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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children-404 | Children-404 is a Russian LGBTI online community on Facebook and on the social networking site VK.
The establisher of the community is Lena Klimova, a journalist based in the city of Nizhny Tagil. She is the author of a series of articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) teenagers and she published in 2014 a book on the topic. In 2013, she set up an online community on Facebook and on the social networking site VK named Children-404, which provides a space for teenagers to discuss LGBTI issues and support each other.
Objectives
The Project’s Facebook and VK pages (entitled "Children-404") publish letters from Russian LGBT teenagers in which they talk about the problems they face in their lives due to homophobic people around them - friends, relatives, classmates, teachers, and others. The Project’s pages also publishes letters from adults with words of support for the Russian LGBT adolescents.
The number "404" in the project title refers to the internet error message "Error 404 - Page not found". The project authors draw attention to the fact that in Russian society not many people consider the existence of gay and transgender children and the challenges that they face in an LGBT-intolerant environment. The Project description states:
Inception
Lena Klimova, a young journalist from Ekaterinburg, published a series of articles critical of the parliamentary bills against "propaganda of homosexuality". Afterwards she received an e-mail from a 15-year-old girl who said that she was being bullied by her classmates and her parents because of her homosexuality. The girl wrote that had been on the verge of suicide, but Klimova’s article had made her change her mind.
After that Klimova started to research the lives of LGBT adolescents in Russia, and created an online survey. Within under two weeks Klimova had received over a hundred e-mail responses, and that is what made her resolve to create an online support project for LGBT teens.
The project consists of two parts: a private "closed" group on the Russian social network VK, whose purpose is to offer psychological assistance to LGBT teens, and in which they can share their problems and get help from adult participants; and open projects on Facebook and VK which publish letters from teens.
The popular Spanish newspaper El Mundo wrote the following about the "Children-404" Project in an article entitled "How dangerous to be homosexual in Russia", writes: "The photos show young faces whose eyes are concealed by placards with the inscription 'Children-404'. In numerous letters teens shout 'We exist!' in protest against widespread intolerance".
History
The "Children-404" Project has attracted attention outside Russia. In summer and early autumn of 2013 in a number of cities in the world - New York City, Oslo, London - public rallies were held in support of the Russian LGBT adolescents and the "Children-404" Project. Some of the largest publications in the world, including |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Lines%20Heritage%20Park | The Great Lines Heritage Park is a complex network of open spaces in the Medway Towns, connecting Chatham, Gillingham, Brompton and the Historic Dockyard. The long military history of the towns has dominated the history of the site and the park. The Great Lines Heritage Park, consists of Fort Amherst, Chatham Lines, the Field of Fire (later known as the Great Lines), Inner Lines, Medway Park (sports centre) together with the Lower Lines.
The Lines, were constructed in Napoleonic times. They were never used (during the wars) but they have been used to be a barrier to development, keeping the fort and the Lines mostly untouched.
Most of the park is accessible to all at most times.
It has many pedestrian and cycle links for residents of the two towns of Gillingham and Chatham.
Chatham Lines
The Lines are known as a 'Bastion trace fortification', a linear defence with projecting bastions allowing covering fire to be directed into the ditches (on the landward side of the fort) flanking them. In England, they were relatively rare, and were principally adopted for dockyard and coastal defences. They stretch from Fort Amherst (overlooking Chatham Dockyard and River Medway), northwards across Brompton towards St Mary's creek near Gillingham.
Then during World War II, they were then massively re-fortified, with the Lines ditch acting as an anti-tank barrier, as part of the Medway war defences. Also air raid shelters, anti-aircraft gun emplacements, an emergency water reservoir, a pillbox and a spigot mortar, was added. At one stage, there were up to 31 anti-aircraft batteries in the Medway District (including 13 heavy and 20 light) and about 20 other temporary light batteries in 1944.
Later, after World War I and World War II, they fell into disuse. Parts around Brompton were then used for post-war housing.
The Chatham Lines are designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Kent no.ME201).
The Field of Fire
This is an open stretch of land immediately in front of the Chatham Lines fortifications (of Fort Amherst), if the outer fortification was breached then the enemy would have to cross the field of fire, its openness (meaning no shelter) would allow for a clear view, and shot, of the approaching enemy.
In 1709, by an Act of Parliament, the Government compulsorily purchased the land in 'Westcourt', along with a part of 'Upbury Manor' and some land in Chatham, for the building of the Dockyard defences and the lines.
A cricket pitch was also set-up on the land pre-1700s. But when the lines were extended and the Field of Fire was also extended, it also upset the locals of Gillingham. On 14 June 1758, Captain George Brisac (the Lines superintendent) was threatened with murder (by an unknown local) if he did not restore the pitch.
Between 1755 and 1756, the Chatham Lines were built as a large earthwork ditch around Fort Amherst.
This open land was used to graze cattle between 1760 and 1812.
In 1770, the parish surveyed the crown property around the lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooman%20Radfar | Hooman Radfar (born July 14, 1980, London, England) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is co-founder and CEO at Collective, the first online back-office platform designed for freelancers, consultants and other businesses-of-one. He is currently a Venture Partner at Expa, a San Francisco-based start-up venture firm and studio where he was a founding partner. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of AddThis. AddThis provided the most widely used marketing tools for web site creators. According to web measurement firm ComScore, in 2015 the platform was ranked #1 in AdFocus, reaching over 97% of users in the United States ahead of Google, Yahoo and Facebook. According to TechCrunch, AddThis was purchased by Oracle in 2016 for around $200 million.
Early life and education
At the time of the Iranian Revolution, his family immigrated to England in 1979. Radfar was born in London in 1980. His family later moved to the United States where he was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Radfar graduated from Upper St. Clair High School in 1998. In 2002, he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in computer science and economics. In 2004, he earned his M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University where he researched social networking, multi-agent systems, and their applications to computational economics.
Career
AddThis
In 2004, Radfar and Austin Fath founded Clearspring Technologies to create a platform for website developers to grow their traffic and engagement, based on their graduate research in web services and social networking at Carnegie Mellon. Clearspring launched the first content sharing and tracking service designed for web publishers in 2006. The company acquired AddThis in 2008, then XGraph in 2011. Clearspring was rebranded as AddThis in 2012. AddThis was acquired by Oracle in 2016.
Expa
In 2014, Radfar moved to San Francisco, joining Expa as an EIR. He became a founding partner at the firm alongside Uber co-founder Garrett Camp and Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai in 2015. He led the investment program at Expa before founding Collective.
Collective
Radfar co-founded Collective with Ugur Kaner and Bugra Akcay. The company officially launched September 29, 2020 and is funded by General Catalyst Investors, QED Investors, Expa, Gradient Ventures, and Sound Ventures.
Other ventures
Radfar is an investor in 40+ companies including Uber, Sweetgreen, Onfido, Unit, Fabric, SpaceX and Uber via his investment platform 10e9.
Patents
Method and apparatus for widget and widget-container platform adaptation and distribution, (2008)
Methods and apparatus for management of inter-widget interactions, (2010)
Method and apparatus for widget-container hosting and generation, (2011).
Method and apparatus for data processing, (2012).
References
External links
Official Website
Living people
1980 births
American computer programmers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Pennsylvani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20alignment | Transfer alignment is the process of initializing and calibrating a missile or torpedo inertial navigation system using data from the host carrier's navigation system. The inertial navigation systems on missiles and torpedoes are limited by weight, volume and cost. Initialization of such systems must be rapid and accurate. Different matching methods, such as velocity matching and position matching, are designed to improve the speed and accuracy of the alignment.
Different factors will affect the accuracy of the transfer alignment, such as reference information delay, mounting error, sensor measurement error, lever-arm effect and flexure of the carrier body.
References
Navigational equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackTX | HackTX is a 24-hour annual hackathon hosted by Freetail Hackers, a Computer Science student organization at The University of Texas at Austin.
HackTX is open to all college students and held on the University of Texas at Austin's campus.
History
HackTX started in 2012, when student members of the Hacker Lounge and Technology Entrepreneurship Society wanted to host a hackathon that would gather students and companies from the Austin, TX community. A hackathon is an invention marathon, in which students gather to create a solution to a problem, a.k.a. hack. HackTX invites students of all backgrounds to participate whether they are beginners or non-technical majors.
To cover costs of the event, HackTX organizers raise capital from sponsoring companies. Companies are provided opportunities to interact with student hackers in the forms of mentoring and recruiting.
HackTX begins with a keynote address to all participants and a demonstration of sponsor APIs. Participants then begin building their projects, of 'hacking'. Projects may be software based, hardware based, or a combination of the two.
Participants are encouraged to work in teams of 3 to 5 members. After 24 hours, participants submit their projects for judgement.
HackTX Winners
HackTX 2012
The first HackTX was held on the University of Texas at Austin's campus in Austin TX, October 19–20, 2012. It had attracted about 300 attendees.
On October 19, 2012, engineers from The University of Texas and the surrounding area gathered for 24 hours at The University of Texas Austin's Student Activity Center for a celebration where guests freely engaged in open and unrestrained software and hardware development. The University's Technology Entrepreneurship Society and Hacker Lounge teamed up to create the event, combining the best of entrepreneurship and creative hacking ability at the university. Founder of Capital Factory and veteran Austin tech investor, Josh Baer, commented that this was the largest hackathon he has seen in Austin.
First place winners, Lynx Labs, developed music visualization software using a Microsoft Kinect sensor and won five Google Nexus 7 tablets. Second place team won five 23” Samsung monitors for their multi-factor identification physical entry device. The third place team developed an automated flashcard application to help students study for tests for the prize of three Apple TV's. Special prizes went to the product with the most market potential, TrivialMobile.com, an application that builds a mobile website from information submitted through email. The award for most creative project went to a rapid image transformation application for Windows, dubbed ‘Instagram for right-clicking.’ Twilio gave out two Spheros to a team who built software to control its 200-pound robot using text messages. Context.io awarded two ACL Live tickets to a team which built email analytics and visualization software.
Other supporters included the Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%2010 | Radial Road 10, more commonly referred to as R-10, is a planned network of roads and bridges that all together would form the tenth radial road of Manila in the Philippines. It is the westernmost of the radial roads north of the Pasig River running north–south close to the shoreline of Manila Bay. When completed, the road would link the City of Manila with Navotas, and the northern coastal provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, and Bataan in Central Luzon.
At present, only the Manila–Navotas segment of the road is complete.
Route
From south to north, the road consists of the following segments:
Mel Lopez Boulevard
Between Anda Circle and the Maralla Bridge over the Marala Creek (Sunog Apog Creek), R-10 is known as Mel Lopez Boulevard, formerly Marcos Road. It is the only segment of R-10 in the City of Manila which passes through the Manila North Harbor complex in Tondo before arriving in the city of Navotas where it continues simply as R-10.
Radial Road 10
North of the Estero de Marala, R-10 serves the Navotas Fish Port Complex and terminates at the Bangkulasi Bridge over the Tullahan River, where it continues towards South Caloocan and Quezon City as Circumferential Road 4 (C-4).
Manila–Bataan Coastal Road
A highway linking Manila and the province of Bataan has been proposed as an extension of R-10. Similar to Radial Road 1 and its segments, Roxas Boulevard and the Manila–Cavite Expressway, the highway would run along the coast of Manila Bay north of the Pasig River. From the current terminus of R-10 in Navotas, Phase 1 will travel north along the coastal Bulacan municipalities and end at the proposed North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) Phase 3 in Bacolor, Pampanga, while Phase 2 would travel south from NLEX Phase 3 in Lubao, Pampanga to Balanga, Bataan. The proposed highway would be built over fishponds and would also serve as flood barriers for the coastal provinces.
See also
List of roads in Metro Manila
References
Routes in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Plauen | The Plauen tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Plauen, a city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.
Opened in 1894, the network has been operated since 1990 by (PSB), and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Vogtland (VVV).
Lines
, the network had the following lines:
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Plauen
Plauen
Transport in Saxony
Metre gauge railways in Germany
600 V DC railway electrification
Plauen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIA-UFSCar | LIA – Advanced Interaction Laboratory (in Portuguese: Laboratório de Interação Avançada) was founded in 2003 as a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research lab in the Department of Computer Science at UFSCar – Federal University of São Carlos. LIA's mission is to research innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) approaches for designing, developing and using ICT aiming contributing to overcome the challenges faced in the adoption of ICT considering social, professional, economical, political and cultural context of use.
One of LIA's main project is the Open Mind Common Sense in Brazil (OMCS-Br). The project started in 2005 in a partnership with Media Lab from MIT. It is an approach for developing culture-sensitive interactive systems, which relies on using a common sense knowledge for developing such kind of systems. That is because individuals communicate with each other by assigning meaning to their messages based on their prior beliefs, attitudes, and values, i.e. based on their common sense. Previous researches developed at the Lab have shown that common sense expresses cultural knowledge. So, providing this kind of knowledge for computers is a way of allowing the development of culture-sensitive computer applications (Anacleto et al., 2006).
Main research areas:
Natural Interactions
Culture
Context Awareness
Social Networking
Education
Sensitive Design
Common Sense Reasoning
Games
Emotions
LIA researchers objectives are on research and development of new concepts and methodologies focused on multidisciplinary issues and the creation of open source tools geared to the promotion, development and sharing of knowledge through the adoption of ICTs.
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20HornAfrik | Radio HornAfrik was a radio station based in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was part of the HornAfrik Media Inc network, which also operated another radio station, a television station, a website and a training research center.
References
Defunct radio stations
HornAfrik Media Inc
Defunct_mass_media_in_Somalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2062700 | IEC Technical Specification 62700: DC Power supply for notebook computer is an IEC specification of a common standard for external laptop computer AC adapters. Laptops and AC adapters following this standard will have interchangeable power supplies, which will enable easy reuse of used power supplies (thereby reducing electronic waste) and make buying a new compatible power supply for a laptop simpler.
The specification was published on 6 February 2014.
Alternatives
Despite being an industry open organization with open participation, the standard has been criticized by some for not being openly available for review. Some alternatives include:
IEEE has a proposed standard Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices for laptops and other devices.
The USB Promoters Group's USB Power Delivery ("PD") specification supports up to 240 W, and is intended to be able to power laptops.
The EmPower adapter was intended for charging laptops on passenger aircraft.
See also
Universal charger
USB Power Delivery Rev. 3.1 - includes Standard Power Range (SPR) mode with up to 100 W of power (20 V @ 4 A) and Extended Power Range (EPR) mode with up to 240 W of power (48 V @ 5 A)
Common external power supply - EN 62684 / IEC 62684, a widely adopted 2010 European specification standardizing smartphone power supplies on the USB Battery charging specification and USB connectors.
References
External links
IEC/TS 62700 ed1.0 - DC power supply for notebook computers at the IEC Webstore
IEC working groups for IEC 62700: Project Maintenance
Power supplies
62700
Electronics and the environment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Swiss%20referendums | Twelve national referendums were held in Switzerland during 2014.
February referendums
Three referendums were held on 9 February on abortion, immigration and the rail network. The abortion referendum proposed that abortions would no longer be funded through health insurance, but should be paid for privately by the mother.
The anti-immigration proposal was supported by the Swiss People's Party, and opposes the free movement of workers between the EU and Switzerland, which was introduced following a 2000 referendum.
The rail network proposal combined a number of existing federal and cantonal funds into a single permanent rail infrastructure fund, and defined a programme of upgrade projects of about 42 billion francs over 40 years, with a mechanism for the federal council to present regular updates to the programme. The initial programme includes a number of speed increases to intercity rail routes and S-Bahn expansion around Bern, Basel, and Geneva.
Results
The abortion referendum, which would have dropped abortion coverage from public health insurance, failed by a large margin, with about 70% of participating voters rejecting the proposal.
The immigration restriction proposal passed by a narrow margin, with 50.3% of participating voters supporting the measure; the proposal was also approved by the required majority of cantons. The immigration measure requires the Swiss government to either renegotiate the Swiss-EU agreement of free movement of people within three years, or to revoke the agreement. The proposal mandates re-introduction of strict quotas for various immigration categories, and imposes limits on the ability of foreigners to bring in their family members to live in Switzerland, to access Swiss social security benefits, and to request asylum.
Opinion polls ahead of the vote showed the lead for the opponents of the immigration measure, but that lead began to close as the day of the referendum approached.
The referendum on public rail passed with 62% of votes in favour.
Aftermath
Shortly after the Swiss voted in February 2014 in favour of tighter controls on immigration, the Swiss government informed the EU and Croatia that it was unable to sign a protocol to its agreement with the European Commission that would have automatically extended this agreement to the new EU member state. Giving Croatian citizens unrestricted access to the Swiss job market would have been incompatible with the ‘yes’ vote on the ‘stop mass immigration’ referendum. As this decision flew in the face of one of the EU's four guiding principles, the freedom of movement (the other three being the free movement of goods, services and capital), the European Commission retaliated by excluding Switzerland from research programmes potentially worth hundreds of millions of euros for its universities and suspended negotiations on Switzerland's participation as a full member in the world's largest and best-funded research and innovation programme, the almost €80 bill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HornAfrik%20TV | HornAfrik TV was a television network based in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was part of the HornAfrik Media Inc network, which also operated Radio HornAfrik, another radio station, a website and a training research center. According to MENASSAT, the Arab world media resource, HornAfrik TV during its existence operated six channels in Somali and Arabic, the two official languages of Somalia.
References
Defunct mass media in Somalia
Defunct television networks
HornAfrik Media Inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Union%20of%20Somali%20Journalists | The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) was set up in August 2002 as an association called Somali Journalists Network (SOJON) to promote and protect freedom of the press and the interests of journalists after the former Transitional National Government of Somalia prepared and approved a repressive media law. In order to effectively fight for journalists’ pay and conditions, their working rights and their professional freedom, the members of the organisation in their 2005 General Assembly in Mogadishu resolved to transform the organisation from an Association to a trade union with a new Name: the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). The organisation was formally dedicated for the purpose of serving the member journalists’ interests and needs with respect to journalists’ rights, press freedom and working conditions.
The National Union of Somali Journalists, an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), is a national trade union organisation representing over 650 of Somalia’s 1000 journalists, who established or joined the union in order to uphold and defend their interests, needs and rights cooperatively and deal with employers, authorities and other sectors in the society collectively. NUSOJ is a fervent champion for media freedom, the rights of journalists, workers’ rights and for social justice in Somalia. Member journalists work across the whole industry as reporters, editors and sub-editors and photographers. Members work in broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and in the new media (news websites). NUSOJ members come from many different families and backgrounds, with widely different regions of Somalia.
Due to egregious violations of human and trade unions against NUSOJ members and leadership, NUSOJ lodged a complaint on freedom of association at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which urged the government of Somalia to end the attacks against NUSOJ and its members. UN human rights experts equally spoke out and condemned attacks against NUSOJ. The European Parliament had unanimously passed a resolution which called for the protection of human rights in Somalia, specially the rights of NUSOJ members and the end of the attacks on journalists.
References
Mass media companies of Somalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Paterson | William Stanley Bryce (Stan) Paterson (20 May 1924 – 8 October 2013) was a leading British glaciologist. He mined glacial cores which then provided climate data for the world's last 100,000 years.
Academic career
In 1953, Paterson joined the British North Greenland Expedition as a surveyor.
