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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Lindsey%20Zobrist | Albert Lindsey Zobrist (born February 27, 1942) is an American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor of the famous Zobrist Hashing, which was published in 1970. He is further author of the first Go program in 1968 as part of his PhD Thesis on pattern recognition at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin.
Education
Albert Zobrist received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Computer chess
While affiliated with the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Zobrist researched on computer chess, and was along with Frederic Roy Carlson and Charles Kalme co-author of the chess programs USC CP and Tyro, participating at the ACM North American Computer Chess Championships (NACCC) in 1977.
References
External links
1942 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
American computer scientists
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20S%2010.5 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is a 10.5-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the ultra high-end "S" line of the cross between the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Samsung Galaxy S series, which also includes an 8.4-inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4. It was announced on 12 June 2014, and was released in July 2014. This is Samsung's first 10.5-inch tablet which is aimed to be a direct competitor against the iPad Air.
History
The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 was announced on 12 June 2014. It was shown along with the Galaxy Tab S 8.4 at the Samsung Galaxy Premiere 2014 in New York.
Features
The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is released with Android 4.4.2 Kitkat. Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz Nature UX 3.0 software. As well as the standard suite of Google Apps, it has Samsung apps such as ChatON, S Suggest, S Voice, S Translator, S Planner, WatchON, Smart Stay, Multi-Window, Group Play, All Share Play, Samsung Magazine, Professional pack, Multi-user mode, SideSync 3.0, and Gear/Gear Fit manager.
The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is available in WiFi-only and 4G/LTE & WiFi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion up to 128 GB. It has a 10.5-inch WQXGA Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels and a pixel density of 287 ppi. It also features a 2.1 MP front camera without flash and a rear-facing 8.0 MP AF camera with LED flash. It also has the ability to record HD videos.
The Galaxy Tab S was designed with a ‘Multi Window’ feature that lets users consume two kinds of entertainment on one screen (two screen technology), for example when running two apps simultaneously such as a video and social media application.
The WiFi model of the tablet is powered by the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5420 CPUs. The LTE model comes either with a Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400 on top of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset (version for Sprint and Verizon) or with the Exynos octa-core CPU. Models for South Korean domestic market have upgraded Exynos 7 Octa 5433 CPUs.
Updates
Galaxy Tab S 10.5 WiFi received Android 5.0.2 Lollipop in France and Canada on March 17, 2015.
As of April 6, 2015, only Canada and France have receive the OTA (Over the Air) Update, exclusive to the WiFi only model. Reasons for the two countries getting the update first, could include the high sales of the Tab S tablets in both countries, and the fact 5.0.2 adds additional French language support, a language predominantly spoken fluently by some 60 Million French and 10 Million Canadians.
Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 4G/LTE with an OTA Android 5.0 Lollipop update would be released in some European countries during the last half of April. These countries included Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Switzerland.
From June 2015 the tablet received an update to Lollipop in Italy.
As of October 2015, Android 5.0.2 rolled out to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Henriquez | Craig Shelby Henriquez (1958/1959 – August 24, 2023) was an American biomedical engineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at the Duke University, and was the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering. His research interests were in the areas of large-scale computer modeling of the cardiac bidomain and neuroengineering.
Biography
Craig Shelby Henriquez received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering from Duke University in 1981. He continued his studies at Duke and received the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in biomedical engineering in 1988. His Ph.D. advisor was Robert Plonsey and his dissertation was titled "Structure and Volume Conductor Effects on Propagation in Cardiac Tissue".
In 1989, Henriquez was appointed Research Assistant Professor in 1989, Assistant Professor in 1991, and Associate Professor in 1998 in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. In 2001, he was named the first Medtronics Visiting Professor of Virtual Electrophysiology, in the Department of Cardiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
In 2003, he and Miguel Nicolelis founded and co-directed the Center for Neuroengineering where they developed a Brain Machine Interface in which electrode arrays were implanted into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm.
Henriquez was elected to serve as the chair of the Duke University's Academic Council from 2009-2011. He was the James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and served as the chairman of the Department of Biomedical engineering from 2011 to 2014. He also served on several journal editorial boards.
Craig Henriquez died on August 24, 2023, at the age of 64.
Awards
1992, Young Investigator's (FIRST) Award from the NIH 1997,
2001, the Bass Professor from Duke University .
2006, elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Selected publications
Articles, a selection
.
.
References
External links
Duke University faculty profile
1950s births
Year of birth uncertain
2023 deaths
American biomedical engineers
Duke University faculty
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior%20TV | Junior TV (or simply Junior) is an Albanian private television network for kids and teenagers between the ages 10–18 years old. It was launched on April 20, 2005 by the TV platform DigitAlb. Junior TV is the second Albanian-language TV channel dedicated to kids after Bang Bang, and it is one of the most watched television channels by pre-teens and teenagers.
Programming
Disney shows
Austin & Ally (Austin dhe Eli)
Cory in the House (Kori në shtëpinë e bardhë)
Even Stevens (Stivensat)
Good Luck Charlie (Paç fat Çarli)
Hannah Montana (Hana Montana)
Jessie (Xhesi)
Jonas (Xhonas)
K.C. Undercover (K.C. Agjentja sekrete)
Liv and Maddie (Liv dhe Medi)
Lizzie McGuire (Lizi Mekguajer)
Shake It Up (Kërcim për një ëndërr)
Sonny with a Chance (Soni mes yjesh)
That's So Raven (Rejven)
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (Jeta në suitë e Zakut dhe Kodit)
The Suite Life on Deck (Zaku dhe Kodi në anije)
Violetta (Violeta)
Wizards of Waverly Place (Magjistarët e sheshit Uejverli)
Nickelodeon shows
100 Things to Do Before High School (100 gjëra për t'u bërë para gjimnazit)
Bella and the Bulldogs (Bela dhe Bulldogët)
Big Time Rush (Big Time Rush: Banda muzikore)
Every Witch Way (Ema, një shtrigë ëndrrash)
Game Shakers (Krijuesit e lojrave)
Henry Danger (I rrezikshmi Henri)
iCarly (Unë Karli)
Isa TKM (Isa TDSH)
Isa TK+ (Isa TDSH, sezoni 2)
Sam & Cat (Semi dhe Keti)
School of Rock (Shkolla e rrokut)
See Dad Run (Në shtëpi me babin)
Talia in the Kitchen (Talia në kuzhinë)
The Haunted Hathaways (Shtëpia e fantazmave)
The Thundermans (Familja Thunderman)
The Troop (Skuadra Anti-Monstër)
True Jackson, VP (Tru Xhekson)
Victorious (Fitimtare)
Other shows
Balamory (Balamori)
Being Eve (Të jesh Eva)
Big Cook, Little Cook (Kuzhinieri i madh dhe kuzhinieri i vogël)
Brum (Brami)
Galidor
Hi-5 (Tjeta-5)
LazyTown (Qyteti i përtacëve)
L'Italiano in Famiglia (Italishtja në familje)
Little Miss Perfect
Lola...Érase una vez (Na ishte njëherë Lola)
Make It or Break It (Gjimnastet olimpike)
Malcolm in the Middle (Malkolmi)
Patito Feo (Bota e Patit)
Popland!
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Sabrina, shtriga adoleshente)
Suburgatory (Periferia)
Switched at Birth (Këmbyer në lindje)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Princi i Bel-Air)
The Greenhouse
The Saddle Club (Klubi i kalorëseve)
The Simpsons (Simpsonët)
The Tribe (Tribu)
Tin Man (Njeriu prej teneqeje)
Original productions
DigiTime
Hapa në pasarelë
Junior Club
Kompjuteri im
Little Miss Perfect
Muzikal në Junior
Planeti Kripëmjaltëzat
Prodhime 100% Shqiptare
Yjet e muzikës
Super Junior
See also
DigitAlb
Television in Albania
References
External links
Official Website
Channel and transponder list
Digitalb television networks
Mass media in Tirana
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Children's television networks
Television stations in Kosovo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dbf | The .dbf file extension represents the dBase database file. The file type was introduced in 1983 with dBASE II. The file structure has evolved to include many features and capabilities. Several additional file types have been added, to support data storage and manipulation. The current .dbf file level is called Level 7. The .dbf format is supported by a number of database products.
Overview
The original dBASE database was known as Project Vulcan and was started by Wayne Ratliff in 1978. At the time the file that held the data was a simple table that could have data added, modified, deleted, or printed using the ASCII characters set. As the product became more popular, the underlying file type .dbf was expanded, and additional files were added to increase the capabilities of the database system. Despite dBASE being an IDE (integrated development environment), a database system, a compiler, and a database application builder, the original .dbf file was still used for the actual data storage mechanism.
History of the file format
Classical .dbf
Project Vulcan – CP/M (Level 1)
There is no publicly available information on the original layout. What is known is that it was a simple table which allowed adding, deleting, modifying, and outputting ASCII data. It was written for 8-bit machines that ran CP/M.
dBASE II – MS-DOS (Level 2)
dBASE II was the first major release by Ashton-Tate. It had many advancements beyond the simple table structures of Project Vulcan.
Still written for 8-bit computing
Increased the number of fields from 16 to 32
Introduced a SORT routine
16-bit version finally released in April 1983 (version 2.4)
dBASE III – MSDOS (Level 2sh)
dBASE III (version "1.0"), was released in June 1984. This was a fully 16-bit application. dBASE III's file format is a transitional step between dBASE II and dBASE III+.
Modern dBASE
dBASE III+ – MS-DOS (Level 3)
dBASE III+ was released in December 1985. It ushered the modern dBASE file format. It is incompatible with dBASE III's file format.
dBASE IV – MS-DOS (Level 4)
1.0 x322 Oct 1988
1.0 x55 Mar 1993 – dBASE Compiler
2.0 x12 Oct 1993 Includes fixes in dBASE IV v2.0 x16 above (not x17 i.e. not VLM compatible, dB5D exe's are compatible). It's also a new version that contain new features not in the V1.0 product:
32-bit generation
Auto compiling and linking
Smaller .EXE size
Menu-driven user interface
Linker can produce combined .DBO output
Linker can produce a .MAP file
Compiler supports alternate date formats
command-line switches accept wildcards in file names.
dBASE V – MS-DOS (Level 5)
1.0 x46 Jun 1994
BDE – Borland Database Engine 2.52
This was the last update to the 16-bit version of the Borland Database Engine (BDE).
dBASE V – MS-Windows (Level 5)
5.5 b673 Jul 1995
xBase
xBase is a name applied to clones of the dBase, typically dBASE III+–V. Most xBase programs either use the format directly or uses a derived format with custom extensions. Erik Bachmann ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201974 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1974.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1974 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1974 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-triggered%20architecture | Time-triggered architecture (abbreviated as TTA), also known as a time-triggered system, is a computer system that executes one or more sets of tasks according to a pre-determined and set task schedule. Implementation of a TT system will typically involve use of a single interrupt that is linked to the periodic overflow of a timer. This interrupt may drive a task scheduler (a restricted form of real-time operating system). The scheduler willin turnrelease the system tasks at predetermined points in time.
History and development
Because they have highly deterministic timing behavior, TT systems have been used for many years to develop safety-critical aerospace and related systems.
An early text that sets forth the principles of time triggered architecture, communications, and sparse time approaches is Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications in 1997.
Use of TT systems was popularized by the publication of Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems (PTTES) in 2001 and the related introductory book Embedded C in 2002. The PTTES book also introduced the concepts of time-triggered hybrid schedulers (an architecture for time-triggered systems that require task pre-emption) and shared-clock schedulers (an architecture for distributed time-triggered systems involving multiple, synchronized, nodes).
Since publication of PTTES, extensive research work on TT systems has been carried out.
Current applications
Time-triggered systems are now commonly associated with international safety standards such as IEC 61508 (industrial systems), ISO 26262 (automotive systems), IEC 62304 (medical systems) and IEC 60730 (household goods).
Alternatives
Time-triggered systems can be viewed as a subset of a more general event-triggered (ET) system architecture (see event-driven programming).
Implementation of an ET system will typically involve use of multiple interrupts, each associated with specific periodic events (such as timer overflows) or aperiodic events (such as the arrival of messages over a communication bus at random points in time). ET designs are traditionally associated with the use of what is known as a real-time operating system (or RTOS), though use of such a software platform is not a defining characteristic of an ET architecture.
See also
Event-driven programming (an alternative architecture for computer systems)
IEC 61508 (a related safety standard)
ISO 26262 (a related safety standard)
DO-178C (a related safety standard)
Life-critical system (a common application for TT architectures)
References
Software architecture
Safety
Safety engineering
International standards
Electrical standards
IEC standards
Automotive standards
Automotive safety
Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaena | Epaena is a genus of African moths of the family Thyrididae.
Species
Some species of this genus are:
Epaena andida (Whalley, 1971
Epaena candidatalis (Swinhoe, 1905)
Epaena complicatalis (Warren, 1897)
Epaena danista (Whalley, 1971)
Epaena inops (Gaede, 1917)
Epaena pellucida Whalley, 1971
Epaena trijuncta (Warren, 1898)
Epaena vocata (Whalley, 1971
Epaena xystica (Whalley, 1971
References
Whalley, 1971. The Thyrididae (Lepidoptera) of Africa and its islands. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) Suppl. 17 : 1-198
External links
An Illustrated Guide to the Thyridid Moths of Borneo
Thyrididae
Ditrysia genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DROMLAN | Dronning Maud Land Air Network Project (DROMLAN) is a coordinated project between eleven countries with bases in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica () to create a coordinated logistics service to reduce costs. The participating countries are Belgium, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and United Kingdom. The services are operated using Russian Ilyushin 76, Norwegian and Swedish C-130 Hercules and Norwegian P-3 Orion aircraft, also occasionally visited by other types of aircraft The flights operate from Cape Town International Airport to Troll Airfield, with a flight time of up to nine hours for a Hercules aircraft, and five and a half hours for an Il-76.
Feeder services to other research stations are operated by two Basler BT-67 (type converted DC-3/C-47), operated by the South African company Antarctic Logistics Centre International or other operators. Services are operated to Aboa (Finnish), Dome F (Japanese), Halley (British), Kohnen (German), Maitri (Indian), Neumayer (German), Novolazarevskaya (Russian), Princess Elisabeth (Belgian), SANAE IV (South African), Showa (Japanese), Tor (Norwegian) and Wasa (Swedish). In the 2007–08 season, 720 people were transported to Antarctica via DROMLAN. The airport is not open for commercial or other private flights.
References
Queen Maud Land
Aviation in Antarctica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20Moms%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of Dance Moms, an American dance reality television created by Collins Avenue Productions, began airing on January 1, 2014 on Lifetime's television network. A total of 32 official episodes and 2 special episodes (Guess Who's Coming to the Dance?, Dance Moms Cares Special) aired this season.
Overview
Miller fears her Junior Elite Competition team doesn't show enough drive and threatens them by hosting nationwide open auditions for a new team. Although on a winning streak, tension rises between Miller and long-time client Kelly Hyland, and Miller finds herself in definite need of new dancers. Meanwhile, Melissa relishes in her daughters' successes with Mackenzie's blossoming music career and Maddie embracing new opportunities to dance. On the 100th episode, Miller unveils her new "Select Ensemble" for the first time. At the very end of the season, Chloe and Christi decide to leave the ALDC.
Cast
The fourth season featured sixteen star billing cast members in the first seven episodes, and thirteen from episode eight onwards, with various other dancers and moms appearing throughout the season. This season is also the last to feature Brooke Hyland, Paige Hyland, and Chloe Lukasiak as part of the ALDC team as well as the first to feature Kalani Hilliker. (NOTE: Chloe only leaves the ALDC. She returns in season seven.)
Junior Elite Team
Maddie Ziegler
Mackenzie Ziegler
Brooke Hyland (episodes 1–7)
Paige Hyland (episodes 1–7)
Nia Sioux
Chloe Lukasiak
Kendall Vertes
Kalani Hilliker
Junior Elite Team Moms
Melissa Gibsoni
Holly Hatcher-Frazier
Jill Vertes
Christi Lukasiak
Kelly Hyland (episodes 1–9)
Kira Girard
Select Ensemble Team Dancers
Tea' Adamson, a contemporary & musical theatre dancer from Fort Myers, Florida. She was brought on the show to rival Mackenzie. She was on the show until the end of season 4, when the ensemble team disbanded and she was dismissed.
Kamryn Beck, a lyrical & contemporary dancer from Ephrata, Pennsylvania. She was brought on the show to rival Chloe. She was on the show until the end of season 4, when the ensemble team disbanded and she was dismissed.
Jade Cloud, an acro & contemporary dancer from Westfield, Massachusetts. She was brought on the show to rival Kalani. She was on the show until the end of season 4, when the ensemble team disbanded and she was dismissed. Jade is the first Native American dancer to be featured at ALDC and on Dance Moms.
Ava Cota, a lyrical & contemporary dancer from Fenton, Michigan. She was brought on the team to rival Kendall. She danced with the team until she was kicked off by Abby on episode 26. After being kicked off the team, Ava competed with her mother's studio, JC's Broadway Dance Academy. She also competed as part of the Candy Apple's Dance Center for part of fifth and seventh seasons.
Sarah Hunt, a lyrical & contemporary dancer from Pittsburgh. She was brought on the team to rival Mackenzie. She danced with the team for a week and was kicked of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A%20Robots%20in%20Disguise%20%282015%20TV%20series%29 | Transformers: Robots in Disguise is an American animated robot superhero television series for children produced by Hasbro Studios and Darby Pop Productions in the United States for Cartoon Network. It was also animated by Polygon Pictures in Japan. It is the stand-alone sequel
to Transformers: Prime that ran from 2010 to 2013 on The Hub Network, featuring characters (most of whose voice actors reprise their roles) and storylines mostly self-contained from the events of its predecessor as well as an overall more lighthearted tone. Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the executive producers of Prime) did not return to the new series. In the United States, the series ran on Cartoon Network from March 14, 2015, to November 11, 2017.
The show's second season, featuring guest appearances from some returning Transformers: Prime characters, premiered on February 20, 2016. A six-episode mini-series centered on the return of Starscream premiered in Canada on September 10, 2016, before debuting on U.S television the following month. The third and final season, subtitled Combiner Force, aired from April 29, 2017, to November 11, 2017.
