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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TINA%20%28program%29 | Toolkit for Interactive Network Analysis (TINA) is a SPICE-based electronics design and training software by DesignSoft of Budapest. Its features include analog, digital, and mixed circuit simulations, and printed circuit board (PCB) design.
History
TINA was created and developed by DesignSoft, a Hungarian company in Budapest. The first Windows version was released in 1993 as TINA 4.0 for analog, digital, and mixed circuits. TINA 9.0 also includes microcontroller (MCU) simulation, RF network analysis, optimization, and printed circuit board design. TINA development was at version 10, released in 2013, and is at major version 11 since 2016. Since 2004, TINA-TI is a free limited version for the support of integrated circuits and applications licensed by Texas Instruments.
Versions
TINA software is available in installable and cloud-based versions. Feature versions exist for use in industry and for educational use. TINA allows simulation, design, and real-time testing of hardware description language (HDL), such as VHDL, VHDL-AMS, Verilog, Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog and SystemC and for microcontroller (MCU) circuits, as well as mixed electronic circuits including switched-mode power supply, RF, communication, and optoelectronics circuits.
With the integrated and third-party flowchart tools, generation and debugging of MCU code is also possible both in digital and mixed circuit environments.
TINA Design Suite includes an integrated layout module for designing multilayer PCB's with split power plane layers, auto-placement & auto-routing, rip-up and reroute, manual and "follow-me" trace placement, DRC, forward and back annotation, pin and gate swapping, keep-in and keep-out areas, copper pour, thermal relief, fan-out, 3D view of the PCB design, Gerber file, and CNC (G-code) output.
TINA is available on many platforms with multiple versions of the software including TINA-TI, a complimentary limited version of TINA for the support of TI integrated circuits and applications licensed by Texas Instruments since 2004.
TINACloud is the cloud based, multi-language, online version of TINA.
It is running in main browsers without installation through the Internet. TINACloud runs on most operating systems and computers.
Since 2014, TINACloud is also used by Infineon Technologies as the engine of Infineon Designer for online prototyping with A/D simulation.
Awards
2006: TINA 7 Design Suite: Worlddidac Award, Worlddidac Association
2014: TINACloud: Worlddidac Award, Worlddidac Association
References
External links
TINA website
TINA USA website
Electronic circuit simulators
Simulation software
1990 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettys | Gettys is an anglicised Irish-language surname, a variant of Getty. Notable people with the surname include:
Jim Gettys (born 1953), American computer programmer
Michael Gettys (born 1995), American baseball player
Reid Gettys (born 1963), American basketball player and lawyer
Samuel Gettys (fl. 1780s), American settler and tavern owner, founder of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Thomas S. Gettys (1912–2003), American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Anglicised Irish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20hospitalier%20universitaire%20de%20Sherbrooke | The Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) is the public healthcare network in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke Faculty of Medecine.
The CHUS offers general, specialized and sub-specialized medicine and is the teaching hospital in the administrative regions of Estrie, Centre-du-Québec, and the eastern portion of the Montérégie. It is also the center of reference in quaternary gamma knife radiosurgery for Quebec and Eastern Canada. With 6,244 employees, 649 doctors and pharmacists, and more than 3,700 students, the CHUS is an academic and economic hub in southeastern Quebec and is the second largest employer in the Estrie region.
CHUS affiliated hospitals
CHUS – Hôtel-Dieu
CHUS – Hôpital Fleurimont
References
External links
Hospitals established in 1995
Buildings and structures in Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke
Hospitals in Quebec
Teaching hospitals in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz%20Broadcasting | Scripps Networks, LLC, doing business as Scripps Networks, is an American specialized digital multicasting network media company and a division of the E. W. Scripps Company. The company owns (as of 2023) eight television networks that each carry programming with specified formats targeted at individual demographics.
Originally, Katz sold the network to affiliated TV stations via ad split, but by October 2015, had moved to carriage fees in exchange for the network getting the ad inventory due to greater inventory with stations adding a third or fourth subchannel.:1 Their networks used direct response advertising as a meter of viewers before switching to Nielsen rating C-3.:3
History
Katz Broadcasting, LLC was founded on February 3, 2014, by Jonathan Katz, who serves as chief operating officer of Bounce TV and formerly served as an executive at the Turner Broadcasting System. The company was announced concurrently with the announced launches of its first two networks, Escape and Grit, which were both launched that April with Univision and UniMás owned-and-operated stations run by Univision Communications serving as its charter station group; both of Katz's initial networks are targeted at individual genders (with Grit aimed at men and Escape aimed at women). Besides Jonathan Katz, some of the initial investors included some Bounce investors notably Gray Television and Al Haymon. At some point, E. W. Scripps Company also becomes an owner purchasing 5% of the company.
Katz and Bounce Media share staff from the former company's launch, including Jonathan Katz (who serves as president and chief executive officer of Katz, while continuing to serve as chief operating officer) and Jeffrey Wolf (Katz's chief distribution officer and Bounce's executive vice president of network distribution). Katz and Bounce continued to share executive staff with the hiring announcement of Jim Weiss (a former executive at sports marketing agency CSE) as the former's senior vice president of corporate communications in August.
On January 18, 2015, Katz Broadcasting announced the launch of its third specialty network, Laff, a comedy-focused network that was tapped for an April 15 debut with ABC Owned Television Stations and Scripps serving as its core charter affiliate groups. On March 24, 2015, Katz signed a multi-network agreement with the Meredith Corporation that would add all three Katz-owned networks to Meredith-owned stations in five markets, boosting Laff's national coverage to 50%, Escape's to 58%, and Grit's to 78% of all U.S. television markets. Escape and Grit switched from direct response advertising as a meter of viewers to Nielsen rating C-3 late 2015 with Laff expected to follow suit.:3
On June 15, 2016, Katz Broadcasting signed a multi-network agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting Group and operated affiliated TV station companies that would bring all three Katz-owned networks (as well as Bounce TV) to stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar in 54 mark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotakis | Fotakis () is a Greek surname. It is the surname of:
Dimitris Fotakis, Greek computer scientist.
Georgios Fotakis (born 1981), Greece national team footballer.
Stylianos Fotakis (died 1912), Greek lawyer and revolutionary of the 1897/98 Cretan insurrection.
Greek-language surnames
Surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities%20XXL | Cities XXL is a city-building computer game developed by Focus Home Interactive as a sequel to their earlier game Cities XL Platinum. The game allows players to design, build, and manage cities.
Gameplay
Zoning
The game offers the designation of three types of building lots: residential, commercial and industrial. Each of which can have a different density. Residential lots have four social classes: unskilled workers, skilled workers, executives, and elites. Before designating building lots, the game requires players to select which class of residents may live there. The social class chosen for a lot will not be modified by the simulation.
To create building lots, players can zone an area of the map in which, upon confirmation, individual building lots will be created by the game. Players can also plop building lots individually.
Transport
Cities XXL allows players to create a road network of a variety of road types at many different angles and curvatures. Bridges and tunnels are also part of the simulator. Other transport options are buses, trains, ferries, and subways.
Reception
Cities XXL received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Many of the reviews were negative due to lack of new content, and poor multithreading support, which was a selling point of the game.
See also
City Life
References
External links
Cities XXL official website
2015 video games
City-building games
Video games developed in France
Windows games
Windows-only games
Single-player video games
Video games with Steam Workshop support
Video game sequels
Focus Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-phase%20evolution | Dual phase evolution (DPE) is a process that drives self-organization within complex adaptive systems. It arises in response to phase changes within the network of connections formed by a system's components. DPE occurs in a wide range of physical, biological and social systems. Its applications to technology include methods for manufacturing novel materials and algorithms to solve complex problems in computation.
Introduction
Dual phase evolution (DPE) is a process that promotes the emergence of large-scale order in complex systems. It occurs when a system repeatedly switches between various kinds of phases, and in each phase different processes act on the components or connections in the system. DPE arises because of a property of graphs and networks: the connectivity avalanche that occurs in graphs as the number of edges increases.
Social networks provide a familiar example. In a social network the nodes of the network are people and the network connections (edges) are relationships or interactions between people. For any individual, social activity alternates between a local phase, in which they interact only with people they already know, and a global phase in which they can interact with a wide pool of people not previously known to them. Historically, these phases have been forced on people by constraints of time and space. People spend most of their time in a local phase and interact only with those immediately around them (family, neighbors, colleagues). However, intermittent activities such as parties, holidays, and conferences involve a shift into a global phase where they can interact with different people they do not know. Different processes dominate each phase. Essentially, people make new social links when in the global phase, and refine or break them (by ceasing contact) while in the local phase.
The DPE mechanism
The following features are necessary for DPE to occur.
Underlying network
DPE occurs where a system has an underlying network. That is, the system's components form a set of nodes and there are connections (edges) that join them. For example, a family tree is a network in which the nodes are people (with names) and the edges are relationships such as "mother of" or "married to". The nodes in the network can take physical form, such as atoms held together by atomic forces, or they may be dynamic states or conditions, such as positions on a chess board with moves by the players defining the edges.
In mathematical terms (graph theory), a graph is a set of nodes and a set of edges . Each edge provides a link between a pair of nodes and . A network is a graph in which values are assigned to the nodes and/or edges.
Phase shifts
Graphs and networks have two phases: disconnected (fragmented) and connected. In the connected phase every node is connected by an edge to at least one other node and for any pair of nodes, there is at least one path (sequence of edges) joining them.
The Erdős–Rényi model shows that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlint | OpenFlint is an open technology used for displaying ("casting") content from one computerized device on the display of another. Usually this would be from a smaller personal device (like a smartphone) to a device with a larger screen suitable for viewing by multiple spectators (like a TV).
Development of OpenFlint was initiated in 2014 by the Matchstick project, which is a crowd-funded effort to create a miniature piece of hardware suitable for running an OpenFlint server casting to a screen through an HDMI connection. This is similar in concept to Google's Chromecast device that uses Google Cast.
The Matchstick TV devices are powered by Firefox OS, but as an open technology OpenFlint itself is not tied to any specific operating system or hardware.
, no consumer-grade OpenFlint-enabled products have shipped, but Matchstick developer devices have been shipping since late 2014, and the first round of devices for backers of the Matchstick Kickstarter project were expected to ship in February 2015, but were delayed until August 2015.
A demonstration OpenFlint server can be set up on an ordinary laptop or desktop computer running Linux by following instructions.
The Matchstick TV dongle project was canceled due to issues implementing DRM into Firefox OS.
See also
Android TV
References
External links
Github organization
Wireless display technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodwad%20railway%20station | Bodwad railway station serves Bodwad in Jalgaon district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Amenities
Amenities at Bodwad railway station include: computerized reservation office, waiting room, retiring room and book stall.
Trains
Daily Express trains
Several daily Express trains stop at Bodwad station as follows.
Electrification
Railways in the Bodwad area were electrified in 1988–89.
See also
High-speed rail in India
Indian Railways
Jalgaon District
Rail transport in India
List of railway stations in India
References
External links
Departures from Bodwad
Indian Railway Map
Ministry of Indian Railways, Official website
Indian Railways Live Information, Official website
Book Indian Railway Tickets
Station Code official list.
Indian Railways Station List.
Indian Railway Station Codes
Train Running Status
Indian Railway Map, Official website
History of Electrification
Railway stations in India opened in 1863
Railway stations in Jalgaon district
Bhusawal railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress.gov | Congress.gov is the online database of United States Congress legislative information. Congress.gov is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the House, the Senate and the Government Publishing Office.
Congress.gov was in beta in 2012, and beta testing ended in late 2013. Congress.gov officially launched on July 5, 2016, superseding THOMAS, the Library of Congress's original online database of congressional material, which had been launched in 1995. The website was created by Library of Congress employees using the Solr open-source search platform.
In fiscal year 2015, the Library of Congress reported 36 million page views for Congress.gov.
Contents
The resource is a comprehensive, Internet-accessible source of information on the activities of Congress, including:
bills and resolutions
texts
summaries and status
voting results, including how individual members voted
Congressional Record, including the daily digest
presidential nominations
treaties
appropriations
Constitution of the United States with interpretive annotations from Supreme Court decisions
References
External links
Congress.gov
Computer-related introductions in 1995
Government databases in the United States
Government-owned websites of the United States
Library of Congress
Online law databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202015%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
In 2015, eleven singles have topped the chart. "Lean On" by Major Lazer is the longest-running chart-topping dance single of 2015.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2015 in music
List of number-one singles of 2015 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2015 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2001
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20streaming%20tracks%20of%202015%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Streaming Chart ranks the best-performing streaming tracks of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collects music data for the weekly ARIA Charts.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2015 in music
List of number-one singles of 2015 (Australia)
References
Australia Streaming
Streaming 2015
Number-one Streaming Songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Gotsman | Craig Gotsman is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He was the Dean of the Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT between 2017-2023. He was the Founding Director of the joint Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute at Cornell Tech prior to joining NJIT.
Early life
Born in the UK, Gotsman spent his early childhood in South Africa. His family immigrated to Israel in 1973.
He was awarded all his academic degrees, including a PhD in Computer Science in 1991, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
During 1984–89, Gotsman served as an officer in the Technological R&D Unit of the Israel Defense Forces, retiring from active reserve duty in 2005 with the rank of major.
Academic career
Specializing in computer graphics and geometry processing, Gotsman joined the Computer Science Department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa as an assistant professor in 1991. In 2005 he co-founded the Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing, and in 2006 he became the first incumbent of the Technion's Hewlett-Packard Chair in Computer Engineering.
Gotsman was Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Research Scientist at MIT during 2003–2004, Visiting Professor at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis in 2006 and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich in 2010. He was appointed Founding Director of the joint Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute at Cornell Tech. and served on the faculty there between 2012 and 2016.
Gotsman has published over 150 research papers
Gotsman is an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
and a Fellow of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea).
Cornell Tech
Gotsman was a member of the leading team in the formation of the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.
Cornell Tech is an applied sciences campus dedicated to fostering innovation and producing entrepreneurial engineers, a project conceived and driven by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, with the purpose of growing the tech sector of NYC.
In 2011, Gotsman got involved in the proposal to establish an Applied Sciences campus, submitted by Cornell University and Technion to the City of New York. The proposal subsequently won the bid, competing against a number of groups of international universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.
Technion was cited as "the MIT of Israel" and a key player because of its innovation culture and contribution to the emergence of Israel as a global technological superpower, as documented in the book "Startup Nation".
In 2011, Gotsman was appointed Deputy Senior Vice-President (equivalent to Vice Provost) at Technion, responsible for the joint Technion-Cornell venture. In Feb 2012 he was appointed Founding Director of the joint Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute at Cornell Tech. In this role, Gotsman developed a number of novel academic and entrepreneuri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Override%20Network | Crash Override Network was a support group for victims of large scale online abuse, including revenge porn and doxing.
History
Crash Override was founded by game developers Zoë Quinn and Alex Lifschitz, and was staffed exclusively by victims of online abuse whose identities were kept anonymous outside the group. Quinn and Lifschitz were subjected to online abuse during the Gamergate harassment campaign, with both receiving death threats and being doxxed.
Crash Override formed a partnership with Feminist Frequency in March 2016, which served as its financial sponsor.
From December 2016, Crash Override's hotline was closed.
Some time in 2018, Crash Override closed fully, and "passed the torch to other organisations".
Mission
The founders of Crash Override consider it a conversation starter, a repository for addressing problems that others in and out of the gaming community "have long hoped would simply go away." The organisation's services are divided into three categories: ongoing assistance for victims, crisis centre support, and community outreach. They provide post-crisis counseling services, help seeking shelter, and access to experts in information security, white hat hacking, law enforcement, public relations and threat monitoring. The network tailors a unique plan of action for each victim and works with law enforcement, the media, and social media. They promise to help victims regardless of previous affiliations and ideology, including Gamergate supporters.
The group has been credited with defusing a swatting attack by advising the target to preemptively contact the police. Quinn said the launch of Crash Override Network led to a renewed and heightened campaign of abuse, and the website underwent daily hack attempts. In May 2015, the organisation became an official Twitter trusted safety resource.
References
External links
2015 in video gaming
2018 disestablishments
Cyberbullying
Gamergate (harassment campaign)
Human rights organizations based in the United States
Internet activism
Sexual harassment
Women and video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Override | Crash Override may refer to:
"Crash Override", the protagonist's alias in the 1995 American crime film Hackers
The Crash Override Network, a support group (founded 2015) for victims of large scale online abuse
Crashoverride, a malware framework presumed to have been used in the 2016 cyberattack on Ukraine's power grid
Crash Override (book), a 2017 memoir by Zoë Quinn of the Crash Override Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRVis | VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung (VRVis) is a research center in the area of Visual Computing in Austria. It is one of currently 22 centrally funded COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies of Austria. The VRVis Center is located in Ares Tower in Vienna.
References
Laboratories in Austria
Research institutes in Austria
Engineering organizations
TU Wien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules%20extraction%20system%20family | The rules extraction system (RULES) family is a family of inductive learning that includes several covering algorithms. This family is used to build a predictive model based on given observation. It works based on the concept of separate-and-conquer to directly induce rules from a given training set and build its knowledge repository.
Algorithms under RULES family are usually available in data mining tools, such as KEEL and WEKA, known for knowledge extraction and decision making.
Overview
RULES family algorithms are mainly used in data mining to create a model that predicts the actions of a given input features. It goes under the umbrella of inductive learning, which is a machine learning approach. In this type of learning, the agent is usually provided with previous information to gain descriptive knowledge based on the given historical data. Thus, it is a supervised learning paradigm that works as a data analysis tool, which uses the knowledge gained through training to reach a general conclusion and identify new objects using the produced classifier.
Inductive learning had been divided into two types: decision tree (DT) and covering algorithms (CA). DTs discover rules using decision tree based on the concept of divide-and-conquer, while CA directly induces rules from the training set based on the concept of separate and conquers. Although DT algorithms was well recognized in the past few decades, CA started to attract the attention due to its direct rule induction property, as emphasized by Kurgan et al. [1]. Under this type of inductive learning approach, several families have been developed and improved. RULES family [2], known as rule extraction system, is one family of covering algorithms that separate each instance or example when inducing the best rules. In this family, the resulting rules are stored in an ‘IF condition THEN conclusion’ structure. It has its own induction procedure that is used to induce the best rules and build the knowledge repository.
