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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Report%20Card | The California Report Card (CRC) is a mobile-optimized web application designed to promote public involvement in the California government. Developed by Prof. Ken Goldberg and the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, version 1.0 was released in January 2014. On the CRC site, participants are encouraged to grade California on a scale from A+ to F on six timely topics and to propose their own suggestions of issues that merit attention at the state level. The CRC is a form of E-democracy, structuring and streamlining communication from the California residents to their elected officials.
History
The CRC builds on aspects of two earlier programs: Opinion Space and the World Bank's Citizen Report Card.
Opinion Space, developed at UC Berkeley between 2009 and 2011, is a social media technology developed to assist communities in exchanging ideas and opinions concerning current issues and policies. From 2010 to 2014, the US State Department used a version of Opinion Space to solicit suggestions on foreign policy from participants around the world. The CRC augments the Opinion Space platform, and applies its techniques of deliberative polling, collaborative filtering and multidimensional visualization. The CRC moves Opinion Space to a mobile-optimized platform and builds on the original system by adding a citizen report card.
The World Bank first developed “citizen report cards” in Bangalore, India in 1993. These report cards work to stimulate public feedback on government actions and prompt individuals to express their opinions and ideas. The report cards allow for participants to assess the ideas of others and bring popular suggestions to the attention of elected leaders. The goals of the CRC are quite similar to those of the Citizen Report Cards.
Gavin Newsom's first book, Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government, published in 2013, argues for the value of projects like the CRC. Citizenville contrasts the powerful and innovative role of technology in the lives of everyday citizens and the comparatively traditional policies of the government. Newsom emphasizes the potential for technological growth and expansion in the California government. Today's technology offers a plethora of ways to connect the public directly to the government. Citizenville stresses that modern technology should be utilized to foster and enhance political participation. Newsom played an active role in development of the CRC and worked closely with the team at UC Berkeley. Newsom commented: “The California Report Card is a new way for me to keep an ear to the ground. This new app/website makes it easy for Californians to assign grades suggest pressing issues that merit our attention. In the first months, participants conveyed that they approve of our rollout of Obamacare but are very concerned about the future of California schools and universities. There was also statewide suppo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Atmospheric%20Modeling%20System | The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is a set of computer programs that simulate the atmosphere for weather and climate research and for numerical weather prediction (NWP). Other components include a data analysis and a visualization package.
RAMS was developed in the 1980s at Colorado State University (CSU), spearheaded by William R. Cotton and Roger A. Pielke, for mesoscale meteorological modeling. Subsequent development is primarily done by Robert L. Walko and Craig J. Tremback under the supervision of Cotton and Pielke. It is a comprehensive non-hydrostatic model. It is written primarily in Fortran with some C code and it runs best under the Unix operating system. Version 6 was released in 2009.
RAMS is the basis for a system simulating the Martian atmosphere that is named MRAMS.
See also
Downscaling
References
External links
Colorado State University site
ATMET (Atmospheric, Meteorological, and Environmental Technologies) site
RAMS Documentation
Numerical climate and weather models
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda%20BCA%20College | Nalanda BCA College Vidyaranya, Gadag Road, Bhadiwad, Hubli, in the Indian state of Karnataka offers a 3 year Bachelor of Computer Application Degree Course. It was founded in 2008. The college works under the aegis of "Sidhu Vidya Samsthe" a charitable nonprofit educational trust. It was registered under Bombay Trust Act 1951 at Charity Commissioner Office Belgaum on 8 August 2000.
History
"Nalanda" is a Sanskrit word meaning 'Continuous Education Charity'.
Nalanda BCA college was founded in 2008 by shri H.S.Nabhapur chairman Sidhu Vidya Samsthe.
Campus
Spread across over 4 acres, the Campus contains various buildings with old architecture. Its amenities include class rooms, libraries, laboratories and a playground.
Educational Programs
The Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) is a three year degree program with an annual enrollment of 50 students. The program is spread over six semesters and affiliated to Karnatak University Dharwad.
References
Universities and colleges in Hubli-Dharwad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid-e-Iran%20OITN | Omid-e-Iran OITN () is an American television network, inaugurated in 1995. The original mission was to broadcast television content and news to the Iranian American community of Southern California, however the scope broadened to the international Iranian community. The network was founded by Nader Rafiee, who started their journalist career on IRTV. Omid-e-Iran has programming in English and Persian languages.
See also
List of Persian-language television channels
References
External links
Television stations in California
Persian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20dynamics | Historical dynamics broadly includes the scientific modeling of history. This might also be termed computer modeling of history, historical simulation, or simulation of history - allowing for an extensive range of techniques in simulation and estimation. Historical dynamics does not exist as a separate science, but there are individual efforts such as long range planning, population modeling, economic forecasting, demographics, global modeling, country modeling, regional planning, urban planning and many others in the general categories of computer modeling, planning, forecasting, and simulations.
Some examples of "large" history where historical dynamics simulations would be helpful include; global history, large structures, histories of empires, long duration history, philosophy of history, Eurasian history, comparative history, long-range environmental history, world systems theory, non-Western political and economic development, and historical demography.
Information sources for simulations
With the rise of technologies like wikis, and internet-wide search engines, some historical and social data can be mined to constrain models of history and society. Data from social media sites, and busy sites, can be mined for human patterns of action. These can provide more and more realistic behavioral models for individuals and groups of any size. Agent-based models and microsimulations of human behavior can be embedded in larger historical simulations. Related subfields are behavioral economics and human behavioral ecology.
Data mining, web mining, predictive analytics
Social media, web analytics, social networks
Automated translation, natural language processing, Turing test
Crowd computing has been applied to history, and offers another tool for historical verification and validation.
Sectoral databases
In every sector of human activity, there are extensive databases for transportation data, urban development, health statistics, education data, social data, economic data—along with many projections. See :Category:economic databases, :Category:statistical data sets, :Category:social statistics data, :Category:social statistics and :Category:statistics.
Some examples of database activity include Asian Development Bank statistics, World Bank data, and the International Monetary Fund data.
Time series analysis and econometrics are well established fields for the analysis of trends and forecasting; but, survey data and microdatasets can also be used in forecasts and simulations.
Global, country, and sectoral models in international development
The United Nations and other organizations routinely project the population of individual countries and regions of the world decades into the future. These demographic models are used by other organizations for projecting demand for services in all sectors of each economy.
International Monetary Fund - Finance, Government Accounts
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
World H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao%20Youqin%27s%20%CF%80%20algorithm | Zhao Youqin's algorithm was an algorithm devised by Yuan dynasty Chinese astronomer and mathematician Zhao Youqin (, ? – 1330) to calculate the value of in his book Ge Xiang Xin Shu ().
Algorithm
Zhao Youqin started with an inscribed square in a circle with radius r.
If denotes the length of a side of the square, draw a perpendicular line d from the center of the circle to side l. Let e denotes r − d. Then from the diagram:
Extend the perpendicular line d to dissect the circle into an octagon; denotes the length of one side of octagon.
Let denotes the length of a side of hexadecagon
similarly
Proceeding in this way, he at last calculated the side of a 16384-gon, multiplying it by 16384 to obtain 3141.592 for a circle with diameter = 1000 units, or
He multiplied this number by 113 and obtained 355. From this he deduced that of the traditional values of , that is 3, 3.14, and , the last is the most exact.
See also
Liu Hui's algorithm
References
Chinese mathematics
Pi algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientozeuzera | Orientozeuzera is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Species
Orientozeuzera aeglospila (Turner, 1915)
Orientozeuzera brechlini Yakovlev, 2011
Orientozeuzera caudata (Joicey et Talbot, 1916)
Orientozeuzera celebensis (Roepke, 1957)
Orientozeuzera halmahera Yakovlev, 2011
Orientozeuzera meyi Yakovlev, 2011
Orientozeuzera postexcisa (Hampson, 1893)
Orientozeuzera quieta Turner, 1932
Orientozeuzera rhabdota (Jordan, 1932)
Orientozeuzera roepkei Yakovlev, 2011
Orientozeuzera shiva Yakovlev, 2011
Orientozeuzera sympatrica Yakovlev, 2011
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Zeuzerinae
Cossidae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suranga%20Nanayakkara | Suranga Nanayakkara (born 1981) is a Sri Lankan born computer scientist and inventor. , he is the director of Augmented Human Lab and associate professor at the National University of Singapore. Before moving to Auckland in 2018, he was an assistant professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. He is best known for his work on FingerReader
and Haptic Chair. His research interests include Wearable Computing, Assistive Technology, Ubiquitous computing, AI, Collective intelligence and Robotics. MIT Technology Review honored Nanayakkara as one of the Innovators Under 35 for Asia Pacific Region 2014.
Education and research
Suranga is from Piliyandala, in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Having received his secondary education from Royal College, Colombo,
he completed bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National University of Singapore in Singapore. He holds a PhD in Engineering from National University of Singapore. Suranga spent half a year at University of Birmingham and half a year at University of Southern California under student exchange program. Later he was a postdoctoral researcher with Pattie Maes's Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media Lab.
Career
Since 2011, he has been directing the Augmented Human Lab.
In 2018, he was invited to join University of Auckland as the first appointee of New Zealand Government's strategic entrepreneurial universities scheme
He joined Singapore University of Technology and Design as an Assistant Professor in 2011
Inventions
Suranga is best known for his work
EyeRing - A finger-worn interface for seamless interactions
Haptic Chair - Audio visual system to provide a more satisfying musical experience to deaf people
and StickEars – a sound-based sticky note like device to make everyday objects more accessible.
Among some of his other work, Suranga has invented SPARSH – a way to copy-paste data between digital devices; FingerDraw - way to extract colours and textures from nature and bring them into digital drawings.
Awards and achievements
INK Fellow, 2016, by INK
Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP), Sri Lanka award 2015, by JCI Sri Lanka
Young Innovator under 35 (MIT TR35) 2014 award, Asia Pacific region.
Finalist, Singapore Challenge, Global Young Scientist Summit (GYSS’14).
Interactive installation, iSwarm, selected for i Light Singapore 2014 Light show
References
External links
Documentary about Suranga in a Global Vision TV, Japan
Suranga Nanayakkara's work on Yahoo News
Creating the next generation of innovators
Suranga Nanayakkara at TR35 Singapore
Human–computer interaction researchers
Sri Lankan computer scientists
National University of Singapore alumni
1981 births
Augmented reality
Sri Lankan emigrants to Singapore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Living people
MIT Media Lab people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42%20%28school%29 | 42 is a private institution of higher education in computer science founded by Xavier Niel, Nicolas Sadirac (former executive director at Epitech), Kwame Yamgnane, and Florian Bucher (former executives at Epitech). The school opened in Paris in 2013. The school does not have any professors and is open 24/7. Students are trained through peer-to-peer pedagogy, and project-based learning.
42's name is a reference to the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy written by British author Douglas Adams: in the book, 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
In addition to the official campus in Paris, France, the school model was adopted in Lyon, Reims, and Mulhouse, France, as well as in Spain, Romania, South Africa, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Moldova, Belgium, Russia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Finland, Germany, Adelaide, Australia, Armenia, the United Arab Emirates, London, Quebec, Canada, Bangkok, Florence, Rome, Lausanne Switzerland and Turkey.
History
Announced on March 26, 2013, 42 was opened in Paris on July 15, 2013, for the selection phase called La Piscine (the swimming-pool).
On May 17, 2016, 42 announced plans to open a second campus in Fremont, California. The Fremont campus was closed in 2020.
As of 2023, 47 campuses have been opened in 26 countries.
Endorsements
42 already had big supporters in tech like Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, and Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. Spiegel called it a school from the future, and Dorsey gave a glowing endorsement, saying "We are always looking for great engineers from any background and any education like 42."
Paul Graham founder of Y combinator stated on Twitter "My God is 42 impressive. This is not another programming bootcamp. It's another MIT."
Operation
The mode of operation of 42 was notably inspired by that of Epitech: selection using "swimming pool" sessions and teaching according to the project mode. 42 Network attempts to establish 24/7 technology support communities in major cities worldwide through the participation of collaborative entities, achieving integration of education, industry, and technology exchange.
Admission and registration
The candidate must be at least 18 years old or hold a baccalaureate (it is possible to start an application for candidates in the year of their baccalaureate). No diploma is required for applicants over 18 years of age. In 2015, an experiment took place with Pôle Emploi to train a group of around thirty unemployed seniors in programming for ten months. This training has since been renewed each year.
The first selection is made using a series of logic and memory tests on the institution's website intended to assess the students' abilities to learn computer science. The second selection is called the “pool”. It is an intensive four-week selection process during which the applicant must carry out practical work in the C Language language as well as community service, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Crisis%20Behavior%20Project | The International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project is a project that collates interstate crisis data from 1918 (the end of World War I) onward to 2019. The project was created in 1975 by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld.
Data
The International Crisis Behavior project contains data on international crises from 1918 onward (i.e., after the end of World War I) until a few years ago. As of March 2023, the newest available data is ICB Version 15. The data for this version extends through 2019 and includes 496 international crises and 1,100 crisis actors. All data is available freely for download.
Reception
Academic reception
Data from the ICB has been referenced in a number of academic papers studying the patterns of conflicts and international crises. It was also used in Chapter 3 of the book What Do We Know About War? edited by John A. Vasquez. The Forecasting Principles website lists the ICB Project as an important data resource in the analysis of conflict and terror.
References
External links
Political databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps.me | Maps.me is a mobile app for Android, iOS and BlackBerry that provides offline maps using OpenStreetMap data. It was formerly known as MapsWithMe. In November 2014, it was acquired by Mail.Ru Group and became part of its My.com brand. In September 2015, the app was open sourced and a free and open-source software version was additionally made available on F-droid until the application was sold to the payment processor Daegu Limited, part of Parity.com, which changed the application user interface and content, which led Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako (former MapsWithMe founders) to release an open source ad-and tracker-free fork called 'Organic Maps' in response.
History
Maps.me was founded by Yury Melnichek, Alexander Borsuk, Viktor Govako and Siarhei Rachytski. Under the leadership of Alexander, MapsWithMe onboarded 2.5M users worldwide.
In November 2014, it was acquired by Mail.Ru Group and became part of its My.com brand. In September 2015, the app was open sourced and a free and open-source software version was additionally made available on F-droid.
In November 2020 Mail.ru Group sold Maps.me to the payment processor Daegu Limited, part of Parity.com Group. Daegu Limited changed the application user interface and content. Following this acquisition in January 2021, a fork — Organic Maps — was created by Alexander and Viktor, and is developed by the FOSS community.
MapsWithMe GmbH
The application was formerly known as MapsWithMe and initially developed by Zurich-based MapsWithMe GmbH with a development office in Minsk.
In 2012, MapsWithMe came in first in the Startup Monthly competition in Vilnius. The team won a nine-week traineeship in Silicon Valley as a prize.
Mail.ru Group
In November 2014, Maps.me was acquired by Mail.Ru Group for 542 million Russian rubles (around US$14 million at that time) to be integrated with My.com, and the app was made free of charge. The engineering team was relocated to the Mail.Ru Group office in Moscow to continue working on the project.
In 2019, its revenue amounted to 159 million rubles (US$2.5 million) with an EBITDA loss of 25 million rubles (US$0.39 million).
Daegu Ltd and partners
On November 2, 2020, Daegu Limited bought Maps.me for 1.56 billion Russian rubles (approximately US$20 million at that time). Daegu Limited is announced to be part of Parity.com Group.
On September 18, 2022, Maps.me announced the launch of a mobile app wallet with a prepaid Mastercard in partnership with Monavate.
See also
List of online map services
Comparison of commercial GPS software
References
External links
Free and open-source Android software
IOS software
Mobile route-planning software
Satellite navigation software
OpenStreetMap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Hirschberg | Julia Hirschberg is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Hirschberg was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for contributions to the use of prosody in text-to-speech and spoken dialogue systems, and to audio browsing and retrieval.
She is currently the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
Biography
Julia Linn Bell Hirschberg received her first Ph.D degree in History (16th-century Mexico) from University of Michigan in 1976. She served on the History faculty of Smith College from 1974 to 1982. She subsequently shifted to Computer Science studies, receiving her M.S. in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and a Ph.D in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
Upon graduation from University of Pennsylvania in 1985, Hirschberg joined AT&T Bell Labs as a Member of Technical staff in the Linguistics Research Department, where she worked on improving prosody assignment for Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) in the Bell Labs TTS system. She was promoted to Department Head in 1994 when she created a new Human Computer Interface Research Lab. She and her department remained at Bell Labs until 1996 when they moved to AT&T Labs Research as part of a corporate reorganization. In 2002, she joined the Columbia University faculty as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She served as Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2018.
Research
Hirschberg's research has included prosody, discourse structure, spoken dialogue systems, speech search, and more recently analysis of deceptive speech. Hirschberg was among the first to combine Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches to discourse and dialogue with speech research. She pioneered techniques in text analysis for prosody assignment in Text-to-Speech synthesis at Bell laboratories in the 1980s and 1990s, developing corpus-based statistical models based upon syntactic and discourse information which are in general use today in TTS systems. With Janet Pierrehumbert, she developed a theoretical model of intonational meaning. She was a leader in the development of the ToBI conventions for intonational description, which have been extended to numerous languages and which today are the most widely used standard for intonational annotation.
Hirschberg has been a pioneer together with Gregory Ward in much experimental work on intonational sources of language meaning and how these interact with pragmatic phenomena, particularly on the meaning of accent (intonational prominent) items and the meaning of intonational contours. She also has innovated in numerous other areas involving prosody and meaning, including the role of grammatical function and surface position in pitch accent location, the use of prosody in disambiguating cue phrases (discourse markers) with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Schrodt | Philip Andrew "Phil" Schrodt (born July 24, 1951) is a political scientist known for his work in automated data and event coding for political news. On August 1, 2013, he announced that he was leaving his job as professor at Pennsylvania State University to become a full-time consultant. Schrodt is currently a senior research scientist at the statistical consulting firm Parus Analytical Systems.
Biography
Schrodt received an M.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University in 1976. He worked at Northwestern University for 12 years, then at the University of Kansas for 21 years, and at Pennsylvania State University for 4 years, before leaving academia for a private sector job with Parus Analytical Systems.
