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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WROV-HD2 | WROV-HD2 (96.3 MHz) is an all-news radio station, aimed at African-American listeners and licensed to Martinsville, Virginia. It carries the Black Information Network and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The HD-2 digital subchannel feeds 250-watt FM translator W244AV at 96.7 MHz in Blacksburg, Virginia.
History
On February 8, 2018, WROV-HD2 rebranded as "Alt 96".
On November 18, 2020, WROV-HD2 and W244AV changed their format from alternative rock to African-American-oriented news, branded as "Roanoke's BIN 96.7." Programming comes from the Black Information Network. The alternative rock format continues on 104.9 WSTV-HD2 and W245BG.
Translator
WROV-HD2 is relayed by an FM translator to widen its broadcast area.
Previous logo
References
External links
Roanoke's BIN 96.7 Online
ROV-HD2
IHeartMedia radio stations
Black Information Network stations
All-news radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20%28academic%20company%29 | Meta ULC was a Canadian unlimited liability corporation performing big data analysis of scientific literature, which was acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and shut down in 2021, effective in 2022.
History
Beginning
Meta Inc., formerly Sciencescape Inc., was founded in 2010 by Sam and Amy Molyneux. Before co-founding Meta, Sam Molyneux studied cancer genomics at the Ontario Cancer Institute at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. The service was developed with the intention of curating the millions of articles in the area of academic publishing.
The company was headquartered in Redwood City, California (formerly Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and operated Meta Science, a literature discovery platform.
As of September 2016, Meta had analyzed over 26 million papers and profiled 14 million researchers. Using natural language processing, Meta scans articles - as well as the millions of articles stored in open-access repositories - collecting information about authors, citations and topics. Participating publishers receive exposure for their journals in return. These include the American Medical Association, BioMed Central, Elsevier, Karger, SAGE Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, and the Royal Society. The technology for the platform was developed via a joint partnership between Meta and SRI International.
Merge with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Meta merged with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2017, marking the Initiative's first acquisition.
Shutdown
On October 28, 2021, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced the sunset of Meta, with a proposed shutdown date of March 31, 2022.
Features and specifications
Meta includes coverage of the biomedical sciences with real-time updates from PubMed and other sources. The website provides access to over 22 million papers with publication dates as early as the 1800s. By sifting through papers and learning from user behavior, the service pinpoints key pieces of research and provides relevant search results. Meta also provides visualizations about a field of research by organizing papers by their date of publication and citation count and then presenting the information in a way that allows users to quickly identify key historical papers.
The Meta Science research platform uses algorithms that allow users to sort new publications according to subject matter. Users can subscribe to feeds for areas of research including biology, genes, diseases, genetic disorders, drugs, people, labs & institutes, and journals.
References
External links
Science education
Research projects
Technology companies established in 2010
Technology companies disestablished in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priya%20Narasimhan | Priya Narasimhan is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is also the CEO and founder of YinzCam, a U.S.-based technology company that provides the mobile fan experience for a number of professional sports teams and leagues in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Biography
Narasimhan was born in India and lived in Zambia, in Africa. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and received the 2000 Lancaster Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for her research in the area of developing mechanisms to provide fault-tolerance transparently (i.e., with no code modifications) to existing distributed applications. In 2001, she moved to Pittsburgh to join Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member, where her academic interests include dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerance, embedded systems, mobile systems and sports technology. Her spare time is devoted to watching professional(American) football and ice-hockey games. She became a fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins upon moving to Pittsburgh in 2001. She is also a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Awards
Lancaster Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2000
National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, 2003
Alfred Sloan Fellowship, 2007
Student-voted Eta Kappa Nu Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008
Carnegie Science Emerging Female Scientist Award, 2009
Carnegie Mellon Benjamin Teare Teaching Award, 2009
Lutron Electronics Spira Teaching Award
ad:tech Innovation Award, 2011
New Company Executive International Bridge Award, Global Pittsburgh
Innovator of the Year in Consumer Products, Pittsburgh Tech Council, 2016
2016 Gamechanger, Sports Business Journal
Heinz History Center's History Maker in Innovation, 2017.
Research and Entrepreneurship
Her Ph.D. research was commercialized through Eternal Systems, Inc., a company where she served as Chief Technology Officer and the Vice-President of Engineering to transform her Ph.D. research into products for commercial use. Her research led to the development of 24x7 highly available platforms and solutions for data centers, large online systems and deeply embedded systems.
She has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University since 2001. She has served as co-director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University and headed the Intel Science and Technology Centre in Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University. She has written and published more than 150 research papers on distributed systems and fault tolerance, research that led to the development of the Fault Tolerant CORBA industrial standard. With her Ph.D. students at Carnegie Mellon, she has worked on research in the areas of failure diagnosis, mobile edge computing, adaptive fault-tolerance, live software upgrades, static analysis, and m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20network%20%28evolution%29 | A neutral network is a set of genes all related by point mutations that have equivalent function or fitness. Each node represents a gene sequence and each line represents the mutation connecting two sequences. Neutral networks can be thought of as high, flat plateaus in a fitness landscape. During neutral evolution, genes can randomly move through neutral networks and traverse regions of sequence space which may have consequences for robustness and evolvability.
Genetic and molecular causes
Neutral networks exist in fitness landscapes since proteins are robust to mutations. This leads to extended networks of genes of equivalent function, linked by neutral mutations. Proteins are resistant to mutations because many sequences can fold into highly similar structural folds. A protein adopts a limited ensemble of native conformations because those conformers have lower energy than unfolded and mis-folded states (ΔΔG of folding). This is achieved by a distributed, internal network of cooperative interactions (hydrophobic, polar and covalent). Protein structural robustness results from few single mutations being sufficiently disruptive to compromise function. Proteins have also evolved to avoid aggregation as partially folded proteins can combine to form large, repeating, insoluble protein fibrils and masses. There is evidence that proteins show negative design features to reduce the exposure of aggregation-prone beta-sheet motifs in their structures.
Additionally, there is some evidence that the genetic code itself may be optimised such that most point mutations lead to similar amino acids (conservative). Together these factors create a distribution of fitness effects of mutations that contains a high proportion of neutral and nearly-neutral mutations.
Evolution
Neutral networks are a subset of the sequences in sequence space that have equivalent function, and so form a wide, flat plateau in a fitness landscape. Neutral evolution can therefore be visualised as a population diffusing from one set of sequence nodes, through the neutral network, to another cluster of sequence nodes. Since the majority of evolution is thought to be neutral, a large proportion of gene change is the movement though expansive neutral networks.
Robustness
The more neutral neighbours a sequence has, the more robust to mutations it is since mutations are more likely to simply neutrally convert it into an equally functional sequence. Indeed, if there are large differences between the number of neutral neighbours of different sequences within a neutral network, the population is predicted to evolve towards these robust sequences. This is sometimes called circum-neutrality and represents the movement of populations away from cliffs in the fitness landscape.
In addition to in silico models, these processes are beginning to be confirmed by experimental evolution of cytochrome P450s and B-lactamase.
Evolvability
Interest in the interplay between genetic drift and selection has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Morocco%20%282004%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco is a world music compilation album originally released in 2004. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release covers the music of Morocco, which had been receiving new-found attention on the world music circuit in the early 2000s. The compilation was curated by Andy Morgan, former manager of Tinariwen and organizer of the Festival in the Desert. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, was the producer. This album was followed by a second edition, which covered the same topic by showcasing different artists.
Critical reception
The compilation's release was met with positive reviews. Robert Christgau described "minimal" tunes and spare textures, noting inconsistency from track to track. This diversity was praised by AllMusic's Adam Greenberg, who called the curative decision to include all major genres "admirable".
Track listing
References
2004 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
World music albums by Moroccan artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finswimming%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Finswimming in the United Kingdom (UK) is practised at both regional and national level via a network of clubs affiliated to a national body, the British Finswimming Association (BFA).
Governance
British Finswimming Association
The BFA is considered by proponents of finswimming being as the National Governing Body for Finswimming in the United Kingdom. However, as of November 2013, the British government recognises the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) as being the National Governing Body responsible for this sport.
The BFA was formed in 1999 following the creation of the British Underwater Sports Association in 1998 as a body to represent British underwater sports to the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) following the expulsion of the BSAC as the CMAS affiliate for the UK.
BFA's membership of the BUSA entitles it to compete in international competitions conducted under the auspices of CMAS.
The BFA is club-based organisation managed on a day-to-day basis by an executive committee. Its services include the provision of public liability insurance and access to a coaching program.
Clubs
As of April 2017, competition at a regional level within the UK is offered by the following clubs:
ASKA Club (Chester)
FinWorld Finswimming Club (London)
Hampshire Spitfires (Hampshire)
Neptune Finswimming Club (Bristol)
Northern Lights Finswimming Club (Newcastle and North Tyneside)
LondonFin Swimming and Finswimming Club (London)
Competitions
Regional
Regional competition is offered by the BFA club system.
National
There is an annual National Short Course (25 m pool) Finswimming Championships in the United Kingdom, which are traditionally held at the Edenbridge Leisure Centre, Edenbridge, Kent in November. As of 2007, the annual National Long Course (50 m pool) Finswimming Championships have been held; the first being held in Aldershot, Hampshire.
International
British finswimmers compete at international level including events offered within Europe at both national and continental level, and events offered within the sporting framework associated with the Commonwealth of Nations.
See also
References
External links
British Finswimming Association homepage
Information resource about finswimming in the UK
Cassandra at the "BFA Short Course and Student National Championship” 2011
Finswimming Gala in Bristol, 7/12/2013
Finswimming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20Moncrieff | Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and academic. She is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and a leading figure in the Critical Psychiatry Network. She is a prominent critic of the modern 'psychopharmacological' model of mental disorder and drug treatment, and the role of the pharmaceutical industry. She has written papers, books and blogs on the use and over-use of drug treatment for mental health problems, the mechanism of action of psychiatric drugs, their subjective and psychoactive effects, the history of drug treatment, and the evidence for its benefits and harms. She also writes on the history and politics of psychiatry more generally. Her best known books are The Myth of the Chemical Cure and The Bitterest Pills.
Career
Moncrieff qualified in medicine from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989. She trained in psychiatry in London and southeast England during the 1990s, becoming an MRCPsych in 1994. In 2001 she received an MD (in the United Kingdom, an advanced research doctorate) from the University of London. From 2001 for 10 years she was the consultant for a psychiatric rehabilitation unit for people with severe and enduring mental disorders. She works as a consultant in adult community psychiatry at the North East London NHS Foundation Trust, and she is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, having previously been a senior lecturer in the Division of Psychiatry. She is also currently the Principal Investigator for the NIHR-funded RADAR (Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction) study.
Dr Moncrieff is a founding member and the co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network. This is a group of psychiatrists from around the world who are sceptical of the idea that mental disorders are simply brain diseases and who campaign to reduce the influence of the pharmaceutical industry and find alternatives to narrow, medical model based practice.
Professor Moncrieff stood in the Ingatestone, Fryerning and Mountnessing: Brentwood council election in 2021 and 2022 as the Labour Party candidate, but was not elected.
Research and writing
The role of drugs in modern psychiatry
Moncrieff's work challenges the idea that drugs or medications have specific effects on underlying diseases or abnormalities. She is known for challenging the theory that mental disorders are caused by chemical imbalances. She shows that there is little evidence for serotonin abnormalities in depression, or dopamine abnormalities in psychosis or schizophrenia. She traces the history of the idea that psychiatric drugs are magic bullets and she explores the role of the pharmaceutical industry, the psychiatric professional and the state in fostering this model. She has documented the increasing rates of prescriptions of psychiatric drugs over the last decade, and analysed the way the pharmaceutical industry has created conditions like adult ADHD and the ‘new bipolar dis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumia | Jumia is a Pan-African technology company that is built around a marketplace, logistics service and payment service. The logistics service enables the delivery of packages through a network of local partners while the payment services facilitate the payments of online transactions within Jumia’s ecosystem. It has partnered with more than 100,000 active sellers and individuals and it competes at various levels, indirectly with retailers such as Jiji and Maybrands limited, and is a direct competitor to Konga in Nigeria, and Amazon and Noon in Egypt.
History
In 2012, Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec, ex-McKinsey consultants, founded Jumia along with Tunde Kehinde and Raphael Kofi Afaedor.
Jumia was launched in Nigeria in 2012 and expanded to five other countries: Egypt, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Kenya and South Africa. In 2014, the company launched offices in Tunisia, Tanzania , Ghana , Cameroon , Algeria and Uganda , and by 2018 it was present in 14 African countries. In Egypt, Jumia has been trying to categorize itself as one of the leading e-commerce websites.
In June 2013, Jumia launched Jumia Travel, a hotel booking platform, and Jumia Food, a food delivery platform. Jumia Deals was launched in April 2015. In 2017, Jumia launched Jumia One, an app that enables customers to pay bills such as airtime. The same year, Jumia launched JumiaPay, a secure payment for people to shop on all Jumia services. This was followed by the Jumia lending program, an initiative that allows its vendors to access business loans.
In South Africa, Jumia operates under the brand name Zando (zando.co.za), focusing only on online fashion retail.
At the end of 2015, the founders of Jumia appointed Juliet Anammah as the CEO of Jumia Nigeria so that they could concentrate on global control of the company. Massimiliano Spalazzi took over from Juliet as CEO in Nigeria in January 2020 and Juliet was appointed as the chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and the Head of Institutional Affairs, Africa.
In 2015, Jumia generated $234 million in revenue, which stands for a 265% growth from 2014.
In 2016, Jumia became the continent’s first unicorn being valued over 1 billion USD.
In late November 2018, Jumia partnered with cryptocurrency company Telcoin to enhance payment service capabilities throughout their areas of operation. The same month, Jumia and Carrefour signed a partnership to sell online products in Africa.
In April 2019, Jumia went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and raised $196 million in net proceeds. The share price, initially offered at $14.50, rose more than 200% in the first three trading sessions. The first analyst papers release 21 days after the IPO rated the company at stock targets between 27 and 40 USD. After reaching a peak of nearly $50 on 1 May 2019, the share value has declined to under $5/share by year's end.
In November 2019, Jumia announced the suspension of its e-commerce operations in Cameroon effective on 18 November as the company conclud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20World%20Premiere%20HD | Star World Premiere HD was a 24-hour English language television channel, launched on 24 September 2013. It is owned by Disney Star and Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific, two subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company. The channel primarily airs popular shows from the United States and the United Kingdom.
The channel closed on 15 March 2023, along with Star World and Star World HD.
History
Star World Premiere launched in India on 24 September 2013. Broadcasting in HD only, the premium, ad-free channel was available only by A la carte pay television.
The channel was a companion to Star World, to air the latest seasons of popular English shows in India within 24 hours of their US broadcast. As part of the marketing strategies for the channel, premiere episodes of the latest seasons of shows like Glee, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Sleepy Hollow, The Blacklist etc. were aired in India a day before their US broadcast.
In October 2021, it was reported that Star India's this channel along with Star World (India) (both SD and HD feed) would shut down on 30 November 2021, though it was delayed over a year due to delays in implementation of new tariff rules by TRAI. The channel shut down on 15 March 2023.
International distribution
Star World Premiere launched in Sri Lanka in 2015, replacing Star Movies HD. The Sri Lankan market was initially considered to be profitable due to the lack of American programming broadcasters in the country, but the channel was later pulled due to the lack of viewership.
Programming
The channel mainly aired shows from the US, along with a few popular British series. A few of these shows were later aired in syndication on Star World.
References
External links
STAR World Premiere
English-language television stations in India
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023
Defunct television channels in India
Disney Star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shijiazhuang%20Metro | Shijiazhuang Metro (; branded as SJZ Metro) is a rapid transit system in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China.
Network
Line 1
Line 1, opened on 26 June 2017. It is 34.3 kilometers in length with 26 underground stations.
Line 2
Line 2, opened on 26 August 2020. It is 15.5 kilometers in length with 15 underground stations.
Line 3
Line 3, opened on 26 June 2017. It is 26.7 kilometers in length with 22 underground stations.
Background
Planning and preparation for construction began in 2001 and 2008 respectively, but was delayed due to the world economic crisis. The projected was approved by National Development and Reform Commission and included in the urban rail development project 2012–2020.
Construction of the first metro station at the Shijiazhuang railway station started in September 2012. Construction at other sites began on 14 May 2013.
Lines 1, 2 and 3 have, in total, 52 stations, 59.1 km length and will cost 42.19 billion yuan to construct.
Phase 1 of Line 1, has 20 stations and is 23.9 km in length. Phase 2 of Line 1 has 8 stations and is 13.495 km in length. Only 6 stations in Phase 2, from Xiaohedadao to Fuze (10.4 km) are operational.
Line 3, has 22 stations and is 26.7 km in length.
Line 2, has 15 stations and is 15.5 km in length. It was opened on 26 August 2020.
Line 1 runs from west to east and then to the north of city. Line 3 runs from north-west to south-east and then eastwards. Each line intersects other two. Lines 1 and 3 intersects at Xinbaiguangchang. The stations of these two lines were named in January 2013. Line 2 runs from north to south.
Future Development
Under construction
Planned
There will be 63.6 km of new lines in the Phase 2 construction plan of Shijiazhuang Metro, including Line 1 (Phase 3), Line 4, Line 5 (Phase 1), Line 6 (Phase 1).