Induction procedure
To induce the best rules based on a given observation, RULES family start by selecting (separating) a seed example to build a rule, condition by condition. The rule that covers the most positive examples and the least negative examples are chosen as the best rule of the current seed example. It allows the best rule to cover some negative examples to handle the increase flexibility and reduce the overfitting problem and noisy data in the rule induction. When the coverage performance reaches a specified threshold, it marks the examples that match the induced rules without deletion. This prevents the repetition of discovering the same rule as well as preserves the coverage accuracy and the generality of new rules. After that, the algorithm is repeated to select (conquer) another seed example until all the examples are covered. Hence, only one rule can be generated at each step.
Algorithms
Several versions and algorithms have been proposed in RULES family, and ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn%20Axelsson | Bjorn Axelsson (born July 12, 1948) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics, known for his work on industrial networks.
Life and work
Born in Uppsala County, Axelsson obtained his PhD at the Uppsala University in 1981 with the thesis, entitled "Wikmanshyttans uppgång och fall: en kommentar till angreppssättet i en företagshistorisk studie" (The rise and fall of the Wikmanshyttan steel works : a commentary to the approach in a company history study).
After his graduation, Axelsson started his academic career at Uppsala University, where he managed the Uppsala Executive MBA program since the mid 1980s. In 1998, he moved to the Jönköping International Business School, where he was appointed Professor in Marketing. In 2002, he moved to the Stockholm School of Economics, where he holds the Olof A Söderberg chair in Business Administration, and became head of the D-section. From 2005 to 2009, he also held the Silf Chair in Purchasing and Supply Management at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Axelsson's research interests are in the field of "business- to- business markets both from marketing and sourcing/purchasing perspectives, but it also concerns the very functioning of such markets. The studies in both marketing and purchasing frequently address organizational issues. Themes such as effectively organizing marketing activities and creating strategic change in purchasing benefit from organization theories which therefore have become a very important scientific body of support."
Selected publications
Axelsson, Björn, and Geoff Easton, eds. Industrial networks: A new view of reality. Vol. 11. London: Routledge, 1992.
Axelsson, Björn, and Finn Wynstra. Buying business services. John Wiley, 2002.
Articles, a selection:
Axelsson, Björn, and Jan Johanson. "Foreign market entry-the textbook vs. the network view." (1992): 218–234. In: Industrial Networks. A New View of Reality, Routledge, London, 1992, 218-234
Axelsson, Björn. "Corporate strategy models and networks-diverging perspectives." ACTA-UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS STUDIA OECONOMIAE NEGOTIORUM (1998): 303–322.
Wynstra, Finn, Björn Axelsson, and Wendy van der Valk. "An application-based classification to understand buyer-supplier interaction in business services." International Journal of Service Industry Management 17.5 (2006): 474–496.
References
External links
Björn Axelsson Stockholm School of Economics
1948 births
Living people
Swedish business theorists
Uppsala University alumni
Academic staff of Uppsala University
Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics
People from Uppsala County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Timothy%20Haydn | Joseph Timothy Haydn (Lisbon, Portugal, 1788 - London, 17 January 1856), was a British journalist and compiler of dictionaries, well known as the author of the Dictionary of Dates, which went through many editions from 1841, and of the Book of Dignities, 1851 (3rd revised edition, 1894).
Career
The Book of Dignities was a modernized form of Robert Beatson's Political Index, but omits the lists of holders of many important offices. He also edited Samuel Lewis' Topographical Dictionaries. His name is used in the "Haydn Series" of dictionaries, which are on the same lines as those he compiled. He does not, however, appear to have taken any part in their actual compilation. They are the Universal Index of Biography, edited by J. B. Payne, 1870; Bible Dictionary, edited by C. Boutell, 1871 (2nd edition, 1878); Dictionary of Popular Medicine and Hygiene, edited by Dr. E. Lankester, 1874 (2nd edition, 1878).
For a short time before his death, aged 69 years, on 18 January 1856, Haydn had been in receipt of a small pension of £25 granted by the government. It was continued to his widow.
He was buried in a common grave (no.7040) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. His is the first name listed on the nearby Haydn family grave where his wife Mary, sons Henry and Thomas Matthew (who purchased the grave), daughter Kate Maria and her husband Sir Frank Green, 1st Baronet are buried.
References
Annual Register, 1856, p. 232
The Times, 19 January 1856
Gentlemen's Magazine, 1856, i. 542
Westminster Review, January 1830, p 91
Frederic Boase. "Haydn, Joseph Timothy" in Modern English Biography. Netherton and Worth. 1892. Volume 1. Page 1879. Google Books
Bailie, J M (ed). "Haydn, Joseph" in Hamlyn Dictionary of Dates and Anniversaries. Second Revised Edition. 1978. Book Club Associates. London. p 108.
Further reading
(+ via Internet Archive)
1786 births
1856 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
Lexicographers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Utility%20Reform%20Network | TURN (The Utility Reform Network) is a consumer advocacy organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. In 1972, Sylvia Siegel started TURN in her kitchen to represent consumers before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which she felt was overly focused on the interests of its regulated industries at the expense of consumers. Harry Reasoner interviewed Siegel about her work with TURN on CBS's 60 minutes in 1984.
On January 1, 2008, Mark Toney became the executive director of TURN. Toney is a Brown University graduate, who later earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Berkeley. Toney also founded DARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality) to organize low-income families in Providence, Rhode Island in 1986.
California Governor Jerry Brown appointed former TURN attorney Michael Florio to the California Public Utilities Commission in 2011.
Following the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, TURN filed a motion with the CPUC to "compel Pacific Gas and Electric Company to respond to data requests seeking production of documents to determine if PG&E engaged in other efforts to undermine due process in this case."
References
External links
Historical information about TURN
Consumer organizations in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in California
Organizations based in San Francisco
1972 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Forat | Bruce Forat is an electronics engineer, computer programmer, music producer, songwriter and co-founder and president of Forat Music and Electronics Corporation, founded in 1986.
He is known for providing samples, service and upgrades for all Linn Electronics products after Linn went out of business in 1986.
He also designed and manufactured the Forat F16 rack mount digital sampler
and the Forat F9000: a debugged and improved version of the ill-fated Linn 9000 drum machine.
Forat Music and Electronics
Forat Music and Electronics (also known as Forat Electronics or Forat Music) is a California-based corporation specializing in electronic musical instrument design, manufacturing, service, upgrades and customization, in particular, drum machines and digital samplers.
History
In 1982, Bruce Forat joined Linn Electronics as an electronics technician. When Linn went out of business in February 1986, brothers Bruce and Ben formed Forat Electronics Corporation in Studio City, California and purchased all of Linn's remaining assets. They hired some former Linn employees including Steve Alcorn, former Vice President of Engineering and Chief Operating Officer.
Forat revamped the original Linn Electronics line, including the LM-1, LinnDrum, and LinnSequencer. They completely reinvented the ill-fated Linn 9000 drum machine and dubbed it the Forat F9000: the first fully functional integrated sampling / sequencing / MIDI work station. They produce software and hardware upgrades and modifications for the Linn 9000, Forat F9000, and the LinnSequencer and modifications, sounds and a MIDI Retrofit Kit for the LinnDrum.
In 1987, Forat introduced the F16: the first 16 bit digital sampler tailored for drummers featuring MIDI capabilities, dynamic response to incoming trigger signals and, with a trigger response time of 0.1 milliseconds, the fastest audio-triggering digital sampler ever sold.
Over the years, Forat has expanded into other aspects of electronic music technology.
Today, they service, upgrade and customize most types of drum machines and many brands of vintage analog synthesizers. They're an authorized service center for Akai, Yamaha & Roland. They provide repairs and upgrades for the Akai line of hard disk recorders, samplers and the entire Akai MPC series of drum machines. They service Yamaha musical products including their line of digital consoles, drum machines and keyboards, the entire Roland line of products including MV series workstations and MC Groove samplers.
They've produced thousands of custom digital sample sounds for use with the Linn 9000, Forat F9000, LinnDrum, Forat F16, Ensoniq ASR-10, Akai MPC series and the Roland MV-8000 & MV-8800.
They've done custom paint jobs on keyboards and most of the Akai MPC and Roland drum machines and music workstations.
In 2012, Bruce Forat worked as a drum machine design consultant for Akai.
At the time of writing (2015), Forat Electronics continues to provide products and services to music ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazhom%20railway%20station | Mazhom Railway Station, also known as Mazhama railway station, lies on Northern Railway Network Zone of Indian Railways. It is situated west of Srinagar on Gulmarg Road. It is the major railway stations in Budgam district. The station connects Magam town (3 km away from station) with rest of the parts of state. The station comes under Firozpur division of Indian railways and has an average elevation of above mean sea level.
Design
The station features Kashmiri wood architecture, with an intended ambience of a royal court which is designed to complement the local surroundings to the station. Station signage is predominantly in Urdu, English and Hindi.
History
The station has been built as part of the Jammu–Baramulla line mega project, intending to link the Kashmir Valley with and the rest of the Indian rail network.
Controversy
The railway station was named by Northern Railways as Rajwansheer railway station which led to the large scale controversy by the local population. The controversy was resolved in December 2009 by the intervention of Omar Abdullah and the station was renamed as Mazhom railway station.
See also
Budgam railway station
References
Railway stations in Budgam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%C3%ADmpica%20de%20Engenho%20de%20Dentro%20station | Olímpica de Engenho de Dentro Station is a railway station on the SuperVia network in Rio de Janeiro. The station services the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos.
References
SuperVia stations
Railway stations opened in 1873 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20de%20Recherche%20en%20Communications%20et%20Cybern%C3%A9tique%20de%20Nantes | The Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCCyN, English : Research Institute in Communications and Cybernetic of Nantes) is a scientific institution linked to the CNRS in France. Its purpose is to innovate in different fields such as robotics, automatic control, cognition, production theory and image processing. The IRCCyN is a dedicated center for the université de Nantes, the école des Mines de Nantes and the école centrale de Nantes where it is located.
The IRCCyN was founded in 1958 by Professor Romane Mezencev and joined the CNRS in 1968. Michel Malabre is the director of the institute since 2008.
The activity and results of the IRCCyN is evaluated every 5 years by the "High Council of Evaluation of Research and Higher Education" and the National Committee of Scientific Research.
References
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Research institutes established in 1958
Research institutes in France
1958 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamyne | Datamyne was a privately held corporation that provides access to a searchable database of import-export trade of 50 countries across five continents. The company was acquired by Descartes Systems Group in December 2016. The purchase price for the acquisition was approximately US$52.7 million in cash.
Products
Descartes Datamyne's trade data is collected from the documents of import-export transactions filed with customs authorities and trade ministries.
The trade data is used to develop commercial intelligence for businesses – principally in the transport sector that supports trade, and in vertical industries that operate on a global footing, such as chemicals, mining, food and beverage, and apparel.
Descartes Datamyne provides unmetered access, which includes search, analysis and reporting tools, to all or selected countries’ in its database by annual subscription. In addition, the company offers custom international market research services. Descartes Datamyne also provides data to government agencies, NGOs, and the media such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald in the U.S. and Clarín in Argentina.
The company was recognized by the Association of Independent Information Professionals for providing access to trade data with a pay-as-you-go pricing option useful to independent information professionals.
Its flagship product is data on the waterborne trade between the U.S. and its 240 distinct geographic markets. Sourced from maritime bills of lading, this data covers the details of transactions including cargo descriptions, ports of departure and arrival, and shipping lines, as well as the names of importing companies and foreign suppliers, which are linked to Dun & Bradstreet background information.
Operations
Descartes Datamyne was headquartered in Miami, and maintains locations in Jacksonville, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the New York metropolitan area. The company also has sales offices in Montevideo, Uruguay, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and São Paulo, Brazil. Now a part of Descartes, the company's world headquarters are located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Datamyne's data collection and processing operations are located in Montevideo, Uruguay. The data center is certified compliant with ISO 9001:2008 standards of quality management systems and processes for development, marketing and after sales care.
History
The business traces its origins back to the founding in 1992 by Pablo Milburn of URUNET, an online source for Uruguayan foreign trade data. In 1997, Milburn launched Argentina-based Mercosur Online, offering Customs-sourced data on the import-export trade of the Mercosur trade bloc's four founding members (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
As of December 2016, the company is now part of Descartes Systems Group.
Named a “high-impact entrepreneur” by Endeavor Global in 2003, Milburn obtained private equity backing from Greenwich, CT-based Nassau Point Investors to expand operations to the U.S. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20connectivity | In computing and graph theory, a dynamic connectivity structure is a data structure that dynamically maintains information about the connected components of a graph.
The set V of vertices of the graph is fixed, but the set E of edges can change. The three cases, in order of difficulty, are:
Edges are only added to the graph (this can be called incremental connectivity);
Edges are only deleted from the graph (this can be called decremental connectivity);
Edges can be either added or deleted (this can be called fully dynamic connectivity).
After each addition/deletion of an edge, the dynamic connectivity structure should adapt itself such that it can give quick answers to queries of the form "is there a path between x and y?" (equivalently: "do vertices x and y belong to the same connected component?").
Incremental connectivity
If edges can only be added, then the dynamic connectivity problem can be solved by a Disjoint-set data structure. Each set represents a connected component; there is a path between x and y if and only if they belong to the same set. The amortized time per operation is , where n is the number of vertices and α is the inverse Ackermann function.
Decremental connectivity
The case in which edges can only be deleted was solved by Shimon Even and Yossi Shiloach.
The structure uses a table that specifies, for each vertex, the name of the component to which it belongs. Thus a connectivity query takes constant time. The challenge is to update the table when an edge is deleted.
Acyclic graphs (forests)
When edge u-v is deleted in a forest, the tree containing that edge is broken to two trees: one of them contains u and the other contains v. The table is updated in the following way.
Scan the tree starting from u (using any tree scan algorithm, such as DFS).
Scan the tree starting from v.
Do the above two procedures in parallel, i.e., either using two parallel processes, or by interleaving their steps (make a step of first scan, then a step of the second scan, then a step of the first scan, etc.).
Suppose the first scan that terminates is the scan from u (so we know that the tree containing u is the smaller one). Assign a new component name to every node in the subtree of u.
Since we always rename the smaller sub-component, the amortized time for a delete operation is .
General graphs
When an edge is deleted in a general graph, we don't know whether its component remains a single component (connected by other edges) or broken to two components. So we use two processes which run in parallel (or in an interleaved way). Process A checks whether the edge deletion breaks a component, and if it does, both processes halt. Process B checks whether the edge deletion does not break the component to which it belongs, and if it does not, again both processes halt.
Process A is similar to the acyclic-graph case: there are two sub-processes who scan from both ends of the deleted edge. If one of the sub-processes finishes befo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikon | Eikon is a set of software products provided by Refinitiv for financial professionals to monitor and analyze financial information. It provides access to real time market data, news, fundamental data, analytics, trading and messaging tools. It provides data on asset classes including foreign exchange, money markets, fixed income, equities, commodities, funds, and real estate.
History
Thomson Reuters launched Eikon in 2010 as a replacement for Reuters 3000 Xtra, Reuters’ earlier platform. At the end of 2013, an Eikon subscription was reported to cost from $300 to $1,800 per month, the average setup being around $800 per month. In October 2018 Eikon was transferred to Refinitiv as a result of a larger deal between Blackstone and the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters.
Under pressure from the Government of China, Refinitiv censored over 200 stories by Reuters covering the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, removing them from its Eikon platform for consumers in Mainland China. The company developed a "Strategic China filter" to block politically-sensitive stories from readers in Mainland China.
Platforms
Eikon includes a desktop client, mobile app and a Web interface, as well as APIs for programmatic access. The Eikon interface is customizable by the user. The main desktop client runs on Microsoft Windows and lets users compose customized views on multiple screens. Refinitiv also provides data retrieval add-ons for Microsoft Office.
Eikon provides access to real-time Tradeweb data for 20 fixed income and derivatives asset classes, including government bond markets, alongside market-related news from Reuters and other sources.
References
External links
Trading Robots Information
Thomson Reuters
Financial software
Electronic trading systems
London Stock Exchange Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20Gold%20Coast | Triple M Gold Coast (ACMA callsign: 4GLD) is an Australian radio station in Queensland. Owned and operated as part of Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M network, it broadcasts a Mainstream Rock format to Gold Coast, Queensland. The radio station was originally 4GG on the AM band, and broadcasting commenced on 30 September 1965, with Frank Warrick reading the first words broadcast. The station moved to the FM band in 1989 as Triple G – later KROQ, then Gold FM. In November 2019 it was rebranded Triple M.
Programming
5am-9am: Triple M Breakfast with Ali, Flan and Spida
9am-12pm: Rod Maldon
12pm-3pm: Nelly
3pm-4pm: The Marty Sheargold Show
4pm-6pm: The Rush Hour with Liesel, Liam and Dobbo
7pm-10pm: Triple M Nights with Dave Gleeson
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1989
Radio stations on the Gold Coast, Queensland
Adult contemporary radio stations in Australia
[[Category:1989 establishments in Australia][] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Subic Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine media network. Its corporate office is located at the 5th Floor, Admiral Royale Hotel, 17th St. cor. Anonas St., Brgy. West Bajac-Bajac, Olongapo.
Profile
SBC was first founded on July 29, 1969, with its AM station DWGO "Radio on the Go" under 1557 kHz. After being temporarily closed during martial law in 1972, it resumed operation in 1976, this time on 1008 kHz. SBC soon acquired a franchise for radio and television operation, establishing the first & only television station in January 2011, TV 22. In the early half of the year 2013, SBC partnered with TV5 to better serve the viewing public of Olongapo, Zambales, Bataan, and neighboring areas.