It was the first Transformers series to feature Bumblebee as the main protagonist rather than Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots and the main protagonist in most of the other series (though Optimus appears in a semi-regular role throughout Robots in Disguise).
Plot
Season 1
Three years after life was restored to the planet Cybertron, a new generation of Transformers enjoy a new age of prosperity. Earth no longer remembers the Decepticon-Autobot conflict as the Cybertronians stopped visiting the planet. Bumblebee has since become a seasoned Cybertronian police officer and despite his fame, he chooses to be a humble peacekeeper. Things change when he is summoned by the vision of Optimus Prime. Thought to be long dead after restoring Cybertron's population, Optimus Prime calls for Bumblebee to return to Earth as a new threat appears.
With the help of Sideswipe (a rebel punk "bad boy bot") and Strongarm (an Elite Guard cadet partnered to him), the trio makes it to Earth to discover a crashed maximum security prison ship called the Alchemor and its steward Fixit (a hyperactive Mini-Con with faulty wiring). They soon learn the Alchemor had "a couple hundred" Decepticon prisoners within Stasis Pods, but all of its inmates have escaped. It is now their duty to recapture all the escaped Decepticon prisoners before they cause further harm on Earth. With the aid of humans Russell and Denny Clay and the Dinobot Grimlock (who was a prisoner of Alchemor for committing property damage before siding with Bumblebee), Bumblebee leads this unlikely team to protect Earth from the Decepticon prisoners and restore order. During their mission they often clash with Steeljaw who soon forms his own group of fellow Decepticon prisoners (consisting of the metal-eating Underbite, crime boss Thunderhoof, stranded bounty hunter Fracture and his Min |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerves%20of%20Steel | Nerves of Steel is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rainmaker Software and BnB Software that was published by Merit Studios in 1995 for MS-DOS computers. A port for the Atari Jaguar was slated for a Q2 1995 release, which never came to fruition.
Plot
Nerves of Steel is set in the near future in Southeast Asia where ruler Kim Dung Moon is set on purifying the world. Moon plans to carry out this plan through a system of elaborate tunnels called the "Iron Triangle". The player must infiltrate this tunnel system and defeat all soldiers and monsters in their path to stop Kim Dung Moon's evil plans.
Gameplay
The game is in a first-person perspective where the player uses rifles, pistols, and a rocket launcher to defeat monsters and soldiers in a tunnel complex. This game has a very similar control setup to Doom. The game has a solo campaign as well as multi-player playing options.
Reception
Nerves of Steel is generally viewed as one of the worst first-person shooter video games of all time. Awkward controls and distasteful graphics are the two main complaints given by most reviewers.
The game was remade in the Doom engine by Impie, a member of the Doom community.
References
1995 video games
Cancelled Atari Jaguar games
First-person shooters
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Sprite-based first-person shooters
Merit Studios games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20straddling | Cluster straddling may refer to:
Cluster straddling (data storage), a performance and wear leveling problem in computer data storage (f.e. with Advanced format hard disks, or in file systems)
Cluster straddling (particle systems), a problem in physics (center of mass, cluster analysis) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous%20First%20Light | Infamous First Light is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 4. The game was announced at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo and was released digitally in August 2014, with a physical release of the game only being released in Europe, Asia and Australia in September 2014. The game is a standalone companion to Infamous Second Son and serves as a prequel.
Played in a third-person perspective, the player takes control of Abigail "Fetch" Walker (introduced as a supporting character in Second Son), a young woman classed by the Department of Unified Protection as a "conduit" who possesses superhuman powers. In custody of the D.U.P., Fetch is ordered to tell the story of the events leading up to her capture. The player can use their Neon powers to defeat enemies and traverse the environment while completing the game's levels. The game primarily takes place in the streets of a fictionalized version of Seattle and in and around the prison, Curdun Cay.
Infamous First Light received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised the protagonist Fetch, with some commenting that she was a better character compared to Second Son protagonist Delsin, while the visuals, controls, gameplay, and challenge arenas were also commended. Criticism was aimed towards the game's story and combat mechanics.
Gameplay
Infamous First Light is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective, similar to Infamous Second Son; players complete levels, defeat enemies and finish side missions. The player takes control of Abigail "Fetch" Walker , a young "conduit" who possesses superhero-like 'Neon' powers. With a few exceptions, Abigail's powers play identically to Delsin Rowe's Neon powers, but First Light introduces several new features. In Neon races, Fetch can chase down floating balls of Neon gas and Conduit energy called "Lumens" that reward her with skill points to increase her powers. The graffiti mini game from Second Son is present; it has been aesthetically altered to match Fetch's Neon style. In Arena Challenges, both Fetch and Delsin can fight against hordes of holographic enemies. Completing challenges rewards the player with skill points that they can use to upgrade their abilities. Exclusive to the arena is a new enemy faction: Demons, with their own unique powers and abilities.
Plot
Abigail "Fetch" Walker, a young conduit in the D.U.P.'s custody in their prison Curdun Cay, is ordered to give a demonstration of her powers to one Brooke Augustine by battling holographic foes created by fellow Conduit Eugene. Once that is done, Abigail is told to tell the events that led up to her arrest.
Seven years earlier, Abigail was one of the first of the new Conduits who emerge following the Beast's rampage across the countryside. Although her parents tried to cope at first, they were left with few options after Abigail i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%20Backbone%20Implementation%20Network | IbIn (pronounced as ‘Ib’+’in’) stands for India Backbone Implementation Network. Conceived during the creation of the 12th Five Year Plan, IbIn's objective is to systematically promote capabilities that ensure coordination, collaboration, and implementation on issues, projects and policy within India. These capabilities include stakeholder alignment, project management, and policy advisory all of which require technical skills (for the process) as well as domain knowledge (pertaining to the specific subject matter or sector) knowledge. Since no single entity can provide all these skills and knowledge, IbIn is designed as a network that will cross-share and cross-link this information by leveraging partner organizations
Background
India has huge potential but there are many constraints to growth. A study of the root causes for why projects in India “get stuck” highlighted issues like conflicting interests amongst stakeholders, and poor coordination between agencies. As a result, implementation failures exist at many levels –at the centre, in the states, in districts and cities too. Therefore, to address these challenges to implementation, the 12th Five Year Plan recognized the need for a “backbone organization”, which led to the conceptualization of IbIn.
The concept of the IBIN was then developed through extensive discussions within the country of the root causes for coordination and implementation failures and through exploration of methods of coordination and effective implementation adopted by other countries. The concept was then offered for criticism to an international panel of experts in national evolution strategies, consisting of Dani Rodrik and Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy), Charles Sabel (Columbia Law School), Francis Fukuyama (Stanford University) and Mushtaq Khan (London Univ.) IbIn was launched in April 2013 as a Planning Commission initiative under the leadership of Arun Maira and anchored by India@75. The website of IbIn was launched in August 2013.
The 'IbIn Way'
Lack of multi-stakeholder alignment is one of the main reason for poor implementation in a cooperation setup. In a diverse country such as India, this alignment cannot be achieved by either imposing authority or appointing selected ‘experts’ to find a solution that will be imposed on the rest. An alternative approach would be to encourage all stakeholders to an open exploration towards achieving a common objective. Since such an open and deliberative process could be challenging to manage, the ‘IbIn’ way emphasizes the use of proven and tested processes.
Structure of the IbIn movement
The movement has been modeled on the Total Quality Management (TQM) of Japan, which revolutionized Japan and made the manufacturing sector in Japan recognizable as an international benchmark for excellence. The IbIn movement has been envisaged as a backbone network structure.
Since IbIn is modeled as a network, it will need some mechanism to disseminate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Television%20Babysitter | Your Television Babysitter, also billed as Your TV Babysitter, was a daytime live television children’s series which debuted November 1, 1948, on the DuMont Television Network, and was hosted by Pat Meikle and created by her husband Hal Cooper.
Broadcast history
Your Television Babysitter was hosted by Pat (Mary Patricia) Meikle. In each episode, Meikle would tell a story using her “magic chalkboard”, from which colorful fairy-tale characters would appear, including Maxwell the Mouse. The series was produced by Hal Cooper (February 23, 1923 - April 11, 2014), Pat Meikle's husband. They married on December 21, 1944, had two children Bethami (b. August 16, 1954) and Pamela. Meikle and Cooper divorced in 1970.
Your Television Babysitter, which aired Monday through Friday 8:30am to 9am ET, led to a spin-off, Meikle and Cooper’s The Magic Cottage, which was aimed at slightly older children, and aired on weekday evenings from 6:30 to 7 pm ET.
According to the book The Forgotten Network, both series were well received at the time. Variety praised Meikle and stated that "her knowing method of not talking down to her moppet audience, is probably the answer to a mother’s prayer. She's already being touted as a new TV star..." The Magic Cottage continued on DuMont’s flagship station WABD until 1955. Meikle continued to work at WABD after both series had finished their runs.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1948–49 United States network television schedule (weekday)
Playroom, DuMont children's series
Kids and Company, DuMont children's series hosted by Johnny Olsen
The Magic Cottage (1949-1951) DuMont series also created by Meikle and Hal Cooper
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1948 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American children's television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1QBit | 1QB Information Technologies, Inc. (1QBit) is a quantum computing software company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. 1QBit was founded on December 1, 2012 and has established hardware partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, Fujitsu and D-Wave Systems. While 1QBit develops general purpose algorithms for quantum computing hardware, the organization is primarily focused on computational finance, materials science, quantum chemistry, and the life sciences.
Technology
1QBit has divisions focused on universal quantum computing, advanced AI techniques, cloud based quantum processing, and hardware innovation.
1QBit's 1Qloud platform is focused on optimization including reformulating optimization problems into the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) format necessary to compute with quantum annealing processors and similar devices from organizations such as Fujitsu, D-Wave, Hitachi and NTT, while their QEMIST platform is focused on advanced materials and quantum chemistry research with universal quantum computing processors.
History
1QBit was founded as the first dedicated quantum computing software company in 2012. In 2013, 1QBit raised seed funding from US and Canadian angel investors, before closing a Series A financing round led by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 2014.
On August 5, 2015 the World Economic Forum announced 1QBit as a recipient of the 2015 Technology Pioneer Award recognizing 1QBit as a leader among the world's most promising technology companies. In 2017, 1QBit raised a $45M Series B financing round led by Fujitsu with participation from Allianz, Accenture, The Royal Bank of Scotland and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. In April 2018, 1QBit joined the IBM Q Network, a global community of leading Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, startups, and national research labs designed to explore practical applications for quantum computing.
In May 2020, 1QBit and its collaborators serving health authorities from East to West obtained support from the Digital Technology Supercluster to facilitate the clinical implementation of XrAI, the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) radiology platform to be accredited by Health Canada as a Class III Medical Device.
Locations
1QBit is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In early 2019, 1QBit opened a hardware innovation lab at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.
See also
Adiabatic quantum computation
Quantum computing
Quantum simulator
Timeline of quantum computing and communication
References
External links
Companies based in Vancouver
2012 establishments in British Columbia
Software companies established in 2012
Financial software companies
Quantum information science
Software companies of Canada
Quantum programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s%20Lair%20%281983%20video%20game%29 | Dragon's Lair is an interactive film LaserDisc video game developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems and published by Cinematronics in 1983, as the first game in the Dragon's Lair series. In the game, the protagonist Dirk the Daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe who has locked the princess in the foul wizard Mordroc's castle. It featured animation by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth.
Most other games of the era represented the character as a sprite, which consisted of a series of pixels displayed in succession. Due to hardware limitations of the era, artists were greatly restricted in the detail they could achieve using that technique; the resolution, framerate and number of frames were severely constrained. Dragon's Lair overcame those limitations by tapping into the vast storage potential of the LaserDisc, but imposed other limitations on the actual gameplay.
The success of the game sparked numerous home ports, sequels and related games. In the 21st century it has been repackaged in a number of formats as a retro or historic game.
Gameplay
The game is "on rails", meaning the narrative is predetermined and the player has very limited influence on its progression. The game consists almost entirely of animated cutscenes. The player does not control the character's actions directly, but controls his reflexes, with actions determined by selecting a direction or pressing a button in order to clear each quick time event, with different full motion video segments showing the outcomes. The game consists of a sequence of challenges played in a random order. Some scenes are played more than once before reaching the end, some of which are flipped or mirrored such that the opposite actions (e.g. left instead of right) are required.
Plot
The attract mode of the game displays various short vignettes of gameplay accompanied by the following narration: "Dragon's Lair: The fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight, on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon. You control the actions of a daring adventurer, finding his way through the castle of a dark wizard, who has enchanted it with treacherous monsters and obstacles. In the mysterious caverns below the castle, your odyssey continues against the awesome forces that oppose your efforts to reach the Dragon's Lair. Lead on, adventurer. Your quest awaits!"
Comedic aspects of the game include bizarre-looking creatures and humorous death scenes, and the portrayal of the player character as a clumsy, easily scared and reluctant hero.
Development
Dragon's Lair began as a concept by Rick Dyer, president of Advanced Microcomputer Systems (which later became RDI Video Systems). A team of game designers created the characters and locations, then choreographed Dirk's movements as he encountered the monsters and obstacles in the castle. The art department at AMS created storyboards for each episode as a guide for the final animation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics%20and%20Human%20Knowing | Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering autopoiesis, biosemiotics, cognition, complexity, cybersemiotics, hermeneutics, information theory, linguistics, second-order cybernetics, semiotics, and systems theory, among others. The journal was established in 1992 and is published by Imprint Academic with Søren Brier (Copenhagen Business School) as editor-in-chief.
The journal's inception was initially supported by the Danish Academy for Practical Philosophy and the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) with contributing editors and funding (ASC). The journal usually contains six different sections: the issue editors' foreword, peer-reviewed articles, an expert column, an ASC column, book reviews, and a featured artist artworks. Occasionally the journal dedicates an issue to publish conference proceedings and special topics.
References
External links
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1992
English-language journals
Computer science journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf%20on%20Fox | Golf coverage on Fox Sports properties have occurred occasionally since 1999. From 1999 through 2002, its regional sports network group Fox Sports Networks (FSN) sub-licensed early-round coverage of PGA Tour events from Golf Channel (a network in which Fox was an early investor).
From 2015 to June 2020, Fox served as the broadcaster of the national open tournaments and amateur championships of the United States Golf Association (USGA), including the U.S. Open — one of the four Men's major golf championships, under a 12-year deal. Coverage aired on the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, and Fox Deportes. In late-June 2020, however, Fox announced that it would opt out of the contract, and sell the remainder to former USGA broadcast television rightsholder NBC Sports.
Background
Early Fox Sports golf involvement
Fox Sports partnered with Greg Norman in the early 1990s to create the World Golf Tour, which would have consisted of six events televised on Fox. However, the proposed events were met with legal issues (including a threat by PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem to suspend any golfer who participates). In 1996, Fox acquired a minority stake in Golf Channel.
Fox Sports bid for a portion of the PGA Tour's television rights starting in 1999. Although it did not gain the broadcast package (which was divided among the Big Three networks), Golf Channel would simulcast its early-round coverage on Fox's regional sports networks group Fox Sports Networks, as they had wider carriage. These simulcasts ended after 2002, when the PGA Tour's cable rights were acquired by ESPN and USA Network. Fox had also sold its minority stakes in Golf Channel and Outdoor Life Network to Comcast, as part of a transaction that saw Fox acquire Comcast's stakes in Speedvision.
In 2011, Fox Sports gained the rights to the CVS Caremark Charity Classic, which is an unofficial money event on the PGA Tour, and had been previously televised by Golf Channel. The coverage aired on Fox Sports Net, with Kraig Kann hosting. Fox did not renew its rights for 2012.
USGA coverage
On August 6, 2013, Fox Sports announced a 12-year, $1.1 billion deal to broadcast the open tournaments and amateur championships of the USGA, including the U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open, and U.S. Women's Open, beginning in 2015. Fox would replace NBC and ESPN as the rightsholders of the events. NBC's lead analyst Johnny Miller expressed disappointment at the loss, saying that he "had a feeling" NBC would not retain rights, and that Fox would not be able to "fall out of a tree and do the U.S. Open."
As a prelude to the new package, Fox televised the 2014 Franklin Templeton Shootout, debuting its lead commentary team of Joe Buck and Greg Norman. Fox's first U.S. Open had a total of 38.5 hours of coverage, with 22 on Thursday and Friday, and 16.5 hours on Saturday and Sunday; the Fox Sports 1 cable network had a total of 16 hours of coverage on Thursday and Friday. The Fox broadcast network had a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Trusler | Revd John Trusler (1735–1820) was an eccentric English divine, literary compiler, and medical empiric.
Early life
Trusler was born in Hanover Square, London, England, in July 1735. His father was the proprietor of the public tea gardens at Marylebone. In his tenth year, he was sent to Westminster School, and at the age of fifteen he was transferred to Mr Fountaine's fashionable seminary at Marylebone. Next he proceeded to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, whence he graduated B.A. in 1757. On his return home he translated from the Italian several burlettas and adapted them to the English stage. One of these, he says, was 'La Serva Padrona,' or the 'Servant-Mistress,' of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, performed in Marylebone Gardens in 1757; but it seems that the real translator was Stephen Storace.
Ordination
Trusler took holy orders, becoming a priest in 1759. He was curate successively of Enford, Wiltshire, of Ware, Hertfordshire, at Hertford, at the Hythe church, Colchester, of Ockley, Surrey, and of St Clement Danes in the Strand, London. In 1761, Dr Bruce, the king's chaplain at Somerset House, employed him as his assistant and procured for him the chaplaincy to the Poultry Compter. He also held a lectureship in the city. At this period he took a house at Rotherhithe.
However, clerical work was not enough for Trusler. In 1762, he established an academy for teaching oratory 'mechanically,' but, as it did not pay, he soon gave it up. To acquire a knowledge of physic he admitted himself a perpetual pupil of Drs Hunter and Fordyce. He then went to Leyden University to take the degree of M.D., but his name does not appear in the catalogue of graduates in that university. However, he either obtained or assumed the title of doctor, and he is frequently styled LL.D. He superintended for some time the Literary Society established in 1765 with the object of abolishing publishers.
