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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20reporting | Data reporting is the process of collecting and submitting data which gives rise to accurate analyses of the facts on the ground; inaccurate data reporting can lead to vastly uninformed decision-making based on erroneous evidence. Different from data analysis that transforms data and information into insights, data reporting is the previous step that translates raw data into information. When data is not reported, the problem is known as underreporting; the opposite problem leads to false positives.
Data reporting can be an incredibly difficult endeavor. Census bureaus may hire even hundreds of thousands of workers to achieve the task of counting all of the residents of a country. Teachers use data from student assessments to determine grades; cellphone manufacturers rely on sales data from retailers to point the way to which models to increase production of. The effective management of nearly any company relies on accurate data.
References
Descriptive statistics
Data processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift%20%28MSNBC%29 | Shift (stylized as shift by msnbc, formerly msnbc2) was an online live-streaming video network run by MSNBC. It was launched in July 2014 to provide a platform for original video series which diverge from the MSNBC television network's political focus.
History
In July 2014, MSNBC.com launched msnbc2, a brand for several web-only series hosted by MSNBC personalities, in December 2014, msnbc2 was renamed shift by msnbc, with a daily live stream and programming schedule which was less focused on politics and is more tailored to a younger audience. The channel was later shut down.
Programming
Programs
Sports Matters hosted by Rob Simmelkjaer (released Mondays)
Reporter's Notebook hosted by Beth Fouhy (released Mondays)
Changing America hosted by Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar (released Tuesdays)
The Docket hosted by attorney Seema Iyer (released Tuesdays)
The Book Report hosted by Richard Wolffe (released Tuesdays)
Road Map hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin (released Wednesdays)
Nerding Out hosted by Dorian Warren (released Thursdays)
Code Forward hosted by Nellie Bowles and Jason Del Rey (co-produced by Re/code, released Thursdays)
The Briefing hosted by Luke Russert (released Fridays)
So Popular! hosted by Janet Mock (released Fridays)
Just Faith hosted by Rev. Jacqui Lewis (released Fridays)
REACH! hosted by Natalie Auzenne (released Saturdays)
shift-only version of First Look hosted by Betty Nguyen
msnbc Originals
Three Cents hosted by Josh Barro
Krystal Clear hosted by Krystal Ball
Out There hosted by Thomas Roberts
Greenhouse hosted by Tony Dokoupil
See also
HuffPost Live
CBS News (streaming service)
AJ+
NBC News Now
ABC News Live
References
American political websites
American news websites
Internet television channels
Defunct video on demand services
Internet properties established in 2014
Internet properties disestablished in 2016
2014 establishments in the United States
2016 disestablishments in the United States
MSNBC
NBCUniversal networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Film%20Database | The Danish Film Database (, formerly Danish National Filmography, Danish: Danmarks Nationalfilmografi), is a database maintained by the Danish Film Institute (DFI) about Danish films since 1896 including silent films, short films, and documentary films. When it went online in November 2000, it included data on all 1,000 Danish films produced between 1968 and 2000, and 10,000 persons, which by 2014 had been expanded to 22,000 titles, 106,000 persons and 6,000 companies. A media gallery with photos, programmes, poster scans, and trailers is available. The database also includes information on premiere dates for foreign films in Danish cinemas since 2000.
References
See also
AllMovie
AllMusic – a similar database, but for music
All Media Network – a commercial database launched by the Rovi Corporation that compiles information from the former services AllMovie and AllMusic
Animator.ru
Big Cartoon DataBase
DBCult Film Institute
Discogs
Douban
Filmweb
FindAnyFilm
Flickchart
Goodreads
Internet Adult Film Database
Internet Movie Cars Database (IMCDb)
Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDb)
Internet Book Database (IBookDb)
Internet Broadway Database (IBDb)
Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDb)
Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDb)
Internet Theatre Database (ITDb)
Letterboxd
List of films considered the best
List of films considered the worst
Metacritic
Rotten Tomatoes
TheTVDB
External links
Online film databases
Danish film websites
2000 establishments in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20Infrared%20Background%20ExpeRiment | The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) was a payload flown aboard Black Brant XII sounding rockets to collect data about cosmic infrared background. In 2014 results from CIBER indicated an excess of infrared light, beyond what is emitted by galaxies.
After the conclusion of the CIBER mission, the research into cosmic infrared background is being (as of 2021) pursued by a follow-on mission, CIBER-2. CIBER-2 is a successor to CIBER using similar techniques (with improvements, naturally) and also launching into suborbital space aboard a sounding rocket. CIBER-2 was launched on 7 June 2021 aboard a Black Brant IX rocket. A second flight of CIBER-2 is scheduled for 16 April 2023.
References
External links
CIBER Home Page
NASA CIBER 4 Page
NASA programs
Infrared telescopes
2014 in science
Sounding rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEQ-FM | XEQ-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Broadcasting on 92.9 FM, XEQ-FM broadcasts grupera music under the name "La Ke Buena" and is the flagship of a network of stations with the same branding and format.
History
The original concession for XEQ-FM was awarded on April 16, 1957 to Radio Mexicana del Centro, S.A. de C.V.
In 1978, XEQ-FM became the first tropical music station in Mexico City under the name "Tropi Q"; others later followed. The format moved to AM in 1993, when XEQ-FM picked up its current name and format of grupera music. The grupera format had previously been on XEX-AM, where it was known as "La Super X".
From October 31, 2019 to August 18, 2023, the station was simulcasted on XEQ-AM.
References
Radio stations established in 1957
Radio stations in Mexico City
1957 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20Stoppers%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Show Stoppers" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on January 14, 2015, on the cable network FX. It was written by Jessica Sharzer and directed by Loni Peristere.
Plot
Maggie reveals to Stanley that she outed him as a con artist and a murderer. Stanley pleads with the troupe to let him live and tells them that Elsa murdered Ethel. They ignore him and mutilate him to resemble Meep.
Elsa introduces Jimmy to Massimo Dolcefino, who offers to make him a pair of wooden prosthetics to replace his missing hands. The twins inform Chester they no longer want to be his assistants, and Maggie volunteers in their place. Chester places her into the box, and while seeing the faces of his deceased wife and her lover, Chester saws Maggie in half without realizing, killing her. Chester "murders" Marjorie in a rage and hands himself over to the police.
Dot and Bette warn Elsa that she needs to leave immediately, as her freaks intend to avenge Ethel's murder. Desiree declares justice for Ethel, but they find Elsa is already gone. Elsa meets Dandy before she leaves town and receives $10,000 in exchange for the freak show. In the final scene, Massimo delivers Jimmy his prosthetics, revealing wooden replicas of Jimmy's lobster claws.
Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 54% based on 13 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "In a rapid rush to tie up its myriad of loose ends, 'Show Stoppers' leaves almost nothing for the season finale."
References
2015 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Freak Show episodes
Television episodes about dissociative identity disorder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain%20Call%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Curtain Call" is the thirteenth and final episode of the fourth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on January 21, 2015, on the cable network FX. It was written by John J. Gray and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
In a psychotic rage, Dandy massacres the freaks. Jimmy returns and finds everyone but Desiree dead. Dandy kidnaps Bette and Dot, and they agree to marry him. At dinner, Dandy is drugged by Desiree with the help of the twins and Jimmy. Dandy awakens to find himself locked in Hardeen Houdini's Chinese water torture cell with Desiree, Jimmy, Bette, and Dot watch on as he drowns.
Elsa arrives in Hollywood and meets Michael Beck, the Junior vice-president of casting, and they later marry. In 1960, Elsa receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is later confronted by her husband and the president of WBN that a copy of the snuff film has surfaced. Realizing that her career is nearly over, Elsa agrees to perform on Halloween, knowing this will summon Edward Mordrake. As Elsa performs, Desiree, now with a family of her own, is shown watching the broadcast, along with a pregnant Bette and Dot, who are happily married to Jimmy. Mordrake and his coterie appear and take Elsa to the afterlife, and she is greeted by Ma Petite and all her other deceased freaks, including Ethel, who welcomes her back.
Reception
The episode was watched by 3.27 million viewers, a significant increase in viewership from the previous episode.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 54% based on 13 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "The finale offers a lukewarm conclusion to an uneven season of American Horror Story, but all the stories of our cherished "freaks" eventually synced together into a relatively satisfying button ending."
References
2015 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Freak Show episodes
Television episodes set in heaven |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Little%20Prince%20%282010%20TV%20series%29 | The Little Prince (; ) is a stereoscopic computer-animated children's television series inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel of the same name that began broadcast in late 2010. The series was created by Method Animation and the Saint-Exupéry-d'Agay Estate Production, in co-production with LPPTV, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Fabrique d'Images, DQ Entertainment and ARD, in participation with France Télévisions, WDR, Rai Fiction, Télévision Suisse Romande and satellite operator SES S.A.
It was produced by Aton Soumache, Alex Vonarb, Dimitri Rassam and Cedric Pilot, co-produced by Jean-Marie Musique, Christine Parisse and Tapaas Chakravarti, and developed for television by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere with Romain Van Leimt. Main character creation and adaptation was done by Bertrand Catignol, with art direction by Gabriel Villate and Pierre-Alain Chartier. Storyboard supervision was done by Augusto Zanovello and Jean Charles Andre, and script edition by Christel Gonnard. The original score for the series was composed, orchestrated and arranged by Frederic Talgorn, and performed by WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln.
The series aired in over 150 markets around the world. It was distributed as 36 mini-movies, each encompassing an individual story line, as well as 78 half hour episodes, where those story arcs are split into multiple parts. An English version, created by Ocean Productions, began airing in Canada on TVOntario on November 6, 2011. It also began airing on Knowledge Network on January 8, 2012. In Australia, it began airing on ABC3 on August 19, 2012. In the United States, the series launched alongside Primo TV on January 16, 2017. The series is also officially available online, via media partners, on YouTube.
Cast
Main characters
Le Petit Prince by Gabriel Bismuth (French) The Little Prince by Aidan Drummond (English) abbreviated in closed captions simply as Prince.
Le Renard by Franck Capillery (French) The Fox by Brian Drummond (English) abbreviated in closed captions simply as Fox (his wife Laura voices Turquoise in "The Planet of Ludokaa.").
Le Serpent by Guillaume Gallienne (French) The Snake by Paul Dobson (English) abbreviated in closed captions simply as Snake.
La Rose by Marie Gillain (French) The Rose by Sarah Edmondson (English) abbreviated in closed captions simply as Rose.
Supporting characters
B planet characters
B 546 episodes 1–2, The Planet of Time:
Caracatus by Brian Dobson (English)
The Great Timekeeper by French Tickner (English)
B 311 episodes 3–4, The Planet of the Firebird:
Princess Feng by Kira Tozer (English) the twin sister and only sibling of Huang, imprisoned by her own brother.
Prince Huang by Ian Hanlin (English) a prince who stole a crown from the Fire Bird to claim kingship. (spelled Wong in closed captions)
Shin-Joh by Alistair Abell (English) a stone-cutter (spelled Shinjo and Shinjoh in closed captions).
B 222 episodes 5–6, The Planet of Wind:
Zephir by Amitai Marmorstein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled%20%28soundtrack%29 | Tangled is the soundtrack album to the 2010 computer-animated film of the same name produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film score and original songs were composed by Alan Menken, which marked his return to composition for an animated feature, as he previously worked on several of Disney's animated features till Home on the Range (2004). The original songs were created by blending 1960s medieval music with folk rock. Glenn Slater wrote lyrics for most of the tracks in the album, except for the closing credits song "Something That I Want" was written, composed and performed by Grace Potter from Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
The soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on November 10, 2010, followed by a vinyl edition that was released on March 21, 2014. Apart from being critically acclaimed, the soundtrack received several awards and nominations, including the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for the track "I See the Light". Menken and Slater wrote three new songs for the series, apart from reusing the original tracks for the stage adaptation Tangled: The Musical.
Reception
The soundtrack (particularly Menken's musical score) in general was technically praised, however the songs mostly received some mixed reactions for being quite derivative to most of Menken's previous works (particularly the 1990s renaissance ones). Bill Graham from Collider praised them for their variations to the tempo and tone, memorable lyrics, and "blending old with new," However, he also stated that "the film’s constant mixture of tones can feel a bit off-putting for some." Roth Cornet from Screen Rant was positive towards them, saying that "Alan Menken’s music is as catchy, uplifting and effecting as one would expect." Scott of The New York Times positively reviewed the music, saying that it "takes you back to a charmed world of swoony longing and sprightly mischief," with a slick and efficient atmosphere and grace notes of self-conscious classicism. Corliss from Time was also positive to the songs, noting that though "don't sound on first hearing like top-drawer Menken," the songs still "smoothly fill their functions." He described the opener, "When Will My Life Begin?," as the "heroine's 'I wanna' song," a Disney tradition that stretches back to Snow White's "Some Day My Prince Will Come." "I See the Light" was described as "a generically tuneful love ballad, which is sure to be nominated for a Best Song Oscar."
James Berardinelli, on the other hand, negatively commented the songs as "neither catchy nor memorable." Tim Robey from The Daily Telegraph gave a negative review, saying that they were only "OK—there’s nothing you want to whistle on the way home." Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian, who gave the movie two out of five stars, described the songs as "sporting a laboured selection of Broadway-style show tunes," and hence are actually added for profit.
Track listing
Charts
Certifications
Accolades
Notes
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDKR-AM | XEDKR-AM (700 AM, "Universal") is a Spanish-language radio station in Guadalajara. It relays programming from XHRED-FM 88.1 in Mexico City. 700 kHz is a United States clear-channel frequency.
History
The first concession for 700 AM in Zapopan was awarded on October 17, 1953, for XEAR-AM and awarded to J. de Jesús Franco Gómez. By the 1960s, the station was transferred to Asociación Radiofónica, S.A., and sometime between 1969 and 1974, the callsign was changed to the present XEDKR-AM as a result of its acquisition by Radio Grupo DK (the Guadalajara arm of Radio Programas de México). It was known as Radio Ambiente in the early 1970s and by the late 1980s had become a direct repeater of Radio Red. It was transferred in 1991 to XEDKR-AM, S.A. de C.V., and sold along with the rest of RPM to Grupo Radio Centro in 1995.
On January 14, 2019, concurrent with a major reshuffling and the relaunch of XERC-FM Mexico City as talk station "Radio Centro 97.7", XEDKR and XESTN-AM Monterrey began simulcasting that station instead of Radio Red.
As part of the launch of Radio Centro's TV station, XHFAMX-TDT, on October 31, 2019, Universal moved to XERC-FM and all the talk programming moved back to XHRED, which took the same "La Octava", XEDKR and XESTN-AM Monterrey began simulcasting that station.
References
External links
Radio stations in Guadalajara
Grupo Radio Centro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum%20%28number%20format%29 | Unums (universal numbers) are a family of number formats and arithmetic for implementing real numbers on a computer, proposed by John L. Gustafson in 2015. They are designed as an alternative to the ubiquitous IEEE 754 floating-point standard. The latest version is known as posits.
Type I Unum
The first version of unums, formally known as Type I unum, was introduced in Gustafson's book The End of Error as a superset of the IEEE-754 floating-point format. The defining features of the Type I unum format are:
a variable-width storage format for both the significand and exponent, and
a u-bit, which determines whether the unum corresponds to an exact number (u = 0), or an interval between consecutive exact unums (u = 1). In this way, the unums cover the entire extended real number line [−∞,+∞].
For computation with the format, Gustafson proposed using interval arithmetic with a pair of unums, what he called a ubound, providing the guarantee that the resulting interval contains the exact solution.
William M. Kahan and Gustafson debated unums at the Arith23 conference.
Type II Unum
Type II Unums were introduced in 2016 as a redesign of Unums that broke IEEE-754 compatibility.
Posit (Type III Unum)
In February 2017, Gustafson officially introduced Type III unums, posits for fixed floating-point-like values and valids for interval arithmetic. In March 2021, a standard was ratified and published by the Posit Working Group.
Posits are a hardware-friendly version of unum where difficulties faced in the original type I unum due to its variable size are resolved. Compared to IEEE 754 floats of similar size, posits offer a bigger dynamic range and more fraction bits for values with magnitude near 1 (but fewer fraction bits for very large or very small values), and Gustafson claims that they offer better accuracy. Studies confirm that for some applications, posits with quire out-perform floats in accuracy. Posits have superior accuracy in the range near one, where most computations occur. This makes it very attractive to the current trend in deep learning to minimize the number of bits used. It potentially helps any application to accelerate by enabling the use of fewer bits (since it has more fraction bits for accuracy) reducing network and memory bandwidth and power requirements.
The format of an n-bit posit is given a label of "posit" followed by the decimal digits of n (e.g., the 16-bit posit format is "posit16") and consists of four sequential fields:
sign: 1 bit, representing an unsigned integer s
regime: at least 2 bits and up to (n − 1), representing an unsigned integer r as described below
exponent: up to 2 bits as available after regime, representing an unsigned integer e
fraction: all remaining bits available after exponent, representing a non-negative real dyadic rational f less than 1
The regime field uses unary coding of k identical bits, followed by a bit of opposite value if any remaining bits are available, to represent an uns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Japan%E2%80%93South%20Korea%20cyber%20conflict | On February 23, 2010, members of DC Inside, Humoruniversity, Ruliweb, Daum Truepicture, todayhumor, and various other Korean online communities formed the Terror Action Association (TAA) (Korean: 테러대응연합). On March 1, 2010, TAA attacked the Japanese website 2channel, coinciding with the 91st anniversary of the March 1st Movement. Since 2004, DC Inside and 2chan have had numerous conflicts, both large and small.
Summary
On February 23, 2010, users on 2chan (2channers) made offensive comments about a Korean international student that was beaten to death in Russia in the winter of 2009. "Dog died, why is it on the news?", "Kill more!", and other remarks were made. A few days prior, the Korean figure skater Yuna Kim won the gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, and 2channers asserted that officials must have been bribed.
These expressions from 2chan flowed into DC Inside's Humor Program Gallery. Netizens from DC Inside and HumorUniversity (Korean web communities) agreed that the date of the attack should be March 1, 2010, and began recruiting from other online communities such as Today's Humor, Ruliweb, Daum.net. They formed the Terror Action Association, amassing more than 102,000 participants in a day.
