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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkby%20International%20College | Kirkby International College (KIC) is a further education college based at Pesiaran APEC, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia. The institution was officially launched by the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in January 2014.
History
The college was originally established in 2007 under the name Internexia College, to reflect a close affiliation with its digital content creation partner, Internexia Sdn Bhd. However, and probably as a result of its focus on teacher training and English learning courses, the college was suggested by some to be a contemporary return of the Malayan Teachers Training College in Kirkby, Liverpool, England, which closed down in 1962 and which is credited with having produced highly capable Malaysian teachers in its day. In 2011 Internexia College subsequently changed its name to Kirkby International College to better reflect its role as an English learning institution for Malaysian teachers.
Kirkby International College specializes in the provision of diploma level programs in English, creative media, ICT Education, training materials for serving teachers to update their professional skills, associated management, and interactive multimedia-based education and skills training to meet local as well as international demand.
Kirby International College offers local and international programs including, Cambridge A-Levels, Diplomas (early childhood education and English), Foundation Courses (University of Hertfordshire) and pathways to Degrees. This college had permanently closed early 2017.
Location
Kirkby International College is a purpose built facility located at Pesiaran APEC, Cyberjaya.
Courses offered
Kirkby International College offers a range of courses from foundation to masters level. Currently on offer are:-
Diploma in Early Childhood Education
Diploma in English
Diploma in Animation
Cambridge International AS and A Levels
International Foundation Programme in partnership with University of Hertfordshire (UK)
BEd (Hons) Primary Education With English in partnership with University of Hertfordshire (UK)
Short Courses in English, ICT, Soft Skills and Study Skills
Partnerships
University of Hertfordshire (UK)
University Pendidikan Sultan Idris
Glyndwr University (UK)
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
References
External links
University of Hertfordshire
Afterschool
Kirkby International College homepage
New Straits Times
The Star
MBA in Malaysia
Colleges in Malaysia
MSC Malaysia
Sepang District
Universities and colleges in Selangor
2014 establishments in Malaysia
Educational institutions established in 2014
Cambridge schools in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rats%20%28video%20game%29 | The Rats is a survival horror text adventure for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. It is based on the 1974 novel The Rats by James Herbert. The game was programmed by GXT (Five Ways Software), and published by Hodder & Stoughton, who were the publishers of James Herbert's book The Rats. An Amstrad CPC version was planned, but was never released.
Gameplay
The game is a simulation that allows the player to strategically send emergency forces (rat exterminators, police men, fire men and eventually army troops) to areas where the rat threat has spread and provide them with equipment. Also the player can get ten available researchers to develop addition weapons, defences and super weapons to keep the rats at bay and to provide useful information to progress in the game. Should the rat threat reach beyond the London limits, the Research centre, the Government centre or Harris' apartment or if all emergency forces are lost, the game is over.
In between the simulation gameplay, the game suddenly switches to the role of a playable character in a randomly chosen text adventure scenario. The player has to select one or more verbal options to perform actions to allow the character to survive against the rat threat and avoid getting killed. While it is not crucial to keep the characters alive, saving them grants the player additional reinforcements and research to aid against the rat threat. However, if one of the main characters Harris, Howard or Foskins dies, the game is over.
Reception
The ZX Spectrum version of The Rats was well-received on release in 1985, gaining a 5-star rating in Sinclair User, a 4-star rating in Popular Computing Weekly, and a 5-star rating in ZX Computing. Crash awarded it 70% in its "Frontline" strategy section, giving the gameplay element 90% but marking the game down over issues to do with the loading sequence. It awarded it 7/10 in its "Adventure Trail" section of the same issue, again marking the game down for its loading sequence, but unlike the review in the strategy section, also for the gameplay.
The Commodore 64 version had mixed reviews, with a 79% in Zzap!64, 6/10 in Computer and Video Games, and 13/20 in Computer Gamer. Eurogamer published a retro game review on the C64 version in 2007, giving it 9/10.
In Video Games Around the World, The Rats is described as one of the first horror games, being games that seek to frighten players.
References
External links
The Rats at Spectrum Computing
The Rats manual
"Doomtown Rats" feature in Your Spectrum, November 1985
Rats! article in ACE, February 1991
1985 video games
Adventure games
Commodore 64 games
Government simulation video games
Survival video games
Video games about mice and rats
Video games based on novels
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in London
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20378001%E2%80%93379000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex%20Hunt%27s%20Fishing%20Adventure | Rex Hunt's Fishing Adventure was a fishing television show hosted by Rex Hunt. It aired for fourteen years on the Seven Network.
The show popularised several catchphrases including "yibbida-yibbida" and "Folks, it doesn't get any better than this!".
See also
List of longest-running Australian television series
External links
Seven Sport
Seven Network original programming
1991 Australian television series debuts
2004 Australian television series endings
Fishing television series
Recreational fishing in Australia
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECT%20Ultra%20Low%20Energy | DECT Ultra Low Energy (DECT ULE) is a wireless communication standard used to design wireless sensor and actuator networks for smart home applications. DECT ULE originated from the DECT and NG-DECT (Cat-iq) technology. DECT ULE devices are used in home automation, home security, and climate control.
In May 2013 ETSI released the specification of the ULE standard (Technical Specification TS 102 939-01).
The ULE technology is promoted by the ULE Alliance, a non-profit organization, located in Bern, Switzerland.
Overview
The basic ULE wireless network uses a “star network topology”; i.e. there is one main device, called “base”, which controls the network; the “base” is wirelessly connected to “nodes”, which usually are devices with dedicated functions, such as sensors, remote controls, actuators, smart meters, etc. Some examples of node devices – door locks, smoke detectors, motion detectors, remote controls, gas and electricity meters, baby monitors, elderly care, etc.
ULE communication range is among the longest in the short range wireless communication technologies: over 50 meters in buildings and up to 300 meters in the open air. For the few cases where this range is not sufficient, repeaters can be used to extend the range. Similarly to DECT, ULE can also use more complex network architecture, with several bases connected with each other to cover extended areas (such as offices and larger buildings).
ULE enables simultaneous data and voice communication; this means that sensors are not limited to indicating the event, but also enable voice interface. A good example is a pendant device for elderly care, which in case of emergency enables person carrying it not only indicate of an emergency situation, but also communicate with a remotely located caretaker, or service station as with regular cordless phone, but all with the simple press of a button.
Enhancements were made to the DECT transport layer level by ETSI Technical Group DECT to adapt it to the requirements of the ULE wireless sensor networks:
Low power operation, which enables ULE devices to operate on batteries for extended time period of years
Extended security – ULE is using strong 128 bit AES encryption scheme vs. 64 bit encryption of DECT
Similarly to DECT, ULE uses a dedicated radio frequency, outmatching other technologies, such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth and others in terms of stability.
Primary application areas of ULE based wireless networks are for home automation, home security and climate control. Each of these application areas represent variety of dedicated devices. Many home gateways, deployed worldwide integrate DECT and implementing the DECT base functionality. These gateways are usually software upgradable. A home gateway which already has DECT functionality can become ULE enabled by software upgrade.
ULE Transport and Physical layers are defined and standardized by ETSI. The ULE physical layer is identical to DECT physical layer, while the Transport l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Tango%20%281999%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to Tango is a world music compilation album originally released in 1999. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album presents the tango music of Argentina with an eye toward the history of the genre, featuring 78 rpm recordings to tracks of the modern day. Teddy Peiro and Tom Andrews wrote the liner notes, and Phil Stanton—co-founder of the World Music Network—produced and compiled the album. This release was followed by a second edition a decade later.
Critical reception
Alex Henderson of AllMusic called the album "far-reaching", demarcating within the tracks the "two types of tango: before and after Astor Piazzolla" (whose influence on the genre, he claimed, was comparable to that of Charlie Parker's on jazz).
Track listing
References
External links
1999 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Ann%20Museum | Cape Ann Museum is an art and historical museum located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Its collection and programming focuses on the artists and art colonies of Cape Ann, including the Rocky Neck Art Colony and the Folly Cove Designers. The museum's collection also features objects from Gloucester's fishing and maritime history, and granite quarrying history.
History
The Cape Ann Museum was founded in 1875 as the Cape Ann Scientific and Literary Association. Dr. Herman E. Davidson was the Association's first president, a position he held until 1878 when he left Gloucester. In 1923, the Association moved to its current location in the Captain Elias Davis House at 27 Pleasant Street. During this period, the Association acquired the collection of the Gloucester Historical Society, becoming the Cape Ann Scientific, Literary, and Historical Society, which it later shortened to the Cape Ann Historical Association. At this time, it expanded its collection of American fine and decorative arts, maritime and fishing objects, and other historical collections relating to the culture, life, and industries of Cape Ann. In 1937, Alfred Mansfield Brooks became curator and president of the Cape Ann Historical Association. During his thirty year tenure, he compiled the largest collection of Fitz Henry Lane paintings and printed matter in the United States. In 2007 the Board voted to change the name of the Cape Ann Historical Association to the Cape Ann Museum to reflect its current collecting and programming mission.
Captain Elias Davis House
The Captain Elias Davis House, built in 1804 by a successful sea captain, contains much of the Museum's furniture and decorative arts collection. Many of the objects in the house belonged to Elias Davis and his descendants. The house is adjacent to the main museum galleries and 6 of the 12 rooms are open to the public.
Museum expansion
In order to accommodate its growing collections, the Cape Ann Museum expanded or renovated its gallery and programming space five times between 1936 and 2014.
1936: the Cape Ann Historical Association added a two story addition behind the Elias Davis House on Federal Street. This addition contains additional exhibition space and a ground floor auditorium. The addition was conceived as a separate building, but was connected to the Davis House shortly after it was built. A new entrance was also built adjacent to the Davis House. The construction was funded by the Catalina Davis Fund. Catalina Davis also donated most of the family heirlooms now on display in the Captain Elias Davis House and bequeathed an endowment to help fund the museum in perpetuity.
1968: after the Association purchased the lot next to the Davis house in 1965, it built a four-story structure that contains gallery space and storage. The first floor gallery space is currently dedicated to the artworks of Fitz Henry Lane.
1989-1993: the Association purchased the former New England Telephone building on Elm street in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20G.%20Cleary | John Gerald Cleary (19 October 1950 – 16 January 2014) was a New Zealand-Canadian professor of computer science, entrepreneur, politician and promoter of Transcendental Meditation.
Academics
Cleary received his secondary education at St Thomas of Canterbury College, Christchurch. and attended Canterbury University, attaining a B.Sc. (Hons), MSc and PhD, before teaching at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. After working in the private sector in Canada, he returned to New Zealand to the University of Waikato, an association he maintained for the rest of his life.
His most cited work is in the fields of data compression, machine learning, and logic programming. In particular, he independently discovered arithmetic coding and invented the prediction by partial matching (PPM) compression technique.
Commercial ventures
From 1999 until his death in 2014, Cleary worked with several of his former students through a succession of companies on a variety of problems including document classification, named-entity recognition, sequence alignment, SNV calling from NGS data, and various problems in metagenomics.
Cleary worked from 1999 to 2001 with Webmind, Inc.
Cleary was a co-founder of ReelTwo (2001-2007) which developed high-speed genomic search software. ReelTwo was bought out by NetValue in 2007.
Cleary was Chief Technology Officer of Real Time Genomics (2013-2014) During his time at Real Time Genomics, he was instrumental in the development of Bayesian algorithms for the calling of genomic variants in the presence of a pedigree.
Transcendental Meditation
Cleary was involved in the Transcendental Meditation movement, including standing for their party, the Natural Law Party of New Zealand, in the 1996 election for the electorate and was fourth on the party list. In the standing in the same electorate, he won 96 votes, 0.30% of the total in the electorate; the party again won no seats.
Death
Cleary died on 16 January 2014 following a short illness.
References
University of Canterbury alumni
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Academic staff of the University of Waikato
2014 deaths
1950 births
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1996 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1999 New Zealand general election
Academic staff of the University of Calgary
People educated at St Thomas of Canterbury College |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Abadeh | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Bidak Rural District, in the Central District of Abadeh County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 19, in 6 families.
References
Populated places in Abadeh County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Arsanjan | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Khobriz Rural District, in the Central District of Arsanjan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 157, in 38 families.
References
Populated places in Arsanjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MasterChef%20Canada%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes of the Canadian cooking show MasterChef Canada. The series premiered on January 20, 2014, on the CTV network.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2015)
Season 2 premiered on CTV on February 1, 2015, following its telecast of Super Bowl XLIX. The premiere was originally meant to air on February 8, 2015, but was pushed ahead to air after the game in place of Spun Out, whose second-season premiere was pulled from the slot after cast member J. P. Manoux was charged with voyeurism.
Season 3 (2016)
Season 4 (2017)
Season 5 (2018)
Season 6 (2019)
Season 7 (2021)
References
MasterChef
MasterChef Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity | k-anonymity is a property possessed by certain anonymized data. The term k-anonymity was first introduced by Pierangela Samarati and Latanya Sweeney in a paper published in 1998, although the concept dates to a 1986 paper by Tore Dalenius.
k-anonymity is an attempt to solve the problem "Given person-specific field-structured data, produce a release of the data with scientific guarantees that the individuals who are the subjects of the data cannot be re-identified while the data remain practically useful." A release of data is said to have the k-anonymity property if the information for each person contained in the release cannot be distinguished from at least individuals whose information also appear in the release. Unfortunately, the guarantees provided by k-anonymity are aspirational, not mathematical.
Methods for k-anonymization
To use k-anonymity to process a dataset so that it can be released with privacy protection, a data scientist must first examine the dataset and decide whether each attribute (column) is an identifier (identifying), a non-identifier (not-identifying), or a quasi-identifier (somewhat identifying). Identifiers such as names are suppressed, non-identifying values are allowed to remain, and the quasi-identifiers need to be processed so that every distinct combination of quasi-identifiers designates at least k records.
In the example table below presents a fictional nonanonymized database consisting of the patient records for a fictitious hospital. The Name column is an identifier, Age, Gender, State of domicile, and Religion are quasi-identifiers, and Disease is a non-identifying sensitive value. But what about Height and Weight? Are they also non-identifying sensitive values, or are they quasi-identifiers?
There are 6 attributes and 10 records in this data. There are two common methods for achieving k-anonymity for some value of k:
Suppression. In this method, certain values of the attributes are replaced by an asterisk "*". All or some values of a column may be replaced by "*". In the anonymized table below, we have replaced all the values in the Name attribute and all the values in the Religion attribute with a "*".
Generalization. In this method, individual values of attributes are replaced with a broader category. For example, the value "19" of the attribute Age may be replaced by "≤ 20", the value "23" by "20 < Age ≤ 30", etc.
The next table shows the anonymized database.
This data has 2-anonymity with respect to the attributes Age, Gender and State of domicile, since for any combination of these attributes found in any row of the table there are always at least 2 rows with those exact attributes. The attributes available to an adversary are called quasi-identifiers. Each quasi-identifier tuple occurs in at least k records for a dataset with k-anonymity.
Critiques of k-anonymity
This examples demonstrates a failing with k-anonymity: there may exist other data records that can be linked on the variables th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207340 | The IBM 7340 "Hypertape" system was a magnetic tape data storage format designed to work with the IBM 7074, 7080 and 7090 computers that was introduced in 1961 and withdrawn in 1971.
As a technology, it deviated in several ways from the then dominant IBM 7 track system. It distinguished itself by having higher capacity, faster data transfer speed, faster load times, and lower wear on the tape. It achieved this by using tape that was twice as wide (1 vs. 1/2 inch), preloaded on two reels, and held in a large cassette.
Specs
Two reel cartridge
1 inch wide tape
10 track linear recording (8 data bits, 2 checksum bits)
Capacity: 2 million characters
Speed: 170,000 characters/second
See also
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_7340.html - IBM 7340 hypertape drive
- Modern Mechanix: Cartridge Tape System Is Fast, Compact (Dec, 1961)
CSDL | IEEE Computer Society (PDF) - IBM 7340 HYPERTAPE DRIVE
ibm :: magtape :: G22-6634 7340 Hypertape Oct61 - October 1961 Manual, G22-6634 7340 Hypertape
Tape-based computer storage
Computer-related introductions in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2go | 2go is a free mobile social networking and online dating service with in-app purchases, provided by 2go Interactive (Pty) Ltd currently based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Device support published by 2go in June 2013 accounted for approximately 1,500 different devices, among which were feature phones and smartphones, namely: Android, Blackberry OS and Blackberry 10. The number of registered users reported by 2go in 2014, was approximately 21 million across Africa, 12,5 million of whom were based in Nigeria. 2go Interactive has not issued recent publications of the current amount of registered users or monthly active users per region.
