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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen%20Jasperneite | Jürgen Jasperneite (born 1964 in Nieheim, Germany) is a German Engineer and Professor for Computer networks at the OWL University (THOWL) in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Here he is the founding director of the Fraunhofer IOSB-INA in Lemgo and a board member of the University Institute Industrial IT (inIT).
Career
Jasperneite studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and obtained his PhD in 2002 from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg under the supervision of Professor Peter Neumann.
From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a R&D-Engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH in Berlin in the field of the emerging cellular radio standard GSM. From 1990 to 2005 he was with Phoenix Contact GmbH in different positions, starting as an ASIC designer for industrial communication systems and finally as the R&D head of the business unit Automation Systems.
Since September 2005 he is a Full Professor for Computer Networks in the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at THOWL in Lemgo, Germany.
End of 2006 he founded together with 6 other professors the Institute for Industrial Information Technology (inIT)as the first Institute of the THOWL, which he headed until 2017. 2009 he founded and headed the Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, which was expanded to the first Fraunhofer Application Center between 2012 and 2016 with financial support of the state NRW. Jasperneite is the co-founder of the Centrum Industrial IT (CIIT), which is Germans first Science-to-Business Center in the field of industrial automation technologies. For research, demonstration and transfer of Cyber-physical systems into production systems he initiated the SmartFactoryOWL. In 2018 he founded "Lemgo Digital", a new IoT Living Lab to empower small and medium-sized cities in Germany.
Research focuses
The current research focuses of Jasperneite are:
Industrial Communication Systems
Automation and Information Technologies for Intelligent technical systems,
Intelligent Networking for Cyber-physical systems and
Distributed Real-time Systems.
Further Functions
Jasperneite is engaged in the Industrie 4.0 Platform, VDI/VDE association for measurements and control technology, Germanys Leading Edge Technology Cluster "Intelligent Technical Systems OstwestfalenLippe it's OWL" and in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Notes
References
Website Jürgen Jasperneite
Institute Industrial IT (inIT)
CIIT Science2Business Center Industrial IT
Smart Factory OWL
Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia
German electrical engineers
Living people
1964 births
People from Höxter (district) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media.Monks | Media.Monks is a digital-first marketing, advertising, and technology services company that connects content, data and digital media and technology services and produces websites, games, films, social media content, digital advertising campaigns, data and measurement solutions, and more. The company's head office is based in Hilversum, the Netherlands. MediaMonks, without the period, was founded in 2001 by Wesley ter Haar, Gin Roberscheuten and Terrence Koeman and was managed by Victor Knaap, who joined the company in 2003.
Media.Monks joined the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) in 2012, with Ter Haar serving as chairman of that collective today. MediaMonks won 23 Lions at Cannes, including one for the Universal Typeface Experiment, in 2014.
In July 2018, S4 Capital purchased MediaMonks for $350 million.
In January 2020, MediaMonks was the first company to be awarded 200 FWA awards.
In January 2021, S4, which described itself as an "anti-holding company" added Decoded to MediaMonks, its content company, and Metric Theory to its data and digital media company Mighty Hive. Joining MediaMonks in March was Jam3. In August, all 24 S4 companies became part of the new company Media.Monks, and culture agency Cashmere became part of that company. Other mergers include TheoremOne, and XX Artists, both in 2022.
It was the fastest growing company of the Netherlands in 2021 and 2022. A former employee has sued the company after the acquisition.
References
External links
Mass media companies of the Netherlands
Advertising agencies of the Netherlands
Digital marketing companies
Film production companies of the Netherlands
2001 establishments in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20memory%20compression | Virtual memory compression (also referred to as RAM compression and memory compression) is a memory management technique that utilizes data compression to reduce the size or number of paging requests to and from the auxiliary storage. In a virtual memory compression system, pages to be paged out of virtual memory are compressed and stored in physical memory, which is usually random-access memory (RAM), or sent as compressed to auxiliary storage such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD). In both cases the virtual memory range, whose contents has been compressed, is marked inaccessible so that attempts to access compressed pages can trigger page faults and reversal of the process (retrieval from auxiliary storage and decompression). The footprint of the data being paged is reduced by the compression process; in the first instance, the freed RAM is returned to the available physical memory pool, while the compressed portion is kept in RAM. In the second instance, the compressed data is sent to auxiliary storage but the resulting I/O operation is smaller and therefore takes less time.
In some implementations, including zswap, zram and Helix Software Company’s Hurricane, the entire process is implemented in software. In other systems, such as IBM's MXT, the compression process occurs in a dedicated processor that handles transfers between a local cache and RAM.
Virtual memory compression is distinct from garbage collection (GC) systems, which remove unused memory blocks and in some cases consolidate used memory regions, reducing fragmentation and improving efficiency. Virtual memory compression is also distinct from context switching systems, such as Connectix's RAM Doubler (though it also did online compression) and Apple OS 7.1, in which inactive processes are suspended and then compressed as a whole.
Benefits
By reducing the I/O activity caused by paging requests, virtual memory compression can produce overall performance improvements. The degree of performance improvement depends on a variety of factors, including the availability of any compression co-processors, spare bandwidth on the CPU, speed of the I/O channel, speed of the physical memory, and the compressibility of the physical memory contents.
On multi-core, multithreaded CPUs, some benchmarks show performance improvements of over 50%.
In some situations, such as in embedded devices, auxiliary storage is limited or non-existent. In these cases, virtual memory compression can allow a virtual memory system to operate, where otherwise virtual memory would have to be disabled. This allows the system to run certain software which would otherwise be unable to operate in an environment with no virtual memory.
Shortcomings
Low compression ratios
One of the primary issues is the degree to which the contents of physical memory can be compressed under real-world loads. Program code and much of the data held in physical memory is often not highly compressible, since efficient |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20coding | In the field of data compression, Shannon coding, named after its creator, Claude Shannon, is a lossless data compression technique for constructing a prefix code based on a set of symbols and their probabilities (estimated or measured). It is suboptimal in the sense that it does not achieve the lowest possible expected code word length like Huffman coding does, and never better than but sometimes equal to the Shannon–Fano coding (Fano's method).
The method was the first of its type, the technique was used to prove Shannon's noiseless coding theorem in his 1948 article "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", and is therefore a centerpiece of the information age.
Shannon–Fano coding methods gave rise to the field of information theory and without its contributions, the world would not have any of the many successors; for example Huffman coding, or arithmetic coding. Much of our day-to-day lives are significantly influenced by digital data and this would not be possible without Shannon-Fano coding and the ongoing evolution of its methods.
In Shannon coding, the symbols are arranged in order from most probable to least probable, and assigned codewords by taking the first bits from the binary expansions of the cumulative probabilities Here denotes the ceiling function (which rounds up to the next integer value).
Example
In the table below is an example of creating a code scheme for symbols a1 to a6. The value of li gives the number of bits used to represent the symbol ai. The last column is the bit code of each symbol.
References
Shannon, Claude Elwood. "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." ACM SIGMOBILE mobile computing and communications review 5.1 (2001): 3-55.
Lossless compression algorithms
Claude Shannon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202015 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2015, there were 17 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Drown" by Bring Me the Horizon, the first single from the band's fifth studio album That's the Spirit, which spent the first week atop the chart.
The final number-one single of the year was the 2003 release "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" by The Darkness, which reached number one for the week ending 17 December and remained there for the last three weeks of the year.
Chart history
See also
2015 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2015
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2015 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharti%20TV | Dharti TV (, ) Television Network (Dharti TV) is a Sindhi language TV channel. This Channel is general entertainment Channel which covers Dramas, News, Music and Current Affairs. Fazul Samejo, is the chief reporter at Dharti TV. Mr. Samejo is known for his aggressive style in obtaining stories while maintaining objectivity. His contract was scheduled to end December 31, 2015, however as of mid-January, 2016, he remains with the station.
See also
Sindh
Sindhi language
Sindhi music videos
References
Television stations in Pakistan
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television networks in Pakistan
Television stations in Karachi
Sindhi-language mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEPOS | SWEPOS is a support system for accurate measurement of Swedish geography using a network of fixed reference stations which gather GNSS data. The SWEPOS system permits mobile GPS/GLONASS receivers to receive detailed positioning data down to the centimeter level. The SWEPOS network of reference stations began as a co-operation between the National Land Survey of Sweden and Onsala Space Observatory.
References
External links
SWEPOS
Global Positioning System
GLONASS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202015 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2015, there were 32 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was AC/DC's sixteenth studio album Rock or Bust, which had previously spent a week at number one in December 2014. The final number-one album of the year was Alone in the Universe, the first album credited to Jeff Lynne's ELO, which topped the chart for the week ending 26 November and remained at number one for nine consecutive weeks into January 2016 (including the last six weeks of 2015).
The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2015 was Muse's seventh studio album Drones, which spent seven consecutive weeks at number one between 20 June and 30 July. Alone in the Universe spent six weeks at number one and was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 18th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Fall Out Boy's sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho and David Gilmour's fourth solo album Rattle That Lock each spent five weeks at number one, ranking as the 28th and 35th best-selling albums in the UK at the end of the year, respectively. Two albums – Pink Floyd's fifteenth studio album The Endless River and All Time Low's sixth studio album Future Hearts – each spent two weeks at number one in 2015.
Chart history
See also
2015 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2015
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2015 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202015 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2015
QandA
2015-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202015 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2015
2015 in American television
2015-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorado%20Software | Dorado Software is a multinational information technology company specializing in the development, licensing, and support of network management software. Dorado develops and maintains the Cruz product suite, which provides infrastructure and service lifecycle management for heterogeneous and multi-technology environments.
Cruz
Dorado's Cruz product suite combines a range of management functions in a single console and also automates the deployment and management of network devices including routers, switches, PCs, servers, storage and security appliances. Cruz product features include automated configuration, change management, monitoring the health and performance of assets, trend reporting, network traffic analysis, service provisioning, and managed service provider features.
Dorado has an OEM relationship with other companies such as Dell and CommTelNS that private-label or embed its technology. Notably, Cruz serves as the basis for Open Manage Network Manager which is sold by Dell EMC as a means of managing their various lines of switches and/or network equipment from other vendors such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, etc.
History
Dorado was founded in 1998 in El Dorado Hills, California as a provider of application development environments for OEM element management systems (EMS). The company used this experience to build a multi-vendor management system that evolved into the suite of Cruz products.
See also
Communications service provider
Infrastructure management services
References
Further reading
External links
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Telephony software
Software companies based in California
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20DNA%20Profiling%20Bill | The DNA Based Technology (Use and Regulation) Bill, 2017 or the Human DNA Profiling Bill is a proposed legislation in India. The bill will allow the government to establish a National DNA Data Bank and a DNA Profiling Board, and use the data for various specified forensic purposes. The bill has raised concerns of privacy among citizen rights groups. The bill was expected to be presented in the parliament in the monsoon session of 2015.
History
The bill was originally proposed in 2007 and in 2012 drafting of the bill began. The draft bill was prepared by the Department of Biotechnology. The bill proposes to form a National DNA Data Bank and a DNA Profiling Board, and use the data for various specified purposes.
The proposed DNA Profiling Board will consist of molecular biology, human genetics, population biology, bioethics, social sciences, law and criminal justice experts. The Board will define standards and controls for DNA profiling. It will also certify labs and handle access of the data by law enforcement agencies. There will be similar bodies at state levels.
The bill will also create a National DNA Data Bank, which will collect data from offenders, suspects, missing persons, unidentified dead bodies and volunteers. It will profile and store DNA data in criminal cases like homicide, sexual assault, and other crimes. The data will be restricted and will be available only to the accused or the suspect. A person facing imprisonment or death sentence can send a request for DNA profiling of related evidence to the court that convicted him.
The bill has the provision that any misuse of data will carry a punishment of up to three years imprisonment and also fine.
Criticism and support
The bill has been criticised for not addressing the concerns of privacy. The Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties has opposed the bill on privacy concerns and sent a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission of India in 2012.
A. P. Shah committee report
In October 2012, an expert committee headed by Ajit Prakash Shah presented its report. It said that there should be safeguards to prevent illegal collection and use of DNA data. There should be also safeguards to prevent the proposed body from misusing them. The report also suggested that there should a mechanism using which citizens can appeal against the retention of data. There should also be a mechanism of appeal under which citizens under trial can request a second sample to be taken. The samples must be taken after consent in case of victims and suspects. However, samples can also be taken from crime scenes. The committee noted that although the bill allows volunteers to submit samples, there is no proper procedure to obtain consent and there is no mechanism under which volunteer can withdraw their data. The committee proposed that before giving the data to a third party, the person must be notified and consent must be sought, if the third party is not an authorised agency. The report said that purpos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis%20Ormandy | Tavis Ormandy is an English computer security white hat hacker. He is currently employed by Google and was formerly part of Google's Project Zero team.
Notable discoveries
Ormandy is credited with discovering severe vulnerabilities in LibTIFF, Sophos' antivirus software and Microsoft Windows.
With Natalie Silvanovich he discovered a severe vulnerability in FireEye products in 2015.
His findings with Sophos' products led him to write a 30-page paper entitled "Sophail: Applied attacks against Sophos Antivirus" in 2012, which concludes that the company was "working with good intentions" but is "ill-equipped to handle the output of one co-operative security researcher working in his spare time" and that its products shouldn't be used on high-value systems.
He also created an exploit in 2014 to demonstrate how a vulnerability in glibc known since 2005 could be used to gain root access on an affected machine running a 32-bit version of Fedora.
In 2016, he demonstrated multiple vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Antivirus on Windows related to the Password Manager, and vulnerabilities in Symantec security products.
In February 2017, he found and reported a critical bug in Cloudflare's infrastructure leaking user-sensitive data along with requests affecting millions of websites around the world which has been referred to as Cloudbleed (in reference to the Heartbleed bug that Google co-discovered).
On or around May 15, 2023, he found and reported a vulnerability called Zenbleed (CVE-2023-20593) affecting all Zen 2 class processors.
References
External links
"Sophail: Applied attacks against Sophos Antivirus" - Ormandy's paper on insecurities in Sophos products
Google employees
Hackers
English computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur%20%28programming%20language%29 | Ur also called Ur/Web is a free and open-source functional programming language specific for web development, created by Adam Chlipala at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that from a single program produces server code, browser client code and SQL code specific for the chosen database backend.
Ur supports a powerful kind of metaprogramming based on row types.
Ur/Web is Ur plus a special standard library and associated rules for parsing and optimization. Ur/Web supports construction of dynamic web applications backed by SQL databases. The signature of the standard library is such that well-typed Ur/Web programs "don't go wrong" in a very broad sense. Not only do they not crash during particular page generations, but they also may not:
Suffer from any kinds of code injection attacks
Return invalid HTML
Contain dead intra-application links
Have mismatches between HTML forms and the fields expected by their handlers
Include client-side code that makes incorrect assumptions about the "AJAX"-style services that the remote web server provides
Attempt invalid SQL queries
Use improper marshaling or unmarshaling in communication with SQL databases or between browsers and web servers
This type safety is just the foundation of the Ur/Web methodology. It is also possible to use metaprogramming to build significant application pieces by analysis of type structure.
The Ur/Web compiler also produces very efficient object code that does not use garbage collection.
The implementation of all this is open source.
SQL syntax templates embedded in the language facilitate the handling of tables.
Although the syntax is based on Standard ML the language includes concepts from Haskell with additional type manipulation.
Ajax call/response is serialized through a monad called transaction (corresponds to Haskell's IO) and its marshalling and decoding is encapsulated in the rpc function.
The browser client side includes functional reactive programming facilities using the (source a) type and a signal monad.
Example program
This is a demo program showing client, server and database code with Ajax communication, from the web demos, with extra comments to outline each of the components:
Interface file (ML-like signature) with extension:
(* the environment monad is called transaction, corresponds to Haskell's IO monad *)
val main : unit -> transaction page
Implementation file (.ur extension):
datatype list t = Nil | Cons of t * list t
table t : { Id : int, A : string }
PRIMARY KEY Id
(* server side database access, called through AJAX XmlHttpRequest
encapsulated as ''rpc'' function (remote procedure call) *)
fun add id s =
(* sql dml template with {[expression]} *)
dml (INSERT INTO t (Id, A) VALUES ({[id]}, {[s]}))
fun del id =
dml (DELETE FROM t WHERE t.Id = {[id]})
fun lookup id =
(* haskell style monadic code *)
ro <- oneOrNoRows (SELECT t.A FROM t WHERE t.Id = {[id]});
case ro of
None => |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrimony.com | Matrimony.com Limited, whose flagship brand is BharatMatrimony, is a network of matchmaking services. More than 4000 employees work at over 20 offices across India. The company also has offices in the US, Dubai and Bangladesh.
Company details
BharatMatrimony operates in 15 regional languages. The company has pioneered several matrimony-related services such as Assistedmatrimony, a personalized matchmaking service for busy professionals where a trained relationship manager does the matches and facilitates meetings between prospects. Its premium service, Elite Matrimony, offers matchmaking services for the upper crust that ensures privacy and confidentiality during the process.