On 1 pm of March 1 (GMT+9), the TAA vandalized 2chan's galleries and executed a massive DDoS attack by paralyzing 2chan's servers.
According to Pacific Internet Exchange, which was hosting 2chan's servers, Japanese servers were already experiencing an increased volume of requests from Korea facilitated by bots since 11:40 am. Other websites affiliated with 2chan were also affected by the attack.
On the evening of March 1, 2chan servers were suspended and IP addresses from all sources of attacks were blocked.
On March 2, damages were estimated to be above $2.5 million. Mainly 2chan's "Korea Slander Gallery", "VIP Gallery", "Breaking News Gallery" were targeted.
Timeline and the aftermath
On February 24, Korean online communities noticed a series of posts on the Japanese website 2chan regarding Yuna Kim, a Korean figure skater, and the Korean international student who was murdered in Russia. Korean online communities claimed that 2chan members were accusing Yuna Kim of bribery and finding delight in the murder of the Korean student in Russia. An internet community, Terror Action Association was formed with the objective of carrying out a cyberattack on 2chan on March 1, 2010. Although the TAA prohibited the distribution or the use of illegal software, members continuously distributed illegal software leading up to the day of the attack.
On February 25, around midnight, Japanese posts appeared on DC Inside's comedy gallery and its users claimed that the servers had slowed down, and interpreted these as signs of a preemptive attack from 2chan. Korean appeared on 2chan's Korean threads as well, however Japanese did not appear on 2chan's Korean galleries. In a few minutes, the DC Inside servers returned to their usual speeds.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%20Aventuras%20de%20Gui%20%26%20Estopa | As Aventuras de Gui & Estopa (also known as Gui & Estopa) is a flash animated series created by Mariana Caltabiano, and shown on Cartoon Network Brazil. The characters were originally created for a children's website called Iguinho in 1996, which developed a cartoon over the years.
The series is a satire of several cartoons of popular culture, including the Cartoon Network original shows, through slapstick and nonsense comedy. The show is also broadcast by the channel Boomerang and Tooncast in Latin America.
Characters
Iguinho/Gui – the main character. A very cool dog resembling a West highland white terrier.
Estopa – Gui's best friend. A stupid fat dog who only thinks in food.
Cróquete – Gui's girlfriend. She is a charming Cocker Spaniel.
Pitiburro – Gui's main enemy. An arrogant and coarse Pit bull.
Róquete - a Spaniel who is Cróquete's snooty cousin.
References
External links
2010s Brazilian animated television series
2008 Brazilian television series debuts
Brazilian flash animated television series
Portuguese-language television shows
Animated television series about dogs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Ranchero%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Ranchero Artist of the Year was an award presented annually by American network Univision. It was first awarded in 2001 and has been given annually since. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to American singer Pepe Aguilar in 2001. Mexican performer Vicente Fernández and Aguilar both hold the record for the most awards with 5, out of ten nominations and twelve nominations. Mexican singer Alicia Villarreal is the most nominated performer without a win, with three unsuccessful nominations. Mexican-American performer Jenni Rivera is the first and only female artist to have won the award. In 2014, the category was disestablished.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
See also
Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero Album
References
Ranchera
Ranchero Artist of the Year
Awards established in 2001
Awards disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20413001%E2%80%93414000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Flex%20frameworks | Flex frameworks are software libraries that assist developers in building rich web applications on the Apache Flex platform.
List
Tide, part of the Granite Data Services platform.
Swiz
Parsley
Cairngorm
PureMVC
DropAS3
Fabrication
Mate
RobotLegs
Cairngorm
Cairngorm is one of the primary open-source software frameworks for application architecture in Adobe Flex. It was developed by iteration::two, which was acquired by Macromedia in 2005. It is part of the Adobe Engagement Platform. Adobe Labs features Cairngorm as the architectural framework for rich web application programmers.
Cairngorm is based on the MVC model. It is specifically designed to facilitate complex state and data synchronization between the client and the server, while keeping the programming of the View layer detached from the data implementation.
The role of the View layer in a Cairngorm application is to throw events and bind to data stored in the Model. Components on the View can bind to Value Objects or other properties in the Model (data) layer.
In a Cairngorm Model, related data are stored in Value Objects (VOs), while simple variables can be stored as direct properties of the ModelLocator class. A static reference to the ModelLocator singleton instance is used by the View layers to locate the required data.
The Controller is the most sophisticated part of the Cairngorm architecture. The Controller layer is implemented as a singleton FrontController. The FrontController instance, which receives every View-generated event, dispatches the events to the assigned Command class based on the event's declared type.
The Command class then processes the event by running the Command class' execute() method, which is an ICommand interface method. The event object may include additional data if required by the developer. The execute() method can update the central Model, as well as invoke a Service class which typically involves communication with a remote server. The IResponder interface, which is also implemented by the Command class, includes onResult and onFault methods to handle responses returned from the invoked remote service.
A Cairngorm application can be programmed to manage any server architecture/schemas.
External links
Hello World Example using Cairngorm
Official Adobe Cairngorm Site
Video Tutorial Series on Cairngorm
How to Use Design Patterns, A Conversation with Erich Gamma
Cairngorm Console: a Flex plugin application for live inspection and debugging of Cairngorm Framework
Cairngorm extension for handling commands results
PureMVC
PureMVC is a framework for creating applications based upon the well-established model–view–controller design pattern. The free, open source framework was originally implemented in the ActionScript 3 language for use with Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR, and it has since been ported to nearly all the major web development platforms.
Granite Data Services
Granite Data Services (GraniteDS or GDS) is an event-driven, cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaltair | The Zaltair was a fictional computer created by Steve Wozniak. Adam Schoolsky helped him to pull of it at the West Coast Computer Conference. It was a parody of the Altair 8800 computer, which was very popular at the time. Steve Wozniak thought of the name because:The company Zilog had come out with a compatible processor, which they called the Z-80. A few companies using this chip were establishing brands based on Z words. Like ComputerZ or Z-Node or the like.As a joke, Wozniak decided to print a "20,000 brochures" (according to YouTube video "Rare video of Steve Wozniak from 1984 talking about computing, joining Apple and the Mac" filmed at a Cleveland computer club meeting) of a fake product called the 'Zaltair' with a lot of "superlative descriptions of a computer that solved every problem in the world". It advertised, among other things, a new version of the BASIC programming language called "BAZIC", with the ability to "define your own language... a feature we call perZonality".
To help make the ad believable, he included fake trademarks and a shipping label for MITS, the company manufacturing the Altair. Wozniak did not think that this would be an issue, as he had "made sure in advance that MITS would not be at the show." However, it later turned out that a representative from MITS was attending, and had been taking large amounts of their fake brochures.
He also made sure the article had a fake quote from Ed Roberts, then president of MITS, which spelled out the name of a rival company, Processor Technology, when looking at the first letter of every word, further ensuring that the article was not traced back to him.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, Wozniak's close friend at the time, received a copy of the brochure. He fell for it, and even "took pride that the Apple II stacked up well against the Zaltair in the comparison chart". However, he, like many others, did not realize Wozniak had created the brochure until "Woz gave him a framed copy of the brochure as a birthday gift".
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Fictional computers
Practical jokes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prema%20Raga%20Haadu%20Gelathi | Prema Raga Haadu Gelathi () is a 1997 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai based on Yandamuri Veerendranath's novel Nishyabda translated into Kannada by Sharadatanaya. The movie was produced by Jayashree Devi. The film stars Shiva Rajkumar, Ramesh Aravind and Nivedita Jain.
The film marked the reunion of the director Desai, producer Jayashree Devi, actors Shiva Rajkumar and Ramesh Aravind and music composer Ilaiyaraaja after their successful venture Nammoora Mandara Hoove in 1996. However, this film could not taste the same success as the previous venture.
Cast
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja who teamed up with the director after the successful score in Nammoora Mandara Hoove (1996).
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Film thyview
1997 films
1990s Kannada-language films
1997 romantic drama films
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Indian romantic drama films
Films set in Karnataka
Films shot in Karnataka
Films directed by Sunil Kumar Desai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20alliance | A learning alliance is a diverse network of individuals committed to improving knowledge on a specific research topic. Learning alliances are often made up of small networks of public, private and/or civil society actors seeking to further social or political change.
Learning alliance structure
Learning alliances consist of a series of facilitated meetings or informal exchanges between stakeholders with a common advocacy interest. Individual actors or groups share knowledge on a topic in order to improve the validity, accuracy and dissemination of their analysis.
In the humanitarian sector
Learning Alliances in the humanitarian sector often place importance on improving the capacity of disadvantaged social groups to solve problems on their own behalf. The learning alliance concept has ties to the field of Participatory Action Research, or PAR, an approach to social research that emphasizes participation and action by community members.
In humanitarian, development and social research fields, the term Learning Alliance has been used by international aid groups to describe cross-boundary stakeholder networks focused on improving local civil society capacity.
Academic literature
The Learning Alliance approach was first discussed in literature in 1994 investigating what Michael Gibbons called mode two knowledge production. Mode two knowledge production involves multidisciplinary teams that work together on specific problems in the real world, in contrast to mode one knowledge production, “which is motivated by scientific knowledge alone... and which is not bothered by the applicability of its findings”. Gibbons noted that this type of research “promotes the interaction of multiple actors with multi-layered sources of knowledge to cope with the complexity of fostering continuous technological, social and institutional innovations to respond to rapidly changing contexts and demands”.
Examples of learning alliances
In 2012 the United Nations Barrier Monitoring Unit (BMU) launched a formal Learning Alliance called the Academic Cooperation Palestine Project (ACPP) to enhance the educational and technical capacity of Palestinian researchers. ACPP hosted local and international research partnerships around sensitive issues related to the Israeli Separation Wall, including land degradation, water rights and land title controls. ACPP is now called the WALL Learning Alliance.
In the United States, the Digital Learning Alliance group formed to “improve economic growth in underserved areas of the U.S. by advocating for personalized education through the use of digital learning technologies”.
The Learning Alliance, started in 2009 in the United States, was organized to further literacy among school children. In Indian River County, Florida, the Alliance worked with parents, community leaders, educators, and concerned citizens to achieve 90 percent literacy by third grade by 2018. In 2017, through professional development opportunities, book drives, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbin%20lace%20ground | Bobbin lace ground is the regular small mesh filling the open spaces of continuous bobbin lace. Other names for bobbin lace ground are net or réseau (French for network). The precise course of the threads and the resultant shape of the ground are an important diagnostic feature in lace identification, as different lace styles use different grounds.
Point ground
Point ground is also known as fond simple or simple ground, fond clair, Lille, point, net ground or Bucks Point ground.
Grid angle: 52°-70°, usually 60°, never 45°
It is a simple hexagonal mesh. Each stitch uses a pair of threads on each side. Some threads travel diagonally, and some move to left, then back to right, from stitch to stitch.
This ground is used in Bucks Point, Lille, Chantilly, and blonde lace.
Torchon ground
Torchon ground and double Torchon ground are used in Torchon lace.
Grid angle: 45°
Each stitch uses a pair of threads on each side. In Torchon ground, the threads cross over. In double Torchon ground they cross and return to the same side they started.
Mechlin ground
Mechlin is used in Mechlin lace.
Grid angle: 45°
Each stitch uses a pair of threads on each side. It is similar to double Torchon ground, except there is no pin, and there may be more or less half stitches involved. Similar grounds are Brussels ground, Droschel, vrai reseau and bobbin mesh.
Five Holes Ground
This ground is known as Rose ground , Point a la Vierge, fond de Mariage, fond de Flandres is also known as cinq trous or five hole or virgin ground, or rose stitch. Not to be confused with the Dutch Rozengrond, what would be a literal translation but is used for the honeycomb ground.
Grid angle: 45°
The appearance looks like a little rose, and there are four holes in the corners plus one in the centre. Each stitch uses two pairs of threads on each side. There are several different types of rose ground.
It is found in Antwerp and other Flanders lace, early Valenciennes, Torchon lace and yak lace.
Point de Paris
Point de Paris is also called fond double or double ground, Kat stitch, wire, French, six-point star, star, star-pointed ground, hairpin stitch, fond chant.
The ground has hexagons and triangles, making a star-shaped mesh.
It is found in point de Paris, and in some Bucks point lace, Chantilly, Antwerp lace and Ipswich lace.
Valenciennes ground
Valenciennes ground is also known as square or diamond mesh.
Each stitch uses two pairs of threads on each side, which are plaited between the stitches. This gives the distinctive diamond look to the ground.
This ground is used in Valenciennes lace.
Snowflake ground
Snowflake ground is also known as fond de neige, partridge eye or oeil de perdix.
This ground is the characteristic ground of Binche lace, and is sometimes found in Mechlin lace.
Honeycomb ground
Honeycomb ground is also known as fond de mariage.
Grid angle: usually 60°
This ground is found in Bucks Point. It is also used in Chantilly lace and Binche lace.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202015 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming.
During 2015, eight singles reached number one on the Hot 100; a ninth single, "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift, began its run at number one in November 2014. Of those nine number-one singles, three were collaborations. In total, ten acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with six—Mark Ronson, Charlie Puth, Kendrick Lamar, Omi, The Weeknd and Justin Bieber—achieving their first Hot 100 number-one single. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for fourteen weeks; it subsequently topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2015 in American music
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2015
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2015
References
External links
United States Hot 100
2015
Hot 100 number-one singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20albums%20of%202015 | The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks. In 2015, a total of 39 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's 1989 started its peak issue dated November 15, 2014. 1989 was the longest-running number-one album of the year, staying atop the chart for six weeks and was the best selling album of 2015 before Adele's 25, which managed to surpass the album's sales but after the year-end cut-off. Canadian hip hop soul artist Drake's fourth commercial release, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, became the third best-selling overall album and top-selling digital album with 535,000 digital units sold, 495,000 of which consisted of traditional whole album sales.
Other albums with extended chart runs at number one include To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, Dreams Worth More Than Money by Meek Mill, Kill the Lights by Luke Bryan, Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd, Traveller by Chris Stapleton and 25 by Adele; four of these albums spent two weeks at the top while the other two spent three weeks at the top position. Throughout 2015, only two acts achieved multiple number-one albums on the chart: Drake with If You're Reading This It's Too Late and What a Time to be Alive, and Future with DS2 and also What a Time to be Alive.
Albums that reached number one on the Top Album Sales chart (which takes into account purely sales and not streaming) but did not reach number one on the Billboard 200 include That's the Spirit by Bring Me the Horizon, Got Your Six by Five Finger Death Punch and Cass County by Don Henley.
Adele's 25 sold 1.9 million copies after two days of availability, and 2.3 million after three, becoming the fastest-selling album of the 21st century and the best-selling album of 2015. The album reached sales of 2.433 million early on its fourth day, surpassing the single-week record for an album since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking sales in 1991, set by NSYNC's No Strings Attached in March 2000 when it debuted with 2.416 million copies. By its fifth day, 25 had sold over 2.8 million copies, 1.45 million of which were digital sales, breaking the first-week record for a digital set. In total, it sold 3.38 million copies in the US in its first week, becoming the first album to sell over 3 million copies in a week, and only the second to sell over 2 million in a single week.
Since July 2015, the chart's tracking week began on Friday (to coincide with the Global Release Date of the music industry) and ends on Thursday.
Chart history
See also
2015 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2015
References
External links
Current Billboard 200 chart
Billboard Chart Archives – Billboard 200 (2015)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth%20Buxbaum | Helmuth Buxbaum (March 19, 1939 — November 1, 2007) was a multimillionaire owner of a network of nursing homes in Ontario who was convicted in 1986 of the murder of his wife, two years previously. Hanna Buxbaum was found dead July 5, 1984 on a highway near London, Ontario after having been shot in the head three times. Helmuth Buxbaum had taken out a $1 million life insurance policy on his wife shortly before her murder. The Crown attorney prosecuting the case argued that Buxbaum had hired a hitman to kill his wife for $10,000 and had pulled over to the side of the road so that the man could drag her out of the car and shoot her. The gunman, Gary Foshay, was convicted of second-degree murder. Buxbaum was convicted after a high-profile trial and sentenced to a life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years. He died in prison in Kingston, Ontario on November 1, 2007 at the age of 68.
Buxbaum was born in East Prussia grew up in West Germany, the youngest of ten children. His family emigrated to Canada when he was 19 years old.
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2007 deaths
20th-century Canadian criminals
Canadian male criminals
Canadian people convicted of murder
Canadian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke%20Shipley | Brooke Elizabeth Shipley is an American mathematician. She works as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was head of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science from 2014 to 2022. Her research concerns homotopy theory and homological algebra.
Education and career
Shipley graduated from Harvard University in 1990. She earned her Ph.D. in 1995 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Haynes Miller, for her work on the convergence of the homology spectral sequence of a cosimplicial space.
Shipley then was awarded a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. After postdoctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1998 and earned tenure there in 2002. She then moved to University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003.
In 2009, Shipley became Co-Principal Investigator on UIC's National Science Foundation's ADVANCE grant to support the Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation (WISEST) program. She served as the director of WISEST from 2012 to 2013. She served as an American Mathematical Society Council member at large from 2018 to 2020.
Recognition
In 2014, she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to homotopy theory and homological algebra as well as for service to the mathematical community." Then in 2016, she became a representative of the Committee of Academic Sponsors at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
She and John Greenlees were the joint winners of the 2022 Senior Berwick Prize for their paper "An algebraic model for rational torus-equivariant spectra".
Selected Papers
Brooke Shipley, HZ-algebra spectra are differential graded algebras, American Journal of Mathematics, 129(2):351–379, 2007.
Awards
NSF Career Award (2002-2009)
Purdue University School of Science Outstanding Assistant Professor (2001)
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Harvard University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Purdue University faculty
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Banda%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Banda Artist of the Year is an award presented annually by American network Univision. It was first awarded in 2001 and has been given annually since. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to Mexican band Banda el Recodo in 2001, they also hold the most wins and most nominations with 6 out of ten nominations. As of 2019, Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera is the first and only female artist to have won the award, with her win in 2009.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
Multiple wins and nominations
See also
Grammy Award for Best Banda Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Banda Album
References
Banda Artist of the Year
Banda musicians
Awards established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycleway%203 | Cycleway 3 (C3) is a cycle path in London, England. It is part of the Cycleway network coordinated by TfL. It runs from Barking in the east to Lancaster Gate in central London. It is a popular route with both commuter and leisure cyclists, passing a number of major destinations in London along its route. For almost the entire route, cyclists are separated from other traffic in segregated cycle lanes, and cycling infrastructure has been provided at major interchanges. The cycleway, originally called CS3, is renamed to Cycleway 3 (C3) in January 2023.
