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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilevisi%C3%B3n%20Noticias | Chilevisión Noticias (Chilevision News) is the branding of news programmes on the Chilean television network Chilevisión, since March 25, 1996. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast CHV Noticias Central presented by Daniel Matamala and Macarena Pizarro, broadcast every day at 9:00pm in continental territory and 7:00pm in Easter Island, it features a review of eighty-five minutes of only national and sports news. Other programmes include a morning magazine, an Afternoon edition and finally a midnight news-talk show.
Presenters
Contigo CHV Noticias AM
Montserrat Álvarez.
Roberto Cox.
CHV Noticias Tarde
Karina Alvarez.
Matilde Burgos.
Viviana Encina
CHV Noticias Central
Mónica Rincon.
Macarena Pizarro.
Daniel Matamala.
Humberto Sichel
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External links
1996 Chilean television series debuts
Chilean television news shows
Chilevisión original programming
1990s Chilean television series
2000s Chilean television series
2010s Chilean television series
Flagship evening news shows
Spanish-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaduma%20feliscaudata | Macaduma feliscaudata is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1957. It is found on Rennell Island.
References
Macaduma
Moths described in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Computer%20Education | China Computer Education () is a 50-page weekly computer magazine published in mainland China.
History and profile
China Computer Education was started in 1993. It is published by the China Center for Information Industry Development (中国电子信息产业发展研究院; CCID) and managed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. Commonly referred to as "CCE", the majority of its readers are teachers and students of information technology and computer science. The content of the magazine involves product testing, computer hardware, software applications, news and commentary, and the submission of student papers. The magazine has a single-issue circulation of 350,000 copies, and is the largest IT media publication in mass circulation within China.
From 20 May 2013 onwards, the magazine was renamed China Information Weekly ().
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External links
1993 establishments in China
Chinese-language magazines
Magazines published in China
Weekly magazines published in China
Computer magazines
Magazines established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Marvdasht | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Abarj Rural District, Dorudzan District, Marvdasht County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 510, in 123 families.
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Populated places in Marvdasht County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad-e%20Olya | Saadatabad-e Olya (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād-e ‘Olyā; also known as Sa‘ādatābād-e Bālā) is a village in Rahmat Rural District, Seyyedan District, Marvdasht County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 580, in 133 families.
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Populated places in Marvdasht County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad-e%20Sofla | Saadatabad-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād-e Soflā; also known as Sa‘ādatābād-e Pā’īn) is a village in Rahmat Rural District, Seyyedan District, Marvdasht County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 195, in 43 families.
References
Populated places in Marvdasht County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad-e%20Vasat | Saadatabad-e Vasat (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād-e Vasaţ; also known as Sa‘ādatābād, Sa‘ādatābād-e Baghal, Sa‘adatābād-e Baghalī, Sa‘ādatābād-e Vosţā, Sa‘ādatābād-e Vosţá, and Sa‘adat Abad Khafrak) is a village in Rahmat Rural District, Seyyedan District, Marvdasht County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 472, in 121 families.
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Populated places in Marvdasht County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Clarke%20%28filmmaker%29 | Malcolm Clarke is an English documentary film maker. He began his career at the BBC, directing everything from the nightly news and documentaries, to game shows and music programming. He is now working for ARTeFACT Entertainment, a media company located in Shanghai, China, founded by Chinese producer Han Yi.
Background
He left the BBC in 1975 and worked for Granada TV, Thames TV, and London Weekend TV.
During his time at Granada TV, he worked on So It Goes, a music live performance and interview show at the time where he got to work on The Sex Pistols’ first live performance in 1976. He also directed performances by XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Dave Edmunds. He subsequently joined the network’s ‘World in Action’ unit, assigned to investigate the death of the South African political activist Stephen Biko.
He co-produced (with Michael Ryan) and directed the television documentary The Life and Death of Steve Biko in 1978, which aired on Granada TV. The film was shot entirely in secret in South Africa, and brought Clarke's work to a wider audience. The Monte Carlo Film Festival awarded the film its Grand Prize, making Biko's murder a ’cause celebre’ around the world.
After winning the award, Clarke was invited to New York to produce and direct films for the ABC's ‘Close-Up’ Documentary Unit. On October 30, 1978, Terror in The Promised Land was aired on ABC’s Close-Up. It chronicled the recruitment & operations of a Palestinian suicide squad. Shot throughout Europe, North Africa & the Middle East, the documentary was heavily boycotted when it was first aired on Network TV due to its graphic depiction of the tragic endgame of a terrorist operation and for its sympathy to the Palestinians. It was the first broadcast that ran on ABC without any commercial advertisements, only playing government PSA's during its breaks due to its controversial nature. The film was later nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for directing.
In 1979, Malcolm Clarke co-wrote an ABC News TV special with author Ray Bradbury titled Infinite Horizons: Space Beyond Apollo. Bradbury additionally hosted the special, while Clarke produced and directed. The documentary celebrates the 10th anniversary of America's landing on the Moon and probes the future of the human race's relationship with space. The pair won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for the film's writing in April 1981.
Another TV special he directed for ABC News’ Close-up, Soldiers of the Twilight, premiered in March 1981. The project, about guerilla mercenaries, went on to receive two nominations at the 1982 News & Documentary Emmy Awards, losing the nominating for Best Documentary Script but winning the award for Best Director. Over the course of his career, Clarke has made films in more than eighty countries and was frequently assigned to portray volatile people in extreme situations. Torturers, Serial Killers, Vigilantes, Mercenaries, Mobsters and the Yakuza were the focus of Clarke's later docum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20Knowledge%20Systems | Zero-Knowledge Systems (also known as ZKS) was a Canadian privacy technology software and services company, best known for the Freedom Network, its privacy network. It was founded by brothers Austin Hill & Hamnett Hill and their father Hamnett Hill Sr. (aka Hammie Hill) in 1997. Its headquarters were in Montreal, Quebec. Early investors and board members were Mike Santer and Alex Hern co-founder Inktomi. The company rebranded under the new name Radialpoint though was no longer a developer of privacy-enhancing technologies.
. Most recently it was acquired by AppDirect and rebranded as AppHelp.
Zero-Knowledge Systems was one of the first large-scale commercial attempts to combine cypherpunk principles with a for-profit technology. During its heyday ZKS captured the media's imagination and successfully drew attention to the privacy risks of unsuspecting internet users.
Being based in Canada allowed it to circumvent US ban on strong cryptography, considered "munitions" at the time. ZKS was featured in Wired magazine as early as 1999.
The ZKS Freedom Network was a pioneer of anonymous networking technology, predating the Tor network.
Some of the enterprise privacy research was also inherited by the IBM Tivoli digital rights management suite.
Several of the company's employees were from an academic privacy-enhanced technology background: Stefan Brands (senior cryptographer) and cypherpunk background Ian Goldberg (chief scientist) and Adam Back (architect & cryptographer). Other employees included Mike Shaver (chief software officer), Adam Shostack, Anton Stiglic, Jonathan Wilkins and Ulf Moller. Stephanie Perrin served as Chief Privacy Officer for the firm before she became Director of Research and Policy at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and helped to draft PIPEDA, the Canadian privacy law.
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Further reading
1998 establishments in Quebec
Software companies of Canada
Canadian companies established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroptila%20rotundata | Macroptila rotundata is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Paul Dognin in 1916. It is found in Colombia.
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Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Lithosiini
Moths described in 1916 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20World%20of%20Gumball%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the British-American animated sitcom The Amazing World of Gumball, created by Ben Bocquelet, aired on Cartoon Network in the United States and was produced by Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe. The season has 40 episodes. The series focuses on the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a blue 12-year-old cat, along with his adopted brother, Darwin, a goldfish. Together, they cause mischief among their family, as well as with the wide array of students at Elmore Junior High, where they attend middle school.
Development
Plot
The season focuses on the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a blue 12-year-old cat, along with his adopted brother, Darwin, a goldfish. Together, they cause mischief among their family, as well as with the wide array of students at Elmore Junior High, where they attend middle school. In a behind-the-scenes video documenting the production of the second season, creator Ben Bocquelet expanded on the development of some of the characters, and how they are based on interactions from his childhood.
Production
The third season began filming on December 5, 2013, and ended filming on February 5, 2015. In October 2012, Cartoon Network announced that The Amazing World of Gumball had been renewed for a third season consisting of 40 episodes. The season was written by Bocquelet, Guillaume Cassuto, Mic Graves, Tobi Wilson, Jess Ransom, Howard Read, Ben Cottam, Paul McKenna, Kieran Hodgson, Tom Meltzer, Joe Parham, Tim Allsop, Stewart Williams, Paul Rice, Jon Foster, James Lamont, Tony Hull, Richard Overall, Louise Coats, Timothy Mills, and Richard Preddy, and was storyboarded by Aurelie Charbonnier, Akis Dimitrakopoulos, Adrian Maganza, Andy Kelly, Chuck Klein, and Wandrille Maunoury. The season marks the debut of series voice actors Jacob Hopkins and Terrell Ransom, Jr., who take over the roles of Gumball and Darwin from Logan Grove and Kwesi Boakye at the end of this first episode "The Kids", which also introduced Hopkins and Ransom.
Broadcast
The season premiered on Cartoon Network in the United Kingdom and Ireland in September 2014. This season had 1.937 million viewers per episode in the United States.
Episodes
References
2014 American television seasons
2014 British television seasons
2015 American television seasons
2015 British television seasons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesselman | Kesselman is a German and Yiddish surname, literally "kettle-man". It possibly refers to one who made or repaired metal cooking vessels.
The surname may refer to:
Carl Kesselman, American computing expert
Wendy Kesselman, American playwright
German-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames
Occupational surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Little%20%28franchise%29 | Stuart Little is a mixed live-action and computer-animated American film franchise based on the 1945 children's novel of the same name by E. B. White. The films are produced by Franklin / Waterman Productions and released by Columbia Pictures.
The franchise follows the adventures of Stuart Little, an orphan mouse who is adopted into a human family and embarks on life-changing adventures.
Films
Stuart Little (1999)
Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is an anthropomorphic mouse who is adopted into a human family. His new parents, (Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie) are thrilled with him, but everyone else is not. Through a series of adventures he eventually gains the love of his big brother George, (Jonathan Lipnicki), acceptance by the extended Little family, and even the grudging tolerance of the family cat Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane), who is a member of an alley cat Mafia-like gang that wants to kill Stuart.
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
In the sequel, Stuart and his brother George (Jonathan Lipnicki) are attending school together, but his mother (Geena Davis) doesn't seem to think Stuart is capable of taking care of himself. Later, Stuart meets a bird named Margalo (voiced by Melanie Griffith) who he unintentionally saves from an evil Falcon (voiced by James Woods) and eventually becomes smitten with. But one day when Margalo is nowhere to be found, Stuart and Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane) team up to go and find her.
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)
In the third film, Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) and his family are spending their summer vacation in a cabin near the fictional Lake Garland. Stuart signs up to be a lake-scout in an attempt to prove to his mother (voiced by Geena Davis) that he doesn't need to be watched over all the time. Soon, Stuart meets a new friend: a skunk named Reeko (voiced by Wayne Brady) whom he quickly befriends. But when a ferocious puma named the Beast (voiced by Virginia Madsen) hatches a plot to eat Snowbell (voiced by Kevin Schon), Stuart must gather up all his courage to save him.
Possible reboot
It was reported by the Tracking Board and Zimbio that a new Stuart Little film was in development by Sony Pictures Animation and Red Wagon Productions with Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher returning as the producers. Similar to the first two films, it will feature a combination of live-action and computer animation. The reboot will not be a sequel to the previous films and is said to be in the vein of a John Hughes film.
It has been stated that the film will be a more faithful adaptation of the E.B. White novel than the previous films, and was originally set to be released in either 2018 or 2019. As of 2023, the film's status remains unknown.
On October 3, 2023, it was announced an animated series reboot of Stuart Little is currently in the works at Sony Pictures Television Kids.
Television
Video games
Various video games based on Stuart Little were produced, but were mostly based on the films. Stuart Little: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonBox%20Pyra | The DragonBox Pyra is an upcoming Linux-based handheld computer equipped with a keyboard and gaming controls. The project entered prototyping stage in 2015. Pre-orders began on 1 May 2016, with a final release date still undefined. In August 2020 the first production model had been shipped, but only to developers, as the software wasn't ready.
History
The Dragonbox Pyra is the spiritual successor of the OpenPandora device, and shares some of the original Pandora team members. The Pyra is designed and developed in close connection with the OpenPandora community, taking their feedback and experience with the Pandora into account. The OpenPandora GmbH, residing in Germany, organizes design, prototyping and the production in Europe (Greece and Germany).
The Pyra was presented officially at the FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels. In 2015 several working developer prototypes of the Pyra have been produced and were given to software developers for evaluation and software creation. Development and fine tuning of the final specifications is still ongoing. Preorder of six Pyra variants (4 GB RAM and 3/4G mobile options) became possible on 1 May 2016.
Architecture
Like the predecessor OpenPandora, the Pyra includes features from several architectures making it a cross between a handheld game console, a subnotebook, a PDA, and a smartphone.
The Pyra design aims for modularity and openness in software and hardware alike. For instance the PCB is separated in three parts: CPU board (CPU, RAM and storage), mainboard (ports, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) and the display board. The replaceable CPU board allows future upgrades of CPU and RAM. The Pyra is assembled with screws (not glued) and is therefore repair and modification friendly.
It was announced that the hardware schematics will be available (final license undecided), which make the Pyra a kind of Open source hardware. For compliance with the Free Software Foundation's "Respects Your Freedom" certificate the closed source SGX GPU driver was identified as the only remaining software roadblock ("would be good to have free drivers, but we can't achieve this for the GPU" but the device may or may not run without a 3D driver, possibly free 2D driver is available or either could be made). The certification is not only about bundled software, using proprietary software, or recommending it, such as non-free (including emulated) games, but also about naming, e.g. Linux vs. GNU/Linux. In November 2016 a pre-release version of the Pyra schematics was made available under a CC BY-NC-SA license.
Software
The operating system will be based on the common open source Linux distribution Debian which allows the use of already available desktop open-source applications from the Debian ARM repository, for instance Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, GIMP, etc. The around 1,500 applications, created for the mostly open source OpenPandora software ecosystem, are expected to be available for the Pyra in short time by source ports.
Techni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20management%20%28computing%29 | In computer programming, resource management refers to techniques for managing resources (components with limited availability).
Computer programs may manage their own resources by using features exposed by programming languages ( is a survey article contrasting different approaches), or may elect to manage them by a host – an operating system or virtual machine – or another program.
Host-based management is known as resource tracking, and consists of cleaning up resource leaks: terminating access to resources that have been acquired but not released after use. This is known as reclaiming resources, and is analogous to garbage collection for memory. On many systems, the operating system reclaims resources after the process makes the exit system call.
Controlling access
The omission of releasing a resource when a program has finished using it is known as a resource leak, and is an issue in sequential computing. Multiple processes wish to access a limited resource can be an issue in concurrent computing, and is known as resource contention.
Resource management seeks to control access in order to prevent both of these situations.
Resource leak
Formally, resource management (preventing resource leaks) consists of ensuring that a resource is released if and only if it is successfully acquired. This general problem can be abstracted as "before, body, and after" code, which normally are executed in this order, with the condition that the after code is called if and only if the before code successfully completes, regardless of whether the body code executes successfully or not. This is also known as execute around or a code sandwich, and occurs in various other contexts, such as a temporary change of program state, or tracing entry and exit into a subroutine. However, resource management is the most commonly cited application. In aspect-oriented programming, such execute around logic is a form of advice.
