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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largeur.com | Largeur.com is an online magazine. published by the Swiss media agency LargeNetwork.
History
On 19 April 1999, two Swiss journalists, Pierre Grosjean and Gabriel Sigrist, created Largeur.com, an online magazine which publishes investigations, columns and news reports on a daily basis. Organized under five headings (Glocal, Kapital, Pop Culture, Technophile and Latitudes), the articles focus on new trends, original viewpoints and exclusive information
Largeur.com soon expanded into a media agency which produces original content for Swiss media publications and magazines, books and other products (print and online) for companies and other institutions. In July 2009, these activities were grouped into a new entity, LargeNetwork. The online magazine retained its original name.
Grosjean and Sigrist were previously involved in the creation of the daily newspaper Le Temps and both worked for Le Nouveau Quotidien.
References
External links
Media coverage of Largeur.com (in French)
History of Largeur.com
1999 establishments in Switzerland
French-language magazines
French-language websites
Magazines established in 1999
Magazines published in Geneva
News magazines published in Europe
Swiss news websites
Online magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balls%20into%20bins%20problem | The balls into bins (or balanced allocations) problem is a classic problem in probability theory that has many applications in computer science. The problem involves m balls and n boxes (or "bins"). Each time, a single ball is placed into one of the bins. After all balls are in the bins, we look at the number of balls in each bin; we call this number the load on the bin. The problem can be modelled using a Multinomial distribution, and may involve asking a question such as: What is the expected number of bins with a ball in them?
Obviously, it is possible to make the load as small as m/n by putting each ball into the least loaded bin. The interesting case is when the bin is selected at random, or at least partially at random. A powerful balls-into-bins paradigm is the "power of two random choices" where each ball chooses two (or more) random bins and is placed in the lesser-loaded bin. This paradigm has found wide practical applications in shared-memory emulations, efficient hashing schemes, randomized load balancing of tasks on servers, and routing of packets within parallel networks and data centers.
Random allocation
When the bin for each ball is selected at random, independent of other choices, the maximum load might be as large as However, it is possible to calculate a tighter bound that holds with high probability. A "high probability" is a probability , i.e. the probability tends to when grows to infinity.
For the case , with probability the maximum load is:
.
Gonnet
gave a tight bound for the expected value of the maximum load, which for is , where is the inverse of the gamma function, and it is known that .
The maximum load can also be calculated for , and for example, for it is , and for it is , with high probability.
Exact probabilities for small can be computed as for defined in OEIS A208250.
Partially random allocation
Instead of just selecting a random bin for each ball, it is possible to select two or more bins for each ball and then put the ball in the least loaded bin. This is a compromise between a deterministic allocation, in which all bins are checked and the least loaded bin is selected, and a totally random allocation, in which a single bin is selected without checking other bins. This paradigm often called the "power of two random choices" has been studied in a number of settings below.
In the simplest case, if one allocates balls into bins (with ) sequentially one by one, and for each ball one chooses random bins at each step and then allocates the ball into the least loaded of the selected bins (ties broken arbitrarily), then with high probability the maximum load is:
which is almost exponentially less than with totally random allocation.
This result can be generalized to the case (with ), when with high probability the maximum load is:
which is tight up to an additive constant. (All the bounds hold with probability at least for any constant .) Note that for , the random allocation process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosea%20robiniae | Bosea robiniae is a bacterium from the genus of Bosea.
References
External links
Type strain of Bosea robiniae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Madrid | The Madrid tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Parts of the network include(d):
The historical street-running tramway network in central Madrid, functioning between 1871 and 1972.
The Metro Ligero de Madrid, a tramway network of three lines, which began operations in 2007.
The Parla Tram, a circular line in suburb south of Madrid, inaugurated in 2007.
Tram transport in Spain
Madrid
Rail transport in Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglin%20AFB%20Site%20C-6 | Eglin AFB Site C-6 is a United States Space Force radar station which houses the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment. Commencing operations in 1969, the AN/FPS-85 was the first large phased array radar. The entire radar/computer system is located at a receiver/transmitter building and is supported by the site's power plant, fire station, 2 water wells (for 128 people), and other infrastructure for the system. As part of the US Space Force's Space Surveillance Network its mission is to detect and track spacecraft and other manmade objects in Earth orbit for the Combined Space Operations Center satellite catalogue. With a peak radiated power of 32 megawatts the Space Force claims it is the most powerful radar in the world, and can track a basketball-sized object up to from Earth.
Background and mission
The AN/FPS-85 radar constructed at Eglin Site C-6 in the 1960s during the Cold War as a cutting edge phased array radar and computer system originally designed to detect and track orbital nuclear missiles. During the 1960s, to counter the growing threat from the West's nuclear missiles on their borders in Turkey, Europe, and Asia, the Soviet Union (now Russia) developed a system to deliver nuclear weapons with missiles in Earth orbit, called a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS). The United States had early-warning radar systems for missiles such as BMEWS, but it could only detect threats incoming from the north, because a nuclear strike against the US from the Soviet Union using conventional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) would come by the shortest (great circle) route, over the North Pole. FOBS missiles in contrast could orbit the Earth before beginning their reentry, so they could attack the US from any direction. In a 15 March 1962 speech during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev alluded to this developing capability:
"We can launch nuclear missiles not only over the North Pole, but in the opposite direction too. Global rockets can fly from the oceans or other directions where warning facilities cannot be installed. Given global missiles, the warning system has lost its importance. Global missiles cannot be spotted in time to prepare any measures against them."
The possibility of such a threat from space, as well as the increasing number of satellites in Earth orbit since Sputnik, convinced the U.S. Air Force that it needed to greatly expand its space tracking facilities, and the AN/FPS-85 was designed for this mission. Its south-facing radar antenna with 120° azimuth coverage was well situated for monitoring low-inclination (equatorial) orbits in addition to detecting FOBS attacks, and could reportedly see 80% of satellites orbiting the Earth.
Construction of the radar began in 1962, but a fire during predeployment testing destroyed it in 1965. It was rebuilt and became operational in 1969.
The AN/FPS-85 was the world |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCanvas | PlayCanvas is an open-source 3D game engine/interactive 3D application engine alongside a proprietary cloud-hosted creation platform that allows for simultaneous editing from multiple computers via a browser-based interface. It runs in modern browsers that support WebGL, including Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The engine is capable of rigid-body physics simulation, handling three-dimensional audio and 3D animations.
PlayCanvas has gained the support of ARM, Activision and Mozilla.
The PlayCanvas engine was open-sourced on June 4, 2014.
In April 2019, BusinessInsider.com reported that the company was acquired by Snap Inc. in 2017.
Features
The PlayCanvas platform has collaborative real-time Editor that allows editing project by multiple developers simultaneously. The engine supports the WebGL 1.0 and 2.0 standard to produce GPU accelerated 3D graphics and allows for scripting via the JavaScript programming language.
Projects can be distributed via a URL web link or packaged in native wrappers, p.g. for Android, using CocoonJS or for Steam using Electron, and many other options and platforms.
Notable PlayCanvas applications
Various companies use PlayCanvas in projects of different disciplines of interactive 3D content in the web.
Disney created an educational game for Hour of Code based on its Moana film.
King published Shuffle Cats Mini as a launch title for Facebook Instant Games.
TANX – massively multiplayer online game of cartoon styled tanks.
Miniclip published number of games on their platform with increase of HTML5 games popularity on the web.
Mozilla collaborated with PlayCanvas team creating After the Flood demo for presenting cutting-edge features of WebGL 2.0.
See also
List of WebGL frameworks
List of game engines
JavaScript
HTML5
WebGL
References
External links
PlayCanvas Official Website
PlayCanvas Engine (Open Source)
PlayCanvas API Reference
PlayCanvas Tutorials
Various free-to-play games built with PlayCanvas
Cloud applications
Collaborative real-time editors
Cross-platform free software
Free 3D graphics software
Free game engines
Free software programmed in JavaScript
Graphics libraries
IOS video game engines
Software using the MIT license
Video game development software
Video game engines
Web applications
Web development
Web development software
Web software
WebGL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20R.%20Gibson | David Richard Gibson (born 1969) is an American sociologist and associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a scholar of social interaction, social networks, organizations, decision-making and deception. In a review article, Eviatar Zerubavel described him "as one of sociology's leading conversational analysts". His publication Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis won the 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
Career
Gibson grew up in Philadelphia received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Eastern College. He then attended Columbia University, where he received his M.A. in 1994, and M.Phil. in 1995, both in sociology. From 1997-1999, Gibson was a research associate to Harrison White and Kathryn Neckerman for the project funded by the Citigroup Behavioral Sciences Research Council (chaired by James March) entitled, “Conflict and Cooperation in Work Groups.” He completed a PhD with distinction, in 1999, also from Columbia. Under the supervision of Peter Bearman along with advisors Randall Collins, and Harrison White, he completed his dissertation entitled Taking Turns and Talking Ties: Conversational Sequences in Business Meetings. For his doctoral research, Gibson:
Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, Gibson joined the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy as a post-doctoral fellow under the direction of Harrison White for the project titled: “Dynamics From Social Settings: Representations of Interdependent Social Forms”.
Gibson then accepted a position of assistant professor at Harvard University, where he taught from 2001 to 2005, and then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, also as an assistant professor. He was briefly a lecturer at Princeton University before accepting a position as associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame in 2013.
He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Social Psychology Quarterly (2007–2009) and Sociological Theory (2011–2012).
Contributions
According to Douglas Brinkley, in Gibson's 2012 publication Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis, "the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 is reinterpreted in this brilliant, analytic exposé... [and] sheds landmark new light on the terse diplomacy between Kennedy and Khrushchev." Likewise, Jane Mansbridge argues that Talk at the Brink "makes a major intellectual and scholarly contribution to our understanding of human behavior...The book's strongest lesson is how open and nonlinear important decisions can be." The book won the 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. The book received additional reviews in the American Journal of Sociology by Phaedra Daipha, in The 49th Parallel by Scott Midgley, in Perspectives on Politics by Frank Harvey, and in Social Forces by Erik Schneiderhan. In 2012, Gibson published a summary of this research in Na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee%20USA | Jubilee USA may refer to:
Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of national churches, diverse religious groups, and labor, environmental, and political organizations working on global financial reforms to protect vulnerable communities.
Jubilee USA, originally named Ozark Jubilee, an ABC-TV country music program from 1958 to 1960 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havel%E2%80%93Hakimi%20algorithm | The Havel–Hakimi algorithm is an algorithm in graph theory solving the graph realization problem. That is, it answers the following question: Given a finite list of nonnegative integers in non-increasing order, is there a simple graph such that its degree sequence is exactly this list? A simple graph contains no double edges or loops. The degree sequence is a list of numbers in nonincreasing order indicating the number of edges incident to each vertex in the graph. If a simple graph exists for exactly the given degree sequence, the list of integers is called graphic. The Havel-Hakimi algorithm constructs a special solution if a simple graph for the given degree sequence exists, or proves that one cannot find a positive answer. This construction is based on a recursive algorithm. The algorithm was published by , and later by .
The algorithm
The Havel-Hakimi algorithm is based on the following theorem.
Let be a finite list of nonnegative integers that is nonincreasing. Let be a second finite list of nonnegative integers that is rearranged to be nonincreasing. List is graphic if and only if list is graphic.
If the given list is graphic, then the theorem will be applied at most times setting in each further step . Note that it can be necessary to sort this list again. This process ends when the whole list consists of zeros. Let be a simple graph with the degree sequence : Let the vertex have degree ; let the vertices have respective degrees ; let the vertices have respective degrees . In each step of the algorithm, one constructs the edges of a graph with vertices —i.e., if it is possible to reduce the list to , then we add edges . When the list cannot be reduced to a list of nonnegative integers in any step of this approach, the theorem proves that the list from the beginning is not graphic.
Proof
The following is a summary based on the proof of the Havel-Hakimi algorithm in Invitation to Combinatorics (Shahriari 2022).
To prove the Havel-Hakimi algorithm always works, assume that is graphic, and there exists a simple graph with the degree sequence . Then we add a new vertex adjacent to the vertices with degrees to obtain the degree sequence .
To prove the other direction, assume that is graphic, and there exists a simple graph with the degree sequence and vertices . We do not know which vertices are adjacent to , so we have two possible cases.
In the first case, is adjacent to the vertices in . In this case, we remove with all its incident edges to obtain the degree sequence .
In the second case, is not adjacent to some vertex for some in . Then we can change the graph so that is adjacent to while maintaining the same degree sequence . Since has degree , the vertex must be adjacent to some vertex in for : Let the degree of be . We know , as the degree sequence is in non-increasing order.
Since , we have two possibilities: Either , or . If , then by switching the places of the vertices and , we can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreboot | Libreboot (briefly known as GNU Libreboot) is a free software project based on coreboot, aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware contained by most computers. Libreboot is a lightweight system designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.
Characteristics
Libreboot is established as a distribution of coreboot, but with some proprietary binary blobs removed from coreboot. Libreboot makes coreboot easy to use by automating the build and installation processes.
On some devices, Libreboot developers have reverse engineered the firmware from Intel and created a utility to create a free firmware that meets the specifications from Intel. Hardware support includes but is not limited to the ASUS KGPE-D16, ThinkPad T400, X60 and X200. Libreboot is officially endorsed by the upstream coreboot project.
History
The Libreboot project was started in December 2013 as a distribution of coreboot, which excludes non-free binary blobs. Coreboot began as LinuxBIOS in 1999 at Los Alamos National Labs (LANL), and was renamed "coreboot" in 2008.
Libreboot has been endorsed by the Free Software Foundation, and was an official part of the GNU Project since May 2016. In January 2017, the project's maintainer Leah Rowe pulled Libreboot from the GNU Project, after a months-long dispute with the Free Software Foundation which oversees GNU.
Reception
In 2015, Kyle Rankin stated in Linux Journal that Libreboot "greatly simplified and automated" the flashing process, "with a few caveats". In 2016, Bryan Cockfield stated in Hackaday that Libreboot installation was "harrowing" and "not as easy as you'd think".
References
External links
2013 software
Custom firmware
Firmware
Free BIOS implementations
Open-source firmware
Software related to embedded Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roud%20%28disambiguation%29 | Roud is the Roud Folk Song Index, a database collected from oral tradition in the English language.
Roud may also refer to:
Places
Roud, Isle of Wight, a hamlet in England
People
Gustave Roud (1897–1976), Swiss poet and photographer
Richard Roud (1929–1989), American writer on film
Steve Roud, creator of the Roud Folk Song Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipper%20%28computer%20software%29 | Skipper is a visualization tool and code/schema generator for PHP ORM frameworks like Doctrine2, Doctrine, Propel, and CakePHP, which are used to create database abstraction layer.
Skipper is developed by Czech company Inventic, s.r.o. based in Brno, and was known as ORM Designer prior to rebranding in 2014.
Overview
Generates visual model from the schema definition files
Repetitive import/export of schema definitions in supported formats (XML, YML, PHP annotations)
Schema definition files are automatically generated from the visual model
Visual representation uses ER diagram extended by concepts of inheritance and many-to-many
Supports customization using .xml configuration files and JavaScript
Does not support direct connections to the database
Crude and simplistic visual representation and menus
Architecture
Skipper was built on the Qt framework. Import/export of the schema definitions uses XSL transformations powered by LibXslt library. Imported source files are first converted to XML format: no conversion for XML, simple conversion for YML, creating the Abstract Syntax Tree and its subsequent conversion to XML for PHP annotations.
The import/export scripts are configured in JavaScript and can be freely customized.
Supported ORM frameworks
Frameworks supported for visual model and schema files generation:
Doctrine2
Doctrine
Propel
CakePHP
History
Skipper was created as an internal tool for the web applications developed by Inventic. It was first published as a commercial tool under the name ORM Designer in 2009.
Application was reworked and optimized in January 2013, and released as ORM Designer 2.
In May 2013 ORM Designer became part of the South Moravian Innovation Center Incubator program (support program for innovative technological startups).
In June 2014, ORM Designer version 3 was released and rebranded under the name of Skipper
See also
List of object-relational mapping software
Comparison of object-relational mapping software
Object-relational mapping
Database abstraction layer
References
External links
Symfony cheatsheet
Object–relational mapping
Programming tools
Computer graphics
Graphics software that uses Qt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20cognitive%20system | Enterprise cognitive systems (ECS) are part of a broader shift in computing, from a programmatic to a probabilistic approach, called cognitive computing. An Enterprise Cognitive System makes a new class of complex decision support problems computable, where the business context is ambiguous, multi-faceted, and fast-evolving, and what to do in such a situation is usually assessed today by the business user. An ECS is designed to synthesize a business context and link it to the desired outcome. It recommends evidence-based actions to help the end-user achieve the desired outcome. It does so by finding past situations similar to the current situation, and extracting the repeated actions that best influence the desired outcome.
While general-purpose cognitive systems can be used for different outputs, prescriptive, suggestive, instructive, or simply entertaining, an enterprise cognitive system is focused on action, not insight, to help in assessing what to do in a complex situation.
