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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Voice | Chinese Voice () is a Cantonese, Mandarin and English language radio network based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Best News Entertainment, an Asian language television, print and radio company, and consists of three station set up between 2003 and 2010. It produces more than 80 hours of local content each week, including live talkback on news stories, migrant issues, political developments and dealing with New Zealand Government agencies. The stations also broadcast imported talk and music programmes from China and Hong Kong.
Chinese Radio FM 99.4 , Auckland's only Cantonese language radio station, focuses on news and programmes from Hong Kong, but is also geared towards Cantonese-speaking communities from Canton, Singapore and Malaysia as well. AM936, New Zealand's only Mandarin-language radio station, aims to appeal to New Zealanders of Chinese heritage regardless of their age, class, gender, employment status occupation or interests. Chinese Radio FM 104.2, an English language and Chinese language radio station, broadcasts news with a Chinese worldview, information about modern China and documentaries about the modern world.
The network broadcasts worldwide online and in Auckland on terrestrial radio frequencies. It previously broadcast nationwide on Sky TV. It claims to reach 150,000 New Zealanders of a Chinese origin. It has accepted a role in broadcasting public messages to Cantonese and Mandarin speaking communities during Civil Defence emergencies. The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management runs Chinese language advertisements on the network, reminding people to be prepared for natural disasters and other emergency situations. This is part of the Get Ready Get Thru programme, which aims to reach the widest possible reach of people living in New Zealand.
History
2003-2010
Chinese Voice's original parent company, World TV, was set up in June 2000 to take advantage of the infrastructure and viewing quality of the recently launched Sky TV digital platform, and reach the country's growing Asian population. The proportion of New Zealanders of Asian origin doubled between 1991 and 2001, with the fastest increase being in Auckland's Chinese population. More than 80,000 New Zealanders speak Chinese and at least one other language, including almost 36,000 who speak Yue dialects like Cantonese. Almost 32,000 New Zealanders can only speak Chinese, including 10,000 who can only speak Yue dialects like Cantonese. Many are multilingual.
The company set up Chinese Voice stations over several years as it acquired new terrestrial radio frequencies in Auckland. Cantonese language radio station Chinese Radio FM 99.4 was launched as Real Good Life in 2003, and Standard Chinese station AM936 was launched as New Supremo in 2004. Chinese Voice Broadcasting was set up to run both stations. Chinese Radio FM 104.2, an English language and Chinese language radio station, began as Radio 9 in 2010 . It is a joint venture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20Network%20Operators%20Group | The Swiss Network Operators Group (SwiNOG) is a Swiss counterpart to NANOG. Like NANOG, SwiNOG operates a mailing list for operators of Swiss data networks, including ISPs.
Events
Twice a year the community gathers in Bern, the capitol of Switzerland for a social gathering containing technical presentations and of course direct interaction between the people in the community. Usually these talks are very technical and can contain various topics related to the work of network operators like out-of-band management. Of course there are also more high-level presentations like the one about SDN and NFV. Usually some months before the event, someone from the SwiNOG-Core-Team sends out a CfP.
On a monthly basis, Steven Glogger is also organizing the SwiNOG Beer Events. In the past there where already more than 100 events, taken place in the city of Zurich, a social gathering where people talk about technology, their employer and sometimes also about customers but mainly to exchange information to each other in an offline mode.
History
See also
Internet network operators' group
References
External links
SwiNOG Federation a non-profit organisation representing Swiss SME Internet access and service providers.
Internet in Switzerland
Internet Network Operators' Groups
Electronic_mailing_lists
Computer_networking
History_of_the_Internet
Information technology organisations based in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CENC | CENC may stand for:
China Earthquake Networks Center
Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium
MPEG Common Encryption |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Hum%20Europe | The British television channel Hum Europe has been broadcasting a range of entertainment content since 2014, chiefly designed for British Pakistani viewers.
Current programming
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order.