Stations
Source:
AM Stations
FM Stations
TV Stations
References
Mass media companies of the Philippines
Mass media in Olongapo
Companies based in Olongapo
Television networks in the Philippines
Privately held companies of the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayz%20Network | Prayz Network is a network of Christian radio stations serving western Wisconsin, including the La Crosse and Eau Claire areas.
The Prayz Network airs a format consisting of contemporary Christian music as well as variety of Christian talk and teaching programs including; Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, and Turning Point with David Jeremiah.
Stations
The Prayz Network's flagship station is WTPN in Westby, Wisconsin. The Prayz Network is also heard on WEQS 89.3 in Sparta, Wisconsin, WWJC 101.5 in Augusta, Wisconsin, and WGSL 104.9 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
References
External links
The Prayz Network's official website
The Prayz Network's webcast
Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLSE%20%28FM%29 | WLSE is a Christian radio station licensed to Canton, Illinois, broadcasting on 103.3 MHz FM. It is owned by Lifestyle Education Academy International, Inc. WLSE airs programming from LifeTalk Radio, along with local talk and Christian contemporary music.
History
The Federal Communications Commission allocated the empty frequency 103.3 MHz (channel 277A) to Canton, Illinois in August 2001 to make up for the empty 98.3 MHz (channel 252A) allocation being moved to Abingdon, Illinois.
WLSE received its broadcast license on December 12, 2013.
Translators
WLSE is simulcast on 98.5 WLSB in Augusta, Illinois, and is also heard in Pekin, Illinois through a translator at 99.1 MHz. These translators were originally owned by the Illinois Association of Seventh Day Adventists, and were sold to LSE Broadcasting in 2017.
References
External links
WLSE's website
Canton Seventh-day Adventist Church's website
2013 establishments in Illinois
Radio stations established in 2013
Canton, Illinois
LSE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20Xplorer%20H200 | The Symphony Xplorer H200 is an Android smartphone manufactured by Symphony Mobile. It was introduced in January 2015 for Bangladesh.
Features
Network: 2G, 3G
SIM: Dual SIM
Rear Camera: 13 MP
Front Camera: 8 MP
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 16 GB
Battery: 1800 mAh
Size: 4.7 In
Operating System: Android 4.4.2 KitKat
CPU: 1.3 GHz Quad Core/MT 6582 M
Dimensions: 137 X 68 X 8.1 mm
Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity, Light, G-Sensor
Weight: 137g
IPS Capacitive Display
Browser: HTML
References
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20Xplorer%20V55 | The Symphony Xplorer V55 is an Android smartphone manufactured by Symphony Mobile. It was introduced in January, 2015.
Features
Network: 2G, 3G
SIM: Dual SIM
Rear Camera: 5 MP
Front Camera: 2 MP
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Storage: 4 GB
Battery: 1700 mAh
Size: 4.5 In
Operating System: Android 4.4.2 KitKat
CPU: 1.3 GHz Quad-Core
Dimensions: 134 X 68.2 X 9.9 mm
Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity, Light, G-Sensor
Weight: 145 g
TFT G+F touchscreen
Browser: HTML
References
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYKD-TV | DYKD-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Masbate City, Philippines, airing programming from the GMA network. Owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent, the station maintains transmitter facilities at Brgy. Pinamurbuhan, Mobo, Masbate.
Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, DYKD-TV is considered a straight simulcast of DWAI-TV (channel 7) in Naga City.
GMA TV-7 Masbate Programs
Balitang Bicolandia - flagship afternoon newscast (simulcast on TV-7 Naga)
See also
List of GMA Network stations
References
GMA Network stations
Television stations in Masbate
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Galaskiewicz | Joseph Galaskiewicz (born 24 February 1949) is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, known for his work on interorganizational relations and social network analysis.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Galaskiewicz obtained his BA in Sociology at the Loyola University Chicago in 1971. He continued his studies at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his MA in Sociology in 1973 advised by Morris Janowitz, and his PhD in Sociology in 1976 under supervision of Edward O. Laumann.
Galaskiewicz started his academic career as Lecturer of Sociology in 1973 at the Loyola University, and became Instructor of Sociology in 1975. In 1976, he became Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Associate Professor of Sociology in 1980 and Professor of Sociology from 1986 to 2001. From 1989 to 2001, Galaskiewicz was also Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the University's Curtis L. Carlson School of Management. In 2001, Galaskiewicz moved to the University of Arizona, where he is appointed Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology and has a courtesy appointment in the School of Government and Public Policy. In 2018 he was the Founding Director of the Certificate Program in Computational Social Science in the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Arizona. Over the years, he has been visiting professor at the Nankai University, Tianjin in 1988 and 2014; at Harvard University in 1998; and at Tilburg University in 2005.
Galaskiewicz was Director of Graduate Studies for many years at Minnesota, and was Chair of the Faculty, School of Sociology at the University of Arizona in 2003-04, 2007–08, and 2015–16. The Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management awarded him the Best Book Award for 1999 (with Bielefeld) the Best Article Published in 2004 Award (with Chaves and Stephens,) and Best Article Published in 2006 Award (with Bielefeld and Dowell). In 2014, Galaskiewicz won the Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research awarded by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action' He was also co-winner of the 2016-17 Graduate College Teaching and Mentoring Award University of Arizona.
Work
Interorganizational relations
In the 1985 article "Interorganizational Relations" in the Annual Review of Sociology, Galaskiewicz outlined the field of study on interorganizational relations. He identified three fields:
Resource procurement and allocation
Political advocacy, and
Organizational legitimation.
In the literature on interorganizational relations on resource procurement and allocation, Galaskiewicz further explained "analysts have focused on power dependency and the problems of overcoming environmental uncertainty. In studying interorganizational Relations within arenas of political advocacy, students have paid special attention to coalition formation and eff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%20%28parallel%20pattern%29 | Map is an idiom in parallel computing where a simple operation is applied to all elements of a sequence, potentially in parallel. It is used to solve embarrassingly parallel problems: those problems that can be decomposed into independent subtasks, requiring no communication/synchronization between the subtasks except a join or barrier at the end.
When applying the map pattern, one formulates an elemental function that captures the operation to be performed on a data item that represents a part of the problem, then applies this elemental function in one or more threads of execution, hyperthreads, SIMD lanes or on multiple computers.
Some parallel programming systems, such as OpenMP and Cilk, have language support for the map pattern in the form of a parallel for loop; languages such as OpenCL and CUDA support elemental functions (as "kernels") at the language level. The map pattern is typically combined with other parallel design patterns. For example, map combined with category reduction gives the MapReduce pattern.
See also
Map (higher-order function)
Functional programming
Algorithmic skeleton
References
Parallel computing
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Miller%20%28pastor%29 | Bernard "Bernie" Miller is the founder and Pastor of New Covenant Fellowship Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He founded the church in 1996 using census data that allowed him to build a multi-ethnic church to meet the needs of his community.
Career and early life
Miller arrived in Chattanooga in 1990 by way of New York City where he worked as Vice President of artists and repertoire for Sony/Epic Records, from 1987 to 1989. On the Epic roster were over 25 artists including The Jacksons, Michael Jackson and Luther Vandross, respectively. In addition, he wrote several songs for which he received both gold and platinum record awards with the most famous being the Grammy Award winner, "I Can't Stand the Rain." He received Christ as his personal Savior in New York while watching The 700 Club.
The 700 Club selected Miller to be interviewed for their 50th anniversary celebration. Miller was invited to share his testimony live, September 30, 2011 at CBN's black-tie dinner before over 400 longtime partners of The 700 Club.
Miller was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, but his mother moved to Baltimore, MD, when he was 3 years old. He started his radio career in high school, at the age of 16 in Baltimore. The first station for which he worked, WEBB, was owned by James Brown. He is the host of two distinctly different radio programs in Chattanooga: "Power Praise," a Black gospel program on Power94, WJTT; and "Sunday Celebration," a contemporary Christian music program on J103.
In 2010, Miller was named "Man of the Year" from Tennessee and received the "Distinguished Christian Statesman Award" by the Atlanta-based RossReportNews.net Ministries. Miller has received several awards for his work in communications. In 1988, he was the recipient of the "Black Achievers in Industry Award" from the Harlem Branch YMCA of Greater New York. Black Enterprise Magazine voted him one of the country's top 25 broadcasters in 1985 for his work in Chicago with Tom Joyner on WJPC, the Johnson Publishing Company's radio station. Additionally, while in Chicago he received the "Monarch Award in Communications" from the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Xi Nu Omega chapter. In 1994, Miller was voted the most popular Morning Drive radio personality in Chattanooga. Miller hosted a nationally syndicated gospel program that was heard on the Moody Bible broadcasting network.
Miller has served as chairman on numerous boards and advisory panels. Currently, he serves as Chair of the U.S. Census Bureau's African-American Race & Ethnicity Advisory Committee. Furthermore, Miller serves as Chairman of the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 2008, Miller requested, and received, an audience with President Obama's transition team to request an additional $150 million to fund the Census Bureau's 2010 advertising campaign and additional dollars to hire more Partnership Specialists.
Miller and his wife were invited to the White House for several key events such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complications%20%28TV%20series%29 | Complications is an American drama television series created by Matt Nix. Starring Jason O'Mara and Jessica Szohr, the series aired on USA Network from June 18 through August 13, 2015. On August 28, 2015, USA Network cancelled Complications.
Premise
An exhausted and disillusioned suburban ER doctor witnesses a drive-by shooting in which a little boy is seriously injured. While attending to the child's wounds, the doctor shoots and kills a street gang member in order to save the lives of himself and the boy. This one act, seen by some to make him a hero, leads to unexpected complications in his personal and professional life, which forces him to re-evaluate his beliefs about medicine and helping others.
Cast
Main characters
Jason O'Mara as Dr. John Ellison
Jessica Szohr as Nurse Gretchen Polk, a coworker of John
Beth Riesgraf as Samantha Ellison, John's wife
Lauren Stamile as Dr. Bridget O'Neil, a coworker of John
Albert C. Bates as Oliver Ellison, John & Sam Ellison's son
Recurring
Chris Chalk as Darius
Tim Peper as Kyle Hawkins, a lawyer and friend of Samantha
Eric Edelstein as Jed, a friend of Gretchen
Conphidance as CJ, cousin to Antoine and keeps Dr. John Ellison on check; affiliated with Darius
RonReaco Lee as Dr. Quentin Harper, another ER doctor
Brick Jackson as Maurice, CJ's best friend
Anna Enger as Nurse Mia Joy
Christine Horn as Sherry Perkins
Chris Greene as Chris Maddox, affiliated with Darius
Ty Glascoe as Boney, affiliated with Darius
Gino Vento as Oscar 'Tico' Rodriguez, member of the Loco's gang.
Jaiden Byrd as Antoine Tyler, the kid who was shot in the middle of the street while walking with CJ.
Episodes
Development and production
Matt Nix directed the pilot episode. In March 2014, USA Network ordered the pilot to series. Production began in September 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Reception
Critical response
Complications has received generally mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the first season of the show a rating of 59%, based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The site's consensus states, "Complications has no shortage of ambition - or intriguing characters and ideas - although its complicated plot occasionally beggars belief." Metacritic gives the show a score of 55 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally mixed reviews".
Ratings
References
External links
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
2010s American crime drama television series
2010s American LGBT-related drama television series
2010s American medical television series
English-language television shows
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows filmed in Atlanta
Television shows set in Atlanta
American thriller television series
USA Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine%20Kempf | Martine Kempf is a French computer scientist who is known for inventing the Katalavox in 1985, a computer-based voice activation system. Martine Kempf was born to Jean-Pierre Kempf and Brigitte Maguerite Klockenbring Kempf in 1951 in Dossenheim-Kochersberg, France. Kempf's academic journey led her to Friedrich Wilhelm University, also known as the University of Bonn, where she pursued her studies in astronomy during the period of 1981 to 1983. Throughout her time at the university, she developed a profound interest in electronic design, hardware, and software. During her years as a student, Kempf was deeply moved by the challenges faced by German teenagers who were born without arms due to their mothers' use of thalidomide during their pregnancies, Kempf reasoned that a voice activation system would allow those affected with physical difficulties to drive cars. This voice activation device also helps with microsurgery, as surgeons can use voice commands to focus magnifying devices and has the potential to be used as a mobile phone to control a car by spoken commands.
Career and Innovations
Martine Kempf's father, Jean-Pierre Kempf, was a paraplegic, who lost the use of his legs due to polio at the age of two. Passionate about mechanics, Jean-Pierre assembled his own car to adapt it to be able to drive it himself. His design became popularized by a car magazine and was in high demand from paraplegics and amputees who also wanted to drive. Jean-Pierre established his own company to manufacture cars for them and the company became the leading driving aids manufacturer in France, also being popularized in other European countries. His inventions, the digital accelerator ring and main hand brake, became the current standard hand controls in France. Designing several innovative driving solutions, Kempf continually advanced his driving solutions for people with disabilities and had the capacity to adapt to almost every vehicle in his lifetime until his death on April 10, 2002.
Desiring to create her own company in France, Martine Kempf was not granted her loan from the socialist French government in 1985, leading to her to leave for Silicon Valley to establish her company that adapted surgical microscopes. Becoming her father's supplier in the mid 1990's, she restarted his company in France and led KEMPF SAS. Establishing KEMPF Inc. and managing KEMPF SAS, Martine Kempf took over her father's legacy in gifting the ability to drive to people with disabilities. Martine Kempf is currently the CEO of KEMPF Inc., president of KEMPF SAS, and the founder of Kempf Beijing Technology Co Ltd. KEMPF Inc. adapts vehicles for drivers with a disability, like trucks, vans, minivans, SUVs, cars, and sports cars. KEMPF SAS and Kempf Beijing Technology Co Ltd. are KEMPF Inc's counterparts in Europe and China, respectively.
After teaching herself electronics with books and magazines in university, Martine Kempf designed a cutting-edge speech recognition system. Martin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Television%20Network | The Star Television Network (commonly branded as Starcast initially, then STN, prior to launch, then Star from its launch up to the network's shutdown), was an attempt at a fifth broadcasting network based in Orlando, Florida. The network was notable as the first television network to have featured exclusively direct response commercials and infomercials among standard programming.
Star featured classic, though cheaper and lesser-known, 1950s and 1960s programming, movies and game shows under the TV Heaven slogan, with direct response infomercials rounding out the schedule. The network expected to buy newer programs and originate their own programming once on a firm operating status.
Star was facing competition from the Home Shopping Network and Fox, which went after the bigger markets. In light of this, the network explained that its key advantage is in terms of operating costs for the station, in which a station affiliating with the network could save about 90% on their programming costs, and a national advertiser advertising on the network could pay about 68% of the major network rates.
History
The network was introduced under the Starcast branding in October 1987 as needing $15 million to launch and had just started contacting potential affiliates. The network expected to sign up 30 stations by the April 1989 launch date and have 18 hours of broadcasting a day. After the Black Monday stock market crash in October 1987, Starcast's investors pulled out. By January 1988, the company had 70 stations willing to sign on to the network.
By April 1989 (the projected launch date), the network, now under the STN branding (having changed from Starcast), pushed back their launch to July due to programming negotiations and financing hold ups. 64 stations had provisionally signed on as affiliates in markets like Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Jacksonville, Florida and Orlando to an estimated reach of 40 million households. The network was then in talks with an additional 33 stations. At this time, an affiliation fee ranging from $2,750 to $60,000 annually would be paid by the stations based on their market size instead of the standard network payments to affiliates. 36 minutes a day would be allocated for advertising sold by the network, with the remainder given to its affiliates. STN missed the July launch due to lack of additional funding and set a new September 1 deadline for enough affiliates to sign on for a possible November 1 launch. The network expected to be based at the then-new Universal Studios Florida in Orlando. At this time, the network restructured its affiliate agreement in dropping the annual carriage fee for the addition of some infomercials and a refundable deposit of $1,500 to $175,000 based on the station's size. The number of affiliates at launch and infomercials was a requirement to bring on replacement investor Dale W. Lang, owner of Lang Communications, which then owned several magazines including Success and Work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoodNewsNetwork | The Good News Network is an American online newspaper which publishes positive news stories.
Overview
The website was launched in 1997 by Geri Weis-Corbley to publish uplifting news gathered from sources around the world. Its purpose is to share positive and encouraging stories, as well as breakthroughs in technology and health. Weis-Corbley says that it is a "clearinghouse for the gathering and dissemination of positive, compelling new stories," to promote a well-balanced perspective.
In an article about Weis-Corbley, Tal Ben-Shahar, an expert on positive psychology and Harvard University lecturer, said that our perception of the world is warped by continual viewing of bad news. "While the media focuses on a small number of frauds—which it should certainly report on—it entirely ignores the millions or billions of honest transactions that take place every day... Too many people, assisted by the media bias, extrapolate from a few cases of people hurting others that human nature is bad."
Content
It publishes stories and shares videos and news from mainstream media, like NBC and CNN. Topics include health, environment, US, world, business, culture, kids, pets, and celebrities. The site also publishes original content from authors and columnists, such as Desmond Tutu, David Ignatius, Jeanne Marie Laskas, David Suzuki and Karen Armstrong.
An example of a positive story was one from 2009 about the kinds of jobs being created in solar and wind energy industries due to a stimulus package. It tackles how positive reinforcement is meaningful, such as when a Canadian police department gives out positive tickets to citizens.
The staff published its 18,000th news story in January 2017.
The network also hosts the Good News Gurus Podcast which also focuses on positive news but in the podcast medium.
Readership
The site experiences increased traffic following difficult events, like the September 11 attacks.
There was also a 45% increase in readership when the bank bailouts began in 2008.
GoodNewsNetwork's articles are cited in books, including an article about how United States mayors are embracing the Kyoto Protocol in a book about carbon reduction. GoodNewsNetwork is listed as a resource in the book Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing, by William C. Compton and Edward Hoffman, which was published in 2012.
Funding
The company earns its revenue from online advertising on the site. Readers may also become members by contributing donations of between $2.00 – $500, and receive bonus downloadable gifts as a thank-you.