Key characteristics
ECS have to be:
Adaptive: They must learn as information changes, and as goals and requirements evolve. They must resolve ambiguity and tolerate unpredictability. They must be engineered to feed on dynamic data in real time, or near real time. In the Enterprise, near-real time learning from data requires an agile information federation approach to ingest incremental data updates as they occur, and an unsupervised learning approach to ensure that new best practice is leveraged across the organization in a timely manner.
Interactive: They must interact easily with users so that those users can define their needs comfortably. They may also interact with other processors, devices, and Cloud services, as well as with people. In the Enterprise, interactions are controlled via existing workflows and UIs. Therefore, embedding best practices directly into these existing interfaces, in the context of a specific step, is critical to ensure maximum end-user adoption.
Iterative and stateful: They must aid in defining a problem by asking questions or finding additional source input if a problem statement is ambiguous or incomplete. They must “remember” previous interactions in a process and return information that is suitable for the specific application at that point in time. In the Enterprise, business context is often structured by a business process, and therefore sufficiently data-rich to make relevant recommendations without significant iterations from the end-user. A stateful memory of overall interactions across communication channels is critical for understanding of context, as a static profile will not capture intent and outcome potential the way behavior does.
Contextual: They must understand, identify, and extract contextual elements such as meaning, syntax, time, location, appropriate domain, regulations, user's profile, process, task and goal. They may draw on multiple sources of information, including both structured and unstructured digital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosea%20vestrisii | Bosea vestrisii is a bacterium from the genus of Bosea which was isolated from hospital water.
References
External links
Type strain of Bosea vestrisii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen%20movement%20schools | So-called "Gülen movement" Schools are a network of private or semi-private schools founded by Turkish-Americans. Alp Aslandoğan, executive director of the non-profit organisation Alliance for Shared Values has said that the schools are independent yet indirectly tied to the Islamic Gülen movement on the "intellectual or inspirational level." In 2009 it was estimated that members of the Gülen movement ran schools that serve more than 2 million students, many with full scholarships. Estimates of the number of schools and educational institutions varied widely, with about 300 schools in Turkey and over 1,000 schools worldwide.
Prior to the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, there were many Gülen schools in Turkey. The schools were all subsequently banned by law, as were other Gülen schools in countries with large Turkish populations. Despite Turkey's official request, The United States has not extradited Gülen.
"Gülen" schools in the United States, which provide solely secular education to children mostly from low-income households, receive federal financial support.
Curriculum
The curricula of the schools vary from country to country. They generally follow a secular mixture of Turkish and local curricula.
Language instruction
Gülen schools promote education in the local languages where they are located, including the controversial use of Kurdish in Turkey. In many countries instruction is in English. However, all of the schools outside of Turkey offer Turkish as either a mandatory or elective foreign language.
Science and mathematics
Gülen schools heavily emphasize instruction in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Islamic component
Gülen schools are not for Muslims alone, and in Turkey "the general curriculum for the network's schools prescribes one hour of religious instruction per week, while in many countries the schools do not offer any religious instruction at all. With the exception of a few Imam-Hatip schools abroad, these institutions can thus hardly be considered Islamic schools in the strict sense." The greatest majority of the teachers are drawn from members of the Gülen network, who reportedly encourage students in the direction of greater piety. A 2008 article in the New York Times said that in Pakistan "they encourage Islam in their dormitories, where teachers set examples in lifestyle and prayer", and described the Turkish schools as offering a gentler approach to Islam that could help reduce the influence of extremism.
School organization
Schools established by the Gülen movement are usually private or semi-private schools founded by the members of the movement who are inspired by the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen. In addition there are many American charter schools founded or managed by members of Gülen movement.
Private schools
In 2009, it was estimated that members of the Gülen movement run schools that serve more than 2 million students. Estimates of the number of schools and educ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM%20Education%20Act%20of%202014 | The STEM Education Act of 2014 () is a bill that would add computer science to the definition of STEM fields used by the United States federal government in determining grants and education funding. It would open up some training programs to teachers pursuing their master's degrees, not just teachers who had already earned one.
It was introduced and passed in the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.
Background
"STEM" is an acronym referring to the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The term is typically used in the US when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools from k-12 through college to improve competitiveness in technology development. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy. In the United States, the acronym began to be used in education and immigration debates in initiatives to begin to address the perceived lack of qualified candidates for high-tech jobs. It also addresses concern that the subjects are often taught in isolation, instead of as an integrated curriculum. Maintaining a citizenry that is well versed in the STEM fields is a key portion of the public education agenda of the United States.
Provisions of the bill
There are three major components of the bill.
First, the bill would expand the definition of "STEM education" to include education in the field of computer science. This definition is used by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the United States Department of Energy in their programs. This would "ensure federal grants and programs related to STEM education include computer science education."
Second, the bill would confirm the importance of STEM education outside of school.
A final provision of the bill would make "classroom teachers with bachelor’s degrees in STEM fields who are pursuing master’s degrees eligible for NSF-administered Master Teaching Fellowships in exchange for a four-year commitment to teach in high-need school districts."
Procedural history
The STEM Education Act of 2014 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on July 8, 2014 by Rep. Lamar Smith (R, TX-21). It was referred to the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. On July 14, 2014, the House voted to pass the bill in a voice vote.
Debate and discussion
The IEEE-USA supported the bill, with President Gary Blank saying that "IEEE-USA strongly supports federal, state and local efforts to improve K-12 science, technology, engineering and math education, particularly programs that increase student interest and engagement in engineering and computer science."
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), who co-sponsored the bill, said that "STEM education is critical to preparing our students for high-demand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnMan | ConnMan is an internet connection manager for embedded devices running the Linux operating system.
The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible, so it can be easily integrated. It is a fully modular system that can be extended, through plug-ins, to support all kinds of wired or wireless technologies. Also, configuration methods, like DHCP and domain name resolving, are implemented using plug-ins. The plug-in approach allows for easy adaptation and modification for various use cases.
Originally created as part of Intel's Moblin effort, it's now used by OpenELEC as well as Mer and therefore also Sailfish OS by Jolla, which is based on it. It is also used in a number of Google Nest products, including Nest Cam, Nest Guard, Nest Hello, and Nest Learning Thermostat.
See also
NetworkManager
netifd
Wicd
References
External links
Connection Manager comparison (NetworkManager, ConnMan, VMC, Wicd)
Applications using D-Bus
Free network-related software
Linux network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20shopping%20malls%20in%20Moscow | This is a list of shopping malls in Moscow and Moscow Oblast in Russia.
Malls in Moscow
As of January 2013, Moscow had 82 malls, including two of the largest in Europe. In 2016, data from the FourSquare social network shows that Moscow has at least 100 shopping malls. Another source lists over 280 malls.
MEGA malls are series of malls located all around Russia. There are currently three MEGA malls in Moscow, with all of the being located in Moscow Oblast.
Gallery
References
External links
Leading brands in Moscow malls
Shopping malls in Russia
Russia
Shopping malls
Shopping malls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20national%20road%209 | Danish national road 9 (Danish: Primærrute 9) is part of the Danish national road network. It runs between Odense on Funen and Nykøbing Falster on Falster by way of Svendborg, Tåsinge, Siø and Langeland, and involves a ferry crossing between Langeland and Lolland.
Route
The section of National road 9 between Odense and Svendborg follows the Svendborg Motorway. The route then continues across the islands of Tåsinge and Langeland to the small town of Spodsbjerg where there is a ferry service to Tårs on Lolland.
On Lolland, National road 9 continues east, joining Sydmotorvejen ("The South Motorway") just before Maribo and leaving it again at Sakskøbing. It then crosses the Frederick IX Bridge to Falster before reaching Nykøbing Falster.
Motorway Section
Odense
11 Årslev
12 Ringe N
13 Ringe C
| Groven/Dynden
14 Kværndrup
15 Kirkeby
16 Svendborg N
References
Roads in Denmark
Transport in Funen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perils%20of%20Man | Perils of Man is a 2014 computer adventure game designed by Gene Mocsy and Bill Tiller and developed and published by IF Games. It follows protagonist Ana Eberling as she attempts to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance. As the plot unfolds, Ana discovers a dark family history and a powerful technology that has been hidden from the public for generations.
Perils of Man was acclaimed by critics for its graphic design. Touch Arcade stated it was “A powerful set up for a storyline, it highlights on the emotions of grief, loss and fear, and does so incredibly well. It’s definitely worth experiencing one of the finest looking games to grace the iPad in some time.” The game contains elements of steampunk fiction and the art style has been likened to that of Tim Burton.
Chapter 1 of the game was released for free on Apple's App Store in April 2014. The full game was released in 2015 and it is available for Mac and PC on the Apple's App Store and Steam.
Gameplay
Perils of Man is a third-person, touch-driven, stylized adventure game in which the player must solve various puzzles and follow certain procedures in order for the story to proceed. As a pure point-and-click adventure game, Perils of Man follows the guidelines first introduced by LucasArts. It is impossible to die or to get stuck at any point in the game, which allows the user to fully enjoy Perils of Mans universe without the fear of making a mistake or the constant need to save the game.
Plot
In the game, the player controls the actions of Swiss teenager Ana Eberling, who receives a gift from her father on her 16th birthday. Since her father had disappeared over 10 years ago, she takes this as a sign that he must still be alive despite the fact that her mother Nadia claims to have seen his ghost. Ana vows to get to the bottom of the mystery and starts by exploring the old family mansion in Zurich where she soon discovers a secret laboratory hidden in the basement. Here she befriends a mechanical bird, Darwin, who joins her adventure. After she discovers a strange set of goggles that let her see through time, she is catapulted on an adventure to sites in history that are doomed to catastrophe.
Development
The game was produced in Zurich, Switzerland, and involved a distributed production team of more than 60 people. The game was developed in Unity for mobile devices. The project was sponsored by Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re as part of their 150-year anniversary.
Reception
Perils of Man chapter 1 was generally well received and won the SGDA Award 2014 for Best Swiss Video Game of the year and an EDI shortlist award in 2013. Based on four reviews, Metacritic gave the game an aggregate score of 75% ("generally favorable reviews").
Gamers Sphere said “Perils of Man sets new standards for the point-and-click genre. I never felt like I solved a puzzle or completed a task for no reason, like I do in some adventure games. Each challenge felt naturally placed and seemed to affect the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20national%20road%20network | The Danish national road network () is a numbering system for roads in Denmark developed by the Danish Road Directorate (Vejdirektoratet).
The roads are numbered from 6 to 99 and 01 to 04 for ring roads with Danish national road status. There are currently 37 Danish national roads and 59 is currently the highest number. Signs are yellow with black numbers.
National roads
National ring roads
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Robin%20Hoodnik | The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik is an animated television movie produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Broadcasting on the ABC television network on November 4, 1972, it was part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie series. The special featured an all-animal cast in a retelling of Robin Hood. The show premiered just a year before Walt Disney Productions released their theatrical animated version of the story. Nineteen years later, in 1991, Hanna-Barbera produced another television adaptation of the Robin Hood legend, Young Robin Hood, their international co-production with CINAR, Crayon Animation and France Animation.
Cast
Cynthia Adler as Maid Marian
Daws Butler as Scounger and Richard
Joe E. Ross as Oxx
Hal Smith as Donkey
John Stephenson as Sheriff of Nottingham and Carbuncle
Len Weinrib as Robin Hoodnik, Alan Airedale, Whirlin' Merlin, Lord Scurvy, Friar Pork, and Little John
See also
List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
Robin Hood (disambiguation)
References
External links
1972 television films
1972 films
Hanna-Barbera animated films
Hanna-Barbera television specials
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
Films directed by William Hanna
Films directed by Joseph Barbera
1970s American animated films
Animated Robin Hood films
Robin Hood parodies
1970s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Todd | Joy Todd (born Feb 1935, died February 18, 2014) was an American casting director.
She worked on several films with director Sidney Lumet, including Network, Prince of the City, The Verdict, Garbo Talks, Family Business, and Q&A. She also worked on several films starring Sylvester Stallone, including Rocky II, Rocky III, Cobra, Rambo III, Lock Up, and Demolition Man.
In addition, Todd was casting director for Paul Mazursky's Moscow on the Hudson (in which she also appeared) and Scenes from a Mall as well as the 1994 American Civil War drama Gettysburg and its 2003 prequel, Gods and Generals. She also did casting work on Ghostbusters, was one of the casting directors on Sergio Leone's acclaimed Once Upon a Time in America and helped cast extras in such films as Kramer vs. Kramer, Sea of Love and Hudson Hawk.
Todd died of natural causes in San Diego, California on February 18, 2014.
References
External links
2014 deaths
American casting directors
Women casting directors
1935 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjam.com | Manjam was a social networking website that used GPS technology and social discovery to connect mutually attracted gay and bisexual men. With a large proportion of Manjam users based in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, the website was translated into 28 different languages. In order to support users from these locations, Manjam had focused on translating the site into right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. To date, Manjam is the first gay social web application targeted exclusively for communities speaking these languages. The site was active from 2004 to 2016, when it shut down.
History
Manjam was founded in October 2004 and was headquartered in London, England. According to its founders, the primary aim of Manjam was to give people in countries where same-sex relationships is criminalized the freedom to connect and express ideas openly without prejudice. According to the news website Techcrunch, Manjam offered listings for accommodation, business, and personal profiles. Free membership allowed users to access the listings, including IM, video, and audio messaging. In countries where many LGBT people experienced abuse, discrimination, honor killings, and murder, a survey of gay Iraqis by Michael Luongo found that Manjam was one of the most frequently used websites to facilitate social interaction.
In 2016, the website shut down and ended all operations.
Technology
Manjam was a cross-platform web application, accessible via the mobile devices web browser. It did not require downloading onto the user's mobile device in order to be accessed. Built using open standards such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3, the Manjam web app was designed to work seamlessly across all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices. The web app drew on location-based technology that allowed users to set a specific location and search any other users within their local radius. Manjam used responsive web design to adapt to different screen sizes automatically, thus enabled users to access data across all modern browsers such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and was fully compatible with Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
Membership
Since launching in 2004, more than 2 million members had registered to use the service. 1 million of which were based in Europe. Membership access to Manjam was free, however the site also provided users with a premium subscription-based service called Manjam Gold. Upgrading to Gold granted users access to enhanced features and superpowers such as priority listing, unlimited chat, unlimited contacts, and unlimited views.
As of the year 2017, the website is officially closed and is non-functional.
Visibility
According to web traffic data site Alexa Internet, Manjam achieved high online visibility in Middle Eastern countries such as Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Qatar.
See also
Homosocialization
References
External links
Official website
Andro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20the%20Netherlands | The Netherlands has a public road network totaling 139,000 km, one of the densest in the world. Its use has increased since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km traveled per year, three quarters of which is by car, making it among the most intensely used road networks. In 2019, the World Economic Forum ranked the quality of Dutch road infrastructure as the best in Europe and second to Singapore out of 141 countries.
Dutch roads include at least 3,530 km of motorways and expressways, and with a motorway density of 64 kilometres per 1,000 km2, the country also has one of the densest motorway networks in the world. The Netherlands' main highway network (hoofdwegennet) consists of 5,200 km of national roads, together with the most prominent provincial roads. Although only about 2,500 km of roads are fully constructed to motorway standards, most of the remainder are also expressways for fast motor vehicles only.
Since 1997, a national traffic safety program called "Duurzaam Veilig (Verkeer)", or "Sustainable (Road) Safety" has had a major influence on the road network. Traffic calming was applied on a massive scale; by 2009, more than 33,000 km of rural roads had their speed limit reduced from to 60 km/h (37 mph), and over 41,000 km of urban roads were limited from to 30 km/h (19 mph), amounting to over half the national road network being calmed. A popular calming and collision reduction measure has been to replace intersections with roundabouts in order to reduce serious T-bone collisions. By 2015, there were almost 5,000 roundabouts throughout the Netherlands.
Except for motorways and expressways, most Dutch roads support cyclists; 35,000 km, a quarter of all roads, feature dedicated cycle tracks that are physically segregated from motor traffic. Another 4,700 km of roads have clearly marked bike lanes, and on other roads traffic calming has allowed cyclists and motorists to safely mix. Busy junctions sometimes give priority to cyclists, and in streets such as fietsstraten (cycle streets) and woonerven (home zones), bicycles always have priority over cars.
History
The first motorway in the Netherlands dates back to 1936, when the current A12 was opened to traffic between Voorburg and Zoetermeer, near The Hague. Motorway construction accelerated in the 1960s and 1970s but slowed in the 1980s. Current motorway expansion mostly occurs outside the Randstad.
General maximum speed limits were introduced in 1957 (50 km/h within built-up areas) and in 1973 (100 km/h on extra-urban highways); the motorway limit was raised to 120 km/h in 1988.
Roads by management authority
National and provincial roads
About 5,200 km of national roads (rijkswegen) are controlled by the Rijkswaterstaat, and the country's twelve provinces control about 7,800 km of provincial roads. Most motorways are national roads, and the remaining national roads are mostly expressways. Only a few motorways are provincial, and these are generally shorter and serve regional tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hulls | Chris Hulls is an American entrepreneur and business executive, best known for being the founder of the family networking app Life360.