Academic work
Schrodt's work has largely been focused on automated coding of event data for political news. In 1994, he created the Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) that won the “Outstanding Computer Software Award” from the American Political Science Association in 1995. In 2000, he created the Textual Analysis by Augmented Replacement Instructions (TABARI) software in 2000 that improved on the KEDS. He developed the Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO) data coding framework along with Deborah J. Gerner and others. The TABARI software could automatically code event data according to the CAMEO framework.
A modification of TABARI, called JABARI-NLP, was used for the Integrated Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS) database by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories. TABARI and CAMEO are also used for event coding for the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone, that Schrodt co-created with Kalev Leetaru and others.
Logistic regression models created by Schrodt were also successfully incorporated into the predictive algorithms used by Lockheed Martin for ICEWS.
Reception
Schrodt's academic work as well as his views (including those expressed in his academic work and in his blog posts) are frequently referenced by other blogs about data science and predictive analytics in political science, such as Jay Ulfelder's blog, the Predictive Heuristics blog, and Bad Hessian. He has also been referenced in Foreign Policy articles.
References
External links
Personal blog
American political scientists
Living people
1951 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20R.%20Moore%20%28computer%20engineer%29 | Charles R. Moore (also known as Chuck Moore) was an American computer engineer noted for his research on computer architecture. He spent much of his career working at IBM, where he was chief engineer and project co-lead for the PowerPC 601 microprocessor. He then led the POWER4 Chip Architecture project.
Biography
Moore received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983. He received a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 1991.
From 1984 to 2001, Moore worked at IBM Corporation in Austin, Texas, with increasing responsibility and leadership on the design and development of IBM microprocessors, including PowerPC 601, POWER4, and others. After a stint at Chicory Systems, a startup in the mobile computing space, he returned to University of Texas at Austin as a senior research fellow. In 2004, he joined Advanced Micro Devices, where he served as chief engineer for the “Bulldozer” processor microarchitecture, and ultimately held the position of corporate fellow. In 2007, Moore gave a plenary talk at the ACM Federated Computing Research Conferences (FCRC).
In 2008, he gave a keynote address at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
In 2012, Moore died of pancreatic cancer. and his career was memorialized in an IEEE Micro article
References
1961 births
2012 deaths
IBM employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriented%20FAST%20and%20rotated%20BRIEF | Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB) is a fast robust local feature detector, first presented by Ethan Rublee et al. in 2011, that can be used in computer vision tasks like object recognition or 3D reconstruction. It is based on the FAST keypoint detector and a modified version of the visual descriptor BRIEF (Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features). Its aim is to provide a fast and efficient alternative to SIFT.
See also
Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT)
Gradient Location and Orientation Histogram
LESH - Local Energy based Shape Histogram
Blob detection
Feature detection (computer vision)
References
External links
Tutorial on ORB
Feature detection (computer vision) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologist%20%28magazine%29 | Technologist was a European popular science magazine published by Eurotech Universities beginning in June 2014. It was produced by the Swiss media agency LargeNetwork and published in English, French and German. It was based in Geneva and sold in twenty countries. When accessed on 11 December, 2019, its website referred to itself in the past tense. The archives remain available online, with 17 from early in 2019 and many dozens more from 2014 through 2018.
See also
List of magazines in Switzerland
References
External links
Official website
Eurotech Universities
2014 establishments in Switzerland
2019 disestablishments in Switzerland
Defunct magazines published in Switzerland
École Polytechnique
English-language magazines
French-language magazines
German-language magazines
Magazines established in 2014
Magazines disestablished in 2019
Magazines published in Geneva
Multilingual magazines
Popular science magazines
Quarterly magazines
Technical University of Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musim%20Mas | Musim Mas Group operates globally in the palm oil industry, with a presence in 13 countries spanning Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, and South America. The group owns a significant network of palm oil refineries and is involved in vegetable oil refining. Additionally, it manufactures consumer goods such as soap and cooking oil brands in Indonesia. With a workforce of 37,000 employees, Musim Mas is supported by an extensive logistics network consisting of chemical and coastal tankers, barges, tugboats, and bulk installations at major ports in Indonesia and other strategic locations worldwide.
Musim Mas holds the distinction of being the first company in Indonesia to achieve Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification. The group's Executive Chairman has also served on RSPO's inaugural executive board. Even before environmental protection gained widespread attention, Musim Mas championed sustainability and implemented green initiatives throughout its operations, as reported by Channel News Asia. In addition to its involvement in the palm oil industry, the group has diversified interests in real estate and owns the 4-star Mikie Holiday Resorts in Berastagi, North Sumatra.
A key focus of Musim Mas Group is sustainable palm oil production. The company takes proactive measures to mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions by capturing methane gas, a highly toxic waste gas that is 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Musim Mas converts this gas into energy to power their mills and estates. All of Musim Mas' mills are equipped with methane capture facilities, also known as Biogas plants. In 2021, Musim Mas announced a partnership with AAK and Nestlé to address deforestation outside of plantation concession areas in Aceh, Indonesia. The partnership aims to engage approximately 1,000 independent oil palm smallholders within two years, enrolling them in Musim Mas' smallholders program supported by a Smallholders Hub.
Management
Musim Mas is a privately-owned company managed by the Karim brothers: Mr. Bachtiar Karim, Mr. Bahari Karim, and Mr. Burhan Karim.
Subsidiaries
Musim Mas distributes its products through its marketing arm, Inter-Continental Oil and Fats Pte. Ltd. (ICOF), which is based in Singapore. ICOF serves global markets and offers a wide range of tropical oils and derivative products.
A wholly owned subsidiary of the Musim Mas Group, Maschem B.V., has established an advanced Ethoxylation Facility at the Dow Benelux B.V. site in Terneuzen. This facility specializes in the production of surfactants, which are surface active agents derived from alcohols, oils, esters, fatty acids, and amines. These surfactants serve as essential raw materials in the manufacturing of personal care products and detergents.
Milestones
1932
Nam Cheong Soap Factory was founded by Anwar Karim in Medan, North Sumatra.
1970
The first palm oil refinery was commissioned in Belawan, Indonesia.
1972
PT Musim Mas was established in Tanjung Mulia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201941 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1941:
See also
1941 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1941 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1941
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201943 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1943:
See also
1943 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1943 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1943
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20X%20platform | The Nokia X platform was a Linux-based mobile operating system and software platform originally developed by Nokia, and subsequently by Microsoft Mobile. Introduced on 24 February 2014, it was forked from Android and used on all the devices of the Nokia X family. It was also the next Nokia Linux project after the ill-fated MeeGo.
On 17 July 2014, after the acquisition of Nokia's devices unit, Microsoft announced that no more Nokia X smartphones will be introduced, marking the end of the Nokia X platform within only a few months after its introduction. The phones were succeeded by low-cost Lumia devices under the Microsoft Mobile brand name. Microsoft did not release an Android-based device under their own brand until 2020, in the form of the foldable Surface Duo.
Overview
The Nokia X software platform was based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and the Linux kernel. Nokia combined Android apps with Nokia experiences (such as HERE Maps, Nokia Xpress and MixRadio) and Microsoft services (such as Skype and Outlook). Nokia officially described the software as bringing "the best of all worlds". It also encompasses features from the Asha platform, such as the Fastlane notification centre. The user interface mimics that of Windows Phone.
The OS has been compared to Amazon.com's Fire OS, which is also based on AOSP.
Applications
Google's applications were replaced by Nokia's and Microsoft's. When first released, the Google Play store was not included, with Nokia offering apps from their own Nokia Store. After the v2.1 update in September 2014 users were allowed to install Google Play and various other Google services through third party tools, but if users attempt to install Google services on their Nokia X devices it would usually be "bricked" and would require the Nokia Software Recovery Tool to restore the data.
As of February 2014, 75% of Android apps were compatible with the platform. Nokia noted that developers could port the remaining missing apps in a matter of hours, and in an attempt to encourage developers to contribute to the platform, added compatible Android apps without developer approval.
Developers
An SDK was available for the platform, and included an emulator based on the Android emulator. Nokia discouraged developers from using Windows Phone design patterns and encouraged the use of Android design guidelines on the Nokia X. Nokia's VP of developer relations commented that the Nokia imaging SDK would likely be ported to the platform from Windows Phone.
Version history
See also
Nokia Asha platform
Nokia Store
MeeGo
KaiOS
Hongmeng OS
References
Nokia platforms
Mobile software
Mobile operating systems
Android (operating system) forks
Discontinued Microsoft operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Bursa | The Bursa tram network (sometimes stylized as Burtram) forms part of the public transport system in the city Bursa, Marmara Region, Turkey. The tram network is operated by Burulaş, which also operates Bursa's metro system called Bursaray. Bursa's tramway is made up of three lines: a metre gauge heritage tramline called T3 that opened first in 2011, a standard gauge modern tramline called T1 that opened in 2013 and a LRT line called T2 that opened in 2022.
Tram routes
The modern tramline, T1, operates in a loop from Stadium to Gazcilar and back. T2 operates between an interchange with T1 at Kent Meydanı (Main Square) and Terminal (Central Coach Station). The heritage tramline, T3, runs from Çinarönü to Zafer Plaza.
T1 Line characteristics
Opened: 13 October 2013
Total length:
Number of stops: 16
Rail gauge: (standard gauge)
Operating hours: 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
Frequency: 8–15 minutes
Rolling stock: Durmaray Silkworm tram
T2 Line characteristics
Opened: 2 July 2022
Total length:
Number of stops: 11
Rail gauge: (standard gauge)
Operating hours: 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
Frequency: 8–15 minutes
Rolling stock: Durmaray Silkworm tram
T3 Line characteristics
Opened: 28 May 2011
Total length:
Number of stops: 9
Rail gauge: (metre gauge)
Operating hours: 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
Gallery
See also
Bursaray
List of town tramway systems in Turkey
List of tram and light rail transit systems
References
External links
Burtram – official website
Tram transport in Turkey
Standard gauge railways in Turkey
Metre gauge railways in Turkey
Transport in Bursa
Bursa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Courcelle | Bruno Courcelle is a French mathematician and computer scientist, best known for Courcelle's theorem in graph theory.
Life
Courcelle earned his Ph.D. in 1976 from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, then called IRIA, under the supervision of Maurice Nivat. He then joined the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) at the University of Bordeaux 1, where he remained for the rest of his career. He has been a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2007.
A workshop in honor of Courcelle's retirement was held in Bordeaux in 2012. Courcelle was the first recipient of the S. Barry Cooper Prize of the Association Computability in Europe in 2020. In 2022, Courcelle was awarded the EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Courcelle protested against vaccination mandates in France.
Work
He is known for Courcelle's theorem, which combines second-order logic, the theory of formal languages, and tree decompositions of graphs to show that a wide class of algorithmic problems in graph theory have efficient solutions.
Notable publications also include:
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French mathematicians
French computer scientists
Graph theorists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijerinckia%20doebereinerae | Beijerinckia doebereinerae is a bacterium from the genus of Beijerinckia.
References
External links
Type strain of Beijerinckia doebereinerae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Beijerinckiaceae
Bacteria described in 2009
Martinus Beijerinck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Bell%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Timothy Clinton Bell is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education, computer music and text compression. In 2017, it was announced by SIGCSE that Bell would receive the 2018 award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education'.
Education
Bell was educated at Nelson College from 1975 to 1979. He completed his PhD at the University of Canterbury, with a thesis titled A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression.
Career and research
Bell joined the staff and rose to professor and head of department. In parallel with his academic work he has developed Computer Science Unplugged, a system of activities for teaching computer science without computers. The system was actively promoted by Google in 2007.
Selected works
Witten, Ian H., Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell, Managing gigabytes: compressing and indexing documents and images. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
Bell, Timothy C., John G. Cleary, and Ian H. Witten. Text compression. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990.
Witten, Ian H., and Timothy C. Bell. "The zero-frequency problem: Estimating the probabilities of novel events in adaptive text compression." IEEE transactions on information theory 37, no. 4 (1991): 1085–1094.
Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell. Managing gigabytes: compressing and indexing documents and images. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
Bell, Timothy, Ian H. Witten, and John G. Cleary. "Modeling for text compression." ACM Computing Surveys 21, no. 4 (1989): 557–591.
References
Living people
New Zealand computer scientists
University of Canterbury alumni
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
People educated at Nelson College
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Allison | Dennis Allison is a lecturer at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1976.
Allison was a founding member of the People's Computer Company.
Allison in 1975 wrote a specification for a microcomputer interpreter for the BASIC programming language which became known as Tiny Basic. Allison was urged to create the standard by Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club who had seen BASIC on minicomputers and felt it would be the perfect match for new machines like the MITS Altair 8800, which had been released in January 1975. This design did not support text strings or floating point arithmetic, thus only using integer arithmetic. The goal was for the program to fit in 2 to 3 kilobytes of memory.
Allison published his work in the People's Computer Company newsletter in 1975. The Tiny BASIC contents of the newsletter soon became Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC with a subtitle of "Calisthenics & Orthodontia, Running Light Without Overbyte." By the middle of 1976, Tiny BASIC interpreters were available for the Intel 8080, the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 processors. This was a forerunner of the free software community's collaborative development before the internet allowed easy transfer of files, and was an example of a free software project before the free software movement.
From 1989 to 2004 Allison and microprocessor architect John H. Wharton coordinated Stanford University's EE-380 Computer Systems Colloquium.
References
External links
Personal web page
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerth%20St%C3%B8lting%20Brodal | Gerth Stølting Brodal is a professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Contributions
Brodal queues - a heap/priority queue structure.
References
Living people
Danish computer scientists
Academic staff of Aarhus University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Aarhus University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 41st Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which honors the crafts behind American daytime television programming, was held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on June 20, 2014. The event was presented in conjunction with the 41st Daytime Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The nominations were announced on May 1, 2014.
Winners and nominees
In the lists below, the winner of the category is in bold.
Animated programs
Children's Series
Drama Series
Lifestyle, Culinary, and Travel programs
Outstanding New Approaches
Series
Special Classes
Multiple wins
By network
PBS – 12
Nickelodeon – 10
Syndicated – 10
CBS – 8
Hub Network – 6
TOLN.com – 5
ABC – 3
Cooking Channel – 3
Cartoon Network – 2
MeTV – 2
YouTube.com – 2
Disney Channel – 1
HGTV – 1
www.mlpromise.com – 1
MTV – 1
OWN – 1
By program
Sesame Street – 6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show – 5
The Bold and the Beautiful – 4
Peg + Cat – 3
All My Children – 3
Giada In Paradise – 3
Peter Rabbit – 3
The Young and the Restless – 3
Bubble Guppies – 2
General Hospital – 2
Green Screen Adventures – 2
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness – 2
Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin – 2
One Life to Live – 2
The Scarecrow – 2
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – 2
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising – 2
Multiple nominations
By network
PBS – 41
Nickelodeon – 37
Syndicated – 32
CBS – 30
Hub Network – 23
ABC – 16
Cartoon Network – 10
NBC – 10
Disney Channel – 8
TOLN.com – 8
ABC Family – 5
YouTube.com – 4
Cooking Channel – 3
MeTV – 3
OWN – 3
MTV – 2
Netflix – 2
Blueworldtv.com – 1
CNN – 1
Disney XD – 1
Fusion – 1
Hallmark Channel – 1
HBO – 1
HGTV – 1
www.mlpromise.com – 1
mtvU – 1
Sprout – 1
By program
Sesame Street – 15
The Young and the Restless – 11
The Bold and the Beautiful – 10
Days of Our Lives – 8
The Ellen DeGeneres Show – 8
General Hospital – 8
Peter Rabbit – 8
Sofia the First – 6
Spooksville – 6
The Aquabats! Super Show! – 5
Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade – 5
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness – 5
The Mind of a Chef – 5
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour – 5
All My Children – 4
One Life to Live – 4
Peg + Cat – 4
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – 4
Beware the Batman - Episode: "Secrets" – 3
Born to Explore with Richard Wiese – 3
Giada In Paradise – 3
Green Screen Adventures – 3
Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope – 3
Made in Israel – 3
Monsters vs. Aliens – 3
Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin – 3
This Old House – 3
The Wonder Pets! – 3
Rachael Ray (TV series) – 3
The Talk – 3
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising – 3
America Now – 2
Arthur – 2
Bubble Guppies – 2
CBS Sunday Morning – 2
Curious George – 2
Dan Vs. – 2
The Fresh Beat Band – 2
Jack Hanna's Into the Wild – 2
The Queen Latifah Show – 2
Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch – 2
The Scarecrow – 2
Superbook – 2
Super Soul Sunday – 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – 2
Turbo FAST – 2
Refere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Lollipop | Android Lollipop (codenamed Android L during development) is the fifth major version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and the 12th version of Android, spanning versions between 5.0 and 5.1.1. Unveiled on June 25, 2014 at the Google I/O 2014 conference, it became available through official over-the-air (OTA) updates on November 12, 2014, for select devices that run distributions of Android serviced by Google (such as Nexus and Google Play edition devices). Its source code was made available on November 3, 2014. The first phone with Android Lollipop was the Nexus 6.
One of the most prominent changes in the Lollipop release is a redesigned user interface built around a design language known as Material Design, which was made to retain a paper-like feel to the interface. Other changes include improvements to the notifications, which can be accessed from the lockscreen and displayed within applications as top-of-the-screen banners. Google also made internal changes to the platform, with the Android Runtime (ART) officially replacing Dalvik for improved application performance, and with changes intended to improve and optimize battery usage.
, 0.41% of Android devices run Lollipop 5.0 (API 21) and 2.79% run Lollipop 5.1 (API 22) combined. However, this figure is misleading, as on tablets Android 5.1 is much more popular than it is on phones, being ranked 3rd of all Android versions at 8.98% when counting Android 7.0 and 7.1 Nougat separately. When market shares for versions 7.0 and 7.1 are combined, Nougat is more popular than Lollipop, at 11.04% on tablets, making Lollipop the fourth most popular version.
As of September 2023 Lollipop is the oldest version of Android still supported by Google Play Services.
Development
The release was internally codenamed "Lemon Meringue Pie". Android 5.0 was first unveiled under the codename "Android L" on June 25, 2014 during a keynote presentation at the Google I/O developers' conference. Alongside Lollipop, the presentation focused on a number of new Android-oriented platforms and technologies, including Android TV, in-car platform Android Auto, wearable computing platform Android Wear, and health tracking platform Google Fit.
Part of the presentation was dedicated to a new cross-platform design language referred to as "material design". Expanding upon the "card" motifs first seen in Google Now, it is a design with increased use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows. Designer Matías Duarte explained that "unlike real paper, our digital material can expand and reform intelligently. Material has physical surfaces and edges. Seams and shadows provide meaning about what you can touch." The material design language would not only be used on Android, but across Google's suite of web software as well, providing a consistent experience across all platforms.