History
While currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, 2go was created in Johannesburg, South Africa, by a group of University of Witwatersrand computer science students, in 2007. Originally developed as a mobile website and a students-only model, it was intended to function as a communication tool among students for the uploading and sharing of the students' timetable, lectures, and rendezvous with each other.
In 2008, two of the founders left, leaving Alan Wolff and Ashley Peter behind. Under their management, 2go moved away from the students-only model by targeting developing markets in Africa. 2go continued to grow, despite a lack of external investment, due to its focus on feature phones, which most African mobile markets consisted out of. Over 7 billion messages are sent across the service each month, most of which within paid-for chat rooms using the platform's currency, GoCredits. In June 2013, 2go for Android was released on the Google Play Store and in December 2014 had reached over 2 million monthly active users on Android. The Android version influenced many design changes and additions which other platforms received in the v3.5 release. 2go for BlackBerry 10 was released in April 2014. The latest release was version 3.8.
2go has since declined in its popularity and has lost most of its users. Much of 2go's rise was as a result of the Java platform which was very popular in Africa and as these phones became less popular, it also began to lose its spark.
The major reason why 2go failed was because they could not innovate fast enough to survive on Android which came all of a sudden.
2Go simply could not innovate truly adding any new feature or even optimizing it well for Android. They merely ported its code base onto Android without developing anything new on that platform.
Features
2go is a full featured feature phone instant messaging application. Supported devices require Java and internet connectivity via CSD, GPRS, 3G or WiFi to operate.
Originally intended as a feature phone exclusive application, versions for Android, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 powered smartphones have also been released. 2go offers one-on-one and group chat services in addition to paid-for chat room facilities which makes use of the platform's GoCredits currency, which is also spent on games and other content.
2go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20Innocence%20Project | The Illinois Innocence Project, a member of the national Innocence Project network, is a non-profit legal organization that works to exonerate wrongfully convicted people and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
The national Innocence Project was founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld in 1992.
Founding
The Illinois Innocence Project, formally known as the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project, was founded in 2001 by Larry Golden, Nancy Ford, and Bill Clutter. The Project is housed in the Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Current staff
The current staff of the Illinois Innocence Project are:
John J. Hanlon, Executive and Legal Director
Larry Golden, Founding Director
Gwen Jordan, Staff Attorney
Lauren Kaeseberg, Staff Attorney
Exonerees
The Illinois Innocence Project's work has led to the exonerations of many wrongfully convicted prisoners in Illinois.
Keith Harris (2003)
Keith Harris, the first inmate helped by the Illinois Innocence Project, was wrongfully convicted and spent 22 years in prison despite the lack of physical evidence tying him to the crime, as well as being misidentified by the victim after seven line-ups in which he appeared. Following Keith's conviction, Girvies Davis and Richard Holman confessed to the crime, and the investigation resulted in new ballistics evidence that supported his innocence.
In 2003, Keith received a full pardon from then Governor Ryan. Keith's pardon is a full pardon, based on actual innocence. His criminal record was expunged.
Julie Rea Harper (2006)
On October 13, 1997, Julie Rea-Harper's 10-year-old son, Joel, was stabbed to death in the middle of the night by an intruder in the small town of Lawrenceville, Illinois.
Though she had no apparent motive, Julie was indicted on Oct. 12, 2000 on capital murder charges by a special prosecutor. The prosecution's case rested largely on the testimony of bloodstain pattern analysis experts analyzing a very small amount of blood found on Rea Harper's shirt. Another bloodstain pattern analysis expert called by the defense disputed this interpretation. Defended by a lone public defender and outmatched by three opposing prosecutors, Julie was convicted on March 4, 2002, and sentenced to serve 65 years in prison.
On October 24, 2003, the Illinois Innocence Project presented compelling evidence corroborating the confession of Tommy Lynn Sells. The defense's forensic consultant also disputed the testimony of the prosecution's bloodstain pattern analysis expert, stating that there was no scientific basis for his claims. Rea Harper also testified in her own defense.
As she was set to take her first step out of prison, prosecutors re-arrested Julie, ignoring overwhelming evidence that she was innocent. Supporters quickly rallied and raised $75,000 in less than a week's time to secure her release on bond. Instead of seeking justice as new Supreme Court rules require, prosecutors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochylimorpha%20cuspidata | Cochylimorpha cuspidata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Anhui, Beijing, Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Tianjin) and Korea.
References
Moths described in 1992
Cochylimorpha
Moths of Asia
Moths of Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Darab | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Fasarud Rural District, in the Central District of Darab County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 342, in 78 families.
References
Populated places in Darab County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadatabad%2C%20Eqlid | Sadatabad (, also Romanized as Sādātābād) is a village in Dezhkord Rural District, Sedeh District, Eqlid County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 270, in 61 families.
References
Populated places in Eqlid County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Pharr | Matt Pharr is an American computer graphics researcher and writer, and one of the primary originators of the physically based rendering process. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, as well as scientific illustration and visualization.
Education and academic work
Pharr graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. from the Stanford University Graphics Lab, working under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan on rendering algorithms and systems. He has taught graduate level classes at Stanford, including Image Synthesis.
Professional career
Pharr joined Pixar's Rendering R&D group, working on the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language. While at Pixar he was a Rendering Software Engineer for the films A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2. He then became a co-founder of Exluna, whose flagship product was Entropy, a RenderMan renderer based on BMRT. When Nvidia acquired Exluna and Entropy in early 2002, he worked in their Software Architecture group. Pharr was the founder and the CEO of Neoptica, which worked on new programming models for graphics on heterogeneous CPU+GPU computer systems. Neoptica was acquired by Intel in 2007. That acquisition led him to the newly formed Advanced Rendering Technology group at Intel, where he wrote the SPMD compiler, originally targeting Larrabee. In March 2013 he joined Google, and in May 2018 he moved back to Nvidia to work on real-time rendering using Ray tracing and neural nets.
Publications and awards
Pharr has received an Academy Award for his work in rendering and computer graphics. He was awarded in 2014, along with Pat Hanrahan and Greg Humphreys, a Technical Achievement Oscar for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering, as shared in their book Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation. This is the first time this award has been given for a book. He also co-authored GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation during his time at Nvidia.
References
External links
Matt Pharr's academic home page
Official website for Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation
Living people
Computer graphics professionals
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20FracTracker%20Alliance | FracTracker Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that shares maps, images, data, and analysis related to the oil and gas industry hoping that a better informed public will be able to make better informed decisions regarding the world's energy future. FracTracker's information is focused in large part on unconventional extraction methods. FracTracker Alliance is based in the United States and has offices in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, DC; New York; Berkeley, and California.
FracTracker reportedly aims to provide non-partisan information, and has no official position on the practice of hydraulic fracturing.
History
FracTracker Alliance originated as FracTracker.org, a project of the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health with the objective of crowd-sourcing data concerning unconventional gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale. Between 2010 and early 2012, FracTracker was funded by grants from The Heinz Endowments and The William Penn Foundation.
FracTracker.org's original director, Dr. Volz, left the University of Pittsburgh in April 2011. Soon after Dr. Volz left the University, FracTracker.org split off from the University as well (in early 2012), and formed a new non-profit named The FracTracker Alliance. Many members of the original team from the University of Pittsburgh who had been working on FracTracker.org left the University to work for the new non-profit as (or shortly after) it was created.
Current Initiatives
Mapping
FracTracker Alliance is known for its mapping of energy issues. FracTracker offers a variety of maps detailing drilling-related activity, and more recently renewable energy progress on its website. FracTracker's data comes from a variety of sources including state environmental agencies, news reports, freedom of information requests, user reports, collaborations with other groups, and information from other agencies. FracTracker makes its data available for download, and makes clear where the data came from by including a variety of metadata along with its data (e.g. information about who created the original content, what is included in the dataset, when the dataset was taken, where the data features were located, and information about any changes from the original dataset). FracTracker.org also offers regular in-person trainings about how to use their mapping tools.
FracTracker.org originally used a proprietary mapping system designed by Rhiza Labs in Pittsburgh, but transitioned to a customized mapping platform based on Esri's ARCGis Online that allows users to download full datasets both through FracTracker and through Esri.
Fee-for-service
FracTracker Alliance collaborates with many other nonprofit organizations, providing them with visualizations and information that help them communicate about energy choices and their impacts. These services are typically provided on a pro-bono ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Supporting%20Actor | The Hum Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the television industry. The 1st Hum Awards (for 2012) was held in 2013, Mohib Mirza was the first winner of the award for his role in Shehr-e-Zaat. The award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Supporting Actor. 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. Multiple nominations for an actor in same category but for different work is eligible.
Since its inception, the award has been awarded to three actors, While Rehan Sheikh has received the most nominations than any other actor with two. As of 2015 ceremony, Rehan Sheikh is the most recent winner in this category for his role as Amin in Sadqay Tumhare.
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.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized supporting 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. However, this rule was subjected to change when at third year ceremony two (Sadqay Tumhare and Digest Writer) of seven nominated drama serials were running on TV at the time when nominations were announced. 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
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/Johannes%20Sch%C3%B6ning | Johannes Schöning is a computer scientist best known for his research in human-computer interaction, geoinformatics and mobile computing and was awarded with the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for humanitarian contributions within Computer Science and Informatics in 2012. He is a professor at the University of Bremen in Germany. He owns a "Lichtenberg-Professur" of the Volkswagen Foundation.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20platform | The third platform is a term coined by marketing firm International Data Corporation (IDC) for a model of a computing platform. It was promoted as inter-dependencies between mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, and information / analytics (big data), and possibly the Internet of things. The term was in use in 2013, and possibly earlier. Gartner claimed that these interdependent trends were "transforming the way people and businesses relate to technology" and have since provided a number of reports on the topic.
Platforms
The paradigm of numbered platforms sees several platforms evolving, the first platform as the mainframe computer system.
First Platform
First Platform (Mainframe) - late 1950s to present
The first platform is the mainframe computer system, which began in the late 1950s and continues today.
Second Platform
Second Platform (Client/Server) - mid 1980s to present
The second platform is the client/server system, which began in the mid-1980s with PCs tapping into mainframe databases and applications.
Third Platform
Third Platform (Social, Mobile, Cloud & Analytics, possibly IoT) - early 2010s to present
The Open Platform 3.0 initiative of The Open Group aims to produce a consensus definition of the third platform, and to identify open standards for it, in order to help enterprises gain business benefit from these technologies. This has produced an analysis of requirements.
In January 2016 The Economist offered the following analysis: "The third platform is based on the online computing "cloud" and its interaction with all manner of devices, including wirelessly connected ones such as smartphones, machinery and sensors (known collectively as the "internet of things").
Fourth Platform
Fourth Platform - despite the term being used by some consultants and IT companies, there is no clear consensus on a definition. Discussions around the fourth platform are currently mostly predictions about what it might include - such as AI, IoT, Quantum Computing and massively distributed Grid computing approaches.
Implementations
No single "third platform" product has emerged, but there are a number of proprietary and free software products that enterprises can use to create, deploy and operate solutions that use third platform technologies. Within an enterprise, a combination of these products that meet enterprise needs is a "third platform" for that enterprise. Its design can be considered part of Enterprise Architecture.
Suitable products include:
The Eclipse integrated development environment
The Cloud Foundry cloud application platform as a service
The Docker container environment
The Kubernetes container deployment and management environment
The Apache Hadoop big data framework
Enterprise third platforms can use web APIs to access social media websites and cloud services giving access to third platform technologies.
The Pillars of the Third Platform
Social technology
Gartner defined a social technology as, “A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20driven%20messaging%20service | A process driven messaging service (PDMS) is a service that is process oriented and exchanges messages/data calls. A PDMS is a service where jobs and triggers can be put together to create a workflow for a message.
Messaging platforms are considered key Internet infrastructure elements. A concept that once mainly encompassed email and IM has evolved to embrace complex multi-media email, instant messaging, and related fixed and mobile messaging infrastructure. Arguably, everything transmitted on the Internet and wireless telecommunication links are messages.
PDMS exchanges messages for the purpose of all kind of messages/data calls between systems, applications and or human beings that is based upon event-driven process chains.
Structure
A process driven messaging service is a service where jobs and triggers can be put together to create a workflow for a message and the workflow can be seen as a process.
A workflow is executed when a trigger is prompted. The trigger causes the activation of one or more jobs which can, in turn, execute more jobs. The workflow will still be active even when all jobs have been executed, but nothing occurs until it is re-triggered.
Workflows
A workflow in PDMS is used to wrap triggers and/or jobs together to accomplish a flow of actions and events that can be invoked over and over again without repeating the configuration. A workflow is a container. A workflow process is a container for a group of workflow statuses and actions, such as moving a record from one status to another. Other than triggers and jobs, it can contain groups or artifacts. The items that can be contained in the workflow are then available to all triggers and jobs within the workflow.
The concept of a workflow can be seen as a template for either part of, or a whole, business process. Workflows can be triggered for a number of different reasons, an example of which could be if something were to happen in the domain or there were to be an explicit call to invoke.
The workflow will be in a state awaiting execution when the workflow, its triggers, and its jobs are active.
When created, workflows require the last job to be added first, meaning jobs are to be listed in reverse order of execution. Jobs and triggers also require the reverse sequential listing of orders when created.
Jobs
A job creates something such as a task (e. g., sending a message) or affects Standard Objects (e.g. way metadata in a unit). It is a task describing what the system should do and can be several things. A job, when activated, can lead to the execution of another job (for instance: message delivery). It represents what a system does with the data, an activity within the system domain.
Jobs provide a means to encapsulate a process. A Job is a configuration representing input options, the steps in the process, a filter expression that matches the nodes where those steps will execute, and execution control parameters that specify if steps are run in parallel. One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCSG | DCSG may refer to:
Dame Commander of Saint Gregory, female variant of a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See
the Data Centre Specialist Group, a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer Society (BCS)
Texas Instruments SN76489, DCSG (Digital Complex Sound Generator) sound chip by Texas Instruments
Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway, a project within the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULUMDAT | EULUMDAT is a data file format used for specification of photometric data especially intensity distributions from light sources such as lamps and luminaries. The file extension is .ldt. The format was proposed by Axel Stockmar (Light Consult Inc., Berlin) in 1990. The format is the European equivalent to the IES file format specified in IESNA LM-63. The data in an EULUMDAT file is usually measured using a goniophotometer. The IES file format is more formally specified and many measuring instruments
support both formats of file.
External links
Definition for the EULUMDAT format
References
Lighting
Computer file formats
Photometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20Premiere%20Theatre | Hollywood Premiere Theatre was the original title of an American television program that was broadcast more often as Hollywood Theatre Time on the ABC Television Network from September 20, 1950 to October 5, 1951.
Content varied from week to week, including situation comedies, dramatic presentations, and scenes from well-known plays. Some early episodes were a variety program, The Gil Lamb Show.
The series was one of the first anthology shows aired from the West Coast, with viewers in the East seeing kinescopes of episodes. George M. Cahan and Thomas W. Sarnoff were the producers.
The program's competition included The Victor Borge Show on NBC and The Sam Levinson Show on CBS.
Gale Storm co-starred with Don DeFore in "Mr. and Mrs. Detective" (alternately titled "Mystery and Mrs." on the show's September 27, 1950, episode. It was a pilot for a prospective series, but the series was not developed.
Broadcast history
September 20, 1950 - November 29, 1950 (Wednesdays 7:00-7:30pm ET) as Hollywood Premiere Theatre
December 6, 1950 - June 6, 1951 (Wednesdays 7:00-7:30pm ET) as Hollywood Theatre Time
June 15, 1951 - October 5, 1951 (Fridays 10:00-10:30pm ET) as Hollywood Theatre Time
See also
1950-51 United States network television schedule
1951-52 United States network television schedule
References
External links
Hollywood Premiere Theatre at IMDB
Hollywood Premiere Theatre at CTVA with list of episodes
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
1950s American anthology television series
1950 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platfora | Platfora, Inc. is a big data analytics company based in San Mateo, California. The firm’s software works with the open-source software framework Apache Hadoop to assist with data analysis, data visualization, and sharing.
History
Platfora was founded in 2011 by Ben Werther. Werther studied Computer Science at Stanford University. Prior to founding Platfora, he worked at There Inc., Siebel Systems, Microsoft, and Greenplum.