Route
C3 begins in Barking and ends at Lancaster Gate in the City of Westminster.
Barking to Leamouth
C3 begins to the south of Greatfields Park in Barking, at the intersection between River Road and the A13 (Alfred's Way). The beginning of the Superhighway can be found at the southern side of the junction as a narrow, two-way cycle track signed "Cycle Superhighway (C3)" towards Canning Town (25 mins), Canary Wharf (35 mins) and Tower Gateway (55 mins). The journey times are signposted and calculated by TfL. The cycle track is coloured blue.
Heading westbound, the blue cycle track is intermittent, sharing its space with the pedestrian footpath. This continues for around 500 metres before the blue, two-way track returns as a constant feature running in parallel with the A13, separated from the main carriageway by a kerb.
C3 and the A13 cross the Barking Creek alongside one another, at the same time crossing from Barking and Dagenham into Newham. After crossing Barking Creek, C3 branches southwards so as to avoid clashing with traffic at the busy junction between the A13, the A406/North Circular and A1020.
Having passed beneath the A1020/Royal Docks Road, C3 continues to run parallel to the A13 (Newham Way), segregated from traffic on the main carriageway. On this section, the Superhighway passes through Beckton, where there is a short cycle link southwards towards Beckton DLR station, and then to the east of Canning Town station, before running in parallel to the A13 once more to cross Bow Creek. The entirety of this section through Newham is shared with route 13 of the 1980s-era London Cycle Network.
Leamouth to Tower Gateway
To the west of Bow Creek, C3 enters Tower Hamlets and heads south of East India Dock Road (A13) into Leamouth on the western pavement of Leamouth Road. Still signposted but no longer a blue cycle track, C3 then heads westbound on Sorrel Lane, southbound on Oregano Drive, then westbound on Saffron Avenue. Cyclists share road space with other traffic in this more residential area.
C3 passes through Poplar, just north of Canary Wharf, sharing Poplar High Street with other road traffic. At the western end of Poplar High Street, the Superhighway continues along Ming Street and Premiere Place, passing Westferry DLR station to the north. Continuing westbound, C3 follows Limehouse Causeway and Narrow Street, briefly running parallel to the River Thames.
Still signposted, C3 t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20Bahadur | 3 Bahadur () is a 2015 Pakistani 3D computer-animated adventure film produced and directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. It is the first installment in the 3 Bahadur franchise. The film is co-produced by Waadi Animations which is a joint-venture of SOC films and ARY Films. 3 Bahadur became Pakistan's first computer-animated feature-length film. Film's plot focuses on three eleven-year-old friends, Amna, Saadi and Kamil, three extraordinary children who rise from the unlikeliest of places to save their community from the evils that plague it. The film is set in a fictional town called Roshan Basti (Town of light). Equipped with courage and super powers, they battle against the odds and stand up to injustice to restore peace and harmony in their once thriving community and live a very happy life.
3 Bahadur was theatrically released nationwide by ARY Films on 22 May 2015. It became the highest-grossing animated film at the local box office breaking the previous record of Rio 2. The film grossed after 50 days of successful run in cinemas and became 7th highest-grossing film of Pakistan.
Plot
The story starts off in a lively neighbourhood called and a festival was going on. A little while later, a little girl was kidnapped by a thug named Mangu. A brave man ran after him, knocked the thug over and rescued the girl. Mangu ran away to a cave and met a hideous creature named Baba Balaam who gave him evil powers and told him to protect the key of evil. One night, Mangu emerged from the tower clock and ordered the people of Roshan Nagar that he is now their king. To this, the man who rescued the girl, went forward scolded him. Consequently, used his powers to strangle the man and raised him up to the tower, killing him. Soon, Mangu's thugs spread fear all over the small town and it became known as Andher Basti. Three friends, Saadi, Amna and Kamil want to find out about the tower and want to defeat the thugs even though Saadi's mother orders him not to pay attention to it. The three enter the tower and are granted powers by unknown creatures. Amna has been granted super speed, Kamil was granted super hearing and Saadi was granted intelligence and the ability to comprehend things cleverly. The next night, they enter the tower again and defeat Mangu's thugs and while Mangu is attacking them. They are rescued and shielded by the unknown creatures and are brought to an unknown place. There they get to know that their local security guard, Deenu Chacha is the guardian of the key which preserves all the good powers. The three kids are granted more powers. Kamil has the ability to fly and jump up high, Amna has the power to create shields and Saadi has the power to create black holes. Mangu tells Saadi about his father's death and recalls that the brave man was Saadi's father who tried to stop him 10 years ago. Saadi then become very frustrated and angry after knowing this. They use all there powers to defeat Mangu by throwing the evil key into a powerful black |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Barratt | Craig H. Barratt (born 12 May 1962) is an Australian technology executive who served as Chief Executive Officer at Barefoot Networks until its acquisition by Intel in July 2019. Following the acquisition, and until his departure in May 2020, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Connectivity Group under Intel's Data Platforms Group.
Barratt previously served as the CEO of Atheros from 2003, through its IPO in 2004 until its acquisition by Qualcomm in 2011. He continued as President of Qualcomm Atheros upon the close of the acquisition in May 2011 until early 2013. Barratt then served as Senior Vice President, Access and Energy, at Google from 2012 until 2016.
Open source software
Barratt is the author of BackupPC, an open source backup system. He is the author of the original version of PSfrag, a LaTeX package. He has also contributed to Rsync and other open source projects.
Education
Barratt holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia. He completed high school at Barker College in 1979.
Barratt is the co-author of a book on Linear Controller Design, which is now freely available online.
References
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Australian business executives
1962 births
Living people
Google employees
People educated at Barker College |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202012%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2012 in music
List of number-one singles of 2012 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2012 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2012
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance%2086 | The Advance 86 was a microcomputer developed by Advance Technology UK in the United Kingdom, available in two models. The base model, the Model A (or Advance 86A), featuring a system unit and keyboard, was specified and priced to appeal to the home market, relying on cassette-based storage. An upgraded model, the Model B (or Advance 86B), augmented the Model A with an expansion unit providing dual floppy disk drives and was intended to appeal to business users. Through the addition of the expansion unit, the Model A could therefore be upgraded to the Model B. The core system employed the Intel 8086 processor, aiming for a level of compatibility with the IBM PC, and 128 KB of RAM, expandable to 256 RAM in the system unit and to a total of 768 KB utilising the expansion unit.
History
Both models of the Advance 86 were initially announced in 1983, after a development period of a reported one-and-a-half years, with a launch reportedly scheduled for September 1983. Initial pricing was estimated at £350 excluding VAT for the lower-specification Model A, positioned as a competitor to the BBC Micro and Commodore 64, with a Model B system projected to cost £1,200 excluding VAT, bundled with WordStar, Mailmerge and CalcStar. The Advance 86 eventually became available in 1984, with broadly similar pricing, but was instead offered with the Perfect productivity suite. In addition to the computer itself, a separate display needed to be purchased.
The machine was manufactured by Ferranti, nine of whose ULA chips had been used to minimise the component count on the main system board, and sold "exclusively" through high street retailer WHSmith, at least initially. After initial orders had been satisfied, the system was also to be marketed by Ferranti and sold by dealers. A year of on-site service was included in the price of the Model B, this being regarded as "worth several hundred pounds" and superior to the support for any other contemporary microcomputer with the exception of the DEC Rainbow.
In Australia, Dick Smith Electronics marketed the Advance 86 as the Challenger, pricing the Model A configuration at just under , with the complete Model B configuration priced at a total of just under .
Ferranti, as manufacturer of the Advance 86, along with WHSmith as distributor, were threatened with legal action by IBM over the machine's BIOS, with the routines allegedly being "90 per cent identical" to IBM's own BIOS, with even known errors "reproduced identically". Ostensibly as a consequence of the legal uncertainties, and with WHSmith also reporting "disappointing" sales, Ferranti announced that it would take over distribution of the machine in early 1985. To continue distribution of the product, Advance Technology were reported to have rewritten the BIOS to IBM's approval.
Hardware
Alongside the 8086 processor, a slot for the 8087 arithmetic co-processor was provided. In addition to the main system RAM, 16 KB of video RAM was provided to hold the conten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Aur%20Charles | Main aur Charles () is a 2015 Bollywood crime film written and directed by Prawaal Raman and produced by Cynozure Networkz. The film is a fictitious thriller inspired by true events; it is told from the perspective of the Indian cop, Amod Kanth, who handled the case of the Indian Origin French serial killer Charles Sobhraj who was known as the bikini killer. The film opened on 30 October 2015 to positive reviews across India. However, it was a box office flop, grossing against a budget.
The film stars Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadda, Adil Hussain, Tisca Chopra, and Alexx O'Nell in lead roles. Through the narrative, we see a series of crimes committed by Charles and the story of each of his victims, who fell for his charisma but were betrayed by his serpentine nature. The man not just escaped several high security jails but also manipulated the legal system. In the title, Main aur Charles, the word 'Main' means 'me' and stands for the character of Amod Kanth. The film was warmly accepted in the trade for its impeccable direction, casting and background score. Apart from these technicalities, the film has satisfied critics creatively with fine performances by Hooda, Chadha and Hussain.
Cast
Randeep Hooda - Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj / Zubin Pratap
Richa Chaddha - Mira Sharma (Charles's girl friend)
Adil Hussain - Amod Kanth
Alexx O'Nell - Richard Thomas
Lucky Morani - Dr. Ashima Mehra (criminal psychologist)
Mandana Karimi - Liz (Charles's girl friend)
Shaanti - Princess Malvika
Dijana Dejanovic - Charles's Lawyer
Vipin Sharma - Satender Kumar (Jailor)
Tisca Chopra - Reena (Amod Kanths' wife)
Kanika Kapoor - Special appearance as bar singer
Anastasia Fullfina - Andrea (Charles's girl friend)
Nandu Madhav - Inspector Sudhakar Zhende
Saurabh Sarkar- Bajrangi Babu
Sandeep Punia - Satpal Punia
Satyakam Gupta - Rajan Ahuja
Shanu Dev - Mr.Joshi (Investigating Officer)
Abhiskek Diwan - Hemant
Judge - M.L CHAUHAN(IAS)
Production
The film was shot in Delhi, Goa, Mumbai, Pattaya, and Udaipur.
Soundtrack
The music for Main Aur Charles is composed by Vipin Patwa, Aditya Trivedi, Bally Grunge and Sanjeev-Darshan. The full audio album was released on 15 October 2015. The music rights are acquired by T-Series.
Reception
Shubhra Gupta for The Indian Express rated 1 star out of 5 and wrote "The film should have been riveting. But it comes off as a slapdash, confused collage of scenes involving the famous jail break in which the real life Sobhraj broke free with several prisoners: it was the kind of astoundingly brazen 'kaand' whose reverberations were felt in the system for a long time." Sweta Kaushal for Hindustan Times wrote "The film does not just fail, it crashes miserably." Nandini Ramnath for Scroll.in wrote "The brazen fun that Charles and his cohorts are having is contrasted with the routine police work by Adil Hussain’s overly loud and morally outraged cop. Hussain’s outrage at Charles seems to be the result of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore%20majority%20vote%20algorithm | The Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm is an algorithm for finding the majority of a sequence of elements using linear time and a constant number of words of memory. It is named after Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore, who published it in 1981, and is a prototypical example of a streaming algorithm.
In its simplest form, the algorithm finds a majority element, if there is one: that is, an element that occurs repeatedly for more than half of the elements of the input.
A version of the algorithm that makes a second pass through the data can be used to verify that the element found in the first pass really is a majority.
If a second pass is not performed and there is no majority the algorithm will not detect that no majority exists. In the case that no strict majority exists, the returned element can be arbitrary; it is not guaranteed to be the element that occurs most often (the mode of the sequence).
It is not possible for a streaming algorithm to find the most frequent element in less than linear space, for sequences whose number of repetitions can be small.
Description
The algorithm maintains in its local variables a sequence element and a counter, with the counter initially zero.
It then processes the elements of the sequence, one at a time.
When processing an element , if the counter is zero, the algorithm stores as its remembered sequence element and sets the counter to one.
Otherwise, it compares to the stored element and either increments the counter (if they are equal) or decrements the counter (otherwise).
At the end of this process, if the sequence has a majority, it will be the element stored by the algorithm.
This can be expressed in pseudocode as the following steps:
Initialize an element and a counter with
For each element of the input sequence:
If , then assign and
else if , then assign
else assign
Return
Even when the input sequence has no majority, the algorithm will report one of the sequence elements as its result.
However, it is possible to perform a second pass over the same input sequence in order to count the number of times the reported element occurs and determine whether it is actually a majority.
This second pass is needed, as it is not possible for a sublinear-space algorithm to determine whether there exists a majority element in a single pass through the input.
Analysis
The amount of memory that the algorithm needs is the space for one element and one counter.
In the random access model of computing usually used for the analysis of algorithms, each of these values can be stored in a machine word and the total space needed is . If an array index is needed to keep track of the algorithm's position in the input sequence, it doesn't change the overall constant space bound.
The algorithm's bit complexity (the space it would need, for instance, on a Turing machine) is higher, the sum of the binary logarithms of the input length and the size of the universe from which the elements are drawn. Both the ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Transactor | The Transactor was a computer magazine directed at users of Commodore home computers.
In contrast to other Commodore-focused publications such as Commodore Magazine and COMPUTE!'s Gazette, The Transactor's popularity was based on its coverage of deep technical issues and hardware hacking. INFO called The Transactor "the undeniable authority" on "Commodore programming and hardware information".
Publication history
The magazine was launched on 30 April 1978 as the official international bulletin of Commodore Canada to PET user groups. The early issues were low-tech mimeographed productions with no non-Commodore advertising and a roughly monthly release schedule. Despite its association with Commodore, the magazine earned a reputation for being honest and upfront about bugs and faults in Commodore's products.
In September 1982 the magazine was relaunched as a fully independent, bimonthly, advertiser-supported publication. From this point the magazine became professionally typeset with full-colour illustrated covers. It was sold by subscription throughout its run, and also appeared on newsstands from June 1982 until July 1987; during this period the magazine claimed a peak circulation of 72,000, of which 53,000 was newsstand sales. The independent Transactor went through a succession of publishers (Canadian Micro Distributors until April 1983, then Transactor Publishing from July 1983 to September 1988, and finally British publishing house Croftward Publishing). Though a popular magazine among Commodore users, it unexpectedly went out of business and ceased publication in August 1989.
Karl Hildon served as editor-in-chief of the magazine until the March 1988 issue. Frequent contributors included Jim Butterfield and Richard Evers.
Spin-offs
In January 1988, The Transactor announced that it had spun off its coverage of the Amiga to a dedicated magazine, Transactor for the Amiga.
At least four anthologies of Transactor articles appeared in book form: The Best of The Transactor Volume 1 through The Best of The Transactor Volume 3, plus The Transactor Book of Bits and Pieces #1. In the course of preparing Volume 2 Hildon was inspired to create a comprehensive reference work for Commodore 8-bit computers, which was eventually published as The Complete Commodore Inner Space Anthology.
References
External links
Authorized online archive
Miscellaneous info about The Transactor magazine by Craig S. Bruce
Partial index by Dan Fandrich
Transactor books at The Internet Archive
Commodore 8-bit computer magazines
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in Canada
Home computer magazines
Magazines established in 1978
Magazines disestablished in 1989
Magazines published in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20over%20LTE | ViLTE, an acronym for "Video over LTE", is a conversational (i.e. person to person) video service based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core network like VoLTE. It has specific profiles for the control and VoLTE of the video service and uses LTE as the radio access medium. The service as a whole is governed by the GSM Association in PRD IR.94.
Mechanism
ViLTE uses the same control plane protocol as Voice over LTE (VoLTE), namely the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The IMS core network along with the applicable Application Server (AS) performs the call control. ViLTE uses the H.264 codec to encode and decode the video stream. The H.264 codec delivers superior quality as compared to the low bit rate 3G-324M codec that is used in 3G conversational video calls.
It is vital that ViLTE video calls are allocated appropriate quality of service (QoS) to differentiate and prioritize this delay and jitter sensitive conversational traffic from other streaming video traffic that is not as delay or jitter sensitive. The mechanism used is called QoS Class Identifier (QCI). The ViLTE bearer traffic is typically allocated QCI=2, and the SIP-based IMS signalling QCI=5.
Devices
As of February 2019 the Global Mobile Suppliers Association had identified 257 devices, virtually all of them phones, supporting ViLTE technology. By August, continued momentum had seen the number of identified devices increase to 390.
Many of the world’s largest handset vendors now have ViLTE capable devices on the market. As of August 2019, ViLTE devices were offered by 46 vendors/brands including Askey, BBK Electronics, Blackberry, Casper, Celkon, CENTRiC, Comio, Foxconn, General Mobile, GiONEE, HMD, HTC, Huaquin Telecom Technology, Huawei, Infinix, Infocus, Intex, Itel, Karbonn, Kult, Lanix, Lava, Lenovo, LG, LYF (Reliance Digital), Micromax, Mobiistar, Motorola, Panasonic, Reach, Samsung, Sonim, Sony Mobile, Spice Devices, Swipe Technologies, TCL, Tecno, Vestel, Xiaomi, YU (Micromax), Yulong Computer, Ziox, and ZTE. iPhones don’t support ViLTE.
See also
LTE (telecommunication)
Voice over LTE
References
LTE (telecommunication)
Mobile technology
Videotelephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigers%20in%20the%20Snow | The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow is a turn-based strategy computer wargame, made in 1981 by Chuck Kroegel, David Landrey, and David Walker for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and TRS-80. It was later ported to the IBM PC and Commodore 64.
It was the first video game to feature the Battle of the Bulge of 1944 and 1945, a decisive Allied victory over German forces in World War II, as its subject. Heavily inspired by board games, the game was played on a hexagonal grid and included such features as a supply, terrain and weather system.