Features
Android 5.0 introduces a refreshed notificat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Fit | Google Fit is a health-tracking platform developed by Google for the Android operating system, Wear OS, and iOS. It is a single set of APIs that blends data from multiple apps and devices. Google Fit uses sensors in a user's activity tracker or mobile device to record physical fitness activities (such as walking, cycling, etc.), which are measured against the user's fitness goals to provide a comprehensive view of their fitness.
History
Google Fit was announced at the Google I/O conference on June 25, 2014. A software development kit for Google Fit was released on August 7, 2014. Fit launched to the public on October 28, 2014.
In August 2018, Google announced a revamp to its Android Fit platform which adds activity goals based on activity recommendations from the American Heart Association and the World Health Organization. The updates are meant to help Fit better provide metrics for activities other than walking and encourage users to engage in activities that will raise the heart rate without necessarily requiring a trip to the gym.
In April 2019, Google announced Google Fit for iOS offering similar experience to its Android counterpart. Google Fit for iOS used Apple Health, Nike Run Club, Headspace or connected device such as Apple Watch or Wear OS smartwatch connected to user device. In August 2019, Google announced dark theme, sleep insights and workout map feature availability.
In April 2020, Google redesigned Google Fit. In November 2020, Google Fit added iOS 14 widget.
In February 2021, Google announced a Pixel 5 exclusive feature for Google Fit, heart rate and respiratory measurement using Pixel 5's camera.
In June 2021, Google announced support for paced walking. Google announced unmentioned metrics in Google Fit to be deleted within 30 days.
Functionality
Google Fit provides a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales). Users can choose who their fitness data is shared with as well as delete this information at any time.
See also
AllTrails
Health (Apple)
Samsung Health
MSN Health & Fitness
Runkeeper
Strava
References
External links
Google Fit website
Google Fit SDK homepage
Fit
Health software
Fitness apps
Activity trackers
Android (operating system) software
2014 software
Computer-related introductions in 2014
Wear OS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2044%20%28Jalisco%29 | Canal 44 () is the television network of the Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG), a university in Jalisco, Mexico. The primary station, XHCPCT-TDT, broadcasts to the Guadalajara metropolitan area from a transmitter located on Cerro del Cuatro in Tlaquepaque, with additional transmitters in Ciudad Guzmán, Lagos de Moreno, and Puerto Vallarta. Canal 44 and the UDG's eight-station radio network form the (University Radio and Television System).
History
As early as 1991, UDG sought a permit to build a television station and was denied; instead, the permit was built out as Jalisco's state television system, XHGJG-TV channel 7 (known as C7). It tried two more times to obtain a permit, once in 1995 and again in 1997.
In 2001, UDG and Televisa signed an agreement under which UDG supplied some programs to be broadcast on Televisa's local channel 4, XHG-TV.
On January 27, 2010, Cofetel at last approved the award of a permit for a non-commercial television station to the University of Guadalajara to construct XHUDG-TV. The station went on the air on January 31, 2011, with a staff of 100. The University of Guadalajara thus became the sixth university in Mexico to sign on a television station.
Not long after, UDG applied for a digital companion channel for its station, and in November 2013, the first test transmissions of XHUDG-TDT (RF channel 46) were broadcast. On December 16, 2015, XHUDG, along with other television stations in Guadalajara, shut off its analog signal and went digital-only. This facility continues to operate, though a failure to renew the original concession led to a call sign change to XHCPCT-TDT with a new concession effective January 1, 2022.
Until December 31, 2016, the station had over-the-air coverage in Los Angeles as the second digital channel of KVMD (31.2). UDG also produces an international variant of XHUDG for worldwide distribution.
Expansion in Jalisco
In December 2016, the Federal Telecommunications Institute authorized new public concessions for television stations to the Universidad de Guadalajara, at Ciudad Guzmán (XHPBGZ-TDT, RF channel 11) and Lagos de Moreno (XHPBLM-TDT, RF channel 9). The Ciudad Guzmán transmitter, which is co-located with Jalisco TV on Cerro de la Escalera, entered program service on January 31, 2018. The Lagos de Moreno transmitter followed on September 19.
On November 5, 2018, the IFT approved a fourth transmitter, XHCPAF-TDT (RF channel 8), to serve Puerto Vallarta. It began broadcasting on February 25, 2020.
Programming
XHUDG programming is primarily cultural and educational in nature. Many of the UDG-produced programs formerly seen on XHG under the Televisa contract moved to XHUDG, such as Claves, La Brújula and La Vagoneta. XHUDG has also rebroadcast programs produced by TV UNAM and by Canal 22, though those two channels are available full-time as subchannels of the SPR transmitter in Guadalajara.
The station produces local newscasts known as Señal Informativa, aired three times daily, at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20UNAM | TV UNAM (stylized as tvunam and tv•unam, formerly written teveunam) is an educational television network owned and operated by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City.
Programming on TV UNAM generally consists of educational telecourse programs for UNAM students, plus public affairs, documentary and cultural programming. Some TV UNAM programming can also be seen on the nationwide Edusat service.
History
The UNAM began broadcasts on XHUNAM-TV analog channel 60 on December 5, 2000, in Mexico City in order to pave the way for their own television network. It broadcast for five years before being renewed in 2005 as a digital-only station, the first in Mexico.
As part of the project, UNAM's DGTU (Dirección General de Televisión Universitaria or TV UNAM) began the broadcast of TV UNAM on October 24, 2005, on cable and satellite TV systems, including Cablevisión in the Valley of México and satellite TV provider SKY, and later Dish México. (As of 2014, TV UNAM is now required carriage for all cable systems in Mexico alongside several other public and cultural stations.) With the help of the government-owned OPMA public television network (now Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR)), it expanded its coverage as an over-the-air digital subchannel. TV UNAM is generally on the air daily from 8am to as early as midnight (longer on some nights, especially if there is a movie or concert scheduled).
Although XHUNAM-TDT continues to operate on digital channel 20 in Mexico City, it has largely been used for experimental transmissions and does not broadcast the programming of TV UNAM. SPR's Mexico City station XHSPR-TDT carries it on channel 20.1.
References
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Public television in Mexico
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPlanet | GeoPlanet is a computer platform for coordinating world-wide geographic information, and providing both text and cartographic output, such as digital maps for any location in the world. It provides a location infrastructure for search engines, portals and both Web and WAP sites. It was developed by GDC, a London-based geographic information company, which was acquired by Whereonearth in 1998. When Whereonearth spun off GDC in 2002, it kept GeoPlanet. When Yahoo! purchased Whereonearth in 2005, it acquired GeoPlanet.
An integral part of GeoPlanet is the WOEID (Where On Earth IDentifier), a unique 32-bit reference identifier, now assigned by Yahoo!, that identifies any feature on Earth. In addition to the strict numerical WOEID, GeoPlanet also has a hierarchical structure that allows accessing surrounding locations, and zooming up and down administrative divisions. In 2009, Yahoo! released GeoPlanet's WOEID data to the public, but the last release was on 1 June 2012 after which Yahoo! decided to cease making the data downloadable until they "determine a better way to surface the data as a part of the service".
In June 2015, Yahoo announced that the GeoPlanet APIs would be dropped as the functionality is now available through their Yahoo Query Language and BOSS APIs. The GeoPlanet APIs stopped responding to requests in late August 2016.
References
External links
Cartography
Discontinued Yahoo! services
Geographical technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201982 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1982:
See also
1982 in Brazil
1982 in Brazilian television
References
External links
Brazilian films of 1982 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1982
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo%20%28software%29 | Ringo was an international calling app for smartphones that utilized dedicated phone circuits for making calls. Ringo used local phone networks instead of the user's smart phone's Internet connection to connect calls. The caller, but not the called party, downloaded and used the app to make calls. Apps were available for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Ringo launched in 2014 and was available for use in many countries, though not all supported all three calling methods:- callout, callback and WiFi. Calls could be made to mobile and landline phones in any country. Ringo was discontinued on March 31, 2021.
History
Ringo was developed by start-up Riva FZC, the parent holding company of Ringo.
Features and functionality
Ringo allowed users to make calls to any number in any destination worldwide and did not use a web connection for its calls. Users could purchase top-up credits through the app for Android and Windows Phone and through the website for iOS to make calls. When a call was made using Ringo, it was connected to a local phone network and assigned a local number. The system then switched the call to connect through submarine cables. At the receiver's destination country the call was connected to a local network again. Although the call was assigned different local numbers every time it was made, the receiver saw the caller's contact details only.
References
External links
Telephony software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201944 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1944:
See also
1944 in Brazil
References
External links
Brazilian films of 1944 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1944
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekmantown%20Group | The Beekmantown Group is a late Cambrian to lower–middle Ordovician geologic group that occurs in the eastern Canada (Québec) and northeastern United States, datable from its conodont fauna. It contains dolomitic sandstones and carbonates from just off land from the palaeocoastline.
The usage of the term is diverse and depends on the state or region in question, and the group encompasses different formations in different regions. In some states it is considered a formation rather than a group, but the lithology varies by region.
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New Jersey
Paleontology in New Jersey
References
Geologic groups of New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titmouse%20%28disambiguation%29 | Titmouse may refer to:
Baeolophus, the genus of bird commonly known as titmice
Tit (bird), the European titmouse
Titmouse, Inc., a U.S. animation studio
Pointing stick, a style of computer mouse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201945 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1945:
See also
1945 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1945 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1945
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201946 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1946:
See also
1946 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1946 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1946
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeHS | CodeHS is an interactive online learning platform offering computer science and programming instruction for schools and individual learners. CodeHS is focused on spreading access to and knowledge of computer science by offering online instructional materials supported by remote tutors. In the introductory learning module, students on the site practice computer science concepts and programming skills by giving commands to a dog named Karel. In the most popular course offered, which is similar to the original Karel programming language developed by Richard E. Pattis, Karel the dog must complete various tasks by moving around a grid world, and putting down and picking up tennis balls using only simple commands. Later learning modules teach more advanced concepts using languages like JavaScript, Java, and HTML.
History
CodeHS was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Keeshin and Zach Galant, both Stanford University Computer Science graduates. Keeshin and Galant based CodeHS on their experience as section leaders and teaching assistants for several of Stanford's introductory computer science courses. The company joined the Imagine K12 incubator's third class, launching in October 2012, and its investors include NewSchools Venture Fund, Seven Peaks Ventures, Kapor Capital, Learn Capital, Imagine K12, Marc Bell Ventures, and Lighter Capital. In total, CodeHS has raised $2.9 million as of December 2016.
NBC Education Nation
CodeHS was selected as one of three education technology companies to take part in the 2013 Innovation Challenge, part of the NBC Education Nation initiative. Innovation Nation challenge participants CodeHS, Teachley, and GigaBryte participated in a series of challenges in October 2013, culminating in a live pitch contest broadcast live on NBC during the Education Nation Summit. CodeHS won the Innovation Challenge, earning a $75,000 prize awarded by the Robin Hood Foundation.
Hour of Code
During the week of December 9, 2013, CodeHS participated in the nationwide Hour of Code challenge promoted by Code.org. CodeHS was featured as a tutorial for learning JavaScript on the Computer Science Education Week website. Over the course of the week, an estimated 116,648 participants started learning to code for an hour on CodeHS.
Karel the Dog
The first learning module on CodeHS teaches introductory programming concepts by having students give basic commands to Karel the Dog using Karel-specific JavaScript commands. This approach is based on the original Karel programming language developed by Richard E. Pattis and is used in Stanford University's introductory computer science classes. Karel initially knows only a few basic commands: move(); to have Karel move one spot forward, turnLeft(); to have Karel turn left, putBall(); to have Karel put down one tennis ball in the current spot, and takeBall(); to have Karel pick up one tennis ball from the current spot. Karel can be "taught" additional commands by defining new functions composed of these basic c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//G.U.%20Trilogy | is a 2008 Japanese CGI anime original video animation (OVA) directed by Hiroshi Matsuyama based on CyberConnect2's games .hack//G.U.. It was released on January 25, 2008 on DVD and Blu-ray format. The OVA features the voice talents of Takahiro Sakurai, Ayako Kawasumi, Hiroki Touchi and Kaori Nazuka. Its story focuses on an online gamer known as Haseo who seeks to find the player killer Tri-Edge who sent his friend Shino on a coma after her character was killed in the game.
Director Matsuyama aimed to retell the story from the .hack//G.U. trilogy but with enhanced visuals, following issues with fans of the series who were not able to play the game as a result of lacking enough free time. Feeling the need to add new content not seen in games, Matsuyama came with the idea of giving Haseo another redesign. The OVA features a theme song "Deepest Memories" by Japanese music artist Tomoyo Mitani.
Upon release, critics were divided in regards to the OVA's narrative, finding it too rushed due to the inclusion of too many characters in too little time but praised the bond Haseo forms with Atoli as well. The presentation, though, received mostly positive response for the fights provided with the visuals as well as the performance from the main voice actors.
Plot
In a popular online game called "The World", a player named Haseo searches for a Player Killer (PK) called Tri-Edge to save his friend, Shino, who was PKed and rendered comatose in real life as the result. One day, he encounters a girl named Atoli, who uses the same PC as Shino after a disagreement with Atoli's superior, Sakaki, regarding his PKK activities. Haseo meets his former guild master, Ovan, who informs Haseo that Tri-Edge will appear again at the place where Shino was PKed. Haseo fights the fighter but is defeated and loses all his PC's powers.
The defeated Haseo is taken by a group of CC Corp system administrators called G.U., which consists of its leader Yata, and his two subordinates Pi and Kuhn. They reveal that Haseo is one of special PCs known as the Epitaph Users that possesses special power to control a being known as Avatar. G.U. offers to help Haseo in finding Tri-Edge in exchange he joins G.U. and help to exterminate an unknown A.I bug called AIDA that causes multiple players to fall into a coma in real life. Wishing to help, Atoli approaches Haseo and starts to spend times with him, but Haseo later rejects her in rage. Ovan manipulates Atoli to look for Tri-Edge to gain Haseo's acceptance. Learning Atoli's disappearance caused by an AIDA phenomenon, Haseo pursues Atoli with Pi and Kuhn. When they found Atoli, Tri-Edge appears once more. Haseo awakens his Avatar, Skeith, and defeat his nemesis. Upon his defeat, however, Atoli is attacked by AIDA, causing her PC data to deteriorate. To save her, Haseo shares his PC data with Atoli. During the process, Ovan hacks into G.U., transporting Haseo and Atoli to an area. In Atoli's mind space, Haseo confronts the AIDA-infected Atoli, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201983 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1983:
See also
1983 in Brazil
1983 in Brazilian television
References
External links
Brazilian films of 1983 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1983
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20%28word%29 | The word data is most often used as a singular mass noun in educated everyday usage. However, due to the history and etymology of the word, considerable controversy has existed on whether it should be considered a mass noun used with verbs conjugated in the singular, or should be treated as the plural of the now-rarely-used datum.
Usage in English
In one sense, data is the plural form of datum. Datum actually can also be a count noun with the plural datums (see usage in datum article) that can be used with cardinal numbers (e.g., "80 datums"); data (originally a Latin plural) is not used like a normal count noun with cardinal numbers and can be plural with such plural determiners as these and many or as a mass noun with a verb in the singular form.
Even when a very small quantity of data is referenced (one number, for example), the phrase piece of data is often used, as opposed to datum. The debate over appropriate usage continues, but "data" as a singular form is far more common.
In English, the word datum is still used in the general sense of "an item given". In cartography, geography, nuclear magnetic resonance and technical drawing, it is often used to refer to a single specific reference datum from which distances to all other data are measured. Any measurement or result is a datum, though data point is now far more common.
Data is indeed most often used as a singular mass noun in educated everyday usage. Some major newspapers, such as The New York Times, use it either in the singular or plural. In The New York Times, the phrases "the survey data are still being analyzed" and "the first year for which data is available" have appeared within one day. The Wall Street Journal explicitly allows this usage in its style guide.
The Associated Press style guide classifies data as a collective noun that takes the singular when treated as a unit but the plural when referring to individual items (e.g., "The data is sound" and "The data have been carefully collected").
In scientific writing, data is often treated as a plural, as in These data do not support the conclusions, but the word is also used as a singular mass entity like information (e.g., in computing and related disciplines). British usage now widely accepts treating data as singular in standard English, including everyday newspaper usage at least in non-scientific use. UK scientific publishing still prefers treating it as a plural. Some UK university style guides recommend using data for both singular and plural use, and others recommend treating it only as a singular in connection with computers. The IEEE Computer Society allows usage of data as either a mass noun or plural based on author preference, while IEEE in the editorial style manual indicates to always use the plural form. Some professional organizations and style guides require that authors treat data as a plural noun. For example, the Air Force Flight Test Center once stated that the word data is always plural, never singul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20SBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2012 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2012. It took place on December 31, 2012, at the SBS Prism Tower in Sangam-dong, Mapo District, Seoul, and was hosted by actor Lee Dong-wook and actress Jung Ryeo-won.
Nominations and winners
Complete list of nominees and winners:
(Winners denoted in bold)
Top 10 Stars
Chae Shi-ra - Five Fingers
Han Ji-min - Rooftop Prince
Jang Dong-gun - A Gentleman's Dignity
Jung Ryeo-won - History of a Salaryman, The King of Dramas
Kim Ha-neul - A Gentleman's Dignity
Lee Min-ho - Faith
Park Yoochun - Rooftop Prince
Shin Eun-kyung - Still You
So Ji-sub - Phantom
Son Hyun-joo - The Chaser
New Star Award
Choi Minho - To the Beautiful You
Go Joon-hee - The Chaser
Jung Eun-woo - Five Fingers
Kwon Yuri - Fashion King
Lee Hyun-woo - To the Beautiful You
Lee Jong-hyun - A Gentleman's Dignity
Park Hyo-joo - The Chaser
Park Se-young - Faith
Sulli - To the Beautiful You
Yoon Jin-yi - A Gentleman's Dignity
References
External links
SBS
SBS Drama Awards
SBS
December 2012 events in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodworth%20Personal%20Data%20Sheet | The Woodworth Personal Data Sheet, sometimes known as the Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory was a personality test, commonly cited as the first personality test, developed by Robert S. Woodworth during World War I for the United States Army. It was published in 1919 and It was developed to screen recruits for shell shock risk but was not completed in time to be used for this purpose. It instead became widely used in psychological research and led to the development of many other personality tests. It has been described as "the linear ancestor of all subsequent personality inventories, schedules and questionnaires".