Life and education
Hulls lives in Point Reyes, California. Hulls attended Tomales High School where he graduated a year early, subsequently taking classes at the College of Marin.
Hulls joined the United States Air Force and served out of Qatar. Hulls later left the military and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, serving an internship with Goldman Sachs. After turning down an offer to work full-time, he enrolled in Harvard Business School.
Career
Hulls left Harvard to launch Life360, a mobile family networking application that allows families to see each other's locations through password protected networks. He came up with the idea during his time as an undergraduate. After seeing the United States Government's Ready.gov initiative that allowed people to find family members in a disaster, Hulls decided to create an easier platform for mobile users. Ready.gov used a system of pre-printed forms that families could print and fill out with a pen, while Hulls decided to make the app a location-based service that worked in real time. Hulls entered the Life360 app into the Android Developer Challenge and won over 3,000 other entries. He received a $275,000 award that he used to pay back prior investments from friends and family as well as hire developers for the app.
Outside of Life360, Hulls has been involved in public speaking and been quoted in numerous publications on various topics.
References
External links
Official Twitter profile
AppStoreOptimization.com website
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Businesspeople from California
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard Business School alumni
People from Point Reyes, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20instruction%2C%20multiple%20threads | Single instruction, multiple threads (SIMT) is an execution model used in parallel computing where single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is combined with multithreading. It is different from SPMD in that all instructions in all "threads" are executed in lock-step. The SIMT execution model has been implemented on several GPUs and is relevant for general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), e.g. some supercomputers combine CPUs with GPUs.
The processors, say a number of them, seem to execute many more than tasks. This is achieved by each processor having multiple "threads" (or "work-items" or "Sequence of SIMD Lane operations"), which execute in lock-step, and are analogous to SIMD lanes.
The simplest way to understand SIMT is to imagine a multi-core system, where each core has its own register file, its own ALUs (both SIMD and Scalar) and its own data cache, but that unlike a standard multi-core system which has multiple independent instruction caches and decoders, as well as multiple independent Program Counter registers, the instructions are synchronously broadcast to all SIMT cores from a single unit with a single instruction cache and a single instruction decoder which reads instructions using a single Program Counter.
The key difference between SIMT and SIMD lanes is that each of the SIMT cores may have a completely different Stack Pointer (and thus perform computations on completely different data sets), whereas SIMD lanes are simply part of an ALU that knows nothing about memory per se.
History
SIMT was introduced by Nvidia in the Tesla GPU microarchitecture with the G80 chip. ATI Technologies, now AMD, released a competing product slightly later on May 14, 2007, the TeraScale 1-based "R600" GPU chip.
Description
As access time of all the widespread RAM types (e.g. DDR SDRAM, GDDR SDRAM, XDR DRAM, etc.) is still relatively high, engineers came up with the idea to hide the latency that inevitably comes with each memory access. Strictly, the latency-hiding is a feature of the zero-overhead scheduling implemented by modern GPUs. This might or might not be considered to be a property of 'SIMT' itself.
SIMT is intended to limit instruction fetching overhead, i.e. the latency that comes with memory access, and is used in modern GPUs (such as those of Nvidia and AMD) in combination with 'latency hiding' to enable high-performance execution despite considerable latency in memory-access operations. This is where the processor is oversubscribed with computation tasks, and is able to quickly switch between tasks when it would otherwise have to wait on memory. This strategy is comparable to multithreading in CPUs (not to be confused with multi-core). As with SIMD, another major benefit is the sharing of the control logic by many data lanes, leading to an increase in computational density. One block of control logic can manage N data lanes, instead of replicating the control logic N times.
A downside of SIMT execution i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid%20Graphics%20Adapter | The Orchid Graphics Adapter is a graphics board for IBM PC compatible computers, released in 1982 by Orchid Technology.
It was intended to provide high resolution (at the time) monochrome graphic abilities to computers limited to text displays. It was aimed at the business market and one of the three first third party graphic boards for PCs (the others being Plantronics Colorplus and Hercules Graphics Card).
It offered a monochrome 720 × 350 pixel resolution and required an existing MDA board to function. The board also offered an IBM PC joystick adapter. No software, other than GSX-86 and that supplied with the board (Dr. Halo by Media Cybernetics), offered support for the hardware. Graphic routines could be called from FORTRAN, PASCAL or IBM BASIC.
Output capabilities
720 × 350 monochrome graphics, pixel aspect ratio of 1:1.55.
See also
Plantronics Colorplus
Hercules Graphics Card
IBM Monochrome Display Adapter
References
Computer display standards
Graphics cards
Monochrome Display Adapter
Computer-related introductions in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread%20%28network%20protocol%29 | Thread is an IPv6-based, low-power mesh networking technology for Internet of things (IoT) products. The Thread protocol specification is available at no cost; however, this requires agreement and continued adherence to an End-User License Agreement (EULA), which states that "Membership in Thread Group is necessary to implement, practice, and ship Thread technology and Thread Group specifications."
Thread uses 6LoWPAN, which, in turn, uses the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol with mesh communication (on the 2.4 GHz spectrum), as do Zigbee and other systems. However, Thread is IP-addressable, with cloud access and AES encryption. A BSD-licensed open-source implementation of Thread, called "OpenThread", is available from and managed by Google.
In 2019, the Connected Home over IP project (later renamed "Matter"), led by Zigbee Alliance (now Connectivity Standards Alliance), Google, Amazon, and Apple, announced a broad collaboration to create a royalty-free standard and open-source code base to promote interoperability in home connectivity, leveraging Thread, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy. In 2021, Thread was awarded the Smart Home Innovation of the Year from The Ambient's Smart Home Awards.
Thread Group
In July 2014, the Thread Group alliance was formed as an industry group to develop, maintain and drive adoption of Thread as an industry networking standard for IoT applications. Thread Group provides certification for components and products to ensure adherence to the spec. Initial members were ARM Holdings, Big Ass Solutions, NXP Semiconductors/Freescale, Google-subsidiary Nest Labs, OSRAM, Samsung, Silicon Labs, Somfy, Tyco International, Qualcomm, and the Yale lock company. In August 2018 Apple Inc. joined the group and released its first Thread product, the HomePod Mini, in late 2020.
Selling points and key features
Thread is a low-power and low-latency wireless mesh networking protocol built using open and proven standards. It uses 6LoWPAN, which is based on the use of a connecting router, called an edge router. Thread calls their edge routers Border Routers. Thread solves the complexities of the IoT, addresses challenges such as interoperability, range, security, energy, and reliability. Thread networks don't have a single point of failure and include the ability to self-heal.
Thread is based on existing technologies in all its layers: from routing, packeting, and security to its wireless radio technology. Similar to Wi-Fi, with its broad range of devices, Thread is an open standard that is not tied to a specific manufacturer, which minimizes the risk of incompatibilities.
Thread’s IP foundation is application agnostic, offering product manufacturers the flexibility to choose one (or multiple) app layers to connect devices across multiple networks. Developers can bring their apps, devices, systems, and services to market faster because they’re using the same set of tools available for the Internet.
IoT protocols landscape
Other Int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoMesa | GeoMesa is an open-source, distributed, spatio-temporal index built on top of Bigtable-style databases using an implementation of the Geohash algorithm.
Description
Written in Scala, GeoMesa is capable of ingesting, indexing, and querying billions of geometry features using a highly parallelized index scheme. GeoMesa builds on top of open source geo (OSG) libraries. It implements the GeoTools DataStore interface providing standardized access to feature collections as well as implementing a GeoServer plugin.
Google announced that GeoMesa supported the Google Cloud Bigtable hosted NoSQL service in their release blog post in May 2015. GeoMesa also supports Bigtable-derivative implementations Apache Accumulo and Apache HBase.
GeoMesa implements a Z-order curve via a custom Geohash implementation to combine three dimensions of geometry and time (i.e. latitude/longitude/timestamp) into a single-dimension lexicographic key space provided by Accumulo.
References
External links
GeoMesa Source
LocationTech homepage
Geowave
Hadoop
Free software programmed in Scala
Bigtable implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Sports%20Network | American Sports Network (ASN) was a sports brand owned by the U.S. television station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group through its Sinclair Networks subsidiary. Formed in July 2014, the multicast network component of ASN produced broadcasts of sporting events that were aired primarily across stations owned by Sinclair (in particular, The CW and MyNetworkTV stations owned and/or operated by the company, or, in some markets, on a digital subchannel of a Sinclair station), and syndicated to non-Sinclair stations and regional sports networks.
The multicast network component of ASN primarily dealt in college sports from NCAA Division I conferences, including live football and basketball games from the Atlantic 10 Conference, Big South Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Conference USA, Horizon League, Ivy League, Mid-American Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League, Southern Conference, Southland Conference, and Western Athletic Conference, as well as a limited number of professional sports events. In 2015, ASN acquired regional rights to Real Salt Lake and D.C. United of Major League Soccer, with games aired on Sinclair stations in the teams' market area, as well as television rights to the newly established Arizona Bowl.
In 2017, Sinclair announced that it would fold the multicast network component of ASN into a new joint venture with Silver Chalice called Stadium, which would combine ASN's broadcast distribution platforms with content from Silver Chalice's digital outlets 120 Sports and Campus Insiders. ASN-branded multicast programming continued on-air until September 6, when the network formally transitioned on-air to Stadium.
History
Sinclair Broadcast Group formally announced the launch of the American Sports Network on July 17, 2014; the service was led by Doron Gorshein, who joined the company in January 2014 in the role of chief operating officer of Sinclair Networks. ASN carried live broadcasts of mainly collegiate sporting events, along with ancillary programming focusing on colleges, their students and student-athletes. ASN's content aired primarily on Sinclair-owned-or-operated affiliates of The CW and MyNetworkTV or on secondary digital subchannels of other stations run by the company (some of which had carried content from competing syndicated sports distributors ESPN Regional Television and Raycom Sports until ASN's launch), the latter especially the case for its stations that have primary affiliations with one of the Big Four networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) which would not pre-empt the higher-tier sports coverage provided by their network partners. Sinclair opened ASN up for distribution by other broadcast outlets interested in carrying the service's content, and announced plans to expand ASN onto digital platforms.
ASN planned to initially broadcast college football, men's and women's college basketball, women's college soccer, and college baseball events, beginning with the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS and FCS foot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20simulation | Historical simulation may refer to:
Historical simulation (finance), time series analysis
Historical dynamics, realistic computer simulations of history
Living history, historical re-creations, acting out history
See also
Simulation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20to%20Cosplay | Call to Cosplay is an American reality television series on Asian American cable network Myx TV. It is a cosplay design competition show where contestants are tasked to create a costume based on a given theme and under time constraints. The show is the first wholly cosplay-based competition show in the United States. It premiered on June 30, 2014 and concluded on May 10, 2016.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2014 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
Cosplay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMAX%20%28Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | DMAX is a Southeast Asian pay television channel centred on broadcasting documentaries, factual-entertainment, lifestyle and reality programming TV series for male audiences.
It is owned by Discovery Asia-Pacific, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery In South Asia, the channel is available under the Discovery Turbo name carrying the same content and schedule.
History
The channel was launched in 2004 as Discovery Real Time and rebranded as Discovery Turbo in 2008. It was rebranded on 7 July 2014 as DMAX with the airing of American Digger at 6:00 AM (UTC+8).
Some of its shows are also broadcast on Discovery Channel in Motor Mania every Thursday nights.
Programmes
Airplane Repo
Alaska: The Last Frontier
American Chopper
American Digger
American Loggers
American Muscle
America's Worst Tattoos
Around The World in 80 Ways
Artifact or Fiction
Backyard Oil
#BikerLive
Bounty Wars
Car Chasers
Car Crazy Central
Car That Rocks with Brian Johnson
Chasing Classic Cars
Chop Shop: London Garage
Chrome Underground
Dallas Cars Sharks
Desert Car Kings
The Devils Ride
Dukes of Haggle
Extreme Car Hoarders
FantomWorks
Fat N' Furious: Rolling Thunder
Fast N' Loud
Fifth Gear
The Fighters
Flying Wild Alaska
The Garage
High Tech Rednecks
Inside West Coast Customs
Last Car Standing
Mighty Planes
Mighty Ships
Machine Morphers
The Motorbike Show
Out of Control Drivers
Outrageous 911
Overhaulin'
Porter Ridge
Property Wars
Railroad Alaska
Restoration Garage
Rods N' Wheels
Smokin' Sundays
Swamp Loggers
Trick My What?
Twist the Throttle
Unique Whips Special Edition
Warlock Rising
What's in the Barn?
Wheeler Dealers
Wrecked
See also
DMAX (TV channel)
DMAX (UK TV channel)
DMAX (Italy)
References
External links
Asia
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Men's interest channels
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Face%20Off%20episodes | Face Off is an American reality television game show on the Syfy cable network in which a group of prosthetic makeup artists compete against each other to create prostheses such as those found in science fiction and horror films.
Face Off premiered January 26, 2011 on Syfy. As of August 7, 2018, 160 episodes of Face Off have aired.
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2012)
Season 4 (2013)
Season 5 (2013)
Season 6 (2014)
Season 7 (2014)
Season 8 (2015)
Season 9 (2015)
Season 10 (2016)
Season 11 (2017)
Season 12 (2017)
Season 13 (2018)
References
External links
Face Off (U.S. TV series)
Face Off (TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamedali%20Tramways%20Company | Mohamedali Tramways Company (MTC) was a transport network of rail vehicles in Karachi, Pakistan.
History
The idea of a tramway system for Karachi was conceived and a tender for its construction was first made in 1881. On February 8, 1883, a plan for a tramway was drawn up and permission obtained from the government for the use of steam-powered trams. In October 1884 construction was started. John Brunton was the Chief Engineer of the project. The tramway was opened on April 20, 1885, employing steam-powered cars. The opening ceremony took place near St Andrew's Church (Abdullah Haroon Road and Sharah-e-Liaquat).
Steam Trams
The steam trams were replaced by horse-drawn ones in 1886. In 1902 the East India Tramways Company Limited was responsible for running the trams in Karachi.
By March 23, 1905, petrol-powered tram were introduced. By 1909 the entire fleet was replaced by petrol-powered trams, unlike Europe which had switched to electric trams. Each car had a capacity of 46 passengers and could travel at speeds of up to 18 mph. New tracks had to be re-laid for the petrol driven trams. The trams now ran on inverted U-shaped grooved-bridge rail with a four-foot gauge. The first two petrol-engined tramcars were designed by John Abbott and his son John Dixon Abbott, incorporating the Dixon-Abbott patent gearbox. They were built in England. By 1914, there were 37 petrol-powered tramcars running. 1945 saw the introduction of the first diesel-powered trams. Until 1955 there were still 64 petrol-powered trams in Karachi numbered from 94 to 157. These were single deck 4-wheeled cars with back-to-back cross benches. They had an 8 ft wheel base, and were 28 feet long, and 6 feet 8 inches wide. These cars were built between 1924 and 1948 with Perkins P.4 Diesel Engines and Simplex (Dixon-Abbott) Gearboxes. Cars number 145 to 157 were built as new diesel cars, while the rest of the cars were converted from petrol to diesel.
Mohamedali Tramways Company
In 1949 the whole tramway system was sold to the Mohamedali Tramways Company (MTC) owned by Sheikh Mohammad Ali.
The tram was a common mode of transport as was the horse-drawn carriage. Only the elite had cars. A few young men owned motorcycles. Both men and women went about on bicycles, for this was the most common type of transport. According to the nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan who lived in Karachi at the time, the tram fare in the 1950s was one anna (less than one cent). Another user Ian Vaughan-Arbuckle says “You could use the trams without being jostled.”
Routes
The original line which started operating on April 20, 1885, ran from Saddar to Kemari.
Between 1891 and 1900 the Lawrence Road (in 2014 Nishtar Road) route was constructed.
On September 30, 1911, the line was extended to Frere Street (in 2014 Dr. Daud Pota Road).
On February 17, 1916, the Soldier Bazaar route was introduced via Mansfield Street (in 2014 Syedna Burhanuddin Road). October 22, 1928 saw the introduction of the Chak |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20400001%E2%80%93401000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20artifact%20colors | Composite artifact colors is a designation commonly used to address several graphic modes of some 1970s and 1980s home computers. With some machines, when connected to an NTSC TV or monitor over composite video outputs, the video signal encoding allowed for extra colors to be displayed, by manipulating the pixel position on screen, not being limited by each machine's hardware color palette.
This mode was used mainly for games, since it limits the display's effective horizontal resolution. It was most common on the IBM PC (with CGA graphics), TRS-80 Color Computer, Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers, and used famously by the Ultima role-playing video games. Software titles (such as King's Quest for the IBM PC) usually provided an option to select between "RGB mode" and "Color Composite mode".
On PAL displays the effect is also present, but generates more limited colors. Depending on the exact PAL system used results will vary (if PAL-M or PAL-N are used, color artifacts similar to NTSC might be possible).