In 1956, Paterson joined an expedition to South Georgia where he was involved in the first survey of the island's mountain ranges.
In 1957, Paterson emigrated for work to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, before beginning his studies for a PhD in glaciology at the University of British Columbia the following year.
In 1958, Paterson joined a Scottish East Greenland Expedition to measure the flow rate of a coastal glacier.
Paterson completed his PhD in 1962 and was then appointed to the Canadian Polar Continental Shelf Project (PCSP) as a glaciologist.
For the next few decades, Paterson, and a team of glaciologists he put together, spent time in the Canadian Arctic drilling ice cores and carrying out investigations on the ice caps. Each ice core was analysed in terms of its structure and chemistry and provided pioneering data on the earth's climate reaching back 100,000 years into history. Some of this data was then used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Also during his time at the PSCP, in 1969, Paterson wrote a key text in the field of glaciology – The Physics of Glaciers, of which a fourth edition was published in 2010 and it remains a key work in the field. Paterson left the PCSP in 1980, and continued his interests of writing and teaching with sabbaticals in Copenhagen, Seattle, Melbourne and China.
The work Paterson carried out was also relevant to the field of planetary science, and in 1992 he was appointed as co-convenor of the NASA and Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) joint Workshop on The Polar Regions of Mars: Geology, Glaciology, and Climate History.
In 2012, the International Glaciological Society awarded Paterson the Richardson Medal for Outstanding Services to Glaciology.
Biography
Paterson was born in Edinburgh on 20 May 1924. He went to school at George Watson's College, then studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1949. His experience of the University mountaineering club triggered his lifelong passion for climbing.
Paterson died on 8 October 2013, at Campbell River, Vancouver Island, Canada.
References
Canadian glaciologists
1924 births
2013 deaths
People educated at George Watson's College
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Scientists from Edinburgh
University of British Columbia alumni
British glaciologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu%20Yudong | Zhu Yudong (; born May 16, 1974) is a Chinese director, screenwriter and lecturer. Zhu is employed as a director at the Science & Education of Programming Center of China Central Television (CCTV). He is mainly responsible for the filming of documentaries in the field of humanities and cultures.
Early life
Zhu Yudong was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province in China. He started to study painting at high school. In the year of 1992, he was enrolled to the Department of Fine Arts at Nanjing University of the Arts, majoring in the disciplines of Fine Arts. He received a bachelor's degree in the Fine Arts four years later. In the year of 2000, Zhu was accepted by the Departments of Directing at Beijing Film Academy and started his Master's Program in drama directing. He graduated with a master's degree in Directing in the year of 2003. Later that year, he got allocated to the Science & Education of Programming Center of China Central Television (CCTV) and he has been working there ever since. Between the year of 2003 and 2007, Zhu also took up the position as a part-time lecturer to the Central Academy of Drama, where he was mostly involved with the teaching of the disciplines of directing .
Career
Ever since the early stage of his employment at CCTV, Zhu has been directing numerous documentaries, such as The Legend of Falcon Hunting (2004), The Boatman of River Gui (2007) to name but a few. Most of his film works are published and issued by China International Television Corporation.
In the year of 2008, Zhu directed and filmed the episode of the Temple of Heaven of the CCTV epic documentary series The World Cultural Heritage in China. Seven years in total were spent upon the producing and filming of the series which, in the form of a high-definition documentary for the very first time, systemically and concentrically displays 33 heritage sites in China that have been inserted into the World Heritage Site List. The categories of the heritage sites mentioned inside the series range from natural heritages, cultural heritages, folk narrations as well as intangible cultural heritages.
That same year, Zhu, as a director who constantly replays historical events in the present era, directed the filming of a 20-episode cultural feature TV series The Waters of China. This series, which is produced by CCTV and takes the typically renowned waters-related historical and contemporary events as the starting point, comprehensively showcases the relationship between China's civilization and waters, and explains the unique role waters play in the historical development of China as well as the influence a series of water-control projects have cast upon China's historical process through many a vivid stories. The series has been very highly spoken of by CCTV and received excellent reviews.
In 2009, Zhu played a significant role as a literature planner in producing the feature film for China Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. He was majorly responsible for the designing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chersadaula%20ochrogastra | Chersadaula ochrogastra is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1923 from specimens obtained by George Hudson at Breaker Bay in Wellington. Hudson found larvae of the species in September and raised them to adulthood in November. Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 publication The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand. The lectotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
The eggs of this species are white and approximately 3mm in length, and cylindrical in shape although slightly broader at one end.
The larvae, when fully grown, are approximately 2 cm long and are cylinder shaped with a tapered end. The head is bright yellowish-brown, the first part of the larvae is yellowish-white, then tinged with black, then whitish with irregular tinges of chocolate brown.
Meyrick described the adult moths of the species as follows:
Distribution
It is endemic to New Zealand. It has been found in the North Island. However this species has not been collected since 1923.
Biology and behaviour
Larvae have been found under stones. Adults emerge in early November. The adult female of this species has noticeable wing reduction and is incapable of flight.
Host species and habitat
The female adult moths place their eggs indiscriminately and they are not attached to anything. The larvae of this moth live in silken cocoons in the earth and feed on grass roots. The preferred habitat of the larvae of this species is along the sea-coast, about three metres above the high tide mark.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
External links
Image of lectotype specimen
Chersadaula ochrogastra in species id
Moths described in 1923
Oecophoridae
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeosaces%20lindsayae | Phaeosaces lindsayae is a species of moth in the family Depressariidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1928 using specimens collected by Jean Lindsay at "Blackmillar" (Black Miller Stream), Kaikōura and named Crytopechia lindsayae. George Hudson discussed and illustrated the species under this name in 1939. In 1988 John S. Dugdale reinstated the genus Phaeosaces and assigned P. lindsayae to it. This species was named in honour of its first collector Mrs Jean Lindsay. The holotype specimen is held at the Canterbury Museum.
Description
Philpott described the species as follows:
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It has only been collected at its type locality.
Biology and behaviour
This species is on the wing in December.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
External links
Image of holotype specimen
Moths described in 1928
Depressariidae
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo%20Menczer | Filippo Menczer is an American and Italian academic. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Luddy Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University. Menczer is the Director of the Observatory on Social Media, a research center where data scientists and journalists study the role of media and technology in society and build tools to analyze and counter disinformation and manipulation on social media. Menczer holds courtesy appointments in Cognitive Science and Physics, is a founding member and advisory council member of the IU Network Science Institute, a former director the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a senior research fellow of the Kinsey Institute, a fellow of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, and a former fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy. In 2020 he was named a Fellow of the ACM.
Education, career, service
Menczer holds a Laurea in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in computer science and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego. He used to be an assistant professor of management sciences at the University of Iowa, and a fellow-at-large of the Santa Fe Institute. At Indiana University Bloomington since 2003, he served as division chair in the Luddy School in 2009–2011. Menczer has been the recipient of Fulbright, Rotary Foundation, and NATO fellowships, and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. He holds editorial positions for the journals Network Science, EPJ Data Science, PeerJ Computer Science, and HKS Misinformation Review. He has served as program or track chair for various conferences including The Web Conference and the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. He was general chair of the ACM Web Science 2014 Conference and general co-chair of the NetSci 2017 Conference.
Research
Menczer's research focuses on Web science, social networks, social media, social computation, Web mining, data science, distributed and intelligent Web applications, and modeling of complex information networks. He introduced the idea of topical and adaptive Web crawlers, a specialized and intelligent type of Web crawler.
Menczer is also known for his work on social phishing, a type of phishing attacks that leverage friendship information from social networks, yielding over 70% success rate in experiments (with Markus Jakobsson); semantic similarity measures for information and social networks; models of complex information and social networks (with Alessandro Vespignani and others); search engine censorship; and search engine bias.
The group led by Menczer has analyzed and modeled how memes, information, and misinformation spread through social media in domains such as the Occupy movement, the Gezi Park protests, and political elections. Data and tools from Menczer's lab have aided in finding the roots of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Freeman | Michael J. Freeman (born 1947) is an American inventor who works in trend analysis, advanced behavioral systems, programming of smart toys, cable television and robotics. He was a professor at three American universities and a consultant to business and governments.
Education and career
In 1969, Freeman received his bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from the City College of New York, an MBA in 1970 in Business Management and Economics from Bernard Baruch College, and received his doctorate in 1977 from the City University of New York, majoring in Behavior Sciences and specializing in mental adaptation techniques.
Freeman was a professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and at Hofstra University in the Village of Hempstead, New York. Freeman was the keynote speaker at Harvard University on November 14, 2001, at the conference, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Future. Listed in Who's Who in America 1975-2007.
He commercialized approximately forty US patents, and contributed to the work of approximately twenty-five others in educational devices, programming, telephony, laser/special effects, Cable TV, and others. Core patent claims include telephone push button tones as input to the home via branching." Patent claims also covering cable TV, addressability of cable converter boxes, digitization, interactivity, and smart-toys. He programmed and did the voice talent for interactive educational programs. He founded a U.S. Nasdq corporation to further developer patent claims for movies special effects, laser special effects, Hyper TV, and distance learning systems.
Developments
In 1960, at the age of 13, Freeman was awarded first prize in the Westinghouse Science Fair, now known as the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his demonstration of rudimentary computer memory. This was one of the first pioneering embodiments of how computer memory could control a physical mechanism. In the 1970s Freeman turned his attention to the future field of verbal output computers.
Leachim
In 1974, he created Leachim, a 6-ft, 200 pound robot assistant teacher who Freeman programmed with the class curricular, as well as certain biographical information on the 40 students whom Leachim was programmed to teach. Leachim demonstrated that voice branching could be done quickly enough to replicated understandable speech (i.e. verbal output). This method combined phonemes, words, and sentences to form verbal responsive messages. Leachim was also programmed with biographical information on students, and to simulate 'infinite patience.' Leachim was tested in a fourth grade classroom in the Bronx New York. In 1975, Leachim was reported stolen from the truck transporting Leachim back to New York from a 1-hour appearance on the Phil Donahue Show, located in Chicago. Lloyd's of London offered a $7,500 reward based on the insured value of $75,000. Corporate espionage was suspected.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic%20data%20exchange%20formats | Data exchange formats for Ambisonics have undergone radical changes since the early days of four-track magnetic tape. Researchers working on very high-order systems found no straightforward way to extend the traditional formats to suit their needs. Furthermore, there was no widely accepted formulation of spherical harmonics for acoustics, so one was borrowed from chemistry, quantum mechanics, computer graphics, or other fields, each of which had subtly different conventions. This led to an unfortunate proliferation of mutually incompatible ad hoc formats and much head-scratching.
This page attempts to document the different existing formats, their rationales and history, for the terminally curious and those unfortunate enough to have to deal with them in detail.
Most modern applications use ACN and SN3D, although traditional first order is still common.
Spherical harmonics in Ambisonics
A common formulation for spherical harmonics in the context of Ambisonics is
where denotes a spherical harmonic of degree and index with a range of .
(Note that if , then .)
is a normalisation factor (see below), and is the associated Legendre polynomial of degree and order .
The azimuth angle is zero straight ahead and increases counter-clockwise. The elevation angle is zero on the horizontal plane and positive in the upper hemisphere.
Unfortunately, the "Ambisonic order" is called the degree in mathematical parlance, which uses order for the "Ambisonic index" .
Relationship of spherical harmonics and B-format signals
For a source signal in direction , the Ambisonic components are given by
.
If we span a direction vector from the origin towards the source until it intersects the respective spherical harmonic, the length of this vector is the coefficient that gets multiplied with the source signal. Repeat for all spherical harmonics up to the desired Ambisonic order.
Prerequisites for successful data exchange
For successful exchange of Ambisonic material, some software requires the sender and receiver have to agree on the ordering of the components, their normalisation or weighting, and the relative polarity of the harmonics.
Since it is possible to omit parts of the spherical harmonic multipole expansion for content that has non-uniform, direction-dependent resolution (known as mixed-order), it might also be necessary to define how to deal with missing components.
In the case of transmission "by wire", be it an actual digital multichannel link or any number of virtual patchcords within an audio processing engine, these properties must be explicitly matched on both ends, since there is usually no provision for metadata exchange and parameter negotiation. In the case of files, some flexibility might be possible, depending on the file format and the expressiveness of its metadata set.
However, in practice, just two formats are in widespread use. The first is Furse-Malham higher-order format, which is an extension of traditional B-Format, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Voice | Capital Voice was a private radio station based in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was part of the HornAfrik Media Inc network, which also operated another radio station, a television station, a website and a training research center.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNGR | KNGR (1560 AM) was a radio station licensed to Daingerfield, Texas. The station previously operated as a southern gospel and Christian country format. KNGR was owned by Network Communications Company. In late 2018, while the station was silent, its call letters were changed to KNDF, but it never broadcast with this call sign before it was deleted in 2020.
History
KNGR began broadcasting as a 1,000 watt daytime-only facility in 1967 as KEGG. Charlie Monk, who had been on staff at 1240 AM KOCA in Kilgore, Texas, became one of the original owners. Initially a country station, it was programmed with various formats, in both English and Spanish, during its lifetime.
In the early 2000s, KEGG was granted a license to operate an FM translator at 91.1 MHz. After the translator was found to be originating its own programming, as opposed to its required function of rebroadcasting the main signal from 1560, its license was revoked.
Network Communications purchased KEGG in 2004 and completely rebuilt the facilities. Upon relaunch, KEGG's longtime call letters were replaced and KNGR was born. Standing for "King Country Radio", the format was changed to gospel and Christian country with Bob Wilson, who had programmed and jocked radio stations for over 60 years, at the helm. "King Country Radio" soon found a loyal listener base and served Daingerfield as a family friendly Christian based radio station.
The success of KNGR did not last. Bob Wilson, who was advanced in age, began to have health concerns. This led to several periods of silence for KNGR, beginning in 2010. In addition, co-channel KILE in Bellaire, Texas, was given approval to increase power to 46,000 watts in 2007, sending a significant portion of its signal directly towards east Texas. Once KILE signed on, reception of KNGR was all but lost outside of Daingerfield.
Bob Wilson died in October 2012, and KNGR remained silent or was subjected to interference from the Bellaire station from that point forward. For nearly three years, KNGR broadcast the minimal requirement to maintain the facility license. On July 19, 2013, KNGR returned to regular broadcasting, although most of the programming was recorded material from the late Bob Wilson.
Network Communications again filed to take the facility silent on December 16, 2018, in a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission requesting Special Temporary Authority to remain off-the-air because the transmission site had suffered extensive damage to the antenna system, due to vandalism and copper theft, as well as the antenna's tuning unit being stripped and a large portion of the coaxial transmission line being cut and stolen.
On December 24, 2018, KNGR changed its call letters to KNDF, eight days after going silent. At the time, station ownership announced that KNDF would air a classic country format once the station returned to broadcasting, but it never made any broadcasts using the new call sign.
The station had until December 17, 2019, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20SIC | This is a list of television programs currently broadcast (in first-run or reruns), scheduled to be broadcast or formerly broadcast on SIC.
Current programming
Original programming
News and information
Primeiro Jornal (1992 – present)
Jornal da Noite (1993 – present)
Edição da Manhã (2008 – present)
Jornal Síntese (also known as SIC Notícias) (2008 – present)
Telenovelas
Mar Salgado (September 15, 2014 – present)
Talent shows
Factor X (October 6, 2013 – present)
Talk shows
Sextas Mágicas (2013 – present)
A Vida nas Cartas - O Dilema (2013 – present)
Portugal em Festa (August 2013 – present)
Querida Manhãs (February 3, 2014 – present)
Grande Tarde (October 6, 2014 – present)
Annual events
Golden Globes (1995 – present)
Others
Cartaz Cultural (2005 – present)
Etnias (2006 – present)
Episódio Especial (February 23, 2008 – present)
Fama Show (March 2, 2008 – present)
Alta Definição (2009 – present)
Totoloto (2011 – present)
Kids
Disney Kids (2001 – present) (block with Disney Channel/Disney XD shows)
LOL@SIC (2011 – present) (block with kids shows)
Acquired programming
Telenovelas
Amor à Vida (September 2, 2013 – present)
Senhora do Destino (October 7, 2013 – present)
Em Família (March 31, 2014 – present)
Lado a Lado (September 8, 2014 – present)
Império (October 13, 2014 – present)
TV shows/sitcoms
The Blacklist (October 12, 2013 – present)
Criminal Minds (2014 – present)
Documentaries
BBC Vida Selvagem (1995 – present)
Kids
Mako Mermaids (2013 – present)
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (2014 – present) (part of LOL@SIC)
Lego Ninjago (2014 – present) (part of LOL@SIC)
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2014 – present) (part of LOL@SIC)
Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures (2014 – present)
Sociedade Independente de Comunicação original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOLE | KOLE (1340 AM) is a radio station licensed to Port Arthur, Texas, United States. The station airs brokered programming and is owned by Birach Broadcasting Corporation.
History
A four-person consortium trading as the Port Arthur Broadcasting Company applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 1946, for permission to build a new radio station on 1340 kHz in Port Arthur, to broadcast with 250 watts day and night. The principals had worked at newspapers and radio stations in nearby Beaumont. The FCC granted the application on November 27 and issued the construction permit on December 11. Promising "good music, late news, all sports", KOLE began broadcasting at noon on March 30, 1947. By the end of 1948, only two of the four principals, Mary Ann Petru and Socs N. Vratis, owned the company. The station would eventually evolve into Port Arthur's heritage Top 40 station, with popular personalities playing contemporary music. In one case, one disc jockey, Ricci Ware, challenged another, Dick Harvey, to a cow-milking contest on the streets of the city.
Petru and Vratis sold KOLE in 1959 to Radio Southwest, Inc. This firm was a partnership between John Hicks, who moved his family from Dallas to Port Arthur, and Edward L. Francis. The station moved from its original studios on Fourth Street to a new facility in the Adams Building. During his father's ownership, John's son Tom, then in high school, worked at KOLE as a disc jockey under the on-air name of Steve King. Tom Hicks went on to be a major private equity investor, including in the radio business. John Hicks sold his interest to Francis four years later in order to buy KFDM radio and television in Beaumont. Francis died in 1969; Radio Southwest continued under bank ownership, increasing power to 1,000 watts in 1971 and then selling to the Gulf States Broadcasting Company in 1972. Gulf States's owners had broadcast and other interests in Dallas and Las Vegas. Northstar Broadcasting purchased KOLE in 1977, creating an AM-FM combo with the acquisition the next year of KZOM-FM 104.5 in Orange. By this time, KOLE had evolved from Top 40 to adult contemporary, having briefly attempted a country music format at the start of the 1980s.
KOLE was then sold to Center Group Broadcasting, based in Tyler, in 1982. Center Group attempted to restore some local programming with an emphasis on Port Arthur while also using a satellite-delivered format for most of the music. Insufficient advertiser support led to the cutting back of a briefly restored live morning show.