In the terminology of control flow analysis, resource release must postdominate successful resource acquisition; failure to ensure this is a bug, and a code path that violates this condition causes a resource leak. Resource leaks are often minor problems, generally not crashing the program, but instead causing some slowdown to the program or the overall system. However, they may cause crashes – either the program itself or other programs – due to resource exhaustion: if the system runs out of resources, acquisition requests fail. This can present a security bug if an attack can cause resource exhaustion. Resource leaks may happen under regular program flow – such as simply forgetting to release a resource – or only in exceptional circumstances, such as when a resource is not released if there is an exception in another part of the program. Resource leaks are very frequently caused by early exit from a subroutine, either by a return statement, or an exception raised either by the subroutine itself, or a deeper subroutine that it calls. While resou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Honorary%20Music%20Award | The Hum Honorary Music Award is awarded annually (as of first ceremony) by the Board of Directors of the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) at the annual ceremony for an individual's outstanding contribution to Music, all the nominations and voting for this category are restricted to HTNEC.
This award is one of honorary awards of Hum Awards which is given to individuals every year or particular year. Winners of this award are given same Hum Statuette, which is given to other Merits categories. As of 1st Hum Awards there have been one award presented.
Honorary Music Award incepted with the origin of first Awards, as of first ceremony Indian born Pakistani Starists Ustad Rais Khan was honoured.
Recipients
Following is the listing of the recipients of Hum Honorary Music Award:
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
1st Hum Awards
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Other resources
Hum Award winners
Hum Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Honorary%20Most%20Challenging%20Subject%20Award | The Hum Honorary Most Challenging Subject Award is given by the Board of Directors of the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to the Hum Television Network most challenging and most important
subjective based work. The recipients of this award are usually director's, producer's and writers of most promising work of Hum TV.
This is one of the Special Award given by the Channel directors to the work of exceptional achievements. All the categorized and organized special award is awarded annually during the ceremony.
Hum Honorary Most Challenging Subject Award incepted with the origin of first Awards, and it may not be awarded every year, it is one of the category that is only based on the special inaugurated work of the year, this award may have irregular wins.
Recipients
Following is the listing of the recipients of Hum Honorary Most Challenging Subject Award:
2010s
Note: The † symbol indicates a posthumous awarded.
See also
Hum Awards
1st Hum Awards
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Other resources
Hum Award winners
Hum Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bits%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bits is a British entertainment television series that aired on Channel 4 from 4 June 1999 to 6 April 2001, with both late night and edited morning versions of the show, the show reviewed computer games, testing the (then) latest games releases across multiple platforms.
Five series were produced and, uniquely at the time for a show about computer games, had an all female presentation team.
There were also a number of special episodes, notably a three-parter in early 2000 titled the Bits 'Super Console Tour' which primarily featured the girls challenging various "pro" gamers in 1v1 battles around the UK in each episode (London, Blackpool, and one other location), as well as their usual sketches and short reviews and newsclips. The games chosen were usually new releases on various consoles, one of which was FantaVision on the newly launched PlayStation 2, at which Emily Booth was defeated by Alek Hayes, who was employed at the time at BarrysWorld.
Transmissions
External links
1999 British television series debuts
2001 British television series endings
Channel 4 original programming
Television shows about video games
Video gaming in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH140 | Asian Highway 140 is a highway that is part of Asian Highway Network. It was never signposted in Malaysia, although it is part of Asian Highway Network. It follows Butterworth–Kulim Expressway and Malaysia Federal Route 4.
Asian Highway Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH141 | Asian Highway 141 is a highway that is part of Asian Highway Network. It was never signposted in Malaysia, although it is part of Asian Highway Network. It consists of New North Klang Straits Bypass , New Klang Valley Expressway, Duta–Ulu Klang Expressway (Jalan Duta–Sentul Pasar and Sentul Pasar–Greenwood), Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2 Federal Route 28(Greenwood–Gombak North Interchange), Kuala Lumpur–Karak Expressway, East Coast Expressway (Karak–Jabur) and Gebeng Bypass Federal Route 101.
References
Asian Highway Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH142 | Asian Highway 142 is a highway that is part of Asian Highway Network. It was never signposted in Malaysia, although it is part of Asian Highway Network. It goes along the MEC Highway (Malaysian Federal Route 222), Tun Razak Highway (Malaysian Federal Route 12), and Federal Route 1.
References
Asian Highway Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Honorary%20Phenomenal%20Serial%20Award | The Hum Honorary Phenomenal Serial Award is given by the Board of Directors of the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to the Hum Television Network most critically acclaimed and cult followed drama serial of the year. The recipients of this award are usually directors, producers, writers, main cast and technical crew of the production.
This is one of the Special Award given by the Channel directors to the work of exceptional achievements. All the categorized and organized special award is awarded annually during the ceremony.
Hum Honorary Phenomenal Serial Award incepted with the origin of first Awards, and it may not be awarded every year, it is one of the category that is only based on the special inaugurated work of the year, this award may have irregular wins.
Recipients
Following is the listing of the recipients of Hum Honorary Phenomenal Serial Award:
2010s
Note: The † symbol indicates a posthumous award.
See also
Hum Awards
1st Hum Awards
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Other resources
Hum Award winners
Hum Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20A.%20Harrison | Michael A. Harrison is a computer scientist, in particular a pioneer in the area of formal languages.
Biography
Michael A. Harrison (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) studied electrical engineering and computing for BS and MS at the Case Institute of Technology, and then received a PhD from the University of Michigan in Communication Sciences. He was assistant professor from 1963 to 1966 at the University of Michigan, and then joined the faculty of the E.E. Dept at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was an associate professor from 1966 to 1971, and a full professor from 1971 to 1994.
In the 1960s, he worked with Sheila Greibach, Gene Rose, Ed Spanier, and Joe Ullian in a research group formed and led by Seymour Ginsburg, dedicated to formal language theory and the foundations of Computer Science. The work that came out of this group distinguished Computer Science theory from other fields. It also brought the field of formal language theory to bear on programming language research.
In 1975, he developed the HRU security model (named after its authors Harrison, Ruzzo, Ullman), an operating system level computer security model dealing with the integrity of access rights in the system.
With his Ph.D. student Pehong Chen at Berkeley, he founded the "Gain Technology" company (acquired by Sybase in 1992).
Currently, he is professor emeritus and also professor in the graduate school at Berkeley.
Personal life
Harrison is married to Susan L. Graham, the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
References
External links
Publication list at acm.org
Scientists from Philadelphia
Theoretical computer scientists
University of Michigan alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INtime | The INtime Real Time Operating System (RTOS) family is based on a 32-bit RTOS conceived to run time-critical operations cycle-times as low as 50μs. INtime RTOS runs on single-core, hyper-threaded, and multi-core x86 PC platforms from Intel and AMD. It supports two binary compatible usage configurations; INtime for Windows, where the INtime RTOS runs alongside Microsoft Windows®, and INtime Distributed RTOS, where INtime runs one.
Like its iRMX predecessors, INtime is a real-time operating system, and like DOSRMX and iRMX for Windows, it runs concurrently with a general-purpose operating system on a single hardware platform.
History
Initial Release
INtime 1.0 was originally introduced in 1997 in conjunction with the Windows NT operating system. Since then it has been upgraded to include support for all subsequent protected-mode Microsoft Windows platforms, Windows XP to Windows 10.
INtime can also be used as a stand-alone RTOS. INtime binaries are able to run unchanged when running on a stand-alone node of the INtime RTOS. Unlike Windows, INtime can run on an Intel 80386 or equivalent processor. Current versions of the Windows operating system generally require at least a Pentium level processor in order to boot and execute.
Version 2.2
After spinning off from Radisys in 2000 development work on INtime continued at TenAsys Corporation. In 2003 TenAsys released version 2.2 of INtime.
Notable features of version 2.2 include:
Real-time Shared Libraries, or RSLs, which are the functional equivalent of the Windows Dynamically Loaded Libraries, or DLLs.
Support for the development of USB clients, and USB host control drivers for OHCI, UHCI and EHCI (USB 2.0) devices.
A new timing acquisition and display application called ""INscope"" is released.
Notes
Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20re%20Electronic%20Privacy%20Information%20Center | In Re Electronic Privacy Information Center, 134 S.Ct. 638 (2013), was a direct petition to the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the National Security Agency's (NSA) telephony metadata collection program. On July 8, 2013, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a petition for a writ of mandamus and prohibition, or a writ of certiorari, to vacate an order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in which the court compelled Verizon to produce telephony metadata records from all of its subscribers' calls and deliver those records to the NSA. On November 18, 2013, the Supreme Court denied EPIC's petition.
Background
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is a United States federal law which prescribes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance and collection of "foreign intelligence information" between "foreign powers" and "agents of foreign powers" (which may include American citizens and permanent residents suspected of espionage or terrorism). The Act created the FISC to oversee the FISA requests. The FISC is a secret court populated with judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The secret nature of the court means that all proceedings are behind closed doors and all decisions are classified. Concerns about the government's surveillance efforts and its use of the Patriot Act were present for years before the case. Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), had been warning the public about this issue, although they were unable to go into detail because of the confidential nature of the information. In 2012, they wrote an open letter to Attorney General Eric Holder about this issue, saying, "We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act."
On June 6, 2013, The Washington Post and The Guardian published a classified FISC order leaked by Edward Snowden. The leaked order compelled Verizon to produce telephony metadata records on an ongoing daily basis to the NSA. This disclosure of the bulk telephony metadata collection initiated public debate about the constitutionality of NSA's surveillance program and brought forth the question of whether the FISC court had exceeded its statutory authority in granting the Verizon order. EPIC, the petitioner in this action, is a public interest research center focused on First Amendment and other constitutional issues of privacy, open government, free speech, and other civil liberties.
Facts
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) filed an application with the FISC to compel Verizon to produce telephony metadata from its customers' calls for 90 days. According to the FISA order, telephony metadata includes "comprehensive communications routing information, including but not limited to session identifying information (e.g., originating and terminat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexbase | Lexbase is a Swedish website and database that was launched on 27 January 2014, enabling users to perform searches on people and companies who had been the subject of criminal charges or civil claims in Swedish courts. Cases are deleted from the Lexbase database after 20 years.
Lexbase owes its existence to Sweden's freedom of information principle (offentlighetsprincipen) for official documents, a right guaranteed by the Constitution of Sweden since 1766. The Principle of Public Access guarantees that official documents of government agencies can be accessed by the general public.
There has been a discussion in Sweden over whether the freedom of information principle is adequately adapted to the modern society, but since the principle is guaranteed in the Swedish constitution it is very difficult to change. Moreover, the freedom of information principle is a source of pride among Swedish decision makers and citizens, since it allows a very high degree of transparency. It was one of the major rights that Sweden was allowed to retain when it joined the European Union, one which Swedish EU negotiators fervently argued they should keep at the time.
Lexbase was closed down by the Internet service provider Bahnhof on 29 January 2014, just two days after launch, after the site came under heavy criticism from Swedish media, government and the general public.
Through a virtual server by the company City Networks, Lexbase was able to relaunch on 31 January 2014, however it was closed down once again within hours of becoming available.
Since the beginning of April, Lexbase is up and running again, probably operating from servers based in several countries. Lexbase not only provides access to a person's criminal record, but also to the verdict, judgment and sentencing. The map was relaunched at the end of May.
Complaints
After the website closure in February 2014, almost 300 complaints were recorded aiming to stop the service, claiming that it violates defamation laws. But since Lexbase is protected by the Principle of Public Access, the only possible prosecutor in this case would be Chancellor of Justice, Anna Skarhed, (in Swedish JK, Justitiekanslern). One of the main tasks of this state-run agency is "to ensure that the limits of the freedom of the press and other media are not transgressed and to act as sole prosecutor in cases concerning offences against the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression".
However, the Chancellor of Justice decided not to press charges against Lexbase. This decision was published at the end of March 2014. It was the main reason for Lexbase to reopen.
The decision of the Chancellor of Justice outraged many people in Sweden, especially those with a criminal record who soon realized that they would have to face a lot of problems in the future to find a job, a house or even a partner, and they now fear that they might be discriminated by many companies and institutions, including banks and medical healthcare. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor2web | Tor2web (pronounced "Tor to Web") is a software project to allow Tor hidden services to be accessed from a standard browser without being connected to the Tor network. It was created by Aaron Swartz and Virgil Griffith.
History
Tor is a network which enables people to use the Internet anonymously (though with known weaknesses) and to publish content on "hidden services", which exist only within the Tor network for security reasons and thus are typically only accessible to the relatively small number of people using a Tor-connected web browser. Aaron Swartz and Virgil Griffith developed Tor2web in 2008 as a way to support whistleblowing and other forms of anonymous publishing through Tor, allowing materials to remain anonymous while making them accessible to a broader audience. In an interview with Wired Swartz explained that Tor is great for anonymous publishing, but because its focus is not user-friendliness and thus not many people would install it, he wanted to "produce this hybrid where people could publish stuff using Tor and make it so that anyone on the internet could view it".
The software developed by Swartz and Griffith is today considered version 1.0. Since then, it has been maintained and developed by Giovanni Pellerano from the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights as part of the GlobaLeaks Project, with financial support from the Open Technology Fund. Version 2.0 was released in August 2011, and version 3.0 is in beta .
Operation and security
Rather than typical top-level domains like .com, .org, or .net, hidden service URLs end with .onion and are only accessible when connected to Tor. Tor2web acts as a specialized proxy or middleman between hidden services and users, making them visible to people who are not connected to Tor. To do so, a user takes the URL of a hidden service and replaces .onion with .onion.to.
Like Tor, Tor2web operates using servers run voluntarily by an open community of individuals and organizations.
Tor2web preserves the anonymity of content publishers but is not itself an anonymity tool and does not offer any protection to users beyond relaying data using HTTP Secure (HTTPS). Since version 2.0, a privacy and security warning is added to the header of each web page it fetches, encouraging readers to use the Tor Browser to obtain anonymity.
See also
Dark web
References
External links
List of active tor2web-like services
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Dark web
Tor (anonymity network)
Free software
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202014 | The highest-selling albums in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data is compiled by Oricon based on each albums' weekly physical sales. This list includes the albums that reached the number one place on that chart in 2014.
In 2014, a total of 43 albums claimed the top position of the chart. Beginning with dance and vocal group Sandaime J Soul Brothers's greatest hits/studio album, The Best/Blue Impact, issue dated January 6. AKB48's Tsugi no Ashiato was the best-selling album of 2014. The soundtrack, Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, was the second best-selling album. With 980,000 copies sold, it became the best-selling animation film soundtrack album in Oricon history. Boy band Arashi's thirteenth studio album, The Digitalian was the third best-seller, with 785,000 copies sold.
Chart history
References
See also
2014 in Japanese music
Number-one albums
Japan
2014
de:Liste der Nummer-eins-Hits in Japan (2014) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten%20Graff | Carsten Graff is a Danish author and columnist. He has a master of computer science from Copenhagen Business School and began his professional career working for several international organizations as a communications-, computer- and media expert.
References
Graff, Carsten (2013). Conversations with an oak tree, StemningsHotellets forlag, Copenhagen.
External links
Carsten Graff – official, international website: www.carstengraff.com
1962 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Copenhagen Business School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20de%20Dinechin | Christophe de Dinechin is a French computer scientist, with contributions in video games, programming languages and operating systems.
Programming languages
Dinechin contributed to C++, notably a high-performance exception handling implementation that became a de facto standard in the industry. de Dinechin was one of the proponents of a portable C++ ABI, initially developed for Itanium, but now widely used across platforms.