Although related, artifact colors are not the same as horizontal blurring. Blurring is a general effect of using a composite connection, that simply creates new colors due to a mix of adjacent horizontal pixel values. The exact mix will depend on the saturation and specific colors of the original pixels. Nevertheless, this effect can be exploited by using dither patterns, generating new intermediate palette colors on machines with a sufficiently high resolution display, like the ZX Spectrum, Mega Drive/Genesis, NES/Famicom or Amiga.
Technical details
In the NTSC color system as used in broadcasting, the color subcarrier frequency is exactly 227.5 times the line frequency, i.e., each line contains 227.5 color subcarrier cycles. This causes the apparent phase of the subcarrier to be reversed every line, which results in solid colors being displayed as a checkerboard-like pattern when viewed on a monochrome display that does not filter out the color information.
Computers such as the Apple II and the CGA video card for the IBM PC, output a signal that is an approximation of the broadcast standard. In both the Apple II and the CGA, each line is elongated to full 228 cycles of the color subcarrier. This is within the tolerances of most displays, so the image is displayed clearly, but the pattern generated by solid colors becomes straight vertical stripes instead. Each horizontal position within any line has constant phase relationship to the color subcarrier under this system, so lighting up a pixel at each specific horizontal index always has the same effect on the color information as interpreted by the display.
It is also typical for these types of display adapters to have pixel clocks that are a multiple of the NTSC subcarrier frequency. Both the Apple II and the CGA use the pixel clock of 14.318 MHz, four times the color subcarrier. For a broadcast-quality signal, that would mean 910 pixel cycles per each line (as opposed to 858 as later s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20Level%206 | The Honeywell Level 6 was a line of 16-bit minicomputers, later upgraded to 32-bit, manufactured by Honeywell, Inc. from the mid 1970s. Honeywell literature for Models 6/06, 6/34 and 6/36 say "Series 60 (Level 6)". In 1979 the Level 6 was renamed the DPS 6, subsequently DPS 6 Plus and finally DPS 6000.
Description
As initially introduced the Level 6 consisted of three models: the 6/06, the 6/34, and the 6/36. The CPU featured a real-time clock, a ROM bootstrap loader and 64 interrupt levels. The architecture provided a variety of addressing modes and 18 programmer-visible registers. Rack-mount and tabletop versions were available.
These systems supported up to 64 K words (KW) of MOS memory with a cycle time of 650 nanoseconds.
All three models all featured the Megabus, which was a proprietary asynchronous bus architecture.
By 1978 the line had been extended downwards with the introduction of the 6/23 and 6/33, and upwards with the 6/43, 6/47, 6/53, and 6/57. The 6/23 did not support the Megabus. The 6/33 was the new entry-level upgradable model. The other four models supported up to 1 MW (Mega Words) of memory and 26 registers. A memory management unit (MMU), optional on the 6/43 and 6/47, and standard on the 6/53 and 6/57, supported memory segmentation and four protection rings. An optional Scientific Instruction Processor (SIP) added single- and double-precision hardware floating-point instructions. The 6/47 and 6/57 were enhanced versions of the 6/43 and 6/53 respectively which added a Commercial Instruction Processor (CIP) including 30 additional instructions for character-string manipulation and decimal arithmetic. Among the final developments in the line were the high-end 32-bit 6/95-1, 6/98-1 and dual processor 6/95-2 and 6/98-2 models.
In the 1980s, Honeywell's Datanet 8 line of communications processors, often used as front-end processors for DPS 8 mainframes, shared many hardware components with DPS 6. Another specialised derivative of the Level 6 was the Honeywell Page Printing System.
In June 1986, following Honeywell Information Systems' merger with Bull, Honeywell Bull introduced the DPS 6 Plus line of symmetric multiprocessing 32-bit systems, models 410 and 420 (code named MRX - Medium Range eXtended) with up to four processors. In 1987 they introduced the uniprocessor models 210 and 220 (code named LRX - Low Range eXtended), announced the HRX (High Range eXtended), and Computerworld reported that there were more than 50,000 DPS 6 systems installed worldwide. The HRX was introduced as the DPS 6000 600 series. Recognising the commercial success of Unix, in 1988 Honeywell Bull introduced an 80386-based Unix co-processor for the DPS 6 Plus 400 series.
Software
The operating system for the Level 6 was GCOS 6:
GCOS 6 Mod 200 was an entry version of the system oriented toward interactive data entry.
GCOS 6 Mod 400 was a batch operating system also used to run process-control applications.
GCOS 6 Mod 600 was a time-sharing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios%20Magklaras | Georgios (George) V. Magklaras (born in Agrinio, Greece) (Greek: ) is a computer scientist working as a Senior Computer Systems Engineer at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, in Norway. He also co-founded Steelcyber Scientific, an information security based consultancy specialising in digital forensics. He is a high-performance computing engineer and information security researcher. He developed methods in the field of insider IT misuse detection and prediction and digital forensics. He is the author of the LUARM and POFR tools for the Linux Operating System. He has been a strong advocate of Linux, open source tools and the Perl programming language and has given a series of lectures internationally in the fields of intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, bioinformatics, computer programming and systems administration.
Education
Magklaras gained his BSc (Hons) in Computer Systems and Networks from the University of Plymouth, UK, where he graduated in 2000. He was then awarded an EPSRC scholarship to start the study of an MPhil (2005) degree in the area of Information Security, under the Faculty of Technology at the University of Plymouth, UK. Under the supervision of Prof. Steven M. Furnell at the School of Computing, University of Plymouth, UK], he completed his PhD study in the same area (Information Security) in 2012.
Research and career
His research was initially concerned with ways to classify computer security incident management responses. However, his attention was drawn to the problem of misuse detection. Magklaras developed one of the first methods to systematize the misuse detection and misuse prediction techniques. He captured the problem of insider IT misuse and set the theoretical and practical foundations for a generic architecture that facilitates misuse detection and misuse prediction. As part of this work, he wrote the LUARM tool which is a live/volatile digital forensics engine that targets misuse detection. The LUARM research prototype has already been used with success on a number of notable cases detecting insiders and external computer intrusion attempts, however its main usefulness as a research prototype is to create data sets for researchers to further understand the nature of insider threats. An evolved open source version of the tool, the Penguin OS Forensic Recorder POFR has been developed under his supervision by Steelcyber Scientific, an IT consulting firm that focuses on information security and scientific computing. This version contains performance, security and forensic data accuracy improvements over the originally developed LUARM prototype and is suitable for auditing various IT infrastructure components.
Magklaras also pioneered the use of Domain Specific Languages in the field of misuse detection and prediction, in order to strengthen the data mining capabilities of information security researchers. His work on the Insider Threat Prediction and Specification Language (ITPSL) forms the onl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Connett | Paul Connett lives in Binghamton, New York.
Paul Connett is a prominent water fluoridation critic, executive director of the Binghamton, New York-based Fluoride Action Network (FAN), one of the largest organizations opposing water fluoridation worldwide. The Fluoride Action Network is funded, at least in part, by Joseph Mercola. Joseph Mercola has been identified by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate as the leading COVID disinformationist.
Connett has been invited by environmental organizations opposing fluoridation to lecture on the subject in fluoridating countries such as Canada, Israel, Australia and New Zealand. Connett has stated "It’s politics that is interfering with science in this issue...It’s a matter of political will, and you cannot change political will if you don’t get the people. We must involve the people."
Early life
Connett is English, and is a graduate of Cambridge University. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth College.
Political activism
Connett became involved in political activism in 1968. He volunteered for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, where he met Allard K. Lowenstein. Lowenstein and Connett founded the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive, in response to the famine caused by the Biafran War. In 1971, Connett co-founded Operation Omega, a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Paul's wife Ellen was arrested during one of Omega's trips into East Pakistan and spent two months imprisoned there.
University career
After teaching chemistry and toxicology for 23 years at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, he retired from his full professorship. He is currently also the director of the American Environmental Health Studies Project (AEHSP).
Fluoridation campaign
In 2004, Connett published the paper 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation in Medical Veritas, a pseudoscientific journal described by QuackWatch as "fundamentally flawed". In 2010 he coauthored; The Case against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There along with Dr. James Beck and Dr. H. Spedding Micklem.
He also wrote the book in 2013; "The Zero Waste Solution". and assisted the city of Naples in pursuing its zero waste strategy.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Water fluoridation
21st-century American chemists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Dartmouth College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma%20Technologies | Enigma Technologies, Inc., is a data science company headquartered in New York City that specializes in providing data and intelligence about businesses. The company is mainly known for Enigma Public, a now defunct library of public data.
Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, the company organizes and connects hundreds of sources to provide data about businesses for customers in a variety of use cases, from financial services compliance to B2B marketing and insurance underwriting and lending. Enigma works with a number of Fortune 500 companies, including American Express, ADP, BB&T, Celgene, Merck, and PayPal.
History
Enigma Technologies, Inc. was founded by Marc DaCosta (Chairman, co-founder) and Hicham Oudghiri (CEO, co-founder). The founders' curiosity was drawn into focus by the 2008 financial crisis and the effects of climate change. They were frustrated that relevant public data was available, and should have shed light on these two occurrences, but the world still struggled to connect the dots to understand how and why these crises happened or to stop both altogether. They sought to make data connected, open, and actionable – and Enigma was born. The company currently has more than 100 employees and is headquartered in NYC's Silicon Alley.
Enigma was launched at the three-day 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt Conference, and was the winner of the event's Startup Battlefield. In February 2013 they announced a $1.1 million seed funding round backed by TriplePoint Capital and Crosslink Capital, among others. This was augmented in early 2014 by a $4.5 million funding round which included additional investors The New York Times Company, Comcast Ventures, and American Express Ventures.
In June 2013, the company announced a long-term beta testing partnership with Stanford University and Harvard University, granting full access to their students and academic communities. In October 2013, the company was a finalist in the NYCEDC-sponsored "Take the HELM: Hire + Expand in Lower Manhattan" contest, and in June 2014 they were selected as participants in the FinTech Innovation Lab program.
In August 2014, Enigma announced that Jeremy Bronfman would step down as CEO and be replaced by Hicham Oudghiri.
In June 2015, Enigma secured a $28.2 million Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and New York City Investment Fund, as well as existing investors including American Express Ventures, Comcast Ventures and The New York Times Company.
In April 2017, Enigma moved its website to Enigma.com from its previous site, Enigma.io, and ceased referring to itself with the ".io" qualifier.
Enigma was named to Forbes FinTech 50 List in February 2018.
In September 2018, Enigma announced $95 million in new funds to expand its network and platform that connects real-world and enterprise data to power key workflows. Existing investor NEA led this funding, which included new investments from str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin%20Coscarelli | Erin Michelle Coscarelli is an American anchor, who works for NFL Network. She was the host of NFL Network's weekday morning show, NFL HQ. She hosts Fantasy and Friends on NFL Network. Erin also appeared as a correspondent on ABC's “The Ultimate Surfer.”
Early years
Coscarelli was born in Los Angeles, California. She later attended the University of Southern California and received a degree in Communications and Journalism. While at USC she was a member of both KUSC and Annenberg TV News.
Career
Coscarelli began her career as sideline reporter for many sports networks including Fox Sports West, Pac-12 Network and NBC Sports Network. She also reported for ESPN where she covered the World Series of Poker and the Summer X Games. On May 6, 2013, she was hired by Comcast SportsNet Bay Area to be an anchor and reporter in which she covered many regional professional sports teams that includes Golden State Warriors, San Francisco 49ers and San Francisco Giants. In July 2014, she left CSN Bay Area to join NFL Network to become the host of the NFL Network's new morning show, NFL AM, with Rhett Lewis. In 2015, Coscarelli was the co-host with Cole Wright in the NFL Network's weekday morning show ''NFL HQ.’’ She serves as the host of the DirecTV Fantasy Zone channel during football season.
References
External links
Erin Coscarelli Website
Living people
American television sports anchors
NFL Network people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Television anchors from Los Angeles
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLBits | SQLBits is the largest community-led SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform conference in Europe, founded in 2007 by a group of individuals who are passionate about the Microsoft SQL Server and Azure product suite. Volunteers include committee members, speakers, helpers and industry sponsors who come together to provide Microsoft SQL Server education.
SQLBits is now held once a year. Sessions are recorded and hosted on the SQLBits website and are freely available to everyone for download.
One of the key principles of SQLBits is that it is a community led conference that is not located in any one specific area of the UK. Instead, the conference reaches out to the SQL Server community by moving the event around the UK.
There have been 20 SQLBits Conferences to date plus an online only event. The key dates and locations are listed below:
SQLBits 1 - October 2007, Microsoft UK, Reading, England
SQLBits 2 - March 2008, Lakeside Conference Centre, Birmingham, England. Theme: The SQL.
SQLBits 3 - October 2008, University of Hatfield, Hatfield, England. Theme: Cubed.
SQLBits 4 - March 2009, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England. Theme: Goes Forth.
SQLBits 5 - November 2009, Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales. Theme: Goes West.
SQLBits 6 - April 2010, Church House Conference Centre, Westminster, London, England. Theme: The 6th Sets.
SQLBits 7 - September 2010, University of York, York, Yorkshire. Theme: The Seven Wonders of SQL.
SQLBits 8 - April 2011, Brighton Grand Hotel, Brighton, England. Theme: Beside the Seaside.
SQLBits 9 - September 2011, Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, England
SQLBits 10 - March 2012, Novotel Hotel, Hammersmith, London, England. Theme: Casino.
SQLBits 11 - May 2013, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, England. Theme: Robin Hood.
SQLBits 12 - July 2014, International Centre, Telford, England. Theme: Steam Punk.
SQLBits 14 - 4–7 March 2015, ExCeL London, England. Theme: Superheroes.
SQLBits 15 - May 2016, Liverpool Exhibition Centre, England. Theme: Space.
SQLBits 16 - April 2017, International Centre, Telford, England. Theme: Disco.
SQLBits 2018 - 21 - 24 February 2018, Olympia, London, England. Theme: It's Magic.
SQLBits 2019 - 27 February - 2 March 2019, Manchester Central, England. Theme: Speakeasy.
SQLBits 2020 - 29 October - 3 November 2020, online because of COVID-19. Theme: The Greatest Data Show.
SQLBits 2022 - 8 - 12 March 2022, ExCeL London, England. Theme: Arcade.
SQLBits 2023 - 14 - 18 March 2023, International Convention Centre Wales, Wales. Theme: Dungeons and Dragons.
SQLBits 2024 - 19 - 23 March 2024, Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre, Wales. Theme: Aviation.
References
External links
SQLBits Website
Computer conferences
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Microsoft database software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugbook%20Historical%20Computer%20Museum | The Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum was a small display of several hundred key items from the collection of computer hobbyist David G. Larsen. The Museum was developed and maintained by the LCF Group (David & Gaynell Larsen and Dee Wallace) in Floyd, Virginia from 2008-2016. The name of the museum comes from the Bugbooks and Blacksburg Continuing Education Books a, a series of instructional books created by the "Blacksburg Group" during the late 1970s & 80's. David was a part of the group. The museum closed in May 2016 and Larsen donated the majority of his collection to the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, Georgia.
History
The museum curator, David Larsen, collected computer artifacts and memorabilia for over forty years. He was interested in electronics at an early age and had his start in computers in 1957 with a Navy assignment at Remington Rand UNIVAC St. Paul. His entire career has involved electronics and microcomputers. This includes thirty one years as a Virginia Tech faculty member teaching instrumentation and automation. He is also an amateur radio operator and has been for six decades.
Significant collection items
The museum itself was focused on the period from 1971-1981 when personal computers were first in production. Among the items that the museum featured were:
Apple I exact operational clone on display and four original Apple-1 computers in collection shown by special request.
Mark-8
Altair 8800 low serial number #21
Commodore 64
See also
List of computer museums
References
External links
Computer museums in the United States
Defunct museums in Virginia
Museums disestablished in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Irish%20mobile%20virtual%20network%20operators | Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Ireland lease wireless telephone and data spectrum from major carriers such as Vodafone, Eir, and Three for resale. As of Q1 2022, the market share of MVNOs in Ireland is 13.4%, including Tesco Mobile with 7.7% and Virgin Mobile with 2.4%.
Active operators
Defunct operators
References
Mobile virtual network operators
Telecommunications lists
Lists of mobile phone companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett%20Lewis | Rhett Lewis Kleinschmidt (born March 23, 1983) is an American sports reporter and previously the host of NFL Network's weekday morning show NFL AM.
Early years
Lewis was born and raised in Metairie, Louisiana, the son of Marlene and NFL athletic trainer Dean Kleinschmidt. He attended Indiana University, where he played football and majored in sports broadcasting. In his middle school years, he was diagnosed with a severe case of Osgood-Schlatter Disease.
Accomplishments
In 2017, he founded The Sam Dozier Champions Cup in honor of former St. Martin's Episcopal School Coach Sam "The Bull" Dozier.
Career
In May 2009, he joined WHDH Boston as a sports reporter after serving as a sports director for KLBK in Texas for two years. In July 2014, he joined NFL Network as a host of "NFL AM."
