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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVI%20Internacional | TVI Internacional is the international television service of TVI. It is available in Europe, Africa, North America and Oceania. Programming is taken from the main channel as well as TVI 24 and original programming. As a leading channel producing Portuguese telenovelas, TVI started its international expansion as an exclusive to the Angolan ZAP satellite platform on May 30, 2010. In July 2011, it became available as a digital terrestrial television channel in Andorra. In the following year, it became available across cable services in Western Europe and North America.
References
External links
Official site
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Televisão Independente |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijbehara%20railway%20station | Bijbiara Railway Station is a railway station on the Northern Railway network in Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. It is the twelfth station on the railway line about from Baramulla railway station. It is away from the main town.
History
The station has been built as part of the Jammu–Baramulla line megaproject, intending to link the Kashmir Valley with Jammu Tawi and the rest of the Indian rail network.
Location
The station is located near Hassanpora in Anantnag district.
Reduced level
The station is situated at an elevation (RL) of 1594 m above mean sea level.
Division
The railway station lies in the Firozpur Cantonment division of Northern Railways.
Design
The station features Kashmiri wood architecture, with an intended ambiance of a royal court which is designed to complement the local surroundings to the station. Station signage is predominantly in Urdu and English and Hindi.
See also
Srinagar railway station
Anantnag railway station
Notes
References
Railway stations in India opened in 2008
Railway stations in Anantnag district
Kashmir
Firozpur railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Paradise%20Suite%20%28Armchair%20Theatre%29 | "The Paradise Suite" is an episode of the TV series Armchair Theatre, produced by ABC Weekend TV for the British ITV network. It was inspired by the death of Marilyn Monroe.
Plot
Film star Lena Roland stays in the Paradise Suite and yearns for love.
References
External links
1963 television plays
Films directed by Philip Saville
Armchair Theatre
Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hadith%20authors%20and%20commentators | List of notable compilers of hadiths collections. and authors of Hadith commentaries:
Muhammad al-Bukhari (194-256 AH)
Sahih Bukhari (hadith #1/6 of Kutub al-Sittah), primarily used by Sunni.
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (250-329 AH)
Kitab al-Kafi (hadith #1/4 of The Four Books), primarily used by Shi'a Islam.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773-852 AH)
Fath al-Bari (commentary on Sahih Bukhari), primarily used by Sunni.
Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani (d. 1081 AH)
Sharh Usul al-Kafi (commentary on Usul al-Kafi, first part of Kitab al-Kafi), primarily used by Shi'a Islam.
For a full list of notable compilers of hadith collections see: List of hadith collections.
Authors
Islam-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryotic%20Promoter%20Database | EPD (Eukaryotic Promoter Database) is a biological database and web resource of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II promoters with experimentally defined transcription start sites. Originally, EPD was a manually curated resource relying on transcript mapping experiments (mostly primer extension and nuclease protection assays) targeted at individual genes and published in academic journals. More recently, automatically generated promoter collections derived from electronically distributed high-throughput data produced with the CAGE or TSS-Seq protocols were added as part of a special subsection named EPDnew. The EPD web server offers additional services, including an entry viewer which enables users to explore the genomic context of a promoter in a UCSC Genome Browser window, and direct links for uploading EPD-derived promoter subsets to associated web-based promoter analysis tools of the Signal Search Analysis (SSA) and ChIP-Seq servers. EPD also features a collection of position weight matrices (PWMs) for common promoter sequence motifs.
History and Impact
EPD was created in 1986 as an electronic version of a eukaryotic promoter compilation published in an article and has been regularly updated since then. The database was initially distributed on magnetic tapes as part of the EMBL data library and later via the Internet. The collaboration between EPD and the EMBL library was cited as a pioneering example of remote nucleotide sequence annotation by domain experts. EPD has played an instrumental role in the development and evaluation of promoter prediction algorithms as it is broadly considered the most accurate promoter resource. As of November 2014, it has been cited about 2500 times in scientific literature. EPD has also received ample coverage by textbooks in bioinformatics (e.g. ) and systems biology (e.g. ).
References
External links
SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
SSA Signal Search Analysis server
ChIP-Seq ChIP-seq On-line Analysis Tools
PWMTools Position Weight Matrix model generation and evaluation tools
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Genome%20Project | The BBC Genome Project is an online searchable database of programme listings initially based upon the contents of the Radio Times from the first issue in 1923 to 2009. Television listings from post-2009 can be accessed via the BBC Programmes site.
History
Prior
BBC Genome is not the first online searchable database. In April 2006, they gave the public access to Infax – their only electronic programme database at the time. It contained around 900,000 entries but not every programme ever broadcast, and it ceased operation in December 2007. The front page of the website is still available to see via the Internet Archive. After Infax ceased, a message on the website said that it would be incorporating in the information into individual programme pages. In 2012, Infax was replaced by the database Fabric but this is only for internal use within the BBC.
Radio Times
In December 2012, the BBC completed a digitisation exercise, scanning the listings from Radio Times of all BBC's programmes from 1923 to 2009 from an entire run of about 4,500 copies of the magazine. They identified around five million programmes involving 8.5 million actors, presenters, writers and technical staff. BBC Genome was released for public use on 15 October 2014.
The listings are as published in advance, and so do not include late changes or cancellations which were reflected on Infax. However, they do include huge numbers of early radio and television broadcasts, and "DJ shows" from BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 which were rarely kept officially, which were not listed on Infax (which also did not usually include repeats of archived programmes prior to 1976) because they were not in the BBC archives. The issues were scanned at high resolution, producing TIFF images and optical character recognition was then used to turn the text from the page into searchable text on the Genome database.
The aim of this project is to allow researchers to be able to find out information easier and to help BBC Archives to build up a picture of what exists and what is currently missing from the archive. Corrections to OCR errors and changes to advertised schedules are being crowdsourced, with over 440,910 user generated edits accepted after editorial review as of mid-December 2018.<ref
name="FAQs-what"></ref> Each listing entry has a unique identifier which may be expressed as a URL. For example, the first screening of Doctor Who is http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8f81c193ba224e84981f353cae480d49. A broadcast programme may have more than one such identifier, if it was broadcast (and thus listed) on repeat occasions, or in different regions.
Other content
Digitised editions of entire magazines (including front covers, prose articles, advertisements, and other non-listings content) from the 1920s were added in March 2017; for the 1930s in December 2017; for the 1940s in December 2018; and for the 1950s in December 2019.
Missing listings
See also
BBC Archives
BBC Programme Catalogue
Timeline of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HostDime | HostDime Global Corp is a global data center infrastructure provider offering an array of cloud products including physical bare metal servers, virtualized cloud servers, and colocation services. HostDime's data centers are carrier-neutral facilities in global edge locations.
HostDime owns and operates infrastructure and networks in eight countries: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Netherlands, India, Colombia, and Hong Kong. Their flagship facility is in Orlando, Florida.
History
HostDime Global Corp was founded by Manny Vivar and opened its first data center in downtown Orlando, Florida in December 2003 and moved its servers from a New Jersey Colocation facility. The company was bootstrapped and funded with under $50 by Vivar. HostDime's first international location was in João Pessoa, Brazil in 2006. Locations in Mexico, Colombia, and the United Kingdom opened in 2008, with India in 2010, and Netherlands and Hong Kong in 2012.
In November 2012, a report by Citizen Lab found that HostDime was among a handful of American companies selling hosting services to the Syrian government in direct opposition of an executive order from President Barack Obama. HostDime stated that the website in question, Syria's Ministry of Religious Affairs, was hosted by a customer who leased a server in their data center. Immediate steps were taken to sever ties from Syria and that matter was quickly resolved.
In 2013, HostDime built their first data center build of its own was a 10,000 square foot facility in Guadalajara, Mexico.
In 2016, HostDime purchased a 5-acre land parcel fronting I-4 in Orlando metro area, Town of Eatonville. The seven-story building would combine the data company's headquarters and its data center in one structure.
On July 14, 2017, HostDime officially opened their data center in João Pessoa, Brazil. The facility was only the second data center in northeast Brazil. The $15 million data center officially became Tier III Design Certified by the Uptime Institute in September 2020. It also became the first company in Brazil to receive the ISO 27701 certification.
In February 2020, HostDime went to work on another purpose-built data center, this time in Bogotá, Colombia. The facility is one of the largest data center construction investments in Colombia and one of the largest data centers in Latin America. The facility is expected to be commissioned for production in early 2021.
Present
HostDime operates one of the largest networks in the Central Florida region. In 2020, HostDime broke ground on the $35 million data center and corporate headquarters outside of Orlando metro area. Construction is due for completion in summer 2022. This will be Central Florida's largest data center.
As of 2021, HostDime is a privately held and self-funded company with no outside capital investors. Ownership of the company is privately held by the founder and key employees.
Data Centers
HostDime operates in 10 edge data centers around th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20News%20%26%20Weather | Google News & Weather was a news aggregator application developed by Google. It was available on the Android and iOS operating systems. The app featured a card-based interface and was similar to both the Google News desktop website as well as Google Now, which makes extensive use of cards. It indexed over 65,000 news sources and has 60 country-specific editions.
News & Weather had been on stock Android devices for a long time, but it was only on August 26, 2014, that it was revamped into a modern application and released to the Google Play Store. The update brought a new layout, incorporating a Google Now-style card-based design, with the ability to swipe between categories and drill down to view the same story from different sources. There were different editions for various countries, and the sections and editions subscribed to could be controlled through the Settings menu—all linked to the user's Google account. An optional weather widget at the top of the main view could be configured to show weather based on the current location, or a location set manually.
The iOS version of Google News & Weather was released on October 7, 2014.
The app was discontinued on October 8, 2018. On October 9, it appeared to have been made active again, and was discontinued again on October 16, 2018. On May 8, 2018, Google announced at Google I/O that it was merging Google Play Newsstand and Google News & Weather into a single service, called Google News (with the Google News & Weather app being discontinued and Google Play Newsstand being replaced by Google News).
References
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
News and Weather |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leselidze%20%28platform%29 | Leselidze (Gyachrypsh) is a halt on the Psou - Engur railway line in Abkhazia. In some schedules it is listed as a halt at km 2,000.
According to 2003 data, it was listed in railway atlases as Leselidze platform of Georgian railways Samtredia department, station code 57441, code express 3 2800810. The actual platform relates to the Abkhaz railway stop at Gyachrypsh.
A small station building was built in the 1950s, but it was abandoned as of 2003.
From June 26, 2010, two pairs of commuter trains between Adler and Gagra stop here during the day.
The station layout consists of one high-side platform used for traffic in both directions.
See also
Georgian Railway
Railway stations in Georgia (country) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levo%20%28company%29 | Levo (formerly Levo League) was a network targeting millennials in the workplace. The company provided young professionals with resources to help them navigate and advance their careers. At one time, Levo claimed over 9 million users.
History
Launched in 2012, Levo was founded by Caroline Ghosn (daughter of auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn) and Amanda Pouchot, as well as two other women, Kathryn Minshew and Alex Cavoulacos (see Controversy). The founders met at their first corporate jobs working for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York where they brainstormed their idea.
The founders successfully raised over $8 million in funding, adding $7 million from its round of Angel funding in early 2014. Prominent U.S. investors in Levo include Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, Susan Lyne, Chairman of Gilt Groupe, and Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mightybell.
Services
Levo granted its members digital access to mentors, a community of professionals, job postings, and live chats with prominent business role models. In addition to its online community the group also operated 30 local chapters worldwide to help its users to connect to opportunities offline.
Controversy
Levo was founded as Pretty Young Professional by four women who worked in the NYC office of McKinsey & Company: Caroline Ghosn, Amanda Pouchot, Alex Cavoulacos, and Kathryn Minshew, with an equity structure that reflected ownership by all (Minshew 7.1%, Pouchot 5.5%, Cavoulacos 4.4%, Ghosn 1.5%). Minshew was the first full-time employee and Editor in Chief, and eventually CEO.
After a dispute between the founders, Ghosn and Pouchot secretly re-launched Pretty Young Professional as Levo League and ousted founders Cavoulacos and Mishew, who went on to found The Daily Muse.
References
Further reading
Defunct technology companies of the United States
American companies established in 2012
Technology companies established in 2012
2012 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Armenia | Roads in Armenia serve as the main transport network in Armenia. With an underdeveloped railway network, principally due to its difficult terrain, the road system is of vital importance for the development of the country. Its role is important both with national and international traffic.
The total length of the Armenian road network is , 96.7% of which is asphalted. For every of national territory, there are of roads. Armenia is a member of the International Road Transport Union and the TIR Convention.
Highways of national importance
The first roads as we conceive them in a modern perception, appeared in Armenia in the 19th Century.
The main roads in the country are:
Մ1 Yerevan - Ashtarak - Gyumri - Bavra (). Length:
Մ2 Yerevan - Ararat - Yeraskh () - Kapan - Meghri () - Kilit Border (. Length:
Մ3 Margara () - Ashtarak - Vanadzor - Dzoramut (). Length:
Մ4 Yerevan - Hrazdan - Sevan - Azatamut ()
Մ5 Yerevan - Armavir - Border crossing with Turkey (closed due to political reasons)
Մ6 Vanadzor - Bagratashen ()
Մ7 Vanadzor - Gyumri - Akhurik ().
Մ8 Vanadzor - Dilijan
Մ9 Talin - Karakert - Bagaran
Մ10 Sevan - Martuni - Yeghegnadzor
Մ11 Martuni - Vardenis - (/, Partially concurrent with de jure ) - Drmbon
Մ12 Goris - (/, concurrent with de jure and partially with ) -Stepanakert
Մ13 Angeghakot - Nakhchivan AR border ()
Մ14 Tsovagyugh - Vardenis
Մ15 Yerevan bypass
Մ16 Haghtanak - Azatamut
Մ17 Kapan - Shikahogh - Meghri
Highways of regional importance
These roads are a level below M level roads, and connect main highways to communities across the country.
There are 84 numbered roads of this class in the country. The letter by which these roads are numbered is "H". In total there are 1969 km roads of this class.
1 to 10
Հ1 Balahovit () - Jraber -Kaghsi () - Hrazdan
Հ2 Abovyan - Arzni - Nor Geghi
Հ3 Yerevan () - Garni - Geghard
Հ4 Yerevan - Yeghvard - Aragyugh - Hartavan ()
Հ5 Nor Geghi - Argel - Arzakan ( - Aghveran) - Hrazdan
Հ6 Abovyan () - Nor Geghi - Yeghvard - Nor Yerznka ()
Հ7 Karenis - Charentsavan () - Fantan
Հ8 Ayntap () - Berkanush - Artashat - Vosketap - Aygavan - Ararat ()
Հ9 Berkanush - Dvin
Հ10 Vosketap () - Vedi - Lanjar ()
11 to 20
Հ11 Pokr Vedi () - Lusarat ( - Khor Virap) - Yeghegnavan - Ararat ()
Հ12 Ayntap () - Masis - Ranchpar - Araks - Jrarat ()
Հ13 Vagharshapat () - Masis - Marmarashen ()
Հ14 Yerevan (Charbakh Metro) - Masis
Հ15 Armavir () - Argavand - Margara ()
Հ16 Metsamor () - Metsamor NPP - Aknalich ()
Հ17 Armavir () - Myasnikyan - Karakert ()
Հ18 Hushakert () - Vanand ()
Հ19 Ashtarak () - Oshakan - Dasht ()
Հ20 Oshakan - Agarak () ( - Tegher) - Byurakan - ( - Amberd) - Lake Kari
21 to 30
Հ21 Shirakavan - Horom () - Artik - Alagyaz ()
Հ22 Dsegh () - Marts
Հ23 Pushkino ( Tunnel bypass)
Հ24 Gyulagarak () - Kurtan - Dsegh ()
Հ25 Haghpat ()
Հ26 Conccurent with
Հ27 Meghradzor - Margahovit ()
Հ28 Jrarat ( - Teghenis Sports Complex) - Meghradzor - Hankavan
Հ29 Sevan () - Tsaghk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchy%20Comedy | Catchy Comedy is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. The network, which is mainly carried on the digital subchannels of television stations, primarily airs classic television sitcoms from the 1950s through the early 1990s. Established in 2015, the network was previously called Decades.
Through its ownership by Weigel, Catchy Comedy is a sister network to MeTV, and is carried in 480i widescreen.
Since fall 2019, the network is carried on Fox-owned stations in 12 markets as part of a multi-year agreement with Fox Television Stations, after switching from CBS-owned stations.
History
On October 21, 2014, CBS Corporation and Weigel Broadcasting announced the launch of the network, then known as Decades, with plans to debut the network in 2015. Through its part-ownership by CBS Corporation, Decades announced that owned-and-operated stations of the CBS television network would serve as its initial charter network affiliates.
The network was the first national multicasting venture by CBS News and Stations. The group did not carry subchannels on any of its television stations prior to 2013. And at the time of the Decades announcement, only three of its stations even maintained subchannels (CBS O&Os WCBS-TV in New York City and KYW-TV in Philadelphia carried rolling news channels under the "CBS Plus" brand on their respective secondary subchannels, while independent station KTXA in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas carried MeTV on its second subchannel). In addition, CBS Television Distribution had already maintained a content distribution agreement with Weigel Broadcasting's classic television network MeTV, which sourced much of its programming from that library.
On January 13, 2015, Weigel Broadcasting confirmed that its Milwaukee CBS affiliate WDJT-TV would carry the network on its fourth digital subchannel. It would replace the digital news service TouchVision.
Decades officially launched at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone on May 25, 2015, with the series premiere of Through the Decades as its inaugural telecast. At the time, the network was available in over 45% of all American households with a television set.
Times for the programming are televised across all six time zones. For example, a show that begins at 8 PM Eastern Time, begins at 5 PM Pacific Time.
On March 27, 2023, Decades re-branded as Catchy Comedy, focusing on primarily classic sitcoms and sketch comedy variety shows weekdays with comedy marathons on weekends.
Programming
Decades (2015–2023)
Launch
Decades relied primarily on programming from the extensive content library owned by CBS Television Distribution, which includes the pre-2006 Paramount Television library – which CBS had acquired as a result of absorbing Paramount's syndication unit in 2006 through its split from Viacom into a separate company (CBS and Viacom re-merged to form ViacomCBS in 2019) – along with series from Desilu Productions, Bing Crosby Productions, Don Fedderson Product |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Leap | Magic Leap, Inc. is an American technology company that released a head-mounted augmented reality display, called Magic Leap One, which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery over real world objects. It is attempting to construct a light-field chip using silicon photonics.
Magic Leap was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010 and has raised $2.6 billion from a list of investors including Google and Alibaba Group. In December 2016, Forbes estimated that Magic Leap was worth $4.5 billion. On July 11, 2018, AT&T invested in the company and became its exclusive partner. On August 8, 2018, the Magic Leap One was made available in the United States through AT&T.
On May 28, 2020, Rony Abovitz announced that Magic Leap had raised $350 million in new funding and that he would be stepping down as CEO. On July 7, 2020, the company announced their new CEO would be former Microsoft executive Peggy Johnson.
History
2010–2014: founding and secrecy
Magic Leap was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010. According to past versions of its website, the startup evolved from a company named "Magic Leap Studios" which around 2010 was working on a graphic novel and a feature film series, and in 2011 became a corporation, releasing an augmented reality app at Comic-Con that year. In October 2014, when the company was still operating in stealth mode (but already reported to be working on projects relating to augmented reality and computer vision), it raised more than $540 million of venture funding from Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors.
A November 2014 analysis by Gizmodo, based on job listings, trademark registrations and patent applications from Magic Leap, concluded that the company appeared to be building a competitor to the Google Glass and Oculus Rift that would "blend computer-generated graphics with the real world". It had also been compared to Microsoft HoloLens.
Before Magic Leap, a head-mounted display using light field had been demonstrated by Nvidia in 2013, and the MIT Media Lab has also constructed a 3D display using "compressed light fields"; however, Magic Leap asserts that it achieves better resolution with a new proprietary technique that projects an image directly onto the user's retina. According to a researcher who studied the company's patents, Magic Leap is likely to use stacked silicon waveguides.
Richard Taylor of special effects company Weta Workshop is involved in Magic Leap alongside Abovitz. Science fiction author Neal Stephenson joined the company in December 2014. Graeme Devine is their Chief Creative Officer & Senior VP Games, Apps and Creative Experiences.
2015–2018: product teases and reveal
On March 19, 2015, Magic Leap released a demo video titled "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap". The video includes augmented reality gaming and productivity applications but it was unclear if the video was actual footage using their technology or a simulated experience.
On October 20, 2015, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Information%20and%20Communication%20%28Bhutan%29 | The Ministry of Information and Communication is a government ministry of Bhutan responsible for promoting the development of reliable and sustainable information, communications and transport networks and systems and facilitating the provision of affordable and easier access to associated services.
Objectives
To increase safe, reliable and affordable surface and air transport;
To enhance access to sustainable, green and inclusive public transport;
To improve access to reliable and affordable ICT and media services;
To improve effective and efficient public service delivery; and
To keep alive culture and tradition through ICT and media.
Departments
The Ministry of Information and Communication is responsible for:
Bhutan Infocomm and Media Authority
Department of Civil Aviation
Department of Information and Media
Department of Information Technology
Road Safety and Transport Authority
Bhutan Broadcasting Service
Bhutan Post
Bhutan Telecom
Druk Air
Kuensel Corporation
Minister
Karma Donnen Wangdi (7 November 2018 - ...)
References
External links
Information and Communication
Bhutan
Bhutan
Bhutan
Transport organisations based in Bhutan
Transport in Bhutan
Communications in Bhutan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos%20Szilassi | Lajos Szilassi (born 1942 in Szentes, Hungary) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Szeged who worked in projective and non-Euclidean geometry, applying his research to computer generated solutions of geometric problems.