In popular culture
Mentioned in Deadly Charm: An Amanda Bell Brown Mystery published in 2009 by Claudia Mair Burney.
See also
Positive News
Positivity effect
Yes! (U.S. magazine)
References
External links
GoodNewsNetwork's official website
Internet properties established in 1997
American news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Levenberg | Kenneth Levenberg (August 6, 1919 – September 1973) was an American statistician and original author of the widely used nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm later improved by Donald Marquardt, known as the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm.
Levenberg first published the algorithm in 1944 while working at the Frankford Arsenal. He later worked for Boeing where he developed mathematical models used to design the Boeing 737. He ended his career in the mathematics department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and died in Hawaii in 1973.
Levenberg was listed in American Men of Science in 1970.
References
1919 births
1973 deaths
American statisticians
Place of birth missing
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20Tower%20Radio | Strong Tower Radio is a non-profit network of Christian radio stations in Michigan and Illinois. Much of Strong Tower Radio's programming is from 3ABN.
Stations
Strong Tower Radio operates a total of 14 radio stations and 1 television station (8 standard radio stations, 5 radio translators, and 1 low-power television station W23EB-D in Michigan, and 1 radio translator in Illinois).
Translators
References
External links
Strong Tower Radio's official website
Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
Conservative media in the United States
Seventh-day Adventist media
Seventh-day Adventist organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20Kalma | Ariel Kalma (born in Paris) is a French new-age composer and electronic musician.
He learned to play recorder and saxophone as a youth. He studied computer science in college, and while at university he met Salvatore Adamo, who soon hired Kalma into his touring band on a world tour as a saxophonist and flautist. While on the road with Adamo, he met Baden Powell, with whom he would collaborate in France and Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Around this time, he made experimental tape pieces using his own recorded instruments, found sounds, church organs, and poetry.
In 1974 he took a one way plane to in India, learning rudimentary classical Indian music and developing an interest in meditative and drone music. He was also influenced by American minimalist music. In 1975, he recorded and self-released an album, Le Temps des Moissons while working at the GRM studio of INA Pierre Henry in Paris. His 1978 album Osmose features Borneo rainforest nature sounds recorded by Richard Tinti.
Kalma's output increased over the 1980s and 1990s, and his discography now runs to several dozen albums. In 2014, his 1970s work was collected by RVNG and a compilation, An Evolutionary Music, was released. This album reached #9 on the Billboard New Age albums chart in 2015.
Albums
Le Temps des Moissons (1975 LP)
Voyage meditatif au centre de la tete (archive 1978, digital 2014)
Osmose (1978 LP)
Interfrequence (1980 LP)
Musique Pour Le Reve et L'Amour (1981 Cassette, 2016 LP)
Open Like A Flute (1982 Cassette, 2015 LP)
Bindu (1984 cassette)
Tropical (1985 cassette)
Rainbow (1985 cassette)
Serenity (1989 CD)
Flowing Dreams (1994 archive, 2010 CD)
Flute for the Soul (1997 CD)
My Sax, my Love (1997 CD)
In My Dreams (1996 archive, 2009 CD)
Endless Breath (1983 archive, 2010 CD)
Chansons d'Esprit - Poesie sonore *Flowing Dreams (1981 archive, 2006 CD)
Spirit Dancer (2005 CD)
Galactica Electronica (2012 CD)
Lazy Lizard (2009 CD)
Osmose 2 (2008 CD)
Chillout India (2007 CD)
Yo Yo A New Man (1981 archive, 2013 CD)
Yo Yo Homme Nouveau (1981 archive, 2013 CD)
Open Like a Flute, Vol 1+2 (2015 double LP)
An Evolutionary Music: Original Recordings 1972-1979 (2014)
FRKWYS Vol. 12: We Know Each Other Somehow (2015 Double LP, CD)
Meditation in the Forest (2015 CD)
Reallusions (2015 CD)
Rue de la Gaite (1976-79 archives, 2017 downloads)
References
French composers
French male composers
New-age musicians
French electronic musicians
Musicians from Paris
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiY%20networking | DIY networking is an umbrella term for different types of grassroots networking, such as wireless community network, mesh network, ad-hoc network, stressing on the possibility that Wireless technology offers to create "offline" or "off-the-cloud" local area networks (LAN), which can operate outside the Internet. Do it yourself (DiY) networking is based on such Wireless LAN networks that are created organically through the interconnection of nodes owned and deployed by individuals or small organizations. Even when the Internet is easily accessible, such DiY networks form an alternative, autonomous option for communication and services, which (1) ensures that all connected devices are in de facto physical proximity, (2) offers opportunities and novel capabilities for creative combinations of virtual and physical contact, (3) enables free, anonymous and easy access, without the need for pre-installed applications or any credentials, and (4) can create feelings of ownership and independence, and lead to the appropriation of the hybrid space in the long-run.
DiY networks follow the Do-It-Yourself subculture, and provide the technological means for more participatory processes, benefiting from the grassroots engagement of citizens in the design of hybrid, digital and physical, space through novel forms of social networking, crowd sourcing, and citizen science. But for these possibilities to be materialized there are many practical, social, political, and economic challenges that need to be addressed.
Although DiY could be also used for illegal purposes, the DiY concept has become more and more popular in the mainstream academic literature, activism, art, popular media, and everyday practice, and especially in the case of communications networks there are more and more related scientific papers, books, and online articles. There is a large potential for new, novel, and free locality-aware services and opportunities that demand anonymous and easy access, such as Online Social Networking (OSN) via DiY-Based Sites. Single-board computers such as Arduino, or Raspberry Pi, are commonly used for DiY networking purposes, since such computers are open-source, relatively cheap, have low power demands, support multiple protocols, and are portable.
In 2016, the EU Horizon2020 research funding framework, and more specifically CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and social innovation) has funded two 3-year projects on DIY networking: 1) project MAZI, "A DIY networking toolkit for location-based collective awareness", focusing on small-scale networks and aiming to provide tools and interdisciplinary knowledge for individual or small groups to create their own off-the-cloud networks, and 2) project netCommons, "Network Infrastructure as Commons", focusing on existing large-scale community networks like Guifi.net, Freifunk, Ninux and combining research from different disciplines in close collaboration with key actors to address important economic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20oracle | In computing, a distance oracle (DO) is a data structure for calculating distances between vertices in a graph.
Introduction
Let G(V,E) be an undirected, weighted graph, with n = |V| nodes and m = |E| edges. We would like to answer queries of the form "what is the distance between the nodes s and t?".
One way to do this is just run the Dijkstra algorithm. This takes time , and requires no extra space (besides the graph itself).
In order to answer many queries more efficiently, we can spend some time in pre-processing the graph and creating an auxiliary data structure.
A simple data structure that achieves this goal is a matrix which specifies, for each pair of nodes, the distance between them. This structure allows us to answer queries in constant time , but requires extra space. It can be initialized in time using an all-pairs shortest paths algorithm, such as the Floyd–Warshall algorithm.
A DO lies between these two extremes. It uses less than space in order to answer queries in less than time. Most DOs have to compromise on accuracy, i.e. they don't return the accurate distance but rather a constant-factor approximation of it.
Approximate DO
Thorup and Zwick describe more than 10 different DOs. They then suggest a new DO that, for every k, requires space , such that any subsequent distance query can be approximately answered in time . The approximate distance returned is of stretch at most , that is, the quotient obtained by dividing the estimated distance by the actual distance lies between 1 and . The initialization time is .
Some special cases include:
For we get the simple distance matrix.
For we get a structure using space which answers each query in constant time and approximation factor at most 3.
For , we get a structure using space, query time , and stretch .
Higher values of k do not improve the space or preprocessing time.
DO for general metric spaces
The oracle is built of a decreasing collection of k+1 sets of vertices:
For every : contains each element of , independently, with probability . Note that the expected size of is . The elements of are called i-centers.
For every node v, calculate its distance from each of these sets:
For every : and . I.e., is the i-center nearest to v, and is the distance between them. Note that for a fixed v, this distance is weakly increasing with i. Also note that for every v, and .
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For every node v, calculate:
For every : . contains all vertices in which are strictly closer to v than all vertices in . The partial unions of s are balls in increasing diameter, that contain vertices with distances up to the first vertex of the next level.
For every v, compute its bunch:
It is possible to show that the expected size of is at most .
For every bunch , construct a hash table that holds, for every , the distance .
The total size of the data structure is
Having this structure initialized, the following algorithm finds the distance between two nodes, u a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danquah%20Circle | Danquah Circle a roundabout in Accra, Ghana is named after a member of the Big Six Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah. It is a key intersection in the arterial road network of Accra. Located at the intersection of four major arterials, it carries 28,000 vehicles a day.
Location
It is located on the Ako Adjei Interchange to Labadi Road. It connects Oxford Street, Accra to Cantonments, Accra
There is a statue of Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah erected as well as other statues in his commemoration.
References
External links
Photos of statues in Danquah Circle
Accra
Roads in Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hromkovi%C4%8D | Hromkovič is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Juraj Hromkovič (born 1958), Slovak computer scientist and professor
Martin Hromkovič (born 1982), Slovak footballer
Slovak-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20programming | Parametric programming is a type of mathematical optimization, where the optimization problem is solved as a function of one or multiple parameters. Developed in parallel to sensitivity analysis, its earliest mention can be found in a thesis from 1952. Since then, there have been considerable developments for the cases of multiple parameters, presence of integer variables as well as nonlinearities.
Notation
In general, the following optimization problem is considered
where is the optimization variable, are the parameters, is the objective function and denote the constraints. denotes a function whose output is the optimal value of the objective function . The set is generally referred to as parameter space.
The optimal value (i.e. result of solving the optimization problem) is obtained by evaluating the function with an argument .
Classification
Depending on the nature of and and whether the optimization problem features integer variables, parametric programming problems are classified into different sub-classes:
If more than one parameter is present, i.e. , then it is often referred to as multiparametric programming problem
If integer variables are present, then the problem is referred to as (multi)parametric mixed-integer programming problem
If constraints are affine, then additional classifications depending to nature of the objective function in (multi)parametric (mixed-integer) linear, quadratic and nonlinear programming problems is performed. Note that this generally assumes the constraints to be affine.
Applications
In control theory generally and in process industries
The connection between parametric programming and model predictive control for process manufacturing, established in 2000, has contributed to an increased interest in the topic. Parametric programming supplies the idea that optimization problems can be parametrized as functions that can be evaluated (similar to a lookup table). This in turns allows the optimization algorithms in optimal controllers to be implemented as pre-computed (off-line) mathematical functions, which may in some cases be simpler and faster to evaluate than solving a full optimization problem on-line. This also opens up the possibility of creating optimal controllers on chips (MPC on chip). However, the off-line parametrization of optimal solutions runs into the curse of dimensionality as the number of possible solutions grows with the dimensionality and number of constraints in the problem.
In CNC programming
Parametric programming in the context of CNC (computer numerical control) is defining part-cutting cycles in terms of variables with reassignable values rather than via hardcoded/hardwired instances. An archetypically simple example is writing a G-code program to machine a family of washers: there is often no need to write 15 programs for 15 members of the family with various hole diameters, outer diameters, thicknesses, and materials, when it is practical instead to write |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameLink | GameLink is an adult entertainment and eCommerce company, focused on Video on demand (VOD), sex toys, and adult DVDs. It maintains an extensive database of adult performers and their films. With its Stream-to-Own service, GameLink offers cloud storage for entire adult libraries.
GameLink focuses on online distribution of adult content through its website. GameLink maintains distribution agreements with adult content providers and offers adult entertainment titles available in multiple media formats, including Apple and Windows devices, television set top boxes, PS3, and Xbox 360. GameLink uses recommendation technology that allows it to quickly learn users' preferences to recommend relevant products. In June 2020, the site added a subscription-based streaming service as well as a section dedicated to the purchase of individual porn clips.
History
GameLink added streaming content delivery to its services in 1999 by delivering full movies as well as individual scenes. The company added scene-only download options in 2007, mobile options in 2010, and pay-per-minute streaming options in 2011. GameLink utilizes a system of pre-purchased minutes to allow viewers to watch the content in which they are interested. GameLink has a partnership with webcam portal VideoSecrets to offer live video chat with webcam models. In September 2013, GameLink added a news media section to its site, “Naked Truth”. The section includes product and film reviews, interviews, “best of” lists, and film trailers and previews.
Affiliate program
GameLink operates an affiliate marketing program through which website administrators can promote its products, stars, and movies. The affiliate receives a percentage of sales by sending traffic to GameLink in a revenue sharing partnership, from which consumers can purchase movie packages.
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Official website
Companies established in 1993
Adult entertainment companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Zue | Victor Waito Zue (born 1944) is a Chinese American computer scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From 1989 to 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. The group pioneered the development of many systems enabling interactions between human and computers using spoken language. Then, he served a ten-year tenure as Director of the Lab for Computer Science (LCS), and the Co-Director and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Since 2001, Victor has returned to teaching and research from the director position in 2011. He is also a distinguished research chair professor at NTU Taiwan.
Biography
Zue was born in Sichuan, China and raised in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He came to the US at age 18 to study at the University of Florida. He graduated with his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1968. He received his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. In the early part of his career, Zue studied acoustics, phonetics, and phonological properties of
American English. His research interest shifted to the development of spoken language interfaces to make human-computer interactions easier and more natural. Between 1989 and 2001, he led the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. During this time, he helped lead development of the TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus. Zue collaborates with and is married to fellow MIT researcher Stephanie Seneff.
Honours and awards
Zue is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Speech Communication Association. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and an Academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He received the Okawa Prize in 2012, and the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2013.
References
External references
Q&A with MIT's Victor Zue
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory people
American computer scientists
1940s births
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Florida alumni
Speech processing researchers
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Scientists from Sichuan
Chinese computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchellium%20argus | {{Taxobox
| image = BritishTunicataPlate54.jpg
| image_caption = Morchellium argus, illustrations at top
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| subphylum = Tunicata
| classis = Ascidiacea
| ordo = Aplousobranchia
| familia = Polyclinidae
| genus = Morchellium
| species = M. argus
| binomial = Morchellium argus
| binomial_authority = (Milne-Edwards, 1841)
| synonyms =
Amaroucium argus' Milne-Edwards, 1841
Aplidium argus (Milne-Edwards, 1841)
}}Morchellium argus, the red-flake ascidian''', is a species of colonial sea squirt, a tunicate in the family Polyclinidae. It is native to shallow water in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, especially round the coasts of Britain.
Description
A colony of Morchellium argus consists of a clump of vase-shaped zooids up to long, each supported by a conical stalk about wide, to which sand adheres. Each zooid has a buccal siphon with eight flaps and a tongue-like process underneath. This siphon opens into a large pharynx through which water is drawn into the interior, but the colony has a single exit siphon through which the water from several zooids is expelled. The zooids are translucent white, pale pink or red and there are four small red spots at the entrance to the pharynx, which distinguishes this tunicate from similar species.
Distribution and habitatMorchellium argus is native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is common round the coasts of Britain, as far north as the Shetland Isles. It is also known from the west of France including Arcachon Bay. It is found at depths down to about mainly in caves, under overhangs and on vertical surfaces, often among foliose algae.
BiologyMorchellium argus draws in water through its buccal siphon, filters out zooplankton and other food particles and then expels the water. Gas exchange takes place at the same time.Morchellium argus'' is a hermaphrodite. The gonads are in the body cavity and sperm passes out with the exhalent water. When this sperm is drawn into another individual zooid, internal fertilisation can occur. The early developmental stages take place inside the zooid and the larvae are later liberated into the sea. After a short free-living stage, these attach themselves to a surface, undergo metamorphosis, and start a new colony. Further development is by budding of new zooids. The function of the red spots in the pharynx is unclear.
References
External links
Aplousobranchia
Animals described in 1841 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Monkey%20%28company%29 | Space Monkey is a cloud storage company founded by Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in 2011. Space Monkey created a cloud storage service that puts consumer data both on a hard drive located in the home and backed up on other devices. The company's user network is distributed through the cloud. The service prevents data loss due to failing hardware while allowing consumers to access their files anywhere in the world via the cloud.
In September 2014, Vivint, a home automation company, acquired Space Monkey for an undisclosed amount.
History
Space Monkey was founded by Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in 2011. Gordon-Carroll and Peacock met while both working at Mozy in 2007.
A presentation by Peacock won the company first place as "Best New Startup" at the TechCrunch's Launch Festival in March 2012.
Space Monkey raised $2.7 million of venture capital in a Series A round led by Google Ventures that same year. The company went live in April 2013. It raised $349,625–350% of its initial $100,000 goal–in a 2013 Kickstarter campaign. In September 2014, Vivint acquired Space Monkey for an undisclosed amount.
As of February 2016, Space Monkey is the world's largest peer-to-peer storage network.
Operations
Space Monkey has a cloud storage service that allows a consumer to put 1-terabyte of data on a hard drive located on-premises. The data is then backed up on other devices across Space Monkey's user network via a distributed cloud. The service prevents data loss due to failing hardware while allowing consumers access to their files anywhere in the world via the cloud.
See also
Cloud computing
Vivint
Web hosting
Data storage device
References
External links
Official site
Companies established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Weight%20of%20the%20Nation | The Weight of the Nation is a four-part documentary series produced by American cable television network HBO. Addressing the growing obesity epidemic in the United States, it was first aired in May 2012. The documentary series included collaboration with National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Medicine. The series was produced by John Hoffman.
The scientific commentators featured in the documentary include Francis Collins, Samuel Klein, Rudolph Leibel, Robert Lustig, and Kelly D. Brownell.
Content
The series consists of four approximately hour-long films:
Consequences
Choices
Children in Crisis
Challenges
References
External links
HBO The Weight of the Nation site
Obesity
Public health
HBO original programming
2010s American documentary television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Gabriel%20Michaud | Louis-Gabriel Michaud (19 January 1773, Castle Richemont – 8 March 1858) was a French writer, historian, printer, and bookseller. He was notable as the compiler of Biographie Universelle (1811–).