XL programming language
Dinechin is the designer of the XL programming language and associated concept programming methodology. "XL" is named for "eXtensible Language".
XL features programmer-reconfigurable syntax and semantics. Compiler plug-ins can be used to add new features to the language. A base set of plug-ins implements a relatively standard imperative language. Programmers can write their own plug-ins to implement application-specific notations, such as symbolic differentiation, which can then be used as readily as built-in language features.
Similar works
There are projects that exploit similar ideas to create code with higher level of abstraction. Among them are:
Intentional programming
Language-oriented programming
Literate programming
Model-driven architecture
Video games
As initial developer of Alpha Waves, a "groundbreaking" Atari ST game (listed in the Guinness World Records as the first 3D platform game), de Dinechin heavily influenced Frederick Raynal, the main developer of Alone in the Dark. de Dinechin also wrote a few viral games for HP-48 calculators, and was the first person to take advantage of hardware-scrolling on these machines.
Operating systems design
In the early 2000s, he worked as a software architect for HP-UX, and was the initial designer of HP's virtualisation platform for Itanium servers, HP Integrity Virtual Machines. He was awarded 10 US patents for this work.
Other work
Christophe de Dinechin did the initial port of Emacs to the Aqua user interface. He wrote a variety of open-source drivers for the HP DE200C Digital Entertainment Center, turning it from a web-connected CD Player into a true digital video recorder.
Between 2010 and 2017, Christophe de Dinechin was the CEO of Taodyne, a company developing a 3D animation tool, using a derivative of his XL programming language called Tao3D to describe dynamic documents.
Bibliography
Dinechin has published three books:
A French science-fiction novel called Informagie
A French book about physics called Réunifions la physique
A physics book called A theory of incomplete measurements
References
Living people
French computer scientists
French video game designers
Programming language researchers
Kernel programmers
Free software programmers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Kutsch | James Kutsch is an American computer scientist who currently serves as the President of The Seeing Eye. As a teenager, he lost his eyesight as the result of a "backyard chemistry experiment that went wrong". He studied at West Virginia University, gaining a BSc in psychology and an MSc in Computer Science, before attending the University of Illinois, where he was awarded a PhD in Computer Science. As part of his PhD he designed the first talking computer for the blind, and also developed one of the earliest screen readers. After graduation, he held a number of roles with AT&T. In 1996 Kutsch became Vice President of at Convergys Corporation, and was promoted to Vice President of Strategic Technology in 2003. From the 1990s onwards he served as a member of the board of trustees of The Seeing Eye, and in 2006 became its first blind President.
He retired from The Seeing Eye in 2022.
References
American computer scientists
University of Illinois alumni
West Virginia University alumni
Living people
American blind people
Blind scholars and academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
American scientists with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-shot%20deviation%20principle | The one-shot deviation principle (also known as single-deviation property) is the principle of optimality of dynamic programming applied to game theory. It says that a strategy profile of a finite multi-stage extensive-form game with observed actions is a subgame perfect equilibrium (SPE) if and only if there exist no profitable single deviation for each subgame and every player. In simpler terms, if no player can increase their expected payoff by deviating from their original strategy via a single action (in just one stage of the game), then the strategy profile is an SPE. In other words, no player can profit by deviating from the strategy in one period and then reverting to the strategy.
Furthermore, the one-shot deviation principle is very important for infinite horizon games, in which the principle typically does not hold, since it is not plausible to consider an infinite number of strategies and payoffs in order to solve. In an infinite horizon game where the discount factor is less than 1, a strategy profile is a subgame perfect equilibrium if and only if it satisfies the one-shot deviation principle.
Definitions
The following is the paraphrased definition from Watson (2013)
To check whether strategy s is a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium, we have to ask every player i and every subgame, if considering s, there is a strategy s’ that yields a strictly higher payoff for player i than does s in the subgame. In a finite multi-stage game with observed actions, this analysis is equivalent to looking at single deviations from s, meaning s’ differs from s at only one information set (in a single stage). Note that the choices associated with s and s’ are the same at all nodes that are successors of nodes in the information set where s and s’ prescribe different actions.
Example
Consider a symmetric game with two players in which each player makes binary choice decisions, A or B, in each of three stages. In each stage, the players observe the choices made in the previous stages (if any). Note that each player has 21 information sets, one in the first stage, four in the second stage (because players observe the outcome of the first stage, one of four action combinations), and 16 in the third stage (4 times 4 histories of action combinations from the first two stages). The single-deviation condition requires checking each of these information sets, asking in each case whether the expected payoff of the player on the move would strictly increase by deviating at only this information set.
References
Game theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berjon | Berjon may refer to:
People
Saúl Berjón, the Spanish footballer
Antoine Berjon, the French painter
Robin Berjon, the computer scientist, editor of HTML5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Berjon | Robin Berjon is a French computer scientist and political writer. He is the editor of the W3C HTML5 specification. In 2012 he was elected to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) but he had to resign early in 2013.
References
External links
Profile - W3C
Living people
French computer scientists
French political writers
World Wide Web Consortium
Scientists from Paris
XML Guild
1977 births
French male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanex | Nanex is a Chicago-based firm that offers streaming market data services, and real-time analysis and visualization tools. They offer data on all market transactions to their clients who are typically traders and other financial analysis firms. "The company can analyse millions of trades per second."
Nanex is the creator and developer of NxCore, a ticker plant that delivers streaming whole market data from Telvent DTN and provides an application programming interface. The company was founded in 2000 and is located in Winnetka, Illinois.
The founder and CEO of Nanex, Eric Scott Hunsader, is a vocal critic of some aspects of high-frequency trading and has clashed on Twitter with defenders of the system. Hunsader's firm is known for having coined the term quote stuffing. Bloomberg called Nanex the "nemesis" of high-frequency traders.
Hunsader's views, as well as the record of market transactions released by Nanex, have been cited in many financial analyses done in news articles about strange financial events, such as the 2010 Flash Crash, the Gold Flash Crash in early January 2014, and suspicious trading patterns.
References
External links
Financial services companies of the United States
Financial data vendors
Software companies based in Illinois
Technology companies established in 2000
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20iterative%20scaling | In statistics, generalized iterative scaling (GIS) and improved iterative scaling (IIS) are two early algorithms used to fit log-linear models, notably multinomial logistic regression (MaxEnt) classifiers and extensions of it such as MaxEnt Markov models and conditional random fields. These algorithms have been largely surpassed by gradient-based methods such as L-BFGS and coordinate descent algorithms.
See also
Expectation-maximization
References
Optimization algorithms and methods
Log-linear models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchin%20College%20Prep | Muchin College Prep is a public four-year charter high school located in the Chicago Loop in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. It is named for Allan and Elaine Muchin. Muchin College Prep was founded in 2009 by Kimberly Neal-Brannum. The Founding Principal, Kimberly Neal-Brannum led the school until 2015.
The science labs at Muchin were also funded by Michael and Karyn Lutz, and Baxter International has been an active partner, contributing to the growth of the science labs and providing career exploration programs as well as scholarships for Muchin alumni.
Muchin has earned a 1+ school rating since 2014 when Chicago Public Schools began issuing such ratings. Additionally, Muchin's standardized test scores have consistently ranked among the top ten non-selective enrollment schools in Chicago. Based on 2017-2018 school year data, Muchin earned an SQRP total score of a 4.7, making the school the top 9th-12th grade only high school in Chicago.
References
External links
Noble Network of Charter Schools
TheCharterSCALE: Muchin College Prep
Educational institutions established in 2009
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Public high schools in Chicago
2009 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoSUR | GeoSUR is a regional initiative led by spatial data producers in Latin America and the Caribbean to implement a regional geospatial network and to help establish the basis of a spatial data infrastructure in the region. GeoSUR supports the development of free access geographic services useful to find, view and analyze spatial information through maps, satellite images, and geographic data.
Participation in the network is open to any spatial data producer that is willing to place their geospatial information at the public's disposal and for the development of the region. Participation by institutions that generate useful information for decision making and development activities is emphasized.
The network is headed by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH), with more than 90 regional and national institutions participating, among which the ministries of planning and public works, ministries of the environment, and geographic institutions of the region stand out as early adopters.
GeoSUR has received five international awards:
Special Achievement in GIS 2010, ESRI International User Conference 2010
Latin American Geospatial Excellence Award, Latin American Geospatial Forum 2011
NASIG 2012 Award, ESRI Venezuela
Presidential Award for GeoSUR, Portal of the Americas, ESRI International User Conference 2012
MundoGeoConnect 2013 Award, Special Award.
History
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the construction of some of the key technical components of a regional spatial data infrastructure has taken over 15 years of efforts by multiple players. Following are the key milestones of this process:
The establishment of SIRGAS at the International Conference for the Definition of a Geocentric Reference System for South America, in Asuncion (Paraguay, 1993).
The establishment of the Inter-American Geospatial Data Network (IGDN) in 1995.
The resolutions adopted by the four United Nations Regional Cartography Conferences for the Americas.
The resolution of February 2000 in Bogota, Colombia, in which 21 American nations created the Permanent Committee for SDI in the Americas (CP-IDEA).
The resolutions of the Consultation Meetings of the Cartography Commission of PAIGH in 2001 and 2005, and of PAIGH's 18th General Assembly (Venezuela, 2005).
The declaration Development of Spatial Data Infrastructures in America by PAIGH's Executive Council, issued in Bogota in 2007.
The Inter-American Science and Technology Program of the Organization of American States (OAS) (Peru, 2003) which incorporated the Hemispheric Cooperation Initiative in the Field of Geographic Information for the Comprehensive Development of the Americas, and Resolution 2328 of the 37th General Assembly of the OAS (Panama, 2007).
The world conferences of the Association for the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure carried out in the region (Colombia, 2001; Chile, 2006, Trinidad and Tobago, 2008 and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adopted%20Daughter | Adopted Daughter was a radio soap opera in the United States. It premiered in 1937 on station WOW in Omaha, Nebraska, and moved to NBC's Midwest regional network in 1939. It was broadcast there five times a week for two years. The show was sponsored by J. C. Penney. Billboard magazine noted that the program was J.C. Penney's "first use of radio on a national basis." After 26 successful weeks on WOW, the program would be carried on 16 stations via transcription.
Plot
Based on a series of skits called The Jangles, the story of Adopted Daughter centered on Jerry Jangles, a "courageous young wife who fights for home and happiness." The show took place in a small mid-western town and talked about the struggles of an average young couple with interfering in-laws.
Cast
The cast included Jettabee Ann Hopkins (who also wrote the program) and Alan Bunce. The announcer was Art Miller.
See also
List of radio soaps
References
External links
Log of selected episodes of Adopted Daughter from RadioGOLDINdex
Streaming episodes of Adopted Daughter from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library
American radio soap operas
1937 radio programme debuts
1930s American radio programs
1940s American radio programs
American radio dramas
NBC radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Sarvestan | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād; also known as Sa‘adat Abad Sarvestan) is a village in Kuhenjan Rural District, Kuhenjan District, Sarvestan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 242, in 64 families.
References
Populated places in Sarvestan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamicroptera%20rotundata | Metamicroptera rotundata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Gustaaf Hulstaert in 1923. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Zambia.
References
Syntomini
Moths described in 1923
Erebid moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiza%20Savage | Luiza Chwialkowska Savage (styled Luiza Ch. Savage) is the executive editor for growth at Politico and a contributor to Canadian political news programs on CTV, CPAC and CBC News Network. She is married to The New York Times' Washington correspondent Charlie Savage.
A former Washington bureau chief for Maclean's, Savage is also the writer/producer of documentaries on the Keystone XL pipeline and the effort to build a new bridge linking Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario.
Born in Poland, Savage grew up in Canada. She graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in economics and earned a master's degree from Yale Law School while on a Knight Foundation journalism fellowship.
References
External links
Canadian magazine journalists
Living people
Maclean's writers and editors
Harvard College alumni
Canadian people of Polish descent
Yale Law School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Magee%20%28executive%29 | Kevin Magee is an American television executive who has worked for Yahoo Finance, MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC and ABC. At Yahoo Finance, he helped build out their online video programming. With MSNBC, he as executive-in-charge of the morning news show, Morning Joe. He came there from the Fox Business network. He joined the FOX Broadcasting group in 2001. He began his term as Senior Vice President of FOX News Radio in 2005. Chairman of FOX News Programming Council. Prior to Fox, he served as business news executive producer for CNBC from 1997–2001. He also worked for ABC News, as senior programming producer of Good Morning America from 1991–1997.
He won an Emmy Award in 1991 as part of the production team at Good Morning America which won the Best Talk Service category.
He was a writer/reporter KYW News Radio in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Temple University with a B.A. in Communications. He is married with two children.
References
American television executives
Fox News people
American television journalists
American radio reporters and correspondents
American male journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20International%20School | Network International School is a British Curriculum International School in Yangon, Myanmar. When formed in 1996 by Carole and U. Kyaing, from England and Myanmar, respectively, it was the very first of its kind in Yangon, established as a response to an increased need for secondary schools within the Yangon area. Though it began as a nursery school, it added primary education in 2002 and as of 2019, admits students through Year 13. The school year typically begins the second week of August and ends mid-June.
Facilities
Network consists of an early years / primary and a secondary campus, located in Yangon's Bahan and Mayangone townships respectively.
The early years campus consists of a rooftop sports area, library, playground, IT lab, medical room, swimming pool, and basketball court, as well as a two-story building with classrooms for students aged 2–5, and a three-story building, hosting lessons for students aged 6–10.
The new campus (right across the street from the old building), features a football court, multi-purpose hall/basketball court, swimming pool, computer lab, science lab, library, rooftop area, medical room and a café (reserved for sixth form and staff). The new building features 3 blocks; A, B and C.
Subjects
House system
Network utilises a house system, in which students are sorted into four different houses with distinct colours upon admission:
Ruby house (Red)
Emerald house (Green)
Sapphire house (Yellow)
Diamond house (White)
This house system is implemented during Network's in-school academic competitions, sporting events, and its house-points reward system. Siblings attending Network are sorted into corresponding houses. There is a house trophy awarded at the end of the year for each winning house.
Uniform
Network students wear uniforms pertaining to their educational stages:
EY throughout KS2 students wear Network polos in grey with grey skirts / shorts
KS3 throughout KS4 students wear Network polos in white with black skirts / shorts
KS5 students wear Network polos in blue with black skirts / shorts
Uniforms are purchased in-school upon admission and are mandatory. An optional jacket in students' house colour is allowed as outerwear and an additional Kukri sports uniform is required.
References
External links
International schools in Myanmar
Educational institutions established in 1996
1996 establishments in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dgoku%20Tadataka | was a Japanese noble and the daimyō and head of the of Japan during the Tokugawan power grab of the early 17th century.
Life
His Childhood name was Kumamaro (熊麿). Kyōgoku Tadataka was a member and head of the powerful Kyōgoku clan who claimed their noble descent from Emperor Uda (868–897). He was the son of Kyōgoku Takatsugu and his concubine. His paternal grandfather was Kyōgoku Takayoshi.
Kyōgoku Tadataka is best known for his participation in the Tokugawa clans 1615 military campaign for Osaka where he commanded 2,000 troops in service to the Tokugawas. During this campaign, he successfully led a flanking maneuver against the defenders of Osaka Castle in the Shigino area northeast of the castle together with Ishikawa Tadafusa and fellow clan member Kyōgoku Takatomo. This maneuver was instrumental in the Tokugawa victory.