In May 2022, Lewis was named the new radio analyst for Indiana, replacing the retiring Buck Suhr.
References
External links
NFL.com Profile
Indiana Hoosiers bio
Living people
1983 births
Indiana Hoosiers football players
People from Metairie, Louisiana
NFL Network people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20most%20popular%20given%20names%20in%20South%20Korea | This is a list of the most popular given names in South Korea, by birth year and gender for various years in which data is available.
Aside from newborns being given newly popular names, many adults change their names as well, some in order to cast off birth names they feel are old-fashioned. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 844,615 people (about 1 in every 60 South Koreans) applied to change their names; 730,277 were approved. In 2010, 552 men changed their name to Min-jun, and 1,401 women changed their name to Seo-yeon.
2021
2019
2017
2015
2013
2011
2009
2007
2004
1990
1980
1970
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See also
List of Korean given names
References
South Korea
given names popular |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftype | Swiftype is a search and index company based in San Francisco, California, that provides search software for organizations, websites, and computer programs. Notable customers include AT&T, Dr. Pepper, Hubspot and TechCrunch.
History
Swiftype was founded in 2012 by Matt Riley and Quin Hoxie. The company participated in Y Combinator’s incubator program and received investment from a number of prominent sources. Their site search uses semantic understanding of queries to differentiate the meaning of words based on their use.
In September 2013, Swiftype obtained Series A funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). In March 2015, Swiftype raised an additional $13 million in Series B funding led by NEA for a total of $20 million in funding. They used some of these funds to expand into areas outside of site search, especially for knowledge bases, customer support and e-commerce.
Swiftype's site search can be used for faceted search, full text search, real-time search, and concept search queries. The company's plans offer on-demand and live recrawls and indexing of websites. Other features include drag and drop result customization, real-time analytics and adjustable weights.
In an effort to further grow outside of site search, Swiftype introduced an enterprise search service in February 2017. It aimed to help organizations find their data across different services like G Suite, Office 365, Dropbox, Zendesk and more. It also offers an API for searching custom data sources. Swiftype also introduced an artificial intelligence that interprets the queries and builds an "enterprise knowledge graph" from the data it accesses.
Swiftype was acquired by Elastic in November 2017. Elastic powers Elasticsearch, a tool Swiftype had previously used to index and store their search content. While the acquisition didn't provide any drastic changes, they did set a new introductory price and work to incorporate some of Elastic's search features into their Enterprise Search.
In May 2018, Swiftype introduced Elastic App Search Service, a new search product for developers.
See also
Elastic NV
Elasticsearch
References
External links
Search engine software
American companies established in 2012
Companies based in San Francisco
Internet search engines
Software companies based in California
Y Combinator companies
Semantic Web
Online companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive%20classifier | A deductive classifier is a type of artificial intelligence inference engine. It takes as input a set of declarations in a frame language about a domain such as medical research or molecular biology. For example, the names of classes, sub-classes, properties, and restrictions on allowable values. The classifier determines if the various declarations are logically consistent and if not will highlight the specific inconsistent declarations and the inconsistencies among them. If the declarations are consistent the classifier can then assert additional information based on the input. For example, it can add information about existing classes, create additional classes, etc. This differs from traditional inference engines that trigger off of IF-THEN conditions in rules. Classifiers are also similar to theorem provers in that they take as input and produce output via first-order logic. Classifiers originated with KL-ONE frame languages. They are increasingly significant now that they form a part in the enabling technology of the Semantic Web. Modern classifiers leverage the Web Ontology Language. The models they analyze and generate are called ontologies.
History
A classic problem in knowledge representation for artificial intelligence is the trade off between the expressive power and the computational efficiency of the knowledge representation system. The most powerful form of knowledge representation is first-order logic. However, it is not possible to implement knowledge representation that provides the complete expressive power of first-order logic. Such a representation will include the capability to represent concepts such as the set of all integers which are impossible to iterate through. Implementing an assertion quantified for an infinite set by definition results in an undecidable non-terminating program. However, the problem is deeper than not being able to implement infinite sets. As Levesque demonstrated, the closer a knowledge representation mechanism comes to first-order logic, the more likely it is to result in expressions that require infinite or unacceptably large resources to compute.
As a result of this trade-off, a great deal of early work on knowledge representation for artificial intelligence involved experimenting with various compromises that provide a subset of first-order logic with acceptable computation speeds. One of the first and most successful compromises was to develop languages based predominately on modus ponens, i.e. IF-THEN rules. Rule-based systems were the predominant knowledge representation mechanism for virtually all early expert systems. Rule-based systems provided acceptable computational efficiency while still providing powerful knowledge representation. Also, rules were highly intuitive to knowledge workers. Indeed, one of the data points that encouraged researchers to develop rule-based knowledge representation was psychological research that humans often represented complex logic via rules.
However, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soleus%20Running | Soleus Running is a watch company that produces timing devices such as watches and cycling computers that use GPS and heart rate monitors. Its headquarters are located in Austin, Texas.
Etymology
Soleus Running gets its name from the muscle located in the back part of the lower leg called the soleus. It begins right below the knee and runs down to the heel, and is involved in standing, walking and running. If not for the soleus, the body would fall forward.
Features
Soleus Running sells a variety of devices ranging in style, features and price. Some of the watches have the ability to track an activity using GPS or a heart rate monitor.
Watches
As of July 2014, the watches for sale on its website are:
Running:
Dash
Chicked
P.R.
Ultra Sole
Stride
Swift
Tempo
Flash
GPS:
mini
Fit
Vibe
Cross Country
Sole
Pulse
Tour
Cycling:
Draft
On the website, other items besides watches can be bought such as heart rate monitors, hats and headbands.
References
External
Homepage
Shop
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Sports equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradyrhizobium%20cytisi | Bradyrhizobium cytisi is a bacterium from the genus of Bradyrhizobium.
References
External links
Type strain of Bradyrhizobium cytisi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Nitrobacteraceae
Bacteria described in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi%20Breeze | Karachi Breeze is a is a network of bus rapid transit lines under construction in Karachi, Pakistan. Construction began in 2013, two lines are operational and two lines are under construction as of September 2022, with 2 more planned. The projected ridership of the first line is estimated at 350,000 passengers per day, with a total of 109 km of dedicated bus routes. Upon completion, it will become the largest BRT network in Pakistan, and will connect to the Karachi Circular Railway.
History
Nawaz Sharif, during a high-level meeting in Karachi on July 10, 2014, announced funds to launch the BRT Green Line to alleviate the severe traffic congestion in the city. The slow pace of work on BRT Green Line has irked citizens as the digging work on main arteries has resulted in congestion of traffic, which the former prime minister blamed on the Sindh government. In 2018, the name of the project was changed from Karachi Bus and Mass Rapid Transit system to Karachi Breeze.
Lines
The system will be divided into 6 dedicated lines or "busways". Currently, the Green and Orange lines are operational, the Red and Yellow lines are under-construction, and the Blue and Brown lines are in their planning stages.
Green Line
The green line is extend from Merewether Tower in central Karachi, to Surjani in northern Karachi, with a total length of . The Government of Pakistan financed the majority of the project. Construction of the Green Line began on February 26, 2016 ended in December 2021. The line has 22 bus stations. Engineering Associates had been contracted as the designers and supervision consultants for Green Line while a Consortium of "Ernest & Young", "Exponent Engineers" & "Haider Mota & BNR" had been contracted for "Transaction Advisory for Bus Operational Plan". The line is served by 80 18-metre-long buses. In addition, a Command and Control Centre is established at Garden West.
The green line:
Numiash Station (to Blue Line)
Patel Para (Guru Mandir) Station
Lasbela Chowk Station
Sanitary Market (Gulbahar) Station
Nazimabad No.1 Station
Enquiry Office Station
Annu Bhai Park Station (to North Nazimabad KCR Station)
Board Office Station ( to Orange Line )
Hyderi Station
Five Star Chowrangi Station
Jummah Bazar Station
Erum Shopping Station
Nagan Chowrangi Station
U.P. More Station
Road 4200 (Saleem Centre) Station
Power House Chowrangi Station
Road 2400 (Aisha Complex) Station
2 Minute Chowrangi Station
4K Chowrangi Station
Karimi Chowrangi Station
KDA Flats Station
Abdullah Chowk Terminal.
Orange Line
The Orange Line, also called the Edhi Line in honour of philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, is the shortest of the five lines, spreading over 3.9 km with only four stations within Orangi. The Orange line will be spread over 2.3 km, of which 0.7 km will be elevated while 1.5 km will be on ground, whereas, the 1.5 km will be semi dedicated section. The project is entirely funded and built by the Sindh government. It was started in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort%20Teknoloji | Escort is a Turkish computer manufacturer and Consumer electronics retail chain.
History
The company was founded in 1991 as a computer manufacturer, growing to provide a supply service through its own network of retail stores. As of 2014 Escort consisted of twelve subsidiary companies providing services in: software development, consulting, sales and marketing, distribution of Toshiba home electronics, software and equipment for the banking industry.
Shares in Escort Teknoloji Yatırım A.Ş have been traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange since 2000.
References
External links
The Escort homepage
Turkish companies established in 1991
Companies of Turkey
Electronics companies established in 1991
Electronics companies of Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack%20cryptosystems | Knapsack cryptosystems are cryptosystems whose security is based on the hardness of solving the knapsack problem. They remain quite unpopular because simple versions of these algorithms have been broken for several decades. However, that type of cryptosystem is a good candidate for post-quantum cryptography.
The most famous knapsack cryptosystem is the Merkle-Hellman Public Key Cryptosystem, one of the first public key cryptosystems, published the same year as the RSA cryptosystem. However, this system has been broken by several attacks: one from Shamir, one by Adleman, and the low density attack.
However, there exist modern knapsack cryptosystems that are considered secure so far: among them is Nasako-Murakami 2006.
Knapsack cryptosystems, when not subject to classical cryptoanalysis, are believed to be difficult even for quantum computers. That is not the case for systems that rely on factoring large integers, like RSA, or computing discrete logarithms, like ECDSA, problems solved in polynomial time with Shor's algorithm.
References
Bibliography
Cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20detox | A digital detox is a period of time when a person voluntarily refrains from using digital devices such as smartphones, computers, and social media platforms. This form of detoxification has gained popularity, as individuals have increased their time spent on digital devices and the Internet.
Background
A 2015 survey conducted by Deloitte found that around 59% of smartphone users check a social media platform in the five minutes prior to going to bed, and within 30 minutes of waking up.
Motivations
Motivations to start a digital detox include:
Concern about developing addictive behavior that some identify as an Internet addiction disorder
Aiming to reduce stress and anxiety caused by the over-use of technology
Re-focusing offline social interactions and actions
Re-connecting with nature
Increasing mindfulness
Improving one's learning ability by decreasing distractions and eliminating multi-tasking
Potential health effects
The extended overuse of technology has been found to reduce quality of sleep, cause eye strain and vision problems, as well as lead to the increased occurrence of migraine headaches. A previous research survey of over 7,000 participants found that approximately 70% of those who use technology with screens have experienced "digital eye strain as a result of the growing use of [screen possessing technological devices]".
Research on the effects of popular technological devices such as cellphones and computers on sleep has suggested that the light emitted from screens may suppress the production of the hormone melatonin, an important regulatory biochemical that controls the duration and character of sleep cycles.
Potential effects on relationships
A study of 145 American adults recruited through MTurk in 2016 suggested that marital satisfaction can be lowered if either partner "snubs" the other in favor of using a cellphone. The act was also associated with a higher incidence of depression and a reported lower satisfaction with life. The self-reported attachment styles of the participants were seen to have an effect such that individuals with attachment anxiety reported a higher degree of cell phone conflict.
Another study suggested that the visible presence of mobile devices during conversations may have a limiting effect on the sense of connection felt between those involved in the conversation as well as the overall quality of the conversation.
Social media detoxification
A subset of digital detox is social media detox, which is a period of time when individuals voluntarily stay away from social media. In academic research, social media detoxification is commonly referred to as the "non-use of social media", and falls under the umbrella of "Digital Detox", with a focus specifically on unplugging from social media.
A 2019 Pew Research Center study found that 69% of adults in the United States used Facebook, 73% used YouTube, and 37% used Instagram. A 2012 study found that around 60% of Facebook users have made |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic%20application | A Civic application is an application software designed to encourage users to participate in and learn more about government.
Civic applications are often social networking services, but what distinguishes them is the civic goal–the mission funding their existence. Additionally, the mutual interaction between the user and the application is what differentiates civic applications from any IT service (i.e. a website or portal). With the latter, interaction between the user and the application is not necessary and often takes the form of commenting under articles.
In civil societies, civic applications are created to enhance public works, civic engagement, and general social capital. Civic applications can aim at:
development of engaged citizenship
strengthening of local communities
growth of democracy
supporting entrepreneurship
protection of nature and common living space
Civic applications can be accessed online from a server via an Internet browser, using mobile devices such as mobile phones or tablets, and offline from the user's local drive.
Origins
On January 20, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the "Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government," requesting that government agencies make their data–such as real-time crime feeds and air-quality metrics–open and available to the public. This memorandum marked a pivotal legislative moment, as the government improved the distribution of public services through new technologies characterized by civic open data. The "Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government" also provided companies seeking to join the civic technology world with a framework to build their civic applications.
However, the history of civic applications can be traced back years earlier, with the creation of various civic technology platforms such as Ushahidi, which supports election monitoring and crisis reporting, as well as TheyWorkForYou, which simplifies complex political information into layman's terms for voters. Environment-focused civic applications also exist, such as Accela's Civic Application for Environmental Health.
Today, many civic applications have been established, with civic technology leaders such as Jennifer Palka (Code for America) and Colin Megill (Pol.is) paving the way for future innovation.
Current Applications
One potential benefit of civic applications is that they can help disseminate democracy. On social media applications, users have widespread access to political information, including the voting decisions of their elected representatives and information on legislative ballots. Civic applications can help streamline and clarify political information to improve voter competency. Additionally, politicians can use civic applications to bridge the communicative divide between government and their constituents.
However, civic applications also have shortcomings. For example, many civic applications struggle with financial sustainability. Such applications often have either non- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees%20for%20the%20Defense%20of%20the%20Revolution | Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (), or CDR, are a network of neighborhood committees across Cuba. The organizations, described as the "eyes and ears of the Revolution," exist to help support local communities and report on "counter-revolutionary" activity. As of 2010, 8.4 million Cubans of the national population of 11.2 million were registered as CDR members.
CDRs provide community services, such as assisting in literacy and vaccination campaigns, but have been criticized for their human rights violations.
History
Following the success of the Cuban Revolution, claims of activity labeled as 'counterrevolutionary' filled Havana. There existed popular desire for some form of urban-based civil defense against sabotage particularly after the mysterious explosion of the French freighter La Coubre while dockworkers unloaded ammunitions from the ship.
The final impetus for the creation of such a movement came on the evening of September 28, 1960 when bomb blasts erupted on the former steps of the Presidential Palace while Fidel Castro gave a speech. Fidel Castro subsequently declared:“We’re going to set up a system of collective vigilance; we’re going to set up a system of revolutionary collective vigilance. And then we shall see how the lackeys of imperialism manage to operate in our midst. Because one thing is sure, we have people in all parts of the city; there’s not an apartment building in the city, not a corner, not a block, not a neighborhood, that is not amply represented here [in the audience]. In answer to the imperialist campaigns of aggression, we’re going to set up a system of revolutionary collective vigilance so that everybody will know everybody else on his block, what they do, what relationship they had with the tyranny [the Batista government], what they believe in, what people they meet, what activities they participate in. Because if they [the counterrevolutionaries] think they can stand up to the people, they’re going to be tremendously disappointed. Because we’ll confront them with a committee of revolutionary vigilance on every block... When the masses are organized there isn’t a single imperialist, or a lackey of the imperialists, or anybody who has sold out to the imperialist, who can operate”.The slogan of the CDR is, "¡En cada barrio, Revolución!" ("In every neighborhood, Revolution!"). Fidel Castro proclaimed it "a collective system of revolutionary vigilance," established "so that everybody knows who lives on every block, what they do on every block, what relations they have had with the tyranny, in what activities are they involved, and with whom they meet."
Structure
Joining the committee is not selective; however, the top leadership of the organization is drawn from a select pool of loyalists at the discretion of the general secretary of the PCC. Each CDR subdivision has an elected president that manages their locale and is subordinate to the CDR president immediately above their. Each block president i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20SBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2010 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2010. It took place on December 31, 2010, at the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Seoul, and was hosted by Lee Beom-soo, Park Jin-hee and Lee Soo-kyung.