In 1769, Trusler sent circulars to every parish in England and Ireland proposing to print in script type, in imitation of handwriting, about a hundred and fifty sermons at the price of one shilling each, to save the clergy both study and the trouble of transcribing. This scheme appears to have met with success. Trusler next established a printing and bookselling business upon an extensive and lucrative scale. At one time he resided in Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, and also at Boyle Street. He afterwards lived at Bath on the profits of his trade, and subsequently on an estate of his own at Englefield Green, Middlesex. In 1806, he published at Bath the first part of his autobiography, entitled The Memoirs of the Life of the Revd. Dr. Trusler, 4to. Only part i. appeared, and, it is said, the author sought to suppress it. The remainder of the memoirs in Trusler's autograph were in 1851 in the possession of James Crossley of Manchester. Trusler died in 1820 at the Villa House, Bathwick, Bath. He married in 1759, his wife dying in December 1762. His portrait has been engraved.
Selecte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%20Br%C3%A5ten | Stein Leif Bråten (born 3 November 1934) is a Norwegian sociologist and social psychologist specializing in communication. He used the Simula programming language in one of the earliest uses of computers in modelling interpersonal communication (cfr his "A Simulation Study of Personal and Mass Communication". IAG Quarterly Journal of the Administrative Data Processing Group of IFIP, 1968, vol.1, no.2:.7-28). In 1989 he was awarded a PhD. in psychology at the University of Bergen for work on preverbal communication with infants connected to his theory of the virtual other. He is recognized for his work on mother-child interaction and in 1998 edited Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny, published by Cambridge University Press (). He is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. His 1973 article "Model Monopoly and Communication: Systems Theoretical Notes on Democratization" was selected for the Norwegian Sociology Canon by Sosiologinytt in 2011 (issued by the Norwegian Sociological Organization). A main theme in this article is that the so-called 'model strength' of the participants in a conversation (in such as a boardroom) affects the outcome of prolonged conversation as regards influence and power (put simply, this is in contrast to the view that communication in general leads to democratic spread of power).
References
1934 births
Norwegian sociologists
Living people
Social psychologists
Communication theorists
Academic staff of the University of Oslo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season | The 1850 Atlantic hurricane season was the last season excluded from the scope of the official Atlantic hurricane database. Although meteorological records are sparse and generally incomplete, they indicate that three significant tropical cyclones affected land, each causing some degree of damage. The first system struck North Carolina on July 18, causing significant damage before battering the Mid-Atlantic states with high tides, strong winds, and heavy rainfall. Torrential rainfall caused river flooding from Baltimore to Philadelphia, particularly along the Schuylkill River, which took the lives of 20 people in various incidents. Strong winds damaged property and public facilities in and around New York City, and damaging floods extended into central and northern New England. Crops and railroad infrastructure suffered throughout the entire region.
On August 22, a strong hurricane impacted Havana, Cuba, destroying fruit trees and disrupting shipping, before making landfall on the Florida Panhandle with an enormous storm surge. Coastal flooding was severe around Apalachicola, and as the storm moved inland, it generated destructive winds across the Southeastern United States. Abundant precipitation fell from Georgia through Virginia, causing extensive flooding; one river swelled over above its normal height. The storm blew down crops and trees along its course, and toppled a large railroad bridge near Halifax, North Carolina. Offshore, a pilot boat collided with a larger ship in the rough seas and sank. Considered the worst storm in nearly 30 years in the tidewater region of Virginia, the cyclone briefly reentered the Atlantic off New Jersey before making landfall over New England. Strong winds and moderate to heavy rains plagued much of New England on August 24 and 25.
On September 7 and 8, a hurricane brushed the coastline from New York to Cape Cod with gusty winds and appreciable rainfall, and left many ships in distress. The system later struck Atlantic Canada, likely causing "great loss of property and lives", though damage reports were limited. Fragmented records exist of other hurricanes, including two which remained over open seas in early September and the middle of October.
Background
Attempts to catalog Atlantic hurricanes in the first half of the 19th century began as early as 1855, when Andrés Poey compiled information on just over 400 tropical cyclones from 1493 to 1855. However, Poey listed only three of the five or more hurricanes that developed in 1850. In his 1963 book, Early American Hurricanes, 1492–1870, weather researcher David M. Ludlum discusses, in greater detail, three significant tropical cyclones that impacted the United States in 1850. Unusually, all three heavily impacted the Northeastern United States; Ludlum compares the season to 1954, in which three major tropical systems impacted the East Coast of the United States. More traditional hurricane targets, such as Florida, were spared the brunt of seasonal tropica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISeeCars.com | iSeeCars.com is an online automotive search engine and research website which helps users find and compare cars for sale using a proprietary computer algorithm.
Business
iSeeCars analyzes used car listings for a number of factors including reasonableness of the price, fairness of the dealer and positive and negative attributes of the vehicle. iSeeCars.com also provides car buying tips and reviews through articles written by automotive experts. The site also conducts research studies about car trends and consumer purchasing behavior. iSeeCars.com has been featured in ABC News, 'USA Today, CNBC, Consumer Reports, and Wall Street Journal.
History
iSeeCars.com was co-founded by Vineet Manohar, former software engineer at TripAdvisor and a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology, and Phong Ly, previously a marketer at SAP and a graduate of Harvard Business School. iSeeCars.com was officially launched to the public in 2013. iSeeCars.com is privately owned and headquartered in Woburn, MA.
Research
iSeeCars.com's researchers use their database of more than 30 million car listings to better understand car trends and consumer behavior. Some of the studies conducted by iSeeCars.com included "10 cars most likely to go 200,000 miles" for Consumer Reports, "Tesla cars are worth more used than new" for CNBC, "Men like minivans and hybrids as much as women do" for CBS News, and "Where To Find The Best (And Worst) Used-Car Deals" for Forbes. In February 2014, iSeeCars.com's study that used Tesla cars were selling for more than new ones was cited by Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk.
Partnerships
iSeeCars.com partners with a number of automotive websites and car dealerships including eBay to aggregate millions of car listings for users to search. In 2012, iSeeCars.com participated in a case study with Chrome Data, a subsidiary of Internet Brands, about the integration of vehicle specifications to help users research and compare vehicles.
Recognition
In May 2014 and 2015, iSeeCars.com was named a finalist in the MITX What's Next Awards for "Best Consumer Tech that Makes Life Easier". In May 2015, iSeeCars.com was also selected as a Webby Awards Honoree in the Web / Car Sites & Culture category.
References
Online automotive companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds%20Are%20Go%20%28TV%20series%29 | Thunderbirds Are Go is a science fiction television programme produced by ITV Studios and Pūkeko Pictures. It uses a combination of computer-generated animation and live-action models. It is a remake of the series Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson which follows the exploits of International Rescue (IR), a rescue organisation run by the Tracy family out of their secret island base in the Pacific Ocean. They use technologically-advanced craft for land, sea, air and space rescues in their operations, the most important of which are a set of vehicles called the Thunderbirds, piloted by the five Tracy brothers.
The programme premiered on 4 April 2015 and concluded on 22 February 2020, running for 78 episodes across three series. It was well-received by critics and fans of the original series, and has spawned several branches of merchandising since its broadcast.
Background
A revival of the 1960s science fiction Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds was approved by co-creator Gerry Anderson when Richard Taylor, the founder of Weta Workshop, visited him at Pinewood Studios while he was working on New Captain Scarlet. On 4 February 2013, ITV Global Entertainment and Pūkeko Pictures officially announced the revival under the title Thunderbirds Are Go! Production began in June 2013 at Weta Workshop, while the principal voice cast was announced on 30 September 2014.
Each series consists of 26 episodes with transmission split into multiple parts. Series 1 was broadcast between 4 April–20 June 2015 and 31 October 2015–23 January 2016. A second series was green-lit on 18 December 2014 and aired between 22 October 2016 – 7 January 2017 and 30 September–16 December 2017. A third and final series was confirmed on 5 May 2016 and was broadcast between 31 March–26 May 2018, 18 May–13 July 2019 and 4 January–22 February 2020.
Premise
Set in the year 2060, Thunderbirds Are Go follows the exploits of the Tracy brothers - Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon, and John - who form the backbone of International Rescue (IR): a life-saving organisation that operates from a hidden base in the Southern Pacific Ocean, and who save people from disasters and dangerous situations using technologically advanced crafts for land, sea, air and space rescue, the most prominent of these being five vehicles called "Thunderbirds", each one operated by one of the brothers. In addition to the brothers, IR also includes additional members who offer assistance and support: Chief of Security Tanusha "Kayo" Kyrano, who conducts covert and security operations through the use of a specialised Thunderbird with stealth capabilities; engineer Brains, who provides technological and mechanical support both at the base and in the field; Grandma Tracy, the brothers' maternal support who tends to their home needs; and London operatives Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, an English aristocrat, and Aloysius "Nosey" Parker, a chauffeur and former thief, who conduct investigative and espionag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20New%20England | Transportation in New England encompasses the region's rail and highway networks, seaports, and airports. New England has one of the United States' oldest intercity transportation systems, which remain important to the region's economy. It is also home to the continent's first subway system. The densely populated area has many cities and towns connected by rail and road, and the larger cities each have commercial airports with daily flights to destinations outside of the region.
Transportation
Rail
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) provides rail and subway service within the Boston metropolitan area, bus service in Greater Boston, and commuter rail service throughout eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island. The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro-North Railroad provides commuter rail service in southwestern Connecticut, while the Connecticut Department of Transportation operates the Shore Line East commuter rail service along the Connecticut coastline east of New Haven, and the Hartford Line northward to Springfield, Massachusetts. On a trial basis until Fall of 2021, Amtrak is working with CTrail to provide service north of its route from Springfield, through the Valley Flyer route to Greenfield.
Amtrak provides interstate rail service throughout New England. Boston is the northern terminus of the Northeast Corridor line. The Vermonter connects Vermont to Massachusetts and Connecticut, while the Downeaster links Maine to Boston.
Air
The largest and busiest airport in New England is Logan International Airport in Boston, which has many daily flights to domestic and international destinations. Logan has two nearby regional airports considered to be reliever airports, T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, and Manchester Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, New Hampshire. Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, is the region's second busiest airport.
Other commercial airports include Portland International Jetport, Bangor International Airport, Worcester Regional Airport, and Burlington International Airport.
Interstate Highways
Six mainline Interstate highways traverse New England. Interstate highways ending in an even number run east-west; those ending in odd numbers run north-south. At least one serves each state and its respective capital city:
Interstate 84 enters New England at Danbury, Connecticut, and crosses that state to the northeast, connecting the cities of Waterbury and the state capital of Hartford before terminating at a junction with Interstate 90 in Massachusetts.
Interstate 90 carries the Massachusetts Turnpike designation as it crosses the state. I-90 enters Massachusetts at West Stockbridge and travels eastward to its terminus in the state's capital and New England's largest city, Boston. It connects the major cities of Springfield and Worcester and intersects with many of New England's major north-south routes.
Interstate 89 begins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Rolander | Thomas Alan Rolander is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and developer of the multitasking multiuser operating system MP/M created for microcomputers in 1979 while working as one of the first employees of Digital Research with Gary Kildall, the "father" of CP/M. CP/M and MP/M laid the groundwork to later Digital Research operating system families such as Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS and Multiuser DOS. He also developed CP/NET.
In 2013 he was granted with a 2013 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the University of Washington (UW).
See also
Fluke
Intel
Novell
KnowledgeSet
The Electronic Encyclopedia from Grolier (CD-ROM)
Sony Electronic Book Authoring System (SEBAS)
PGSoft
iFolder
Crossloop
Benetech
Big Sur International Marathon
California State University, Monterey Bay
Pacific Grove, California
References
Further reading
Digital Research employees
Digital Research people
CP/M people
21st-century American engineers
American computer programmers
University of Washington alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfrog | Xfrog (X Window Finite Recursive Object Generator) is 3D computer graphics software that runs on Microsoft Windows or as a plug-in for Windows and Mac-OS versions of Autodesk Maya and Maxon Cinema 4D. Xfrog was originally developed by Oliver Deussen and Bernd Lintermann while at the University of Karlsruhe based on their research into natural systems and systematic processes found in nature.
Overview
Xfrog was developed to be an intuitive modeling method and GUI for creating natural branching structures based on the rules of nature. Structure and geometry is encapsulated in objects that form the description of the model. To define a model, icons (graphic representations of components) are assembled in a graph depicting the model’s structure and hierarchy, beginning with a root icon. Models are saved in the proprietary Xfrog .xfr format, a text file that contains the complete set of parametric rules for the procedural "Frog"engine to interpret and draw the polygonal model.
History
The first version of Xfrog was released as shareware in 1996 for Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and Linux by Lintermann und Deussen GbR under the name GreenWorks Organic Software. The first customers were Industrial Light and Magic and Disney Imagineering. Xfrog 1.0 did not contain key frame or procedural recursive animation capabilities, but in 1998 Xfrog 2.0 introduced animation capabilities. It was released for the first time as a plugin for Maya 1.0 making Greenworks the first professional plugin developer for Maya. The stand-alone application was ported from SGI to Windows and introduced as Xfrog 3.0 at SIGGRAPH 2000. In 2006, Xfrog’s first Cinema 4D plugin, Xfrog 4 for Cinema 4D, added all the components of 3.5 to the Cinema 4D interface. Currently, both the Cinema 4D and Maya plugins are at version 5.2.
References
3D graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20on%20Suicide%20Attacks | The Database on Suicide Attacks (DSAT or CPOST-DSAT) is a database maintained by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) at the University of Chicago. The database is publicly available and includes all known suicide attacks from 1974 to 2019.
Reception
Research referencing the database
The Database on Suicide Attack - formerly known as the Suicide Attack Database - was the main reference used by Robert Pape in his article The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Two books followed, Dying to Win and Cutting the Fuse, co-authored with James K. Feldman. The DSAT has been referenced in multiple academic journals, including the Journal of Conflict Resolution and Middle East Policy. It has also been used in doctoral theses on suicide terrorism.
Inclusion in research guides and library guides
The Database on Suicide Attacks is mentioned as a resource by University of Southern California library guide.
See also
Global Terrorism Database
Patterns of Global Terrorism
Global Terrorism Index
MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone
Correlates of War
References
External links
Terrorism databases
Political databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FurryBall | FurryBall is 3D computer graphics software and plug-in for real-time GPU production quality unbiased rendering. It is also a biased final frame renderer used for many short and full length animated movies. FurryBall was used for rendering the feature animated movie Goat story with Cheese - it was probably the first world feature animated movie rendered completely only on GPU in 2012.
Overview
FurryBall RT offers advanced rendering techniques, implemented directly into Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max and Cinema 4D with multi-GPU support. FurryBall was developed for in-house Art And Animation studio purposes since 2009.
FurryBall was used for rendering a whole feature movie, Goat Story 2 in 2008. It's probably the first world rendered CGI feature movie for cinemas rendered only on GPUs.
In 2015, the latest version of FurryBall RT was released with a completely rewritten core.
Features
FurryBall Render (commercial version) comes with free export scripts for the following software:
PLUGINS
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk Maya
Cinema 4D
References
Goat Story 2 - CGI movie for cinemas rendered in FurryBall
NVIDIA - list of GPU renderers
Autodesk Exchange
External links
FurryBall homepage
FurryBall Facebook page
Rendering systems
2009 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20Us%20episodes | The Secret Life of Us is an Australian television drama. It premiered on Network Ten on 16 July 2001. The show traces the lives of eight twenty-somethings sharing a Melbourne apartment block who are all looking for the same thing — love, sex, romance, success — and anything else that's worth going after. The problem is they haven't worked out how to get it yet — so they make it up as they go along.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2001)
Season 2 (2002)
Season 3 (2003)
Season 4 (2004–2005)
References
Secret Life of Us
Secret Life of Us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC%20Insurance%20Group | CIC Insurance Group Limited, commonly referred to as CIC Group, is an insurance and investment group that operates mainly in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Malawi. CIC Group has a network of branches and operational subsidiaries spread across the 4 countries.
Overview
The group's headquarters are located in CIC Plaza, Mara Road, Upperhill in Nairobi, Kenya. CIC Insurance Group is leading Micro and Co-operative insurance provider in Kenya with its subsidiaries involved in fund, Reits and Asset Management, general, Health and Group & Individual Life, pension and annuities. The Group expanded regionally to set its footprint in Uganda, South Sudan and Malawi in 2015.
History
The Group's origins in Kenya date back to 1968 when it was a department within the Kenya National Federation of Co-operatives. In 1978, the department was registered and licensed as Co-operative Insurance Services Limited, a composite insurance company to write all classes of business with its target market, the cooperative movement.
In 1999, the company was changed to the Co-operative Insurance Company of Kenya Limited (CIC) and later to CIC Insurance Group Limited in 2010. This change was in preparation for the de-merger of its life and general business operations.
The Group made its debut on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) on 18 July 2012. This made it the 6th insurance company to be listed on the NSE and the 60th company to be listed on the NSE overall.
In 2014, CIC Group announced its intention to expand to Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda and Malawi. In South Sudanese market, the Group plans to set up a greenfield operation in which it would hold 69 per cent of issued capital in a new local entity while the Cooperative Bank of South Sudan (a subsidiary of the Cooperative Bank of Kenya) would take up the remaining 31 per cent. This expansion would be pegged on the resolution of the South Sudanese Civil War. In Uganda, the Group aims to partner with the Uganda Cooperatives Savings and Credit Union to establish an insurance
company in which CIC Insurance Group would own 40 per cent of the unit. CIC Group stated that in Malawi, it would start with a 70 per cent stake in a new subsidiary with the remaining being held by the Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperative and the Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM).
According to the Insurance Regulatory Authority report released in September 2014, CIC Insurance was ranked third in market share with 9% of the market behind Jubilee Insurance and Britam, who controlled 11.9% and 11.2% respectively.
Subsidiaries and associated companies
The companies that comprise the CIC Insurance Group Limited include, but are not limited, to the following:
CIC General Insurance Limited – Nairobi, Kenya – 100% Shareholding – The flagship company of the group. Offering general insurance.
CIC Life Assurance Limited – Nairobi, Kenya – 100% Shareholding – Offering life insurance.
CIC Asset Management Limited – Nairobi, Kenya – 100% S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narawala | Narawala is a medium size village that is situated in Galle District, southern province of Sri Lanka.