Later from 1620 to 1629, Kyōgoku Tadataka is recorded as having spent ninety two thousand koku on the re-construction of Osaka Castle.
Marriage and Descendants
Kyōgoku Tadataka was married to the fourth daughter of Matsudaira Tadanao. In 1607, he married the fourth daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada, a marriage which did not produce any heirs. As such, the lands and assets of the family should have reverted to the ruling shōgun. However, the bakufu acted to continue his line by posthumously designating Kyōgoku Takakazu as an heir. Takakazu was Tadataka's nephew, the son of his brother Takamasa. Tadakazu was initially enfeoffed at Tatsuno (50,000 koku) in Harima Province.
Family
Father: Kyōgoku Takatsugu
Mother: Yamada-dono
Foster Mother: Ohatsu
Wife: Hatsuhime (1602 – 1630)
Concubine: unknown
Daughter: Ichiko married Taga Tsuneyoshi
Adopted Son: Kyogoku Takakazu (1619-1662)
See also
Siege of Osaka
References
Bibliography
Kyōgoku clan
1593 births
1637 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nopo%20station | Nopo Station is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 located in Nopo-dong, Geumjeong District, Busan, South Korea. The subname in parentheses is Central Bus Terminal.
Station layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Railway stations opened in 1986
Busan Metro stations
Geumjeong District
1986 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Druid | Druid is a column-oriented, open-source, distributed data store written in Java. Druid is designed to quickly ingest massive quantities of event data, and provide low-latency queries on top of the data. The name Druid comes from the shapeshifting Druid class in many role-playing games, to reflect that the architecture of the system can shift to solve different types of data problems.
Druid is commonly used in business intelligence-OLAP applications to analyze high volumes of real-time and historical data. Druid is used in production by technology companies such as Alibaba, Airbnb, Cisco, eBay, Lyft, Netflix, PayPal, Pinterest, Reddit, Twitter, Walmart, Wikimedia Foundation and Yahoo.
History
Druid was started in 2011 by Eric Tschetter, Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino and Vadim Ogievetsky to power the analytics product of Metamarkets. The project was open-sourced under the GPL license in October 2012, and moved to an Apache License in February 2015.
Architecture
Fully deployed, Druid runs as a cluster of specialized processes (called nodes in Druid) to support a fault-tolerant architecture where data is stored redundantly, and there is no single point of failure. The cluster includes external dependencies for coordination (Apache ZooKeeper), metadata storage (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Derby), and a deep storage facility (e.g. HDFS, or Amazon S3) for permanent data backup.
Query management
Client queries first hit broker nodes, which forward them to the appropriate data nodes (either historical or real-time). Since Druid segments may be partitioned, an incoming query can require data from multiple segments and partitions (or shards) stored on different nodes in the cluster. Brokers are able to learn which nodes have the required data, and also merge partial results before returning the aggregated result.
Cluster management
Operations relating to data management in historical nodes are overseen by coordinator nodes. Apache ZooKeeper is used to register all nodes, manage certain aspects of internode communications, and provide for leader elections.
Features
Low latency (streaming) data ingestion.
Arbitrary slice and dice data exploration.
Sub-second analytic queries.
Approximate and exact computations.
Performance
Researchers have compared the performance of Hive, Presto, and Druid using a denormalized Star Schema Benchmark based on the TPC-H standard. Druid was tested using both a “Druid Best” configuration using tables with hashed partitions and a “Druid Suboptimal” configuration which does not use hashed partitions.
Tests were conducted by running the 13 TPC-H queries using TPC-H Scale Factor 30 (a 30GB database), Scale Factor 100 (a 100GB database), and Scale Factor 300 (a 300GB database).
Druid performance was measured as at least 98% faster than Hive and at least 90% faster than Presto in each scenario, even when using the Druid Suboptimized configuration.
See also
List of column-oriented DBMSes
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPODE%20International%20Network | EPODE International Network (EIN) is a not for profit, non-governmental organisation that seeks to support childhood obesity-prevention programmes across the world, via best practice sharing and capacity building.
The name EPODE comes from ‘Ensemble Prévenons l'ObésitéDes Enfants’ Together Let's Prevent Childhood Obesity
The EPODE International Network (EIN), is a Nonprofit organization, and is a contribution to the response to the need and demand from the global community in the fight against childhood obesity and Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), through sustainable and large-sale Community Based Programmes (CBPs) for childhood obesity prevention.
In light of the encouraging experiences and results of the EPODE methodology (Towns in Belgium that implemented the program saw a 22 per cent decrease in overweight children), the EPODE International Network, was created in 2011 as a response to the global demand for action concerning the increasing international prevalence of overweight and obesity and the related non-communicable diseases. The EPODE International Network works to promote and enhance the global movement to prevent childhood obesity by supporting Community Based Programmes (CBPs) for childhood obesity prevention through sustainable and large-sale strategies that mobilise a multi-stakeholder dynamic.
General Organisation of EPODE International Network
The EPODE International Network is an NGO, a network of community-based and school-based childhood obesity-prevention programmes as well as healthy active initiatives aimed at preventing childhood adiposity & overweight in children. This NGO facilitates the sharing of experiences, best practices and tools at the global level for continuous improvement and strengthening of its members. EIN also endeavours to ensure the sustainability of CBPs, SBPs & HAIs over time, contributing to the global movement to reduce and prevent childhood overweight and obesity.
The network is coordinated by a dedicated unit and is supported by 3 platforms, gathering a broad diversity of actors:
A Scientific Board and Platform, with 18 internationally recognized experts in the fields of nutrition and physical activity to provide scientific guidance for the implementation and evaluation processes to prevent childhood obesity.
A Ministers’ Club, gathering Ministers, State Secretaries, members of Parliament and Mayors to raise awareness on the childhood obesity issue and to advocate for a strong and sustainable political involvement in the development of CBPs, SBPs & HAIs around the world.
A Public-Private Partnership Platform, linking representatives of the civil society, corporate sector, NGOs and institutions to stimulate multistakeholder, concerted and coordinated partnerships supporting the implementation of CBPs around the world.
In addition, the EPODE International Network holds regional and global forums which represent a call for global perspectives, solutions and commitments to solve the obesit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma%20Quality%20Improvement%20Program | The Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) was initiated in 2008 by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Its aim is to provide risk-adjusted data for the purpose of reducing variability in adult trauma outcomes and offering best practice guidelines to improve trauma care. TQIP makes use of national data to allows hospitals to objectively evaluate their trauma centers' performance relative to other hospitals. TQIP's administrative costs are less than those of other programs, making it an accessible tool for assessing performance and enhancing quality of trauma care.
Background
Morbidity and mortality rates are variable across United States trauma centers. Institutional variations can be attributed to differences in both patient population and quality of care at each institution. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System emphasized the importance of recognizing variability and inefficiencies in the United States healthcare system. To address these discrepancies, John Fildes, MD, FACS created an ad hoc work group to create and implement an outcomes-based, validated, risk-adjusted trauma quality improvement system. The goal was to utilize existing trauma infrastructures to measure and continually improve the quality of trauma care. This was done by accessing each hospital's registry database using the National Trauma Data Standard (NTDS) from the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB), resulting in the creation of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
TQIP was preceded by surgical indicators that included the Optimal Resources for the Care of the Injured reference document, published by the ACS Committee on Trauma in 1979. The document created a framework for the trauma center verification review process with a systems approach to trauma care. The Major Trauma Outcome Study (MTOS) of 19821989 subsequently established the national standards for trauma care. The MTOS database also facilitated the creation of a methodology to estimate an individual trauma patient's survival probability, also known as the Trauma Injury Severity Score (TRISS). Other studies, such as the 2006 National Study of the Costs and Outcomes of Trauma (NSCOT), aimed to identify differences in expenditures and outcomes at various hospitals.
Pilot study
Design
A pilot study was initiated in June 2008 to refine the methodology and assess the feasibility of applying TQIP for quality improvement at different trauma centers. Twenty-three Level I and II trauma centers volunteered and were selected to participate in the study with ACS verification. Most Level I centers are university-based trauma centers with comprehensive services. Level II centers were included to increase geographic and patient diversity, as well as the statistical power of any analyses. Each participating center received a registrar training course that included information about TQIP objectives and infrast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Sepidan | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Beyza Rural District, Beyza District, Sepidan County, Fars Province, Iran. Saadatabad had a population 475, and the members of that population make up a total of 108 families according to the 2006 Iranian census.
References
Populated places in Beyza County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Vonnegut%27s%20Monkey%20House | Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House is a Canadian television anthology series which aired on the Showtime network from 1991 to 1993. Author Kurt Vonnegut hosted the series himself, presenting dramatizations of several of his short stories from the 1968 collection Welcome to the Monkey House.
Episodes
Each Monkey House adaptation was 30 minutes long.
The first three stories were produced as a television pilot in British Columbia, Canada, and broadcast together from 9:00–10:30pm on May 12, 1991. The four subsequent episodes were filmed and produced in New Zealand in 1992, as a co-production with South Pacific Pictures. The latter episodes were broadcast monthly.
Season 1
Season 2
References
External links
1990s Canadian anthology television series
Showtime (TV network) original programming
Works by Kurt Vonnegut
1991 Canadian television series debuts
1993 Canadian television series endings
1990s Canadian drama television series
1990s New Zealand television series
Television shows filmed in British Columbia
Television series by South Pacific Pictures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%20Thilliez | Franck Thilliez (born 15 October 1973 in Annecy) is a French writer.
Thilliez was a computer engineer for a decade before he began writing. His book La Chambre des morts was made into a film.
Selected works
La Chambre des morts (French Edition) (2005)
Deuils De Miel (French Edition) (2010)
La Memoire Fantome (French Edition) (2010)
GATACA (Édition de Noyelles) (2011)
Syndrome E: A Thriller (Viking Press, 2012)
Bred to Kill: A Thriller (Viking Press, 2015)
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
People from Annecy
21st-century French non-fiction writers
French male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registry%20of%20Research%20Data%20Repositories | The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) is an open science tool that offers researchers, funding organizations, libraries, and publishers an overview of existing international repositories for research data.
Background
re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories from all academic disciplines. It provides an overview of existing research data repositories in order to help researchers to identify a suitable repository for their data and thus comply with requirements set out in data policies.
The registry went live in autumn 2012.
Content
In 2023 the registry lists over 3000 research data repositories from around the world covering all academic disciplines. They are described in detail using the re3data.org schema.
The service makes all metadata in the registry available for open use under the Creative Commons deed CC0.
Features
The majority of the listed research data repositories are described in detail by a comprehensive schema, namely the re3data.org Schema for the Description of Research Data Repositories.
Information icons support researchers to identify an adequate repository for the storage and reuse of their data.
Inclusion criteria
A repository is indexed when the minimum requirements for inclusion in re3data.org are met: the repository has to be run by a legal entity, such as a sustainable institution (e.g., library, university) and clearly state access conditions to the data and repository as well as the terms of use. Additionally, an English graphical user interface (GUI) plus a focus on research data is needed.
Partners and cooperation
re3data.org was initiated as a joint project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Current partners in re3data are DataCite, the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Helmholtz Open Science Office of the Helmholtz Association, the KIT Library at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Libraries of the Purdue University.
Several publishers, research institutions and funders refer to re3data.org in their editorial policies and guidelines as a tool for the identification of suitable data repositories, such as Springer Nature the European Commission or the National Science Foundation (NSF).
See also
Data curation
Data sharing
Scientific data archiving
References
External links
Official website
Internet properties established in 2013
2013 establishments in Germany
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Purdue University
Humboldt University of Berlin
Academic publishing
Electronic documents
Identifiers
Index (publishing)
Open science
Creative Commons-licensed websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage%20Radio%20Network | Heritage Radio Network is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit covering the world of food, drink and agriculture. The member-supported radio station has more than one million monthly listeners in over 200 countries.
History
In 2009, largely inspired by Carlo Petrini and his pirate radio station in Italy, Radio Bra Onde Rosse, Patrick Martins founded the Heritage Radio Network in the back of Roberta's in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The radio studio was built using two re-purposed twenty-foot shipping containers.
Since its inception, Heritage Radio Network has broadcast more than 4,000 shows and produced more than 30 regular weekly programs about such topics as food technology, beer, cheese, food history and politics, and cocktails. Shows feature guests ranging from chefs, food policy analysts, farmers, restaurateurs, musicians and artists. Previous guests have included Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, Joan Dye Gussow, Éric Ripert, Florence Fabricant, Marion Nestle, Danny Meyer, Jamie Oliver, Anthony Bourdain and more. All shows are archived and accessible on the Heritage Radio Network website and through iTunes and Stitcher Radio.
Programming
Ongoing series
Snacky Tunes
Hosted by Greg and Darin Bresnitz, a pair of twins with long-running connections to the worlds of hospitality and music, Snacky Tunes is a talk show that pairs interviews with chefs and musicians. Most episodes include live musical performances interspersed with the musicians' interviews.
Former and limited-run series
Awards and accolades
In February 2013, Heritage Radio Network was named one of Saveur 100 Favorite things of 2013. Heritage Radio Network is the recipient of a grant from The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts.
References
Former pirate radio stations
Internet radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2009
Podcasting companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20AI | Strong artificial intelligence may refer to a concept in philosophy or to a range of levels of intelligence in prospective computational systems:
Computer science
Artificial general intelligence: a hypothetical machine with the ability to apply intelligence to any problem, rather than just one specific problem.
Human-level intelligence: a hypothetical machine with a similar intelligence to an average human being.
Superintelligence: a hypothetical machine with a vastly superior intelligence to the average human being.
Artificial consciousness: a hypothetical machine that has subjective conscious experience, sentience and mind.
Philosophy
The strong AI hypothesis: the philosophical position that a computer program that causes a machine to behave exactly like a human being would also give the machine subjective conscious experience and a mind, in exactly the same sense that human beings have minds. (Also known as Functionalism (philosophy) or the Computational theory of mind).
See also
Weak artificial Intelligence, which is intelligent only in a limited task specific field
Artificial general intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad-e%20Molla%20Hoseyni | Saadatabad-e Molla Hoseyni (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād-e Mollā Ḩoseynī; also known as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Kuh Mareh Sorkhi Rural District, Arzhan District, Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 582, in 109 families.
References
Populated places in Shiraz County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadatabad%2C%20Shiraz | Sadatabad (, also Romanized as Sādātābād) is a village in Qarah Chaman Rural District, Arzhan District, Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 82, in 24 families.
References
Populated places in Shiraz County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renown%20Health | Renown Health (formerly Washoe Health System) is the largest locally owned not-for-profit healthcare network in Northern Nevada. It has more than 6,500 employees system-wide and is one of Northern Nevada's largest employers.
History
Renown Health, formerly known as the Washoe Health System, was founded in 1862 during a smallpox outbreak. The clinic became the area's first hospital when Nevada became a state in 1864. In 1875, 40 acres were purchased and the hospital opened the following year with 40 beds. The region's first pediatrics unit opened at Washoe Medical Center in 1949. A heart care unit was established by the organization in 1963. The organization established the first cancer treatment center in Northern Nevada in the 1970s. In 1979, the University of Nevada School of Medicine established a residency program at the hospital. The university later partnered with the hospital for brain fMRI research.
In 1984, Washoe Health System transitioned to a private not-for-profit health network and became the region's only Level II Trauma Center between Sacramento, California and Salt Lake City, Utah and Renown Pregnancy Center (formerly Washoe Pregnancy Center) was established. Renown launched its not-for-profit insurance division, Hometown Health in 1988. In 1993, the hospital established its Healing Art Program which has grown to include music at the bedside, art at the bedside, pet therapy, healing arts performances and healing gardens. In 1999, the organization partnered with Barton Memorial Hospital to increase the number of health care programs in Carson Valley.