Biography
Szilassi obtained his high school diploma in 1966 at the Bolyai Institute of the József Attila University, majoring in mathematical representation geometry. He had been teaching for six years in a secondary school, then he joined the Department of Mathematics at Gyula Juhász Teacher Training College. In 1981 he received a bachelor's associate degree. He then received his Doctor rerum naturalium degree at the University of Szeged (1978) under László Lovász with the dissertation Polyhedra bounded by pairwise adjacent faces. He received his PhD in 2006.
From 1973 until he retired in 2007 he was a professor of mathematics at the University of Szeged. He worked in the areas of geometry, elementary mathematics, and computer science, with an emphasis on computer generated solutions of geometric problems.
Szilassi polyhedron
In 1977 Szilassi discovered a toroidal polyhedron with seven hexagonal faces, in which each pair of faces share an edge. The new construction was soon dubbed the Szilassi polyhedron. This is mathematically significant because the tetrahedron and the Szilassi polyhedron are the only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with each other face. Martin Gardner featured the Szilassi polyhedron in his November 1978 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.
On April 29, 2002 the French government installed a sculpture of the "Szilassi-Polyhedron" in the town of Beaumont-de-Lomagne, the birthplace of Fermat, on the 400th anniversary of his birth. There are also large scale renderings of the polyhedron in Canberra, Australia and in Whitehall, Michigan.
References
External links
On some regular toroids, Lajos Szilassi
Szilassi polyhedron, toroidal polyhedron
publications, Lajos Szilassi
University of Szeged alumni
Academic staff of the University of Szeged
Living people
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians
21st-century Hungarian mathematicians
People from Szentes
1942 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton%20Roads%20Telephone%20Analysis%20Sharing%20Network | The Hampton Roads Telephone Analysis Sharing Network was a program through which law enforcement agencies in five Virginia cities access a shared database containing phone records and contents of seized mobile devices. The program was active from 2012 to 2015.
Participating cities
Hampton
Newport News
Norfolk
Chesapeake
Suffolk
Sharing
Participating agencies have, through a memorandum of understanding, agreed to "share telephone intelligence information derived from any source with the (task force) including: subpoenaed telephone call detail records, subpoenaed telephone subscriber information, and seized mobile devices."
Controversy
Rob Poggenklass, an ACLU staff attorney, stated that the program violates Virginia's Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act. The Virginia State Police stated that they declined to join, citing the same statute.
Termination
In 2015, Chesapeake asked Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring for a formal opinion on whether the program was legal under Virginia law. The official response delivered in November 2015 was that the examination was closed because the program had been terminated. Newport News Police Chief Rick Myers said that the task force had joined a federal data-sharing program which required search warrants.
References
External links
Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act
Hampton Roads Telephone Analysis Sharing Network Memorandum of Understanding
Privacy of telecommunications
Privacy law in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20MBC%20Drama%20Awards | The 2008 MBC Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) network for the year of 2008. It was held on December 30, 2008 and hosted by Shin Dong-yup and actress Han Ji-hye.
Nominations and winners
(Winners denoted in bold)
References
External links
http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/event/2008mbc/
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanlih%20Drama%20Awards | The Sanlih Drama Awards () was an annual awards ceremony that celebrated the best in SETTV drama programming. The awards were created in 2011 to help promote, celebrate and award Sanlih E-Television dramas that aired in the year. The first ceremony was held on 12 December 2012 and was originally called the "Thanks Party" (三立華劇感恩派對). No nomination list was released for the 2012 awards. Winners were announced during the ceremony. The ceremony was held each year in December at SETTV headquarters in Neihu District, Taipei. The last awards ceremony was held in 2016.
Voting
In 2013 the awards became more establish with a nomination list and voting system. The awards are given based on:
30% - Weibo web voting (only registered Weibo users can vote in all categories once per day)
30% - media voting
40% - professionals voting
Categories
Originally 12 awards were presented in 2012. In 2013 a total of 12 awards were awarded, the green leaf and media award were removed. Also the China wave and best drama awards were added. In 2014 a total of 10 awards will be awarded, with the child actor and overseas award removed.
Current categories
Viewers Choice Drama Award (2013- ) - Awarded to the most popular drama of the year with the lead actor and lead actress as recipients.
Best Actor Award (2012- ) - Awarded to the most outstanding leading actor in a drama.
Best Actress Award (2012- ) - Awarded to the most outstanding leading actress in a drama.
Best Screen Couple Award (2012- ) - Awarded to the male and female lead with the best on screen chemistry in a drama.
China Wave Award (2012- ) - An honorary award where the recipient is chosen by Sanlih executives. Awarded to an actor (male or female) for spreading Taiwanese entertainment outside of Taiwan. In 2014, the award was made a regular category award with a nomination list where Weibo users could vote. The award was reverted to an honorary award in 2015.
Best Kiss Award (2012- ) - Awarded to the male and female lead with the best kissing scene in a drama.
Best Crying Award (2012- ) - Awarded to an actor or actress with the best crying scenes in a drama.
Best Powerful Performance Award (2015- ) - Integration of the "Best Lady Killer Award" and "Best Foolishly Award".
Best Potential Award (2015- ) - Awarded to a semi new artiste.
Viewers Choice Drama Theme Song Award (2016- ) - Voted by viewers and awarded to the most popular drama theme song of the year.
VIDOL TV Best Drama Award (2016- ) - Awarded to the most popular drama webstream on http://vidol.tv/.
Discontinued categories
Media Choice Award (2012) - awarded to an actor or actress by media voting.
Best Child Actor Award (2013) - awarded to a child actor in a drama.
Most Popular Overseas Award (2012-2013) - awarded to an actor (male or female) based on Weibo and media voting outside of Taiwan.
Best Lady Killer Award (2012-2014) - awarded to an actor who plays a father figure in a drama.
Best Foolishly Award (2012-2014) - awarded to an actress who plays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motichur%20railway%20station | Motichur railway station lies on the Northern railway network of Indian Railways.
Location
The station is situated in Bhupatwala, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. The road distance between Motichur railway station and Haridwar Junction railway station is 5 km.
Reduced level
The RL of the station is 313.95 m above mean sea level.
Signage
The station signage are predominantly in English and Hindi.
See also
Rishikesh
References
Railway stations in Haridwar district
Moradabad railway division
Buildings and structures in Haridwar
Year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Acosta | Alpha Acosta is a Mexican actress.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Alpha Acosta at the Mexican Telenovela Database
1973 births
Living people
Mexican telenovela actresses
Mexican television actresses
Mexican film actresses
Actresses from Colima
20th-century Mexican actresses
21st-century Mexican actresses
People from Colima City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%20real-name%20policy%20controversy | The Facebook real-name policy controversy is a controversy over social networking site Facebook's real-name system, which requires that a person use their legal name when they register an account and configure their user profile. The controversy stems from claims by some users that they are being penalized by Facebook for using their real names, and have suffered adverse consequences as a result. For example, Facebook's naming policies prohibit names that Facebook judges to have too many words, too many capital letters, or first names that consist of initials. Facebook's monitoring software detects and suspends such accounts. These policies prevent some users from having a Facebook account and profile with their real name.
As part of their complaint, those who cannot use their real names point out that millions of Facebook accounts use fake yet plausible-sounding names, and even fake and obviously implausible names, because Facebook's software fails to recognize them.
Background
The social networking website Facebook has maintained the real-name system policy for user profiles. According to Facebook, the real-name policy stems from the position "that way, you always know who you're connecting with. This helps keep our community safe." Likewise per this policy, a "real name" is defined by "your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID". In August 2012, Facebook estimated that more than 83 million Facebook accounts are fake accounts. As a result of this revelation, the share price of Facebook dropped below $20. Facebook has asserted that "authentic identity is important to the Facebook experience, and our goal is that every account on Facebook should represent a real person".
Affected users
Ethnic groups
Native Americans
Native Americans have been repeatedly targeted due to Facebook's policy.
Robin Kills The Enemy, a resident of the Sioux Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, found that when she tried to register her surname in its normal format, the site would not let her use them, so she resorted to combining the three words, spelling them as one word. After having been a member for some time, she eventually contacted the site in an attempt to have her surname spelled as it actually is in real life. However, after reaching out to Facebook, they instead deactivated her account without explanation. When she was finally able to make contact with an actual employee, they wrote back telling her "Fake names are a violation of our Terms of Use. Facebook requires users to provide their full first and last names". She eventually managed to have her account reinstated; however, users with the surname Kills The Enemy are, as of 2015, still required by Facebook to spell their surname without spaces as a single word.
Shane Creepingbear, an Oklahoman member of the Kiowa tribe, reported that he had been "kicked off" of Facebook on Columbus Day for having a supposedly fake name.
Lance Brown Eyes, an Oglala, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20of%20Black%20and%20White%20Men%20Together | The National Association of Black and White Men Together, Inc.: A Gay Multiracial Organization for All People (NABWMT) is a network of chapters across the United States focused on LGBT and racial equality, founded in May, 1980 in San Francisco as a consciousness-raising, multicultural organization and support group for gay men forming multiracial relationships. To attain these ends, its local chapters organized social gatherings and engaged in educational, cultural, and political activities. It is a registered IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. NABWMT's goals consist of two major themes: combating racism within the LGBT community and combating homophobia in general society. NABWMT's vision is to be a key organizational and archival resource for those working on racial and social justice. An overall goal is to witness an America free of racism and homophobia.
History and Impact
NABWMT got its start in May 1980 when founder Michael Smith placed an advertisement in The Advocate for a potluck that attracted 20 people. Within a year of its founding, local chapters were established in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. Chapters named "Black and White Men Together," "Men of All Colors Together," "GREAT (Gay Racially Equal And Together) Men of (city)," and "People of All Colors Together" which include women, all operate under the NABWMT umbrella. Local chapters host social and educational events, and also support other aspects of their communities. For example, the Detroit chapter raised funds for and provided direct assistance to the Ruth Ellis Center in 2006.
As a result of AIDS education and support work carried out by chapters, the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention (NTFAP) and Bay Area HIV Support and Education Services (BAHSES) both sprung from NABWMT in the late 1980s. In 1980, Reggie Williams, an executive director of NABWMT and NTFAP, began to reach out to Black gay and bisexual men, as well as other gay men of color communities in San Francisco.
Conventions
The first national convention was held in San Francisco in 1981
Notable Convention Speakers
Walter Naegle (Bayard Rustin's partner for the last decade of Rustin's life (1977–87)), and historian, Dr. Martin Duberman, Newark, 2015.
United States Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, San Diego, 2012
Chris Bartlett, Executive Director of the William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, 2009
Pauline Park, Cleveland, 2007
Ohio State Representative Sandra Williams, Cleveland, 2007
Joseph Fairchild Beam (editor of the ground-breaking anthology of black gay literature, In the Life, Milwaukee, 1987.
References
External links
Facebook
Men of All Colors Together Boston records
Guide to the Men of All Colors Together/New York Records 1980-2006
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: *National Association of Black and White Men Together collection, circa 1980-1999
Gay cultu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA%20Health | UCLA Health is a health system which comprises a number of hospitals, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an extensive primary care network in the Los Angeles region. As a regional health provider, it benefits from the academic affiliation offered by the UCLA campus, as this increases its status in the medical marketplace. For instance, the symbiotic relationship with the campus allowed the creation of nominal assistant professor-level appointments for primary care physicians, but this practice has now been limited because of opposition from the academic community.
In 2007, UCLA Health founded Operation Mend, a program for treating military veterans who were wounded in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2016 Operation Mend received a grant from Wounded Warrior Project to expand its offering to include PTSD treatment and became part of the Warrior Care Network.
A 2013 report by the California State Auditor has suggested that the financial transactions from the health system to the medical school, which have grown threefold over the reporting period, deserve more transparency. A study by the Rand Corporation about leadership structures at UCLA Health again addresses the ambiguous position of UCLA Health as both an academic and a commercial entity. More recently, the UCOP has scheduled a bylaw amendment for the Committee on Health Services with a view to change the composition of the leadership structure to enable the UCLA Health System (then so called) to compete and collaborate more effectively in the health services marketplace.
The governance structure includes a non-fiduciary Board of Overseers and a Community Engagement Committee that is made up of faculty and staff and reports to the Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences. In addition, there is a UCLA Health Sustainability Steering Committee.
Budgetary information for bondholders (2013) and the 2014–2015 Financial Report are available through the University of California Office of the President.
Hospitals
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica
Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Other entities
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is an accredited medical school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. The school was renamed in 2001 in honor of media mogul David Geffen who donated $200 million in unrestricted funds.
UCLA Faculty Practice Group, a system of more than 1,200 full-time clinical faculty physicians, who work in primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area
UCLA Health Training Center, an arena and a training center for the Los Angeles Lakers
Tiverton House, a 100-room hotel facility for patients and their families
See also
James M. Heaps
References
Further reading
Michelli, Joseph: Prescription for excellence : leadership lessons for creating a world-class customer experience from UCLA Health System. New Yor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORM%20%28arts%20organisation%29 | FORM is a Western Australian arts organisation that delivers programming tailored to specific communities throughout the State.
Organisation
FORM is a non-profit, membership-based, charity-registered arts organisation that focuses on multiartform programming tailored to specific communities. FORM's website states that its programming:
FORM currently operates offices and galleries in Perth and Port Hedland, managing a range of exhibitions and projects, consultancy, and professional development services. FORM is known for projects that often span several years (see below), and for its ability to generate innovative partnerships with industry and corporate sponsors including Wesfarmers and BHP Billiton.
Notable projects
Designing Futures, 2004–2008
Designing Futures was a project focused on the medium of fine wood, in response to the State Government's newly instigated regulations to protect Western Australia's old-growth forests. In response to the changed regulations, the project explored design as an alternative to logging, with an international conference of design academics and an exhibition by the world's leading fine wood artists held in Perth in early 2003. Following these events, the focus of the project expanded to other craft mediums, providing professional development to ‘clusters’ of Western Australian craftmakers and designers, with the project culminating in the establishment of Midland Atelier in 2008.
Ngurra Kuju Walyja — One Country One People — Canning Stock Route Project, 2006–2013
Ngurra Kuju Walyja — One Country One People — Canning Stock Route Project began in 2006, the centenary year of the founding of the Canning Stock Route, the longest stock route in the Southern Hemisphere established during Western Australia's Federation period. Ngurra Kuju Walyja told an Aboriginal history of the Stock Route and the effects its construction had on Aboriginal communities. Under the direction of Aboriginal stakeholders, the project grew to incorporate ten remote Aboriginal community art centres; a large cross-cultural team of curators, filmmakers, and cultural advisors; over 120 Aboriginal artists and contributors; and numerous national partners.
In late 2008 the National Museum of Australia permanently acquired the Canning Stock Route Collection, 140 artworks curated by the Canning Stock Route Project team over three years, and entered into a partnership with FORM to produce an exhibition Yiwarra Kuju – The Canning Stock Route, comprising paintings, cultural artefacts, film, new media, and photography. Yiwarra Kuju launched at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra in July 2010, attracting more visitors to the Museum than any other exhibition in its history, before touring Australia. The exhibition showed in Perth as a headlining event in the cultural program accompanying the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM), 2011. In collaboration with the Center for Digital Archaeology of Berkeley (CoDA), FORM developed Mira, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboum | Laboum (; stylized in all caps) is a South Korean girl group currently under Interpark Music Plus. They debuted in 2014 under NH Media and Nega Network's joint venture Global H. Their name is taken from the French term meaning "The Party".
History
2014: Debut with Petit Macaron
In August 2014, NH Media and Nega Network announced the upcoming debut girl group Laboum, who had been training for four years. The group was touted as a sister group to NH Media's U-KISS and Nega Network's Brown Eyed Girls.
Laboum released their debut single album Petit Macaron on August 28, 2014, following the release of their music video for title track "Pit-A-Pat" the day before. The song was written by Seo Ji-eum, known for hits such as f(x)'s "Electric Shock" and TaeTiSeo's "Twinkle", and composed by Jung Jae-yeob.
On October 24, Laboum announced that they would come back with Petit Macaron DATA PACK, a Petit Macaron re-release with extra digital contents, and a reworking of the track "What About You?". On October 31, the group held a comeback performance on Music Bank and released the song's music video, which featured a clockwork doll theme. Petit Macaron DATA PACK was released on November 3.
2015: Sugar Sugar and Aalow Aalow
In late February 2015, ZN was cast to star opposite U-KISS' Kevin in the two "Milky Love" episodes of the omnibus web drama About Love. Both episodes were released on March 2 on Naver TV Cast.
On March 16, Laboum announced they would come back with a more mature yet refreshing concept in "Sugar Sugar", which would feature a slumber party theme. Their second single album "Sugar Sugar" was released on August 14. Yujeong was a guest on a May episode of the popular radio program Kiss the Radio, hosted by Super Junior.
In June, Solbin was cast in the variety series Her Secret Weapon. The show focused on lesser-known girl group members and ranked them based on their performance in certain tasks that highlight the qualities female idols need to generate loyal fans. Out of ten contestants, Solbin tied with Berry Good's Taeha for sixth place.
On November 26, 2015, Laboum uploaded a music video teaser for the comeback single "Aalow Aalow" to the group's official YouTube channel. The video was released on December 1 and featured an elegant, yet funky retro style. On December 4, Laboum held a comeback stage for "Aalow Aalow" on Music Bank. The single album was officially released on December 6.
2016–2017: Fresh Adventure, Love Sign, Miss This Kiss and Yulhee's departure
On February 15, 2016, Laboum launched a campaign to fund their upcoming music video on the crowdfunding platform Makestar. Among other rewards, the group offered an "Honorary Producer" title in the music video credits to those who donated over a certain amount. The campaign reached its goal of $8,261 in just four hours.
The makestar campaign ultimately raised $27,832 – 336.9% of its original goal. Laboum released the music video for "Journey to Atlantis" and its accompanying f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Age%20Management%20Services | Computer Age Management Services Limited (CAMS) is a mutual fund transfer agency serving Indian asset management companies. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Chennai. It became publicly listed in October 2020, subsequent to an initial public offering (IPO) through an offer by its existing shareholders.
History
CAMS was founded in early 1988 by V Shankar working in software development and computer education.
During Y2K, CAMS pivoted to domestic financial services.
The Indian financial services industry experienced a renaissance in the period 1997/8-2006/7, with changes in regulation, products, and supporting infrastructure. Financial businesses started taking advantage of technology and networking, and CAMS entered what became platform-based services. In 2000 HDFC Group invested in CAMS. In early 2014 India's Stock Exchange (NSE), took a position in the company.
CAMS started off with of 20 staff and started to process transfer agency operations during the late eighties. CAMS handled IPOs including IPCA Laboratories, Wockhardt Ltd, NCD issues of RPPL, RPEL, and Crossland Research Labs Ltd. CAMS processed the first-ever allotment of Ford Escorts, launched in 1996 by Ford India Pvt Ltd.
With the advent of closed-end Mutual Funds, CAMS was involved in the processing of the Indian Bank Mutual Fund and later started to handle the operations of Alliance Capital Mutual Fund. This was CAMS' first open-end mutual fund. CAMS handled the oldest Indian Mutual Funds, such as JM Mutual Fund, ITC Threadneedle, Zurich India Mutual Fund, Sun & FC Mutual Fund, Dundee Mutual Fund, and Taurus Mutual Fund.
Edge360
Edge360 is a distributor portal maintained by CAMS that enables financial and non-financial transactions for Independent Financial Advisors, their employees, and Registered Investment Advisors. Most financial transactions can be completed using the portal. Some non-financial transactions are supported, such as changing contact details of the investor, changing of bank mandate, and registration. Distributors can also download statements, and a variety of WBR reports to run their daily business. The portal allows mutual fund distributors to run campaigns and initiate KYC for their investors digitally.
Operations
As of June 2020, CAMS employed 6000+ people and offered varied services to the Mutual Funds, Insurance, and Banking industries through its network of 270+ locations across India.
CSCs normally provide services to mutual funds, insurers, private equity, KRA, and NPS processes. Customers can enquire about their investments, obtain statements, seek portfolio valuations, buy, sell, and switch mutual fund units, notify changes in their account details, and register and submit KRA applications.
Subsidiaries
CAMS Repository Services Ltd (CAMSRep) – is licensed by IRDA to provide insurance repository services.
CAMS Financial Information Services Pvt Ltd (CAMSfinserv). CAMSfinserv conducts account aggregation services in I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishikesh%20railway%20station | Rishikesh railway station, station code RKSH, is a railway terminal station serving the city of Rishikesh in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It lies on Northern railway network zone of Indian Railways. It is no longer the only station in Rishikesh, as another one has been built to increase capacity, known as Yog Nagari Rishikesh railway station, located 2 km to the west of Rishikesh station.
Location
The railway station is located in Rishikesh in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, India.
Reduced Level
The RL of the station is 372 m above mean sea level in Mumbai.
Signage
The station signage is predominantly in English, Hindi and Sanskrit.
Source station
The station acts as source station for Hemkunt Express which runs from Rishikesh to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra at 05:20 PM (IST) with train number 14609 and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra to Rishikesh at 04:30 PM (IST) with train number 14610.
Apart from that several short and long-distance train originate from here.
See also
Rishikesh–Karnaprayag Railway
Haridwar railway station
References
Railway stations in India opened in 2020
Railway stations in Dehradun district
Moradabad railway division
Transport in Rishikesh
Year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 2005 is the 11th year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2005 Fighting Network Rings held 6 events beginning with, Rings: Bushido Ireland.