Life
He became a lieutenant on 15 July 1791 and joined the Zweibrücken Regiment. In 1792 he participated in the Battle of Valmy and the Battle of Jemappes. Having reached the rank of captain in the 102nd line regiment, he left the army for health reasons.
In 1797, with his brother Joseph François Michaud and N. Giguet (died in 1810), he founded a (at first clandestine) printing press, specializing in books about religion and the monarchy. He was imprisoned with his brother and N. Giguet for several months in 1799 for having printed anti-Bonapartist literature. He obtained his first commission from abbot Jacques Delille, then a refugee in London, who entrusted him with his books to be printed.
Universal Biography
In 1802 he published a biography of many notable individuals at the end of the 18th century and early 19th century. He described their ranks, their jobs, their talents, their writings, their troubles, their virtues, or their crimes in 4 volumes. Allegedly, it was copied in Breslau and Leipzig, which led to the failure of the project and his bankruptcy. It is probably this experience that led him eventually to consider the Ancient and Modern Universal Biography. His brother helped him at the onset, and many other authors contributed also.
He was nominated printer in January 1811 and bookseller in October 1812.
In 1823 he was appointed Director of the Royal Printing Press, but the appointment was brief. Michaud played a significant role in the return of Louis XVIII and expected a sinecure, but he was only rewarded with the Legion of Honour. He grew bitter and became opposed to the king's liberal policies.
Michaud was author of historical books, in particular Historical Outline and Rationale of the First Wars of Bonaparte (1814).
He was the editor of several newspapers and wrote prefaces to royalist books that he printed. He remains best known as the editor of the Universal Biography (1811-), to which he contributed numerous articles. He also assisted with the new much more extensive edition, which was not published until after his death.
Works
Apart from numerous prefaces to works that he printed, Louis-Gabriel Michaud also published:
1802: Biographie moderne ou des hommes vivants
1811: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes, first edition in 85 volumes with supplements (1811–1862)
1814: Tableau historique et raisonné des premières guerres de Bonaparte (Historical Outline and Rationale of the First Wars of Bonaparte)
1843: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes, 2nd edition in 45 vols (1843–1865)
1851: The Public and Private Life of Louis Phillip of Orleans, Ex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogoro%20Smartscooter | The Gogoro Smartscooter is an electric scooter developed by Gogoro and marketed as the G1 Aluminum Liquid Cooled Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor. It relies on the Gogoro Energy Network as its power replenishment source.
The scooter design integrates sensors that collect information such as speed, energy consumption and levels, system failures, as well as scooter falls. The information is relayed to the Gogoro Energy Network and presented to riders via Gogoro mobile apps compatible with Android and IOS smartphones. The Gogoro mobile app also allows for customization of certain settings such as lighting and sound profiles.
Gogoro Scooter models
The gogoro smartscooter has four series of 1, 2, 3 and S Performance.
Gogoro Lite (Discontinued)
This is based on the 1 series.
Product life: 2015-10 to 2017-05
Top speed: 95 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 4.0 seconds.
Motor power: 6.4kW @ 4,500 rpm
Maximum torque: 27 Nm @ 0-2,250 rpm
Maximum horsepower: 8.58 hp @ 4,500 rpm
Range: above 100 km when traveling at 40 km/h.
Gogoro 1 (Discontinued)
This is based on the 1 series.
Release date: 2015-01
Top speed: 95 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 4.0 seconds.
Motor power: 6.4kW @ 4,500 rpm
Maximum torque: 27 Nm @ 0-2,250 rpm
Maximum horsepower: 8.58 hp @ 4,500 rpm
Range: above 100 km when traveling at 40 km/h.
Gogoro 1 Plus (Discontinued)
This is based on the 1 series.
Release date: 2015-06
Top speed: 95 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 4.0 seconds.
Motor power: 6.4kW @ 4,500 rpm
Maximum torque: 27 Nm @ 0-2,250 rpm
Maximum horsepower: 8.58 hp @ 4,500 rpm
Range: above 100 km when traveling at 40 km/h.
Gogoro S1
This is based on the 1 series.
Release date: 2016-10
Top speed: 95 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 3.7 seconds.
Motor power: 7.2kW @ 5,000 rpm
Maximum torque: 27 Nm @ 0-2,250 rpm
Maximum horsepower: 9.65 hp @ 5,000 rpm
Range: above 100 km when traveling at 40 km/h.
Gogoro 2 (Discontinued)
This is based on the 2 series.
Release date: 2017-05
Top speed: 90 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 4.3 seconds.
Motor power: 6.4kW @ 3,000 rpm
Maximum torque: 25 Nm @ 0-2,250 rpm
Maximum horsepower: 8.58 hp @ 3,000 rpm
Range: above 110 km when traveling at 40 km/h.
Gogoro 2 Plus (Discontinued)
This is based on the 2 series.
Release date: 2017-05
Top speed: 90 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 4.3 seconds.
Motor power: 6.4kW @ 3,000 rpm
Maximum torque: 25 Nm @ 0-2,250 rpm
Maximum horsepower: 8.58 hp @ 3,000 rpm
Range: above 110 km when traveling at 40 km/h.
Gogoro 2 Deluxe (Discontinued)
This is based on the 2 series.
Release date: 2018-01-31
Top speed: 90 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 4.3 seconds.
Motor power: 6.4kW @ 3,000 rpm
Maximum torque: 25 Nm @ 0-2,250 rpm
Maximum horsepower: 8.58 hp @ 3,000 rpm
Range: above 110 km when traveling at 40 km/h.
Gogoro 2 Delight (Discontinued)
This is based on the 2 series.
Release date: 2018-05-29
Top speed: 88 km/h
Acceleration: 0 to 50 km/h in 4.3 seconds.
Motor power: 6.4kW @ 3,000 rpm
Maximum torqu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Gingerbread | Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the seventh version of Android, a codename of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and released in December 2010, for versions that are no longer supported. The Gingerbread release introduced support for near field communication (NFC)—used in mobile payment solutions—and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)—used in VoIP internet telephones. The first phone with Android Gingerbread was the Nexus S.
Gingerbread's user interface was refined, making it easier to master, faster to use, and more power-efficient. A simplified color scheme with a black background gave vividness and contrast to the notification bar, menus, and other user interface components. Improvements in menus and settings resulted in easier navigation and system control.
The Nexus S smartphone, released in December 2010, was the first phone from the Google Nexus line that ran Gingerbread, and also the first one from the line with built-in NFC functionality.
History
, statistics issued by Google indicate that 0.11% of all Android devices accessing Google Play were running on Gingerbread. Google ceased support for Gingerbread on September 27, 2021.
Features
New features introduced by Gingerbread include the following:
Updated user interface design, providing increased ease of use and efficiency.
Support for extra-large screen sizes and resolutions (WXGA and higher).
Native support for SIP VoIP internet telephones.
Improved text input using the virtual keyboard, with improved accuracy, better text suggestions, and voice input capability.
Enhanced copy/paste functionality, allowing users to select a word by press-holding, copying, and pasting.
Support for Near Field Communication (NFC), allowing the user to read NFC tags embedded in posters, stickers, or advertisements.
New audio effects such as reverb, equalization, headphone virtualization, and bass boost.
New Download Manager, giving users easy access to any file downloaded from the browser, email, or another application.
Support for multiple cameras on the device, including a front-facing camera, if available.
Support for WebM/VP8 video playback, and AAC audio encoding.
Improved power management, including more active management of power-consuming applications.
Enhanced support for native code development.
A switch from YAFFS to ext4 file system on newer devices.
Audio, graphical, and input enhancements for game developers.
Concurrent garbage collection for increased performance.
Native support for more sensors (such as gyroscopes and barometers).
The first Android easter egg, which depicts the Android mascot standing beside a zombified gingerbread man in a field of other zombies talking on cell phones, presumably Android smartphones.
Improved speed over Froyo due to system updates.
See also
Android version history
iOS 4
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Windows Phone 7
Windows 7
References
External links
Android (operating system)
2010 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TV%20Globo%20telenovelas | TV Globo (formerly Rede Globo) is a Brazilian free-to-air television network owned and operated by the media conglomerate Grupo Globo (formerly known as Organizações Globo). It was founded on April 26, 1965 by Brazilian journalist Roberto Marinho (1904–2003). Ilusões Perdidas was the first telenovela produced by the network.
Indicates the winner of the Troféu Imprensa for Best Telenovela.
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See also
List of 8/9 PM telenovelas of Rede Globo
List of 11 PM telenovelas of Rede Globo
References
Rede Globo
Rede Globo telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership%20for%20Learning%3A%20the%20Cambridge%20Network | Leadership for Learning (LfL) is a framework and set of principles that arose from the Carpe Vitam project in which practitioners and researchers worked together to develop the practice of leadership for learning.
Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network, based in the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, draws together practitioners, schools and organisations concerned with these ideas. The LfL framework and principles have been used in a wide variety of contexts to frame discussions and to inform the evaluation of practice.
History
The Leadership for Learning Project (known as Carpe Vitam after its Swedish commissioning body) was a research and development project focusing on the process by which schools made, and then grew, the connections between learning and leadership. It was funded for three years (2002–2005) by the Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden, with further financial support from participating countries. The project was directed from the University of Cambridge in collaboration with eight different groups of university researchers and their nominated schools in eight cities: Athens, Brisbane, Copenhagen, Innsbruck, London, Oslo, Seattle, and Trenton (New Jersey).
Seven countries, eight higher education institutions and 24 schools participated in exploring the connections between leadership and learning through conferences, workshops, school visits and inter-country exchanges.
The researchers did not start from a blank slate or from a neutral stance but from a set of democratic values about leadership and learning. How those values could be translated into practical strategies at school and classroom level, however, was something they planned to discover through experimentation, reflection and collective debate over the life of the project.
Part way through that process they began to identify ‘principles for practice’ that would help to clarify and focus attention on the transformations in learning and leadership that were beginning to take place. These five principles were refined and developed throughout the project.
Leadership for Learning principles for practice
The most significant outcome of the project was a set of principles that could be used by researchers, by school leaders, by teachers and students to make the connections between leadership and learning through reflecting on, or researching, their own practice. Five statements came to represent these principles.
Leadership for Learning practice involves:
Maintaining a focus on learning as an activity
Creating conditions favourable to learning as an activity
Creating a dialogue about Leadership for Learning
The sharing of leadership
A shared sense of accountability
These five principles are dynamically interrelated, with dialogue forming the connections, a focus on learning and shared leadership mediated by conditions for learning, and all framed by the fifth principle of accountability. ‘A focus on learning’ is quite deliberately placed first b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20West%20Regional%20Coastal%20Monitoring%20Programme | The South West Coastal Monitoring Programme (formerly known as Plymouth Coastal Observatory or PCO) is one of six regional programmes in a national network which collectively monitor the coast of England and Wales. It is managed and led by Teignbridge District Council in partnership with other south west of England local authorities and the Environment Agency.
The programme monitors over 2,450 km of coast between Portland Bill in Dorset and Beachley Point on the border with Wales. The focus of the ongoing programme is collecting data on waves, tides, LiDAR, Aerial Photography, topographic beach surveys, storm response and ecological mapping. Data is published through its website, and is freely available for public use.
Location
South West Coastal Monitoring has an office situated on the Campus of University of Plymouth, located in the city centre of Plymouth, England. The contract and programme management runs from the Teignbridge District Council offices based at Forde House, in Newton Abbot, Devon.
History
The first phase of the programme was set up in 2006, with an initial grant of £7.2 million from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The funding was split into two with £4.1 million used by Teignbridge to deliver, Bathymetric and Topographic, Hydrographic surveys and £3.1 million managed by the Environment Agency to deliver Aerial photography, LiDAR and Ecological mapping. Phase 2 of the programme commenced in 2011 with 100% DEFRA funding, and ran until 2016. Phase 2 of the Programme was solely managed by Teignbridge District Council. Phase 3 of the programme started in March 2016 and ran until 2021. Phase 4 of the programme started in 2021 and is funded by DEFRA until 2027.
Assets
The programme has a network of wave buoys around the south west coastline collecting data on wave height, direction and sea temperature. In July 2014 the programmes wave buoys recorded the highest sea temperatures seen for 7 years around the south west coastline. In 2011 the buoy network also detected a 0.5–0.8m tsunami along south west coast of England.
The programme has four tide gauges situated around the south west coast, collecting real time tidal and surge data. A notable addition to the tidal gauge network was the Port Isaac Step gauge, which was installed in 2010. The installation at Port Isaac filled a 'notable gap in measured tide data along the north Cornwall coastline'
Research and collaboration
After the 2013/2014 winter storms Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) awarded a £50,000 emergency project grant to coastal researchers at the University of Plymouth in conjunction with PCO and the Met Office. The project ran from 1 March 2014 for 1 year and assess the coastal response to the extreme winter storms. Collaboration between South West Coastal Monitoring and the University of Plymouth Coastal Process Research Group (CPRG) is ongoing.
Data collected and provided by the South West Coastal Monitoring is used by l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE%20235 | GE 235 may refer to:
a model in the GE-200 series computers
TransAsia Airways Flight 235 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu | ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a disk utility for Unix systems. Its name refers to its similar purpose to the du utility, but ncdu uses a text-based user interface under the [n]curses programming library. Users can navigate the list using the arrow keys and delete files that are taking up too much space by pressing the 'd' key. Version 1.09 and later can export the file listing in JSON format.
ncdu was developed by Yoran Heling to learn C and to serve as a disk usage analyzer on remote systems over ssh. Version 2.0 of the program brought a full rewrite in the Zig programming language.
References
External links
git repository for ncdu
Disk usage analysis software
Software using the MIT license
Free software programmed in C
2007 software
Unix file system-related software
Free software that uses ncurses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR/Cas%20tools | CRISPR-Cas design tools are computer software platforms and bioinformatics tools used to facilitate the design of guide RNAs (gRNAs) for use with the CRISPR/Cas gene editing system.
CRISPR-Cas
The CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR associated nucleases) system was originally discovered to be an acquired immune response mechanism used by archaea and bacteria. It has since been adopted for use as a tool in the genetic engineering of higher organisms.
Designing an appropriate gRNA is an important element of genome editing with the CRISPR/Cas system. A gRNA can and at times does have unintended interactions ("off-targets") with other locations of the genome of interest. For a given candidate gRNA, these tools report its list of potential off-targets in the genome thereby allowing the designer to evaluate its suitability prior to embarking on any experiments.
Scientists have also begun exploring the mechanics of the CRISPR/Cas system and what governs how good, or active, a gRNA is at directing the Cas nuclease to a specific location of the genome of interest. As a result of this work, new methods of assessing a gRNA for its 'activity' have been published, and it is now best practice to consider both the unintended interactions of a gRNA as well as the predicted activity of a gRNA at the design stage.
Table
The below table lists available tools and their attributes.
References
Genetic engineering
Genome editing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biswanath%20Mukherjee | Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American Distinguished Professor of computer science at University of California, Davis. He is also a fellow of IEEE for contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for optical networks.
Early life
Mukherjee obtained his bachelor's degree in technology with honors from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980 and got his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 1987. The same year (1987) he joined the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Davis where he became a Professor in 1995, and a Distinguished Professor in 2011. From 1997 to 2000, he served as chair of the Computer Science Department. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors (2002–2007) of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company acquired by Fortinet. During 1995–2000, he held the Child Family Professorship at UC Davis.
Career
Mukherjee was general co-chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference 2011, technical program co-chair of OFC'2009, and technical program chair of the IEEE INFOCOM'96 conference.
He is the editor of Springer's Optical Networks Book Series. He has served on eight journal editorial boards, most notably IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network He has guest-edited special issues of Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications.
He was the first elected chairman of Communication Society's Optical Networking Technical Committee. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors (2002–2007) of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company, acquired by Fortinet, Inc. He also served as a founding member of the board of directors (2015–2018) of Optella, Inc., an optical components startup, acquired by Cosemi, Inc. He has also served on the technical advisory board for Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom). He is the founder and President of Ennetix, Inc., a startup company incubated at UC Davis and developing AI-powered network performance analytics and management software.
He serves as Advisory Board at IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Editorial Board.
Major contributions
First proposal/prototype for a network intrusion detection system (1990). L. Todd Heberlein, B. Mukherjee, et al., "A Network Security Monitor (NSM)," Proc., 1990 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 296–304, Oakland, CA, May 1990.
First proposal/prototype for a filtering firewall (1990); today a $8B/yr industry . C. Kwok and B. Mukherjee, "Cut-through bridging for CSMA/CD Local Area Networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 38, pp. 938–942, July 1990.
Many contributions and books on Optical backbone network design, IP over optical, virtualization, etc. (1991 onwards).
First proposal/prototype for dynamic bandwidth allocation in Ethernet optical access networks (2002); over 100 million units deployed worldwide. G. Kramer, B. Mukherjee, and G. Pesavento, "IPACT: A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPE | GPE may refer to:
Computing
Geopolitical entity, a geographical area which is associated with some sort of political structure, used in named-entity recognition
GPE Palmtop Environment, a graphical user interface
Google Play edition, a series of consumer mobile devices
Google Plugin for Eclipse, a set of software development tools
Science
Gravitational potential energy
External globus pallidus (GPe)
Gross–Pitaevskii equation, in quantum physics
GYPE, a protein
Other uses
European Grand Prix for Choral Singing
General Precision Equipment, a former American manufacturing company
Ghanaian Pidgin English
Global Partnership for Education
Global Peace Exchange, at Florida State University
Global political economy
GP Express Airlines, an American airline
Guadeloupe national football team
General physical education; see adapted physical education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stan%20Shaw%20Show | The Stan Shaw Show was an American daytime television series which aired from 1948 to 1949 on DuMont Television Network flagship station WABD. It also appears in a Pittsburgh TV listing, suggesting it may have been shown on a network level.
Reception
Billboard called it a "static presentation of pop tunes" and felt it needed better direction. Billboard gave a very mixed review of WABD's daytime schedule, though the November 10, 1948, edition of Variety commented that the schedule was no more monotonous than "the steady diet of disk jockeys and/or soap operas fed daytime radio listeners". DuMont expected that the shows would be viewed by housewives who were too busy to watch complex shows (as noted in the 2004 book The Forgotten Network by David Weinstein). Despite the mixed reviews, the schedule proved successful enough that other New York City stations began to increase their daytime offerings in response.