In 2011, Werther met with former coworkers John Eshleman and SriSatish Ambati in a café in downtown San Mateo, California. At one of these meetings, while discussing the technical process of big data analysis, Werther realized that he could develop software that paired with Hadoop to greatly speed up data analysis and visualization. Werther sought financing to start Platfora; Eshleman was initially an adviser, and later joined Platfora as founding vice president of technology. Ambati formed his own company, Oxdata (renamed H2O.ai). In 2012, Platfora acquired startup Plot.io for its browser-based data visualization technology.
Platfora received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Tenaya Capital, Citi Ventures, Cisco, and In-Q-Tel, the venture fund of the Central Intelligence Agency. Series C funding was $38 million. As of April 2014, total funding stood at $65 million.
Platfora is one of several big data analytics companies that industry analysts expect to compete with established firms including SAP, IBM, SAS, and Oracle, whose older methods of data analysis and visualization are currently more time-consuming.
On August 6, 2015, Platfora announced Jason Zintak as chief executive and Ben Werther executive chairman.
On December 8, 2015, Platfora announced $30 million of investment led by HSBC and Harmony Partners, alongside existing backers including Alleges Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Cisco Systems, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
In July 2016 it was announced that Platfora was being acquired by Workday, Inc. Workday expected the transaction to close in the third fiscal quarter of 2016.
Product
Platfora’s software works with the open-source software framework Apache Hadoop; when a user queries a database, the product delivers answers in real time via a graphical user interface. Bloomberg Businessweek called it “Big Data for Dummies.” A corporate or government data analyst can use the interface to filter results, or drag and drop fields to create graphs, overlays, and other visualizations of the data. The analyst can then share those data visualizations and answers with others.
Marketing
CRN Magazine named Platfora’s in 2013.
Platfora’s software was used at a festival in Kansas City to analyze the city’s crime data.
Marketing firm Gartner named Platfora in 2015. A magazine mentioned Platfora in 2014.
References
External links
Patents by John Eshleman
Big data companies
Software companies based in California
Defunct software compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Firuzabad | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Khvajehei Rural District, Meymand District, Firuzabad County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 102, in 21 families.
References
Populated places in Firuzabad County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahdatabad%2C%20Fars | Vahdatabad (, also Romanized as Vaḩdatābād) is a village in Khvajehei Rural District, Meymand District, Firuzabad County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 853, in 212 families.
References
Populated places in Firuzabad County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherency%20Granule | In computers it is typical to define rules relative to data transfers for optimizing the overall system considerations. One such consideration is to define coherency granules (CG) that relate to units of data that are stored in memory. These units generally have a close relationship to caches that may be used in the system. The Coherency Granule size typically corresponds to the cache line size in a computer system.
The hardware is designed with the assumption that coherency granules will be the data packets that are typically transferred in a cache coherent system when accessing coherent data. The magnitude of the coherency granule is typically significantly greater than the bus size. For example, in current processing systems, the coherency granule is commonly 32 bytes, and the bus size is 8 bytes wide. In such a case, a data transfer of one coherency granule requires 4 cycles on the bus. The hardware is designed to optimize, for example by using burst techniques, the performance of such transfers. Thus a burst transfer of a coherency granule will take less time than two transfers each of a half of a coherency granule.
As systems continue to get more and more complex, there has been a tendency to increase the size of coherency granules. As the size of coherency granules increases, there is thus more data per coherency granule. This can make it more complicated since more data must be dealt with for each operation that must maintain the requirements of the coherency associated with the data.
References
Further reading
"What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" by Ulrich Drepper
"Caching in the Distributed Environment"
Cache (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%20Newport | Calvin C. Newport is an American nonfiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.
Background and education
Newport completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 2004 and received a Ph.D. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 under Nancy Lynch. He was a post-doctoral associate in the MIT computer science department from 2009-2011. His grandfather, John Newport, was a Baptist minister and theologian.
Career
Newport joined Georgetown University as an assistant professor of computer science in 2011 and was granted tenure in 2017. His work focuses on distributed algorithms in challenging networking scenarios and incorporates the study of communications systems in nature. Newport is currently Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University and the author of eight books.
Attention management
Newport started the Study Hacks blog in 2007 where he writes about "how to perform productive, valuable and meaningful work in an increasingly distracted digital age".
Newport coined the term "deep work" in his book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016), which refers to studying for focused chunks of time without distractions such as email and social media. He challenges the belief that participation in social media is important for career capital.
In 2017, he began advocating for "digital minimalism."
In 2021, he began referring to the role email and chat play in what he calls "the hyperactive hive mind".
Books
How to Win at College (2005)
How to Become a Straight-A Student (2006)
How to Be a High-School Superstar (2010)
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion In The Quest For Work You Love (2012)
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016)
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (2019)
The Time-Block Planner (2020)
A World Without Email (2021)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American bloggers
American computer scientists
American self-help writers
Dartmouth College alumni
Georgetown University faculty
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%27s%20Got%20Game | Mom's Got Game is an American reality television that debuted January 18, 2014, on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Premise
Mom's Got Game chronicles the lives of former WNBA basketball star Pamela McGee and her son, NBA player, JaVale McGee. The series also encompasses Pam as she manages her son's career, while also building her own brand.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2014 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
Television series by Sony Pictures Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Information%20Network%20%28disambiguation%29 | Global Information Network could refer to:
Global Information Network, a non-profit news agency with a focus on Africa
Global Information Network Architecture
A pyramid scheme which was started by Kevin Trudeau and offered training on success |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Check%20It%20Out%21%20with%20Dr.%20Steve%20Brule%20episodes | Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule is a spin-off of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! starring John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule. The series premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on May 16, 2010. The series has completed four seasons with six episodes each.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2016)
Special (2017)
See also
Bagboy (TV special)
References
Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule
Tim & Eric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts%20of%20Iron%20IV | Hearts of Iron IV is a grand strategy computer wargame developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released worldwide on 6 June 2016. It is the sequel to 2009's Hearts of Iron III and the fourth main installment in the Hearts of Iron series. Like previous games in the series, Hearts of Iron IV is a grand strategy wargame that focuses on World War II. The player can control any country in the world, starting either in 1936 or 1939. Players can choose to pursue the historically accurate sequence of events or not.
By May 2018, the game had sold a total of one million and a half copies worldwide. As of June 2023, the game has sold over five million copies on Steam alone. Since its release, Paradox has released downloadable content for Hearts of Iron IV, greatly expanding player choice.
Gameplay
Hearts of Iron IV is a grand strategy wargame that primarily revolves around World War II. The player may play as any nation in the world in the 1936 or 1939 start dates in single-player or multiplayer, although the game is not designed to go beyond 1948. A nation's military is divided between naval forces, aerial forces, and ground forces. For the ground forces, the player may train, customize, and command divisions consisting of various types of infantry, tanks, and other units. These divisions require equipment and manpower to fight properly. The navy and air force also require men and equipment, including the actual warships and warplanes that are used in combat. Equipment is produced by military factories, while ships are built by dockyards. These military factories and dockyards are, in turn, constructed using civilian factories, which also construct a variety of other buildings, produce consumer goods for the civilian population, and oversee commerce with other nations. Most nations are initially forced to devote a significant number of their civilian factories to producing consumer goods, but as the nation becomes increasingly mobilized, more factories will be freed up for other purposes. Mobilization is represented as a "policy" that the player may adjust with the proper amount of political power, an abstract "resource" that is also used to appoint new ministers and change other facets of the nation's government. In addition to mobilization, there are other policies, including the nation's stance on conscription and commerce.
Land in Hearts of Iron IV is divided into tiny regions known as provinces (also called tiles), which are grouped to form states. Each state has a certain amount of building slots, factory slots, and 5 infrastructure slots. The major seas and oceans (for warships) and the sky (for warplanes) are similarly divided into different regions. These provinces each have a type of terrain assigned to them that determines how well different types of units will perform in combat there. Divisions are placed in provinces and can attack enemy units in adjacent provinces. How well divisions perform i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano%20%28web%20browser%29 | Oregano is a commercial web browser for RISC OS computers. Oregano is a derivative of a browser developed by Oregan Networks Ltd under the name Oregan Media Browser for consumer electronics devices, games consoles and IP (Internet Protocol) Set Top Boxes.
Its first version appeared in 2000 and was originally published by Castle Technology Ltd,. Oregano 2 was launched in March 2003, was included in the software distribution of Castle's Iyonix PC and made available for other RISC OS systems. Later in the development of Oregano 2 control of the publishing and distribution was transferred from Castle to GeneSys Developments Ltd, previously known as Oregano UK Ltd.
Oregan's technology architecture features an abstraction layer, which enables its software to be ported across various hardware and Operating System platforms. An abstraction layer implementation has been created for the RISC OS environment, which enables the Oregan software to run on RISC OS based desktop machines.
Oregano 2, the last released version, supports HTML 4.01 (partially), CSS-1, DOM-0, JavaScript 1.5 and Flash 4.0 content.
GeneSys Developments Ltd did secure licensing rights for the latest version of Oregan's browser technology, and a RISC OS version called Oregano 3 was planned, offering complete HTML 4.01 support, XHTML 1.0, CSS-2, DOM-2, JavaScript 1.5, and Flash 6.0 compatibility. However, in April 2007 GeneSys cancelled the project.
References
RISC OS web browsers
Discontinued web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Japan%20%281999%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to the Music of Japan is a world music compilation album originally released in 1999. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album presents an eclectic mix of the music of Japan ranging from traditional Japanese music (including Ryukyuan and Ainu music) to J-pop by artists of the 1990s.
Liner notes were written by Paul Fisher, a journalist and broadcaster specializing in Japanese music and founder of Far Side Music. Phil Stanton—co-founder of the World Music Network—produced the album. This release was followed by a second edition in 2008.
Critical reception
Alex Henderson of AllMusic called the album an "interesting and eclectic survey" that, like other albums in the series, "keeps us guessing and provides a variety of rewarding music along the way".
Track listing
References
1999 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
World music albums by Japanese artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Responder%20Network%20Authority | The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) of the United States was created under the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (MCTRJCA) as an independent authority within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The purpose of FirstNet is to establish, operate, and maintain an interoperable public safety broadband network. To fulfill these objectives, Congress allotted $7 billion and 20 MHz of radio spectrum to build the network.
Background
The First Responder Network Authority Board of Directors is a team of 15 experts. The FirstNet Board was established as part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. Representatives include the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget as permanent members. The remaining members are selected by the Secretary of Commerce and have public safety, technical, network, and/or financial expertise. Prior to FirstNet, the Public Safety Spectrum Trust was selected by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the Public Safety Broadband Licensee (PSBL) for the 10 MHz of 700 MHz public safety nationwide broadband spectrum.
In March 2023, Joseph Wassel a previous Department of Defence executive who founded global working group on public safety communications has been named as the new CEO of FirstNet.
Radio Access Network (RAN)
The construction of the nationwide FirstNet network requires each state to have a Radio Access Network (RAN) that will connect to FirstNet's network core. According to the MCTRJCA, FirstNet is responsible for consulting with states, local communities, and tribal governments to develop the requirements for its RAN deployment plan. These efforts began in May 2013. However, each state will have the option to either allow FirstNet to create the RAN or to "opt out" and create its own RAN. Even if a state chooses to opt out and receives approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to develop its own RAN, the RAN must use the FirstNet network core and must meet FirstNet requirements. For a state to receive FCC approval, it must demonstrate the following abilities:
Provide the technical capability to operate and fund the RAN
Maintain ongoing interoperability with the FirstNet Network
Complete the project within specified comparable timelines
Execute the plan cost effectively
Deliver security, coverage, and quality of service comparable to the FirstNet network
States that meet these criteria and receive FCC approval may apply for grant funding through the NTIA.
Broadband wireless network
Calls for the nationwide broadband system came after September 11, 2001. The federal government has been working toward a system ever since that time. The 9/11 attacks "highlighted the inability for deployed public safety networks to handle a true crisis situation."
FirstNet is in the early stages of creating the first nationwide high-speed broadband wirele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-12 | TDRS-12, known before launch as TDRS-L, is an American communications satellite operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. The twelfth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, it is the second third-generation spacecraft to be launched, following TDRS-11 in 2013.
Spacecraft
TDRS-12 was constructed by Boeing, based on the BSS-601HP satellite bus. Fully fueled, it has a mass of , with a design life of 15 years. It carries two steerable antennas capable of providing S, Ku and Ka band communications for other spacecraft, with an additional array of S-band transponders for lower-rate communications with five further satellites. The satellite is powered by two solar arrays, which produce 2.8 to 3.2 kilowatts of power, while an R-4D-11-300 engine is present to provide propulsion.
Launch
The United Launch Alliance was contracted to launch TDRS-12. The spacecraft was launched on 24 January 2014 at 02:33 UTC (21:33 local time on 23 January). An Atlas V rocket was used, flying in the 401 configuration, with tail number AV-043. After launch, TDRS-12 was deployed into a high-perigee geosynchronous transfer orbit. The spacecraft raised itself into a geosynchronous orbit using its onboard propulsion system.
Gallery
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Spacecraft launched in 2014
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20A%20Pinch%20Recipes | Just A Pinch Recipes is a digital recipe and social network hub headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2010, home cooks submit their own recipes and save recipes from around the internet to their digital recipe boxes.
History
Just A Pinch was founded in 2010 and is a subsidiary of American Hometown Media (AHM). Both were conceived and founded by Dan Hammond.
References
External links
Official Website
Asian Food Recipes
Stevehacks Recipes
American cooking websites
Internet properties established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posted%20write | A posted write is a computer bus write transaction that does not wait for a write completion response to indicate success or failure of the write transaction. For a posted write, the CPU assumes that the write cycle will complete with zero wait states, and so doesn't wait for the done. This speeds up writes considerably. For starters, it doesn't have to wait for the done response, but it also allows for better pipelining of the datapath without much performance penalty.
A non-posted write requires that a bus transaction responds with a write completion response to indicate success or failure of the transaction, and is naturally much slower than a posted write since it requires a round trip delay similar to read bus transactions.
In reference to memory bus accesses, a posted write is referred to as a posted memory write (PMW).
See also
CPU cache
Computer memory
References
PCI System Architecture, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, MindShare, Inc - 1999
External links
Computer hardware buses and slots pinouts with brief descriptions
Computer buses
Digital electronics
Motherboard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMG%20%28computing%29 | WIMG is an acronym that describes that memory/cache attributes for PowerPC/Power ISA. Each letter of WIMG represents a one bit access attribute, specifically: Write-Through Access (W), Cache-Inhibited Access (I), Memory Coherence (M), and Guarded (G).
Write-Through Access (W)
When set to 1, indicates a Write-Through Access. When set to 0 indicates access to address that is non-Write Through.
Cache-Inhibited Access (I)
When set to 1, indicates a Cache-Inhibited Access. When set to 0 indicates access to address that is cacheable. External caches such as look-aside and directory protocols use this bit to determine their actions.
The value of the I bit must be same for all accesses by processors to a given address carried by the Ax() field.1 However, an I/O or peripheral may access with I bit set to 1 an address that is being accessed by processors with I bit set to 0. Such aliasing of the I bit is not considered an error. The combination W=I=1 is not supported.
Memory Coherence (M)
When set to 1, requires that Memory Coherence must be enforced regardless of the values of the other qualifiers. Specifically, the cache hierarchies must snoop the transaction even if the I bit is set. If the M bit is not set during the presentation of the transaction to a snooper, the snooper must ignore the transaction. However, the originator of a transaction may not ignore it even if M = 0.
Guarded Writes (G)
All Cache-Inhibited and Guarded Writes (G = 1) issued by a given processor must be performed in the system in the order of their issuance by that processor regardless of the coherency qualifier, and regardless of the addresses carried by the transactions.
See also
Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)
List of PowerPC processors
Power Architecture Platform Reference (PAPR)
PowerOpen Environment
PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP)
RTEMS real-time operating system
References
PowerPC Architecture History Diagram
External links
PPC Overview - an overview of PowerPC processors
OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition review by Michal Necasek 2005
PowerPC Architecture History Diagram
Computer-related introductions in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Bergemann | Dirk Bergemann is the Douglass & Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Computer Science at Yale University. He received his Vordiplom in economics at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1989, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1993, respectively.
Bergemann's research is concerned with game theory, contract theory and mechanism design. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the German National Science Foundation. Bergemann is the foreign editor for the Review of Economic Studies, and the associate editor of several other publications, including American Economic Journal, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Economic Theory.
Bergemann has made important contributions to the theory of mechanism design. In his work with Stephen Morris on robust mechanism design, they relaxed common knowledge assumptions which were prevalent in the early mechanism design literature. By formulating the mechanism design problem more precisely, they showed that simple mechanisms arise endogenously. This provided a theoretical justification for the relatively simple auction designs employed in practice, when compared to the complexity of optimal auctions suggested by the early literature.