Events list
Rings: Bushido Ireland
Rings: Bushido Ireland was an event held on March 12, 2005 in Ireland.
Results
Rings Holland: Armed and Dangerous
Rings Holland: Armed and Dangerous was an event held on April 3, 2005 at the Vechtsebanen Sport Hall in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings Holland: Fighting Nordin Memorial Fight Gala
Rings Holland: Fighting Nordin Memorial Fight Gala was an event held on May 21, 2005 at the Sports Hall in Purmerend, Netherlands.
Results
Rings Russia: CIS vs. The World
Rings Russia: CIS vs. The World was an event held on August 20, 2005 at the Rings Sports Centrum in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.
Results
Rings Ireland: Reborn
Rings Ireland: Reborn was an event held on October 15, 2005 in Ireland.
Results
Rings Holland: Men of Honor
Rings Holland: Men of Honor was an event held on December 11, 2005 in Utrecht, Holland.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
2005 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20on%20the%20Online%20International%20News%20Network | The attack on the Online International News Network was an attack on the office of the news agency, located in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, on August 28, 2014, that resulted in the killing of journalists Irshad Mastoi and Ghulam Rasool, as well as accountant Mohammed Younus.
Attack
On August 28 two gunmen broke into Mastoi's office, located on the second story of the Kabirwala Building, on Jinnah Road in downtown Quetta. Senior journalist Mastio and two others were gunned down by a 9 mm. The other victims were trainee reporter Ghulam Rasool, also known as Abdul Rasul, and accountant Mohammed Younus. Mastio was the first killed, and it was later reported that he had been receiving threats. Only Rasul, a student at the University of Balochistan in Quetta, made it to the hospital, where he died from his wounds.
Arrest
Arrests were made a full year after the murder. The two arrested men were brought to a press conference presented by Sarfaraz Bugti, who is the provincial home minister in Balochistan. Bugti announced their affiliation with the Balochistan Liberation Army, who are secessionists, played a tape of their confession, and also accused the suspects of killing Habib Jalib Baloch, leader of the Balochistan National Party, in 2010. In all the suspects were accused by Bugti of killing 27 people. The suspects were identified by Bugti as Shafqat Ali Rohdini, also known as Naveed, from Khuzdar and Mohammad Ibrahieem, a.k.a. Shah Jee, from Quetta.
Shafqat Ali Rohdini, confessed that he was working for Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) since 2000. He claimed that he was ordered to kill Irshad Mastoi by Aslam Baloch alias Achu. Aslam Baloch was one of the leader of BLA.
Irshad Mastoi
Personal background
Irshad Mastoi, also known as Arshad Mustoi was originally from the city of Jacobabad. He was a father to three children that were all under the age of four at the time of his death. He was 34 at the time he was murdered and is buried in the cemetery known as Numaish Ground in Jacobabad.
Career
Mastoi was the bureau chief at Online International News Network and news assignment editor at ARY News.
Mastoi's career had been rocky for a while. In December 2009 while covering the signing ceremony of the 7th NFC award in Gwadar he got shocked by a wire to close to his hotel window. His hand hit it while trying to discard a cigarette and resulted in his right hand having to be amputated. After months of depression he overcame odds and started typing with his left hand. He had hopes of getting aid from an international or national organization to get a bionic arm but had no such luck.
Mastio held the position of general secretary of Balochistan Union of Journalists.
Reactions
After the death of Irshad Mastio, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists asked that all its members to protest in an attempt to condemn his killing.
Mastio was one of the fourteen journalist honored by the Newseum on June 9, 2015. The chief executive officer of the New |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix%3A%20The%20Mansions%20of%20the%20Gods | Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (), also titled Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods, is a 2014 French 3D computer-animated adventure family comedy film directed by Louis Clichy with a story written and co-directed by Alexandre Astier. It is based on the Asterix comic book The Mansions of the Gods, which was the seventeenth book in the comic book series Asterix by Goscinny and Uderzo. The film features the voices of Roger Carel, , , , and Florence Foresti. The film was Carel's last film before his retirement and later death. It was the first Asterix film animated in 3D.
The film was theatrically released on 26 November 2014 by SND Films in France across 696 movie theatres. It received generally favourable reviews and has grossed over $51 million on a €31 million budget. It received an IFMCA Award nomination for Best Original Score for an Animated Feature Film. Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods was released on DVD, VOD and Blu-ray on 9 June 2015, by M6 Vidéo.
Plot
Frustrated with the ongoing rebellion of the Gauls, Julius Caesar devises a new scheme to conquer them: the construction of a city of luxury apartments dubbed “The Mansions Of The Gods” in the forest near the Gauls' village as a means to absorb them into Roman civilization.
During a boar hunt, Asterix and Obelix discover the Mansions’ construction site. Project leader and architect Squaronthehypotenus and the Roman legion commanded by Centurion Somniferus order slaves to deforest the surrounding area. Asterix and Obelix attempt to counteract the Romans’ efforts using magic acorns from Getafix the druid, which instantly sprout into full trees upon planting.
Upon hearing the frustrated Squaronthehypotunus threatening to work the slaves to death, Asterix and Obelix invade the Roman camp to free the slaves and provide them with the Gauls' magic potion as a means to escape. This backfires however when the slaves instead use it to rapidly advance construction, as well as barter for the same pay as the legionaries, along with their freedom and apartments for each of them upon completion. The legionaries also go on strike for similar reasons upon hearing about it.
The Gauls prepare to attack and demolish the Mansions, but discover it to already be populated by Roman civilians. Realizing that they cannot harm the civilians, they return to the village to plan how to make them leave. Meanwhile, Anonymus, Dulcia and Mischiefus, a family from Rome, are denied their apartments given to them in a lottery due to lacking documents. Upon encountering and befriending Obelix and Dogmatix in the forest, the Gauls reluctantly agree to temporarily accommodate the Roman family.
Asterix, Obelix and Getafix try numerous methods to make the civilians leave, from causing heavy rain and noise pollution, to trying to create a noxious stench, only for these to backfire by the civilians embracing these as a natural part of life in Brittany. The Roman civilians also begin shopping in the village, causing an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu%20Team | The Pangu Team ( Pangu jailbreak team), is a Chinese programming team in the iOS community that developed the Pangu jailbreaking tools. These are tools that assist users in bypassing device restrictions and enabling root access to the iOS operating system. This permits the user to install applications and customizations typically unavailable through the official iOS App Store.
Etymology
In some versions of Chinese mythology, the name Pangu (or Pan Gu) is the Chinese () word for the first living being and creator of all.
Pangu jailbreak
Pangu or Pangu Jailbreak for iOS 7.1 - 7.1.x is a free iOS jailbreaking tool developed by the Pangu Team that is capable of executing jailbreaks on various iOS 7.1 devices (iPod touch, iPhone and iPad) by using various exploits. The tool was first released on 23 June 2014 UTC+08:00 to jailbreak iOS 7.1 on all iOS devices and the new fourth generation Apple TV (for tvOS 9.0 and 9.0.1). The initial release of the tool included support for iOS 7.1.2. This was because the team suspected that a firmware update was imminent, and Apple would use that release to patch the vulnerabilities used in the tool.
Controversy
Pangu uses a revoked enterprise certificate to inject the jailbreak, which is removed after the jailbreak is complete.
In the initial release (v1.0.0), 25PP, a Chinese cracked app store would be installed if the user did not uncheck the check box that was checked by default during installation. 25PP was removed from the package as of version 1.1.0.
Originally (in v1.0.0), Pangu achieved the jailbreaking using an Infoleak vulnerability taken from Stefan Esser's (AKA: i0n1c) paid security training sessions, along with other vulnerabilities that they found themselves. Although the team acknowledges Esser's help within the Pangu jailbreak tool, Esser took to Twitter to let everyone know he was "in no way okay" with Pangu using the exploit he discovered.
One of the Pangu members, Daniel_K4, later responded to the public that no one was asked to sign the NDA during the paid security training sessions, and the Infoleak bug was known to everyone that attended the security training sessions. Daniel_K4 said that they too have found a similar vulnerability in Infoleak, but it was not used since they didn't want to disclose any new vulnerabilities. The Infoleak bug was used to bypass the KASLR which will not make an untethered jailbreak alone. The team said they never thought using what they had learned from a paid class would be wrong.
Pangu offered Esser another vulnerability of their own as compensation but received no response. Thus, since version 1.1.0 of the release, Esser's Infoleak was replaced with another vulnerability found by Pangu.
Pangu 8
Pangu8 or Pangu Jailbreak for iOS 8.0 - 8.1 is a free iOS 8 jailbreak tool from the Pangu Team. It was first released on October 22, 2014 UTC+08:00. The tool is compatible with all devices capable of running iOS 8 (iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad mini 3, and i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-Growth%20Forest%20Network | The Old-Growth Forest Network is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to protect old-growth forests from logging by identifying them throughout the United States.
Purpose
The Old-Growth Forest Network's vision is a national network of forests where people are able to experience the beauty and integrity of nature. To achieve its vision, the organization strives to create a network of forests across the U.S.—with one in each county—that are not logged and are open to visitors. In the Eastern United States, more than 99 percent of old-growth forests have been cleared for agricultural or developmental purposes, or have been replaced by second-growth forests. The organization's goal is to ensure that some forests are set aside and protected, allowing them to recover their old-growth characteristics. These "future old-growth forests" will provide opportunities for future generations across the country to experience native forests in their mature diversity and complexity.
History
The Old-Growth Forest Network was founded by Joan Maloof, Salisbury University, Maryland, now Executive Director of the organization. She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development. The work of the Old-Growth Forest Network is also supported by staff and volunteers, including County Coordinators who act as liaisons to the managers of the dedicated forests in the network.
Maloof began as a scientist studying the natural workings of the planet—the systems that enable the trees and flowers and animals to subsist on their own with no help from humans. When she looked for natural places to study, she found that almost everything had been affected by humans. She also became aware that the oldest forests—some of the most natural and biologically diverse places on earth—were being logged and converted into managed forests—monoculture tree farms. Maloof was not opposed to harvesting trees for board and fiber, but as an ecologist, she knew that sacrificing biodiversity came hand in hand with not only sacrificing beauty but also toppling the network that keeps the balance of the planet.
Maloof realized that as a scientist she could do little to ensure that at least some of the forests would be left alone, but that as a writer she could share what other scientists had learned about the importance of ancient forests. She wrote Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest. The first chapter describes visiting an eastern old-growth forest, a forest that had never been logged. Her readers, few of whom had ever witnessed an old-growth forest, wanted to know how they could visit one. There were a few left, but very little information existed about how to find them. That led to a second book: Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests, reflections on one old forest in each of the twenty-six Eastern states—with directions. Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textadept | Textadept is a free software minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, it is written in C, C++ and Lua and is extensible using Lua. Textadept can use either a graphical user interface or a text-based user interface when running in a terminal window. Textadept uses the Scintilla editing component. Textadept's developer makes the curses wrapper library for Scintilla used by Textadept available separately.
Similar to Emacs, Textadept is deeply extensible; the Lua API has access to any subsystem of the program. Despite this, the developer states that one of his goals is for the C portion to not exceed 2000 lines of code and for the Lua portion to never exceed 4000 lines. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save window size or position, leaving this up to the window manager.
See also
List of text editors
Comparison of text editors
References
External links
Textadept home page
Webupd8 review
Free software directory entry
Textredux, a module providing text-based interfaces for core Textadept functionality
Textadept Language Lexers, Impression and tips on extending language support
Free text editors
Unix text editors
MacOS text editors
Windows text editors
Linux text editors
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in Lua (programming language)
Text editors
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%20of%20the%20Machines | March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World (1997, hardcover), published in paperback as March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence (2004), is a book by Kevin Warwick. It presents an overview of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), often focusing on anecdotes of Warwick's own work, and then imagines future scenarios. In particular, Warwick finds it likely that such AIs will become smart enough to replace humans, and humans may be unable to stop them.
Contents
The book has a conversational style, with little technical detail. Warwick proposes that because machines will become more intelligent than humans, machine takeover is all but inevitable. The drive to automate is fueled by economic incentives. Even if machines start out without intentions to take over, those that self-modify in a direction toward a "will to survive" are more likely to resist being turned off. Arms races will likely create ever-increasing pressure for greater autonomy by robotic warfare systems, and this pressure would be hard to curtail. Machines have a number of advantages over human minds, including the ability to expand practically without limit and to spread into space where humans can't reach. "All the signs are that we will rapidly become merely an insignificant historical dot" (p. 301).
Reception
John Durant in the New Statesman cautions against Warwick's apparent anthropomorphism: In one problematic example passage, Warwick opines that the Deep Blue computer had deliberately "let Kasparov win the overall (1996) series, having shown him in the first game who was really the better player". Durant states that "There's rather a lot of this sort of thing in March of the Machines, and it's not clear how seriously it's intended to be taken." Durant also disagreed with Warwick's thesis, stating that present-day computers "are not threats to us, but rather expressions of our power: we use the machines; they don't use us." Durant also wonders why, "If Warwick's thesis about impending world robot-domination is correct", Warwick continues to undertake cybernetic research.
Don Braben begins his review of Warwick's book by stating that "Specialists love to share dire predictions of the future, which stem from limited perspectives." Braben also states that, despite the centrality of intelligence to the thesis, Warwick fails to adequately pin down the slippery concept.
In Human Physiology, Medvedev and Aldasheva dispute Warwick's contention that machines will become superior to humans on the grounds that "machines are man-made human organs", i.e., they extend what humans do. Moreover, if machines were to rebel against humans, humans could make use of other machines to combat the rebels. If AIs were created, humans would program them to align with human goals, and while some AIs might go awry, this would not be so different from the situation of human maniacs. All told, they consider Warwick's predictions of robot rebellion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Women%20in%20Literary%20Arts | Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA) was a Canadian non-profit organization that was founded in Spring 2012 and active until early 2019. CWILA was the foremost compiler of gender-related statistics on Canadian book-review culture. Beyond simply revealing gender disparity in Canadian book-review culture, CWILA aimed to lead toward positive change from within the Canadian literary community.
CWILA's mission statement was:
to promote and foster equity and equality of representation in the Canadian literary community by tracking statistics on gender representation in reviewing... bringing relevant issues of gender, race and sexuality into our national literary conversation... and creating a network supportive of the active careers of female writers, critics and their literary communities.
Foundation
CWILA was founded by poet and UBC lecturer Gillian Jerome. Jerome explains that the idea for CWILA originated in her when she read Natalie Walschots' blog in which Walschot counted the number of reviews Michael Lista had written in National Posts poetry column in the last year, and found that out of fourteen books reviewed, only two were authored by women.
Motivated by this incident, Jerome set out to expose the disadvantages experienced by female writers, which are fostered by contemporary review culture in Canada. A month after its inception, CWILA had a membership of more than 50 volunteers who would go on to prove that there was, indeed, a significant gender bias in Canadian literary culture.
By 2012, CWILA counted 400 members from various disciplines within the literary community, and had established the position of Critic-in-Residence.
Statistics
2011
The first CWILA count was initiated in 2011, counting a total of 14 Canadian publications reviewing Canadian books. The summary concluded that 62% of the reviews were written by men and that 59% of the books were written by men. The following year, the CWILA Count raised the number of publications to be reviewed from 14 to 25.
2012
The CanLit Guides notes that the CWILA's 2012 inaugural Count revealed a significant gender disparity in books reviewed by men. Of the books reviewed by men, 70% were authored by men and only 30% were authored by women; in contrast, 57% of books reviewed by women were written by women, and 47% were written by men. While the count showed an increase in the proportion of reviews written about books authored by women, it was observed that a gender gap still existed in the Canadian literary community.
In order to enhance and advance from their previous binary data, CWILA broadened their categories to include transgender writers, genderqueer writers, and mixed-gender co-authors. CWILA also began to track the level of Canadian content being reviewed.
The 25 publications in the 2012 CWILA Count consist of 3,092 reviews, where two-thirds of the publications pertained to books by Canadian authors and two-thirds reviewed books by Canadian authors at least three-quarte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Roberts%20%28disambiguation%29 | Eric Roberts (born 1956) is an American actor
Eric Roberts may also refer to:
Eric Roberts (bishop) (1914–1997), Welsh bishop
Eric S. Roberts, computer scientist
Eric Roberts (spy) (1907–1972), British MI5 agent
Eric Roberts (politician), member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
Eric Roberts (1910–1982), British comics artist, best known for his work for The Dandy and The Beano, such as Winker Watson.
Eric Roberts, musician with Gym Class Heroes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20MBC%20Drama%20Awards | The 2007 MBC Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) network for the year of 2007. It was held on December 30, 2007 and hosted by Shin Dong-yup and Hyun Young.
Nominations and winners
(Winners denoted in bold)
References
External links
http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/event/2007mbc/
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards
December 2007 events in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Android%20apps%20by%20Google | This is a list of mobile apps developed by Google for its Android operating system. All of these apps are available for free from the Google Play Store, although some may be incompatible with certain devices (even though they may still function from an APK file) and some apps are only available on Pixel and/or Nexus devices. Some of these apps may be pre-installed on some devices, depending upon the device manufacturer and the version of Android. A few, such as Gboard, are not supported on older versions of Android.
Active
Accessibility Scanner
Action Blocks
Adaptive Connectivity Services (formerly Connectivity Health Services)
Android Accessibility Suite
Android Auto
Android Beta Feedback
Android Device Policy
Android System Intelligence
Android System WebView
Android System WebView Beta
Android System WebView Canary
Android System WebView Dev
Android TV Core Services
Android TV Home
Android TV Launcher
Android TV Remote
Android TV Remote Service
Backdrop Daydream
Blogger
Calculator
Camera Switches
Cardboard
Carrier Services
Chrome Remote Desktop
Chromecast Built-in
Clock
Cloud Console
Compose Material Catalog
Contacts
Creative Preview
Cross-Device Services
Crowdsource
Data Restore Tool
Data Transfer Tool
Device Health Services
Device Lock Controller
Device Utility
Digital Wellbeing
Dive Case Connector for Pixel
Emoji Workshop Wallpaper
eSIM Manager
Family Link Manager
Fast Pair Validator
Files by Google
Flutter Gallery
Find My Device
Gallery Go by Google Photos
Gboard
Gboard Go
GIF Keyboard by Tenor
Glass Enterprise Companion
Gmail
Gmail Go
GnssLogger App
Google
Google App for Android TV
Google Go
Google Admin (formerly Google Settings)
Google Ads
Google AIY Projects
Google Analytics
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture VR
Google Assistant
Google Assistant Go
Google Assistant – Interpreter Mode
Google Authenticator
Google Calendar
Camera from Google
Google Chat (formerly Hangouts Chat)
Google Chrome
Chrome Beta
Chrome Canary (Unstable)
Chrome Dev
Google Classroom
Google Cloud Search (formerly Google Springboard)
Google Connectivity Services
Google Docs
Google Drive
Google Earth
Google Family Link for Children and Teens
Google Family Link for Parents
Google Fi Wireless
Google Fiber
Google Fit
Google Health Studies
Google Home (formerly Chromecast and Google Cast)
Google I/O
Google Keep
Google Lens
Google Meet (formerly Hangouts Meet and Google Duo)
Google News
Google One
Google Opinion Rewards
Google Partner Setup
Google Pay
Google Photos
Google Pixel Buds
Google Pixel Watch
Google Pixel Watch Faces
Google Pixel Watch Services
Google Play Books (formerly Google eBookstore)
Google Play Console
Google Play Games
Google Play Protect Service
Google Play Services
Google Play Services for AR (formerly ARCore)
Google Santa Tracker
Google Sheets
Google Slides
Google Support Services
Google Tasks
Google Time Zone Data
Google Transla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Grieve%20%28bridge%29 | William Pearson Grieve (1929- December 20, 2017) was an American bridge player from White Plains, New York. He was educated at Boston University and NYU, and was a computer programmer for IBM.
Grieve won the Reisinger in 3 consecutive years, 1969, 1970, 1971.
Grieve was an avid tennis player.
Bridge accomplishments
Wins
North American Bridge Championships (7)
Wernher Open Pairs (1) 1958
Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1975
Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1960
Reisinger (3) 1969, 1970, 1971
Spingold (1) 1959
Runners-up
North American Bridge Championships (6)
Open Pairs (1928-1962) (1) 1959
Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1972
Reisinger (1) 1972
Spingold (3) 1960, 1966, 1969
Notes
American contract bridge players
2017 deaths
People from White Plains, New York
1929 births
Date of birth missing
Place of birth missing
Boston University alumni
New York University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESNA%20European%20Higher%20Education%20News | ESNA or ESNA European Higher Education News is an independent news agency and journalism network based in Berlin. It specialises in news and analysis in the field of European higher education and research policy. The agency’s services include multilingual press reviews and news coverage, dossiers, book reviews, policy research monitoring, debates, conferences, reports, podcast, video, and translation.
History
ESNA originates from LETSWORK Journal for Student Work, a quarterly journal that was first published in 1999 by the student labour agency TUSMA in Berlin. TUSMA provided 20,000 international students with jobs and started LETSWORK as a cross-cultural channel to advise students on immigration, labour laws and student rights in higher education.
In 2002, LETSWORK evolved into WORK|OUT European Students’ Review, published by a non-profit organisation in Berlin. This new incarnation published free and multilingual news in cooperation with students in German, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish university cities. It also organised conferences and cultural events in Italy and Germany.
In 2004 and 2005, WORK|OUT won the Italian national award for innovative content and solutions in print and multimedia, the Premio Palinsesto Italia. In 2006, WORK|OUT was recognised as one of the ten best student papers in Germany. 2006 also saw the emergence of Europe for Students (EforS), the precursor of StartupTV.