Episode status
None of the episodes are known to survive.
References
External links
1948 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American variety television series
English-language television shows
Black-and-white American television shows
American live television series
Pop music television series
DuMont Television Network original programming
Lost American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Zemlin | Matthias "Matt" Zemlin (born December 11, 1980) is a German manager, cyber security and online expert, former film distributor, producer, director and actor.
During the last years Matthias Zemlin was sales director at Mediflow where he was involved in the significant increase of Mediflow’s brand awareness and successfully managed the retail and medical supply sales in Germany and Austria.
Before, in 2012 and 2013, Zemlin was known as one of the key players in senior sales management in the entertainment and games industry in Germany as well as in Mumbai, because of his distribution of several Bollywood blockbusters. Notable director and producer credits included the European production Dirty Money (2013) and Bollywood productions such as Wanted (2009), Aakrosh (2010), Dabangg (2010) and Rockstar (2011) that have been released internationally Zemlin repeatedly appeared in German TV shows like Einsatz in Hamburg and had film roles in international productions such as Brain Dead (2007),
The Sky Has Fallen (2009), Henri 4 (2010),
King of the Underground (2011) and Closer Than Love (2013).
References
External links
Footage Network - Matt Zemlin
Living people
German corporate directors
Film people from Hamburg
German male television actors
German male film actors
1980 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJKR | KJKR (88.1 MHz) is a Christian radio station licensed to Jamestown, North Dakota. The station is owned by Hi-Line Radio Fellowship, Inc. and is an affiliate of Your Network of Praise.
History
KJKR began broadcasting at 10 p.m. on March 16, 2012, and was the student run station of Jamestown College. Effective May 8, 2019, the station was sold to Hi-Line Radio Fellowship for $20,000, and it adopted a Christian format as an affiliate of Your Network of Praise.
References
External links
JKR
Radio stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in North Dakota
Jamestown, North Dakota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid%20Zoo | Asteroid Zoo is a citizen science project run by the Zooniverse and Planetary Resources, to use volunteer classifications to find unknown asteroids using old Catalina Sky Survey data. The main goals of the project are to search for undiscovered asteroids in order to protect the planet by locating potentially harmful Near-earth asteroids, locate targets for future asteroid mining, study the solar system, and study the potential uses and advantages of people looking through the images over computers. It was created along with the ARKYD project through Kickstarter, funded with just over 1.5 million dollars.
The Asteroid Zoo community has exhausted the data that were available. With all the data examined they paused the experiment. Asteroid Zoo produced several scientific publications.
See also
Zooniverse projects:
References
Astronomy websites
Astronomy projects
Human-based computation
Citizen science
Internet properties established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmetric | Altmetric, or altmetric.com, is a data science company that tracks where published research is mentioned online, and provides tools and services to institutions, publishers, researchers, funders and other organisations to monitor this activity, commonly referred to as altmetrics. Altmetric was recognized by European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn in 2014 as a company challenging the traditional reputation systems.
Altmetric is a portfolio company of Digital Science, which is owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
History
Altmetric was founded by Euan Adie in 2011. Previously a researcher, Adie had already worked on Postgenomic.com, an open source scientific blog aggregator founded in 2006. In 2011, Adie entered an altmetrics app into Elsevier's Apps for Science competition and won. The prize money enabled Altmetric to develop a full version of the Altmetric Explorer, released in February 2012.
In July 2012, Altmetric took on additional investment from Digital Science and is still a part of the group today, with offices in London, Germany, the United States and Australia.
In 2019 Altmetric and Nature received funding from the Google Digital News Innovation Fund to "build a novel tool for measuring the impact of journalism".
Concept
A term first coined in the altmetrics manifesto in 2010, altmetrics (also known as 'alternative metrics') were developed to provide authors and other stakeholders a more comprehensive record of engagement with scholarly work, particularly that which takes place beyond the academy amongst a broader audience.
In order to do this, Altmetric tracks a range of online sites and sources looking for 'mentions' (links or written references) to scholarly outputs (which include journal articles, blogs, data sets and more). Sources of the attention include the mainstream media, public policy documents, social and academic networks, post-publication peer-review forums and, more recently, Wikipedia and the Open Syllabus Project.
The data are tracked in real-time and collated in the Altmetric details pages, which provide a clickable summary of all of the online attention relating to a single research output.
The Altmetric Attention Score and Donut Badge
Altmetric employs an algorithm to assign each item an automatically calculated score. Based on the volume and source of attention an item has received, the score is intended to reflect the reach or popularity of the research output. A multicolored 'donut' visualization is also generated to provide a summary of the sources of the attention that an item has received (red for news, light blue for Twitter, etc.).
Altmetric make the data available via the Altmetric Bookmarklet, a browser plugin, the Explorer platform, a cloud-hosted database, and API.
The sources include academic citations and academic platforms, patents, posts on social media and web forums, Wikipedia articles, users on Mendeley.
Many publishers, including John Wiley & Sons, Taylor and Francis, The JAMA Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible%20Mama | Incredible Mama (), is a 2015 superhero action comedy television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. Originally 25 episodes, the series was condensed into 9. The first episode premiered on February 9, 2015.
Cast
Kara Hui as Chung-Sam Fat-yuen (鍾沈法婉)
She is actually the famous gangster Black Rose (黑玫瑰), one of the gang Justice Union (正義聯盟), who is wanted by the police force. The wife of Chung Hok-saang, the mother of Chung Lok-shan, Lok-seoi and Lok-guk.
David Chiang as Chung Hok-saang (鍾學笙)
One of the writers of Sat Daily (實報), the newspaper. The husband of Fat-yuen, father of Lok-shan, Lok-seoi and Lok-guk. Finally discover that Fat-yuen is the gangster Black Rose who is wanted by the police and disappointed in her.
Sam Chan as Chung Lok-shan (鍾樂山)
An ordinary police officer, the son of Fat-yuen and Hok-saang. The boyfriend of Anna.
Carlos Chan as Chung Lok-tin (鍾樂田)
Originally named Luk Gwan-chi (陸君梓). Adopted by Fat-yuen and Hok-saang. He's actually the son of Sir Luk Gwan-chong.
Maggie Wong as Chung Lok-seoi (鍾樂水)
A form 6 secondary school student. She's actually the gangster Little Hero.
Henry Leung as Chung Lok-guk (鍾樂谷)
A form 1 secondary school student.
Dominic Lam as Sir Luk Gwan-chong (陸君莊警司)
A policeman who is actually the gangster White General. The father of Chung Lok-tin (originally named Luk Gwan-chi).
Felix Lok as Hung Shue-lam (洪樹臨)
The owner of the Hung-shue Group who is actually the gangster Red-flower Man (紅花俠).
Mimi Kung as To Hoi-wing (杜凱詠)
One of the gangsters who named Golden Cat of Justice Union.
Kathy Yuen as Anna Tai On-nah/ Angelina Tai On-kei
Mannor Chan as Ngau Siu-chun (牛小津) (Yellow Bird)
One of the gangsters of Justice Union.
Adrian Wong
Pai Piao as Sau Sin-fung (仇先鋒)
Nicknamed North Point Captain. A former policeman who worked in the North Point Police Station.
Luvin Ho
Mason Chiu
Cheng Ka-sang as Gam Yim-lo (金閻羅) / Lo Yim-gam (羅炎金)
The head of a gang.
Hui Ming-chi
Kwok Fung as Fok Dak-wah (霍德華)
Janice Ting as Vanessa (雲妮沙特普)
Candy Chu
Shek Sau as Lung Man-san (龍文新), guest star episode 1
Yu Mo-lin, episode 4
Casper Chan, episode 5
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/LogoLounge | LogoLounge is a research and networking tool for graphic designers who create corporate identities, or logos.
Members can search the database by keywords provided by the originator, or according to such criteria as designer, color, shape, symbol, client, etc. Members also bookmark and organize favorite designs in “Collections,” read articles pertaining to the graphic design industry, and connect with other members.
History
LogoLounge launched in 2002 and was created from a need for an efficient way to find reference material for logos. The site's founder is corporate identity designer Bill Gardner, president of Gardner Design in Wichita, Kansas.
LogoLounge Books
Logos submitted to LogoLounge are considered for publication in the affiliated book series Each book features the most recent top 2,000 logos selected by industry judges and organized according to trends and keywords. As of 2018, LogoLounge Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and Master Library Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been published by Rockport Publishers. Book 9 was published by HOW Publishing, and Book 10 and all future books will be published by Indicia Press
References
Companies based in Wichita, Kansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGI%20%28disambiguation%29 | XGI is XGI Technology Inc., a computer graphics company.
XGI or xgi may also refer to:
Ruger XGI, a rifle
Biri language (ISO 639: xgi) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVNG | KVNG 91.1 FM is a Christian radio station licensed to Eloy, Arizona. The station airs a variety of Christian Talk and Teaching programming including; In Touch with Charles Stanley, Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Answers in Genesis with Ken Ham, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, Joni and Friends, and Unshackled!, as well as Christian music. KVNG is owned by Calvary Chapel of Casa Grande.
References
External links
KVNG's official website
VNG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20L%C3%BCckner | Michael Lückner is a German musician, notable for his projects "Guitar", "Computerjockeys" and "Digital Jockey".
History
Sunkissed, Lückner's first album under the Guitar moniker was released in 2001 and was "well-received". Its sound drew comparisons to My Bloody Valentine's album Loveless.
Honeysky from 2004 was initially only released in Japan, where Lückner lived.
Tokyo (2006) was inspired by the instruments Lückner encountered during his in Japan and features koto and pipa guitars, two guitars of the Japanese music tradition.
Discography
Computerjockeys: Computerjockeys (1999, Harvest/EMI Electrola)
Digital Jockey: 8 Studies in Dub considering global welfare as well as international charity stamps and letters (2000)
Computerjockeys: Plankton (2001, Island Records/Universal)
Guitar: Sunkissed (2001, Morr Music)
Digital Jockey: Paradies und Fragment - Neun Studien in klassischer Musik (2002, Poets Club Records)
Guitar: Honeysky (2004, Third-Ear Japan, re-released by Tonevendor USA)
Digital Jockey: Codeine Dub (2005, Poets Club Records)
Guitar: Saltykisses (2006, Third-Ear Japan, re-released by Tonevendor USA)
Guitar: Tokyo (2006, )
Guitar: Dealin with Signal and Noise (2007, )
Guitar: Friends (2009, And Records Japan)
Guitar: It's Sweet to Do Nothing! (2011, Tonevendor USA)
Guitar: The House of the Hapless Hearts (2014, Bandcamp USA)
References
Living people
German male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry%20Discovery%20Protocol | The Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) is a proprietary data link layer protocol. It was developed by Foundry Networks.
Although Foundry Networks was acquired by Brocade Communications Systems, the protocol is still supported.
External links
Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) , Multi-Service IronWare Feature and RFC Support Matrix, product documentation by Brocade Communications Systems, January 24, 2014
Device discovery protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuhay%20Broadcasting%20System | Mabuhay Broadcasting System, Inc. (MBSI) is a Philippine radio network majority owned by the Ragasa family, heirs of founder Quirino De Guzman. Its corporate office is located at the 17th Floor, The Centerpoint, Julia Vargas Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig, and its main studio is located at the 40th Floor Summit One Tower, Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila. MBSI derives most of its income by selling airtime to blocktimers. MBSI's stations nationwide are operated by ZimZam Management of Manuelito "Manny" F. Luzon under the Win Radio brand.
Background
In November 1973, during the martial law in the Philippines, Quirino De Guzman Sr. and Arcadio M. Carandang decided form a joint venture and organize a corporation known as Mabuhay Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (MBSI). Carandang contributed his technical expertise and new equipment while De Guzman pooled financial resources and needed franchise to the company. It was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on December 13, 1973.
MBSI was granted a 25-year legislative franchise on April 13, 1992, under Republic Act (R.A.) 7395 to construct, install, operate and maintain commercial radio broadcasting stations in the island of Luzon. Based on recent SEC filing, MBSI is majority owned by the Ragasa Family, heirs of Quirino de Guzman Sr. with 64% share.
In 2011, DZXQ was acquired by a new set of investors, which was later related to Information Broadcast Unlimited. Not long after, the Henares family acquired a minority stake in MBSI, making it an affiliate company of Progressive Broadcasting Corporation, a nationwide radio and television network headed by Alfredo "Atom" L. Henares.
On February 1, 2015, House Bill No. 5982 was approved by the House of Representatives and Senate of the Philippines renewing MBSI's franchise for another 25 years and expanding its coverage to include both radio and television broadcasting throughout the Philippines. It was approved by President Benigno Aquino III on May 10, 2016. Not long after, MBSI acquired the provincial stations owned by PBC.
MBSI stations
Current
Former
References
Radio stations in the Philippines
Companies based in Pasig
Mass media companies of the Philippines
Mass media companies established in 1973
Philippine companies established in 1973
Privately held companies of the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena%20Takruri | Dena Takruri () is an American journalist, on-air presenter, and digital producer with AJ+, an online news service owned by Al Jazeera Media Network.
She is the host of the award-winning AJ+ docuseries "Direct From with Dena Takruri," which focuses on domestic and international breaking news, political issues, and social justice movements.
The videos that Takruri hosts range in format from in-studio explainers that provide context to the news stories, to interviews with experts and stakeholders, and ground reports from the locations of rapid news developments. Specific subjects that she has covered include the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; the Korean conflict; the Black Lives Matter movement, American police brutality, and mass incarceration in the United States; and the 2016 United States presidential election.
Early life
Dena Takruri is of Palestinian descent. She completed her graduate studies at Georgetown University in Arab Studies. Takruri is a graduate of Lowell High School.
Career
Dena Takruri began her broadcast career in 2007 as co-host and producer on a weekly hour-long satellite television program called "What's Happening" that aired on Arab Radio and Television Network (ART). The show, which aired in North America, focused on current political, cultural and social issues related to Arab-Americans.
She also worked as a research assistant with Dr. Rochelle Davis of Georgetown University between January 2007 and April 2008. One of her duties included interviewing U.S. military personnel who served in Iraq for a project on their perceptions of Iraqi culture and U.S. military cultural training. The findings of this research were presented at a historians’ conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2008. They were ultimately published in a chapter of a book titled "Anthropology and Global Counter Insurgency." In 2008, Takruri also contributed Arabic-to-English translations for the award-winning feature documentary film "Budrus."
Takruri joined Al Jazeera Arabic in Washington D.C. in 2008 as a producer on its weekly live current affairs show hosted by Abderrahim Foukara that examines the impact of U.S. politics on the Arab region. There, she produced interviews with prominent political figures including Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Tony Blair, John McCain, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Takruri joined HuffPost Live, the online streaming network of the Huffington Post, as a producer and host in June 2012. She was part of the original launch team and covered global affairs, politics, lifestyle and culture. She is now a presenter and producer at AJ+, Al Jazeera's all digital video news network targeted towards millennials.
Takruri has reported domestically from Charleston, South Carolina in the aftermath of the church shooting. She also covered the armed occupation of the federal wildlife reserve in Oregon and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Internationally, Takruri covered Europe's refugee crisis, embedding wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1805%20Molise%20earthquake | The 1805 Molise earthquake occurred on July 26 at 21:01 UTC. It has an estimated magnitude of 6.6 on the equivalent magnitude scale (Me) (calculated from seismic intensity data) and a maximum perceived intensity of X on the Mercalli intensity scale. The area of greatest damage was between the towns of Isernia and Campobasso, while the area of intense damage extended over about 2,000 square kilometres. There were an estimated 5,573 deaths resulting from this earthquake and two of the aftershocks.
Tectonic setting
The Southern Apennines originated as northeast moving fold and thrust belt. Since the Middle Pleistocene, the tectonics has been dominated by extension. The axial part of the Apennines is the most seismically active, with a series of damaging historical earthquakes up to about 7 in magnitude. The major normal fault in the epicentral area of the 1805 event is the Bojano fault system.
Earthquake
The earthquake was a result of movement on the NW–SE trending Bojano fault system. A surface rupture of 40 km has been attributed to this event, with a maximum displacement of 150 cm. The mainshock was preceded by a series of low intensity foreshocks throughout the previous day. The aftershock sequence continued until the following June.
Damage
The damage was particularly intense in the foothills of the Matese massif and the Bojano plain, with 30 towns and villages being severely affected. Damage was recorded as far away as Naples and Salerno. Landslides and other slope failures were seen over an area of about 5,300 square kilometres.
The official number of recorded deaths is given as 5,573, representing nearly 3% of the area's inhabitants, with a further 1,583 injured. Other estimates of the death toll are in the range 4,000 to 6,000.
Aftermath
Response
The most affected area lay within the then Kingdom of Naples. The king, Ferdinand IV, took control of the response to this disaster. He sent Gabriele Giannocoli, a tax lawyer, to visit those areas of the countryside that has suffered the most, to evaluate the situation and to do what needed to be done. He was given considerable powers, together with the financial means, to allow him to carry out his task. He concentrated on visiting the most damaged areas, relying on reports from other officials in less affected parts. At his request, soldiers were sent to restore order and to prevent looting in some areas. Only properties in a dangerous state were repaired or demolished. Temporary shelters were provided for the homeless and huts for use as hospitals. Taxes were suspended by the king for all of the countryside around Molise in August.
See also
List of earthquakes in Italy
List of historical earthquakes
References
Earthquakes in Italy
1805 earthquakes
1805 in Italy
July 1805 events
1805 disasters in Italy
1805 disasters in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z25%20%28computer%29 | The Zuse Z25 was a program-controlled electronic computer using transistors developed by Zuse KG in Bad Hersfeld and put into production in 1963. The word length was 18 bits, though it could also process double-word lengths for accuracy up to 10 decimal digits. The addressable space was 32768 words. The maximum size of the magnetic core memory was 16383 words. The programmable program memory had a maximum size of 4096 words.