Bergemann has also pioneered work with consumer behavior around dynamic pricing structures. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association.
Publications
1. “Robust Monopoly Pricing”, 2011, Journal of Economic Theory, 146, 2527–2543, joint with Karl Schlag.
2. “Mechanism Design with Limited Information: The Case of Nonlinear Pricing”, 2011 2nd International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks, Shanghai, 2011, joint with Ji Shen, Yun Xu, and Edmund Yeh.
3. “Targeting in Advertising Markets: Implications for Online vs Online Media”, 2011, RAND Journal of Economics, 42, 414-443 (lead article) joint with Alessandro Bonatti.
4. “Rationalizable Implementation”, 2011, Journal of Economic Theory, 146, 1253–1274, joint with Stephen Morris and Olivier Tercieux.
5. “Robust Implementation in General Mechanisms”, 2011, Games and Economic Behavior, 71, 261–281, joint with Stephen Morris.
6. “The Dynamic Pivot Mechanism”, 2010, Econometrica, 78, 771–789, joint with Juuso Valimaki.
7. “Robust Implementation in Direct Mechanisms” 2009, Review of Economic Studies, 76, 1175–1204, (lead article), joint with Stephen Morris.
8. “Information Acquisition in Interdependent Value Auctions”2009, Journal of the European Economic Association, 7, 61-89, joint with Xianwen Shi and Juuso Valimaki.
9. “Robust Virtual Implementation” 2009, Theoretical Economics, 4, 45–88, joint with Stephen Morris.
10. “The Role of the Common Prior in Robust Implementation”, 2008, Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 6, 551–559, joint with Stephen Morris.
11. “Pricing without Priors”, 2008, Journal of the European Economic Associatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20hoarding | Digital hoarding (also known as e-hoarding, e-clutter, data hoarding, digital pack-rattery or cyber hoarding) is defined by researchers as an emerging sub-type of hoarding disorder characterized by individuals collecting excessive digital material which leads to those individuals experiencing stress and disorganization. Digital hoarding takes place in electronic environments where information is stored digitally. The term gained popularity among online forums and in the media before receiving scholarly attention. Research indicates there may be correlation between individuals who exhibit physical and digital hoarding behaviors and acknowledges there is a lack of psychological literature on the subject.
Several studies suggest the main influential factors of digital hoarding are related to a number of issues and personal reasons which includes reduced costs for storing data, individuals lacking time to curate accumulated data, the perceived lifespan of data and emotional attachment to digital assets. The studies conducted to examine digital hoarding are limited in scope as this is an emerging area of study. There is a lack of agreement among researchers about whether digital hoarding is a condition to be treated rather than a normal human activity.
The term data hoarding is also used to describe the (non-pathological) archiving of large amounts of data that might otherwise be lost, such as old video games and websites.
Behavioral influences
The limited studies published that focus on examining digital hoarding behavior identified the following influential factors as having significant impact on an individual's decision to accumulate digital material:
Some individuals experience anxiety when faced with disposing of digital items, particularly if they fear losing something important.
Many digital hoarders don't know how to organize their digital content or aren't in the habit of doing so, and they lack a methodology for determining which content is worth keeping.
Natural creative motives such as the desire to share ideas.
Perceptions around the need or usefulness of digital assets in the future
Perceiving digital assets will be needed in the future
Uncertainty around what data will be needed in the future
Lacking motivation to manage digital assets
Time constraints
Keeping all of one's digital files requires less time and effort than evaluating and deleting them.
Researchers cite the following developments in technology as playing a role in enabling the increased accumulation of digital material:
Existence of hardware and software for creating digital content
Development of digital storage capacity
Research findings
The increasing availability of digital materials coincides with increased opportunity for people to accumulate digital materials. Van Bennekom et al. introduced "digital hoarding" in scientific literature in 2015 after reading descriptions of it published on the Internet by both patients and professionals. They define |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus%20Entertainment | Prometheus Entertainment is an American production company, specializing in documentary, reality, and non-fiction television programming and specials.
History
Prometheus Entertainment was formed in March 1999 by Kevin Burns. It was housed at Fox Television Studios and was originally slated to produce scripted entertainment for Fox, focused on documentaries and non-fiction. In 2002, Prometheus Entertainment developed a revival of Playboy After Dark. In 2008, it signed a deal with the Travel Channel to produce 23 hours' worth of new shows. Their documentary Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed was nominated for three Emmy Awards.
Programs
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, 2020–present
The UnXplained, 2019–present
The Curse of Civil War Gold, 2018–2019
The Tesla Files, 2018
In Search of Aliens, 2014
The Curse of Oak Island, 2014–present
Kendra on Top, 2012-2017
America's Book of Secrets, 2012–2014
Food Paradise, 2008–2012
Kendra, 2009–2011
Holly's World, 2009–2011
Ancient Aliens, 2009–present
The Face Is Familiar, 2009
Bridget's Sexiest Beaches, 2009
The Telling, 2009
Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman, 2006
Star Wars Tech, 2007
High Maintenance 90210, 2007
Hollywood Science, 2006
The Girls Next Door, 2005–2010
Medical Investigation, 2004–2005
History vs. Hollywood, 2000
TV films
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed, 2007
Empire of Dreams, 2004
References
External links
Mass media companies established in 1999
Television production companies of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles
American companies established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20World%20Roots | The Rough Guide to World Roots is a world music compilation album originally released in 1999. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album gives broad coverage to global folk and roots revival music.
Five of the fourteen tracks come from The Americas (Ecuador, Cuba [2], USA, & Brazil), three from Asia (Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Pakistan), three from Europe (Belgium, Italy, Hungary), and three from Africa (South Africa and Senegal [2]). The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, Heather Phares claimed the album "delivers what its title promises", calling it a "solid grounding" in world roots music.
Track listing
References
1999 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | The Blitzkrieg series is a collection of real-time tactics (RTT) computer games set in World War II.
Gameplay
Similar to the Sudden Strike games, Blitzkrieg focuses on battles rather than real-time strategy aspects like base building.
Multiplayer
Each Blitzkrieg game has included the ability to play multiplayer games against other humans, with the latest entry in the series Blitzkrieg 3 implementing massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game elements.
Games
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg () is a real-time tactics computer game based on the events of World War II. The game allows players to assume the role of commanding officer during the battles of World War II that occurred in Europe and North Africa.
Blitzkrieg 2
Blitzkrieg 2 () is an evolution of its predecessor Blitzkrieg. The game takes place in Africa, Russia, the Pacific and Europe, and features the 6 different factions portrayed in the game that fought in their battle respective grounds during the war.
Blitzkrieg 3
Blitzkrieg 3 () is an in-development Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game computer game based on the events of World War II and is the sequel to Blitzkrieg 2.
See also
Stalingrad (2005 video game), a related game using Nival's Enigma Engine
References
Enigma Engine games
Lua (programming language)-scripted video games
MacOS games
Real-time tactics video games
Real-time strategy video games
Video game franchises introduced in 2003
Video games developed in Russia
Video games with expansion packs
Video games with isometric graphics
Windows games
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden%20Strike%20%28video%20game%29 | Sudden Strike is a real-time tactics computer game set in World War II and the first game in the Sudden Strike series. The game was developed by Fireglow based in Russia and published by CDV software of Germany. The player selects a faction (e.g. Soviets, Germans, or Allied forces) and gains control of many varied units such as infantry, tanks and artillery. The games focus primarily on tactics, eschewing traditional real-time strategy resource gathering and base development.
Sudden Strike was a commercial success, with global sales of roughly 800,000 units by 2002.
Gameplay
The main story features three campaigns (Soviets, Germans, and Allied forces). The battles are presented in an isometric perspective with line-of-sight occlusions and practical cover.
Sudden Strike utilizes accurate in-game physics with houses and buildings obstructing units' view, line-of-sight and firing range whereas clumps of trees can provide cover to reduce the damage of tank ordnance. The game allows units to garrison a building for a stronger firing position, especially valuable for anti-tank infantry. Units can also hold their fire, providing much-needed reconnaissance. Damage evaluation is also realistic; tanks or other vehicles that take too much damage are rendered immobile unless repairs are made.
Sudden Strike Forever
Sudden Strike Forever was an official add-on to Sudden Strike which introduces many more historically correct units and equipment, such as the upgraded Soviet T-34 tank (1944 version). New terrains are also provided: a desert terrain for the British missions in Tobruk and Tripoli and snow terrains for Soviet missions. The expansion also polished the game engine, balanced the damage of certain units, and added a map and scenario editor.
The add-on includes 4 inter-linked scenarios for each of the campaigns for the Germans, the American, the British and the Soviets. Other units which are added into the add-on includes, but not limited to the Universal Carrier for the British; the BR-5 artillery, 160mm grenade launcher for the Soviet forces and more. The supply system has also been tweaked with artillery crews automatically resupplying themselves with ammo crates nearby instead of relying on supply trucks to do the job. The supply trucks would still be needed to repair damages inflicted on these artillery units, however.
The German campaign puts the player into the winter setting of Russian hinterlands with limited troops and reinforcements available, thus relying on use of captured Soviet artillery as well as equipment. The British campaign deals with the defense of an unnamed seaport from German attacks, whereas the American campaign probably takes place in France during the autumn season as the foliage on the vegetation suggest. The Soviet campaign involves a large armored division counter-attack on Russian soil and the storming of the Wehrmacht-controlled airfields. As with the earlier Sudden Strike original campaigns, the briefings do not e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden%20Strike%203%3A%20Arms%20for%20Victory | Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory or Sudden Strike III is a real-time tactics computer game by Russian studio Fireglow Games set in World War II, the third game in the Sudden Strike series and the sequel to Sudden Strike 2.
Gameplay
Sudden Strike 3 was unique in the series in that it was the first released game in the franchise featuring 3D graphics. It was released in April 2008, and it currently has a free add-on for it. It features the pacific campaigns, as well as the U.S. and Allied campaigns as well as Germany. It also features a better map editor, with more features such as making trenches.
The revamped engine allowed for improved damage characteristics, balance of forces, and winter battles. Certain abilities we're brought back from earlier games in Sudden Strike: The Last Stand such as ambushes in houses, landing parties, reconnaissance, transportation of infantry on tanks and many other things.
Expansions
Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory - Ardennes Offensive is the first addon to the original covering the Battle of the Bulge and was released in 2008. France was included as a new faction as were new multiplayer maps.
Sudden Strike: The Last Stand is an enhanced version of Sudden Strike 3 which was announced in 2008 and released on March 20, 2009 in Russia. The game features improved graphics and tactical user interface experience.
Sudden Strike Iwo Jima is a standalone campaign featuring the Japanese during the Battle of Iwo Jima as part of Pacific War.
Sudden Strike Normandy is a standalone campaign featuring the Allies during the Normandy landings as part of Operation Overlord.
Reception
GameSpot rated Sudden Strike 3 as the best of the franchise. Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory holds a 63 out of 100 Metacritic score based on 10 critic ratings.
References
External links
Official website (archived)
Sudden Strike 3 at Fireglow Games (archived)
2007 video games
Real-time tactics video games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in Russia
Video games with expansion packs
Windows games
Windows-only games
CDV Software Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20vision | Artificial vision may refer to:
Computer vision
Visual prosthesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly%20Steel | Carly Steel is a British television presenter, actress and producer.
Steel hosts CBS's Entertainment Tonight, The Insider and TV Guide Network. She has appeared in several feature films including Unstoppable and Mortdecai, and has made television appearances such as on ABC's Castle, CBS's We Are Men, The Exes, Hand of God and The Bold and the Beautiful.
Early life and education
Steel was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, attended Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow, and pursued her law degree at Durham University, earning a First Class Honors degree.
Steel graduated from Durham at the age of 20 and moved to New York to work at Vogue. She then relocated to Los Angeles to work in television.
Career
Reporting
Carly Steel mainly conducts celebrity interviews, having begun her on-air reporting for TV Guide Network (now TVGN) in 2008, alongside The Bachelor host Chris Harrison. Her interview with Adam Lambert was featured on ABC's 20/20. She hosted TV Guide Network and KTLA's coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and contributed to Good Morning America. She has since covered events such as the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Grammy Awards, SAG Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards as well as the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.
In 2011 Steel hosted the American Music Awards pre-show on ABC for Dick Clark Productions with former NSYNC member Lance Bass, and again the following four years.
Steel also began anchoring live red carpet shows from high-profile movie premieres with Yahoo! Movies and NowLive.com. She has also presented at the Prism Awards which airs on FX and hosted the Entertainment Industry Council's annual Washington DC Showcase. She hosted the Hollyshorts Film Festival opening night gala at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and was the official red carpet host of the Hollywood Film Awards for Dick Clark Productions. In 2013 Steel began working as a special correspondent for The Insider on CBS.
In 2014, Steel began working as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight on CBS. For said show, she hosted the premiere of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, during which Times Square was closed to the public.
Acting
Steel made her feature film debut in He's Just Not That Into You, and had a recurring role on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful between 2008 and 2009.
In 2010 Steel appeared in Unstoppable as the helicopter news reporter. In 2015 she appeared in the Hallmark Channel film Romantically Speaking. Steel has also guest starred on ABC's Castle, CBS's We Are Men and Extant, and starred in the feature films Mortdecai, Dumbbells, The Brits Are Coming and Zoe Gone, released on Lifetime.
Entrepreneurship
In 2022 Steel got into the business of making apps partnering with Australian actress Rebel Wilson. Together they released the world's first “non-gender conforming dating app” that allows users to simply enter in their information and not their sexual orientations or preferences. The app was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20FaceOff%202003 | NHL FaceOff 2003 is an ice hockey video game made by SolWorks and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America, released on the PlayStation 2. It features then-Colorado Avalanche defenceman Rob Blake on its cover. Mike Emrick and Darren Pang return from the game's predecessor, NHL FaceOff 2001, to provide commentary.
Features
New features in this installment of the NHL FaceOff series include a Career Mode, in which you control the General Manager of your favourite hockey team, doing managerial duties such as signing players, making trades and drafting. It also introduces a fully revamped game engine with over 700 new animations, as well as redesigned player and arena models.
The game was also the first “FaceOff” to be made exclusively for the PlayStation 2, as well as the first one without a version for the original PlayStation.
Reception
NHL FaceOff 2003 received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
IGN' Chris Roper said, "The career mode is there, but you have to actually play the game to use it. The game also supports eight players, but you'll have to find others who want to play it first." GameSpot's Craig Beers said, "NHL FaceOff 2003 is a substandard hockey game [...] Everything this game tries to do is done better in other hockey games like EA's NHL series."
See also
NHL FaceOff
References
External links
2002 video games
NHL FaceOff
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-ratio%20imbalance%20in%20China | For years, the census data in China has recorded a significant imbalance sex ratio toward the male population, meaning there are fewer women than men. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the missing women or missing girls of China. In 2021, the male-to-female ratio of China is recorded at 104.61 to 100.
Female disadvantages in child survival throughout China reflect a long pattern of sex-based discrimination. Preferences for sons are common in China, owing to their ability to carry on family names, their wealth inheritance, and the idea that they are typically the ones to care for their parents once they are older. Limiting the ability for parents to have numerous children forces them to think of logical and long-term reasons to have a male or female child. Chinese parents are known to favor large families and to prefer sons over daughters in efforts to create more directed family resources. The result of the discrimination and male preference is a shortfall of women and an extremely unbalanced sex ratio in the population of China. China's sex-ratio is the most skewed of any country in the world.
In December 2016, researchers at the University of Kansas reported that the missing women might be largely a result of administrative under-reporting and that delayed registration of females, instead of sex-selective abortion practices, which could account for as many as 10 to 15 million of the missing women since 1982. Researchers found unreported females appear on government censuses decades later due to delayed registration, as families tried to avoid penalties when girls were born, which implies that the sex disparity was likely exaggerated significantly in previous analyses.
Background
Amartya Sen noticed that in China, rapid economic development went together with worsening female mortality and higher sex ratios. Although China has been traditionally discriminatory against women, a significant decline in China's female population happened after 1979, the year following implementation of economic and social reforms under Deng Xiaoping. Sen concluded that there were three reasons why the environment for Chinese women had deteriorated, particularly since 1979:
The one-child policy was implemented in 1979 in an effort to control the size of families, which meant having a "one-child family" for most Chinese families, with some exceptions. Because of a strong son preference, these compulsory measures resulted in a neglect of girls and in some cases led to female infanticide. China did not appear to be systematizing sex-selective fertilization or pre-conception practices; it was therefore assumed that 10% of female children go missing at some point after conception: whether in utero, or in early infancy. Female infant mortality increased dramatically in the years immediately following the reforms in 1979; some statistics imply that female infant mortality doubled from 1978 to 1984.