Network map
References
External links
Official site
Shijiazhuang Metro on UrbanRail.net
Rail transport in Hebei
Shijiazhuang
Underground rapid transit in China
2017 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieCode | MovieCode (full title Source Code in TV and Films) is a website revealing the meanings of computer program source code depicted in film, established in January 2014.
It runs via microblogging site Tumblr, with its owner accepting examples submitted by readers. Its contents include examples of code and their origins and/or meanings.
History
The site was launched on 2014 via microblogging service Tumblr. It was conceived by programmer and writer John Graham-Cumming to address questions around what the source code seen in films actually does.
Graham-Cumming was inspired to create the blog by Neill Blomkamp's 2013 film
Elysium, which uses an extract from an Intel manual. He posted a comparison image related to the film on Twitter, which prompted more than 500 retweets. He then created the blog. The site's full title of Source Code in TV and Films is sometimes shortened to MovieCode, that being the Tumblr subdomain.
A companion website, Behind The Screens, covers some of the entries on MovieCode in great detail in the form of short videos.
Features
The site's intention is to connect screenshots to specific extracts of original code. The author accepts examples submitted by readers for future publication.
Reception
The site was reported by the BBC as having received more than 10,000 hits 10 days after its launch.
The German edition of Engadget was noted for its web site's HTML code being used in Duane Clark's 2011 TV series XIII, while it was noted elsewhere that movie code is frequently taken from web sites, including Wikipedia and a Canadian bank.
It was noted that instead of using "random code" (which is often the case) sometimes more appropriate code is used. Some cited examples are James Cameron's 1984 film The Terminator (using assembly language for the 1975 MOS 6502 microprocessor), Eric Kripke's 2012 TV series Revolution (using code from Jordan Mechner's 1989 video game Prince of Persia) and David Fincher's 2011 film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (using MySQL).
See also
Starring the Computer
References
British film websites
Science fiction websites
Internet properties established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B1%20%28archive%20format%29 | B1 is an open archive file format that supports data compression and archiving. B1 files use the file extension ".b1" or ".B1" and the MIME media type application/x-b1. B1 incorporates the LZMA compression algorithm.
B1 archive combines a number of files and folders into one or more volumes, optionally adding compression and encryption. Construction of the B1 archive involves creating a binary stream of records and building volumes of that stream. The B1 archive format supports password-based AES-256 encryption.
B1 files are created and opened with its native open-source B1 Pack Tool, as well as B1 Free Archiver utility.
B1 Pack Project
B1 Pack is an open-source software project that produces a cross-platform command-line tool and a Java library for creating and extracting file archives in the B1 archive format. Source code of the project is published at GitHub.
B1 Pack Project is released under the Apache License. The B1 Pack Tool module builds a single executable JAR file which can create, list, and extract B1 archive files from a command-line interface.
B1 format features
Support for Unicode names for files inside an archive.
Archives and the files inside it can be of any size.
Support for split archives, that consist of several parts.
Integrity check with the Adler-32 algorithm.
Data compression using the LZMA algorithm.
Supports encryption with the AES algorithm.
API features
Instant creation of an archive without reading from/writing to a file system.
Producing only a byte range of an archive, e.g. for resuming downloads.
Streaming archive content without prior knowledge of all the files being packaged.
References
External links
B1 Pack Project
Archive formats
Open formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20routes%20in%20Zone%208%20of%20the%20National%20Cycle%20Network | This is a list of National Cycle Routes in Zone 8 of the numbering scheme. Known as the Lôn Las Cymru, fully open and signed between Cardiff and Holyhead (Anglesey) via Brecon, Builth Wells, Machynlleth, Porthmadog and Bangor.
Single- and double-digits
Triple-digits
References
National Cycle Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rough%20Guide%20albums | This is a list of World Music Network's "Rough Guide" albums. Most of the titles in the series begin with the phrase "The Rough Guide to" or "The Rough Guide to the Music of", and so these phrases are not shown in the titles listed below; those lacking such phrases (typically benefit or compilation albums) are still designated as part of the series by their catalogue number prefix, "RGNET".
References
Lists of albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Tropical%20Contemporary%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Traditional Performance is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards were 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 name was changed in 2013 to Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Contemporary Artist of the Year.
The award was first presented to Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives in 2001. American band Aventura holds the record for the most awards with six, and most nominations with eight. Dominican singer Andy Andy and Colombian performer Fonseca are the most nominated performer without a win, with four unsuccessful nominations each.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners and nominees of the award for each year.
Multiple wins/nominations
See also
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album
References
Tropical Contemporary Artist of the Year
Tropical musicians
Awards established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20Pro%2010.1 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 is a 10.1-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the new generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series and Pro tablets, which also includes an 8.4-inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, a 12.2-inch Tab model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, and 12.2 inch Note model, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. It was announced on 6 January 2014. In the US it was released in February, starting at $499.
History
The Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 was announced on 6 January 2014. It was shown along with the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2, Tab Pro 12.2, and Tab Pro 8.4 at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It was released internationally on 6 March 2014.
Features
The Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 is released with Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz UX software. As well as the standard suite of Google apps, it has Samsung apps such as ChatON, S Suggest, S Voice, Smart Remote (Peel) and All Share Play.
The Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 is available in both Wi-Fi-only and 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model(the 32 GB has yet to be released and no date is available at this time), with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has a 10.1-inch WQXGA TFT screen with a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels and a pixel density of 299 ppi. It also features a 2 MP front camera and an 8 MP rear-facing camera. It also has the ability to record HD videos.
References
External links
Manual de Usuario Oficial
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2014
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20Pro%2012.2 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 is a 12.2-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the new generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series and Pro tablets, which also includes an 8.4-inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, a 10.1-inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1, and another 12.2 inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. It was announced on 6 January 2014.
It was launched on March 9, 2014 with a price from $649 in the US.
History
The Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 was announced on 6 January 2014. It was shown along with the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2, Tab Pro 10.1, and Tab Pro 8.4 at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Features
The Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 is released with Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz UX software. As well as the standard Google apps, it has Samsung Apps such as ChatON, S Suggest, S Voice, Smart Remote (Peel) and All Share Play.
The Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 is available in Wi-Fi-only, and 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi variants. Storage ranges from 32 GB to 64 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has a 12.2-inch WQXGA TFT screen with a resolution of 2560x1600 pixel. It also features a 2 MP front camera and an 8 MP rear-facing camera. It also has the ability to record HD videos.
See also
Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4
Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1
Samsung Galaxy TabPro S
References
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2014
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSAT | The Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) is a set of computer programs for simulating agricultural crop growth. It has been used in over 100 countries by agronomists for evaluating farming methods. One application has been assessing the possible impacts on agriculture of climate change and testing adaptation methods.
DSSAT is built with a modular approach, with different options available to represent such processes as evapotranspiration and soil organic matter accumulation, which facilitates testing different representations of processes important in crop growth. The functionality of DSSAT has also been extended through interfaces with other software such as GIS. DSSAT typically requires input parameters related to soil condition, weather, any management practices such as fertilizer use and irrigation, and characteristics of the crop variety being grown. Many common crops have their characteristics already implemented as DSSAT modules.
DSSAT grew out of the International Benchmark Sites Network for Agrotechnological Transfer (IBSNAT) in the 1980s, with the first official release in 1989. Version 4, released in 2003, introduced a more modular structure and added tools for agricultural economic analysis and risk assessment. Development has continued in affiliation with the International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA).
Notes
External links
DSSAT website
Agronomy
Environmental science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20WW%20class | {{DISPLAYTITLE:NZR WW class}}
The New Zealand WW class was a class of 4-6-4T tank locomotives that operated on the New Zealand national railway network. They were built for New Zealand Railways Department (NZR), and were the final development of the six-coupled tank engine in New Zealand, the penultimate class of tank locomotives to be built for NZR, and the first class of tank locomotives to be built with superheaters.
Introduction
The WW class were based on the earlier WG class 4-6-4T tank locomotives, but with a reduced boiler pressure of 180psi and larger cylinders. The initial batch comprising locomotives WW 556-575 were built at Hillside Workshops in 1913, and initially carried the WG classification before being reclassified as the WW class, the 'W' indicating that these locomotives were intended for suburban work in Wellington.
Following the success of the first twenty locomotives, Hillside delivered a further thirty locomotives which were classified WW from new. A further fourteen locomotives were rebuilt from the WG class at Hutt Workshops in two batches between 1940–42 and 1950-52.
Although most of the class were built with piston valves, WW 565 was delivered with slide valves, which were not suited to superheated steam, leading to their replacement with standard piston valves.
In service
The WW class demonstrated to be extremely versatile in service, being capable of handling almost any task. Initially both Auckland and Wellington received allocations of these locomotives which were used in suburban passenger service and occasionally on goods work; later allocations saw engines of this class allocated to the West Coast at Westport and Greymouth. Here, the locomotives worked mostly on coal trains and occasionally hauled branch line passenger services.
During the early 1950s, the decision was made to fit new higher-pitched boilers with deeper fireboxes to four WG class locomotives, Nos. 479, 480, 486 and 488, as a trial when they were rebuilt to WW class specifications. This required a new type of smokebox saddle, cab and enlarged coal bunker. This alteration was deemed to be successful, adding an extra 100 sq. ft. of heating surface; rather than rebuild the remaining six WGs due to the poor condition of their frames, NZR decided to rebuild twelve existing WW class locomotives, Nos. 571, 573-575, 644, 669, 672, 678-680, 683-684.
During the early 1960s, several of the WW class locomotives transferred from the North Island to Greymouth were altered to operate on the Rewanui Incline by the provision of 'trap-door' cowcatchers to clear the centre rail and additional air reservoirs on the tops of the side tanks. Following the removal of the centre rail in 1966, the locomotives' extra reservoirs were removed and the original brake pump was replaced by two larger pumps, one on each side of the smokebox.
Withdrawal
The first member of the WW class to be withdrawn was WW 491, which was withdrawn in August 1955 for use as a sectionalised a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joko%20gegen%20Klaas%20%E2%80%93%20Das%20Duell%20um%20die%20Welt | Joko gegen Klaas – Das Duell um die Welt (English: Joko vs. Klaas – The Battle around the World) is a German reality series, broadcast on the German television network ProSieben on prime time.
It is a show that pins its two stars against one another in a series of challenges all over the globe. Hosts Joachim ‘Joko’ Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf give each other a series of outrageous and tough challenges in countries all over the world; they know where they're going but have no idea what they will have to do until they get there. It is a travel game show and reality series where each host tries to push the other to their limits in an attempt to be crowned the "world champion" by taking on all the obstacles and coming out on top as the one who has won the battle for world domination.
Since the 6 season, the show were done in two teams (Team Joko and Team Klaas). Joko and Klaas sent several German celebrities from the other team to the challenges around the world. So both only did the challenge in the TV-studio.
Broadcasts
Joko vs. Klaas
Team Joko vs. Team Klaas
Links
https://www.prosieben.de/tv/das-duell-um-die-welt-joko-gegen-klaas
2012 German television series debuts
German-language television shows
ProSieben original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20McAuley | Derek Robert McAuley FREng is a British academic who is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham and director of Horizon Digital Economy Research, an interdisciplinary research institute funded through the RCUK Digital Economy programme. He acted as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords European Union Committee into online platforms, and Chief Innovation Officer during the founding of the Digital Catapult. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and member of the UKCRC, a computing research expert panel of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and BCS.
Academic career
McAuley undertook his PhD in computer science at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory for which his thesis topic was Protocol Design for High Speed Networks. From 1990 to 1995 McAuley was a lecturer at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. In 1995 he became a professor in computer science at the University of Glasgow, a position which he held until 1997. In 2009 he moved to the University of Nottingham as Professor of Digital Economy and director of the Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub.
Career in industry
McAuley returned to Cambridge in July 1997, as co-founder and deputy director of the Cambridge Microsoft Research facility. He then founded Intel Research Cambridge in 2002 and held the position of director until 2005 before undertaking the role as staff architect at Intel's Systems Technology Lab in Oregon. In August 2006, McAuley joined the start-up company XenSource as a senior director prior to its acquisition by Citrix. In 2007 he then moved to Netronome as chief technology officer, a position he held until December 2008.
Research
McAuley's current research expertise is in ubiquitous computing, computer architecture, networking, distributed systems and operating systems. He is also interested in the interdisciplinary issues of ethics, identity, privacy, information policy, legislation and economics within a digital society and has been outspoken on the risks of naive adoption of technology. A full list of recent publications is published on the University of Nottingham website.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202014 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2014, there were 20 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Rockstar" by Canadian Rock band Nickelback, which spent the first two weeks of 2014 atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was Bring Me the Horizon's "Drown".
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2014 was "Centuries", the lead single from Fall Out Boy's sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho, which spent a total of eleven weeks at number one during the year, including a single run of nine consecutive weeks. Royal Blood also spent eleven weeks at number one in 2014, ten of which were for "Little Monster" (the other one for "Out of the Black"). Twin Atlantic spent seven weeks at number one with "Heart and Soul" (five weeks) and "Brothers and Sisters" (two weeks), while The Pretty Reckless were number one for three weeks with "Heaven Knows". Six artists – Nickelback, Guns N' Roses, You Me at Six, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters – were number one on the chart for two weeks in 2014.
Chart history
See also
2014 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2014
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2014 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaad%20Talmidei%20Hatmimim%20Haolami | Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Haolami (or simply The Vaad), is a student organization of the worldwide Chabad Lubavitch Yeshiva network. The Vaad was established in 2001 under the auspices of the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva faculty. Its central office is located at Lubavitch World Headquarters and is directed by Rabbi Tzvi Altein. The regional office in Israel oversees activities for the Israeli Yeshiva network. The Vaad is affiliated with Agudas Chasidei Chabad, the umbrella organisation of the Chabad Lubavitch movement.
Activities
Kinus Hatmimim Haolami is the largest annual gathering of Chabad students. It takes place Yud Shvat, the Yartzeit of the Previous Rebbe and day the Rebbe assumed leadership of Chabad. The gathering is held in Brooklyn and is attended by thousands of students. This event culminates several days of inspirational programs, including seminars, Farbrengens and visiting the Rebbe's Ohel. The event is addressed by leading Rabbis from Yeshivos around the world.
Extensive programs and accommodations for the thousands of guests who visit Brooklyn during the month of Tishrei. Besides providing flights for the guest students and overseeing their study schedule during their visit, the Vaad coordinates a full schedule of classes, lectures, seminars, panels, tours and Farbrengens.
Study campaigns in connection with Yud Aleph Nissan, the birthday of the Rebbe. These campaigns include selected teachings from the Rebbeim that are studied by students during their free time. The students take tests on the material, and are rewarded according to their results.
Study campaigns in connection to Gimmel Tammuz with a similar format.
Study campaigns in connection with Hey Teves.
Network for Talmidim Hashluchim, the student mentors who serve in Yeshivos worldwide. The network provides a support base and resources for the various programs they do. The Vaad coordinates an annual Yom Iyun, day of training, for these students.
Publications
A Chasidisher Derher - a monthly magazine in the English language that covers a large variety of topics. The Derher is read beyond Yeshiva students and is available in communities around the world.
Kovetz Lechizuk Hahiskashrus - a series of periodic booklets in the Hebrew language (usually published in conjunction with holidays) which include talks, letters and pictures of the Rebbe as well as diaries and other items of interest from Chasidim.
Periodic publications marking special days in Chabad history are published and include selected teachings culled from Chabad literature. These study guides are compiled by leading Rabbis and experts in Chabad teachings.
Study guides and material to aide students in the daily study of Rambam's Mishneh Torah
References
External links
Vaadhatmimim.org Official Website with archive of publications
Derher.org Website of A Chassidisher Derher Magazine
Student organizations established in 2001
Chabad-Lubavitch (Hasidic dynasty) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Morocco%20%282012%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco is a world music compilation album originally released in 2012. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release contains two discs: an overview of the music of Morocco—featuring such genres as Chaabi and Malhun—is found on Disc One, while Disc Two features the modern rural-urban fusion band Groupe Mazagan. The compilation was curated by Andy Morgan, former manager of Tinariwen and organizer of the Festival in the Desert. Brad Haynes and Rachel Jackson coordinated the project, and Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, was the producer.
It is the second compilation by this name: the first edition, focusing on the same range of music with entirely different artists, was released in 2004.
Critical reception
The compilation's release was met with positive reviews. Robert Christgau called the record "more aggressive" than the first edition, praising the addition of Moroccan hip hop. We went on to include it in his top albums of 2012. Deanne Sole of PopMatters noted that all performers are men, almost entirely in groups. She did, though, see the appeal of the "bareness" and "forceful exposure" of the tracks.
Track listing
Disc One
Disc Two
All tracks on Disc Two are by Groupe Mazagan, whose music has been described as "chaabi-groove".
References
External links
2012 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
World music albums by Moroccan artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby%20Vision | Dolby Vision is a set of technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories for high dynamic range (HDR) video. It covers content creation, distribution, and playback. It includes dynamic metadata that define the aspect ratio and adjust the picture based on a display's capabilities on a per-shot or even per-frame basis, optimizing the presentation.
Dolby Vision was introduced in 2014, making it the first available HDR format. HDR10+ is a competitor HDR format that also uses dynamic metadata.
Dolby Vision IQ is an update designed to optimize Dolby Vision content according to the ambient light.
Dolby Cinema uses Dolby Vision too, though because of the use of 2.6 gamma and thus 48 nits in SDR cinemas, the 108 nits used in Dolby Cinema is already HDR.