Reception
Richard Charles Karr reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, writing:
A 1993 Computer Gaming World survey of wargames gave Tigers in the Snow one star out of five, stating that its primitive graphics, play mechanics, and user interface "have been superseded by more recent efforts".
References
1981 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Strategic Simulations games
TRS-80 games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about the Battle of the Bulge
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202015 | This is a list of the Canadian Hot 100 number-one singles of 2015. The Canadian Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Canada. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one albums of 2015 (Canada)
References
Canada Hot 100
2015
2015 in Canadian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20of%20Commodore | World of Commodore is an annual computer expo dedicated to Commodore computers.
The shows were initially organized by Commodore Canada or its sister companies, and took place at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, though in some years additional expos were held in the United States, Australia, or Europe. The expos were among the largest in the computing industry, with attendance at some events reaching 100,000. As with cross-industry trade shows such as CES and COMDEX, World of Commodore expos were widely reported on in computing magazines.
With the decline of its 8-bit product line and the rise of the Amiga, Commodore began branding some of the expos as World of Commodore/Amiga. The name was changed to World of Amiga following Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994 and purchase by German PC conglomerate Escom the following year. The Amiga expos continued until 2002. In 2004, the original exhibition series was revived by the Toronto PET Users Group. World of Commodore continues under TPUG's aegis, albeit on a scale much reduced since the expo's heyday.
Show highlights
1983
The first World of Commodore was organized by Commodore Canada and held at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario from 8 to 11 December 1983. Over 70 exhibitors from around the world signed on to debut and demonstrate their Commodore-compatible software and hardware. Despite the unexpected absence of some exhibitors, the convention was a phenomenal success, with 38,000 visitors attending; attendance on the show's final day was the highest in the history of the International Centre.
The show was emceed by TVOntario's Jack Livesley, and featured seminars by Jim Butterfield and others. Exhibitors included Batteries Included; Bell Canada; Commodore Business Machines; Commodore Power/Play; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; Koala Technologies; Micron Technology; the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG); and The Transactor.
1984
World of Commodore II was held from 29 November to 2 December 1984 at the International Centre in Mississauga and attracted 41,516 visitors. Commodore held off on launching their 16-bit product line, instead concentrating their large display on the Plus/4 and Commodore 16. Speakers included David Berman and Jim Butterfield, and exhibitors included the COMAL Users' Group; Commodore Business Machines; Currah; Grolier; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; Houghton Mifflin; Mastertronic; TPUG; The Transactor; Vaisala; and Watcom.
1985
The third annual World of Commodore expo was held at the International Centre in Mississauga from 5 to 8 December 1985. The show was notable for three major product launches by Commodore: the Commodore 128, Amiga, and the PC-10 and PC-20 IBM PC-compatible systems.
The expo also hosted the usual slate of seminars, with presentations by Commodore, Digital Solutions, TPUG, Jim Butterfield, Steve Punter, and others. Industry exhibitors included Abacus Software, Ahoy!, Commodore Business Machines, Digital Solutions, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Communications%20Associates | Digital Communication Associates, Inc. (DCA), was a company in the computer and telecommunications industry, located in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States.
Overview
Digital Communications Associates was founded by John Alderman, who led the company until 1981, when he was replaced by Bertil Nordin. In February 1983, DCA went public, raising 24 million USD. Later, Garry Betty (1957-2007) was CEO of DCA, until he left for Earthlink in November 1996.
Together with Intel, DCA had designed the DCA/Intel Communicating Applications Specification (CAS). It defines a standard, high-level programming interface for data communications applications. The DCX format is the standard file format for storing FAX images in CAS. DCA was in the market of producing T-1 multiplexers. In 1995, DCA of Alpharetta, Georgia, was acquired by Attachmate of Bellevue, Washington.
Acquisitions
In 1981, under the leadership of Bertil Nordin, DCA acquired Technical Analysis Corporation (TAC), the makers of the IRMA Board which enabled PCs to function as 3270 terminals to an IBM mainframe host.
In September 1986, DCA bought Cohesive Networks.
In 1986, DCA acquired Microstuf, makers of the Crosstalk Communications package together with their flagship product, the terminal emulation program Crosstalk Mk.4.
In 1991, DCA acquired Cincinnati-based InterComputer Communications Corporation (ICC), makers of the INFOConnect line of terminal emulation and file-transfer products (focused on the Unisys ecosystem), OpenMind (collaboration) and RLN (remote lan node)
In 1992, DCA acquired Westborough-based Avatar Technologies, makers of the Mac Mainframe hardware and software 3270 emulators, for $8 million.
References
1972 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1995 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
American companies established in 1972
American companies disestablished in 1995
Companies based in Fulton County, Georgia
Computer companies established in 1972
Computer companies disestablished in 1995
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Networking hardware companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Northcutt | Frances "Poppy" Northcutt (born August 10, 1943) is an American engineer and attorney who began her career as a "computer", and was later a member of the technical staff of NASA's Apollo program during the Space Race. During the Apollo 8 mission, she became the first female engineer to work in NASA's Mission Control.
Later in her career, Northcutt became an attorney specializing in women's rights. In the early 1970s, she served on the national board of directors of the National Organization for Women. Now, she works and volunteers for several organizations in Houston advocating for abortion rights.
Early life
Northcutt was born in Many, Louisiana, on August 10, 1943. She grew up in Luling, Texas, and then moved to Dayton, Texas. Northcutt attended high school at Dayton High School in Liberty County and then went on to study mathematics at the University of Texas.
Career
Engineering for the Apollo Program
After graduating in three and a half years, Northcutt was hired in 1965 by TRW, an aerospace contractor with NASA in Houston, as a computress for the new Apollo program. After six months, she had her first performance evaluation, and the head of Houston operations wanted to promote her to technical staff, the term they used for staff doing engineering work. Northcutt was the first woman to work as technical staff. The pay difference between the computress role and the technical staff role was so large that the company did not have mechanisms in place to approve Northcutt's promotion. The operations manager had to schedule pay raises as frequently as possible so that Northcutt's salary was equitable compared to her male colleagues. This experience with the gender pay gap inspired Northcutt's later activism for women's rights.
Northcutt was stationed in the Mission Control's Mission Planning and Analysis room. Northcutt and her team designed the return-to-Earth trajectory that the Apollo 8 crew took from the Moon back to Earth. She was able to identify mistakes in the plan, including making calculations that lowered the amount of fuel used to swing around the Moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed Apollo spacecraft and became the first crewed mission to ever leave Earth orbit. It successfully reached the Moon, orbited it and then returned to Earth safely on December 27, 1968.
Northcutt continued working with TRW and NASA for several more years, working NASA missions such as Apollo 13. After learning about the exploded oxygen tank on the Apollo 13 mission, Northcutt and the other engineers who developed the computer program for Apollo 13 all came in to find a way to get the astronauts home safely. The program that she worked on was used to compute the maneuvers used to return the spacecraft. Northcutt and the Mission Operations Team were later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Team Award for their work on Apollo 13. In 2019 she gave an interview about her Apollo work.
Lay-audience books and articles have claimed that a lunar crater ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalisgaon%20Junction%20railway%20station | Chalisgaon railway station serves Chalisgaon in Jalgaon district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is well-connected to different parts of the state and the country by the rail network. It has four platforms and is served by a total of 29 Mail/Express trains, 10 MEMU trains, 18 Superfast trains and 3 HumSafar Trains. This makes it one of the important junctions in the Indian Railways network in Maharashtra, providing convenient and efficient rail connectivity to the people.
Electrification
Railways in the Chalisgaon area were electrified in 1968–69.
Amenities
Amenities at Chalisgaon railway station include A computerized reservation office, waiting room, retiring room, and bookstall.
Gallery
References
History of Electrification
The Gazzetteers Dept Maharashtra
External links
Departures from Chalisgaon
Railway stations in India opened in 1863
Railway stations in Jalgaon district
Railway junction stations in Maharashtra
Bhusawal railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%27MIC | G'MIC (GREYC's Magic for Image Computing) is a free and open-source framework for image processing. It defines a script language that allows the creation of complex macros. Originally usable only through a command line interface, it is currently mostly popular as a GIMP plugin, and is also included in Krita. G'MIC is dual-licensed under CECILL-2.1 or CECILL-C.
Features
G'MIC's graphical interface is notable for its noise removal filters, which came from an earlier project called GREYCstoration by the same authors. G'MIC offers many built-in commands for image processing, including basic mathematical manipulations, look up tables, and filtering operations. More complex macros and pipelines built out of those commands are defined in its library files.
Interpreters
Command line
G'MIC is primarily a script language callable from a shell. For example, to display an image:
gmic image.jpg
This command displays the image contained in the file image.jpg and allows zooming in to examine values.
Several filters can be applied in succession. For example, to crop and resize an image:
gmic image.jpg -crop 0,0,250,250 -resize 50%,50%
Graphical interface
G'MIC comes with a Qt-based graphical interface, which may be integrated as a Gimp or Krita plugin. It contains several hundred filters written in the G'MIC language, dynamically updated through an internet feed. The interface provides a preview and setting sliders for each filter.
G'MIC is one of the most popular Gimp plugins.
G'MIC Online
Most of the filters available for the graphical interface are also available online.
ZArt
ZArt is a graphical interface for real-time manipulation of webcam images.
libgmic
Libgmic is a C++ library that can be linked to third-party applications. It sees integration in Flowblade and Veejay.
References
Graphics software
Free graphics software
Free raster graphics editors
Free software programmed in C++
Command-line software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey%2C%20Crime%20Photographer%20%28TV%20series%29 | Casey, Crime Photographer (also known simply as Crime Photographer) is an American crime drama television series that aired from April 19, 1951, to June 5, 1952, on the CBS Television Network. The series ran for 57 episodes over two seasons. It was based on the successful radio series of the same name which was based on the novels by George Harmon Coxe.
The series starred Richard Carlyle originally as the title role of Jack "Flashgun" Casey. Later, Darren McGavin would take on the title role. The series co-starred actress Jan Miner as Ann Williams, Jack's girlfriend and a fellow reporter.
Origins
In 1934, author George Harmon Coxe who was already known for the writer of Black Mask magazine, which was launched in 1920, created a new character called Jack Casey who solved crimes for the police.
The character was so successful in the magazine that Coxe wrote a novel about him called Silent Are the Dead in 1942. There were also two movie made about him entitled Women Are Trouble, (1936), and Here's Flash Casey, (1938). Another Casey novel was written entitled Murder For Two in 1943. There were three more Casey novels released; Error of Judgement, (1961), The Man Who Died Too Soon, (1962), and Broken Image, (1964).
On July 7, 1943, the CBS Radio Network launched the long-running radio series called Casey, Crime Photographer, (originally called Flashgun Casey). The show was very successful. It was renamed in April 1944 to Casey, Press Photographer, and again in June 1945 to Crime Photographer. It was finally called Casey, Crime Photographer in March 1947. The radio series was cancelled on November 16, 1950. It was revived and put back on the radio as simply Crime Photographer. It was only on for a year from January 13, 1954–April 22, 1955 before being permanently cancelled.
Between the cancelation of the radio series in 1950 and the revival of it in 1954, CBS Television aired a television series for one year entitled Casey, Crime Photographer (also known as Crime Photographer).
Synopsis
Casey, Crime Photographer premiered on Thursday, April 19, 1951, on CBS. For the first season, actor Richard Carlyle portrayed the title role of Jack Casey, nicknamed “Flashgun”.
Casey is a reporter, specifically a photographer, for the fictional newspaper, The Morning Express in New York. Casey usually reports at crimes, photographing crime scenes. He collaborates with the police and participates in the solving of these crimes. His girlfriend, Ann Williams, which was played by future Palmolive spokesperson and actress Jan Miner for the entire series, is also a reporter at The Express.
Every week on every episode, Casey goes to the Blue Note Café, where a bartender named Ethelbert is usually always there waiting for Casey to tell him his most recent job experience and his most recent crime investigation.
The season one finale aired on August 30, 1951.
Season 2 changes
Season 2 premiered on September 7, 1951.
The major changes that occurred during the seaso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-wireless%20%28disambiguation%29 | i-wireless or i wireless may refer to:
i-wireless, a mobile virtual network operator owned by Cincinnati-based Kroger and affiliated with Sprint
i-wireless, a former prepaid mobile phone brand owned by Cincinnati Bell Wireless
iWireless, a mobile network operator in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois affiliated with T-Mobile
iWireless Center, a multi-purpose arena in Moline, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20370001%E2%80%93371000 |
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| 370006 || || — || October 1, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 3.6 km ||
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| 370007 || || — || November 12, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
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| 370008 || || — || November 14, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
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| 370009 || || — || November 28, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || critical || align=right data-sort-value="0.57" | 570 m ||
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| 370010 || || — || December 12, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.52" | 520 m ||
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| 370011 || || — || January 6, 2000 || Kleť || Kleť Obs. || ERI || align=right | 1.7 km ||
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| 370012 || || — || January 5, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 370013 || || — || January 6, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NAE || align=right | 5.4 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 370014 || || — || February 8, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
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| 370015 || || — || February 4, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 3.9 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 370016 || || — || February 29, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 370017 || || — || January 27, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 3.3 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 370018 || || — || February 29, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 370019 || || — || March 5, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 370020 || || — || March 3, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 370021 || || — || March 3, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 3.3 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 370022 || || — || March 11, 2000 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || V || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 370023 || || — || March 4, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.63 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamount%20Library%20Network | The Catamount Library Network (CLN) is a consortium of public libraries in the U.S. State of Vermont. It provides a unified library catalog using the open source, Koha integrated library system.
Organization
The Catamount Library Network is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization, governed by a 5-member board, chosen by a council composed of one representative from each member library, and officers (president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer), chosen by the board. The council also sets the CLN's annual budget and membership fees, and approves any bylaw changes.
In addition, two groups have been established with representatives from each library, to address, respectively, cataloging and circulation & loans issues arising within the CLN.
History and current status
The development and planning of The Catamount Library Network (CLN) began in 2010 with an initial 5 member libraries, with seed money, initial consultation, and support provided by the Vermont Department of Libraries. The Department of Libraries withdrew most of its assistance over several months in 2015.
The primary motivation for forming the organization was cost savings from switching from proprietary to open source software, and by having one shared system (as opposed to each library maintaining, and paying for, its own separate system). Additionally, a unified catalog allows easier resource sharing between libraries.
Initially, the CLN planned to use the Evergreen Integrated Library System, but later selected Koha as its ILS.
The first 5 libraries switched to the new system in the spring and summer of 2013. An additional 12 libraries have since joined the organization, 9 of which, have added their holdings to the unified catalog. 3 other libraries are currently in various stages of preparation.
One library, Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol, VT initially joined, but left before being added to the consortium's catalog. It has since joined VOKAL instead. As a result of concern over unrecovered transition costs from Lawrence Memorial leaving CLN, the board voted on September 22, 2014, to require new members to pay a non-refundable deposit of $350(US).
The CLN continues to seek additional members.
Database hosting
The Catamount Library Network's common Koha database and software are hosted by ByWater Solutions.
VOKAL (The Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries)
There is currently one other unified public library catalog in Vermont—VOKAL (The Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries), established by the Green Mountain Library Consortium, and (like CLN), hosted by ByWater Solutions.
CLN Member libraries (current and former)
References
External links
Catamount Library Network
Vermont Department of Libraries
Public libraries in Vermont
2010 establishments in Vermont
Organizations established in 2010
Library consortia in Vermont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20371001%E2%80%93372000 |
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| 371003 || || — || October 7, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
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| 371004 || || — || October 7, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.5 km ||
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| 371005 || || — || October 7, 2005 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
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| 371007 || || — || October 9, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.55" | 550 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371008 || || — || October 9, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.90" | 900 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371009 || || — || October 10, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.92" | 920 m ||
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| 371010 || || — || October 1, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371011 || || — || October 1, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371012 || || — || October 22, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.91" | 910 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371013 || || — || October 22, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || ADE || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371014 || || — || October 23, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371015 || || — || October 23, 2005 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371016 || || — || October 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371017 || || — || October 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371018 || || — || October 22, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371019 || || — || October 23, 2005 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371020 || || — || October 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || HEN || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371021 || || — || October 25, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371022 || || — || October 25, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 371023 || || — || Septembe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible%20array%20member | C struct data types may end with a flexible array member with no specified size:
struct vectord {
short len; // there must be at least one other data member
double arr[]; // the flexible array member must be last
// The compiler may reserve extra padding space here, like it can between struct members
};
Typically, such structures serve as the header in a larger, variable memory allocation:
struct vectord *vector = malloc(...);
vector->len = ...;
for (int i = 0; i < vector->len; i++)
vector->arr[i] = ...; // transparently uses the right type (double)
Effect on struct size and padding
The sizeof operator on such a struct gives the size of the structure as if the flexible array member were empty. This may include padding added to accommodate the flexible member; the compiler is also free to re-use such padding as part of the array itself.
It is common to allocate sizeof(struct) + array_len*sizeof(array element) bytes.
This is not wrong, but it may allocate a few more bytes than necessary: the compiler may be re-purposing some of the padding that is included in sizeof(struct). Should this be a concern, macros are available to compute the minimum size while ensuring that the compiler's padding is not disrupted.
As the array may start in the padding before the end of the structure, its content should always be accessed via indexing (arr[i]) or offsetof, not sizeof.
Availability
Flexible array members were officially standardized in C99. In practice, compilers (e.g., GCC, Microsoft's) provided them well before C99 was standardized.
Flexible array members are not officially part of C++, but language extensions are widely available.
References
C (programming language)
Arrays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20TORPET | The TORPET was a Toronto-based computer magazine directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers.
Publication history
Though named for and associated with the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), the magazine was published independently of the club as a commercial enterprise with paid writers. Twenty-eight issues were produced for TPUG from November 1980 to August 1984.
In 1984 TORPET's owner and editor, Bruce Beach, dissociated the publication from TPUG and relaunched it as an oceanography journal, backronymming its name to Today's Oceanographic Research Program for Education & Training. TPUG launched its own computing journal, TPUG Magazine, in February 1984.
A 320-page anthology of The TORPET's most popular articles, The Best of The TORPET Plus More for the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20, was published in 1984 by Copp Clark Pitman. It featured type-in listings for over a thousand freeware programs, articles and cartoon strips teaching BASIC and machine language programming, memory maps, and user documentation for popular public domain software.