A general crisis in health services arose after the economi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20a%20Lifestyle%20TV | It's a Lifestyle TV is an Australian lifestyle television series that airs on Network Ten at 4 pm, it debuted on the 12th of October, 2013. It's hosted by Chef Dominique Rizzo who was also featured on the Australian cooking show Ready Steady Cook as one of the many chefs.
Network 10 original programming
Australian cooking television series
2013 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik%20Buterin | Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin (), better known as Vitalik Buterin (, born 31 January 1994), is a Russian-Canadian computer programmer, and co-founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011. In 2014, Buterin deployed the Ethereum blockchain with Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin.
Early life and education
Buterin was born on 31 January 1994 in Russia, Kolomna, to a Russian family. His father Dmitry was a computer scientist. He and his parents lived in the area until the age of six, when his parents emigrated to Canada in search of better employment opportunities. While in grade three of elementary school in Canada, Buterin was placed into a class for gifted children and was drawn to mathematics, programming, and economics. Buterin then attended The Abelard School, a private high school in Toronto. Buterin learned about Bitcoin from his father, Dimitry Buterin, at the age of 17.
After high school, Buterin attended the University of Waterloo. There, he took advanced courses and was a research assistant for cryptographer Ian Goldberg, who co-created Off-the-Record Messaging and was the former board of directors' chairman of the Tor Project. In 2012, Buterin won a bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics in Italy.
In 2013, he visited developers in other countries who shared his enthusiasm for code. He returned to Toronto later that year and published a white paper proposing Ethereum. He dropped out of university in 2014 when he was awarded with a grant of $100,000 from the Thiel Fellowship, a scholarship created by venture capitalist Peter Thiel and went to work on Ethereum full-time.
On 30 November 2018, Buterin received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Basel on the occasion of the Dies Academicus.
Career
Bitcoin Magazine
In 2011, Buterin began writing for a publication called Bitcoin Weekly after meeting a person on a bitcoin forum with the aim of earning bitcoin. The owner offered five bitcoin (about $3.50 at the time) to anyone who would write an article for him. Buterin wrote for the site until it shut down soon thereafter due to insufficient revenue. In September 2011, Mihai Alisie reached out to Buterin about starting a new print publication called Bitcoin Magazine, a position which Buterin would accept as the first co-founder and contribute to as a leading writer.
Bitcoin Magazine in 2012 later began publishing a print edition and has been referred to as the first serious publication dedicated to cryptocurrencies. While working for Bitcoin Magazine, Buterin reached out to Jed McCaleb for a job at Ripple who accepted. However, their proposed employment fell apart after Ripple was unable to support a U.S. visa for Buterin.
In addition, he held a position on the editorial board of Ledger in 2016, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20Fourth%20Amendment%20Protection%20Act | The Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act is a bill proposed in the Arizona legislature that would withdraw state support for collection of metadata and ban the use of warrantless data in courts.
The bill was introduced into the Arizona Senate by Sen. Kelli Ward on January 22, 2014. It has multiple co-sponsors, including Senate President Andy Biggs.
The bill would "ban the state from engaging in activities which help the NSA carry out their warrantless data-collection programs, or even make use of the information on a local level."
Content
The bill would amend Arizona Revised Statutes. Under the proposed legislation, Arizona would not provide material support or assistance in any form to any federal agency that claims the power to collect, or comply with any federal law, rule, regulation or order that purports to authorize the collection of, electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to any action that is not based on a warrant that particularly describes the person, place and thing to be searched or seized. The bill further prohibits data obtained without a warrant from being used in Arizona courts.
The bill would also prohibit public universities within the state from being "NSA research facilities or recruiting grounds." The NSA has agreements with 166 schools, including two Arizona state universities.
Discussion
Many lawmakers believed that in the wake of the Snowden disclosures, restoration of public trust would require legislative changes. More than 20 bills have been written with the goal of reining in government surveillance powers since the disclosures began in June 2013.
Ward explained her introduction of the bill, saying, "There is no question that the NSA program, as it is now being run, violates the Fourth Amendment. This is a way to stop it".
Media quoted Lyle Mann, director of the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training board, who opposes the bill, as saying "if they do nothing with the information, something bad is going to happen".
See also
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Fourth Amendment Protection Act
References
External links
Official status at Arizona State Legislature
Full text of the Arizona 4th Amendment Protection Act
Proposed laws of the United States
Government of Arizona
Privacy law in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Forensics%20Framework | Digital Forensics Framework (DFF) was a computer forensics open-source software. It is used by professionals and non-experts to collect, preserve and reveal digital evidence without compromising systems and data.
User interfaces
Digital Forensics Framework offers a graphical user interface (GUI) developed in PyQt and a classical tree view. Features such as recursive view, tagging, live search and bookmarking are available. Its command line interface allows the user to remotely perform digital investigation. It comes with common shell functions such as completion, task management, globing and keyboard shortcuts. DFF can run batch scripts at startup to automate repetitive tasks. Advanced users and developers can use DFF directly from a Python interpreter to script their investigation.
Distribution methods
In addition to the source code package and binary installers for Linux and Windows, Digital Forensics Framework is available in operating system distributions as is typical in free and open-source software (FOSS), including Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.
Other Digital Forensics Framework methods available are digital forensics oriented distribution and live cd:
DEFT Linux Live CD
Kali Linux
Publications
"Scriptez vos analyses forensiques avec Python et DFF" in the French magazine MISC
Several presentations about DFF in conferences: "Digital Forensics Framework" at ESGI Security Day "An introduction to digital forensics" at RMLL 2013
Published books that mention Digital Forensics Framework are:
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools (Syngress, 2011)
Computer Forensik Hacks (O'Reilly, 2012)
Malwares - Identification, analyse et éradication (Epsilon, 2013)
Digital Forensics for Handheld Devices (CRC Press Inc, 2012)
In literature
Saving Rain: The First Novel in The Rain Trilogy
White papers
Selective Imaging Revisited
A survey of main memory acquisition and analysis techniques for the windows operating system
Uforia : Universal forensic indexer and analyzer
Visualizing Indicators of Rootkit Infections in Memory Forensics
EM-DMKM Case Study Computer and Network Forensics
OV-chipcard DFF Extension
L'investigation numérique « libre »
Malware analysis method based on reverse technology (恶意 口序分析方法 耐)
Prize
DFF was used to solve the 2010 Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS) challenge consisting of the reconstructing a physical dump of a NAND flash memory.
References
External links
Computer forensics
Digital forensics software
Free security software
Hard disk software
Unix security-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datafication | Datafication is a technological trend turning many aspects of our life into data which is subsequently transferred into information realised as a new form of value. Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger introduced the term datafication to the broader lexicon in 2013. Up until this time, datafication had been associated with the analysis of representations of our lives captured through data, but not on the present scale. This change was primarily due to the impact of big data and the computational opportunities afforded to predictive analytics. Datafication is not the same as digitization, which takes analog content—books, films, photographs—and converts it into digital information, a sequence of ones and zeros that computers can read. Datafication is a far broader activity: taking all aspects of life and turning them into data [...] Once we datafy things, we can transform their purpose and turn the information into new forms of value There is an ideological aspect of datafication, called dataism: "the drive towards datafication is rooted in a belief in the capacity of data to represent social life, sometimes better or more objectively than pre-digital (human) interpretations.”
Examples
Examples of datafication as applied to social and communication media are how Twitter datafies stray thoughts or datafication of HR by LinkedIn and others. Alternative examples are diverse and include aspects of the built environment, and design via engineering and or other tools that tie data to formal, functional or other physical media outcomes. Data collection and -processing for optimal control (e.g. shape optimization) is an example.
Impact
Human resources Data obtained from mobile phones, apps or social media usage is used to identify potential employees and their specific characteristics such as risk taking profile and personality. This data will replace personality tests. Rather using the traditional personality tests or the exams that measure the analytical thinking, using the data obtained through datafication will change existing exam providers. Also, with this data new personality measures will be developed.
Insurance and Banking Data is used to understand an individual's risk profile and likelihood to pay a loan.
Customer relationship managementVarious industries are using datafication to understand their customers better and create appropriate triggers based on each customer's personality and behaviour. This data is obtained from the language and tone a person uses in emails, phone calls or social medias.
Smart cityThrough the data obtained from the sensors that are implemented into the smart city, issues that can arise might be noticed and tackled in areas such as transportation, waste management, logistics, and energy. On the basis of real-time data, commuters could change their routes when there is a traffic jam. With the sensors that can measure air and water quality, cities can not only gain a more detailed understanding of the pol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Supporting%20Actress | The Hum Award for Best Supporting 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 supporting role while working within the television industry. The 1st Hum Awards (for 2012) was held in 2013, occurring a tie Shagufta Ejaz and Samina Peerzada were awarded for their roles in Mere Qatil Mere Dildar and Roshan Sitara respectively. The award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Supporting Actress. 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. Multiple nominations for an actress in same category but for different work is eligible.
Since its inception, the award has been awarded to four actresses. While Samina Peerzada has received the most awards in this category with two awards. Despite winning no awards, Saniya Shamshad was nominated on two occasions with three nominations, more than any other actress. As of 2016 ceremony, Sarah Khan is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Mohabbat Aag Si.
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.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized supporting actresses 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. However, this rule was subjected to change when at third year ceremony two (Sadqay Tumhare and Digest Writer) of seven nominated drama serials were running on TV at the time when nominations were announced. 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
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/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Soap%20Actor | The Hum Award for Best Soap Actor is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance of leading role in soap series while working within the television industry. The 1st Hum Awards (for 2012) was held in 2013, Imran Aslam was the first winner of the award for his role in Nikhar Gaye Gulab Sare. 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. Multiple nominations for an actor in same category but for different work is eligible.
Since its inception, the award has been awarded to four actors, while Danish Taimoor and Imran Aslam tied for most nominations with each two. As of 2015 ceremony, Danish Taimoor and Imran Aslam are the most recent winners in this category for their roles in Hum Tehray Gunahgaar and Susraal Mera respectively.
Winners and nominees
2010s
2013 Imran Aslam – Nikhar Gaye Gulab Sare
2014 Humayun Ashraf – Ishq Hamari Galiyon Mein
2015 Danish Taimoor – Hum Tehray Gunahgaar
2016 Sohail Sameer – Sartaj Mera Tu Raaj Mera
2017 Hammad Farooqui – Haya Ke Daaman Main
2018 Arslan Asad Butt – Naseebo Jali
2019 Usama Khan – Sanwari
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
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/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Soap%20Actress | The Hum Award for Best Soap Actress is one of the Hum Awards of Merit 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 of leading role in soap series while working within the television industry. The 1st Hum Awards (for 2012) was held in 2013, Sumbul Iqbal was the first winner of the award for her role in Raju Rocket. 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. Multiple nominations for an actor in same category but for different work is eligible.
Since its inception, the award has been awarded to three actresses, while Arij Fatyma is the most nominated actress in this category. As of 2016 ceremony, Resham is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Ishq Ibadat.
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, four soap actresses were nominated for the award. This year Hum nominated four dramas for this category (one drama was nominated twice for a performance by an actor) so, total four dramas was nominated. For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized soap 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. However, this rule was subjected to change when at third year ceremony two (Sadqay Tumhare and Digest Writer) of seven nominated drama serials were running on TV at the time when nominations were announced.
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
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/Qloo | Qloo (pronounced "clue") is a company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to understand taste and cultural correlations. It provides companies with an application programming interface (API). It received funding from Leonardo DiCaprio, Elton John, Barry Sternlicht, Pierre Lagrange and others.
Qloo establishes consumer preference correlations via machine learning across data spanning cultural domains including music, film, television, dining, nightlife, fashion, books, and travel. The recommender system uses AI to predict correlations for further applications.
History
Qloo was founded in 2012 by chief executive officer Alex Elias and chief operating officer Jay Alger. Qloo was tested on a private website in April 2012.
In 2012, Qloo raised $1.4 million in seed funding from investors including Cedric the Entertainer, and venture capital firm Kindler Capital.
Qloo had a public beta release in November 2012 after its initial funding.
In 2013, the company raised an additional $1.6 million from Cross Creek Pictures founding partner Tommy Thompson, and Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury, founders of Maktoob, an Internet services company purchased by Yahoo! for $164 million in 2009.
On November 14, 2013, a website and an iPhone app were announced. The company later released an Android app, and tablet versions, in mid-2014.
In 2016, Qloo secured $4.5 million in venture capital investment. The $4.5 million was split between a number of investors, including Barry Sternlicht, Pierre Lagrange, and Leonardo DiCaprio. In July 2017, Qloo raised $6.5 million in funding rounds from AXA Strategic Ventures, and Elton John.
Following the investment, the founders stated in an interview with Tech Crunch that they would use the investment to expand Qloo's database. They hoped the move would secure larger contracts with corporate clients. At the time, clients already included Fortune 500 companies such as Twitter, PepsiCo, and BMW.
In 2019, the company announced that it had acquired cultural recommendation service TasteDive, with Alex Elias becoming chairman of TasteDive. In September 2019, Qloo was named among the Top 14 Artificial Intelligence APIs by ProgrammableWeb.
Services and features
Qloo calls itself a cultural AI platform to provide real-time correlation data across domains of culture and entertainment including: film, music, television, dining, nightlife, fashion, books, and travel. Each category contains subcategories.
Qloo’s knowledge of a user's taste in one category can be utilized to offer suggestions in other categories. Users then rate the suggestions, providing it with feedback for future suggestions.
Qloo has partnerships with companies such as Expedia and iTunes.
References
External links
Companies based in New York City
Business software companies
Big data companies
American companies established in 2012
Technology companies established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigidity%20theory%20%28physics%29 | Rigidity theory, or topological constraint theory, is a tool for predicting properties of complex networks (such as glasses) based on their composition. It was introduced by James Charles Phillips in 1979 and 1981, and refined by Michael Thorpe in 1983. Inspired by the study of the stability of mechanical trusses as pioneered by James Clerk Maxwell, and by the seminal work on glass structure done by William Houlder Zachariasen, this theory reduces complex molecular networks to nodes (atoms, molecules, proteins, etc.) constrained by rods (chemical constraints), thus filtering out microscopic details that ultimately don't affect macroscopic properties. An equivalent theory was developed by P.K. Gupta A.R. Cooper in 1990, where rather than nodes representing atoms, they represented unit polytopes. An example of this would be the SiO tetrahedra in pure glassy silica. This style of analysis has applications in biology and chemistry, such as understanding adaptability in protein-protein interaction networks. Rigidity theory applied to the molecular networks arising from phenotypical expression of certain diseases may provide insights regarding their structure and function.
In molecular networks, atoms can be constrained by radial 2-body bond-stretching constraints, which keep interatomic distances fixed, and angular 3-body bond-bending constraints, which keep angles fixed around their average values. As stated by Maxwell's criterion, a mechanical truss is isostatic when the number of constraints equals the number of degrees of freedom of the nodes. In this case, the truss is optimally constrained, being rigid but free of stress. This criterion has been applied by Phillips to molecular networks, which are called flexible, stressed-rigid or isostatic when the number of constraints per atoms is respectively lower, higher or equal to 3, the number of degrees of freedom per atom in a three-dimensional system.
The same condition applies to random packing of spheres, which are isostatic at the jamming point.
Typically, the conditions for glass formation will be optimal if the network is isostatic, which is for example the case for pure silica. Flexible systems show internal degrees of freedom, called floppy modes, whereas stressed-rigid ones are complexity locked by the high number of constraints and tend to crystallize instead of forming glass during a quick quenching.
Derivation of isostatic condition
The conditions for isostaticity can be derived by looking at the internal degrees of freedom of a general 3D network. For nodes, constraints, and equations of equilibrium, the number of degrees of freedom is
The node term picks up a factor of 3 due to there being translational degrees of freedom in the x, y, and z directions. By similar reasoning, in 3D, as there is one equation of equilibrium for translational and rotational modes in each dimension. This yields
This can be applied to each node in the system by normalizing by the number of nodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawally%2C%20Kuwait | Hawally () is an area in the Hawalli Governorate, located in the State of Kuwait.