Construction
Questions for the test were generated by Woodworth based on his interviews with psychologists and case studies of persons with psychological disturbance. This set of items was then given to a group of subjects deemed to be normal and items answered too frequently were removed. The reduced set of questions was then given to a large sample of servicemen and a smaller sample of "diagnosed abnormal subjects". With these results the test was submitted to the Surgeon General who accepted it and a preliminary program of recruit screening was established where recruits who scored high on the test would be referred to a psychologist for further evaluation.
Some attempts were made to weight items according to their discriminating power, but this was found to not improve the reliability of scores and was so abandoned. The content of the items covered somatic symptoms, medical history, family history and social adjustment. The final form consisted of 116 yes or no questions.
Example items
1. Do you usually feel well and strong? (reverse scored) Yes
4. Are you troubled with dreams about your work? No
25. Have you ever fainted away? No
110. Has any of your family committed suicide? No
116. Do you like outdoor life? (reverse scored) Yes
Revisions
During the early years most psychological tests were revisions of the WPI, which, with its 116 questions, provided ample material.
In 1920 Buford Johnson adapted the test to produce a version for children between 10 and 16, taking 51 questions from the WPI and adding nine of his own. In 1923 Ellen Matthew produced another adaptation for children, taking 23 questions directly, modifying 33 slightly and adding 28 new questions. Also in 1923 V. M. Cady took all the questions from the WPI and the questions Johnson added in his revision and reworked them for an adolescent audience.
The items of the WPI were in the pool used to produce the Thurstone Personality Schedule in 1930.
Even some modern tests, such as the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, have questions that can be traced back to the WPI.
References
External links
Interactive version of the WPI
Personality tests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droiders | Droiders is a Spanish software company that focuses on mobile and web apps, and it is an official developer for Google Glass apps. The company was founded in 2008 by computer engineer Juilán Beltrán. Droiders was a finalist for the Android Developer Challenge in 2008; winners of the Telefónica Challenge and Movilforum in 2009, and they were selected in 2013 by Google as one of the first 80 to test and develop software for Google Glass devices.
Milestones
The first live-broadcast surgical operation in the world was held on 21 June 2013 by the surgeon Pedro Guillén.
The first application Google Glass for blind people. The app enables them to read.
The first Augmented Reality app for Google Glass.
The first bank app for Google Glass for BancSabadell.
The first live broadcast for Google Glass in a charity event with Starlite show.
The second application that allows reading of the El Mundo newspaper in Google Glass.
The first live-broadcast maxillofacial surgery held on 26 October 2013 by three Spanish dentists (Peña, Piqueras y López) with Google Glass.
The first live-broadcast surgery in Portugal with Google Glass.
The first app that enables watching TV with Google Glass, developed for Spanish TV group RTVE.
References
External links
Software companies of Spain
Software companies established in 2008
Companies based in the Region of Murcia
Spanish companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijerinckia%20mobilis | Beijerinckia mobilis is a nitrogen fixing bacteria from the genus of Beijerinckia.
References
External links
Type strain of Beijerinckia mobilis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Beijerinckiaceae
Bacteria described in 1950
Martinus Beijerinck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSpy | mSpy is a brand of mobile and computer parental control monitoring software for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. The app allows users to monitor and log activity on the client device.
History
mSpy was launched as a product for mobile monitoring in 2010 by a London-based tech company.
In 2012, the application allowed parents to monitor not only smartphones but also computers - Windows and Mac.
By 2014, the business grew nearly 400%, and the app's user numbers exceeded the 1 million mark.
In 2016, mLite, a light version of mSpy, became available from Google Play.
In 2015 and 2018, mSpy was the victim of data breaches which released user data.
Reception
It was noted that since MSpy runs inconspicuously, there is risk of the software being used illegally. mSpy was called "terrifying" by The Next Web and was featured in NPR coverage of spyware used against victims of stalking and other domestic violence.
In May 2015, Brian Krebs claimed that mSpy was hacked, leaking personal data for hundreds of thousands of users of devices with mSpy installed. mSpy claimed that there was no data leak, but that instead, it was the victim of blackmailers
In September 2018, Krebs claimed and demonstrated that anyone could easily gain access to the mSpy database containing data for millions of users.
See also
Parental controls
Spyware
References
links
2011 establishments in England
Mobile technology companies
Mobile applications
Stalkerware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiotest | Idiotest (a portmanteau of "idiot" and "test" and stylized with the second letter i inverted) is an American television game show broadcast by Game Show Network (GSN). Hosted by Ben Gleib, the series features contestants in teams of two competing to answer brain teaser and puzzle questions. The winning team advances to a bonus round for an opportunity to increase their winnings to $10,000. The series was announced at GSN's upfront presentation in March 2014, and the first episode premiered on August 12, 2014 of that year. On December 15, 2018, the first season became available to watch on Netflix.
Critical reception for the series has been mixed, with one writer calling it "enjoyable" while another called it "uninteresting." Additionally, GSN released an online game midway through the first season that allows users to answer questions from the series' past episodes.
Gameplay
The main game features two pairs of contestants answering brain-teaser questions taking the form of a visual puzzle. In the first round, each team faces two questions. Contestants can work together and must answer by touching the correct answer (or answers, depending on what the question is asking them) on the screen. The question is often phrased so that the contestants may be misled if they do not read it correctly (for example, "Touch the largest greenhouse" could be misread as "Touch the largest green house"). Contestants may also be required to know a lesser-known definition of a common word (for example, "Habit", referring to a religious garment instead of a pattern of behavior). The contestant may also be given words that can be easily confused with others (for example, "Bass", referring to either a fish or a guitar, the correct answer being dependent on how the host pronounces the word). The value of these questions begins at $300, with $20 deducted for every second the team takes in answering; the money begins counting down on the "money meter" when the puzzle first appears on the screen. Each contestant's money meter stops counting down when an answer is chosen on the touchscreen. For all questions, a correct answer puts the remaining money in their team's bank, while an incorrect answer or running out of time on a question (the money meter thereby reaches zero and reads "IDIOT" in big letters) wins nothing.
In round two, contestants, without the help of their partners, are given their own questions to answer. The opening value of each question is $500, decreasing by $25 each second until an answer is given.
In the third round, one contestant from each team faces the same question simultaneously. This easier question starts at $1,000 and decreases by $50 per second. The remaining contestant from each team then faces a more difficult question, with an opening value of $2,500 decreasing by $100 per second. The host usually reads the question to the contestants during this round. After this second question, the team that has more money wins the game, keeps their ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorook%20railway%20line | The Moorook railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. It ran from a junction with the Barmera line at Wanbi north to Yinkanie near Moorook opening on 7 September 1925. It was proposed to later extend the line to Moorook and Kingston On Murray if demand arose, but road transport improved so the railway was never extended, and the line was closed on 1 May 1971.
Route
The route of the line was designed to cover the gap between the Waikerie and Loxton lines at the lowest cost.
The names of the new stations were Gluyas, Caliph, Bayah, Tuscan, Koowa, Wunkar, Myrla, Wappilka and Yinkanie.
References
External links
Closed railway lines in South Australia
Railway lines opened in 1925
Railway lines closed in 1971 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl%20Friend%20Beta | is a 2012 Japanese smartphone game developed by CyberAgent for iOS and Android devices. As of June 2014, it has over 5.3 million users. An anime television series produced by Silver Link aired in Japan between October and December 2014. There are also five manga adaptations based on the game, and a PlayStation Vita spin-off game was released in November 2015.
Gameplay
The game is a dating simulator which features over 100 different virtual girls, each with a unique voice actress. The player progresses their relationship with the virtual girlfriend by taking her on dates. The game is free-to-play, however the player pays real-world money to gain premium services. The game features various events that occur, including battle events when bad guys appear. The player can engage in club activities and school class events to solicit romance and increase intimacy with female students. There is a card-based system within the game, where the player collects different cards of varying rarity; each card has different attributes, such as attack and defense costs. Cards can be enhanced by engaging in a part-time job.
Characters
Main characters
A second-year high school student belonging to the rhythmic gymnastics club. She has shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. She is said to be the ace of the club and is extremely popular.
A second-year student in the school's broadcasting committee. She has red hair styled in a ponytail and brown eyes. She is a cheerful and kind girl. She has a rather close friendship with fellow club member Tomo Oshii.
A third-year student in the book committee. She has silvery-blue hair that is partly braided.
A third-year French exchange student in the Japanese Culture Research Society. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes.
A third-year student in the photography club. She also has long blonde hair but wears purple bows, and has green eyes. She is best friends with Fumio Murakami.
Other characters
: A third-year student and a member of the pottery club. Her grandfather runs a cake shop, where she becomes a part-time worker.
: A first-year student belonging to the Lacrosse Club. She has impressive reflexes and is always in a lively, cheerful mood, often making noise when everyone is gathered around. However, in reality she is lonely. She is Momoko's childhood friend.
: The president of the student council. She appears to be ditzy and sometimes unknowingly becomes a hindrance to other members, with her only known talent is serving tea. Due to her personality, her position as the president makes it questionable to other members.
: A second-year student who is a member of the Flower Arrangement Club.
: A third-year student who is a member of the Handicrafts Club.
: A second-year student belonging to the Literature Club.
: A third-year student belonging to the newspaper club.
: A second-year student who belongs to the Tennis Club.
: A second-year student belonging to the Light Music Club. She is the vocalist of the all-gir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxata | Paxata is a privately owned software company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It develops self-service data preparation software that gets data ready for data analytics software. Paxata's software is intended for business analysts, as opposed to technical staff. It is used to combine data from different sources, then check it for data quality issues, such as duplicates and outliers. Algorithms and machine learning automate certain aspects of data preparation and users work with the software through a user-interface similar to Excel spreadsheets.
The company was founded in January 2012 and operated in stealth mode until October 2013. It received more than $10 million in venture funding before being acquired by DataRobot.
History
Paxata was founded in January 2012. It initially raised $2 million in venture capital. The company came out of stealth mode in October 2013. Simultaneously with its public release, Paxata announced an $8 million funding round led by Accel Partners. Adoption of the software grew quickly. In March 2014, In-Q-Tel acquired an interest in the startup.
It raised an additional $18 million in funding in September 2015. It also began working with Cisco to jointly develop the Cisco Data Preparation suite of software and services.
Software
Paxata refers to its suite of cloud-based data quality, integration, enrichment and governance products as "Adaptive Data Preparation." The software is intended for business analysts, who need to combine data from a variety of sources, then check the data for duplicates, empty fields, outliers, trends and integrity issues before conducting analysis or visualization in a third-party software tool. It uses algorithms and machine-learning to automate certain aspects of data preparation. For example, it may automatically detect records belonging to the same person or address, even if the information is formatted differently in each record in different data sets.
The software has a spreadsheet-based user interface. Patterns and anomalies in the data are color-coded in the spreadsheet. Then users are provided with instructions on how to resolve data quality issues or to supplement the data with contextual information. Data sets and related quality issues can also be addressed in a collaborative environment through the "Paxata Share" feature. It runs on Apache Spark.
According to analyst firm Ovum, the software is made possible through advances in predictive analytics, machine learning and the NoSQL data caching methodology. The software uses semantic algorithms to understand the meaning of a data table's columns and pattern recognition algorithms to find potential duplicates in a data-set. It also uses indexing, text pattern recognition and other technologies traditionally found in social media and search software.
One of the software's users is dairy producer Danone, which uses the software so that business staff can create their own reports on merchandising, supply chain and product |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seybold | Seybold is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John States Seybold (1897–1984), Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1952 to 1956
John W. Seybold (1916–2004), the father of computer typesetting
Natalie Seybold (born 1965), American former pair skater
Patricia Seybold, CEO of Patricia Seybold Group
Socks Seybold (1870–1921), baseball player
Wayne Seybold (born 1963), American pair skater and politician
See also
Seybold Building and Arcade located in Downtown Miami, Florida
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, large multi-specialty clinic system located in Greater Houston
Seybold Baking Company Factory, historic building at 800 Orange Avenue in Daytona Beach
Seybold Seminars, seminar and trade show for the desktop publishing and pre-press industry
Sebold (disambiguation)
Seibold
Surnames from given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondents%20Report | Correspondents Report was a weekend news and current affairs program broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National and ABC Local Radio networks, from at least 1974 until 2019.
History
Correspondents Report has been running since at least 1974.
Freelance reporter Roger East was covering the Indonesian insurgence in 1975, and was first to file the story of the killing of the Balibo Five in October. He was the sole remaining foreign journalist in Portuguese Timor at the time, He filed his last report for Correspondents Report on afternoon of 7 December 1975 before he was executed by Indonesian soldiers the following day.
The last available episode of Correspondents Report is dated 10 February 2019, presented by Thomas Oriti. After this date, the program appears to have been incorporated into Sunday Extra, hosted by Julian Morrow.
Archives
Transcripts of the programs are available from July 1999, and podcasts are available of more recent programs.
See also
ABC News
References
External links
Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs
ABC News and Current Affairs
Australian news radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon%20%28journal%29 | Radiocarbon is a scientific journal devoted to the topic of radiocarbon dating.
It was founded in 1959 as a supplement to the American Journal of Science, and is an important source of data and information about radiocarbon dating. It publishes many radiocarbon results, and since 1979 it has published the proceedings of the international conferences on radiocarbon dating. The journal is published six times per year. it is published by Cambridge University Press.
See also
Carbon-14
References
External links
Radiocarbon at the University of Arizona
Radiocarbon archives (1959-2012) at the University of Arizona Campus Repository
Radiocarbon dating
Academic journals established in 1959
Cambridge University Press academic journals
Bimonthly journals
University of Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20y%20Televisi%C3%B3n%20Quer%C3%A9taro | Radio y Televisión Querétaro (RTQ) is the state radio and television network of the Mexican state of Querétaro, broadcasting on two radio stations and one television station in the state. It is operated by the Sistema Estatal de Comunicación Cultural y Educativa del Gobierno de Querétaro (SECCE), or "State System for Cultural and Educational Communication of the Government of Querétaro".
Radio
XEQUE-AM 1150 kHz came to air on February 5, 1988, a day after its formal inauguration by President Miguel de la Madrid. Radio Querétaro was initially considered among the best noncommercial radio stations in Mexico, earning favorable comparisons to Radio Educación. In June 2005, XEQUE was replaced with a new FM station, XHQUE-FM on 100.3 MHz with 15 kilowatts ERP.
In 2005, the state government applied for a new AM radio station to be located in Jalpan de Serra, and XEQJAL-AM 1200 kHz, a 5 kW daytimer, signed on after receiving its permit in early 2007. The permit failed to be renewed; on September 18, 2019, a substitute concession for XECPAC-AM 1200 was granted.
Television
In January 2012, Cofetel awarded the permit for a digital television station on channel 50 with callsign XHSECE-TDT to SECCE in January 2012, making XHSECE one of two new public television stations in Querétaro, alongside OPMA transmitter XHOPMQ-TDT (channel 30). XHSECE's transmitter is located in El Cimatario National Park along with those for other stations serving Querétaro. XHSECE was assigned virtual channel 10 in 2016.
In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), XHSECE was assigned channel 14 for continued digital operations.
References
Public television in Mexico
Public radio in Mexico
Mexican companies established in 1988
Radio stations established in 1988
Radio stations in Querétaro
Television channels and stations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20%282012%20tablet%29 | The first-generation Surface (launched as Surface with Windows RT, later marketed as Surface RT) is a hybrid tablet computer developed and manufactured by Microsoft. Announced in June 2012, it was released in October 2012, and was the first personal computer designed in-house by Microsoft.
Positioned as a competitor to Apple's iPad line, Surface included several distinctive features, including a folding kickstand which allowed the tablet to stand at an angle, and the availability of optional attachable protective covers incorporating a keyboard. Surface served as the launch device for Windows RT, a limited version of Windows 8 designed for devices based on ARM architecture, with the ability to run only Metro-style Windows applications developed for it and distributed through the Windows Store.
Surface was met with mixed reviews. Although praised for its hardware design, accessories, and aspects of its operating system, criticism was directed towards the performance of the device, as well as the limitations of the Windows RT operating system and its application ecosystem. Sales of the Surface were poor, with Microsoft cutting its price worldwide and taking a US$990 million loss in July 2013 as a result. It was succeeded by the Surface 2 in 2013, with the newer Windows RT 8.1, which was also made available for the original Surface. Support for the OS ended on January 10, 2023.
History
The device was announced at a press-only event in Los Angeles and was the first PC which Microsoft had designed and manufactured in-house. The Surface only supports WiFi for wireless connectivity, with no cellular variant. The tablet went on sale in eight countries - Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Surface Pro was launched later.
Features
Hardware
The Surface tablet has a display of 1366x768 pixels on a five-point multi-touch touchscreen with Gorilla Glass 2 (LTL106AL01). The device measures and is made from magnesium. The kickstand, USB port, and a magnetic keyboard interface give the Surface ability to add a wireless mouse, external keyboard, or a thumb drive. There is also a slot for a microSD card to add up to 200 GB.
Software
Surface runs Windows RT, which is preloaded with Windows Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Sports, News, Travel, Finance, Camera, Weather, Reader, SkyDrive, Store, Photos, Skype (no longer supported), Maps, Games, Messaging, Bing, Desktop, and Xbox Music and Xbox Video Windows Store applications, and supports Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote within the Desktop application. Windows RT only allows installing Windows Store applications. Windows RT is compiled entirely for the ARM instruction set architecture.
A major update to Windows RT was launched on October 17, 2013, called Windows RT 8.1. This update brought many improvements to the Surface, such as an overhauled Mail app, more Bing apps like Reading List, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziften | Ziften was a cybersecurity software company based in Austin, Texas, United States. The organization's endpoint protection platform is designed to provide advanced anti-virus, endpoint detection and response, and endpoint visibility and hardening for enterprise laptops, desktops, servers and the cloud.
As of 2020, Ziften is out of business.
History
Ziften was founded in 2009 by Mark Obrecht who previously founded WholeSecurity, a behavior-based security and anti-phishing company that sold to Symantec in 2005.