As WORK|OUT moved away from its earlier student-centred focus into the broader area of higher education policy news and analysis, the student paper was beginning to develop into a separate organisation. Finally, in 2008 the editorial core group of WORK|OUT saw the need for a new professional channel and ESNA European Higher Education News was founded.
Since 2014, ESNA has been active in the area of video journalism, working with the film company Caucaso from Bologna (The Golden Temple). This collaboration resulted, among others, in the co-production of “University-Business Forum” (Berlin, 2014), “Documenting EUROSTUDENT V” (Vienna, 2015), and “Wie breit ist die Spitze?” on the German Excellency Initiative (Berlin, 2016).
Since 2019, ESNA has started the project “United Universities of Europe” or UUU; it documents the development of European University Alliances and observers larger trends of concentration, networking and digitalisation in the higher education sector.
Working area
ESNA’s news network consists of young journalists focusing on European higher education policy news and analysis. Issues covered include: European University Alliances, international university rankings, international student recruitment, globalisation and higher education research, as well as tertiary education systems, policies and reforms, higher education funding and liberalisation. ESNA also covers EU policy and the Bologna Process, with an interest in highlighting social and financial barriers to participation, academic mobility and intercultural dialogue in hig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20Whakaruruhau%20o%20Ng%C4%81%20Reo%20Irirangi%20M%C4%81ori | Te Whakaruruhau o Ngā Reo Irirangi Māori (National Māori Radio Network) is a New Zealand radio network consisting of radio stations that serve the country's indigenous Māori population. Most stations receive contestable government funding from Te Māngai Pāho, the Māori Broadcast Funding Agency, to operate on behalf of affiliated iwi (tribes) or hapū (sub-tribes). Under their funding agreement, the stations must produce programmes in the Māori language, and must actively promote Māori culture.
Most stations combine an English-language urban contemporary playlist during "breakfast" and drive-time shows with full-service broadcasting and Māori-language programmes at other times of the day. They have their own local shows, personalities and breakfast programmes, and broadcast through both terrestrial frequencies and online streams. There are regular segments updating people about local events, and teaching people the Māori language and tikanga (customs). The stations also produce local news shows, Māori music, educational programmes, comedies and dramas.
The network oversees the sharing of news bulletins, the pooling of resources and the production of network programmes. Radio Waatea in Manukau operates the network news service and produces network programmes. Its chief executive, Willie Jackson, also serves as association chairman. Programmes are shared and simulcast on a high-speed wide area network. Almost every Māori person in New Zealand lives within the range of an iwi radio frequency, but transmission issues have been reported in remote areas.
History
Early Māori broadcasting (1928–1978)
The first Māori language to be broadcast on the radio were songs. A programme of Māori history, stories and songs were broadcast around the country on Waitangi Day 1928, and a regular programme featuring correct pronunciation of Māori began the same year. Māori broadcasters were appointed: Lou Paul of Ngāti Whātua in Auckland, Kīngi Tāhiwi of Ngāti Raukawa in Wellington, Te Ari Pītama of Ngāi Tahu in Christchurch, and broadcasting pioneer Airini Grenell of Ngāi Tahu in Dunedin. The first programme entirely in the Māori language was a news bulletin about World War II and local Māori issues, presented by Wiremu Bill Parker in 1940. Other shows followed, including Nga pao me nga pakiwaitara a te Maori: song and story of the Maori, based in Wellington, and Te reo o te Māori, broadcast from Napier.
Leo Fowler set up a Māori Programmes Section of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1964, and, alongside Bill Kerekere took a mobile broadcasting studio to important Māori events. The department produced the English language Māori affairs programme Te puna wai kōrero and helped increase airtime for Māori music and show bands, including the Patea Māori Club hit Poi E. Te Reo o Aotearoa, a Māori and Pacific unit of the NZBC's successor Radio New Zealand, was set up in 1978 to produce Māori and Pacific programmes.
Campaign for iwi stations (1978–1990)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20Trend%20Group | Motor Trend Group, LLC, formerly known as Source Interlink Media and TEN: The Enthusiast Network, is a media company that specializes in enthusiast brands, such as Motor Trend, Hot Rod, and Roadkill. Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, it is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
Media and events
The company's network of brands includes more than 60 publications, 100 websites, Motor Trend's Video on Demand channel, branded and licensed products, live events and competitions, as well as TV and radio programs. TEN's total audience is 158 million.
In 2013, the company signed a deal with the Bonnier Corporation, where they sold Dirt Rider, Motorcyclist, Sport Rider, Motorcycle Cruiser, Hot Bike, Baggers, Super Streetbike, Street Chopper, and ATV Rider, and they bought Sound + Vision and the TransWorld franchise.
In 2015, NBC Sports shuttered its action sports division, and sold the Dew Tour to TEN. On August 17 of that same year, TEN launched its subscription video on demand service Motor Trend OnDemand, which was the first SVOD service aimed at automotive enthusiasts. TEN CEO Scott Dickey described this community as "underserved and starved for premium video content" while positioning the SVOD service as "The Netflix for Gearheads."
On August 3, 2017, Discovery Communications announced it would acquire a majority stake in TEN, and contribute its automotive-oriented cable network Velocity into the company. The venture's goals is to create a larger, multi-platform presence for the company's brands, with a particular emphasis on direct-to-consumer streaming products. On April 10, 2018, it was announced that the company had been renamed Motor Trend Group effective immediately, and that Velocity would be rebranded under the Motor Trend name later in the year.
In 2017, TEN sold the AMA EnduroCross Championship to the Bonnier Motorcycle Group. TEN also sold Baseball America and Slam.
In March 2018, TEN sold Sound & Vision and Stereophile, along with related magazines and websites, to AVTech Media Ltd. In February 2019, TEN sold its adventure sports portfolio to American Media.
In December 2019, the company announced that 19 of the 22 magazines published by the company would be discontinued that month, including Automobile.
History
Source Interlink
Source Interlink was an American magazine publishing and logistics company. It owned Source Interlink Distribution and Motor Trend Group. It maintained a strong position in automotive and action sports media, publishing a variety of magazines including Motor Trend, Hot Rod, and the Transworld titles.
In September 2012, it was announced that Source Interlink Media (SIM) made a strategic investment in San Francisco technology company CoverHound to power its insurance searches.
Through its GrindMedia action sports division, SIM signed a deal with the Bonnier Corporation in May 2013, where they sold Dirt Rider, Motorcyclist, Sport Rider, Motorcycle Cruiser, Hot Bike, Baggers, Super Streetbike |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Africa%20Network%20for%20Peacebuilding | The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) is a leading Regional Peacebuilding organisation founded in 1998 in response to civil wars that plagued West Africa in the 1990s. Over the years, WANEP has succeeded in establishing strong national networks in every Member State of ECOWAS with over 550 member organisations across West Africa. WANEP places special focus on collaborative approaches to conflict prevention, and peacebuilding, working with diverse actors from civil society, governments, intergovernmental bodies, women groups and other partners in a bid to establish a platform for dialogue, experience sharing and learning, thereby complementing efforts at ensuring sustainable peace and development in West Africa and beyond.
History and founders
WANEP was founded by two distinguished Africans; Samuel Gbaydee Doe and Emmanuel Habuka Bombande. Sam Gbadyee Doe is a peacebuilding and development professional from Liberia. He began his academic career from the University of Liberia where he studied Economics with the intention of being a banker and later proceeded to the Eastern Mennonite University for his MA in conflict transformation and Bradford University in the U.K. for a PhD. It was at EMU that the dream for the establishment of WANEP began when his paths crossed with John Paul Lederach and Emmanuel Bombande.
Mr. Emmanuel Habuka Bombande is a Ghanaian National Peacebuilding Practitioner with proven expertise in conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and development. After his social science degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology-Kumasi Ghana, Mr. Bombande proceeded to the Eastern Mennonite University, USA for a master's degree in Conflict Transformation. It was there he met Sam Doe leading to the birth of WANEP.
The story of WANEP cannot be completely told without mentioning the invaluable contributions of Professor John Paul Lederach especially during the formation and nurturing stages of the institution which he described as …”Beginning of a new era of peace, healing, reconciliation and hope in West Africa.” He was instrumental to bringing together and mentoring the two co-founders of WANEP.
Based on Sam Doe's background in working with trauma during the Second Liberian Civil War, and in establishing youth dialogue organizations and Bombande’s efforts with Hizkias Assefa at the Nairobi Peace Initiative in resolving the Kokomba-Nanumba conflict in northern Ghana, WANEP focused on both lessening existing conflicts and preventing future outbreaks. By directing efforts toward grassroots efforts the organization helped local leaders and citizens resolve conflicts without outside intervention.
Leadership
Samuel Gbaydee Doe served as the executive director of WANEP from its formation in 1998 until 2004. In 2004, then director of programs, Emmanuel Bombande was appointed executive director. In 2015,Dr. Chukwuemeka Eze, formerly the Program Director
took over from Bombande as the Executive Director while Levi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%20There%27s%20a%20Hell%20Below | If There's a Hell Below is the sixth studio album by Black Milk. The album was released on October 28, 2014, by Fat Beats and Computer Ugly.
Background
The album was self-produced by the artist, and features guest appearances from Blu, Bun B, Pete Rock, Gene Obey, Ab, Mel and Random Axe members Sean Price and Guilty Simpson.
Track listing
All tracks produced by Black Milk.
Charts
References
2014 albums
Black Milk albums
Fat Beats Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Eustace | Robert Alan Eustace (born 1957) is an American computer scientist who served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and first Senior Vice President for Knowledge at Google until retiring in 2015. On October 24, 2014, he made a free-fall jump from the Stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record. The jump was from and lasted 15 minutes, an altitude record that stands .
Early years
The son of a Martin Marietta engineer, Eustace grew up in Pine Hills, Florida, then a working-class suburb of Orlando, where small ranch houses had been built for employees of the Martin Marietta Corporation. After graduating from Maynard Evans High School in 1974, he received a debate scholarship from Valencia College and attended it for a year before transferring to Florida Technological University—now known as the University of Central Florida—to major in mechanical engineering.
As a university student, Eustace worked part-time selling popcorn and ice cream in Fantasyland and working on the monorail at Walt Disney World. After taking a class on computer science, he decided to switch majors and ended up completing three academic degrees in the field, including a doctorate in 1984.
Professional career
After graduation, Eustace worked briefly for Silicon Solutions, a startup in Silicon Valley, before joining Digital, Compaq and then HP's Western Research Laboratory, where he worked 15 years on pocket computing, chip multi-processors, power and energy management, internet performance, and frequency and voltage scaling. In the mid-1990s, he worked with Amitabh Srivastava on ATOM, a binary-code instrumentation system that forms the basis for a wide variety of program analysis and computer architecture analysis tools.
These tools had a profound influence on the EV5, EV6 and EV7 chip designs.
Eustace was appointed head of the laboratory in 1999, but left it three years later to join Google, then a new startup. At Google, he worked as Senior Vice President of Engineering until he retired from that section of Google on March 27, 2015.
Eustace is currently Technical Advisor at Opener Aerospace, sometimes giving interviews about their electric VTOL aircraft, the Opener BlackFly.
In the course of his professional career, Eustace co-authored nine publications and appeared as co-inventor in ten patents.
Stratosphere jump
In 2011, Eustace decided to pursue a stratosphere jump and met with Taber MacCallum, one of the founding members of Biosphere 2, to begin preparations for the project. Over the next three years, the Paragon Space Development technical team designed and redesigned many of the components of his parachute and life-support system. The Paragon team integrated systems for the Stratospheric Explorer mission code named StratEx Space Dive.
On October 24, 2014, Eustace made a jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's 2012 world record. The launch-point for his jump was from an abandoned runway in Roswell, New Mexico, where he began his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN%20Dial-up | MSN Dial-up is an Internet service provider operated by Microsoft in the United States and formerly also in several other countries. Originally named The Microsoft Network, it debuted as a proprietary online service on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of Windows 95. In 1996 and 1997, a revised web-based version of the ISP was an early experiment at interactive multimedia content on the Internet.
Microsoft renamed the service MSN Internet Access in 1998, focusing its main 'MSN' brand on its web portal of the same name, MSN.com. Today, the company still provides dial-up Internet access under the name 'MSN Dial-up' for those who cannot access high-speed broadband. For several years, MSN was the second largest dial-up ISP in the United States behind longtime leader AOL, but very few people in the U.S. still rely on dial-up.
Along with dial-up service, MSN provides its subscribers with an @msn.com email account to use with Outlook.com and security software such as firewall and anti-virus programs. Alongside MSN Dial-up, Microsoft also offer these as a standalone subscription service for users with broadband Internet access around the world, named MSN Premium.
Early history
The Microsoft Network
The concept for MSN was created by the Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft, headed by Nathan Myhrvold. MSN was originally conceived as a subscription-based dial-up online service and proprietary content provider like America Online or CompuServe. Then officially known as 'The Microsoft Network', version 1.0 of the service launched along with Windows 95 on August 24, 1995.
The Microsoft Network was originally presented through an artificial folder-like graphical user interface integrated into the Windows Explorer file management program, with a home page named 'MSN Central'. Categories on MSN appeared like folders in the file system. The interface was designed by Clement Mok and employed high color graphics.
MSN was included with Windows 95 installations and promoted through Windows and other Microsoft software released at the time. Product support and discussion was offered through the MSN service, as well as information such as news and weather, basic email capabilities, chat rooms, and message boards similar to newsgroups. It also offered access to the Internet via Internet Explorer.
There was debate in the media as to whether MSN would be an 'Internet killer', and some companies hedged their bets for the first year, creating content both on MSN and the World Wide Web. However, MSN launched too late to be a real threat to the web. Following Bill Gates' internal 'Internet Tidal Wave memo', which refocused Microsoft to be Internet-centric, MSN began to move its content to the web and promote itself more actively as an Internet service provider.
Following the release of MSN 2.0 in 1996, Microsoft renamed its original proprietary online service 'MSN Classic'. Microsoft eventually shut down any remaining access to the MSN Classic service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2031 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques is a subcommittee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, and was established in 1996. SC 31 develops and facilitates international standards, technical reports, and technical specifications in the field of automatic identification and data capture techniques. The first Plenary established three working groups (WGs): Data Carriers, Data Content, and Conformance. Subsequent Plenaries established other working groups: RFID, RTLS, Mobile Item Identification and Management, Security and File Management, and Applications.
As of 2017, SC 31 has the following working groups:
· WG 1: Data carrier
· WG 2: Data and Structure
· WG 4: Radio communications
· WG 8: Application of AIDC standards
The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) located in the United States
Scope
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 is “Standardization of data formats, data syntax, data structures, data encoding, and technologies for the process of automatic identification and data capture and of associated devices utilized in inter-industry applications and international business interchanges and for mobile applications.”
Structure
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 is made up of, and four active working groups (WGs), each of which carries out specific tasks in standards development within the field of automatic identification and data capture techniques. Working groups can be disbanded if the group’s working area is no longer applicable to standardization needs, or established if new working areas arise. The focus of each working group is described in the group’s terms of reference. Active working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 are:
Collaborations
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 works in close collaboration with a number of other organizations or subcommittees, both internal and external to ISO or IEC, in order to avoid conflicting or duplicative work. Organizations internal to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 include:
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6, Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17, Cards and personal identification
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17/WG 8, Integrated circuit cards without contacts
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, IT security techniques
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41, Inter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Sports%20Network | The Ohio State Sports Network from Learfield is an American radio network consisting of 62 radio stations which carry coverage of Ohio State Buckeyes football and men's basketball. Co-owned WBNS () and WBNS-FM (), both licensed to Columbus, Ohio, serve as the network's 2 flagship stations. The network also includes 60 affiliates in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia: 33 AM stations, 22 of which extend their signals with low-power FM translators; 26 full-power FM stations; and one HD Radio digital subchannel which supplements its signal with a low-power FM translator. Paul Keels has served as play-by-play announcer for both football and men's basketball since 1998; former Ohio State offensive guard Jim Lachey currently serves as color analyst for football; and former Ohio State point guard Ron Stokes currently serves as color analyst for men's basketball.
History
In 2009, Ohio State announced it had sold its athletic program's media rights to IMG College and RadiOhio, Inc. (member of the Dispatch Broadcasting Group and then-owner of longtime network flagships WBNS and WBNS-FM); the "lucrative multiyear deal" was reportedly worth $110 million, and scheduled to last through 2019. At the time of the announcement, athletic director Gene Smith said Ohio State athletics would be in a better position to confront the then-ongoing economic downturn, referencing an unexpected $1.2 million deficit.
On December 31, 2018, Learfield Communications, Inc., and IMG College merged and formed a new company, Learfield IMG College.
Programming
Besides gameday coverage, network programming includes:
Buckeye Roundtable, a two-hour weekly discussion on Buckeyes football, airs Monday evenings.
The Ryan Day Call-In Show, a weekly season-long update with the football head coach, airs Thursdays at 12pm noon.
Station list
Asterisk (*) indicates HD Radio broadcast.
Blue background indicates low-power FM translator.
Network map(s)
References
External links
IMGCollege.com: Ohio State University
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
Ohio State Buckeyes football
Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
Sports radio networks in the United States
2009 establishments in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgam%20railway%20station | Budgam Railway Station (also spelled Badgam) is a station on Northern Railway Network of Indian Railways. This station is the headquarter of Jammu–Baramulla line network. It is located in Ompora, a town in Budgam district nearly from main town Budgam.
Location
The station is situated in Ompora town of Budgam district, Jammu and Kashmir just 9 km from Lal Chowk, the city centre and 2.5 km from district headquarters.
History
The station was built as part of the Jammu–Baramulla line mega project, intending to link the Kashmir Valley with and the rest of the Indian rail network.
Design
The station features Kashmiri wood architecture, with an intended ambiance of a royal court which is designed to complement the local surroundings to the station. Station signage is predominantly in Urdu, English and Hindi.
Reduced level
The elevation of the station is 1588 m above mean sea level.
See also
Mazhom railway station
Srinagar railway station
Baramulla railway station
References
Railway stations in India opened in 2008
Railway stations in Budgam district
Firozpur railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIC%20Caras | SIC Caras is a Portuguese digital cable and satellite television channel owned by SIC. It features talk-shows, biographies and documentaries programming related to celebrities and royalty, reflecting Caras magazine content. Passadeira Vermelha (Red Carpet), is the primetime and flagship show, a SIC Caras original, while almost half of programming is imported, ranging from celebrity-related documentaries to U.S. talk shows (Martha Stewart, Miss pageants, Victoria's Secret). In Portugal, initially the channel had an exclusivity contract with NOS.
In June 2014, it started broadcasting to ZAP in Angola and Mozambique.
References
Television stations in Portugal
Television channels and stations established in 2013
2013 establishments in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everwood%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Everwood, an American drama television series, began airing on September 16, 2002, on The WB television network. The season concluded on May 16, 2003, after 23 episodes.
The season was released on DVD as a six-disc boxed set under the title of Everwood: The Complete First Season on May 4, 2004 by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Plot
The season begins with the arrival of Dr. Andy Brown, a widower who leaves his successful job as a top Manhattan neurosurgeon to live in a small Colorado town, bringing his 9-year-old daughter Delia and 15-year-old son Ephram with him. He chooses the town of Everwood because his late wife had told him of her emotional attachment to the town. Many of the story lines revolve around settling into a new town, dealing with the death of the mother and wife of the family, and the growing relationship between Andy and his son, who did not interact much in New York, due to the demands of Andy's job. Andy at first finds some conflict with Dr. Harold Abbott, with whom his professional opinions differ. However, Harold's cranky demeanor and Andy's passive, cheerful attitude prove to mesh well, and the two begin a friendly rivalry. Ephram continually struggles with his emerging adolescence, his studies as a classical pianist, and his crush on Amy, Harold's daughter.
The first season revolves around the main storyline involving Colin Hart, Amy's boyfriend and older brother Bright's best friend. Amy sees the arrival of Andy as an opportunity: Colin has been in a coma since July 4 of the previous summer, after Bright and he were in a car accident. Amy befriends Ephram in an effort to convince Andy to revive his neurosurgeon skills to save Colin. Andy reluctantly agrees. Amy is elated, but Bright is sullen and distant about the situation. Later, he tearfully confesses to his father that—contrary to what he had claimed all summer—he does in fact remember the accident: He was the one driving Colin's father's truck and the two boys were drunk at the time. However, his anguish is relieved when Andy is successful, and soon Colin is awake.
In the meantime, Ephram's maternal grandparents come to visit their new home in the fall and Ephram decides he wants to move back to New York City to live with them. Ephram's grandfather—also a surgeon—berates Andy into letting Ephram go. Delia and her grandmother befriend Edna Harper, a semi-retired army nurse and Harold's estranged mother. They decide to throw her a surprise birthday party at the Browns' home. During the party, in front of all the guests, Ephram and Andy have a loud fight about his moving to New York City. The two stalk to different parts of the house with no decision resolved. Andy and his father-in-law also begin to fight about the situation but are interrupted because Bright has collapsed. He needs his appendix removed, but the snow has prevented travel to the nearest hospital, so they do emergency surgery on him in Andy's office. Andy sees how concerned and l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Globo%20Portugal | Globo Now is a subsidiary of Globo, a Brazilian television network. It produces and distributes programming from Brazil in Portugal and Europe.
In Portugal, it distributes three channels, two of which are premium channels. Since 1998 and prior to this establishment, Globo aired GNT Portugal and Canal Brasil in Portugal, which are currently unavailable. Despite GNT was one of the most watched channels in Portugal, it stopped being aired in Portugal in 2006 when the contract expired and Brazilian rival network Rede Record moved in. It soon returned to Portugal, with a premium channel branded as TV Globo Portugal in 2007, currently renamed Globo Premium. In October 17, 2011, the Rede Globo subsidiary was inaugurated in Lisbon.