Hawally is a large settlement and the commercial center for most computer-related goods in Kuwait. Prior to the first Gulf War, it housed many Palestinians, but many left during and after the War. Currently, Hawally is home to many of the Arab populations in Kuwait including Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis and Lebanese. It is also home to many Asians including Filipinos, Indians, Nepalis, Bengalis and Pakistanis.
History
The settlement was first established in the 7th century around fresh water wells that were dug during Al-Ala al-Hadhrami's time in what is now Kuwait and later officially became a city in 1906 during Al Sabah's rule. The settlement's name come from the Arabic phrase "الحلو لي " meaning "the fresh [water] for me".
Demographics
As of 2022 the population of Hawally is estimated to be 218,141 (source PACI: ).
Sport
Hawalli is home to Qadsia SC and Mohammed Al-Hamad Stadium, Its football stadium is one of the most famous in Kuwait and is a popular venue for many international matches that happen within the region. Also, Hawally holds its own theme park named Hawally Park. Near the Hawally Park resides the Muhallab mall.
Education
The American School of Kuwait is in Hawally.
The American International School of Kuwait is also located in Hawalli.
The New Pakistan International School is in Hawally.
The American Creativity Academy is in Hawally.
The Kuwait International English School (KIES) is in Hawally.
References
Suburbs of Kuwait City
Areas of Hawalli Governorate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splaysort | In computer science, splaysort is an adaptive comparison sorting algorithm based on the splay tree data structure.
Algorithm
The steps of the algorithm are:
Initialize an empty splay tree
For each data item in the input order, insert it into the splay tree
Traverse the splay tree in inorder to find the sorted order of the data
Thus, the algorithm may be seen as a form of insertion sort or tree sort, using a splay tree to speed up each insertion.
Analysis
Based on the amortized analysis of splay trees, the worst case running time of splaysort, on an input with n data items, is O(n log n), matching the time bounds for efficient non-adaptive algorithms such as quicksort, heap sort, and merge sort.
For an input sequence in which most items are placed close to their predecessor in the sorted order, or are out of order with only a small number of other items, splaysort can be faster than O(n log n), showing that it is an adaptive sort. To quantify this, let dx be the number of positions in the input that separate x from its predecessor, and let ix be the number of items that appear on one side of x in the input and on the other side of x in the output (the number of inversions that involve x). Then it follows from the dynamic finger theorem for splay trees that the total time for splaysort is bounded by
and by
.
Splaysort can also be shown to be adaptive to the entropy of the input sequence.
Experimental results
In experiments by , splaysort was slower than quicksort on tables of random numbers by a factor of 1.5 to 2, and slower than mergesort by smaller factors. For data consisting of larger records, again in a random order, the additional amount of data movement performed by quicksort significantly slowed it down compared to pointer-based algorithms, and the times for splaysort and mergesort were very close to each other. However, for nearly presorted input sequences (measured in terms of the number of contiguous monotone subsequences in the data, the number of inversions, the number of items that must be removed to make a sorted subsequence, or the number of non-contiguous monotone subsequences into which the input can be partitioned) splaysort became significantly more efficient than the other algorithms.
compared splaysort to several other algorithms that are adaptive to the total number of inversions in the input, as well as to quicksort. They found that, on the inputs that had few enough inversions to make an adaptive algorithm faster than quicksort, splaysort was the fastest algorithm.
Variations
modify splaysort to be more strongly adaptive to the number of contiguous monotone subsequences in the input, and report on experiments showing that the resulting algorithm is faster on inputs that are nearly presorted according to this measure.
References
Sorting algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innamorata%20%28TV%20series%29 | Innamorata is a 2014 Philippine television drama romance fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Max Collins in the title role. It premiered on February 17, 2014 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Magkano Ba ang Pag-ibig?. The series concluded on June 20, 2014 with a total of 88 episodes. It was replaced by Dading in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Max Collins as Esperanza "Esper" Cunanan-Manansala / Evangeline Cunanan / Alejandra
Supporting cast
Luis Alandy as Edwin Manansala / Arnaldo Manansala
Dion Ignacio as Dencio I. Manansala
Jackie Rice as Georgina "Gina" C. Manriquez
Gwen Zamora as Alejandra Villa Ignacio-Padilla
Michael de Mesa as Lloyd Manansala
Rita Avila as Claire Cunanan / Alice Cunanan-Manriquez
Pinky Amador as Delia Cunanan
Juan Rodrigo as Leandro Padilla
Ralph Fernandez as Lucas "Luke" Manansala
Lovely Rivero as Corazon "Cora" Isidro-Manansala
Luz Fernandez as Belenita "Belen" Fuentebella
Guest cast
Elijah Alejo as young Esperanza / Alejandra
Ryza Cenon as Priscilla Manansala
Will Ashley as young Dencio
Leandro Baldemor as Cenon Manriquez
Menggie Cobarrubias as Fernan Villa Ignacio
Marco Alcaraz as Juanito Padilla
Marnie Lapus as Malou
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Innamorata earned a 12.2% rating. While the final episode scored a 15.3% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Tompa | Frank Tompa is a Canadian-American computer scientist.
He is best known for his contributions to the creation of an electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, work that was further commercialized in the founding of Open Text Corporation.
Education and professional life
Tompa received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1974; since then, he has been a faculty member in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He served as Chair of the Computer Science Department for two terms, one in the 1990s and one in the 2000s.
In 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal created "to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country... [and] to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians"; more specifically "in light of ... significant contributions to text data and design systems for maintaining large reference texts."
In 2010 he was named an ACM Fellow for his contributions to "text-dominated and semi-structured data management." In 2005, a street in the University of Waterloo's Research and Technology Park was named Frank Tompa Drive to recognize his contributions to both the City of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo.
See also
List of University of Waterloo people
References
Living people
Scientific computing researchers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Brown University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unwired%3A%20Acoustic%20Music%20from%20Around%20the%20World | Unwired: Acoustic Music from Around the World is a world music benefit compilation album originally released in 1999, with proceeds going to Amnesty International. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release features global acoustic music, from traditional to pop. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, along with Amnesty, fRoots, New Internationalist, and NCOS.
Artists featured cover a broad range of countries, hailing from The Americas (Argentina, Colombia, and the US), Asia (India, Japan, and China), Europe (Spain, Finland, and Scotland), and Africa (Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Mali, and Cape Verde).
Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, Alex Henderson called the album "unpredictable" as it does not only feature traditional music but global "contemporary, even cutting-edge pop". The record, according to Henderson, was "excellent" and "well worth obtaining".
Track listing
References
1999 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unwired%3A%20Africa | Unwired: Africa is a world music benefit compilation album originally released in 2000, with proceeds going to Amnesty International. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release features African acoustic music, from traditional to pop. The compilation was produced and compiled by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Catherine Steinmann wrote the liner notes.
Countries represented in this compilation include Mozambique, Mali, Zimbabwe, the DRC, Cape Verde, Sudan, Mali, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Madagascar, and South Africa.
Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, Bret Love called the album "consistently excellent" and "a beautiful compilation for those interested in the lighter side of African music".
Track listing
References
2000 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Aerospace%20Corp | Park Electrochemical Corp, now called the Park Aerospace Corp, is a Melville, New York-based materials manufacturer for the telecommunications, Internet infrastructure, high-end computing, and aerospace industries. It produces high-technology digital and radio frequency(RF)/microwave printed circuit material products, composite materials. Its printed circuit materials are used for complex multilayer printed circuit boards and other electronic interconnection systems, such as multilayer back-planes, wireless packages, high-speed/low-loss multilayers, and high density interconnects (HDIs). Its core capabilities are polymer chemistry formulation and coating technology.
History
Park Electrochemical Corp was founded in 1954 by Jerry Shore and Tony Chiesa.
In 1957 Park developed epoxy-glass copper-clad laminates for use in making printed circuit boards.
During the 1960s and 70s, the company invented a multilayer laminate printed circuit materials system. It also opened two more Nelco materials subsidiaries.
During the 1980s and 90s, the company extended its product lines to vacuum lamination, multilayer facility and RF/Microwave. It also enlarged its product markets, established subsidiaries in many countries, such as FiberCote Industries, Inc. and Park Advanced Composite Materials, Inc.
From 2000, Park completed a series of global acquisitions and expansions and entered the aerospace market. It sold its Nelco Technology Inc. and acquired Nova Composites, Inc. In 2003, Park and Snecma Propulsion Systems signed an agreement to let Park market SPS’s Raycarb C2 carbonized rayon fabric to manufacturers of rocket motors.
In February, 2013, Isola USA Corp and Park settled a patents dispute over Styrene Maleic Anhydride (SMA) in laminates. Both companies agreed to dismiss a 2012 patent infringement lawsuit filed against Park by Isola. Park agreed to refrain from challenging the validity or enforceability of any of Isola’s SMA patents.
Products
There are four main product lines in Park Electrochemical corporation, namely Advanced Composite Materials (for aircraft structures, interiors and radomes. broadgoods, tapes), Nelco Digital Electronic Materials (for multilayer designs), Nelco RF/Microwave Materials, and Advanced Composite Parts (Lightweight assemblies for aerospace applications.). The Company’s products include high-speed, low-loss, engineered formulations, high-temperature modified epoxies, phenolics, polyimides, polyphenylene ethers Signal Integrity (SI) products.
Research and development
Aug 12, 2013,Park Electrochemical Corp introduced its new NL9000 RF/Microwave electronics materials products with a dissipation factor (“Df”) of 0.0017 at 10 GHz using stripline testing methodology and a 0.5 dB/cm attenuation loss at 77 GHz for microstrip automotive radar applications. The new series meets UL 94V-0 and IPC-4103 specifications and are RoHS compliant.
July 22, 2013, After its successful applications of SIGMA STRUT, Park introduced ALPH |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Intercept%20Technology%20Unit | The Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU, pronounced DEE-too) is a unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, which is responsible for intercepting telephone calls and e-mail messages of terrorists and foreign intelligence targets inside the US. It is not known when DITU was established, but the unit already existed in 1997.
DITU is part of the FBI's Operational Technology Division (OTD), which is responsible for all technical intelligence collection, and is located at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, which is also the home of the FBI's training academy. OTD had organized its activities into seven regions.
Internet wiretapping
Interception at Internet service providers
In the late 1990s, DITU managed an FBI program codenamed Omnivore, which was established in 1997. This program was able to capture the e-mail messages of a specific target from the e-mail traffic that travelled through the network of an Internet service provider (ISP). The e-mail that was filtered out could be saved on a tape-backup drive or printed in real-time.
In 1999, Omnivore was replaced by three new tools from the DragonWare Suite: Carnivore, Packeteer and CoolMiner. Carnivore consisted of Microsoft workstations with packet-sniffing software which were physically installed at an Internet service provider (ISP) or other location where it can "sniff" traffic on a LAN segment to look for email messages in transit. Between 1998 and 2000 Carnivore was used about 25 times.
By 2005, Carnivore had been replaced by commercial software such as NarusInsight. A report in 2007 described this successor system as being located "inside an Internet provider's network at the junction point of a router or network switch" and capable of indiscriminately storing data flowing through the provider's network.
The raw data collected by these systems are decoded and put together by a tool called Packeteer and these can be viewed by using a custom made software interface called CoolMiner. FBI field offices have CoolMiner workstations that can access the collected data which are stored at the Storage Area Network (SAN) of one of the seven DITU regions.
In August 2013, CNet reported that DITU helped developing custom "port reader" software that enables the FBI to collect metadata from internet traffic in real time. This software copies the internet communications as they flow through a network and then extracts only the requested metadata. The CNet report says that the FBI is quietly pressing telecom carriers and Internet service providers to install this software onto their networks, so it can be used in cases where the carriers' own lawful interception equipment cannot fully provide the data the Bureau is looking for.
According to the FBI, the Patriot Act from 2001 authorizes the collection of internet metadata without a specific warrant, but it can also be done with a pen register and trap and trace order, for which it is only required that the results wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unwired%3A%20Latin%20America | Unwired: Latin America is a world music benefit compilation album originally released in 2001, with proceeds going to Amnesty International. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release features Latin American acoustic music. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Duncan Baker coordinated the project and wrote the liner notes.
Brazil is the source of four tracks, Argentina three, Cuba and Bolivia contribute two each, and Costa Rica, Belize, Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico are all represented once.
Track listing
References
2001 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARINA | MARINA is an NSA database and analysis toolset for intercepted Internet metadata (DNI in NSA terminology). The database stores metadata up to a year. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden: "The Marina metadata application tracks a user's browser experience, gathers contact information/content and develops summaries of target" and "[o]f the more distinguishing features, Marina has the ability to look back on the last 365 days' worth of DNI metadata seen by the SIGINT collection system, regardless whether or not it was tasked for collection." [Emphasis in original NSA document.] The stored metadata is mainly used for pattern-of-life analysis. US persons are not exempt because metadata is not considered data by US law (section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act).
MARINA's phone counterpart is MAINWAY.
References
National Security Agency
Mass surveillance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathai%20Joseph | Mathai Joseph is an Indian computer scientist and author.
Early life and education
Joseph studied for a BSc in physics at Wilson College (Mumbai, India, 1962) and an MSc in the same subject at the University of Mumbai in 1964. He later studied for a Postgraduate Diploma in electronics at the Welsh College of Advanced Technology (1965) and then undertook a PhD in computing at Churchill College, Cambridge under the supervision of David Wheeler (awarded 1968).
From 1968 to 1985, Joseph worked on programming as a fellow and senior research scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India) and then became professor of computer science at the University of Warwick in England for 12 years (1985–97). He returned to India in 1997. He then worked in industry as Executive Director at the Tata Research Development and Design Centre (Pune) and as Executive Vice-President at Tata Consultancy Services (1997–2007).
Career
Joseph was a visiting professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (1980–81), Eindhoven University of Technology (1990–92), the University of Warwick (1997–98), and the University of York (2001–04). He was Board Chair of UNU-IIST (2004–06, United Nations University, Macau). Joseph was the first person from India to be elected to the Council of the ACM. In addition, he was a member of the ACM India Council until 2012. He chaired the ACM India Education Committee until 2014.
Mathai Joseph's main research interest is in the area of formal methods related to computer systems, including real-time systems. His most cited paper, "Finding Response Times in a Real-Time System", with over 1,500 citations on Google Scholar in 2021, was joint work with Paritosh Pandya, published in The Computer Journal in 1986. This paper won a 2020 Test-of-Time Award, announced at the 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2021).
Joseph's joint work with Zhiming Liu on fault tolerance gives a formal model that precisely defines the notions of fault, error, failure and fault-tolerance, and their relationships. It also provided the properties that models fault-affected programs and fault-tolerant programs in terms of transformations. Together, they proposed a design process for fault-tolerant systems from requirement specifications and analysis, fault environment identification and analysis, specification of fault-affected design and verification of fault-tolerance for satisfaction of the requirements specification.
Joseph is the author of Digital Republic, a personal reminiscence that also charts the development of Information Technology in India and the issues involved. He is interested in improving science in India.
Books
References
External links
Mathai Joseph website
Turing100@Persistent: Part 2, Keynote Speaker — Dr. Mathai Joseph on YouTube
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Mumbai alumni
Alumni of Cardiff University
Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge
Indian co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20Place | The Book Place was an Australian educational television show for children, which aired on the Seven Network from 1991 to 2003. The show was originally presented by former host of Fat Cat and Friends, Lynn Weston with Brenton Whittle, and Andy Armstrong, with Michael Scheld as the Bookworm. Television and media personality Nuala Hafner joined the cast in 1997, while Pete Michell and Amelia McFarlane replaced departing cast members in 2002.
See also
Between the Lions
References
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's television series
1991 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Television shows set in Adelaide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20of%20Cork-Based%20Networking | "Analysis of Cork-Based Networking" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of Community, and the 90th episode overall in the series. It originally aired on January 30, 2014, on NBC; and is written by Monica Padrick and directed by Tristram Shapeero. It is also the last episode of the season to air before going on hiatus during the 2014 Winter Olympics. The season resumed on February 27, 2014.
The episode also featured the return of Brie Larson as Rachel, who last appeared in the fourth season episode "Herstory of Dance."
In this episode, Annie Edison (Alison Brie) and Professor Buzz Hickey (Jonathan Banks) confront numerous Greendale heads—including the head custodian Bob Waite (Nathan Fillion)—while others prepare the cafeteria for the midterm dance.
The episode received generally positive reviews, with many praising the show's use of guest stars; however, some noted Troy Barnes’ (Donald Glover) absence negatively. Upon airing, the episode attained 3.01 million viewers and an 18-49 rating of 1.1, placing third in its timeslot and tenth for the night in primetime television.