Nominations and winners
(Winners denoted in bold)
Top 10 Stars
Go Hyun-jung – Daemul
Ha Ji-won – Secret Garden
Hyun Bin – Secret Garden
Jeong Bo-seok – Giant
Kim So-yeon – Prosecutor Princess, Dr. Champ
Kwon Sang-woo – Daemul
Lee Beom-soo – Giant
Lee Seung-gi – My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox
Park Jin-hee – Giant
Shin Min-ah – My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox
New Star Award
Choi Siwon – Oh! My Lady
Ham Eun-jung – Coffee House
Han Chae-ah – Definitely Neighbors
Hwang Jung-eum – Giant
Joo Sang-wook – Giant
Kim Soo-hyun – Giant
Nam Gyu-ri – Life Is Beautiful
No Min-woo – My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox
References
External links
SBS
SBS Drama Awards
SBS
December 2010 events in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics%20Open%20Source%20Conference | The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is an academic conference on open-source programming and other open science practices in bioinformatics, organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The conference has been held annually since 2000 and is run as a two-day meeting either within Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference or as a joint conference with the Galaxy community.
Program
The conference is held as a single track consisting of presentations, poster sessions and two keynote talks by people of influence in open-source bioinformatics.
Since 2010, an informal two-day "CollaborationFest" (formerly Codefest) has been held directly preceding the conference.
History
National Institutes of Health Associate Director for Data Science Philip Bourne and C. Titus Brown gave keynote talks at BOSC 2014.
BOSC 2016 was organized in Orlando, Florida from July 8–9 before the main ISMB conference.
In 2018 and 2020, BOSC partnered with Galaxy to organize two joint conferences called GCCBOSC and Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC) respectively. The event in 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon. The BCC in 2020 took place online with two time schedules for eastern/western time zones
Since 2021, BOSC has been taking place within the ISMB conferences again. In 2023 BOSC will take place in Lyon, France between July 24-28 as part of the ISMB/ECCB conference.
Past conferences
As of November 2022, there have been 23 BOSC held around the world, of those 20 were purely in-person conferences, 2 purely remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic and one that was organized as a hybrid meeting.
References
Computational science
Bioinformatics
Biology conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Hartley%20%28scientist%29 | Richard I. Hartley is an Australian computer scientist and an Emeritus professor at the Australian National University, where he is a member of the Computer Vision group in the Research School of Computing.
Education and career
In 1971, Hartley received a BSc degree from the Australian National University followed by MSc (1972) and PhD (1976) degrees in mathematics from the University of Toronto. He also obtained an MSc degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1983.
His work is primarily devoted to the fields of Artificial intelligence, Image processing, and Computer vision. He is best known for his 2000 book Multiple View Geometry in computer vision, written with Andrew Zisserman, now in its second edition (2004). According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1428 libraries.
Hartley was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2005 and awarded their Hannan Medal in 2023.
Publications
Hartley has published a wide variety of articles in computer science on the topics of computer vision and optimization. The following are his most highly cited works
2000 Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision with Andrew Zisserman, Cambridge University press. Second edition 2004. (cited 17,014 times)
2000 "Bundle adjustment—a modern synthesis" with Bill Triggs, Philip F McLauchlan, and Andrew W Fitzgibbon in Vision algorithms: theory and practice, pp. 298–372. (cited 2423 times)
1997 "In defense of the eight-point algorithm" IEEE Transactions on PAMI 19 (6), 580–593. (cited 2244 times)
References
External links
Home Page at Australian National University
Biography page at ANU
at videolectures.net
Living people
Computer vision researchers
Academic staff of the Australian National University
Australian computer scientists
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clarity | "The Clarity" is a single by the American stoner/doom metal band Sleep. The song was released digitally for free on July 21, 2014 through the cable network Adult Swim's 2014 weekly singles series. The release of "The Clarity" also marks the first release of newly recorded material in almost 20 years. Later, it was re-released on February 10, 2017 via Southern Lord Records as a 12" vinyl pressing and recut by Adam Gonsalves. In 2021, it was remixed and reissued again on the EP Iommic Life via Third Man Records.
Sleep reformed in 2009 and began performing live in addition to writing new riffs for future songs "sporadically". Adult Swim approached the band about releasing a new song as a part of its weekly singles series, and Sleep wrote "The Clarity" in "a couple days" separate from the other new material it had been working on. The band also commented that the song, "is an exercise in musical stream of thought, as all proper music should be" and that the lyrics are a "follow-up to a lifetime of marijuana enjoyment."
"The Clarity" was generally well received by music critics. Writing for NPR, Lars Gotrich wrote: "It captures Sleep at its heaviest and weediest, and despite the puff of smoke that pervades these 10 minutes, it's the band's cleanest-sounding recording." Colin Joyce writing for Spin wrote: "Built, like many of the band's best tracks, around Cisneros' thunderous, distorted basslines and the bleary haze of Pike's Tony Iommi indebted guitar snarls, 'The Clarity' hearkens straight back to the drone-y, stone-y tunes that the band was working on when they were teenagers." Writing for Exclaim!, Josiah Hughes wrote: "'The Clarity' is a heavy journey through meaty riffs, mid-tempo drums and plenty of drug references. At 10 minutes in length, it's also a perfect song to turn on and zone out to."
Personnel
Sleep
Al Cisneros – vocals, bass
Matt Pike – guitars
Jason Roeder – drums
Production
John Golden – mastering
Adam Gonsalves – lacquer cut (reissue)
David V. D'Andrea – artwork (etching)
Noah Landis – recording
References
External links
Singles Program 2014 at Adult Swim
Adult Swim singles
Sleep (band) songs
2014 songs
Williams Street Records singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Kaehler | Adrian Kaehler is an American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and author. He is best known for his work on the OpenCV Computer Vision library, as well as two books on that library.
Early life
Adrian Kaehler was born in 1973. At the age of 14, he enrolled in UC Santa Cruz, studying mathematics, computer science, and Physics, graduating at 18 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1998 under professor Norman Christ for his work in lattice gauge theory and on the QCDSP supercomputer project.
QCDSP supercomputer
During the time from 1994 through 1998, Dr. Kaehler worked on the QCDSP supercomputer project. This was one of the first Teraflop scale supercomputers ever built. For this, Kaehler, along with Norman Christ, Robert Mawhinney, and Pavlos Vranas were awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in 1998.
2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
In the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, Kaehler was on Stanford's winning team with Sebastian Thrun, Mike Montemerolo, Gary Bradski and others. Kaehler designed the computer vision system that contributed to winning the race. Since 2012, the winning vehicle, called "Stanley", has been on display in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Learning OpenCV
Originally published in 2006, Kaehler's book Learning OpenCV (O'Reilly) serves as an introduction to the library and its use. The book continues to be heavily used by both professionals and students. An updated version of the book, which covers OpenCV 3, was published by O'Reilly Media in 2016.
Magic Leap
Kaehler was Vice President of Special Projects at Magic Leap, Inc., a startup company that raised over $1.4Bn in venture funding from 2014 to 2016. Kaehler left the company in 2016.
Notable publications
Kaehler has publications and patents in a variety of fields:
2016 Learning OpenCV 3: Computer Vision in C++ with the OpenCV Library with Gary Bradski, O'Reilly Media.
2008 Learning OpenCV: Computer vision with the OpenCV library with Gary Bradski, O'Reilly Media.
2006 Stanley: The robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge, with Sebastian Thrun, Mike Montemerlo, Hendrik Dahlkamp, David Stavens, Andrei Aron, James Diebel, Philip Fong, John Gale, Morgan Halpenny, Gabriel Hoffmann, Kenny Lau, Celia Oakley, Mark Palatucci, Vaughan Pratt, Pascal Stang, Sven Strohband, Cedric Dupont, Lars‐Erik Jendrossek, Christian Koelen, Charles Markey, Carlo Rummel, Joe van Niekerk, Eric Jensen, Philippe Alessandrini, Bob Davies, Scott Ettinger, Gary Bradski, Ara Nefian, Pamela Mahoney. Journal of Field Robotics.
2006 Self-supervised Monocular Road Detection in Desert Terrain. With Hendrik Dahlkamp, David Stavens, Sebastian Thrun, and Gary Bradski.
2005 Learning-based computer vision with intel's open source computer vision library. with Gary Bradski and Vadim Pisarevski.
1999 Status of the QCD Project Dong Chen, Ping Chen, Norman H. Christ, George Tamminga Fleming, Alan Gara, Chulwoo Jung, Adrian L. Kaehler, Yu-bing Luo, Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehab%20Addict | Rehab Addict is a television show documenting home renovations, which airs on DIY and HGTV. Rehab Addict debuted on the DIY network on October 14, 2010. Beginning in January 2014, Season 4, was moved to airing on HGTV's prime time schedule.
Host
Nicole Curtis (b. August 20, 1976) advocates for the preservation and restoration of existing architecture over demolition when feasible. She has rehabbed homes in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lake Orion, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; and Akron, Ohio. Her work centers on pre-World War II homes, and her renovation philosophy is to "restore old homes to their former glory" rather than modernization.
Curtis grew up in Lake Orion, Michigan and graduated from Lake Orion High School in 1994. Her family owned a garbage business. She attended college in Georgia, Florida, and Michigan and had her son, Ethan, before she graduated. she lives in a renovated 1904 home in Detroit. Curtis originally intended to study law in college but later switched to education.
Curtis announced in July 2015 that she was expecting her second child and later that year gave birth to a son, Harper.
Seasons
Spin-Off
On July 1, 2020, it was announced that a spin-off titled Rehab Addict Rescue will premiere on January 28, 2021.
References
External links
DIY Network biography
2010 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
HGTV original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHPL | A Hardware Programming Language (AHPL) is software developed at University of Arizona that has been used as a tool for teaching computer organization.
It was initially started as a set of notations for representation of computer hardware for academics, which is later started to be considered as a Hardware Description Language
on development of compiler and simulator
for it. This language describes a hardware functionality as flow of data between the ports or sub-modules.
The notation, syntax, and semantics were based on the APL
programming language.
References
Hardware description languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Barford | Ann Barford is a former female rugby union player. She was a member of the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup champion squad.
She is the Director of IT at Corning Inc. She has a Master's degree in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She is on the Board of Directors for the USA Rugby Trust.
References
Living people
United States women's international rugby union players
American female rugby union players
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rutgers University alumni
New Jersey Institute of Technology alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradyrhizobium%20daqingense | Bradyrhizobium daqingense is a bacterium from the genus Bradyrhizobium.
References
External links
Type strain of Bradyrhizobium daqingense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Nitrobacteraceae
Bacteria described in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagit%20%282014%20TV%20series%29 | (International title: Pushcart of Dreams / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1983 Philippine television drama series of the same title. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Chlaui Malayao, Zymic Jaranilla, Judie Dela Cruz and Jemwell Ventinilla. It premiered on October 13, 2014 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Dading. The series concluded on July 24, 2015 with a total of 203 episodes. It was replaced by Buena Familia in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Chlaui Malayao as Eliza Guison / Chelsea Villaroman
Zymic Jaranilla as Ding Santos
Judie Dela Cruz as Jocelyn "Josie" Carpio Macabuhay
Jemwell Ventinilla as Tomas "Tom-Tom" Carpio Macabuhay
Supporting cast
Stephanie Yamut as Tiffany "Tiff" Montecillo
Yasmien Kurdi as Dolores "Dolor" Macabuhay-Guison
LJ Reyes as Florentina "Flora" Fabro-Macabuhay
James Blanco as Victor Guison Jr.
Renz Fernandez as Roman Guevarra
Bettina Carlos as Maricel "Izel" Ongkiko
Rich Asuncion as Odette Montecillo
Raquel Villavicencio as Claudia Guison
Kevin Santos as Kardo Macabuhay
Wowie de Guzman as Chito Asuncion
Ina Feleo as Imelda Macabuhay
Maricris Garcia as Cece Ortega
Recurring cast
Alessandra De Rossi as Marilou "Lulu" Villaroman / Anastacia Santos
Princess Punzalan as Mildred "Mili" Prado
Paolo Contis as Rex Villamor / Restituto Santos
Jaya as Madam
Bea Binene as Jam
Kiko Estrada as Pipo
Boy 2 Quizon as Elmo
Guest cast
Shermaine Santiago as Ethel Santos
German Moreno as Florentino Valdez
Frank Magalona as Bruce Guison
Mark Herras as Rodney Estrella
Bobby Andrews as Ferdinand
Bryan Benedict as Andoy
Joseph Bitangcol as Tonyo
Hiro Peralta as Limuel
Chariz Solomon as Mabel
Leny Santos as Babylyn
Joseph Izon as Berting
Gene Padilla as Kulas
Rafa Siguion-Reyna as Baldo
Jirvy dela Cruz as Butch
Nomer Limatog as Jordan
Mitzi Borromeo as Elena
Dolly Gutierrez as Amparo
Dingdong Dantes as Jericho "Kokoy" Evangelista (a crossover character from Pari 'Koy)
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 16.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 21.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on Philippine television series
Television series reboots
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagit | (International title: The Street Urchins / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It stars Jaypee de Guzman, Janet Elisa Giron, Jocelyn Dela-Cruz and Tom-tom. It premiered on April 25, 1983. The series concluded on August 2, 1985 with a total of 586 episodes. It was replaced by Amorsola on its timeslot.
The series was adapted into a film Mga Batang Yagit in 1984 and a television series in 2014.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jaypee de Guzman as Ding
Janet Elisa Giron as Elisa
Jocelyn Dela-Cruz as Jocelyn
Tom-tom as Tom-tom
Ernie Garcia as Victor
Supporting cast
Connie Angeles as Sese
Jervy Cruz as Jerby
Romy Diaz as Chito
Joaquin Fajardo as Damaso
Ric Santos as Kanor
Amy Austria as Dolor
Ana Capri as Crizelda
Marianne Dela Riva as Lena
Zeny Zabala as Claudia
Rowell Santiago as Marino
Jay Ilagan as Roman
Mayros Sabelino as Tipanya
Bembol Roco as Gerardino
References
External links
1983 Philippine television series debuts
1985 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201947 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1947:
See also
1982 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1947 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1947
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201948 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1948:
See also
1948 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1948 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1948
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201949 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1949:
See also
1949 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1949 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1949
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Chariots | Steel Chariots is a 1997 American made-for-television sports film about NASCAR that was produced for Touchstone Television. It first aired on the Fox Network on September 23, 1997.
Cast
John Beck as Dale Tucker
Kathleen Nolan as Ethyl Tucker
Ben Browder as D.J. Tucker
Heidi Mark as Amber
Randy Travis as Rev. Wally Jones
Scott Gurney as Brett Tucker
Madison Michele as Melissa Bogart
Brian Van Holt as Franklin Jones
Heather Stephens as Josie
Robby Pretty as Charlotte Tucker
Jordan Williams as Glenn Walton
Dan Albright as Rory Bass
Craig Hauer as Trey Tucker
Chuck Kinlaw as Willard
Darryl Van Leer as Nate
Andy Stahl as Crew Chiel
R. Keith Harris as Jerry
Cress Horne as Helicopter Pilot
Production
Filming took place in Birmingham, Alabama, Charlotte, North Carolina, Concord, North Carolina, and Dallas, Texas. Filming was also done at Talladega Superspeedway.
References
External links
1997 television films
1997 films
American auto racing films
Fox network original films
1990s sports films
Films directed by Tommy Lee Wallace
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINEPI | In data mining, the WINEPI algorithm is an influential algorithm for episode mining, which helps discover the knowledge hidden in an event sequence.
WINEPI derives part of its name from the fact that it uses a sliding window to go through the event sequence.
The outcome of the algorithm are episode rules describe temporal relationships between events and form an extension of association rules.
References
Data mining algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201950 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1950:
See also
1950 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1950 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1950
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitive%20diagnostic%20data | Definitive diagnostic data are a specific type of data used in the investigation and diagnosis of IT system problems; transaction performance, fault/error or incorrect output.
Qualification
To qualify as Definitive Diagnostic Data it must be possible to correlate the data with a user's experience of a problem instance, and for that reason they will typically be time stamped event information. Log and trace records are common sources of Definitive Diagnostic Data.
Statistical data
Generally, statistical data can't be used as it lacks the granularity necessary to directly associate it with a user's experience of a problem instance. However, it can be adapted by reducing the sample interval to a value approaching the response time of the system transaction being performed.
Further information
Definitive Diagnostic Data, S. Kendrick, Sharkfest 2014 Conference
Offord, Paul (2011). RPR: A Problem Diagnosis Method for IT Professionals. Advance Seven Limited. .
Data
Information technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201960 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1960:
See also
1960 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1960 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1960
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201984 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1984:
See also
1984 in Brazil
1984 in Brazilian television
References
External links
Brazilian films of 1984 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1984
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumit%20Jamuar | Sumit Jamuar is the chairman, co-founder and CEO of Global Gene Corp, a genomics data platform and applications company that is collecting and analysing diverse genomic and medical datasets to deliver precision healthcare to a global market. Sumit is responsible for the company's long-term strategy and partnerships.
He was formerly a Banker with Lloyds Banking Group, and prior to that a Consultant with McKinsey & Company. Sumit has served as CEO of SBICAP (UK) Ltd, European investment banking subsidiary of State Bank of India. He played pivotal role in ideation & creation of FTSE - SBI Bond series indices as partnership between State Bank of India and London Stock Exchange, FTSE TMX which was part of the Joint statement of Hon Prime Ministers of India and UK.