References
Populated places in Galle District
Sri Lanka articles missing geocoordinate data
Populated places in Southern Province, Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-star%20house | The yellow-star houses were a network of almost 1,950 designated compulsory places of residence for around 220,000 Budapest Jews from 21 June 1944 until late November 1944. Both the houses and their residents were obliged to display the yellow star by Budapest mayoral decree.
Unique in the Holocaust
Although houses reserved for Jews were occasionally marked in Germany, and Nazi-occupied France and the Netherlands, the Hungarian legal prescription of marking all Budapest houses in which Jews were obliged to reside with a yellow star was unique in the history of the Holocaust.
Antecedents
A series of anti-Jewish laws and decrees introduced from 1938 onwards gradually excluded Jews from participation in intellectual professions, banned marriages and sexual relations between Jewish men and non-Jewish women, and designated individuals as ‘Jewish’ on the basis of family lineage, thus defining those who had converted to Christianity as Jews.
On 25 November 1940, Hungary joined the Axis, and declared war on the Soviet Union on 27 June 1941.
Jewish men and others defined as ‘politically unreliable’ were conscripted for forced labour in auxiliary roles from 1941 onward. By 1942, tens of thousands of Jewish forced labourers had been sent to the Eastern Front to face arduous conditions.
In a bid to stop her wartime ally from leaving the war, Germany troops occupied Hungary on 19 March 1944. Former Hungarian ambassador to Berlin Döme Sztójay was appointed Prime Minister by Regent Miklós Horthy, and Adolf Eichmann and his commando also arrived in Budapest on the same day.
From 5 April 1944, all individuals defined as Jewish and over the age of six were obliged to wear a 10 x 10 cm yellow Star of David on their outer clothing.
In May 1944, the Hungarian Interior Ministry limited Jews’ access to bath houses, hotels, restaurants and cinemas, and prescribed certain times of day when Jews were allowed to buy rationed groceries.
Creation of the yellow-star houses
On 16 June 1944, with the aim of forcibly relocating and concentration the Jewish community of Budapest, which just under one-quarter of the city’s population Ákos Farkas, the mayor of Budapest issued the first decree and a list of over 2,600 designated yellow-star houses. The deadline for moving in was midnight on 21 June 1944.
A second Budapest mayoral decree issued on 24 June 1944 attached a final list of 1,944 designated yellow-star houses.
In the intervening period, residents submitted petitions to Budapest Metropolitan Council: non-Jews wanted their houses removed from the list, while Jewish residents wanted their houses added. Compared to the first June 16 list of houses, the second list contained far fewer houses on the western Buda side of the Danube.
Mass relocation was overseen by the police and the Jewish Council in Hungary.
The 1,944 yellow-star houses functioned as compulsory places of residence for Budapest Jews until late November 1944 when, following the Arrow Cross takeov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol-Myers%20Tele-Varieties | Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties is a TV series broadcast on WNBT-TV beginning in December 1946, and then began broadcasting on the NBC Television Network on January 5, 1947, on Sunday evenings from 8:15 to 8:30pm ET. The show, including interviews of celebrities, was hosted by the wife-and-husband team of Jinx Falkenburg and Tex McCrary.
Falkenburg went on to host many radio and TV shows, including The Swift Home Service Club, a Monday through Friday show that debuted in May 1947.
See also
1946-47 United States network television schedule
External links
Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties at IMDB
NBC original programming
1947 American television series debuts
1947 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20Operations%20Center | The Radar Operations Center (ROC) is a National Weather Service (NWS) unit that coordinates the development, maintenance, and training for the NEXRAD weather radar network. It is located at the National Weather Center (NWC) in Norman, Oklahoma and run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Department of Commerce with partners at the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation.
ROC consists of four branches: Applications, Engineering, Operations, and Program. ROC also works with the Federal Aviation Administration's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) network.
See also
Warning Decision Training Division (WDTD)
National Weather Service Training Center (NWSTC)
National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
References
External links
Radar Operations Center (ROC)
ROC Facebook, Twitter, Youtube
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM)
NWS Change Management Section: NEXRAD
NWS Engineering Management Reporting System (EMRS)
National Weather Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Weiser%20Friedman | Linda Weiser Friedman (born 1953) is an author and academic. She is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Friedman holds a PhD in Operations Research from New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and a B.A degree in Statistics / Biology from Baruch College. Her research and teaching interests are varied and include business statistics, object-oriented programming, humor studies, Jewish studies, online education, social media, and all things technology. Her most recent book is God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor (), which Publishers Weekly called a "lighthearted but thoughtful study". She also writes fiction and poetry, and lives in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Early life
Linda Weiser Friedman was born in New York City to Norman and Marion Weiser, and grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Midwood. She attended Crown Heights Yeshiva (when it was still located at 310 Crown St.) and Esther Schoenfeld High School (in the Lower East Side). She married Hershey H. Friedman in 1972; they have five adult children.
Books
Hershey H. Friedman and Linda Weiser Friedman, God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor, Transaction Publishers, 2014.
Linda Weiser Friedman, The Simulation Metamodel, Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1996.
Linda Weiser Friedman, Comparative Programming Languages: Generalizing the Programming Function. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.
Deadly Stakes, coauthored with Hershey H. Friedman under the pseudonym H. Fred Wiser, Walker Publishing, 1989.
References
External links
Official website
SSRN author page
Google Scholar page
1953 births
21st-century American Jews
Jewish American academics
Jewish scientists
Baruch College faculty
CUNY Graduate Center faculty
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Baruch College alumni
American Orthodox Jews
People from Borough Park, Brooklyn
People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
People from Midwood, Brooklyn
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xploration%20Station | Xploration Station is an American syndicated programming block that is programmed by Steve Rotfeld Productions, distributed by Fox, and debuted on September 13, 2014. It airs weekends (typically on Saturday mornings), primarily on Fox-affiliated stations. Aimed towards teenagers, the block consists of six half-hour shows focusing on the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. All of the programs in the three-hour block are produced to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines. Boat Rocker Rights owns the shows' international rights.
History
On December 17, 2013, Steve Rotfeld Productions announced that it would launch a two-hour syndicated block of live-action educational programs under the working title Xploration Nation, with Fox Television Stations and Tribune Broadcasting initially set to carry the block across their respective Fox owned-and-operated and affiliated stations. The block, aimed towards teenagers between 13 and 16 years of age, features programs focused on the STEM fields – such as marine biology, astronomy, and animal science. Production on one of the four shows, Xploration Outer Space, began in April 2014. The block, by then renamed Xploration Station, premiered on September 13, 2014.
On Fox owned and operated stations, Xploration Station replaced Weekend Marketplace, a two-hour block of infomercials first introduced in January 2009 following the discontinuation of 4Kids TV due to conflicts between Fox and the block's programmer 4Kids Entertainment.
On January 20, 2015, Fox Television Stations renewed the block for the group's Fox owned-and-operated stations through 2017.
The block was made available worldwide with the pick up of non-US distribution by Boat Rocker Rights in February 2016.
One of the more notable holdouts for Xploration Station in its first two seasons was Fox's largest affiliate group, Sinclair Broadcast Group. In September 2016, Sinclair began to carry Xploration Station on their Fox stations and two other Sinclair stations associated with a netlet under a five-year agreement with Steve Rotfeld Productions.
Starting in 2016, Xploration Station expanded its programming block to three hours.
Programming
NOTE: Some stations usually only air one program, or have a different schedule due to public affairs, wanting to make room for other programs to air, or news broadcasting.
Current Programming
Xploration Awesome Planet (September 13, 2014–present): Hosted by Philippe Cousteau Jr., this series features a detailed look at earth science and geology.
Xploration DIY Sci, also called DIY Sci, (September 10, 2016–present): A pop-science series featuring the host, Steve Spangler, creating experiments using everyday items. AB Groupe carries the show in France.
Xploration Outer Space (September 13, 2014–present): This series focuses on various aspects of the space industry, including technology, the prospects of a human mission to Mars, and the growing space tourism indus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian%20%28TV%20program%29 | Marian is a 2014 Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Louie Ignacio and Mark A. Reyes, it was hosted by Marian Rivera. It premiered on June 21, 2014. The show concluded on December 6, 2014 with a total of 25 episodes. It was replaced by Himig ng Pasko in its timeslot.
Hosts
Marian Rivera
Co-hosts
Julie Anne San Jose
Christian Bautista
Mark Bautista
Paolo Ballesteros
Segments
Celebrity Dance Showdown
Marian's Dance Steps
Playlist
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Marian earned a 21.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 20.4% rating. The show got its highest rating on August 9, 2014 with a 27.1% rating which featured Dingdong Dantes' marriage proposal to Marian Rivera.
Accolades
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luton%20Analogue%20Computing%20Engine | The Luton Analogue Computing Engine (LACE) was a code name for a military general purpose analogue computer, predominantly used for missile simulation.
It was developed in 1953-1956 by English Electric's Guided Missile Division in Luton, UK. Upon the closure of the Luton factory in 1962, LACE was transferred to the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Guided Weapons Division in Stevenage.
References
External links
English Electric Co: Navigational Projects Division, Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
Early British computers
Analogue Computing Engine
British Aircraft Corporation
Computer-related introductions in 1953
English inventions
Science and technology in Bedfordshire
Stevenage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Michael%20Rode | Bernd Michael Rode (July 14, 1946 – August 28, 2022) was an Austrian professor of chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and founder of the Austrian-South-East-Asian Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET). Prof. Rode retired in 2011 but remained actively involved in teaching and research as well as in the thesis supervision.
Biography
In 1964 Bernd Michael Rode graduated from high school (“Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck”) and commenced studies in chemistry at the University of Innsbruck. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry with sub auspiciis praesidentis from the University of Innsbruck.
In 1973 Prof. Rode started his career as an assistant professor at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Innsbruck. After research stays in Germany (University of Stuttgart and University of Karlsruhe) he became an associate professor in Innsbruck in the year 1976. After spending a 1-year research stay at the University of Tokyo, Prof. Rode started his professorship at the Institute of Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck. From 2006 to 2011 he was head of the Department of Theoretical Chemistry and head of the Institute for General Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry.
One of Prof. Rode’s largest achievements was the foundation of the University Network ASEA-UNINET (Austrian South East Asian University Partnership Network) in 1994. The foundations for this network were laid by informal contacts between the University of Innsbruck and Thai Universities that date back to the 1970s. In the 1980s partnerships between the University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna, the University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna, the Chulalongkorn University, the Mahidol University, the Kasetsart University and the Chiang Mai University were concluded. With the target to unify these bilateral partnership agreements into one multilateral network, Prof. Rode invited interested Universities from Austria, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to participate in the first ASEA-UNINET Plenary Meeting in Ho Chi Minh City. In 1994 the network comprised 25 Universities from Austria, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. As of June 2014, more than 70 Universities from 16 European and South-East-Asian countries participate in the network.
In addition to his scientific and networking activities, Prof. Rode served during the periods 1998–2001 and 2005–2008 as vice-president in the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) representing the WEOG states EU, USA, Canada and Australia. In 2004 he became the first Ausrian, to serve as president in the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
Awards and decorations
For his commitment in Asian countries Prof. Rode has received many awards, amongst others the Honorary Doctorate Degree in Sciences of the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (1995), the Honorary Doctorate Degree in Sciences of the King Mongkut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time/memory/data%20tradeoff%20attack | A time/memory/data tradeoff attack is a type of cryptographic attack where an attacker tries to achieve a situation similar to the space–time tradeoff but with the additional parameter of data, representing the amount of data available to the attacker. An attacker balances or reduces one or two of those parameters in favor of the other one or two. This type of attack is very difficult, so most of the ciphers and encryption schemes in use were not designed to resist it.
History
Tradeoff attacks on symmetric cryptosystems date back to 1980, when Martin Hellman suggested a time/memory tradeoff method to break block ciphers with possible keys in time and memory related by the tradeoff curve where . Later, in 1995, Babbage and Golic devised a different tradeoff attack for stream ciphers with a new bound such that for where is the output data available to the cryptanalyst at real time.
Attack mechanics
This attack is a special version of the general cryptanalytic time/memory tradeoff attack, which has two main phases:
Preprocessing: During this phase, the attacker explores the structure of the cryptosystem and is allowed to record their findings in large tables. This can take a long time.
Realtime: In this phase, the cryptanalyst is granted real data obtained from a specific unknown key. They then try to use this data with the precomputed table from the preprocessing phase to find the particular key in as little time as possible.
Any time/memory/data tradeoff attack has the following parameters:
search space size
time required for the preprocessing phase
time required for the realtime phase
amount of memory available to the attacker
amount of realtime data available to the attacker
Hellman's attack on block ciphers
For block ciphers, let be the total number of possible keys and also assume the number of possible plaintexts and ciphertexts to be . Also let the given data be a single ciphertext block of a specific plaintext counterpart. If we consider the mapping from the key to the ciphertext as a random permutation function over an point space, and if this function is invertible; we need to find the inverse of this function .
Hellman's technique to invert this function:
During the preprocessing stage
Try to cover the point space by an rectangular matrix that is constructed by iterating the function on random starting points in for times. The start points are the leftmost column in the matrix and the end points are the rightmost column. Then store the pairs of start and end points in increasing order of end points values.
Now, only one matrix will not be able to cover the whole space. But if we add more rows to the matrix, we will end up with a huge matrix that includes recovered points more than once. So, we find the critical value of at which the matrix contains exactly different points. Consider the first paths from start points to end points are all disjoint with points, such that the next path which ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20Regulatory%20Authority%20for%20Network%20Industries | Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (, commonly referred to as HAKOM), is Croatia's government regulatory agency tasked with regulating the telecommunications, postal, and rail industries.
In its present form, HAKOM was established in 2008 after the merger of two earlier regulatory agencies, the Croatian Telecommunications Agency (HAT) and the Postal Services Council (VPU). In 2014, the former Rail Market Regulatory Agency was also merged into HAKOM.
HAKOM is governed by its council, which includes five members, who are all appointed for five-year terms by the Croatian Parliament. They can also be dismissed by a vote in the Parliament upon proposal of the government. Decisions of the council are made by a majority vote of all of its members, i.e. any decision requires three council members to agree with.
The agency's executive director is in charge of HAKOM's staff, which performs expert, technical, and administrative roles.
HAKOM is Croatia's representative in a variety of multinational bodies:
European Commission's Communications Committee (CoCom)
European Regulators Group (ERG)
Independent Regulators Group (IRG)
Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG)
Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC)
Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (ECPTA)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
References
Further reading
External links
Government agencies of Croatia
Telecommunications in Croatia
Telecommunications regulatory authorities
Organizations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Croatia
Law of Croatia
Regulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird%20machine | In computer security, a weird machine is a computational artifact where additional code execution can happen outside the original specification of the program. It is closely related to the concept of weird instructions, which are the building blocks of an exploit based on crafted input data.
The concept of weird machine is a theoretical framework to understand the existence of exploits for security vulnerabilities. Exploits exist empirically, but were not studied from a theoretical perspective prior to the emergence of the framework of weird machines.
Theory
From a theoretical perspective, the emergence of weird machines becomes clear when one considers software as a way to restrict the number of reachable states and state transitions of a computer: The general-purpose CPU is, through software, specialized to simulate a finite-state machine (with potentially very large state space). Many states the CPU could be in are excluded, and certain state transitions are ruled out - for example those that violate the software's security requirements. When the system is somehow moved into a state that "makes no sense" when viewed from the perspective of the intended finite-state machine (through memory corruption, hardware failure, or other programming mistakes), the software will keep transforming the broken state into new broken states, triggered by further user input. A new computational device arises: The weird machine which can reach different states of the CPU than the programmer anticipated, and which does so in reaction to inputs.
Applications
While expected, valid input activates the normal, intended functionality in a computer program, input that was unexpected by the program developer may activate unintended functionality. The weird machine consists of this unintended functionality that can be programmed with selected inputs in an exploit.
In a classical attack taking advantage of a stack buffer overflow, the input given to a vulnerable program is crafted and delivered so that it itself becomes executed as program code. However, if the data areas of the program memory have been protected so that they cannot be executed directly like this, the input may instead take the form of pointers into pieces of existing program code that then become executed in an unexpected order to generate the functionality of the exploit. These snippets of code that are used by the exploit are referred to as gadgets in the context of return-oriented programming.
Through interpretation of data as code, weird machine functionality that is by definition outside the original program specification can be reached also by proof-carrying code (PCC), which has been formally proven to function in a certain specific way. This disparity is essentially caused by a disconnect between formal abstract modelling of a computer program and its real-world instance, which can be influenced by events that are not captured in the original abstraction, such as memory errors or power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glochidion%20gardneri | Glochidion gardneri is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
References
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-90451
http://arctos.database.museum/name/Glochidion%20gardneri
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/9814864/synonym/10049141
https://www.gbif.org/species/3080656/
gardneri
Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
Vulnerable flora of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior%20tree%20%28artificial%20intelligence%2C%20robotics%20and%20control%29 | A behavior tree is a mathematical model of plan execution used in computer science, robotics, control systems and video games. They describe switchings between a finite set of tasks in a modular fashion. Their strength comes from their ability to create very complex tasks composed of simple tasks, without worrying how the simple tasks are implemented. Behavior trees present some similarities to hierarchical state machines with the key difference that the main building block of a behavior is a task rather than a state. Its ease of human understanding make behavior trees less error prone and very popular in the game developer community. Behavior trees have been shown to generalize several other control architectures.
Background
A behavior based control structure has been initially proposed by Rodney Brooks in his paper titled 'A robust layered control system for a mobile robot'. In the initial proposal a list of behaviors could work as alternative one another, later the approach has been extended and generalized in a tree-like organization of behaviors, with extensive application in the game industry as a powerful tool to model the behavior of non-player characters (NPCs).
They have been extensively used in high-profile video games such as Halo, Bioshock, and Spore. Recent works propose behavior trees as a multi-mission control framework for UAV, complex robots, robotic manipulation, and multi-robot systems.
Behavior trees have now reached the maturity to be treated in Game AI textbooks, as well as generic game environments such as Unity (game engine) and Unreal Engine (see links below).
Behavior trees became popular for their development paradigm: being able to create a complex behavior by only programming the NPC's actions and then designing a tree structure (usually through drag and drop) whose leaf nodes are actions and whose inner nodes determine the NPC's decision making. Behavior trees are visually intuitive and easy to design, test, and debug, and provide more modularity, scalability, and reusability than other behavior creation methods.