Plot
Annie (Alison Brie) gathers the group for the first Save Greendale committee, right before the midterms dance. She and Professor Hickey (Jonathan Banks) attempt to have a bulletin board installed, but are faced with Greendale's impenetrable bureaucracy. They attempt to set up a convoluted chain of quid pro quo deals with the head custodian (Nathan Fillion), the chief of IT (Paget Brewster), the head of parking (Robert Patrick), and the Dean (Jim Rash). Over the course of promising favors to each, Annie loses sight of their original purpose, until Hickey sets her straight and the scheme collapses. Eventually, Hickey donates his personal bulletin board and the Dean overrides the custodians' objections.
Meanwhile, Jeff (Joel McHale), Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), Chang (Ken Jeong), and Duncan (John Oliver) set the decorations for the dance. Chang suggests the theme "Bear Down For Midterms", which the others do not understand but reluctantly agree to. After all of the declarations are finished, Neil (Charley Koontz) enters and reacts negatively to the theme, since it makes light of a gruesome bear attack at a little boy's birthday party in Wisconsin that was on the news earlier that day. Chang realizes that this was his subconscious inspiration for the theme. As a last resort, they change the bear theme to "Fat Dog For Midterms", insisting that the term "fat dog" is a real phrase which means to relax like a fat dog on a hot summer day. However, their ruse is discovered by Garrett, causing pandemonium.
Abed (Danny Pudi) spoils Britta's (Gillian Jacobs) recent favourite show, Bloodlines of Conquest, and in retaliation, she determines to spoil the books for him. He foils her efforts by wearing ear protection. This catches the eye of a red-headed deaf girl (Katie Leclerc). After Abed shows interest in her, even becoming conversant in ASL in only a day, it is revealed th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird%20Loners | Weird Loners is an American sitcom that was created by Michael J. Weithorn. The 6-episode first season was ordered straight-to-series by the Fox network in 2014. The series is executive produced by Weithorn and Jake Kasdan. The series premiered on March 31, 2015.
On May 11, 2015, Fox canceled the series after one season. Kevin Reilly, the network President who had ordered the series from Weithorn's spec script in 2013, was fired a few months later leaving the series without a champion at the network.
Premise
Four people who fear personal relationships are unexpectedly thrust into one another's lives and form an unlikely bond while living in a townhouse in Queens, New York.
Cast
Becki Newton as Caryn Goldfarb, a high-strung dental hygienist who was engaged to be married but suddenly decides to call off her engagement after a brief fling with Stosh.
Zachary Knighton as Stosh Lewandowski, Eric's sleazy cousin, whose womanizing lifestyle has recently cost him his job. With no job and nowhere to live, he is forced to move in with his cousin Eric.
Nate Torrence as Eric Lewandowski, a toll collector who is suddenly on his own for the first time after his father unexpectedly passes away. After the funeral, his estranged cousin Stosh offers to move in with him.
Meera Rohit Kumbhani as Zara Sandhu, an angst-ridden artist, who befriends Eric after he buys one of her paintings.
Recurring
Susie Essman as Evelyn Goldfarb, Caryn's mother.
David Wain as Howard, Caryn's ex-fiancé.
Critical reception
Weird Loners received mixed reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the series a score of 44% based on reviews from 25critics and an average rating of 5.5 out of 10. The website’s consensus reads: "Weird Loners strands its veteran stars in an overly familiar sitcom structure burdened with a preponderance of humdrum humor."
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times gave the series a positive review, stating: "[Weird Loners is] not loud or frenetic. It’s not particularly cutting-edge. It’s just funny, in a relaxed way that’s welcome somehow in a television spectrum full of pushiness and intensity."
Gwen Ihnat of The A.V. Club wrote a positive review giving the series a "B+" grade. She observed that "What Weird Loners has in its corner is an appealing cast and some hard-hitting TV vets" and remarked that "Since [Jake] Kasdan and [Michael J.] Weithorn both know their way around a sitcom set, it’s not a surprise that Weird Loners soon adds more gravity than most new shows boast from right out of the gate."
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American single-camera sitcoms
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows set in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Voice%3A%20Vocal%20Music%20from%20Around%20the%20World | One Voice: Vocal Music from Around the World is a world music compilation album originally released in 1997. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release features vocal music, ranging from Gregorian chants to Tuvan throat singing. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Liner notes were written by BBC broadcaster Andy Kershaw, known for his world music journalism. It was produced in partnership with New Internationalist magazine.
Countries represented in this compilation include South Africa, Bulgaria, England, the United States, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Bahrain, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Tahiti, Tuva and Nepal.
Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, Adam Greenberg compared the album to Putumayo releases, describing it as more of a "sampler" than the typical Rough Guide "stand-alone compilation". Greenberg felt that while the album "doesn't exactly make sense musically" and lacks a "consistent atmosphere", it does showcase the voice's versatility and beauty.
Track listing
References
1997 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm-Time%3A%20World%20Percussion | Rhythm-Time: World Percussion is a world music compilation album originally released in 1999. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release features percussion, ranging from Brazilian batucada to Japanese taiko music. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, in partnership with New Internationalist magazine.
Countries represented in this compilation include South Africa, Cuba, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Senegal, The Gambia, Egypt, Morocco, Italy, Nigeria, India and Japan.
Critical reception
Tom Schulte of AllMusic called the package "unassuming" and the tracks a "veritable treasure of world music rhythms".
Track listing
References
External links
1999 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass%20Institute%20for%20Public%20Policy%20Solutions | The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions (BIPPS) is a libertarian think tank based in Bowling Green, Kentucky. BIPPS is a member of the State Policy Network.
Activities
In 2005, BIPPS launched KentuckyVotes.org, a website which provides information about Kentucky General Assembly bills, amendments and roll-call votes. The website was launched after BIPPS successfully pushed the state's Legislative Research Commission to post legislative roll call votes online.
Policy positions
Minimum wage
BIPPS has argued that an increase in the federal minimum wage would disproportionately harm Kentucky as well as young, low-skilled workers.
Education
The organization has cautioned against the use of certain performance testing ideas in public school assessment programs. BIPPS opposes the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Public pensions
The organization has blamed the Kentucky General Assembly for the state of Kentucky's public pensions, which are among the worst-funded in the country.
References
External links
Official website
Organizational Profile – National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institute)
Political and economic think tanks in the United States
Organizations based in Kentucky
Libertarian organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan%20Radio%20and%20Television | Sichuan Radio and Television (SRT) (), is a major television network in China. The nation-wide television network is owned by the Sichuan provincial government. SRT is based in Chengdu in Sichuan.
History
SRT was launched 1 May 1960 as a local television network in Sichuan. SRT began broadcasting nationally on 1 August 2003.
Television Channels
Sichuan TV (SCTV-1)
Sichuan Travel Channel (SCTV-2)
Sichuan Economic Channel (SCTV-3)
Sichuan InfoNews Channel (SCTV-4)
Sichuan Series and Art Channel (SCTV-5)
Sichuan Star Shopping Channel (SCTV-6)
Sichuan Women and Children Channel (SCTV-7)
Sichuan Science and Education Channel (SCTV-8)
Sichuan Public Channel (SCTV-9)
Sichuan Movie Channel (SCTV-10)
Kangba TV (SCTV-11)
Sichuan TV International (ceased in 24 February 2021)
Production
SRT have broadcast notable programming such as 2 Days & 1 Night, often referred to as the Chinese version of Korea's reality talent show 2 Days & 1 Night.
2 Days & 1 Night
China Positive Energy ()
China Big Love Concert ()
Love is All ()
References
Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 1960
Mass media in Chengdu
1960 establishments in China
Television in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Sitcom | The Hum Award for Best Sitcom is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to production company of their producers working in the television industry. As of 3rd Hum Awards, there have been 9 sitcoms nominated for the Best Sitcom award.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to producers of Pakistani TV industry, as of first ceremony total of four sitcoms were nominated and currently Danish Nawaz was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his sitcom in Extras (The Mango People). The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
2013 → present: Hum Award for Best Sitcom
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 sitcoms below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the sitcom's year of release.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to declared the best sitcoms of the years 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. Sitcoms are eligible for nomination even if they are still running during nominations announcement.
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.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
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
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Comic%20Actor | Performance by an Comic Actor is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to recognize a comic actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the Television industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best comic Actor. While actors are nominated for this award by Hum members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Hum membership as a whole.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the finest actors of Pakistani TV industry, as of first ceremony total of four actors were nominated and currently Uroosa Siddiqui was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his performance in Fun Khana.
Category
As of first ceremony Best Comic Actor, preserve and awarded in solo category for both Male and Female actors, Among them winner was concluded.
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 sitcoms below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the sitcom's year of release.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized comic actors of sitcoms 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.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
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/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Drama%20Series | Hum Award for Best Drama Series is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to producers working in the Television industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Drama Series. While producers are nominated for this award by Hum members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Hum membership as a whole.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to producers of Pakistani TV industry, as of first ceremony Only one series was nominated and currently Angeline Malik was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for her series in Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
2013 → present: Hum Award for Best Drama Series
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, as of first ceremony only one series was nominated. Following the hum's practice, the Drama series below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the drama series year of release.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to declared the best sitcoms of the years 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. While for series, only release effects however the running of series does not matter for example, A series may release before the ceremony held following eligibility criteria but it is not important that series must have complete its production.
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 series 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.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
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/Michael%20S.%20Rogers | Michael S. Rogers (born October 31, 1959) is a retired four-star admiral of the United States Navy. Rogers served as the second commander of the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) from April 2014 to May 2018 while concurrently serving as the 17th director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and as chief of the Central Security Service (CSS). During his tenure, he helped transform and elevate U.S. Cyber Command into a unified combatant command. Rogers relinquished command to General Paul M. Nakasone on May 4, 2018 and retired from the Navy a few weeks later on June 1, 2018.
Prior to 2014, Rogers served as the Commander of the Tenth Fleet and Commander of the United States Fleet Cyber Command, with responsibility for all of the Navy's cyberwarfare efforts. In 2009, he was the director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff after having been the director of intelligence for Pacific Command from 2007 onwards.
Early life and education
Rogers was born on October 31, 1959 and is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from New Trier High School in 1977. He is a graduate of Auburn University (1981) and the Naval War College.
Career
1980s
Rogers received his commission through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program and has served in the United States Navy since graduating from Auburn University in 1981. He started his career as a Surface Warfare Officer working in naval gunfire support operations off Grenada, Beirut, and maritime surveillance operations off El Salvador on board the USS Caron (DD-970). In 1986, he was selected for transfer from unrestricted line officer to restricted line officer and re-designation as a cryptology officer.
2000s
During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Rogers joined the military's Joint Staff, which works for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he specialized in computer network attacks. From 2007 onward he served as director of intelligence for the military's Pacific Command. In 2009, he became director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was subsequently named commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and commander of the U.S. 10th Fleet, with responsibility for all of the Navy's cyberwarfare efforts. As such, Rogers was the first restricted line officer to serve as a numbered fleet commander and the first Information Warfare Community (IWC) officer to achieve the rank of vice admiral.
2010s
In January 2014, the Obama Administration announced Rogers' nomination as director of the National Security Agency and the commander of the United States offensive cyberoperations unit in the Department of Defense. Rogers succeeded General Keith B. Alexander, who served as the NSA director for nine years, and became the first IWC officer to achieve the rank of admiral. Although the NSA directorship does not require Senate approval, Rogers had to be confirmed by the Senate to head United States Cyber Command, for which the Senate unanimously confirmed him.
In his first public remarks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread%20Networks | Spread Networks is a company founded by Dan Spivey and backed by James L. Barksdale (former CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation) that claims to offer Internet connectivity between Chicago and New York City at ultra-low latency (i.e. speeds that are very close to the speed of light), high bandwidth, and high reliability, using dark fiber. Its customers are primarily firms engaged in high-frequency trading, where small reductions in latency are important to the extent that they help one close trades before one's competitors.
History
The first cable line, running from Chicago (home to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where futures and options are traded) to Carteret, New Jersey (home to the Nasdaq data center), laid at a cost of US$300 million, was unveiled in June 2010. According to a Forbes article, the idea for the line first came to Dan Spivey in 2007: Spivey contracted with a New York hedge fund to devise a low-latency arbitrage strategy, wherein the fund would search out tiny discrepancies between futures contracts in Chicago and their underlying equities in New York. Although he successfully created the strategy, he was not able to execute it because he was not able to get access to the market's lowest-latency line. He spent some time researching the feasibility of building an ultra-low-latency line, and then looked for people willing to fund it and found Jim Barksdale. Construction was in full swing (but in extreme secrecy, to avoid getting scooped by competitors) by early 2009.
In 2011, Spread Networks expanded to Equinix NY4 IBX data center in Secaucus, New Jersey, 300 Boulevard East in Weehawken, New Jersey, and 165 Halsey Street in Newark, New Jersey. In October 2012, Spread Networks announced latency improvements, bringing the estimated roundtrip time from 13.1 milliseconds to 12.98 milliseconds. In January 2014, Spread Networks announced that it had opened a point of presence at the NYSE Euronext trading center located in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Announced November 27, 2017, Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (“Zayo”) (NYSE: ZAYO) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Spread Networks for $127 million in cash.
Technology
Spread Networks uses fiber optic cables along a route as close to straight as possible to connect the Chicago area with the New York area, specifically connecting Chicago (home to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange) to Carteret, New Jersey (home to the Nasdaq data center). According to their website, the network is monitored continuously and all parts of the network are driven daily to guarantee reliability and proactively fix problems. They also offer colocation facilities for servers at Chicago, Carteret, and Cleveland, all along the line. Their estimated roundtrip time along the dark fiber line (from Chicago to Carteret) is 13 milliseconds. Their wave service lines promise roundtrip times of about 14.1-14.2 milliseconds, down from about 14.6 milliseconds in 2011.
According to a WIRED article, the estimated round |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Blues%20%28compilation%20album%29 | African Blues is a world music benefit compilation album originally released in 1998, with proceeds going to Voluntary Service Overseas. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release features African blues (a genre which is not simply an African re-interpretation of the American style, but carrying on traditions that were also exported to the Americas—see Origins of the blues). The compilation was produced and coordinated by Phil Stanton & Sandra Alayón-Stanton, co-founders of the World Music Network. Though they are named differently (the Rough Guide designation being omitted in this release and only found in the catalogue number, common practice for the label's charity releases), 2007's The Rough Guide to African Blues is sometimes considered this album's second edition.
Mali is represented in this album five times, Guinea twice, and Senegal, Zimbabwe, the DRC, Kenya, Mozambique, the ROC, and Cape Verde once each.
Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, Adam Greenberg found relevance in the album for its "relatively early collection" of artists who would subsequently become the biggest African stars in the world music scene over the next decade. According to Greenberg, though not all tracks remained within the delineated genre, the music remained "worthwhile".
Track listing
References
1998 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Steffen%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Bernhard Steffen (born 31 May 1958 in Kiel, West Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. His research focuses on various facets of formal methods ranging from program analysis and verification, to workflow synthesis, to test-based modeling, and machine learning.
After his PhD at the University of Kiel he spent two years as a research fellow at the LFCS (Edinburgh, Scotland) where he co-developed the Edinburgh Concurrency Workbench and authored one of the earliest papers on how to adequately model probabilistic processes, before joining the University of Aarhus in 1989 as a postdoc. From 1990 to 1992 he was associate professor at the RWTH Aachen, before he became full professor at the University of Passau. Since 1997 he holds the chair of programming systems at TU Dortmund University where he was Dean of Computer Science between 2002 and 2006 as well as a member of the Senate in 2006 and 2007. In Dortmund he developed the concept of active automata learning to towards a practical means for model-based testing that does not require any a priori models. Recently his interest shifted towards the application of formal methods for explaining machine learning.
His conceptual background comprises abstract interpretation, computer-aided verification and explanation, automata learning, and the development of domain-specific languages that guarantee properties by design. This is witnessed by receiving the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award for Lazy Code Motion, which is given 10 years in retrospective, and the CAV Artifact Award for the Open-Source LearnLib. Finally, in 2019 he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of the AMITY School of Engineering and Technology.
Furthermore, Steffen is founding Editor in Chief of STTT, Co-Founder of TACAS, ETAPS, ISoLA, RERS and member of the editorial board of LNCS.