Early life
Sumit was born to Mrs. Rita Jamuar and Prof. Sudhanshu S. Jamuar in Patna. He was brought up in New Delhi at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi campus where his father served a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department.
Education
He holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He completed his post-graduation in Business Administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He has attended programmes in University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
At INSEAD he contributed to research paper on Corporate Governance "Board Seat Accumulation by Executives: A Shareholder's Perspective" that was published in Journal of Finance and has been cited by over 170 research papers.
Career
Consulting Career
Following graduation from IIT Delhi, Sumit started as a Business Analyst with McKinsey & Company, India. He was the first undergraduate consultant to be hired in the inaugural class of two Business Analysts marking the start of the Business Analyst programme in the Indian office of McKinsey & Company. During his consulting career, he served top Indian and global institutions in banking, steel and automobiles. Key engagements included building the off shoring proposition for a blue-chip Global Bank, international expansion strategy for the top Indian private bank, as well as, report outlining road map of policy initiatives to increase Foreign Direct Investment in India which was launched by the Hon. Finance Minister of India, Jaswant Singh.
Banking Career
Sumit worked with Lloyds, (previously known as Lloyds TSB Bank) London between 2003 and 2012. He held several senior leadership positions in start-ups, global client coverage, strategy & transformation and a turnaround unit in the bank. During his last assignment at the organization, he served as the managing director and Global Head of Sales in the Financial Institutions team and also served as a Member of the Financial Institutions Group Executive Committee at the organization. Prior to that he was MD & Head of Solutions CRE BSU and played a lead role in creating one of the largest turnaround unit for distressed commercial real |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Earth%20%28TV%20channel%29 | BBC Earth is a documentary subscription television channel featuring premium factual programming. The channel is wholly owned and operated by BBC Studios. Originally set to roll out internationally in 2014, it was later announced that it would launch in 2015, starting in Poland.
History
In October 2013, the BBC announced that in 2014 it would rollout 3 new brands – BBC Earth, BBC First, and BBC Brit, with BBC Earth to be dedicated to premium factual programming. It was later announced that the channel would air series such as Frozen Planet and Wonders of the Universe. In addition, roughly 30 hours of new content would be ordered for the channel in its first year. The channel is set to replace BBC Knowledge; however, if the existing channel is successful in certain markets, it may continue to operate.
International roll-out
Poland
BBC Earth launched in Poland on 1 February 2015, replacing BBC Knowledge.
Nordic countries
BBC Earth replaced BBC Knowledge in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland on 13 April 2015. It was replaced by BBC Nordic on 17 April 2023.
Hungary
BBC Earth replaced BBC Knowledge on 14 April 2015.
Romania
On 14 April 2015, BBC Earth was launched in Romania, replacing BBC Knowledge.
Turkey
BBC Earth launched in Turkey, replacing BBC Knowledge on 14 April 2015.
Latin America
BBC Earth launched in the Latin American countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela on 1 September 2015, replacing BBC HD. On 13 April 2017, the channel ceased its transmissions, along with BBC Entertainment and CBeebies.
South Africa
The channel launched in South Africa on the DStv (satellite) platform replacing BBC Knowledge on 1 September 2015.
Asia
In Asia, BBC Earth launched in Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam on 3 October 2015, replacing BBC Knowledge. In the Philippines, it was launched on 1 April 2017 along with BBC World News. On 12 September 2017, it was announced to be launch via Laosat DTH in Laos. In Myanmar, the channel was available via Sky Net and CANAL+.
On September 14, 2021, BBC Earth HD, along with BBC Lifestyle HD, returned to Malaysian satellite TV service Astro.
Serbia
In Serbia, BBC Earth was launched on 28 December 2015 replacing BBC Entertainment.
Eastern Europe
BBC Earth launched in Eastern European countries on 1 January 2016, replacing BBC Entertainment.
Greece
In Greece, the channel was launched on Cosmote TV on 1 October 2017.
Middle East & North Africa (MENA)
BBC Earth launched in Middle East & North Africa through the beIN DTH and STC TV services on 5 April 2018.
India
BBC has entered into a joint venture with Multi Screen Media to launch the channel in India, branded as Sony BBC Earth. It was launched on 6 March 2017, following regulatory approval of the joint venture. Kareena Kapoor is t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20van%20Vlaanderen%20%28season%203%29 | The Voice van Vlaanderen is a Belgian reality talent show. The third season of the Flemish version premiered on 7 February 2014 on the vtm television network. The season's finale was on 23 May 2014
Only one of the four coaches for seasons 1 and 2 Koen Wauters remained this season. The other three judges for seasons 1 and 2, Alex Callier, Jasper Steverlinck (winning coach of both seasons) and Natalia Druyts were replaced by Belgian DJ and record producer Regi Penxten, singer Axelle Red and musician, singer and songwriter Bent Van Looy. The title was won by Tom De Man from Team Bent Van Looy.
Contestants
Contestants for the live shows were:
Team Regi
Cas Vandecruys
Dunja Mees
Jamilla Baidou
Johan Van Royen
Joke Herremy
Lisa Gilissen
Melanie De Saedeleer
Mikaël Ophoff
Team Koen
Agnes De Raeve
Belinda De Bruyn
Eva De Geyter
Eva Hendriks
Laura Tesoro
Lindsey De Bolster
Seppe De Rooij
Steph Van Uytvanck
Team Axelle
Aurélie Van Rompay
Dwayne Daeseleire
Emma Lauwers
Jessica Ndimubandi
Koen en Jo Smets
Laure Mot
Peter Boone
Steven Van den Panhuyzen
Team Bent
Camille Van Wambeke
Chloé Ditlefsen
Cristina Sapalo
Demi Eestermans
Elie De Prijcker
Jolan Standaert
Mandy Nijssen
Tom De Man
References
3
2014 Belgian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20swarming%20warfare | The concept of networked swarming warfare was first proposed by HUO Dajun in 2003. The key feature of the information age is the networking of organizational structure. The rising networked organization will overcome the limitation of traditional geography and link the operational resources distributed widely to form a military action network which combine strike range, speed and lethality, three elements of originally different developing, fundamentally transforming our idea of battle space. With the trend of decentralization of forces, we need to develop more small units with independent combat functions; meanwhile we can join these small units into a whole network as the technology's development. The warfare based on this network is called networked swarming warfare.
Definition
Networked swarming warfare (NSW) is the wide-scope maneuver warfare to attack dynamically the enemy in parallel by flexible utilization of "assembly" and "dispersion", which integrates the multiple forces distributed widely into the operational network with obvious flowing feature in a multi-dimensional space. It provides us with a networked form of operations which allows organizational flowing that amount of dispersed combat units on battlefield could rapidly formulate the operational swarms which centering on objectives and rebuild according to the requirements of battlefield environment.
Connotations
For the organization of forces, supported by information technology, abide by the networking logic of organizational structure，it can integrate multiple operational resources dispersed widely into an intact force network to achieve information interaction, functional coupling and capabilities clustering.
For the deployment of forces, in form of nonlinear deployment with multidimensional space, NSW is the greatly dispersed, flexible and irregular deployment and changes the mode of "deploying before striking", focusing on deploying during the moving and the combination of deployment and attacks, and dominating the situation development by flexible maneuvering, stop and dash, dispersion and assembly.
In space distribution, NSW emphasizes mobile and dispersed in wide-scope space.
In time distribution, NSW is non-sequential and conducts parallel operations to the common target or a series of interrelated targets.
In patterns of operations, it adopts the method of dispersed deployment of forces and dynamic assembling of operations by combinations of small combat units with rapid assembly and dispersion which similar to the pattern of "long-range raid".
Features
Networked swarming warfare has three essential features:
Organizational flowing
On informationized battlefield, the flowing of elements of combat effectiveness would be further strengthened, which is the inevitable result of the combination of dispersion and fast pace. The mutual influence and integration of network space and traditional geographic space make the flow of force, firepower, information a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6ter | 6ter (pronounced: [sister]) is a French television network which is available free-to-air through digital terrestrial television, satellite and DSL. It is a subsidiary of the Groupe M6; the name 6ter has been selected for the channel as M6's little "sister". It is available in France on channel 22.
History
Following the call of applications of the CSA for the launch of six new channels on the DTT, Groupe M6 presented three projects of channels : 6ter, M6 Boutique & Co and Hexa. On 27 March the CSA chose 6ter to be part of the 6 new channels to be launched on 12 December 2012 in HDTV (1080i). In 2022, the channel would be sold to Altice alongside TFX (owned by TF1 Group).
Like its sisters M6 and W9, 6ter have a Swiss subfeed, which air in Swiss providers and in free-to-air on satellite.
Programming
6ter's programming is family-oriented. 6ter shows magazines, documentaries, educational programs, along with children programmes, series and movies.
Until June 2016, 6ter had a weekday children morning block named Trop Toon. Since then, a few cartoons have sometimes been broadcast, notably Tintin.
90210 (90210 Beverly Hills : Nouvelle Génération, seasons 4–5, season 1–3 in syndication)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy contre les vampires, HD version, SD version in syndication)
Extant (season 2, season 1 in syndication)
Family Blagues
Fresh Off the Boat (Bienvenue chez les Huang)
Grease: Live
Jane the Virgin (since season 2, season 1 in syndication)
King & Maxwell
The Messengers
Modern Family (since season 6, season 1–5 in syndication)
Off the Map (Off the Map : Urgences au bout du monde)
Once Upon a Time (season 3 and 5 only, other seasons in syndication)
Reign (Reign : Le destin d'une reine)
Sleepy Hollow (since season 2, season 1 in syndication)
Switched at Birth (Switched)
Witches of East End
Zero Hour
Syndicated programming
8 Simple Rules (Touche pas à mes filles)
The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin)
Arme Millionäre (Pauvres Millionnaires)
Band of Brothers
Caméra Café
Charmed
Crisis
Der Clown (Le Clown)
Desperate Housewives
Dinotopia (miniseries)
Dinotopia: The Series (Dinotopia)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Docteur Quinn, femme médecin)
Emily Owens, M.D. (Dr Emily Owens)
Face au doute
Geronimo Stilton
The Good Wife
Kaamelott
Kid Paddle
Kyle XY
Largo Winch
Le Petit Nicolas
Les Blagues de Toto
Les Cordier, juge et flic
Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke
Life Is Wild
Little House on the Prairie (La Petite Maison dans la prairie)
Lou !
The Magic Roundabout (2007, Le Manège enchanté)
Malcolm in the Middle (Malcolm)
Martial Law (Le Flic de Shanghaï)
Martine
Martin Mystery (Martin Mystère)
Melrose Place (Melrose Place : Nouvelle Génération)
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (Les Mystères du véritable Sherlock Holmes)
My Wife and Kids (Ma famille d'abord)
The Nanny (Une nounou d'enfer)
No Ordinary Family (Super Hero Family)
Numbers
Paris 16e
Prehistoric Par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20delay | Satellite delay is the noticeable latency due to the limited speed of light, when sending data to and from satellites, especially distant geosynchronous satellites. Bouncing a signal off a geosynchronous satellite takes about a quarter of a second, which is enough to be noticeable, but relaying data between two or three such satellites increases the delay.
See also
Geosynchronous satellite
References
Engineering concepts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20%28disambiguation%29 | A flood is an overflow or accumulation of an expanse of water that submerges land.
Flood(s), The Flood, Flooded or Flooding may also refer to:
Computing
Flood fill, an algorithm that determines the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array
Flooding (computer networking)
Internet Relay Chat flood, a form of denial-of-service attack
MAC flooding, a technique employed to compromise the security of network switches
Network flood, a denial-of-service attack on a network
Film and television
The Flood (1927 film), a German silent film
The Flood (1931 film), American film directed by James Tinling
The Flood (1958 film), a Czech film
The Flood (1962 film), an American television film narrated by Laurence Harvey
The Flood (1963 film), children's adventure film written by Jean Scott Rogers
Flood!, a 1976 American television film
The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? a 1993 American film based on real events.
The Flood (1994 film), a French-Russian film
Flood (2007 film), a 2007 disaster film
Flood (2017 film), a 2017 Canadian animated short film by Amanda Strong
The Flood (2010 film) or Mabul, an Israeli film
The Flood (2019 film), a British drama film directed by Anthony Woodley
The Flood (2020 film), an Australian drama film directed by Victoria Wharfe McIntyre
"Flooded" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Flood" (The Young Ones), an episode of The Young Ones
"The Flood" (Mad Men), an episode of Mad Men
The Flood, a fictional viral Doctor Who villain
Literature
The Flood (Al-Fayḍān), a 1975 short story collection by Haidar Haidar
Flood (Baxter novel), a 2008 novel by Stephen Baxter
Halo: The Flood, a 2003 novel by William C. Dietz
Flood (Doyle novel), a 2002 novel by Richard Doyle
The Flood (novel), a 1986 novel by Ian Rankin
The Flood (novella), an 1880 novella by Émile Zola
The Flood, a 2004 novel by Maggie Gee
Flood, a 2002 novel by James Heneghan
Floods, a 2000 volume of poetry by Maurice Riordan
Flood, a 1985 novel in the Burke series by Andrew Vachss
Flood: A Romance of Our Time, a 1964 novel by Robert Penn Warren
Music
The Flood (band), an Australian band
Flood (producer) or Mark Ellis (born 1960), record producer
Albums
Flood (Boris album) (2000)
Flood (Jeremy Fisher album) (2010)
The Flood (Gospel Gangstaz album) (2006)
Flood (Headswim album) (1994)
Flood (Herbie Hancock album) (1975)
Flood (Kreidler album) (2019)
The Flood (Of Mice & Men album) (2011)
Flood (Keren Peles album) (2008)
Flood (They Might Be Giants album) (1990)
Flood (Stella Donnelly album) (2022)
Flood, a 1999 album by Jocelyn Pook
Flood, a 2001 album by Raining Pleasure
Songs
"The Flood" (Cheryl song) (2010)
"Floods" (Fightstar song) (2008)
"Flood" (Jars of Clay song) (1995)
"The Flood" (Katie Melua song) (2010)
"Floods" (Pantera song) (1996)
"The Flood" (Take That song) (2010)
"Flood", a song by the American band Bright from Bells Break Their Towers
"The Flood", a song |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Burke%20%28sportscaster%29 | Brendan Burke (born July 8, 1984) is an American sportscaster for MSG Networks, the New York Islanders, NBC Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports.
Early life
Burke was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while his father, Don, (sportswriter) covered the then-IHL Milwaukee Admirals, Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers. In 1990, Burke moved to Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and later attended Paramus Catholic High School.
Broadcasting career
Burke's broadcasting career began during his undergraduate tenure at Ithaca College, where he served as the sports director for both of the campus radio stations. Following graduation, he broadcast minor league baseball for the Batavia Muckdogs (NYPL) and the Lakewood BlueClaws (SAL). At 22, he was hired by the Wheeling Nailers and became the youngest broadcaster in the ECHL. During his time with Nailers, he was honored as the 2008 ECHL Broadcaster of the Year, and was selected to broadcast the 2008 ECHL All-Star Game.
Burke spent five seasons as the voice of the American Hockey League's Peoria Rivermen, who were purchased by the NHL's Vancouver Canucks and moved to Utica in 2013. During the 2011-12 NHL season, he filled in for select games as the play-by-play broadcaster for the NHL's St. Louis Blues on KMOX radio. In July 2013, he was hired by the Utica Comets as the play-by-play broadcaster and head of public relations.
Since 2012, Burke has called the outdoor high school games as part of Hockey Day Minnesota for Fox Sports North. Burke handles play-by-play for college football broadcasts on Fox Sports Net along with analyst Ben Leber. He has also called college hockey for the Big Ten Network.
Burke was named to the "Top 30 Sportscasters Under 30" list released in 2014 by the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America.
On July 30, 2015, he received the James H. Ellery Memorial Award for the 2014-15 season. The award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding media coverage of the American Hockey League. He has also been part of the broadcast teams for four AHL All-Star Classics (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019).
On August 11, 2016, Brendan was named as play-by-play announcer for the New York Islanders, replacing Howie Rose, who stepped down earlier that year. Since 2017, even if the Islanders missed the playoffs, Burke was hired to broadcast the playoffs for the NHL on NBC channels.
In the summer of 2019, he was named one of the inaugural voices of the Premier Lacrosse League on NBC Sports.
Burke is the secondary full-time play-by-play announcers for NHL on TNT, pairing with Darren Pang and Jennifer Botterill on the #2 team.
On July 2 and 3, 2022, Burke filled in for John Sterling on the New York Yankees' radio broadcasts for a series against the Cleveland Guardians. Burke also called following Yankees' series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, and Los Angeles Angels. He also filled in on WCBS' broadcasts of New York Mets games.
In 2023, Burke returned to NBC and replaced Jason Benetti as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Joint%20Replacement%20Registry | The American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) is a non-profit organization established to foster the creation of a national center for data collection, and is dedicated to the improvement in arthroplasty patient care.