In 2003, the organization expanded its services when it acquired a rehabilitation hospital. The region's first angiography biplane, used to treat patients who had a stroke, was introduced by the organization in 2004. That year, the first PET/CT was used for diagnosing and treating cancer in patients. In 2006, Washoe Health System changed its name to Renown Health. In 2007, Renown Health completed the Tahoe Tower at the Renown Regional Medical Center campus, a 10-story patient care tower featuring state-of-the art technology. Renown Health became the first hospital in Northern Nevada to perform robotic surgery using da Vinci Surgical System S HD in 2008. The area's first and only children's emergency room was opened in 2009, at the Renown Regional Medical Center. The emergency room was designed for patients under the age of 18 and included 11 children's exam rooms. The organization is the region's only Children's Miracle Network hospital.
In July 2014, Renown was the first on the west coast and fourth in the world to perform a surgery with the da Vinci Xi robotic surgical assistant. That year, Renown Health partnered with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine to expand the medical school and increase the number of physicians who train and practice in Northern Nevada. In June 2016, Renown Health partnered with several Stanford University health facilities including Stan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered%20Species%20%28TV%20series%29 | Endangered Species is a Canadian computer-animated children's television series created by Asaph Fipke, produced by Nerd Corps Entertainment and distributed internationally by DHX Media for Teletoon that premiered on the channel on March 3, 2015, and aimed for kids ages 6–11.
Synopsis
Pickle the bunny, Merl the squirrel, and Gull the seagull, live together in a stump in the middle of a park. The trio make a deal with numerous adventures and dangers.
Characters
Main
Pickle (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a yellow bunny who loves to go on wild adventures.
Merl (voiced by Sam Vincent) is an American red squirrel. She speaks with a Spanish accent and he is cautious about it.
Gull (voiced by Lee Tockar ia a stump-winged, white seagull. Gull is slow and dim-witted, but loveable and was going through that one of us.
Recurring
Schlitzy (voiced by Lee Tockar):is an evil half-eaten corncob who found it by Gull.
Dilly is Pickle's evil cousin.
The Moles were Merl's worst fear and his worst enemy ever.
Nutty Buddy is Merl's doll.
Production
The original idea for the series was conceived in 2010 and was centered more heavily around themes of environmentalism than the finished product. Among some other differences was that the character Merl was not present in the original draft, and the names and appearances of the other two main characters were different from the final version.
Broadcast
In the UK, it airs on CBBC, where it premiered on July 13, 2015.
Episodes
References
External links
Show page on Teletoon
Endangered Species at IMDb
Teletoon original programming
2015 Canadian television series debuts
2015 Canadian television series endings
Television series by DHX Media
Canadian computer-animated television series
2010s Canadian animated television series
Canadian children's animated comedy television series
Animated television series about birds
Animated television series about rabbits and hares
Animated television series about squirrels
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Ridgeway | Jordan Ridgeway is a fictional character on Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Introduced by Ken Corday, Lisa de Cazotte and Greg Meng, and created by Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell, the character is portrayed by former All My Children actress Chrishell Stause. Debuting on August 15, 2013, she ultimately departed the role on March 9, 2015. She returned on February 4, 2019, on a recurring basis. The character exited on November 11, 2019, and Stause briefly reprised the role during guest appearances on March 4 and July 20, 2020 and also on May 24–25, 2021.
The character was introduced as a physical therapist brought to Salem by Kate Roberts (Lauren Koslow) to help an ailing Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) during his rehabilitation; she soon begins to develop a relationship with Rafe, much to the displeasure of Kate, who immediately sets out to discover the secrets that Jordan has been harboring.
Stause received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2020.
Creation
Casting
On March 22, 2013, Stause was elated that the once cancelled All My Children, where she played Amanda Dillon from 2005 to 2011, had been revived, but revealed that she could not participate in the reboot because she was already under contract with another daytime soap. However the actress could not speak on the casting at the time. On April 18, 2013, TVLine officially announced that Stause had joined the cast of Days of our Lives in a contract role, with August as a potential air date. However, information about the character was not made available. Stause filmed her first scenes during the week of April 7, 2013. Many suspected that Stause would be a recast of Cassie Brady (Alexis Thorpe). She said she enjoyed playing such a different role and appreciated that it allowed her to branch out, and that she was offered another "more glamorous" role, but she chose to take the role of Jordan because it was so different from her previous roles. Stause learned about the role from her manager and when she went in to audition, she found out that they were casting for two separate roles. Actress Jen Lilley revealed that she had also auditioned for the role of Jordan, before she was cast in the role of Theresa Donovan. On October 24, 2014, Stause announced her exit from the series, and last appeared during the March 9, 2015, episode.
In August 2018, it was announced that Stause would be returning for as Jordan. She returned on February 4, 2019, and appeared in various stints until November 11 of the same year. She also appeared briefly on March 4 and July 20, 2020, as well as May 24 and May 25, 2021.
Characterization
Stause told Soapdom.com, that she enjoyed the "layers to the character." In an interview with TVLine, she revealed that her character did not wear any makeup. However, Jordan is very serious about her career, and "she’s very no-nonsense. She’s not there to humor anyone. In fact, she comes across r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction%20Squad | Auction Squad was an Australian lifestyle television series aired on the Seven Network from 13 February 2002 until 2005. The show focused on renovating and improving houses that were going to be sold at auction, increasing their market value and pleasing their owners.
The renovations and improvements were carried out by the "Auction Squad" consisting of the presenter, landscapers, builders, carpenters, designers and laborers, with the renovations needing to be done in a twelve-hour day and under $10,000 dollars.
Host
Auction Squad was hosted by Johanna Griggs.
Seven Network original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
2002 Australian television series debuts
2004 Australian television series endings
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20museums%20in%20Montreal | This is a list of museums in Montreal, in the province of Quebec, Canada. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
See also List of museums in Quebec for museums in the rest of the province.
List of museums
Defunct museums
Stewart Museum, 1955-2021, collection to be merged with McCord Museum (former website)
Just for Laughs Museum, closed in 2010
Musée Marc-Aurèle Fortin, closed in 2007, collection now at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musee historique canadien, 1935-1989, wax museum about Canadian history,
Musée Grévin Montreal, wax museum, closed in 2021
Sisters of Saint Anne Historic Centre, closed in 2014
Montreal Fashion Museum, closed in 2018, collection now at the McCord Museum
Telecommunication Museum in Lachine, closed in 2019
Printmaking Museum, Lovell Building, closed its original historic site, relocated in 2016 to Collège Ahunsic
Museum of the Miséricordia Sisters, closed in 2020
Montreal Museums Day
Montreal Museums Day () is an annual event in Montreal. One Sunday every May, more than 30 of the city's largest museums and galleries offer free admission and extended opening hours. To facilitate visitor access to as many museums as possible, the Montreal Transit Corporation provides free shuttle buses.
The first Montreal Museums Day was held in 1987.
References
External links
Official website
Montreal
Museums
Montreal
Montreal
Museums in Montreal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%2010%20Olympic%20broadcasts | The broadcast network Network 10 has televised the Olympic Games three times in Australia. 10 first televised the Winter Olympic Games in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 1984.
Overview
10 had exclusive Australian free-to-air, online and mobile telephony broadcast rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the live telecast of the XXII Olympiad.
On 14 May 2013, the International Olympic Committee announced that Network Ten had secured broadcasting rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics, for A$20 million. Its flagship nightly program was Sochi Tonight, and it marked the first time a network used a multichannel to air Olympic content, with ONE airing different content to the primary Ten channel.
Broadcast rights history
Staff and Commentators
2014 Winter Olympics
Stephen Quartermain
Mel McLaughlin
Alisa Camplin
Brad McEwan
Greg Rust
Nicole Livingstone
Steven Bradbury
Steven Lee
David Culbert
Steph Hickey
Mitch Tomlinson
Luke Kneller
Michael Kennedy
Lachie Reid
Rob Waters
Mark Howard
Magdalena Roze
Nuala Hafner
Mazoe Ford
Danielle Isdale
Scott Mackinnon
Matt Doran
Melinda Nucifora
Max Futcher
Roy & H.G
See also
Olympics on Nine
Olympics on Seven
Olympics on Australian television
Australia at the Olympics
References
10
10 Sport
Network 10 original programming
1984 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycycle | Skycycle may refer to:
Skycycle (rock band), an alternative rock band
SkyCycle (concept), a proposed network of cycle paths in London
Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket owned by Evel Knievel
Dart Skycycle, an American aircraft
Carlson Skycycle, an American aircraft
See also
Fly Hard Trikes SkyCycle, an American ultralight trike
Lookout Mountain SkyCycle, an American ultralight trike |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Leighton | Amanda Moreno Leighton (born June 7, 1993) is an American actress. She is known for her voice acting as Blossom in the 2016 Cartoon Network animated series The Powerpuff Girls, Poppy in the 2018 Netflix animated series Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, and Polly Plantar in the 2019 Disney Channel animated series Amphibia. She is also known for her recurring role as Emma in the Freeform drama series The Fosters.
Personal life
Leighton grew up in Fresno, California and she graduated from Clovis West High School. She is half Hispanic.
Leighton married professional mixed martial artist Sage Northcutt on December 5, 2020.
Career
Leighton started her acting career at the age of 10 in her home town, and got her first agent at the age of 12 when she started taking acting classes and going to auditions in Los Angeles. She also has 11 years of dance experience, which she used in ABC Family's Make It or Break It, where she played a gymnast named Wendy Capshaw. In June 2015, Leighton was cast to voice Blossom in Cartoon Networks revival of The Powerpuff Girls, which ran from 2016 to 2019.
Leighton's other appearances include roles on several television shows including Pretty Little Liars as Danielle, Grey's Anatomy as patient Sarah Cassidy with Treacher Collins syndrome, 90210 as Alex Scarborough, Criminal Minds as Trish Leake, and as a singing Cactus Kid in Six Feet Under. She recurred as Emma on the ABC Family/Freeform drama series The Fosters from 2014 to 2018. From 2017 to 2022, she recurred as young Sophie on the NBC television drama series This Is Us. Leighton voiced the regular roles of Poppy in the animated series Trolls: The Beat Goes On! which was released by Netflix between 2018 and 2019, and the pollywog Polly Plantar in the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia, which aired from 2019 to 2022. She costarred in the 2020 drama film Chance.
Filmography
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Fresno, California
American child actresses
American film actresses
American soap opera actresses
American television actresses
American video game actresses
American voice actresses
American Christians
American sopranos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Bolzern | Mark Bolzern is one of the original pioneers of both the Internet, and of the Linux computer operating system. Bolzern was the founder of early Linux-specific community portals such as LinuxNews, LinuxMall, LinuxPro, LinuxGuru and PenguinPower. Bolzern was also the creator of the original plush Tux mascot, based on the original drawing by Larry Ewing. His work at LinuxMall allowed Bolzern to directly affect the Linux community with LinuxMall's support of various Linux events. His achievements play a significant role in the story of the book Rebel Code by author Glyn Moody
Education & Career
Bolzern graduated in 1976 from West Anchorage High school where, among other things, he first worked with a Monroe 1880 that was programmed via graphite marked cards in Octal and started his fascination with computers. Later Bolzern attended UAA (University of Alaska, Anchorage). During his studies there in the late 1970s, he helped test an early statewide multi-campus e-mail system. After a short year at Cal Poly Pomona (California Polytechnic State University), he transferred to UAF (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) where he studied Electrical Engineering and also played with the Data General Nova computer system used in the development ALOHAnet, where low level error correcting packet protocols CSMA/CD were pioneered, which are now fundamental underlying protocols of TCP/IP, Ethernet, WiFi and the Internet.
After being denied access by administrators, Bolzern cracked the University of Alaska statewide computer network in 1978, doing something they didn't think was possible by a standard user. He used the central Honeywell 66 in Fairbanks to send emails to all system users inviting them use his software to participate in an Apple II user group via an early shared account he created, and then set up group communication via mailx (Mail Extended) an enhanced version of the standard Unix command mail. It was these extended features that Bolzern was able to use to create one of the first Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in history.
The Apple access (terminal emulation, etc.) was performed free via software called UACNCAP written and distributed by Bolzern and an associate that made any Apple II with an original model Hayes 300 baud modem into a remote terminal for this GCOS system, later an IBM PC version called PC Communicator (By Bolzern, before PC-Talk) was released as well. GCOS was a very early variant of Unix, and is why the field in Linux where the user's full name goes is called the GCOS field.
Bolzern also used this software himself to continue accessing the system from his third-floor Lathrop Hall dorm room, via wires to the one phone for the entire floor, down the hall. Also from anywhere else he happened to be with his Apple II and Hayes Modem, as well as to communicate with his family back home via email, and continued after graduation in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. What Bolzern had created at UAF soon became used b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Kn%C3%B6del | Walter Knödel (May 20, 1926 – October 19, 2018) was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist. He was a computer science professor at the University of Stuttgart.
Born in Vienna, Walter Knödel studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. Also in Vienna, Knödel received his PhD in 1948 for his work on number theory under the direction of Edmund Hlawka and got habilitated in 1953. In 1961, Walter Knödel became professor for mathematics at the University of Stuttgart.
Walter Knödel authored a number of books and scientific publications. He wrote the first German textbook on computer programming in 1961.
He was the founding dean of the faculty for computer science at the University of Stuttgart and founding member of the German Computer Society the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
The Knödel numbers became named after Walter Knödel. He died in Stuttgart on October 19, 2018.
References
20th-century Austrian mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Stuttgart
1926 births
2018 deaths
University of Vienna alumni
Austrian expatriates in Germany
Scientists from Vienna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICDD | ICDD may refer to:
International Centre for Diffraction Data, a nonprofit scientific organization
Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, a Japanese symphonic black metal band
Intellectual capital due diligence, part of operational due diligence
International Center for Development and Decent Work, part of the University of Kassel
ICD-D, self-optimising production systems in Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries
Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy, an interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization formed by Kansas State University in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state%20storage | Solid-state storage (SSS) is a type of non-volatile computer storage that stores and retrieves digital information using only electronic circuits, without any involvement of moving mechanical parts. This differs fundamentally from the traditional electromechanical storage, which records data using rotating or linearly moving media coated with magnetic material.
Solid-state storage devices typically store data using electrically-programmable non-volatile flash memory, however some devices use battery-backed volatile random-access memory (RAM). Having no moving mechanical parts, solid-state storage is much faster than traditional electromechanical storage; as a downside, solid-state storage is significantly more expensive and suffers from the write amplification phenomenon.
Solid-state storage devices come in various types, form factors, sizes of storage space, and interfacing options to satisfy application requirements for many different types of computer systems and appliances.
Overview
Historically, secondary storage in computer systems has been implemented primarily by using magnetic properties of the surface coatings applied to rotating platters (in hard disk drives and floppy disks) or linearly moving narrow strips of plastic film (in tape drives). Pairing such magnetic media with read/write heads allows data to be written by separately magnetizing small sections of the ferromagnetic coating, and read later by detecting the transitions in magnetization. For the data to be read or written, exact sections of the magnetic media need to pass under the read/write heads that flow closely to the media surface; as a result, reading or writing data imposes delays required for the positioning of magnetic media and heads, with the delays differing depending on the actual technology.