History
In 2005 BharatMatrimony launched BharatMatrimony Centres, its offline division. The company pioneered the personal assisted service in 2008 with the launch of BM Privilege. This was then renamed Privilege Matrimony in 2009. Later it became Assisted Matrimony. Trained relationship managers understand member preferences, search for matching profiles and send them to members. They then contact prospects and facilitate meetings on mutual consent of prospective families.
Elite Matrimony
"Elite Matrimony", launched in 2008, caters to wealthy individuals or their families seeking matrimonial alliances, and is a part of Matrimony.com's premium matchmaking service. The website employs staff who assist members in searching for potential partners, and its services are available only to invited members who must pay a matchmaking service fee ranging from 60,000 rupees to over 2,220,000 rupees. The site was founded in 2008 by Murugavel Janakiraman in Chennai.
Developments
In 2012, the company came out with Matrimony Directory, a wedding vendors classifieds portal It features over 50,000 wedding related services in over 20 cities.
BharatMatrimony has mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Nokia and Android users in India. It also has an upgraded WAP site. Community Matrimony also has mobile apps.
Back in the early 2000s, when there was skepticism about online matrimony and fear about paying online, the company pioneered doorstep collections in India. The company introduced features on their website like Matchboard, SoulMate Search, AstroMatch, and Express Interest to help customers make the right matches.
In 2006, Bharat Matrimony earned an entry in the Limca Book of World Records for having facilitated the highest number of documented marriages online in India.
In 2013, Consim Info changed name to Matrimony.com
In 2021, Matrimony launched Jodii App which is a vernacular matchmaking app for lower income groups and blue-collared workers. Currently the App is available in Tamil but will soon be launched in other regional languages.
In 2022, Matrimony.com started 'RainbowLuv' to cater to people from the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking for serious and meaningful relationships. The app has 45 gender identities, 122 orientation tags and 48 pronouns
Awards
Bharat Mat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZRH%20Network%20News | MBC Network News (formerly titled as DZRH Network News) is the flagship Tagalog language tri-media newscast of DZRH. It airs in the Philippines through DZRH News Television every weekday from 12 to 1 p.m. The newscast is being simulcast on 666 kHz in Manila and DZRH provincial relay stations if the station has special coverage.
History
2013-2018: as The Network NewsBreak and MBC Network News
The newscast was launched in October 2013 at the rebrand of RHTV to DZRH News Television with Samantha Nazario, Bea Oranga and Nino Padilla as an 11:00 AM newscast under the name The Network NewsBreak. They were later replaced with the quartet of the main anchor Dennis Antenor, Jr., segment anchors Sonny Casulla, Rocky and primary relief anchor Vien Dacles under the MBC Network News banner in 2014. Initially, Dacles doubled duty as a weather reporter until MBC outsourced weather forecasters from Panahon.TV in 2017.
Initially, the newscast aired on weekdays at 11:00 am and Saturdays at 10:30 am on cable as MBC Network News: Special Edition, both having an 11:30 pm audio-only encore on DZRH-AM and running a half-hour until June 16, 2017, when the weekday edition moved to the prime noon slot and expanded to an hour as a part of daytime revamps. However, the Saturday edition wasn't affected until it was axed by November 25 of that same year in favor of expanding the top-of-the-hour bulletin to Saturdays. The cable-exclusive bulletins continued until June 2019.
As DZRH Network News
On January 8, 2018, coinciding with programming changes on radio, the newscast was reformatted as DZRH Network News and began its simulcast on radio, replacing Rapido Hataw Balita: Alas Dose. Dennis Antenor, Jr. remained at the anchor chair with an expanded involvement from its radio reporters and presented the headlines with emphasis on a "timeline" format, wherein each story carried timepieces depicting the time the news was announced by the station. Network promotional material tagged the newscast as having a different approach from its predecessor. Initially, DZRH-AM simulcast the full hour of the program until March 2018 when it was scaled down to a half-hour to accommodate the radio station's slate of radio dramas; the program itself reduced its run to a half-hour by July 2019.
Changes occurred in April 2018 with Vien Dacles and Sonny Casulla (who later retired and transferred to 87.9 Radyo Biñan) ending on-camera roles and adding in the new segment and relief anchors.
In October 2018, Regi Espiritu replaced Antenor, Jr., as the new anchor as the latter concentrated on his duties as continuity announcer and host of Byaheng RH.
MBC fire and aftermath
On October 2, 2019, the MBC broadcast facilities were affected by a significant fire that originated at the Star City Complex, including the studios utilized by DZRH News Television. Upon the station's temporary relocation to the BSA Twin Towers on October 4, the newscast utilized the DZRH radio booth to ensure the continuation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicanal | Unicanal is a Paraguayan Digital television network owned and operated by Grupo JBB.
Programming
News
Noticieros Unicanal
Notciero Unicanal Primera Edición
Noticiero Unicanal: Segunda Edición
Noticiero Central Unicanal
Síntesis Unicanal
Sports
Unicanal Deportes
Deporte Visión
Minuto 91
Tribuna Caliente
Shows
De la Claqueta
Entertainment
El Ritmo de la Mañana
LanPy TV ( Domingos de 16 a 19 Horas )
Interview
Causa Justa
Cara o Cruz
El Péndulo
Telenovelas
Current
Noche y día
Esperanza mía
Avenida Brasil
Upcoming
Telenovelas
El derecho de nacer
El hombre del mundo se derrite
Donde me estas necesitando
Kara Sevda
Rey de la ambición
Amor en la luz de la luna
El hombre inocente
Está bien, eso es amor
Children programs
Mr. Bean: Animated Series (Season 2) (English version) (children-comedy)
Regalo de vida (Original title in Vietnamese: Quà tặng cuộc sống) (Spanish version) (children-drama-fantasy-comedy)
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (Spanish version) (children-Japanese anime-anthology series)
Former
Valientes
Mis amigos de siempre
Guapas
Solamente vos
Los cuervos
El rey del ganado (Original title in Portuguese: O Rei do Gado)
La revancha
Amores Cruzados
La sucesora (Original title in Portuguese: A Sucessora)
Acapulco, cuerpo y alma
Amarte así
Carola Casini
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
Mi Gorda Bella
Patito Feo
Malparida
Herederos de una venganza
Alguien que me quiera
Sos mi hombre
Doña Bella
Rencor apasionado
Kara Para Aşk
Sports Events
Association Football
Paraguayan Primera División
Paraguayan Segunda División
Paraguayan Primera División B
Paraguayan Cuarta División
Basketball
Paraguayan Basketball League (One game per week are broadcast live Saturday at 17:00 (K.O 17:15) or 18:00 (K.O 18:15))
Volleyball
Handball
Rugby Union
Paraguayan Rugby Championship
Top 14
Futsal
References
External links
Television stations in Paraguay
Television channels and stations established in 1989
Spanish-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20International%20Emmy%20Awards | The 4th International Emmy Awards took place on November 22, 1976 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 4th International Emmys ceremony took place on the night of November 22, 1976, in New York City. It was organized by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS). British TV network Thames Television was awarded in the fiction category for The Naked Civil Servant, a biographical film based on the 1968 book of the same name by Quentin Crisp, starring John Hurt and directed by Jack Gold, the award was presented by the actor Telly Savalas. The non-fiction category went to Japan's Nippon TV documentary Reach for Tomorrow.
Robert T. Howard of NBC presented the Directorate Award to Talbot Duckmanton, Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Howard Thomas and Brazilian journalist Roberto Marinho, founder of TV Globo, were also honored during the ceremony.
Winners
Best Fiction Program: The Naked Civil Servant (Thames Television)
Best Non-Fiction Program: Reach for Tomorrow (Nippon TV)
Directorate Award: Talbot Duckmanton, Secretary General of the ABU
References
International Emmy Awards ceremonies
International
International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBox%20Home%20TV%20Gateway | VBox Home TV gateway is a network-enabled live TV tuner and PVR HDTV set-top-box produced by VBox Communications Ltd.
The VBox Home TV Gateway is also known as:
V@Home TV Gateway PVR
V@Home TV Gateway
VHome TV Gateway
VBox TV Gateway
XTi
History
VBox Communication was established in 2001 and received strategic investment from Optibase (now part of Vitec).
On Jan 9, 2002 VBox Communications acquired from BroadLogic (now part of Broadcom) its Satellite Express and DTV product lines, adding DVB core functionality to VBox's IP.
VBox TV Gateway technology was first used in its XLV Professional product line unveiled at the Satellite 2006 Show in Washington, D.C., targeting the hospitality, digital signage and enterprise markets.
The VBox Home TV Gateway is based on VBox's 6th generation XLV Professional product line. It debuted at the Mobile World Congress ShowStoppers event in Barcelona, Spain on February 23, 2014 and was first reviewed by CNET UK.
Overview
VBox Home TV Gateway is a network TV tuner and digital video recorder providing both front and back ends, capable of recording and streaming multiple channels to multiple devices at the same time. Unlike standard set-top boxes it does not have an HDMI or other video or audio outputs that directly connect a television, instead its multiple DVB tuners receives the live TV RF signal from satellite, cable TV or terrestrial antenna and streams the decoded video over a local area network to any UPnP-enabled player such as a smart phone, tablet computer, smart TV, computer, or game console.
Technical specifications
Supported DVB standards
Supported content
All VBox Home TV Gateway devices support free-to-air (FTA) content, models that end with CI also support encrypted pay TV content with single or dual Conditional-access module (CAM) Common Interface (CI) slots; there is no support for CI+ CAMs.
Supported recordings
Recording of live or scheduled TV program is available from any of the free VBox apps, the recordings are stored on an external storage and can be played from any device.
Supported recording devices:
USB attached storage such as USB flash drive or external HDD. Supported file systems: FAT32, FAT16, EXT 2, EXT 3, EXT 4
Network storage - Windows Shared folder or NAS. Supported file system: SMB/CIFS
Simultaneous streaming of different channels
VBox guarantees a single channel per tuner, however, in reality, the tuner locks on a transponder or MUX and can stream all the available channels in that bouquet up to about 40 Mbit/s.
Compatibility and apps options
UPnP - Any UPnP device or application (and DLNA although not officially supported) can discover the device and play live or recorded TV programs
m3u - The device generates a link to an m3u channel playlist for connectivity with supported applications such as Kodi with the IPTV Simple PVR add-on, VLC, DVBLogic
XMLTV - The device generates a link to an EPG XML TV program file for integration with 3rd party applications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202015 | The highest-selling albums in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data is compiled by Oricon based on each albums' weekly physical sales. This list includes the albums that reached the number one place on that chart in 2015.
Chart history
References
See also
2015 in Japanese music
Number-one albums
Japan
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling%20TV | Sling TV is an American streaming television service operated by Sling TV LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dish Network. Unveiled on January 5, 2015, at the Consumer Electronics Show, the virtual multichannel video programming distributor aims to complement subscription video on demand services for cord cutters, offering a selection of major cable channels and OTT-originated services that can be streamed through smart TVs, digital media players and apps. The service is available in the United States and Puerto Rico .
Sling TV is led by Erik Carlson, who also serves as the President and COO of Dish Network. The service's precursor, the ethnic television service DishWorld, was also brought under the auspices of Sling TV LLC and was rebranded as Sling International. Following an invitation-only beta launch of the service that began in January of that year, Sling TV formally launched on February 9, 2015. In August 2021, the service reached a total of 2.44 million subscribers. In September 2021, Sling TV reached 2.556 million subscribers. In January 2022, Sling TV reached 2.486 million subscribers down 595,000 pay TV subscriber loss from Q3 total of 2.6 million.
In June 2022, Sling TV reached 2.19 million subscribers. In September 2022, Sling TV had 2.41 million subscribers, up from the 2.19 million in June. In December 2022, Sling TV had 2.3 million subscribers. In March 2023, Sling TV had 2.10 million subscribers, down from 2.334 million subscribers at the end of 2022. , Sling TV has 2 million subscribers.
History
Dish Network began to trial run an over-the-top ("OTT") internet television provider in 2012 with the launch of DishWorld, a service which provided access to over 50 ethnic and international television networks; DishWorld was initially made available through an app for Roku digital media players. In carriage deals that the company struck with major cable channel owners such as A&E Networks, The Walt Disney Company and Scripps Networks Interactive during 2014, Dish Network obtained the over-the-top distribution rights to their networks as part of clauses incorporated into the agreements pertaining to its existing direct broadcast satellite service – a move that served as a stepping stone for Dish towards launching a mainstream OTT offering. In November 2014, Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen explained that the company planned to launch its OTT service by the end of that year and was aiming for the package to retail for around $30 per month. He explained: "the regular linear MVPD business is a mature business. You can't just go back every day and say 'I'm going to raise my rates to make my budget.' You have to figure out other revenue streams and get other people to pay for your product and watch more minutes of your product."
The OTT service was officially unveiled as Sling TV on January 5, 2015, in a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas; the service is co-branded with the Sling entity owned by Dish Network's f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202015 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 2015.
Chart history
References
See also
2015 in Japanese music
2015 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GROWL | GROWL is an international education network for degrowth formed by academics, practitioners, researchers and political activists. One central aim of the network is to promote collective action across initiatives related to degrowth (e.g. Transition Towns, agroecology, Solidarity economy, DIY among other "nowtopias"), in order to reduce the atomization and dispersal of initiatives that hinder their capacity to scale up and present a solid alternative to the dominant economic paradigm.
History
GROWL was founded in 2013 by ten non-profit, research and higher education organisations under the coordination of the think-tank Research & Degrowth. The network build-up has been supported with a ca. €200000 grant from the Grundtvig programme for the period between August 2013 and July 2015.
In 2014, the first international thematic courses took place:
Social dimension of agroecology
Solidarity & Cooperative Economy
Mental Infrastructures
Local Economic Alternatives
Philosophy
The network departs from the acknowledgment of major shortcomings of contemporary education institutions in providing adequate knowledge and skills required to critically address the problems of limits to growth and engage in the transformations towards a post growth and sustainable society.
The network relies on the theoretical foundations of social constructivism and the concept of peer learning based on communities of practice.
References
Degrowth
Organizations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20cognitive%20optimization | Social cognitive optimization (SCO) is a population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm which was developed in 2002. This algorithm is based on the social cognitive theory, and the key point of the ergodicity is the process of individual learning of a set of agents with their own memory and their social learning with the knowledge points in the social sharing library. It has been used for solving continuous optimization, integer programming, and combinatorial optimization problems. It has been incorporated into the NLPSolver extension of Calc in Apache OpenOffice.
Algorithm
Let be a global optimization problem, where is a state in the problem space . In SCO, each state is called a knowledge point, and the function is the goodness function.
In SCO, there are a population of cognitive agents solving in parallel, with a social sharing library. Each agent holds a private memory containing one knowledge point, and the social sharing library contains a set of knowledge points. The algorithm runs in T iterative learning cycles. By running as a Markov chain process, the system behavior in the tth cycle only depends on the system status in the (t − 1)th cycle. The process flow is in follows:
[1. Initialization]：Initialize the private knowledge point in the memory of each agent , and all knowledge points in the social sharing library , normally at random in the problem space .
[2. Learning cycle]： At each cycle ：
[2.1. Observational learning] For each agent ：
[2.1.1. Model selection]：Find a high-quality model point in , normally realized using tournament selection, which returns the best knowledge point from randomly selected points.
[2.1.2. Quality Evaluation]：Compare the private knowledge point and the model point ，and return the one with higher quality as the base point ，and another as the reference point 。
[2.1.3. Learning]：Combine and to generate a new knowledge point . Normally should be around ，and the distance with is related to the distance between and , and boundary handling mechanism should be incorporated here to ensure that .
[2.1.4. Knowledge sharing]：Share a knowledge point, normally , to the social sharing library .
[2.1.5. Individual update]：Update the private knowledge of agent , normally replace by . Some Monte Carlo types might also be considered.
[2.2. Library Maintenance]：The social sharing library using all knowledge points submitted by agents to update into . A simple way is one by one tournament selection: for each knowledge point submitted by an agent, replace the worse one among points randomly selected from .
[3. Termination]：Return the best knowledge point found by the agents.
SCO has three main parameters, i.e., the number of agents , the size of social sharing library , and the learning cycle . With the initialization process, the total number of knowledge points to be generated is , and is not related too much with if is large.
Compared to traditional swarm algorithms, e.g. par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEEST-AM | XEEST-AM is a radio station on 1440 AM in Mexico City. The station airs Christian programming under the name "Ondas De Vida".
History
XELZ-AM received its first concession on December 1, 1942, to María Cardona de Zetina. For most of its history under this callsign, it broadcast ranchera music and was known as "Radio LZ". It was sold to Radio Variedades, S.A. in 1961, and became a part of Grupo Radio Centro. In the late 1970s, the tropical format Radio AI changed from 1320 AM to 1440.
By the 1980s, it had adopted the XEEST-AM callsign and was known as "Estudiantes AM", targeting a youth audience with pop in Spanish. This format evolved into "Radio 14-40" in the mid-80s with Spanish-language rock joining the musical mix. Yet again, in 1989, the station changed names, this time to "Radio Alegría", but kept its format, eventually incorporating the wave of Spanish-language rap. In 1993, the format was changed and the station became "Radio Éxitos" (a name that had been used on XERC-AM until 1988), with 1960s classic rock in English.