Channels
Globo (general entertainment, HD version available)
PFC (Brazilian football channel, premium channel across platforms)
Globo Europa
Globo Africa (currently exclusive to ZAP in Angola and Mozambique, HD version available)
Globo ON (old content, exclusive to ZAP in Angola and Mozambique)
References
Grupo Globo subsidiaries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globo%20%28Portuguese%20TV%20channel%29 | Globo is a Portuguese pay television channel owned by TV Globo, a Brazilian television network. Its programming is taken from TV Globo or GloboNews, along with Brazilian cinema. its flagship programming are Globo's Brazilian telenovelas. It also broadcasts talk shows, television series and sitcoms, such as Mais Você and Zorra Total. Despite being available only as an exclusive to NOS platform, it is one of the most watched television channels in Portugal. In 2016, it became available to subscribers of the FTTH service of Vodafone Portugal. Similarly to what happens in Brazil, Globo's main competitor is RecordTV's Europe unit.
References
Television stations in Portugal
Television channels and stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Portugal
TV Globo
Grupo Globo subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Are%20You%20the%20One%3F%20episodes | Are You the One? is an American reality television series featuring a group of men and women are secretly paired into couples via a matchmaking algorithm. While living together, the contestants try to identify all of these "perfect matches." If they succeed, the entire group shares a prize of up to $1 million.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2015)
Season 4 (2016)
Season 5 (2017)
Season 6 (2017)
Season 7 (2018)
Season 8 (2019)
Season 9 (2023)
Are You the One? Second Chances
Specials
References
Are You the One
Episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Record%20Europa%20%28subsidiary%29 | Record TV Europa is a subsidiary of the Rede Record, a Brazilian television network. It produces and distributes Record TV programming from Brazil in Portugal and Europe.
In Portugal, it distributes three channels. Along with CMTV, Record TV also showed interest in distributing a free-to-air channel in the Portuguese Digital Terrestrial Television platform.
Channels
Record TV Europa general entertainment and news
Record HD HD simulcast of Record Europa
Record TV News mostly a simulcast of Record News in Brazil
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon%20Film%20Festival | Afternoon Film Festival was a series of British theatrical feature-films aired by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network from January 1956 through the summer of 1957 each weekday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm (EST). This anthology was the first (and probably the only) instance of a major over-the-air (non-cable) American television network broadcasting a package of theatrical movies as part of its Monday-through-Friday daytime television programming. Consisting mostly of films from the 1940s and early 1950s, Afternoon Film Festival was actually an offshoot from ABC's prime-time movie series Famous Film Festival, which began in the fall of 1955 on Sunday evenings and featured a package of 35 British titles leased from J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors in England at a cost of $45,700 each.
ABC signed Allyn Edwards—and later, the veteran actor Donald Woods—to host each Afternoon feature, and on Monday, January 16, 1956, the anthology premiered with Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938). The next afternoon, the internationally successful war drama The Cruel Sea (1953) was telecast. The Lady Vanishes had originally premiered in 1944 on WNBT in New York, but for almost all the rest this would be the first time these films were ever aired on American television.
Troubling aspects
Unfortunately, the series suffered from several handicaps that were never overcome. One of ABC's competitors, for example, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), was featuring its Matinee Theater in the same daily time slot as Festival. This was a timely and interesting series of live one-hour television dramas, often highlighting controversial domestic themes, geared to divert housewives from their daily chores. Matinee Theater had one other advantage—NBC was broadcasting it in color (a relative novelty at the time), whereas ABC's series of old films were all aired in black-and-white, including those that had originally been shot and exhibited theatrically in color. (In fact, NBC's 1956 presentation of Olivier's Richard III notwithstanding, color films were not broadcast in color on network TV until the 1961-62 season.)
However, a second disadvantage centered on the Afternoon Film Festival's increased reliance on the limited number of films from the Rank package. This inevitably led to the re-running of films that had debuted just a week or so earlier. Thus, the aforementioned The Cruel Sea, which first ran on January 17, 1956, was broadcast again ten days later. Additionally, the films A Run for Your Money (1949) and Always a Bride (1953), which debuted during the first week's telecasts, were both rerun only two weeks later.
But finally, it was the quality of the product itself that appeared problematic. Although the Afternoon Film Festival did provide an outlet for such prestigious British films as The October Man (1947) and The Way Ahead (1944), a majority of the films held low-to-moderate critical and popular appeal. These lesser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RecordTV%20Europa | RecordTV Europa is a Portuguese pay television channel owned by RecordTV, a Brazilian television network. Its programming is mostly taken from the Brazilian network. It provides general entertainment, telenovelas, Brazilian reality TV shows, and news. The channel also produces a limited amount of local content. Similar to what happens in Brazil, TV Record's main competitor is Globo. Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus religious programming is transmitted at late nights.
Much like non-Brazilian stations using the RecordTV branding, the channel isn't directly owned by Grupo Record, but rather by Aion Future Holding, a figurehead company registered in Portugal set up by Edir Macedo.
History
Rede Record has been operating in Portugal since at least 2000 through Record Internacional. On October 3, 2003, a separate company for Europe was set up (Rede Record de Televisão - Europa Ltda) with Edir's Rádio e Televisão Record controlling 99.98% of the shares. By February 2004, work for the Lisbon subsidiary was already underway, with the channel being available to subscription television operators in Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The aim of the company was to amp up distribution and advertising and subscriber revenue in European markets.
On October 19, 2005, Record Europa finally announced that the Lisbon offices were to open on November 1 with the blessing of UCKG bishop Aroldo Martins, who was appointed as the international chief of operations for the network. Lisbon was selected as the site of the European headquarters because of its linguistical inheritance, but also because the UCKG already had a solid presence in the city. With the Lisbon facilities, Record was now able to produce content from six studios, two of which with hi-tech standards for the time. For the launch of the new base, the channel held a special event with Tom Cavalcante (presenter of Show do Tom) as its biggest attraction. A number of Brazilian celebrities working for the network, including actress Bianca Rinaldi (who portrayed Isaura in the network's adaptation of Isaura the Slave Girl, airing on RTP1 at the time) were present. Before moving to the new building, the channel produced at least four programs.
In February 2006, Martins finished a round of negotiations with TV Cabo, enabling the channel to be available to a wider subscriber base. Up until then, the channel was only carried on Cabovisão and the local operators (TVTel, Bragatel and Pluricanal). These tactics emulated those of its parent network in Brazil, of aiming to surpass the larger networks, especially Globo. Record's connections to the UCKG were often downplayed, claiming that, at the time, 21 hours of its schedule were secular and only the remaining three were religious. Aroldo Martins joked at the downplaying by saying that "we are about as religious as TVI". A second European production facility opened in London in February 2006. The four-floor facility consisted of two studios, an editing room and a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin%20%26%20Co | Chaplin and Co. is a computer-animated comedy television series that originally aired in France on France 3. The series is produced by DQ Entertainment. It depicts Charlie Chaplin's iconic character The Tramp, with his friends as the Kid. Unlike him, this is his first CGI-animated series. 104 episodes were produced.
Premise
Set in the 21st century, Charlie Chaplin is a shy, awkward and touching man dressed all in black, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, who is never separated from his cane.
Broadcast
The series premiered in France on 31 December 2011 on France 3 followed by Boomerang and La Trois. In India, the series was dubbed in Hindi and premiered on Pogo on 7 July 2012. It was aired again on Discovery Kids India since October 2016.
Episode list
Episode 1: The Passenger Parcel
Episode 2: Periwinkle
Episode 3: Skate!
Episode 4: The Basket of Discord
Episode 5: The Plastic Symphony
Episode 6: Not Fast and Not Furious
Episode 7: Love Is Organic
Episode 8: Who Goes Piano, Go Lumbago!
Episode 9: The Haunted House
Episode 10: Royal Hot Dog
Episode 11: The Rebel Wardrobe
Episode 12: Chaplin 2.0
Episode 13: Love at First Sight in the Department Store
Episode 14: A Nanny in Hell!
Episode 15: Duel in the Dust
Episode 16: Plastic Trap
Episode 17: Macadam TV
Episode 18: The Shooting Range
Episode 19: The Guardian Has Dog
Episode 20: Lesson of Seduction
Episode 21: Misunderstanding
Episode 22: Love on a Platter
Episode 23: The Wandering House
Episode 24: Ring Girl!
Episode 25: Park Safari
Episode 26: Pump Up
Episode 27: Winning Service
Episode 28: Everyone is Looking for Their Mobile
Episode 29: Hands Off My Teeth!
Episode 30: Turn the Carousel!
Episode 31: Christmas Turkey
Episode 32: The Photo Booth
Episode 33: Private in Bollywood
Episode 34: Pranks and Tricks ... Me!
Episode 35: Hidden Camera
Episode 36: A Dinner and a Candle
Episode 37: The Cost of the Rabbit
Episode 38: The Battle of the Park
Episode 39: The Tow Truck
Episode 40: Double Life
Episode 41: The Intruder
Episode 42: Rabbit on the Menu
Episode 43: A Suspicious Package
Episode 44: The Caddy Race
Episode 45: The Elevator
Episode 46: A Day at the Museum
Episode 47: The Casting Call
Episode 48: A Dream Promotion
Episode 49: The Handyman
Episode 50: Duel on the Floor
Episode 51: The Museum Keeper
Episode 52: The Valet
Episode 53: The Opening
Episode 54: Laser Duel
Episode 55: Hand Games
Episode 56: Superstition
Episode 57: Love at the Beach
Episode 58: The Music Lesson
Episode 59: The Fines Chicken
Episode 60: Steering Wheel Ace
Episode 61: The Rebel Fuse
Episode 62: Code of Conduct
Episode 63: Refueling
Episode 64: Express Pressing
Episode 65: Clicks and Slaps
Episode 66: Unfair Competition
Episode 67: The Poker Ace
Episode 68: A Little Slice of Heaven
Episode 69: The Art of Seducing
Episode 70: A Baseball Game
Episode 71: The King of Cleaning
Episode 72: A Scent of the Forbidden
Episode 73: A Wire Arrest
Episod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett%20Ellin | Everett Bernard Ellin (1928–2011) was an American museum official, art dealer, engineer, lawyer, and talent agent. As the first Executive Director of the Museum Computer Network, he played a key role in museums' adoption of computer technology to catalog their holdings.
Ellin was born on October 3, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at the University of Michigan, from which he received a bachelor's degree in engineering, and at Harvard Law School, from which he received a law degree in 1952. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War, with duties that included drafting regulations regarding technological obsolescence. After leaving the Air Force, he worked for a time as a lawyer, serving as a law clerk with the California Supreme Court and as in-house counsel at Columbia Pictures. He also worked as an assistant to a William Morris Agency executive.
Urged by his then-girlfriend, painter Joan Jacobs, Ellin opened the Everett Ellin Gallery in 1957 on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. He showed work by Jacobs and other California artists. In 1958, he closed the gallery and moved to New York, where he worked for blue-chip art and antiques gallery French and Company—it had recently started a contemporary art program, which was helmed by art critic Clement Greenberg. Ellin returned to Los Angeles and reopened his gallery on Sunset Boulevard in 1960, where it remained until 1963. The gallery hosted an exhibition of work by Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely in March 1962, along with the first American Action de Tir by Saint-Phalle in an alley off the Sunset Strip.
Ellin died of pneumonia on September 16, 2011.
References
External links
Finding aid for Everett Ellin papers, 1928-2013, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Accession No. 2015.M.22. The papers document Ellin's professional life, including his work with the Everett Ellin Gallery, French & Company, and the Museum Computer Network. A small quantity of personal papers is also present.
1928 births
2011 deaths
Museum people
American art dealers
American engineers
American talent agents
Harvard Law School alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Deaths from pneumonia in the United States
20th-century American lawyers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Development%20Programme%20in%20Computer%20Aided%20Learning | The National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning (NDPCAL) was the earliest large-scale education programme in the United Kingdom to explore the use of computers for teaching and learning.
First proposed in 1969 to the Department of Education and Science by the National Council for Educational Technology. it ran from 1973 to 1977 spending £2.5M to support some 35 projects covering a range of subjects.
About half the money was spent on projects in universities and the rest on projects in schools, colleges, industrial and military training. Richard Hooper was appointed its Director and operated with a small central team and the programme was administered by the Council for Educational Technology.
Origins
During the 1960s various projects in the US and the UK using mainframe and mini-computers began to develop the field of Computer Aided Learning and there was much debate about its value and effectiveness. The National Council for Educational Technology produced advice to government in 1969 to run a national development programme to explore the value of these approaches.
The Department for Education and Science (DES) announced in 1972 the approval by then Secretary of State Margaret Thatcher of a "national development programme in computer assisted learning." Following the announcement of the programme, the post of director was advertised and Richard Hooper was selected.
Strategy
NDPCAL's strategy was to work mainly with existing projects in Computer Aided Learning but also to develop feasibility projects with those with good ideas. It required joint funding from the host establishment and stipulated effective evaluation and monitoring processes but allowed a significant degree of autonomy to the projects. The approach of the central team was active and interventionist, working alongside potential projects in their early stages to help develop their design and approach. They required four monthly accounting periods and carefully controlling expenditure.
Governance
CET was asked to provide administrative services to the new programme, and the programme's central staff were CET employees but executive control was with a committee made up of civil servants from seven government departments plus a group of co-opted advisers. This programme committee was chaired by the DES and held the final say on proposals from the programme director. It also involved itself in project evaluation, setting up sub-committees of three or so of its members to look in detail at a particular proposal or project. Although each of the thirty projects had its own steering committee national linkage was maintained through a member of the national programme committee sitting on each project steering committee.
Setting Up
From January 1973 to early summer 1973, there was a phase of exploration and consultation and from the summer of 1973 to the end of the year, there was the setting up of the programme's management structure and of the first generation of major |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLV%20%28disambiguation%29 | DLV may refer to:
555 (number), written as DLV in Roman numerals
DataLog with Disjunction, a logic programming system, referred to as DLV
Delavirdine (DLV), a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) marketed by ViiV Healthcare
DNSSEC Lookaside Validation, a DNS record type in Domain Name System Security Extensions
German Air Sports Association, Deutscher Luftsportverband or DLV, clandestine predecessor of the Luftwaffe
German Agricultural Workers' Union, Deutscher Landarbeiter-Verband or DLV, a former trade union
German Athletics Association, Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband or DLV, governing body of athletics in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20company | A technology company (or tech company) is a company that focuses primarily on the manufacturing, support, research and development of — most commonly computing, telecommunication and consumer electronics-based — technology-intensive products and services, which include businesses relating to digital electronics, software, optics, new energy and internet-related services such as cloud storage and e-commerce services.
Details
According to Fortune, , the ten largest technology companies by revenue are: Apple Inc., Samsung, Foxconn, Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, Huawei, Dell Technologies, Hitachi, IBM, and Sony. Amazon has higher revenue than Apple, but is classified by Fortune in the retail sector. The most profitable listed in 2020 are Apple Inc., Microsoft, Alphabet Inc., Intel, Meta Platforms, Samsung, and Tencent.
Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. (owner of Google), Meta Platforms (owner of Facebook), Microsoft, and Amazon.com, Inc. are often referred to as the Big Five multinational technology companies based in the United States. These five technology companies dominate major functions, e-commerce channels, and information of the entire Internet ecosystem. As of 2017, the Big Five had a combined valuation of over $3.3 trillion and make up more than 40 percent of the value of the Nasdaq-100 index.
Many large tech companies have a reputation for innovation, spending large sums of money annually on research and development. According to PwC's 2017 Global Innovation 1000 ranking, tech companies made up nine of the 20 most innovative companies in the world, with the top R&D spender (as measured by expenditure) being Amazon, followed by Alphabet Inc., and then Intel.
As a result of numerous influential tech companies and tech startups opening offices in proximity to one another, a number of technology districts have developed in various areas across the globe. These include: Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Wadi in Israel, Silicon Docks in Dublin, Silicon Hills in Austin, Tech City in London; Digital Media City in Seoul, Zhongguancun in Beijing, Cyberjaya in Malaysia and Cyberabad in Hyderabad.
See also
List of the largest technology companies
Deep tech
Dot-com company
Outline of technology
References
Types of business entity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20Social%20Chart | The Circle Social Chart (), formerly the Gaon Social Chart (), part of Circle Chart, is a weekly chart that ranks the top 50 most-popular South Korean musical artists according to data collected from the digital platforms YouTube, TikTok, Mubeat, and MyCelebs.
Launched in July 2013 by the Korea Music Content Association (KMCA), the chart originally ranked the top 100 South Korean songs according to their worldwide popularity on social networking sites. From July 15, 2013 to June 22, 2014, data was taken from YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Me2day. After Me2day closed, data was taken from YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. In July 2014, in conjunction with the launch of the Gaon Weibo Chart—a joint venture between Gaon and Sina—Facebook was replaced by Weibo. YinYueTai was added to the chart's metrics in February 2016, effective the week eight issue. Weibo was removed in July 2017 after its data partnership with Gaon ended. The final issue published of the song-oriented version of the chart was the week 27 issue, for the period dated June 30–July 6, 2019. "Boy with Luv" by BTS was the number-one song at that time. "TT" by Twice was the longest-running number-one for the chart's duration, with a collective total of 16 non-consecutive weeks.
On July 17, 2019, Gaon published notice of the Social Chart's reorganization into an artist-oriented chart on its website. The KMCA announced the changeover to the Social Chart 2.0 on the 19th. Data would now be aggregated from V Live, Mubeat, SMR, and MyCelebs going forward, with YouTube to be added later on in the year. The video platform's official inclusion in the Social chart's metrics was announced in February 2020. Data was retroactively integrated into past chart issues beginning from the first week of January. BTS was the first artist to rank at number one on the new chart. A new data partnership with TikTok was announced on May 10, 2021. The platform was integrated into the chart's metrics beginning June 1, and its inclusion was reflected in the week 23 issue released on June 10 for the period May 30–June 5, 2021. V Live was removed from the chart's metrics effective January 1, 2022—notice was posted on January 3—and this was reflected in the first issue of the year, for the week that began on December 26, 2021. Following a complete rebrand by the KMCA in July 2022, it was renamed the Circle Social Chart.
The act that spends the most weeks at number one on the chart is awarded the Social Hot Star of the Year award at the annual Gaon Chart Music Awards. BTS was the inaugural recipient, at the 2019 ceremony, and remains the artist with the most weeks at number one overall on the chart.
Number-one songs
Though this version of the Social chart became defunct by the end of June 2019, archives of all past issues were still accessible on the Gaon website via the original url. Following a complete rebrand of all Gaon charts in July 2022, which also included an update of all urls, the old song chart url is no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20Gilmartin | Lynn Gilmartin (born 3 November 1984) is an Australian actress and TV host, best known as the anchor of the World Poker Tour on Fox Sports Networks (US). In 2020, she was inducted into The Australian Poker Hall of Fame.
Personal life
Gilmartin is married to professional poker player and World Poker Tour Mexico commentator Angel Guillen.
Career
Gilmartin began following the poker circuit in 2009 as a reporter for PokerNews and PokerStars.tv, regularly presenting from the World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour, Latin American Poker Tour and Asia Pacific Poker Tour.
She first hit Australian and UK television screens in 2012 as the host of Crown's Aussie Millions Poker Championship and continued into 2013 as sideline reporter for ESPN Australia's coverage of the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific, and One HD and ESPN Australia's coverage of Crown's Aussie Millions Poker Championship.
Later in 2013, Gilmartin moved to Los Angeles to assume the role as anchor of the World Poker Tour on Fox Sports Networks, alongside commentators Mike Sexton and Vince van Patten. At the same time, Gilmartin also took the roles of anchor and producer of the World Poker Tour's high roller series, WPT Alpha8, on Fox Sports 1, alongside commentators Ali Nejad and Olivier Busquet.
Gilmartin featured on the December 2013 cover of Bluff magazine.
In February 2018, Gilmartin hosted the American Poker Awards.
In 2018, Gilmartin began her film career with the role of Gemma in the film Museo, which won a Silver Bear award for Best Screenplay at the Berlin International Film Festival. She has since appeared in Australian film productions, How Do You Know Chris?, The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, Kidnapped and This Little Love of Mine.
In January 2020, Gilmartin was inducted into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame for her contributions to broadcasting for more than a decade.
Gilmartin had a guest role as Jessica Quince on Australian soap opera Neighbours from 23 April 2020.
Filmography
Film
Television
Poker
In 2015, Gilmartin won the largest-ever European Poker Tour Women's Event in Barcelona, Spain, securing an EPT trophy and a first-place prize of €5,890. The event had a record-breaking field size of 148 entries with a prize pool of €28,712.
In July 2017 Gilmartin made her first cash at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, finishing in 49th place in Event #70: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Ladies Championship for $2,301.
In January 2020, Gilmartin was inducted into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame. Speaking at her induction ceremony at Crown Melbourne, Gilmartin said, "This is a game that makes you smarter, wiser, more present, more in tune with yourself and with others. You learn life lessons by the orbit."
Philanthropy
Gilmartin is an ambassador for WPT Foundation, hosting annual fundraising events for beneficiaries TGR Foundation, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Education Reform Now.
Gilmartin is a global ambassador for Wildlife Warriors. In an effo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheer%20Television%20Theatre | Cheer Television Theatre (also known as TV Theatre) is an American anthology series and drama that aired on the NBC Television Network from May 30, 1954, through June 27, 1954.