Journal and conference foundations
Bernhard Steffen co-founded the following journals and conferences
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS)
European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS)
International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA)
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
References
External links
staff page at TU Dortmund University
Personal website
1958 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Formal methods people
University of Kiel alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund
Academic staff of the University of Passau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle%20Computing | Cycle Computing is a company that provides software for orchestrating computing and storage resources in cloud environments. The flagship product is CycleCloud, which supports Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, and internal infrastructure. The CycleCloud orchestration suite manages the provisioning of cloud infrastructure, orchestration of workflow execution and job queue management, automated and efficient data placement, full process monitoring and logging, within a secure process flow.
History
Cycle Computing was founded in 2005. Its original offerings were based around the HTCondor scheduler and focused on maximizing the effectiveness of internal resources. Cycle Computing offered support for HTCondor as well as CycleServer, which provided metascheduling, reporting, and management tools for HTCondor resources. Early customers spanned a number of industries, including insurance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and academia.
With the advent of large public cloud offerings, Cycle Computing expanded its tools to allow customers to make use of dynamically provisioned cloud environments. Key technologies developed include the ability to validate that resources were correctly added in the cloud (patent awarded in 2015), the ability to easily manage data placement and consistency, the ability to support multiple cloud providers within a single workflow, and other technologies.
On August 15, 2017, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Cycle Computing.
Large runs
In April 2011, Cycle Computing announced “Tanuki”, a 10,000 core Amazon Web Services cluster used by Genentech.
In September 2011, a Cycle Computing HPC cluster called Nekomata (Japanese for "Monster Cat") was renting out at $1279/hour, offering 30,472 processor cores with 27TB of memory and 2PB of storage. An unnamed pharmaceutical company used the cluster for 7 hours, paying $9000, for a molecular modeling task.
In April 2012, Cycle Computing announced that, working in collaboration with scientific software-writing company Schrödinger, it had screened 21 million compounds in less than three hours using a 50,000-core cluster.
In November 2013, Cycle Computing announced that, working in collaboration with scientific software-writing company Schrödinger, it had helped Mark Thompson, a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California, sort through about 205,000 compounds to search for the right compound to build a new generation of inexpensive and highly efficient solar panels. The job took less than a day and cost $33,000 in total. The computing cluster used 156,000 cores spread across 8 regions and had a peak capacity of 1.21 petaFLOPS.
In November 2014, Cycle Computing worked with a researcher at HGST to run a hard drive simulation workload. The computation would have taken over a month on internal resources, but completed in 7 hours running on 70,000 cores in Amazon Web Services, at a cost of less than $6,000.
In September 2015, Cycle Comput |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20%28miniseries%29 | 10 is a scripted miniseries about a poker game. The series aired on TSR1 between 21 November and 19 December 2010.
Awards
References
External links
10 at the Internet Movie Database
2010s television miniseries
Swiss television series
2010s Swedish television series
2010 Swiss television series debuts
2010 Swiss television series endings
Swiss television miniseries
Radio Télévision Suisse original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum | Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether (Abbreviation: ETH; sign: Ξ) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, ether is second only to bitcoin in market capitalization. It is open-source software.
Ethereum was conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin. Additional founders of Ethereum included Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio and Joseph Lubin. In 2014, development work began and was crowdfunded, and the network went live on 30 July 2015. Ethereum allows anyone to deploy permanent and immutable decentralized applications onto it, with which users can interact. Decentralized finance (DeFi) applications provide financial instruments which do not directly rely on financial intermediaries like brokerages, exchanges, or banks. This facilitates borrowing against cryptocurrency holdings or lending them out for interest. Ethereum also allows users to create and exchange non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are tokens that can be tied to unique digital assets, such as images. Additionally, many other cryptocurrencies utilize the ERC-20 token standard on top of the Ethereum blockchain and have utilized the platform for initial coin offerings.
On 15 September 2022, Ethereum transitioned its consensus mechanism from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) in an upgrade process known as "the Merge". This has cut Ethereum's energy usage by 99%.
History
Founding (2013–2014)
Ethereum was initially described in late 2013 in a white paper by Vitalik Buterin, a programmer and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, that described a way to build decentralized applications. Buterin argued to the Bitcoin Core developers that Bitcoin and blockchain technology could benefit from other applications besides money and that it needed a more robust language for application development that could lead to real-world assets, such as stocks and property, to the blockchain. In 2013, Buterin briefly worked with eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the Colored Coins project and drafted its white paper outlining additional use cases for blockchain technology. However, after failing to gain agreement on how the project should proceed, he proposed the development of a new platform with a more robust scripting language—a Turing-complete programming language—that would eventually become Ethereum.
Ethereum was announced at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, in January 2014. During the conference, Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, and Anthony Di Iorio (who financed the project) rented a house in Miami with Buterin at which they could develop a fuller sense of what Ethereum might become. Di Iorio invited friend Joseph Lubin, who invited reporter Morgen Peck, to bear witness. Peck subsequently wrote about the experience in Wired. Six months later the founders met again in Zug, Switzerland, where Buterin told the founders that the project would proceed as a non-profit. Hoskinson left the project at that tim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20D.%20Schrimpf | Ronald D Schrimpf is an American electrical engineer and scientist. He is the Orrin H. Ingram Chair in Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. where his research activities focus on microelectronics and semiconductor devices. He is affiliated with the Radiation Effects and Reliability Group at Vanderbilt University where he works on the effects of radiation on semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. He also serves as the Director of the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt. He is best known for his work in the field of ionizing radiation response on Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and Enhanced Low Dose Rate Sensitivity in BJT.
Early life and education
Ron Schrimpf was born on 18 August 1959 in Lake City, Minnesota. He graduated from Lincoln Secondary School, Wabasha county, Lake City in 1977 and went on to join the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He graduated from University of Minnesota with a PhD in 1986.
Career
University of Arizona
After graduating in 1986, he joined the University of Arizona in 1986 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He rose through the ranks and became a Professor when he left the university in 1996.
Vanderbilt University
In 1996, along with a few other professors, Ron Schrimpf moved to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Along with Kenneth Galloway and Shera Kerns, they established the Radiation Effects and Reliability Group at Vanderbilt, which is now the largest of its type at any US University.
He has served as the Principal Investigator for two Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) programs and is a co-PI of Vanderbilt's Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education. Ron is the first Faculty Head of House for Memorial House in Vanderbilt's residential college program for first-year students: The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. He has more than 700 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences and has 7 U.S patents.
Awards and honors
Ron Schrimpf is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received the Vanderbilt Chancellor's Cup in 2010 for “the greatest contribution outside the classroom to undergraduate student-faculty relationships in the recent past” the Harvey Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award in 2008-09, the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 2008, the Chancellor's Award for Research in 2003, and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Early Achievement Award in 1996. He has received seven outstanding paper awards.
Personal life
He is married to Kathy Schrimpf and has a son Matt Schrimpf and a daughter Natalie Schrimpf. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.
Selected publications
Response of advanced bipolar processes to ionizing radiation EW Enlow, RL Pease, W Combs, RD Schrimpf, RN Nowlin Nuclear Science, IEEE Transaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Soap%20Series | The Hum Award for Best Soap Series is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to production company of their producers working in the television industry for producing daily Soaps. As of 3rd Hum Awards, there have been 12 dramas nominated for the Best Drama Serial award.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to producers of Pakistani TV industry, as of first ceremony four soap series were nominated and currently Momina Duraid was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for her series in Mujhay Roothnay Na Daina. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
2013 → present: Hum Award for Best Soap Series
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, as of first ceremony four soap series was nominated. Following the hum's practice, the Soap series below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the soap series year of release.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to declared the best sitcoms of the years 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 series 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.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
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/Google%20DeepMind | DeepMind Technologies Limited, doing business as Google DeepMind, is a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Google. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Google in 2014, The company is based in London, with research centres in Canada, France, Germany and the United States.
Google DeepMind has created neural network models that learn how to play video games in a fashion similar to that of humans, as well as Neural Turing machines (neural networks that can access external memory like a conventional Turing machine),, resulting in a computer that loosely resembles short-term memory in the human brain.
DeepMind made headlines in 2016 after its AlphaGo program beat a human professional Go player Lee Sedol, a world champion, in a five-game match, which was the subject of a documentary film. A more general program, AlphaZero, beat the most powerful programs playing go, chess and shogi (Japanese chess) after a few days of play against itself using reinforcement learning. In 2020, DeepMind made significant advances in the problem of protein folding with AlphaFold. In July 2022, it was announced that over 200 million predicted protein structures, representing virtually all known proteins, would be released on the AlphaFold database.
DeepMind posted a blog post on 28 April 2022 on a single visual language model (VLM) named Flamingo that can accurately describe a picture of something with just a few training images. In July 2022, DeepMind announced the development of DeepNash, a model-free multi-agent reinforcement learning system capable of playing the board game Stratego at the level of a human expert. The company merged with Google AI's Google Brain division to become Google DeepMind in April 2023.
History
The start-up was founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman in September 2010. Hassabis and Legg first met at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London (UCL).
Demis Hassabis has said that the start-up began working on artificial intelligence technology by teaching it how to play old games from the seventies and eighties, which are relatively primitive compared to the ones that are available today. Some of those games included Breakout, Pong and Space Invaders. AI was introduced to one game at a time, without any prior knowledge of its rules. After spending some time on learning the game, AI would eventually become an expert in it. “The cognitive processes which the AI goes through are said to be very like those of a human who had never seen the game would use to understand and attempt to master it.” The goal of the founders is to create a general-purpose AI that can be useful and effective for almost anything.
Major venture capital firms Horizons Ventures and Founders Fund invested in the company, as well as entrepreneurs Scott Banister, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk. Jaan Tallinn was an early investor and an adviser to the company. On Janu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway%20to%20Stardom%20%281950%20TV%20program%29 | Stairway to Stardom is an early American music television program which aired 1950 to 1951 on New Jersey station WATV. It was among the first with an African-American host, though it was not a network program. Bill Cook, a radio disc jockey, was the host. According to an article titled "Bill Cook Sparks New Video Show" in a 1950 edition of newspaper The Pittsburgh Courier, Bill Cook had stated that talent on the program would be "selected on the basis of ability and without regard to race, color or religion". The show is believed lost.
Other early American television shows with African-American hosts included two DuMont Television Network programs, Elder Michaux (1948–1949, then continued as local program afterwards) and The Hazel Scott Show (1950), a very short-lived CBS program Uptown Jubilee (1949), and the WABD local program titled Amanda (1948–1949).
Cook was also host of a radio program called Musical Caravan.
References
External links
1950 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
American live television series
1950s American variety television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Local television programming in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Host | Hum Award for Best Host is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to host working in the television industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Host. While hosts are nominated for this award by Hum members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Hum membership as a whole.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to shows Host of Pakistani TV industry, as of first ceremony Only one nomination pursue and currently Fahad Mustafa was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his Morning Show Jago Pakistan Jago.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, as of first ceremony only one host was selected for trophy. Following the hum's practice, the Morning Shows below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the Morning Show year of release.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to declared the best Host of the years that Hosted a morning show 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 Morning Shows 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.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
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/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Writer%20Drama%20Serial | The Hum Award for Best Writer Drama Serial is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given in an honor of writers who has written best scripts (not based upon previously published material) and screenplay adaptations (usually a novel, play, short story, or TV show but sometimes another film) working in the television industry. Original and Adapted screenplays are jointly nominated in this category. The 1st Hum Awards (for 2012) was held in 2013, Umera Ahmed was the first winner of award for the screenplay adaptation of Maat from her novel of same name.
Since its inception, the award has been awarded to three writers, Umera Ahmed is the most nominated and awarded writer with five nominations, and two wins. As of 2015 year ceremony, Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar is the most recent winner in this category for his original screenplay Sadqay Tumhare.
History
The Best Writer drama serial category originates with the 1st Hum Awards ceremony since 2013. This category has been given to the best writer/playwright drama serial of previous year to the ceremony held. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
2012 → present: Hum Award for Best Writer Drama Serial
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. The year shown is the one in which the drama serial first telecast; normally this is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a drama serial exhibited telecast during 2005 then this will be eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Writer Drama Serial Hum Awards, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the drama serial, and the television writer. Since its inception the award have been given to both Original and Adapted screenplays.
As of the first ceremony, nine dramas were nominated for the award. All of the nine nominee were also included for Best Director category with additional one extra nominees which were not included in best writer drama serial category. Umera Ahmad and Faiza Iftikhar nominated twice in the same category for their works.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized dramas writer 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. However, this rule was subjected to change when at third year ceremony two (Sadqay Tumhare and Digest Writer) of seven nominated drama serials were running on TV at the time when nominations were announced.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifiers.org | Identifiers.org is a project providing stable and perennial identifiers for data records used in the Life Sciences. The identifiers are provided in the form of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). Identifiers.org is also a resolving system, that relies on collections listed in the MIRIAM Registry to provide direct access to different instances of the identified records.
Identifiers.org URIs and resolving system
The Identifiers.org URIs are perennial identifiers, that specify at once the data collection, using the namespaces of the Registry, and the record identifier within the collection in the form of a unique resolvable URI. The Identifiers.org resolving system is built upon the information stored in the MIRIAM Registry, which is a database that stores namespaces assigned to commonly used data collections (databases and ontologies) for the Life Sciences. It transforms an Identifiers.org URI into the various URLs leading to the various instances of the record identified by the URI. Identifiers.org is part of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform.
Identifier structure
An Identifiers.org URI is formed of several parts:
Protocol. Identifiers.org URIs are HTTP URIs and start with "http:/"
Data collection. These are namespaces listed in the MIRIAM Registry. For instance "pubmed" for the publication resource PubMed, "ec-code" for the enzyme nomenclature and "go" for gene ontology
Record in the collection. For instance "9606" is "3-fluorotoluene" in the collection PubChem, it is "Homo sapiens" in the collection "taxonomy" and it is a social science publication in the collection "pubmed".
Optional: Identifiers.org URIs can be suffixed with parameters, for instance imposing which resource to use for resolving, "profiles" that control the resolver's behaviour etc.
Usage
The system allows a consistent and uniform annotation of datasets. This in turn facilitates data alignment and integration. Identifiers.org URIs are used to encode the metadata in the standard formats of the COMBINE initiative, such as SBML. In particular, databases such as BioModels Database and Reactome export their data in SBML with cross-references encoded using Identifiers.org URIs. These URIs are also used in various semantic web projects such as Bio2RDF, Open PHACTS and the EBI RDF platform Identifiers.org is part of the Interoperability platform of the European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information.
Comparison with other URI systems
Identifiers.org URIs have been developed since 2011 as a resolvable version of the MIRIAM identifiers, developed since 2005, which were of a URN form, and not directly resolvable. Identifiers.org URIs are similar to PURLs, albeit providing alternative resolutions for collections with several instances. They are also similar to DOIs, but provide human readable collection names, and re-use the record identifier assigned by the data provider.
See also
MIRIAM Registry
BioModels
SBML
CellML
LSID
Digital object ident |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary%20Committee%20on%20the%20ECHELON%20Interception%20System | The Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System was a Committee of the European Parliament that was set up in 2000 to investigate the global surveillance network ECHELON. The committee issued its final report in 2001.
Background
On 15 June 2000, the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament proposed setting up a temporary committee on the ECHELON interception system. The goal of the committee was to confirm the existence of ECHELON and to assess the compatibility of such a system with European law.
The committee was chaired by the Portuguese politician Carlos Coelho. It began investigating the ECHELON system in late 2000.
Final report
In 2001, the committee concluded that the ECHELON surveillance system "almost certainly" existed, but it also acknowledged that beyond stepping up diplomatic pressure on the Five Eyes to abide by privacy laws, there is not much that the European Union could do to evade their surveillance.
In its final report, the committee noted the following two features of the ECHELON surveillance network that is described as "unusual":
However, due to opposition from major political parties, the report failed to attract much public attention. Carlos Coelho, a Portuguese politician who served as the committee's chairman, remarked that "everyone has chosen to forget this report and its conclusions".
Controversy
The committee was first proposed by the European Green Party. However, the original plan was scrapped due to opposition from major political groups in the European Parliament. According to critics, the committee has been unable to fully investigate the ECHELON system.
Premature cancellation of delegation trip
In May 2001, as the committee was finalizing its report on ECHELON, a delegation was sent to Washington, D.C. to investigate the surveillance network, with planned trips to meet U.S. officials from various government bodies including the following agencies and departments:
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
All meetings were cancelled by the U.S. government and the committee was forced to end its trip prematurely. According to a BBC correspondent, "the Americans deny the very existence of the network and, not surprisingly, cold-shouldered the EU delegation".
Several EU member states such as Britain and the Netherlands declined to contribute to the report and refused to co-operate with their parliaments to investigate the ECHELON system.
See also
Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners
References
External links
Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System
Committees of the European Parliament |
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