Daily soaps
Drama serials
Hum Europe Exclusives
Former programming
Serials
Deewar-e-Shab (2019)
Jo Tu Chahey (2019)
Anaa (2019)
Bharam (2019)
Meer Abru (2019)
Mere Humdam (2019)
Chhoti Chhoti Baatein (2019)
Ishq Zahe Naseeb (2019)
Inkaar (2019)
Khaas (2019)
Jaal (2019)
Log Kia Kahengay (2019)
Soya Mera Naseeb (2019)De Ijazat Jo Tu (2019)Ghundi (2019)Madiha Maliha (2019)Love Ke Liye (2019)
Mannchalay (2019)
Bilqees Kaur (2014)
Shareek e Hayat (2014)
Kisay Apna Khainy (2014)
Kahani Raima Aur Manahil Ki (2014)
Kitni Girhain Baqi hai (2014)
Mein Diwani (2014)
Ishq Me Tere (2014)
Shab e Zindagi (2014)
Zindagi Tere Bina (2014)
Bunty I Love You (2014)
Laa (2014)
Janam Jali (2014)
Aahista Aahista (2014)
Mohabbat Ab Nahi Hogi (2014)
Mausam (2014)
Mitthu Aur Aapa (2014)
Mere Meherban (2014)
Do Saal Ki Aurat (2014)
Shanakht (2014)
Daay Ijazat Jo Tu (2014)
Firaaq (2014)
Darbadar Teray Liye (2014-2015)
Tum Mere Hi Rehna (2014-2015)
Mehram (2014-2015)
Digest Writer (2014-2015)
Humsafar (2014-2015)Parsa (2015)
Sadqay Tumhare (2014-2015)
Shehr-e-Zaat (2015)
Aik Pal (TV series) (2014-2015)
Zindagi Tum Ho (2014-2015)
Zid (2014-2015)
Meray Khuda (2015)
Na Kaho Tum Mere Nahi (2015)
Nikah (2015)
Alvida (2015)
Dil Ka Kiya Rung Karon (2015)
Mera Naseeb (2015)
Aye Zindagi (2015)
Jugnoo (2015)
Man-O-Salwa (2015)
Muqaddas (2015)
Yahan Pyar Nahi Hai (2015)
Malaal (2015)
Karb (2015)
Dayar-e-Dil (2015)
Mol (2015)
Kadoorat (2015)
Kitna Satatay Ho (2015)
Tum Mere Paas Raho (2015)
Mohabbat Aag Si (2015)
Tumhari Natasha (2015) Kaisay Tumse Kaho (2015)
Muje Apna Bana Lo (2015)
Aik Thi Misaal (September 2015-January 2016)
''Tumhare Siwa (2015-2016)
Tere Baghair (2015-2016)
Sangat (2015-2016)
Preet Na Kariyo Koi (2015-2016)
Kahi Unkahi (2016)
Gul-e-Rana (2015-2016)
Humnasheen (2016)
Maana Ka Gharana (2015-2016)
Mastana Mahi (2016)
Kisay Chahoon (2016)
Mata e Jaan Hai Tu (2016)
Maan (2015-2016)
Lagao (2016)
Sehra Main Safar (2015-2016)
Tere Mere Beech (2015-2016)
Abro (2015-2016)
Mohabbat Rooth Jaye Toh (2016)
Dil-e-Beqarar (April–August 2016)
Akbari Asghari (May–August 2016)
Pakeeza (February–August 2016)
Aseerzadi (July–August 2016)
Mann Mayal (January 2016-September 2016)
Zara Yaad Kar (March 2016-September 2016)
Khawab Sarae (May–September 2016)
Udaari (April–September 2016)
Ek Tamanna Lahasil Si (August–October 2016)
Jhoot (May–October 2016)
Dharkan (June–October 2016)
Kathputli (June–October 2016)
Deewana (May–November 2016)
Maat (August–November 2016)
Saiqa (October–November 2016)
Laaj (July–November 2016)
Khoya Khoya Chand (November–December 2016)
Hatheli (September 2016-January 2017)
Bin Roye (October 2016-January 2017)
Sanam (September 2016-February 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Movie%20Cars%20Database | Internet Movie Cars Database, often abbreviated as IMCDb, is an online database of auto, motorcycle and other motor vehicle appearances in films. The website was created in 2004 with a name similar to Internet Movie Database.
History
The project was founded in 2004 by a French web developer, quickly helped by Belgian programmer Antoine Potten, who took over the project completely in 2005, to compile information about vehicles used in films. The website initially focused on only automobiles used in movies and TV series, but eventually started to include other kinds of vehicles such as motorcycles, tanks, and heavy machinery. As of July 2021, more than 60,000 movies and TV series were analyzed and more than 800,000 vehicles were identified, including those used in alternate endings and cut scenes. As of July 2021, there were 5,274 brands of vehicles listed on the website, as well as more than 52,000 vehicles waiting for a proper identification.