UNO Broadcasting of Joliet, Illinois, acquired KKMY and KOLE in 1988 from Center Group. In 1989, KOLE dropped adult contemporary for an adult standards format of "memory music" as well as local sports coverage;the main offices had relocated to Beaumont, though at least one member of the air staff, Lee Gower, worked out of the Port Arthur studio, which was commented to be dusty and featured several holes in the floor. This change |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bani%20K.%20Mallick | Bani K. Mallick is a Distinguished Professor and Susan M. Arseven `75 Chair in Data Science and Computational Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University in College Station. He is the Director of the Center for Statistical Bioinformatics. Mallick is well known for his contribution to the theory and practice of Bayesian semiparametric methods and uncertainty quantification. Mallick is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Statistical Institute and the Royal Statistical Society. He received the Distinguished research award from Texas A&M University and the Young Researcher award from the International Indian Statistical Association.
Mallick's areas of research include semiparametric classification and regression, hierarchical spatial modeling, inverse problem, uncertainty quantification and Bioinformatics. He is renowned for his ability to do major collaborative research with scientists from myriad fields beyond his own, including nuclear engineering, petroleum engineering, industrial engineering, traffic mapping. He has coauthored or co-edited six books and more than 200 research publications.
Mallick earned his undergraduate from the Presidency University, Kolkata, MS from the Calcutta University and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut.
Bibliography
Dey, D., Ghosh, S. and Mallick, B. (1999) Bayesian Generalized Linear Model, Marcel Dekker
Denison, D., Holmes, C., Mallick, B. and Smith, AFM (2002) Bayesian nonlinear Classification and Regression, Wiley, London
Denison, D., Hanson, M., Holmes, C., Mallick, B. and Yu, B. (2003) Nonlinear Classification and Regression, Springer Verlag, New York
Mallick, B., Gold, D., and Baladandanayak, V. (2010) Bayesian analysis of gene expression data, Wiley International.
Biegler, L., Ghattas, O., Keyes, D., Mallick, B., Tenorio, L. and Wilcox, K. (2011) Large scale inverse problems and quantification of Uncertainty, Wiley, International
Dey, D., Ghosh, S. and Mallick, B. (2011) Bayesian Modeling issues in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, chapman and hall.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision3 | Revision3 was a San Francisco–based multi-channel television network that created, produced and distributed streaming television shows on niche topics. Founded in 2005, it operated as a subsidiary of Discovery Digital Networks since 2012. The network produced technology and gaming oriented programming in tandem with traditional comedic, political, DIY, and movie-related content.
On March 31, 2017, Discovery Communications closed the website.
History
The company was founded in Los Angeles, California, by Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose and David Prager in April 2005. Dan Huard, Keith Harrison, and Ron Gorodetzky were also involved. Most of them were previously employees of the television network TechTV.
Show development began in July 2003 with a podcast series called thebroken, a videozine related to computer hacking featuring Rose and Huard. After TechTV merged with G4 and removed most of its technology related programming, Rose and Huard were inspired to create a new series, Systm, in May 2005, which is geared toward “the common geek”. Rose left his job as a host of the G4 series Attack of the Show (formerly The Screen Savers) on May 27, 2005, to work full-time for Revision3 Corporation. The popular show Diggnation, also starring Rose, followed in July 2005, forming the first three shows of the new network. Alex Albrecht joined Revision3 on August 5, 2005, to co-host Diggnation with Rose and contribute to other projects while Prager focused on production and business development.
It was announced on July 10, 2007, that Jim Louderback would become the new CEO of the Revision3 Corporation. He previously worked as editor-in-chief for PC Magazine, a publication of Ziff Davis. He was followed by Patrick Norton in August 2007, who worked at Ziff Davis as 'head of podcasts' and host of the IPTV show DL.TV. At Revision3, he was Managing Editor and the co-host of Systm, Tekzilla, and HD Nation. At DL.TV, he was replaced by Roger Chang who in turn left DL.TV and Ziff Davis in December 2007 to join Revision3. Chang has joined Norton as co-producer of Systm and Tekzilla. All three had previously worked at TechTV.
On April 9, 2008, Revision3 announced that Veronica Belmont would be joining the Revision3 staff as co-host of Tekzilla. On April 21, 2008, on the 47th episode of Systm, it was announced that Chief Engineer and co-host David Randolph had left for another job outside of Revision3. On June 6, 2008, CEO Jim Louderback cancelled the show Social Brew after only four episodes. Previous to the announcement Revision3 employee Neha Tiwari was let go without notice.
In September 2008, Revision3 started Revision3 Beta, a "talent-farming" sub-network of unofficial shows headed by Martin Sargent.
On June 16, 2009, Patrick Norton announced that Systm would no longer be a weekly show, instead becoming segments within his other show, Tekzilla. He also announced that he would be launching a new show in July called HD Nation, which will be a show all about HD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke%20testing%20%28software%29 | In computer programming and software testing, smoke testing (also confidence testing, sanity testing, build verification test (BVT) and build acceptance test) is preliminary testing or sanity testing to reveal simple failures severe enough to, for example, reject a prospective software release. Smoke tests are a subset of test cases that cover the most important functionality of a component or system, used to aid assessment of whether main functions of the software appear to work correctly. When used to determine if a computer program should be subjected to further, more fine-grained testing, a smoke test may be called a pretest or an intake test. Alternatively, it is a set of tests run on each new build of a product to verify that the build is testable before the build is released into the hands of the test team. In the DevOps paradigm, use of a build verification test step is one hallmark of the continuous integration maturity stage.
For example, a smoke test may address basic questions like "does the program run?", "does the user interface open?", or "does clicking the main button do anything?" The process of smoke testing aims to determine whether the application is so badly broken as to make further immediate testing unnecessary. As the book Lessons Learned in Software Testing puts it, "smoke tests broadly cover product features in a limited time [...] if key features don't work or if key bugs haven't yet been fixed, your team won't waste further time installing or testing".
Smoke tests frequently run quickly, giving benefits of faster feedback, rather than running more extensive test suites, which would naturally take longer.
A daily build and smoke test is among industry best practices. Smoke testing is also done by testers before accepting a build for further testing. Microsoft claims that after code reviews, "smoke testing is the most cost-effective method for identifying and fixing defects in software".
One can perform smoke tests either manually or using an automated tool. In the case of automated tools, the process that generates the build will often initiate the testing.
Smoke tests can be functional tests or unit tests. Functional tests exercise the complete program with various inputs. Unit tests exercise individual functions, subroutines, or object methods. Functional tests may comprise a scripted series of program inputs, possibly even with an automated mechanism for controlling mouse movements. Unit tests can be implemented either as separate functions within the code itself, or else as a driver layer that links to the code without altering the code being tested.
Etymology
In Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Cem Kaner, James Bach, and Brett Pettichord provided the origin of the term: "The phrase smoke test comes from electronic hardware testing. You plug in a new board and turn on the power. If you see smoke coming from the board, turn off the power. You don't have to do any more testing."
See also
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev%20Rastogi | Rajeev Ramnarain Rastogi is an Indian computer scientist who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he got his Bachelor of Science degree in 1988. He received his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the University of Texas in 1990, and 1993 respectively. Rastogi was born on August 6, 1967.
In 1993, Rastogi started working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He became member of technical staff at its Information Sciences Research Center. Five years later he held the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff position and by 1999 became a director of the Internet Management Research Department and became a Bell Labs fellow in 2003. In 2012, he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to the analysis and management of large data sets."
He was Vice President of Yahoo! Labs in Bangalore and is currently serving as Vice President of Machine Learning on Amazon.com. He has over 200 peer-reviewed articles with the CURE: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Large Databases which received over 3,100 citations since 1998, bringing him an h-index of 63.
Rajeev Rastogi lives in Bangalore with his wife and two children.
References
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20th-century births
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IIT Bombay alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Seffi%20Naor | Joseph Seffi Naor () is an Israeli professor of computer science and an author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles which were published in such journals as Journal of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and SIAM Journal on Computing among others.
Biography
From 1981 to 1987 he was a teaching assistant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from 1987 to 1988 was a post-doctoral fellow at University of Southern California in Los Angeles following by Stanford University with the same position until 1991. During 1983 and 1987 he received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Hebrew University in computer science. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Bell Labs' member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and from 2005 to 2007 worked at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, as visiting researcher. Since 1991 he has worked as a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology as a computer scientist.
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Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel%20Blomfield | Ezekiel Blomfield (1778–1818) was a Congregational minister, author and compiler of religious works and works on natural history. His parents were Stephen Blomfield (born c.1740, died 27 November 1809) and Elizabeth Blomfield (née Luiss (Lewis), born c.1750, died 17 March 1799). Ezekiel was the youngest of four children. He was born on 28 October 1778 at North Walsham, Norfolk then moved with his parents to Norwich. He died on 14 July 1818 at Great Glemham, Suffolk and was buried on 21 July 1818 in the grounds of the Meeting House at Wortwell, Norfolk.
Education
While his parents were poor Ezekiel showed determination for acquiring knowledge and by the age of 10 he was collecting information for a ‘Table of Chronological Events' and a ‘System of Natural History.’ His interest in the phenomena of nature was influenced by reading Evenings at Home, which was a popular series of books by John Aikin and his sister Anna Laetitia Barbauld, which considered the principles of "botany, zoology, numbers, change of state in chemistry ... the money system, the calendar, geography, meteorology, agriculture, political economy, geology, [and] astronomy".
At the age of 15 Ezekiel developed strong religious convictions. He was placed under the care of the Rev. Samuel Newton, a non-conformist minister at Norwich, (asst. 1757–1768; pastor 1768–1810), who taught Ezekiel Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In 1796 Ezekiel decided to become to be a minister of the gospel and was accepted at the non-conformist Homerton Academy, where he studied under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Fisher.
Ministry
After four years training at Homerton Academy Ezekiel accepted a congregation at Wymondham in Norfolk where he preached and established Sunday schools and missionary societies. He wrote works commissioned by Charles Brightley, a printer of Bungay, Suffolk. Charles Brightly had established a printing and stereotype foundry in 1795, which in partnership with John Filby Childs, became Brightly & Childs in 1808 and later Messrs. Childs and Son.
His sister Elizabeth Blomfield (1773–1852) was a member of the Wymondham congregation.
In 1809 Ezekiel moved to Wortwell in Norfolk and ministered to the combined Harleston and Wortwell Congregational Churches. He died on 14 July 1818 and was buried on 21 July 1818 in the grounds of the Meeting House at Wortwell.
Family
On 20 October 1800 he married Mary Anne Funnell of Hunworth, Norfolk. They had 9 children, with one daughter dying within 6 months of birth:
Mary Ann Blomfield - born 21 July 1801 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England
Martha Elizabeth Blomfield - born 11 December 1802 in Wymondham
Ezekiel Richard Blomfield - born 29 July 1804 in Wymondham
Rebecca Alice Blomfield - born 24 June 1806 in Wymondham
Joanna Sarah Blomfield - born 30 June 1808 in Wymondham
Stephen Edward Blomfield - born 22 September 1810 in Wortwell
Selina Dorcas Blomfield - born 20 August 1812 in Wortwell; died 13 February 1813
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Carey | Michael J. Carey may refer to:
Michael Carey (United States Air Force officer), American entrepreneur and officer
Michael J. Carey (computer scientist), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachrichtendienstliches%20Informationssystem | The Nachrichtendienstliches Informationssystem (NADIS) (Intelligence agency information system) is a searchable database operated by the German domestic security agency Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV). Data stored in the system is readily assessible by the BfV, the foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), and the military intelligence agency Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD).
As of 2008, it contains over a million data sets of personal information.
NADIS WN
On 24 June 2012, the database was upgraded and renamed "NADIS WN".
International data exchange
United States
In 2012, the BND received information from the United States intelligence community on 1,830 occasions. The information was handed over to the BfV and stored in the NADIS system
See also
List of government surveillance projects
Project 6
References
Government databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20belief%20network | In machine learning, a deep belief network (DBN) is a generative graphical model, or alternatively a class of deep neural network, composed of multiple layers of latent variables ("hidden units"), with connections between the layers but not between units within each layer.
When trained on a set of examples without supervision, a DBN can learn to probabilistically reconstruct its inputs. The layers then act as feature detectors. After this learning step, a DBN can be further trained with supervision to perform classification.
DBNs can be viewed as a composition of simple, unsupervised networks such as restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) or autoencoders, where each sub-network's hidden layer serves as the visible layer for the next. An RBM is an undirected, generative energy-based model with a "visible" input layer and a hidden layer and connections between but not within layers. This composition leads to a fast, layer-by-layer unsupervised training procedure, where contrastive divergence is applied to each sub-network in turn, starting from the "lowest" pair of layers (the lowest visible layer is a training set).
The observation that DBNs can be trained greedily, one layer at a time, led to one of the first effective deep learning algorithms. Overall, there are many attractive implementations and uses of DBNs in real-life applications and scenarios (e.g., electroencephalography, drug discovery).
Training
The training method for RBMs proposed by Geoffrey Hinton for use with training "Product of Experts" models is called contrastive divergence (CD). CD provides an approximation to the maximum likelihood method that would ideally be applied for learning the weights. In training a single RBM, weight updates are performed with gradient descent via the following equation:
where, is the probability of a visible vector, which is given by . is the partition function (used for normalizing) and is the energy function assigned to the state of the network. A lower energy indicates the network is in a more "desirable" configuration. The gradient has the simple form where represent averages with respect to distribution . The issue arises in sampling because this requires extended alternating Gibbs sampling. CD replaces this step by running alternating Gibbs sampling for steps (values of perform well). After steps, the data are sampled and that sample is used in place of . The CD procedure works as follows:
Initialize the visible units to a training vector.
Update the hidden units in parallel given the visible units: . is the sigmoid function and is the bias of .
Update the visible units in parallel given the hidden units: . is the bias of . This is called the "reconstruction" step.
Re-update the hidden units in parallel given the reconstructed visible units using the same equation as in step 2.
Perform the weight update: .
Once an RBM is trained, another RBM is "stacked" atop it, taking its input from the final trained layer. The new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20for%20Schools%20%28Canada%29 | Computers For Schools (CFS) () (OPÉ) is a pan Canadian program, founded in 1993 by both Industry Canada and the TelecomPioneers. The Computers for Schools (CFS) Program is a national, Innovation, Science, Economic Development Canada-led initiative that has offshoots in all provinces and territories. The different organizations operating the program collect and refurbish donated surplus computers from both public and private sector sources, and redistribute them to schools, public libraries, not-for-profit organizations and Aboriginal communities throughout Canada.
Since 1993, CFS has donated over 1.5 million refurbished computers nationwide, reducing the overall impact on the environment.
In 2015, $2 million was announced to expand the Computers for Schools program to include non-profit organizations that support low-income Canadians and new Canadians with access to refurbished equipment.
The CFS program has workshops throughout Canada, in every province and territory.
See also
Computer recycling
References
External links
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Educational organizations based in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20Documentary%20Films | HBO Documentary Films is an American production and distribution company, a division of the cable television network HBO that produces non-fiction feature films and miniseries.
The division releases between 10 and 15 documentaries per year for the network and provides limited theatrical distribution of certain films prior to their initial broadcast on HBO's linear television and streaming services.
History
The unit's longtime chief was Sheila Nevins, who initially served as Director of Documentary Programming from 1979 to 1982; upon returning in 1986, she headed HBO's documentary unit under various executive capacities (as Vice President of Documentary Programming, as Senior [later, Executive] Vice President of Original Programming and, beginning in 2004, as President of HBO Documentary Films) and served as executive producer of most of its documentary productions until she left the network in March 2018. Under Nevins, HBO's documentaries have won 35 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, 42 Peabody Awards, and 26 Academy Awards as well as 31 individual Primetime Emmy Awards honored to Nevins. In December 2017, Nevins announced she would be stepping down from her position, with Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller set to replace her.
The network's first successful documentary was the six-part 1979 miniseries Time Was, a Dick Cavett-hosted retrospective that took a historical look at an individual decade in the 20th century—from the 1920s up to the 1970s—over the course of each episode. 1981's She's Nobody's Baby—produced in conjunction with Ms. magazine—traced the evolution of the societal role of American women during the 20th Century; the special earned HBO its first Peabody Award, the first to be won by a pay television service and the first of many HBO documentaries to receive the prestigious award. HBO also produced a series of informational documentaries in partnership with Consumer Reports starting in 1980, detailing information on subjects encompassing product safety, personal finance and health. One such documentary, AIDS: Everything You and Your Family Need to Know..But Were Afraid to Ask, which aired in 1987 at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., was hosted by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and provided factual information on the AIDS and HIV viruses.
In 2006, film director Spike Lee made a two-part four-hour documentary on Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Also in 2006, documentary artist Lauren Greenfield directed Thin, a feature-length film about four young women struggling with eating disorders seeking treatment at the Renfrew Clinic in Florida. 2008 saw the U.S. television premiere of Baghdad High, which depicted the lives of four boys attending a high school in the Iraqi capital city over the course of one year, through a video diary filmed by the documentary's principal subjects who were provided cameras to film the project.
In November 2008, HBO paid low seven figures for the U.S. television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast%20Network | Breakfast Network was a Singapore-based community-led news service founded in early 2013 by former Straits Times journalist and Associate Editor Bertha Henson.
In December 2013, it shut down its website, after declining to comply with new regulations from the country's Media Development Authority requiring designated websites to register their key personnel and funding sources, among other private information, or be asked to cease all operations online, including social media platforms.
References
Mass media companies of Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20Acceleration%20Software | The Intel Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) is a computer data storage product for solid-state drive (SSD) caching.
Description
CAS manages using the SSD storage as a cache layer for slower storage data (e.g. spinning hard drives). A cached copy of recently used data from slower storage is kept in faster SSD storage to improve I/O performance. CAS entered Intel's product line as the result of Intel's August 2012 acquisition of a Canadian start-up company Nevex Virtual Technologies; Intel re-branded Nevex CacheWorks product to CAS with the release of version 2.0 in December 2012. Versions of Intel CAS are available for Windows Enterprise, Windows Workstation, and Linux.
CAS for Windows is an application-aware file-based cache, which can be tuned by system administrators. Additionally, it integrates with the operating system's buffer cache, creating a multi-tier cache architecture. CAS is also aware of some virtualization technologies like vMotion, maintaining a hot SSD cache during a VM migration.
CAS works with the enterprise-class Intel SSD products, such as the DC S3700 SATA drives and the DC P3700 NVMe PCI Express devices. It also works with cache devices across SANs. Intel CAS for Linux consists of a GPL'd source loadable kernel module paired with a closed source user-space admin configuration tool. The CAS for Linux version supports CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The Windows Enterprise version currently runs only on the 64-bit flavors of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2012 R2; 32-bit versions are not currently supported. The Windows Workstation version currently runs on only the 64-bit flavors of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10; 32-bit versions are not currently supported.
The current version of CAS for Linux supports write-through, write-back, and write-around caching. The Windows versions of CAS support write-through and write-back caching.
A workstation version, called CAS-W, was announced in September 2013 by Dell; Dell's announcement states an exclusive agreement with Intel to offer CAS-W only for Dell Precision workstations.
Operating System and File System Support
Intel CAS for Linux
Intel CAS for Windows Enterprise
Intel CAS for Windows Workstation
See also
Intel Smart Response Technology for desktop-class computers
Microsoft's Automated Tiering (Windows 2012 R2)
References
External links
Open CAS Framework
Old blog post on the (now defunct) Nevex web site explaining the basic idea behind CacheWorks
Solid-state caching
Intel acquisitions
Intel products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2032 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data management and interchange is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which develops and facilitates standards within the field of data management and interchange. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) located in the United States.