Over time, the performance gap between the central processing units (CPUs) and electromechanical storage (hard disk drives and their RAID setups) widened, requiring advancements in the secondary storage technology. A solution was found in flash memory, which is an electronic non-volatile computer storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. Solid-state storage typically uses the NAND type of flash memory, which may be written and read in chunks much smaller than the entire size of the storage device. The size of a minimal chunk (page) for read operations is much smaller than the minimal chunk size (block) for write/erase operations, resulting in an undesirable phenomenon called write amplification that limits the random write performance and write endurance of flash-based solid-state storage devices. Another type of solid-state storage devices uses volatile random-access memory (RAM) combined with a battery that allows the contents of RAM to be preserved for a limited amount of time after the device's power supply is interrupted. As an advantage, RAM-based solid-state storage is much faster compared to flash, and does not experience write amp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Radin | George Radin (January 22, 1931 – May 21, 2013) was an American computer scientist. He gained his BA in English Literature from Brooklyn College in 1951, followed by an MA from Columbia University in 1952 and an MSc in mathematics from City University of New York in 1961. In 1963 he got a job with the IBM Advanced Computer Utilization Department, where he helped develop the PL/I programming language and design the OS/360 and TSS/360 systems. In 1980, he was appointed an IBM Fellow.
References
American computer scientists
IBM Fellows
1931 births
2013 deaths
Brooklyn College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Welfare%20Network%20Nepal | Animal Welfare Network Nepal is non-profit body that helps to increase the effectiveness of animal welfare organizations in Nepal.
Objectives
Coordinate the activities of animal welfare organizations
Raise awareness on animal welfare issues among the public
Lobby and advocate for animal rights
Promote stray dog adoptions
Provide education and support to its members
See also
List of animal rights groups
References
Animal rights organizations
Animal welfare organisations based in Nepal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202014 | The 56th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 27 April 2014 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The red carpet arrivals was hosted by Sonia Kruger and Jules Lund.
Public voting for the Most Popular categories were conducted through an online survey from 3 February 2014 to 2 March 2014. Nominations were announced on 31 March 2014. Offspring received the most nominations with eight, followed by Home and Away with six. The Block, Hamish & Andy's Gap Year Asia, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars and Redfern Now each received four nominations.
Background
Changes to categories
In January 2014, it was revealed that TV Week had eliminated some categories in a bid to shorten the ceremony. The categories for Most Popular New Male Talent and Most Popular New Female Talent were merged into the Most Popular New Talent category to become gender non-specific. The Most Popular Factual Program category was also eliminated and the Most Outstanding New Talent category was renamed Most Outstanding Newcomer.
Nominations announcements
Nominations were announced in two stages on 31 March 2014; the peer-voted Most Outstanding categories were published in the issue of TV Week that hit newsstands in the morning, while the Most Popular categories were announced in the afternoon at the nominations event in Melbourne, which was hosted by Julia Morris and Chris Brown and attended by network stars.
Winners and nominees
In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Jason Derulo – "Trumpets" / "In My Head" / "The Other Side" / "Talk Dirty"
Ed Sheeran – "Sing"
Kylie Minogue – "I Was Gonna Cancel"
John Newman – "Love Me Again"
Tina Arena – "Only Lonely" (In Memoriam tribute)
MKTO – "Thank You"
Presenters
Hamish Blake and Andy Lee
Julia Morris
Lincoln Lewis
Dave Hughes
Noni Hazlehurst
Lisa Wilkinson
Craig McLachlan
Luke Jacobz
Darren McMullen
Shane Jacobson
Jessica Marais
Samantha Armytage
Gyton Grantley
Tina Arena
Emma Alberici
Jennifer Hawkins
Patrick Brammall
Amanda Keller
Eddie McGuire
Richard Wilkins
Kylie Minogue – Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Most nominations
By network
ABC – 30
Nine Network – 24
Seven Network – 19
Network Ten – 16
SBS – 10
Foxtel – 7
Source:
By program
Offspring (Network Ten) – 8
Home and Away (Seven Network) – 6
The Block (Nine Network) / Hamish & Andy's Gap Year Asia (Nine Network) / Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (ABC1) / Redfern Now (ABC1) – 4
A Place to Call Home (Seven Network) / Better Man (SBS One) / Ja'mie: Private School Girl (ABC1) / Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (ABC1) / The Project (Network Ten) / Wentworth (SoHo) – 3
Source:
In Memoriam
The In Memoriam segment was introduced by Noni Hazlehurst. Tina Arena performed a cover version of Bon Jovi's "Only Lonely". The following deceased were honoured:
Wendy Hughes, actress
Bill Peach AM, prese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal%20waste%20management%20in%20Winnipeg | Statistical data shows that waste management in Winnipeg during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Generation
The statistical data show that with the increase in the GDP per capita of Winnipeg, waste generation decreased due to the increased effectiveness of the municipal waste management plan after 2005. The city of Winnipeg has implemented various strategies to address municipal waste treatment.
Treatment
On October 19, 2011, the Winnipeg City Council approved the master plan of a comprehensive waste management plan, requested by the City Council to the Public Service on June 23, 2010, for the entire city to increase the waste diversion rate to 50% or more. This plan would achieve this target by reducing household garbage and by increasing household recycling. This plan was made effective for municipal waste management by Winnipeg in the first week of October 2012.
The Comprehensive Waste Management Plan is based on three main guiding principles which were established through the Phase – 1 participation process and input from the Stakeholder Advisory Committee. These principles help to shape the goals and objectives of the Garbage and Recycling Master Plan (GRMP) that helps to guide potential options for the garbage, recycling, and organic services in Winnipeg. Those Principles are:
Sustainability – Environmental, economic, and social factors are being considered in the decision-making process under this principle. These factors are intertwined with each other and so are they are needed to be evaluated together – not as three separate parts. Figure – 3.
Waste Hierarchy – this principle places priority on preventing waste generation (reducing and reusing); maximizing waste diversion (recycling and recovery) and minimizing disposal (residuals). Figure –
Zero Waste – The Federation of Canadian Municipalities, defines this as A community that "has made a long-term commitment to reducing waste through measures such as extended producer responsibility programs, economic instruments to encourage waste reduction, green procurement and product design that includes end-of-life management.
The municipal waste management by Winnipeg City is consistent with the Provincial regulations. A curbside collection of recyclables to the residential locations is provided by the City of Winnipeg. Figure – 5 shows the residential recycling reports that show that recycling at the residential level in Winnipeg has an 85% of participation rate, which results in diverting approximately 48,087 tonnes of recyclable materials from the waste landfill disposal stream. This tonnage is equivalent to approximately 17% of the waste stream. Recyclables that are collected by the City of Winnipeg from the residential locations include a standard list of blue box material that includes:
Plastic containers with a recycling triangle on the bottom, including all bottles, pails, tubs, and jugs
Aluminum drink cans
Steel (tin) food cans
Milk and juice cartons
Juice boxes
Newspapers and insert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Boulanger | Richard Charles Boulanger (born November 10, 1956) is a composer, author, and electronic musician. He is a key figure in the development of the audio programming language Csound, and is associated with computer music pioneers Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe.
Biography
Education
After graduating from Somerset High School in 1974, Boulanger attended New England Conservatory of Music as an undergraduate, where his thesis was a commission by Alan R. Pearlman for the Newton Symphony titled "Three Soundscapes for Two Arp 2600 Synthesizers and Orchestra". After pursuing a Master's in composition from Virginia Commonwealth University, where Allan Blank was amongst his professors, he obtained a PhD in computer music from the University of California, San Diego where he worked at the Center for Music Experiment and Related Research. Boulanger continued his computer music research at Bell Labs, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Interval Research, IBM, and One Laptop per Child. In 1989, Boulanger became a Fulbright professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland.
Boulanger's teachers include Pauline Oliveros, Aaron Copland, and Hugo Norden.
Professional life
Boulanger started studying at the MIT Experimental Music Studion in 1979 with Barry Vercoe, where he also worked with fellow computer musician John ffitch. While working with Vercoe, Boulanger composed the first Csound composition, Trapped in Convert, which was originally written using MUSIC 11, the precursor to Csound. The piece was ported to Csound in 1986. The same year, Boulanger's composition Three Chapters from the Book of Dreams was awarded first prize in the NEWCOMP International Computer Music Competition.
In 1990, Boulanger wrote the first vocal composition using the microtonal Bohlen–Pierce scale, Solemn Song for Evening, which also features a radio baton. His compositions have appeared on albums including iChamber (Centaur Records, 2003: Virtual Encounters) and Electro-Acoustic Music, Vol. 1 (Neuma, 1990: From Temporal Silence), and his interactive orchestral and chamber music compositions have been premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Seoul Opera House, and the Beijing Central Conservatory. Boulanger's Radio Baton and PowerGlove Concerto was premiered by the Krakow and Moscow Symphonies.
The Csound-based iOS apps csGrain, csSpectral, and csJam were developed by Boulanger's company Boulanger Labs, which also published MUSE, an app for the Leap Motion controller developed in collaboration with BT. Boulanger later composed a concerto for strings and horns with himself as a MUSE soloist. Boulanger also works with brainwave sensor technology to create "brainwave" music, using interfaces such as NeuroSky's MindWave Mobile EEG Headset.
Boulanger is a published author under the MIT Press, for which he has written and edited two canonical Csound and audio progra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20range%20analysis | In computing, in particular compiler construction, value range analysis is a type of data flow analysis that tracks the range (interval) of values that a numeric variable can take on at each point of a program's execution.
The resulting information can be used in optimizations such as redundancy elimination, dead code elimination, instruction selection, etc., but can also be used to improve the safety of programs, e.g. in the detection of buffer overruns. Techniques for value range analysis typically use symbolic analysis extensively.
Value range analysis is often implemented in the Intel C++ Compiler and is implemented in GCC.
References
Static program analysis
Compiler optimizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20You%20Want%20to%20Build%20a%20Snowman%3F | "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" is a song from the 2013 Disney 3D computer-animated musical feature film Frozen, with music and lyrics composed by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. The song is also present in the musical adapation. , the total sales of the digital track stands at 1,600,000 downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan, placing it second on the list of all-time best-selling Christmas/holiday digital singles in SoundScan history (behind Mariah Carey's 1994 hit single, "All I Want for Christmas Is You").
Synopsis
After Elsa accidentally harms Anna with her ice powers, she locks herself in her bedroom. The song captures three different moments at which Anna tries and fails to persuade Elsa to spend time with her: as children, teenagers, and adults. Within the film, the last of these moments occurs after the sisters' parents have died at sea in a storm.
Production
At one point Disney considered removing the song from the film because, as originally composed, it was too sad, and it was also too complicated in that it contained too much exposition. However it was put back after being well received by the Disney staff. StitchKingdom explains, "due to pacing of the film, this song was constantly being cut and put back in during the film's development. Ultimately, studio employees demanded it stay in." During the film's development, Lopez at one point had to travel to Los Angeles to work in person with the production team to try to fix the song, and they had to sit down and work through how Elsa sounds versus how Anna sounds. Christophe Beck, who wrote the film's score, added the interlude for the montage scenes.
After the film was released, a fan put together a version of the song to show how a reprise could have worked at the climax of the film, when Elsa realizes that Anna is completely frozen. Commenting on the fan clip in January 2014, Anderson-Lopez mentioned that at one point, she actually had pitched a reprise of the song for the film's climax. Lopez added, "if you watch it in the flow of the movie, it would be jarring to have them break into song at that moment."
When the same clip was mentioned in an interview, director Jennifer Lee explained that according to Disney music producer Chris Montan (who has worked on nearly every Disney and Pixar animated film from the start of the Disney Renaissance), it is traditional in Disney animated musicals to have no more songs after the end of the second act.
Critical reception
The song received widespread acclaim from film critics, music critics, and audiences. Kyle Smith of The New York Post dubbed it a "classic". USA Today called it "a lovely musical number that illustrates Anna's emotional yearning, sung with heartfelt sweetness by Bell." Alonso Duralde of The Wrap labeled it "poignant". Moviefone describes the song as "sob-inducing", and "the best song in Frozen". Scott Mendelson of Forbes talks about the "richness and a subtle sadness to the core relationship between Anna a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20interrupt%20request | Fast interrupt request (FIQ) is a specialized type of interrupt request, which is a standard technique used in computer CPUs to deal with events that need to be processed as they occur, such as receiving data from a network card, or keyboard or mouse actions. FIQs are specific to the ARM architecture, which supports two types of interrupts; FIQs for fast, low-latency interrupt handling, and standard interrupt requests (IRQs), for more general interrupts.
An FIQ takes priority over an IRQ in an ARM system. Also, only one FIQ source at a time is supported. This helps reduce interrupt latency as the interrupt service routine can be executed directly without determining the source of the interrupt. A context save is not required for servicing an FIQ since it has its own set of banked registers. This reduces the overhead of context switching.
FIQ mode has many banked register and hence not requiring major context switching i.e. the PUSH and POP operations. This is why it's called as fast interrupt.
FIQ is mainly used for data transfers like DMA operation.
FIQ or fast interrupts can be disabled by clearing the F bit in the CPSR(Current Program Status Register)
register
References
External links
Debugging ARM kernels using fast interrupts, LWN.net, May 29, 2014, by Daniel Thompson
Interrupts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringdroid | Ringdroid is an open source Ringtone creation utility application that runs on the Android Operating System. Ringdroid lets users record and edit audio files for use as ringtones, alarms or notifications.
Features
Ringdroid has a graphical editor that displays the waveform similar to pro-audio software allowing users to select the portion of a song they want. Each audio section is highlighted with divider lines having handles for touch-dragging. There are also inputs for numerical values for the start and end points and controls to zoom in and out on the waveform. Users can save files as a ringtone, an alarm or a notification. Ringdroid does not have the ability to fade or loop.
Ringdroid supports MP3, WAV, OGG Vorbis, AAC, MP4, 3GPP, and AMR file formats
History
Ringdroid 1.0 was released in October 2008, a month after the launch of Android 1.0. Development continued through 2010 with several developers from Google contributing to the project. The last APK posted to the development site was in 2010. However, the last update in Google Play was on August 23, 2012. As of May 2015, the project has moved to GitHub.
Reception
Reception has been very favorable. As of February 2014, the Google Play Store lists the Ringdroid as being installed on 10,000,000–50,000,000 devices, with an average rating of 4.5/5 from over 190,000 reviews. It received 4.5/5 score in a review from AndroidTapp,. and "App of the day" from Pocket Lint, describing it as "Simple, effective, very smooth and fun." Several publications described it as a "Must Have".
See also
List of open source Android applications
External links
Development Site
www.coolapkapps.com/ringtone-apps-for-android
References
Free and open-source Android software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20of%20the%20Baltic%20Cities | Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) is a voluntary, proactive network mobilizing the shared potential of the member cities for democratic, economic, social, cultural and environmentally sustainable development of the Baltic Sea region.
Origins
The Union of the Baltic Cities was founded in Gdańsk, Poland in September 1991, by 32 cities, with the aim of developing cooperation and exchange between its member cities. Inspired in part by the historic example of the Hanseatic League and supported by the European Union's Interreg programs to stimulate regional cooperation within the EU, it was one of the first formal institutions established to bolster the Baltic as a cohesive region within Europe. The cities of Gdańsk in Poland and Kalmar in Sweden took the initiative in founding the organization, but Gdańsk was chosen as the organization's headquarters to emphasize the desire to break down historic barriers between Western and Eastern Europe. Anders Engström, who was in office from 1999 to 2001, was the first President of the UBC. Per Boedker Andersen was the UBC President in the term 2001–2019. Since 2019 the office has been held by Mantas Jurgutis.