In May 2012, Ziften raised $5.5 million in capital in a Series B round from Fayez Sarofim & Co. In July 2015, Ziften raised $24 million in capital from New York-based Spring Mountain Capital LP and Fayez Sarofim & Co. In April 2017, Ziften raised an additional $14.7M from Trousdale Ventures. The organization's total funding to date is $50M.
Mike Hamilton, previously Ziften's chief product officer, was appointed CEO in June 2018.
Product and Services
In September 2017, Ziften announced a series of managed security services, called Managed Assess Service, Managed Hunt Service, and Managed Respond Service, all designed to help organizations augment their security teams by getting additional help in monitoring EDR, analytics, and security forensics.
In November 2017, Microsoft announced new partnerships for its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service, including integration with Ziften's Zenith security platform for macOS and Linux operating system support. The integration provides security events from onboarded macOS and Linux devices and surfaces them all within the Windows Defender ATP console. Ziften was later included as a member in the initial formation of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association.
In August 2018, Ziften enhanced its Zenith endpoint protection platform with advanced anti-virus capabilities. The new capabilities help to block file-based, file-less, and in-memory attacks. Zenith uses artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud to help protect enterprises.
References
External links
Ziften's Website
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Computer security software companies
Antivirus software
Computer security companies
Software companies established in 2009
Security companies of the United States
2009 establishments in Texas
2020 disestablishments in Texas
Software companies disestablished in 2020
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeplearning4j | Eclipse Deeplearning4j is a programming library written in Java for the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is a framework with wide support for deep learning algorithms. Deeplearning4j includes implementations of the restricted Boltzmann machine, deep belief net, deep autoencoder, stacked denoising autoencoder and recursive neural tensor network, word2vec, doc2vec, and GloVe. These algorithms all include distributed parallel versions that integrate with Apache Hadoop and Spark.
Deeplearning4j is open-source software released under Apache License 2.0, developed mainly by a machine learning group headquartered in San Francisco. It is supported commercially by the startup Skymind, which bundles DL4J, TensorFlow, Keras and other deep learning libraries in an enterprise distribution called the Skymind Intelligence Layer. Deeplearning4j was contributed to the Eclipse Foundation in October 2017.
Introduction
Deeplearning4j relies on the widely used programming language Java, though it is compatible with Clojure and includes a Scala application programming interface (API). It is powered by its own open-source numerical computing library, ND4J, and works with both central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs).
Deeplearning4j has been used in several commercial and academic applications. The code is hosted on GitHub. A support forum is maintained on Gitter.
The framework is composable, meaning shallow neural nets such as restricted Boltzmann machines, convolutional nets, autoencoders, and recurrent nets can be added to one another to create deep nets of varying types. It also has extensive visualization tools, and a computation graph.
Distributed
Training with Deeplearning4j occurs in a cluster. Neural nets are trained in parallel via iterative reduce, which works on Hadoop-YARN and on Spark. Deeplearning4j also integrates with CUDA kernels to conduct pure GPU operations, and works with distributed GPUs.
Scientific computing for the JVM
Deeplearning4j includes an n-dimensional array class using ND4J that allows scientific computing in Java and Scala, similar to the functions that NumPy provides to Python. It's effectively based on a library for linear algebra and matrix manipulation in a production environment.
DataVec vectorization library for machine-learning
DataVec vectorizes various file formats and data types using an input/output format system similar to Hadoop's use of MapReduce; that is, it turns various data types into columns of scalars termed vectors. DataVec is designed to vectorize CSVs, images, sound, text, video, and time series.
Text and NLP
Deeplearning4j includes a vector space modeling and topic modeling toolkit, implemented in Java and integrating with parallel GPUs for performance. It is designed to handle large text sets.
Deeplearning4j includes implementations of term frequency–inverse document frequency (tf–idf), deep learning, and Mikolov's word2vec algorithm, doc2vec, and GloVe, reimplemented and optim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Clayton | Joseph "Joe" P. Clayton (died November 3, 2018) was the former CEO of Dish Network, a Colorado based Direct Broadcast Satellite provider. He both took the role from and was replaced by Charlie Ergen.
Career
From 1992 to 1996, Clayton was executive vice president of marketing and sales in the Americas and Asia at Thomson S.A. (the Consumer Electronics Division at GE). During his tenure as EVP, Clayton was involved in developing and rolling out the consumer equipment for DirecTV.
In 1997, Clayton become the CEO of Frontier Communications (originally Rochester Telephone). He served as CEO of Frontier until September 1999, during which time the company acquired GlobalCenter.
Clayton went on to become president of Global Crossing Ltd, the company that acquired Frontier Communications. He served as president until November 2001.
From 2001 to 2004, Clayton served as the CEO of Sirius XM Holdings, where he launched satellite radio. He then became the president of Sirius until 2008.
In May 2011, Clayton took over the role of CEO of DISH Network from Charlie Ergen. Clayton stepped down from his role in February 2015, and was replaced by Ergen.
Clayton died November 3, 2018 at the age of 69.
References
American business executives
1949 births
2018 deaths
Dish Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Girlfriend%20Experience%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Girlfriend Experience is an American anthology drama television series created, written, and directed by Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz that is broadcast on the premium cable network Starz. The first season stars Riley Keough as Christine Reade, a law student intern who also works as a high-end escort. Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, it is based on the 2009 film of the same name. A 13-episode first season premiered on April 10, 2016, and all episodes were made available on Starz On Demand.
On August 1, 2016, Starz renewed the series for a 14-episode second season, focusing on new characters and storylines, with Seimetz and Kerrigan returning. The second season premiered on November 5, 2017.
In July 2019, Starz renewed the series for a 10-episode third season, which is written and directed by Anja Marquardt and stars Julia Goldani Telles. The third season premiered on May 2, 2021.
Plot
Season 1
Second-year Chicago-Burnham Law School student Christine Reade lands an internship at the law firm of Kirkland & Allen and struggles to balance her workload, expenses and classes. When her close friend Avery reveals that she has been working as an escort, she encourages Christine to tag along and introduces her to a friend of one of her clients, who is looking for an escort. Under the pseudonym "Chelsea Rayne", Christine works as a high-end escort specializing in providing "the girlfriend experience" (GFE), an array of sexual and other associated services intended to make the client feel both sexually and emotionally satisfied. Initially working for Avery's madam Jacqueline, Christine eventually strikes out on her own, experiencing pitfalls along the way as clients cross boundaries and she discovers corruption at Kirkland & Allen.
Season 2
The second season features two parallel storylines. One storyline, set in Washington, D.C., takes place during the upcoming U.S. midterm elections and follows Erica Myles, a finance director of a Republican super PAC, and Anna Garner, a GFE provider. Under intense pressure to deliver on her fundraising goals, Erica enlists Anna's help in blackmailing a high-powered dark money fundraiser. The other storyline, set in New Mexico, follows Bria Jones, a former high-end escort who enters the Witness Protection Program with her estranged thirteen-year-old step-daughter to escape an abusive relationship. However, she revives her career as an escort, which threatens Bria's new identity and well-being of her step-daughter and the U.S. Marshal put in charge of her.
Season 3
Iris, a neuroscience major, drops out of school and moves to London to join a tech start-up that is studying human behavior. As she begins to explore the transactional world of the girlfriend experience, she quickly learns that her client sessions provide her with a compelling edge in the tech world and vice-versa.
Cast and characters
Main
Season 1: Christine
Riley Keough as Christine Reade
Paul Sparks as David Tellis
Mary Lynn Rajskub as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat | FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.
Though it was not designed with the purpose in mind, FireChat was used as a communication tool in some civil protests.
FireChat is now discontinued. The official URL displays a 404 error page, and apps have not been updated since 2018.
History
The app was first introduced in March 2014 for iPhones, followed on April 3 by a version for Android devices.
In July 2015, FireChat introduced private messaging. Until then, it had only been possible to post messages to public chatrooms.
In May 2016, FireChat introduced FireChat Alerts, which allowed users to "push" alerts during a specific time and in a specific place. This feature was added for the benefit of aid workers doing disaster relief and stemmed from a partnership with the city of Marikina.
Usage
FireChat became popular in 2014 in Iraq following government restrictions on internet use, and thereafter during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. In 2015, FireChat was also promoted by protesters during the 2015 Ecuadorian protests. On September 11, 2015, during the pro-independence demonstration called Free Way to the Catalan Republic, FireChat was used 131,000 times. In January 2016, students protested at the University of Hyderabad, India, following the suicide of a PhD student named Rohith Vemula. Some students were reported to have used Firechat after the university shut down its Wi-Fi.
Security
In June 2014, Firechat's developers told Wired that "[p]eople need to understand that this is not a tool to communicate anything that would put them in a harmful situation if it were to be discovered by somebody who's hostile ... It was not meant for secure or private communications." By July 2015, the FireChat developers claimed to have added end-to-end encryption for its one-to-one private messages.
See also
Mobile ad hoc network (MANET)
Smartphone ad hoc network
References
External links
2014 software
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Internet-related activism
Mesh networking
Defunct instant messaging clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelatococcus%20asaccharovorans | Chelatococcus asaccharovorans is a bacterium from the genus of Chelatococcus.
References
External links
Type strain of Chelatococcus asaccharovorans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20SBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2011 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2011. It was held at the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Seoul on December 31, 2011, and was hosted by actor Ji Sung and actress Choi Kang-hee.
Nominations and winners
Complete list of nominees and winners:
(Winners denoted in bold)
Top 10 Stars
Choi Kang-hee – Protect the Boss
Han Suk-kyu – Deep Rooted Tree
Jang Hyuk – Midas, Deep Rooted Tree
Ji Sung – Protect the Boss
Kim Rae-won – A Thousand Days' Promise
Kim Sun-a – Scent of a Woman
Lee Dong-wook – Scent of a Woman
Lee Min-ho – City Hunter
Lee Yo-won – 49 Days
Soo Ae – A Thousand Days' Promise, Athena: Goddess of War
New Star Award
Goo Hara – City Hunter
Im Soo-hyang – New Tales of Gisaeng
Ji Chang-wook – Warrior Baek Dong-soo
Jin Se-yeon – My Daughter the Flower
Jeong Yu-mi – A Thousand Days' Promise
Kim Jaejoong – Protect the Boss
Lee Jae-yoon – My Love By My Side
Seo Hyo-rim – Scent of a Woman
Shin Hyun-bin – Warrior Baek Dong-soo
Sung Hoon – New Tales of Gisaeng
Wang Ji-hye – Protect the Boss
References
External links
SBS
SBS Drama Awards
SBS
December 2011 events in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20in%20cellular%20networks | Network routing in a cellular network deals with the challenges of traditional telephony such as switching and call setup.
Most cellular network routing issues in different cells can be attributed to the multiple access methods used for transmission. The location of each mobile phone must be known to reuse a given band of frequencies in different cells and forms space-division multiple access (SDMA).
Networks
FDMA is one of the multiple access methods used in cellular networks. 50 MHz blocks of communication channel are assigned, which lie in radio frequency range and contain an equal number of uplinks (terminal to base station) and downlinks (base station to terminal). One or more bidirectional channels are carried by 10-90 band pairs. The digital networks additionally make use of either CDMA or TDMA methods.
A special service called mobility management provides handover and roaming. Terminals (handsets) can move from one place to another during the call and require calls to be handed over from one channel to another. Soft handover uses the same frequency channel. The same terminals can operate in the same area covered by different service providers, which is known as roaming.
References
External links
Networking and wireless
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20rescheduling%20problem | The vehicle rescheduling problem (VRSP) is a combinatorial optimization and integer programming problem seeking to service customers on a trip after change of schedule such as vehicle break down or major delay. Proposed by Li, Mirchandani and Borenstein in 2007, the VRSP is an important problem in the fields of transportation and logistics.
Determining the optimal solution is an NP-complete problem in combinatorial optimization, so in practice heuristic and deterministic methods are used to find acceptably good solutions for the VRSP.
Overview
Several variations and specializations of the vehicle rescheduling problem exist:
Single Depot Vehicle Rescheduling Problem (SDVRSP): A number of trips need to be rescheduled due to delay, vehicle break down or for any other reason. The goal is to find optimal rescheduling of the existing fleet, using possibly extra vehicles from the depot, in order to minimise the delay and the operating costs. In the Single Depot variation, there is only one depot which contains all extra vehicles, and in which every vehicle starts and ends its schedule.
Multi Depot Vehicle Rescheduling Problem (MDVRSP): Similar to SDVRSP, except additional depots are introduced. Each depot has capacity constraints, as well as variable extra vehicles. Usually vehicle schedules have an additional constraint which requires that each vehicle returns to the depot where it started its schedule.
Open Vehicle Rescheduling Problem (OVRSP): Vehicles are not required to return to the depot.
Although VRSP is related to the Single Depot Vehicle Scheduling Problem and the Multi Depot Vehicle Scheduling Problem, there is a significant difference in runtime requirements, as VRSP need to be solved in near real-time to allow rescheduling during operations, while SDVSP and MDVSP are typically solved using long running linear programming methods.
Another field where VRSP is used is in transportation of goods in order to reschedule the routes when demand substantially changes
See also
Combinatorial optimization
Vehicle routing problem
Fundamentals of Transportation/Timetabling and Scheduling
References
External links
Optibus – Commercial SaaS platform for solving VRSP in real-time
Ecolane – Commercial software for the Demand responsive transport
Optimal scheduling
Transportation planning
Vehicle operation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20V-me%20affiliates | The following is a list of stations that are affiliated with the American Spanish-language network, V-me, prior to switching exclusively to a cable and satellite model of distribution too.
Tucson, Arizona - KUAT-TV - 6.2
Fresno, California - KVPT - 18.3
Los Angeles, California - KCET - 28.3
Sacramento, California - KVIE - 6.3
San Diego, California - KPBS-TV - 15.2
San Jose, California - KQEH - 54.5
Watsonville, California - KQET - 25.3
Colorado - Rocky Mountain PBS:
Boulder, Colorado - K24HQ-D - 24.4
Denver, Colorado - KRMA - 6.2
Durango, Colorado - KRMU - 20.2
Grand Junction, Colorado - KRMJ - 18.2
Pueblo, Colorado - KTSC-TV - 8.2
Steamboat Springs, Colorado - KRMZ - 24.2
Miami, Florida - WPBT - 2.3
Orlando, Florida - WUCF-TV - 24.4
Pensacola, Florida - WSRE - 23.4
Tampa, Florida - WEDU - 3.2
West Palm Beach, Florida - WXEL-TV - 42.3
Chicago, Illinois - WTTW - 11.4
Bloomington, Indiana - WTIU - 30.4
Indianapolis, Indiana - WFYI - 20.2
New Orleans, Louisiana - WLAE-TV - 32.4
Maryland - Maryland Public Television:
Annapolis, Maryland - WMPT - 22.3
Baltimore, Maryland - WMPB - 67.3
Frederick, Maryland - WFPT - 62.3
Hagerstown, Maryland - WWPB - 31.3
Oakland, Maryland - WGPT - 36.3
Salisbury, Maryland - WCPB - 28.3
Newark, New Jersey / New York City - WNET - 13.3
Albuquerque, New Mexico - KNME-TV - 5.2
Las Cruces, New Mexico - KRWG-TV - 22.3
Las Vegas, Nevada - KLVX - 10.3
Reno, Nevada - KNPB - 5.3
Akron, Ohio - WEAO-TV - 49.4
Alliance / Youngstown, Ohio - WNEO - 45.4
Allentown, Pennsylvania - WLVT-TV - 39.3
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico - WIPM-TV - 3.4
San Juan, Puerto Rico - WIPR-TV - 6.4
Providence, Rhode Island - WSBE-TV - 36.3
Amarillo, Texas - KACV-TV - 2.2
Austin, Texas - KLRU - 18.4
Harlingen, Texas - KMBH - 38.2
Houston, Texas - KUHT - 8.3
El Paso, Texas - KRWG-TV - 22.3
San Antonio, Texas - KLRN - 9.3
Salt Lake City, Utah - KUED - 7.3
St. George, Utah - KUEW - 18.3
New Market / Front Royal, Virginia - WVPY - 42.3
Staunton, Virginia - WVPT - 51.3
Seattle, Washington - KCTS-TV - 9.2
Yakima, Washington - KYVE - 47.2
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - WMVS - 10.3
References
External links
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
V-me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anh%20Does | Anh Does... is a travel and lifestyle show presented by comedian Anh Do on the Seven Network. It premiered in 2012 with the two-part series Anh Does Vietnam, in which he revisited the country of his birth, Vietnam. Anh's family fled from Vietnam to Australia as refugees in 1980.
This series was followed by Anh Does Britain in 2013 where Anh visited Great Britain and Ireland and continued with other destinations.
Series overview
Countries
Anh Does... Vietnam (2012)
Anh traveled the country of Vietnam.
Anh Does... Britain (2013)
Anh traveled the country of Britain, including Great Britain & Ireland
Anh Does... Scandinavia (2014)
Anh traveled the country of Scandinavia, including the countries of Denmark, Sweden & Norway
Anh Does... Iceland (2014)
Anh traveled the country of Iceland.
Anh Does... Brazil (2014)
Anh traveled the country of Brazil.
Anh Does... Italy (2015)
Anh traveled the country of Italy.
References
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2015 Australian television series endings
Television series by Seven Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm%20Forestry%20Toolbox | The Farm Forestry Toolbox is a collection of computer programs, referred to as 'Tools', intended to be used by farm forest owners and managers to aid decision making. The Toolbox includes a set of simple 'Hand Tools'; conversion of measurements and map co-ordinates; measuring the volume of stacked logs, slope, basal area; and a survey tool. A second set of more complex tools or 'Power Tools'; can be used to estimate site productivity (growth rate), volume and value of wood grown for individual trees, at the coupe or stand level and forest estate level.
Background
Farm Forestry is a term used in Australia to describe the use of private land to grow wood products and provide a number of other ecosystem services. Private land is land registered under Torrens title and leasehold land, usually leased from the government. Farm Forestry is defined as 'establishment and/or management of trees or forests on agricultural landscapes for commercial, aesthetic and/or environmental reasons The term 'Farm Forestry', as used in Australia, encompasses Afforestation, Agroforestry, Analog forestry, Buffer strip, Plantation, Reforestation, Riparian-zone restoration, Silvopasture and Windbreak.
Support for Farm Forestry is provided by both the Australian Government and State governments. In 2005 the Australian government released a Farm Forestry - National Action Statement.
Governments have provided grants, funded research, provided advice (extension) and tax incentives to encourage landowners to adopt Farm Forestry.