History
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 was formed in 1997, as a combination of the following three ISO/IEC JTC 1 subgroups: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21/WG 3, Database; ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 14, Data elements; and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 30, Open-edi. The new subcommittee was established with the intention of developing, and facilitating the development of, standards for data management within local and distributed information system environments. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 was originally made up of five working groups (WGs). ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 5, Database access and interchange, was disbanded in March 2002. WG 4, SQL multimedia and application packages, was disbanded in May, 2018. The three other original working groups of the subcommittee are currently active, although the title of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 1 was changed from Open-edi to its current title, e-Business. A new working group, WG 6 Data usage, was added in 2020.
Scope
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 is “Standards for data management within and among local and distributed information systems environments. SC 32 provides enabling technologies to promote harmonization of data management facilities across sector-specific areas. Specifically, SC32 standards include:”
Reference models and frameworks for the coordination of existing and emerging standards
Definition of data domains, data types, and data structures, and their associated semantics
Languages, services, and protocols for persistent storage, concurrent access and concurrent update, and interchange of data
Methods, languages, services, and protocols to structure, organize, and register metadata and other information resources associated with sharing and interoperability, including electronic commerce
Structure
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 is made up of four active working groups, each of which carries out specific tasks in standards development within the field of data management and interchange. As a response to changing standardization needs, working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 can be disbanded if their area of work is no longer applicable, or established if new working areas arise. The focus of each working group is described in the group’s terms of reference. Active working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 are:
Collaborations
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 works in close collaboration with a number of other organizations or subcommittees, both internal and external to ISO or IEC, in order to avoid conflicting or duplicative work. Organizations internal to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasan%20Seshan | Srinivasan "Srini" Seshan is an American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in computer networks.
Education and career
Seshan's bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. are all from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, 1993, and 1995. His thesis, Low Latency Handoff in Mobile Networks, was supervised by Randy Katz. After graduating, he joined the Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he was a research staff member until 2000, when he joined the CMU faculty. At CMU, he was Finmeccanica Associate Professor from 2004 to 2006. He is currently a Full Professor and was the Associate Department Head at the Computer Science Department at CMU from 2011 to 2015. It was announced in March, 2018 that Frank Pfenning would be stepping down as department head and Seshan would be taking over, effective July 1, 2018.
Interests
His main research interests lie in the broad fields of distributed network applications and network protocols. Seshan has previously worked on issues like transport and routing protocol interactions with wireless networks, sensor networking, rapid protocol stack implementations, RAID system design, performance prediction for internet transfers, firewall design, and TCP protocol improvements.
Examples of Seshan's research include the two projects:
Next Generation Network Architectures
Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems
Recognition
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to computer networking, mobile computing and wireless communications".
References
External links
Google scholar profile
Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul%20Delahaye | Jean-Paul Delahaye (born 29 June 1952 in Saint-Mandé Seine) is a French computer scientist and mathematician.
Career
Delahaye has been a professor of computer science at the Lille University of Science and Technology since 1988 and a researcher in the school's computer sciences lab since 1983. Since 1991 he has written a monthly column in Pour la Science, the French version of Scientific American, dealing with mathematical games and recreations, logic, and computer science. He is a contributing author of the online scientific journal Interstices and a science and mathematics advisor to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Delahaye won the 1998 d'Alembert prize from the Société mathématique de France for his books and articles popularizing mathematics, especially for the book Le fascinant nombre Pi.
Works
Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence, North-Oxford Academic, 1987,
Le fascinant nombre pi, Paris: Bibliothèque Pour la Science, 1997,
References
External links
Jean-Paul Delahaye at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Jean-Paul Delahaye's home page
French mathematicians
French logicians
French computer scientists
Recreational mathematicians
Mathematics popularizers
Combinatorial game theorists
University of Paris alumni
1952 births
Living people
Lille University of Science and Technology alumni
French male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaKeysia%20Beene | LaKeysia Rene Beene (born March 9, 1978) is an American former soccer goalkeeper who played for the United States women's national soccer team and the San Jose CyberRays of Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA).
Playing career
College
Beene attended and played college soccer as goalkeeper for the University of Notre Dame. She graduated in 1999 having majored in environmental geoscience. With the Fighting Irish, Beene was a two-time All-American and backstopped the team to a runners-up finish in the 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship.
Club
In 2000, Beene became one of the 24 founding players of the Women's United Soccer Association, (WUSA), the first official professional women's soccer league in the United States. From 2001 to 2003, she played for the San Jose CyberRays. In 2001 Beene was named WUSA goalkeeper of the year, as the CyberRays won the championship game, beating Atlanta Beat on a penalty shootout.
Beene previously played for pro–am Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) team California Storm. She returned to the Storm when WUSA collapsed after the 2003 season.
International
Beene's first appearance on the United States women's national soccer team was on January 7, 2000, in an 8–1 win over Czech Republic in Melbourne, Australia. She collected a total of 18 caps over the following three years, but was not included in the US squads for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, or the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.
International statistics
Personal life
Beene was a teenage Tang Soo Do champion. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in January 2005 with a B.S. in environmental geosciences.
She was admitted to The State Bar of California in 2009 and currently practices environmental law in Sacramento.
References
External links
Profile at Women's United Soccer Association
Notre Dame player profile
Living people
1978 births
American women's soccer players
Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's soccer players
United States women's international soccer players
Women's United Soccer Association players
Soccer players from California
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football goalkeepers
California Storm players
Women's Premier Soccer League players
California lawyers
African-American women's soccer players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Hero | Code Hero is a planned educational video game by Primer Labs, designed by Alex Peake. The game is supposed to teach players how to write programming languages by having them do so in a 3D world.
The game drew controversy following its Kickstarter campaign, when the studio ran out of funds, missed release deadlines and funding rewards, and communicated little with the community. Some financial backers threatened legal action following long periods of no communication.
The Code Hero website was offline for an extended period in 2014, and Peake has not commented publicly about the state of this project since 2013. From May 2015 the website was again inactive, however it resurfaced in August 2016.
Gameplay
The main aim of Code Hero is to teach players how to write programming languages in an engaging way. Players use a gun which can copy code and place it in other areas of the level in order to create a full program in a language such as JavaScript and UnityScript whilst moving around a 3D world from a first-person perspective. Players start in a world called Gamebridge Unityversity's API from which they can choose a series of levels which teach basics of the programming languages; after this they move to the Humantheon, from which the player moves on to the rest of the game world, led by a robotic Ada Lovelace.
Development
Development on Code Hero began in January 2011, and in 2012 Peake started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 USD to fund further development of the game over the next six months. The Kickstarter concluded in February having raised $170,000 USD, at which point $30,000 USD had been raised through their website alongside this.
Peake hired a development team, and in March 2012, they began working in space provided by IGN Indie Open House in San Francisco. The project experienced staff turnover, and by October 2012, ran out of money.
After failing to deliver the backing rewards by the original date, and not updating the website or Twitter accounts for months at a time, backers began to demand refunds and became concerned that the project was not sufficiently funded. The original release date of August 31, 2012, at PAX Prime, was missed, with an update a few days later saying it would be released within days, a date which was also missed. When supporter Dustin Deckard began organising to seek legal action after another stretch of no communication, Alex Peake released a statement saying that the game was still being worked on and that Primer Labs was “committed to finishing this game.” The raised funds covered the costs of development until October 2012, after which many of the game's developers became volunteers. Two alpha builds of Code Hero were released during 2012 for those who had pre-ordered the game.
In August 2013 a beta version of the game became available for download on Primer Labs website after being down for a period of weeks. An announcement dated April 22, 2014 indicated that version 0.5 was forthcoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshoi%20Cosmological%20Simulation | The Bolshoi simulation, a computer model of the universe run in 2010 on the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center, was the most accurate cosmological simulation to that date of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe.
The Bolshoi simulation used the now-standard ΛCDM (Lambda-CDM) model of the universe and the WMAP five-year and seven-year cosmological parameters from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe team. "The principal purpose of the Bolshoi simulation is to compute and model the evolution of dark matter halos, thereby rendering the invisible visible for astronomers to study, and to predict visible structure that astronomers can seek to observe." “Bolshoi” is a Russian word meaning “big.”
The first two of a series of research papers describing Bolshoi and its implications were published in 2011 in the Astrophysical Journal.
The first data release of Bolshoi outputs has been made publicly available to the world's astronomers and astrophysicists.
The data include output from the Bolshoi simulation and from the BigBolshoi, or MultiDark, simulation of a volume 64 times that of Bolshoi.
The Bolshoi-Planck simulation, with the same resolution as Bolshoi, was run in 2013 on the Pleiades supercomputer using the Planck satellite team's cosmological parameters released in March 2013. The Bolshoi-Planck simulation is currently being analyzed in preparation for publication and distribution of its results in 2014.
Bolshoi simulations continue to be developed as of 2018.
Contributors
Joel R. Primack's team at the University of California, Santa Cruz, partnered with Anatoly Klypin's group at New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces to run and analyze the Bolshoi simulations. Further analysis and comparison with observations by Risa Wechsler's group at Stanford and others are reflected in the papers based on the Bolshoi simulations.
Rationale
A successful large-scale simulation of the evolution of galaxies, with results consistent with what is actually seen by astronomers in the night sky, provides evidence that the theoretical underpinnings of the models employed, i.e., the supercomputer implementations ΛCDM, are sound bases for understanding galactic dynamics and the history of the universe, and opens avenues to further research. The Bolshoi Simulation isn't the first large-scale simulation of the universe, but it is the first to rival the extraordinary precision of modern astrophysical observations.
The previous largest and most successful simulation of galactic evolution was the Millennium Simulation Project, led by Volker Springel. Although the success of that project stimulated more than 400 research papers, the Millennium simulations used early WMAP cosmological parameters that have since become obsolete. As a result, they led to some predictions, for example about the distribution of galaxies, that do not match very well with observations. The Bolshoi simulations use the latest cosmological |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20World%20Music | The Rough Guide to World Music is a world music compilation album originally released in the United Kingdom in 1994. The first of the World Music Network Rough Guides World Music series, it was co-released with an eponymous reference book. The album features artists hailing from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Artwork was designed by Impetus, and the compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Reception
Raymond McKinney of AllMusic called the album an "ideal way to taste-test the endless flavors the genre has to offer." Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, described the first two thirds as "pretty scintillating" but the last third as "folkloric" and "boring".
Track listing
References
External links
1994 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capes%20of%20the%20Kimberley%20coastline%20of%20Western%20Australia | { "type": "ExternalData", "service": "page", "title": "Western Australian region - Kimberley.map" }
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Notes
References
Kim
Kimberley coastline of Western Australia
Western Australia geography-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina%20Pop | Irina Alexandra Pop (born 8 October 1988) is a Romanian born Dominican team handball player. She plays for the club Associació Lleidatana d'Handbol (Spain) and on the Dominican Republic national team. She competed at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia, where the Dominican Republic placed 23rd.
Personal life
Pop is tall , born on 8 October 1988 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Career
2011
Pop signed with Feve Gijón to play the 2011/12 Spanish League.
2012
Pop participated in the 2012 Summer Olympic qualifier, but the team finished last in the 3rd qualifier and did not qualify.
2013
Pop led the Dominican Republic national team to the bronze medal winning 28–19 to Paraguay at the 2013 Pan American Championship, qualifying to the 2013 World Championship, also being chosen the Best Left Back among the tournament's All Star team. She then won the gold medal at the Las Flores tournament in Medellin, Colombia that served as a warm-up for the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games qualifier. In November she won the silver medal at the 2013 Caribbean Cup also qualifying for the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Pop participated in the 2013 World Championship held 6-22 December in Serbia, finishing with her team in the 23rd place after defeating 27–26 Australia. At the end of the year, the National Federation selected Pop among the year's best players.
Individual Achiviements
All star team: Left back:
2013 Pan American Women's Handball Championship
References
1988 births
Living people
Dominican Republic female handball players
Romanian emigrants to the Dominican Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Broadcasting%20and%20Alert%20Networks | Federal Unitary Enterprise Russian Broadcasting and Alert Networks (, ) is a wired radio operator alert in Moscow and St. Petersburg, they were established on June 24, 2013. The main activities are FSUE RSVO construction and operation of special alert networks, broadcast public radio, audio technical essential public service activities, including the Victory Day Parade on Red Square in Moscow. Wireline network (MF) in Moscow and St. Petersburg are the technical backbone systems emergency warning on these areas. The company have more than 2.9 million radio subscribers
References
Companies based in Moscow
Telecommunications companies of Russia
Federal State Unitary Enterprises of Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafees%20Bin%20Zafar | Nafees Bin Zafar (born 1978) is a visual effects and computer graphics software engineer of Bangladeshi origin based in Los Angeles, United States. Zafar currently works as Principal Engineer at animation studio DreamWorks Animation. In 2008, Zafar received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award thus becoming the first person of Bangladeshi origin to win an Academy Award. In 2015, he won a Technical Achievement Award.
Early life
Nafees Bin Zafar was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and moved to Charleston, South Carolina with his family when he was 11 years old. He studied at Dhaka Residential Model College till grade 6. Also, he studied at College of Charleston and graduated in software engineering. During that time, he studied 3-D graphics using SGI computers at Virtual Reality South.
He is the son of Zafar Bin Bashar, a Partner at Marcum & Kliegman, and Nafeesa Zafar who resides in Long Island, New York. He is a great-grandson of the famous late Bangladeshi poet Golam Mostofa and grand-nephew of the famous Bangladeshi artist and puppeteer Mustafa Monwar.
Career
In February 2008, Zafar received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award for the development of the fluid simulation system at Digital Domain, which was used in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
He was awarded the Scientific and Engineering Award, an Academy plaque, along with his colleagues at Digital Domain, thus becoming the first person of Bangladeshi origin to win an Academy Award.
In February 2015, Zafar was recognized by the Academy once more when he and his colleagues at Digital Domain received a Technical Achievement Award, an Academy certificate, for their work on the Drop Destruction Toolkit, used to create visual effects in the film 2012. He now works as Principal Engineer at DreamWorks Animation.
Filmography
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (principal engineer)
Puss in Boots (senior software engineer)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (senior software engineer)
Megamind (senior production engineer)
Shrek Forever After (senior production engineer)
Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief (software engineer)
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (visual effects: Digital Domain)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (technical developer)
Flags of Our Fathers (technical developer)
Stealth (software engineer)
The Croods (research and development principal engineer: DreamWorks Animation)
See also
DreamWorks Animation
References
External links
Nafees Bin Zafar: Linkedin profile
1978 births
Living people
Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners
College of Charleston alumni
Software engineers
People from Dhaka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cable%20Networks | National Cable Networks () was a Russian company which provides Pay-TV. It was fully owned by Rostelecom, and headquartered in Moscow. The company merged with Rostelecom in 2013.
History
In 2001, formed of "National Cable Networks." The first step was the acquisition of companies "Infokos +" and "Eltelekor" in the Moscow region and "NovAKTV" in Novosibirsk, the company subsequently entered the markets of Kurgan and Yekaterinburg.
In 2005, JSC "NCC" has completed the acquisition of 98% shares of JSC "St. Petersburg broadcaster Cable TV" (BD).
In March 2006, formed of National Telecommunications, which becomes the holding company for OAO "NCC" and several other companies.
In early 2012, OJSC Rostelecom consolidated 100% of voting shares of NTC. On October 1, 2013 the company became a 100% subsidiary of Rostelecom as part of reorganization which liquidated Svyazinvest, and transferred all its companies under the umbrella of Rostelecom group.
References
Telecommunications companies of Russia
Companies based in Moscow
Rostelecom
Companies disestablished in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20West%20African%20Music | The Rough Guide to West African Music is a world music compilation album originally released in 1995. The second release of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, it largely focuses on Malian music, with six of the twelve tracks coming from that country. This is followed by Senegal (two tracks), and Guinea, Niger, Ghana, and Mauritania (one track each). The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Chris Nickson of AllMusic gave the album four stars, but lamented the broadness of the topic, stating "the real problem with this album isn't the music, which is glorious throughout, but the fact that it suffers from the size of its ambition and the inability to fully realize it." Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, praised the record's focus on slow to midtempo music, stating it "succeeds in sustaining a meditative, inner-gazing mood."
Track listing
References
1995 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Karp | Brad Nelson Karp is an American computer scientist, specializing in computer networks. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1992 and got his master's and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995 and 2000 respectively, under the supervision of H. T. Kung. Later on he became a staff scientist at the Center for Internet Research and at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California where he worked until 2002.
After working as a senior staff researcher at Intel Research of Pittsburgh and as an adjunct assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he moved in 2005 to University College London, where he is now a reader. In 2005, he was a winner of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
References
External links
Google scholar profile
Brad Karp
Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
Yale University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Academics of University College London
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Scottish%20Music%20%281996%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to Scottish Music is a world music compilation album originally released in 1996. The third release of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, it cuts through a broad swathe of Scottish music, focusing largely on roots revival. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Adam Greenberg of AllMusic gave the album three stars, and stated that while the album lacked the absolute newest forms of Celtic music, it was still "a fine introduction into contemporary Scottish music, keeping an eye on its influences from traditional forms." Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, wrote that while Scottish music is "generally too sentimental for my blood", the compilers deserve a nod for including Scottish techno.
Track listing
References
1996 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Trussell%20Trust | The Trussell Trust is an NGO and charity that works to end the need for food banks in the United Kingdom. It "is based on, shaped, and guided by Christian principles" and supports a network of over 1,200 food bank centres to provide emergency food and compassionate, practical support to people in crisis, while campaigning for long-term change to the structural issues that lock people into poverty. Its main office is in Salisbury, England.
History
The Trussell Trust was founded in 1997 by Paddy and Carol Henderson using a legacy left by Carol's mother, Betty Trussell. Initially, the charity worked in Bulgaria to improve conditions for children sleeping at Sofia Central Railway Station. In 2000, they began to work in the UK too, opening the first food bank in their home city of Salisbury after they were contacted by a British mother who was struggling to feed her children.
Work
Food banks
Today, the Trussell Trust support over 1,200 food bank centres across the UK, providing emergency food and support to people locked in poverty. Food bank centres in the Trussell Trust network account for roughly two-thirds of all emergency food bank provision in the UK.
In 2018–19, food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network distributed 1.6 million food bank parcels to people in crisis – a 19% increase on the previous year. Over half a million of these parcels went to children. In the last five years, food bank use in the Trussell Trust network has increased by 73%.
The top three reasons for people needing to use a food bank in the Trussell Trust network last year were 'income not covering essential costs', 'benefit delays', and 'benefit changes'.
The services provided by food banks vary from area to area as they react to the needs of their community to provide help and support to local people in crisis. Generally, non-perishable food is donated by the public at a range of places, such as schools, faith groups and businesses, as well as supermarket collection points. It is then sorted into emergency food parcels by more than 28,000 volunteers. People are referred to the food banks by professionals such as doctors, social services, Citizens Advice and police, and receive a food bank voucher. This means that they can receive a food bank parcel of three days’ nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food from their local food bank. Food banks also provide compassionate, dignified support and work hard to signpost people to agencies that can support with long-term issues to prevent people from needing to use the food bank again.