Description
Dolby Vision allows for a maximum resolution of 8K, up to 12-bit color depth, maximum peak brightness of 10,000 nits. However, according to the Dolby Vision white paper, as of 2018 professional reference monitors, such as the Dolby Vision HDR reference monitor, are currently limited to 4,000 nits of peak brightness.
Dolby Vision includes the PQ transfer function, a wide-gamut color space (ITU-R Rec. BT.2020 in YCBCR or IPTPQc2), up to 8K resolution, and for some profiles (FEL) up to 12-bit. It can encode mastering display colorimetry information using static metadata (SMPTE ST 2086) and also provide dynamic metadata (SMPTE ST 2094-10, Dolby format) for each scene or frame.
This dynamic metadata allows adjusting of the image on a scene-by-scene or even frame-by-frame basis. These adjustments, called "trims" in Dolby's support documents, include parameters such as Lift, Gamma, Gain, Saturation, Chroma Weight, and so on. Each set of trims are specific to their respective target displays defined by nits and colorspace. Image aspect ratios can also be defined on a per-shot basis.
Technical details
The Dolby Vision format is capable of representing videos with a peak brightness up to 10,000 cd/m2 and a color gamut up to Rec. 2020. Current displays cannot reproduce the full Dolby Vision brightness and gamut capability. There are no brightness and color gamut capability requirements for consumer displays. When the consumer display has lower color volume than the mastering display, the content is adjusted to the consumer display capability based on the dynamic metadata.
Dolby Vision mastering display require:
EOTF: PQ
Peak brightness: at least 1,000 cd/m2
Black level: at most 0.005 cd/m2
Contrast ratio: at least 200,000:1
Color gamut: at least 99% of P3
Metadata
Dolby Vision metadata include:
L0 (static): Mastering and target display characteristics
L1 (dynamic): Automatically generated
L2 trims (dynamic): Manually generated per frame or per scene
L3 trims (dynamic): Manually generated per frame or per scene (since CMv4.0)
L8 trims (dynamic): Manually generated per frame or per scene (since CMv4.0) (equivalent of L2 trims)
L5: Timeline aspect ratio description
L6 (static and optional) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Morocco | The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco refers to two albums by the World Music Network:
The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco (2004 album)
The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco (2012 album) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Talent%20Network | Greater Talent Network (also known as GTN) was an American speakers bureau based in New York and is currently owned by United Talent Agency. GTN was known for its roster of prominent clients, including authors Nicholas Sparks, Ben Shapiro, Michael Lewis, and P.J. O'Rourke; actors Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover; musicians Paula Abdul and Harry Belafonte; Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell and Kevin Lacz; athletes Alex Rodriguez and Apolo Ohno; sports executives Billy Beane and Bob Myers; national security experts Raymond Kelly, Richard Clarke, and General Wesley Clark; finance/technology disruptor Dan Schulman, and Daniele Weisberg and Carly Zakin, founders of theSkimm.
History
In September 2017, GTN was acquired by global talent and entertainment company United Talent Agency.
Notable clients
Nicholas Sparks
Ben Shapiro
Anthony Zuiker
Paula Abdul
Billy Beane
Carl Bernstein
Wesley Clark
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's
Sebastian Junger
Raymond Kelly
Michael Lewis
Laura Linney
Marcus Luttrell
Marlee Matlin
Bob Myers
Bennet Omalu
Ron Paul
Mo Rocca
Alec Ross
P.J. O'Rourke
Mark Ruffalo
Dan Schulman
Nicholas Sparks
Leigh Anne Tuohy
Jose Antonio Vargas
Jennifer Weiner
References
External links
Greater Talent Network Speakers Bureau
Speakers bureaus
American companies established in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Nyberg | Eric Nyberg is a professor in the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the director for the Master of Computational Data Science (formerly known as the M.S. in Very Large Information Systems).
Nyberg has made significant research contributions to the fields of automatic text translation, information retrieval, and automatic question answering. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992), and his B.A. from Boston University (1983). He has pioneered the Open Advancement of Question Answering, an architecture and methodology for accelerating collaborative research in automatic question answering.
In 2011, Nyberg received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence for his scientific contributions to the field of question answering and his work on the Watson project. He received the BU Computer Science Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award on September 27, 2013.
References
External links
Personal homepage
OAQA Project Homepage
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Machine translation researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20programming | Inductive programming (IP) is a special area of automatic programming, covering research from artificial intelligence and programming, which addresses learning of typically declarative (logic or functional) and often recursive programs from incomplete specifications, such as input/output examples or constraints.
Depending on the programming language used, there are several kinds of inductive programming. Inductive functional programming, which uses functional programming languages such as Lisp or Haskell, and most especially inductive logic programming, which uses logic programming languages such as Prolog and other logical representations such as description logics, have been more prominent, but other (programming) language paradigms have also been used, such as constraint programming or probabilistic programming.
Definition
Inductive programming incorporates all approaches which are concerned with learning programs or algorithms from incomplete (formal) specifications. Possible inputs in an IP system are a set of training inputs and corresponding outputs or an output evaluation function, describing the desired behavior of the intended program, traces or action sequences which describe the process of calculating specific outputs, constraints for the program to be induced concerning its time efficiency or its complexity, various kinds of background knowledge such as standard data types, predefined functions to be used, program schemes or templates describing the data flow of the intended program, heuristics for guiding the search for a solution or other biases.
Output of an IP system is a program in some arbitrary programming language containing conditionals and loop or recursive control structures, or any other kind of Turing-complete representation language.
In many applications the output program must be correct with respect to the examples and partial specification, and this leads to the consideration of inductive programming as a special area inside automatic programming or program synthesis, usually opposed to 'deductive' program synthesis, where the specification is usually complete.
In other cases, inductive programming is seen as a more general area where any declarative programming or representation language can be used and we may even have some degree of error in the examples, as in general machine learning, the more specific area of structure mining or the area of symbolic artificial intelligence. A distinctive feature is the number of examples or partial specification needed. Typically, inductive programming techniques can learn from just a few examples.
The diversity of inductive programming usually comes from the applications and the languages that are used: apart from logic programming and functional programming, other programming paradigms and representation languages have been used or suggested in inductive programming, such as functional logic programming, constraint programming, probabilistic programming, abductive l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FXX%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | FXX is a Canadian English-language discretionary service channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media, a division of Rogers Communications, and the FX Networks subsidiary of Walt Disney Television. Based on the U.S. cable network of the same name, FXX is devoted primarily to scripted comedies for young adults.
It launched on April 1, 2014, in both standard definition and high definition.
History
It was reported that Rogers had plans to launch a Canadian version of FXX, a younger-skewing spinoff of FX. Originally scheduled for January 2014, FXX's launch was later rescheduled to April 1, 2014. As part of the launch, several shows which previously aired on FX Canada moved to FXX. In addition, a Canadian version of the FXNOW app, which allows viewers to watch shows from FX and FXX, was launched. On the day of the launch, FX Canada's website was completely revamped to include program information from both FX-branded channels.
It was revealed through CRTC regulatory documents that the broadcast licence used to launch FXX was the licence originally granted for a proposed channel called Ampersand. That licence requires the channel's programming to be related to "romance, love and relationships".
Programming
As with the Canadian version of FX, any new series produced for FXX in the U.S and will air on this channel as well as reruns of Citytv and CBC originals to fulfill Canadian content requirements. In addition, FXX has also aired several original shows that premiered on FX in the U.S (namely Fargo, Married and You're the Worst). Other programming from the U.S version of FXX, such as Archer, Cake and all of the shows from the former Animation Domination High-Def block, however, are notably absent. In the case of animated series, several of these shows have been acquired by Corus Entertainment for Adult Swim and the former Teletoon at Night block.
Current programming
Current as of January 2023
Acquired from FX Networks
Dave
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Other acquired shows
30 Rock
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
COPS
Hudson & Rex
Parks and Recreation
Former programming
Shows listed in bold are sourced from FX Networks.
Ali G: Rezurection
American Dad!
Bob's Burgers
Brand X with Russell Brand
The Bridge
Chozen
Da Vinci's City Hall
Da Vinci's Inquest
Dicktown
Eastbound & Down
Family Guy
Fargo
The League
Little Demon
Man Seeking Woman
Married
The Mindy Project
Modern Family
Murdoch Mysteries
The Office
Package Deal
Sons of Anarchy
Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
Two and a Half Men
You're the Worst
References
Rogers Communications
Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Canada
Comedy television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLCAA | PLCAA may refer to:
Professional Lawn Care Association of America, a defunct company that merged into Professional Landcare Network
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a law that restricts lawsuits against the firearms industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202014%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the Monitor Latino General number-one songs of 2014. Chart rankings are based on airplay across radio stations in Mexico using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are ranked from Monday to Sunday.
Besides the General chart, Monitor Latino publishes "Pop", "Popular" (Regional Mexican music) and "Anglo" charts. Monitor Latino provides two lists for each of these charts: the "Audience" list ranks the songs according to the estimated number of people that listened to them on the radio during the week.
The "Tocadas" (Spins) list ranks the songs according to the number of times they were played on the radio during the week. In 2014, the "Regional" chart was renamed as "Popular".
Chart history
General
Pop
Popular
This chart, which had been called "Grupero" from 2002 to 2006 and "Regional" from 2007 to 2013, once again changed its name to "Popular" in 2014.
Anglo
See also
List of Top 20 songs for 2014 in Mexico
List of number-one albums of 2014 (Mexico)
References
2014
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez%20Paree%20Revue | Chez Paree Revue was an American variety television series, which aired on the DuMont Television Network in 1950. Very little information exists as to the timeslot, running time, or dates aired.
Format
The show was a musical variety series taking place on the set of a "Parisian" nightclub.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1950–51 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh%20Faces | Fresh Faces is an annual international modeling contest launched in 2010 by ModelManagement.com, an online social networking website for models, photographers, modeling agencies and other fashion industry professionals. The contest showcases young fashion model entrants from over 50 countries in order to discover new talent for the fashion industry. Each year, thousands of contestants, typically between the ages of 15 and 25, compete in local contests for a chance to represent their country in the world final. Finalists are selected according to voting by the general public through social media and ModelManagement.com with the winners selected by a jury of fashion professionals.
The male and female winners of the final event, held in Barcelona, Spain, receive a modeling contract with an international modeling agency. The contest is sponsored by FashionTV, model agencies, and fashion and beauty brands that have included Revlon, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, Diesel and Lacoste.
Female titleholders
Male titleholders
Notable participants
Notable participants that did not win the contest were 2010 participant Janina Leontschuk who walked in a show by Diane von Fürstenberg, 2011 finalist Jessica Aidi who was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for the cover of Elle and 2013 semifinalist Elisabeth Winters who appeared in an editorial in Horse Magazine.
Notable figures from the fashion world that have participated in the contest juries are Swiss photographer Yvan Rodic also known as FaceHunter, German model agent Thomas Zeumer, Italian model Antonia Dell'Atte,(it) model agent Peyman Amin(de) and former judge of Germany's Next Topmodel, Spanish celebrity Erik Putzbach,(es) French choreographer Marie-Ange Schmitt-Lebreton and former training director for Supermodelo, and Andreas von Estorff the German founder of Model Management.
References
External links
Official website
ModelManagement.com
Recurring events established in 2010
Fashion events
International beauty pageants
Modeling competitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Harrison%20%28disambiguation%29 | Phil Harrison is the vice president of general manager of Google, formerly of Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment.
Phil, Philip or Phillip Harrison may also refer to:
Phil Harrison (footballer) (born 1961), Australian rules footballer
Phil Harrison (musician), former keyboard player in the band The Korgis
Phil Harrison (pool player), English pool player
Philip Harrison (cricketer) (1885–1964), English cricketer
See also
Phil Harris (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svensk%20mediedatabas | Svensk mediedatabas (Swedish Media Database) is a search engine for the audiovisual works of the National Library of Sweden.
The database contains data about TV, radio, video, movies that have been shown in cinemas, gramophone records, CDs, cassette tapes, video games and multimedia. The SMDB contains most Swedish broadcasts and publications since 1979, but also older works. There is an almost complete list of Swedish gramophone records starting from the end of the 19th century. The SMDB also contains information about special collections such as older advertisement films and video recordings from Swedish theatres.
, the database contains information about nearly eight million hours of audiovisual content.
Database
The database contains information about the following, starting from 1979:
TV and radio broadcasts by Sveriges Radio, Sveriges Television, Utbildningsradion and TV4
TV shows that have been broadcast using Swedish digital terrestrial television or satellite broadcasts originating from Sweden
A selection of some local TV and radio broadcasts
Movies that have been shows in cinemas in Sweden
Video that has been distributed in Sweden
Swedish phonorecords, that is, published and unpublished sound recordings
Swedish interactive multimedia with sound or motion pictures
References
External links
Svensk mediedatabas
Swedish film websites
Databases in Sweden
Online film databases
2008 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%20Zero | Facebook Zero is an initiative undertaken by social networking service company Facebook in collaboration with mobile phone-based Internet providers, whereby the providers waive data (bandwidth) charges (also known as zero-rate) for accessing Facebook on phones via a stripped-down text-only version of its mobile website (as opposed to the ordinary mobile website m.facebook.com that also loads pictures). The stripped-down version is available online only through providers who have entered the agreement with Facebook. Photos are not loaded by default. Users may still choose to view them by clicking through but regular data charges apply to photo use.
History
Plans for Facebook Zero were first announced at the Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Chamath Palihapitiya. In collaboration with 50 mobile operators around the world, it was officially of launched on May 18, 2010. The scheme is considered zero-rated or the practice of offering free data for some services, filtering out others.
The Facebook model featured a stripped-down version of the platform, which was made available to all mobile phone owners. It was offered in emerging markets to address the issue of data caps. A report explained that Facebook Zero subsidized phone data for a period, allowing for free user access. Facebook also provide technical assistance to partner carriers so that the process incurs low cost. In some countries, Facebook Zero is offered as part of a carrier's Free Basic data plan that could include access to Google and Wikipedia as well as localized content.
Facebook Zero became controversial in some countries due to several issues such as net neutrality. For instance, India's Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) bans zero-rated services on account of "discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content”. A criticism also stated that Facebook is practicing digital colonialism because it is not introducing open internet but building a "little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content”.
Several carriers offer Facebook Zero:
: Zain Jordan
: Telekom Albania; Vodafone Albania
: Djezzy; Mobilis
: Unitel S.A.
: ERONET
: Grameenphone
: MTN Group
: MTN Group
: Freedom Mobile
: Bonbon; Hrvatski Telekom; MultiPlus Mobile; Simpa; Tomato; Vipnet
: Movistar
: Digicel
: SFR
: E-Plus Ortel
: WIND Hellas
: MagtiCom
: MTN Group
: XL Axiata
: Airtel Kenya
: iPKO
: DiGi
: Maroc Telecom
: Ncell
: Telenor Pakistan; Jazz Pakistan, Zong Pakistan
: Jawwal
: Cable & Wireless Communications
: Globe Telecom, Smart,
: Play
: Vodafone Qatar
: Saudi Telecom Company
: CellC (Discontinued the service), Vodacom, MTN Group
: Digicel
: Digicel
: Du
: Three
: Telecel Zimbabwe
: Airtel Zambia
Reception and impact
An article by Christopher Mims in Quartz in September 2012 stated that Facebook Zero played a very important role in Facebook's expansion in Africa over the 18 months following the release |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Free%20Zone | Google Free Zone was a global initiative undertaken by the Internet company Google in collaboration with mobile phone-based Internet providers, whereby the providers waive data (bandwidth) charges (also known as zero-rate) for accessing select Google products such as Google Search, Gmail, and Google+. In order to use this service, users were required to have a Google account and a phone that had access to an internet connection.
History
November 2012: Google Free Zone was announced by Google on November 8, 2012, with a launch in the Philippines in partnership with Globe Telecom, with the experimental round scheduled to run until March 31, 2013. Telkom Mobile in South Africa, then branded as 8ta, offered Google Free Zone 3 from 13 November 2012 but discontinued the service on 31 May 2013.
April 2013: launch in Sri Lanka on the Dialog mobile network.
June 2013: Google launched Google Free Zone in India in partnership with mobile Internet provider Airtel, and in Thailand on the AIS network.
December 2013: Airtel extended Google Free Zone to its services in Nigeria.
March 2014: Safaricom in Kenya had launched 60 day promotional Free Zone.
Reception and impact
A number of Internet commentators viewed Google Free Zone as both inspired by and a potential competitor to Facebook Zero.
The Subsecretaria de Telecomunicaciones of Chile ruled that Zero-rating services like Wikipedia Zero, Facebook Zero, and Google Free Zone, that subsidize mobile data usage, violate net neutrality laws and that the practice had to end by June 1, 2014.
See also
Alliance for Affordable Internet
Facebook Zero
Internet.org
Project Loon
Wikipedia Zero
Zero-rating Zero Rating / Toll Free Data / Toll Free Apps
References
Free Zone
Internet access
Net neutrality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win%20McMurry | Win McMurry (born March 12, 1983) is an American sportscaster. Until October 2013, she anchored Golf Channel's "PGA Tour Primetime" and reported for Golf Central, Morning Drive and other programming features and specials. She is also the host of a series of travel shows on GolfChannel.com titled “Gone With the Win”, and McMurry is also the resident fantasy golf expert, as well as the network's authority on golf fashion.