See also
Internet Movie Firearms Database — website of similar concept for firearms
References
External links
Internet Game Cars Database (official website)
Internet Movie Plane Database (official website)
Automotive websites
Film websites
Online film databases
2004 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Nation%2C%20MCN | Creative Nation Network, YouTube MCN. was a global media network that operated a Multi-Channel Network (MCN) on the YouTube platform. It was the largest MCN in Ireland and within the top 5 MCNs based in Europe. Creative Nation offered support, scaled technologies and additional revenue streams to its clients and in return takes a share of their YouTube channel's revenue.
Creative Nation Network rose to popularity for offering their clients a 90% share of their channel's revenue compared to the then industry-average of 60%. As of December 2014, Creative Nation had a combined global reach of 500 million views per month.
Creative Nation's website has been offline since 2017, and the company appears to no longer be actively operating as an MCN. They continued to produce original content for their Owned & Operated channel, Facts. until February 2018. CEO Shane C said in a statement to Fora, that the channel had never churned a full year of profit, and had lost over $12,000,000 over its 4 years of operation.
The company resumed work in January 2021.
History
Creative Nation Network was founded in October 2013 by current Chief Executive Officer Shane C. Shane had previously been employed as a talent scout for another YouTube MCN, Forela Digital and was responsible for signing up talent with a combined more than 40 million monthly viewer-ship to that network.
Creative Nation Network also owned AdLeap, a fully owned Creative Nation subsidiary founded in February 2015 that engaged with brands and media-buying agencies to create promotional advertising campaigns on YouTube with both creators in Creative Nation Network MCN and externally.
See also
List of multi-channel networks
References
Multi-channel networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing%20%28finance%29 | Spoofing is a disruptive algorithmic trading activity employed by traders to outpace other market participants and to manipulate markets. Spoofers feign interest in trading futures, stocks and other products in financial markets creating an illusion of the demand and supply of the traded asset. In an order driven market, spoofers post a relatively large number of limit orders on one side of the limit order book to make other market participants believe that there is pressure to sell (limit orders are posted on the offer side of the book) or to buy (limit orders are posted on the bid side of the book) the asset.
Spoofing may cause prices to change because the market interprets the one-sided pressure in the limit order book as a shift in the balance of the number of investors who wish to purchase or sell the asset, which causes prices to increase (more buyers than sellers) or prices to decline (more sellers than buyers). Spoofers bid or offer with intent to cancel before the orders are filled. The flurry of activity around the buy or sell orders is intended to attract other traders to induce a particular market reaction. Spoofing can be a factor in the rise and fall of the price of shares and can be very profitable to the spoofer who can time buying and selling based on this manipulation.
Under the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act spoofing is defined as "the illegal practice of bidding or offering with intent to cancel before execution." Spoofing can be used with layering algorithms and front-running, activities which are also illegal.
High-frequency trading, the primary form of algorithmic trading used in financial markets is very profitable as it deals in high volumes of transactions. The five-year delay in arresting the lone spoofer, Navinder Singh Sarao, accused of exacerbating the 2010 Flash Crash—one of the most turbulent periods in the history of financial markets—has placed the self-regulatory bodies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade under scrutiny. The CME was described as being in a "massively conflicted" position as they make huge profits from the HFT and algorithmic trading.
Definition
In Australia layering and spoofing in 2014 referred to the act of "submitting a genuine order on one side of the book and multiple orders at different prices on the other side of the book to give the impression of substantial supply/demand, with a view to sucking in other orders to hit the genuine order. After the genuine order trades, the multiple orders on the other side are rapidly withdrawn."
In a 2012 report Finansinspektionen (FI), the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority defined spoofing/layering as "a strategy of placing orders that is intended to manipulate the price of an instrument, for example through a combination of buy and sell orders."
In the U.S. Department of Justice April 21, 2015 complaint of market manipulation and fraud laid against Navinder Singh Sarao, — dub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Rohrich | Simon Rohrich is an American inventor and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and Chief Technology Evangelist of Elliptical Mobile Solutions, a provider of mobile micro-modular data centers. He defined the specific technology type of his data centers in a 2010 white paper, coining the term micro modular data center (MMDC) and creating the specific technology. This technology has been used by numerous corporations (including AOL and Virgin Galactic) and governmental entities (including China, Vietnam, and the City of Avondale). Rohrich is also known for his participation in the Armored Combat League (ACL) along with the Society for Creative Anachronism's armoured combat tournaments and events.