In 1996, Grupo Radio Centro ceded the station's operational control to Grupo Radial Siete, after having taken control of XHFO-FM three years earlier. Under Radial Siete, the station changed yet again, to "Sonido Crystal" with a grupera format; in 1998, it became the news-oriented "Radio Noticias 14-40". By 2005, it offered ballads and spoken programs as "La Reina del Hogar"; this changed to the all-spoken "Cambio 14-40" in 2007. The station took on its current format in 2012; for the first two months as a romantic station, it was known as "Radio Amor 14-40" but not long after changed to its current name, possibly to avoid confusion with XHSH-FM, known as "Amor 95.3".
On May 15, 2017, Quiéreme moved from XEEST to the stronger XEINFO-AM 1560. The move took place the same day as a major reshuffle of the AM stations owned by Grupo Radio Centro. XEEST returned to the air on October 2 after having been relocated to a new transmitter site in the Atlazolpa neighborhood of Mexico City, shared with Radio Centro's XEQR-AM 1030 and unrelated station XEITE-AM 830. However, on October 2, 2017, Quiéreme reverted to XEEST-AM as XEINFO-AM licensee was granted the migration of the station to the FM band as XHINFO-FM 105.3.
At 7pm on February 14, 2019, Quiéreme moved to XEITE-AM 830, and 1440 fell silent again.
In August 2019, GRC officially ceded the ownership of XEEST to Grupo Siete, after the latter also resumed operations of its own XHFO-FM; the concession transfer was approved by the IFT on September 2, 2020.
On February 15, 2020, XEEST returned to the air with the Christian format "Ondas de Paz". The name changed to Ondas de Vida on March 22, 2021, with a change in management but retaining the format.
References
1942 establishments in Mexico
Christian radio stations in Mexico
Radio stations established in 1942
Radio stations in Mexico City
Spanish-language radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEAI-AM | XEAI-AM is a radio station in Mexico City. Located on 1470 AM, XEAI-AM is owned by Grupo Fórmula talk radio network.
History
Salvador San Martín obtained a radio concession for XESM in 1942. In the early 1980s, the station became notable for its "Radio Cañón" format, aimed at a youth audience and competing with such stations as XEEST-AM 1440; during this time XESM placed among the top five radio stations in the Mexico City area.
In 1991, the station was rebranded as "Rock Fórmula", with rock in Spanish from the 1960s and 1970s. This format, too, found success. However, from the 1990s on, wild changes in programming followed: "Jazz SM", which replaced the lost Jazz FM; norteña music as "La Tremenda" in the mid-90s; and oldies as "SM Vida 14-70" all followed.
In 2000, the station's callsign was changed to XEAI-AM, the original callsign of 1320 AM until its calls were changed in 1974 and later on sister 1500 AM until 1998. It became known as "Radio Fórmula 14-70 AM, Cadena Metrópoli", adopting a news-heavy format. Later on, the station was refocused to appeal to women as "Fórmula Femenina", although it dropped that name in 2017. It features talk shows, reruns of other Radio Formula programs from XERFR and XEDF, and overnight musical programming with oldies in Spanish.
References
1942 establishments in Mexico
News and talk radio stations in Mexico
Radio Fórmula
Radio stations established in 1942
Radio stations in Mexico City
Spanish-language radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20Xplorer%20ZV | The Symphony Xplorer ZV is an Android smartphone manufactured by Symphony Mobile. It was introduced in January 2015 for Bangladesh.
Features
Network: 2G, 3G
SIM: Dual SIM (Micro)
Rear Camera: 13 MP
Front Camera: 2 MP
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 32 GB
Battery: 2000 mAh
Size: 5 In
Operating System: Android 4.4.2 KitKat
CPU: 1.4 GHz Octa Core/MT 6592M
Dimensions: 140 × 70 × 7.9 mm
Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity, Light, G-Sensor
Weight: 150 g
IPS Capacitive Display
Browser: HTML
GPU : Mali 450mp4
References
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Balfour%20%28engineer%29 | James Melville Balfour (2 June 1831 – 19 December 1869) was a Scottish-born New Zealand marine engineer. He is best remembered for the network of lighthouses that he designed. Balfour was a highly energetic man, who despite drowning after only six years in the country, has left a list of projects either designed or constructed by him. He was initially employed by the Otago Provincial Council before his appointment by the Government of New Zealand as the colonial marine engineer.
Early life and family
Balfour was born in the manse of Colinton Parish Church south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland on 2 June 1831. He was the youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour (1777–1860), D.D., who for 37 years was minister for the Colinton parish. The philosopher James Balfour was his father's paternal grandfather, and the physician Robert Whytt was his father's maternal grandfather. His father had married Anne Mackintosh on 24 February 1806. Among his siblings were the physician and heart specialist George William Balfour (1823–1903), and Margaret Isabella "Maggie" Balfour (1829–1897) who in 1848 married the lighthouse builder Thomas Stevenson. They were the parents of the author Robert Louis Stevenson.
He received his education at Edinburgh High School and the University of Edinburgh. He studied civil engineering and for his training, he attended workshops in Scotland and, to study optics, in Germany. He did an apprenticeship with famous lighthouse builders, the brothers Thomas and David Stevenson, David being his sister's husband, and he worked in the lighthouse department of the firm.
Balfour married Christina Simson and their only child, Marie Clothilde Balfour, was born in 1862. She married her first cousin James Craig Balfour, the son of Balfour's brother George.
Career in New Zealand
The Balfour family arrived in Port Chalmers on board the Sir Ralph Abercromby on 14 September 1863. Both Balfour and his friend and colleague, Thomas Paterson, had accepted appointments by the Otago Provincial Council for engineering positions. Balfour came as a marine engineer, while Paterson was a bridge, railway and road engineer. Paterson was half a year older than Balfour, and they had attended the same school in Edinburgh. Balfour brought with him from Scotland the lamp equipment he had designed for the proposed lighthouses at Cape Saunders and Taiaroa Head.
Balfour is described as having had "enormous energy", and within half a year, he had commenced a large number of projects. His contract with the provincial council was terminated at the end of 1866 (it is not clear whether this was Balfour's choice), and he then became colonial marine engineer on appointment by the government in Wellington.
Death
Balfour's friend Paterson drowned in mid-December 1869 when his coach overturned while crossing the Kakanui River. Upon hearing of his friend's death, Balfour made immediate arrangements to travel to his funeral. On 19 December 1869, eight passengers transferred by whale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Touch | Personal Touch is an Australian television series which aired in 1966 on what would eventually become Network Ten. A monthly series, it was an interior decorating show featuring Jim Swartzman and Mary Mackay. In Sydney it aired at 3:00PM on Wednesdays, it was preceded on the schedule by Matinee Movie and followed by Owly's School. In Melbourne it aired at 3:30PM on Thursdays, preceded by Compass and followed by The Texan.
References
External links
Personal Touch on IMDb
1966 Australian television series debuts
1966 Australian television series endings
Network 10 original programming
English-language television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerostris%20sexcuspidata | Caerostris sexcuspidata, also known as the common bark spider, occurs in Southern Africa, and on islands off the east coast of Africa, such as Madagascar, the Comores and Aldabra Island. It is a mainly nocturnal orb-web spider, the female constructing a large orb web stretching between trees or shrubs. During daylight hours she dismantles her web and retires to a nearby branch, tucking her legs, which are covered with fine hair, against her body, to blend with the surroundings to resemble part of a branch, complete with growth bulges. Though mainly nocturnal, these spiders may be found on their webs in shady, forested areas during the day. The dorsal surface is cryptically coloured with horny projections which aid in camouflage; legs are drably coloured seen from above and clearly zebra-striped when viewed from beneath. The common bark spider is the most widespread of the bark spiders found in Southern Africa and shows considerable variation in abdomen shape. The abdomen protrudes over the carapace, while the eight small eyes are located on a tubercle at the front of the carapace.
References
External links
Gallery
Gallery
iSpot post
The Photo Forum
Spiders of Africa
sexcuspidata
Spiders described in 1793 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20LATV%20affiliates | LATV is an American bilingual broadcast television network owned by LATV Networks, LLC, that is aimed at Hispanic and Latino American adults between the ages of 18 and 34. The following article is a list of current and former affiliates of the network.
Affiliates
Current affiliates
Former affiliates
References
LATV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20WeatherNation%20TV%20affiliates | WeatherNation TV is an American television network owned by WeatherNation, Inc., which features mainly local, regional, and national weather forecasts. The following article is a list of current and former affiliates of the network, which primarily consist of digital subchannels.
In markets where WeatherNation TV is not available through an affiliation with a broadcast television station, the national feed of the network is distributed via television on select cable providers and satellite provider Dish Network, in addition to being streamed on WeatherNation's website and through internet-capable devices and digital media receivers.
Affiliates
Current affiliates
Former affiliates
References
WeatherNation TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Plains%20Metropolitan%20Region%20intercity%20railway | Central Plains Metropolitan Region intercity railway system is a network of 14 regional high-speed railways radiating or surrounding the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. It is a plan for the gradual implementation of a regional rail system across the province. The system involves Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Xuchang, Pingdingshan, Luohe and Jiyuan, it aims to form a convenient, fast, safe and efficient intercity rail transportation network. In September 2009, the National Development and Reform Commission produced the "Central Plains Metropolitan Intercity Rail Transit Network Plan (2009–2020)", calling for the planning and construction of approximately 496 km of the total mileage across the regional high speed transit network. The vision is for greater transport opportunities and ultimately the formation of Zhengzhou as the urban centre, with Luoyang as a secondary urban centre, after connecting the major urban areas in the Central Plains urban agglomeration.
Route planning
Based on "Central Plains Metropolitan Intercity Rail Transit Network Plan (2009–2020)", the Central Plains Metropolitan intercity railway construction includes separate railways Zhengzhou–Jiaozuo, Zhengzhou–Kaifeng, Zhengzhou–Luoyang, Zhengzhou–Xinzheng Airport–Xuchang–Pingdingshan, and Zhengzhou–Xinxiang.
Intercity railway routes
Operational lines
Zhengzhou–Kaifeng intercity railway
Zhengzhou–Jiaozuo intercity railway
Zhengzhou–Xinzheng Airport intercity railway
Lines under construction
Zhengzhou–Xuchang intercity railway (South extension)
Zhengzhou–Jiaozuo intercity railway Yuntaishan extension
Short term planning
Zhengzhou–Luoyang intercity railway
Zhengzhou–Xinxiang intercity railway
Zhengzhou–Xuchang intercity railway Xuchang–Pingdingshan extension
Long term planning
Zhengzhou–Xinxiang intercity railway Xinxiang–Jiaozuo extension
Jiaozuo–Qinyang–Jiyuan line
Jiyuan–Jili–Luoyang line
Luoyang–Yichuan–Ruzhou–Baofeng–Pingdingshan line
Zhengzhou–Xuchang intercity railway Xuchang–Linying–Luohe extension
Zhengzhou–Luoyang intercity railway Xingyang–Gongyi–Yanshi branch line
References
High-speed railway lines in China
Rail transport in Henan
Railway lines opened in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh%20Mokhtari | Marsh Mokhtari is a British born, US-based TV host, actor and producer.
Career
His TV credits include hosting Extreme Chef on Food Network, host of Perilous Journeys on National Geographic Channel and several soap-opera appearances as Chris Boothe in 2006 on Passions and as Carson MacDonald in 2007 on The Young and The Restless.
Mokhtari and his wife, Jan, started Golden State Distillery which produces Gray Whale Gin. A percentage of the sales of the gin goes toward environmental causes.
Personal life
Mokhtari and his wife have two daughters.
References
American television hosts
British male actors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLPQLP | The Fortran subroutine NLPQLP, a newer version of NLPQL, solves smooth nonlinear programming problems
by a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm. The new version is specifically
tuned to run under distributed systems.
In case of computational errors, caused for example by inaccurate function or gradient evaluations,
a non-monotone line search is activated. The code is easily transformed to C by f2c and is widely used in academia and industry.
References
External links
http://klaus-schittkowski.de/nlpqlp.htm
https://www.schittkowski.de/numericalsoftware_nlpqlp.php
Mathematical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Digital%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202015 | The Gaon Digital Chart, part of Gaon Music Chart, is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. It consists of weekly (listed from Sunday to Saturday), monthly and yearly charts. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly and monthly charts. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Download, Streaming, and BGM charts.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Current Gaon Digital Chart
2015 singles
Korea, South singles
2015 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Album%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202015 | The Gaon Album Chart is a record chart that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the Gaon Music Chart which launched in February 2010. The data for the chart is compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Music Content Industry Association based on weekly and monthly physical albums and digital sales by six major distributors: LOEN Entertainment, S.M. Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Mnet Media.
Overall, EXO's Exodus (korean ver) album was Gaon Album Chart best selling album of 2015, selling 478,856 copies. The group also sold South Korea best-selling album of 2015 with all standard Exodus (korean ver) and each of its reissue Exodus (chinese ver), Love Me Right (korean ver) and Love Me Right (chinese ver) albums selling a total of 1,211,237 units overall. The group won Album of The Year at 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Album of The Year (1st Quarter) and (2nd Quarter) at 5th Gaon Chart Music Awards, Disk Daesang and Disk Bonsang at 30th Golden Disc Awards and Album of The Year at 2015 Melon Music Awards.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Notes
References
External links
Gaon Charts - Official Website
2015
Korea, South albums
2015 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20V.%20Stokes | Adrian V Stokes (25 June 1945 – 7 April 2020) was a British computer scientist who was one of the founders of the internet including the first implementation of email in the UK.
Education
Stokes earned a BSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry at University College London and he then went on to specialise in computer science.
Career
In 1973, whilst a research assistant at the Institute of Computer Science, University College London, Adrian was involved with a research team who were working on ARPANET, the experimental computer network of the United States Department of Defense. ARPANET became the Internet in the mid-1970s, and one of Adrian's responsibilities was the implementation of email in the UK.
Personal life
Stokes had spina bifida. He campaigned on behalf of people with disabilities for decades. He was the president of Disabled Motoring UK.
Awards and honours
Stokes was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to disabled people in 1983.
Stokes was recognised as one of the founders of the internet with a plaque by Stanford University.
References
1945 births
Mill Hill
British computer scientists
Alumni of University College London
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People with spina bifida
British scientists with disabilities
2020 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TipRanks | TipRanks is a financial technology company that uses artificial intelligence to analyze financial big data to provide stock market research tools for retail investors. The TipRanks Financial Accountability Engine™ scans and analyzes financial websites, corporate filings submitted to the SEC, and analyst ratings, to rank financial experts in real time.
The company operates a website and mobile app platform that offer free and paid subscriptions for stock market research. The platform supplies alternative financial data to retail investors. This data includes aggregated analyst ratings, financial blogger opinions, risk factors, insider trading, and a stock score called the Smart Score.
TipRanks provides data about the U.S., Canadian, UK, Australian, and German markets.
Additionally, TipRanks tracks and ranks financial experts, including sell-side financial analysts, financial bloggers, corporate insiders, hedge fund managers, and individual investors, and makes this information publicly available.
TipRanks’ data is also available through banks and brokers. E*TRADE, TD Ameritrade, eToro, Santander Bank, Interactive Brokers, CIBC, Questrade, TD Direct, Futu and Nasdaq.com, and other finance companies integrate TipRanks tools onto their platforms.
The company's headquarters is located in Tel Aviv.
History
TipRanks was founded in June 2012 by Uri Gruenbaum and Gilad Gat. They teamed up with Roni Michaely, a finance professor at Cornell University, to create the company. TipRanks was initially available only as a browser extension in a freemium model. In 2013, the company launched its first service - the Financial Accountability Engine - to ensure transparency of online investment recommendations. In the same year, TipRanks won two Finovate awards for disruptive innovation in the financial research field.
In 2014, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer invested in the company and joined its board of directors. That same year, TipRanks launched a website offering rankings of analysts, bloggers and insiders. Israel’s biggest bank, Bank Hapoalim, launched a new service designed to help customers who trade in the United States make rational investment decisions, using TipRanks technology.
Later that year TipRanks CEO Uri Gruenbaum appeared with Eliot Spitzer on CNBC. They demonstrated TipRanks’ abilities by ranking the best and worst analysts of the year, according to TipRanks.
In 2015, TipRanks took top prize at the IBM Watson Hackathon in Israel.
In 2016, TipRanks was selected as an Emerging Star by KPMG and H2 Ventures in their Fintech 100 Leading Global Fintech Innovators list.
In 2018, TipRanks announced that it was expanding its coverage to the Canadian markets.
In 2020, TipRanks expanded its coverage to the UK markets.
That same year, The Telegraph used data from TipRanks in its investment reporting for the first time.
In 2021, TipRanks launched a new tool that presents the risk factors of publicly traded companies. That same year, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20GPS%20Network | The British National GPS Network, known as OS Net, is a network of global navigation satellite system GNSS base stations covering Great Britain. It is managed by Ordnance Survey.