For mass storage there was a drum memory available as well as a magnetic tape memory. The magnetic drum had a storage capacity of 17664 Z25 words. The transmission speed was 6900 words per second. The magnetic tape memory had a capacity of 1 million Z25 words and a transmission speed of approximately 33000 Z25 words per second. In- and output was through punched tape and punched cards; it was also possible to print to a teleprinter.
The computer could carry out approximately 7100 arithmetic operations per second at a clock rate of 180 kHz. Several Z25s could be connected in a network. The Z25 could be used for the control and data acquisition of external devices through a program-interrupt system with up to 32 channels.
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Computer-related introductions in 1963
Konrad Zuse
Transistorized computers
Computers designed in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline%20%28disambiguation%29 | In computer technology and telecommunications, the term offline refers to a lack of connectivity.
Offline may also refer to:
OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators based in Los Angeles, California
Offline (album), a 2014 album by Guano Apes
Cyberstalker (film), a 2012 Canadian film also known as Offline
Unfriended, a 2014 film whose working title was Offline
See also
Airplane mode
Online (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerator%20%28computer%20science%29 | An enumerator is a Turing machine with an attached printer. The Turing machine can use that printer as an output device to print strings. Every time the Turing machine wants to add a string to the list, it sends the string to the printer. Enumerator is a type of Turing machine variant and is equivalent with Turing machine.
Formal definition
An enumerator can be defined as a 2-tape Turing machine (Multitape Turing machine where ) whose language is . Initially, receives no input, and all the tapes are blank (i.e., filled with blank symbols). Newly defined symbol is the delimiter that marks end of an element of . The second tape can be regarded as the printer, strings on it are separated by . The language enumerated by an enumerator denoted by is defined as set of the strings on the second tape (the printer).
Equivalence of Enumerator and Turing Machines
A language over a finite alphabet is Turing Recognizable if and only if it can be enumerated by an enumerator. This shows Turing recognizable languages are also recursively enumerable.
Proof
A Turing Recognizable language can be Enumerated by an Enumerator
Consider a Turing Machine and the language accepted by it be . Since the set of all possible strings over the input alphabet i.e. the Kleene Closure is a countable set, we can enumerate the strings in it as etc. Then the Enumerator enumerating the language will follow the steps:
1 for i = 1,2,3,...
2 Run with input strings for -steps
3 If any string is accepted, then print it.
Now the question comes whether every string in the language will be printed by the Enumerator we constructed. For any string in the language the TM will run finite number of steps(let it be for ) to accept it. Then in the -th step of the Enumerator will be printed. Thus the Enumerator will print every string recognizes but a single string may be printed several times.
An Enumerable Language is Turing Recognizable
It's very easy to construct a Turing Machine that recognizes the enumerable language . We can have two tapes. On one tape we take the input string and on the other tape, we run the enumerator to enumerate the strings in the language one after another. Once a string is printed in the second tape we compare it with the input in the first tape. If its a match, then we accept the input, else reject.
References
Computability theory
Theory of computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN%20Africa | CGTN Africa is the African division of China Global Television Network (CGTN), the English-language news channel run by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). It is based in Nairobi and manages bureaux in Lagos, Cairo and Johannesburg, as well as other centres in Africa. The channel was previously known as CCTV Africa.
CGTN Africa employs Kenyan, African and other international journalists and produces African based programs. There are about 100 employees at CGTN Africa most of them Kenyans.
It is the intention of CGTN Africa to promote a better understanding of Africa in China as well as to promote a cultural connection between the people of both places. The idea is that African news is better depicted from an African perspective. CGTN focuses on politics, economy, trade and culture.
Programming
Africa Live – One hour of African news and analysis, is aimed at reporting social, political and economic issues in Africa. Africa Live is mainly anchored by Beatrice Marshall from CGTN Africa's studios in Nairobi. It is also anchored by Lindy Mtongana, Peninah Karibe and Ramah Nyang.
Global Business – Covers Africa's ever changing business landscape. Global Business is anchored by Ramah Nyang from CGTN Africa's studios in Nairobi.
Match Point – covers African sports news. Match Point is anchored by Mahia Mutua from CGTN Africa's studios in Nairobi.
Talk Africa – a 30-minute weekly talk show that mainly discusses politics and current affairs in Africa. Talk Africa is anchored by Beatrice Marshall from CGTN Africa's studios in Nairobi.
Faces of Africa – extraordinary stories about people in Africa. Faces of Africa is anchored by Ramah Nyang from CGTN Africa's studios in Nairobi.
History
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the then CCTV Africa offices in 2014.
References
External links
China Global Television Network channels
Chinese diaspora in Africa
English-language television stations
Television stations in Kenya
Mass media in Nairobi
Television channels and stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulate%20evolution | Reticulate evolution, or network evolution is the origination of a lineage through the partial merging of two ancestor lineages, leading to relationships better described by a phylogenetic network than a bifurcating tree. Reticulate patterns can be found in the phylogenetic reconstructions of biodiversity lineages obtained by comparing the characteristics of organisms. Reticulation processes can potentially be convergent and divergent at the same time. Reticulate evolution indicates the lack of independence between two evolutionary lineages. Reticulation affects survival, fitness and speciation rates of species.
Reticulate evolution can happen between lineages separated only for a short time, for example through hybrid speciation in a species complex. Nevertheless, it also takes place over larger evolutionary distances, as exemplified by the presence of organelles of bacterial origin in eukaryotic cells.
Reticulation occurs at various levels: at a chromosomal level, meiotic recombination causes evolution to be reticulate; at a species level, reticulation arises through hybrid speciation and horizontal gene transfer; and at a population level, sexual recombination causes reticulation.
The adjective reticulate stems from the Latin words reticulatus, "having a net-like pattern" from reticulum, "little net."
Underlying mechanisms and processes
Since the nineteenth century, scientists from different disciplines have studied how reticulate evolution occurs. Researchers have increasingly succeeded in identifying these mechanisms and processes. It has been found to be driven by symbiosis, symbiogenesis (endosymbiosis), lateral gene transfer, hybridization and infectious heredity.
Symbiosis
Symbiosis is a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms. Often, both of the organisms involved develop new features upon the interaction with the other organism. This may lead to the development of new, distinct organisms. The alterations in genetic material upon symbiosis can occur via germline transmission or lateral transmission. Therefore, the interaction between different organisms can drive evolution of one or both organisms.
Symbiogenesis
Symbiogenesis (endosymbiosis) is a special form of symbiosis whereby an organism lives inside another, different organism. Symbiogenesis is thought to be very important in the origin and evolution of eukaryotes. Eukaryotic organelles, such as mitochondria, have been theorized to have been originated from cell-invaded bacteria living inside another cell.
Lateral gene transfer
Lateral gene transfer, or horizontal gene transfer, is the movement of genetic material between unicellular and/or multicellular organisms without a parent-offspring relationship. The horizontal transfer of genes results in new genes, which could give new functions to the recipient and thus could drive evolution.
Hybridization
In the neo-Darwinian paradigm, one of the assumed definition of a specie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20%28Norwegian%20TV%20channel%29 | Fox was a Norwegian entertainment television channel owned and produced by Fox Networks Group. It was launched on March 21, 2011, as Fox Crime, and changed to current name on July 1, 2013. The channel ceased broadcasts on March 31, 2021, with most of its content shifting to Disney+.
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Defunct television channels in Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venansius%20Baryamureeba | Venansius Baryamureeba (born 18 May 1969) is a Ugandan mathematician, computer scientist, academic, and academic administrator. He was the Acting vice chancellor of the Uganda Technology and Management University, a private university in Uganda, from September 2013 until 28 September 2015. He left the position to join the presidential race in Uganda to take place in 2016. Before that, he served as the vice chancellor of Makerere University from November 2009 until August 2012.
Background and education
He was born in Kasharara Village, Kagongo Parish, Ibanda District, in the Western Region of Uganda. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, obtained in 1994 from Makerere University. He also holds a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy, both in computer science and both from Bergen University in Norway, awarded in 1996 and in 2000, respectively. In 1997, he was awarded the postgraduate Diploma in the Analysis of Linear Programming Models by the University of Trondheim, also in Norway.
Career
His career in academia began soon after his first degree, when he worked as a teaching assistant in the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics at Makerere University, from 1994 until 1998. He then worked as an assistant lecturer at the Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo, which now is part of Kyambogo University, from 1995 until 1996. While pursuing graduate study in Norway, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Informatics at Bergen University from 1997 until 2000. He also worked as a research fellow, in the same department and institution, from 1995 until 2000.
Beginning in 1998 until 2000, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Makerere University. He was a senior lecturer in the Institute of Computer Science at Makerere University, from 2001 until 2006 (which was transformed into the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and IT (FCI)). He then became an associate professor, and, in November 2006, he was made a professor, continuing to teach until August 2012 at FCI. From October 2005 until June 2010, he served as the dean of FCI.
From November 2009 until August 2012, he was vice chancellor of Makerere University.
At Uganda Technology and Management University, he has served since September 2012 as the vice chancellor and as a professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Engineering.
Works
The enhanced digital investigation process model
Extraction of interesting association rules using genetic algorithms
Cyber crime in Uganda: Myth or reality?
The role of ICTs and their sustainability in developing countries
Mining High Quality Association Rules Using Genetic Algorithms.
Optimized association rule mining with genetic algorithms
ICT as an engine for Uganda's economic growth: The role of and opportunities for Makerere University
ICT-enabled services: a critical analysis of the opportunities and challenges in Uganda
Towards domain independent named en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Comics%3A%20Batman%20Be-Leaguered | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Batman Be-Leaguered is an animated superhero short film based on the Lego and DC Comics brands. It premiered on Cartoon Network on October 27, 2014, and is the second Lego DC Comics film following Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite. The short film is included as an extra on the home video release of Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League.
Plot
In Gotham City, Batman is fighting Man-Bat at the museum when he is then ambushed by Penguin. Superman arrives in Gotham City where he wants Batman to join his new superhero team called the Justice League, but Batman prides himself on being a self-sufficient loner. To Batman's annoyance, Superman aids him in fighting Man-Bat, Penguin, and Penguin's Robo-Penguins even when Joker joins the fight. After he defeats Penguin, Man-Bat, and Joker, Superman flies out, but he then disappears along with the villains and the gem.
Because of his disappearance which is even reported by Lois Lane, Batman calls in the Flash to help with his search for Superman. The Flash travels around the world with Batman following in the Batwing until they find Captain Cold trying to steal an obelisk in Egypt. Flash and Batman fight him, but Flash disappears mid fight while Batman is frozen solid without his utility belt. Batman thaws and defeats Cold, but he and the obelisk disappear. Upon finding Atlantean symbols on the obelisk before its disappearance, Batman decides to make another call.
Batman then asks Aquaman for help in the Batboat as they search under the ocean. They find Black Manta and his robot sharks trying to steal the Trident of Poseidon. Batman once again wins the fight, but Aquaman, Black Manta, and the trident all disappear.
Batman then goes to Metropolis where Wonder Woman and Cyborg are fighting Lex Luthor who is trying to steal the Daily Planet Globe for an anonymous buyer. Once again, the Justice League members disappear, Batman defeats Lex Luthor, but he and the globe disappear.
Batman deduces who is behind it, and travels to the Justice League headquarters at the Hall of Justice (the last place he wanted to go). Once there, he identifies Bat-Mite as the culprit as Bat-Mite emerges from the shadows. Bat-Mite has prepared a trap for the Justice League including all of the stolen items. Batman does nothing which Bat-Mite did not expect. But he did hint them that since the cage was immune to their powers, they shouldn't use them, and they escaped by opening the door. Batman promptly accepts the invitation to the Justice League. Bat-Mite summons the villains, but they are easily defeated by the combined might of the Justice League, so Bat-Mite decides that instead of cheering on one hero, he should cheer on an entire team. Before disappearing, Bat-Mite makes the villains disappear.
The rest of the Justice League is pleased that Batman is on their team as Batman laughs with them.
Cast
Troy Baker as Bruce Wayne / Batman
Dee Bradley Baker as Arthu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%3A%20The%20Story%20of%20Us | Australia: The Story of Us was a television documentary drama which aired on the Seven Network between 15 February 2015 and 23 April 2015.
It was listed in the Daily Review's 'Top 10 must see Australian TV shows of 2015'.
Show details
Australia: The Story of Us is a localised version of the American television documentary series, America: The Story of Us. Narrated by Richard Roxburgh, it features interviews with prominent Australians including, among others, Chris Bath, Professor Tim Flannery, Ben Roberts-Smith, Tim Costello, Guy Sebastian, Dannii Minogue, Bruce McAvaney and Adam Goodes. The series looks back at some of the people, places and events that have shaped the country over the last 40,000 years.
Channel Seven's showrunner Chris Thorburn said; "I want the audience to be surprised, proud, entertained and awed; to walk away with a view of where we have come from and to see our story in a new light".
Reviews
Melinda Houston of the Sydney Morning Herald gave the show 3.5/5 saying; "Unashamedly celebratory and unashamedly populist, this new factual series from Seven is great entertainment that is also good for you. Using the same model as the US and British versions – big re-enactments, computer-generated images, talking heads who span the spectrum from serious academics to television actors, all threaded together by an energetic narration – The Story of Us takes key moments and characters from Australian history to tell the story of the nation. It is not a professorial piece of work, but it does not pretend to be. It's a rollicking yarn built on solid fact and, by that measure, it works splendidly".
David Knox of TvTonight was more critical. He said; "...this feels decidedly over-produced to me. The tone and editing upstage the history in a constant ploy to bring it closer to primetime drama." He added, "It is the over-produced drama (or even melodrama) that is most distracting here, which is a shame given the source material is so rich."
However, David Stephens on HonestHistory.net sums it up best by saying: "Overall, ASU makes an honest effort to deliver varied fare to fast-history consumers. Inevitably, short-order cooking ruins some dishes but four episodes of ASU fed into a young Australian would do more good than harm. Viewing these episodes would certainly give a more balanced (albeit superficial) view of this nation than would be obtained by, say, strolling through the Australian War Memorial. ASU deserves comparison with Defining Moments at the National Museum of Australia and Chris Masters’ The Years that Made Us as an introduction to an Australia that is about not only Anzac but lots of other things as well. In this year of all years, any production that puts our great Australian bellicosity in its proper, proportionate place is to be welcomed."
Ratings
References
Seven Network original programming
2015 Australian television series debuts
2015 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SequoiaDB | SequoiaDB is a multi-model NewSQL database.
SequoiaDB provides distributed NewSQL, distributed file system and object storage, and high-performance NoSQL storage modes, corresponding to distributed online transactions, unstructured data and content management, as well as massive data management and high performance access scenarios.
SequoiaDB's first release is in 2013, SequoiaDB was open-source in December 2014. The latest release of SequoiaDB is v3.0.
In 2017 and 2018, SequoiaDB is listed in Gartner’s database report, and is the first Chinese database vendor listed.
License
SequoiaDB database engine is under GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL V 3.0) license, and the clients, drivers and connectors are under Apache License V2.0.
Infrastructure
SequoiaDB applies distributed structure. In a client terminal (or an application terminal), local or/and remote applications are linked to SequoiaDB client library. Local or/and remote applications communicate with catalog node under TCP/IP protocol. Catalog node doesn't store any user data. It is only a node that receive requests and distribute them to target data nodes.
Coord node store system metadata information. Coord nodes get the location of data on data nodes by communicating with catalog nodes.
Data nodes are used to store users' data information.
SequoiaDB 3.0 uses a "Storage-SQL" architecture, which SQL layer and storage engine layer are independent of each other, similar architectures also appear on many new-generation distributed databases such as AWS's Aurora.
Features
Transactions and ACID:
SequoiaDB provide full ACID support and transactions cross nodes/clusters. ACID is the basis of a transactional database. SequoiaDB 3.0 has fully supported ACID and 100% support atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID).
Standard SQL Support: SequoiaDB provides a distributed SQL engine plugin called SequoiaSQL, which supports standard SQL-2003 and MySQL/PostgreSQL both on syntax and protocol level.
Multi-Model: SequoiaDB supports both relational(structured), object data (unstructured) and JSON (semi-structured) data at the same time. For storage engine, SequoiaDB uses JSON document-oriented data storage model. JSON-based storage is perfect for integrating the heterogeneous data within the enterprise provides a standard way.
HTAP: The operational DBMS is then evolving, with new, innovative entrants and incumbents supporting the in-DBMS analytical capability. SequoiaDB has its Spark connector to integrate with Spark. It can be used as a data source of Spark and support Spark SQL.
Disaster Recovery: SequoiaDB uses MPP architecture to serve GDPS natively. It has the flexibility to be deployed based on the customer High Availability requirements. SequoiaDB supports the active-active data centers depending on the network capacity. SequoiaDB deployment for dual data centers in the same city works perfectly. But it's hard if the data centers are far away, for instance, data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20computing | Visual computing is a generic term for all computer science disciplines dealing with images and 3D models, such as computer graphics, image processing, visualization, computer vision, virtual and augmented reality and video processing. Visual computing also includes aspects of pattern recognition, human computer interaction, machine learning and digital libraries. The core challenges are the acquisition, processing, analysis and rendering of visual information (mainly images and video). Application areas include industrial quality control, medical image processing and visualization, surveying, robotics, multimedia systems, virtual heritage, special effects in movies and television, and computer games.
History and overview
Visual computing is a fairly new term, which got its current meaning around 2005, when the International Symposium on Visual Computing first convened. Areas of computer technology concerning images, such as image formats, filtering methods, color models, and image metrics, have in common many mathematical methods and algorithms. When computer scientists working in computer science disciplines that involve images, such as computer graphics, image processing, and computer vision, noticed that their methods and applications increasingly overlapped, they began using the term "visual computing" to describe these fields collectively. And also the programming methods on graphics hardware, the manipulation tricks to handle huge data, textbooks and conferences, the scientific communities of these disciplines and working groups at companies intermixed more and more.