Early life and education
Rohrich was born in 1975 in North Dakota. In 1981, his mother, Helen, divorced his father and the two moved to Minnesota when Rohrich was 7 years old. He was largely raised by his mother and was an only child. At the age of 13, he enrolled in an electronics class at a local junior college. In 1990, a 16-year-old Rohrich was sent to live with his father in Mesa, Arizona. He attended Red Mountain High School in Mesa and worked as a dishwasher at a local Shoney's restaurant. After graduating high school, Rohrich moved in with Sean Delaney, a music producer who had once worked with the rock band, KISS. Rohrich also attended Northern Arizona University for a year before dropping out to pursue a career in data center production.
Business career
Rohrich's career began when longtime friend and fellow inventor, Bill Woodbury, approached him with an entrepreneurial opportunity in 2004. Woodbury and Rohrich co-founded Elliptical Mobile Solutions in 2005 with Mike Chaput and Joe Robbins. The company was started in a garage in Phoenix, Arizona, but moved to a permanent location in Chandler, Arizona in 2009. Their primary goal was the production of micro-modular data centers that were both mobile and extremely durable. They also constructed items for computer and server safety and organization.
The first "prototype" data center was built inside an RV that allowed Rohrich and his team to drive it around to investors. The S.P.E.A.R. (Self-Propelled Electronic Armored Rack) was the initial micro-modular data center produced by Elliptical Mobile Solutions. Rohrich and Woodbury collaborated on the construction, research, and schematics of the machine. The model was featured in a 2008 episode of the Discovery Channel series, Smash Lab where tests showed that it could withstand up to 1,900 degrees (Fahrenheit) of heat. The 27-inch wide S.P.E.A.R. was fitted with wheels and was also designed to hold 1,000 pounds of equipment while being completely waterproof.
Rohrich was also instrumental in the production of many of the company's other technologies, including:
S.H.I.E.L.D. (Structurally Hardened I/0 Locking Device) - a weatherproof connection panel for computers.
C-S.P.E.A.R. - a smaller version of the original S.P.E.A.R.
R.A.S.E.R. (Relocatable, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudico | Claudico is an artificial-intelligence computer-program designed to play no-limit Texas hold 'em heads-up.
History
Claudico was designed by Carnegie Mellon professor Tuomas Sandholm and his graduate students. The name means "I limp" in Latin, a reference to limping into a hand without raising—a strategy the bot employs often. Rather than have a professional poker player attempt to explain his strategy to the programming team, Sandholm had the computer attempt to devise the best strategy on its own. The task was so complicated that it required a Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Blacklight supercomputer with 16 terabytes of RAM to complete.
In explaining his motivation for designing the bot, Sandholm said, "Poker is now a benchmark for artificial intelligence research, just as chess once was. It's a game of exceeding complexity that requires a machine to make decisions based on incomplete and often misleading information, thanks to bluffing, slow play and other decoys".
Originally called Tartanian, a version of the program won a July 2014 tournament against other computer programs.
The improved successor of Claudico is called Libratus. Like Claudico, Libratus is designed to compete against top human players.
2015 match against four human players
From April 24 to May 8, 2015, Claudico participated in an event at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bot faced each of four top human opponents—Dong Kim, Jason Les, Bjorn Li, and Doug Polk—in a series of heads-up matches. At the time, Polk was the world's number-one ranked heads-up player.
Each day featured two 750-hand matches over eight hours (plus breaks) against each of the humans, for a total of 20,000 hands per player over the course of 13 days (with one rest day in the middle). For each 750-hand set, the same hands were dealt to one human taking on Claudico on the main casino floor and another battling the computer in an isolation room, with the hole cards reversed. This was done to ensure that card luck was not a factor in the outcome. The 80,000-hand sample represented the largest-ever human–computer data set. Claudico was able to adjust to its opponent's strategy as the matches progressed, just as the humans could. The match winner was determined by the overall chip count after 80,000 hands; although individual results were kept for the four pros, they were competing as a single team. If the final chip count had been too close for the difference to be statistically meaningful, the match would be declared a draw.
The tournament carried a $100,000 prize pool, funded by Rivers Casino and Microsoft. The casino set up stands and video screens for the public to watch the action live. Additionally, the matches were broadcast online via Twitch. Highlights from the match will air throughout 2015 on CBS Sports Network's weekly show Poker Night in America.
Entering the event, Sandholm estimated that Claudico had a 50/50 chance to win. Polk, however, was confident the humans had the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20in%20cyberspace | Human rights in cyberspace is a relatively new and uncharted area of law. The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has stated that the freedoms of expression and information under Article 19(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) include the freedom to receive and communicate information, ideas and opinions through the Internet.