The series aired on Sunday nights from 7-7:30 PM.
The series aired filmed dramas, most reruns from the Chevron Theatre, from the end of the primetime run of The Paul Winchell Show to the beginning of the 1954 version of College of Musical Knowledge.The series was produced by MCA Television. It was sponsored by the Procter & Gamble Corporation.
Episodes
Pablo's Well - May 30, 1954
The Chinese Stick - June 6, 1954
Pride of the Force - June 13, 1954
Man on the Bluff - June 20, 1954
The Boss Comes to Dinner - June 27, 1954
References
1950s American anthology television series
1954 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
English-language television shows
NBC original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamia | Dreamia (registered as Dreamia - Serviços de Televisão, S.A.) is a producer of thematic channels for the Portuguese and African markets. It is a joint-venture between NOS and AMC Networks International Iberia. It produces the channels distributed by AMC Networks International Iberia.
Dreamia channels are some of the most watched channels in Portuguese cable, with Canal Hollywood regularly surpassing RTP 2's ratings.
Channels
Canal Hollywood (HD) - All markets. Movies channel, original audio, subtitles in Portuguese.
AMC (HD) - All markets. Series/movie channel, subtitles in Portuguese.
Canal Panda (HD) - All markets - children's channel, Portuguese audio.
Biggs - All markets - teen's channel, Portuguese audio.
Blast - Action film channel aimed at the African market with primetime films dubbed in Portuguese.
Panda Kids (HD) - All markets - children's channel, Portuguese audio.
References
Television in Portugal
Television in Angola
Television in Mozambique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Bath%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Blood Bath" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on December 3, 2014 on the cable network FX. It was written by Ryan Murphy and directed by Bradley Buecker. In this episode, the performers mourn the death of one of their own as Elsa (Jessica Lange) brings in a new performer.
Plot
Ma Petite's bloody dress is found in the woods, along with some bones, and the troupe assumes that she has been eaten by a wild animal. However, Ethel is suspicious of Elsa and accuses her of killing Ma Petite for stealing her spotlight. As the argument escalates, Ethel shoots Elsa in one of her legs, and Ethel is taken aback by the revelation that Elsa has fake legs.
A flashback reveals that Elsa was carried from the aftermath of the snuff movie to a doctor who crafted the legs for her and reminded Elsa that she was beautiful no matter what. While Ethel prepares to shoot Elsa in the head for lying to her and betraying her, Elsa throws a knife into Ethel's head, killing her.
With Stanley's help, Elsa stages a suicide for Ethel in which Ethel crashes her car into a tree with a chain around her neck, decapitating her. The troupe believes this story and mourn Ethel while Jimmy falls into a pit of despair and casts Maggie away. In response, he falls into the arms of a new recruit of the troupe, a morbidly obese woman with the stage name Ima Wiggles.
Sick of being treated badly, Amazon Eve, Desiree, Penny, and Legless Suzi plan revenge on Penny's father by sneaking into his house, knocking him unconscious and bringing him to Dell's caravan. After covering Penny's father in tar and feathers, they prepare to mutilate and kill him. However, Maggie hears his screams and begs them not go through with it. Penny lets her father go and warns him to never come near her again.
Meanwhile, Dora's daughter Regina pays the Mott household a visit to investigate her mother's disappearance and refuses to leave without seeing her. Gloria, already under stress by talking to a therapist about Dandy, lies to Regina. Dandy is tricked by Gloria into visiting the therapist, and becomes enraged when he realizes what is going on and that his mother thinks he should be institutionalized. Upon returning to the house, Dandy shoots Gloria in the head and bathes in her blood.
Reception
Reviews
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 85% based on 13 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "The dramatic and suspenseful elements of "Blood Bath" are finally reaching a crowning point this season, as it effectively begins interweaving its multiple storylines into one."
Ratings
2014 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Freak Show episodes
Matricide in fiction
Television episodes written by Ryan Murphy (filmmaker) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%28we%29 | if(we) is a social and mobile technology company based in San Francisco, California. and owned by The Meet Group. It was originally known as Tagged Inc. and owns and operates social networks Tagged.com and Hi5.com and animated iOS messaging app Nod.
The company operates as an incubator of new social technology and apps seeking to find the next big thing. The firm has been ranked the #3 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area for medium size companies and has 140 employees.
History
The company was created when it acquired Tinode and announced that it would begin working on additional social products besides Tagged and Hi5. It also announced that it would drop plans of pursuing an IPO and concentrate on new social opportunities. If(we) is planning to release a messaging app as its first new product. The company had $57 million in revenue in 2013 and has been profitable since 2008. In March 2017 the company was acquired by MeetMe.
Online Brands
Nod
The company released Nod in the app store in July 2015. Nod is a messaging app that features customizable avatars and emoji animations. Apple selected Nod as a best new app.
Digsby
Digsby is a real-time communications download that connects multiple Instant Messaging services such as AIM, MSN, ICQ and Facebook in one application. It was founded at The Rochester Institute of Technology and was bought in April 2011 as the first acquisition by the company. Digsby was subsequently open sourced by if(we) in 2012.
hi5
Once one of the top 3 social networks, the company acquired hi5 in December 2011 and merged it into the features on Tagged while operating it as a separate site and brand.
Sidewalk
Sidewalk is a stand-alone app for local neighborhood discovery. It is available only in San Francisco.
Swoon
Swoon is an Android dating app similar to Tinder application where people swipe through photographs and indicate their interest in meeting similar to the site Hot or Not. When two people both express mutual interest a match is made and people are invited to online chat with each other.
Tagged
Tagged is a social discovery service available on the web and mobile apps designed for meeting new people and dating. It was originally a social network but pivoted to be a site to meet new people in 2007. It also offers social games as part of its features. It became profitable in 2008 and had $43 million in revenue in 2011.
See also
List of digital distribution platforms for mobile devices
List of mobile software distribution platforms
HTML5
JQuery Mobile
Mobile application management
Mobile business intelligence
Mobile computing
Mobile Marketing
Multi-channel app development
References
External links
Companies based in San Francisco
Internet properties established in 2004
2004 establishments in California
2017 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20validation | Process validation is the analysis of data gathered throughout the design and manufacturing of a product in order to confirm that the process can reliably output products of a determined standard. Regulatory authorities like EMA and FDA have published guidelines relating to process validation. The purpose of process validation is to ensure varied inputs lead to consistent and high quality outputs. Process validation is an ongoing process that must be frequently adapted as manufacturing feedback is gathered. End-to-end validation of production processes is essential in determining product quality because quality cannot always be determined by finished-product inspection. Process validation can be broken down into 3 steps: process design (Stage 1a, Stage 1b), process qualification (Stage 2a, Stage 2b), and continued process verification (Stage 3a, Stage 3b).
Stage 1: Process Design
In this stage, data from the development phase are gathered and analyzed to define the commercial manufacturing process. By understanding the commercial process, a framework for quality specifications can be established and used as the foundation of a control strategy. Process design is the first of three stages of process validation. Data from the development phase is gathered and analyzed to understand end-to-end system processes. These data are used to establish benchmarks for quality and production control.
Design of experiment (DOE)
Design of experiments is used to discover possible relationships and sources of variation as quickly as possible. A cost-benefit analysis should be conducted to determine if such an operation is necessary.
Quality by design (QBD)
Quality by design is an approach to pharmaceutical manufacturing that stresses quality should be built into products rather than tested in products; that product quality should be considered at the earliest possible stage rather than at the end of the manufacturing process. Input variables are isolated in order to identify the root cause of potential quality issues and the manufacturing process is adapted accordingly.
Process analytical technology (PAT)
Process analytical technology is used to measure critical process parameters (CPP) and critical quality attributes (CQA). PAT facilitates measurement of quantitative production variables in real time and allows access to relevant manufacturing feedback. PAT can also be used in the design process to generate a process qualification.
Critical process parameters (CPP)
Critical process parameters are operating parameters that are considered essential to maintaining product output within specified quality target guidelines.
Critical quality attributes (CQA)
Critical quality attributes (CQA) are chemical, physical, biological, and microbiological attributes that can be defined, measured, and continually monitored to ensure final product outputs remain within acceptable quality limits. CQA are an essential aspect of a manufacturing control strategy and should be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromax%20Canvas%20A1 | The Canvas A1 is a phone co-developed by Google as its Android One initiative and Micromax that runs the Android (operating system). The initiative was started by Google to provide an affordable yet feature-rich smartphone for developing nations, India being the first. The initiative is headed by Sundar Pichai.
Specifications
Hardware
Canvas A1 is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core Mediatek MT6582 processor with 1 GB of RAM, A dual-core Mali - 400 MP2 GPU And with 4 GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 32 GB through a microSD card slot. It features a 1700 mAh Li-Po battery. The Canvas A1 has a 4.5-inch screen with 480x854 pixels resolution (218 PPI) IPS LCD display, and includes a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with [autofocus] and a 2.0 megapixel front-facing camera.
It has an LED Notification light which glows in green and red colours.
It has usual sensors like proximity sensor, Gravity sensor, Accelerometer, and Gyroscope Sensor.
This phone follows FCC SAR standard. The SAR limit recommended by the FCC is 1.6 W/kg.The highest SAR value tested for this phone model is 0.24 W/kg @ 1g (Head) W/kg @ 1 g(Head) and 0.93 W/kg @ 1g (Body) W/Kg @ 1g(Body).
In June 2015, Micromax Rolled out a refreshed version which had twice the internal storage (8GB) and Android 5.1.1 Lollipop Pre-installed.
References
Android (operating system) devices
Micromax Mobile
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor%20Ophthalmology%20Complex | Noor Ophthalmology Complex () is a hospital network in Iran. The organization was founded in 1993 by Hassan Hashemi and owns facilities in Tehran and Karaj. The network established the first ophthalmology subspecialty clinic in Iran.
List of facilities
Noor Eye Hospital
Noor Ophthalmology Research Center
Alborz Noor Eye Clinic
Motahari Eye Clinic
Noor Excimer Laser Clinic
References
External links
Hospital networks
Organizations established in 1993
Private hospitals in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howrse | Howrse is a free-to-play browser game developed by French studio Owlient and currently published by Ubisoft. It is a breeding simulation game with horses.
History
In 2005, two computer science students, Vincent Guth and Olivier Issaly, founded Owlient. Their first game, Equideow, which is the French version of Howrse, went online on the same day, as one of the first games to prominently use micro-transactions for funding. Guth and Issaly ended their studies in 2006 in order to devote time to their company.
Other versions in more languages followed, and Owlient as of 2015 had games in 24 languages. In 2008, the company partnered with Gut Aiderbichl, a German animal protection association. Players could donate in-game passes in Howrse to donate money to the association. Later that year, it was announced that over €7,500 were raised that way. In 2010, an additional €25,000 was raised and donated to Gut Aiderbichl. During Christmas 2008, the company tried to sell in-game items and cardboard collectible cards for the first time. These card were offered in three languages. Each card contained a code that unlocked in-game items.
In 2009, it was announced that the company had reached break-even. In July 2011, Ubisoft acquired Owlient.
The game was endorsed by prominent equestrians, who appeared on the start pages of different versions. In 2009, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum endorsed the international version of Howrse, while her husband Ludger Beerbaum endorsed the German version in 2008. French equestrian Nicolas Touzaint endorsed the French version Equideow. In 2014, Zara Phillips appeared in the British version of the game. She is displayed on the starting page and as a figurine that gives advice to the players. According to the news article, Zara Phillips was the first member of the Royal Family to appear in a video game.
Community
In 2010 it was announced that the game had over 12 million players - 5 million on the English and French versions, respectively, 1.6 million on the German version and nearly 2 million new players each month. According to Owlient's homepage in 2014, 55 million players played Howrse. A 2011 survey showed that males play Howrse as well, especially in countries like Brazil, Portugal and Spain, where about 50% of all players are male. In other countries, the percentage of female players reaches 90%. In 2009, a more detailed analysis about the community of the German version was published. About 7% were under 10. About 55% of all players were between 10 and 15. This section showed a peak for the 13-year-olds. About 11% of all German players were between 20 and 30 and another 7% were above 30.
In-game purchases
In the game, players can obtain so-called "passes". These can be purchased and serve as an in-game currency in order to buy in-game items. These items change the appearances of the horses, boost their skills, and alter their life cycle. Players can also use passes to buy equus, another in-game currency. Players can only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%20van%20Hillegersberg | Jos van Hillegersberg (born 1968) is a Dutch computer scientist, Professor of Business Information Systems at the University of Twente, known for his contributions in the field of Enterprise resource planning.
Biography
Van Hillegersberg received his MSc in computer science at the Leiden University in 1991. In 1997 he received his PhD at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam under Kuldeep Kumar with the thesis, entitled "Metamodelling-based integration of object-oriented systems development."
In 1990 Van Hillegersberg had started his career as research assistant at the Expert Systems Group of IBM, and in 1998 he became Component Manager at AEGON. In 2000 he returned to the academic world to become in Associate Professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2005 at the University of Twente he was appointed Professor of Business Information Systems at its School of Business, Public Administration & Technology, where he also became Head of the Department of Information Systems and Change Management. Van Hillegersberg is also working as consultant for the Wagner Group.
Selected publications
Van Everdingen, Yvonne, Jos Van Hillegersberg, and Eric Waarts. "Enterprise resource planning: ERP adoption by European midsize companies." Communications of the ACM 43.4 (2000): 27–31.
Kumar, Kuldeep, and Jos van Hillegersberg. "Enterprise resource planning: introduction." Communications of the ACM 43.4 (2000): 22–26.
Lee, O. K. D., Banerjee, P., Lim, K. H., Kumar, K., Hillegersberg, J. V., & Wei, K. K. (2006). "Aligning IT components to achieve agility in globally distributed system development." Communications of the ACM, 49(10), 48–54.
van Oosterhout, Marcel, Eric Waarts, and Jos van Hillegersberg. "Change factors requiring agility and implications for IT." European Journal of Information Systems 15.2 (2006): 132–145.
References
External links
Homepage at University of Twente
1968 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch business theorists
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Twente |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillegersberg%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Places
Hillegersberg is a neighbourhood in Northern Rotterdam
Hillegersberg-Schiebroek is a borough in northern Rotterdam.
People
Jos van Hillegersberg (born 1968), Dutch computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinder%20van%20de%20Riet | Reinder Pieter (Reind) van de Riet (22 April 1939, Groningen – 18 December 2008, Baarn) was a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus Professor Information Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for the development of COLOR-X, a linguistically-based event modeling language for object modeling.
Van de Riet received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in computer science at the University of Amsterdam in 1968 under supervision of Adriaan van Wijngaarden for the thesis, entitled "ALGOL 60 as Formula Manipulation Language." In 1970, he was appointed Professor Information Systems at the VU University Amsterdam, where he retired August 2000. Among his Ph.D. students were Peter Apers (1982), Martin L. Kersten (1985), Frank Dignum (1989), Roel Wieringa (1990) and Frances Brazier (1991).
Van de Riet was editor of Europe of Data and Knowledge Engineering journal and member of the Editorial Board of the Information Systems Journal. His research interests were in the field of "database and Knowledge bases; the use of Linguistics; Security and Privacy problems; and computational auditing." He was knighted into the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. He died in Baarn, Netherlands, 18 December 2008, shortly after a lecture trip through the United States.
Selected publications
Sicherman, George L., Wiebren De Jonge, and Reind P. Van de Riet. "Answering queries without revealing secrets." ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) 8.1 (1983): 41-59.
De Jonge, Wiebren, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and Reind P. Van De Riet. "Two access methods using compact binary trees." Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 7 (1987): 799-810.
Burg, J. F. M., and R. P. Van de Riet. "COLOR-X: Object Modeling pro ts from Linguistics." Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases: Knowledge Building & Knowledge Sharing (KB&KS'95) (1994): 204-214.
Burg, J. F. M., and Reind P. van de Riet. "COLOR-X: Linguistically-based event modeling: A general approach to dynamic modeling." Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995.
Olivier, Martin S., Reind P. van de Riet, and Ehud Gudes. "Specifying application-level security in workflow systems." Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1998. Proceedings. Ninth International Workshop on. IEEE, 1998.
References
External links
Reinder Pieter van de Riet (1939)
1939 births
2008 deaths
Dutch computer scientists
Scientists from Groningen (city)
University of Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORTC | ORTC may refer to:
Object Real-time Communications, an object-centric application programming interface for WebRTC
Ohio River Trail Council, US
Office de Radio et Télévision des Comores, in the List of radio stations in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologix | Cologix, a network neutral interconnection and data center company, runs 40+ interconnection locations across 11 North American markets. The edge markets that Cologix operates in are: Columbus, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Lakeland, Florida; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Montreal, Quebec; Silicon Valley, California; Toronto, Ontario; Northern New Jersey; and Vancouver, British Columbia. The company supports five Internet exchanges.
Network locations
United States
Columbus
Cologix acquired DataCenter.BZ in February 2014, procuring 86,000 square feet across two data center facilities at 555 Scherers Court in Columbus, Ohio. The site is located at the intersection of two trunks of nationwide fiber optic network that carries most Internet transmissions. Cologix is currently building a 160K SQF (half of that raised floor space), 18+MW data center on its existing 8 acre campus in Columbus. The new $130M+ facility will become Columbus's largest neutral data center and will be directly linked to Cologix's existing data centers, offering connectivity to 45+ network service providers, 20+ cloud service providers and the Ohio-IX Internet Exchange. The data center is built based on a concurrently maintainable design with 2N power and N+1 cooling. Further attributes include an EF-4 tornado rating, K-rated perimeter fence and 24x7 guards. The redundancy, scale, security and connectivity enables Cologix to address growing market demand ranging from individual cabinets to multi-megawatt deployments.
Dallas
Dallas is situated at the major crossroads of network connectivity in the South Central United States. Cologix operates 40,000 square feet across two data centers in the Dallas Infomart, including a meet-me-room. The Dallas INFOMART building, is the region's preeminent carrier hotel located at 1950 North Stemmons Freeway. The INFOMART has the largest number of carriers out of any single building in a 900-mile radius, with more than 8,700 strands of fiber.
Jacksonville
Cologix operates two data centers in Jacksonville, Florida, including one site, JAX 1, at 421 West Church Street (the region's carrier hotel) and a second data center, JAX 2, at 4800 Spring Park Road which provides enterprise colocation and disaster recovery. Cologix maintains a meet-me-room in the 421 West Church Street building, which is wired with submarine communications cable to connect to Central and South America. Cologix connects the NAP of the Americas in Miami to Cologix's Jacksonville data center and meet-me-room at 421 West Church Street. The 421 West Church Street site facilitates connections at the intersection of metro, long-haul and subsea fiber routes.
Lakeland
Cologix operates 100,000 square feet of data center space in Lakeland, Florida offering disaster recovery and colocation services from their data center.
Minneapolis
Cologix operates data center space and the meet-me-room at the carrier hotel at the 511 Building (Minneapolis) in downtown Minne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Dignum | Franciscus Petrus Maria (Frank) Dignum (born 1961) is a Dutch computer scientist. He is currently a Professor of Socially-Aware AI at Umeå University and an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the Utrecht University. Dignum is best known from his work on software agents, multi-agent systems and fundamental aspects of social agents.
Dignum received his PhD in 1989 from the VU University Amsterdam under supervision of Reinder van de Riet with the thesis, entitled "A Language for Modelling Knowledge Bases, Based on Linguistics, Founded in Logic."
Dignum started his academic career as assistant professor and chair of department of Computer Science at the University of Swaziland in 1990. In 1992 he moved back to Portugal and became assistant professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. Back in the Netherlands in 2000 he was appointed Associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the Utrecht University. His PhD students were Jurriaan van Diggelen (2006), and Hubertus Aldewereld (2007).
He is married to Virginia Dignum, Professor of Artificial intelligence at Umeå University.
Selected publications
Dignum, Frank. "Autonomous agents with norms." Artificial Intelligence and Law 7.1 (1999): 69-79.
Castelfranchi, C., Dignum, F., Jonker, C. M., & Treur, J. (2000). Deliberative normative agents: Principles and architecture. In Intelligent Agents VI. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (pp. 364-378). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Dignum, F., Morley, D., Sonenberg, E. A., & Cavedon, L. (2000). "Towards socially sophisticated BDI agents." In MultiAgent Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on (pp. 111-118). IEEE.
Dastani, Mehdi, Virginia Dignum, and Frank Dignum. "Role-assignment in open agent societies." Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems. ACM, 2003.
Vázquez-Salceda, Javier, Virginia Dignum, and Frank Dignum. "Organizing multiagent systems." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 11.3 (2005): 307-360.
References
External links
Frank Dignum homepage at Utrecht University
1961 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
Academic staff of Umeå University
Academic staff of the University of Eswatini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Wortmann | Johannes Casper (Hans) Wortmann (20 September 1950 – 6 July 2022) was a Dutch computer scientist and professor of Information Management at the University of Groningen, known for his contributions in the field of risk management and Industry requirements.
Wortmann received his MS in 1972 in Business Administration at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where in 1981 he also received his PhD under supervision of W.M.J. Geraerds with the thesis, entitled "Production control and information systems for component manufacturing shops."
Wortmann had started his academic career at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1971, where he became Assistant Professor in 1981, Associate Professor in 1986 and Professor Industrial Information Systems in 1987. In 2003 he moved to the University of Groningen, where he was appointed professor of Information Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business. From 1995 to 2000 he was member of the board of directors of Baan Corporation.
Selected publications
Browne, Jim, Peter Sackett, and Hans Wortmann. "Industry requirements and associated research issues in the extended enterprise." Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Springer US, 1995. 13–28.