Furthermore, applications increasingly needed techniques from more than one of these fields concurrently. To generate very detailed models of complex objects you need image recognition, 3D sensors and reconstruction algorithms, and to display these models believably you need realistic rendering techniques with complex lighting simulation. Real-time graphics is the basis for usable virtual and augmented reality software. A good segmentation of the organs is the basis for interactive manipulation of 3D visualizations of medical scans. Robot control needs the recognition of objects just as a model of its environment. And all devices (computers) need ergonomic graphical user interfaces.
Although many problems are considered solved within the scientific communities of the sub-disciplines making up visual computing (mostly under idealistic assumptions), one major challenge of visual computing as a whole is the integration of these partial solutions into applicable products. This includes dealing with many practical problems like addressing a multitude of hardware, the use of real data (that is often erroneous and/or gigantic in size), and the operation by untrained users. In this respect, Visual computing is more than just the sum of its sub-disciplines, it is the next step towards systems fit for real use in all areas using images or 3D objects on the computer.
Visual computin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108%20Demon%20Kings | 108 Demon Kings (French: 108 Rois-Démons) is a 2014 computer-animated family adventure film directed by Pascal Morelli. The film premiered at the Forum des Images on 4 December 2014 before it was released theatrically wide in France on 21 January 2015 in France.
Voice cast
Lucien Jean-Baptiste as Tourbillon-Noir
Bertrand Nadler as Tête-de-Léopard
as L'Empereur
as Face-Blanche
Daniela Labbé Cabrera as Vipère-Jaune
as Zhang
Lucille Boudonnat as Duan (petit)
Hélène Bizot as Duan (grand)
Hanako Danjo as Pei Pei
Xavier Aubert as Cai Jing
Mark Antoine as Maréchal Gao
as Doyen des mandarins
as Mort-Prématurée
as Trépas-Instantané
as Barbe-Pourpre
Reception
The film had 30,005 admissions at the French box office.
References
External links
2014 computer-animated films
2010s adventure films
2010s French animated films
2010s French-language films
Animated adventure films
Belgian animated films
Films set in the 12th century
Animated films set in China
French adventure films
Luxembourgian animated films
Films scored by Rolfe Kent
French-language Belgian films
French-language Luxembourgian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined%20mobile%20network | Software-defined mobile networking (SDMN) is an approach to the design of mobile networks where all protocol-specific features are implemented in software, maximizing the use of generic and commodity hardware and software in both the core network and radio access network (RAN).
History
Through the 20th century, telecommunications technology was driven by hardware development, with most functions implemented in special-purpose equipment.
In the early 2000s, generally available CPUs became cheap enough to enable commercial software-defined radio (SDR) technology and softswitches.
SDMN extends these trends into the design of mobile networks, moving nearly all network functions into software.
The term "software-defined mobile network" first appeared in public literature in early 2014, used independently by Lime Microsystems and researchers from University of Oulu, Finland.
Limitations of hardware-based mobile networks
Mobile networks based on special-purpose hardware suffer from the following limitations:
They have limited provisions for upgrades and usually must be replaced entirely when new standards are introduced.
The individual components are not scalable in terms of performance and capacity, because the capacity of a component is fixed by the hardware implementation.
Specialized equipment and its associated specialized software require vendor-specific training for the mobile operator's staff.
Specialized hardware systems are usually supported and serviced by a single vendor, resulting in vendor lock-in.
Characteristics of SDMN designs
Use of software-defined radio
SDR is an important element of SDMN, because it replaces protocol-specific radio hardware with protocol-agnostic digital transceivers.
While many earlier digital radio systems used field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or special-purposed digital signal processors (DSPs) for calculations on baseband radio waveforms, the SDMN approach moves all of the baseband processing into general-purpose CPUs.
SDMN radio systems also use hardware with publicly-documented interfaces that is designed to be readily reproducible by multiple manufacturers.
Commodity components
SDMN designs avoid the use of components that are specialized as to their functions or that are available from only a single vendor.
This is true of both the hardware and software elements of the network.
Software switching and transcoding
The telephony switches of SDMN networks are software-based, including software transcoding for speech codecs.
Centralized, distributed, or hybrid?
A new SDN architecture for wireless distribution systems (WDSs) is explored that eliminates the need for multi-hop flooding of route information and therefore enables WDNs to easily expand. The key idea is to split network control and data forwarding by using two separate frequency bands. The forwarding nodes and the SDN controller exchange link-state information and other network control signaling in one of the bands, while actual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated%20United%20States%20television%20programs%20by%20season | This article presents the top-rated American primetime broadcast network television series by season from 1950 to the present according to Nielsen Media Research.
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September 2015–May 2016
September 2016–May 2017
September 2017–May 2018
September 2018–May 2019
Multiple Rankings in the Top 30
43 seasons
60 Minutes (CBS)
32 seasons
Monday Night Football (ABC)
18 seasons
Gunsmoke (CBS)
17 seasons
Disneyland/Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color/The Wonderful World of Disney (ABC/NBC)
The Red Skelton Show (NBC/CBS)
Survivor (CBS)
The Toast of the Town/The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
16 seasons
NCIS (CBS)
15 seasons
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
14 seasons
American Idol (FOX/ABC)
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
ER (NBC)
13 seasons
Criminal Minds (CBS)
Sunday Night Football (NBC)
12 seasons
All in the Family/Archie Bunker's Place (CBS)
Bonanza (NBC)
Law & Order (NBC)
The Lucy Show/Here's Lucy (CBS)
Two and a Half Men (CBS)
11 seasons
Frasier (NBC)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC)
Murder, She Wrote (CBS)
My Three Sons (ABC/CBS)
10 seasons
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
CSI: Miami (CBS)
Dallas (CBS)
Friends (NBC)
I've Got a Secret (CBS)
The Jack Benny Show (CBS)
M*A*S*H (CBS)
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
NYPD Blue (ABC)
Roseanne/The Conners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopili | Gopili is a travel metasearch engine launched in UK in December 2014. The website compiles and presents data on domestic and international travel.
Gopili is the European brand of KelBillet, which is a multimodal travel search engine in France. Gopili’s website is today available in UK, Spain, Germany, Italy and Russia.
The website has headquarters in Rennes, France.
References
External links
Official website UK
Official website Spain
Official website German
Official website Italy
Official website Russia
British travel websites
Travel ticket search engines
Transport companies established in 2014
Internet properties established in 2014
2014 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE%20in%20unlicensed%20spectrum | LTE in unlicensed spectrum (LTE-Unlicensed, LTE-U) is an extension of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless standard that allows cellular network operators to offload some of their data traffic by accessing the unlicensed 5 GHz frequency band. LTE-Unlicensed is a proposal, originally developed by Qualcomm, for the use of the 4G LTE radio communications technology in unlicensed spectrum, such as the 5 GHz band used by 802.11a and 802.11ac compliant Wi-Fi equipment. It would serve as an alternative to carrier-owned Wi-Fi hotspots. Currently, there are a number of variants of LTE operation in the unlicensed band, namely LTE-U, License Assisted Access (LAA), MulteFire, sXGP and CBRS.
LTE in Unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U)
The first version of LTE-Unlicensed is called LTE-U and is developed by the LTE-U Forum to work with the existing 3GPP Releases 10/11/12. LTE-U was designed for quick launch in countries, such as the United States and China, that do not mandate implementing the listen-before-talk (LBT) technique. LTE-U would allow cellphone carriers to boost coverage in their cellular networks, by using the unlicensed 5 GHz band already populated by Wi-Fi devices.
LTE-U is intended to let cell networks boost data speeds over short distances, without requiring the user to use a separate Wi-Fi network as they normally would. It differs from Wi-Fi calling; there remains a control channel using LTE, but all data (not just phone calls) flows over the unlicensed 5 GHz band, instead of the carrier's frequencies.
In 2014, the LTE-U Forum was created by Verizon, in conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Samsung as members. The forum collaborates and creates technical specifications for base stations and consumer devices passing LTE-U on the unlicensed 5 GHz band, as well as coexistence specs to handle traffic contention with existing Wi-Fi devices.
T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless have indicated early interest in deploying such a system as soon as 2016. While cell providers ordinarily rely on the radio spectrum to which they have exclusive licenses, LTE-U would share space with Wi-Fi equipment already inhabiting that band – smartphones, laptops and tablets connecting to home broadband networks, free hotspots provided by businesses, and so on.
As of late January 2019, there were three LTE-U deployed/launched networks in three countries; eight further operators are investing in the technology in the form of trials or pilots in seven countries.
License Assisted Access (LAA)
The second variant of LTE-Unlicensed is Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) and has been standardized by the 3GPP in Rel-13. LAA adheres to the requirements of the LBT protocol, which is mandated in Europe and Japan. It promises to provide a unified global framework that complies with the regulatory requirements in the different regions of the world.
3GPP Rel-13 defines LAA only for the downlink (DL).
3GPP Rel-14 defines enhanced-Licensed Assisted Access (eLAA), which i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Weitzner | Daniel J. Weitzner is the director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab CSAIL. He teaches Internet public policy in MIT's Computer Science Department. His research includes development of accountable systems architectures to enable the Web to be more responsive to policy requirements.
Online privacy
Weitzner is an expert in online privacy who has had significant impact in the field. He served as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States from 2011 to 2012, where he focused on Internet policy and privacy. During his tenure as a White House technology official, he oversaw a consumer privacy initiative and was primarily responsible for the creation of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles
Weitzner and several colleagues wrote the Information Accountability paper, which proposed an alternative approach to information policy where individuals and institutions determine for themselves the way information about them is used lawfully and appropriately by others.
Weitzner co-directs the Decentralized Information Group Tim Berners-Lee and is heading a new, cross-MIT research initiative: MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative funded by the Hewlett Foundation. He facilitated discussions and workshops on technology issues such as artificial intelligence (AI) and encryption.
Weitzner's background in the area of privacy and policy includes his work as a founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology and a stint as the Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is also Founding member, Director and Trustee of the Web Science Trust.
Education
Weitzner has a law degree from University at Buffalo Law School and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. His writings have appeared in Science magazine, Yale Law Review, Communications of the ACM the Washington Post, Wired Magazine and Social Research.
References
External links
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Swarthmore College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo | Onavo, Inc. was an Israeli mobile web analytics company owned by Meta Platforms. The company primarily performed its activities via consumer mobile apps, including the virtual private network (VPN) service Onavo Protect, which analysed web traffic sent through the VPN to provide statistics on the usage of other apps.
Guy Rosen and Roi Tiger founded Onavo in 2010. In October 2013, Onavo was acquired by Facebook, which used Onavo's analytics platform to monitor competitors. This influenced Facebook to make various business decisions, including its 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp.
Since the acquisition, Onavo was frequently classified as being spyware, as the VPN was used to monetize application usage data collected within an allegedly privacy-focused environment. In August 2018, Facebook pulled Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store due to violations of Apple's policy forbidding apps from collecting data on the usage of other apps. In February 2019, in response to criticism over a Facebook market research program employing similar techniques (including, in particular, being targeted towards teens), Onavo announced that it would close the Android version of Protect as well.
History
Onavo was founded in 2010 by Roi Tiger and Guy Rosen.
Onavo had two rounds of funding: the first was a Series A investment for $3 million from Magma Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital in May 2011. The second was a Series B investment of $13 million from Magma Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Horizons Ventures. Onavo's sale to Facebook is one of the top exits for Magma Venture Partners and other Israeli venture capital firms.
On October 13, 2013, Facebook bought Onavo for approximately $120 million.
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) initiated legal proceedings against Facebook on December 16, 2020, alleging that Facebook engaged in "false, misleading or deceptive conduct" by using personal data collected from Onavo "for its own commercial purposes" contrary to Onavo's privacy-oriented marketing. Facebook responded that it was "always clear about the information we collect and how it is used", and would defend itself in court.
Products
Onavo maintained consumer-oriented utility apps, including Onavo Count, which tracked bandwidth usage by apps, as well as Onavo Extend and Onavo Protect, which were VPN services for data compression and security, respectively.
In 2013, the company launched Onavo Insights, a mobile analytics platform that tracked the market share and active usage of apps using data obtained from Onavo's consumer apps. In August 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported that since the acquisition of Onavo by Facebook, this data was used internally by Facebook to monitor competitors such as Snapchat, as well as startups that are performing "unusually well". This data influenced Facebook to acquire WhatsApp in 2014, and plan a video chat app to rival Houseparty in 2017.
Reception
Initial reception
Onavo won multiple awards in 2011. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20in%20Rwanda | Energy use in Rwanda is undergoing rapid change at the beginning of the 21st century.
Electricity
Network
The extent of grid electricity is limited and mainly concentrated near Kigali. Most of the country uses firewood as its main energy source.
Rwanda is planning to expand from 276 MW of grid power in 2022 to 556 MW in 2024 and may import some additional electricity from neighboring countries. In addition, it is installing small solar units throughout the country to ensure that households located in off-grid areas have access to electricity, or to help deal with power outages. Currently, the government plans to bring electricity access to 100% of the population by 2024, as opposed to 74.5% in 2022.
In July 2023 it was announced that Saudi Arabia would provide a soft loan of $20 million to fund an electricity project in Rwanda set to benefit 60,000 people.
Generation
With its limited electrical infrastructure, Rwanda has a very high degree of renewable energy usage. Most of the country's electricity comes from hydropower.
Electrical production accounted for 4% of energy use in the country in 2014,
Hydroelectricity
53% of electricity is generated by hydropower. At the end of 2018, Rwanda's grid-connected power plants supplied 221.1MW.
Gas fired generation
KivuWatt project is an energy project to extract natural gas dissolved in Lake Kivu and use the extracted gas to generate electricity. In 2016, the operational 25 MW power plant is able to provide enough energy for 45,000 people in Rwanda. The ongoing expansion project is expected to add 26 MW of generating capacity in its first phase, and eventually scale up to 100 MW in the coming years.
Utility scale solar
The first utility-scale solar farm in Sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa is the 8.5 MW plant at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, in the Rwamagana District, Eastern Province of Rwanda. It leased of land from the village which is a charity to house and educate Rwandan genocide victims. The plant uses 28,360 photovoltaic panels and produces 6% of total electrical supply of the country. The project was built with U.S., Israeli, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish and UK funding and expertise.
Micro scale solar
The use of off-grid solar power has increased as solar panel prices have fallen and many areas do not expect grid connections in the near future.
Solar power produces over 2% of electricity in the country. The country is in the midst of a rapid expansion of its electrical grid and many new plants are proposed or under construction.
Biomass
Biomass is the most important energy source utilized through firewood and agricultural waste for cooking. In 2014, this represented 85% of Rwanda's energy use. Peat from peat marshes in southwestern Rwanda will power two electrical plants. The first 15 MW plant is expected online in 2015 with the second, a 80 MW plant, expected in 2017.
Other energy sources
Petroleum, mainly for transportation, represented 11% of Rwanda's power in 2014. Altho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repercussions%20of%20the%201994%E2%80%931996%20United%20States%20broadcast%20TV%20realignment | Between 1994 and 1996, a wide-ranging series of network affiliation switches took place in media markets across the United States as the result of a multimillion-dollar deal between Fox and New World Communications which was announced on May 23, 1994. The Fox–New World agreement, which saw twelve stations owned by New World change affiliations to Fox, initiated some of the most sweeping changes in American broadcasting history. This deal, and the ancillary deals that followed, created a domino effect and presented a wide-ranging series of ramifications that have impacted local broadcasting up to the present day.
Ramifications
Rise of Fox in prime time
Prior to the affiliation switches, Fox largely catered to the 18–34 demographic with younger-skewing shows and an "irreverent, sometimes sophomoric" style typified by Married... with Children and The Simpsons, the latter the network's first definitive hit. Emphasis was given to Black audiences with shows like The Sinbad Show, Martin, Living Single and New York Undercover. Sketch comedy series In Living Color gained national attention for broadcasting a live episode against the Super Bowl XXVI halftime show that was a ratings success. The debut season of teen-oriented Beverly Hills, 90210 had a controversial storyline centering around the loss of a character's virginity, unprecedented in network television. Fox expanded their prime time schedule incrementally, resulting in the network programming seven nights a week by the 1993–94 season. Entering that season, Fox heavily promoted The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. intending for it to be their next hit show, but it was the show following it on Friday night, The X-Files, that became a sleeper hit instead. Fox's reputation by 1993 was still largely limited to hits like The Simpsons along with a string of failed shows that attained similar levels of notoriety. The network attempted to re-enter late night with The Chevy Chase Show but was cancelled after six weeks amid negative reviews and dismal ratings.
Fox Kids, which had been created as a joint venture between Fox and the affiliates in 1990, continued after the realignment with a roster of affiliates considerably different from the main Fox network. WBNX-TV and KSMO-TV saw their profiles boosted with the addition of Fox Kids: KSMO experienced dramatic viewership increases in the early afternoon, while WBNX became Cleveland's WB affiliate in 1997 owing to their success with Fox Kids. Facing increased competition from basic cable channels along with Kids' WB and UPN Kids, Fox Kids merged their in-house production arm with Saban Entertainment (who produced Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for the program block) to form Fox Kids Worldwide in 1996, purchased The Family Channel the following year and relaunched it as Fox Family Channel. By 1998, Fox Kids affiliates sold their ownership interests back to Fox in a deal where Fox affiliates would pay a combined $50 million per year for Fox's renewed NFC co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Threat%20Intelligence%20Integration%20Center | The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) is a new United States federal government agency that will be a fusion center between existing agencies and the private sector for real-time use against cyber attacks. CTIIC was created due to blocked efforts in Congress that were stymied over liability and privacy concerns of citizens.
CTIIC was formally announced by Lisa Monaco February 10, 2015 at the Wilson Center. The agency will be within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
List of directors of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center
Tonya Ugoretz (January 7, 2016 - March 13, 2019)
Erin Joe (March 13, 2019 – present)
See also
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
Cyber threat intelligence
Department of Homeland Security
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
References
Federal government of the United States
Computer security
Internet law in the United States
2015 establishments in the United States
Counterterrorism in the United States
Government agencies established in 2015 |
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