It provides access to a stable, national coordinate reference system (through downloaded GNSS data) that allows highly accurate location to be determined using suitable equipment, and is used in surveying, construction and precision agriculture industries, among other uses. The use of ground-based stations makes this system more accurate than satellite based GPS systems.
Using a single receiver, without any additional corrections, a civilian user can achieve a positional accuracy equal to 5 m – 10 m 95% of the time, and a height accuracy of 15 m – 20 m 95% of the time. Combined with data or corrections from a service such as OS Net, a positional accuracy of 1 – 2 cm is achievable, depending on the equipment used and environmental factors.
References
Global Positioning System
Ordnance Survey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Newman%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | William Maxwell Newman (21 May 1939 – 11 June 2019) was a British computer scientist. With others at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s Newman demonstrated the advantages of the raster (bitmap graphics) display technology first deployed in the Xerox Alto personal workstation, developing interactive programs for producing illustrations and drawings. With Bob Sproull he co-authored the first major textbook on interactive computer graphics.
Newman later contributed to the field of human–computer interaction, publishing several papers and a book taking an engineering approach to the design of interactive systems. He was an honorary professor at University College London and taught at Harvard, Queen Mary College London, University of California at Irvine, the University of Utah, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the University of Cambridge, and became an ACM SIGCHI Academy member in 2004.
Early life
Newman was born 21 May 1939 at Comberton, near Cambridge, England. He was the second son of Max Newman, the distinguished mathematician and World War II codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park, Manchester University and Cambridge University. William's mother was Lyn Irvine, a writer linked with the Bloomsbury Group.
For many years William was unaware of his father's important work at the Bletchley Park WWII codebreaking centre because it was protected under the Official Secrets Act until at least in the mid-1970s. Nevertheless, Alan Turing was a firm family friend, as was Albert Einstein, and a Monopoly board devised by William with Turing in 1950 was retrieved in 2011 following a visit to his family home with his son, daughter and future daughter-in-law, and later repackaged and sold by Bletchley Park.
In later life he took a keen interest in his father's role there, contributing items to the Bletchley Park Museum and elsewhere.
He also invested similar energy into his mother's creative output, collating and publishing letters between his mother and Lady Esher; these letters are available to view at St John's College, Cambridge, although she was an alumna of Girton College.
Growing up, the Newmans were very close family friends with the Penrose family, including Roger Penrose and Lionel Penrose; following his mother's death from cancer in 1973, his father married Margaret Penrose, Lionel Penrose's widow.
As his mother Lyn Irvine was raised in Aberdeen with family across the Scottish Borders, William spent much time in the Highlands and particularly in Torridon and Applecross.
Education
He attended Manchester Grammar School before studying Architecture and Engineering at St. John's College, Cambridge, obtaining a BA with first-class honours in 1961. His first contact with computers came in the mid-1960s when he joined others developing early CAD applications on the PDP-7 computer installed at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory. This PDP-7 was one of the first computers in the United Kingdom equipped with a vector-graphics display |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-model%20database | In the field of database design, a multi-model database is a database management system designed to support multiple data models against a single, integrated backend. In contrast, most database management systems are organized around a single data model that determines how data can be organized, stored, and manipulated. Document, graph, relational, and key–value models are examples of data models that may be supported by a multi-model database.
Background
The relational data model became popular after its publication by Edgar F. Codd in 1970. Due to increasing requirements for horizontal scalability and fault tolerance, NoSQL databases became prominent after 2009. NoSQL databases use a variety of data models, with document, graph, and key–value models being popular.
A multi-model database is a database that can store, index and query data in more than one model. For some time, databases have primarily supported only one model, such as: relational database, document-oriented database, graph database or triplestore. A database that combines many of these is multi-model.
For some time, it was all but forgotten (or considered irrelevant) that there were any other database models besides relational. The relational model and notion of third normal form were the default standard for all data storage. However, prior to the dominance of relational data modeling, from about 1980 to 2005, the hierarchical database model was commonly used. Since 2000 or 2010, many NoSQL models that are non-relational, including documents, triples, key–value stores and graphs are popular. Arguably, geospatial data, temporal data, and text data are also separate models, though indexed, queryable text data is generally termed a "search engine" rather than a database.
The first time the word "multi-model" has been associated to the databases was on May 30, 2012 in Cologne, Germany, during the Luca Garulli's key note "NoSQL Adoption – What’s the Next Step?". Luca Garulli envisioned the evolution of the 1st generation NoSQL products into new products with more features able to be used by multiple use cases.
The idea of multi-model databases can be traced back to Object–Relational Data Management Systems (ORDBMS) in the early 1990s and in a more broader scope even to federated and integrated DBMSs in the early 1980s. An ORDBMS system manages different types of data such as relational, object, text and spatial by plugging domain specific data types, functions and index implementations into the DBMS kernels. A multi-model database is most directly a response to the "polyglot persistence" approach of knitting together multiple database products, each handing a different model, to achieve a multi-model capability as described by Martin Fowler. This strategy has two major disadvantages: it leads to a significant increase in operational complexity, and there is no support for maintaining data consistency across the separate data stores, so multi-model databases have begun to fill i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal%20Research%20Centre | The Cereal Research Centre was a research institute established in 1925 based at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. It became part of a national network of research centres operated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Its research led to the development of over two hundred varieties of plant species resistant to pests and blights and producing high yields suitable for cultivation in the Canadian Prairies.
Its closure was announced in the 2012 federal budget, and ultimately executed in April 2014.
Background
In the late 1910s and early 1920s, Canada experienced several outbreaks of stem rust Puccinia graminis, particularly on wheat, the nation's staple agricultural product.
In response to these outbreaks, in 1925 the Government of Canada established the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. William Richard Motherwell, the Minister of Agriculture, invited Margaret Newton to help manage the newly opened laboratory. She accepted and was appointed the laboratory's senior plant pathologist, a position she maintained until retirement.
Newton established an annual stem rust survey for Western Canada, discovering a diversity of races in rust populations, which eventually enabled her to discover and catalogue the wheat species and cross-species resistant to stem rust.
Research
The research centre was part of a national research network operated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Among the research activities performed at the centre were studies on breeding of oat and wheat, quality improvements on cereal grain stocks, and disease and pest resistance. Its scope consisted of cereal development including the identification of genes having economic value, registration of varieties, and prediction and mitigation of pests during storage and processing. This led to the production of "high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties that are well-adapted to Canadian prairie growing conditions".
Testing of varieties was conducted at the Morden Research Station in Morden and at a research field in Glenlea.
Among the varieties released by the research centre during its lifetime were two barley, 14 field pea, 17 flax, 22 oat, and 27 wheat, as well as 53 fruit tree varieties and 123 ornamental plant varieties. About 50% of all wheat and oat sown in Canada are varieties developed at the Cereal Research Centre, representing about $2.5 billion of harvestable cereal commodities.
The centre developed novel methods for pest control, such as using pea proteins to deter insect infestations in stored grains, and identification of genetic markers, such as that for fusarium ear blight.
Closure
In a pre-budget consultation brief submitted to the Standing Committee on Finance of the House of Commons on 12 August 2011, the University of Manitoba requested the establishment of the Canadian Cereal Research Innovation Laboratory to replace the Cereal Research Centre and other federal grain laboratories that were outdated, in need of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVPB | WVPB may refer to:
West Virginia Public Broadcasting, a network of radio and television stations in the state of West Virginia, United States
It may also refer to the following outlets owned by West Virginia Public Broadcasting:
WVPB (FM), a radio station (88.5 FM) licensed to serve Charleston, West Virginia, United States
WVPB-TV, a television station (channel 9, virtual 33) licensed to serve Huntington, West Virginia
WVBY, a radio station (91.7 FM) licensed to serve Beckley, West Virginia, which held the call sign WVPB from 1974 to 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202015 | The 57th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 3 May 2015 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast live on the Nine Network. The red carpet arrivals coverage was hosted by Shelley Craft and Jules Lund.
Public voting for the "most popular" categories began on 12 January 2015 and ended on 22 February 2015. Nominations were announced on 22 March 2015. Television presenter Carrie Bickmore won the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. Love Child received the most nominations with seven, followed by INXS: Never Tear Us Apart with six. Hamish & Andy's Gap Year South America and Home and Away both received four nominations. Home and Away was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame.
Changes
On 24 October 2014, TV Week announced that it would be restoring the Most Outstanding Comedy Program category to the 2015 Logie Awards. The industry-voted category had been absent from Logie ceremonies since 2009 and TV Week said the decision to bring it back came after consulting with the industry, as well as listening to feedback from readers, viewers and voters. TV Week editor Emma Nolan stated, "The standard of Australian comedies has been outstanding in 2014 – and we felt that shows in that genre deserved to be judged up against each other in their own category. In recent years, comedy nominees had competed with other genre shows in the Most Outstanding Light Entertainment Program category.
Winners and nominees
In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Ricky Martin – "Mr. Put It Down"
Meghan Trainor – "All About That Bass" / "Lips Are Movin" and "Dear Future Husband"
The Script
Presenters
Dave Hughes
Amanda Keller and Eddie Perfect
Delta Goodrem
Peter Helliar and Denise Scott
Melanie Vallejo and Daniel Wyllie
Shane Jacobson
Chris Brown and Jennifer Hawkins
Julia Morris
Justine Clarke and Gary Sweet
Hamish Blake and Andy Lee
Gracie Gilbert and Jonathan LaPaglia
Mick Molloy
Waleed Aly and Sylvia Jeffreys
Richard Roxburgh
Dannii Minogue
Sonia Kruger and Danny O'Donoghue
Lachy Hulme
Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Delta Goodrem and Kate Ritchie
Most nominations
By network
ABC – 32
Nine Network – 25
Seven Network – 20
Network Ten – 19
Foxtel – 9
SBS – 8
Source:
By program
Love Child (Nine Network) – 7
INXS: Never Tear Us Apart (Seven Network) – 6
Hamish & Andy's Gap Year South America (Nine Network) / Home and Away (Seven Network) – 4
ANZAC Girls (ABC) / Carlotta (ABC) / Offspring (Network Ten) / The Project (Network Ten) / Wentworth (SoHo) – 3
Source:
In Memoriam
The In Memoriam segment was introduced by Michael Slater who spoke of the passing of Richie Benaud. Harpist Alana Conway performed a cover version of Eva Cassidy's "Songbird". The following deceased were honoured:
Terry Gill, actor
Norman Yemm, actor
Elaine Lee, actress
Jeff Truman, screenwriter, actor
Michael Shephard, publicist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202015%20%28U.S.%29 | The List of number-one digital songs of 2015 in the United States are based upon the highest-selling digital singles ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2015 in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2015
References
External links
Current Digital Songs chart
United States Digital Songs
2015
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Hassan%20%28Egyptian%20musician%29 | Mohamed Hassan ( born 3 December 1983) is an Egyptian singer who rose to fame in the third season of Arab Idol in 2014, broadcast by the MBC network. He was one of the best singers in the Program. He distinguished in Arab Idol with his deep strong sensitive voice. He Joined Arab Idol to achieve his father dream to become a famous Arab singer. Hassan won the hearts of millions around the Arab world by singing for Abdelhalim Hafez and many other soul songs for other Arab stars. The Egyptian singer also has a Bachelor of Laws from Cairo University 2004. Before Arab Idol, Hassan was a Trouper in AbdelHalim Nouira orchestra in Cairo Opera House. He also was the Vocal of a band consists of group of talented youth friends called Taefeel Masry. Hassan often sings Eastern music, especially the Egyptian Folk music and House Music. His Ideal are Abdelhalim Hafez, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Warda and Saber el Rebaii.
Of his own songs:
Khayyal
Ana Masry (Ehdon Dafayerha)
Wabbo (WaBBO Masry El-Taefeel) titre
Ehky Ya Rawy
Helmy Aeesh
Ah Ya Ensan
Of songs he performed in Arab Idol:
Hayart Alby Maak (Umm Kulthum)
Ay Dameet Hozn La (Abdelhalim Hafez)
Ally Soutak (Mohamed Mounir)
Khallas Tarak (Saber el Rebaii)
Mabyesaalsh Alaya Abdan (Mohamed AbdEl Motteleb)
Gabbar (Abdelhalim Hafez)
Hawa Ya Hawa (Afaf Rady).
Aal Helwa wel Morra (AbdelGhany El-Sayed)
El Alb Yeeshak kol Gamil (Umm Kulthum)
References
External links
Official Facebook page
Living people
21st-century Egyptian male singers
Contestants from Arabic singing competitions
Idols (franchise) participants
1983 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeTEx | NeTEx (formally Network Timetable Exchange PD CEN/TS 16614-1:2014', PD CEN/TS 16614-2:2014 and PD CEN/TS 16614-3:2014) is the CEN Technical standard for exchanging Public Transport Information as XML documents. It provides a W3C XML schema based on the Transmodel abstract model of common public transport concepts and data structures and can be used to exchange many different kinds of data between passenger information systems, including data describing for stops, facilities, timetabling and fares. Such data can be used by both operational management systems and customer facing systems for journey planning etc.
Scope
NeTEx provides a modular XML schema for public transport information data including passenger information systems, with coverage of a number of different subdomains of PT information, including transport network infrastructure and topology, public transport schedules, journey planning, fares, fare validation. It includes uniform mechanisms for versioning and identifying entity instances within a global context. It provides protocols for exchanging NeTEx XML documents using either asynchronous bulk exchange and any file transfer protocol, or dynamic messaging using http and a set of protocols that make use of the common framework of the Service Interface for Real Time Information. Like Transmodel, on which it is closely based (using model driven design concepts), NeTEx provides reusable abstractions to represent data elements of public transport.
Part 1 - Network Topology (CEN/TS 16614-1:2014) describes the Public Transport Network topology and timing concepts; and includes common framework concepts used by all parts.
Part 2 - Timing Information (CEN/TS 16614-2:2014) describes Scheduled Timetables, including complex rail and non-rail modes;
Part 3 - Public Transport Fares (CEN/TS 16614-3:2015) covers Fare information, including complex fare models
History
NeTEx is an evolution and offspring of the Transmodel project, which developed a conceptual model to harmonise and systemise the data formats of a number of European countries. It represents a harmonisation of a number of different European standards such as Bison (Netherlands), Trident (France) TransXChange (UK), VDV 452 (Germany), TAP TSI, for all of which a mapping to NeTEx exists. There is also a mapping to GTFS.
V1.0 of NeTEx was published by CEN in 2014. V1.1 is under development for completion in 2018/2019.
In 2017, under the Intelligent Transport Systems Priority Action A Directive (2010/40/E), the European Commission recognized NeTEx as a strategic standard for the cross-border exchange of data to enable the provision of EU-wide multi-modal travel information services, with the aim of making public transport data available in NeTEx format at National Access Points in all European countries by 2019.
See also
TransXChange
Transmodel
Transport standards organisations
Identification of Fixed Objects In Public Transport (IFOPT)
Service Interfac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Security%20Centre%20of%20Lithuania | The National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania is a government institution located in Vilnius, Lithuania that provides advice and support for the public and private sector in how to avoid computer security threats. It was established in 2015 and is part of the Ministry of National Defence.
History
The National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania was established in 2015 by reforming the Communications and Information Systems Service of Lithuania. It was created due to increasing cyberattack against Lithuanian institutions. Every year there are around 25,000 attacks and the number increases by 10-20% every year.
Activities
It analyses the cyber security environment in Lithuania, protects national databases, manages internet operations of national organizations, prepares cyber security plans and investigates internet attacks. The centre also issues recommendations regarding the safe usage of the internet and mobile apps. In 2018, it recommend to not use the Yandex Taxi app due to its superfluous permission requirements and access to sensitive data and data storing on servers in Russia. In September 2021, the centre claimed that Xiaomi devices have built-in censorship capabilities that can be turned on remotely.
See also
National Cyber Security Centre (disambiguation) in other countries
Links
References
Internet in Lithuania
Organizations based in Vilnius
Business organizations based in Lithuania
Communications and media organizations based in Europe
Communications in Lithuania
Mass media in Lithuania
Law enforcement agencies of Lithuania
2015 establishments in Lithuania
Lithuania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20Moms%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Dance Moms, an American dance reality television created by Collins Avenue Productions, began airing on January 6, 2015, on Lifetime's television network. The season concluded on August 18, 2015. A total of 32 official episodes and 2 special episodes (Girl Talk 2, Slumber Party!) aired this season.
Cast
The fifth season featured nine star billing cast members, with various other dancers and moms appearing throughout the season. This season is the first to feature JoJo Siwa and Brynn Rumfallo.