History
In partnership with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the AJRR was founded in 2009 with the goal to optimize patient outcomes through collection of data on all primary and revision total joint replacement procedures in the U.S., while enhancing patient safety, improving quality of care, and reducing the cost for patients. Since then, the AJRR has grown to over 620 participating hospitals with over 400,000 procedures in their database. Both figures are expected to increase by year's end, and will continue to do so as more participants join the registry.
In February 2010, The AAOS ratified the AJRR Board of Directors. In November 2010, AJRR received 501(c)(3) status, and in December 2010, their Business Plan was finalized and approved by the AJRR Board of Directors.
In March 2011, the Pilot Program was initiated, with successful Level I data transmission and collection from pilot sites completed in July of the same year.
In 2012, the national registry software was launched. In August 2012, Jeffrey P. Knezovich, CAE, was hired as AJRR's first Executive Director.
In November 2013, AJRR launched a pilot program of Level II, Level III, and Level IV data collection systems. That pilot study is expected to be concluded by the end of the third quarter 2014.
In February 2014, the AJRR was named to the National Quality Registry Network (NQRN) Council, an initiative of the American Medical Association; and, in May, 2014, the AJRR was named a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
On January 1, 2015, the AJRR officially became a freestanding association. 2015 also marked the formation of the AJRR User Group Network, the merger of the California Joint Replacement Registry (CJRR) into AJRR, and the enrolling of the 600th hospital.
References
About the AJRR
Mary Atkinson Smith; William Todd Smith (September/October 2012). "The American Joint Replacement Registry". Orthopaedic Nursing, Vol. 31;5, p 296-299
Etkin CD, Hobson SE (October 2012) American Joint Replacement Registry continues to grow. AAOS Now.
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. (June 25, 2014). "AMERICAN JOINT REPLACEMENT REGISTRY RECEIVES SPECIAL DESIGNATION". Orthopedics This Week
Press Release, American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) tapped to provide orthopaedic patient outcome data to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS)
Orthopedics Today. January 23, 2014, Data collection for American Joint Replacement Registry actively underway
American Joint Replacement Registry Will Provide Orthopedic Patient Outcome Data to CMS.(June 2014) ODT Magazine.
2014 Physician Quality Reporting System Qualified Clinical Data Registries
External links
Organizations establis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fossiliferous%20stratigraphic%20units%20in%20the%20Caribbean | The Paleobiology Database lists no known fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The database also records no fossiliferous stratigraphic units within several regions of the Caribbean like the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Nueva Esparta.
Antigua and Barbuda
The Bahamas
Barbados
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago
Dependencies of France
The Paleobiology Database lists no known fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the French dependencies of St. Barthélemy or St. Martin.
Dependencies of the Netherlands
The Paleobiology Database lists no known fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Dutch dependencies of Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten.
Curaçao
Dependencies of the United Kingdom
The Paleobiology Database lists no known fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the British dependencies of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, or the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Anguilla
Bermuda
Dependencies of the United States
The Paleobiology Database lists no known fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the American dependencies of Navassa Island or the United States Virgin Islands.
Puerto Rico
See also
Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the United States
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Florida
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alabama
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mississippi
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Louisiana
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Central America
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Guyana
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Venezuela
References
Further reading
Anguilla
A. F. Budd, K.G. Johnson, and J.C. Edwards. 1995. Caribbean reef coral diversity during the Early to Middle Miocene: an Example from the Anguilla Formation. Coral Reefs 14(2):109-117
Antigua and Barbuda
W. A. van den Bold. 1966. Ostracoda from the Antigua Formation (Oligocene, Lesser Antilles). Journal of Paleontology 40(5):1233-1236
M. Brasier and J. Donahue. 1985. Barbuda - an emerging reef and lagoon complex on the edge of the Lesser Antilles island arc. Journal of the Geological Society of London 142:1101-1117
A. P. Brown. 1913. Notes on the Geology of the Island of Antigua. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 584-616
J. S. H. Collins and S. K. Donovan. 1995. A New Species of Necronectes (Decapoda) from the Upper Oligocene of Anitgua [sic]. Caribbean of Journal of Earth Science 31(1-2):122-127
C. Flemming and D. A. McFarlane. 1998. New Caribbean Locality for the Extinct Great White Shark Carcharodon megalodon. Caribbean Journal of Science 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20SBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2009 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2009. It was held on December 31, 2009, at the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Seoul, and was hosted by actor Jang Keun-suk, actress Moon Geun-young and announcer Park Sun-young.
Nominees and winners
Complete list of nominees and winners:
Top 10 Stars
Bae Soo-bin - Brilliant Legacy
Cha Seung-won - City Hall
Han Hyo-joo - Brilliant Legacy
Jang Keun-suk - You're Beautiful
Jang Seo-hee - Temptation of Wife
Kim Hye-soo - Style
Kim Sun-a - City Hall
Lee Seung-gi - Brilliant Legacy
Lee Soo-kyung - Loving You a Thousand Times
So Ji-sub - Cain and Abel
New Star Award
Jin Tae-hyun - Temptation of an Angel
Jung Gyu-woon - Loving You a Thousand Times
Jung Yong-hwa - You're Beautiful
Kim Bum - Dream
Lee Hong-gi - You're Beautiful
Lee Min-jung - Smile, You
Lee So-yeon - Temptation of an Angel
Lee Tae-im - Don't Hesitate
Lee Yong-woo - Style
Oh Young-shil - Temptation of Wife
Park Shin-hye - You're Beautiful
Son Dam-bi - Dream
References
External links
SBS
SBS Drama Awards
SBS
December 2009 events in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repair%20Caf%C3%A9 | Repair Café is an organisation with venues setup to provide people with a place to gather and work on repairing objects of everyday life, such as electronics, mechanical devices, computers, bicycles, and clothing. Repair Cafés are typically held at community locations including churches, libraries, and college campuses where tools are available and device owners can fix their broken goods with the help of volunteers. Repair Café is a part of the grassroots movement that aims to reduce waste, overconsumption, and planned obsolescence. It can re-ignite the do-it-together and "do it yourself" spirit and strengthen social cohesion.
History
Dutch journalist Martine Postma who wants to drive local-level sustainability introduced the Repair Café in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2009 On 18 October 2009, the first Repair Café was held at Fijnhout Theater, Amsterdam-West. On 2 March 2010, the Repair Café Foundation was set up. The foundation was formed to support local groups around the world in setting up their own Repair Cafés. Since then, the number of Repair Cafés has grown quickly. In March 2016 Postma registered more than 1,000 Repair Cafés worldwide, 327 in the Netherlands, 309 in Germany, 22 in the UK, 21 in the US, 15 in Canada, four Australia and one in India. In March 2018 the number of Repair Cafés climbed over 1,500, in 2021 the number reached 2,000.
In 2017, the first International Repair Day was announced. It is intended to be an annual event, taking place on the third Saturday of October each year.
Repair Café and commoning
Repair Café can be understood as an act of commoning.
Repair Café is not only about repairing broken items in a fixed location. It is also about commoning the tools, spaces, knowledge, and skills. For instance, instead of everyone buying their own sewing machine from the market, sharing and commoning the private-owned one would take place in a repair cafe. In terms of knowledge and skill sharing, the individuals who join the repair cafe workshops are usually happy to help others to repair broken items and teach what they know about repairing as well. They would also make the enclosed knowledge accessible to their members through hacking practices with no regard to the copyright.
Repair Café and the circular economy
Repair Café is a way to avoid consumerism by participating in a circular economy.
Knowledge sharing
In 2017, the Repair Café Foundation developed an online tool—RepairMonitor—enabling volunteers to collect and share knowledge about repair data via the database. In March 2018, information about almost 4,000 repairs had been entered into this system, aiming to promote repairability and durability of products.
3D printing of broken parts
Some Repair Cafés have begun to use 3D printers for replicating broken parts. Broken pieces of domestic appliances may be able to be pieced or glued back together, after which they can be scanned with a 3D scanner. Examples of 3D scanners include David Starter-Kit, 3D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20boundary | Word boundary may refer to:
Word boundary (linguistics)
Word boundary (computing)
See also
Word alignment (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSA%20Office%20of%20Inspection%20Accountability%20Act%20of%202014 | The TSA Office of Inspection Accountability Act of 2014 () is a bill that would direct the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review the data and methods that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses to classify personnel as law enforcement officers and to reclassify, as necessary, any staff of the Office of Inspection that are currently misclassified according to the results of that review. The TSA would be required to adhere to existing federal law about what positions are classified as criminal investigators, a fact that determines pay and benefits.
The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.
Background
Government employees who are classified as law enforcement personnel qualify for Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) as well as extra retirement benefits. Employees receiving LEAP pay are compensated "at 25 percent above their base pay for two extra hours per day" and are "also eligible to retire sooner and receive more generous annuities from their pensions."
Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.
The TSA Office of Inspection Accountability Act of 2014 would, in section four, direct the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) analyze the data and methods that the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security) uses to identify Transportation Security Administration (TSA) law enforcement officer and criminal investigators; and (2) provide relevant findings to the Assistant Secretary, including regarding whether the data and methods are adequate and valid.
The bill would prohibit the TSA from hiring any new employee to work in its Office of Inspection if the Inspector General finds that such data and methods are inadequate or invalid, until: (1) the Assistant Secretary makes a certification to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that only TSA employees who meet such requirements are classified as criminal investigators and are receiving premium pay and other benefits associated with such classification; and (2) the Inspector General submits a finding that the Assistant Secretary utilized adequate and valid data and methods to make such certification.
Section five would direct the Assistant Secretary to: (1) reclassify criminal investigator positions in the Office of Inspection as noncriminal investigator positions or non-law enforcement positions if the individuals in those positions do not, or are not expected to, spend an average of at least 50% of their time performing criminal investigative duties; and (2) estimate the total long-term cost savings to the federal government resulting from such reclassification and provide such estimate to such committees. Requires such estimate to identify savings associ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Rally%20GB | The 1998 Wales Rally GB (formally the 54th Network Q Rally of Great Britain) was held between 22–24 November 1998 as the final round of the 1998 World Rally Championship season.
It was the second victory of the 1998 season for Richard Burns and his co-driver Robert Reid. It also saw Tommi Mäkinen score a hat-trick of Drivers' championships after his closest rival Carlos Sainz, just 300 metres from the finish and running in fourth with just the final special stage to go, suffered a huge upset; his Corolla was struck by engine failure at Margam, thus surrendering his title to Mäkinen.
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The first stages were won easily by Subaru's Colin McRae, winner in the last three Rally GB's on the WRC calendar. Despite dropping out of title contention at the last round in Australia, he attempted to regain his confidence by battling with Richard Burns for overall victory. On stage 6 at Millbrook, Burns's team-mate, defending champion Tommi Mäkinen, a contender for the title with Carlos Sainz, struck a concrete block, causing his right rear wheel to detach. Mäkinen had slid off the road due to an oil patch left by an Hillman Imp racing in a separate historic event. His Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V limped on three wheels for another few kilometres before the local police pulled him over, retiring him from the event and supposedly ending his title hopes. Sadly, it was also all over for the Scotsman on stage 20, Sweet Lamb. McRae's engine failed on him whilst leading, and caused him to retire. This put fellow Brit Burns in the running for his first Rally GB victory.
All Sainz had to do to clinch the title was finish fourth or better. The Spaniard, a previous twice World Champion, had been in reach of the title ever since Mäkinen's sudden retirement and looked set to clinch title number three.
Sainz's position on the final stages put Mäkinen's hopes in jeopardy. When Sainz's engine blew on the last special stage, he and co-driver Luis Moya were visibly frustrated, with Moya throwing his helmet through the car's rear windscreen, as hopes of a first title since 1992 went up in smoke, allowing Mäkinen, not Sainz, to win number three and thus, clinch a hat trick. Had Sainz reached the finish in his current position, the Spaniard would have been champion by a solitary point. Instead it was Belgian Grégoire De Mévius who finished fourth, succeeding where Sainz failed. Burns, in the Carisma, dominated the last nine stages to win his second WRC rally ever, his first since the Safari Rally at the beginning of March. McRae managed to keep third overall in the championship regardless of his position. Just over half the field did not finish, with 82 cars making the finish at Margam. The PWRC title was taken by Gustavo Trelles, with the race won by Manfred Stohl. Fittingly, it was also Burns' final event in a Mitsubishi, he'd signed for Subaru for 1999 to partner Juha Kankkunen who replaced the Ford-bound McRae.
It was first time since 1976 with Roger Clark that an English |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201970 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1970:
See also
1970 in Brazil
1970 in Brazilian television
External links
Brazilian films of 1970 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1970
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yooreeka | Yooreeka is a library for data mining, machine learning, soft computing, and mathematical analysis. The project started with the code of the book "Algorithms of the Intelligent Web". Although the term "Web" prevailed in the title, in essence, the algorithms are valuable in any software application.
It covers all major algorithms and provides many examples.
Yooreeka 2.x is licensed under the Apache License rather than the somewhat more restrictive LGPL (which was the license of v1.x).
The library is written 100% in the Java language.
Algorithms
The following algorithms are covered:
Clustering
Hierarchical—Agglomerative (e.g. MST single link; ROCK) and Divisive
Partitional (e.g. k-means)
Classification
Bayesian
Decision trees
Neural Networks
Rule based (via Drools)
Recommendations
Collaborative filtering
Content based
Search
PageRank
DocRank
Personalization
References
External links
Baynoo Website
Yooreeka on GitHub
Yooreeka on Google Code (old repository)
Data mining and machine learning software
Free science software
Java (programming language) software
Free data analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Blunden%20%28author%29 | William Alva Blunden (born December 3, 1969) is the author of several books including The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System, Behold A Pale Farce: Cyberwar, Threat Inflation & The Malware Industrial Complex, Cube Farm, and Software Exorcism. The jacket of the former work lists his credentials MCSE, MCITP, and Enterprise Administrator. He is also active in the social sciences space and helped author articles appearing in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
References
Living people
1969 births
American non-fiction writers
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20cryptography%20libraries | The tables below compare cryptography libraries that deal with cryptography algorithms and have API function calls to each of the supported features.
Cryptography libraries
FIPS 140
This table denotes, if a cryptography library provides the technical requisites for FIPS 140, and the status of their FIPS 140 certification (according to NIST's CMVP search, modules in process list and implementation under test list).
Key operations
Key operations include key generation algorithms, key exchange agreements and public key cryptography standards.
Public key algorithms
Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) support
Public key cryptography standards
Hash functions
Comparison of supported cryptographic hash functions. Here hash functions are defined as taking an arbitrary length message and producing a fixed size output that is virtually impossible to use for recreating the original message.
MAC algorithms
Comparison of implementations of message authentication code (MAC) algorithms. A MAC is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message—in other words, to confirm that the message came from the stated sender (its authenticity) and has not been changed in transit (its integrity).
Block ciphers
Table compares implementations of block ciphers. Block ciphers are defined as being deterministic and operating on a set number of bits (termed a block) using a symmetric key.
Each block cipher can be broken up into the possible key sizes and block cipher modes it can be run with.
Block cipher algorithms
Cipher modes
Stream ciphers
The table below shows the support of various stream ciphers. Stream ciphers are defined as using plain text digits that are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream. Stream ciphers are typically faster than block ciphers and may have lower hardware complexity, but may be more susceptible to attacks.
Hardware-assisted support
These tables compare the ability to utilize hardware enhanced cryptography. By using the assistance of specific hardware the library can achieve greater speeds and / or improved security than otherwise.
Smart card, SIM and HSM protocol support
General purpose CPU / platform acceleration support
Code size and code to comment ratio
Portability
References
Computer libraries
Library comparison
Cryptography libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%201954 | A list of films produced in Brazil in 1954:
See also
1954 in Brazil
External links
Brazilian films of 1954 at the Internet Movie Database
Brazil
1954
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%202%20%28Copenhagen%29 | Ring 2 is a ring road that surrounds the most central part of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of the Danish national road network. The total length of the road is about 26 km.
Names
Streets in Copenhagen
Ring roads in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial%20Performance | Centennial Performance was a Canadian television miniseries which aired on CBC Television's English and French networks in 1967.
Premise
This series featured performances by winners of a performing arts scholarship sponsored by INCO for the Canadian Centennial. They were joined by an orchestra and prominent classical artists.
Scheduling
The three-hour-long Centennial Performance episodes were broadcast in colour, each at 9:30 p.m. Eastern:
19 April 1967 Scholarship recipients Jacques Simard (Quebec City, oboe) and Irene Weiss (Calgary, piano) were featured with singer George London. Pierre Hétu conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
4 October 1967 Richard Gresko (Montreal, piano) and Martine van Hamel (Toronto, ballet) were the featured scholarship winners, joined by singer Maureen Forrester and ballet dancer Hazaros Surmejan. George Crum and Brian Priestman conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
15 November 1967 Scholarship winners Claude Corbeil (Montreal, bass) and Audrey Glass (Vancouver, soprano) were joined by Glenn Gould in Toronto and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Golschmann.
References
External links
CBC Television original programming
Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming
1967 Canadian television series debuts
1967 Canadian television series endings
1960s Canadian music television series |
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