McMurry previously worked as a producer, writer and host of PGA Tour Entertainment’s PGA Tour Today, Monday Backspin, and Morning Movers on PGATour.com. She has also worked at CBS Sports Network as a golf cart driver for personnel covering the PGA Tour, and a runner for the NFL, and NCAA Basketball, and as a production assistant for WCBS-TV.
Personal life
McMurry was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Jane Hight McMurry and John E. McMurry, Jr MD, and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is a graduate of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Communications Studies and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Business from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business. She also has a sister, Allison Louise McMurry.
McMurry works with many charities, including the Special Olympics, OutFox Cancer, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, The First Tee and Junior Champions Foundation.
McMurry was named golf’s "No.1 Beauty" by Sports Illustrated's GOLF Magazine, and crowned "Miss Fantasy Challenge" by Golf Channel. McMurry has received two Telly Awards for her work as a producer, writer, and host of groundbreaking online content for the PGA Tour.
References
1983 births
Living people
American sports journalists
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20taxonomy%20construction | Automatic taxonomy construction (ATC) is the use of software programs to generate taxonomical classifications from a body of texts called a corpus. ATC is a branch of natural language processing, which in turn is a branch of artificial intelligence.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially, a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. Among other things, a taxonomy can be used to organize and index knowledge (stored as documents, articles, videos, etc.), such as in the form of a library classification system, or a search engine taxonomy, so that users can more easily find the information they are searching for. Many taxonomies are hierarchies (and thus, have an intrinsic tree structure), but not all are.
Manually developing and maintaining a taxonomy is a labor-intensive task requiring significant time and resources, including familiarity of or expertise in the taxonomy's domain (scope, subject, or field), which drives the costs and limits the scope of such projects. Also, domain modelers have their own points of view which inevitably, even if unintentionally, work their way into the taxonomy. ATC uses artificial intelligence techniques to quickly automatically generate a taxonomy for a domain in order to avoid these problems and remove limitations.
Approaches
There are several approaches to ATC. One approach is to use rules to detect patterns in the corpus and use those patterns to infer relations such as hyponymy. Other approaches use machine learning techniques such as Bayesian inferencing and Artificial Neural Networks.
Keyword extraction
One approach to building a taxonomy is to automatically gather the keywords from a domain using keyword extraction, then analyze the relationships between them (see Hyponymy, below), and then arrange them as a taxonomy based on those relationships.
Hyponymy and "is-a" relations
In ATC programs, one of the most important tasks is the discovery of hypernym and hyponym relations among words. One way to do that from a body of text is to search for certain phrases like "is a" and "such as".
In linguistics, is-a relations are called hyponymy. Words that describe categories are called hypernyms and words that are examples of categories are hyponyms. For example, dog is a hypernym and Fido is one of its hyponyms. A word can be both a hyponym and a hypernym. So, dog is a hyponym of mammal and also a hypernym of Fido.
Taxonomies are often represented as is-a hierarchies where each level is more specific than (in mathematical language "a subset of") the level above it. For example, a basic biology taxonomy would have concepts such as mammal, which is a subset of animal, and dogs and cats, which are subsets of mammal. This kind of taxonomy is called an is-a model because the specific objects are considered instances of a concept. For example, Fido is-a instance of the concept dog and Fluffy is-a cat.
Applications
ATC can be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotron | Quotron was a Los Angeles-based company that in 1960 became the first financial data technology company to deliver stock market quotes to an electronic screen rather than on a printed ticker tape. The Quotron offered brokers and money managers up-to-the-minute prices and other information about securities. The Quotron was developed by Scantlin Electronics, owned by entrepreneur John Scantlin. Scantlin had earlier developed a quotation device that used magnetic tape instead of ticker tape. Quotron's first major competitor was Telerate, which was founded by Neil Hirsch in 1969 and later bought by Dow Jones in 1990.
Citicorp bought Quotron in 1986. At the time Quotron was renting 100,000 terminals which equated to 60 percent of the 1986 market for financial data. Following the Citicorp acquisition, Quotron's largest client, brokerage house Merrill Lynch, decided not to renew their contract with Quotron. Merrill Lynch instead invested in a competing startup named Bloomberg.
Most computer screens in the 1980s were able to display text in a single color. Quotron screens had green text on a black background. The Quotron was the screen used by Charlie Sheen's Bud Fox and Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko characters in the 1987 movie Wall Street. When the Bloomberg professional terminal launched for bond traders it had amber text on a black background.
Quotron did not keep pace with developments in technology and the company was slow to move from a dedicated terminal to personal computers, as the proprietary Bloomberg Terminal overtook its market share. By 1994 Quotron had only 35,000 terminals compared with 80,000 for Automatic Data Processing and 25,000 for ILX, according to Waters Information Services. Citicorp lost money on Quotron every year and, in 1994, paid Reuters Holdings P.L.C. more than $100 million to purchase the ailing Quotron. Quotron then became Reuters' trading floor terminal, until it was superseded by the Reuters 3000 Xtra and Triarch platform. Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg lead the trading floor terminal space today with 70% of the market.
References
Technical analysis software
Financial data vendors
Market data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Padena-ye%20Sofla | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Padena-ye Sofla Rural District of Padena District, Semirom County, Isfahan province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 1,585 in 364 households. The following census in 2011 counted 1,610 people in 477 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,645 people in 533 households. It was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Populated places in Semirom County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Padena-ye%20Vosta | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Padena-ye Vosta Rural District, Padena District, Semirom County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 45, in 11 families.
References
Populated places in Semirom County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Highlife%20%282003%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to Highlife is a world music compilation album originally released in 2003. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release covers the Highlife musical genre of Ghana and surrounding countries, focusing on the 1960s and 70s. Graeme Ewens wrote the liner notes, and Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, was the producer. This album was followed by a second edition in 2012.
Critical reception
The compilation's release was met with positive reviews. Robert Christgau called it less even than the contemporaneous The Highlife All-Stars album Sankofa but "eccentric" nonetheless. He went on to name it the twelfth best album of 2003 in the annual Pazz & Jop poll.
Writing for AllMusic, Chris Nickson called it a "treasure trove" as more than half the album's tracks had been previously unavailable.
Track listing
References
2003 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
Highlife albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Semirom | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād; also known as Sākht-e Seydā) is a village in Vardasht Rural District, in the Central District of Semirom County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 128, in 23 families.
References
Populated places in Semirom County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money.Net | Money.Net Inc is a privately held financial data technology company and financial data vendor based in New York City.
History
Money.Net provides real-time live streaming financial market information such as prices, breaking financial news, technical analysis charts, trade idea generation tools, and a spreadsheet API over the internet to individual traders and institutional trading floors. The product coverage is global, and is multi-asset class, including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities. It also includes reference fundamental market data such as economic statistics and corporate actions.
The Money.Net product provides "access to real-time market data and trends for a sliver of what" traditional market data terminals cost.
Money.Net is a cloud-based platform for market data. According to current CEO Morgan Downey, Money.Net has about 50,000 paying subscribers. It is one of the several cloud-based Financial Technology (FinTech) companies challenging dominant vendors in financial markets. The product is available as a desktop application, via mobile devices, and through an excel spreadsheet API.
In late 2016, the company announced that it had hired former Bloomberg Chief Content Officer, Norman Pearlstine, to develop a new financial news division relying heavily on artificial intelligence.
See also
Eikon
Bloomberg Terminal
Financial market
Financial technology
Market data
Stock market
References
External links
Technical analysis software
Business software
1999 establishments in New York (state)
History of telecommunications
Companies based in Manhattan
Privately held companies of the United States
Financial services companies established in 1999
Financial data vendors
Financial software
Market data
Privately held companies based in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Time%20in%20Hollywood%2C%20FL | Big Time in Hollywood, FL is an American comedy television series created and written by Alex Anfanger and Dan Schimpf. A 10-episode first season was ordered by the American cable television network Comedy Central, which premiered on March 25, 2015.
Comedy Central made no official cancellation statement; however, on September 25, 2015, series star Lenny Jacobson confirmed that there would not be a second season.
Cast
Alex Anfanger as Jack Dolfe, a delusional self-proclaimed filmmaker
Lenny Jacobson as Ben Dolfe, Jack's brother
Jon Bass as Del Plimpton, Jack and Ben's childlike friend
Kathy Baker as Diana Dolfe, Jack and Ben's mother
Stephen Tobolowsky as Alan Dolfe, Jack and Ben's father
Recurring guests
Cuba Gooding Jr. as himself
Keith David as Agent Everett Malloy
Betsy Sodaro as Darla
Paz Vega as Isabella Delgado
Michael Madsen as Harvey Scoles
Marcus Giamatti as Detective Jim Zdorkin
Jane Kaczmarek as Dr. Linda Moore
Lee Schall as Ted
Crispin Alapag as Marco Chavez
Episodes
Reception
Big Time in Hollywood, FL received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has a rating of 73%, based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "An absorbing narrative and talented cast help Big Time in Hollywood, FL balance its occasionally obnoxious antics with witty slapstick." On Metacritic, the season has a score of 68 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
References
External links
2010s American black comedy television series
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Florida
Comedy Central original programming
Television series by Red Hour Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20B.%20Oppenheimer | Alan B. Oppenheimer is the president and founder of Open Door Networks, Inc., creator of the mobile app Art Authority. From 1983 to 1994, he worked for Apple, Inc. where he helped design the AppleTalk network system for the original Macintosh computer. He also played a key role in the production of the LaserWriter printer, AppleTalk Remote Access, AppleShare file server and the Apple Internet Router. Alan is author of several books and runs the Alan and Priscilla Oppenheimer Foundation with his wife.
Education
A graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, his graduate thesis was “A Local Area Disk Server for RT-11.” (RT-11 was one of the Digital Equipment Corporation's operating systems). Per the abstract, his thesis focused on “the potential of the fast-growing field of Local Area Networking… explored through the creation of an Ethernet-based disk server for the popular standalone RT-11 operating system.”
Apple, Inc.
After graduating from MIT, Alan was hired to work for Apple Inc. in 1983. His team was responsible for creating a network for a low-cost computer project called the Macintosh led by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Oppenheimer was responsible for AppleTalk's protocols in the Macintosh and the LaserWriter printer. Initial sales of the Macintosh computer were strong but follow up sales were relatively weak. However, it is suggested that the LaserWriter printer (along with PageMaker, an early desktop publishing package) was responsible for the success of the Macintosh because it was the world's first reasonably priced PostScript laser printer.
During his tenure at Apple, Inc. from 1983 to 1995, Oppenheimer also worked on AppleShare, the Apple Internet Router and Apple Remote Access. Regarding the creative energy of the company at the time: "As a kid right out of school I didn’t realize [just] how exciting it was. It was like a rookie going to the World Series in his first season.”
Open Door Networks, Inc.
In 1995, Oppenheimer founded Open Door Networks. Three years later, the company released the first firewall for the Macintosh (Mac OS 8.1). Since then, they have been instrumental in providing security for Apple products with consistent releases between 1998 and 2006.
We-Envision
Realizing early that the iPhone was going to be a big success for Apple, Oppenheimer changed Open Door's focus towards mobile app development. In a partnership with company Project A (formerly “We-Envision” when working together), Open Door shipped 100 “Envi” apps, accumulated over 200,000 downloads, and produced apps in five separate categories (Art and Architecture, Space, Travel, Fun and Other which included photography and holiday themed apps) within their first year. However, the height of Oppenheimer’s push into mobile app development came in 2010 with the release of Art Authority.
Art Authority
“Art Authority is a media viewing software application for Apple's iOS and Macintosh, and Amazon's Kindle Fire." Best described as " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN%20Sports%20and%20Action | ABS-CBN Sports and Action (stylized as ABS-CBN Sports+Action or simply S+A or S and A), was a free-to-air television network based in Quezon City. It was owned by ABS-CBN Corporation with some of its programs produced and licensed by ABS-CBN Sports. In Metro Manila, Sports + Action broadcast terrestrially and through DTT through DWAC-TV (UHF channel 23), the frequency once used by the defunct national television network Studio 23 until its closure on January 16, 2014, with most of its UHF affiliate stations in the provinces owned by AMCARA Broadcasting Network. It began its operations on January 18, 2014, yet it did not become the company's sole channel for sports until the shutdown of subscription-based counterpart Balls by the end of 2015. Its simulcast high-definition channel was exclusively available on Sky Cable, Destiny Cable and Sky Direct since 2016, while its international feed (carried with the same channel name) carried worldwide through The Filipino Channel. Sports + Action's programming is composed primarily of sports coverage such as MPBL, ABL, UAAP, NCAA, Pinoy Pride fights, BVR, PVL and ONE Championship. The program line up of Sports + Action included other sports-related programming, news coverages and blocktimers. S+A broadcast Mondays to Saturdays from 5:00 am to 1:00 am and Sundays from 4:00 am to 1:00 am.
On May 5, 2020, the station's broadcasting activities, together with that of its sister television and radio stations ABS-CBN, DZMM, and MOR Philippines, were signed off the air at 7:52 pm following the cease-and-desist order (CDO) issued by the National Telecommunications Commission due to the expiration of ABS-CBN's legislative license to operate. S+A continued to air internationally through The Filipino Channel until December 2.
On January 5, 2022, its former UHF frequencies (channel 23 and 43) were assigned by the NTC to Aliw Broadcasting Corporation (for channel 23) and Swara Sug Media Corporation (for channel 43).
History
According to ABS-CBN Narrowcast Head March Ventosa, the division started developing the concept of a sports channel of free television for a year. Also with its launching, the management decided to drop the strong Studio 23 branding for it is well associated with entertainment programs of which the former channel only carries 30 percent of sports related / male-dominant content.
Launching
The channel was officially launched in Glorietta 3, Ayala Center, Makati on January 16, 2014. The event was attended by several well known Filipino athletes including Marlon Stockinger, Donnie Nietes, the Philippines national football team, Jeron Teng, and some ABS-CBN executives and personalities. The event also provided a glimpse of its program lineup which includes sports coverage of UAAP, Top Rank and Pinoy Pride boxing bouts, and the Philippines national football team matches.
A test broadcast was done a day prior to its official launching on January 18, 2014.
The network's newest Station ID featuring the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Score%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | The Score is a Philippine English-language sports news television program broadcast on ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), debuting on January 20, 2014, just two days after the network began operating. The show premiered on January 20, 2014 and airs every Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 6:00 PM (PST).
History
After 4 years of broadcasting in standard-definition television (480i, 4:3 SDTV) format, The Score has switched to high-definition television (1080i, 16:9 HDTV) format starting on April 2, 2018.
From May 5, 2020, the show has temporarily moved to Liga due to the temporary closure of ABS-CBN, which included as S+A is a free TV channel because of the cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), following the expiration of the network's 25-year franchise granted in 1995.
The show ended on July 22, 2020.
Anchors
The program's final anchor is Mico Halili, who started in 2018. Its former anchors are TJ Manotoc (2014–2018), who was reassigned to be the ABS-CBN News correspondent for North America (last March 2019, Manotoc promotes as ABS-CBN Bureau Chief for North America), and Anton Roxas (2018). Later on, Halili became a new Cignal TV's Creative Director for sports programmes on October 28, 2020.
Gretchen Ho serves as a segment host.
See also
List of programs aired by ABS-CBN Sports and Action
References
2020s Philippine television series
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2020 Philippine television series endings
ABS-CBN Sports and Action original programming
English-language television shows
Filipino-language television shows
Philippine sports television series
Flagship evening news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitel | Orbitel may refer to:
Orbitel (Bulgarian company), a wireline telecommunications and Internet service provider with national licences for voice and data
Orbitel (Colombian company), the international business unit of UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones
Orbitel (British company), maker of the Orbitel 901, the first phone to receive an SMS text message, in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20Optical%20Facilities%20for%20Near-Earth%20Space%20Surveillance%20Network | Ukrainian Optical Facilities for Near-Earth Space Surveillance Network, the UMOS (from Ukrainian acronym: УМОС = Українська мережа оптичних станцій дослідження навколоземного космічного простору) is an alliance of Ukrainian institutional research observatories and optical facilities of State Space Agency. Its strategic tasks include near-Earth space
research (from LEO to HEO), and the studies of motion of selected objects by development and improvement of theory, models and algorithms. Also it is aimed at addressing tactical problems like
assistance in Ukrainian or international space launches. The UMOS's field of view covers large area of
space, its facilities arrangement allows to carry out the observations of 3-4 consecutive passes of LEO satellites, as well as synchronous and complementing observations.
The UMOS has conducted the ground-based surveillance of Near-Earth objects since the establishment of the network. The results of data processing earned positive feedbacks from customers in Ukraine: the State Space Agency, the Main Astronomical Observatory as well as our partners abroad. In particular, since 2011 the UMOS (some of the observatories since 2005) has conducted maintenance the first circuits after launching into orbit (Sun-synchronous) with Dnepr to identify and/or refine orbits of space objects (e.g. RapidEye, EgyptSat‑1, CryoSat‑2, Sich‑2, corresponding R/B of launcher).
Also the UMOS carries out optical observations of active satellites and space debris on a single joint list to produce independent TLE catalog and to estimate the probabilities of satellite orbital conjunction for priority satellites, which meets the requirements of national Control Systems and Space Environment Analysis (i.e. similar to Space Situational Awareness). During just 2012 over 130,000 of position estimates for 194 LEO space objects (including series RapidEye, Orbcomm, CubeSat), 37 MEO objects, 29 GEO and GSO objects and also HEO space observatory Radioastron were obtained. As a result, the observation-based database was created, which had comprised 1509 sets of TLE for 183 space objects until the end of 2012.