The Trussell Trust runs two out of three UK food banks and gave out 823,145 food parcels from April to September 2019, of which 301,653 went to children. This was 23% more than during the same period in 2018. Insufficient benefit income caused 36%, delays in benefit payments caused 18% and changes to benefit caused 16%. Welfare changes like Universal Credit and the Bedroom tax caused increased food bank use. The Trussell Trust urged |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Irish%20Music%20%281996%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to Irish Music is a world music compilation album originally released in 1996. The fourth release of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album covers both the Republic and The North, with an overall focus on tradition and revival. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Track listing
References
1996 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia%20Ailamaki | Anastasia Ailamaki is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the Director of the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems (DIAS) lab. She is also the co-founder of RAW Labs SA, a Swiss company developing real-time analytics infrastructures for heterogeneous big data. Formerly, she was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
Ailamaki's research interests are in the broad area of database systems and applications, with emphasis on database system behavior on modern processor hardware and disks.
Education
Ailamaki studied computer science at the University of Patras, and earned her first master's degree at the Technical University of Crete followed by a second diploma from the University of Rochester. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000.
Career
She is the recipient of ten Best Paper and Best Demo awards and was awarded Young Investigator Award by the European Science Foundation. In 2013 she received an ERC Consolidator Award for the ViDa: Transforming raw data into information through virtualization project. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, a member of Academia Europaea, and the Vice Chair of the Special Interest Group of Management of Data (SIGMOD) within the Association for Computing Machinery. She is a member of the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum and CRA-W mentor.
Ailamaki is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles published in such journals as the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, VLDB, SIGMOD, ACM Transactions on Database Systems.
Honors and awards
ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2019)]: the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is given for innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems.
NEMITSAS Prize 2018 in Computer Science: the President of the Republic of Cyprus, on behalf of the Takis and Louki Nemitsas Foundation, presents the Nemitsas Prize to one laureate for contributions in his/her scientific field which have been recognized at an international level.
IEEE Fellow (since 01/2018): “For contributions to hardware-conscious database systems and scientific data management”
ACM Fellow (since 01/2015): “For contributions to the design, implementation, and evaluation of modern database systems”
References
External links
Living people
20th-century births
American women computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of Academia Europaea
American computer scientists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists
Cypriot scientists
21st-century American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%20Flicks | Nickel Flicks is an American television series that premiered on Nickelodeon in 1979 as one of the network's inaugural programs, and the first original series created for the channel after its launch. It showcased "cliffhanger" serials from the 1920s–40s, in addition to early comic one-reelers and silent short films. It was hosted by producer John Moschitta, who later became famous as the "World's Fastest Talker" in commercials for FedEx. This was Moschitta's first on-camera television role. Nickel Flicks was notably the first Nickelodeon show to be cancelled and the shortest-lived out of Nickelodeon's inaugural series; according to Moschitta, it was cancelled due to complaints about the violent nature of many of the serials.
Since the features on Nickel Flicks had been created prior to the advance of color television, most of the program was presented in black and white. The only exception were the segments featuring Moschitta, which were taped in color at the QUBE studios in Columbus, Ohio. The program aired three times every day from April 1979 until November or December of 1979. Taping finished in July 1979, when Moschitta moved to Los Angeles. Nickel Flicks is the only show on the network not to last beyond the 1970s and the first Nickelodeon program to end.
It is a more recent example of a lost television program, due to the lack of recorded tape that exists.
Overview
Slapstick comedy serials made up the majority of the content on Nickel Flicks. Comic violence, which was rare in children's programming at the time, was not edited out of most of the films that were shown; it was even advertised as kids' programming "with no sugar-coating." Cable executive Bill Riley stated that "any violence [on the program] is either less intense than that found on commercial television or is clearly intended as comedy." Dated suspense films aimed at a family audience were occasionally shown as well. The show was not just a showcase but a "public affairs program as well." Moschitta, in his own words, played "a Sydney Greenstreet kind of character in a white suit", wearing a pith helmet or panama hat, and sat in a large rattan chair. During Moschitta's host segments, public affairs issues related to the plots or stars of the showcased films were discussed.
Films
The Galloping Ghost (1931)
The Whispering Shadow (1933), starring Bela Lugosi
The Mystery Squadron (1933)
Junior G-Men (1940)
Featured artists
The following artists' works were featured on the program:
Buster Crabbe (as Flash Gordon in the eponymous serial)
Tom Mix (as Tom Morgan in The Miracle Rider)
Roscoe Arbuckle
Gene Autry
Charlie Chaplin
Bela Lugosi
Roy Rogers
John Wayne
Rex the Wonder Horse
Reception
The Courier-Post described the offerings on Nickel Flicks as "wholesome." The Philadelphia Inquirer labeled the series "a collection some of the best kids shows from previous years."
References
1970s Nickelodeon original programming
1980s Nickelodeon original programming
1979 American |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20webcam%20software | Webcam software allows users to take pictures and video and save them to their computer.
See also
Comparison of screencasting software
Webcams
Webcam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody%20Steverson | Joseph F. "Jody" Steverson (born August 21, 1968) is a Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing the 4th district. Steverson is the Director of Voice and Data for Ripley Video Cable Company. On November 5, 2015, Steverson switched his party affiliation to Republican Party, two days after being reelected unopposed as a Democrat.
References
External links
Jody Steverson at Vote Smart
Jody Steverson at Ballotpedia
Jody Steverson at Mississippi House of Representatives
1968 births
Living people
Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
Mississippi Democrats
Mississippi Republicans
Politicians from Tupelo, Mississippi
Mississippi State University alumni
21st-century American politicians
People from Ripley, Mississippi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Afghanistan | The Rough Guide To The Music Of Afghanistan is a world music compilation album originally released in 2010. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release covers a wide breadth of the music of Afghanistan on Disc One, and contains a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting the Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group. The album was compiled by Simon Broughton, editor of world music magazine Songlines, who also compiled The Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia.
Critical reception
Jill Turner of GondwanaSound Radio rated it amongst the best compilation albums of the year. Chris Nickson of AllMusic praised the variety of the recording, while Deanne Sole of PopMatters wrote that Broughton's choice to select a wide range of styles meant that the listener would not hear the absolute best of Afghan music, but that the album gives an "opportunity to listen to the country through a kind of panopticon, ears out in 15 different directions."
Track listing
Disc One
Disc Two
All tracks on Disc Two are performed by the Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group.
References
External links
2010 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
Afghan music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specs%20and%20the%20City | "Specs and the City" is the eleventh episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 541st episode of the series. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on January 26, 2014. The episode was written by Brian Kelley and directed by Lance Kramer. The original title of the episode was intended to be "I Only Have My Eyes for You," a take on "I Only Have Eyes for You," but was changed to "Specs and the City," a take on Sex and the City. The Oogle Goggles were originally known as "MyEyes."
In this episode, Homer receives a pair of smart glasses while Bart is forced to give a Valentine's Day card to Nelson. The episode received mixed reviews.
Plot
During Christmas at the power plant, Mr. Burns hands out Oogle Goggles to his employees after Homer, Lenny and Carl discuss his previous terrible presents. Smithers is сoncerned with his boss's sudden kindness, but Burns reveals to him that he plans on using hidden cameras inside the googles as part of a surveillance system to spy on his employees and prevent further theft at the plant.
In February, Marge encourages Bart and Lisa to join in the Valentine's Day festivities of making cards for everyone in the class. Bart does not want to give Nelson a valentine because Nelson is a bully, however, Marge shows Bart an amusing video the school had sent out with a kid who overdoses on candy hearts when he does not receive Valentine's Day cards. Bart then chooses a shoddy valentine from an old box for Nelson, but after seeing a line of frightened kids waiting to give Nelson a Valentine's card at school, a fed-up Bart confronts Nelson and angrily tears his card in half, leading Nelson to tell Bart he has one week to give him the best valentine ever or Nelson will kill him. Bart eventually gives Nelson a card based on fear of both the pressure of Valentine's Day and Nelson's psychotic actions, outrightly calling Nelson a crazy violent person who will someday be on Death Row; to everyone's shock and happiness, Nelson is moved by Bart's honesty and gives him a hug.
During Homer's snuggle time with Marge, he cannot take off his goggles, prompting Marge to walk out on him. The next morning, Homer decides to give up the goggles and places them on the lazy Susan to decide who takes them next. It lands on Maggie, but Marge grabs the goggles and puts them on herself. Homer appears at work without his goggles, but he soon realizes that he cannot live in a reality without them. Homer looks for goggles in Burns's office only to find the room empty and discover the employee surveillance system. He also sees Marge wearing his glasses and feeding Maggie ice cream which she had told him they had run out. Homer continues to watch Marge do her everyday errands, which includes visiting a therapist where she talks in detail about the infuriating behavior Homer displays every day. Based on advice from Moe, Homer sets up a fake appointment at the therapist's office to "bum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s%20Bigger%3F | Who's Bigger?: Where Historical Figures Really Rank is a 2013 book by the computer scientist Steven Skiena and the Google engineer Charles Ward which ranks historical figures in order of significance.
Methodology
The authors used the English Wikipedia as their primary data source, and ran the data through algorithms written into computer programs to arrive at a ranking of all historical figures. According to the authors, a higher ranking indicates greater historical significance.
Skiena and Ward compared all English Wikipedia articles against five criteria: two that draw on Google PageRank, and three that draw on internal Wikipedia metrics: the number of times the page has been viewed, the number of edits to the page, and the size of the page. The concept is that these criteria measure the current fame of the subject. This is then manipulated by other algorithms to compensate for a skewing of data toward more recent subjects, arriving at true likely historical significance. In addition to the main list, various sublists (such as figures of a given field of endeavor or country) are included.
While the authors claim that their purely quantitative approach to the question of individual historical significance is a virtue, questions about whether the book is more than "a lot of fun" and an "entertaining exercise" include doubts whether an individual's historical significance can actually be quantitatively ascertained, how much the book's English sources skew it toward the history of the English-speaking world, whether fame over time is a good measure of significance, and whether attention to a subject in Wikipedia is a good proxy for overall fame.
While acknowledging the bias against non-Western figures and disavowing any special authoritativeness, the authors make the case that their methods are both novel and useful – for instance, that historical fame and historical significance are intertwined, that fame over time has qualities in common with the fading or staying power seen in memes, and that Wikipedia metrics provide a window into what people believe matters – and that their approach, with further refinements, may prove useful in other areas. Skiena described: "We do not answer these questions as historians might, through a principled assessment of their individual achievements. Instead, we evaluate each person by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions in a rigorous and principled manner... We measure meme strength, how successfully is the idea of this person being propagated through time."
The top five entries on the overall list are Jesus, Napoleon, Muhammad, William Shakespeare, and Abraham Lincoln.
Regarding the relative paucity of women on the list (only three of the top 100 figures are women), the authors point out past barriers to women assuming historically significant roles. However, critics have also postulated a bias in the underlying data source, since only 15% of English Wikipedia editors are female. The authors ackno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VyOS | VyOS is an open source network operating system based on Debian.
VyOS provides a free routing platform that competes directly with other commercially available solutions from well-known network providers. Because VyOS is run on standard amd64 systems, it can be used as a router and firewall platform for cloud deployments.
History
After Brocade Communications stopped development of the Vyatta Core Edition of the Vyatta Routing software, a small group of enthusiasts in 2013 took the last Community Edition, and worked on building an Open Source fork to live on in place of the end of life VC.
Features
BGP (IPv4 and IPv6), OSPF (v2 and v3), RIP and RIPng, policy-based routing.
IPsec, VTI, VXLAN, L2TPv3, L2TP/IPsec and PPTP servers, tunnel interfaces (GRE, IPIP, SIT), OpenVPN in client, server, or site-to-site modes, WireGuard.
Stateful firewall, zone-based firewall, all types of source and destination NAT (one to one, one to many, many to many).
DHCP and DHCPv6 server and relay, IPv6 RA, DNS forwarding, TFTP server, web proxy, PPPoE access concentrator, NetFlow/sFlow sensor, QoS.
VRRP for IPv4 and IPv6, ability to execute custom health checks and transition scripts; ECMP, stateful load balancing.
Built-in versioning.
Releases
VyOS version 1.0.0 (Hydrogen) was released on December 22, 2013. On October 9, 2014, version 1.1.0 (Helium) was released. All versions released thus far have been based on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), and are available as a 32-bit images and 64-bit images for both physical and virtual machines.
On January 28, 2019, version 1.2.0 (Crux) was released. Version 1.2.0 is based on Debian 8 (Jessie).
While version 1.0 and 1.1 were named after elements, a new naming scheme based on constellations is used from version 1.2.
Release History
VMware Support
The VyOS OVA image for VMware was released with the February 3, 2014 maintenance release.
It allows a convenient setup of VyOS on a VMware platform and includes all of the VMware tools and paravirtual drivers.
The OVA image can be downloaded from the standard download site
Amazon EC2 Support
Starting with version 1.0.2, Amazon EC2 customers can select a VyOS AMI image. (deprecated, will be removed in February 2018)
Starting with version 1.1.7, AWS customers should use new marketplace VyOS AMI
Starting with version 1.2.0, AWS customers can deploy new marketplace AMI This new offering now comes with support
Azure Support
Starting with version 1.2.0, Azure customers can use VyOS on Azure
See also
List of router and firewall distributions
References
External links
Computer networking
Debian-based distributions
Ethernet
Free routing software
Free security software
Free software distributions
Gateway/routing/firewall distribution
Linux companies
Linux distributions
Routers (computing)
Routing software
Virtualization software
Virtual private networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Morgan-Mar | David Morgan-Mar (also known as DangerMouse) is an Australian physicist, known for his webcomics and for creating several humorous esoteric programming languages. He is also the author of several GURPS roleplaying sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games, as well as a regular contributor to Pyramid magazine.
Morgan-Mar is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Sydney, Australia, and has worked on camera, lens, and image processing projects at Canon.
Comics
Morgan-Mar has produced, or been involved in producing several webcomics. These include Irregular Webcomic!, Infinity on 30 Credits a Day, Darths & Droids, Square Root of Minus Garfield and mezzacotta.
Irregular Webcomic!
Irregular Webcomic! is a photo comic that consists mostly of photographs of Lego characters and sets with speech balloons added above them. The art also includes photographs of painted miniatures as well as of the author and background scenes. The strip has several (usually) distinct casts of characters (called "themes") with many different kinds of jokes and story arcs.
The comic started around the end of 2002. It ended late in 2011, but was resumed in April 2015 following a successful Patreon fundraiser. The strip updates every weekday, with reruns appearing on other days.
Infinity on 30 Credits a Day
Infinity on 30 Credits a Day is an idea that was developed by David Morgan-Mar in response to a poll he conducted, asking the fans of Irregular Webcomic! whether they would create a webcomic, given the ability to do so. It is a webcomic created entirely through collaboration between the 500 or so fans that signed up to help. Essentially, the creation of each comic was a collaborative effort by several people, chosen for their skills.
The comic started off with many contributions, but input tapered off during 2008.
Darths & Droids
Morgan-Mar helps to produce Darths & Droids as part of a group of eight friends known as the Comic Irregulars. Inspired by DM of the Rings, Darths & Droids follows players of a role-playing game that follows the Star Wars franchise, though takes place in a world where Star Wars itself was never created. Concepts from Star Wars, such as lightsabers' deflection abilities, midichlorians, the Gungan race and main characters are either made up by the players themselves or hastily invented by the Game Master after the players go off his prepared plot line. In a review, Fantasy Magazine said: "Aside from being a wonderfully fun send-up of the Star Wars movies themselves, Darths and Droids plays with conventions of tabletop gaming and makes loving fun of the basic player archetypes... If you aren’t a fan of either Star Wars or Dungeons and Dragons, this isn’t the comic for you. But anyone with that overlapping geekery should do themselves a favor and check this comic out."
Esoteric programming
Morgan-Mar has created a number of esoteric programming languages, including Piet, Ook!, and Chef. He invented Piet, where the code is an image rather than text |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotomic%20fast%20Fourier%20transform | The cyclotomic fast Fourier transform is a type of fast Fourier transform algorithm over finite fields. This algorithm first decomposes a DFT into several circular convolutions, and then derives the DFT results from the circular convolution results. When applied to a DFT over , this algorithm has a very low multiplicative complexity. In practice, since there usually exist efficient algorithms for circular convolutions with specific lengths, this algorithm is very efficient.
Background
The discrete Fourier transform over finite fields finds widespread application in the decoding of error-correcting codes such as BCH codes and Reed–Solomon codes. Generalized from the complex field, a discrete Fourier transform of a sequence over a finite field GF(pm) is defined as
where is the N-th primitive root of 1 in GF(pm). If we define the polynomial representation of as
it is easy to see that is simply . That is, the discrete Fourier transform of a sequence converts it to a polynomial evaluation problem.
Written in matrix format,
Direct evaluation of DFT has an complexity. Fast Fourier transforms are just efficient algorithms evaluating the above matrix-vector product.
Algorithm
First, we define a linearized polynomial over GF(pm) as
is called linearized because , which comes from the fact that for elements
Notice that is invertible modulo because must divide the order of the multiplicative group of the field . So, the elements can be partitioned into cyclotomic cosets modulo :
where . Therefore, the input to the Fourier transform can be rewritten as
In this way, the polynomial representation is decomposed into a sum of linear polynomials, and hence is given by
.
Expanding with the proper basis , we have where , and by the property of the linearized polynomial , we have
This equation can be rewritten in matrix form as , where is an matrix over GF(p) that contains the elements , is a block diagonal matrix, and is a permutation matrix regrouping the elements in according to the cyclotomic coset index.
Note that if the normal basis is used to expand the field elements of , the i-th block of is given by:
which is a circulant matrix. It is well known that a circulant matrix-vector product can be efficiently computed by convolutions. Hence we successfully reduce the discrete Fourier transform into short convolutions.
Complexity
When applied to a characteristic-2 field GF(2m), the matrix is just a binary matrix. Only addition is used when calculating the matrix-vector product of and . It has been shown that the multiplicative complexity of the cyclotomic algorithm is given by , and the additive complexity is given by .
References
Discrete transforms
FFT algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happening%20%2768 | Happening '68 was a rock-and-roll variety show produced by Dick Clark Productions, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. The show followed American Bandstand on Saturday afternoons. Happening '68 premiered on January 6, 1968 and was popular enough that ABC added a weekday spin-off. It's Happening ran on Mondays through Fridays from July 15, 1968 through October 25, 1968. When 1968 ended, Happening '68 became just Happening, which was canceled in October 1969.
Happening '68 was co-hosted by Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere. Their band Paul Revere and the Raiders made frequent appearances. There were guest performers lip-synching their latest releases, band contests with celebrity judges and other bits to attract teenage audiences.
The prize for each winning band was a contract with ABC Records.
Regulars
Paul Revere (Host)
Mark Lindsay (Host)
Guests on "Happening '68" & "Happening '69"
Don Adams
Keith Allison (solo)
The American Breed
Lucie Arnaz & Desi Arnaz Jr.