Choreographers and Instructors
Abby Lee Miller
Gianna Martello
Cathy Nesbitt-Stein (Candy Apples Dance Center)
Erin Rich-Stein (Candy Apples Dance Center)
Molly Long (Dance Precisions Dance Studio)
Erin Babbs (Murrieta Dance Project)
Alexa Moffett (Club Dance Studio)
Jeanette Cota (JC's Broadway Dance Academy)
Chehon Wespi-Tschopp (Millennium Dance Complex)
Travis Payne
Dancers
Nia Frazier
Kalani Hilliker
JoJo Siwa
Maddie Ziegler
Mackenzie Ziegler
Kendall Vertes
Moms
Melissa Gisoni
Holly Frazier
Jill Vertes
Kira Girard
Jessalynn Siwa
Guest Dancers/Moms
Sarah Hunt – ALDC Pittsburgh dancer (episode 3)
Christy Hunt – ALDC Pittsburgh mom (episode 3)
Sarah Reasons – former ALDC Junior Select Ensemble dancer (episodes 7 & 8)
Tracey Reasons – former ALDC Junior Select Ensemble mom (episodes 7 & 8)
Brynn Rumfallo – ALDC guest dancer (episodes 7–10)
Ashlee Allen – ALDC guest mom (episodes 7–10)
Candy Apples Dance Center
(NOTE: The following pairs list the dancer first and the mom second. In Season 5 Episode 28, the competition team effectively disbanded, with its dancers reforming into Jeanette's BDA team.)
Vivi-Anne Stein and Cathy Nesbitt-Stein
Alyssa and Meredith Chi
Evan and Vida Gorbell
Gavin, McKenzie, and Jo Anne Morales
Lucas and Brigette Triana
Ava and Jeanette Cota
Haley and Melanie Huelsman
Tessa and Renée Wilkinson
Chloe and Liza Smith
Ashtin and Jennifer Roth
Kaycee and Laura Rice
Cast duration
Notes
Key: = featured in this episode
Key: = not featured in this episode
Key: = joins the Abby Lee Dance Company
Key: = returns to the Abby Lee Dance Company
Episodes
References
General references
2015 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20from%20motion%20%28disambiguation%29 | Structure from motion may refer to:
Structure from motion in computer vision: How to create software that recover shape information from image sequences
Structure from motion: Psychophysics: How humans recover shape information from rotating objects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%20WA | Gateway WA, formally called the Gateway WA Perth Airport and Freight Access Project, was a $1 billion project that upgraded the road network around Perth Airport.
The project was located on portions of the southern parts of Perth Airport land, and adjacent land allocated for transport. It lay mainly within the local government area of the City of Belmont, with the eastern area located in the City of Kalamunda.
It was the largest project Main Roads Western Australia had ever undertaken, covering the upgrade of Tonkin, Leach, and Roe Highways, and the construction of four new interchanges. The project was jointly funded by state and federal governments, which provided $317.5 million and $686.4 million respectively.
As part of the project, Tonkin Highway was expanded from two to three lanes in both directions, between Great Eastern Highway and Roe Highway, and the existing intersections in this section was grade separated. A new diamond interchange was constructed at Boud Avenue (since known as the Dunreath Drive Interchange), to provide access to the domestic terminal precinct. International terminal access was provided via a new freeway-to-freeway cloverstack interchange at Leach Highway, and a single-point urban interchange which was constructed at Tonkin Highway's intersection with Horrie Miller Drive and Kewdale Road. The existing diamond interchange with Roe Highway was only upgraded to a partial freeway-to-freeway interchange, but with plans to further upgrade it to a completely free-flowing interchange in the future.
The Gateway WA works were separate to Perth Airport redevelopment works undertaken at the same time. The new airport access road, Airport Drive, featured in both projects: the portion in the vicinity of its interchange with Leach and Tonkin Highways was constructed as part of Gateway WA, with the remainder – the majority of the road – part of the airport redevelopment.
In January 2013, works were undertaken to protect or relocate sections of the Canning Trunk water main and the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline in the vicinity of the project. Construction on the Gateway WA project officially began on 1 February 2013 with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by the state and federal transport ministers, Troy Buswell and Anthony Albanese. The first section to be constructed was an entrance ramp from Abernethy Road to Tonkin Highway southbound. Work on the Leach Highway interchange was expected to commence at the end of 2013, with construction of the other interchanges scheduled to start at the end of 2014.
The whole project was due to be completed by 2017, but then moved to mid-2016 due to the project's construction moving faster than predicted. In September 2015, the completion date was moved to March 2016 following the completion of the Tonkin Highway/Leach Highway, Leach Highway/Abernethy Road and Tonkin Highway/Dunreath Drive Interchanges that same month. The project was also estimated to be 50 million dollars under- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Comics%20Super%20Heroes%3A%20Justice%20League%20vs.%20Bizarro%20League | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League is a 2015 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on the Lego and DC Comics brands, released on February 10, 2015, on Blu-ray and DVD. This is the third Lego DC Comics film following Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite and Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered. Some actors from various DC properties reprise their respective roles, including Nolan North as Superman, Khary Payton as Cyborg, Diedrich Bader as Green Lantern (Guy Gardner) and Tom Kenny as The Penguin and Plastic Man. The film received mixed to unfavorable reviews from critics, with criticisms focusing on the silly and promotional tone and the characters, although the animation was praised.
Synopsis
In Metropolis, the civilians are living their everyday lives until Superman arrives to save the day, much to their confusion, as there is nothing to be saved. As it turns out, Bizarro arrives, and he mistakes an octopus ride in a playground for a real octopus torturing children. Luckily, Superman fixes Bizarro's mess. Superman quickly decides that Bizarro needs a home away from Earth so he cannot cause trouble and takes Bizarro to a cubic planet with backward physics. Bizarro soon comes to accept his new home and decides to stay.
One year later, Giganta attacks Metropolis. While the Justice League deals with her, Batman soon discovers more to the rampage than meets the eye. As it turns out, Gorilla Grodd used his telepathic helmet to take control of Penguin, Deathstroke, Captain Cold, and Giganta and steal vital technology and bananas while Giganta distracted the League. After knocking off Grodd's helmet, Penguin, Deathstroke, and Captain Cold turn on Gorilla Grodd and use the stolen tech for themselves. The Justice League then splits up to take down the villains: Flash captures Captain Cold, Plastic Man catches Deathstroke, Green Arrow apprehends the Penguin, Batman defeats Gorilla Grodd, and Wonder Woman, Superman, and Green Lantern Corps member Guy Gardner continue battling Giganta. Although he joined the Justice League, Batman still considers Superman untrustworthy, simply stating in his mind that he only joined the Justice League to keep an eye on Superman and ensure that he is prepared for the possibility that Superman would become a threat to mankind. Victorious, the League returns to the Hall of Justice, where Batman and Wonder Woman notice news footage of Superman breaking into LexCorp Tower. Superman, however, was in the kitchen making sandwiches at the time. But when he sees the footage, he realizes who it is and tells the League he will handle it himself. However, Batman takes Wonder Woman, Guy Gardner and Cyborg, to investigate.
They soon discover Bizarro broke in for a reason: to steal the LexCorp duplicator ray that created him. Bizarro then blasts Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and Guy with the ray creating Bizarro versions of themselves, dubbed Batzarro, Bizarra, Cyzarro, and Greenzarr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20King | Valerie King is an American and Canadian computer scientist who works as a professor at the University of Victoria. Her research concerns the design and analysis of algorithms; her work has included results on maximum flow and dynamic graph algorithms, and played a role in the expected linear time MST algorithm of Karger et al.
King graduated from Princeton University in 1977. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1983, and became a member of the State Bar of California, but returned to Berkeley and earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 1988 under the supervision of Richard Karp with a dissertation concerning the Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture.
She became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.
References
External links
Home page
Google scholar profile
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Princeton University alumni
UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
Academic staff of the University of Victoria
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20King%20%28disambiguation%29 | Valerie King may refer to:
Valerie King, Canadian and American computer scientist
Valerie King, pseudonym of romance novelist Caris Roane
Valerie King, flutist for hip-hop band Novakane
Valerie King, assistant coach of Wright State Raiders women's basketball
Valerie King, candidate in the Sheffield City Council election, 1988
Valerie King, fictional character in the 1943 film Passport to Suez
Valerie King, fictional character in the television series Secrets and Words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith%20Ellen | Faith Ellen (formerly known as Faith E. Fich) is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto who studies distributed data structures and the theory of distributed computing.
She earned her bachelor's degree and master's from the University of Waterloo in 1977 and 1978, respectively, and doctorate in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Richard Karp; her dissertation concerned lower bounds for cycle detection and parallel prefix sums. She joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1983, and moved to Toronto in 1986. From 1997 to 2001, she was the vice chair of SIGACT, the leading international society for theory of computation. From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the steering committee for PODC, a top international conference for theory of distributed computing. In 2014, she also co-authored the book, Impossibility Results for Distributed Computing.
She became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%2015 | Big Brother Brasil 15 is the fifteenth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 20, 2015 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial. The season is officially confirmed since March 2012 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo, which guaranteed the show's rights until 2016.
The grand prize is R$1.5 million with tax allowances, with a R$150,000 prize offered to the runner up and a R$50,000 prize offered to the 3rd place. Cézar Lima won this season on Day 78.
The game
Rules changes
This season, the Head of Household back to be eligible to compete in the next HoH competition after his leadership, having the chance to be HoH multiple times in a row. Also, he/she gains R$10.000, the Power of No and the right to divide the housemates into two teams for the Food competition. However, for the first time since BBB started, the HoH has no immunity in the nominations, becoming vulnerable to being nominated by the house vote.
You're in control!
Big Brother introduced a new way to give more power to the audience, calling it Você no Controle. Every week, producers pose a question and the public must vote between two options. The voting usually is opened on Friday and finishes on Sunday.
Power of No
Big Phone
Housemates
The cast list with the first 13 housemates was unveiled on January 13, 2015. On day 2, two potential competitors (Aline and Julia) entered the house in order to compete by public vote for the 14th housemate's spot.
(ages stated at time of contest)
Future Appearances
In 2021, Angélica Ramos appeared in No Limite 5, she finished the competition in 15th place.
Voting history
Notes
Have and Have-Nots
On week 5, due to a punishment, all housemates were moved to the Have-Not group.
On week 7, Luan was automatically moved to the Have-Not group due to a punishment. In the same week, Cézar originally was part of the Have-Not group, but was moved to the Have group in a draw after the Tamires' withdrawal.
On week 8, due to a completed task, all housemates became Have for the rest of week.
References
External links
Official Site
2015 Brazilian television seasons
15 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amari%20distance | The Amari distance, also known as Amari index and Amari metric is a similarity measure between two invertible matrices, useful for checking for convergence in independent component analysis algorithms and for comparing solutions. It is named after Japanese information theorist Shun'ichi Amari and was originally introduced as a performance index for blind source separation.
For two invertible matrices , it is defined as:
It is non-negative and cancels if and only if is a scale and permutation matrix, i.e. the product of a diagonal matrix and a permutation matrix. The Amari distance is invariant to permutation and scaling of the columns of and .
References
Signal estimation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20International%20Emmy%20Awards | The 3rd International Emmy Awards took place on November 24, 1975, 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 International Emmy Awards are given annually by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The winners include the British network BBC with two awards, the non-fiction for Marek, a drama that tells the story of a child who undergo an operation on the heart, and that due to a complication called pulmonary atresia, dies. The film talks about the courage of a family in a time of crisis. And the Popular Arts Award for The Evacuees.
During the ceremony, the Academy honored the president of Tokyo Broadcasting System, Junzo Imamichi with 1975 International Emmy Directorate Award.
Winners
Best Popular Arts Program: The Evacuees (BBC Two)
Best Drama: Marek (BBC Two)
Directorate Award: Junzo Imamichi (President of TBS TV)
External links
1975 International Emmy Awards
International Emmy Awards ceremonies
International
International
International Emmy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Hum%20Awards | The 3rd Hum Awards ceremony, presented by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC), sponsored by Servis and Telenor, honored the best in fashion, music and Hum Television Dramas of 2014 and took place on 9 April 2015, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE at 8:30 p.m. UAE Standard Time and was televised on 23 May at 7:30 p.m. PST. During the ceremony, HTNEC presented Hum Awards in 25 categories along with 3 in honorary and 2 in special categories. The ceremony, televised in Pakistan by Hum TV, was produced and directed by Nazeer Saeed Janjua while executive produced by Maimona Siddiqui.
Hamza Ali Abbasi and Sanam Jung hosted the ceremony along with Vasay Chaudhry and Ahmad Ali Butt. Hamza and Ahmad hosted the ceremony for the first time, while for the third year in a row, Jung and Vasay returned as host and co-host for the ceremony, respectively. During the ceremony, Hum also held its annual Honorary Awards, which were presented by host Sanam Saeed. For the first time since its inception, the ceremony was held in Dubai because of Hum Network's completion of a 10 years and its global success. Veteran actress Atiqa Odho served as a first brand ambassador of ceremony.
Bunty I Love You won two awards including Best Drama Serial - Jury and Best Actress - Jury by Saba Qamar. Sadqay Tumhare won the most awards with ten including Best Drama Serial - Popular and Best Director Drama Serial for Ehteshamuddin. Other winners included Susraal Mera with three, Muhabbat Subha Ka Sitara Hai and Mausam also with two awards and Hum Tehray Gunahgaar, Uff Meri Family, and Main Kukkoo Aur Woh with one apiece.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for public voting were announced on 9 March 2015, on ceremony website. Only seven categories were set open for public voting in Viewers Choice Categories with three categories from Television and two categories from Fashion and Music segments. Voting lines were closed on 25 March 2015 for all the viewers choice categories, announcing the rest of the categories. While on 2 April 2015 the rest of nominations were announced. Sadqay Tumhare received the most nominations with fifteen total and Muhabbat Subha Ka Sitara Hai came in second with twelve.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 9 April 2015. Momina Duraid consecutively won third time and total of four Best Drama Serial award as a producer. For the first time since the first ceremony, all the four acting awards went to different dramas. Sadqay Tumhare and Bunty I Love You became the only dramas that were nominated before the completion of their broadcast, ultimately winning Best Drama serial - Popular and Best Drama Serial - Jury respectively. For the third in a row ceremony had a tie with the respective wins of Danish Taimoor and Imran Aslam for Hum Tehray Gunahgaar and Susraal Mera respectively in Best Soap Actor category. Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar became the first male person to win the Best Writer Drama Serial award. Momina D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Controlled%20Acoustic%20Instruments%20pt2 | Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 is the ninth EP by the British electronic musician Richard D James. It was released under the pseudonym Aphex Twin on 23 January 2015 on Warp. It is meant as a companion piece to his fifth studio album, Drukqs (2001).
It received mixed reviews and placed in several international record charts, including the United States Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart, where it peaked at number one.
Background
Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt.2 features acoustic sounds such as prepared piano, drums, and wood and metal percussion, controlled electronically. James considers it the successor to his 2001 album Drukqs:Part 1 is Drukqs, as that was the first thing I released that utilised computer controlled instruments, namely a modified Yamaha Disklavier, 2nd gen and a couple of midi controlled solenoid based drum mechanisms I made just after I got the Disklavier.
The EP extends the ideas of its predecessor, according to Mark Richardson of Pitchfork, who noted that "where James used to offer his electro-acoustic pieces as a showcase for lyrical melodies, about half the music here consists of crisply arranged beats, with loping drum lines that occasionally veer toward funk". Much of the album features breakbeat backing. Exclaim! stated that most tracks "fall under the label of avant-garde jazz — some of it experimental and way out there — while other parts are coherent enough to sneak into the darker corners of Ninja Tune's back catalogue."
Release
Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 was announced for release on 9 January 2015 on Warps official website. The track listing, worldwide release date and a list of available release formats were published on Bleep.com alongside pre-orders of the EP. Released worldwide on 23 January, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 was made available as a 12-inch record pressed on 140-gram vinyl, a Digipak CD and a digital download in various digital formats, including MP3, WAV and FLAC. An alternative mix of the EP's opening track—"Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed [snr2mix]"—was made available for stream and MP3 download on Richard D James official SoundCloud account a day prior.
In Japan, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 was released on Beat Records and sold 3,627 physical copies in its first week of release. The EP was particularly successful on the independent charts in Ireland and the United Kingdom; it peaked at number 8 on both the Irish Independent Albums Chart and the UK Independent Albums Chart, as well as entering at number 7 on the UK Official Record Store Albums Chart, where it peaked at number 4 in its third week of release. Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 placed in three separate Billboard charts in the US. It fared well on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart, entering at number 4 in its first week of release and peaking at number 1 the following week; the EP also entered the Tastemakers Albums chart at number 24 and plac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20graph%20%28mathematics%29 | A flow graph is a form of digraph associated with a set of linear algebraic or differential equations:
"A signal flow graph is a network of nodes (or points) interconnected by directed branches, representing a set of linear algebraic equations. The nodes in a flow graph are used to represent the variables, or parameters, and the connecting branches represent the coefficients relating these variables to one another. The flow graph is associated with a number of simple rules which enable every possible solution [related to the equations] to be obtained."
Although this definition uses the terms "signal-flow graph" and "flow graph" interchangeably, the term "signal-flow graph" is most often used to designate the Mason signal-flow graph, Mason being the originator of this terminology in his work on electrical networks. Likewise, some authors use the term "flow graph" to refer strictly to the Coates flow graph. According to Henley & Williams:
"The nomenclature is far from standardized, and...no standardization can be expected in the foreseeable future."