References
External links
TORPET archive at TPUG
The TORPET at the Personal Computer Museum
Bruce Beach biography
Defunct magazines published in Canada
Defunct computer magazines
Magazines established in 1980
Magazines disestablished in 1984
Commodore 8-bit computer magazines
Magazines published in Toronto
Monthly magazines published in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Eugene%20Smith | Albert Eugene Smith (1907-1973) was a computing pioneer who worked for the U.S. Navy following World War II. He founded the Digital Computer Newsletter published by the Navy from 1949 through 1968. Smith also participated in the development of the COBOL programming language.
Smith was born June 26, 1907, in Marshall, Illinois. He graduated from Indiana Central College (now University of Indianapolis), and completed an M.A. in physics at the University of Illinois. He taught high school and junior college until the outbreak of World War II. Smith was on active duty in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946, completing his tour as a lieutenant commander. In June, 1946, he joined the computer section of the Mathematics Branch of the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Postwar computing
While at ONR and later at the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships, Smith oversaw research contracts including Whirlwind and the Harvard calculators. Starting in 1951, Smith collaborated with Mina Rees and Grace Murray Hopper to organize a series of seminars on computing development.
In 1946, Smith represented the ONR at the Moore School Lectures organized by the ENIAC team. The following year, Smith compiled summaries of active computer projects and published a survey of their activities. This led to the Navy's Digital Computer Newsletter.
COBOL
In April, 1959, a group of computer manufacturers and users met at the University of Pennsylvania to plan the development of a computer language for business applications. At the time, business-oriented languages were built to work with specific computer systems. This new effort would seek to build a language whose programs could be easily adapted to run on other computers. Gene Smith represented the Navy's Bureau of Ships at that meeting. The development was divided among three task forces:
Short Range – chaired by Grace Hopper
Intermediate Range – chaired by Gene Smith
Long Range – chaired by Saul Gorn
The COBOL language evolved from proposals developed by the Short Range Task Force. Smith remained active in the COBOL community through the Conference on Data System Languages (CODASYL) until his retirement.
References
External links
Archive of Digital Computer Newsletter on DTIC
Second archive, less numbers, better quality
1907 births
People from Marshall, Illinois
University of Indianapolis alumni
University of Illinois alumni
United States Navy officers
1973 deaths
Military personnel from Illinois
United States Navy personnel of World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Punter | Steve Punter (born 1958 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Toronto-based programmer and media personality.
Punter is noted for his work with Commodore microcomputers. He created WordPro, the first major word processor for the Commodore PET and Commodore 64 computers. He is also the designer of the Punter binary file transfer protocols which bear his name. He wrote the PunterNet networked BBS program in the late 1980s.
In the 1980s Punter designed and operated the bulletin board system (BBS) for the Toronto PET Users Group. He was an occasional speaker at the World of Commodore expos, and is featured in the film BBS: The Documentary.
He is an expert on cell phones and cell phone network coverage, in which capacity he has made occasional network TV appearances since the early 2000s.
See also
Punter protocol
References
External links
Steve Punter at the Personal Computer Museum
1958 births
Commodore people
Computer programmers
Living people
People from Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20377001%E2%80%93378000 |
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| 377001 || || — || August 29, 2002 || Palomar || S. F. Hönig || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377002 || || — || August 28, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 2.8 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377003 || || — || August 16, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 2.6 km ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377004 || || — || August 17, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377005 || || — || August 17, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377006 || || — || August 29, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.63" | 630 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377007 || || — || August 19, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.79" | 790 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377008 || || — || August 27, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.92" | 920 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377009 || || — || August 18, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 2.4 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377010 || || — || August 28, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 3.2 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377011 || || — || August 17, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377012 || || — || August 30, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.90" | 900 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377013 || || — || September 4, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 3.8 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377014 || || — || September 4, 2002 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.81" | 810 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377015 || || — || September 4, 2002 || Ondřejov || P. Kušnirák || — || align=right | 2.6 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377016 || || — || September 4, 2002 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right | 3.0 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377017 || || — || September 5, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377018 || || — || September 5, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.96" | 960 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377019 || || — || August 11, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 4.5 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377020 || || — || September 5, 2002 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right | 3.2 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 377021 || || — || September 5, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 2.0 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 377022 || || — || September 11, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 3.0 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377023 || || — || September 9, 2002 || Haleakala || NEAT || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.70" | 700 m ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 377024 || || — || S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking%20Point%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Talking Point is an Australian television series which aired 1960 to 1962 on Sydney station ATN-7 (Australian TV was not fully networked at the time, and most non-imported series aired on a single station). It was a discussion series featuring a panel of four. Angus Maude was the original host, later it was hosted by Joe Gullett. In one episode, the panel criticised the banning of the book Lady Chatterley's Lover, in another episode there was a debate on the future of the United Nations, while another episode featured a discussion of the space race.
Episode status
Despite airing in an era where wiping of television series was common, three 1961 episodes are held by the National Film and Sound Archive.
References
External links
1960 Australian television series debuts
1962 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Australian television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja%20Petri%C4%87 | Maja Petrić is a contemporary new media artist who works primarily in interactive art that combines light, sound and cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics to expand the multi-sensory apparatus through which art can be experience. She was born in 1981 in Zagreb, Croatia. She lives and works in Madrid, Seattle, New York City, and Zagreb. She received a PhD in new media art from the University of Washington Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media and Masters from the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
Maja has conceived and produced interactive art environments for Microsoft, interactive experiences for Hong Kong Landmark, permanent light installations for Google, etc. Her commissions include tour of the immersive installation We Are All Made Of Light across the US, and series of interactive installations that take place in public parks, commercial, and private venues.
Maja is the recipient of The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology for Interactive Art, Microsoft Research Residency Award, Richard Kelly Light Art Award, Doctoral Fellowship from National Science Foundation, and was nominated for International Light Art Award, Arts Innovator Award, and FastCo. Innovation by Design Awards.
She has been teaching about light and art at the University of Washington, Complutense University of Madrid, Technical University of Madrid, and European Institute of Design. In 2016 she designed and directed the first-of-its-kind graduate program “Creative Lighting” at European Institute of Design in Madrid, Spain.
Notable works
We Are All Made of Light (2018-19)
Lost Skies (2017-19)
I Saw My Birth, Love, and Death in the Sky (2017)
A Panorama of The Skies (2013)
The Skies Epitomized (2013)
Horizon is an Imaginary Line (2013)
Skies (2013)
Skies Epitomized of War and Peace, featured by City Arts Magazine: a collection of creative writings and art, along with works from artists including Ari Glass, Gabriel Teodros and others.
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computers | The Computers are a British rock band from Exeter, England. Their sound initially fused hardcore punk and garage rock and progressed to a less heavy sound incorporating blues and soul. As of 2023, The Computers have released one mini-album (You Can't Hide From the Computers, 2008) and three albums, This Is the Computers (2011), Love Triangles Hate Squares (2013) which registered 70 and 75 points, respectively, on the Metacritic rating scale and Birth/Death (2016).
Band history
The band was formed in the mid-2000s by singer/guitarist Alex Kershaw, bassist Nic Heron, guitarist Sonny Crawford and drummer Will Wright. They played their first show in August 2006 at The Cavern in Exeter with American hardcore punk band Paint It Black. Will Wright was replaced in 2009 by drummer Aidan Sinclair. Guitarist and pianist Fred Ansell joined in 2011. In February 2014 Nic Heron and Sonny Crawford announced their departure from the group. Guitarist James Mattock (formerly of Sharks) and bassist Thomas McMahon joined in 2014.
BBC Radio 1 Punk Show host Mike Davies invited them to play a live session on the show after having been a band for less than a year and soon The Computers, then a Black Flag-influenced hardcore punk band, signed to Fierce Panda, who released their debut mini-album You Can't Hide From the Computers in 2008, described by Kerrang! as "stylish UK hardcore" and "punk'n'roll that wants to dance as well as it does break stuff."
In 2010 the quartet recorded their debut album, This Is the Computers (11 songs, 24 minutes), with producer John Reis of Rocket from the Crypt, in just four days at his home in San Diego (straight to tape, without any computers involved). Preceded in February by the single "Group Identity", the album was released on 21 June 2011 by One Little Independent. The band rounded up the year by touring Britain with Gay for Johnny Depp.
Their second album, Love Triangles Hate Squares, which came out on 16 May 2013, took a more eclectic approach than their earlier work and received a mainly positive response. Some critics lauding Alex Kershaw's singing and the way the band's writing had "developed, with many of these witty, catchy songs recalling Elvis Costello and the Hives" (according to AllMusic). Other reviewers claimed the change of direction was derivative and showed its influences too clearly - "Love Triangles Hate Squares is a forceful blast of passion-fired pastiche, but never quite escapes feeling like a cheap holiday in other people's history" according to Classic Rock. DIY said "for all of the frontman’s dynamism, he can’t save a frustratingly slow, out-of-date computer".
In March 2015 the band entered the studio to begin recording their third studio album with producer David McEwan. The Album named Birth/Death released in September 2016.
Band members
Current
Alex Kershaw – lead vocals, guitar
Fred Ansell - guitar & piano
Sonny Crawford - guitar
Thomas McMahon – bass guitar
Aidan Sinclair– drums
Previous
Nic Her |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Economics | Computer Economics is an IT research firm focusing on the strategic and financial management of information systems. It was founded in 1979 by Bruno Bassi and is currently headquartered in El Segundo, California, USA. Clients include IT organizations, consulting firms, and financial services firms in North America and other countries. Computer Economics research provides IT metrics in six categories along with practical advice backed up by annual surveys of IT decision makers.
Its Computer Economics Report, first published in 1979, was a monthly newsletter related to IT cost management. Its IT Spending, Staffing, and Worldwide Technology Trends study, first published in 1990, is based on its annual survey of IT executives in the U.S. and Canada. The firm also publishes special reports on IT spending and staffing metrics, IT salaries, IT security, malware, and other topics. In addition, the firm maintains data on vendor pricing and discounting, fair market values, and residual value forecasts for computer hardware.
Computer Economics is a service of Avasant Research.
References
External links
Official site
Avasant Research and Data
Computer Economics in the News
International information technology consulting firms
Research and analysis firms of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Geothermal%20Data%20System | The National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) is an American distributed data network that collects and provides public access to digital geothermal exploration and development information. Data includes borehole temperature measurements, geothermal gradients, active faults, and geochemical analyses.
History
NGDS was initially funded by the United States Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Program (awards DE-EE0001120 and DE-EE002850), as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The National Geothermal Data System makes use of the large collection of hard copy documents stored in state geological survey archives. These documents include maps, field notes and well logs relevant to geothermal exploration and development. Some of the information was originally gathered for use by the oil industry. NGDS facilitates the digitization of this data, and ensures that data from various sources is stored in a compatible format to facilitate standardized search terms and geospatial analyses. Participating agencies maintain ownership and control of data they contribute.
Once digitized, the NGDS provides free public access to the data by means of a distributed network of online databases, and also provide the public with free and open-source software with which to search and view the data.
Participating Agencies
NGDS primary contributors include the United States Geological Survey, Southern Methodist University, and the Association of American State Geologists.
Most agencies that contribute data to NGDS host their data on their own servers; some smaller agencies submit their data to contract-designated hubs, while still owning their data. NGDS hub states include Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky, and Nevada.
Participating agencies also submit metadata records to a central web-accessible catalog, describing the data that has been contributed to NGDS. Both NGDS data and the NGDS catalog can be accessed by common web browsers and web applications. NGDS data can also be accessed by geographic information system software applications including ArcGIS, UDig, QGIS, and GvSIG.
References
External links
The NGDS Portal
The USGS goethermal landing page
The Southern Methodist University Geothermal Lab
Geothermal energy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumbline%20network | A rhumbline network (or windrose network) is a navigational aid consisting in multiple lines in a web-like grid drawn on portolan charts (and other early maps). These nautical charts were used in the medieval age and age of exploration in marine navigation.
Since the invention of the Mercator projection c. 1600, the term rhumb line (or loxodrome) has been redefined to mean a mathematically precise curve of constant bearing on the Earth's surface. To avoid confusion, the lines on earlier sailing charts can be unambiguously called windrose lines, since they are not true rhumb lines by the modern definition. A rhumb line in the modern sense is only straight on a chart drawn with the Mercator projection, but not on charts from the 13th–16th centuries. Older windrose lines were a close approximation on charts of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding areas, but the rhumb lines on small-scale maps such as the Teixeira planisphere were highly inaccurate.
The grid can be easily spotted (as parchment is quite translucent) by observing a chart from its rear face, with a light source illuminating the other side. The hole in the center of the circle, origin of the whole network, is also clearly visible from the rear.
Use of windrose lines on a rhumbline network
To calculate on a portolan chart the course to follow from a point of origin to a point of destination, one should transfer — using a parallel rule — the "line of course" drawn from the point of origin to the point of destination, on top of the windrose line on the compass rose closest to the ship's position, obtaining on it the theoretical course to be followed when sailing towards the destination. This theoretical course may have to be modified (as many times as needed) when tacking if the wind is right ahead of you, or to correct the effects of leeway, currents, etc. that a sailor with experience should be able to calculate empirically.
Rhumblines vs. windrose lines
Before modern accurate surveying, there was no method for measuring longitude at sea so maps used to have many distortions, especially in the east west direction. There was also distortion due to the curvature of the Earth's surface. The multitude of compass roses with straight lines extending outwards across the map derived from how the maps were then made by compiling empirical observations from navigators who attempted to follow a constant bearing at sea.
All portolan maps share these characteristic "windrose networks", which emanate from compass roses located at various points on the map (or mapamundi). These better called "windrose lines" are generated "by observation and the compass", and are designated today as "lines of course" or "lines of rhumb" ("rhumb lines" in the fourteenth century, traced on portolan's particular projection, though not to be confused with modern rhumb lines, meridians or isoazimuthals).
To understand that those lines should be better called "windrose lines", one has to know that portolan maps are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Geyer | Rudolf Felix Geyer (born 13 October 1933) is a Dutch sociologist and cybernetician, former head of the methodology section of SISWO (Interuniversity Institute for Social Science Research) at the University of Amsterdam, known for his work in the fields of Social alienation, and on sociocybernetics.
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Geyer began studies in geology at the University of Amsterdam in 1951 and received his BA in 1953. He continued with studies in sociology and received his MA at the University of Amsterdam in 1961. Later in 1980 he received his PhD under Hiddo M. Jolles with a thesis, entitled "Alienation theories : a general systems approach".
In the 1960s Geyer started working in industry, where he worked in the fields of marketing and labor market research. In 1968 he joined the Interuniversity Institute for Social Science Research (SISWO) at the University of Amsterdam, where he became head of the methodology section. He held this position until his retirement in 1998. In 1970 Geyer was one of the co-founders of the Dutch Systems Group, and served on its board.
Selected publications
Geyer, R. Felix. Alienation Theories: A general systems approach. Pergamon Press, 1980.
Geyer, Felix, and Johannes van der Zouwen, eds. Sociocybernetic Paradoxes: observation, control and evolution of self-steering systems. Sage, 1986.
Geyer, R. Felix. Alienation, ethnicity, and postmodernism. No. 116. Praeger, 1996.
Geyer, R. Felix, and David R. Schweitzer, eds. Alienation, problems of meaning, theory, and method. Routledge/Thoemms Press, 1981.
Geyer, R. Felix, and Johannes van der Zouwen, eds. Sociocybernetics: Complexity, autopoiesis, and observation of social systems. No. 132. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.
Articles a selection
Felix Geyer and Johannes van der Zouwen. "Sociocybernetics" in: Handbook of Cybernetics (C.V. Negoita, ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker, 1992, pp. 95–124.
Felix Geyer. "The Challenge of Sociocybernetics". In: Kybernetes. 24(4):6-32, 1995. Copyright MCB University Press1995
Felix Geyer. "Sociocybernetics" In: Kybernetes, Vol. 31 No. 7/8, 2002, pp. 1021–1042.
References
External links
Felix Geyer at the University of Zaragoza
Dutch sociologists
Dutch systems scientists
Cyberneticists
1933 births
Living people
University of Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Scientists from Amsterdam
20th-century Dutch scientists
21st-century Dutch scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USU%20%28operating%20system%29 | USU linux (Bulgarian: УСУ; Учи Свободен с Убунту) is Bulgarian open source desktop operating system built around the KDE desktop environment and based on the popular free Linux distribution, Ubuntu.
About USU
Usu can be downloaded in three flavours, Desktop, Mini and Netbook, each one with its own features and target audience. All of them can be downloaded for free, as Live CD/DVD ISO images, supporting 32-bit and 64-bit processors. The default language is Bulgarian, but in installation it can be easy changed with F2 key.
Features
USU Desktop is created to be used as a learning tool, this edition of USU includes a very long list of educational apps, like as Celestia space simulator, MuseScore music score typesetter, Blender 3D rendering software, Kalgebra mathematical calculator, and much more.
System Requirements
USU haves this approximate system requirements:
processor with working frequency ~900 MHz
minimum 384 MB RAM (512 MB if using as live CD without SWAP)
~7 GB free space on hard disk (only in installation choice)
DVD reader
monitor, with minimum resolution 640х480, for normal work - 800х600 and up.
video card, that can show at least 16 bit colors and resolution 640х480 (recommended - 800х600 and up)
Pictures
Usu 9.1
USU 8.1
USU 7
USU 6
USU 5
References
External links
Review in video by the famous Adams family from Australia(OsFirstTimer)
Debian-based distributions
IA-32 Linux distributions
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
PowerPC operating systems
X86-64 Linux distributions
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaf%20Keshavjee | Shaf Keshavjee is a Canadian surgeon and the current Surgeon-in-Chief at University Health Network in Toronto, the Director of the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, as well as a clinical scientist and professor with the University of Toronto.
His clinical practice in Thoracic Surgery and Transplant Surgery is based at the Toronto General Hospital, where he also leads a research team in lung transplantation studies. Dr. Keshavjee gained international recognition for the development of his lung preservation solution for donor lungs en route to transplantation; this solution is now the standard technique utilized by transplantation programs around the world. Further, he broke new ground with his research to the recondition and repair of injured human donor lungs, making them suitable for patient transplantation, using the Toronto XVIVO Lung Perfusion System. His work has allowed for an increase in the number of available donor lungs.