Chuck Barris
Joey Bishop
Beach Boys
Beach Boys (film)
Box Tops
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
Phyllis Brides (Tiger Beat Magazine)
Eric Burdon & The Animals (film)
Carol Burnett
Glen Campbell
Nino Candido
Canned Heat
Dick Cavett
Dick Clark
Classics IV (film)
Marc Copage
The Cowsills
Bob Crane
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jackie DeShannon
Everly Brothers
Barbara Feldon
Eddie Fisher
Four King Cousins, The
Aretha Franklin (film)
John Fred & His Playboy Band
Friends of Distinction
Marvin Gaye
Grass Roots
Paul Hampton
Harpers Bizarre
Jonathan Harris
Bobby Hatfield
Edwin Hawkins Singers
Goldie Hawn
Lee Hazlewood (film)
Jimi Hendrix (film)
Audrey Holst (Fave Magazine)
Etta James
Tommy James & The Shondells
Jim & Jean (film)
Arte Johnson
Sajid Khan
Andy Kim
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Peter Lawford
Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Mark Lindsay (solo)
Little Dion
Guy Marks
Dick Martin
Bill Medley
Ross Martin
The Monkees (without Peter Tork)
Greg Morris
Ann Moses (Tiger Beat Magazine)
Nazz
Rick Nelson
Leonard Nimoy
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Esther & Abi Ofarim
Oliver
Pat Paulsen
People!
Peppermint Rainbow
Peppermint Trolley Company
Wilson Pickett
Paul Revere & The Raiders
Don Rickles
Tommy Roe
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
Linda Ronstadt
Merrilee Rush
Bobby Rydell
Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson
The Bob Seger System
Bobby Sherman
Frank Sinatra Jr.
O.C. Smith
Tommy Smothers
Joe South
Spiral Starecase
Don Steele
Steppenwolf
Ray Stevens
Stone Poneys
Sly & The Family Stone
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Sunshine Company
Three Dog Night
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Bobby Vee
The Ventures
Lawrence Welk
Freddy Weller (solo)
Mason Williams (film)
The Who (film)
Stevie Wonder
Brenton Wood
JoAnne Worley
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Appearing as Band Contest judges
1968 U.S. Olympic Swim Team (Mike Burton, Debbie Meyer, Ken Merten)
Keith Allison
Stefan Arngrim
Michael Burns
Freddy Cannon
Angela Cartwrigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan%20Metropolitan%20Area%20intercity%20railway | Wuhan Metropolitan Area intercity railway or Wuhan Metropolitan Area intercity railway system is a network of higher-speed commuter railways in and around Wuhan, the capital of the Chinese province Hubei. The first line of the system opened at the end of 2013, two more in mid-2014, one in 2016.
System composition
The network will include the following lines:
The Wuhan–Xianning intercity railway, opened on December 28, 2013. The system's first line connects Wuhan's Wuchang Railway Station with the city's southern suburbs and the city of Xianning. Initially, the service is very limited (a few trains a day), but eventually it will be brought to a commuter frequency.
The Wuhan–Huangshi intercity railway and Wuhan–Huanggang intercity railway share tracks within Wuhan's eastern suburbs and then diverge. The Huangshi line goes toward Ezhou, Huangshi, and Daye, while the Huanggang line crosses the Yangtze River to Huanggang. The construction of the lines was largely completed by the end of December 2013. After a period of testing, the two lines opened on June 18, 2014. The Wuhan–Huangshi line also serves as the first section of the future Wuhan–Jiujiang Passenger Railway, opened in 2017.
The Wuhan–Xiaogan intercity railway serves the city's northern suburbs, the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, and the city of Xiaogan. Early on, it was expected to open in 2015. However, the completion date has been moved back. It is opened on December 1, 2016.
Preliminary plans exist for the construction of more lines (to Tianmen and Qianjiang) as well.
Ridership
In a report released during the Spring Festival travel season of 2015, the total ridership of the 3 lines of the Wuhan Metropolitan Area intercity railway was estimated at 25,000 a day; that was described as twice the daily amount outside of the peak travel season.
Notes
Transport in Hubei
High-speed railway lines in China
Railway lines opened in 2013
2013 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap%27s%20algorithm | Heap's algorithm generates all possible permutations of objects. It was first proposed by B. R. Heap in 1963. The algorithm minimizes movement: it generates each permutation from the previous one by interchanging a single pair of elements; the other elements are not disturbed. In a 1977 review of permutation-generating algorithms, Robert Sedgewick concluded that it was at that time the most effective algorithm for generating permutations by computer.
The sequence of permutations of objects generated by Heap's algorithm is the beginning of the sequence of permutations of objects. So there is one infinite sequence of permutations generated by Heap's algorithm .
Details of the algorithm
For a collection containing different elements, Heap found a systematic method for choosing at each step a pair of elements to switch in order to produce every possible permutation of these elements exactly once.
Described recursively as a decrease and conquer method, Heap's algorithm operates at each step on the initial elements of the collection. Initially and thereafter . Each step generates the permutations that end with the same final elements. It does this by calling itself once with the element unaltered and then times with the () element exchanged for each of the initial elements. The recursive calls modify the initial elements and a rule is needed at each iteration to select which will be exchanged with the last. Heap's method says that this choice can be made by the parity of the number of elements operated on at this step. If is even, then the final element is iteratively exchanged with each element index. If is odd, the final element is always exchanged with the first.
procedure generate(k : integer, A : array of any):
if k = 1 then
output(A)
else
// Generate permutations with k-th unaltered
// Initially k = length(A)
generate(k - 1, A)
// Generate permutations for k-th swapped with each k-1 initial
for i := 0; i < k-1; i += 1 do
// Swap choice dependent on parity of k (even or odd)
if k is even then
swap(A[i], A[k-1]) // zero-indexed, the k-th is at k-1
else
swap(A[0], A[k-1])
end if
generate(k - 1, A)
end for
end if
One can also write the algorithm in a non-recursive format.
procedure generate(n : integer, A : array of any):
// c is an encoding of the stack state. c[k] encodes the for-loop counter for when generate(k - 1, A) is called
c : array of int
for i := 0; i < n; i += 1 do
c[i] := 0
end for
output(A)
// i acts similarly to a stack pointer
i := 1;
while i < n do
if c[i] < i then
if i is even then
swap(A[0], A[i])
else
swap(A[c[i]], A[i])
end if
output(A)
// Swap has occurred ending the for-loop. Simulate the increment of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodora%20X | Rhodora X is a 2014 Philippine television drama thriller series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Albert Langitan, it stars Jennylyn Mercado in the title role. It premiered on January 27, 2014, on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on May 30, 2014, with a total of 88 episodes. It was replaced by Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jennylyn Mercado as Rhodora Ferrer-Vasquez / Roxanne Ferrer-Vasquez / Rowena
Supporting cast
Yasmien Kurdi as Angela Ferrer-Aquino
Mark Herras as Joaquin Vasquez
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Nico Ledesma
Frank Magalona as Santiago "Santi" Vasquez
Vaness del Moral as Pia Sales-Alcantara
Gardo Versoza as Derick Ferrer
Glydel Mercado as Lourdes Sales-Ferrer
Lollie Mara as Carmencita "Cita" Vasquez
Irma Adlawan as Vivian Bautista
Boots Anson-Roa as Amparo "Panchang" Sales
Guest cast
Rez Cortez as a kidnapper
Kiel Rodriguez as a kidnapper
Gene Padilla as Peter
Krista Miller as Tricia
Carlo Gonzales as a bar customer
Ken Chan as Ryan Ledesma
Rafa Siguion-Reyna as a bar manager
Ervic Vijandre as Ferdinand "Ferds" Salazar
Jackie Lou Blanco as a lawyer
Glaiza de Castro as a prisoner
Martin del Rosario as Martin Aquino
Kyle Ocampo as young Angela
Ar Angel Aviles as young Rhodora
Therese Malvar as young Roxanne
Antone Luis Limgengco
Sarah Lopez
Phytos Ramirez as Danny
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Rhodora X earned a 15.8% rating. While the final episode scored an 18.9% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine thriller television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Psychedelic%20Africa | The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 2012 featuring 1960s and 1970s African popular music. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album contains two discs: an overview of the genre on Disc One, and a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting Victor Uwaifo. Disc One features three Nigerian tracks, two Guinean, and one each from Benin, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Senegal, Ghana, and Mali. The compilation was compiled by Dominic Raymond-Barker and Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Critical reception
The album was met with mixed to positive reviews, with criticism focusing on the title. Chris Nickson of AllMusic called the use of the term "psychedelia" "elastic". Robin Denselow of The Guardian wrote in the same vein, saying it was "more good-time dance music than freak-out," while Richard Gehr of Spin said it was "less Hendrix than 'Mystic Moods'".
Track listing
Disc One
Disc Two
All tracks on Disc Two are performed by Victor Uwaifo.
References
External links
2012 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guessing | A guess (or an act of guessing) is a swift conclusion drawn from data directly at hand, and held as probable or tentative, while the person making the guess (the guesser) admittedly lacks material for a greater degree of certainty. A guess is also an unstable answer, as it is "always putative, fallible, open to further revision and interpretation, and validated against the horizon of possible meanings by showing that one interpretation is more probable than another in light of what we already know". In many of its uses, "the meaning of guessing is assumed as implicitly understood", and the term is therefore often used without being meticulously defined. Guessing may combine elements of deduction, induction, abduction, and the purely random selection of one choice from a set of given options. Guessing may also involve the intuition of the guesser, who may have a "gut feeling" about which answer is correct without necessarily being able to articulate a reason for having this feeling.
Gradations
Philosopher Mark Tschaepe, who has written extensively on the scientific and epistemological role of guessing, has noted that there are often-overlooked "gradations" of guessing — that is, different kinds of guesses susceptible to different levels of confidence. Tschaepe defines guessing as "an initial, deliberate originary activity of imaginatively creating, selecting, or dismissing potential solutions to problems or answers to questions as a volitional response to those problems or questions when insufficient information is available to make merely a deduction and/or induction to the solution or answer". He objects to definitions that describe guessing as either forming a "random or insufficiently formed opinion", which Tschaepe deems too ambiguous to be helpful, or "to instantaneously happen upon an opinion without reasoning". Tschaepe notes that in the latter case, the guess might appear to occur without reasoning, when in fact a reasoning process may be occurring so quickly in the mind of the guesser that it does not register as a process. This reflects the observation made centuries before by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, that "when I turn one way rather than another, it is often because of a series of tiny impressions of which I am not aware". Tschaepe quotes the description given by William Whewell, who says that this process "goes on so rapidly that we cannot trace it in its successive steps".
A guess that "is merely a hunch or is groundless... is arbitrary and of little consequence epistemologically". A guess made with no factual basis for its correctness may be called a wild guess. Jonathan Baron has said that "[t]he value of a wild guess is l/N + l/N - l/N = l/N", meaning that taking a true wild guess is no different from choosing an answer at random. Philosopher David Stove described this process as follows:
In such an instance, there not only is no reason for favoring "heads" or "tails", but everyone knows this to be the case. Tschaepe also a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McCourt | David McCourt is an Irish-American entrepreneur with experience within the telecom and cable television industries. He was an early contributor to the development of transatlantic fiber networks and has founded or bought over 20 companies in nine countries.
Early life and education
McCourt grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Upon graduation, he worked for 18 months as a probation officer's aide in a Washington D.C. neighbourhood.
Career
After working with the probation officer in Washington D.C., McCourt founded his first company, McCourt Cable Systems, operating as a designer and builder of cable networks. The company grew to be the largest privately owned designer and builder of cable systems in the US. This venture led to him forming the first competitive telephone network in America, Corporate Communications Network. This company was merged with Metropolitan Fibre Systems (MFS) creating MFS McCourt. MFS was later sold for $14.3 billion to MCI Worldcom.
In 1985, McCourt built the first independent TV station on the Caribbean Island of Grenada, Discovery TV.
McCourt's next venture collaborated with engineering and construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. From this partnership emerged McCourt Kiewit International, based in London, which became the largest designer and builder of residential cable television and telephone networks in Europe.
McCourt was responsible for bringing the first competitive telephone and TV landscape to Mexico. He also brought traditional waiting times for land line phones down from one year to less than thirty days .
In 1993, he acquired control of a publicly traded company C-TEC Corporation. He spent four years selling subsidiaries to grow the business. In 1997, McCourt split C-TEC into three publicly traded companies - RCN Corporation, Cable Michigan, Inc. and Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises, Inc. and served as the CEO for all of them.
McCourt was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of RCN Corporation until its bankruptcy in 2004 following 23 consecutive quarterly losses and $4 billion of total losses.
McCourt later turned his attention to TV and film, taking various production roles. In 2005, he won an Emmy for the series Reading Rainbow, a long running children's show that encourages reading. McCourt also produced Miracle's Boys directed by Spike Lee on Nickelodeon's new teenage network. He served as Executive Producer on the ten-part documentary series "What's Going On?" which documented the impact of global conflict on children around the world.
In 2013, as the chairman and CEO of the investment firm Granahan McCourt, McCourt led a consortium of companies which included Oak Hill Advisers, as well as the family of Walter Scott Jr., to acquire the Irish Fibre Company, Enet. Its network is used by over 70 telecommunication operators providing broadband to millions of people across Ireland. McCourt acquired another Irish telecom operator, Airspeed Telecom, in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20modal%20analysis | Ambient modal identification, also known as operational modal analysis (OMA), aims at identifying the modal properties of a structure based on vibration data collected when the structure is under its operating conditions, i.e., no initial excitation or known artificial excitation. The modal properties of a structure include primarily the natural frequencies, damping ratios and mode shapes. In an ambient vibration test the subject structure can be under a variety of excitation sources which are not measured but are assumed to be 'broadband random'. The latter is a notion that one needs to apply when developing an ambient identification method. The specific assumptions vary from one method to another. Regardless of the method used, however, proper modal identification requires that the spectral characteristics of the measured response reflect the properties of the modes rather than those of the excitation.
Pros and cons
Implementation economy is one primary advantage of ambient vibration tests as only the (output) vibration of the structure needs to be measured. This is particularly attractive for civil engineering structures (e.g., buildings, bridges) where it can be expensive or disruptive to carry out free vibration or forced vibration tests (with known input).
Identifying modal properties using ambient data does have disadvantages:
The identification methods are more sophisticated. As the loading is not measured, in the development of the identification method, it needs to be modeled (by some stochastic process), or its dynamic effects on the measured response have to be removed. Otherwise, it is not possible to explain the characteristics in the data based solely on the modal properties.
Without loading information, the identified modal properties can have significant identification uncertainties. In particular, the results are as good as the broadband assumption applied.
The identified modal properties only reflect the properties at the ambient vibration level, which is usually lower than the serviceability level or other design cases of interest. This is especially relevant for the damping ratio, which is commonly perceived to be amplitude-dependent.
The measurement system needs to be low-noise and sensitive, since structures mainly vibrate at low levels in their operational conditions.
Methods
Methods of OMA can be broadly classified by two aspects, 1) frequency domain or time domain, and 2) Bayesian or non-Bayesian. Non-Bayesian methods were developed earlier than Bayesian ones. They make use of some statistical estimators with known theoretical properties for identification, e.g., the correlation function or spectral density of measured vibrations. Common non-Bayesian methods include stochastic subspace identification (time domain) and frequency domain decomposition (frequency domain). Bayesian methods have been developed in the time-domain and frequency-domain.
Frequency domain and time domain operational modal analysis of structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20First%20Responder%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's First Responder Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
External links
First Responder
Broadcasters
First Responder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Tropical%20New%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical/Salsa New Artist of the Year is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. It was first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to Nicaraguan singer Luis Enrique. Puerto-Rican American performer Olga Tañón was a nominee in 1993 and eventually became the most awarded performer in Lo Nuestro Awards history, with 22 accolades. American singer Marc Anthony won the following year and also received the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance for the album Contra la Corriente in 1998. Puerto-Rican American artist Elvis Crespo earned the award in 1999, the same year that his songs "Suavemente" and "Tu Sonrisa" peaked at number-one at the Billboard Latin Songs chart. At the 12th Lo Nuestro Awards, Son by Four was named Tropical New Artist of the Year aided by the massive success of their single "A Puro Dolor", which later ranked 1st at the Hot Latin Songs 25th Anniversary chart. Colombian singer-songwriter Fonseca won in 2007 and also earned the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song. In 2013, the Pop, Regional Mexican and Tropical/Salsa New Artist of the Year categories were merged on a Lo Nuestro Award for Best New Artist category in the General Field; however, the following year, the Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical New Artist of the Year was reincorporated.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
See also
Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist
References
Music awards for breakthrough artist
Tropical musicians
Tropical New Artist of the Year
Awards established in 1989
Awards disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Seelig | Georg Seelig is a Swiss computer scientist, bioengineer, and synthetic biologist. He is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in the field of DNA nanotechnology.
Life
He graduated from University of Basel with a Diploma in Physics in 1998 and did his PhD on condensed matter Physics from University of Geneva in 2003. He was a post doctoral associate in the lab of Professor Erik Winfree at California Institute of Technology between 2003 and 2009
. He has won the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2010, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012. He is a part of the Molecular Programming Project.
References
University of Washington faculty
Living people
Swiss computer scientists
Swiss biologists
University of Basel alumni
University of Geneva alumni
Synthetic biologists
DNA nanotechnology people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir%20Khuller | Samir Khuller (born 1965) is a professor of Computer Science and the Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at Northwestern University. He was previously Professor and Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science in the University of Maryland's Department of Computer Science. His research is in the area of algorithm design, specifically on combinatorial optimization, graphs and networks and scheduling.
Biography
Khuller obtained his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and was awarded a PhD in 1990 from Cornell University as a student of Vijay Vazirani. From 1990 to 1992, he was a research associate at UMIACS (the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies), a division of the University of Maryland. In 1992 he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science. He became the Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science in 2012, a position he held until 2017.
He was named a Distinguished Scholar Teacher and received a Google Research Award in 2007.
Khuller joined Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering in March 2019 as the first Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science.
He was named an EATCS Fellow in 2021, and elected to the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association in 2023.
He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to algorithm design with real-world implications and for mentoring and community-building".
References
External links
Samir Khuller
Google Scholar profile
Living people
1965 births
Indian computer scientists
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Northwestern University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samra%20Bukhari | Samra Bukhari is a Pakistani novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She has written several television series for the satellite television networks in Pakistan since 2011 and is also associated with writing for Urdu Journals and Digest. Some of her commercially successful series are Kis Din Mera Viyah Howay Ga (2011), Gohar-e-Nayab (2013), Gul-e-Rana (2015), Ghar Titli Ka Par (2017), Silsilay (2018).
Notable work
Novels
Aainon Kay Dais May
Hum Say Hai Zamana
Apni Manzil Apnay Rastay
Band Honton Ki Baat
Daairon Kay Darmiyan
Dill Da Dais
Hasti Kay Aahang
Chahay Jo Puray Dill Say
Aik Faisla Uska Tha
Dil Kay Andar Ik Rasta Hai
Aabaad Hain Tujh Say Mairay Khwaab
Television series
Hulla Ray
Kis Din Mera Viyah Howay Ga
Jazeera
Meka Aur Susral
Gul-e-Rana
Bholi Bano
Hiddat
Ghar Titli Ka Par
Silsilay
Seep
Lmahay
Piya Naam Ka Diya
Aik Aur Munafiq – Jhatka
Mujhay Vida Kar
Paristan
References
External links
Smara Bukhari at IMDb
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Pakistani novelists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20Charikar | Moses Samson Charikar is an Indian computer scientist who works as a professor at Stanford University. He was previously a professor at Princeton University. The topics of his research include approximation algorithms, streaming algorithms, and metric embeddings. He is known for the creation of the SimHash algorithm used by Google for near duplicate detection.