Over the years, the diverse implementations of behavior trees kept improving both in efficiency and capabilities to satisfy the demands of the industry, until they evolved into event-driven behavior trees. Event-driven behavior trees solved some scalability issues of classical behavior trees by changing how the tree internally handles its execution, and by introducing a new type of node that can react to events and abort running nodes. Nowadays, the concept of event-driven behavior tree is a standard and used in most of the implementations, even though they are still called "behavior trees" for simplicity.
Key concepts
A behavior tree is graphically represented as a directed tree in which the nodes are classified as root, control flow nodes, or execution nodes (tasks). For each pair of connected nodes the outgoing node is called parent and the incoming node is called child. The root has no parents an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner | Hetzner Online GmbH is a company and data center operator based in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, in Germany.
History
Hetzner Online GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) began operations in Germany in 1997 under the name Hetzner Online Services. Between 2000 and 2015, Hetzner Online in Germany operated under the legal status AG ("Aktiengesellschaft"). In 2015, it changed its legal status to GmbH. In addition, Hetzner Online expanded its chief executive team with Stephan Konvickova and Günther Müller at the beginning of the year 2019.
The company is named after its founder Martin Hetzner. Hetzner Online owns and operates four data center parks in Nuremberg and Falkenstein (Germany), Tuusula (Finland), and Ashburn, Virginia (United States). In addition, Hetzner Online is a co-investor in the Cinia C-Lion1 project, which connected Helsinki and Rostock, Germany together with a 1,100 km long submarine fiberglass cable. The cable provides a high-speed connection between Hetzner's German and Finnish data centers.
Services
Hetzner Online provides dedicated hosting, shared web hosting, virtual private servers, managed servers, domain names, SSL certificates, storage boxes, and cloud. At the data center parks located in Nuremberg, Falkenstein and Tuusula/Finland, customers can also connect their hardware to Hetzner Online's infrastructure and network with the company's colocation services. The company operates a server auction site online where the chance to rent older dedicated servers (not purchase or colocate) are auctioned off in the form of a Dutch auction.
Hetzner Online has a domain name registrar arrangement with ICANN (for registering domains under .com, .net and .org and others), DENIC (for .de), and nic.at (for .at).
Infrastructure
Hetzner Online's datacenter projects are coordinated and implemented in-house with as little outsourcing as possible. Data center units served by multiple redundant uplinks, including 1300 Gbit/s to DE-CIX and fiber optic links to Nuremberg and Frankfurt. Colocation facilities are sited at all data center parks in Nuremberg, Falkenstein (Vogtland) in Germany and Helsinki in Finland. In 2021, a datacenter in Ashburn, Virginia, was opened, marking Hetzner's first American server.
Network
The backbone is set up in the form of a ring network between the datacenter locations Nuremberg and Falkenstein as well as the most important Internet location, Frankfurt. All locations are connected to central exchange nodes such as DE-CIX, AMS-IX, DATA-IX and V-IX via the company's own fiber optic network. All Hetzner's dedicated servers had a minimum 20 TB monthly cap for full speed on their servers with the option for an extra fee for full speed past that point, however, have lifted the bandwidth cap on 1 Gbit/s connection speeds as of October 1, 2018.
Incidents
Hacking
In June 2013, Hetzner Online suffered from a security breach where customer information was exposed to attackers who had compromised Hetzner Online's monit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafe%20Hernandez | Rafe Hernandez is a fictional character on Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Portrayed by Galen Gering and created by Dena Higley, Rafe is introduced in 2008 as the FBI agent assigned to protect the troublesome Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney) during her stay in witness protection. Sami and Rafe's contentious dynamic later develops into romance and the two fall in love and eventually marry. However, their romance is plagued by Sami's supercouple romance with Salem's resident badboy, EJ DiMera (James Scott). Rafe's disdain for the DiMera family grows when he discovers that EJ is behind the kidnapping and presumed death of Sami's daughter Sydney and EJ's father Stefano (Joseph Mascolo) replaces Rafe with a doppelganger. The series also introduces Rafe's younger sisters, Arianna (Lindsay Hartley) and Gabi (Camila Banus) and later his younger brother Dario (Jordi Vilasuso). Rafe is very protective of his siblings having helped raise them when their father abandoned the family. Rafe also has an affair with Kate Roberts (Lauren Koslow) putting him at odds with Stefano, Kate's ex-husband. He later falls in love with physical therapist Jordan Ridgeway (Chrishell Stause) whom he tries to help overcome her own dark past. In 2015, Rafe is forced to confront his past when his estranged father Eduardo (A Martinez) resurfaces. Rafe later falls in love with his longtime colleague Hope Brady (Kristian Alfonso) and supports her when she loses her true love to a brain tumor. When a grief-stricken Hope murders Stefano, Rafe helps her cover it up. Later storylines include raising Jordan's son, David, and his devastation when David's aunt gains custody of him, and developing a relationship with Ava Vitali (Tamara Braun).
Storylines
In October 2008, Federal Agent Rafe arrived in Salem to relay information to Sami Brady and her guard, who had been assigned to her as part of the witness protection program. As Sami had become increasingly agitated by her isolation, she had slipped sleeping pills to her guard and knocking her unconscious. As a result, Rafe was permanently assigned to guard Sami, with whom he initially had a combative relationship. As time went on, however, Rafe and Sami began to form a friendship. While Rafe kept fairly quiet about his personal life, he did tell Sami that as a young child, he frequented a local convent due to his troubling behavior. Rafe became one of the very few people to learn that Sami was pregnant with the child of E.J. DiMera (James Scott), and agreed to help her conceal this fact. As time went on, Rafe began to develop feelings for Sami and after her stint in Witness Protection ended, he pursued a position within the Salem Police Department so he might remain close to Sami and her baby. Rafe also began to reconnect with his younger sister, Arianna (then Felisha Terrell), who had concerns over his involvement with Sami. Despite Arianna's disapproval, Rafe continued to pursue Sami and asked her if he could leg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma%20%28company%29 | Huma (previously known as Medopad) is a British healthcare technology company based in London, UK. It produces applications that integrate health data from existing hospital databases as well as patient wearables and other mobile devices and securely transmits it for use by doctors.
Company
In April 2020, Medopad (as it was previously known) rebranded as Huma after acquiring BioBeats and Tarilian Laser Technologies, both British healthtech companies. The company's focus shifted from remote monitoring of patients with rare and chronic diseases towards gathering biological data for use in preventative healthcare. The company also announced that it had appointed Alan Milburn as its first chairperson.
Products
Enterprise
Medopad allows hospitals to pool their patient data into a single platform so it can be served to doctors' mobile devices in real-time. Healthcare professionals can securely access lab results, images, clinical notes, and primary care data via iPads and other mobile devices. In November 2013, Medopad became the first enterprise-class mobile health information system to receive CE approval.
Some of the clinical applications that Medopad include editing patient records by voice recognition or typing, scheduling, lab results, image viewing including X-rays and CT scans, electronic support documents, taking and sending photos, video conferencing, primary records, transmitting real-time vital signs, collecting and managing demographic and contact details, Apple HealthKit integration, and arbitrage system to sort and prioritise patients, hospital admission, and access to more third party applications integrated into Medopad through the Clinical App Store.
Medopad's pricing structure takes the form of an annual software as a service license fee in the UK. In June 2014, it was reported that Medopad would cost hospitals between £50 and £90 per month per user to license. Carl Reynolds, head of Open Health Care UK told New Scientist that an open system that worked on multiple devices would be preferential to Medopad, as it would avoid locking hospitals into a single system.
In January 2018, Medopad joined UK Prime Minister Theresa May on her trade mission to China meeting general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping. During the trip it announced over £100m of commercial contracts with major Chinese and international organisations including China Resources and Peking University.
Cancer
In April 2015, Medopad launched a chemotherapy application for monitoring cancer patients designed specifically for the Apple Watch.
Investors
Some of Medopad's institutional investors are Healthbox and Sandbox Industries. Lord Howard Flight and Tony Brown, Non-Executive Director of the NHS both invested individually, as did entrepreneur and investor Tom Chapman.
References
Further reading
External links
Big data companies
Software companies based in London
Medical technology companies of the United Kingdom
Electronic health record |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGARD-B%20wind%20tunnel%20model | AGARD-B is a standard wind tunnel model (calibration model) that is used to verify, by comparison of test results with previously published data, the measurement chain in a wind tunnel.
Together with its derivative AGARD-C it belongs to a family of AGARD standard wind tunnel models. Its origin dates to the year 1952, and the Second Meeting of the AGARD Wind Tunnel and Model Testing Panel in Rome, Italy, when it was decided to define two standard wind tunnel model configurations (AGARD-A and AGARD-B) to be used for exchange of test data and comparison of test results of same models tested in different wind tunnels. The idea was to establish standards of comparison between wind tunnels and improve the validity of wind tunnel tests.
Among the standard wind tunnel models, AGARD model configuration B (AGARD-B) has become by far the most popular. Initially intended for the supersonic wind tunnels, the AGARD-B configuration has since been tested in many wind tunnels at a wide range of Mach numbers, from low subsonic (Mach 0.1), through transonic (Mach 0.7 to 1.4) to hypersonic (up to Mach 8 and above). Therefore, a considerable database of test results is available.
AGARD-B is a body-wing configuration. All its dimensions are given in terms of the body diameter "D" so that the model can be produced in any scale, as appropriate for a particular wind tunnel.
The body is an 8.5 diameters long solid of revolution consisting of a 5.5 diameters long cylindrical segment and a nose with a length of 3 diameters and having a local radius defined by the equation .
The wing is a delta in the form of an equilateral triangle with a span of four body diameters. Wing section is a symmetric cylindrical arc with a relative thickness t/c of 4%. Leading and trailing edges of the wing should be rounded with a radius equal to . However, this specification is unclear. It is obvious that the specified radius can not be applied near the wingtips, or large deformations in the plan form of the wing would occur. In the past, this part of the specification was interpreted in different ways by model designers which led to small differences in shapes of the tested models. The recommended solution is to have the leading- and trailing-edge radii of at the theoretical root chord and to decrease the radii towards the wing tips proportionally to the local chord.
A support sting to be used with the AGARD-B model was defined as well. The initial specification of the model called for a sting having a diameter of and a length of . In the revised specification the length of the sting was changed to in order to reduce sting interference, but at that moment a number of wind tunnel tests had already been made. Therefore, published test results for the AGARD-B models do not all correspond to theoretical model configuration.
The drag characteristics of the AGARD-B model were found to be somewhat sensitive to the boundary layer transition on the model. In order to reduce the scatter of resu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Weston%20%28Days%20of%20Our%20Lives%29 | Ben Weston is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network, most notably portrayed by Robert Scott Wilson. The role was originated by Justin Gaston in 2014, as Ben Rogers, when the character was introduced as the new love interest of Abigail Deveraux (Kate Mansi), and was later revealed to be the estranged brother of Jordan Ridgeway (Chrishell Stause).
Soon after, Wilson was hired as a recast and the writers began exploring the character's dark past with the introduction of his abusive criminal father Clyde Weston (James Read). In 2015, the romantic triangle between Ben, Abigail and Chad DiMera (Billy Flynn) culminates in Ben becoming a serial killer, known as the "Necktie Killer," claiming several victims, including legacy character Will Horton (Guy Wilson).
Robert Scott Wilson vacated the role in late 2015 and would reprise the role for multiple guest stints before returning to the show as a series regular on June 1, 2018. Upon his return, head writer Ron Carlivati began to redeem the character through his friendship and eventual romance with Ciara Brady (Victoria Konefal), whom he later married and had a son with.
Storylines
Ben (Justin Gaston) comes to Salem in 2014 where he lands a job as a waiter at Club TBD and runs into his estranged sister Jordan Ridgeway. Ben is immediately smitten with Abigail while Jordan tries to chase Ben out of town fearing someone will uncover their past but he calms her fears. Jordan tries to chase Ben out of town fearing someone will uncover their past but Ben is too smitten with Abigail Deveraux to care. Ben and Jordan are horrified when their abusive father Clyde comes to town demanding the money they stole from him. Ben is surprised when Clyde changes his tune and gives Jordan back her life's savings. Meanwhile, Ben grows closer to Abby despite her ex-boyfriend Chad DiMera attempts to sabotage his budding romance with Abigail and the life he's building in Salem. Ben gets himself arrested when he attacks Chad in public after Chad throws his sexual relationships with Abby and Jordan in his face. Clyde reveals that the DiMeras bribed the casino manager to testify against Ben. However, the witness is found dead and charges are dropped. Ben is suspicious when Chad helps Abby get her job back at the hospital and Ben in turn convinces her to move in with him. Ben follows Abigail to the DiMera mansion where he finds Abigail has slept with Chad. Instead of confronting her, Ben proposes to Abigail after Clyde gifts him with his late mother's engagement ring. Ben is even more excited to learn that Abby is pregnant. As they begin planning their wedding, Clyde offers to buy the couple a house as wedding gift. Meanwhile, Ben warns Abigail to keep her distance from Chad who has been implicated in the murders of Serena Mason (Melissa Archer) and Paige Larson (True O'Brien). Realizing Abigail can't stay away from Chad, Ben convinces her to leave town with him after the wedding. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%20National%20Roads%20Authority | The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) is a government agency mandated to develop and maintain the national roads network, advise the government on general roads policy, contribute to the addressing of national transport concerns, and perform certain other functions. UNRA is charged with, among other things, the selection of contractors, the supervision of construction, the scheduling of maintenance, and the prioritization of national road works.
Headquarters
The headquarters of UNRA are located in the UAP Nakawa Business Park, at 3-5 New Port Bell Road, in the Nakawa Division of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The geographical coordinates of UNRA's headquarters are:0°19'40.0"N, 32°36'46.0"E (Longitude:0.327778; Latitude:32.612778).
Overview
UNRA was established in 2006 by parliamentary enactment of the Uganda National Roads Authority Act. UNRA became fully operational on 1 July 2008.
UNRA is governed by a nine-member board of directors, chaired by Angela Kanyima Kiryabwire. The first Chairman of the Board of Directors was Mr. Chris Kassami who spearheaded the process of setting up the original UNRA management structures. The pioneer Executive Director was Eng. Peter Ssebanakitta who was appointed to the post on 1 November 2007 and set upon working with the Board to recruit staff into the UNRA structures. UNRA became operational on 1 July 2008 with about 80% of the established posts filled. Eng. Ssebanakitta served as Executive Director up to 3 March 2013 when he resigned for personal reasons. He was succeeded in acting capacity by Engineer Ssebbugga Kimeze who was subsequently replaced by Eng. James Okiror when he was suspended following the botched procurement of a contractor for the Mukono–Kyetume–Katosi–Nyenga Road. The current executive director is Allen Kagina who replaced Engineer Okiror in May 2014. She replaced acting executive director James Okiror.
Completed projects
During the first five years of the agency, the road network increased from to .
According to a published report in July 2015, (19 percent) of the national road network was paved. A total of of roads were improved from gravel to bituminous surface between 2005 and 2010. A total of of roads are earmarked for tarmacking before December 2016.
Some of the roads that have been completed since 2008 include:
Kabale–Kisoro–Bunagana Road (completed in 2012)
Fort Portal–Bundibugyo–Lamia Road (completed in March 2014)
Gayaza-Ziroobwe Road
Matugga-Kapeeka Road
Soroti–Dokolo–Lira Road (completed in 2010)
Jinja–Bugiri Road (completed in 2010)
Kampala–Mityana Road (completed in July 2012)
Masaka–Mbarara Road
Lira–Kamdini–Karuma Road (completed in August 2011)
Kazo–Ibanda–Kamwenge Road (completed in March 2014)
Nyakahita–Kazo Road (completed in February 2014)
Ongoing construction projects
As of October 2017, the following major construction projects under UNRA's supervision were ongoing.
Gulu–Atiak–Nimule Road
Tororo–Mbale–Soroti Road
Vurra–Arua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20Fisher | Shannon Fisher is a writer, social and political commentator, and the host of two talk radio shows on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, The Authentic Woman and Our Lives with Shannon Fisher. She is also a frequent host of the National Press Club's Update-1 Podcast. and a notable women's rights activist.
Radio host
Fisher began her career in radio in September 2013 as a panelist on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network's show, A Global Conversation on Domestic Violence. She went on to host A Global Conversation on Human and Sex Trafficking in February 2014 and was subsequently asked by the network's owner to do a weekly show on women's social and political issues, in addition to highlighting women with careers in the arts. In February 2017, Fisher began hosting an additional show on the network, Our Lives with Shannon Fisher, which covers a broader range of global societal issues.
Fisher is also among a small team of hosts of the National Press Club's Update-1 Podcast, which addresses current events from the perspective of the news media.
Activism
Fisher participated in a demonstration on March 3, 2012 against transvaginal ultrasound legislation in the Virginia General Assembly, during which approximately 1000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Richmond, Virginia to the steps of the Virginia Capitol building. Thirty protesters were arrested. Photographs of the event were shared worldwide, encouraging protests against similar legislation introduced in other state legislatures. The Virginia protest was featured in the film Political Bodies, which won "Best Documentary" at the Austin Film Festival in 2013.
In January 2013, Fisher was included among women's rights activists named the "2012 Richmonders of the Year" for their participation in the March 2012 protest by the staff of Richmond's Style Weekly alternative newspaper.
Fisher co-founded UniteWomen.org's "Unite Against Rape" campaign, along with fellow executive committee members Renee Davis, Karen Teegarden and Sarah Warfield Chamberlin. The raised public awareness of the issues of rape, human trafficking and violence against women. An array of legislators, journalists and celebrities participated in the campaign, including U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine; comedians Roseanne Barr, Margaret Cho, Annabelle Gurwitch and Lois Bromfield; social justice advocate Sandra Fluke; Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle, Ronnie Cameron, musician Courtney Love; social and political commentators Meghan McCain, Alexandria Goddard (the Steubenville blogger), Leslie Salzillo, Kimberley A. Johnson and Tanya Tatum; Editor-in-Chief Jane Pratt; writers Mandy Stadtmiller, Alison Freer, Marci Robin and Julia Allison; actors Yuri Lowenthal, Pia Glenn and Sharon Gardner; celebrity artist Tormented Sugar; writers Herman Williams, III, Pat Bertram, Michele Rolle and Toni Morrison; executive director of the Military Rape Crisis Center, Panayiota Bertzikis; and celebrity relati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20SBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2013 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2013. It was held at the SBS Prism Tower in Sangam-dong, Seoul on December 31, 2013, and hosted by Lee Hwi-jae, Lee Bo-young, and Kim Woo-bin.