Rationale
The 'Tools' were initially developed to make routine tasks easier. For example, using the 'Stocking Tool' it is possible to calculated the number of trees required, given a row and in-row spacing, and area to be planted.
The 'Health Tool' has a similar approach. A user can diagnose tree health problems using the Toolbox, replacing the need to use reference texts, or having to enlist the assistance of a forest health expert.
Forest researchers have developed a number growth models, but these models are often difficult to access and use. The Toolbox was developed to ensure that growth models were available to farm forestry owners and managers, able to be used to inform decision making, and provide a link between the growth models outputs and financial modelling tools.
The 'Stand Manager' is more complex and used to calculate net present value, internal rates of return, and wood and product yield. This Tool is used to explore management scenarios, and the resultant financial return and wood yield. A user of the 'Stand Manger' is required to create log grade sets (log specifications), regimes (sequence of events over the life of the rotation detailing events, including timing and costs/returns), as input data. This Tool can also use the output from 'Site Productivity' and 'Inventory' tools.
Using the Toolbox
Users can 'customise' the Toolbox by using the 'Editors' and/or manual input of key data, such as growth rate. This means t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentier%20NB%20Trail | The Sentier NB Trail is a network of hiking trails in New Brunswick, Canada built on abandoned railways. The trails are mostly closed to motorized vehicles. The network is operated by the New Brunswick Trails Council, a non-profit organization. Some portions of the trail are also part of the Trans Canada Trail.
References
Hiking trails in New Brunswick
Trans Canada Trail
Rail trails in New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone%209%20bloggers | The Zone 9 bloggers are a blogging collective from Ethiopia, who maintain a blog in Amharic. On 25 and 26 April 2014, the Ethiopian government arrested six members of the Zone 9 bloggers network and three other journalists, who faced terrorism charges for their writing at the time. The action had sparked an online protest.
They were additionally charged with conspiracy for using basic online encryption tools that journalists routinely use to protect their sources. The arrested bloggers and journalists received training in digital security from the Tactical Technology Collective / Front Line Defenders Security in a Box program.
Ethiopia's constitution explicitly protects freedom of speech and the right to privacy, yet the media is controlled by the government. Although the Internet is harder to censor than broadcast or print, the government has exercised control by jailing those who use the Internet to communicate critically about social or political issues in the country. There is only one Internet service provider (ISP) in Ethiopia, Ethio telecom, and it is owned by the government. Also in 2012, Ethio telecom blocked access to the Tor network, which lets users browse the Internet anonymously and access blocked websites.
On 8 and 9 July 2015, five of the bloggers were released from prison and all charges against them were dropped.
In 2015 the Zone 9 bloggers were awarded the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
History
Zone 9 got its name from an Ethiopian state prison in Addis Ababa called commonly known as Kaliti maximum security prison, which has eight zones. The bloggers, who felt that Ethiopia was becoming a bigger prison (Zone 9), named themselves Zone9ers. The group's motto is "We Blog Because We Care."
The arrest of the Zone 9 bloggers occurred on April 25, 2014, two days after they announced that they would resume blogging on the Zone 9 blog after a silence of nearly six months.
In November 2015 the Zone 9 bloggers were awarded the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Similarly, In November 2015 the collective was awarded Reporters Without Borders' Citizen Journalism Award. Furthermore, in October 2016 the group was nominated as one of the finalists of the 2016 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.
Works of the Zone 9 bloggers
As a collective focusing on human rights, good governance, education, social justice, corruption and non-violent social transformation, the works of the Zone 9 bloggers can be divided into the following:
Opinion pieces and feature articles focused on rule of law, constitutionality, economic, educational and cultural rights in Ethiopia. In these writings the bloggers have encouraged the citizens of Ethiopia, religious groups, ethnic leaders, opposition political groups and civic society groups to respect the constitution and end impunity in the country. As a part of this effort they have conducted four major online c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20NorthWest | Network NorthWest was a brand name of British Rail which was applied for a short period to the provincial railway network in North West England. It was launched in 1989 during British Rail's sectorisation programme which created distinct brand identities for regional sub-divisions.
The Network NorthWest name mirrored the larger Network SouthEast brand which had been rolled out on the rail network around London and the South East of England since 1982. Network NorthWest promoted suburban and regional railway services centred on Manchester and was jointly funded by British Rail, the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and Lancashire County Council. Some Network NorthWest services overlapped with those of neighbouring Merseyrail, another British Rail regional network which was centred on Liverpool.
History
The public launch of the brand took place on 4 April 1989 at an event hosted by television presenter Stuart Hall at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. Invited guests travelled on a special train formed of a Class 150 from the museum to , then back from to . Souvenir tickets were issued for the journey. The Provincial sector of British Rail, which was responsible for the new network, then ran a series of roadshows in town centres across northwest England in June and July 1989 to increase public awareness of the brand.
With effect from 15 May 1989, when the summer 1989 timetable was introduced, all rail services operated by the Provincial sector of British Rail across a large area of northwest England were marketed and operated under the Network NorthWest name. The area was bounded by , , , , (via ), , , , , , , , , , and . The – and – branches were also included, but the West Coast Main Line between and was excluded because it was run by the InterCity sector.
Also introduced at this time were two one-day Rail Rover tickets allowing unlimited off-peak travel in either the full Network NorthWest area (at £7.60, with reductions for children and Railcard holders) or a smaller zone described as the "central area" (£3.80). Ticket issuing facilities at stations were also overhauled during the Network NorthWest era: some stations were destaffed or saw reductions in ticket office opening hours, the new APTIS and SPORTIS systems were installed at many stations, and three types of self-service ticket issuing system were trialled at various locations.
From 15 May 1990, the Merseyrail area was added to Network NorthWest, and additional Rover tickets were introduced to cover various parts of the network. A Rover covering the whole enlarged area cost £10.90.
Network NorthWest was a short-lived venture and few examples remain of the Network NorthWest brand today. Network NorthWest was eventually absorbed into the Regional Railways operation prior to the privatisation of British Rail and the brand disappeared from use. After privatisation, railway services in the Network NorthWest zone were taken over by North Western Trains an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibero-American%20Model%20Forest%20Network | The Ibero-American Model Forest Network (RIABM) is the regional network representing the 29 Model Forests across the Caribbean, Latin America and Spain.
History
During the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, countries agreed that there was an urgent need to find real, practical and sustainable solutions to the great environmental challenges that our planet faced. At this time, Canada invited the rest of the world to put into practice the Model Forest approach and created the IMFN to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences.
The IMFN provides Model Forests in partner countries access to certain opportunities such as the exchange of experiences and the promotion of good governance. This, in turn, increases regional knowledge and the development of strategic initiatives. In addition, the network strengthens the link between regional and global forest policy initiatives and provides an avenue for international donors to fund conservation projects in each country.
About RIABM
The Ibero-American Model Forest Network (RIABM) aims to be a regional benchmark for the sustainable management of forest-based landscapes. It promotes cooperation among Model Forests, institutions and member countries based on knowledge exchange and innovative experiences, and contributes to public policies related to the sustainable management of natural resources.
It is the first voluntary regional organization to be created that brings together 15 countries and 29 Model Forests in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Spain to share knowledge and experiences. The RIABM promotes the sustainable management of forest-based landscapes and connects Model Forests of member countries.
Strategic objectives
The strategic objectives of the RIABM are:
To consolidate the Model Forest, promote regional Model Forest network expansion and facilitate horizontal collaboration among sites.
To strengthen the RIABM’s capacity to provide support to its members and to achieve its financial sustainability.
To share knowledge and transfer technology through technical horizontal collaboration, dissemination of information on best practices and other relates activities.
To contribute to sectoral and multisectoral processes of public policies formulation, implementation and evaluation related with the sustainable management of forest-based landscapes.
Governance Platforms
Model Forests are in essence governance platforms. They function as territorial management systems that are inclusive to all stakeholders in a community. Each Model Forest has the liberty to define how it will function, as long as it adheres to the Principles and Attributes agreed to by all Model Forests;
Principle 1. Broad-base Partnership
Principle 2. Large Landscape
Principle 3. Commitment to Sustainability
Principle 4. Participatory Governance
Principle 5. A Broad Program of Activities
Principle 6. Commitment to Knowledge Sharing, Capacity Bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noticias%20Telemundo%20%28TV%20program%29 | ; ) is the flagship daily evening television news program of Noticias Telemundo, the news division of the American Spanish language broadcast television network Telemundo. The nightly early-evening newscast focusing on international news and stories of relevance to the network's main target demographic of Hispanic and Latino Americans. The program is produced out of the news division's facilities in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida.
The program has been anchored at various times by a number of other presenters since its debut in 1986. It also has used various titles under previous production outsourcing arrangements, including Noticiero Telemundo-HBC from 1986 to 1988, Noticiero Telemundo CNN from 1988 to 1996 and CBS Telenoticias from 1996 to 1999. It is the second-most watched Spanish language network newscast in the United States, trailing behind Noticiero Univision in the ratings.
Noticias Telemundos weekday broadcasts are currently anchored by Julio Vaqueiro who has been the program's main anchor since 2021, when Jose Diaz-Balart moved to MSNBC, and will contribute to all NBC News platforms including Telemundo. The program's late weeknight editions, is currently anchor by Arantxa Loizaga (appointed from network's morning show Hoy Día in 2022), and before Julio Vaqueiro. It was a first time of late night news edition since May 2020, and it was created for COVID-19 pandemic special edition since March. It's the rival of "Noticiero Univisión: Edición Nocturna". It was change before "Noticias Telemundo: Edición Especial, and Noticias Telemundo con Julio Vaqueiro". The program's weekend editions, , is currently anchored by Johana Suarez (who joined the program in 2022, came from KUVN-TV Univision 23 Dallas affiliate).
History
Telemundo began airing a nightly newscast in 1987, shortly after the network originally known as NetSpan adopted its current name, when the network debuted Noticiero Telemundo-HBC. The program was produced through an outsourcing agreement with the Miami-based Hispanic-American Broadcasting Corporation, which based the half-hour newscast from a converted warehouse in Miami.
Many of the program's anchors and correspondents previously worked for the Spanish International Network (which became Univision, when the network sold majority ownership to Hallmark Cards that year), before quitting from the Noticias SIN division when staff protested the appointment of former Televisa anchor Jacobo Zabludovsky as director of SIN's news division by network president Emilio Azcárraga Milmo – owner of Univision's minority partner Televisa – due to concerns over the extent of editorial autonomy and potential censorship in its journalistic practices. The newscast was anchored by Lana Montalban, who would later become an evening anchor at Telemundo's New York City owned-and-operated station WNJU for four years after Noticiero Telemundo-HBCs cancellation.
Noticiero Telemundo CNN (1988–1996)
On March 24, 1988, Telemundo announced that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accidents%20and%20incidents%20involving%20the%20Ilyushin%20Il-18 | Accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-18
Data from:Aviation Safety Network Il-18
1958
7 May A Soviet Air Force Il-18A (CCCP-Л5821, c/n 188000104) crashed near Sheremetyevo Airport after an engine failed while on a test flight, killing all 10 on board in the first loss of an Il-18. The aircraft was operating for Aviatsionnaya Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Osobogo Naznacheniya (AKDON, Red Banner Special Task Aviation Division).
1959
2 September Aeroflot Flight 249, an Il-18B (CCCP-75676, c/n 189000905), from Vnukovo Airport was written off after suffering structural damage in a cumulonimbus cloud while flying over Voronezh Region; all 65 passengers and crew survived.
1960
27 April An Aeroflot/Ural Il-18A, CCCP-75648 (c/n 188000402), crashed on landing at Koltsovo Airport while on a training flight due to crew error, killing one of five crew on board.
17 August Aeroflot Flight 036, an Il-18B (CCCP-75705, c/n 189001702), crashed near Tarasovich, Kyiv Oblast due to loss of control following an in-flight fire, killing all 34 passengers and crew on board; the fire was caused by a leaking fuel injector in engine four.
26 December An Aeroflot/Ulyanovsk Flight School Il-18A (CCCP-75651, c/n 188000405) lost control and crashed near Vostochny Airport en route from Kuybyshev Airport while on a training flight due to tail icing, killing all 17 passengers and crew on board. Test flights later showed that the Il-18 was prone to loss of control in icing conditions.
1961
28 March ČSA Flight 511, an Il-18V (OK-OAD, c/n 180002102), crashed near Gräfenberg, Bavaria in West Germany. All 52 passengers and crew on board were killed.
22 June An Aeroflot/Moscow Il-18B, CCCP-75672 (c/n 189000901), en route from Vnukovo Airport to Adler/Sochi Airport, suffered a generator failure on no.3 engine and subsequent fire, force-landing in a field near Bogoroditsk, Tula Oblast with no casualties among the 97 occupants. (1961 Bogoroditsk Il-18 incident)
12 July ČSA Flight 511, an Il-18V (OK-PAF, c/n 181002904), crashed near Casablanca, Morocco, killing all 72 on board; the cause was not determined, but weather may have been a factor.
28 July An Il-18V (CCCP-75766, c/n 181003405) of MAP Plant No. 30 crashed at Tretyakovo Airport during a pre-delivery test flight for Aeroflot due to engine failure; the aircraft was on a test flight with the number two engine shut down when the number one engine failed, causing the aircraft to bank left; the left wing hit the ground and the aircraft crashed with no casualties.
13 August An Aeroflot/Ulyanovsk Flight School Il-18B, CCCP-75653 (c/n 188000502) overshot the runway in poor visibility at Riga Central Airport, Latvia, with no casualties.
17 December Aeroflot Flight 245, an Il-18B (CCCP-75654, c/n 188000503), went into a dive and crashed near Chebotovka, Rostov Oblast after the flight engineer accidentally deployed the flaps, killing all 59 passengers and crew on board.
31 December An Aeroflot/Armenia Il-18V (CCCP-75757, c/n 1810 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Essentials | Cyber Essentials is a United Kingdom certification scheme designed to show an organisation has a minimum level of protection in cyber security through annual assessments to maintain certification.
Backed by the UK government and overseen by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It encourages organisations to adopt good practices in information security. Cyber Essentials also includes an assurance framework and a simple set of security controls to protect information from threats coming from the internet.
The certification underwent substantial changes in January 2022 which included bringing all cloud services into scope and changes to the requirements on multi-factor authentication, passwords and pins.
Certification
The Cyber Essentials program provides two levels, the first is self-certification and the second requires independent validation of claims made:
Cyber Essentials
Commonly referred to as mark your own homework, organisations self-assess their systems, and then complete an online assessment. The online assessment is marked by a Cyber Essentials Assessor who provides feedback on any areas where improvements could be made.
There is no independent validation of the accuracy of the answers at this level.
The cost for Cyber Essentials starts from £300 and is subject to VAT in the UK. The pricing model is tiered based on the number of employees and more information can be found on the IASME website.
Cyber Essentials Plus
The same as the basic but with independent validation by an accredited third party.
Systems are independently tested, and Cyber Essentials is integrated into the organisation's information risk management.
The cost for the Plus accreditation is dependent on the complexity of the environment but for a simple SME would typically cost around £1,400 and subject to VAT within the UK.
IASME has incorporated the Cyber Essentials into the wider IASME information assurance standard.
As with ISO/IEC 27001, organisations may choose to limit the scope of certification to a certain subset of their business and this must be disclosed on their certificate.
Controls
The five technical controls are:
Boundary firewalls and internet gateways
Secure configuration
Access control
Malware protection
Patch management
Cyber Essentials guidance breaks these down into finer details.
These controls can be mapped against the controls required by ISO/IEC 27001, the Standard of Good Practice for Information Security, and IASME Governance, although Cyber Essentials has a narrower focus, emphasising technical controls rather than governance, risk, and policy.
History
The Cyber Essentials scheme was launched on 5 June 2014. Several organisations were quickly certified by the end of June. Since October 2014, Cyber Essentials certification has been required for suppliers to the central UK government who handle certain kinds of sensitive and personal information. This is intended to encourage adoption by businesses wishing to bid for gove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20J.%20Bernheim%20Brush | Alice Jane Bernheim Brush is an American computer scientist known for her research in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW). She is particularly known for her research studying and building technology for homes as well as expertise conducting field studies of technology.
She is the co-chair of CRA-W from 2014 to 2017.
Biography
Brush received a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
from Williams College in 1996. She received a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1998 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2002.
She then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington from 2002 to 2004. She then joined Microsoft Research.
Career
Brush currently focuses on home automation research and co-leads the Lab of Things project, a publicly available platform for experimental research using connected devices in homes. Brush's research on the challenges and opportunities of smart homes based on interviews with people living in smart homes informed the design of the Lab of Things software.
Brush and her collaborators conducted research on family coordination and calendaring and built prototypes that influenced Windows Live Calendar and the Windows Phone Family Room feature. Studying use of technology in homes, Brush and her colleagues have repeatedly demonstrated how frequently devices are shared in households, even devices typically considered "personal" such as mobile devices. She has co-developed and tested multiple alternative paradigms for user account management that better match shared usage.
Awards
Brush received the CRA-W 2010 Borg Early Career Award.
Her other notable awards include:
Best Paper Nominee for a CHI 2006 paper: LINC-ing" the Family: The Participatory Design of an Inkable Family Calendar
2011 Pervasive Computing Best Paper Award for: Learning Time-Based Presence Probabilities
2011 Pervasive Computing Best Paper Nominee for: SpeakerSense: Energy Efficient Unobtrusive
2010 Pervasive Health Best Paper Award for: Automatic Classification of Daily Fluid Intake
2005 HICCS Best Paper Nominee for: 'Today' Messages: Lightweight Support for Small Group Awareness via Email
References
External links
Microsoft Research: A.J.Brush Computational User Experiences Group
American women computer scientists
University of Washington alumni
Williams College alumni
Living people
People from Wilmington, Delaware
Year of birth missing (living people)
Microsoft employees
Microsoft Research people
American computer scientists
Scientists from Delaware
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Three%20Angels%20Broadcasting%20Network%20affiliates | This is a list of affiliates of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network, a religious television and radio network founded by Danny Shelton.
Television
Radio
Three Angels Broadcasting Network also has a network of affiliated radio stations. Not all affiliated stations are full time 3ABN affiliates, and some also carry programming from LifeTalk Radio or Radio 74 Internationale. Most affiliates are low powered.