Recently, due to the increase in number of space debris and solar activity maximum, the operational failures at satellites are much more frequent. Photometric observations can aid in satellite in-orbit status analysis and provide with necessary data for the assessment of feasibility of their recovery.
The photometric observations and data analysis for five tumbling satellites have been made since 2010. Among these five satellites were: two launch failures - Express-AM4 (5,775 kg mass at altitude of 1,000 km), Phobos-Grunt (13,200 kg mass on the low reference orbit of 250 km); as well as three accidents of satellite malfunction, when the appropriate control center has lost the connection - CBERS-2B (1,450 kg at altitude of 780 km), EgyptSat-1 (160 kg at altitude of 670 km), Sich-2 (170 kg at altitude of 670 km). All these satellites, except |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makers%20Academy | Makers Academy (Makers) is a 16-week computer programming bootcamp in London. It was founded by Rob Johnson and Evgeny Shadchnev in December 2012.
Programme
Makers Academy (Makers) takes students with varying levels of prior experience computer programming and teaches them the fundamentals of web development. The aim is to help students develop the necessary skills to secure a role as a junior developer upon graduation. The course covers professional web development technologies such as Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, Ajax and softer skills, including Object-oriented design, Test Driven Development, Agile Methodology and version control with Git. The main course is preceded by a 4-week, part-time, online 'pre-course', which students have to complete first. The application process is highly selective, and the average student has a number of years of prior work experience before applying. Makers offers a limited number of free places to those who cannot afford to pay the usual £8,500 fee (US$8,300) through scholarships and through free places, funded by the Department for Education's Skills Bootcamp programme.
The program adopts a "learn by doing" approach, achieved largely through self-directed, project-based work. Students are encouraged to work in pairs on practical coding challenges, with weekly tests, culminating in a final project which is presented to hiring partners on "Demo Day". The organization claims to support 100% of its graduates into jobs, though data to verify this claim is not publicly available. The students who have graduated are often put forward for roles by the Academy, which has relationships with employers like Marks & Spencer, Sky, The Financial Times and Deloitte Digital.
Reception
Makers Academy has been featured on Sky News, in The Guardian, The Independent, Tech City News, Forbes, MadeInShoreditch, ComputerWeekly, StartupBook, and TechWeekEurope.
References
External links
Makers Academy Site
Makers Academy on Twitter
Education in the London Borough of Islington
Computer programming
Training programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teiresias%20algorithm | The Teiresias algorithm is a combinatorial algorithm for the discovery of rigid patterns (motifs) in biological sequences. It is named after the Greek prophet Teiresias and was created in 1997 by Isidore Rigoutsos and Aris Floratos.
The problem of finding sequence similarities in the primary structure of related proteins or genes arises in the analysis of biological sequences. It can be shown that pattern discovery in its general form is NP-hard. The Teiresias algorithm is based on the observation that if a pattern spans many positions and appears exactly k times in the input then all fragments (sub patterns) of the pattern have to appear at least k times in the input. The algorithm is able to produce all patterns that have a user-defined number of copies in the given input, and manages to be very efficient by avoiding the enumeration of the entire space. Finally, the algorithm reports motifs that are maximal in both length and composition.
A new implementation of the Teiresias algorithm was recently made available by the . Teiresias is also accessible through an interactive web-based user interface by the same center. See external links for both.
Pattern description
The Teiresias algorithm uses regular expressions to define the patterns. This allows the patterns reported to consist not only from the characters that appear in each position (literals) but from a specific group of characters (bracketed literals) or even from any character (wild card). The patterns created by the algorithm are <L,W> patterns that have at least k instances in the input, where L ≤ W and L, W, k positive integers. A pattern is called an <L,W> pattern if and only if any L consecutive literals or bracketed literals span at most W positions (i.e. there can be no more than W-L wild cards).
The algorithm reports only maximal patterns. Given a set of sequences S, a pattern P that appears k times in S is called maximal if and only if there exists no pattern P' which is more specific than P and also appears exactly k times in S. If there exists such a pattern P' then we say that P cannot be maximal and P is considered to be subsumed by P'. A pattern P' is said to be more specific than a pattern P if and only if P' can be obtained from P by (a) dereferencing a wild card or (b) instantiating a bracketed literal to a literal, or (c) appending a string of literals, bracketed literals or/and wild cards to the right of P, or (d) prepending a string of literals, bracketed literals or/and wild cards to the left of P.
Algorithm description
Teiresias consists of two phases, Scanning and Convolution. During the first phase the input is scanned for the patterns that satisfy the minimum requirements, the elementary patterns. The elementary patterns consist of exactly L literals and/or bracketed literals and includes at most W-L wild cards. During convolution, the elementary patterns are recursively combined and maximal patterns are created. The order in which the convolutions are per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20app | The Bally Sports app is the video streaming service of the former Fox Sports Networks, now Bally Sports regional sports networks. The app replaces Fox Sports Go (FSGO), the app of the former Fox Sports Networks. The service is available for customers of select cable and satellite TV providers, as well as the DirecTV Stream over-the-top service.
History
The service was initially introduced as Fox Sports' TV Everywhere service, including access to content from networks such as Fox Sports 1 and Big Ten Network (the latter already offered under the brand BTN2Go). Super Bowl XLVIII was streamed for free without authentication on personal computers and tablets, but not on mobile phones due to exclusive rights held by Verizon Wireless. The event averaged 1.7 million viewers on the platform.
For regional telecasts on the Fox Sports Networks, NBA games were available, and Major League Baseball games became available starting with the 2016 season, after Fox Sports and MLB came to an agreement for in-market streaming rights in November 2015. Fox reached a similar deal for regional National Hockey League games beginning in the 2016–17 season.
In 2019, Fox Sports Networks was sold to a partnership of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios as part of The Walt Disney Company's purchase of Fox's entertainment assets; Fox also sought to divest Fox Sports Networks but were barred from selling them to Disney by federal regulators. The sale included rights to the Fox Sports Go platform; as a result, streaming of national Fox Sports channels (such as Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, and Big Ten Network) and programming was moved exclusively to FoxSports.com and the Fox Sports app, leaving Fox Sports Go to only carry content from the regional networks. The national Fox Sports content continued to be listed on the Fox Sports Go main page as external links during an interim brand-licensing period.
On March 10, 2021, the programming from YES Network (which is also partially owned by Sinclair) was separated from FSGO and moved to a dedicated app.
The Fox Sports Go app was scheduled to be relaunched as part of the Bally Sports rebranding of the Fox Sports Networks on March 31, 2021, but the new app was delayed to a then unspecified date. On April 26, 2021, the Bally Sports app was launched.
On June 23, 2022, Bally Sports soft-launched its Bally Sports Plus (or Bally Sports+) direct-to-consumers (DTC) service, which is accessible through the Bally Sports app. The service is available initially in five MLB cities: Detroit, Kansas City, Miami, Milwaukee, and Tampa. It launched nationally in the remainder of the networks' footprint on September 26.
See also
WatchESPN
Hulu
Philo
References
External links
Bally Sports website
Fox Sports Networks
Bally Sports
Universal Windows Platform apps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Data%20Format | The Trusted Data Format (TDF) is a data object encoding specification for the purposes of enabling data tagging and cryptographic security features. These features include assertion of data properties or tags, cryptographic binding and data encryption. The TDF is freely available with no restrictions and requires no use of proprietary or patented technology and is thus open for anyone to use.
Overview
The TDF Specification is based on a Trusted Data Object (TDO) which can be grouped together into a Trusted Data Collection (TDC). Each TDO consists of a data payload which can be associated with an unlimited number of metadata objects. The TDO supports the cryptographic binding of the metadata objects to the payload data object. In addition, both data and metadata objects can be associated with a block of encryption information which is used by any TDF consumer to decrypt the associated data or metadata if it had been encrypted. A TDC allows for additional metadata objects to apply to a set of TDOs.
Implementations
The United States Intelligence Community maintains the IC-TDF, which includes government-specific tagging requirements on top of the core TDF capabilities mentioned above, in an XML Data Encoding Specification.
Virtru offers client-side email and file encryption based on the TDF.
The United States Department of Defense uses TDF to implement the Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS).
References
External links
US Office of the Director of National Intelligence website on the TDF Specification
Wood, Mollie, Easier Ways to Protect Email From Unwanted Prying Eyes, New York Times, July 16, 2014 video and article
Cryptography standards
XML-based standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristiaan%20Yeo | Kristiaan Yeo is a television journalist currently employed by CCTV News for CCTV America, as the network's Toronto correspondent.
He is the first and only English-language resident correspondent to cover Canada for Chinese state television.
Career
In 2013, Kristiaan reported from the polar bear capital of the world, Churchill, Manitoba for a series on climate change and in 2012 reported from Tahrir Square during the Egyptian presidential election, 2012
Prior to joining CCTV News, Kristiaan was part of the on-air team during the 2012 Summer Olympics for BBC London. He was the station's newsreader during Danny Baker's notorious final show.
On May 2, 2011, Kristiaan broke the news of Osama bin Laden's death on Sky News Radio in a special bulletin syndicated to 280 stations around the world.
While at Sky News, Kristiaan covered the Pride of Britain Awards, interviewing the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, broadcaster Piers Morgan, actor Warwick Davis, boxer Amir Khan and singer Cheryl Cole. He was the first reporter to interview Westlife for Sky News following their split and produced the channel's 84th Academy Awards nomination coverage.
Kristiaan has also been a regular voice on Classic FM, LBC 97.3 & LBC News 1152, Magic 105.4.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finswimming%20in%20the%20United%20States | Finswimming in the United States (USA) is practised at both regional and national level via a network of associations and other bodies affiliated to the national governing body, USA Finswimming which is part of the Underwater Society of America (USOA).
Governance
The governing body is USA Finswimming which is part of the Underwater Society of America (USOA).
Competitions
Regional
Regional competition started in 1985.
The major areas for finswimming in the United States are Texas and California. In Texas, the following suburbs of Houston are claimed to have the largest concentration of finswimmers in the USA: Pasadena and Deer Park while in California, the area around the national headquarters for USA Finswimming in San Francisco is a centre of activity. Other regions experiencing activity include Florida, Hawaii, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Texas hosted the majority of the finswimming competitions in the USA during the first decade of the 21st century including the following annual events - the Texas Open Finswimming Invitational, the Gulf Coast International Finswimming Invitational and the Texas State Finswimming Championships.
The United States Scholar-Athlete Games at the University of Rhode Island have included finswimming as a part of its Games program since 1999. Most finswimming practised outside of Texas and California is for cross training associated with swimming.
National
National Championships commenced in 1989.
International
World Senior Championships
The United States has competed at the World Championships since 1986. Appearances at the championships include China in 1994, Hungary in 1996, Spain in 2000 and Bari, Italy in 2007. The 1996 team consisted of about 20 finswimmers and support personnel including notable Olympic swimmer, Misty Hyman. The USA finished 20th in a field of 30 countries while Hyman achieved sixth place in the women's 50 m surface swim. The 2000 team was able to finish 17th in a field of 42 countries thanks in part of the performance of Texan finswimmer, Kristine Kelly.
World Junior Championships
World Cups
Multi sport events
The following multi sport events which were held within the United States, have included finswimming races contested by American swimmers - the World Corporate Games held in San Francisco during 1988 and in Concord, California during 1989, and the World Scholar-Athlete Games at the University of Rhode Island which have included finswimming as a part of its program on a regular basis since 1999.
See also
References
External links
Underwater Society of America finswimming webpage
USA Finswimming homepage
USA Finswimming Facebook page
Finswimming
Underwater sport in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Classic%20Jazz | The Rough Guide to Classic Jazz is a jazz compilation album originally released in 1997. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album covers the genre's growth from the turn of the 20th century to the 1930s, largely focusing on the "Jazz Age". The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Curation was performed by Robert Parker, an audio engineer specializing in the period and host of the radio show Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo.
Critical reception
Keith Farley of AllMusic called it a "fine introduction". Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, claimed it "buried" the contemporaneous Swing Revival and noted his surprise at the number of "obscure white groups".
Track listing
References
External links
1997 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Flamenco | The Rough Guide to Flamenco is a world music compilation album originally released in 1997. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album gives broad coverage to the flamenco genre of Spain. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Liner notes were written by Tom Andrews. This was the first of three similarly named albums: the second was released in 2007; the third, in 2013.
Critical reception
The Album received mixed reviews. Writing for AllMusic, Adam Greenberg called it a "nice overview of the tradition", but that for purer forms, listeners should "look elsewhere". Michaelangelo Matos of the Chicago Reader claimed it "suffered from compilationitis", losing steam half way through.
Track listing
References
1997 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit%2030 | Hit 30 was an Australian radio show hosted by Angus O'Loughlin and Emma Freedman. It was broadcast across the Hit Network from 8-10pm weeknights.
The show was a national music countdown which features the hottest tunes around with a mix of pop culture and big-name celebrity guests. The countdown was fully interactive from every corner of the country.
History
The show commenced as The Bump on 28 January 2013 replacing the Hot 30 Countdown from 7pm-10pm with Angus O'Loughlin as host.
In October 2014 Southern Cross Austereo and Shazam formed a partnership and as a result The Bump was relaunched as Shazam Top 20 on Monday 20 October. Ash London also joined Angus O'Loughlin as host of the show.
In December 2015, Ash London resigned from the show to take on another adventure. During the summer period the show relaunched as the Hit 30.
In January 2016, Emma Freedman replaced London as host.
In October 2016, Angus O'Loughlin and Emma Freedman announced that they would finish on the show on Friday 14 October. O'Loughlin moved to Adelaide to host breakfast on HIT 107 and Freedman joined The Grill Team on Triple M Sydney. Ash London Live replaced the show on Monday 24 October 2016.
References
External links
Official website
Australian music radio programs
2010s Australian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Actress | The Hum Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the Television industry. The 1st Hum Awards (for 2012) was held in 2013 with Mahira Khan winning the award, who was honored for her role in Shehr-e-Zaat.
The award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Actress Jury or Best Drama Actress Jury. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote, within the actors and jury branch of HTNEC; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Hum. This awards is equivalent to the Hum Award for Best Actress Popular, which is given in the ceremony but winners are only selected by viewers voting's. Multiple nominations for an actress in same category but for different work is eligible.
Since its inception the award has been given to three actresses, while Saba Qamar was nominated five times on three occasions more than any actress. As of the 7th Hum Awards, Yumna Zaidi is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Dar Si Jaati Hai Sila.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. Following the hum's practice, the dramas below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the drama's year of release. As of the first ceremony, total of Eight (actually seven, actress Saba Qamar nominated twice) Actresses were nominated for the award. For the following years, five to six actors will be nominated for the award.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized actors of dramas that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the dramas year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
Lux Style Award for Best TV Actress
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Reggae | The Rough Guide to Reggae is a world music compilation album originally released in 1997. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album broadly covers the reggae genre originating in Jamaica. The album was curated by Steve Barrow, who also wrote the namesake book, and later compiled The Rough Guide to Dub. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, was the producer.
Critical reception
The album received positive reviews upon release. Writing for AllMusic, Keith Farley named it a "stellar introduction", pondering whether the exclusion of Bob Marley was a statement. Michaelangelo Matos of the Chicago Reader called the compilation "definitive", saying it could have been the "fifth disc" of the four-CD Tougher Than Tough box set.
Track listing
References
1997 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Salsa%20%281997%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to Salsa is a world music compilation album originally released in 1997. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album gives broad coverage to the salsa genre of Latin America, focusing on classic styles. Seven of the fourteen tracks are by Cuban musicians, five are Colombian, and one each is Venezuelan and American. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Liner notes were written by Tom Andrews. This was the first of three similarly named albums: the second was released in 2007; the third, in 2012.
Critical reception
The Album received positive reviews. Raymond McKinney of AllMusic called it a "superb introduction". Michaelangelo Matos of the Chicago Reader felt it went down "as smooth as ice cream", praising its lack of drum machines.
Track listing
References
1997 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cann%20table | A Cann table or Visual league table, is a method of displaying data in a league table.
The purpose of the table is to give some idea of the actual points gap between the teams in the league by listing them next to their current points total. Where teams are tied on points, teams are then ranked by goal difference from left to right and games played are shown in brackets. Unlike a traditional league table, a row is left blank if no team has the corresponding number of points.
It is named posthumously after Jenny Cann, an Arsenal F.C. supporter who published the style, a visual table, on her website the 'Clock End' from 1998. She died in 2003.
Example
References
Sports terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20English%20Roots%20Music | The Rough Guide to English Roots Music is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album features mainly English folk, with some tracks covering other cultures from England's ethnic range. Most pieces are from the 1990s. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, was the producer.
Critical reception
The album received generally positive reviews. Writing for AllMusic, Steven McDonald praised the track choices, saying it functions well as an "appetizer". BBC Music Magazine noted that instead of focusing on the preservers of tradition, the album featured "creators and extenders".
Track listing
References
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20South%20Africa%20%281998%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to the Music of South Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album spotlights the music of South Africa. Liner notes were written by Tom Andrews and Rob Allingham, a discographer and music historian specializing in South Africa. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, was the producer. This was the first of two similarly named albums: the second edition, featuring approximately half of the same artists, was released in 2007.
Critical reception
Raymond McKinney of AllMusic wrote that "newcomers would find much to savour" in the album.