A designation "flow graph" that includes both the Mason graph and the Coates graph, and a variety of other forms of such graphs appears useful, and agrees with Abrahams and Coverley's and with Henley and Williams' approach.
A directed network – also known as a flow network – is a particular type of flow graph. A network is a graph with real numbers associated with each of its edges, and if the graph is a digraph, the result is a directed network. A flow graph is more general than a directed network, in that the edges may be associated with gains, branch gains or transmittances, or even functions of the Laplace operator s, in which case they are called transfer functions.
There is a close relationship between graphs and matrices and between digraphs and matrices. "The algebraic theory of matrices can be brought to bear on graph theory to obtain results elegantly", and conversely, graph-theoretic approaches based upon flow graphs are used for the solution of linear algebraic equations.
Deriving a flow graph from equations
An example of a flow graph connected to some starting equations is presented.
The set of equations should be consistent and linearly independent. An example of such a set is:
Consistency and independence of the equations in the set is established because the determinant of coefficients is non-zero, so a solution can be found using Cramer's rule.
Using the examples from the subsection Elements of signal-flow graphs, we construct the graph In the figure, a signal-flow graph in this case. To check that the graph does represent the equations given, go to node x1. Look at the arrows incoming to this node (colored green for emphasis) and the weights attached to them. The equation for x1 is satisfied by equating it to the sum of the nodes attached to the incoming arrows multiplied by the weights attached to these arrows. Likewise, the red arrows and their weights provide the equation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVT%20Statistical%20filtering%20algorithm | AVT Statistical filtering algorithm is an approach to improving quality of raw data collected from various sources. It is most effective in cases when there is inband noise present. In those cases AVT is better at filtering data then, band-pass filter or any digital filtering based on variation of.
Conventional filtering is useful when signal/data has different frequency than noise and signal/data is separated/filtered by frequency discrimination of noise. Frequency discrimination filtering is done using Low Pass, High Pass and Band Pass filtering which refers to relative frequency filtering criteria target for such configuration. Those filters are created using passive and active components and sometimes are implemented using software algorithms based on Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
AVT filtering is implemented in software and its inner working is based on statistical analysis of raw data.
When signal frequency/(useful data distribution frequency) coincides with noise frequency/(noisy data distribution frequency) we have inband noise. In this situations frequency discrimination filtering does not work since the noise and useful signal are indistinguishable and where AVT excels. To achieve filtering in such conditions there are several methods/algorithms available which are briefly described below.
Averaging algorithm
Collect n samples of data
Calculate average value of collected data
Present/record result as actual data
Median algorithm
Collect n samples of data
Sort the data in ascending or descending order. Note that order does not matter
Select the data that happen to be in n/2 position and present/record it as final result representing data sample
AVT algorithm
AVT algorithm stands for Antonyan Vardan Transform and its implementation explained below.
Collect n samples of data
Calculate the standard deviation and average value
Drop any data that is greater or less than average ± one standard deviation
Calculate average value of remaining data
Present/record result as actual value representing data sample
This algorithm is based on amplitude discrimination and can easily reject any noise that is not like actual signal, otherwise statistically different then 1 standard deviation of the signal. Note that this type of filtering can be used in situations where the actual environmental noise is not known in advance. Notice that it is preferable to use the median in above steps than average. Originally the AVT algorithm used average value to compare it with results of median on the data window.
Filtering algorithms comparison
Using a system that has signal value of 1 and has noise added at 0.1% and 1% levels will simplify quantification of algorithm performance. The R script is used to create pseudo random noise added to signal and analyze the results of filtering using several algorithms. Please refer to "Reduce Inband Noise with the AVT Algorithm" article for details.
This graphs show that AVT algorithm provides best res |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20%28Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | AMC was an Asian TV channel (excluding Malaysia and Vietnam) launched by AMC Networks International. AMC replaced the MGM Channel on January 1, 2015. AMC produced dramas Halt & Catch Fire, The Divide, Fear the Walking Dead, Into the Badlands, The Night Manager were among the first original series that premiered on the channel. The channel also airs movies from MGM, Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The channel ceased broadcasting on December 31, 2018, at 24:00 hours., Meanwhile, AMC Asia was still available in Taiwan.
Final Programming
4th and Loud
Babylon
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Fear the Walking Dead
Game of Arms
Halt and Catch Fire
Hap and Leonard
Hell on Wheels
Hollywood's Best Film Directors
Humans
Into the Badlands
Jack Irish
The Code
The Divide
The Night Manager
The Terror
References
External links
AMC Asia Official Website
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
AMC Networks International
Defunct television channels
Mass media in Southeast Asia
English-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWKV | DWKV (102.3 FM), broadcasting as 102.3 Tricab Infinite Radio, is a radio station owned by Kaissar Broadcasting Network and operated by Tricab Media Production. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the EMT Building, P. Laygo St, Lipa, Batangas.
Its transmitter antenna is heavily directional to eastern Batangas in order to protect the signal of Lemery-based Radyo Natin, broadcasting 25 km southwest of Lipa.
History
The station first went on the air on December 22, 2010 as CitiBeat 102.3 FM, months after the demise of Lipa's sole radio station D'Best 98.5. At that time, the station was housed at the 3rd floor of the JR Business Complex in Brgy. Mataas na Lupa. Among its inaugural personalities were Ron Lozano (now with DWIZ), Zeus Corneja (now-deceased), Cristina Parrientes, and Amor Santiago (now with 98.5 Cool FM).
On its first months of operation, CitiBeat was embattled with criticism from other stations in the market due to the signal feed spreading out to their frequencies within the city. By 2013, the problem has been resolved, but the offset issues still persisted near the station complex as its signals occupy 102.5 FM and 103.1 FM on some hotspots.
In March 2012, the station launched its first singing contest for radio, branded as Radyo Istariray, which featured aspiring singers who vied for prizes from station sponsors. However, by June 2012, sponsorship issues forced the station to shelve the contest, after its first mall show with the contestants' entries went unnoticed by the station.
On March 15, 2023, CitiBeat signed off the air for the last time. Radyo Natin Lemery was heard on this frequency during the meantime.
In April 2023, the station returned on air, this time as Tricab Infinite Radio under the management of Lipa-based Tricab Media Production. It became the second FM broadcaster in the city to be operated under an airtime lease by a digital media company after ABN 89.5.
References
External links
Website
Radio stations in Batangas
Radio stations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachynema%20%28plant%29 | Brachynema Benth. is a genus in the plant family Olacaceae. It is a Neotropical genus of 1 or 2 species of trees. Its placement is still somewhat controversial as molecular data is lacking and morphological data suggests a place outside Olacaceae and instead in Ericales
Species
Brachynema ramiflorum Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 22(2): 126. 1857 [21 Nov 1857]
Brachynema axillare R.Duno & P.E.Berry, Novon 5(3): 238. 1995 [Autumn 1995]
References
Olacaceae
Santalales genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Kearns%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael Justin Kearns is an American computer scientist, professor and National Center Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, the founding director of Penn's Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS), the founding director of Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, and also holds secondary appointments in Penn's Wharton School and department of Economics. He is a leading researcher in computational learning theory and algorithmic game theory, and interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational finance, algorithmic trading, computational social science and social networks. He previously led the Advisory and Research function in Morgan Stanley's Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence team, and is currently an Amazon Scholar within Amazon Web Services.
Biography
Kearns was born into an academic family, where his father David R Kearns is Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego in chemistry, who won Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969, and his uncle Thomas R. Kearns is Professor Emeritus at Amherst College in Philosophy and Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. His paternal grandfather Clyde W. Kearns was a pioneer in insecticide toxicology and was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Entomology, and his maternal grandfather Chen Shou-Yi (1899–1978) was a professor at Pomona College in history and literature, who was born in Canton (Guangzhou, China) into a family noted for their scholarship and educational leadership.
Kearns received his B.S. degree at the University of California at Berkeley in math and computer science in 1985, and Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University in 1989, under the supervision of Turing award winner Leslie Valiant. His doctoral dissertation was The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning, later published by MIT press as part of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Series in 1990. Before joining AT&T Bell Labs in 1991, he continued with postdoctoral positions at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT hosted by Ronald Rivest, and at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in UC Berkeley hosted by Richard M. Karp, both of whom are Turing award winners.
Kearns is currently a full professor and National Center Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, where his appointment is split across the Department of Computer and Information Science, and Statistics and Operations and Information Management in the Wharton School. Prior to joining the Penn faculty in 2002, he spent a decade (1991–2001) in AT&T Labs and Bell Labs, including as head of the AI department with colleagues including Michael L. Littman, David A. McAllester, and Richard S. Sutton; Secure Systems Research department; and Machine Learning department with members such as Michael Collins and the leader Fernando Pereira. Other AT&T Labs colleagues in Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science included Yoav Freund, Ronald Graham, Mehryar Mohri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202015%20%28Colombia%29 | This is a list of the National-Report Top 100 Nacional number-one songs of 2015. Chart rankings are based on radio play and are issued weekly. The data is compiled monitoring radio stations through an automated system in real-time.
Number ones by week
References
Number-one songs
Colombia
Colombian record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strointsi%2C%20Vinnytsia%20Oblast | Strointsi () is a village in Vinnytsia Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
History
According to official data, Strointsi was founded in 1300, but the inhabitants claim that the village is older and was founded in 1263, exactly 100 years before the foundation of Vinnytsia.
The original name of the village is Veselyy Yarok (Веселий Ярок). In the 18th century, Dzyhivka displaced people settled near the village and founded the village of Chepelivka. After connecting Chepelivka to Veselyy Yarok, the name of the village was changed to Strointsi, which refers to the building (ukr. строїти, read: stroity) of new buildings by the exiles. In 1744, the village, along with other Tyvriv suburbs, belonged to Zachariasz Jaroszyński. In 1763, a wooden Orthodox church was built in Strointsi, which in Soviet times was transformed into a warehouse and then a local cinema. In the 1980s, as part of perestroika, the church was reopened for the needs of the Orthodox community.
As a result of the partitions, Strointsi became part of the Penkovka volost, in the
Yampol uezd of the Podolia Governorate.
Until 18 July 2020, Strointsi belonged to Tyvriv Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast to six. The area of Tyvriv Raion was merged into Vinnytsia Raion.
Demographics
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:
References
Villages in Vinnytsia Raion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Catchy%20Comedy | The following is a list of programs on the television network Catchy Comedy. Some of the television series rights were produced and distributed by the CBS Media Ventures library.
Current
All in the Family (March 27, 2023 – present)
The Best of The Ed Sullivan Show
The Bob Newhart Show (July 7, 2015 – present)
The Brady Bunch (March 27, 2023 – present)
The Carol Burnett Show (April 18, 2022 – present)
Cheers
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Donna Reed Show (February 20, 2015 – present)
Good Times (March 27, 2023 – present)
Family Affair (January 20, 2015 – present)
Full House (March 27, 2023 – present)
Laverne & Shirley
I Love Lucy (February 24, 2015 – present)
Love, American Style (Frndly TV feed only)
The Love Boat
The Lost Honeymooners
The Lucy Show (February 28, 2015 – present)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (July 2, 2015 – present)
Mama's Family (March 27, 2023 – present)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (February 16, 2015 – present)
Newhart
Night Court
Our Miss Brooks (September 23, 2015 – present)
The Phil Silvers Show (January 28, 2015 – present)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (April 18, 2022 – present)
The Odd Couple
Rhoda
Sanford and Son (March 27, 2023 – present)
Taxi
E/I
Animal Outtakes
Animal Rescue Classics
Missing: Cold Cases
Former
1968 Democratic National Convention (August 6, 2018)
21 Jump Street (December 18, 2015)
The Abbott and Costello Show (March 10, 2015)
The Achievers (June 10, 2015)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (April 29, 2016)
The Beverly Hillbillies (June 4, 2015)
Beverly Hills 90210
Black Sheep Squadron (April 9, 2016)
Bosom Buddies (May 18, 2020)
Branded (June 22, 2015)
Broken Arrow (July 6, 2015)
Brooklyn Bridge (July 2, 2019)
Burke's Law (February 3, 2015)
Cannon (July 21, 2015)
Car 54, Where Are You? (March 3, 2015)
Celebrity Bowling (March 8, 2015)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (February 3, 2015)
Combat! (June 5, 2015)
Dark Shadows (May 13, 2015)
The Dick Cavett Show (February 2, 2016)
Through the Decades (May 25, 2015)
Dark Shadows (May 13, 2015)
Diff'rent Strokes (February 11, 2018)
Disasters of the Century (June 11, 2015)
The Doris Day Show (January 31, 2015)
The Facts of Life (February 17, 2018)
Family Law
Ferris Beuller
The Fugitive (May 20, 2015)
Get Smart (January 25, 2015) (still airs on the Frndly TV feed)
Greatest Moments of the 20th Century (January 4, 2016)
Greatest Sports Legends (June 26, 2015)
The Greats (May 25, 2015)
Hey Moe, Hey Dad!
Hill Street Blues (January 16, 2016)
Hollywood Remembers (May 3, 2016)
Hollywood Rivals (April 8, 2016)
The Honeymooners
Honey West (February 6, 2015)
Hunter (April 7, 2016)
The Immortal
The Invisible Man (February 5, 2015)
The Jeffersons
The Joan Rivers Show
Kojak (January 23, 2016)
Kung Fu (April 22, 2015)
Lancer
Lords of the Mafia (January 13, 2016)
The Loretta Young Show (August 12, 2015)
Love, American Style (February 11, 2015)
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (February 27, 2015)
Make Room For Daddy ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella-Maris-De-Kent%20Hospital | Stella-Maris-De-Kent Hospital is a Canadian Catholic hospital located in the town of Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, New Brunswick.It is operated by Vitalité Health Network.
It is an acute care community hospital and provides services to Kent County.
See also
List of hospitals in New Brunswick
References
External links
Stella-Maris-De-Kent Hospital
Hospitals in New Brunswick
Buildings and structures in Kent County, New Brunswick
Hospitals established in 1947 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Green%20%28producer%29 | John Robert Green (born in St. Louis, 1966/1967) is a former Executive Producer of Special Programming and Development at ABC News in New York City. Green is a three-time Emmy and prestigious Peabody Award winner. He produces many of the network's biggest newscast including Good Morning America, 20/20, and ABC World News Tonight with David Muir.
Biography
Green was raised in Olivette, Missouri. Green attended Washington University in St. Louis and Boston University. His career began as an intern at WCVB-TV in Boston. In June 1994, he joined ABC News as a field producer for Good Morning America. In 2014, Green was named Executive Vice President, Programming & Development for Rock'n Robin Productions, a full service broadcast and digital production company founded by Robin Roberts.
In 2020, Green authored two children's books, "Dream Grabber", and "Dream Jumper", based on real bedtime rituals he created for his young children, along with a companion website.
Personal life
Green is fluent in Spanish and French. Green lives with his husband, Anthony, and their twin children in Holmdel Township, New Jersey.
References
External links
John R. Green | Team Rock'n Robin Productions
Author, https://timetodreambooks.com/
Guest, Becoming a Champion, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uGiQbfnqZI&feature=youtu.be
Businesspeople from St. Louis
Emmy Award winners
ABC News
American television producers
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Boston University College of Communication alumni
Peabody Award winners
American people of Jewish descent
1960s births
Living people
Year of birth uncertain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Wonka | Peter Wonka is an Austrian computer scientist and Professor and Associate Director at the Visual Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. He was previously employed at the Arizona State University as Associate Professor and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award.
His main contributions lie in the areas of computer graphics, scientific visualization and image processing.
Biography
Peter Wonka received a master's degree in computer science from Vienna University of Technology in 1997. He continued his graduate studies there, receiving his PhD degree for the thesis "Occlusion Culling for Real-Time Rendering of Urban Environments" in 2001 as well as a master's degree in urban planning in 2002.
After researching at UJF Grenoble and Georgia Institute of Technology, Peter Wonka joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 2004 as an Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor. In 2011, he relocated to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he is currently employed as Professor.
References
External links
Peter Wonka's webpage
Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
21st-century American engineers
Arizona State University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%202015%20%28Denmark%29 | Tracklisten is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles and tracks of the Denmark. Its data, published by IFPI Denmark and compiled by Nielsen Music Control, is based collectively on each single's weekly digital sales.
Chart history
References
Number-one hits
Denmark
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ObjectRocket | ObjectRocket is a cloud database (DBaaS) company based in Austin, Texas, USA, specializing in NoSQL datastores including MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis. ObjectRocket has "designed and managed systems that power some of the busiest sites on the web, and played key founding development roles at companies like Shutterfly, PayPal, eBay and AOL". In 2013, it was acquired by Rackspace.
References
External links
Companies based in Austin, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20Storage%20OS | Enterprise Storage OS, also known as ESOS, is a Linux distribution that serves as a block-level storage server in a storage area network (SAN). ESOS is composed of open-source software projects that are required for a Linux distribution and several proprietary build and install time options. The SCST project is the core component of ESOS; it provides the back-end storage functionality.
Platform
ESOS is a niche Linux distribution. ESOS is intended to run on a USB flash drive, or some other type of removable media such as Secure Digital, CompactFlash, etc. ESOS is a memory resident operating system: At boot, a tmpfs file system is initialized as the root file system and the USB flash drive image is copied onto this file system. Configuration files and logs are periodically written to a USB flash drive (persistent storage) or by user intervention when configuration changes occur.