Education and training
In 1985, Keshavjee completed his medical degree at the University of Toronto. He did a comprehensive surgical internship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in 1986. His Research Fellowship and Surgical Scientist Program in the Division of Thoracic Surgery were done at the University of Toronto and Toronto General Hospital in 1989. That same year he received his MSc in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.
A few years later in 1993, Keshavjee became a Fellow in Thoracic Surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City. In 2012, he went to Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School, and Cambridge University to obtain a degree in continuing education for Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage. In 1994, he joined the faculty at the University of Toronto.
Current appointments
1994–Present: Director of Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, Toronto General Research Institute (TGRI) and University of Toronto (U of T)
1995–Present: Faculty in the Institute of Medical Sciences, School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto
1997–Present: Senior Scientist, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, UHN, TGRI
1997–Present: Director, Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) and The Hospital for Sick Children
2002–Present: Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, U of T
2010–Present: Surgeon-in-Chief, Sprott Department of Surgery, UHN
2012–Present: Adjunct Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
Awards and recognition
Boards and societies
Dr. Keshavjee has served on the board of directors of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Canadian Society of Transplantation, and on the Governing Council of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
Awards
Over the course of his career, he has received many awards for his medical contributions. These have included:
The George Armstrong Peters Young Investigator Award
Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award
The Colin Woolf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS | BadBIOS is alleged malware described by network security researcher Dragos Ruiu in October 2013 with the ability to communicate between instances of itself across air gaps using ultrasonic communication between a computer's speakers and microphone. To date, there have been no proven occurrences of this malware.
Ruiu says that the malware is able to infect the BIOS of computers running Windows, Mac OS X, BSD and Linux as well as spread infection over USB flash drives. Rob Graham of Errata Security produced a detailed analysis of each element of the descriptions of BadBIOS's capabilities, describing the software as "plausible", whereas Paul Ducklin on the Sophos Naked Security blog suggested "It's possible, of course, that this is an elaborate hoax". After Ruiu posted data dumps which supposedly demonstrated the existence of the virus, "all signs of maliciousness were found to be normal and expected data".
In December 2013 computer scientists Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz released a paper to the Journal of Communication demonstrating the possibility of an acoustic mesh networking at a slow 20 bits per second using a set of speakers and microphones for ultrasonic communication in a fashion similar to BadBIOS's described abilities.
See also
Air gap (networking)
Van Eck phreaking
References
Computer viruses
Malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio | Greatest Hits Radio is a classic hits radio network in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by Bauer.
Overview
The network launched on 5 January 2015 as the "Bauer City 2 Network", and rebranded on 7 January 2019 due to the success of Radio City 2 in Liverpool on FM.
As of April 2023, the network consists of 18 local and regional radio stations operating over 50 FM and DAB licences in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as a national DAB station in areas not served by a local Bauer-owned licence.
In most cases, the stations are networked, apart from a three-hour regional afternoon show on weekdays and localised opt-outs for news, weather, travel and advertising.
History
Gold
The stations forming the Greatest Hits Radio network are predominantly sister stations to the corresponding Hits Radio network stations. Many were originally set up as a 'Gold' counterpart (e.g. Radio City Gold in Liverpool) when stations were instructed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority to cease simulcasting their services on both FM and AM in the late 1980s. The main exception to this was FM station West Sound in Dumfries and Galloway.
Greatest Hits Radio (Scotland) and Magic (Northern England)
In Northern England, the stations were rebranded as Magic in 1997 – a station brand first used by Radio Aire upon the launch of their AM station in July 1990.
In Scotland, local programming on AM stations was largely retained until networking outside of weekday breakfast and specialist shows was introduced in June 2009.
The Magic stations gradually began to form a network merging most of their schedule until, and by March 2013, only local content consisted of three regional breakfast shows on weekdays, serving the North West, the North East and Yorkshire.
In July 2013, the remaining Scottish local output ceased, leading to a fully networked schedule known as 'Greatest Hits Network.
Greatest Hits Radio (Scotland) and Radio City 2 (Northern England)
In September 2014, Bauer Radio announced it would rebrand the Magic stations under localised identities, based on the main FM station names (e.g. Magic 1152 in Manchester becomes Key 2, based on Key 103). Magic's AM network closed with the London equivalent, Magic 105.4 FM, launched nationwide on DAB.
The relaunch took place on Monday 5 January 2015. Initially, the two networks serving Scotland (The Greatest Hits Network) and northern England (City 2 Network) were replaced by one carrying programming from both nations over all stations, with some peak time opt-outs. Further split programming for the two nations was reintroduced the following year.
On 7 December 2015, Radio City 2 in Liverpool swapped frequencies with sister station Radio City Talk on 105.9 FM and reintroduced local programming at peak times.
In April 2018, Northsound 2 ceased analogue broadcasting on 1035 AM, becoming the first commercial radio station in Scotland – and the first local Bauer-owned station – to broadcast only on digital platforms (DAB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex%20Computer%203256 | The TC 3256 or Timex Computer 3256 was a 1987 computer created by Timex of Portugal, a branch of Timex Corporation.
It was a third generation Sinclair ZX Spectrum compatible computer, with expanded capabilities and new TEC - Timex Extended Commands BASIC commands supporting the AY-3-8912 sound chip, RS-232 network and the 512x192 pixel high resolution graphic mode.
Besides the legacy Sinclair BASIC, the ROM included a word processor (Timeword), Timex Extended Basic (with support for the Tenet network, floppy disks and RAM drive) and a CP/M terminal emulator.
RAM was expanded to 256kb.
At least one prototype was built, but the machine never reached the market due to Timex of Portugal shutting down its production line before its release.
Technical specifications
CPU
Zilog Z80A
ROM
64K
16K Sinclair BASIC
16K Timeword text processor
16K Timex Extended Basic (Tenet, disk, RAM drive)
16K CP/M terminal emulator
RAM
256K
208K RAM drive
48K base memory
Display
Timex SCLD chip instead of the Spectrum's ULA, offering additional screen modes:
Text: 32×24 or 64x32 characters (8×8 pixels, rendered in graphics mode)
Graphics: 256×192 pixels, 15 colours (two simultaneous colours - "attributes" - per 8×8 pixels, causing attribute clash)
Extended Color: 256×192 pixels, 15 colors with colour resolution of 32×192 (two simultaneous colours - "attributes" - per 1×8 pixels)
Dual Screen: (two 256×192 pixels screens can be placed in memory)
A two color 512×192 mode
Sound
Beeper (1 channel, 10 octaves and 10+ semitones via internal speaker)
AY-3-8912
I/O
RS-232
Cartridge port
Tape audio in/out for external cassette tape storage
RF television out
Composite video monitor out
RGB monitor out
Kempston Joystick input
Storage
External cassette tape recorder
Disk Drive: TOS / CP/M
Keyboard
69 keys with cursors, numpad and function keys
See also
Timex Sinclair
Timex Sinclair 2068
References
External links
Timex Computer World
ZX Spectrum clones
Home computers
Z80-based home computers
Portuguese inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20MBC%20Drama%20Awards | The 2014 MBC Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) network for the year of 2014. It was held on December 30, 2014 and hosted by Shin Dong-yup and Girls' Generation's Choi Soo-young.
Nominations and winners
Winners denoted in bold
The Grand Prize (Daesang) has been determined through viewer's votes since 2014, and not by a professional set of judges.
References
External links
http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/event/2014mbc/
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202011%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2011 in music
List of number-one singles of 2011 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2011 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2011
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic%20plotter | An electrostatic plotter is a type of plotter that draws images on paper with an electrostatic process. They are most frequently used for Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), producing raster images via either a Liquid Toner or a Dry Toner model.
Liquid Toner models use toner that is positively charged and thus becomes attracted to paper's negative charge. This occurs after the toner particles pass through a line of electrodes in the form of tiny wires, or nibs. The spacing of the wires controls the resolution of the plotter; for example, 100 or 400 wires to the inch. Dry Toner models use a process similar to xerography in photocopiers. Unlike a laser printer or photocopier, there is no transfer drum used in most electrostatic plotters; the imaging paper is directly exposed to the charging electrode array.
Electrostatic plotters can print in black and white or in color. Some models handle paper sizes up to six feet wide. Newer versions are large-format laser printers and focus light onto a charged drum using lasers or LEDs. The image quality produced by some electrostatic plotters was lower than that of contemporary pen plotters, but the increased speed and economy made them useful. Unlike a pen plotter, the plot time of a rasterized electrostatic plotter was independent of the level of detail of the image. Modern electrostatic color plotters are found in the short run graphics industry, printing on a variety of paper or plastic film surfaces.
Electrostatic plotters were known in the early days of computer graphics; by 1967, several manufacturers commercially supplied electrostatic plotters.
References
Non-impact printing
Plotters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%20Cohen | Betty Susan Cohen (born July 27, 1956) is an American businesswoman and media executive. She is best known as the founder and original president of Cartoon Network from 1992 to 2001, the CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services from 2005 to 2007, the founder and president of Betty Cohen Media Consulting since 2008, and the founder and CEO of Hearts & Minds Media since 2019.
Early life
Cohen grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. She was involved in theater in high school and wrote her senior paper on the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop). She attended Stanford University from 1973 to 1977, where she majored in communications.
Career
Public Media Center
In 1977, Cohen began her career as a production manager for Public Media Center, an ad agency. She had been tasked with producing public service announcements, and soon came to realize that the "larger picture" was her strength rather than smaller details. Cohen said , "I was the person who had the perspective to see where the project should head, rather than writing the first draft."
Cable Health Network
In 1982, Cohen joined the Cable Health Network as their first manager of marketing.
Nickelodeon
From 1984 to 1988, Cohen was director of on-air promotion and interstitial programming for Nickelodeon. Her marketing at this time yielded the Nick at Nite block, dubbed "the Network for the TV Generation."
Turner Broadcasting System
In 1988, Cohen joined Turner Broadcasting System, where she was appointed as TNT's general manager and director of marketing. She was promoted to senior vice president of TNT and tasked her with creating a channel to house Ted Turner's recently-purchased, extensive animation library. Cohen thus founded Cartoon Network in 1992 and was its president until 2001. Under her leadership, network brands such as Toonami, Boomerang, the Cartoon Cartoons, Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, and Cartoon Orbit were introduced, as well as original series such as Space Ghost Coast to Coast, What a Cartoon!, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and Courage the Cowardly Dog. Dexter's Laboratory, in particular, was one of her favorite animated shows. The network became a global phenomenon during her tenure, with asset value of nearly $3 billion.
Cohen stepped down from her post on June 18, 2001, due to creative disagreements with Jamie Kellner, then-head of Turner Broadcasting; she also stated, "I was afraid I would die the queen of cartoons." She was succeeded at CN by Jim Samples. Cohen remained with parent company AOL-Time Warner until September 2002, to develop multiplatform services aimed at adolescents and young adults.
Lifetime
From 2005 to 2007, Cohen returned to Lifetime Entertainment Services and served as their CEO and president. Cohen helped the network attract a younger audience.
Betty Cohen Media Consulting
Cohen is the founder and president of Betty Cohen Media Consulting since 2008, which offers companies advice on br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation%20Ministries | Transformation Ministries is a Christian network of churches in the United States. The headquarters is in Covina, California.
History
It was originally formed in 1895 as the Southern California Baptist Convention. Later, in 1995, it was renamed as American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest. Then in 2006, when the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest separated from the American Baptist Churches USA due to a disagreement with how ABC USA enforced membership alliances and ordination appointments in light of theological differences and disparity in core tenets of Biblical interpretation, it renamed as Transformation Ministries.
Today there are TM Churches in thirteen (13) states and Northern Mexico (Tijuana). Since 2015, TM has established minisitry hubs in Houston, Indianapolis and Miami as part of the expansion of the movement beyond their historical footprint in the American southwest.
According to a denomination census released in 2022, it claimed 240 churches.
References
External links
Baptist denominations in the United States
Christian organizations established in 1895
2006 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter%20Schmalstieg | Dieter Schmalstieg is an Austrian computer scientist, full professor, and head of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision (ICG) at Graz University of Technology. In 1993 he received a master of science diploma and in 1997 the degree of doctor of technical sciences. Currently he has over 300 peer-reviewed works which were cited over 20,000 times which brought him an h-index of 70.
He is the author of the book "Augmented Reality - Principles and Practice" (with Tobias Höllerer, ), published by Addison-Wesley in 2016
. A translation into Japanese appeared 2018.
Publications
Pose tracking from natural features on mobile phones, IEEE, 2008.
ARToolkitPlus for pose tracking on mobile devices, Graz Technical University, 2007.
First steps towards handheld augmented reality, IEEE, 2003.
Mathematics and geometry education with collaborative augmented reality, ACM, 2002.
The studierstube augmented reality project, MIT Press, 2002.
References
External links
Living people
20th-century births
Austrian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Virtual reality pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENER%201000 | The ENER 1000 was a Portuguese computer released in 1982.
It had 64 KB RAM and two -inch double-density floppy disk drives.
It ran the CP/M operating system.
The machine was developed on Universidade de Coimbra and sold through Enertrónica after 1982. More than 500 units were sold. It came with software for stock management, salary processing, and accounting.
In 1983 the machine was awarded the 1st prize for creativity at Endiel (Encontro Nacional para o Desenvolvimento das Indústrias Elétricas e Eletrónicas).
In 1984, a dozen of ENER 1000 were distributed to some secondary schools. In 1985 the ENER 1000 project ended.
Characteristics
The machine was based on eurocard cards (10 x 16 cm) connected to the motherboard using up to 8 DIN 41612 connectors. The desktop box measured 50 x 36 x 15 cm and could house up to 8 cards. There were two internal -inch double-density floppy disk drives (1.6 Mb capacity).
Minimal configuration
The minimal configuration used only 4 slots:
CPU card with a Motorola MC6809 processor and 2K EPROM
64/128 KB DRAM card
double serial interface card
floppy disc controller card
The computer could function as a multi-station machine, supporting up to 4 users in 7 terminals.
Expansion modules
Some custom built modules were available for expansion:
FPU
6809 CPU with 4K EPROM, 2K RAM e timer;
16K static RAM/ROM;
alphanumeric and graphic unit for spectral plots;
light pen;
fast ADC for Nuclear Physics applications;
four 8bit DACs;
local network node;
Winchester 5" 1/4 controller;
CRT and keyboard controller;
8088 CPU;
synchronous serial ports (HDLC and SDLC);
12-bit A/D and D/A converters;
DMA controller
References
Products introduced in 1982
6809-based home computers
Personal computers
Portuguese inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigatronics | Gigatronics (1980-1992) was a Greek computer manufacturer. It produced the model "ΕΡΜΗΣ" (1984) based on the microprocessor 6502, and the personal computer "KAT" (1988) based on the microprocessors 8088 and 65C816. "ΕΡΜΗΣ" had its own operating system, database and the programming language "SUPER BASIC", while "KAT" was running in both IBM and Apple modes.
In 1986, it developed the database, spreadsheet and word processing program "Foundation" that was also distributed in the US for Apple personal computers.
References
Financial Times, 1 Nov. 1984, https://www.dropbox.com/s/r7rhutfqml1hjk2/FIN TIMES 1984.pdf?dl=0.
Athena Magazine, International Studies Association, Issue 22–40, p. 16, 1988.
InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group Inc., Vol.7, Issue 47, p. 19, 25 Nov. 1985.
Social Europe : Supplement on..., Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Vol.7, p. 54-55, 1985.
Greece : a country study, Eugene K. Keefe, American University (Washington D.C.), Foreign Area Studies, p. 184, 1986.
Social Europe, The software industry, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Supplement 6/86, p. 80, 1986.
Home computer hardware companies
Greek brands
Defunct manufacturing companies of Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panaetia | Panaetia, a genus in the Asteraceae (daisy) family, was first described by Henri Cassini in 1829 It is considered by Plants of the World Online and the Global Compositae Database to be a synonym of Podolepis Labil,. while GBIF states it as "doubtful". However, in 2021, the Western Australian Herbarium accepted Jeffery Jeanes new circumscription of the genus, together with two species of Panaetia as being found in Western Australia: Panaetia lessonii, and Panaetia tepperi. Jeanes distinguished Panaetia from the genera, Podolepis, Siemssenia and Walshia, using the following characters:
the outer florets are all tubular; and
the cypselas are minutely tuberculate and lack long finger-like papillae.
The genus is named for the stoic philosopher, Panaetius of Rhodes.
References
Asteraceae
Asteraceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%27s%20Runestone | The Swedish Runestone, designated U 1173 in the Rundata catalogue, is an 11th-century Swedish Viking Age runestone which was located in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, below Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, within a fenced enclosure adjacent to Ramsay Garden. Due to security concerns it was removed from there on 19 December 2017 and in the Autumn of 2020 was re-located at 50 George Square, Edinburgh just outside the University of Edinburgh's Department of Scandinavian Studies.
On 22 March 2023 the runestone was officially unveiled, after delays due to restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of Coronovirus.
Originally from Lilla Ramsjö in present-day Morgongåva, Heby Municipality, it was donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1787 by Sir Alexander Seton of Preston and Ekolsund (né Baron 1738–1814), and was presented to the Princes Street Proprietors by the Society in 1821. It is one of three Swedish runestones in Britain; the other two (U 104 & U 1160) are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in England.
Carving
The carving on the stone features a centrally located cross, encircled by a serpent. The runic inscription is carved within the serpent, whose head and tail are linked with the cross' shaft. There are 18 runestones in Sweden which bear similar features and are believed to have been carved by a runemaster called Erik.
There are two additional crosses carved into the runestone – one on the right-hand edge of the stone, and one at the front of the stone, above the inscription, on the right-hand side. They do not exhibit the same level of craftsmanship and are believed to have been added later, perhaps in the 19th century.
Inscription
Latin transliteration:
ari + rasti + stain + aftir + (h)ialm + faþur sin + kuþ + hialbi + ant hans
Old Norse transcription:
Ari reisti stein eptir Hjalm, fǫður sinn. Guð hjalpi ǫnd hans.
English translation:
"Ari raised the stone in memory of Hjalmr, his father. May God help his spirit."