Euwe, Mark J., and Hans Wortmann. "Planning systems in the next century (I)." Computers in Industry 34.2 (1997): 233–237.
Wouters, Marc JF, Graham J. Sharman, and Hans C. Wortmann. "Reconstructing the sales and fulfillment cycle to create supply chain differentiation." International Journal of Logistics Management, The 10.2 (1999): 83–98.
De Bakker, Karel, Albert Boonstra, and Hans Wortmann. "Does risk management contribute to IT project success? A meta-analysis of empirical evidence." International Journal of Project Management 28.5 (2010): 493–503.
References
External links
Wortmann at University of Groningen
"Prof. dr. ir. Hans Wortmann over het implementeren, onderhouden en upgraden van ERP-systemen" at financieel-management.nl
1950 births
2022 deaths
Dutch computer scientists
Eindhoven University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
People from Emmen, Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISSCROSS/PROTON | CRISSCROSS/PROTON is a top-secret signals intelligence database system used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Its existence was revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
According to classified NSA documents published by The Intercept, CRISSCROSS was built in the early 1990s by the CIA and the DEA to store metadata about phone calls. PROTON stores unique codes used to identify individual cellphones, location data, phone call records, text messages, passport and flight records, visa application information, as well as excerpts culled from CIA intelligence reports. In 2006, according to documents published by The Intercept, the NSA estimated that there were 149 billion phone records on PROTON.
CRISSCROSS was integral to the CIA's extraordinary rendition program during the George W. Bush Administration, which involved abducting terror suspects and flying them to secret "black site" prisons where they were sometimes tortured. A document on CRISSCROSS, published by The Intercept, noted that the use of communications metadata "has been a contribution to virtually every successful rendition of suspects and often, the deciding factor."
References
National Security Agency operations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B17 | C++17 is a version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. C++17 replaced the prior version of the C++ standard, called C++14, and was later replaced by C++20.
History
Before the C++ Standards Committee fixed a 3-year release cycle, C++17's release date was uncertain. In that time period, the C++17 revision was also called C++1z, following C++0x or C++1x for C++11 and C++1y for C++14. The C++17 specification reached the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage in March 2017. This DIS was unanimously approved, with only editorial comments, and the final standard was published in December 2017. Few changes were made to the C++ Standard Template Library, although some algorithms in the <algorithm> header were given support for explicit parallelization and some syntactic enhancements were made.
New features
C++17 introduced many new features. The following lists may be incomplete.
Language
Making the text message for optional
Allow (as an alternative to ) in a template template parameter
New rules for deduction from braced-init-list
Nested namespace definitions, e.g., instead of
Allowing attributes for namespaces and enumerators
New standard attributes , and
UTF-8 () character literals (UTF-8 string literals have existed since C++11; C++17 adds the corresponding character literals for consistency, though as they are restricted to a single byte they can only store "Basic Latin" and C0 control codes, i.e. ASCII)
Hexadecimal floating-point literals
Use of as the type for a non-type template parameter
Constant evaluation for all non-type template arguments
Fold expressions, for variadic templates
A compile-time static with the form
Structured binding declarations, allowing
Initializers in and statements
copy-initialization and direct-initialization of objects of type from prvalue expressions of type (ignoring top-level cv-qualifiers) shall result in no copy or move constructors from the prvalue expression. See copy elision for more information.
Some extensions on over-aligned memory allocation
Class template argument deduction (CTAD), introducing constructor deduction guides, e.g. allowing instead of requiring explicit constructor arguments types or an additional helper template function .
Inline variables, which allows the definition of variables in header files without violating the one definition rule. The rules are effectively the same as inline functions
, allowing the availability of a header to be checked by preprocessor directives
Value of changed to
Exception specifications were made part of the function type
Lambda expressions can capture "*this" by value
Library
Most of Library Fundamentals TS I, including:
std::string_view, a read-only non-owning reference to a character sequence or string-slice
std::optional, for representing optional objects, a data type that may not always be returned by a given algorithm with support for non-return
std::any, for holding single values o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XC40 | The Cray XC40 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by Cray. It consists of Intel Haswell Xeon processors, with optional Nvidia Tesla or Intel Xeon Phi accelerators, connected together by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, stored in air-cooled or liquid-cooled cabinets. The XC series supercomputers are available with the Cray DataWarp applications I/O accelerator technology.
Deployed systems
Australia
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has a 35,712-core XC40 called "Magnus" for general science research. This supercomputer has a processing power of 1.097 petaflops.
The Bureau of Meteorology has a 51,840-core XC40 called "Australis" with 276 TB of RAM and a usable storage of 4.3 PB. The supercomputer with a peak performance of 1.6 petaflops provides the operational computing capability for weather, climate, ocean and wave numerical prediction and simulation.
Finland
National IT center for science CSC computer "Sisu" was completed as XC40 in 2014. It has 40,512 cores with overall peak performance of 1,688 TFlops.
Germany
High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) has built a 185,088-core XC40 named "Hazel Hen" with a peak performance of 7420 TFlops.
India
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) at the Indian Institute of Science has an XC40 supercomputer named SahasraT, with 1,376 compute nodes (33,024 Intel Haswell Xeon cores), together with Intel Xeon Phi and NVIDIA K40 GPU accelerators.
Pratyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF) respectively. Pratyush and Mihir are two High Performance Computing (HPC) units. They are located at two government institutes, one being 4.0 PetaFlops unit at IITM, Pune and another 2.8 PetaFlops unit at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. Both units and provides a combined output of 6.8 PetaFlops.
Japan
The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have an XC40 system named "ATERUI". This is an upgrade from a previous Cray XC30 system.
Poland
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling in Warsaw has an XC40 supercomputer named Okeanos with 1084 compute nodes (26,016 Intel Xeon cores) with 128 GB of RAM each.
Saudi Arabia
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has an XC40 named Shaheen. The processing power is 5.54 petaflops with 196,608 cores.
Sweden
Royal Institute of Technology has a 53,632-core XC40 called "Beskow".
Switzerland
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano had a system in 2013 named Piz Dora, a Cray XC40 with 1256 compute nodes. This has been combined with the old Piz Daint system into the new Cray XC50 Piz Daint.
United Kingdom
The UK Met Office has three XC40s, with a total of 460,000 cores, capable of 14 petaflops peak. It is currently the fastest machine in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattan%20railway%20station | Pattan Railway Station is the station on Northern railway network zone of Indian Railways.
Location
The station is situated in Pattan in Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir.
History
The station has been built as part of the Jammu–Baramulla line megaproject, intending to link the Kashmir Valley with Jammu Tawi and the rest of the Indian railway network.
Design
Like the other railway stations in this megaproject, this station features Kashmiri wood architecture, with an intended ambience of a royal court which is designed to complement the local surroundings to the station. Station signage is predominantly in Urdu, English and Hindi.
Reduced level
The RL of the station is 1581 m above mean sea level.
See also
Baramulla railway station
References
Railway stations in India opened in 2008
Railway stations in Baramulla district
Firozpur railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20operations%20analytics | In the fields of information technology (IT) and systems management, IT operations analytics (ITOA) is an approach or method to retrieve, analyze, and report data for IT operations. ITOA may apply big data analytics to large datasets to produce business insights. In 2014, Gartner predicted its use might increase revenue or reduce costs. By 2017, it predicted that 15% of enterprises will use IT operations analytics technologies.
Definition
IT operations analytics (ITOA) (also known as advanced operational analytics, or IT data analytics) technologies are primarily used to discover complex patterns in high volumes of often "noisy" IT system availability and performance data. Forrester Research defined IT analytics as "The use of mathematical algorithms and other innovations to extract meaningful information from the sea of raw data collected by management and monitoring technologies." Note, ITOA is different than AIOps, which focuses on applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to the applications of ITOA.
History
Operations research as a discipline emerged from the Second World War to improve military efficiency and decision-making on the battlefield. However, only with the emergence of machine learning tech in the early 2000s could an artificially intelligent operational analytics platform actually begin to engage in the high-level pattern recognition that could adequately serve business needs. A critical catalyst towards ITOA development was the rise of Google, which pioneered a predictive analytics model that represented the first attempt to read into patterns of human behavior on the Internet. IT specialists then applied predictive analytics to the IT Industry, coming forward with platforms that can sift through data to generate insights without the need for human intervention.
Due to the mainstream embrace of cloud computing and the increasing desire for businesses to adopt more big data practices, the ITOA industry has grown significantly since 2010. A 2016 ExtraHop survey of large and mid-size corporations indicates that 65 percent of the businesses surveyed will seek to integrate their data silos either this year or the next. The current goals of ITOA platforms are to improve the accuracy of their APM services, facilitate better integration with the data, and to enhance their predictive analytics capabilities.
Applications
ITOA systems tend to be used by IT operations teams, and Gartner describes seven applications of ITOA systems:
Root cause analysis: The models, structures and pattern descriptions of IT infrastructure or application stack being monitored can help users pinpoint fine-grained and previously unknown root causes of overall system behavior pathologies.
Proactive control of service performance and availability: Predicts future system states and the impact of those states on performance.
Problem assignment: Determines how problems may be resolved or, at least, direct the results of inferences to the most a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumio | Illumio is an American business data center and cloud computing security company.
History
Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and P. J. Kirner and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
The initial $8 million round of venture capital was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Steve Herrod, former CTO of VMware and managing director of General Catalyst led the company’s $34.5 million round with participation by Formation 8, Data Collective, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang. BlackRock and Accel a $100 million round with participation from a number of investors including private investors John W. Thompson, Jerry Yang and Marc Benioff as well as previous investors.
In September 2019, Illumio was ranked #25 in the Forbes Cloud 100 list.
In February 2020, Stowe Australia, Australia's oldest and largest private electrical contractor, selected Illumio to provide security for its data centers across Australia.
Technology
Illumio’s technology decouples security from the underlying network and hypervisor. This allows for a security approach that works across a variety of computing environments, including private data centers, private clouds, and public clouds.
Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) uses the context (state, relationships, etc.) of workloads (bare-metal and virtual servers, etc.) in the computing environment and keeps security policies intact.
Unlike traditional security systems such as firewalls that rely on imperative programming techniques due to static networking constructs, Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is based on declarative programming and computes security in real time.
References
External links
Official website
2013 establishments in California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20generalist%20television%20channels | This is a list of generalist television channels grouped by country and network.
Americas
Argentina
TVP
El Nueve
El Trece
Telefe
América
Net TV
Bravo TV
Brazil
Band
Globo
RecordTV
RedeTV!
SBT
CNT
TV Brasil
TV Cultura
Bolivia
ATB
Unitel
Bolivisión
Bolivia TV
Cadena A
Red UNO
PAT
RTP
Canada
English language
CBC Television
CTV
Global
Citytv
French language
Ici Radio-Canada Télé
TVA
Noovo
Colombia
RCN Televisión
Caracol Televisión
Channel 1
Señal Colombia
Chile
TVN
Mega
Chilevisión
Canal 13
TV MAS 2
TV+
La Red
Telecanal
Ecuador
Ecuador TV
Ecuavisa
Gamavisión
Oromar TV
RTS
Teleamazonas
TC Televisión
TVC
Honduras
Canal 5
Telecadena 7 y 4
Canal 8
Canal 11
Canal 12
VTV
D Televisión
TV Azteca Honduras
Mexico
Grupo Imagen: Imagen Televisión
Instituto Politécnico Nacional: Canal Once
TelevisaUnivision: Las Estrellas
TV Azteca: Azteca Uno, Azteca 7
Panama
RPC
TVN
Telemetro
Paraguay
Paraguay TV
Paravisión
SNT
Telefuturo
Trece
Unicanal
Sur
GEN
Peru
Latina TV
América TV
TV Perú
ATV
Panamericana TV
Global Television
Willax TV
Viva TV
TV Cosmos
Sol TV
Fuego TV
United States
English language
Disney: ABC
Fox Corporation: FOX
NBCUniversal: NBC
Paramount Global: CBS
Warner Bros. Discovery: TBS
PBS
Spanish language
Estrella Media: Estrella TV
NBCUniversal: Telemundo
TelevisaUnivision: Univision
TV Azteca: Azteca América
Uruguay
Canal 4
Canal 5
Canal 10
La Red
Teledoce
TV Ciudad
VTV
Venezuela
Venevisión
Televen
TVes
Ávila TV
La Tele Tuya
Vepaco TV
Oceania
Australia
ABC TV
SBS
Seven
Fox8
Nine
10
New Zealand
TVNZ 1
TVNZ 2
Three
Eden
Whakaata Māori
Sky Open
Sky 5
Europe
Albania
RTSH 1
RTSH 2
RTSH 3
Top Channel
TV Klan
Vizion Plus
Austria
ORF 1
ORF 2
Puls 4
ATV
ATV2
Belarus
Belarus 1
Capital TV
TV-3
8 Kanal
Belgium
Dutch languages
VRT 1
VTM
Play4
French languages
La Une
RTL-TVI
AB3
Bosnia & Herzegovina
BHT1
Nova BH
Prva BH
Pink BH
Hayat
Bulgaria
BNT 1
BNT 2
BTV
Nova
Croatia
HRT1
HRT2
Nova
RTL
Cyprus
RIK 1
RIK 2
Alpha Cyprus
ANT1 Cyprus
Omega Channel
Plus
Sigma
Czech Republic
ČT1
ČT2
Nova
Prima
TV Barrandov
Televize Seznam
Denmark
DR1
DR2
TV 2
TV3
Kanal 4
Kanal 5
Estonia
Eesti language
ETV
ETV2
Kanal 2
TV3
Russian language
ETV+
Kanal 7
TV3 Plus
Finland
YLE TV1
YLE TV2
MTV3
Nelonen
YLE Teema Fem (timeshared from Swedish language)
TV5
France
TF1 Group
TF1
TMC
TFX
France Télévisions
France 2
France 3
M6 Group
M6
W9
6ter
Canal+ Group
Canal+
C8
CStar
Arte
Arte
NRJ Group
NRJ 12
Chérie 25
Germany
ARD
Das Erste
BR Fernsehen
hr-fernsehen
MDR Fernsehen
NDR Fernsehen
Radio Bremen TV
RBB Fernsehen
SR Fernsehen
SWR Fernsehen
WDR Fernsehen
ZDF
ZDF
Seven.One Entertainment Group
Sat.1
Prosieben
Kabel Eins
RTL Deutschland
RTL
RTL ZWEI
VOX
Sky Deutschland
Sky One
Sky Replay
Sky Showcase
Warner Bros. Discovery
Tele 5
Greece
ERT1
ERT2
ERT3
Alpha
ANT1
Mega
Open
Skai
Star
Hungary
MTVA
Duna
TV2 Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirantis | Mirantis Inc. is a Campbell, California, based B2B open source cloud computing software and services company. Its primary container and cloud management products, part of the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform suite of products, are Mirantis Container Cloud and Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise). The company focuses on the development and support of container and cloud infrastructure management platforms based on Kubernetes and OpenStack. The company was founded in 1999 by Alex Freedland and Boris Renski. It was one of the founding members of the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September, 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. Mirantis has been an active member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since 2016.
Mirantis, OpenStack and Kubernetes
Mirantis has been a top contributor to the OpenStack project. Mirantis initially specialized in working with clients to build out open private, public, and service-provider cloud platforms based on OpenStack, using open source tools to integrate the computing, network and storage capabilities which define OpenStack infrastructure. The Wall Street Journal characterizes OpenStack as providing "a kind of dashboard to help manage large numbers of servers, storage and networking devices like they were a single resource. Mirantis sells a commercial version and helps customers develop and install the software", and offers managed services for remote operations. Later, the company transitioned to Kubernetes based container and cloud infrastructure platforms, including the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform suite of products, which includes a containerized version of OpenStack.
In two rounds of fund-raising in January and June 2013, Mirantis raised $10 million in funding from Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital, and a further $10 million from Red Hat, Ericsson and Sapphire Ventures. In October 2014, Mirantis raised $100 million in a Series B financing round led by Insight Venture Partners, and joined by existing investors Intel Capital, WestSummit Capital, Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson and Sapphire Ventures. In August 2015, Intel led an additional $100 million funding round with new investor Goldman Sachs and existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital.
OpenStack
Mirantis announced its own OpenStack distribution in October 2013, in competition with distributions from Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and others. The Mirantis OpenStack distribution works with various operating systems, including Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu Linux.
Other delivery form-factors for Mirantis OpenStack include the Mirantis NFV Reference Platform, a reference architecture for Mirantis OpenStack designed to efficiently host, orchestrate and scale virtualized network functions in ways compatible with the ETSI-NFV specification.
Mirantis Unlocked Appliances, first offered in July 2015, were turn-key, scalable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20convective%20heat%20transfer | The contemporary conjugate convective heat transfer model was developed after computers came into wide use in order to substitute the empirical relation of proportionality of heat flux to temperature difference with heat transfer coefficient which was the only tool in theoretical heat convection since the times of Newton. This model, based on a strictly mathematically stated problem, describes the heat transfer between a body and a fluid flowing over or inside it as a result of the interaction of two objects. The physical processes and solutions of the governing equations are considered separately for each object in two subdomains. Matching conditions for these solutions at the interface provide the distributions of temperature and heat flux along the body–flow interface, eliminating the need for a heat transfer coefficient. Moreover, it may be calculated using these data.
History
The problem of heat transfer in the presence of liquid flowing around the body was first formulated and solved as a coupled problem by Theodore L. Perelman in 1961, who also coined the term conjugate problem of heat transfer. Later T. L. Perelman, in collaboration with A.V. Luikov, developed this approach further. At that time, many other researchers started to solve simple problems using different approaches and joining the solutions for body and fluid on their interface. A review of early conjugate solutions may be found in the book by Dorfman.
Conjugate problem formulation
The conjugate convective heat transfer problem is governed by the set of equations consisting in conformity with physical pattern of two separate systems for body and fluid domains which incorporate the following equations:
Body domain
Unsteady or steady (Laplace or Poisson) two-or three-dimensional conduction equations or simplified one-dimensional equations for thin bodies
Fluid domain
For laminar flow: Navier–Stokes and energy equations or simplified equations: boundary layer for large and creeping flow for small Reynolds numbers, respectively.
For turbulent flow: Reynolds average Navier–Stokes and energy equations or boundary layer equations for large Reynolds numbers
Initial, boundary and conjugate conditions
Conditions specifying the spatial distributions of variables for dynamic and thermal equations at initial time
No-slip condition on the body and other usual conditions for dynamic equations
Conditions of the first or the second kind specifying temperature or heat flux distribution on the domain boundaries
Conjugate conditions on the body/fluid interface providing continuity of the thermal fields by specifying the equalities of temperatures and heat fluxes of a body and a flow at the vicinity of interface: T(+) = T(-), q(+) = q(-).
Methods of conjugation body-fluid separation solutions
Numerical methods
One simple way to realize conjugation is to apply the iterations. The idea of this approach is that each solution for the body or for the fluid produc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal%20graph | In statistics, econometrics, epidemiology, genetics and related disciplines, causal graphs (also known as path diagrams, causal Bayesian networks or DAGs) are probabilistic graphical models used to encode assumptions about the data-generating process.
Causal graphs can be used for communication and for inference. They are complementary to other forms of causal reasoning, for instance using causal equality notation. As communication devices, the graphs provide formal and transparent representation of the causal assumptions that researchers may wish to convey and defend. As inference tools, the graphs enable researchers to estimate effect sizes from non-experimental data, derive testable implications of the assumptions encoded, test for external validity, and manage missing data and selection bias.
Causal graphs were first used by the geneticist Sewall Wright under the rubric "path diagrams". They were later adopted by social scientists and, to a lesser extent, by economists. These models were initially confined to linear equations with fixed parameters. Modern developments have extended graphical models to non-parametric analysis, and thus achieved a generality and flexibility that has transformed causal analysis in computer science, epidemiology, and social science.
Construction and terminology
The causal graph can be drawn in the following way. Each variable in the model has a corresponding vertex or node and an arrow is drawn from a variable X to a variable Y whenever Y is judged to respond to changes in X when all other variables are being held constant. Variables connected to Y through direct arrows are called parents of Y, or "direct causes of Y," and are denoted by Pa(Y).
Causal models often include "error terms" or "omitted factors" which represent all unmeasured factors that influence a variable Y when Pa(Y) are held constant. In most cases, error terms are excluded from the graph. However, if the graph author suspects that the error terms of any two variables are dependent (e.g. the two variables have an unobserved or latent common cause) then a bidirected arc is drawn between them. Thus, the presence of latent variables is taken into account through the correlations they induce between the error terms, as represented by bidirected arcs.
Fundamental tools
A fundamental tool in graphical analysis is d-separation, which allows researchers to determine, by inspection, whether the causal structure implies that two sets of variables are independent given a third set. In recursive models without correlated error terms (sometimes called Markovian), these conditional independences represent all of the model's testable implications.
Example
Suppose we wish to estimate the effect of attending an elite college on future earnings. Simply regressing earnings on college rating will not give an unbiased estimate of the target effect because elite colleges are highly selective, and students attending them are likely to have qualifications for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesomeness%20%28company%29 | Awesomeness (abbreviation of AwesomenessTV) is an American-based film and television studio as well as a multi-channel based multilingual television network owned by Paramount Digital Studios, a division of Paramount Global. Established in June 2012 by Brian Robbins and Joe Davola, the network initially focused on children’s programs, teen dramas, comedies, live events, and music videos targeting adolescents and young adults.
AwesomenessTV initially operated an eponymous YouTube channel and multi-channel network. The company later expanded into talent, branded content, music, publishing, and retail. In 2013, DreamWorks Animation (DWA) acquired AwesomenessTV. In 2014, Hearst Corporation acquired a 25% minority stake. In 2016, Verizon Communications acquired another roughly-quarter stake in the company for $159 million (valuing it at $650 million), while AwesomenessTV entered into a multi-year deal to produce content for Verizon's streaming video service go90.