Interface
ESOS utilizes a text-based user interface (TUI) for system management, network configuration, and storage provisioning functions. The TUI used in ESOS is written in C; the ncurses and CDK libraries are used.
Front-end connectivity
ESOS supports connectivity on several different front-end storage area network technologies. These core functions are supported by SCST and third-party target drivers that vendors have developed for SCST:
Fibre Channel: QLogic HBAs are natively supported, and Emulex OneConnect FC HBAs can be supported by a build time option (requiring the Emulex OCS SDK)
InfiniBand: Mellanox, QLogic, and Chelsio IB HCAs, among others, are supported
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE): A software target implementation supports NICs with DCB/DCBX capabilities, or build time options exist for supporting Emulex OneConnect FCoE CNAs (requires the Emulex OCS SDK) and Chelsio Uwire FCoE CNAs.
iSCSI: Will work over any IP communication method supported by ESOS (Ethernet, IPoIB).
Back-end storage
Open-source software projects and commodity computing server hardware are used on the back-end side to provide the underlying storage utilized by the front-end target interfaces:
Btrfs, XFS, and ext4 are all supported file systems for virtual disk files used with the "vdisk_fileio" device handler.
Popular, modern hardware RAID controllers from LSI, Adaptec, HP, and Areca are also supported in ESOS, including install-time CLI tool integration for these adapters.
Clustering and high-availability support is made possible by the Pacemaker and Corosync cluster software stack.
DRBD is fully supported to facilitate replication between ESOS storage servers, and/or to create redundant ESOS storage server clusters.
Virtual Tape Library (VTL) support by the mhVTL project.
Three SSD caching solutions: EnhanceIO, bcache, and dm-cache (lvmcache).
Other block storage functions include the automated tiered storage via the BTIER project and Ceph RBD mapping.
Installation
ESOS differs from popular Linux distributions in that there is no bootable ISO image provided. ESOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailan%20Ba%20Tama%20ang%20Mali%3F | }}
(International title: Ruins of Love / ) is a 2015 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1986 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Max Collins, Geoff Eigenmann, Empress Schuck and Dion Ignacio. It premiered on February 9, 2015 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Ang Lihim ni Annasandra. The series concluded on May 8, 2015 with a total of 63 episodes. It was replaced by Healing Hearts in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Max Collins as Amanda Realonda-Vasquez
Geoff Eigenmann as Leonardo "Leo" Vasquez
Dion Ignacio as Oliver Mallari
Empress Schuck as Sonya Barcial
Supporting cast
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino as Aurora "Auring" Realonda
Ryza Cenon as Margarita "Rita" Barcial
Chariz Solomon as Bianca Quillamor
Ash Ortega as Angeli Realonda
Ervic Vijandre as Joseph Dela Cruz
Ken Alfonso as Thomas Alejandro
Mike Lloren as Randy Dela Cruz
Lander Vera Perez as Victor Realonda
Episodes
February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned an 11.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 15.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing%20Hearts | Healing Hearts is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Roderick Alexis P. Lindayag, it stars Joyce Ching and Kristofer Martin. It premiered on May 11, 2015 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Kailan Ba Tama ang Mali?. The series concluded on September 11, 2015 with a total of 89 episodes. It was replaced by Destiny Rose in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Rachel seems to have a perfect family until she discovers that her marriage is a scheme for her husband to inherit her wealth. She catches her husband and the mistresses leading to her killing Michael and to her imprisonment. The mistress, Nimfa seeks revenge by stealing Rachel's daughter Mikaela. Eventually, the child grows up under the name of Liza who will eventually fall in love with Nimfa's stepson, Jay.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Joyce Ching as Mikaela Liza Saavedra Espanto
Kristofer Martin as Jay Mendoza
Supporting cast
Krystal Reyes as Chloe Samonte
Ken Chan as Anton
Angelika dela Cruz as Nimfa Mendoza-Villamor
Mickey Ferriols as Rachel Saavedra
Maureen Larrazabal as Kleng Samonte
Dominic Roco as Stephen
Tina Paner as Alice Trajano
Guest cast
Ronaldo Valdez as Benjie
Neil Ryan Sese as Michael "Mike" Espanto
Jay Manalo as Abel Villamor
Jenny Miller as Emily Fuentes
Arthur Solinap as Lando
Mel Kimura as Warden
Ashley Cabrera as young Chloe
Rhed Bustamante as young Liza
Shermaine Santiago as Elsa
Elle Ramirez as Cecille
Lucho Ayala as Jimboy
Nicole Dulalia as Yvette
Abel Estanislao as Earl
Kyle Ocampo as May Trajano
Robert Seña as Alfred
Dang Cruz as Ellen
Jace Flores as Gary
Dino Guevarra as Fidel
Kenneth Cruz as Kenjie
Lotlot Bustamante as Felly
Scarlet as Ate Baby
Afi Africa as Randy
Chingga Riego as Siony
Steph Yancha as Marlyn
Annika Camaya as Annie
Rania Lindayag as Chloe's friend
Fatima Al-alawi as Chloe's friend
Gabriel Barriento as Chloe's friend
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Healing Hearts earned a 12.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.9% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%20UK | RT UK, also known as Russia Today, was a free-to-air television news channel based in the United Kingdom. It was part of the RT network, a Russian state-controlled international television network funded by the federal tax budget of the Russian government. The channel's head was Nikolay Bogachikhin. Launched in 2014, it ran live broadcasts for seven years and ceased broadcasting from London in July 2021.
RT UK served as the home and production base of RT's UK-based programmes. The channel's studios were located in Millbank Tower. Prior to its closure, the channel offered four hours of its own programming per day, airing RT UK News Monday through Friday at 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm and 10 pm. The RT UK News anchors were Bill Dod and Kate Partridge. RT International now broadcasts in its place, though the channel is still available online through RT's websites and social media.
The UK media regulator Ofcom has repeatedly found RT to have breached its rules on impartiality and on one occasion found it had broadcast "materially misleading" content. On 18 March 2022, Ofcom cancelled RT's UK broadcasting licence "with immediate effect" after concluding the outlet was not "fit and proper" or a "responsible broadcaster".
Launch
RT UK was launched on 30 October 2014 and closed for TV broadcasting on 30 July 2021. The channel's coverage focused on the United Kingdom. RT presenter Afshin Rattansi stated that the channel's position was "to challenge dominant power structures in Britain by broadcasting live and original programming with a progressive UK focus", and it was "not subject to the metropolitan elite's London bias" since its "news will come from right across the country".
Richard Sambrook, former director of global news at the BBC and director of the Centre of Journalism at Cardiff University was quoted as saying "It's a surprising move to focus resources on the UK. It's not a commercial proposition, therefore the main purpose must be to gain influence. It's about soft power for the Kremlin". In a pre-launch statement, RT correspondent Polly Boiko said "So much is made of how RT is funded. It's been cast as the Big Bad Wolf of the news media landscape," and "I think many of us... see the launch of RT UK as an opportunity to shake off the accusations levelled at the channel".
Incidents
Relations with British regulators (2014–19)
Ahead of the launch of its UK-specific broadcasts in 2014, RT said that its advertisements promoting the channel had been rejected by ad agencies because it was felt they would violate UK laws on political advertising. The network posted versions of the adverts on billboards and its website with the word "redacted" on them in protest. The UK Advertising Standards Authority said it had not banned the ads or even received any complaint about them.
The UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has repeatedly reprimanded the international version of RT for its failure to remain impartial. In July 2014, London-based RT International corresponde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelena%20cuspidata | Agelena cuspidata is a species of spider in the family Agelenidae, which contains at least 1,315 species of funnel-web spiders . It was first described by Zhang, Zhu & Song, in 2005. It is primarily found in China.
References
cuspidata
Spiders described in 2005
Spiders of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20418001%E2%80%93419000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%26SWR%20shipping%20services | This page describes the shipping services of the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
Background
The Glasgow and South Western Railway operated a network of railways in the south-west quadrant of Scotland, and in time developed a series of associated piers and shipping routes, chiefly in the Firth of Clyde.
Passenger ships
The G&SWR ran a fleet of passenger steamships on scheduled and excursion services from its various piers and harbours. In 1872 the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Co bought the second-hand paddle steamer , dating from 1868. In 1891, the G&SWR took her over and bought five more second-hand steamers. Three of them came from the fleet of Captain Alexander Williamson: (launched in 1861); (launched in 1868) and (launched in 1875). The others were and (both launched in 1880).
Thereafter the G&SWR had various Clyde shipyards build new steamers to order. was launched in 1892. and , who were sisters, were also launched that year. and her near-sister were launched in 1893. With the delivery of the new ships the company sold Sultan in 1892 and Scotia in 1893. was launched in 1896, the company sold Sultana in 1897 and was launched in 1898 The company sold Chancellor in 1901 and was launched in 1902 In 1904 the company bought a second-hand paddle-steamer, (launched in 1897) and sold Marquis of Bute.
In 1901 the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, shipbuilder William Denny and Brothers and passenger steamer operator Captain John Williamson formed the Turbine Steamer Syndicate. The G&SWR supported Williamson by guaranteeing his overdraft. The syndicate introduced
the World's first turbine steamer, TS King Edward, which was launched that year. Denny built her, Parsons supplied her machinery and Williamson operated her on the River Clyde and Firth of Clyde. Despite this early involvement, it was not until 1906 that the G&SWR got a turbine steamer of its own, TS Atalanta, launched that year by John Brown and Company. After that the G&SWR sold Viceroy in 1907 and sold Vulcan back to her previous owner in 1908.
In the First World War, paddle steamers were found suitable for service as auxiliary minesweepers so the Admiralty requisitioned most of the G&SWR's fleet for war service. The steamers' names were changed because the Royal Navy already had warships bearing many of their original names. In 1917 two were lost on active service. In April Neptune, serving as HMS Nepaulin, was sunk by a mine and in November Mars, serving as HMS Marsa, sank as a result of a collision off Harwich. Minerva survived the war but did not return to the G&SWR. She remained with the Admiralty until April 1920 and was sold to new owners in Turkey in 1924.
References
Glasgow and South Western Railway
Rail transport in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202015%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish Promusicae sales and airplay charts in 2015. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors. Beginning in January 2015, the methodology for Top 100 songs were changed to be based on streaming and both download and physical sales.
Chart history
References
Spain
Number-one singles
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Academy%20of%20Culinary%20Arts | Royal Academy of Culinary Arts (RACA) is an associate member of the network of EHL-Certified Schools is a non-profit private Jordanian institution, It was founded in 2008.
The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts opened as a Campus of Les Roches Global Hospitality Education, as the first culinary school managed and operated by them in the world. The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts (RACA) has entered into a partnership with Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, one of the oldest Hospitality Management schools in the world. The curriculum is entirely taught in English.
References
Educational organisations based in Jordan
Cooking schools in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Mesos | Apache Mesos is an open-source project to manage computer clusters. It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
History
Mesos began as a research project in the UC Berkeley RAD Lab by then PhD students Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, and Matei Zaharia, as well as professor Ion Stoica. The students started working on the project as part of a course taught by David Culler. It was originally named Nexus but due to a conflict with another university's project, was renamed to Mesos.
Mesos was first presented in 2009 (while still named Nexus) by Andy Konwinski at HotCloud '09 in a talk accompanying the first paper published about the project. Later in 2011 it was presented in a more mature state in a talk by Zaharia at the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation conference about the paper "Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center" by Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Zaharia, Ali Ghodsi, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica.
On July 27, 2016, the Apache Software Foundation announced version 1. It added the ability to centrally supply Docker, rkt and appc instances.
On April 5, 2021, it was voted to move Mesos to the Apache Attic, however the vote was cancelled two days later due to increased interest.
Technology
Mesos uses Linux cgroups to provide isolation for CPU, memory, I/O and file system.
Mesos is comparable to Google's Borg scheduler, a platform used internally to manage and distribute Google's services.
Apache Aurora
Apache Aurora is a Mesos framework for both long-running services and cron jobs, originally developed by Twitter starting in 2010 and open sourced in late 2013. It can scale to tens of thousands of servers, and holds many similarities to Borg including its rich domain-specific language (DSL) for configuring services. As of February 2020 the project was retired to the Attic. A fork of the project is maintained by former members, hosted on GitHub under the name Aurora Scheduler.
Chronos
Chronos is a distributed cron-like system which is elastic and capable of expressing dependencies between jobs.
Marathon
Marathon is promoted for platform as a service or container orchestration system scaling to thousands of physical servers. It is fully REST-based and allows canary-style deployments and deployment topologies. It is written in the programming language Scala.
Users
The social networking site Twitter began using Mesos and Apache Aurora in 2010, after Hindman gave a presentation to a group of Twitter engineers.
Airbnb said in July 2013 that it uses Mesos to run data processing systems like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark.
The Internet auction website eBay stated in April 2014 that it used Mesos to run continuous integration on a per-developer basis. They accomplish this by using a custom Mesos plugin that allows developers to launch their own private Jenkins instance.
In April 2015, it was announced that Apple service Siri is using it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Baeza | Ricardo Baeza may refer to:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (born 1961), Chilean computer scientist
Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez, Chilean mathematician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Action%20Everywhere | Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area. DxE uses disruptive protests and non-violent direct action tactics, such as open rescue of animals from factory farms. Their intent is to build a movement that can eventually shift culture and change social and political institutions. DxE activists work to "put an end to the commodity status of animals."
History
Founding
DxE was founded in 2013 in the United States by a handful of people in the San Francisco Bay Area who decided to protest inside restaurants and stores, rather than outside, which was more typical of animal rights protests. DxE co-founder Wayne Hsiung investigated slaughterhouses for ten years prior to founding DxE with the goal of scaling up open rescue and other forms of non-violent direct action.
DxE's first action occurred in January 2013. Six activists demonstrated in front of a meat counter at a Sprouts Farmers Market, contending that the items being sold there behind the counter were not food but "the torment and suffering of billions of our friends in factory farms and slaughterhouses."
Growth
DxE continued organizing protests inside restaurants and stores, citing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and ACT UP as influences. In August 2013, DxE activists organized the Los Angeles side of an international multi-city protest, The Earthlings March. Approximately 40 cities and varied activist groups participated in the march.
In October 2013, in response to a viral video produced by Chipotle called The Scarecrow, DxE organized in-store "die-ins" at three San Francisco Chipotle restaurants. DxE argued that the ad, which advertised Chipotle's purported efforts to create a more natural and humane food system was "humanewashing", which animal rights activists describe as marketing efforts intended to disguise the inherent violence of using and killing animals for food. Within a few weeks, similar demonstrations were executed in Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Philadelphia. DxE responded by creating a platform for coordinated global days of action under the "It's Not Food, It's Violence" message.
DxE has continued with internationally coordinated monthly days of action. In addition to Chipotle, activists have also targeted other grocery stores, restaurants, clothing stores, zoos, circuses, and labs. The original actions were organized around the San Francisco Bay Area. By December 2014, DxE's network had grown to at least 90 cities in 20 countries.
DxE hosts an annual Animal Liberation Conference (ALC) for grassroots, peaceful animal rights activists. The ALC is a full week of talks, trainings, and socials all aimed at empowering activists.
Whole Foods campaign
DxE selected U.S.-based natural foods grocery store Whole Foods Market as the target of the investigation because the company is allegedly "actively shaping the public's view of animal agriculture with false mark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Water%20Flow%20Model | Integrated Water Flow Model (IWFM) is a computer program for simulating water flow through the integrated land surface, surface water and groundwater flow systems. It is a rewrite of the abandoned software IGSM, which was found to have several programing errors. The IWFM programs and source code are freely available. IWFM is written in Fortran, and can be compiled and run on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems. The IWFM source code is released under the GNU General Public License.
Groundwater flow is simulated using the finite element method. Surface water flow can be simulated as a simple one-dimensional flow-through network or with the kinematic wave method. IWFM input data sets incorporate a time stamp, allowing users to run a model for a specified time period without editing the input files.
One of the most useful features of IWFM is the internal calculation of water demands for each land use type. IWFM simulates four land use classes: agricultural, urban, native vegetation, and riparian vegetation. Land use areas are delineated as a time series, with corresponding evapotranspiration rates and water management parameters. Each time step, the land use process applies precipitation, calculates infiltration and runoff, calculates water demands, and determines what portion of the demands are not met by soil moisture. For agricultural and urban land use classes, IWFM then applies surface water and groundwater at specified rates, and optionally adjusts surface water and groundwater to exactly meet water demands. This automatic adjustment feature is especially useful for calculating unmeasured flow components (such as groundwater withdrawals) or for simulating proposed future scenarios such as studying the impacts of potential climate change.