Nominations and winners
Complete list of nominees and winners:
(Winners denoted in bold)
Top 10 Stars
Jo In-sung - That Winter, the Wind Blows
Kim Woo-bin - The Heirs
Lee Bo-young - I Can Hear Your Voice
Lee Jong-suk - I Can Hear Your Voice
Lee Min-ho - The Heirs
Lee Yo-won - Empire of Gold
Nam Sang-mi - Goddess of Marriage
Park Shin-hye - The Heirs
So Ji-sub - Master's Sun
Song Hye-kyo - That Winter, the Wind Blows
New Star Award
Choi Jin-hyuk - The Heirs
Im Joo-hwan - Ugly Alert
Jung Eun-ji - That Winter, the Wind Blows
Kang Min-hyuk - The Heirs
Kang So-ra - Ugly Alert
Kim Ji-won - The Heirs
Kim So-hyun - The Suspicious Housekeeper
Kim Yoo-ri - Cheongdam-dong Alice, Master's Sun
Lee Da-hee - I Can Hear Your Voice
Seo In-guk - Master's Sun
References
External links
SBS
SBS Drama Awards
SBS
December 2013 events in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20controller | An Embedded Controller (EC) is a microcontroller in computers that handles various system tasks. Now it is usually merged with Super I/O, especially on mobile platforms (such as laptop).
Tasks
An embedded controller can have the following tasks:
Receiving and processing signals from the keyboard and the touchpad (including touchpad disable)
Other buttons and switches (e.g., power button, laptop lid switch (received from hall sensor))
Controlling access to the A20 line
Thermal measurement (CPU, GPU, Motherboard) and response including fan control, CPU and GPU throttling, and emergency shutdown in response to rising temperatures
Controlling indicator LEDs (e.g. caps lock, scroll lock, num lock, battery, ac, power, wireless LAN, sleep)
Managing the battery charger and the battery
Allowing remote diagnostics and remediation over the network
Performing software-requested CPU reset
Controlling the watchdog timer
System Management Interrupt (entry to System Management Mode)
Bluetooth toggle
Display backlight toggle
USB OC (overcurrent) (USB disable)
Display power toggle
Controls RGB lighting
eSATA toggle
Wake-on-LAN
Debug Card Interface (Enables repair centers to monitor the boot process with a special device in an attempt to fix problems)
SCI from the Embedded Controller to inform the ACPI driver (in the ) of an ACPI Event
As a core system component, the embedded controller is always on when power is supplied to the mainboard. To communicate with the main computer system, several forms of communication can be used, including ACPI, SMBus, or shared memory.
The embedded controller has its own RAM, independent of that used by the main computer system, and often its own flash ROM on which the controller's software is stored. Many BIOS updates also include upgrades for the embedded controller firmware.
An embedded controller is sometimes known as a "Keyboard Controller BIOS", which comes from the fact that the embedded controller evolved from the keyboard controller and often still is used as a keyboard controller. Even today, an ACPI embedded controller communicates with the CPU by using the same I/O ports that keyboard controllers used in the past.
Ergonomics
Although the embedded controller is very "deep" in the system, it is important to the user because it performs functions such as fan control and thermal management. Computer systems such as laptops often produce large amounts of heat which must be dissipated. This is typically done by activating a fan to blow air over the components that are producing heat; the fan is not simply turned on or off, but is driven at high speed by the embedded controller for a short time and then left running at low speed until the temperature has decreased sufficiently. Such a control scheme can be uncomfortable from an ergonomic point of view, as the change in fan speed is noticeable to the user, especially if this occurs regularly and if the fan is clearly audible.
To prevent this, some embedded controllers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barca%2C%20Soria | Barca is a municipality located in the province of Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.
Included in the Natura 2000 network is a Site of Community Importance known as Riberas del Río Duero y afluentes (Riberas del Río Duero and tributaries), which occupies .
References
Municipalities in the Province of Soria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOM%20%28file%20format%29 | BOM is a computer file format used by the Mac OS X installer. BOM stands for "bill of materials" and is used to determine which files to install, remove, or upgrade. A bill of materials, "BOM", contains all the files within a directory, along with some information about each file. File information includes: the file's Unix file permissions, its owner and group, its size, its time of last modification, and so on. Also included are a checksum of each file and information about hard links.
Bill of materials (BOM) files are also used in printed circuit board (PCB) designing, where they contain a list of components to be put on the PCB.
References
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Network%20%28newspaper%29 | The National Network is an English language Nigerian weekly newspaper founded 25 November 2004. It is published by Network Printing and Publishing Company and has its headquarters in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Topics the newspaper covers include local and national main news, sports, business, political events and personalities.
In January 2005, Jerry Needam, owner of the paper was arrested at his office for allegedly fabricating a news report aimed at tarnishing Rivers State Police commissioner Sylvester Araba's image and reputation.
In 2011, National Network celebrated the "seventh" anniversary of its foundation. The ceremony which took place at the Silverbird Hall, Port Harcourt, was the most attended of its kind in the state's history. Individual awards were also presented to prominent citizens deemed to have excelled to the highest degree in their chosen fields.
See also
List of Nigerian newspapers
References
External links
Official web site
Newspapers established in 2004
Newspapers published in Port Harcourt
2004 establishments in Nigeria
2000s establishments in Rivers State
English-language newspapers published in Africa
Companies based in Port Harcourt
Diobu, Port Harcourt
Weekly newspapers published in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost%20Royal | Almost Royal is a British-American faux-reality television comedy series on the BBC America network. It is their first original first-run comedy series. It follows the lives of two clueless British aristocrat siblings—Georgie and Poppy Carlton—visiting the United States for the first time. The series stars Ed Gamble and Amy Hoggart as Georgie and Poppy, respectively. It is produced by Burning Bright Productions and premiered on June 21, 2014. Although Georgie and Poppy are both portrayed by actors, the Americans with whom they interact are not aware of this. On December 4, 2014, the show was renewed for an eight-episode second season, which started airing on January 18, 2016.
Plot
The series begins after Georgie and Poppy's father suffers a fatal accident. His dying wish was for his children to travel to the United States, a country he loved. Thus, Georgie and Poppy travel across the Atlantic, first to Los Angeles, then to Boston, and other well-known American cities. Georgie hopes to become more manly from learning about the United States, while Poppy hopes to procure a job that does not require very much work, such as acting. Georgie and Poppy often try out new things they deem "American" such as shooting guns, meeting a barista, making a Twitter account, and working at a car repair shop. Usually, Poppy takes the spotlight even in areas she is bad at, and Georgie compliments Poppy no matter her skill level. In the introduction to every episode their ranking in line to inherit the throne changes, always 50 or more places away.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Critical reception
According to review aggregator website Metacritic, Almost Royal has a score of 71%, indicating "generally favorable reviews". One favorable review was written by Brian Lowry for Variety, who praised the show for its "...mix of deft writing and [Amy and Ed]'s deadpan improvisational skills." On Rotten Tomatoes, Almost Royal's season 1 has an aggregate score of 75% based on 9 positive and 3 negative critic reviews. The website's consensus reads: "Almost Royal refreshingly lampoons both American and British cultures without abjection and benefits from Gamble and Hoggart's keen improvisational skills."
International airings
Almost Royal began airing on E4 in the UK on August 9, 2014 and on The Comedy Channel in Australia on November 23, 2015.
References
External links
IMDB page for Almost Royal
2010s American mockumentary television series
2014 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
BBC America original programming
Improvisational television series
Fictional royalty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Mortality%20Database | The Human Mortality Database (HMD) is a joint initiative of the Department of Demographics at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany that provides detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity. The key people involved are John R. Wilmoth (Director) from the University of California, Berkeley,
Vladimir Shkolnikov (Co-Director) from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and Magali Barbieri (Associate Director) from the University of California, Berkeley, and INED, Paris.
History
Creation of the Berkeley Mortality Database, a precursor to the Human Mortality Database
In 1997, John R. Wilmoth at the Department of Demography in the University of California, Berkeley started work on a database titled the Berkeley Mortality Database (BMD) with a grant from the National Institute of Aging in the United States. The BMD included data across the entire age range, but was restricted to only four countries (France, Japan, Sweden, and the United States).
For the most part, the Berkeley Mortality Database is now superseded by the Human Mortality Database, but the BMD is still available online because some types of data available in the BMD have not been transferred to the HMD.
Creation and development of the Kannisto–Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality
The Kannisto–Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality (KTD) was founded in 1993 by Väinö Kannisto and Roger Thatcher with the support and collaboration of James Vaupel, Kirill Andreev, and many others. The KTD was first developed at Odense University Medical School in Denmark. Since 1996, it has been maintained and developed by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Unlike the BMD, the KTD focused only on mortality above the age of 80, but included 30 countries (compared to the BMD, that included data for only 4 countries).
Creation and development of the Human Mortality Database
HMD began in 2000 as a collaborative project of the Department of Demographics at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, with funding from the National Institute of Aging in the United States. It used data from the BMD (which had launched in 1997) and was also strongly influenced by the Kannisto–Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality. After about two years of development, the HMD was formally launched in May 2002. HMD inherited the coverage of all age groups from BMD and the coverage of a diverse range of countries from KTD, thus combining the best features of both databases.
The methods protocol of HMD has steadily evolved and was last updated on May 31, 2007.
Short-term Mortality Fluctuations data series (STMF)
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the HMD team decided in 2020 to establish a new data resource: Sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20Performance%20Database | The Building Performance Database (BPD) is an anonymized database that contains energy use intensity data for hundreds of thousands of buildings in the United States. It is built by the Department of Energy in the United States and maintained by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Users can examine specific building types and geographic areas, compare performance trends among similar buildings, identify and prioritize cost-saving energy efficiency improvements, and assess the range of likely savings from these improvements.
History
Prior to its launch, the BPD was described in a conference presentation by Elena Alschuler and Cody Taylor from October 2012. and another presentation by Alschuler in May 2013.
The BPD was launched in June 2013 with data from over 60,000 commercial and residential buildings.
A factsheet put out by the White House Press Room on May 28, 2014, cited the Building Performance Database as an example of a success story, saying that it has exceeded a milestone of 750,000 building records, making it the world's largest public database of real buildings’ energy performance information.
Data and API
The BPD has an application programming interface (API) that can return the energy use intensity for any group of buildings defined by an API request. The BPD contains business proprietary and confidential information, and all data is anonymized and can only be analyzed in aggregate. The API can be accessed using Python, Ruby, or cURL.
References
External links
Building energy rating
Energy conservation
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAPinto | TAPinto is a network of more than 95 independently owned and operated local news and digital marketing platforms in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. Based in New Providence, New Jersey. TAPinto.net is one of the largest online local news gathering operations in New Jersey. It was founded by New Providence residents Michael and Lauryn Shapiro in October 2008 to provide independent local news. In the past two decades many local hardcopy newspapers have been acquired by national conglomerates that have slashed the newsroom. Other hardcopy newspapers have gone out of business leaving news deserts in their wake. In the coverage vacuum, hyperlocal online media such as TAPinto are often the only local news coverage that many communities get.
TAPinto's Franchise Model
TAPinto operates on a franchise model . Each TAPinto local news and digital marketing platform is independently owned and operated by a franchisee, who pays a small upfront fee, a monthly fee, and a nominal percentage of advertising revenue. In exchange, the network provides thorough training, a content management system, tech development and support, graphic design, billing and credit card processing, contract software, a CRM, ongoing continuing education programs, full-time customer service support, and helps with both the business and editorial sides of their operation. TAPinto provides significant training and support to help local news entrepreneurs own and operate a local news and digital marketing platform in their community.TAPinto also offers a variety of effective and affordable marketing options for businesses of all sizes.
Notable coverage
TAPinto journalists consistently are the first to break major stories in their communities.
In 2023, TAPinto Newark’s reporting caused the State of New Jersey to issue a stop work order on construction of a high school in Newark, New Jersey. Complaints filed by workers and union officials claimed the school was being built by non-union laborers.
Also in 2023, a city official in Plainfield, New Jersey, was removed from a city planning board and a nonprofit's board after TAPinto Plainfield reported on racist comments she made at a community fair.
Almost 250,000 people read TAPinto Stafford/LBI’s story of Taylor Swift being spotted with Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz ahead of a wedding in Beach Haven, New Jersey.
Through Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requests, TAPinto journalists have been able to hold the powerful accountable. In 2023, TAPinto Newark filed an OPRA request to find out how much the Newark Public School District paid for a dilapidated building. TAPinto eventually sued the district for withholding information from the public.
TAPinto Sparta reported on a controversial warehouse development beginning in 2022, using OPRA requests to gain valuable information for the public to see.
Partnerships
TAPinto is a member of the Local Media Association, the Local Media Consortium, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethys%20%28database%29 | Tethys is an online knowledge management system that provides the marine renewable energy (MRE) and wind energy communities with access to information and scientific literature on the environmental effects of devices. Named after the Greek titaness of the sea, the goal of the Tethys database is to promote environmental stewardship and the advancement of the wind and marine renewable energy communities. The website has been developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind and Water Power Technologies Office. Tethys hosts information and activities associated with two international collaborations known as OES-Environmental and WREN, formed to examine the environmental effects of marine renewable energy projects and wind energy projects, respectively.
Content overview
As industry, academia, and government seek to develop new renewable energy sources from moving water and wind, there exists an opportunity to gather potential environmental effects of these technologies. Tethys aims to evaluate and measure these effects to ensure that aquatic and avian animals, habitats, and ecosystem functions are not adversely affected, nor that important ocean and land uses are displaced. While these studies are presently scattered among different organizations, Tethys creates a centralized hub where this information can be found. Each document is labeled with an environmental stressor and receptor which categorize the type of potential harm and the affected area of the environment. The categories and the technology types covered are listed below:
OES-Environmental
OES-Environmental, formerly known as Annex IV, is a collaborative project among member nations of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Ocean Energy Systems (OES) to examine environmental effects of ocean energy projects and research. There is currently a wide range of ocean energy technologies and devices in development around the world; the few data that exist on environmental effects of these technologies are dispersed among different countries and developers. While the US Department of Energy is the operating agent, currently (as of November 2020) 15 out of 29 nations from OES are involved: Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Monaco, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. There have been four phases of this initiative:
Phase 1: 2010-2013
Phase 1 Annex IV (2010-2013) brought together seven Ocean Energy Systems (OES) nations, led by the US, to establish a smart, searchable, public, online knowledge base that features information on environmental effects of marine renewable energy (MRE). Annex IV also engaged numerous academic, scientific, and commercial organizations and institutions through gathering of information for Tethys and engagement in webinars and other online activities, and facilitated sharing of research findings through workshops and online |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee%20USA%20Network | Jubilee USA Network is a nonprofit financial reform organization based in Washington D.C. Jubilee USA's work began in conjunction with the global Jubilee 2000 movement, founded in the late 1990s to advocate for debt relief for developing countries. It is "an alliance of more than 75 U.S. organizations, 650 faith communities and 50 Jubilee global partners."
Origin and mission
The name "Jubilee" is derived from the Biblical Jubilee in Leviticus, a system of debt cancellation, land restoration and liberation from bondage embedded in a 7-year cycle. Jubilee USA is located in Washington D.C. and is a coalition of approximately 75 national religious and development organizations and about 400 communities of faith across the country. It describes its mission as "building an economy that serves, protects and promotes the participation of the most vulnerable".
Advocacy
Jubilee USA primarily advocates for financial reforms that argues to help impoverished communities. Those reforms include rules governing "responsible lending and borrowing", halting corporate tax avoidance, particularly in the developing world, reforming international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), creating an international bankruptcy system and advancing trade policies that promote the common good.
Leadership
Jubilee USA is governed by a steering committee ("Network Council") that consists of roughly 75 national organizations and a board of directors. Many of the organizations are religious, including American Jewish World Service, Church World Service, a number of Catholic orders and the national Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Unitarian, Episcopal and United Church of Christ churches. Other notable groups on the council include the AFL–CIO and ActionAid.
Core issues
1. Responsible lending and borrowing
One of Jubilee USA's stated main goals is to promote principles of Responsible Lending and Borrowing. These principles would purportedly guide lending decisions made by governments and international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Jubilee USA's Executive Director, Eric LeCompte, was part of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) working group that created a document called Principles on Promoting Sovereign Lending and Borrowing. The UNCTAD principles guide lending and borrowing decisions. For lending countries, the principles include ensuring that borrowing countries have the capacity to pay back the loan and adhering to UN sanctions. For borrowers, the principles include ensuring that information about the nature of the debt negotiations are available to all stakeholders, including citizens, as well as ensuring that governments avoid over-borrowing.
In 2008, Jubilee USA introduced legislation aimed at increasing debt cancellation for developing countries and instituting lending and borrowing guidelines. The Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEVAN%20%28Search%20Engine%29 | The LEVAN (Learning EVerything About ANything) is a visual processing search engine developed by computer scientists from Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle and the University of Washington. It is capable of teaching itself about any visual concept without any human supervision during the operation. LEVAN learns which terms are relevant by analyzing the content of the images found on the Web and identifying characteristic patterns across them using recognition algorithms. The funds for the research on LEVAN was provided by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. It was initially rolled out in March and as of 21 June 2014, users can browse a library of about 175 concepts with it.
Operation
LEVAN works by associating the textual data with visual data. After providing it with a textual entry, the programme then searches through numerous books and images and identifies every possible variations of the concept and displays the results as a detailed list of images that have uniformity in appearance. The research team proposed two main approaches, called axes. The "everything" axis corresponds to every possible appearance variations of a concept, while the "anything" axis corresponds to the span of different concepts for which visual models are to be learned. A different algorithm is responsible for refining words that do not correspond to the visual data.
As of June 2014, the system has been working as an archive.
Future plans
In future, the developers of the program intend to release it as an open source program, and eventually offer a smartphone app, to be available for educational purposes and facilitate an information bank to assist researchers in the computer vision community. The phone app will be aimed at quick categorising and tagging of images for archiving.