In 2018, following NBCUniversal's acquisition of DWA (which led to conflict due to being owned by Verizon competitor Comcast) and the shutdown of the fledgling go90, Viacom acquired AwesomenessTV for around $50 million – a fraction of its 2016 valuation. Since its purchase by Viacom, the studio has focused more on long-form television series and films for over-the-top services, and has referred to itself as targeting generation Z.
History
Beginnings
In July 2012, founders Brian Robbins and Joe Davola launched AwesomnessTV as part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative, producing various web series oriented towards a tween and teenage audience. Robbins had personally observed his two sons as examples of changing media consumption trends among the demographic, which had increasingly favored short-form internet video over television.
Robbins had been well known for his work on series such as One Tree Hill, Smallville, and several Nickelodeon series, such as the sketch comedy All That. In 2009, Robbins spearheaded the production of a film based on YouTube comedian Lucas Cruikshank's character Fred. Robbins and Cruikshank bankrolled it as an independent film for Nickelodeon—where it became the highest-rated basic-cable film of the year among youth in 2010 and spawned a larger franchise of Nickelodeon content featuring the character.
The channel had an initial slate of 15 series in development, including the talk show IMO; the stunt shows The Blow-Up Guys, teen drama The Runaways, and Awesomeness Sports (a series of videos that would feature professional athletes and showcase youth athletes). Davola compared the channel to MTV upon its launch, explaining that "it was maverick, it was brand new, it was something the young people were getting involved with."
Brett Bouttier joined as a chief operating officer in November 2012. In December 2012, AwesomenessTV launched a multi-channel network targeting similar demographics.
2013–2018: DreamWorks and Verizon
On May 1, 2013, DreamWorks Anima |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promodis | Promodis (name derived from PROcess, MOdern, DIStribution) is the first European network for distribution of agricultural machinery and spare parts. It is based in Saint-Cyr-en-Val in France.
Background
Promodis is a cooperative created by a group of FIAT dealers on 12 October 1984 and owned by almost 130 independent distributors (more than 410 points of sale of which 300 self-service store), 24 in Spain (40 points of sale), 2 in Benelux (3 points of sale), 1 in Switzerland (2 points of sale), 10 in Poland (13 points of sale) and the others in France.
In addition to their tractor products, the brand sells machinery (AVANT, MC HALE, KUHN, KRONE, MX, etc.) and spare parts and consumables in the self-service store. As in the car industry, the brand also proposes quick troubleshooting service (windows, air conditioning, sprayer control, hydraulic hose repair, etc.).
The network employs people on which mechanics. The total turnover of the company and its subsidiaries (Agriest, Centradis, Dimagro, etc.) was 332 M€ in 2013.
The group and the points of sale of its members represent an annual turnover of almost 2 billions € in 2013.
History
In 1984, several FIAT dealers decided to create a wholesale cooperative to improve their purchase prices.
In 2000, PROMODIS, via its wholesaler CENTRADIS, acquired the wholesaler and manufacturer of agricultural spare parts AGRIEST in the Haute-Saône of Eastern France.
In 2006, the network already had 115 members in France, Spain, and Luxembourg, for a total of 300 "points of sale" employing people, for "an economic weight of 915 million euros". The network was also developed in Poland in 2004.
In 2007, the network was composed of "132 members of which 107 in France, 21 in Spain and a presence in Belgium, Lithuania and Poland".
In 2009, the network had 410 points of sale in France with employees and a turnover of about 1 billion euros. The company also expanded to Spain, Poland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Lithuania.
The corporation has launched an operation in May 2012 to reorganize and modernize its points of sale in addition to the presentation of the new internet site.
References
External links
www.promodis.fr
www.agriest.com
Cooperatives in Europe
Companies established in 1984
Agriculture companies of France
Agricultural cooperatives
Companies based in Centre-Val de Loire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20films%20of%202015 | A list of French-produced films scheduled for release in 2015.
2015
Notes
External links
French films of 2015 at the Internet Movie Database
2015 in France
2015 in French television
List of 2015 box office number-one films in France
French
2015
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressRail | ExpressRail is a network of on- or near-dock rail yards supporting intermodal freight transport at the major container terminals of the Port of New York and New Jersey. The development of dockside trackage and rail yards for transloading has been overseen by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which works in partnership with other public and private stakeholders. As of 2019, four ExpressRail facilities were in operation, with a total built capacity of 1.5 million lifts.
Various switching and terminal railroads, including Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CRCX) on the Chemical Coast Secondary connect to the East Coast rail freight network carriers Norfolk Southern (NS) and CSX Transportation (CSX). Overall, the entire Express Rail system handled 433,000 containers in 2012, about 12 percent of the port’s total container volume. In the year period ending October 2014 the total amount of TEUS of Intermodal containers handled at the port included 391,596 rail lifts. Subsequent years have seen further increases in volume, rising to 646,000 lifts in 2018, and to 700,000 in 2020.
Terminals and operations
ExpressRail Elizabeth
The Elizabeth Marine Terminal (), located on Newark Bay in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has the oldest and largest ExpressRail facility, opened in 2004. Originally started by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) it is now operated and managed by subcontractor Millennium Marine Rail, a joint venture of Maher Terminals and APM Terminals, the major lessees and operators at the container terminal.
The terminal consists of 18 tracks. It originates 2-4 trains a day seven days a week:
ExpressRail Newark
Port Newark (), lies north of the Elizabeth Marine Terminal, on Newark Bay in Newark, and handles containers and roll-on/roll-off shipping of automobiles. The intermodal yard consists of two tracks for loading of containers.
It originates CSX Q163 and L163 to Syracuse-DeWitt and terminates CSX Q114 and Q162 from Syracuse-DeWitt.
In conjunction with installation of three new rail-specified, rubber-tired gantry cranes ExpressRail Newark is being expanded from two to four, doubling the rail track to 10,000 feet, and adding a new fly-over bridge. Work is expected to be completed in 2015.
In addition to containers, Port Newark is a major import/export center of automobiles using roll-on/roll-off operation between ship and rail. The adjacent Doremus Avenue Auto Terminal I & II is owned by Conrail and serves CSX and NS trains. The yard occupies 87 acres and has ten unloading tracks and ten holding tracks to serve multilevel autorack cars.
ExpressRail Staten Island
GCT New York at Howland Hook Marine Terminal () is located at the mouth of the Arthur Kill at Newark Bay on Staten Island, a borough of New York City. Its on-dock ExpressRail facility consists of seven tracks which connect to the adjacent Arlington Yard, from which trains travel over the Arthur Kill Lift Bridge to connect to the Chemical Coast line at E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Disease%20Database | In bioinformatics, a Gene Disease Database is a systematized collection of data, typically structured to model aspects of reality, in a way to comprehend the underlying mechanisms of complex diseases, by understanding multiple composite interactions between phenotype-genotype relationships and gene-disease mechanisms. Gene Disease Databases integrate human gene-disease associations from various expert curated databases and text mining derived associations including Mendelian, complex and environmental diseases.
Introduction
Experts in different areas of biology and bioinformatics have been trying to comprehend the molecular mechanisms of diseases to design preventive and therapeutic strategies for a long time. For some illnesses, it has become apparent that it is the right amount of animosity is made for not enough to obtain an index of the disease-related genes but to uncover how disruptions of molecular grids in the cell give rise to disease phenotypes. Moreover, even with the unprecedented wealth of information available, obtaining such catalogues is extremely difficult.
Genetic Broadly speaking, genetic diseases are caused by aberrations in genes or chromosomes. Many genetic diseases are developed from before birth. Genetic disorders account for a significant number of the health care problems in our society. Advances in the understanding of this diseases have increased both the life span and quality of life for many of those affected by genetic disorders. Recent developments in bioinformatics and laboratory genetics have made possible the better delineation of certain malformation and mental retardation syndromes, so that their mode of inheritance can be understood. This information enables the genetic counselor to predict the risk for occurrence of a large number of genetic disorders. Most genetic counseling is done, however, only after the birth of at least one affected individual has alerted the family to their predilection for having children with a genetic disorder. The association of a single gene to a disease is rare and a genetic disease may or may not be a transmissible disorder. Some genetic diseases are inherited from the parent's genes, but others are caused by new mutations or changes to the DNA. In other occurrences, the same disease, for instance, some forms of carcinoma or melanoma, may stem from an inbred condition in some people, from new changes in other people, and from non-genetic causes in still other individuals.
There are more than six thousand known single-gene disorders (monogenic), which occur in about 1 out of every 200 births. As their term suggests, these diseases are caused by a mutation in one gene. By contrast, polygenic disorders are caused by several genes, regularly in combination with environmental factors. Examples of genetic phenotypes include Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer, leukemia, Down syndrome, heart defects, and deafness; therefore, cataloguing to sort out all the diseases related to gene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%2C%20Tilbury%20and%20Southend%20Railway | The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR), was a British railway company, whose network connected Fenchurch Street station, in central London, with destinations in east London and Essex, including , , , Tilbury, Southend and . The company and its assets were sold to the Midland Railway in 1912. The network over which they operated is largely intact and is currently operated as part of the Essex Thameside franchise.
History
Prior to opening
In the mid 18th century south Essex was a thinly populated area and Barking, Southend and Leigh-on-sea were little more than villages.
In June 1840 the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) started operation from Blackwall to a station called Minories and after a year this was extended to Fenchurch Street which was located close to the Tower of London.
A month later in July 1840, the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) opened their new station at Spitalfields and commenced running services to Brentwood and by 1843 this line had been extended to Colchester.
The London and Blackwall Extension Railway (LBER), was opened from Stepney (now Limehouse) linking to the Eastern Counties Railway at Bow was opened in 1849. Unfortunately agreement between the L&BR and the ECR about operation of the services over the LBER could not be reached so the actual junction was not completed. An interchange station called Victoria Park and Bow was opened, but the ECR stopped few services there so most services terminated at Bromley and Bow. Services were withdrawn from Victoria Park and Bow on 6 January 1851.
Bills
The first railway proposed in 1835–6 was the Southend and Hole-Haven Railway which was opposed by another nascent railway company - the Thames Haven Dock & Railway Company. This company presented a bill in 1842 linking Stepney to Southend with a branch from South Ockenden to Tilbury which failed and their attempts to get the bills presented in the 1843 and 1844 parliamentary sessions foundered due to lack of funds. The ECR also considered presenting an act in 1844 but it was not until 1846 that four separate schemes were presented to parliament that the idea gained any real traction.
The four schemes were:
The London & South Essex Railway
The London & Southend Railway
Eastern Counties & Southend Railway
The North Gravesend railway.
The North Gravesend Railway was so named as it ran to Tilbury where a ferry would connect across the Thames to Gravesend in Kent. This line would have had a junction with another line being built to North Woolwich in London. It was notable in that it did not have any plans for Southend whilst the Eastern Counties & Southend Railway and London & South Essex Railway schemes had branches to both. The London & Southend Railway only had a Southend line proposed with a junction at Shenfield. As it was none of these passed and in 1847, the ECR presented the Eastern Counties Extension bill which had a new junction on the Eastern Counties main line at Forest Gate. The bill was suspended in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20computer%20security | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer security:
Computer security is commonly known as security applied to computing devices such as computers and smartphones, as well as computer networks such as private and public networks, including the whole Internet. The field covers all the processes and mechanisms by which digital equipment, information and services are protected from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction, and is of growing importance in line with the increasing reliance on computer systems of most societies worldwide. Computer security includes measures taken to ensure the integrity of files stored on a computer or server as well as measures taken to prevent unauthorized access to stored data, by securing the physical perimeter of the computer equipment, authentication of users or computer accounts accessing the data, and providing a secure method of data transmission.
Essence of computer security
Computer security can be described as all of the following:
a branch of security
Network security
application security
Areas of computer security
Access control – selective restriction of access to a place or other resource. The act of accessing may mean consuming, entering, or using. Permission to access a resource is called authorization.
Computer access control – includes authorization, authentication, access approval, and audit.
Authentication
Knowledge-based authentication
Integrated Windows Authentication
Password
Password length parameter
Secure Password Authentication
Secure Shell
Kerberos (protocol)
SPNEGO
NTLMSSP
AEGIS SecureConnect
TACACS
Cyber security and countermeasure
Device fingerprint
Physical security – protecting property and people from damage or harm (such as from theft, espionage, or terrorist attacks). It includes security measures designed to deny unauthorized access to facilities, (such as a computer room), equipment (such as your computer), and resources (like the data storage devices, and data, in your computer). If a computer gets stolen, then the data goes with it. In addition to theft, physical access to a computer allows for ongoing espionage, like the installment of a hardware keylogger device, and so on.
Data security – protecting data, such as a database, from destructive forces and the unwanted actions of unauthorized users.
Information privacy – relationship between collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. Privacy concerns exist wherever personally identifiable information or other sensitive information is collected and stored – in digital form or otherwise. Improper or non-existent disclosure control can be the root cause for privacy issues.
Internet privacy – involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Termination%20Device%20%28NBN%29 | A Network Termination Device (NTD) is a customer-side network interface device used by the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN). Network termination devices provide multiple bridges for customers to access the NBN. There are different types of NTDs for the various connection technologies encompassed by NBN. All connection types except FTTN use NTDs on premises. Depending on the kind of link, NTDs typically provide two telephony and four data channels. An external power source is required, and an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) can be used to maintain connection in power outages (battery backups are available for the FTTP NTD). FTTC requires power to be provided from the premises to the kerb (distribution point).
NTDs provide user–network interface (UNI) connections for connection of in-premises devices. They typically have multiple RJ45 jacks for the UNI-D (data) connection, and some models have RJ11 jacks for the UNI-V (voice) connection. All NTDs are capable of passing VoIP traffic. FTTN requires premises to have a compatible VDSL2 modem. Each UNI-D port can be activated by retail service providers for different NBN services. The NTD cannot be used as a Layer 3 router for in-premises networking.
Most devices used in NBN are produced by Alcatel-Lucent, currently a division of Nokia Corporation. In FTTC networks, the hardware from domestic manufacturers CASA Systems (formerly NetComm) and Adtran are used (noting that the device is formally called an NCD), and in HFC networks from Arris, currently a division of CommScope. FTTN networks, based on VDSL2 technology, can be accessed with any compatible modem or router that supports VDSL2. NBN itself doesn't sell any VDSL2-compatible hardware and it must be supplied by end-user of the network.
Network technologies
Gallery
References
National Broadband Network
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprout%20%28computer%29 | Sprout by HP (stylized as sprout) was a personal computer from HP Inc. announced on October 29, 2014 and released for sale on November 9, 2014. The system was conceived by Brad Short, Distinguished Technologist at HP Inc., who along with Louis Kim, Head of the Immersive Computing Group at HP Inc., co-founded and led a team within HP Inc. to develop and productize the computing concept.
Sprout Product Launch
Sprout was launched in tandem with HP's Jet Fusion 3D Printer (formerly Multi Jet Fusion, MJF), a Powder Bed Fusion 3D Printing platform. Together, the product launches unveiled a 3D strategy to enable blended reality workflows, bridging the physical-to-digital and digital-to-physical divides, simplifying creation and collaboration in productivity, education, engineering, and manufacturing.
Sprout Product Description
Novel Dual Displays
Sprout is a novel immersive computing configuration consisting of dual interactive touch screens: one a traditional LCD, the other a unique horizontally projected display called the "TouchMat", a thin flexible touch-sensitive mat just 2.5mm thin. The interactive screens are positioned in a novel orientation, one above the other, once facing forward, one facing upward, instead of side-by-side. The vertical screen serves as a traditional PC display positioned in front of the user and above the TouchMat display which serves as a unique interactive working surface on the table in front and below the primary display. The TouchMat displays digital content and serves as a 2D and 3D capture platen to place documents and 3D objects for scanning. Once scanned, the digital capture of the document or 3D object is re-projected coincident with the original document or 3D object at true scale, resulting in a hyper real effect due to the superposition of the actual physical content and its superimposed digital twin.
The Illuminator
The signature integrated column and armature called the "Sprout Illuminator" is positioned above and behind the vertical display and houses a custom DLP projector, a high resolution camera, and a real-time depth sensor all aiming down at the thin flexible working surface of the TouchMat. Sprout's unique configuration and combination of interactive displays, cameras, and sensors enables immersive interactions that blend the physical and digital domains allowing, for example, documents and objects to co-exist with digital content projected on the TouchMat. The physical content can also be instantly 2D scanned or quickly 3D scanned and re-projected on the TouchMat (effectively converted from the physical domain to the digital domain) ready for digital manipulation in an intuitive manner as if working on paper with real objects. This functionality allows for seamless digital creation and remote collaboration using physical media and digital content blended together in a WYSIWYG manner, as well as providing traditional user inputs such as a projected virtual keyboard and a virtual trackpad. For addit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Solijon | Fernando "Nanding" Solijon (c. 1966 – August 29, 2013), a Filipino radio journalist for DXLS, an affiliate of the Love Radio Network in Iligan City, Philippines. Solijon was known for being analytical of alleged corruption and wrongdoing in the Philippines. Solijon was shot multiple times as he was getting into his car after drinking with friends. Solijon died on his way to the hospital, at 48 years old.
Personal
Solijon is survived by his nineteen-year-old daughter Jed and Melly, his forty-four-year-old wife.
Career
Fernando Solijon was a radio commentator of DXLS love radio and worked there for seven years.
Death
Melly, Solijon's wife has confirmed that he has been receiving many death threats and before the May 13 national midterm and local elections the death threats had become more harsh. Mely also confirmed that the threats prompted Solijon to be very cautious, and Solijon thanked God for letting him live to see his 47th birthday on June 30. Hours after Solijon had passed away that Thursday night, she received phone calls asking if her husband was confirmed dead. Fernando Solijon was murdered by a gunman. At about 10 pm on Thursday, he left the sari-sari store and was walking across the street to his white Kio Rio car. On August 29 at 10:30 pm, Solijon was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding assailants in Purok 1 of barangay Buruun, no suspects were found. He was shot dead after having a few drinks with some friends on August 29, 2013. Solijon was rushed to the hospital but when they arrived Solijon was dead from gunshot wounds on his forehead, abdomen and shoulders. A number of shells from a .45 calibre handgun was recovered from the scene by police investigators.
Context
As this case was investigated by police to see if his death was work related, Solijon would be the 159th journalist murdered in the Philippines since the fall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
Impact
He is left being known as hard working for his commentaries, and his gunman was offended by his criticism. Although, Solijon has been receiving a ton of death threats through letters and phone. He lived to see his 47th birthday which Solijon and his wife say is a miracle. When Solijon passed, his favorite song called, All My Life by America, was played on the radio on repeat.
Reactions
Noberto "Boy" Altres, Solijon's colleague at DXLS said "Why resort to killing Nanding? If they have grievances, they can always go to court. If they think they can silence us, they are dead wrong."
Catubay told the people who gathered at the plaza said "The killing of Nanding is really chilling. It was hard at first to imagine that while we in the station commemorated yearly the Maguindanao massacre, this happens now to one of our own here."
Ver Quimco, A lawyer, an anchorman of Balaod ug Kamatuoran said "In a civilized society governed by the rule of Law, there is no space for the idea that just because a person's expression is so displeasing and so contrary to ours, he deser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Computer%20Science%20Principles | Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles (also known as APCSP) is an AP Computer Science course and examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn college credit for a college-level computing course. AP Computer Science Principles is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester course in computing. Assessment for AP Computer Science Principles is divided into two parts, both an end of course exam as well as the creation of artifacts throughout the course.
AP Computer Science Principles examines a variety of computing topics on a largely conceptual level, and teaches procedural programming. In the Create "Through-Course Assessment", students must develop a program, demonstrated in a video and a written reflection. The course may be taught in any programming language with procedures, mathematical expressions, variables, lists, conditionals, and loops. Coding portions of the AP exam are based in both text-based and block-based pseudocode, as defined by the provided reference sheet.
The AP Computer Science Principles Exam was administered for the first time on May 5, 2017.
Course
The framework focuses on computational thinking practices which are applied throughout the curriculum. The concept outline included in the curriculum is divided into seven units called "Big Ideas". Each unit contains a series of "Learning Objectives". Each "Learning Objective" is a general benchmark of student performance or understanding which has an associated "Enduring Understanding". An "Enduring Understanding" is a core comprehension which students should retain well after completing the course. Each "Learning Objective" is split into multiple "Essential Knowledge" standards, which are specific facts or content which the student must know to demonstrate mastery of the learning objective when assessed.
Through-Course Assessment
Task 1: Create – Applications from Ideas
Task Description: Students create computational artifacts through the design and development of programs.
Task Time Limit: 12 hours in Class Time
Task Response Format
Individual Program: Source Code PDF and Video
Individual Reflection: 300 words
Evaluate, Archive and Present Task
Prior to 2021, the first task was the Explore section. The explore section was removed prior to the 2021 exam. The exam prior to 2021 is described as follows:
Task 1: Explore – Implications of Computing Innovations
Task Description: In the classroom, students explore the impacts of computing on social, economic, and cultural areas of our lives
Task Time Limit: 8 hours in Class Time
Task Response Format
Written Response: Innovation: 400 word Max
Written Response: Population and Impact : 300 Word Max
Visual Artifact: Visualization or Graphic
Visual Artifact Summary: 50 Words
Evaluate, Archive and Present Task
Exam
The AP exam uses paper and pencil. (With the exception of year 2020, only Create and Explore were tested. In 2021, only Create and the multiple choice sectio |
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