In IWFM, the land surface, surface water and groundwater flow domains are simulated as separate processes, compiled into individual dynamic link libraries. The processes are linked by water flow terms, maintain conservation of mass and momentum between processes, and are solved simultaneously. This allows each IWFM process to be run independently as a stand-alone model, or to be linked to other programs. This functionality has been used to create a Microsoft Excel Add-in to create workbooks from IWFM output files. The IWFM land surface process has been compiled into a stand-alone program called the IWFM Demand Calculator (IDC). The groundwater process is linked to the Water Resource Integrated Modeling System (WRIMS) modeling system and used in the water resources optimization model CalSim. This feature allows other models to be easily linked with IWFM, to either enhance the capabilities of the target model (for example, by adding groundwater flow to a land surface-surface water model) or to enhance the capabilities of IWFM (for example, linking an economic model to IWFM to dynamically change the crop mix based on the depth to groundwater, as the cost of pumping increases with depth to water) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erable | Erable is a computer algebra system (CAS) for a family of Hewlett-Packard graphing scientific calculators of the HP 40, 48 and HP 49/50 series.
History
Originally named ALGB in 1993, it was developed by the French mathematician for the HP 48SX. Over time, the system integrated a lot of functionality from another math pack for the HP 48 series, ALG48 by Mika Heiskanen and Claude-Nicolas Fiechter. At some point, ALGB was renamed into Erable, a French play-on-words on another CAS named Maple. Compatible with the HP 48S, 48SX, 48G, 48G+, 48GX, Erable became one of the "must-have" software packages to be installed by advanced users of these calculators.
When Hewlett-Packard developed the HP 49G in 1999, the Erable and ALG48 packages became an integral part of the calculator's firmware, now just named HP49 CAS.
As HP CAS it also showed up in the HP 40G, 40gs, 49g+, 48gII and 50g and was maintained by Parisse up to 2006.
Based on his experiences with Erable, Parisse started developing a new and more general CAS system named Xcas / Giac in 2000. It is written in C++ rather than System RPL. This system was integrated into the HP Prime in 2013 under a dual-license scheme.
Versions
The last stable stand-alone version of Erable for the HP 48 series is 3.024 (1998-08-06), with source code as of 1998-07-14 available under the GNU GPL. The latest beta versions for these calculators are 3.117 (1998-10-17) and 3.201 (1999-02-07).
Parts of the CAS system for the HP 49/50 series (version 4) were released as open-source under the LGPL (since some parts of the CAS, which are copyrighted by Hewlett-Packard, remain proprietary software) and were maintained by Parisse up to 2006-02-02 (for firmware 2.14), and 2006-09-19 (for firmware 2.15 (2009-04-21) and 2.16 (2012-04-26)).
See also
Comparison of computer algebra systems
References
External links
Free computer algebra systems
Free mathematics software
Mathematical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20CAS | HP CAS may refer to:
Erable, a computer algebra system integrated into the HP 40/49/50 series of Hewlett-Packard scientific calculators
Xcas/Giac, a computer algebra system integrated into the HP Prime scientific calculator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Peri%C5%A1a | Denis Periša (born July 23, 1983) is a political activist, whistle blower and computer hacker from Šibenik, Croatia. He was convicted and criminally charged in September 1999. He was forbidden to use any form of computer systems or the internet for hacking the e-mail of politician Veselin Pejnović while planting a backdoor to his network. He founded the computer security website Jezgra.org in 1997. In 2005, he founded ŠI-WIFI wireless, an organization that was formed for his town.
Activism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a group, Periša made 3D-printed face shields for the local hospitals in Drniš and Knin.
Law and order
Beginning in 2017, Periša worked on cases for local police and DORH (the state attorney) by coming across and prosecuting online bullies and people spreading hate with possible use of physical violence towards others. He spoke about how to report such crimes on national television. Shortly after that, he was threatened and was put under police protection. Later on, he searched for fugitive Ivica Todorić and the servers Todorić used.
Political standoff
In August 2010, Periša claimed that he blew the whistle on the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for overspending the local municipal budget on a wireless network. He informed the city mayor privately, to which the mayor replied roughly with no interest. Periša then publicly confronted city Mayor Ante Županović to accuse him of stealing public money.
He turned out to be right in 2013 after a local news paper tested out the existing wireless network and concluded it was not working. After the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) took power, Periša was appointed to rebuild and maintain the local city wireless, which he did in late 2014.
Anonymous group
After a decade of claiming to lead hacking groups, Periša claims he finally joined the Anonymous group firstly fighting against ACTA and similar acts. He encourages people to use Linux OS for lower power consumption and better power saving, if for no other reason. On June 4, 2015, Periša appeared on a Skype interview for the Alter EGO show talking about the internet and anonymously representing himself as one of the internet freedom fighters.
Innovations and Technology
LoRaWAN
In January 2019, Periša built and installed a new type of sensor network for the town of Šibenik. The technology is LoRaWAN and it's based on an 868Mhz version for this part of the world. Grad Šibenik was the first town to do such a thing in this part of the world.
Biohacking
On 7 October Periša implanted an xNT NFC chip in his hand and was the first to speak about it on national television and other media.
Wireless
Periša was the founder and president of the ŠI-WIFI organization from 21 July 2005 until 20 November 2017, when it was closed and a new city network was established.
Periša built a free town wireless network with city funds in April 2014. The network was placed on 10 public nodes with 30 public antennas and access points.
Public appearance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Held%E2%80%93Karp%20algorithm | The Held–Karp algorithm, also called Bellman–Held–Karp algorithm, is a dynamic programming algorithm proposed in 1962 independently by Bellman and by Held and Karp to solve the traveling salesman problem (TSP), in which the input is a distance matrix between a set of cities, and the goal is to find a minimum-length tour that visits each city exactly once before returning to the starting point. It finds the exact solution to this problem, and to several related problems including the Hamiltonian cycle problem, in exponential time.
Algorithm description and motivation
Number the cities , with designated arbitrarily as a "starting" city (since the solution to TSP is a cycle, the choice of starting city doesn't matter). The Held–Karp algorithm begins by calculating, for each set of cities and every city not contained in , the shortest one-way path from to that passes through every city in in some order (but not through any other cities). Denote this distance , and write for the length of the direct edge from to . We'll compute values of starting with the smallest sets and finishing with the largest.
When has two or fewer elements, then calculating requires looking at one or two possible shortest paths. For example, is simply , and is just the length of . Likewise, is the length of either or , whichever is shorter.
Once contains three or more cities, the number of paths through rises quickly, but only a few such paths need to be examined to find the shortest. For instance, if is shorter than , then must be shorter than , and the length of is not a possible value of . Similarly, if the shortest path from through to is , and the shortest path from through to ends with the edge , then the whole path from to must be , and not any of the other five paths created by visiting in a different order.
More generally, suppose is a set of cities. For every integer , write for the set created by removing from . Then if the shortest path from through to has as its second-to-last city, then removing the final edge from this path must give the shortest path from to through . This means there are only possible shortest paths from to through , one for each possible second-to-last city with length , and .
This stage of the algorithm finishes when is known for every integer , giving the shortest distance from city to city that passes through every other city. The much shorter second stage adds these distances to the edge lengths to give possible shortest cycles, and then finds the shortest.
The shortest path itself (and not just its length), finally, may be reconstructed by storing alongside the label of the second-to-last city on the path from to through , raising space requirements by only a constant factor.
Algorithmic complexity
The Held–Karp algorithm has exponential time complexity , significantly better than the superexponential performance of a brute-force algorithm. Held–Karp, however, requires space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once%20Upon%20a%20Song | Once Upon a Song (), is a 2015 musical drama television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The first episode premiered on January 16, 2015.
Cast
Evelyn Choi as Yan Chi-ching
Kelvin Kwan as Keith
Kate Yeung as Jade
Jason Chan as Handsome
William So as Simon
Bernice Liu as Agnes
Zac Kao as Calvin
Shek Sau as Jonathan
Mimi Kung as Julie
Rain Lau as Lee Mei-ha
Lesley Chiang as Karlie
Charles Ying as Sky
Lisa Lui as Cheung Hiu-wan
Savio Tsang as Yip Ming
Benji Chiang as Alex
Karen Lee as Heidi
Leung Kin-ping as Wilson
Wilson Tsui as Jade's biological father
Yau Biu as Do
Sin Ho-ying as Re
Wong Man-piu as Mi
Dexter Young as Dr. Charles Kwok, episode 6 and 9
Mark Lui as mysterious traffic officer, episode 15 and 16
Song list
"做場好戲" by William So, Charles Ying, Kate Yeung, Jason Chan, Lesley Chiang, Benji Chiang (Opening theme song)
"隻字不提" by Kelvin Kwan (Ending theme song)
"得天獨厚" by Jade (Kate Yeung) (Music video for Kate Yeung's character Jade on episode 1)
"即使不再是朋友" by Simon (William So) (Music video for William So's character Simon on episode 3)
"追蹤彩虹" by Evelyn Choi (Ending theme song on episode 3)
"Forever" by Lesley Chiang (Karlie's audition on episode 4)
"得而復失" by Evelyn Choi (Ending theme song on episode 6)
"愛即是遊戲" by Charles Ying (Dance-off on episode 8)
"一字一淚" by Jason Chan (Episode 11)
"奇蹟" by Kate Yeung (Ending theme song on episode 11)
References
External links
Official website
Hong Kong Television Network original programming
2015 Hong Kong television series debuts
2010s Hong Kong television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniface%20%28company%29 | Uniface, a Rocket Software company, is a software development company, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It develops the Uniface programming language. The company has around 70 employees and 1600 customers. Telmex, Kawasaki, Airbus or FedEx are Uniface's customers. Uniface was bought by Compuware on 1994. After 20 years the company has been sold to Marlin Equity Partners. At its peak, the company had offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, Vienna, Brussels, São Paulo, Montreal, Paris, Munich, Dublin, Tokyo, Barcelona, Maidenhead and Detroit.
Products
Uniface is a development tool for companies, an IDE, integrating web, mobile and cloud based on the Uniface programming language. This software is distributed on a server based system that licenses to clients on demand. The last version of the product is Uniface 10. In the past it was possible to develop on Apple and DEC platforms, but now only Windows is supported.
History
The programming language Uniface was called UNIS originally and it was developed in the Netherlands in 1984 by Inside Automation. Two years later, the product was launched to the public as Uniface 3, and the company name was changed to Uniface B.V. In 1994, the company was bought by Compuware Corporation. That same year Uniface Six, the first version that used a GUI, was launched. Uniface's rapid deployment platform kept on evolving and in 2012 Uniface 9.6 was launched. One of the first intelligent development platforms that we now call low code. In 2014 the company was acquired by Martin Equity Partners, and became Uniface B.V. again. In 2016 Uniface 10 was launched. In February 2021 Uniface was acquired by Rocket Software to become part of the Business Line Database & Connectivity. The latest release is Rocket® Uniface 10.4 (Sept 2021).
References
External links
Uniface Official Website
Companies based in Amsterdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20counties%20by%20per%20capita%20income | This is a list of United States counties by per capita income. Data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from the 2009–2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; data for Puerto Rico is from the 2013–2017 American Community Survey 5-Year estimates, and data for the other U.S. territories is from the 2010 U.S. Census. State income levels and income data for the United States as a whole are included for comparison. County-equivalents in Louisiana are called "parishes" and in Alaska are called in "boroughs," and also in Alaska census areas in the Unorganized Borough are county-equivalents. For states where independent cities are county-equivalents, the word "city" is included to identify the independent cities and to differentiate them from counties with identical names; the counties with the identical names have the word "county" following them. The word "county" is included in the names of counties that have names identical to the names of U.S. states or cities to differentiate them.
The 89 permanently-inhabited county-equivalents in the territories of the United States (such as the municipalities of Puerto Rico) are also listed (they are not ranked). Overall, per capita income in the U.S. territories tends to be lower than per capita income in the 50 states and District of Columbia.
The list below excludes the 8 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories that have zero people (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Navassa Island, Northern Islands Municipality and Rose Atoll)—all of these county-equivalents have a per capita income of $0 because no one lives in them. The 3 semi-populated county-equivalents in the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island) are also excluded (total excluded: 11).
Excluding the uninhabited county-equivalents, the county or county-equivalent with the highest per capita income is New York County, New York (Manhattan) ($62,498), and the county or county-equivalent with the lowest per capita income is Manu'a District, American Samoa ($5,441).
List
Note: This is a very large table and there will be noticeable pauses when sorting.
References
States by income
Income |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Raab | Herbert Raab (born 24 January 1969 in Linz, Austria) is an Austrian software engineer, amateur astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects.
Biography
Raab finished his studies of computer science at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz in 1995 as a graduate engineer. In 2012, he received the Master of Science in Management for Engineers at the LIMAK business school in Linz, where he also graduated as Master of Business Administration in 2013. He works as a software engineer in the field of commercial software.
In 1983, he joined the Astronomical Society of Linz (), and has been president of the society from 1996 until 2017. Since 1990, he has been developing the widely used software Astrometrica, which is used for astrometric and photometric analysis of images of asteroids and comets. Raab's most important observations include precise astrometry of the comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which he observed together with Erich Meyer and Erwin Obermair in 1993. These observations have significantly contributed to the subsequent prediction of the impact of this comet on the planet Jupiter.
On 10 August 1997, he discovered the asteroid 13682 Pressberger together with Erich Meyer at the private observatory Meyer/Obermair in Davidschlag (municipality Kirchschlag bei Linz, Austria). Furthermore, he was involved in three other discoveries of asteroids which were assigned as site discoveries to the observatory Davidschlag by the International Astronomical Union (see :Category:Discoveries by the Davidschlag Observatory). During the Occultation of the star HIP 76293 by the asteroid 1177 Gonnessia on 18 May 2007, Raab discovered that the star is a close double star, whose components have a separation of just 0.04".
In May 1996, asteroid 3184 Raab was named in his honor, following a proposal of Brian G. Marsden and Gareth V. Williams from the Minor Planet Center (). On 4 April 1997, Raab was presented the Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria.
His wife Agnes Raab (born 1969) is also an amateur astronomer and long-time member of the Astronomical Society of Linz. In early 2004, asteroid 49109 Agnesraab, was .
References
External links
Publications by Herbert Raab in the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Freie Sicht auf die Sonnenfinsternis (Clear view on the solar eclipse), nachrichten.at, March 2015
Asteroids Raab and Agnesraab, astrometrica.at
1969 births
20th-century Austrian astronomers
21st-century Austrian astronomers
Austrian computer scientists
Discoverers of asteroids
Living people
People from Linz-Land District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20in%20Entertainment | Computers in Entertainment was an online academic journal and magazine that featured both peer-reviewed articles as well as news content covering entertainment technology, products, services, and notable people. The editor-in-chief was Newton Lee and the journal was published from 2003 to 2018 by the Association for Computing Machinery. From 2009 to 2011, Adrian David Cheok and Masa Inakage were co-editors-in-chief together with Lee.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
EBSCO databases
Ei Compendex
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Inspec
ProQuest databases,
Scopus
References
External links
Computers in Entertainment
Magazines established in 2003
Publications disestablished in 2018
English-language journals
Quarterly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATV%20%28Armenia%29 | ATV Armenia (stylized as Atv) is a private television network in Armenia. The channel originally launched in April 25, 2009, replacing Armenakob TV's now-defunct frequencies.
Thematic channels
On May 1, 2016, ATV introduced new thematic cable TV channels for different TV audiences.
Programming
Shows that have been broadcast on ATV include:
Sixth Sense ()
Hungry Games ()
More Than Life ()
Half-Opened Windows ()
White Corner ()
Who Are They? ()
Barter (Բարտեր)
Softer Than A Stone ()
Away from Home ()
Red Hill ()
Stone Cage ()
The Last Father ()
Abel's Sister ()
If I Find You ()
Station ()
See also
Television in Armenia
References
Television networks in Armenia
Television stations in Armenia
Armenian-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%202015 | This is a list of Italian films first released in 2015 (see 2015 in film).
See also
2015 in Italy
2015 in Italian television
External links
Italian films of 2015 at the Internet Movie Database
2015
Films
Italian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20422001%E2%80%93423000 |
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| 422001 || || — || October 29, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 422007 || || — || September 28, 2001 || Haleakala || NEAT || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.56" | 560 m ||
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| 422008 || || — || November 16, 2000 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right | 3.1 km ||
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| 422009 || || — || August 19, 2006 || Haleakala || NEAT || — || align=right | 1.0 km ||
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| 422010 || || — || October 25, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.4 km ||
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| 422011 || || — || December 18, 2003 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.97" | 970 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 422012 || || — || November 22, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 1.8 km ||
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| 422013 || || — || June 11, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
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| 422014 || || — || August 1, 2001 || Haleakala || NEAT || — || align=right | 1.5 km ||
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| 422015 || || — || March 1, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
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| 422016 || || — || September 25, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.4 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 422017 || || — || November 21, 2008 || Haleakala || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.59" | 590 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 422018 || || — || February 6, 2002 || Haleakala || M. W. Buie || — || align=right | 2.2 km ||
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| 422019 || || — || August 21, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.8 km ||
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| 422020 || || — || August 12, 2001 || La Sagra || NEAT || — || align=right | 2.2 km ||
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| 422021 || || — || January 8, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 2.3 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 422022 || || — || December 27, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 422023 || || — || March 11, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || EUN || align=right | 1.3 km ||
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