Charikar was born in Bombay, India, and competed for India at the 1990 and 1991 International Mathematical Olympiads, winning bronze and silver medals respectively. He did his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. In 2000 he completed a doctorate from Stanford University, under the supervision of Rajeev Motwani; he joined the Princeton faculty in 2001.
In 2012 he was awarded the Paris Kanellakis Award along with Andrei Broder and Piotr Indyk for their research on locality-sensitive hashing.
References
External links
Google scholar profile
Indian computer scientists
IIT Bombay alumni
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Living people
20th-century births
Simons Investigator
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University Department of Computer Science faculty
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmela%20%28TV%20series%29 | Carmela: ( Beautiful Girl in the World) is a 2014 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Marian Rivera in the title role and Alden Richards. It premiered on January 27, 2014 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Genesis. The series concluded on May 23, 2014 with a total of 83 episodes. It was replaced by Niño in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Carmela Fernandez / Catarina Bulaong
Alden Richards as Santiago "Yago" Torres Flores
Supporting cast
Agot Isidro as Amanda Fernandez
Jaclyn Jose as Patricia "Trixie" Torres
Rochelle Pangilinan as Yolanda "Yolly" Montesilva
Raymond Bagatsing as Dante Hernando
Roi Vinzon as Fernando Torres
Laurice Guillen as Fides Hernando-Torres
Freddie Webb as Ramon Corpuz
Anna Feleo as Nida Torres
Krystal Reyes as Janine Torres
Recurring cast
Shermaine Santiago as Lily Suarez
Eva Darren as Lola Wagay
RJ Padilla as JP
Barbara Miguel as Linggit
Jennica Garcia as Alliyah Hernando
Marc Justine Alvarez as Bambam
Sandy Talag as Sabel
Mike Lloren as Zaldy
Kenneth Paul Cruz as Wally
Lloyd Samartino as Efren Flores
Guest cast
Ricky Davao as Danilo "Dan" Fernandez
Mona Louise Rey as young Carmela
Stephanie Sol as Mithi
Dex Quindoza as Milo
Shyr Valdez as Choleng
Bea Binene as Eunice
Bryan Benedict as Leo
Giselle Toengi as Odette
Arianne Bautista as Sarah
Mike Gayoso as Dario
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Carmela: earned an 18.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 22.2% rating.
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20School%20of%20Engineering | International School of Engineering (INSOFE) is an Applied Engineering school with area of focus in Data science / Big data analytics. It is located in Hyderabad, Telangana; Bengaluru, Karnataka; and Mumbai, Maharashtra, in India. It opened in 2011. The program is delivered through classroom only sessions and is suitable for students and working professionals.
History
Dr. Dakshinamurthy V Kolluru, Dr. Sridhar Pappu and A S L Ganapathi Kumar started the institution in Hyderabad in mid-2011 and expanded to Bengaluru in early-2016. Initially the school functioned under mentorship of Dr. Dakshinamurthy, Dr. Sridhar and Dr. Sreerama Murthy. They are now supported by a team of additional mentors and in-house data scientists.
The first cohort commenced in mid-2011 with 12 students. INSOFE has since trained over 2000 students from across the globe. In 2012, INSOFE also started corporate training services. It extended operations to Bengaluru in 2016.
Program
Within the field of Applied Engineering, INSOFE's primary focus is on Big data Analytics / Data science, training students in both the engineering and the business aspects of analytics. The quality of content, pedagogy and assessment of INSOFE's CPEE Program is certified by the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Rankings
CIO.com listed INSOFE 3rd in their list of "16 Big Data Certifications That Will Pay Off" consecutively from 2013-2016. Silicon India Magazine listed INSOFE in their list of "Top 5 Big Data Training Institutes 2016". Analytics India Magazine, listed INSOFE in "Top 9 Analytics Training Institutes in India in 2016". KDnuggets mentioned INSOFE in their list of Certificates in Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science in 2014.
Collaborations
In the academic segment, Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, USA has certified INSOFE’s Big Data analytics and optimization program for the quality of Content, Pedagogy and Assessment. INSOFE’s institute-industry collaboration is with Soothsayer Analytics (Detroit, Michigan based A.I. consulting company) to help build a center of excellence in data science. Together they delivered projects for Abercrombie & Fitch, Worthington Steels, Preferred Meals, Dun & Bradstreet etc. In collaboration with iCube, INSOFE developed INTUCEO, an analytics business user interface.
References
Engineering colleges in Hyderabad, India
2011 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20to%20Hell%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Go to Hell" is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on January 22, 2014, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Jessica Sharzer and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.
With Fiona (Jessica Lange)'s deteriorating health, the girls show new powers as Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) searches for Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett). Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, and Danny Huston guest star as Marie Laveau, Queenie, and the Axeman, respectively. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV).
Plot
Fiona tries to persuade Queenie to take a chance at the trial of the Seven Wonders, seven advanced feats of magic a witch must master to ascend as the Supreme. Due to the trials being potentially lethal, Queenie believes that Fiona's urges are only meant to kill her successor, but Fiona insists she simply wishes to enjoy the last weeks of her life peacefully.
Cordelia is searching for the missing Misty Day, trying to evoke a vision to no avail, even upon touching Madison who, trying to avoid her, develops the power of teleportation, one of the Seven Wonders. Cordelia eventually tracks Misty's whereabouts and together with Queenie, they free her from confinement.
Queenie successfully attempts astral projection, one of the Seven Wonders, encounters Papa Legba and convinces him to cancel his deal with Marie Laveau, stripping both Marie and Delphine of their immortality. Queenie finds Delphine posing as a tour guide in her former house, now a museum, and kills her after an unsuccessful attempt to turn her towards goodness. Delphine and Marie are sentenced to spend all eternity in a shared hell for their respective crimes in life.
Receiving a horrific vision of Fiona murdering the Coven, Cordelia alerts the Axeman of Fiona's plans to leave him. Upon Zoe returning to Miss Robichaux's due to believing she is the next Supreme, the witches execute the Axeman and learn he murdered Fiona in a fit of rage. Cordelia decides young witches will all undertake the trials of the Seven Wonders to determine the new Supreme.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 62% approval rating, based on 13 reviews. The critical consensus reads, ""Go to Hell" presents a microcosm of Coven's flaws with a crowded episode whose messy narrative crowds out an effective surprise for a leading character." Matt Fowler from IGN gave the episode a rating of 7.9, adding that, ""Go to Hell" was a more focused episode, with a lot of driving action. It sounded off a few sour notes here and there, but in the end parts of it felt like a season finale." Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club rated the episode a D+, stating, ""Go to Hell" kills off Coven older generation in its entirety, turning things over to the next generation, and I could not give two shits about it." He added, "By far the worst thing any TV show can be is boring, and that goes doubly for a Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk show. But in "Go to Hell", even the outra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Lumia%20630 | The Nokia Lumia 630 is a smartphone developed by Microsoft Mobile that runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. It was announced on 2 April 2014, at Microsoft Build 2014 and scheduled to be released in July 2014. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC with a quad-core processor (MSM8226 or MSM8626) and Adreno 305 GPU. Additionally, it has a 4.5-inch display and a 5 MP camera. The Lumia 635 is similar but 4G-compatible, lacks a dual-SIM version and comes in a different finish, while the Lumia 636 and 638 are identical, but come with 1 GB of RAM (Only 1GB RAM models can upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile) and are currently available only in China and India respectively.
It is the successor of the Nokia Lumia 625, with an improved quad-core processor, but removes the front-facing camera, flash and dedicated camera button. Since the Nokia Lumia 630/635, all of the non-PureView Lumia phones have removed the camera buttons.
On 2 March 2015, Microsoft presented its successor, the Microsoft Lumia 640, with improved 1280x720 HD display, 1 GB of RAM, 8 MP camera with 1080p video recording and LED flash, front-facing camera for selfies and video conference, large 2500 mAh battery, Office 365, Microsoft Outlook and Windows 10 Mobile upgrade ability.
Availability
Nokia launched the Nokia Lumia 630 in India on 12 May 2014, at INR 10,500 along with a dual-SIM variant priced at INR 11,500, both slated to be available from 14 May 2014. In Malaysia it launched at RM549.
In Pakistan the Lumia 630 was announced with Mobilink on 12 May 2014, at the price of 15,990/- PKR
As of 29 May 2014, Nokia announced that the Lumia 630 will be available in the United Kingdom at £89.95 for the single SIM version only. The handset was launched by Carphone Warehouse on 22 May 2014, available for purchase on Pay as you go networks and Pay monthly in green, black, white, yellow and orange.
Nokia also launched the Lumia 630 in the Philippines. It was announced in an event was held at the Bonifacio Global City, Taguig on 13 May 2014, and offered at an affordable price of ₱7,990. It will be available in different colours including bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, white and black.
The Lumia 630 launched in November 2014 for the USA market exclusively for Cricket Wireless. It is available in green and blue and is priced at $100.
The Lumia 630/635 appears to have been discontinued sometime prior to February 2016.
Known issues
The dual-SIM variant of the device has phone call audio loss issues.
The Lumia 635 (AT&T GoPhone Variant) has hardware audio /mic /camera function failure issues after the Lumia Denim or the Windows 10 Mobile over-the-air update.
There is a significant area of dimming along the top of the screen.
Some devices do not allow setting Google as default search.
The Lumia 630 Dual SIM and Lumia 635 get very hot when running for extended periods of time, especially when running Internet Explorer.
Variants
The Nokia Lumia 636 (RM-1027) and 638 (RM-1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Jibran | Syed Jibran (; born 14 October 1979, Jehlum) is a Pakistani actor and entrepreneur. He started his career with Pakistan Television Network. He made his cinema debut with Ghabrana Nahi Hai in 2022.
Early life and education
Born into a Pathan family, he completed year 8 to year 12 at Cadet College Hasanabdal (CCH)- an elite and academically very selective boarding high school located 60km from the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
At CCH, he excelled in several sports, including swimming, basketball, and cricket, and won the highly coveted ‘Best Sportsman of the Year’ award in year 12. He also started acting in school plays from 9 year onwards, and by year 12, he had a solid reputation as a character actor in comedy roles.
After graduating from CCH in 1998, he started his MBBS studies at Bahawalpur Medical College and later transferred to Rawalpindi Medical College, where he completed his MBBS degree.
Personal life
In 2011, he married Afifa Jibran. Together, they have three children - two daughters named Eva Jibran and Isaiah Jibran and one son named Yoel Syed Jibran. There were rumours he was divorced with his wife but this is not ture. He is still happily married.
Career
In 2000, Jibran began to pursue his acting career. During the 3rd year of his studies, he decided to apply for an acting stint on television. He went around for a role in a television drama but was politely refused or put on hold. Finally, in 2001, after eight months of rejections, he was cast in a 2 scene role in a single play, "Hook" for Pakistan Television Network Islamabad, directed by Taufeeq Hussain Shah. He later performed in "Dada in Trouble" for Pakistan Television Network.
After that, his mentor Tariq Meraj ensured he worked on his shortcomings and improved his craft by working with him on many projects. It took him two years to make it to Lahore, where he landed the role of Bond in the famous sitcom Jutt and Bond sitcom for Indus TV. After working for a year on the sitcom, he moved to Karachi, where he performed in the soap operas Tum Mere Ho and Tere Jaanay ke baad.
He currently owns several restaurants.
Filmography
Television
Films
References
1979 births
Living people
Pashtun actors
Punjabi people
Pakistani male television actors
People from Jhelum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Billing | Heinz Billing (7 April 1914 – 4 January 2017) was a German physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector.
Biography
Billing was born in Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. After studying mathematics and physics in University of Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1938 in Munich at the age of 24. During the Second World War he worked in the Aerodynamics Research Institute in Göttingen.
On 3 October 1943 he married Anneliese Oetker. Billing has three children: Heiner Erhard Billing (born 18 November 1944 in Salzwedel), Dorit Gerda Gronefeld Billing (born 27 June 1946 in Göttingen) and Arend Gerd Billing (born 19 September 1954 in Göttingen).
He turned 100 in April 2014 and died on 4 January 2017 at the age of 102. Advanced LIGO detected the fourth gravitational wave event GW170104 on the same day.
Computer science
Billing worked at the Aerodynamic Research Institute in Göttingen, where he developed a magnetic drum memory.
According to Billing's memoirs, published by Genscher, Düsseldorf (1997), there was a meeting between Alan Turing and Konrad Zuse. It took place in Göttingen in 1947. The interrogation had the form of a colloquium. Participants were Womersley, Turing, Porter from England and a few German researchers like Zuse, Walther, and Billing. (For more details see Herbert Bruderer, Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz).
After a brief stay at the University of Sydney, Billing returned to join the Max Planck Institute for Physics in 1951. From 1952 through 1961 the group under Billing's direction constructed a series of four digital computers: the G1, G2, G1a, and G3.
He is the designer of the first German sequence-controlled electronic digital computer as well as of the first German stored-program electronic digital computer.
Gravitational wave detector
After transistors had been firmly established, when microelectronics arrived, after scientific computers were slowly overshadowed by commercial applications and computers were mass-produced in factories, Heinz Billing left the computer field in which he had been a pioneer for nearly 30 years.
In 1972, Billing returned to his original field of physics, at the Max Planck Institute's new location at Garching near Munich. Beginning in 1972, Heinz Billing became involved in gravitational physics, when he tried to verify the detection claims made by American physicist Joseph Weber. Weber's results were considered to be proven wrong by these experiments.
In 1975, Billing acted on a proposal by Rainer Weiss from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) to use laser interferometry to detect gravitational waves. He and colleagues built a 3m prototype Michelson interferometer using optical delay lines. From 1980 onward Billing commissioned the development and construction in MPA in Garching of a laser interferometer with an arm length of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28The%20Drew%20Carey%20Show%29 | "Pilot" is the first episode and the series premiere of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show. It first aired on September 13, 1995, on the ABC network in the United States. The premise of the show revolves around the life Drew Carey would have lived if he had not become a stand-up comedian. The pilot introduces the main characters of Drew (Carey), Kate (Christa Miller), Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader), as well as Drew's workplace, the fictional Winfred-Lauder department store, and enemy Mimi Bobeck (Kathy Kinney).
The pilot was written by series co-creators Carey and Bruce Helford, while Michael Lessac directed. It was shot in April 1995 at the Warner Bros. Television studios in Burbank, California. The episode ranked joint 29th in television programs with the most viewers for the week of September 11–17, 1995. Critical response was mixed, with many comparing the show to the NBC sitcom Friends. Ray Richmond from the Los Angeles Daily News praised Carey's performance, but thought the episode did not click, while Variety's Tony Scott liked the opening sequence and Lessac's "inventive" direction.
Plot
The episode opens with Drew (Drew Carey) and his friends Lewis Kiniski (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald Lee Harvey (Diedrich Bader) in their local bar, the Warsaw Tavern, discussing Brad Pitt. The following day, Drew's best friend Kate O'Brien (Christa Miller) tells him that she has broken up with her boyfriend, who then fired her from her job as a receptionist at his body shop. Desperate for a job, Kate asks Drew to hire her at the Winfred-Louder department store where he is the assistant director of personnel. Drew insists that he cannot hire his friends. At Winfred-Louder, Drew's boss Mr. Bell (Kevin Pollak) asks him to hire someone for a position at the cosmetics counter. While conducting interviews, Drew meets Mimi Bobeck (Kathy Kinney), a hostile woman who wears too much eye shadow. Drew tries to be polite, but Mimi soon realizes he is not going to give her the job and accuses Drew of being sexist. Mimi complains to Mr. Bell about Drew, getting him into trouble.
Later at the Warsaw Tavern, Drew is hanging out with his friends when Mimi walks in and confronts him. Drew talks to her honestly about why she did not get the job, telling her that her attitude is the problem and she has to deal with the fact that her looks might stop her from getting some jobs. Mimi does not like Drew's advice and leaves the bar. Needing to fill the cosmetics position quickly, Drew believes he has found an ideal candidate in Natalie (Natasha Silver) until Kate turns up to apply for the job. Drew admits that he is worried that Kate will hate him if he has to fire her. However, Mr. Bell insists Drew hire Kate, having seen her in the lobby and Drew agrees. Kate later comes to Drew's house to ask him, Lewis and Oswald, which perfume samples to promote. The episode ends with Drew playing pool in his garden in the rain, while the others watch through the window. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio%20Lenzerini | Maurizio Lenzerini (born 14 December 1954) is an Italian professor of computer science and engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti), where he specializes in database theory, Ontology language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning as well as service modeling. He is the author of over 400 peer-reviewed articles, a fellow of both the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence and ACM, and a member of the Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe.
His paper DL-Lite: Tractable Description Logics for Ontologies, written along with Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo and Riccardo Rosati, won the AAAI 2021 Classic Paper Award as "the most influential paper from the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA".
In 2022 he won the prestigious Peter Chen Award.
References
External links
Maurizio Lenzerini on Google Scholar
Maurizio Lenzerini CV
Living people
1954 births
Italian computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianlin%20Cheng | Jianlin (Jack) Cheng is the William and Nancy Thompson Missouri Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He earned his PhD from the University of California-Irvine in 2006, his MS degree from Utah State University in 2001, and his BS degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1994.
His research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. His current research is focused on
protein structure and function prediction, 3D genome structure modeling, biological network construction, and deep learning with applications to big data in biomedical domains.
Dr. Cheng has more than 180 publications in the field of bioinformatics, computational biology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, which have been cited thousands of times according to Google Scholar Citations. He and his students developed one of the first deep learning methods for protein structure prediction and demonstrated that deep learning was the best method for protein structure prediction for the first time in the 10th community-wide Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP10) in 2012. His protein structure prediction methods (MULTICOM) supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) were consistently ranked among the top methods during the last several rounds of the community-wide Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) from 2008 to 2022. Dr. Cheng was a recipient of 2012 NSF CAREER award for his work on 3D genome structure modeling. He is a fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
Selected publications
Chen, C., Chen, X., Morehead, A., Wu, T., Cheng, J. (2023) 3D-equivariant graph neural networks for protein model quality assessment. Bioinformatics, accepted.
Guo, Z., Liu, J., Skolnick, J., Cheng, J. (2022) Prediction of inter-chain distance maps of protein complexes with 2D attention-based deep neural networks. Nature Communications. 13:6963. .
Liu, J., Wu, T., Guo, Z., Hou, J., & Cheng, J. (2022). Improving protein tertiary structure prediction by deep learning and distance prediction in CASP14. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 90(1), 58-72.
Chen, C., Wu, T., Guo, Z., & Cheng, J. (2021). Combination of deep neural network with attention mechanism enhances the explainability of protein contact prediction. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 89(6), 697-707.
Wu, T., Guo, Z., Hou, J., & Cheng, J. (2021). DeepDist: real-value inter-residue distance prediction with deep residual convolutional network. BMC bioinformatics, 22, 1-17.
Hou, J., Wu, T., Cao, R., & Cheng, J. (2019). Protein tertiary structure modeling driven by deep learning and contact distance prediction in CASP13. Protei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Marmotta | Apache Marmotta is a linked data platform that comprises several components. In its most basic configuration it is a Linked Data server. Marmotta is one of the reference projects early implementing the new Linked Data Platform recommendation that is being developed by W3C.