References
External links
List of 3ABN television affiliates from 3ABN Web-Site
List of 3ABN radio affiliates from 3ABN Web-Site
Lists of radio stations in the United States
Lists of television channels in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIRN%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina | The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) is a non-profit organization based in Sarajevo that reports on war crimes trials before the courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. BIRN BiH is a member of the BIRN network, which includes BIRN Hub, BIRN Ltd, BIRN Kosovo, BIRN Macedonia, and BIRN Serbia.
BIRN network's publications include the Justice Series: Media, Civil Society, and War Crime Trials, Balkan Insight, Balkan Transitional Justice. The Justice Series is a media program run by BIRN BiH and consists of the organization’s flagship publication Justice Report, Radio Justice, and TV Justice. These projects communicate via 300 media outlets reaching close to one million people worldwide. They include daily, weekly, and monthly radio and TV programs, online articles, reports, and analyses in English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. In addition, BIRN BiH founded the Association of Court Reporters, a countrywide advocacy network in charge of promoting judiciary-media cooperation.
History
BIRN BiH was established in January 2005 to address the absence of media attention towards issues related to transitional justice and post-war reconciliation. Since its foundation, BIRN BiH has analyzed and informed the public on war crimes trials at the state and local courts throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today, it remains one of the few sources of information on war crimes prosecution before the domestic judiciary.
Notable reporting
During his stay at The Hague Tribunal, Miodrag Stojanovic, a member of the Defence Council of Ratko Mladic, said BIRN's Justice Report was his only link to what was happening in BiH when it comes to the work of the Court of BiH war crimes processing.
Another Defence lawyer at The Hague Tribunal, Peter Robinson, who is advising Radovan Karadžić said: "BIRN – Justice Report is highly objective and professional from all other media. It is very useful in my work and I read it every day."
Many academic institutions rely on BIRN’s reports. At Duke University in the United States, BIRN materials are assigned as mandatory reading in some undergraduate courses. Others, including Impunity Watch, Swiss Association Against Impunity TRIAL, Human Rights Watch, University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Global Investigative Journalism Network, and the ICTY, have consistently referenced BIRN BiH as an excellent source of reporting.
In 2020, BIRN BiH was awarded the Special Award by the European Press Prize for their work.
References
Non-profit organizations based in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20data%20unit | A satellite data unit (SDU) is an avionics device installed in an aircraft that allows air/ground communication via a satellite network. It is an integral part of an aircraft's SATCOM (satellite communication) system. The device connects with a satellite via ordinary radio frequency (RF) communication and the satellite then connects to a ground station or vice versa. All satellite communication whether audio or data is processed by the SDU.
The SDU communicates with an onboard MDDU (multi-purpose disk-drive unit) which maintains an updatable table of ground stations near the aircraft's position and the order of preference for selection of which ground station to use which thus guides the choice of satellite. Along with analysing data continuously sent from all ground stations (such as station status and the error rate of signals from each station) the SDU receives information on the aircraft's position and orientation from another onboard system (ADIRU, air data inertial reference unit) which it passes to the BSU (beam-steering unit) to direct the signal beam from the aircraft to the chosen satellite.
With the advent of cellphones and the Internet a separate or integrated SDU can be used to offer telephone and Internet services to passengers.
Logs of satellite communication have been used to inform search and rescue agencies of locations of missing aircraft, like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 whose position was unknown due to loss of radar contact and other communications. Automated SATCOM transmissions suggested it flew about off its designated flight path having flown approximately south-southwest rather than the intended approximately north-northeast.
References
Navigational equipment
Aircraft instruments
Avionics
Communications satellites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlWordNet | plWordNet is a lexico-semantic database of the Polish language. It includes sets of synonymous lexical units (synsets) followed by short definitions. plWordNet serves as a thesaurus-dictionary where concepts (synsets) and individual word meanings (lexical units) are defined by their location in the network of mutual relations, reflecting the lexico-semantic system of the Polish language. plWordNet is also used as one of the basic resources for the construction of natural language processing tools for Polish.
History
plWordNet is being developed at Wrocław University of Technology as part of CLARIN. The works have been carried out by The WrocUT Language Technology Group G4.19 since 2005, funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and by the EU.
The thesaurus has been built from the 'ground up' by lexicographers and natural language engineers.
The first version of plWordNet was published in 2009 – it contained 20,223 lemmas, 26,990 lexical units and 17,695 synsets. Version 4.0 was released in 2018. The most recent version is plWordNet 4.2.
Content
Currently, plWordNet contains 195k lemmas, 295k lexical units and 228k synsets. It has already outgrown Princeton WordNet with respect to the number of lexical units.
plWordNet consists of nouns (135k), verbs (21k), adjectives (29k) and adverbs (8k). Each meaning of a given word is a separate lexical unit. Units that represent the same concept, and do not differ significantly in stylistic register, have been combined into synsets - sets of synonyms.
Each lexical unit is assigned to one of the domains (semantic categories), indicating its general meaning. plWordNet domains correspond to Princeton WordNet lexicographers' files.
Semantic categories in plWordNet
Lexical unit description
Some lexical units are provided with the information about stylistic register, short definition, usage examples and link to the relevant Wikipedia article.
The most important element defining words meanings are lexico-semantic and derivational relations, which hold between synsets and between lexical units. One synset groups such lexical units, which share the same set of relations.
Based on the relations assigned to the synsets and units, tools for natural language processing can conclude about meaning of the lemma, which is important for example in word-sense disambiguation.
Selected noun relations
Polish synsets are connected to the corresponding Princeton WordNet synsets with a set of inter-lingual lexico-semantic relations (such as for instance synonymy, partial synonymy, hyponymy). 91 578 synsets have been mapped so far (which amounts to about 2/3 of plWordNet synsets, among which mainly nouns). The mapping enables the application of plWordNet in machine translation, e.g. in the online service offered by Google Translate. Mapping can be instrumental in leveraging textual analysis tools from English to Polish.
Applications
plWordNet is available on the open access license, allowing free b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trove%20%28disambiguation%29 | Trove is an Australian library-database aggregator.
Trove may also refer to:
Trove, a database-as-a-service component of the OpenStack cloud-computing platform
Trove (app), a personalized web- and iOS-based news-aggregator application
Trove (service), an online and mobile marketplace for photos
Trove (video game), a 2015 voxel-based adventure game from Trion Worlds
Treasure trove, a legal concept
A Treasure's Trove, a 2004 children's book by Michael Stadther |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacopia | Datacopia is a freemium tool that automatically generates charts and infographics from structured and unstructured data.
Context
Representing data using charts is a difficult task from two perspectives. The first is that it is not always clear which chart type best represents a dataset. The second, and more difficult of the two, is understanding what useful information even exists in the data before it can be visualized.
Datacopia attempts to resolve these difficulties by automating both the data analysis and chart selection processes.
Technology
Datacopia is built in HTML5 and runs on any platform with a browser that supports the Html5 canvas element. It makes use of D3.js and the NVD3 library to provide its interactive graphics. It uses the Heroku PaaS stack.
Datacopia allows generated charts to be posted to social media sites and blogs.
Datacopia offers an API that allows developers to embed Datacopia functionality within their software and websites. This API is already used by the Qiqqa research management software to automatically turn tables of results in PDFs into charts.
See also
Comparison of JavaScript charting libraries
References
Data visualization software
Plotting software
Graph drawing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veyretia | Veyretia is a genus of terrestrial orchids native to South America and Trinidad.
Veyretia aphylla (Ridl.) Szlach. - Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
Veyretia caudata (R.J.V.Alves) Mytnik - Minas Gerais
Veyretia cogniauxiana (Barb.Rodr. ex Cogn.) Szlach. - Minas Gerais
Veyretia hassleri (Cogn.) Szlach. - Brazil, Paraguay
Veyretia neuroptera (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Szlach. - Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil
Veyretia rupicola (Garay) F.Barros - Brazil
Veyretia sagittata (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Szlach. - French Guiana, Argentina, Brazil
Veyretia simplex (Griseb.) Szlach. - Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
Veyretia sincorensis (Schltr.) Szlach. - Bahia
Veyretia szlachetkoana Mytnik - Colombia, Venezuela
Veyretia undulata Szlach. - Brazil
References
Cranichideae genera
Spiranthinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workiva | Workiva, Inc. is a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. It provides a cloud-based connected and reporting compliance platform that enables the use of connected data and automation of reporting across finance, accounting, risk, and compliance.
The company was named for the fourth consecutive year as one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2022.
History
Early history
2008 - 2014
In August 2008, Workiva Inc. was formed as WebFilings LLC in California by six entrepreneurs.
Martin Vanderploeg was a co-founder of EAI and served as CTO and Executive Vice President until they were acquired in 2000 by UGS Corp, and is now a division of Siemens, the German technology multinational.
Workiva's primary product is Wdesk, a cloud-based enterprise software-as-a-service platform that enables companies to collect, manage, report and analyse critical business data in real time. Wdesk also allows companies to manage and file financial and compliance documents to regulatory agencies.
The Wdesk platform integrates information from disparate content formats, including spreadsheets, presentation documents, emails and other unstructured data, into a single cloud-based report.
In July 2014, the company's name was changed to Workiva LLC, and was converted into a Delaware LLC in September 2014.
Recent history
2014 - 2019
The company went public in December 2014 and with an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: WK).
Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 500 survey of fastest growing technology companies in America Workiva ranked fiftieth among all software companies. In the DevOps Excellence Awards 2019, Workiva won Best Software-Defined Product.
In May 2019, Workiva opened offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and Paris, France. The company also has offices in Amsterdam and London, 12 U.S. cities, and two Canadian cities.
Workiva’s product Wdata allows users to connect large datasets of information to the Workiva platform. It was designed to improve the usefulness of Wdesk. Wdata connects data from enterprise resource planning, governance risk and compliance platforms, and other third-party, on-premise systems and cloud applications.
Wdata was named the technical innovation of the year by The American Business Awards in June 2019. In September, Workiva updated the Wdata platform to include automatic updates, approval workflows, finance and accounting connectors, risk and control integration, and improved controlled access tools. The company also integrated its platforms with BlackLine, a producer of financial close software. The integration allows accountants to connect and transfer data between the two companies. Later in September, Workiva established a partnership with FloQast, a financial close management software company. The two offer a reporting and compliance solution for private companies, as well as for companies to use before and after they issue an initial public offering of stock.
2020 - 2021
In March 2020, Fortune included Workiv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell%20Railways | Appenzell Railways (, AB) is a Swiss railway company with headquarters in Herisau. It operates a network of railways in the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, St. Gallen and Thurgau.
History
The origins of the Appenzeller Bahnen company lies in a number of formerly independent companies and railway lines:
The Rorschach–Heiden-Bergbahn (RHB), which opened its line from Rorschach to Heiden in 1875.
The Appenzellerbahn (AB), which opened its line from Winkeln to Urnäsch via Herisau in 1875, with an extension from Urnäsch to Appenzell in 1886. In 1913, the line from Herisau to Winkeln was replaced by a new line to Gossau.
The Frauenfeld–Wil railway (FW) in 1887
The St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell-Bahn (SGA), which opened between St. Gallen and Gais in 1889, and was extended to Appenzell in 1904.
The Rheineck–Walzenhausen-Bergbahn (RhW), which opened between Rheineck and Walzenhausen in 1896.
The Trogenerbahn (TB), which opened between St. Gallen and Trogen in 1903.
The Altstätten-Gais-Bahn (AG), which opened between Gais and Altstätten in 1911.
The Säntisbahn, which opened between Appenzell and Wasserauen in 1912.
The Appenzellerbahn and Santisbahn merged in 1947, retaining the Appenzellerbahn (AB) identity. The St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell-Bahn and Altstätten-Gais-Bahn merged in 1948, under the name St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell–Altstätten-Bahn (SGA).
The Appenzeller Bahnen company was formed in 1988, with the merger of the Appenzellerbahn and the St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell–Altstätten-Bahn. In 2006, the Appenzeller Bahnen company merged with the Rorschach–Heiden-Bergbahn, the Rheineck–Walzenhausen-Bergbahn and the Trogenerbahn companies. In legal terms, this merger took the form of the Appenzeller Bahnen company acquiring the other companies.
In 2021 the company merged with Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn AG, owner of the Frauenfeld–Wil line. The two companies had shared operations for years.
Operation
Today, the company operates the following railway lines:
Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen
Gossau–Appenzell–Wasserauen
Altstaetten–Gais
Rheineck–Walzenhausen
Rorschach–Heiden
Frauenfeld–Wil
The St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell, Gossau–Appenzell–Wasserauen and Altstätten–Gais lines form a connected network of lines, all electrified at 1500 V DC. Until 2018, the St. Gallen–Trogen line was also of metre gauge, but ran independently.
From 2016 to 2018, the Appenzellerbahnen undertook a large construction project to connect the Appenzell-St. Gallen and St. Gallen-Trogen lines. The three points of incompatibility were electrification (the St. Gallen-Trogen line was 1000 V DC with a brief stretch at 600 V DC shared with the St. Gallen trolleybus system), different (but physically adjacent) termini in St. Gallen, and maximal grades (the rack railway approach to St. Gallen from Appenzell was too steep for adhesion-based St. Gallen-Trogen rolling stock). So the new project re-electrified the St. Gallen-Trogen line at 1500 V DC and constructed a ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Gardner | Lauren Gardner (born September 6, 1985) is an American sportscaster who is employed by the DAZN Group, MLB Network, and NHL Network.
Sportscasting career
Gardner interned at FOX Sports Rocky Mountain and Mile High Sports magazine. She has served as a sideline reporter and host for CBS Sports Network, Fox Sports Ohio, MTV2, Smithsonian Channel, and Altitude Sports and Entertainment, where she covered the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, college football, and college basketball. She has also hosted numerous programs including pre and post-game shows, red carpet events, fantasy football programming, and even the documentary series Sports Detectives.
Gardner joined the MLB and NHL networks in the spring of 2019. With them, she has hosted various programs including Quick Pitch, On the Fly, and NHL Tonight. She has also reported on numerous events around both leagues. Gardner, along with Melanie Newman who did the play-by-play, Sarah Langs, Alanna Rizzo who was the sideline reporter, and Heidi Watney, was a part of an all-female broadcast team who called the Baltimore Orioles vs. Tampa Bay Rays game on July 20, 2021, for YouTube. In April of 2022, she became the host of a new MLB Network panel show, Off Base.
Gardner can also been seen as a host and reporter for boxing programming on DAZN, and is the host of the U.S. version of Born Fighter on Matchroom Boxing's YouTube channel.
Personal life
Gardner grew up in Denver, Colorado. She was an All-Conference softball player and was captain of her high school dance team. Gardner graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in political science. She was a member of the Denver Broncos Cheerleaders from 2004 to 2009 and has a private pilot's license. She is a fan of the Denver Broncos, Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Rockies.
References
External links
American cheerleaders
American sports announcers
American television personalities
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
National Football League cheerleaders
Mass media people from Denver
University of Colorado alumni
Living people
1985 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20H.%20Borning | Alan H. Borning is an American Computer Scientist noted for his research on human computer interaction and object-oriented programming. In particular his research in human-computer interaction is on designing for human values. He works on systems to support civic engagement and deliberation, and works on tools to make public transportation easier to use. He has also worked on constraint-based languages and systems, and cooperating constraint languages and solvers.
Biography
Borning received a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College in 1971. He received a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1979.
He then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in 1980, where in 2016 he is still a professor there. He is also an adjunct professor in the Information School, and a member of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning.
Awards
In the year 2001, he became an ACM Fellow for contributions to constraint-based languages, systems, and applications, to object-oriented programming; and to understanding issues of computers and society.
References
External links
University of Washington: Alan H. Borning, Department of Computer Science
American computer scientists
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
1950 births
Reed College alumni
Stanford University alumni
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Serreze | Mark Clifford Serreze (born 1960) is an American geographer and the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), a project of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He officially became the NSIDC's director in August 2009. In 2019, he was named a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography. Serreze is primarily known for his expertise in the Arctic sea ice decline that has occurred over the last few decades due to global warming, a topic about which he has expressed serious concern.
Early life and education
Serreze grew up in Maine, and credits its frequent snowy weather as an inspiration for his interest in studying ice. He received his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1989.
Views on sea ice and global warming
In 2007, Serreze said that given the increasingly rapid rate at which Arctic ice has been melting, he thought it was "very reasonable" to expect the Arctic to be ice-free by 2030. He also blamed the decline primarily on anthropogenic global warming. Serreze became well known in 2008 when he described the state of Arctic sea ice as being in a "death spiral", and said it could disappear in the summers within several decades. Also that year, when contacted by the Associated Press, Serreze described the state of Arctic sea ice as being at a "tipping point," after which sea ice will plummet rapidly and added that 2007's then-record low sea ice levels were due in part to wind currents and other weather conditions as well as global warming.
In regards to Antarctic sea ice extent, Serreze noted in an interview 2012 that it is known since years that Arctic sea ice vanishes first, and thus it is not a surprise that observations do not show big reductions and Antarctic sea ice doesn't disprove global warming.
Media appearances
In 2006 he was featured in the Discovery Channel documentary Global Warming: What You Need to Know.
See also
Climate change in the Arctic
Publications
Serreze, Mark C. (2018) Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North. Princeton University Press. .
References
Living people
1960 births
American geographers
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanats%20of%20Ghasabeh | The Qanats of Ghasabeh (), also called Kariz e Kay Khosrow, is one of the world's oldest and largest networks of qanats (underground aqueducts). Built between 700 and 500 BCE by the Achaemenid Empire in what is now Gonabad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, the complex contains 427 water wells with a total length of . The site was first added to UNESCO's list of tentative World Heritage Sites in 2007, then officially inscribed in 2016, collectively with several other qanats, as "The Persian Qanat".
History
Qanat Ghasabe has a link to the legendary king of Iran Kay Khosrow. Many historical and geographical sources mention two main wars in Gonabad region during the time of Kay Khosrow. Davazdah Rokh war and Froad war had been mentioned in Shahnameh. According to Nasir Khusraw, the qanat of Gonabad was built by the order of Kay Khosrow
Persian period
The use of water clocks in Iran, especially in the Qanats of Gonabad and Kariz Zibad, dates back to 500 BCE. Later they were also used to determine the exact holy days of pre-Islamic religions, such as the Nowruz, Chelah, or Yaldā—the shortest, longest, and equal-length days and nights of the year. The water clock, or Fenjaan, was the most accurate and commonly used timekeeping device for calculating the amount or the time that a farmer must take water from the Qanats of Gonabad until it was replaced by more accurate current clocks.