Aims
The Union states its aims are to:
Promote, develop and strengthen cooperation and exchange of experience among the cities in the Baltic Sea Region,
Advocate for common interests of the local authorities in the region,
Act on behalf of the cities and local authorities in common matters towards regional, national, European and international bodies,
Strive to achieve sustainable development and optimal economic and social development in the Baltic Sea Region with full respect to European principles of local and regional self-governance and subsidiarity.
Contribute to joint Baltic identity, cohesion and common understanding in the region.
Status
The Union gathers the cities from ten Baltic Sea countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, and Sweden.
References
Organizations established in 1991
Local government organizations
Baltic Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal%20Ads | Unreal Ads is an Australian television show showcasing advertisements and weird video footage. It was aired on Network Ten in 2000. It had hosted by Tim Ferguson.
References
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
2000 Australian television series debuts
2000 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtis%20ehrenbergiana | Celtis ehrenbergiana, called the desert hackberry or spiny hackberry, is a plant species that has long been called C. pallida by many authors, including in the "Flora of North America" database. It is native to Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and Texas, and to Latin America as far south as central Argentina. It grows in dry locations such as deserts, brushlands, canyons, mesas and grasslands.
Celtis ehrenbergiana is the only US species of the genus with thorns. In the US, it is a shrub or small tree up to 3 m (10 feet) tall, with thorns on the branches, although it can grow taller in the tropics. Leaves are small for the genus, less than 3 cm (1.2 inches) long and 2 cm (0.8 inches) wide. Flowers are born in cymes of 3–5 flowers. Drupes are orange, yellow or red, juicy, egg-shaped, about 7 mm in diameter, and edible by humans and wildlife.
References
Flora of Central America
Flora of Arizona
Flora of Southern America
Flora of Florida
Flora of Mexico
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of Texas
ehrenbergiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travellers%20Fare | Travellers Fare (normally rendered officially as Travellers-Fare) was a company owned by British Rail that provided catering services on the rail network in Great Britain.
History
Prior to 1973, railway hotels and catering came under British Transport Hotels, formed in 1962. In the late 1970s, BR's Shipping and International Services Division became Sealink UK from January 1979. In 1982 Travellers-Fare formally left BTH, having been the Travellers-Fare Division of BTH since 1 October 1973. It had been known as British Rail Catering until then. The peak of British rail catering had come in 1973 when 3.5 million meals were served. Quicker journey times meant less time to consume a full meal. In 1979 it celebrated a centenary of railway catering.
In the mid-1970s they were selling around two and a quarter million sandwiches a year. In 1977 its offerings were reprimanded by the Central Transport Consultative Committee, and that same year Prue Leith, a restaurateur and caterer, became the first woman appointed to the British Railways Board, charged with improving its much-criticised catering. In February 1978 they introduced the Gold Star Menu for businessmen on InterCity services, which featured poached haddock and grilled salmon maître d'hôtel. It offered a fixed four-course meal for around £5, and replaced the former table d'hôte service. The Great British Breakfast in the morning sold for £2.70 in 1978, and by 1984 it cost £7.30.
Innovations
In the early 1980s, under improved management, the standard of food became more diverse. New brands were introduced such as Quicksnack. Turnover at stations increased 61% from £46m in 1982 to £74m in 1987. Before 1985 operating losses at stations were averaging around £4m a year, which from 1985 became surpluses. Although the station catering was turning a profit, the catering on board the trains was not, and operating losses for these were around £6m a year in the mid-1980s. In May 1986, catering on-board trains became the responsibility of InterCity and not Travellers-Fare, which had a wider range of food from the buffet car.
The brand did not have enough penetration to sell on the trains; its on-board full (cooked) breakfasts had a lot of popularity nonetheless (around 500,000 a year in the 1980s) in the dining car (first class). The British Rail sandwich was not a big seller on trains.
Private ownership
By 1986 the private sector was running the catering at 85 stations. Standards were improving under private ownership, which led to 96 more stations being put under private operation in 1987.
As a precursor to the privatisation of British Rail, the company was sold to a management buyout team backed by 3i in December 1988. It had been bought for £12.5m, and had 270 outlets and around 3,200 employees. Travellers Fare Ltd (2184010) had been formed on 27 October 1987.
It was subsequently acquired in November 1992 by Compass Group for £31.7m, who merged it with their airport, retail and leisure businesses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20P.%20Boyd | Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor and control theorist. He is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, Professor in Electrical Engineering, and professor by courtesy in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is also affiliated with Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME).
In 2014, Boyd was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to engineering design and analysis via convex optimization.
Academic biography
Education
Boyd received an AB degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1980, and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 under the supervision of Charles A. Desoer, S. Shankar Sastry and Leon Ong Chua. While at Berkeley, he was awarded a Hertz Fellowship (1982) and received the Hertz Thesis Prize (1985). In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and in 2017, from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
Career
Boyd joined the faculty of Stanford University's Electrical Engineering department in 1985. He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in applied linear algebra and machine learning. During his time at Stanford, he has been recognized with several teaching awards, including the 2016 Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching, the school's highest teaching honor. He was awarded the 2017 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, in recognition of his efforts in education in the theory and application of optimization, which has sparked the writing of improved linear algebra and convex optimization textbooks. He has served as director of Stanford's Information Systems Laboratory, and as a visiting professor at universities including City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. While at Stanford, he has consulted with numerous Silicon Valley tech companies, and founded one. His groups' CVXGEN software is used in SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy to guide their autonomous precision landing.
Research
Boyd's primary research interests are convex optimization, especially applications in control, signal processing, machine learning, and finance. His PhD dissertation was on Volterra series descriptions of nonlinear circuits and devices. His primary focus then turned to automatic control systems, where he focused on applying convex optimization, specifically linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), to a variety of control system analysis and synthesis problems.
With Craig Barratt, he authored Linear Controller Design: Limits of Performance in 1991. In 1994, Boyd and Laurent El Ghaoui, Eric Feron, and Ragu Balakrishnan authored the book Linear Matrix Inequalities in System & Control Theory. Around 1999, he and Lieven Vandenberghe devel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram%20Jan%20Loopstra | Bram Jan Loopstra (1925 – 1979) was a Dutch computing pioneer who worked at the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam and then at Electrologica with Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Carel S. Scholten and Gerrit Blaauw. From 1956 until at least 1963 he was technical director of Electrologica. At his death after a long illness on March 22, 1979, he was adjunct director of the Philips International Institute.
At the Mathematisch Centrum he contributed to the ARRA I and II and ARMAC.
Selected publications
Loopstra, B. J. "Logische synthese van rekencircuits." Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. Zuivere Wiskunde ZW 10/52 (Actualiteiten) (1952): 1-7.
Loopstra, B. J. "The X—1 Computer." The Computer Journal 2.1 (1959): 39-43.
Loopstra, B. J. "Input and output in the X-1 system." COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM. Vol. 2. No. 7. 1959.
References
Dutch computer scientists
1925 births
1979 deaths
Philips employees
University of Amsterdam alumni
20th-century Dutch scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrologica | N.V. Electrologica was a pioneering Dutch computer manufacturer from 1956 to 1968, when it was taken over by Philips.
It was started by A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Loopstra and C.S. Scholten from the Mathematisch Centrum (Mathematical centre) in Amsterdam, when that organisation decided to spin off and commercialise its work on computers.
The most successful computers produced by Electrologica were the Electrologica X1 and the Electrologica X8. Other stripped-down versions of the X8, the X2 to X5, were less successful.
The Stichting Electrologica (“Electrologica Foundation”) is an organisation dedicated to preserving and spreading the history of computing in the Netherlands.
References
External links
Defunct computer hardware companies
Science and technology in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Abramoff | Michael David Abràmoff (born 1963) is an American neuroscientist, ophthalmologist, vitreoretinal surgeon, computer engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the Watzke Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. Abràmoff is the founder and executive chairman of Digital Diagnostics of Coralville, Iowa, which was named one of the "150 Most Promising Digital Health Companies of 2022" by CB Insights.
Early life and education
Abràmoff was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and received his MD and MS (information theory) from the University of Amsterdam. Abràmoff was a research fellow in the Neural Networks lab at RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. He was Director of R&D at Prodix SA, an image analysis company in Paris, France. Abràmoff completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Utrecht Academic Hospital, and his vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Abràmoff did his graduate research, leading to a Ph.D. in machine learning, at the University of Utrecht.
Scientific and medical career
Abràmoff is the author of over 495 peer-reviewed research articles, and his work has been cited over 45,000 times, leading to an h-index of 77 and over 600 articles listed on Google Scholar. He is inventor on over 60 US and international patents and patent applications primarily related to machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and imaging Abràmoff was one of the early developers of ImageJ, a Java-based image processing program. He was the initiator behind the Iowa Reference Algorithms, a series of reference algorithms for OCT segmentation.
Abràmoff has been a proponent of the theory that diabetes complications in the eye and brain are neural, not vascular, in origin, based on his team's earlier finding that microvascular biomarkers of diabetic damage in the retina only occur after neurodegenerative changes. Additionally, Abràmoff has been part of the Moonshot team (formally known as Restoring Vision: A JDRF Moonshot Initiative) from the outset. Abràmoff started working on autonomous AI for diagnosis of retinal diseases during his residency in 1997, which led to the publishing of Low Level Screening of Exudates and Hemorrhages in Background Diabetic Retinopathy in 2000 and many other papers . This research led to him receiving the nickname "The Retinator" in an Ophthalmology Times editorial in 2010, referring to the work he had done to create the first autonomous AI diagnostic system. Roughly a decade later, the medical community's stance on healthcare AI had evolved, as evidenced by a 2019 American Medical Association (AMA) article on Abràmoff, titled This Ophthalmologist is Doing Health Care AI the Right Way.
Abràmoff began working with regulators in 2010 to develop a process by which to introduce autonomous AI in healthcare. During that time, with his coworkers he developed "metrics for ethics" as a concept, as well as an ethical framework for h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20neutrality%20in%20the%20Netherlands | On June 4, 2012, the Netherlands became the first country in Europe and the second in the world, after Chile, to enact a network neutrality law. The main net neutrality provision of this law requires that "Providers of public electronic communication networks used to provide Internet access services as well as providers of Internet access services will not hinder or slow down services or applications on the Internet".
History
The 2009 EU Telecoms Package left much leeway for member states to implement their own net neutrality directives. The first proposal by the Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation was submitted to the House of Representatives on November 3, 2010.
In April 2011, Dutch telecommunications company KPN announced that it would start to block services such as VoIP and instant messaging unless customers paid a fee. Later that week, Vodafone said it was already blocking those services. During an investors meeting in May, KPN admitted to using deep packet inspection. These events accelerated the implementation of net neutrality, as a house majority was against the blocking of specific Internet services.
On June 22, 2011, the house voted for the amendment of the Telecommunications Act with net neutrality regulations. The Labour Party mistakenly voted for an amendment supported by the Christian parties SGP, CU and CDA that would allow filtering by ISPs for ideological reasons. A rectification was later plugged into an unrelated amendment.
The amendment was passed by the Senate in 2012, and with the publication of the amendment and the rectification in the official journal of the Netherlands on June 4 and June 5, respectively, network neutrality became the law.
Overview
Article 7.4a of the Telecommunications Act prohibits the hindrance or slowing down of services or applications on the Internet by ISPs and network owners. Deviation from this rule is only allowed:
to reduce congestion, while treating similar traffic equally;
to preserve the integrity and security of the network and service of the provider or the equipment of the end-user;
If the breach of integrity or security is caused by the equipment of the end-user, the provider has to notify the end-user first and give them sufficient time to rectify the situation.
to block the transmission of unwanted communications (e.g. spam) to an end-user, only if the end-user has given consent beforehand; or
to comply with the law or a warrant.
Also, it is prohibited for ISPs to charge end-users differently for the use of different types of Internet services or applications. Finally, future executive orders can institute minimum quality requirements to prevent the deterioration, hindrance, or slowing down of network communications.
Criticism and impact
The director of the former Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority ( "OPTA"), now part of the Consumer and Markets Authority, has criticized the current implementation of net neutrality by the Netherland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalyst | Vitalyst (formerly known as PC Helps) is a technology support services company offering application and device support for about 150 different software applications and computers. Core competencies include support for corporate technology migrations and one-on-one support for Microsoft software and other applications on different types of devices.
Overview
Vitalyst's corporate headquarters is located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, with an additional call center in Cleveland, Ohio. The company provides its web-based support and on-site training for Microsoft, Apple, and other applications. The company provides IT support for technology migrations to governmental entities, including the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
History
Formed in 1992, originally as PC Helps, the company was based on a business plan written by Jeffrey Becker while attaining his master's degree at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. PC Helps undertook an expansion in its early years. By 1999 PC Helps had grown organically to support over 800,000 users including clients such as PepsiCo, Pitney Bowes, and Campbell Soups. The sale was finalized in September 2005 to private equity firms, GI Partners and Celerity Partners with additional financing provided by D.B. Zwirn. The company changed its name from PC Helps to Vitalyst on January 15, 2014.
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Official website
Help desk
Business services companies established in 1992
1992 establishments in Pennsylvania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Dame | Thomas M. Dame is Director of the Radio Telescope Data Center at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, a Senior Radio Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and a Lecturer on Astronomy at Harvard University. He is best known for mapping the Milky Way galaxy in Carbon Monoxide and for the discovery of both the Far 3 kpc Arm and the Outer Scutum–Centaurus Arm of the Milky Way.
Education
Dame graduated from Boston University in 1976 with a BA in Astronomy and Physics. He earned his Master's degrees and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His dissertation, earned under Patrick Thaddeus in 1983, was titled Molecular Clouds and Galactic Spiral Structure .
Career
After earning his doctorate, Dame worked as the National Research Council resident research associate at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies from 1983 to 1984 and then as a research associate at the Columbia University Department of Astronomy. He moved to Harvard University with Thaddeus in 1986, becoming a teaching fellow in 1988. Dame is Director of the Radio Telescope Data Center at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian.
Dame and Thaddeus have obtained what is by far the most extensive, uniform, and widely used Galactic survey of interstellar carbon monoxide (CO).
Dame discovered the Far 3 kpc Arm of the Milky Way in 2008 and the Outer Sct-Cen Arm in 2011.
Publications
Dame has authored or co-authored more than 100 research papers in astronomy.
Honors and awards
Secretary's Research Prize, Smithsonian Institution, 2009
Special Achievement Awards, Smithsonian Institution, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2009, 2010
Postdoctoral Associateship, National Academy of Sciences (N.R.C.), 1983–1984
Columbia University Graduate Fellowship, 1976–1978
College Prize for Excellence in Astronomy, Boston University, 1976
Professional memberships
American Astronomical Society
References
External links
Thomas M. Dame at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
Thomas M. Dame, Faculty Webpage, Harvard University Department of Astronomy
Thomas M. Dame CV at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Mapping the Milky Way lecture for "Science for the Public" series at Harvard
21st-century American astronomers
Columbia University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Living people
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron%20Gang%20%281993%20film%29 | Gridiron Gang is a 1993 documentary film about the Kilpatrick Mustangs' inaugural season in 1990. The film won an Outstanding Individual Achievement Award in Information Programming at the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Louis Gossett Jr. hosted the documentary. Several scenes from the film are shown during the credits of the 2006 film Gridiron Gang, which was based on the Mustangs' 1990 season.