It has been contributed by Salzburg Research from the Linked Media Framework, and continues its versioning, hence starting at version 3.0.0.
Since April 2013, it is listed among the Semantic Web tools by the W3C.
In November 2020, it was retired to the Apache Attic, meaning that the project is no longer being developed.
Components
The project is split in several parts: the platform itself, which includes full Read Write Linked Data, SPARQL, LDP, Reasoning, and basic security. In addition to the platform, the project develops some libraries can also be used separately:
KiWi, a Triplestore built on top of a relational database.
LDPath, a path language to navigate across Linked Data resources.
LDClient, a Linked Data client that allows retrieval of remote resources via different protocols by making use of pluggable adapters (data providers) that wrap other data sources (such as YouTube and Facebook).
LDCache, a cache system that automatically retrieves resources by internally using LDClient.
History
Linked Media Framework (pre-Apache)
Apache Marmotta is the continuation of the open source Linked Media Framework published in early 2012.
Apache Marmotta
On November 16, 2012 it is proposed to the Apache Software Foundation under the name of Apache Linda, later changed to Apache Marmotta in order to avoid confusion with the Linda language.
On 3 December 2012 Marmotta enters incubation.
On April 26, 2013 Marmotta 3.0.0-incubating is released.
On October 3, 2013 Marmotta 3.1.0-incubating is released.
In November 2013, it graduated as top-level project.
In April 2014, the project released its first actual release under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation: 3.2.0 version.
On 5 December 2014, the project published the version 3.3.0.
Notable users
The backend of Salzburger Nachrichten's search and archive is powered by Marmotta.
Enel uses Marmotta for its Open Data portal.
The cloud infrastructure of Redlink is powered by Marmotta.
It is being used by some European research projects such as Fusepool and MICO (Media in Context).
Digital Public Library of America uses Marmotta to run LDP server and RDF repository.
WordLift uses Marmotta as Linked Data backend.
Bibliography
References
External links
Marmotta Incubation Proposal
Apache Marmotta presentation
Apache Marmotta on the W3C
Marmotta
Cross-platform software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Semantic Web
Triplestores |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METIS | METIS is a software package for graph partitioning that implements various multilevel algorithms. METIS' multilevel approach has three phases and comes with several algorithms for each phase:
Coarsen the graph by generating a sequence of graphs G0, G1, ..., GN, where G0 is the original graph and for each 0 ≤ i ≤ j ≤ N, the number of vertices in Gi is greater than the number of vertices in Gj.
Compute a partition of GN
Project the partition back through the sequence in the order of GN, ..., G0, refining it with respect to each graph.
The final partition computed during the third phase (the refined partition projected onto G0) is a partition of the original graph.
References
External links
METIS website
Graph algorithms
Mathematical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s%20Help%20Network | Here's Help Network is a network of Christian radio stations in Missouri and Arkansas, and television stations in Missouri. Here's Help Network is owned by New Life Evangelistic Center, a non-profit serving the area's poor and homeless.
Here's Help Network debuted in September 1982, when its first television station KNLC in St. Louis, Missouri began broadcasting. Here's Help Network is carried on 4 television stations and 8 radio stations.
Stations
Television stations
Radio stations
References
External links
Here's Help Network's official website
Here's Help Network's webcast
American radio networks
Television networks in the United States
Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations in Missouri
Religious television stations in the United States
Television stations in Missouri
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Data%20%28band%29 | Big Data is an American electronic music project created by producer Alan Wilkis. Big Data is best known for the single "Dangerous", featuring Joywave, which reached number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in August 2014, and was certified gold by the RIAA in May 2015.
Big Data's first EP, 1.0, was released on October 1, 2013, on Wilkis's own Wilcassettes label and features the songs "The Stroke of Return", "Dangerous", "Big Dater", and "Bombs over Brooklyn". In early December 2013, they also released a remix EP, 1.5, which included eight remixes of the song "Dangerous", including one by Joywave. Another remix EP, 1.6, was released in late September 2014, and included seven remixes of "Dangerous".
Big Data's first studio album, 2.0, was released on March 20, 2015. Their second album, 3.0, was released on July 26, 2019.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
As lead artist
Promotional singles
Extended plays
References
External links
Official website
Musical groups from Brooklyn
Musical groups established in 2013
Alternative rock groups from New York (state)
Electronic music groups from New York (state)
Warner Records artists
2013 establishments in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCE%20MC-1000 | The MC-1000 CCE Color Computer was a home computer produced in Brazil by CCE (Indústria e Comércio de Componentes Eletrônicos S/A) and released in February 1985. The machine shares some heritage with the GEM 1000 (advertised in Belgium) and the Rabbit RX83, systems produced in Hong-Kong by the firm "Rabbit computers”. The machine was sold up to 1986.
History
The MC-1000 was released In Brazil, in a market already saturated with cheap machines with very similar features. As such, it did not attract much attention even though it was touted as a "Brazilian computer". The fact that it was not a "clone" of similar 8-bit systems (like the Apple, the TRS-80 or even the Sinclair Spectrum) certainly did not contribute to its popularity.
In addition to the poor design and "Chiclet keyboard", the MC-1000 had only 16 KB of RAM (small, even by the standards of 1983). Like the Sinclair Spectrum, the BASIC commands (which were similar to the Apple IIs Applesoft BASIC) were typed by pressing a single key.
GEM 1000 and Rabbit RX83 "clones/predecessors"
The GEM 1000 Junior Computer, also known as the French Charlemagne 999 was an even more obscure (than the MC-1000), low cost toy Home computer for children from 5 years upwards, produced in Taiwan by Rabbit Computers of Hong Kong. It was part of a family consisting of GEM 1000, GEM 2000, GEM 3000 and GEM 4000 systems. In addition to the poor design and "Chiclet keyboard", the GEM 1000 had only 16 KB of RAM (small, even by the standards of 1983). Like the Sinclair Spectrum the commands of the BASIC (similar to the Apple 2's Applesoft BASIC) were typed by pressing a single key. The French Charlemagne 999 system used a version of this BASIC that used French instead of English keywords. The Rabbit RX83 had such little memory, just 2K, that many of the video modes of its "clones" could not be used — it had just the 32×16 8 colors text mode, and 128×64 graphics with 2 background and 3 foreground colors. It was launched at the 1983 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show costing just US$99.
Technical specifications (MC-1000)
CPU: Zilog Z80A, 3.57 MHz
Memory: 16 KB RAM expandable to 64 KB; 8 KB ROM; up-to 6 KB VRAM
Keyboard: 50-key rubber Chiclet keyboard
Display: Motorola MC6847 (32×16 text (8 colors), 128×64, 128×96, 128×192, 256×192 graphics (2 background, 3 foreground colors))
Sound: AY-3-8910 (3 voices and white noise)
Ports: interface cassette recorder 1200BPS, TV output connector, joystick
Emulation
Like similar early home computers, the MC-1000 can be emulated on modern machines.
References
Computers designed in Brazil
Computer-related introductions in 1985
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Home computers
Products introduced in 1985
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode%20of%20Life%20Data%20System | The Barcode of Life Data System (commonly known as BOLD or BOLDSystems) is a web platform specifically devoted to DNA barcoding. It is a cloud-based data storage and analysis platform developed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics in Canada. It consists of four main modules, a data portal, an educational portal, a registry of BINs (putative species), and a data collection and analysis workbench which provides an online platform for analyzing DNA sequences. Since its launch in 2005, BOLD has been extended to provide a range of functionality including data organization, validation, visualization and publication. The most recent version of the system, version 4, launched in 2017, brings a set of improvements supporting data collection and analysis but also includes novel functionality improving data dissemination, citation, and annotation. Before November 16, 2020, BOLD already contained barcode sequences for 318,105 formally described species covering animals, plants, fungi, protists (with ~8.9 million specimens).
BOLD is freely available to any researcher with interests in DNA Barcoding. By providing specialized services, it aids in the publication of records that meet the standards needed to gain BARCODE designation in the international nucleotide sequence databases. Because of its web-based delivery and flexible data security model, it is also well positioned to support projects that involve broad research alliances.
Data release of BOLD mainly originated from a project BARCODE 500K executed by the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Consortium from 2010 to 2015. It aimed for data acquisition of DNA barcode records for 5M specimens representing 500K species. All the specimens collection, sequences assignment, information sorting are contributed by great amount of scientists, collaborators and facilities from nations over the world. Data accumulation increases the accuracy of DNA barcode identification and facilitates the attainment of barcoding of life.
References
External links
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Lincoln | Patrick Denis Lincoln (born 1964) is an American computer scientist leading the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) at SRI International. Educated at MIT and then Stanford, he joined SRI in 1989 and became director of the CSL around 1998. He previously held positions with ETA Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and MCC.
Education and early career
Lincoln received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, with the thesis "DisCoRd distributed combinator reduction, automatic parallelizing compiler" under thesis advisor Rishiyur Nikhil. While pursuing that degree, he held a position in ETA Systems' Software Division from 1982 to 1983; one at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Division C-10 from 1984 to 1985. After graduation, he held a position with MCC from 1986 to 1988 in their Software Technology and Advanced Computer Architecture departments.
Lincoln then attended Stanford University, from 1988 to 1992, earning a Ph.D. in computer science under advisor John Mitchell. Lincoln's doctoral dissertation was "Computational aspects of linear logic".
Later career
In 1989, Lincoln joined SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL). He is the director of SRI's Computer Science Laboratory since 1998 and became Vice-President of Information and Computing Sciences in 2018. He is also the executive director of SRI's program for the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Security Research and Development Center and co-director of the SRI Center for Computational Biology. He also leads numerous multidisciplinary research groups.
In 2013, he was featured in the BBC Horizon episode "Defeating the Hackers" and NOVA episode "Rise of the Hackers" describing his work on secure computing and cortical cryptography. This is focusing on how to store a password in someone's mind that they cannot directly recall; for example, by teaching them to play a song and measuring their reaction times. Those methods are theoretically resistant to rubber-hose cryptanalysis, where a user is coerced to give up a password or other key; if you don't know a password, you can't tell it to someone.
Advisory boards and awards
He has served on the Defense Science Board task force on Science and Technology and of the Defense Science Board task force on Defensive Information Operations. He is serving on several advisory boards, including startups such as Neurome, Relational.AI, Blackhorse.
In 2005, Lincoln was named an SRI Fellow. In 2013, he and collaborators received the Best Paper Award at The 19th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC).
Selected publications
Patrick Lincoln holds over 240 scientific publications. He is amongst the computer scientists whose publications' h-index is above 50
bRIGHT–Workstations of the Future and Leveraging Contextual Models, R Senanayake, G Denker, P Lincoln, International Conference on Human Interface and the Manage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20roads%20in%20the%20Wheatbelt%20region%20of%20Western%20Australia | Highways and main roads in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia form the basis of a road network, which is primarily used by the mining, agriculture, and tourism industries. Main Roads Western Australia maintains and controls these major roads, with offices based in Northam and Narrogin.
There are six main highways through the Wheatbelt that radiate out from Perth:
Brand Highway (north-west to )
Great Northern Highway (north-east to )
Great Eastern Highway (east to )
Great Southern Highway (east to , then south to )
Brookton Highway (east-south-east to )
Albany Highway (south-east to )
A network of main roads connects towns within the Wheatbelt to each other, the highways, and neighbouring regions, with local roads providing additional links and access to smaller townsites. Roads are often named after the towns they connect.
Albany Highway
Albany Highway is a main north-west to south-east highway in the southern Wheatbelt, close to or just outside the region's western edge. It passes through the towns of North Bannister, Crossman, Williams, and Arthur River.
Arthur Road
Arthur Road is a major east-west road linking Arthur River and Wagin, near the southern edge of the Wheatbelt. The western terminus is at Albany Highway, and the eastern terminus is at Great Southern Highway. It is part of State Route 107, which continues west to Bunbury and east to Lake King.
Bindoon Moora Road
Bindoon Moora Road (also referred to as Bindoon–Moora Road or Moora Bindoon Road) is a major north-south road from Bindoon to Moora, in the northern Wheatbelt. The southern terminus is at Great Northern Highway north of the Bindoon townsite, and the northern terminus is at the outskirts of Moora, with the route continuing into the town centre as Padbury Street. It is the southern section of State Route 116, which continues north-west to Dongara.
Brand Highway
Brand Highway is a main north-west to south-east highway in the northern Wheatbelt, parallel to the coast. From Muchea, it travels in a north-westerly direction, passing to the west of Gingin, and through Cataby and Badgingarra. Shortly after the turnoff to Jurien Bay, it leaves the Wheatbelt region.
Brookton Corrigin Road
Brookton Corrigin Road is a major east-west road between Brookton and Corrigin in the Wheatbelt. It is part of State Route 40, which links south-eastern Perth to Ravensthorpe.
Brookton Highway
Brookton Highway is a highway between the south-east of Perth and the Wheatbelt town of Brookton. It passes through Westdale on the way.
Bruce Rock Merredin Road
Bruce Rock Merredin Road is a major north-south road between Bruce Rock and Merredin in the eastern Wheatbelt.
Bruce Rock Quairading Road
Bruce Rock Merredin Road is a major east-west road between Bruce Rock in the east and Quairading in the west. It passes through Yoting and Kwolyin. It runs parallel to Great Eastern Highway, but further south.
Bullfinch Road
Bullfinch Road is a major road in the eastern Wheatbelt, trav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20albums%20of%202014 | The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2014, a total of 33 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which, American R&B singer Beyoncé's self-titled visual album started its peak in late 2013.
The soundtrack to the 2013 Disney film, Frozen was the longest-running number-one album of the year, staying atop the chart for thirteen non-consecutive weeks. Other albums with extended chart runs include Beyoncé's self-titled visual album, Ghost Stories by Coldplay, the Marvel soundtrack Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 and 1989 by Taylor Swift; only three albums spent two weeks on the top position.
The Frozen soundtrack sold 165,000 additional copies in its sixth week upon its week, bringing its sales up to nearly 2.7 million units, becoming the highest-selling album during the debut week. Taylor Swift's 1989 sold 1.28 million copies in its first week, making it the second album with the highest sales during the opening week, since 2002 when Eminem's third album, The Eminem Show opened up with 1.3 million.
Chart history
See also
2014 in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2014
List of Billboard number-one country albums of 2014
References
External links
Current Billboard 200 chart
Billboard Chart Archives – Billboard 200 (2014)
2014
United States Albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202014%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2014 in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2014
References
External links
Current Digital Songs chart
United States Digital Songs
2014
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactiveX | ReactiveX (also known as Reactive Extensions) is a software library originally created by Microsoft that allows imperative programming languages to operate on sequences of data regardless of whether the data is synchronous or asynchronous. It provides a set of sequence operators that operate on each item in the sequence. It is an implementation of reactive programming and provides a blueprint for the tools to be implemented in multiple programming languages.
Overview
ReactiveX is an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams.
Asynchronous programming allows programmers to call functions and then have the functions "callback" when they are done, usually by giving the function the address of another function to execute when it is done. Programs designed in this way often avoid the overhead of having many threads constantly starting and stopping.
Observable streams (i.e. streams that can be observed) in the context of Reactive Extensions are like event emitters that emit three events: next, error, and complete. An observable emits next events until it either emits an error event or a complete event. However, at that point it will not emit any more events, unless it is subscribed to again.
Motivation
For sequences of data, it combines the advantages of iterators with the flexibility of event-based asynchronous programming. It also works as a simple promise, eliminating the pyramid of doom that results from multiple layers of callbacks.
Observables and observers
ReactiveX is a combination of ideas from the observer and the iterator patterns and from functional programming.
An observer subscribes to an observable sequence. The sequence then sends the items to the observer one at a time, usually by calling the provided callback function. The observer handles each one before processing the next one. If many events come in asynchronously, they must be stored in a queue or dropped. In ReactiveX, an observer will never be called with an item out of order or (in a multi-threaded context) called before the callback has returned for the previous item. Asynchronous calls remain asynchronous and may be handled by returning an observable.
It is similar to the iterators pattern in that if a fatal error occurs, it notifies the observer separately (by calling a second function). When all the items have been sent, it completes (and notifies the observer by calling a third function). The Reactive Extensions API also borrows many of its operators from iterator operators in other programming languages.
Reactive Extensions is different from functional reactive programming as the Introduction to Reactive Extensions explains:
It is sometimes called "functional reactive programming" but this is a misnomer. ReactiveX may be functional, and it may be reactive, but "functional reactive programming" is a different animal. One main point of difference is that functional reactive programming operates on values that change continuously over time, while Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202014 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming.
During 2014, nine singles reached number one on the Hot 100; a tenth single, "The Monster" by Eminem featuring Rihanna, began its run at number one in December 2013. Of those ten number-one singles, four were collaborations. In total, thirteen acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with six—Juicy J, John Legend, Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX, Magic! and Meghan Trainor—achieving their first Hot 100 number-one single. Pharrell Williams' "Happy" was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for ten weeks; it subsequently topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100.
In May, Legend's "All of Me" reached number one in its thirtieth week on the Hot 100, earning the distinction of the third-longest ascent to number one after Los del Río's "Macarena" and Lonestar's "Amazed". The song also became the third number-one to feature only piano and vocals, following Adele's "Someone like You" and Bruno Mars' "When I Was Your Man". Azalea became the fourth solo female rapper to top the chart when "Fancy" reached number one in June, a feat previously achieved only by Lauryn Hill, Lil' Kim and Shawnna. In its sixth of seven weeks on top, "Fancy" became the longest-reigning single by a female rapper on the chart.
Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" reached number one in November, ending the run of Swift's own "Shake It Off". In doing so, Swift became the first female artist in the history of the Hot 100, and tenth act overall, to replace herself at the top of the chart. With "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space", Swift was also the only artist to notch multiple number-ones in 2014.
2014 was also the first year in 18 years to have all of its number-one singles that topped the chart that year enter the decade-end top 100 in the 2010s, after all of the number-one songs from 1996 made the decade-end top 100 of the 1990s. (The Monster did not make the decade-end top 100, but started its peak position in 2013.)
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2014 in American music
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2014
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2014
References
External links
United States Hot 100
2014
Hot 100 number-one singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20literal | A character literal is a type of literal in programming for the representation of a single character's value within the source code of a computer program.
Languages that have a dedicated character data type generally include character literals; these include C, C++, Java, and Visual Basic. Languages without character data types (like Python or PHP) will typically use strings of length 1 to serve the same purpose a character data type would fulfil. This simplifies the implementation and basic usage of a language but also introduces new scope for programming errors.
A common convention for expressing a character literal is to use a single quote (') for character literals, as contrasted by the use of a double quote (") for string literals. For example, 'a' indicates the single character a while "a" indicates the string a of length 1.
The representation of a character within the computer memory, in storage, and in data transmission, is dependent on a particular character encoding scheme. For example, an ASCII (or extended ASCII) scheme will use a single byte of computer memory, while a UTF-8 scheme will use one or more bytes, depending on the particular character being encoded.
Alternative ways to encode character values include specifying an integer value for a code point, such as an ASCII code value or a Unicode code point. This may be done directly via converting an integer literal to a character, or via an escape sequence.
See also
String literal
XML Literals
– for multicharacter literals
References
Character encoding
Data types |
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