Track listing
References
External links
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
World music albums by South African artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama%20Dizayee | Sama Ameen Dizayee (born 2 June 1988) is an Iraqi Kurdish radio and television personality.
Dizayee was born and raised in Baghdad. She studied computer sciences in Erbil till late 2009 and later moved to the United States to pursue her studies in political science.
Early life
Dizayee began her career in media at the age of 15 when she became a radio host for the online radio station, VOY FM (Voice of Youth), and later a producer. She later became the main radio host and producer for other online radios; Marina FM, Shabab FM and Iraq FM. At 17, she started writing for the first English newspaper in Erbil, Kurdistan "The Kurdish Globe," while also writing for the local student magazine Ozone.
After a while Dizayee started working for the first English-language radio station Zed Radio, a part of Zagros Satellite Channel, in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq where she hosted and produced her shows in English and Kurdish.
Professional background
Dizayee is currently working as a journalist covering feature stories and international politics in Washington, DC.
In Lebanon, Dizayee was one of the few Iraqi Kurdish faces of Al Sumaria TV Satellite channel. Al Sumaria is known as one of the leading Iraqi satellite channels in Iraq, broadcasting from multiple studios in the Arab countries, with millions of viewers from more than 86 countries. Al-Sumaria was ranked Iraq's #1 Satellite Channel in 2012.
She hosted Al-Sumaria's #1 Ramadan show "Majina Ya Majina" directed by Walid Melki. She and her colleagues won the award for "Best Ramadan Quiz Show" in 2011 from the Iraqi Minister of Culture.
She also presented the Arabic charts show "Top 10" on Al-Sumaria with co-anchor and Iraqi singer Bassam Mahdi broadcasting live from Al Sumaria studios in Lebanon.
International contributions
Dizayee comes from a politically active family in the region. She graduated with a degree in Political Science and International Relations, aspiring to pursue a political career in Kurdistan. Currently, she is reporting on international, Iraqi, and Kurdish politics, contributing as a political analyst and writer on national and international news publications including Voice of America, Associated Press (AP), BBC World Service, BBC World News, and The Kurdish Globe (National Newspaper).
References
External links
Sama Dizayee's Official Facebook Fanpage
An Article about Syria-Lebanon conflict by Sama Dizayee
Article about Sama Dizayee's daily Ramadan Show on Alsumaria TV
Sama Dizayee contributing on BBC News
Sama Dizayee on her weekly TV show Top 10 on Alsumaria TV Satellite Channel
An Article about the Kurdish singer Chopy Fatah by Sama Dizayee
1988 births
Living people
Iraqi television presenters
Iraqi women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealevel%20Systems | Sealevel Systems, Inc. is a privately held manufacturer headquartered in Liberty, South Carolina, which develops computer circuit I/O boards.
Company overview
Sealevel Systems was founded by Tom O’Hanlan and his wife Susan, in 1986.
In 1991 the company released a dual port serial card that allowed users to set its I/O addresses to any two COM ports. In 1994, Sealevel developed the RS-485 auto-enabled circuit. The circuit eliminated the need to control the RS-485 transceiver-enable signal via software and removed the risk of communications error due to bus communications.
In 1997, O’Hanlan was granted a patent for a communication device that transmitted asynchronous formatted data synchronously. The company produced the communications card used for positioning the Space Shuttle’s robotic arm in 2002. Tom O’Hanlan and technical author Jon Titus co-authored a book, The Digital I/O Handbook, in 2004.
In 2005, Sealevel Systems released the industry’s first RoHS-compliant serial I/O board. In 2008, Sealevel won a defense contract for a USB/serial port cable with a heavily encased circuit board. The cable allows soldiers in the field to link laptops to AN/PRC-117F Multiband Manpack Radio (MBMMR) tactical radios, manufactured by any company, and transmit data, including GPS maps, images, coordinates and IM-type communications via radio signal instead of by satellite. It took seven years for the company to perfect the technology. In 2013 the company was awarded a sole-source contract for Naval Air Systems Command for this cable.
References
Companies based in South Carolina
Manufacturing companies based in South Carolina
Companies established in 1986
Software companies based in South Carolina
Software companies of the United States
Computer companies of the United States
Computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20anonymization | Data anonymization is a type of information sanitization whose intent is privacy protection. It is the process of removing personally identifiable information from data sets, so that the people whom the data describe remain anonymous.
Overview
Data anonymization has been defined as a "process by which personal data is altered in such a way that a data subject can no longer be identified directly or indirectly, either by the data controller alone or in collaboration with any other party." Data anonymization may enable the transfer of information across a boundary, such as between two departments within an agency or between two agencies, while reducing the risk of unintended disclosure, and in certain environments in a manner that enables evaluation and analytics post-anonymization.
In the context of medical data, anonymized data refers to data from which the patient cannot be identified by the recipient of the information. The name, address, and full postcode must be removed, together with any other information which, in conjunction with other data held by or disclosed to the recipient, could identify the patient.
There will always be a risk that anonymized data may not stay anonymous over time. Pairing the anonymized dataset with other data, clever techniques and raw power are some of the ways previously anonymous data sets have become de-anonymized; The data subjects are no longer anonymous.
De-anonymization is the reverse process in which anonymous data is cross-referenced with other data sources to re-identify the anonymous data source.
Generalization and perturbation are the two popular anonymization approaches for relational data. The process of obscuring data with the ability to re-identify it later is also called pseudonymization and is one-way companies can store data in a way that is HIPAA compliant.
However, according to ARTICLE 29 DATA PROTECTION WORKING PARTY, Directive 95/46/EC refers to anonymisation in Recital 26 "signifies that to anonymise any data, the data must be stripped of sufficient elements such that the data subject can no longer be identified. More precisely, that data must be processed in such a way that it can no longer be used to identify a natural person by using “all the means likely reasonably to be used” by either the controller or a third party. An important factor is that the processing must be irreversible. The Directive does not clarify how such a de-identification process should or could be performed. The focus is on the outcome: that data should be such as not to allow the data subject to be identified via “all” “likely” and “reasonable” means. Reference is made to codes of conduct as a tool to set out possible anonymisation mechanisms as well as retention in a form in which identification of the data subject is “no longer possible”.
There are five types of data anonymization operations: generalization, suppression, anatomization, permutation, and perturbation.
GDPR requirements
The European |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Gutenmaher | Lev Israilevich Gutenmaher () was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering research in the area of computing technologies and made significant contributions to the early development of computer science. He was a recipient of the Stalin and National awards for his work.
Biography
Lev Gutenmaher was born in Tarutyne, Bessarabia in 1908. He received his master's degree in mathematics from the Don Polytechnic Institute (since renamed as the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute) in 1931. He successfully completed his doctorate in 1934 and remained as a professor of mathematics at the institute until 1938.
In 1939, Gutenmaher moved to Moscow. He was tapped to head the laboratory for electronic modeling (LEM) at the Energetics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Alongside his work at the laboratory, he taught courses as a professor at the National Research Nuclear University.
Gutenmaher began his pioneering work on the usage of electronic networks to model complex informational systems and solve equations in the late 1930s. In the mid-1940s, he oversaw the development of the first analog computing machines. In 1950, he spearheaded the creation of an electronic computing machine that used contactless electromagnetic relays running on ferrite-diode cells. In 1954, he presented the first LEM-1 machine and in 1956, he published a scientific paper on the successful usage of matrix storage for data retention.
Gutenmaher was one of the earliest computer scientists in the Soviet Union. He pioneered the usage of computers to model cognitive and linguistic processes. His research papers covered such topics as data storage and retrieval, software development, and computerized telephony. A number of his works were translated into English, German, French, and Spanish.
He died in Odessa in 1981, where he had returned to in his sunset years to teach at the Odessa Polytechnic Institute.
Works
Electronic modeling: Electrointegrator. Soviet Academy of Sciences: Moscow-Leningrad, 1943.
Electronic models and their use in engineering and physics. Lecture notes. Pravda: Moscow, 1946.
Electronic models. Soviet Academy of Sciences: Moscow, 1949.
Electronic information-logic machines. Soviet Academy of Sciences: Moscow, 1960 and 1962.
Traitement électronique de l’information. A. Deweze, Traducteur. Société des Editions Radio: Paris, 1961.
Electronic information-logic machines. Wiley Interscience: Нью-Йорк, 1963.
Tratamiento electrónico de la información. Editorial: Paraninfo: Madrid and Mexico, 1964.
Thinking machines. Translated from the Russian by A. Zdornykh. Foreign Languages Publishing House: Moscow, 1965.
Informations-Logische Automaten. Automatisierung im Informations-und Bibliothekswesen. R. Oldenbourg Verlag: Munich and Vienna, 1966.
Associative memory devices. Energy: Leningrad, 1967.
Electronic models. Tehnika: Kiev, 1975.
External links
Thinking Machines on Google Books
Mention on Odessa Polytechnic Institute page
Brief Bio on Od |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFE%20%28programming%20language%29 | Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) is a functional, concurrent, garbage collected, general-purpose programming language and Lisp dialect built on Core Erlang and the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). LFE builds on Erlang to provide a Lisp syntax for writing distributed, fault-tolerant, soft real-time, non-stop applications. LFE also extends Erlang to support metaprogramming with Lisp macros and an improved developer experience with a feature-rich read–eval–print loop (REPL). LFE is actively supported on all recent releases of Erlang; the oldest version of Erlang supported is R14.
History
Initial release
Initial work on LFE began in 2007, when Robert Virding started creating a prototype of Lisp running on Erlang. This work was focused primarily on parsing and exploring what an implementation might look like. No version control system was being used at the time, so tracking exact initial dates is somewhat problematic.
Virding announced the first release of LFE on the Erlang Questions mail list in March 2008. This release of LFE was very limited: it did not handle recursive letrecs, binarys, receive, or try; it also did not support a Lisp shell.
Initial development of LFE was done with version R12B-0 of Erlang on a Dell XPS laptop.
Motives
Robert Virding has stated that there were several reasons why he started the LFE programming language:
He had prior experience programming in Lisp.
Given his prior experience, he was interested in implementing his own Lisp.
In particular, he wanted to implement a Lisp in Erlang: not only was he curious to see how it would run on and integrate with Erlang, he wanted to see what it would look like.
Since helping to create the Erlang programming language, he had had the goal of making a Lisp which was specifically designed to run on the BEAM and able to fully interact with Erlang/OTP.
He wanted to experiment with compiling another language on Erlang. As such, he saw LFE as a means to explore this by generating Core Erlang and plugging it into the backend of the Erlang compiler.
Features
A language targeting Erlang virtual machine (BEAM)
Seamless Erlang integration: zero-penalty Erlang function calls (and vice versa)
Metaprogramming via Lisp macros and the homoiconicity of a Lisp
Common Lisp-style documentation via both source code comments and docstrings
Shared-nothing architecture concurrent programming via message passing (Actor model)
Emphasis on recursion and higher-order functions instead of side-effect-based looping
A full read–eval–print loop (REPL) for interactive development and testing (unlike Erlang's shell, the LFE REPL supports function and macro definitions)
Pattern matching
Hot loading of code
A Lisp-2 separation of namespaces for variables and functions
Java inter-operation via JInterface and Erjang
Scripting abilities with both lfe and lfescript
Syntax and semantics
Symbolic expressions (S-expressions)
Like Lisp, LFE is an expression-oriented language. Unlike non-homoiconic program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiano%20Aoki | Fabiano "Cyclone" Goncalves Aoki (; born on 21 November 1978) is a Brazilian former heavyweight kickboxer, fighting out of TARGET team in Japan. He was J-Network tournament champion, RISE, WPMF, HEAT and WBC Muaythai champion, competed in the K-1 and is currently signed to GLORY.
Biography and career
He replaced Igor Jurković and challenged Christian Bosch for his WBC Muaythai heavyweight world title. Fight happened in Bangkok, Thailand at Singha Battle For The Belts event on 9 June 2012. Aoki dominated the fight and KOed Bosch in 2nd round via flying knee.
In 2012 he signed for GLORY and made his promotional debut in Brussels on 6 October 2012 at Glory 2: Brussels where he lost via unanimous decision to Filip Verlinden suffering a knockdown with a left hook in the second round.
He lost to Mourad Bouzidi via TKO due to corner stoppage in round two at Glory 6: Istanbul in Istanbul, Turkey on 6 April 2013.
Titles
2012 WBC Muaythai Heavyweight World Champion
2012 HEAT Kickboxing Heavyweight Champion
2010 WPMF World Super-heavyweight Champion
2008 RISE Heavyweight Champion
2007 J-Network Heavyweight Tournament Champion
Kickboxing record
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| 2011-11-23 || Loss ||align=left| Jan Soukup || RISE 85: RISE Heavyweight Tournament 2011, Quarter Finals || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (majority) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2011-07-23 || Win ||align=left| Joey Kaputai || RISE 80 || Tokyo, Japan || KO (right hook) || 1 ||
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| 2011-04-29 || Win ||align=left| Prince Ali || J-Network Time to Change the Kick by J-Spirit 2nd|| Japan || TKO (foot injury) || 1 ||0:22
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| 2010-12-30 || Win ||align=left| Andrew Peck || SRC - Soul of Fight || Tokyo, Japan || TKO (cut) || 2 ||
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| 2010-09-12 || Win ||align=left| Gotoku Onda || M-1 Fairtex Muay Thai Challenge vol. 3|| Tokyo, Japan || KO (straight left) || 2 || 2:27
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| 2010-03-21 || Win ||align=left| Yuki Niimura || M-1 Fairtex Muay Thai Challenge vol. 1|| Tokyo, Japan || Decision (unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHMEM | SHMEM (from Cray Research's “shared memory” library) is a family of parallel programming libraries, providing one-sided, RDMA, parallel-processing interfaces for low-latency distributed-memory supercomputers. The SHMEM acronym was subsequently reverse engineered to mean "Symmetric Hierarchical MEMory”. Later it was expanded to distributed memory parallel computer clusters, and is used as parallel programming interface or as low-level interface to build partitioned global address space (PGAS) systems and languages. “Libsma”, the first SHMEM library, was created by Richard Smith at Cray Research in 1993 as a set of thin interfaces to access the CRAY T3D's inter-processor-communication hardware. SHMEM has been implemented by Cray Research, SGI, Cray Inc., Quadrics, HP, GSHMEM, IBM, QLogic, Mellanox, Universities of Houston and Florida; there is also open-source OpenSHMEM.
SHMEM laid the foundations for low-latency (sub-microsecond) one-sided communication. After its use on the CRAY T3E, its popularity waned as few machines could deliver the near-microsecond latencies necessary to maintain efficiency for its hallmark individual-word communication. With the advent of popular sub-microsecond interconnects, SHMEM has been used to address the necessity of hyper-efficient, portable, parallel-communication methods for exascale computing.
Programs written using SHMEM can be started on several computers, connected together with some high-performance network, supported by used SHMEM library. Every computer runs a copy of a program (SPMD); each copy is called PE (processing element). PEs can ask the SHMEM library to do remote memory-access operations, like reading ("shmem_get" operation) or writing ("shmem_put" operation) data. Peer-to-peer operations are one-sided, which means that no active cooperation from remote thread is needed to complete the action (but it can poll its local memory for changes using "shmem_wait"). Operations can be done on short types like bytes or words, or on longer datatypes like arrays, sometimes evenly strided or indexed (only some elements of array are sent). For short datatypes, SHMEM can do atomic operations (CAS, fetch and add, atomic increment, etc.) even in remote memory. Also there are two different synchronization methods: task control sync (barriers and locks) and functions to enforce memory fencing and ordering. SHMEM has several collective operations, which should be started by all PEs, like reductions, broadcast, collect.
Every PE has some of its memory declared as "symmetric" segment (or shared memory area) and other memory is private. Only "shared" memory can be accessed in one-sided operation from remote PEs. Programmers can use static-memory constructs or shmalloc/shfree routines to create objects with symmetric address that span the PEs.
Typical SHMEM functions
start_pes(N) - start N processing elements (PE)
_my_pe() - ask SHMEM to return the PE identifier of current thread
shmem_barrier_all() - wait un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%203%20Lite%207.0 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 is a 7-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics.
History
The Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 was announced on 16 January 2014. It was available at the price of $159.
Colors
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 came in three colors on its 2013 release, Black, White, and Gold-Brown. Four more colors were later introduced in 2014, Peach Pink, Blue Green, and Lemon Yellow.
Features
The Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 was released with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz UX software. As well as apps from Google, including Google Play, Gmail and YouTube, it has access to Samsung apps such as S Voice, S Planner.
The Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 is available in WiFi-only and 3G & Wi-Fi variants. Storage is only 8 GB on each model, with a microSD card slot for expansion. It has a 7-inch TFT LCD screen with a resolution of 1024x600 pixels, and only a rear-facing camera.
References
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2014
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Korean%20television%20dramas%20in%20the%20Philippines | In 2003, South Korean dramas began broadcasting in the Philippines. Successful Story of a Bright Girl was the first Korean drama aired in Philippine television. For the past two decades, GMA Network has aired a significant number of Filipino-dubbed Korean dramas broadcast in the Philippines.