The researchers will present the project in late June 2014 at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition annual conference in Columbus, Ohio.
References
External links
Official Site
Search engine software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Clayton | Amanda Clayton (born October 24, 1981) is an American actress, best known for her role as Alex Montgomery in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, If Loving You Is Wrong.
Life and career
Clayton was born in Johnston, Rhode Island. She studied at the University of Rhode Island and later moved to New York City to attend New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in 2005. She made her film debut in 2006, playing a supporting role in the independent film December Ends. In 2012, Clayton landed the supporting role of Sarah Carter in the Disney adventure film John Carter. She later went to appear in guest starring roles on The Mentalist and Rizzoli & Isles.
In 2014, she was cast as a lead, alongside Edwina Findley, Heather Hemmens, Zulay Henao, and April Parker Jones in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera If Loving You Is Wrong. The series ended in 2020 after five seasons. Later in 2014, she was cast opposite Miles Teller and Katey Sagal in the biographical drama film Bleed For This about boxer, Vinny Pazienza.
In addition to Bleed For This, Clayton is the female lead in two additional feature-length films set for release in 2016, the comedy, The Bet and the drama, Bad Frank. In 2017, she played the leading role in the Lifetime Movie Cradle Swapping, and the following year in Mommy's Little Angel.
In 2018, Clayton was cast in the Showtime drama series, City on a Hill.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
American film actresses
American television actresses
American soap opera actresses
People from Johnston, Rhode Island
Living people
University of Rhode Island alumni
21st-century American actresses
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict%20and%20Mediation%20Event%20Observations | Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO) is a framework for coding event data (typically used for events that merit news coverage, and generally applied to the study of political news and violence). It is a more recent alternative to the WEIS coding system developed by Charles A. McClelland and the Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) coding system developed by Edward Azar.
History
Work on CAMEO began in 2000 at the University of Kansas with financial support from the National Science Foundation. The first paper on the subject, by Deborah J. Gerner was written for the March 2002 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in New Orleans. In the paper, the authors noted that they worked on creating the new CAMEO system rather than continue using the existing WEIS coding system for a combination of reasons, including previously known weaknesses of WEIS and some difficulties that emerge when trying to automate the WEIS coding process. The coding software used for CAMEO, as well as for the automated WEIS implementation that CAMEO was compared with, was the Textual Analysis by Augmeted Replacement Instructions (TABARI) software developed by co-author Philip A. Schrodt in 2000, and was in turn based on the Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) developed in 1994.
The CAMEO manual describes the following key stages of the history of work on the project:
Initial development of verb and actor ontology: (2000-2003): Deborah J. Gerner, Omur Yilmaz, Philip A. Schrodt
Refinements of actor ontology (2004-2007): Dennis Hermrick, Baris Kesgin, Peter Picucci, Joseph Pull, Almas Sayeed, Sarah Stacey
Organized Religion (2009-2011): Matthias Heilke
Ethnic Groups (2011): Jay Yonamine, Benjamin Bagozzi
Alternatives
One of the alternatives to CAMEO is Integrated Data for Events Analysis (IDEA), an outgrowth of work by the PANDA project. Predecessors to CAMEO include the World Interaction/Event Survey (WEIS) coding system by Charles A. McClelland and the Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) by Edward Azar.
Some key differences between CAMEO and IDEA are:
IDEA maintains backward compatibility with WEIS whereas CAMEO does not.
CAMEO is focused on inter-state behavior, whereas IDEA encompasses a substantially broader range of behavior.
The tertiary categories for IDEA are generally oriented towards the study of citizen direct action (for example strikes and protests), whereas the categories in CAMEO are oriented towards the study of third-party mediation in international and inter-ethnic conflict.
Reception
Academic reception
CAMEO has been the subject of a number of academic papers comparing it with other coding frameworks.
Datasets that use CAMEO coding
Integrated Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS)
Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT)
References
External links
CAMEO Event Data Codebook (describes CAMEO and its history, and links to main papers and versions of the codebook)
Data coding framework |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eoray%20Uzun | Şoray Uzun (born 9 June 1967) is a Turkish comedian, writer and television host. He is best known for hit period comedy series Seksenler and travel programming Şoray Uzun Yolda.
He is the one of Turk minority in Bulgaria. When he was child, his family was forced to immigrate to Turkey.
He played in mini series "Belene" about Turk emigration in Bulgaria. Also, he was cast in many hit series such as "Bizimkiler", " Baskül Ailesi", "Mahallenin Muhtarları", "İz Peşinde", "Gençler", "Kaygısızlar", "Bizim Ev".
He has been the host of the popular game show Cevap Soruda on TRT 1 in 2013 and of 7 de 7, the Turkish version of Quizz or Buzz on ATV in 2014.
He is married and has 2 children.
Cinema
Cumhuriyet (1998)
İstanbul 24 Saat (1996)
Denize Hançer Düştü (1992)
Salıncakta Üç Kişi (1988)
Yalnızlık Bir Şarkıdır (1987)
Television
Kendi Düşen Ağlamaz (2023)
Zengin Kız Fakir Oğlan (2014) – Himself, guest appearance
Çocuklar Duymasın – (2013) Korhan, guest appearance
Seksenler (2012–2017) – Ahmet
Sonradan Görme (2005) – Bülent
Öyle Bir Sevda ki (2002)
Zülküf ile Zarife (2000)
Köstebek (1999)
Ruhsar (1998) – Elvis Presley, guest appearance
Baskül Ailesi (1997) – Güven
Süt Kardeşler (1996)
Evdekiler (1995)
Bizim Ev (1995) – Doctor Kemal
Kaygısızlar (1994–1998) – Kültigin
Geçmişin İzleri (1994)
Barışta Savaşanlar (1993)
Mahallenin Muhtarları (1992) – Ferhat
Karşı Show (1992)
İz Peşinde (1989–1990) – Faruk
Gençler (1989)
Belene (1987)
Television host
7 de 7, Turkish version of Quizz or Buzz (2014)
Cevap Soruda (2013)
Saha Dışı
Şoray Uzun Yolda
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Bulgarian Turks in Turkey
Bulgarian emigrants to Turkey
People from Razgrad
Turkish male film actors
Turkish male television actors
Turkish television presenters
Turkish game show hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrandina-Pomarico-Miglionico%20railway%20station | Ferrandina-Pomarico is a railway station serving Ferrandina and Pomarico, Italy.
Data
The station (usually called Ferrandina station) is located on the Battipaglia–Metaponto railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
The station was modernised in 2005.
The Italian government in August 2017 has decided that the station will be connected to the new station of Matera by a modern railway.
Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):
Intercity services Rome - Naples - Salerno - Taranto
Regional services (Treno regionale) Naples - Salerno - Potenza - Metaponto - Taranto
See also
Battipaglia–Metaponto railway
References
This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at June 2014.
Railway stations in Basilicata
Buildings and structures in the Province of Matera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrier%20A.%20Haddad | Jerrier A. "Jerry" Haddad (July 17, 1922 – March 31, 2017) was an American pioneer computer engineer who was the co-developer and designer of the IBM 701 series which was IBM's first commercial scientific computer and its first mass-produced mainframe computer.
The IBM 701 started the line of IBM 700/7000 series which were responsible for bringing electronic computing to the world and for IBM's dominance in the mainframe computer market during the 1960s and 1970s that continues today. The lower-cost general-purpose version of the IBM 701 was the famous IBM 650, which became the first mass-produced computer in the world.
Haddad was responsible for engineering and both system and circuit-level design, and managed the approximately 200 engineers involved. In 1984, along with Nathaniel Rochester, he received the Computer Pioneer Award.
Haddad was also the co-developer of the IBM 604, the world's first mass-produced programmable electronic calculator, along with Ralph Palmer.
He was a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Biography
Haddad was born in New York City, to a family of Syrian and Lebanese origin. He received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, Cornell University, 1945. He studied in the Advanced Business Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1958. Haddad lived in Briarcliff Manor, New York, with his wife and five children.
Haddad was the co-developer of the IBM 604, the world's first mass-produced programmable electronic calculator, and jointly directed the IBM 701 electronic defense calculator program with Nathaniel Rochester. Haddad was the vice president of technical personnel development when he retired from IBM in 1981. Haddad held 18 patents for inventions in the computer and electronics fields.
Honors and Awards:
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1968
Recipient, Order of the Cedars Medal, Lebanon, 1970
Honorary Doctorate of Sciences, Union College, 1971
Honorary Doctorate of Sciences, Clarkson College, 1978
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Pioneer Award, 1984
Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Haddad received honorary doctor degrees of science from Union College in 1971 and Clarkson University in 1978. In 1970, he received the Order of the Cedars Medal from the Republic of Lebanon for his technical and scientific achievements.
References
External links
The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701. Segment 1–5. July 12, 1983. Jerrier Haddad, Clarence Frizzell, Nathan Rochester, and Richard Whalen
1922 births
2017 deaths
Engineers from New York (state)
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American people of Syrian descent
American people of Lebanese descen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto%20Project%20Database | The Manifesto Project Database (MPD) is the full database of political manifestos as well as election performance compiled by the Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR) project (MARPOR), formerly known as the Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP). It is maintained on the website of the Social Science Research Center Berlin in Germany. It claims to be based on "quantitative content analyses of parties’ election programmes from more than 50 countries covering all free, democratic elections since 1945."
History
The Manifesto Project Database grew out of the work of the Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP), started before 2003. In 2003, Hans-Dieter Klingemann of Social Science Research Center Berlin received the American Political Science Association's Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award for the project.
Since October 2009, the Manifesto Project has been financed by a long-term funding grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to the Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR) project to update and make available manifesto texts and content-analytical data to the scientific community.
Reception
Academic reception
The Manifesto Project can be considered one of the most widely used and influential comparative datasets in political science; its importance was recognized in 2003 by the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award of the American Political Science Association for best data set in political science.
There has been considerable academic research identifying potential problems with using the Manifesto Project Database (also referred to in the literature as the Comparative Manifestos Project) and ways to correct for it.
Data from the Manifesto Project Database has also been referenced in research on the policy preferences of voters.
References
External links
Political databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide%20Atrocities%20Dataset | The Worldwide Atrocities Dataset is a dataset collected by the Computational Event Data System at Pennsylvania State University and sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force (PITF) that is, in turn, funded by the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States.
Data
Unlike other datasets such as the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), Integrated Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS), data for the Worldwide Atrocities Dataset is entered and coded manually. Data is available for download in two files:
Data from January 1995 to December 2012, covering 7775 events. This is 3.5 MB compressed, and 12 MB uncompressed.
Data from January 1, 2013 to the present, with a four-month embargo period (so the four most recent months are unavailable). Data is updated monthly.
In addition to the datasets, a coding manual is available for download.
Reception
Academic reception
The Worldwide Atrocities Dataset has been referenced in academic research on the impact of climate change on violence in Africa. It has also been referenced alongside the ACLED dataset and the Peacekeeping Operations Locations and Event Dataset in a paper on the geography of conflict by Wiedmann and Kuse (2009). A 2011 paper by Gold and Haar used the Worldwide Atrocities Dataset to understand the spatial dimension of refugee flows.
Reception in blogs
Political scientist and forecasting expert Jay Ulfelder called the Worldwide Atrocities Dataset a "useful data set on political violence that almost no one is using." It was also referenced by Patrick Meier while reviewing a paper that used the dataset.
References
External links
Political databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocl | mocl is a programming language, a dialect and implementation of the language Lisp named Common Lisp. It is focused on mobile device platforms. It includes a compiler and runtime system. It currently runs on iOS, Android, and macOS.
History
mocl was first announced on November 14, 2012. The first release was timed to occur at Lisp universal time 3581000000 (June 23, 2013). The most recent release of mocl is named Paren Mage and was released on May 6, 2014, adding support for macOS application creation and a remote read–eval–print loop (REPL) that runs on the mobile device.
As of September 2021, the website of mocl appears inactive.
References
External links
Common Lisp implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Vanderburg | Eric Vanderburg is an American cyber security, storage networking and information technology professional and writer living in Cleveland, Ohio.
Vanderburg is Vice President of Cybersecurity at TCDI and an author and speaker on information security. He has been interviewed on TV and radio to discuss information security and he presents and conferences and seminars and has participated in panels on information security.
Education
Vanderburg attended Kent State University earning both a bachelor of Science in Technology and a Masters in Business Administration. He also has a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and pursued a doctorate in information assurance.
Life and career
Vanderburg has been interested in technology from an early age, often reading through computer manuals in his library, thus allowing himself to learn "some basics of programming". After spending some time with hackers and "Internet deviants" in the early 1990s, he managed to turn his interest in IT security into a career, and since the late 1990s his interest has primarily been that of cybersecurity within the business world. He has also spoken about the development of DevOps in the business world.
Vanderburg founded Independent Systems Consulting, an IT consulting firm, in 1997, which he ran for almost ten years. He then joined Jurinnov in 2006 where he directed IT, digital forensics, and cybersecurity consulting teams. In 2009, he built a network operations center at Jurinnov's headquarters to monitor data center operations and to perform transaction monitoring of key business and client systems. In 2016, Vanderburg became Vice President of Cybersecurity at TCDI when TCDI acquired Jurinnov. He is also a TechMin Network board member.
Vanderburg was involved with Hitachi Data Systems in testing their Essential NAS product which he compared to the Netapp FAS3000 NAS and he partnered with Lateral Data in using their Viewpoint eDiscovery tool to perform large-scale litigation document review. He worked with Venio on their litigation review tool with early case assessment (ECA), and has worked with companies including Dell, Carbonite, BitDefender, Microsoft and AT&T.
Vanderburg has served as an expert witness in cases involving digital preservation, electronic communication, access control and confidential information disclosure, database management systems, and directory services.
Academic contributions
Vanderburg taught courses in security, database management systems, and computer networking at Remington College's Cleveland-West campus as an instructor and chair of the Computer Networking Technology program. He served as an adjunct instructor in the Computer Information Systems department at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. Vanderburg has delivered commencement speeches at the Vatterott College Cleveland campus 2010 commencement and Remington College Cleveland-West campus's final graduation in 2013. He has also taught web-based courses for profe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonija%20Mitrovi%C4%87 | Antonija Tanja Mitrović is a New Zealand computer scientist who was born in Serbia.
Mitrovic did her MSc and PhD at the University of Niš in Niš, Serbia. Before moving to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and rising to the level of professor.
Mitrovic specialises in artificial intelligence methods in online-learning systems, particularly in modelling the students' understanding based on previous questions and using the model to select future questions.
Selected works
Evaluation of a constraint-based tutor for a database language A Mitrovic, S Ohlsson University of Canterbury. Computer Science and Software Engineering. 1999
Optimising ITS behaviour with Bayesian networks and decision theory M Mayo, A Mitrovic. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 2001
An intelligent SQL tutor on the web A Mitrovic. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 13 (2), 173–197 2003
A comparative analysis of cognitive tutoring and constraint-based modeling A Mitrovic, KR Koedinger, B Martin User Modeling 2003, 313–322 2003
Constraint-based tutors: a success story A Mitrovic, M Mayo, P Suraweera, B Martin Engineering of Intelligent Systems, 931–940 2001
Using evaluation to shape ITS design: Results and experiences with SQL-Tutor A Mitrovic, B Martin, M Mayo User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 12 (2–3), 243–279. 2002
KERMIT: a constraint-based tutor for database modeling P Suraweera, A Mitrovic. Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 377–387 2002
An intelligent tutoring system for entity relationship modelling P Suraweera, A Mitrovic International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 14 (3), 375–417 2004
References
External links
google scholar
linked-in
institutional homepage
Living people
New Zealand women academics
Serbian emigrants to New Zealand
New Zealand computer scientists
University of Niš alumni
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
Serbian academics
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwan%20Videos | Diwan Videos is a leading multi-channel network, talent management agency, and media production company based in the MENA region, managing top creators and working with leading brands helping grow talents and reach audiences
On the regional level, Diwan is the top viewed YouTube multi-channel network in the Middle East and Africa and the only regional network to rank among the top 100 multi-channel networks globally. With more than half of its employees YouTube certified, Diwan qualified as one of the earliest YouTube Certified Partners in the Middle East and Africa. Diwan specializes in digital content management services, including monetization, online channel optimization and protection of copyrights.
History
Diwan was established in 2010 in Cairo, Egypt, by Ossama Youssef, an entrepreneur, who saw an opportunity to lead in the untapped market of digital entertainment in the region. In two months, Diwan signed agreements with more than 30 customers in Egypt. Shortly after its establishment, the company became a YouTube partner.
The company continued to grow in the following few years with expansions in the region, serving clients in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey. Today, the company has a regional office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, serving the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and more than 300 customers from different parts of the world including India, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Some of its biggest clients include Sono Cairo, the owner of Egypt’s Radio and TV legacy productions, the TV channel solely targeting Arab children and their families, Toyor Al Janah TV, the preacher and social reformer Amr Khaled, the animated TV channel in the Middle East Spacetoon, ZeeAlwan, Arabic-dubbed Indian drama TV network, and the public Saudi figure Mohamed Al-Arefe, one of the most followed Muslim preachers in the region.
Services
The company provides a myriad of services ranging from content management, media production, influencer marketing, talent management, social media management and consulting.
Services for content creators and online advertisers include video content monetization, copyrights protection and channel optimization for increased viewership and revenue. The company also offers a consulting service for advertisers in form of online advertising, sponsorships, branded productions with product placements, and digital campaigns.
Diwan is the first multi-channel network in the Middle East that developed an online dashboard offering financial monitoring of owned channels. Diwan is also known for introducing high quality animation services in the market. Animations projects kicked off with MasriTV, a project by Google aimed for Egyptian Youth. From the notable animation work produced by Diwan is renowned Basmet Amal radio show hosted by Amr Khaled, converting selections of the aired episodes into digitally distributed animation production.
References
Companies based in Cairo
Companies based in Dubai
2010 establishments i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20PDFBox | Apache PDFBox is an open source pure-Java library that can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and meta-data of PDF files.
Open Hub reports over 11,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 18 contributors representing more than 140,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasing year-over-year commits. Using the COCOMO model, it took an estimated 46 person-years of effort.
Structure
Apache PDFBox has these components:
PDFBox: the main part
FontBox: handles font information
XmpBox: handles XMP metadata
Preflight (optional): checks PDF files for PDF/A-1b conformity.