References
External links
1993 films
Documentary films about American football
Documentary films about incarceration in the United States
1993 documentary films
Films shot in Los Angeles County, California
Films set in Los Angeles County, California
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponome | The toponome is the spatial network code of proteins and other biomolecules in morphologically intact cells and tissues. It is mapped and decoded by imaging cycler microscopy (ICM) in situ able to co-map many thousand supermolecules in one sample (tissue section or cell sample at high subcellular resolution). The term "toponome" is derived from the ancient Greek nouns "topos" (τόπος: "place, position") and "nomos" (νόμος: "law"), and the term "toponomics" refers to the study of the toponome. It was introduced by Walter Schubert in 2003. It addresses the fact that the network of biomolecules in cells and tissues follows topological rules enabling coordinated actions. For example, the cell surface toponome provides the spatial protein interaction code for the execution of a cell movement, a "code of conduct". This is intrinsically dependent on the specific spatial arrangement of similar and dissimilar compositions of supermolecules (compositional periodicity) with a specific spatial order along a cell surface membrane. This spatial order is periodically repeated when the cell tries to enter the exploratory state from the spherical state (spatial periodicity). This spatial toponome code is hierarchically organized with lead biomolecule(s), anti-colocated (absent) biomolecule(s) and wildcard molecules which are variably associated with the lead biomolecule(s). It has been shown that inhibition of lead molecule(s) in a surface membrane leads to disassembly of the corresponding biomolecular network and loss of function.
Citations
Systems biology
Bioinformatics
Omics
Topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Best%20Arts%20Programming | The International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programming is presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) to the best arts programs produced and initially aired outside of the United States.
Rules and regulations
Under the rules of the International Academy: arts programming is a program dedicated to an art form or artist(s) (i.e. performance, art documentary, art series, or combination thereof).
If the program is part of a continuous series of self-contained episodes (i.e. each episode has its own storyline with a conclusion; or each episode may have a different director and/or producer; or series has the potential to go on for multiple seasons), then each episode must be submitted as a separate entry. If the program is a multi-part series with a finite number of episodes (no further episodes planned), covering the same theme, two (2) episodes must be submitted to represent the series as a whole.
If the program contains multiple parts with a continuing storyline beyond one episode, or share the same concept, two (2) episodes must be submitted to represent the series as a whole. The program may employ partial re-enactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.
Winners and nominees
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
List of International Emmy Award winners
References
External links
2013 Emmy Awards
International Emmy Awards
Arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian%20Telecom | Caspian Telecom LLC is an Azerbaijan-based telecommunications company founded in 1997. The company provides a wide range of telecommunication services (any scale private networks, broadband, data, SWIFT, etc.) using its fiber-optic infrastructure, as well as acting as a system integrator for a wide range of telecom routing. Caspian Telecom also offers cable television and internet provider services under brand names “Ailə TV” and “Ailə NET”.
Company overview
The company is located at 251A, Dilara Aliyeva Street, AZ1010 Baku, Azerbaijan.
Specialization
CISCO, Broadband, SWIFT, LAN, WAN, Security, Fiber Optics, Routing Switching
See also
Telecommunications in Azerbaijan
Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies (Azerbaijan)
List of Azerbaijani companies
References
External links
A number of companies are moving in to provide both the public and private sector - The Business Year
https://web.archive.org/web/20140302083527/http://abc.az/eng/b2b/678.html
http://www.companies-reviews.com/review/449390/Caspian-Telecom-LLC/
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http://en.trend.az/regions/scaucasus/azerbaijan/2215727.html
http://www.bakutel.az/
Telecommunications companies of Azerbaijan
Telecommunications companies established in 1997
Internet service providers of Azerbaijan
Companies based in Baku
Azerbaijani brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeerXML | BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data description standard designed for the exchange of beer brewing recipes and other brewing data. Tables of recipes as well as other records such as hop schedules and malt bills can be represented using BeerXML for use by brewing software.
BeerXML is an open standard and as a subset of Extensible Markup Language (XML). BeerXML is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
BeerXML is supported by a number of web sites, computer programmes and an increasing number of Android Windows Phone and iOS apps.
Plugins and extensions supporting BeerXML have been written for a variety of platforms including Ruby via RubyGems, WordPress, PHP and JavaScript
Many brewing hardware manufacturers incorporate BeerXML into their systems and third party plugins and patches are being developed for brewery control hardware and embedded systems allowing the automation and fine control and timing of processes such as mashing and potentially fermentation.
Common applications and examples of usage
BeerXML is used in both amateur and professional brewing and facilitates the sharing of brewing data over the internet. Users of different applications such as the open-source software Brewtarget (with more than 52,000 downloads ) can share data via XML with users of popular proprietary software such as Beersmith and ORRTIZ: BMS 4 Breweries or upload their data to share on BeerXML compatible sharing sites and cloud platforms such as Brewtoad (over 50,000 registered users ) or the Beersmith Recipe Cloud (with 43,000 registered users). A user of a recipe design and sharing and creation site such as Brewersfriend.com can import and export BeerXML to and from mobile apps or enter it into a brewing competition database such as The Brew Competition Online Entry & Management (BCOE&M) system.
The adoption of BeerXML as a standard is leading to new developments such as ingredients databases which attempt to standardise ingredients definitions and characteristics. Brewers can use platforms like Brewblogger.com to create recipes and log their brewday for publication as a blog and for export to databases and common spreadsheet applications.
JavaScript applications such as brauhaus.js (developed from the Malt.io recipe sharing site ) allow users to run them on a local machine or web browser for execution through any standards compliant web browser.
Supported fields
The following fields form the core information of the BeerXML structure
Recipes
Recipe name
Brewer
Brewing method (All grain, Partial Mash, Extract )
Recipe Type (Ale, Lager, Hybrid, etc.)
Recipe volume (Run length)
Boil volume (Wort size)
Boil time (duration)
Recipe efficiency
Estimated values
OG (Original Gravity)
FG (Final Gravity)
Color (SRM)
Bitterness (IBU)
Alcohol content (%abv)
Hops
Name
Or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minam%20station | Minam Station () is an underground station of Busan Metro Line 3 and Line 4 located in Oncheon-dong, Dongnae District, Busan.
Station Layout
Gallery
References
External links
Cyber station information, Line 3 from Busan Transportation Corporation
Cyber station information, Line 4 from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Dongnae District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2005
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20program%20debugging | Algorithmic debugging (also called declarative debugging) is a debugging technique that compares the results of sub-computations with what the programmer intended. The technique constructs an internal representation of all computations and sub-computations performed during the execution of a buggy program and then asks the programmer about the correctness of such computations. By asking the programmer questions or using a formal specification, the system can identify precisely where in a program a bug is located. Debugging techniques can dramatically reduce the time and effort spent on debugging.
Overview
Program debugging is an extremely common part of software development. Until the 1980s the craft of program debugging, practiced by every programmer, was without any theoretical foundation. In the early 1980s, systematic and principled approaches to program debugging were developed. In general, a bug occurs when a programmer has a specific intention regarding what the program should do, yet the program actually written exhibits a different behavior than intended in a particular case.
One way of organizing the debugging process is to automate it (at least partially) via an algorithmic debugging technique. The idea of algorithmic debugging is to have a tool that guides the programmer along the debugging process interactively: It does so by asking the programmer about possible bug sources.
The algorithmic debugging technique constructs an internal representation of all computations and sub-computations performed during the execution of a buggy program (an execution tree). Then, it asks the programmer about the correctness of such computations. The programmer answers "YES" when the result is correct or "NO" when the result is wrong. Some algorithmic debuggers also accept the answer "I don't know" when the programmer cannot give an answer (e.g., because the question is too complex). Thus, the answers of the programmer guide the search for the bug until it is isolated by discarding correct parts of the program. The algorithmic debugging process finds one bug at a time. In order to find different bugs, the process should be restarted again for each different bug.
Origins, current and future directions
Algorithmic debugging was first developed by Ehud Shapiro during his PhD research at Yale University, as introduced in his PhD thesis, selected as a 1982 ACM Distinguished Dissertation. Shapiro implemented the method of algorithmic debugging in Prolog (a general purpose logic programming language) for the debugging of logic programs. In case of logic programs, the intended behavior of the program is a model (a set of simple true statements) and bugs are manifested as program incompleteness (inability to prove a true statement) or incorrectness (ability to prove a false statement). The algorithm would identify a false statement in the program and provide a counter-example to it or a missing true statement that it or its generalization should be added |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giphy | Giphy ( ), styled as GIPHY, is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share animated GIF files.
History
Beginnings and early history
Giphy was founded by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke in February 2013. The idea for the business came when the pair was having breakfast, musing on the rising trend of purely visual communication.
When Chung and Cooke first launched Giphy, the website functioned solely as a search engine for GIFs. According to Chung, Giphy attracted around a million users during its first week and the figure leveled out to 300,000.
Giphy features what its founders called as "conversational search" wherein contents are brought to users' conversations through a search box found in their messaging applications.
Growth
In August 2013, Giphy expanded beyond a search engine to allow users to post, embed and share GIFs on Facebook. Giphy was then recognized as a Top 100 Website of 2013, according to PC Magazine. Three months later, Giphy integrated with Twitter to enable users to share GIFs by simply sharing a GIF's URL.
In May 2014, Giphy raised $2.4 million in a Series A funding round from investors, including Quire, CAA Ventures, RRE Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and Betaworks.
In March 2015, Giphy acquired Nutmeg, a GIF messaging service, as one of the company's first major steps towards the mobile industry. This coincided with the launch of Facebook Messenger's own development platform, in which Giphy joined a few exclusive apps in its debut.
In August 2015, Giphy launched its second mobile app, GIPHY Cam, which allows users to create and share GIFs on a social network.
In February 2016, Giphy raised $55 million in funding at a $300 million valuation.
In October 2016, Giphy announced several statistics, including the statement that it had 100 million daily active users, that it served over 1 billion GIFs per day, and that visitors watched more than 2 million hours of GIF content every day.
In July 2017, Giphy announced that it had 200 million daily active users between both the API and website, with around 250 million monthly active users on the website.
Chung announced in a February 2019 New York event that Giphy was exploring an advertising scheme that is distinguished from the Google model, which shows ads according to users' search histories. The idea is to embed advertising in private messages. Giphy is seeking to take advantage of this landscape since the GIG database has been integrated into most messaging services.
Recent times
In May 2020, it was announced that Giphy had agreed to be acquired by Facebook Inc. (now Meta Platforms), with a reported purchase price of $400 million. Facebook services had accounted for roughly half of Giphy's overall traffic. Giphy was to be integrated with the staff of Facebook subsidiary Instagram, although Facebook stated that there would be no immediate changes to the service. Facebook discontinued Giphy's display advertising program upon t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlchemyAPI | AlchemyAPI was a software company in the field of machine learning. Its technology employed deep learning for various applications in natural language processing, such as semantic text analysis and sentiment analysis, as well as computer vision. AlchemyAPI offered both traditionally-licensed software products as well API access under a Software as a service model. After acquisition by IBM in 2015, the products were integrated into the Watson line of products and the brand name eventually disappeared.
Technology and business model
As the name suggests, the business model of charging for access to an API was central to the company's identity and uncommon for its time: A TechCrunch article highlighted that even though the technology was similar to IBM's Watson, the pay-per-use model made it more accessible, especially to non-enterprise customers. At one point, AlchemyAPI served over 3 billion API calls per month.
History
AlchemyAPI was founded by Elliot Turner in 2005, and launched their API in 2009.
In September 2011, ProgrammableWeb added AlchemyAPI to its API Billionaires Club, alongside giants such as Google and Facebook.
In February 2013, it was announced that AlchemyAPI had raised US$2 million to improve the capabilities of its deep learning technology. In September 2013, it was reported that AlchemyAPI had created a Google Glass app that could identify what a person was looking at, and that AlchemyAPI would soon be rolling out deep learning-based image recognition as a service.
As of February 2014 (prior to the IBM acquisition), it claimed to have clients in 36 countries and process over 3 billion documents a month. In May 2014, it was reported that AlchemyAPI had released a computer vision API known as AlchemyVision, capable of recognizing objects in photographs and providing image similarity search capabilities.
In March 2015, it was announced that AlchemyAPI had been acquired by IBM and the company's breakthroughs in deep learning would accelerate IBM's development of next generation cognitive computing applications. IBM reported plans to integrate AlchemyAPI's deep learning technology into the core Watson platform
Media coverage
A February 2013 article in VentureBeat about big data named AlchemyAPI as one of the primary forces responsible for bringing natural language processing capabilities to the masses. In November 2013, GigaOm listed AlchemyAPI as one of the top startups working in deep learning, along with Cortica and Ersatz.
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External links
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Applied machine learning
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Companies based in Denver
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley%20Wickham | Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a New Zealand statistician known for his work on open-source software for the R statistical programming environment. He is the chief scientist at Posit, PBC and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University. His work includes the data visualisation system ggplot2 and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages for data science based on the concept of tidy data.
Education and career
Wickham was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. He received a Bachelors degree in Human Biology and a masters degree in statistics at the University of Auckland in 1999–2004 and his PhD at Iowa State University in 2008 supervised by Di Cook and Heike Hofmann. He is the chief scientist at Posit, PBC (formerly RStudio) and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University.
Wickham is a prominent and active member of the R user community and has developed several notable and widely used packages including ggplot2, plyr, dplyr, and reshape2. Wickham's data analysis packages for R are collectively known as the tidyverse. According to Wickham's tidy data approach, each variable should be a column, each observation should be a row, and each type of observational unit should be a table.
Honors and awards
In 2006 he was awarded the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation. Wickham was named a Fellow by the American Statistical Association in 2015 for "pivotal contributions to statistical practice through innovative and pioneering research in statistical graphics and computing". Wickham was awarded the international COPSS Presidents' Award in 2019 for "influential work in statistical computing, visualisation, graphics, and data analysis" including "making statistical thinking and computing accessible to a large audience".
Personal life
Wickham's sister Charlotte Wickham is also a statistician.
Publications
Wickham's publications include:
References
External links
On the web
twitter
github
interviews
Interview by Datascience.LA at UseR! 2014
Interview by Yixuan Qiu (2013)
Interview by Models are
talks
Speaker Hadley Wickham Strata 2014 - O'Reilly Conferences, February 11 - 13, 2014, Santa Clara, CA
Interview at Strata 2014 Illuminating and Wrong
Ihaka Lecture Series 2017: Expressing yourself with R
1979 births
Living people
New Zealand computer scientists
New Zealand statisticians
New Zealand expatriates in the United States
Data scientists
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
R (programming language) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Lab | The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (also called the Quantum AI Lab or QuAIL) is a joint initiative of NASA, Universities Space Research Association, and Google (specifically, Google Research) whose goal is to pioneer research on how quantum computing might help with machine learning and other difficult computer science problems. The lab is hosted at NASA's Ames Research Center.
History
The Quantum AI Lab was announced by Google Research in a blog post on May 16, 2013. At the time of launch, the Lab was using the most advanced commercially available quantum computer, D-Wave Two from D-Wave Systems.
On October 10, 2013, Google released a short film describing the current state of the Quantum AI Lab.
On October 18, 2013, Google announced that it had incorporated quantum physics into Minecraft.
In January 2014, Google reported results comparing the performance of the D-Wave Two in the lab with that of classical computers. The results were ambiguous and provoked heated discussion on the Internet.
On 2 September 2014, it was announced that the Quantum AI Lab, in partnership with UC Santa Barbara, would be launching an initiative to create quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics.
On the 23rd of October 2019, the Quantum AI Lab announced in a paper that it had achieved quantum supremacy.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Glossary of artificial intelligence
Google Brain
Google X
References
External links
(NASA)
(USRA)
(Google)
(Google Quantum AI)
(Quantum Artificial Intelligence)
Google Plus profile
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