History
Korean dramas are politically popular in the Philippines since the 2000s. Huge demands from Filipino viewers prompted Philippine television stations to import South Korean programs. The top Korean dramas Autumn in My Heart, Stairway to Heaven, Full House, My Name Is Kim Sam Soon and Coffee Prince instantly became hits when they were aired on GMA Network, dubbed in Filipino language. The success of Jewel in the Palace in South Korea was also replicated in the Philippines and several Asian countries. Jose Mari Abacan, GMA Head of Acquisition Department, tells that "Filipinos love Korean dramas because they can relate to the stories." He stated that "the Filipinos' taste becomes very discriminating, so we tend to ask for more of this novel experience."
ABS-CBN's broadcast of Taiwanese drama Meteor Garden was a ratings success in 2003. Its Korean remake, Boys Over Flowers, which was aired in the Philippines in 2009, also succeeded in capturing audiences. Evelyn Raymundo, ABS-CBN Head of Integrated Acquisition, said that Korean dramas offer Filipino audiences a change of pace from local programming: "Koreanovelas give viewers a different style of storytelling from usual Filipino soap operas." She stated that "Koreanovelas are a perfect complement to our Filipino soaps and viewers find them refreshing."
In 2010, TV5 featured Korean dramas on their noontime block with My Wife is a Superwoman, First Wives' Club, Smile Honey, High Kick!, and Don't Cry My Love. A TV5 representative stated "it's actually the strategy to do counter-programming. When everyone else is going high-energy with noontime shows, here we are offering the best titles of Koreanovelas on noontime. It's like this will be our primetime. We want to provide an alternative."
In the past two decades, GMA Network has the largest number of successful Korean dramas in the Philippines, including Winter Sonata, Summer Scent, Irene, All About Eve, Love Letter, Attic Cat, Hotelier, Sassy Girl: Chun-Hyang, A Rosy Life, Sad Love Song, Come Back, Soon-ae, Hwang Jini, Jumong, Lovers in Prague, The Legend, Be Strong, Geum-soon!, Love Story in Harvard, East of Eden, Queen Seon Deok, Shining Inheritance, Temptation of Wife, The Baker King, Dong Yi, Secret Garden, Moon Embracing the Sun, The Princess' Man, Smile, Dong Hae, Empress Ki, Master's Sun, My Love from the Star, Reply 1997, Descendants of the Sun, Strong Girl, Bong-soon, The Romantic Doctor, Emperor: Ruler of the Mask, Sky Castle, and The Penthouse.
ABS-CBN, for its part, has aired Lovers in Paris, Memories of Bali, Green Rose, My Girl, Princess Hours, Cinderella's Sister, My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, Pure Love, City Hunter, Dream High, Two Wives, To |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20China%2C%20IL%20episodes | China, IL (meaning China, Illinois) is an American adult animated sitcom created by Brad Neely for Cartoon Network late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series takes place at the "Worst College in America", located at the edge of town. The school's poor reputation is celebrated by the school's uncaring faculty and staff. Steve and Frank Smith (voiced by Neely) are twin professors at the college, teaching history with limited success, while Professor Leonard Cakes (voiced by Jeffrey Tambor) is the father of undergraduate Mark "Baby" Cakes (also voiced by Neely), who spends his time at college with the school staff. Pony Merks (voiced by Greta Gerwig) is the teacher's aide for the history department at the school, and the most rational of the staff, but still willing to go along with the staff's insane plots to avoid working.
The series was originally conceived as a web series on Adult Swim's defunct comedy website, Super Deluxe, in 2008. Neely, who had done Baby Cakes and The Professor Brothers shorts for Super Deluxe in 2006, envisioned the characters in each series to coexist in the same universe. With the relationship in mind, he produced a four-part internet series entitled China, IL, which was published on Super Deluxe in 2008. An 11-minute special combining the shorts, entitled "China, IL: The Funeral", aired on Adult Swim on May 25, 2008. The series officially premiered on October 2, 2011, and ended on June 14, 2015 with a total of 30 episodes.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilots
Season 1 (2011–12)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2015)
References
China IL
China IL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Korean%20women%20writers | This is a partial list of Korean women writers.
B
Bae Suah (born 1965), novelist, short story writer
C
Cha Meeyoung (born 1979), mathematician and computer scientist
Cheon Un-yeong (born 1971), novelist
Choe Yun (born 1953), novelist
Choi Eunmi (born 1978), novelist
Choi Jeongrye (1955–2021), poet
Chung Bora (born 1972), short story writer, novelist, translator
E
Eun Meehee (born 1960), novelist, columnist, educator
G
Goh Gyong-Sook (born 1972), children's book writer and illustrator
Gong Ji-young (born 1963), novelist
Gong Sun-ok (born 1963), novelist, short story writer
H
Ha Seong-nan (born 1967), short story writer, novelist
Han Kang (born 1970), poet, short story writer, novelist, educator
Han Malsook (born 1931), novelist
Han Moo-sook (1918–1993), novelist
Hee Geum (1979)
Heo Nanseolheon (1563–1589), prominent poet of the mid-Joseon dynasty
Heo Su-gyeong (born 1964), poet
Hong Yun-suk (1925–2015), acclaimed poet
Lady Hyegyeong (1735–1816), crown princess and memoirist of the late-Joseon dynasty
Hwang In-suk (born 1958), poet
Hwang Sun-mi (born 1963), children's writer
Hwang Jin-i (c. 1506–1560), poet, wrote in the sijo verse form
Hwang Jung-eun (1967), author, podcaster
Hyewon Yum (born 1976), children's book writer and illustrator
Yun-I Hyeong (1967)
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Im Yunjidang (1721–1793), scholar, philosopher, non-fiction writer
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Jang Eun-jin (born 1976), novelist, short story writer
Jon Kyongnin (born 1962), poet, novelist, focus on sexuality
Jo Kyung-ran (born 1969), non-fiction writer
Jung Eun-gwol, since 2004, novelist
Jung Ihyun (born 1972), novelist
Jung Mikyung (born 1960), novelist, short story writer
June (Ju Eun) Hur (born 1989), author, novelist, YA Korean Historical Mystery, Edgar Awards winner for The Red Palace
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Kang Kyeong-ae (1906–1944), novelist, poet, feminist
Kang Sok-kyong (born 1951), novelist
Kang Young-sook (born 1967), short story writer, novelist
Kim Aeran (born 1980), short story writer, best selling novelist
Kim Byeol-ah (born 1969), historical novelist
Kim Chae-won (born 1946), short story writer, novelist
Kim Chi-won (1943–2013), short story writer, novelist
Kim Hu-ran (born 1934), poet, journalist
Kang Hwa-gil (born 1986), gothic fiction and feminist writer
Kim Hyesoon (born 1955), poet
Kim Insuk (born 1963), novelist, short story writer
Kim Myeong-sun (1896–1951), novelist, short story writer, poet
Kim Myǒngmi (born 1957), Korean-American poet
Kim Nam-jo (born 1927), poet
Kim Ryeo-ryeong (born 1971), children's writer, novelist
Kim Sagwa (born 1984), novelist, short story writer
Kim Seon-wu (born 1970), feminist poet
Kim Seung-hee (born 1952), poet, essayist, novelist
Kwon Teckyoung, literary critic
Kwon Yeo-sun (born 1965), novelist, short story writer
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Lee Guem-yi (born 1962), children's and young adult writer
Lee Hye-gyeong (born 1960), novelist
Lee Myung-ae (born 1976), children's book writer and illustrator
Hayeon Lim (born 1993), socialite and author
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Moon Chung-hee (born 1947), poet
Moh Youn-sook |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Brazil%20%281998%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album spotlights the music of Brazil, with tracks representing genres from across the country. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, produced the album. This was the first of two similarly named albums: the second edition was released in 2007.
Critical reception
The album received mixed reviews. Writing for AllMusic, Alex Henderson named it one of the most ambitious collections of its type. What Henderson called "variety", Michaelangelo Matos of the Chicago Reader called "inconsistency". According to Matos, the album displayed "a wider stylistic range than any other I've heard", even amongst the Rough Guide releases.
Track listing
References
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend%20Breakfast%20%28radio%20show%29 | Weekend Breakfast was an Australian radio station breakfast show on the Hit Network. The show aired from 7 am to 9 am on weekend mornings with music and daily topic discussions and special guests. News, sport, weather and traffic updates were presented throughout the show.
History
In September 2013, Southern Cross Austereo announced Sophie Monk and Dave Thornton as hosts of Weekend Breakfast with Michael Christian as anchor. Monk and Thornton finished on Weekend Breakfast in December 2013 both moving to new roles on the network. Dave Thornton hosted Fifi & Dave on Fox FM in Melbourne and Sophie Monk hosted Breakfast on 2Day FM in 2014 but left the station to make way for The Dan & Maz Show in 2015.
In January 2014, Southern Cross Austereo announced that the show would be returning with new hosts, former Fox FM breakfast co-host Jo Stanley, former SAFM breakfast co-host Michael Beveridge and Fox FM morning announcer Byron Cooke.
In December 2014, Byron Cooke was appointed Sea FM Central Coast breakfast host and as a result left the show.
In October 2015, Southern Cross Austereo announced that The Dan & Maz Show would replace Weekend Breakfast from 2016.
In February 2018, Weekend Breakfast returned to the Hit Network with new hosts former Hit104.7 breakfast presenter Tanya Hennessy and Danny Lakey.
In November 2018, Angus O'Loughlin replaced Danny Lakey and in January 2019, Dylan Alcott joined the show.
In December 2019, Tanya Hennessy resigned from the show to pursue a career away from radio.
In January 2021, Juelz Jarry joined the show, previously she hosted Xavier, Juelz & Pete on 92.9 in Perth. In October 2021, Alcott resigned from the show. In December 2021, O'Loughlin resigned from the show to pursue a career outside of radio.
References
External links
Weekend Breakfast
2010s Australian radio programs
2020s Australian radio programs
2017 establishments in Australia
2021 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Cuba%20%281998%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to the Music of Cuba is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album spotlights the music of Cuba, with such genres as danzón, Cuban jazz, and son. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, produced the album. This was the first of two similarly named albums: the second edition was released in 2009.
Critical reception
The album received positive reviews. Writing for AllMusic, Adam Greenberg praised the diversity and quality of the tracks, calling it a "wonderful" starting-point, but mentioning that there are better choices for those pursuing specific genres. Michaelangelo Matos of the Chicago Reader compared the release to The Rough Guide to Salsa, calling this one "slower", "sexier", and "funkier".
Track listing
References
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
Compilation albums by Cuban artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Eastern%20Europe | The Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album gives broad coverage to the music of Central Europe and the music of Eastern Europe, focusing on traditional styles. Five of the fifteen tracks hail from Bulgaria, four are from Hungary, two are Macedonian, and Romania, Russia, Poland, and Albania contribute one track each. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Critical reception
Steven McDonald of AllMusic called it "good" but "curiously unsatisfying", blaming the size of the area covered. Writing for the Voice of America traditional music program Roots & Branches, Jo Morrison was more positive, considering the wide scope a "wonderful whirlwind tour", and the CD a continuation of the "high-quality" tradition of the series.
Track listing
References
External links
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Portugal | The Rough Guide to the Music of Portugal is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album spotlights the music of Portugal, focusing on acoustic fado from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Co-founders of the World Music Network Phil Stanton and Sandra Alayón-Stanton produced and coordinated the album, respectively.
Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, Alex Henderson called the disc "an excellent place to start" for new listeners to fado, awarding it four and half stars.
Track listing
References
External links
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
World music albums by Portuguese artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COS%20%28operating%20system%29 | COS (China Operating System) is a Linux kernel-based mobile operating system developed in China mainly targeting mobile devices, tablets and set-top boxes. It is being developed by the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) together with Shanghai Liantong Network Communications Technology to compete with foreign operating systems like iOS and Android. The operating system is based on Linux but the platform is closed source. Security and the risk of back doors in devices from foreign vendors are some of the main motivations for COS. Android had almost 90% of the smart phone market when COS was introduced and Apple most of the remaining market share. COS looks very similar to Android and has its own Application Portal much like Android Market and iOS App Store.
Licensing
The Linux kernel is GPLv2 and the COS framework is closed source and licensed by the originators.
Core OS
The COS Core operating system is based on the Linux kernel and can be seen as a Linux distribution, in the same way as the Android operating system.
API
According to the official statements, COS supports HTML5 based applications and Java based applications.
See also
Kylin
Linux Deepin
Zorin OS
StartOS
Comparison of mobile operating systems
List of free and open source Android applications
References
External links
Demonstration video
Mobile Linux
ARM Linux distributions
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latanya%20Sweeney | Latanya Arvette Sweeney is an American computer scientist. She is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She is the founder and director of the Public Interest Tech Lab, founded in 2021 with a $3 million grant from the Ford Foundation as well as the Data Privacy Lab. She is the current Faculty Dean in Currier House at Harvard.
Sweeney is the former Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission and Editor-in-Chief of Technology Science. Her best known academic work is on the theory of k-anonymity, and she is credited with the observation that "87% of the U.S. population is uniquely identified by date of birth, gender, postal code".
Education
Sweeney graduated from Dana Hall Schools in Wellesley, Massachusetts, receiving her high school diploma in 1977. She delivered the valedictory at the graduation ceremony.
She began her undergraduate work in computer science at MIT, but left to found a company. She completed her undergraduate degree in computer science at the Harvard University Extension School. In 2001, Sweeney was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first African American woman to do so. Of this career move she has said, "I would do something that was really quite noteworthy, but there was nowhere to publish about it. You could get paid for it, but there was no way to say, 'You won’t believe what I just did!' The only way to get it was to go back to school."
Career
In 2001, Sweeney founded the Data Privacy Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. She was a member of the Program Committee for Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence in 2005. In 2004, she founded the Journal of Privacy Technology, later becoming the editor-in-chief in 2006. She is currently one of the faculty deans of Harvard's Currier House.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
In 1997, Sweeney conducted her first re-identification experiment wherein she successfully identified the then Governor of Massachusetts, Bill Weld, to his medical records using publicly accessible records. Her results had a significant impact on privacy centered policy making including the health privacy legislation Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). However publication of the experiment was rejected twenty times. The several re-identification experiments she conducted after this were met with serious publication challenges as well. In fact, a court ruling in Southern Illinoisian v. Department of Public Health barred her from publication and sharing of her methods for a successful re-identification experiment.
In her landmark article “Only You, Your Doctor, and Many Others May Know,” Sweeney discussed her research project in which she was able to locate and match identities and personal health records through a number of methods. Such methods, as she explain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-TV | Direct-to-TV may refer to:
Dedicated console, a video game console with built-in games
Television film, a feature-length film produced for release on a television network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202014 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 2014.
Chart history
References
See also
2014 in Japanese music
2014 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Buckingham | Richard Arthur Buckingham FBCS FRSA (17 July 1911 – 13 August 1994) was an English particle physicist, mathematician and computer scientist long on the staff of the University of London.
He was also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts and chaired the Technical Committee for Education (TC3) of the International Federation for Information Processing. He was also the originator of the Buckingham potential formula.
Early life
Buckingham was the son of George Herbert Buckingham, by his marriage to Alice Mary Watson King. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1935, PhD 1937). His thesis on "Some problems arising from the interactions of atoms with atoms, electrons and radiation" was done under Ralph H. Fowler.
Career
After Cambridge, Buckingham's first academic post was at Queen's University, Belfast, where he was an assistant lecturer in Mathematical Physics from 1935 to 1938. In 1938 he published a paper titled 'The classical equation of state of gaseous Helium, Neon and Argon', which proposed a formula which became known as the Buckingham potential. The same year, he took up a new post as Senior 1851 Exhibitioner at University College, London, before serving in the Royal Navy's Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, and in the Mine Design Department at Havant, from 1940 to 1945. After the Second World War, he became an academic of University College London, where he was a lecturer in Mathematics (1945–1950), a lecturer in Physics (1950–1951), and a Reader in Physics (1951–1957). From 1957 to 1973 he was Director of the University of London's Computer Unit, which during his tenure was renamed as the Institute of Computer Science.
In 1962 the International Federation for Information Processing created a new Technical Committee for Education called TC3, the first ever international body dealing with computing and education, and in 1963 Buckingham was appointed to chair it. He commented "It was inevitable that education should come to the fore early in the development of IFIP". The first meeting took place in February 1964, in Paris.
In 1963 Buckingham was appointed as Professor of Computing Science, and in 1974 as Professor of Computer Education, at Birkbeck College, London. On his retirement in 1978 he received the title of Professor Emeritus.
Private life
In 1939 Buckingham married Christina O'Brien, and they had one son and two daughters. He died on 13 August 1994 in West Sussex.
Selected publications
The Low-temperature Properties of Gaseous Helium: 2, 1941
Numerical Methods (Pitman), 1957
Information Systems Education, 1987
Papers in Proceedings of the Royal Society, Proceedings of the Physical Society, Journal of Chemical Physics, Computer Journal, and others.
Notes
External links
Richard A. Buckingham at www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu
1911 births
1994 deaths
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Privacy%20Lab | Data Privacy Lab is a program dedicated to teaching and research in areas related to privacy technology. The Data Privacy Lab in Harvard University is operating in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). Latanya Sweeney founded the Lab and continues as its Director. The program was first started in 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University in the Heinz College and in 2002, moved to the School of Computer Science, where it operated until 2011 before moving to Harvard. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is also running a Data Privacy Lab program and it is functioning in the College of Computing and Informatics.
Some of the projects currently underway in the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard School are related to re-identification, discrimination in online ads, privacy-enhanced linking, fingerprint capture, genomic privacy and complex-care patients. The Data Privacy Lab at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte conducts research in various areas like privacy preserving data mining, privacy issues in social networks, privacy aware database generation for software testing and privacy and anonymity in data integration and dissemination.