Nasir Khusraw (1003–1077), in his book Safarnama, described the Qanats of Gonabad as the Kariz of Kai Khosrow, claiming the qanats were dug by the order of the legendary Persian king Kai Khosrow. According to a contemporaneous inscription, in 714 BCE Sargon II of Assyria invaded the city of Uhlu lying in the northwest of Uroomiye lake that lay in the territory of Urartu, and he noticed that the occupied area enjoyed a very rich vegetation even though there was no river running across it. In fact it was Ursa, the king of the region, who had rescued the people from thirst and turned Uhlu into a prosperous and green land. Goblot believes that the influence of the Medeans and Achaemenids made the technology of qanats spread from Urartu (in northwest Iran and near the present border between Iran and Turkey) across the Iranian plateau.
It was an Achaemenid ruling that in case someone succeeded in constructing a qanat and bringing groundwater to the surface in order to cultivate land, or in renovating an abandoned qanat, the tax he was supposed to pay the government would be waived not only for him but also for his successors for up to five generations. Following Darius' order, Silaks, the naval commander of the Persian army, and Khenombiz, the royal architect, managed to construct a qanat in the oasis of Kharagha in Egypt. Beadnell believes that qanat construction dates back to two distinct periods: they were first constructed by the Persianse, and later the Romans dug other qanats during their reign in Egypt from 30 BCE to 395 AD. The magnificent temple built in this area du |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOME%20MicroDataCenter | A microDataCenter contains compute, storage, power, cooling and networking in a very small volume, sometimes also called a "DataCenter-in-a-box". The term has been used to describe various incarnations of this idea over the past 20 years. Late 2017 a very tightly integrated version was shown at SuperComputing conference 2017: the DOME microDataCenter. Key features are its hot-watercooling, fully solid-state and being built with commodity components and standards only.
DOME project
DOME is a Dutch government-funded project between IBM and ASTRON in form of a public–private partnership to develop technology roadmaps targeting the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest planned radio telescope. It will be built in Australia and South Africa during the late 2010s and early 2020s. One of the 7 DOME projects is MicroDataCenter (previously called Microservers) that are small, inexpensive and computationally efficient.
The goal for the MicroDataCenter is the capability to be used both near the SKA antennas to do early processing of the data, and inside much larger supercomputers that will do the big data analysis. These servers can be deployed in very large numbers and in environmentally extreme locations such as in deserts where the antennas will be located and not in only in cooled datacenters.
A common misconception is that microservers offer only low performance. This is caused by the first microservers being based on Atoms or early 32bit ARM cores. The aim of the DOME MicroDataCenter project is to deliver high performance at low cost and low power. A key characteristic of a MicroDataCenter is its packaging: very small form factor that allows short communication distances. This is based on using Microservers, eliminating all unnecessary components by integrating as much as possible from the traditional compute server into a single SoC (Server on a chip). A microserver will not deliver the highest possible single-thread performance, instead, it offers an energy optimized design point at medium-high delivered performance. In 2015, several high performance SoCs start appearing on the market, late 2016 a wider choice is available, such as Qualcomms Hydra.
At server level, the 28 nm T4240 based microserver card offers twice the operations per Joule compared to an energy optimized 22 nm Finfet XEON-E3 1230Lv3 based server, while delivering 40% more aggregate performance. The comparison is at server board and not at chip level.
Design
In 2012 a team at IBM Research Zürich led by Ronald P. Luijten started pursuing a very computational dense, and energy efficient 64-bit computer design based on commodity components, running Linux. A system-on-chip (SoC) design where most necessary components would fit on a single chip would fit these goals best, and a definition of "microserver" emerged where essentially a complete motherboard (except RAM, boot flash and power conversion circuits) would fit on chip. ARM, x86 and Power ISA-based solutions we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture%20%28disambiguation%29 | A gesture is a body movement that conveys some meaning.
Gesture may refer also to:
Gesture (music)
Gesture recognition in computing
The Gestures, a teenage American rock band based
Gestures (album), an album by Maksim Mrvica
Pointing device gesture, an interaction with a computer interface using a pointing device or finger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Gibbons | Denis Alfred Gibbons (19322002) was an Australian folk musician, radio announcer and musicologist. He started in radio in 1951 with the Macquarie Radio Network and began recording Australian folk music in 1954. His first albums were released in 1960 and he regularly appeared on Australia's Channel Nine as a lead-in to their news reports. In 1982 he received an Advance Australia award for "his outstanding contribution to Australian Folk Music". He worked as a producer for Radio Australia. He died in 2002
Biography
Denis Gibbons was born in 1932, his father, Alfred Charles Gibbons, was a hotelier. Gibbons grew up in Port Elliot, South Australia, he attended the Sisters of Mercy in Victor Harbour and then Rostrevor College in Adelaide. His early jobs included labouring in Adelaide, selling hardware, managing a bicycle shop, truck driving, working for the PMG and in factories. He started in radio in 1951. While working at 3SR, he was described in August 1953 in Melbourne's The Argus as a, "cheery breakfast and lunch-time announcer, is starting his own programme soon singing folk songs Burl Ives fashion with guitar." By May 1954 he was compère of Time for a Song at 3AW. In November 1955 he married Joan Carey in Shepparton.
Gibbons debut album, Trads and Anons, was issued in September 1960, which was reviewed by The Australian Women's Weeklys correspondent, "the disc is a cosmopolitan collection of folk songs including the Dutch 'Jan Himmerk', the Irish 'Spinning Wheel', the Australian 'Bold Tommy Payne', 'Dying Stockman', and 'Wild Colonial Boy', the English 'Early One Morning', and the Scottish 'Skye Boat Song'."
Discography
Albums
Trads and Anons (September 1960)
1975: Folksongs of Australia – The Struggle For Survival (W&G, double LP)
? Folk Songs with Denis Gibbons (W&G)
1995: Fair Dinkum Matilda (Move)
Extended plays
1960: Bush Songs (W&G)
1962: Shearing Songs (W&G)
1967: Folk Songs from Australia (W&G)
Singles
"Jamaica Farewell" (1957)
"Take a Message to Mary" (1959) – (W&G Records) (WG-SL-777)
"Here Comes Summer" (1959) – W&G Records (WG-SL-814)
"Along the Old Bush Track" (1959) – W&G Records (WG-SL-841)
"The Drover's Dream" (1960) – W&G Records (WG-SL-986)
"Michael (Row the Boat Ashore)" (Denis Gibbons with the Unichords and the Jack Varney 5) (1961) – W&G Records (WG-S-1254)
"Tina" (Denis Gibbons with the Unichords and the Jack Varney 5) (1962) – W&G Records (WG-S-1301)
References
Australian folk musicians
1932 births
2002 deaths
3AW presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomart | iomart Group plc is a Scottish information technology and cloud computing company which provides managed services from data centres and offices across the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur Angus MacSween.
The group takes its name from a derivation of the Gaelic word () meaning enterprise. iomart offered the first consumer broadband connection in the United Kingdom, and was the first broadband reseller through its Madasafish brand. Headquartered in Glasgow, iomart operated a call centre in Stornoway which today is still operating and owned by Talk Talk. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market AIM in 2000.
, iomart owns and manages data centres in eight locations. iomart Group operates a number of different brands including Melbourne Server Hosting which serves the SME market, Backup Technology which provides cloud backup, disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as Easyspace, RapidSwitch and Redstation.
, iomart employs 405 staff, two-thirds of whom are based at its offices in the West of Scotland Science Park in Glasgow. Reece Donovan became the CEO of Iomart in October 2020.
History
iomart was founded in 1998 as an integrated internet and telecommunications company by former Scottish Telecom senior executives Angus MacSween and Bill Dobbie. In 1999 the company received its first revenue from the launch of its business service in conjunction with Richard Branson's Virginbiz.net.
In 2000 iomart Group incorporated and floated on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market AIM. Through its Madasafish brand iomart offered the first UK consumer broadband connection. It also launched Scottish consumer Internet Service Provider, Jings! In the same year iomart launched the UK's first outsourced large-scale email hosting platform, ThinkMail.
In 2002 the Telco businesses were sold for £2million to Centrica and in 2003 the group acquired Web Genie Internet Ltd for £437thousand.
In 2004 iomart bought web hosting brand easyspace for £12m as well as hosting and domain company Internetters for £250k. In 2005 it launched the UK business directory Ufindus and launches the Netintelligence Managed Services Platform.
2006 saw the launch of Netintelligence as the world's first security Software as a Service product.
In 2007 the group bought its first four data centres across the UK.
In 2008 iomart sold Ufindus to BT for £20m. The following year iomart acquired dedicated server hosting specialist RapidSwitch for £5.5m.
In 2011 iomart were awarded First UK Kitemark for Online Child Safety. The company also acquired Titan Internet for £4.2m, Switch Media for £1.25m, Global Gold for £1.2m, and EQSN for £2.5m.
In Autumn 2012 iomart Group made a multimillion-pound investment in creating its own resilient dedicated fibre network to connect its data centres. The group also went on to acquire Melbourne Server Hosting for £7m and launched Host Your Kit youth football campaig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsWatcher | NewsWatcher was a series of freeware and open source newsreader software for Apple Macintosh computer systems. Running on System software versions 7.0 until 10.5, the original NewsWatcher was written by Steve Falkenberg and John Norstad, and later forked by others into a number of versions such as MT-NewsWatcher (Multithreaded NewsWatcher), VA-NewsWatcher (Value Added NewsWatcher) and YA-NewsWatcher (Yet Another NewsWatcher).
Version 2.0b24 of the original NewsWatcher was evaluated for the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval, but did not receive it, with the evaluator noting as its "fatal flaw" that the application allowed posting from invalid email addresses. John Norstad revised the application and it later received the award, earning seal #00002. These revisions were later picked up by derived versions, enabling them to also pass the evaluation.
Varieties of Newswatcher were included in popular internet starter kits of the early 1990s such as Adam Engst's Internet Starter Kit book/cd combo, which called NewsWatcher "fast, clean, and easy to use, which is the result of nice touches at every level".
The latest developed version was MT-NewsWatcher (MTNW), which was reviewed in 2002 by MacWorld, which noted its use "almost since the dawn of the Macintosh's use on the internet". MT-NewsWatcher was discontinued when the Open Transport software library it used became unsupported after Apple discontinued the Rosetta compatibility library.
See also
List of Usenet newsreaders
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
References
External links
MT-NewsWatcher page
John Norstad page including history of NewsWatcher development
Usenet clients
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCWB%20%28FM%29 | KCWB (92.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic country music format. It is licensed to Byron, Wyoming. The station is currently owned by the Big Horn Radio Network, a division of Legend Communications of Wyoming, LLC.
All Big Horn Radio Network stations have their offices and studios located at 1949 Mountain View Drive in Cody. KCWB, KCGL and KTAG all share a transmitter site on Cedar Mountain off Highway 14, west of Cody.
The station signed on in June 2014.
References
External links
Classic country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2014
CWB
2014 establishments in Wyoming
Big Horn County, Wyoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Council%20for%20International%20Visitors | The Georgia Council for International Visitors (GCIV) is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is part of the Global Ties U.S. national network.
The mission of GCIV is to build relationships between the people of Georgia and leaders around the world. The vision is that every citizen of the State of Georgia has the opportunity to be more globally engaged.
GCIV is a nonprofit organization founded in 1962, coinciding with Atlanta leaders working to establish Atlanta as the growing southern city not impacted by racial discord. Atlanta was promoted as the "city too busy to hate" in the formative years of GCIV.
GCIV played an early role in positioning Atlanta as an international city. GCIV now works with the United States Department of State in developing professional and cultural exchange programs for emerging global leaders. The non-partisan citizen diplomacy programs developed by GCIV give Georgians unique opportunities to share best practices and insights, plus form friendships with distinguished visitors, many of whom are seeing the United States for the first time.
GCIV administers the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in Georgia. Launched in 1940, the IVLP seeks to build mutual understanding between the United States and other nations through carefully designed professional visits to the U.S. for current and emerging foreign leaders. U.S. ambassadors consistently rank the IVLP as most effective in a long list of public diplomacy tools at their disposal.
External links
References
Non-profit organizations based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Organizations based in Atlanta
Foreign relations of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20computing%20issues | Cloud computing has become a social phenomenon used by most people every day. As with every important social phenomenon there are issues that limit its widespread adoption. In the present scenario, cloud computing is seen as a fast developing area that can instantly supply extensible services by using internet with the help of hardware and software virtualization. The biggest advantage of cloud computing is flexible lease and release of resources as per the requirement of the user. Other benefits encompass betterment in efficiency, compensating the costs in operations and management. It curtails down the high prices of hardware and software
Although, there are numerous benefits of adopting the latest cloud technology still there are privacy issues involved in cloud computing because in the cloud at any time the data can outbreak the service provider and the information is deleted purposely. There are security issues of various kinds related to cloud computing falling into two broader categories: First, the issues related to the cloud security that the cloud providers face (like software provided to the organizations, infrastructure as a service). Secondly, the issues related to the cloud security that the customers experience (organizations who store data on the cloud)
Most issues start from the fact that the user loses control of their data, because it is stored on a computer belonging to someone else (the cloud provider). This happens when the owner of the remote servers is a person or organization other than the user; as their interests may point in different directions (for example, the user may wish that their information is kept private, but the owner of the remote servers may want to take advantage of it for their own business). Other issues hampering the adoption of cloud technologies include the uncertainties related to guaranteed QoS provisioning, automated management, and remediation in cloud systems.
Many issues relate to cloud computing, some of which are discussed here.
Threats and opportunities of the cloud
GNU project initiator Richard Stallman has characterized cloud computing as raising cost and information-ownership concerns. Oracle founder Larry Ellison viewed the trend to "cloud computing" in terms of "fashion-driven [...] complete gibberish".
However, the concept of cloud computing appeared to gain steam, with 56% of the major European technology decision-makers seeing the cloud as a priority in 2013 and 2014, and the cloud budget may reach 30% of the overall IT budget.
According to the TechInsights Report 2013: Cloud Succeeds based on a survey, cloud implementations generally meet or exceed expectations across major service models, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS).
Several deterrents to the widespread adoption of cloud computing remain. They include:
reliability
availability of services and data
security
complexity
costs
regulations and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20research | Many universities, vendors, institutes and government organizations are investing in cloud computing research:
In October 2007, the Academic Cloud Computing Initiative (ACCI) was announced as a multi-university project designed to enhance students' technical knowledge to address the challenges of cloud computing.
In April 2009, UC Santa Barbara released the first open source platform-as-a-service, AppScale, which is capable of running Google App Engine applications at scale on a multitude of infrastructures.
In April 2009, the St Andrews Cloud Computing Co-laboratory was launched, focusing on research in the important new area of cloud computing. Unique in the UK, StACC aims to become an international centre of excellence for research and teaching in cloud computing and provides advice and information to businesses interested in cloud-based services.
In October 2010, the TClouds (Trustworthy Clouds) project was started, funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. The project's goal is to research and inspect the legal foundation and architectural design to build a resilient and trustworthy cloud-of-cloud infrastructure on top of that. The project also develops a prototype to demonstrate its results.
In January 2011, the IRMOS EU-funded project developed a real-time cloud platform, enabling interactive applications to be executed in cloud infrastructures.
In February 2011, Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Industrial Development Authority launched the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce to deliver industry-led research on cloud architectures, quality of service, security and business and legal issues.
In July 2011, the High Performance Computing Cloud (HPCCLoud) project was kicked off, aiming at finding out the possibilities of enhancing performance on cloud environments while running the scientific applications – development of HPCCLoud Performance Analysis Toolkit which was funded by CIM-Returning Experts Programme – under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Shajulin Benedict.
In June 2011, the Telecommunications Industry Association developed a Cloud Computing White Paper, to analyze the integration challenges and opportunities between cloud services and traditional U.S. telecommunications standards.
In December 2011, the VISION Cloud EU-funded project proposed an architecture along with an implementation of a cloud environment for data-intensive services aiming to provide a virtualized Cloud Storage infrastructure.
In October 2012, the Centre For Development of Advanced Computing released an open source, complete cloud service, software suite called "Meghdoot".
In October 2012, the ECO2Clouds EU-funded project was launched to analyze the environmental impact of applications on the cloud and to optimize their deployment and scheduling based on a monitoring infrastructure based on BonFIRE proving ecometrics
In February 2013, the BonFIRE project launched a multi-site cloud experimentation and testing facility. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20management | Cloud management is the management of cloud computing products and services.
Public clouds are managed by public cloud service providers, which include the public cloud environment’s servers, storage, networking and data center operations. Users may also opt to manage their public cloud services with a third-party cloud management tool.
Users of public cloud services can generally select from three basic cloud provisioning categories:
User self-provisioning: Customers purchase cloud services directly from the provider, typically through a web form or console interface. The customer pays on a per-transaction basis.
Advanced provisioning: Customers contract in advance a predetermined amount of resources, which are prepared in advance of service. The customer pays a flat fee or a monthly fee.
Dynamic provisioning: The provider allocates resources when the customer needs them, then decommissions them when they are no longer needed. The customer is charged on a pay-per-use basis.
Managing a private cloud requires software tools to help create a virtualized pool of compute resources, provide a self-service portal for end users and handle security, resource allocation, tracking and billing. Management tools for private clouds tend to be service driven, as opposed to resource driven, because cloud environments are typically highly virtualized and organized in terms of portable workloads.
In hybrid cloud environments, compute, network and storage resources must be managed across multiple domains, so a good management strategy should start by defining what needs to be managed, and where and how to do it. Policies to help govern these domains should include configuration and installation of images, access control, and budgeting and reporting. Access control often includes the use of Single sign-on (SSO), in which a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them.
Characteristics of Cloud Management
Cloud management combines software and technologies in a design for managing cloud environments. Software developers have responded to the management challenges of cloud computing with a variety of cloud management platforms and tools. These tools include native tools offered by public cloud providers as well as third-party tools designed to provide consistent functionality across multiple cloud providers. Administrators must balance the competing requirements of efficient consistency across different cloud platforms with access to different native functionality within individual cloud platforms. The growing acceptance of public cloud and increased multicloud usage is driving the need for consistent cross-platform management. Rapid adoption of cloud services is introducing a new set of management challenges for those technical professionals responsible for managing IT systems and services.
Cloud-management platforms and tools should have the ability to provide minimum functionality in the f |
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