History
PDFBox was started in 2002 in SourceForge by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for Lucene. It became an Apache Incubator project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009.
Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by Atos worldline, and donated to the project in 2011.
In February 2015, Apache PDFBox was named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association.
See also
List of PDF software
References
External links
Apache PDFBox Project
PDFBox
Free PDF software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Java (programming language) libraries
Java platform
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Read | The Read is a weekly pop culture podcast. One of several podcasts affiliated with the Loud Speakers Network, The Read is hosted by American comedians Kid Fury and Crissle West and based in New York City.
History
Prior to starting The Read, Kid Fury became popular online through his YouTube stand-up series Furious Thoughts and met co-host Crissle West through Twitter, where the two bonded and Fury asked West to start a podcast together.
The first episode of The Read was released on March 4, 2013. The Read is distributed via the iTunes Store, iHeartRadio Talk, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Stitcher. On iTunes, the podcast peaked at number three in the "New and Noteworthy" section charts and at number one in the comedy section charts. As of 2019, the podcast had over 85 million listens around the world, and received over 1.5 million unique listens every month. Fury and West have hosted several live shows for The Read, including one at the Essence Festival in 2018, where they became the first podcast to be a headlining act.
In 2019, Missy Elliott was awarded the MTV Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, where she thanked Kid Fury and Crissle for helping to make it happen.
In 2021, it was announced that Issa Rae's audio company Raedio signed a record deal with The Read to produce a comedy album with pop culture commentary from Kid Fury and Crissle and music from up and coming recording artists.
Format
During podcast episodes, Kid Fury and West discuss and analyze pop culture and current events. The podcast's format has five sections:
Black Excellence
Hot Tops, (previously known as Sick Sad World, Hot Topics, Shade in Full, and Bitch, You Guessed It) consists of the hosts discussing entertainment news from the week.
"Kid Fury's SPORTS SHORTS!" This segment, introduced in 2020, is not a consistent bit and features Kid Fury passionately describing sports news and culture with varying degrees of accuracy.
Listener Letters (the segment is changed to Listener Questions when done during a live show), where the hosts read emails sent in from listeners and offer advice.
Crissle's Couch, where West shares some of the wisdom she has learned from her mental health therapist. This segment was added to the show in July 2018 but does not appear every week.
The Read, where Kid Fury and West "read" (African American gay slang for giving one's harsh opinion which originated in the 1980s) a person or topic.
Television show
On March 13, 2019, it was announced that Fuse had greenlit a variety/talk show based on The Read, titled The Read with Kid Fury and Crissle West. Kid Fury and West served as executive producers, as did Chloe Pisello, David Martin, Jon Thoday, and Richard Allen-Turner.
The show premiered on October 11, 2019, on Fuse.
Reception
Critical reception
Tre'vell Anderson of Out called The Read "Black queer excellence", writing, "The pair consistently, and quite remarkably, have crafted a show that is more than just a pop culture recap, deftly meldi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201930 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1930:
See also
1930 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1930 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1930
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201931 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1931:
See also
1931 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1931 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1931
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201932 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1932:
See also
1932 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1932 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1932
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201933 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1933:
See also
1933 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1933 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1933
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201934 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1934:
See also
1934 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1934 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1934
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201935 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1935:
See also
1935 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1935 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1935
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Leigh%20UTC | The Leigh UTC is a University Technical College (UTC) for the Dartford area of Kent, England, that opened in September 2014. The UTC specialises in Engineering and Computer Sciences.
Building work started in October 2013 at the Bridge development, where Joyce Green Hospital once stood. The main building opened to students in September 2014.
The Leigh UTC has a project-based approach to learning.
As with all UTCs, a number of businesses and organisations support the College. These include:
University of Greenwich
Bluewater
Kenard Engineering
Eurostar
The Leigh UTC has opened a five-form entry Key Stage 3 feeder college, the Inspiration Academy, on the UTC site, in effect converting the education model into one of an 11–18 free school.
The Leigh UTC is part of Leigh Academies Trust.
References
External links
The Leigh Academies Trust
Dartford
Secondary schools in Kent
Educational institutions established in 2014
University Technical Colleges
University of Greenwich
Leigh Academies Trust
2014 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%209 | The Nexus 9 (codenamed Volantis or Flounder) is a tablet computer co-developed by Google and HTC that runs the Android operating system. It is the fourth tablet in the Google Nexus series, a family of Android consumer devices marketed by Google and built by an OEM partner. The device is available in two storage sizes, 16 GB for US$399 and 32 GB for US$479. Along with the Nexus 6 mobile phone and Nexus Player digital media device, the Nexus 9 launched with 5.0 Lollipop, which offered several new features, notably a modified visual appearance, and the complete replacement of the Dalvik virtual machine with ART. Google has included an additional step to "Enable OEM unlock" before users can unlock the Nexus 9 bootloader.
Release
The Nexus 9 was announced on 15 October 2014, with pre-orders available on 17 October and was released on 3 November 2014. A 4G LTE version was released in the US on 12 December 2014.
Specifications
Hardware
The Nexus 9 tablet features an 8.9-inch IPS LCD display with a 1536x2048 resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It runs the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor and has 2 GB of RAM.
Software
The Nexus 9 originally featured Android 5.0 Lollipop.
In December 2014, the Android 5.0.1 Lollipop was released for the Nexus 9. Android 5.0.2 Lollipop was released for the device a few months later, in May 2015. Later that month, Android 5.1.1 Lollipop was released for the Nexus 9 as well.
Google released the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for the Nexus 9 in October 2015. In December 2015, the Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow was released for the Nexus 9, among other devices.
On August 22, 2016, Google released the Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Nexus 9, as well as several other devices. In January 2017, Google announced that the Nexus 9, along with the Nexus 6, won't receive the 7.1.2 Nougat update, making 7.1.1 the last major software update from Google themselves.
See also
Comparison of tablet computers
Comparison of Google Nexus tablets
References
External links
Tablet computers
Android (operating system) devices
Google Nexus
Portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20180 | The 180 was a Canadian radio talk show, which aired weekly on CBC Radio One from 2013 to 2017. Hosted by Jim Brown from the network's studio in Calgary, Alberta, the show highlighted issues in the news by interviewing guests with provocative or unusual perspectives that differ from conventional wisdom, in the hopes of sparking debate on topics of public interest. For instance, after the 2013 Supreme Court of Canada decision that struck down Canada's existing prostitution laws, while most media outlets interviewed sex workers about the decision The 180 opted to highlight a lesser-heard perspective by interviewing a pimp.
The show originally aired Sunday evenings at 8 p.m. In May 2014, the network announced that the show would move to a Sunday morning slot in September, concurrent with a reduction of The Sunday Edition's running time from three hours to two. In June 2017, Brown announced that the show would not be returning to the CBC radio schedule in the fall.
References
External links
CBC Radio One programs
Canadian talk radio programs
2013 radio programme debuts
2017 radio programme endings
2010s Canadian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201936 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1936:
See also
1936 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1936 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1936
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk%20Roads%3A%20the%20Routes%20Network%20of%20Chang%27an-Tianshan%20Corridor | Silk Roads: The Routes Network of Chang'an-Tian Shan Corridor is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which covers the Chang'an-Tianshan portion of the ancient Silk Road and historical sites along the route. On June 22, 2014, UNESCO designated a 5,000 km stretch of the Silk Road network from Central China to the Zhetysu region of Central Asia as a World Heritage site. The corridor spans China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and includes 33 new sites and several previously designated heritage sites.
History
In 1988, UNESCO initiated a study of the Silk Road to promote understanding of cultural diffusion across Eurasia and protection of cultural heritage. In August 2006, UNESCO and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China co-sponsored a conference in Turpan, Xinjiang on the coordination of applications for the Silk Road's designation as a World Heritage site. At this conference, China and five Central Asia republics, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, agreed to make a joint application in 2010. The six countries formed a coordinating committee in 2009 to prepare for the joint-application.
On March 28, 2008, China submitted a tentative list of 48 Silk Road sites to UNESCO for consideration as cultural heritage. These sites were divided into overland Silk Road sites in Henan, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Gansu Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as well as maritime Silk Road sites in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province and Quanzhou, Fujian Province. On May 2, 2008, Iran submitted a tentative list of Silk Route sites in Khorasan Province. On January 3, 2010, Turkmenistan submitted a list of 29 sites along 11 segments of the Silk Road. On January 20, 2010, India submitted a tentative list of Silk Road sites divided into 12 components. On February 19, 2010, Kyrgyzstan submitted a list of six sites and Uzbekistan submitted a list with 18 sites. Kazakhstan's tentative list was submitted on May 3, 2012.
At the end of 2011, UNESCO proposed that due to the vast scale of the Silk Road project that the application be divided into corridors. In December 2011, China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan agreed to jointly pursue application for one corridor from Central China across the Tianshan Range, and each country nominated one government official, one archaeologist and a national application committee. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan prepared to apply for another corridor. In 2013, the application for the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor was finalized and officially submitted by Kyrgyzstan. It contained 22 sites in China, 8 sites in Kazakhstan and 3 sites in Kyrgyzstan. Each UNESCO member country may submit one application per year, and China had submitted an application for the Grand Canal. The original sites proposed by China was substantially revised for this application. Sites in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and relating to the Maritime Silk Road were rem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201937 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1937:
See also
1937 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1937 at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of 1937 films by country or language
1937
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201938 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1938:
See also
1938 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1938 at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of 1938 films by country or language
1938
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201939 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1939:
See also
1939 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1939 at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of 1939 films by country or language
1939
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201940 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1940:
See also
1940 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1940 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1940
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord%20diagram%20%28information%20visualization%29 | A chord diagram is a graphical method of displaying the inter-relationships between data in a matrix. The data are arranged radially around a circle with the relationships between the data points typically drawn as arcs connecting the data.
The format can be aesthetically pleasing, making it a popular choice in the world of data visualization.
The primary use of chord diagrams is to show the flows or connections between several entities (called nodes). Each entity is represented by a fragment (often colored or pattered) along the circumference of the circle. Arcs are drawn between entities to show flows (and exchanges in economics). The thickness of the arc is proportional to the significance of the flow.
Name
Chord diagrams get their name from terminology used in geometry. A chord of a circle is a geometric line segment whose endpoints both lie on the circle. Chord diagrams are also known as radial network diagrams and may sometimes be referred to as a type of circular layout.
Hierarchical edge bundling
While a small amount of data could be represented in a circular diagram using straight lines to show the interconnections, a diagram featuring numerous lines would quickly become illegible.
To reduce the visual complexity, chord diagrams employ a technique called hierarchical edge bundling.
Common usages
Chord diagrams are useful for showing relationships between entities and their relative magnitudes in comparison to alternative arcs. As a result, chord diagrams are popular in migration studies, economic flows, and genome studies. They have also been used to highlight unexplored relationships to help address the problem of filter bubbles.
External links
Hierarchical edge bundling is the technique by which the lines that connect nodes are grouped together to reduce visual clutter.
References
Data visualization
Diagrams
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20domain | A network domain is an administrative grouping of multiple private computer networks or local hosts within the same infrastructure. Domains can be identified using a domain name; domains which need to be accessible from the public Internet can be assigned a globally unique name within the Domain Name System (DNS).
A domain controller is a server that automates the logins, user groups, and architecture of a domain, rather than manually coding this information on each host in the domain. It is common practice, but not required, to have the domain controller act as a DNS server. That is, it would assign names to hosts in the network based on their IP addresses.
Example
Half of the staff of Building A uses Network 1, . This network has the VLAN identifier of VLAN 10. The other half of the staff of Building A uses Network 2, . This network has the VLAN identifier of VLAN 20. All of the staff of Building B uses Network 3, . This has the VLAN identifier of VLAN 11.
The router R1 serves as the gateway for all three networks, and the whole infrastructure is connected physically via ethernet. Network 2 and 3 are routed through R1 and have full access to each other.
Network 1 is completely separate from the other two, and does not have access to either of them. Network 2 and 3 are therefore in the same network domain, while Network 1 is in its own network domain, albeit alone.
A network administrator can then suitably name these network domains to match the infrastructure topology.
Usage
Use of the term network domain first appeared in 1965 and saw increasing usage beginning in 1985. It initially applied to the naming of radio stations based on broadcast frequency and geographic area. It entered its current usage by network theorists to describe solutions to the problems of subdividing a single homogeneous LAN and joining multiple networks, possibly constituted of different network architectures.
References
Computer networking
Domain Name System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201980 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1980:
See also
1980 in Brazil
1980 in Brazilian television
References
External links
Brazilian films of 1980 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1980
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Black-Eyed%20Susan%20Stakes | The 2014 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 90th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place on May 16, 2014, and was televised in the United States on the NBC Sports Network. Ridden by jockey Javier Castellano, Stopchargingmaria won the race by a scant neck over runner-up Vero Amore. Approximate post time on the Friday evening before the Preakness Stakes was 4:49 p.m. Eastern Time. The Maryland Jockey Club raised the purse to $500,000 for the 90th running. This made The Black-Eyed-Susan Stakes the third highest payout for a race restricted to three-year-old fillies. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:51.79. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 34,756. The attendance at Pimlico Race Course that day was the second best crowd ever for Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day behind only 2013.
Payout
The 90th Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (4–10) paid $119.80
$2 Trifecta: (4–10–9) paid $871.40
$1 Superfecta: (4–10–9–1) paid $9,164.80
The full chart
Winning Breeder: Harvey Clarke & Brookdale Farm; (KY)
Final Time: 1:51.79
Track Condition: Good
Total Attendance: 34,756
See also
2014 Preakness Stakes
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Stakes "top three finishers" and # of starters
References
External links
Official Black-Eyed Susan Stakes website
Official Preakness website
2014 in horse racing
Horse races in Maryland
2014 in American sports
2014 in sports in Maryland
May 2014 sports events in the United States
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20Supermarkets | Metal Supermarkets is a Canadian retailer of small-quantity metals, cut to the customer's desired size, with no minimum order quantities. Metal Supermarkets operates a franchising network of 118 locations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as an e-commerce website, making it the largest supplier in the small quantity metals industry and the only one with international reach. It also owns the FlannelJax franchise of axe throwing venues.
Founded in Mississauga, Ontario, Metal Supermarkets is headquartered in Toronto, with support offices in Leicester, England and Sydney, Nova Scotia. The current President and CEO is Stephen Schober and the Chief Operating and Development Officer is Andrew Arminen.
History
Metal Supermarkets was established in 1985 as a single location in Mississauga by William H. Mair, who saw an untapped market in offering small quantities of metal, which many large metal suppliers could not satisfy. Therefore, Metal Supermarkets adopted a business model based on cut-to-size metals and no minimum order size.
Metal Supermarkets began franchising in 1987, eventually expanding into the United Kingdom in 1994 and the United States in 1996. In 2007, Metal Supermarkets acquired and integrated Metal Express, a similar American metal supplier. Metal Supermarkets opened its 100th location in 2020.
Products and services
Metal Supermarkets supplies various metals, including various alloys, rolled metals, aluminium, brass, copper, steel, and tool steel, among others, in various shapes and grades such as bars, beams, sheets, and pipes, which can be cut to a size desired by the customer. Franchises can supply more uncommon metals for customers on request. Metal Supermarkets also offers metal cutting, shearing, notching, and fabrication services.
Locations
Canada
The first Metal Supermarkets store was established in Mississauga, Ontario by William Mair in 1985 and still operates today. In 1987, Metal Supermarkets began franchising and opened its second location in Scarborough, Ontario, before expanding to additional provinces. Presently, Metal Supermarkets operates 25 locations across Canada in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia.
United Kingdom
Metal Supermarkets opened their first British store in 1994 in Birmingham. Metal Supermarkets presently operates 8 stores across the UK.
United States
Metal Supermarkets opened their first American store in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, followed in 1997 by additional stores in Buffalo, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Dallas, Texas. The company's 100th store was in San Diego, California, opened in 2020. Metal Supermarkets presently operates 85 stores across 34 U.S. states.
Awards
In 2018, Metal Supermarkets President and CEO Stephen Schober was elected a Director of the Canadian Franchise Association.
In 2021, Metal Supermarkets was in the Franchise Dictionary Magazine's Top 100 Game Changers for 2021.
In 2021, Metal Supermarkets was ranked the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201981 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1981:
See also
1981 in Brazil
1981 in Brazilian television
References
External links
Brazilian films of 1981 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1981
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Data%20Management%20Architecture | Distributed Data Management Architecture (DDM) is IBM's open, published software architecture for creating, managing and accessing data on a remote computer. DDM was initially designed to support record-oriented files; it was extended to support hierarchical directories, stream-oriented files, queues, and system command processing; it was further extended to be the base of IBM's Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA); and finally, it was extended to support data description and conversion. Defined in the period from 1980 to 1993, DDM specifies necessary components, messages, and protocols, all based on the principles of object-orientation. DDM is not, in itself, a piece of software; the implementation of DDM takes the form of client and server products. As an open architecture, products can implement subsets of DDM architecture and products can extend DDM to meet additional requirements. Taken together, DDM products implement a distributed file system.
Distributed applications
The designers of distributed applications must determine the best placement of the application's programs and data in terms of the quantity and frequency of data to be transmitted, along with data management, security, and timeliness considerations. There are three client–server models for the design of distributed applications:
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) copies or moves whole files or database tables to each client so they can be operated on locally. This model is appropriate for highly interactive applications, such as document and spreadsheet editors, where each client has a copy of the corresponding editor and the sharing of such documents is generally not a concern.
Thin client applications present the interface of an application to users while the computational parts of the application are centralized with the affected files or databases. Communication then consists of remote procedure calls between the thin clients and a server in which uniquely designed messages specify a procedure to be called, its associated parameters, and any returned values.
Fat client applications perform all application processing tasks on client systems, but data is centralized in a server so that it can be managed, so that it can be accessed by any authorized client application, so that all client applications work with up-to-date data, and so that only the records, stream sections, or database tables affected by an application are transmitted. Client application programs must be distributed to all clients that work with the centralized data.
The DDM architecture was initially designed to support the fat client model of distributed applications; it also supports whole-file transfers.
Benefits provided by DDM architecture
The DDM architecture provides distributed applications with the following benefits:
Local/remote transparency. Application programs can be easily redirected from local data to remote data. Specialized programs that access and manage data in r |
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