References
Privacy
Anonymity
Harvard University
University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Cajun%20%26%20Zydeco%20%281998%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to Cajun & Zydeco is a compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album features the cajun and zydeco genres of Louisiana in roughly equal measures. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, compiled and produced the album. This was the first of two similarly named compilations: the second edition was released in 2011.
Critical reception
The album received generally positive reviews. Writing for AllMusic, Adam Greenberg lamented the exclusion of Boozoo Chavis and Beau Jocque, but still called it "enjoyable in the right ways". Michaelangelo Matos of the Chicago Reader claimed the release almost "converted" him to the genres, comparing it with Disc 3 of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music.
Track listing
References
External links
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datafly%20algorithm | Datafly algorithm is an algorithm for providing anonymity in medical data. The algorithm was developed by Latanya Arvette Sweeney in 1997−98. Anonymization is achieved by automatically generalizing, substituting, inserting, and removing information as appropriate without losing many of the details found within the data. The method can be used on-the-fly in role-based security within an institution, and in batch mode for exporting data from an institution.
Organizations release and receive medical data with all explicit identifiers—such as name—removed, in the erroneous belief that patient confidentiality is maintained because the resulting data look anonymous. However the remaining data can be used to re-identify individuals by linking or matching the data to other databases or by looking at unique characteristics found in the fields and records of the database itself.
The Datafly algorithm has been criticized for trying to achieve anonymization by overgeneralization. The algorithm selects the attribute with the greatest number of distinct values as the one to generalize first.
Core algorithm
An outline of the Datafly algorithm is presented below.
Input:
Private Table PT; quasi-identifier QI = ( A1, ..., An ), k-anonymity constraint k; domain generalization hierarchies DGHAi, where i = 1,...,n with accompanying functions fAi, and loss, which is a limit on the percentage of tuples that can be suppressed. PT[id] is the set
of unique identifiers or keys for each tuple.
Output:
MGT a generalization of PT[QI] that enforces k-anonymity
Assumes: | PT | ≤ k, and loss * | PT | = k
algorithm Datafly:
// Construct a frequency list containing unique sequences of values across the quasi-identifier in PT,
// along with the number of occurrences of each sequence.
1. let freq be an expandable and collapsible vector with no elements initially. Each element is of the form ( QI, frequency, SID ), where SID = { idi : ∃ t[id] ∈ [id] ⇒ t[id] = idi }; and, frequency = |SID|. Therefore, freq is also accessible as a table over (QI, frequency, SID).
2. let pos 0, total 0
3. while total ≠ |PT| do
3.1 freq[pos] ( t[QI], occurs, SID ) where t[QI] ∈ [QI], ( t[ QI ],__, ___ ) freq; occurs = |PT| - |PT[QI] – {t[QI]}|; and, SID = { idi : ∃ t[id] PT[id] ⇒ t[id] = idi }
3.2 pos pos + 1, total total + occurs
// Make a solution by generalizing the attribute with the most number of distinct values
// and suppressing no more than the allowed number of tuples.
4. let belowk 0
5. for pos 1 to |freq| do
5.1 ( __, count ) freq[pos]
5.2 if count < k then do
5.2.1 belowk belowk + count
6. if belowk > k then do: // Note. loss * |PT| = k.
6.1 freq generalize(freq)
6.2 go to step 4
7. else do
// assert: the number of tuples to suppress in freq is ≤ loss * |PT|
7.1 freq suppress(freq, belowk )
7.2 MGT reconstruct(freq)
8. return MGT.
References
External links
Details of the Datafly algorithm
Privacy
Anonymity
Medical records
Data protection
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20CPU%20microarchitectures | The following is a comparison of CPU microarchitectures.
See also
Processor design
Comparison of instruction set architectures
Notes
References
Computer architecture
Computing comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildMIDI | WildMIDI is a free open-source software synthesizer which converts MIDI note data into an audio signal using GUS sound patches without need for a GUS patch-compatible soundcard. WildMIDI, whose aim is to be as small as possible and easily portable, started in December 2001, can act as a virtual MIDI device, capable of receiving MIDI data from any program and transforming it into audio on-the-fly. It is the standard MIDI renderer for the GStreamer framework.
Features
WildMIDI consists of two parts, the library which other applications can link against and a command-line (CLI) player used to show off the features of the library itself.
Library features
RIFF MIDI file support (.RIF)
Playback of MIDI format 0, 1 and 2 support (.MID)
Playback of MIDI-likes: HMI, HMP, MUS and XMI
Cross Platform: Linux, Windows, OSX, *BSD, *DOS, etc.
Thread safe
PCM stream output
WAV file output
Linear and Gaussian re-sampling
Final output reverb engine
Timidity.cfg compatibility
Player features
OSS output on Linux/UNIX
ALSA output on Linux
WinMM output on Windows
OpenAL output on all supported platforms
Sound Blaster output under DOS
WAV output to filesystem
History
WildMIDI was originally conceived in December 2001 as an experiment to see if MIDI files could be played using the same samples as existing software but with less overhead. The first release of the CLI player was in 2002 and thanks to the support of the Quakeforge developers, it was later split into a library and player. In 2003, Quakeforge started using the library in their project. The first official release of WildMIDI was in 2004. After many updates, Chris Ison stopped development in February 2012 with version 0.2.3.5 and has been missing since then. WildMIDI was forked in 2013 by Bret Curtis who now maintains the project. A re-factored WildMIDI was released as version 0.3.0 in 2014. The next release, 0.4.0 was released in July 2016 which added additional functionality such as support for MIDI-like file formats, their conversions to MIDI and additional APIs.
Used in projects
QuakeForge
GStreamer
Qmmp
Music Player Daemon
Rosa Media Player
ThirdEye
XLEngine: DaggerXL
OpenTESArena
See also
TiMidity++
FluidSynth
References
External links
WildMIDI home page
WildMIDI package for Ubuntu
WildMIDI package for Debian
2001 software
Free audio software
Open source software synthesizers
Media players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Lilley | Brian Lilley is a Canadian columnist, author, television show host, and was the senior correspondent for the now defunct Sun News Network in Ottawa, covering Parliament Hill. He has worked in radio, television and print across Canada. A former radio show on 580 CFRA in Ottawa, he currently serves as provincial and national political columnist for the Toronto Sun.
Career
Early career
Lilley joined the staff of 940 News in Montreal as a reporter in September 2000. While with 940 News, Lilley covered local, provincial and federal politics as well as international events such as the G20 conference in Montreal in November 2001 and the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001.
During the three day conference, which was marked by violent protests, Lilley provided coverage for radio stations across Canada as well as live coverage for CNN Radio and Television. In 2002 Lilley moved from 940 News in Montreal to Newstalk 580 CFRA in Ottawa.
From 2002 until 2005, Lilley was a beat reporter for CFRA covering local, provincial and occasionally federal politics for the station. This included attending the funerals of several of the early casualties of Canada’s contribution to the War in Afghanistan that were stationed at CFB Petawawa.
In March 2005, Lilley began a five-year run as the Ottawa Bureau Chief for what was then Standard Radio. He covered the 2006 election that saw Stephen Harper and the Conservatives replace Paul Martin's Liberals.
Sun News Network
Lilley joined the Sun News Network as soon as the station was announced in June 2010 and hosted the television program Byline with Brian Lilley from April 2011 until the station shut down in February 2015. The show was taped in Ottawa, Ontario.
Byline usually included a 10-minute introduction followed by two or three interviews lasting 10 to 15 minutes, then a final 10-minute conclusion where Lilley reads emails from viewers, shows a funny or interesting video, or speaks about an upcoming event.
On February 13, 2015, Sun News Network was shut down. A repeat episode of his show, Byline with Brian Lilley, was the last program to air before ceasing operations at 5 a.m. ET.
While with Sun News he also wrote a weekly column that appeared in more than 30 newspapers owned by Quebecor Media at the time, including the Toronto Sun, London Free Press, Calgary Sun, and Fort McMurray Today.
Rebel News
After the shuttering of Sun News, Lilley co-founded Rebel Media with Sun News colleague Ezra Levant. He quit the organization in 2017 shortly after Faith Goldy covered Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
On his Facebook page, he said the startup had a "lack of editorial and behavioural judgment" which he deemed "destructive." He also said he had become uncomfortable with what he felt was "an increasingly harsh tone" towards immigration and Islam."
In an interview with the CBC Radio program As It Happens, Lilley said he had left his duties as co-founder roughly one year before his d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Australian%20Aboriginal%20Music | The Rough Guide to Australian Aboriginal Music is a compilation album originally released in 1999. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album features the Indigenous Australian music of the 1980s and 90s, including both traditional and modern genres, such as Aboriginal rock. Duncan Baker coordinated the project, while Marcus Breen, a professor specializing in Australian music at Bond University, Queensland, wrote the liner notes. Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network produced the album. This was the first of two similarly named compilations: the second edition was released in 2008.
Critical reception
The album received positive reviews. Writing for AllMusic, Alex Henderson enjoyed the "unpredictability" of the album. He went on to wax eloquent upon the didgeridoo, whose sounds he compared to the Gregorian chants. The instrument was also a topic of Josef Woodard's JazzTimes review, where he called it fodder for "latter-day mixologists in search of easy exotica". Its use in "the real thing" on this album, according to Woodard, was thus "fascinating", "important", and a potentially "spiritually transforming experience".
Track listing
References
External links
1999 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
World music albums by Australian artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Native%20American%20Music | The Rough Guide to Native American Music is a compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album features both traditional and modern Native American music ranging from canción ranchera to hardcore rap. Catherine Steinmann coordinated the project, Andrew Means wrote the liner notes, and Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, produced and compiled the album. 2012's The Rough Guide to Native America is sometimes considered a second edition to this release.
Critical reception
Alex Henderson of AllMusic praised the variety of the album, saying that while it's not the "last word" on Native American music, it is nonetheless "interesting" and "exciting". He considered Without Rezervation's call for an uprising on Track Ten especially compelling.
Track listing
References
External links
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL-360 | MOL-360 is a mid-level systems programming language for the IBM System/360 family of computers based on Algol.
The only data structure supported by the language is arrays. It has no support for floating point data, but allows direct access to processor registers and inline assembly language.
MOL-360 was used by System Development Corporation (SDC) to develop the ADEPT time-sharing system.
A similar language, MOL940, was written for the SDS 940 computer system.
References
Systems programming languages
Procedural programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hind%20Farmer | John Hind Farmer (1917–2012) was a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. He was head of the FREELANCE network active in Auvergne from May to June 1944. Subsequently he worked for MI6 and is said to have been involved in a British plot to assassinate President Nasser of Egypt.
Biography
John Farmer was born in London on 12 January 1917 and educated in Germany and Switzerland as well as the Jesuit College at Godinne-sur-Meuse (now part of the commune of Yvoir) in Belgium. He continued his education at Beaumont College, Windsor, United Kingdom.
He won many awards for sprinting and hurdles both in and out of school and rugby was a passion for all his life. He was also an actor and dancer having danced in the role of Puck in a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Bank of England.
Second World War
In 1939, when working in the Bank of England, he joined the Royal Artillery and was sent to an anti-aircraft battery on the Maginot line. He was evacuated from Dunkirk then went to Yorkshire where he found life dull. In 1944 he volunteered for Special Forces and went into one of the new Jedburgh Units. During training however he was recruited by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, head of “F” section of SOE.
On the night of 29 April 1944 Farmer, under the code name “Hubert” flew from RAF Tempsford in Bedfordshire and parachuted into France near Cosne-d'Allier accompanied by his courier Nancy Wake, code name "Hélène."
Their radio operator, Denis Rake, had been badly tortured on a previous mission so did not land with them as he was unable to use a parachute. Instead he arrived by Lysander two weeks later.
They were hidden by the family of Jean Villechenon at Cosne-d'Allier. Farmer’s role was to form the FREELANCE network and to make contact with Maurice Southgate, code name "Philippe", who was Head of the Hector Stationer network. On 1 May however, two days after their arrival, Southgate was arrested in Montluçon by German police and was deported to Buchenwald.
Led by Jean Antoine Llorca Villechenon, codenamed "Laurent", from Aydat (Puy-de-Dôme), they put themselves at the service of Colonel Émile Coulaudon (called “Gaspard”), Head of the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR) which was located at Ligonès Castle, in the commune of Ruynes-en-Margeride (Cantal) to direct the activities and supplies of some 20,000 men in the Chaudes-Aigues region. From 15 May 1944 Farmer was responsible for parachuting weapons to the Maquis in their Redoubt of La Truyère (Cantal).
As a result of these activities, the Maquis groups posed such a serious threat to the Germans that on 21/22 June 1944 the Germans attacked the Redoubt with several infantry battalions supported by armoured cars, tanks, artillery, and aircraft.
Fighting was intense and the Maquis were forced to disperse into the hills. Farmer also had to withdraw and he became separated from Wake and Rake. He had to walk over 200 kilometres to find another radio operato |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks%20and%20Recreation%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh and final season of Parks and Recreation aired in the United States on the NBC television network from January 13, 2015, until February 24, 2015. The season consisted of 13 episodes. It stars Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Jim O'Heir, and Retta, with a supporting performance from Billy Eichner.
This season differs from any other season of Parks and Recreation, in that it details a much larger story arc for the characters, showcasing their growth over the course of the show. Set in 2017, three years after the events of Season 6, the season includes Leslie Knope's (Amy Poehler) new career as Regional Director of the National Park Service, in addition to her two-year-long fallout with former boss Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman). Also included is the rise of fictional tech company Gryzzl taking over Pawnee, Leslie's plea to Sweetums for a Pawnee National Park, and the eventual career departures of the gang from the Parks department.
Cast
Main
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a passionate government employee who loves her home town. She has not let politics dampen her optimism; her ultimate goal is to become President of the United States. Poehler departed from the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where she was a cast member for nearly seven years, to star in Parks and Recreation. It was only after she was cast that Daniels and Schur established the general concept of the show and the script for the pilot was written.
Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Leslie's former sarcastic and underachieving subordinate, who has left his city hall job to pursue his own entrepreneurial interests. Daniels and Schur had intended to cast Ansari from the earliest stages of the development of Parks and Recreation.
Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson, the former parks and recreation director who, as a libertarian, believes in as small a government as possible. As such, Ron strives to make his department as ineffective as possible, and favors hiring employees who do not care about their jobs or are poor at them. Nevertheless, Ron consistently demonstrates that he secretly cares deeply about his co-workers.
Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate-Dwyer, a cynical and uninterested former parks department intern who now works for Leslie at the National Parks Department. The role was written specifically for Plaza; after meeting her, casting director Allison Jones told Schur, "I just met the weirdest girl I've ever met in my life. You have to meet her and put her on your show."
Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer, a goofy, dim-witted but lovable slacker. Pratt was originally intended to be a guest star and the character Andy was initially meant to appear only in the first season, but the producers liked Pratt so much that, almost immediately after casting him, they decided to make him a regular cast member starting with season two.
Adam Scott as Ben Wyatt, a brilliant but socially awkward government official trying to redeem his pas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academics%20Stand%20Against%20Poverty | Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international network of scholars, teachers, and students working to mobilize the resources of academia to help alleviate poverty.
Projects
ASAP is currently engaged in a range of efforts aimed at leveraging the resources of academia toward poverty alleviation around the world. Its network has been described as a group that “lies between academia and activism. Like the latter, it aims primarily at persuading and motivating people to change their behavior. Like the former, it does so by moral and political argument, using the distinctive skills of academics.”
ASAP’s mission is to help scholars, teachers, and students enhance their impact on poverty. It does so by promoting collaboration among poverty-focused academics, by helping them share research on poverty with public audiences, policy makers, and NGOs, and by helping academics use their expertise to achieve an impact on global poverty through intervention projects.
ASAP's strategic plan outlines the priorities of the global organization. ASAP's first global flagship project is Global Colleagues, a program that offers one-to-one matches of poverty researchers worldwide and in which all ASAP chapters are participating.
History
ASAP was founded by a group of nine academics in six countries with the mission of helping academics make a greater impact on global poverty. Those nine academics comprised ASAP’s original board of directors. The board developed the ASAP network by holding national launch conferences in the United States at Yale University, in the United Kingdom at the University of Birmingham, in Norway at the University of Oslo, and in India at the University of Delhi in 2011. In 2012, ASAP-Canada held a national launch conference in Toronto, Canada at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).
Structure
The board includes leading academics from a variety of fields, all with a passionate interest in poverty alleviation. the current Management Board is composed of Thomas Pogge (President), Helen Yanacopulos (Fundraising Director), Catarina Tully (Co-Chapter Lead), Mihaita Lupu (Co-chapter Lead), Daniele Botti (Treasurer), and Michal Apollo (Communications Lead). Zeke Ngcobo has served as Global Coordinator since 2022.
Global Colleagues Program
ASAP has select global flagship programs that are sustained across national and regional chapters. One of ASAP's core flagship programs, Global Colleagues, brings together researchers at an early stage in their career and provides them opportunities for strong research networks, research resources, networking and grant/funding possibilities, and mentorship opportunities with more experienced researchers that are able to offer support to their colleagues in these areas.
Global Colleagues partnerships aim to foster collaborations between earlier career scholars based in the Global South with more experienced scholars in the Global South and North. The program seeks to address pove |
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