Replica Runestone in Morgongåva
In 2014 a replica of stone U 1173 was made in Sweden and placed where the original would have come from, at Morgongåva in Uppsala, by a group called Hebys "nya" runsten, led by project manager Mats Köben, an amateur archaeologist and enthusiast. This replica was carved by runemaster Kalle Dahlberg (Runistare) who visited Edinburgh in 2013 to measure the stone and record the design, before carving it from pink granite, sourced from Vätö Stenhuggeri at Adelsö Island.
References
Further reading
Anon (J. Dillon & J. Jamieson) (1822) 'Account of a stone with a runic inscription, presented to the Society by the late Sir Alexander Seton of Preston, and of some other inscriptions of the same kind in the Isle of Man', Archaeologia Scotica, 2.2, pp. 490–501
Graham-Campbell, James (2004) ''Danes...in this Country': discovering Vikings in Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 134, pp. 201–239
McNaughton, Adam (1980) 'Edinburgh's Runestone', Northern Studies, 15, pp. 29–33
Sverige |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenfei%20Fan | Wenfei Fan () is a Chinese-British computer scientist and professor of web data management at the University of Edinburgh. His research investigates database theory and database systems.
Education
Fan was educated at Peking University (BS, MS) and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a PhD in Computer Science for research supervised by Peter Buneman and Scott Weinstein in 1999.
Career and research
After his Ph.D. in 1999, he remained in the USA but joined University of Edinburgh in 2004 as a Reader. In 2006, he became Professor of Web Data Management at the university.
Fan has made fundamental contributions to both theory and practice of data management. He has both formalised the problems of querying big data and has developed radically new techniques that overcome the limits associated with conventional database systems. His work has been adopted in the telecommunications industry for analyzing massive data sets that defied their current technology. In addition, Fan has made seminal contributions to data quality, in which he devised new techniques for data cleaning that have found wide commercial adoption. He has also contributed to our understanding of semi-structured data.
Awards and honors
Fan won the Roger Needham Award in 2008 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)., and a member of Academia Europaea (MAE).
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering(FREng), 2023.
Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019.
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), 2018.
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2018)
2017 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award (2018)
Best Paper Award for SIGMOD 2017
VLDB conference 2017 Best Demo Award
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Fellowship, 2015
Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for ACM PODS 2015
ACM Fellow, 2012
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), 2011
National Professor of the Thousand-Talent Program, 2010, China
Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for ACM PODS 2010
Best Paper Award at the VLDB conference 2010
The Roger Needham Award, 2008, UK
Best Paper Award for ICDE 2007
Changjiang Scholar, 2007, China
Best Paper of the Year Award for Computer Networks, 2002
The Career Award, 2001, USA
References
Living people
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society
Year of birth missing (living people)
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese computer scientists
British computer scientists
Chinese emigrants to the United Kingdom
Peking University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Academic staff of Beihang University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Libkin | Leonid Libkin is a computer scientist who works in data management, in particular in database theory, and in logic in computer science.
Libkin is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he is chair of Foundations of Data Management in the School of Informatics, He previously worked
at Bell Labs, at the University of Toronto, and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Libkin is the author of standard textbooks on finite model theory and on data exchange.
He is an ACM Fellow,
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a member of Academia Europaea. He won best paper awards at the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (ACM PODS) in 1999, 2003, and 2005, at International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) in 2011, at the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Conference in 2014 and 2018., at the ACM SIGMOD Conference (industry track) in 2023, and a test of time award at ICDT in 2023. He was program chair of ICDT in 2005, PODS in 2007 and ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) in 2021.
Books
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
American computer scientists
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20usage%20in%20North%20Yorkshire | This is a list of railway stations in North Yorkshire, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). As of May 2020, there are 58 stations located within the county of North Yorkshire, from which around 21.27 million passenger journeys were made during 2018–19.
Gallery
References
See also
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
Busiest railway stations in North Yorkshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPL | ARPL may refer to:
ARPL (opcode), an x86 instruction introduced with Intel 80286
ARPL (programming language), a calculator programming language by Hewlett-Packard
ARPL (finance), Average Revenue Per Line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%20Liu%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Bing Liu (born 1963) is a Chinese-American professor of computer science who specializes in data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. In 2002, he became a scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago.
He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (1988). His PhD advisors were Austin Tate and Kenneth Williamson Currie, and his PhD thesis was titled Reinforcement Planning for Resource Allocation and Constraint Satisfaction.
Academic research
He developed a mathematical model that can reveal fake advertising. Also, he teaches the course "Data Mining" during the Fall and Spring semesters at UIC. The course usually involves a project and various quiz/examinations as grading criteria.
He is best known for his research on sentiment analysis (also called opinion mining), fake/deceptive opinion detection, and using association rules for prediction. He also made important contributions to learning from positive and unlabeled examples (or PU learning), Web data extraction, and interestingness in data mining.
Two of his research papers published in KDD-1998 and KDD-2004 received KDD Test-of-Time awards in 2014 and 2015. In 2013, he was elected chair of SIGKDD, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Research on Association Rules For Prediction
Association rule-based classification takes into account the relationships between each item in a dataset and the class into which one is trying to classify that item. The basis is that there are two classes, a positive class and a negative class, into which one classifies items. Some classification algorithms only check if a case/item is in the positive class, without understanding how much exactly the probability of it being in that class is. Liu and his collaborators described a new association rule-based classification algorithm that takes into account the relationship between items and the positive and negative classes. Each item is given a probability or scoring of being in the positive class or the negative class. It then ranks the items as per which ones would be most likely to be in the positive class.
Research on Sentiment Analysis
In a paper that Liu collaborated on, "Opinion Word Expansion and Target Extraction through Double Propagation", Qiu, Liu, Bu and Chen studied the relationship between opinion lexicons and opinion targets. Opinion lexicons are word sets and opinion targets are topics on which there is an opinion. The authors of that paper discuss how their algorithm uses a limited opinion word set with the topic and through double propagation, one is able to form a more detailed opinion word set on a set of sentences. Double propagation is the back and forth functional process between the word set and topic as the word set updates itself. Some algorithms require set rules and thus are limited in what they can actually do and in what service they provide through updated opinion lists. Their algorithm only requires an initial word set, which is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panos%20Kalnis | Panagiotis Kalnis is a Greek academic who specializes in cloud computing and databases.
Biography
After earning undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Patras in Greece, Kalnis completed a PhD at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Kalnis is a professor of computer science at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. While working there, he along with colleagues from Thomas J. Watson Research Center have developed a Pregel system called Mizan. He previously worked at the National University of Singapore, where he and his colleagues developed a tree traversal algorithm which showed suggested edit distance which in turn reduced computation cost. In 2009, along with Gabriel Ghinita, Panagiotis Karras, and Nikos Mamoulis from University of Hong Kong, he created heuristics to solve the problems posed by k-anonymity and l-diversity data privacy models in linear time.
References
Living people
20th-century births
Academic staff of the National University of Singapore
University of Patras alumni
Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Greek computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20SBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2014 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2014. It was held at the COEX Hall D in Samseong-dong, Seoul on December 31, 2014, and hosted by Lee Hwi-jae, Park Shin-hye, and Park Seo-joon.
Nominations and winners
Complete list of nominees and winners:
(Winners denoted in bold)
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Lee Sang-woo - Glorious Day as Seo Jae-woo
Ryu Soo-young - Endless Love as Han Gwang-hoon
| valign="top" |Hwang Jung-eum - Endless Love as Seo In-aeLee Ji-ah - Thrice Married Woman as Oh Eun-soo
Park Se-young - Glorious Day as Jung Da-jung
Uhm Ji-won - Thrice Married Woman as Oh Hyun-soo
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| valign="top" |Sung Dong-il - It's Okay, That's Love as Jo Dong-minJung Gyu-woon - God's Gift - 14 Days as Hyun Woo-jin
Kim Tae-woo - God's Gift - 14 Days as Han Ji-hoon
Son Hyun-joo - Three Days as Lee Dong-hwi
| valign="top" |So Yi-hyun - Three Days as Lee Cha-youngCha Ye-ryun - My Lovely Girl as Shin Hae-yoon
Krystal Jung - My Lovely Girl as Yoon Se-na
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| valign="top" |Shin Sung-rok - My Love from the Star as Lee Jae-kyungJi Jin-hee - One Warm Word as Yoo Jae-hak
Joo Sang-wook - Birth of a Beauty as Han Tae-hee
Lee Jung-jin - Temptation as Kang Min-woo
Lee Sang-yoon - Angel Eyes as Park Dong-joo
Park Hae-jin - My Love from the Star as Lee Hwi-kyung
| valign="top" |Han Ye-seul - Birth of a Beauty as Sa Geum-ran/SaraGo Ara - You're All Surrounded as Eo Soo-sun
Jin Se-yeon - Doctor Stranger as Song Jae-hee/Han Seung-hee
Kang So-ra - Doctor Stranger as Oh Soo-hyun
Ku Hye-sun - Angel Eyes as Yoon Soo-wan
Lee Ha-nui - Modern Farmer as Kang Yoon-hee
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| valign="top" |Song Chang-eui - Thrice Married Woman as Jung Tae-wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%20Sharp%20Software%20Foundation | The F# Software Foundation (FSSF) is a non-profit organization devoted to the F# programming language. It was founded at the beginning of 2013 and became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in December 2014. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the F# community and is responsible for various processes within the F# community, including assisting development of the core F# distribution and libraries, managing intellectual rights, and raising funds.
The current board of trustees and officers of the FSSF are listed below:
Officers
Chairperson of the board of trustees: Ryan Coy
Secretary of the board of trustees: Houston Haynes
Secretary: Mathias Brandewinder
Treasurer: Paulmichael Blasucci
Executive director: Reed Copsey, Jr.
Technical advisor: Don Syme
Board of trustees
Kevin Avignon
Phillip Carter
Ryan Coy
Houston Haynes
Janne Siera
The executive director and technical advisor roles serve as ex-officio, non-voting members of the board of trustees.
References
External links
F# Software Foundation
F# Core Engineering Group
Charities based in Nevada
Free software project foundations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Hancock | House of Hancock is an Australian mini-series, part 1 aired on the Nine Network on 8 February 2015 and the 2nd part on 15 February.
Plot
House of Hancock tells the fictionalised story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang, his daughter Gina, and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose.
Lang and Gina are inseparable, the perfect team, and Gina is confident she will soon inherit the family business. But their relationship is rocked by a series of tumultuous events. First, Lang is furious when Gina marries a man old enough to be her father. Then Lang's beloved wife Hope dies. In an attempt to help her ailing father, Gina employs a new housekeeper to get him back on track, Rose Lacson from the Philippines, not realising this will be a decision that tears their family apart.
Lang is instantly smitten with the vivacious Rose, 37 years younger than the ageing iron ore magnate. Is it real love? Or has the housekeeper snagged the richest man in Australia? Lang and Rose quickly marry and what follows is an increasingly bitter public feud lasting two decades: filled with forbidden love, murder accusations, drug charges, illegitimate children, court cases and epic betrayal, all played out in the media, and all for Gina to retain control over the staggering Hancock family fortune.
Production
On 13 February 2013, it was confirmed that a series, titled Gina, consisting of four, one-hour telemovies based on the life of mining magnate, Gina Rinehart was commissioned in a joint venture between the Nine Network, Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder and Claudia Karvan's production company.
In November 2013, the Nine Network confirmed that the drama had been cut to half its original size and had a new name, presenting it as a two, one-hour telemovies, titled Gina v Rose: The House of Hancock.
On 13 August 2014, it was announced that Mandy McElhinney had won the titular role of Gina Rinehart, with news breaking four days later that Sam Neill and Peta Sergeant had signed on to play Lang Hancock and Rose Hancock Porteous, respectively.
The telemovie is produced by Michael Cordell, Claudia Karvan and Paul Bennett.
Filming for House of Hancock took place in Perth and Sydney, which began in August 2014 and wrapped six weeks later in early October 2014.
Cast
Mandy McElhinney as Gina Rinehart
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock
Peta Sergeant as Rose Hancock Porteous
Robert Coleby as Frank Rinehart
Leon Ford as Alan Camp
Anne-Louise Lambert as Hope Hancock
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Kevin Dalby
Leah Purcell as Hilda Kickett
Darcey Wilson as Young Gina
Reception
The first episode aired on 8 February 2015 at 8:45 on the Nine Network, against Ten's NCIS: New Orleans. The Telemovie is split into two parts shown over two Sundays.
Awards and nominations
Controversy
Controversy over House of Hancock being defamatory has been a worry of Gina Rinehart since it premiered on the Nine Network. Rinehart has accused the show of being incorrect. Sin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh%20Govindan | Ramesh Govindan is an Indian-American professor of computer science. He is the Northrop Grumman Chair in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Early life
Govindan obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and then received master's and Ph.D degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He then became an associate professor at the University of Southern California, where he researches topology, IP forwarding, and wireless sensor networking.
Career
Govindan was later named the Northrop Grumman Chair in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He is a former editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
In 2000, he along with Kannan Varadhan and Deborah Estrin analyzed a way to prevent oscillations in topologies. During the study he have discovered that an inter-domain routing protocol called hop-by-hop is responsible for the unconstrained route selection and therefore the route get oscillated. However, if "safe" mode is enabled, it can shorten route selection as well as the number of errors. A year later, he peered up with Deborah Estrin and Deepak Ganesan of UCLA as well as Scott Shenker to develop braided multipath routing scheme which he claimed to be important alternative for energy-saving recovery after lone and patterned failures. On August 14, 2001 he used simulation to evaluate Geographic and Energy Aware Routing protocol and discovered that it lives longer than its non-geographic energy aware routing counterpart.
In 2002, he and colleagues from both International Computer Science Institute and UCLA have developed a geographic hash table which was later used along with data-centric storage system. In 2004, while working with researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles he discussed wireless sensor network system which is called Wisden which according to him and his colleagues will use end-to-end and hop-by-hop transport recovery which wouldn't require global clock synchronization to transport data. During the same study they have developed wavelet-based technique that will use limited amount of data bandwidth for low-power wireless radios.
In 2006, Govindan and his colleagues have developed a compact version of a pursuit–evasion application called Tenet. In 2010 Govindan, Jeongyeup Paek and Joongheon Kim used smartphones to evaluate remote area power supply. He and his colleagues found that this prototype implementation increased phone lifetimes 3.8 times more than GPS.
References
External links
Ramesh Govindan at Google Scholar
Living people
20th-century births
Indian computer scientists
American computer scientists
IIT Madras alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Southern California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampo%20Kitan%3A%20Game%20of%20Laplace | is a Japanese anime television series produced by Lerche, directed by Seiji Kishi, and written by Makoto Uezu. The series aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block from July 2 to September 17, 2015. The anime is inspired by the works of author Edogawa Ranpo and commemorates the 50th anniversary of his death in 1965.
Plot
The story begins at a middle school where the murder and dismemberment of a teacher has taken place. Kobayashi, a boy who goes to this school and the lead suspect in the case, meets the genius detective Akechi, who comes to the school to investigate. After being cleared of the crime, Kobayashi takes an interest in Akechi and, in spite of his friend Hashiba's worries, volunteers to be Akechi's assistant.
Characters
A genius 17-year-old detective who solves abnormal crimes for fun. The government has given him a special license in order to capitalize on his special investigative skills. He is regularly seen taking aspirin and guzzling coffee drinks.
A middle school boy who is often mistaken for a girl, he is blamed for dismembering his homeroom teacher. Much like Akechi, he is excited when he discovers that he can solve mysteries, and he's unfazed by morbid details of murder. Kobayashi asks to become Akechi's assistant if he can discover the real killer of his homeroom teacher.
A passionate boy who is best friends with Kobayashi. He is the heir to the rich Hashiba company and detests Akechi for being "cold hearted" at first. He is also against the idea of Kobayashi becoming Akechi's assistant and often looks out for Kobayashi. He is the class rep and is popular with girls. It is implied he has romantic feelings for Kobayashi.
The new homeroom teacher of Kobayashi and Hashiba. She's very cheerful in class and dresses up in a Lolita/cat-like style. Kobayashi notices cut marks on her wrists.
An investigator for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He has a strong sense of justice.
A perpetually stubbly police officer, friendly with Kagami.
An underworld figure with a fixation on Akechi.
A master of disguise. He's known as a "gentleman thief" and wanted by the police. He once befriended Kagami's little sister Tokiko. It is eventually revealed that he was stealing money in order to pay for an operation that saved the life of a girl named Sachiko who was terminally ill. Sachiko was later kidnapped, and Shadow-Man asked for Kobayashi's help to investigate her disappearance.
The medical examiner who delivers the results of autopsies in frantic scenes of exposition. Her personality is revealed to be much more twisted due to an incident where her little brother, who was terminally ill, committed suicide in order to make it less painful for her, but the plan backfired and caused her to become one of the Twenty Faces.
The demonstration dummy that Minami uses to show causes of death. It is revealed that it was an inspiration from Minami's dead brother.
Kagami's little sister. Kagami frequently receives calls from her on h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neosciadella%20cordata | Neosciadella cordata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Dillon and Dillon in 1952.
References
Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1952 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S19%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S19 is a S-Bahn line of the S-Bahn Köln network in Germany. It is the youngest line in that network. It is operated by DB Regio with class 423 electric multiple units.
The S19 runs until the early evening from Düren via Cologne to Blankenberg (Sieg), Herchen or Au (Sieg) on working days and between Düren and Hennef (Sieg) on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Services to/from Herchen or Au do not stop in Blankenberg. It shares most of this route with line S12, but it runs through Cologne/Bonn Airport instead of through Porz. The S12 also no longer runs west of . It is operated every 20 minutes between Düren and Hennef (Sieg), with one course every hour extending to Au (Sieg). Since December 2019 it runs 24/7 between Düren and Hennef.
History
The route runs on the Cologne–Aachen line (opened by the Rhenish Railway Company between Cologne and Horrem in three stages between 1839 and 1841), the East Rhine Railway (opened to Troisdorf by the Rhenish Railway in 1870, with an extension to Cologne opened in 1874), the Cologne Airport loop (opened in 2004) and the Sieg Railway (opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company between 1859 and 1862).
