "Single Use Only" wording. Colour changed back to white. Subsequently used nationally.
September 2015 – Barcode added to the design.
Post Office training
The training of postal workers includes the use of voided horizon labels, noted as early as 2003.
References
External links
Royal Mail Horizon Postage Labels – Summary 2007 Archived here.
Horizon Postage Labels~Full List
Delta Stamps Fact File No. 10 2009 Archived here.
Philatelic terminology
Philately of the United Kingdom
Royal Mail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-pop%20Cover%20Dance%20Festival | K-pop Cover Dance Festival is an international amateur dance competition, organised with the support of the South-Korean television network MBC. The contestants perform dance covers of K-pop songs, i.e. imitate choreography performed by K-pop artists.
Selection process
In order to participate, all competitors must film their dance routines on video and submit the videos online. All videos go through an online selection process and the best contenders earn the right to compete live in local selection contests in their respective countries. The winners of the local rounds are invited to Korea where the final round takes place.
Popularity and number of participants
In 2011, over 1,700 contenders from 64 countries submitted their dance videos. 66 contestants were selected to go to South Korea to participate in the final.
Competition
References
External links
Official site of the K-pop Cover Dance Festival
Dance competitions
K-pop festivals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesomphalia | Mesomphalia is a genus of leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Species
Mesomphalia albofasciculata Boheman, 1856
Mesomphalia ampliata Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia denudata Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia gibbosa (Fabricius, 1781)
Mesomphalia latipennis Boheman, 1856
Mesomphalia nudoplagiata Spaeth, 1901
Mesomphalia pyramidata Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia retipennis Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia scrobiculata Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia sexmaculata Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia sexmaculosa Boheman, 1856
Mesomphalia sublaevis Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia subnitens Spaeth, 1917
Mesomphalia tumidula Boheman, 1850
Mesomphalia turrita (Illiger, 1801)
Mesomphalia variolaris Boheman, 1850
References
Encyclopaedia of Life
Biolib
Cassidinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Night%20at%20the%20Movies%20%28disambiguation%29 | Saturday Night at the Movies was a Canadian weekly television series. Saturday Night at the Movies may also refer to:
NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, an American weekly prime time network television series
"Saturday Night at the Movies" (song), a song by The Drifters, released in 1964, written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
Saturday Night at the Movies (album), a 2017 album by Joe McElderry
Saturday Night at the Movies, a 2013 album by The Overtones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20of%20a%20Man | Mind of a Man is a game show broadcast by Game Show Network, with DeRay Davis as host. On each episode, two female contestants attempt to figure out what men believe about marriage, dating, work, and other subjects. Similar to Family Feud, the questions have previously been answered by a survey of one hundred men. Over the course of four rounds, a celebrity panel consisting of two men and a woman helps the contestants by offering their opinions about the correct answers to the surveys. The winner advances to the bonus round, which features a top prize of $10,000.
The series, green-lit on August 16, 2013, began airing on January 8, 2014 and concluded on May 14, 2014. Critical reception for the series was mixed, with one writer calling it "a lot of fun" while another arguing the premise to be "low-minded."
Gameplay
In the first round, the contestants are asked to predict the most popular answer to each of three questions. Each question has three multiple choice options, and was asked to a group of 100 men. The panel is allowed to offer their opinion on the correct answer while the contestants submit their answers on their tablet computers. Each correct prediction is worth $200.
The second round plays almost exactly the same as the first round; however, the questions were asked to men who belong to a specific group (e.g., married men, African-American men, or men under the age of 25). Each correct prediction is worth $300. The last question of Round 2 is designated as the "VIP" question, which is focused on one specific group of men and asked to a special guest related to the question. When the VIP question is about a specific man, before the question is asked, the panel is allowed 30 seconds to "interrogate" the VIP about their background, personal preferences, etc., and then the question is played out as normal, with the VIP giving his answer verbally after the contestants give their prediction. Actor Ted Lange (most well known for his role on The Love Boat) appeared in some episodes as the show's bartender and was often the man who was previously asked the VIP question.
In the third round (entitled "The Male Order"), each contestant, starting with the current leader (or the winner of a pre-show coin toss, in case of a tie), is given one question, and may choose any panelist to assist them on the question. For the Male Order question, the contestant is asked to rank the three answers from most popular to least popular. Although the panelist will give their opinion as to the correct ranking, the contestant has the final decision. The contestant picks up $100 for one answer correctly ranked, or $500 for all three.