When the line was established in December 2014, it was mostly extending existing courses of the line S13 and giving them an own name for clarity reasons. With time, the S19 replaced many courses of the S13, eventually leading to the total replacement of the S13 through the S19. In 2025, it is planned to reestablish the S13 as an separate line to the S19. The S13 is planned to operate between Bonn-Beuel and Düren every 20 minutes, while the S19 is planned to operate between Au (Sieg) and Köln-Nippes every 20 minutes.
References
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
2014 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th%20International%20Emmy%20Awards | The 15th International Emmy Awards took place on November 23, 1987, in New York City. The award ceremony, presented by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, honors all programming produced and originally aired outside the United States.
Ceremony
The singer John Denver presented a special Founder's Award to Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who has produced more than 50 films for television based on his oceanographic studies. A special Directorate Award went to Jeremy Isaacs. He was founding chief executive of Channel 4 in 1981 after a long career as a program maker and executive with the BBC and ITV and as an independent producer. The winner in the children's programming category was Degrassi Junior High. The best drama award went to Porterhouse Blue, an adaptation for television by Malcolm Bradbury for Channel 4 in four episodes. The best documentary award went to The Sworld of Islam, from ITV Granada.
Winners
Best Drama: Porterhouse Blue (Channel 4)
Best Documentary: The Sword of Islam (Granada Television)
Best Children's Program: Degrassi Junior High: It's Late (CBC Television)
Founders Award: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Directorate Award: Jeremy Isaacs
References
International Emmy Awards ceremonies
International
International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20System%20Services | Small System Services was an American publisher of computing books and magazines.
Small Systems Services was founded by Robert C. Lock in 1979 and had its headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. It published the popular monthly magazines COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette, as well as around a dozen books through its COMPUTE! Books subdivision.
In 1983 the company was acquired by American Broadcasting Company. It continued to operate as a division of ABC Publishing under the name COMPUTE! Publications. COMPUTE! Books remained a separate company from the magazine group.
References
Magazine publishing companies of the United States
Book publishing companies of the United States
1979 establishments in North Carolina
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhengyou%20Zhang | Zhengyou Zhang is a Chinese professor of computer science, IEEE and ACM Fellow and a specialist in computer vision and graphics. He is also a recipient of the 2013 Helmholtz Test of Time Award which was awarded to him by the International Conference on Computer Vision.
Early life
Zhang earned a degree in electronic engineering from the Zhejiang University in 1985 and two years later earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Nancy where his advisor was Jean-Paul Haton. In 1990 he defended his PhD at the University of Paris-Sud where his adviser was Olivier Faugeras and then received the doctor of science degree at the same place in 1994. After 20 years of work at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington., Dr. Zhang joined Tencent in 2018 and is currently leading both the Robotic X Lab and AI Lab at Tencent.
References
External links
Zhengyou Zhang on Google Scholar
Living people
20th-century births
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Nancy-Université alumni
Zhejiang University alumni
Chinese computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202010%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2010 in music
List of number-one singles of 2010 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2010 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2010
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-house%20software | In-house software is computer software for business use within an organization. In-house software can be developed by the organization itself or by someone else, or it could be acquired. In-house software however may later become available for commercial use upon sole discretion of the developing organization. The need to develop such software may arise depending on many circumstances which may be non-availability of the software in the market, potentiality or ability of the corporation to develop such software or to customize a software based on the corporate organization's need.
References
Software by type |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet%20ASA | Bouvet ASA is a Norwegian IT consulting company, headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
The company is the result of a merger between Mandator AS and Cell Network AS in 2001 with Cell Network as the acquiring company.
The company changed its name to Bouvet in 2007.
References
Information technology consulting firms of Norway
Consulting firms established in 1995
Companies based in Oslo
Companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning%20Memory-Mapped%20Database | Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) is a software library that provides an embedded transactional database in the form of a key-value store. LMDB is written in C with API bindings for several programming languages. LMDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, has a range-based search capability, supports multiple data items for a single key and has a special mode for appending records (MDB_APPEND) without checking for consistency. LMDB is not a relational database, it is strictly a key-value store like Berkeley DB and dbm.
LMDB may also be used concurrently in a multi-threaded or multi-processing environment, with read performance scaling linearly by design. LMDB databases may have only one writer at a time, however unlike many similar key-value databases, write transactions do not block readers, nor do readers block writers. LMDB is also unusual in that multiple applications on the same system may simultaneously open and use the same LMDB store, as a means to scale up performance. Also, LMDB does not require a transaction log (thereby increasing write performance by not needing to write data twice) because it maintains data integrity inherently by design.
History
LMDB's design was first discussed in a 2009 post to the OpenLDAP developer mailing list, in the context of exploring solutions to the cache management difficulty caused by the project's dependence on Berkeley DB. A specific goal was to replace the multiple layers of configuration and caching inherent to Berkeley DB's design with a single, automatically managed cache under the control of the host operating system.
Development subsequently began, initially as a fork of a similar implementation from the OpenBSD ldapd project. The first publicly available version appeared in the OpenLDAP source repository in June 2011.
The project was known as MDB until November 2012, after which it was renamed in order to avoid conflicts with existing software.
Technical description
Internally LMDB uses B+ tree data structures. The efficiency of its design and small footprint had the unintended side-effect of providing good write performance as well. LMDB has an API similar to Berkeley DB and dbm. LMDB treats the computer's memory as a single address space, shared across multiple processes or threads using shared memory with copy-on-write semantics (known historically as a single-level store). Most former modern computing architectures had a 32-bit memory address space, imposing a hard limit of 4 GB on the size of any database that directly mapped into a single-level store. However, today's 64-bit processors now mostly implement 48-bit address spaces, giving access to 47-bit addresses or 128 TB of database size, making databases using shared memory useful once again in real-world applications.
Specific noteworthy technical features of LMDB are:
Its use of B+ tree. With an LMDB instance being in shared memory and the B+ tree block size being set to the OS page size, access to an LMD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202015%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2015, nineteen singles claimed the top spot, including Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk", which started its peak position in 2014, and 23 acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia: Ronson, OMI, Felix Jaehn, Ellie Goulding, LunchMoney Lewis, Major Lazer, DJ Snake, MØ, Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth, Grace, G-Eazy, Kendrick Lamar, Conrad Sewell, Lost Frequencies, One Direction, Calvin Harris, Disciples, Justin Bieber, Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Caz.
Justin Bieber achieved two number-ones: "What Do You Mean?" (4 weeks) and "Love Yourself" (3 weeks), making him the longest-topping artist of 2015. For spending six consecutive weeks each at number-one, the longest-running number-one singles of the year were Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again" and Adele's "Hello". Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do", Meghan Trainor and John Legend's "Like I'm Gonna Lose You", Justin Bieber's "What Do You Mean?", and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Downtown" shared the title of second longest-running number-one single of 2015, each spending four weeks on the top. Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" featuring Kendrick Lamar topped the charts for three consecutive weeks, making it Lamar's first single to top the chart.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2015 in music
List of number-one albums of 2015 (Australia)
List of Top 25 singles for 2015 in Australia
List of top 10 singles in 2015 (Australia)
References
Australia Singles
Number-one singles
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202015%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each album and EP's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2015, 31 albums claimed the top spot, including Taylor Swift's 1989, which started its peak position in 2014, and thirteen acts achieved their first number-one album or EP in Australia: Meghan Trainor, Kendrick Lamar, Lee Kernaghan, Sam Smith, Hermitude, Tame Impala, Northlane, Dr. Dre, Bullet for My Valentine, The Weeknd, Troye Sivan, Parkway Drive and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2015 in music
List of number-one singles of 2015 (Australia)
List of Top 25 albums for 2015 in Australia
References
2015
Australia Albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20T.%20Mackenzie | Frederick T. Mackenzie (born March 17, 1934) is an American sedimentary and global biogeochemist. Mackenzie applies experimental and field data coupled to a sound theoretical framework to the solution of geological, geochemical, and oceanographic problems at various time and space scales.
He is identified closely with the book Evolution of Sedimentary Rocks co-authored in 1971 by Mackenzie with Robert M. Garrels, which reawakened and revitalized the scientific community to the ideas of the British geologist James Hutton that lay fallow for more than 150 years. Evolution of Sedimentary Rocks expanded on the theory of reverse weathering proposed by Mackenzie and Garrels in 1966.
Life and career
Mackenzie earned a bachelor's degree in physics and geology from Upsala College in 1955. He went on to earn an M.S. degree in 1959 and his Ph.D. in 1962 in geological sciences and biogeochemistry from Lehigh University. His Ph.D. dissertation research dealt with a paleocurrent and environmental analysis of the ~ 140 Ma Cretaceous Lakota and equivalent rock units of the Western Interior of the United States.
Following completion of his Ph.D., Mackenzie went to work full-time for Shell Oil Company as an Exploration and Research Geologist. Two of his assignments at the time involved studies of the stratigraphy and structure of Ordovician carbonates in the Appalachian Mountains as targets for oil exploration and of the Devonian Marcellus Shale, which in recent years has become a horizon for gas production by fracking and a subject of strong environmental concern. Then in 1963, Mackenzie accepted a position as Staff Geochemist and assistant director at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR, now the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences). One of his tasks at BBSR was to manage Hydrostation S, the longest continuously occupied hydrostation in the world.
In 1967 Mackenzie joined the faculty at Northwestern University becoming full professor and department chair in 1971. Here between 1967 and 1981, he in association with colleagues Robert Garrels, Hal Helgeson, Abraham Lerman and his many graduate students and national and international colleagues published a number of classic papers involving an interdisciplinary range of scientific topics including early diagenetic processes of reverse weathering and controls on seawater composition, pore water geochemistry, kinetics and thermodynamics of mineral-water reactions, and modeling of Earth's surface environmental system over geological time.
In 1981 Mackenzie left Northwestern and accepted an appointment in 1982 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he continues doing research and teaching until today, although in 2008, he became a Professor Emeritus of Oceanography and Geology & Geophysics. At the University of Hawaii, Mackenzie broadened his research and teaching program even more into the field of marine biogeochemistry, particularly into the biogeochemical interactions involving carbon and ox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Ahmad%20Sultan | Syed Ahmad Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar, (1120 – 1181) was a 12th-century Sufi saint of the Punjab region.
He is also known by various other appellations such as Sultan (king), Lakhdata (bestower of millions), Lalanvala (master of rubies), Nigahia Pir (the saint of Nigaha) and Rohianvala (lord of the forests). His followers are known as Sultanias or Sarwarias.
Life
Sakhi Sarwar, the Great Sufi Saint was born in 1120 AD. His father's name was Zain-ul-Abedin and his mother's name was Ayesha. Sakhi Sarwar's father Syed Zain-ul-Abedin, along with his wife and survivors, had migrated from Baghdad, Iraq to Multan region of modern day Punjab. All this time, the family worked as farmers in Shahkot, Punjab. Sakhi Sarwar's father-in-law was the ruler of Multan. It is said that when his father-in-law gave his daughter's dowry, Sakhi Sarwar distributed it among the needy. Sakhi Sarwar died in the year 1181 and was buried in an area at the base of Sulaiman Mountains in the Dera Ghazi Khan District.
Baghdad is the city where he was blessed with the gift of khilafat by three illustrious saints: Ghouse-ul-Azam, Shaikh Shahab-ud-Din Suhrawardi and Khwaja Maudood Chishti.
After the arrival of Syed Ahmad Sultan also known as Sakhi Sarwar in the 12th century CE, Islam started spreading in the area. Due to his high moral values and humility, Locals have great respect for the saint's shrine and the town. Before independence of Pakistan in 1947, devotees from Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur areas would come to his main shrine to seek spiritual blessings.
Shrines
Nigaha
The saint selected the town of Nigaha to settle down and live there. It is known as the ‘last place’ because of the hostile geographical and climatic condition. According to Rose (1970), the buildings of the shrine consist of Sakhi Sarwar's tomb on the west and a shrine associated with Guru Nanak Dev Ji on the north-west. On the east is an apartment containing a stool and spinning wheel of Mai Ayesha, Sakhi Sarwar's mother. Nearby is Thakurdwara, and in another apartment is an image of Bhairava.
Within the enclosures of the shrine are the tombs of Sakhi Sarwar, his wife, known as Bibi Bai, and of the jinn whom he had held in his power and who brought many miracles for him.
Near the shrine at Nigaha, there are two other holy spots called Chom and Moza, both associated with Murtaza, the son-in-law of Sakhi Sarwar. At Chom, an impression of the former's hand was said to have been imprinted when he prevented a mountain from collapsing over the cave in which he had taken shelter.
To the west of the outhouses and within the shrine enclosure are two dead trees said to have sprung from the pegs which were used for the head and heel ropes of Kaki, the saint's mare.
Other places
Other shrines in his honor are situated at Dhaunkal in Wazirabad district, and also in Peshawar and Lahore.
There are numerous shrines in the Indian Punjab where they are known as Nigaha. At some places, Sakhi S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20network%20query%20processor | A sensor network query processor (SNQP), also called a sensorDB, is a user-friendly interface for programming and running applications which translates instructions from declarative programming language with high-level instructions to low-level instructions understood by the operating system. The basic idea of SNQP is the addition of a layer modeling the WSN as a distributed database searchable by a query language similar to SQL.
TinyDB
TinyDB is a query processing system for extracting information from a network of TinyOS sensors. Unlike existing solutions for data processing in TinyOS, TinyDB does not require embedded C code for sensors. Instead, TinyDB provides a simple, SQL-like interface to specify the data desired, along with additional parameters, as the rate at which data should be refreshed— much like a traditional database. Given a query specifying data interests, TinyDB collects that data from motes in the environment, filters it, aggregates it, and routes it to a PC. TinyDB does this via power-efficient in-network processing algorithms.
QLowpan
QLowpan is a sensor network queries processor for resource-constrained sensor devices. In order to guarantee interoperability between the different platforms, QLowpan is based on RPL/6LoWPAN protocol. It is the first sensor network queries processor which is compatible with 6lowpan protocol.
References
External links
TinyDB official website
Interfaces
Wireless sensor network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai%20Halevi | Shai Halevi (; born 1966) is a computer scientist who works on cryptography research at Amazon Web Services.
Born in Israel in 1966, Halevi received a B.A. and M.Sc. in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1993. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997, and then joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was a principal research staff member until 2019. Between 2019 and 2023, he has been a research fellow at Algorand Foundation, a blockchain startup founded by Silvio Micali.
Research
Shai Halevi's research interests are in cryptography and security. He has published numerous original technical research papers, three of which were awarded the IBM Pat Goldberg memorial best-paper award (in 2004, 2012, and 2013).
Notable contributions by Shai Halevi include:
Obfuscation. Halevi is a co-inventor of the first candidate general-purpose indistinguishability obfuscation schemes, with security based on a mathematical conjecture. This development generated much interest in the cryptography community and was called "a watershed moment for cryptography."
Cryptographic Multilinear Maps. Halevi is a co-inventor of Cryptographic Multilinear Maps (which constitute the main technical tool behind cryptographic obfuscation and many other applications), solving a long-standing open problem
Homomorphic Encryption. Halevi is one of the leading researchers on homomorphic encryption. He authored many articles, gave invited lectures and tutorials on the topic, and he is also the principal developer (together with Victor Shoup) of the HElib homormophic-encryption software library.
The Random Oracle Model. Halevi co-authored the influential work that pointed out for the first time the existence of "structurally flawed" cryptosystems that nonetheless have a proof of security in the random-oracle model.
Since 2013 Halevi is the chair of the steering committee of the Theory of Cryptography Conference. He served on the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. He chaired the CRYPTO conference in 2009 and co-chaired the TCC conference in 2006. Halevi also gave many invited talks, including in the USENIX Security Symposium in 2008 and the PKC conference in 2014.
Software
Halevi maintains two open-source software projects: The HElib homomorphic-encryption library, and a web-system for submission/review of articles to academic conferences
References
External links
Shai Halevi's Home Page
The Cryptography Research Group at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Israeli computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Modern cryptographers
Public-key cryptographers
Living people
Israeli cryptographers
1966 births
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironman%20Heavymetalweight%20Championship | The is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion CyberFight in its DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. Open to anyone, regardless of gender or DDT employment status, the championship is defended "24/7", as in any time, anywhere, as long as a referee is there to confirm the win. Because of this rule, not only is the championship winnable regardless of gender or number of individuals (in case of a common pinfall or submission), it is also available to "unconventional" champions such as animals or inanimate objects, with title changes regularly occurring outside of regular shows, often with videos posted on the promotion's social media accounts. The current champion is Hiromu Takahashi who is in his second reign.
The championship was introduced on the June 29, 2000 TV taping, during which Poison Sawada Black created the title and awarded it to himself. It was created as a parody of the now-defunct WWE Hardcore Championship, which also had a "24/7 rule". The title is often defended during a 10-minute battle royal, with the current holder not being allowed to leave the match until the end of the time limit; as per 24/7 rules, the championship can change hands during, and not only as the result, of the match. Despite its name and similarly titled championships, it is not specific to Iron Man matches.
History
On November 2, 1998, Mr. McMahon awarded Mankind the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) Hardcore Championship. As Mankind and hardcore wrestling became more popular with audiences, the Hardcore Championship became a more serious title. Its popularity led competitor World Championship Wrestling (WCW) to create its own Hardcore Championship, a move followed by numerous independent promotions. When Crash Holly won the belt on February 22, 2000, he introduced the "24/7 rule" that the belt was to be defended at all times as long as a referee was present.
On June 29, 2000, Poison Julie Sawada introduced the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in DDT as a parody of the WWF Hardcore title and recognized himself as the first champion. Minutes after the unveiling, Mitsunobu Kikuzawa demanded he had a look at the title belt. He then used it to attack Sawada and pinned him to become the second champion.
The 1,000th Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion was crowned on April 29, 2014, when the title belt itself became the champion by pinning Sanshiro Takagi.
Belt design
The championship belt design features three glittery silver plates on a black leather strap which has a snake skin pattern on the back. The central plate features brass knuckles surrounded by chains in the center. The word "IRONMAN" is written along the edge of the top half and the word "CHAMPION", though partially erased by years of wear and tear, is written along the bottom edge. The two side plates, on either side of the central plate, are rectangular and identically state "24 HOURS" ("24" in silver bordered with black; "HOURS" in red).
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