The fourth round is titled the "Men's High Five" and is an open-ended question asked to 200 men. The top five answers are placed on the board in a random order, and the panel again gives their opinion on what would be the most popular answer. If the score going into this question is tied, each contestant is allowed to select one answe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somtel | Somtel (, ) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
Regions
Somtel provides services in both Somaliland and Somalia
Background
Somtel provides mobile voice and data services to customers, including Mobile Money Service. It is a 3G and 4G services provider in Somalia's network.
Somtel is largely owned by Dahabshiil but is officially registered in the British Virgin Islands.
Services
Free charge services
Subscription services
Internet service
Cloud
Mobile Wallet
Partnerships
O3b
In November 2013, O3b Networks, Ltd. announced an agreement to provide high-speed, low-latency capacity to Somtel. The pact is expected to improve the firm's networks and reliability.
Google
Since 2012, Somtel has partnered with Google in e-mail services.
Frequency Band
Somtel operates on GSM and 4G LTE networks.
3G 2100, 2G 1800, 900 and LTE 800MHz 20 FDD.
References
External links
Somtel
Telecommunications companies established in 2009
Telecommunications companies of Somaliland
Somalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Movies%21%20affiliates | The following is a list of current affiliates of Movies!, a classic films network. This list consists of confirmed Movies! affiliates, arranged by U.S. state. Movies! is currently carried on over-the-air TV stations in the United States, most of whom carry the network on a digital subchannel. The network is also available on the streaming service Frndly TV.
Current affiliates
† Any launch dates noted are subject to change.
Former affiliates
References
External links
Where to Watch Movies! TV Network
RabbitEars Website
Movies! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH143 | The Asian Highway 143 is part of the Asian Highway Network. It connects from Buangkok East Drive (Sengkang) all the way to Senai North Interchange.
Singapore
Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway
Marina Coastal Expressway
Ayer Rajah Expressway
Malaysia
Second Link Expressway (Previously AH2), completion of Johor Bahru Eastern Dispersal Link Expressway (EDL) in 2012, AH2 re-routed to EDL.
References
Asian Highway Network
Expressways in Singapore
Sengkang
Expressways in Malaysia
Johor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-HX200V | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V is a hyperzoom bridge digital camera that features:
18.2 megapixel resolution
Fast f/2.8 Carl Zeiss-branded zoom lens with super 30x zoom range
Mega O.I.S. (optical image stabilizer) in the lens, reducing blurring by compensating for hand shake
Intelligent ISO Control
2x Digital Zoom
Multiple modes of operation, including manual modes
Full HD 1080p movie mode in both normal and wide aspect ratio
Compact size and moderate weight
As with most Sony Cyber-shot cameras it uses a BIONZ engine, in this case the BIONZ a99.
The camera has a 3" color LCD display and a color electronic viewfinder, and is available in two colors, black (suffix K) and silver (suffix S).
The Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V release to the USA was announced on February 28, 2012. The successor to the HX200V is the HX300.
Reviews
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/sony/dsc_hx200v-review/page-0,1
http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sony_Cyber-shot_DSC_HX200V/
http://www.lesnumeriques.com/appareil-photo-numerique/sony-cyber-shot-hx200v-p12817/test.html
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-cyber-shot-dsc-hx200v
http://www.trustedreviews.com/sony-cyber-shot-hx200v_Digital-Camera_review
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/sony-hx200v/sony-hx200vA.HTM
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/sony_cybershot_dsc_hx200v_review/
http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/default.asp?newsID=4981&review=sony+cybershot+hx200
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/cameras-and-camcorders/cameras/compact-cameras/sony-hx200v-1077673/review
References
HX200V
Bridge digital cameras
Superzoom cameras
Digital cameras with CCD image sensor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France%20tramway%20Line%207 | Île-de-France tramway Line 7 (usually called simply T7) is part of the modern tram network of the Île-de-France region of France. Line T7 runs between Villejuif – Louis Aragon in Villejuif (where it connects to the Paris Métro) and Porte de l'Essonne in Athis-Mons, south of Paris. It also serves Paris Orly Airport. The line has a length of and 18 stations. It opened to the public on 16 November 2013.
Line T7 is operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP) under the authority of Île-de-France Mobilités.
Route
Projects
Extension to Juvisy-sur-Orge
An extension of Line T7 from its current terminus at Athis-Mons to Juvisy station at Juvisy-sur-Orge is currently at the planning stage. The extension would be long and have six new stations.
Notes and references
Line 7 |
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