An important clause is Article 19(3) of the ICCPR, which provides that:The exercise of the right provided in paragraph two of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subjected to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;(b) For the protection of national security or of public order, or of public health and morals.The HRC has stated that "the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online" (mentioning, in particular, freedom of expression). It is widely regarded that this freedom of information must be balanced with other rights. The question is raised whether people's expectations of human rights are different in cyberspace.
Public privacy
Public privacy encompasses freedom of information and expression on the Internet on the one side, and security and privacy in cyberspace on the other side. In the context of cyberspace, privacy means using the Internet as a service tool for private purposes without the fear of third parties accessing and using user data in various ways without their consent.
The right to freedom encompasses the right of expression and is stated in several international treaties. The right includes freedom to receive and impart information and ideas and to hold opinions without any state interference. It also includes the right to express oneself in any medium including exchanging ideas and thoughts through Internet platforms or social networks. Freedom means the right to political expression especially when it raises matters of public importance.
Most democratic countries advance the installation of the Internet for economic and communication purposes; therefore, political expression is given some protection on the Internet. Some governments actively move to protect citizen's data on the Internet. However, these intergovernmental agreements can lead to misuse and abuse of private data, which in turn can affect many other fundamental freedoms and basic human rights. The challenge for governments is balancing private interests with rules against privacy and freedom rights for all.
Governance in cyberspace
German political scientist Anja Mihr says that cyberspace harbors more individuals than any other country in the world, yet it is without any government, legislative bodies, law enforcement or any other sort of constitution. Without these mechanisms difficulties arise in protecting and enjoying citizen's rights. International Governmental Organisations (IGO's), such as the United Nations (UN) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Grupero%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Grupero Artist of the Year is an award presented annually by American network Univision. It was first awarded in 2001 and has been given annually since. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to Mexican singer Joan Sebastian in 2001. Mexican group Los Temerarios hold the most wins and most nominations with 6 out of eight nominations. Fellow Mexican group Bronco - El Gigante de América is the most nominated act without a win, with six unsuccessful nominations. Mexican singer, Alicia Villarreal is the only female act to have won the accolade.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
See also
Latin Grammy Award for Best Grupero Album
References
Grupero artist
Grupera musicians
Awards established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Duranguense%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Duranguense Artist of the Year was an award presented annually by American network Univision. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. However, since 2004, the winners are selected through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to American band Grupo Montez de Durango in 2007, they are the most nominated and awarded performers, with four wins out of eight nominations. Mexican band El Trono de México are the most nominated act without a win, with five unsuccessful nominations. In 2014, the category was disestablished.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
References
Duranguense musicians
Duranguense Artist of the Year
Awards established in 2006
Awards disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20Mongolia%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Network | The Inner Mongolia Radio Broadcasting Network (; ) was a radio broadcasting network headquartered in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1950 as Inner Mongolia People's Broadcasting Station (). In June 2016 it merged with NMTV.
List of programmes
External links
www.nmrb.com.cn
Directory of FM radio stations in the region Nei Mongol
Radio in China
Mass media in China
Mass media in Hohhot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro%20%281985%20video%20game%29 | Zorro is a puzzle-platform game written by James Garon and published by Datasoft in 1985. Versions were released for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. A ZX Spectrum port was published in 1986 by U.S. Gold.
Gameplay
The player's task is, as the title character, to get to the heavily guarded fort and free his beloved from the clutches of the evil Sergeant Garcia. Gameplay is very similar to another Datasoft platformer - Bruce Lee, however Zorro has a slower pace and more puzzles. These mainly involve collecting items from a specific room in the city, then carrying them and using them in the appropriate place (such as heating up a branding iron in a fireplace and using it on a bull). The game features 20 different locations, including catacombs under the city, an underground lake, and The Ole Hotel.
Reception
Zorro received mixed reviews. In 1986, Julian Rignall wrote in Zzap!, "If you like this sort of game then you could well be pleased with this, but if you like your action a little faster and hotter then you might find yourself bored playing Zorro." The game was also reviewed in Computer and Video Games: "Graphically this rather standard platform game is not over impressive."
References
External links
Zorro at Atari Mania
1985 video games
Apple II games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Datasoft games
Puzzle-platform games
U.S. Gold games
Video games based on Zorro
Video games developed in the United States
ZX Spectrum games
Video games set in California
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Boom%20%281987%20video%20game%29 | is a vertical scrolling shooter developed by Sega and released in the arcades in 1987. Home computer versions for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum were released in 1990 by Activision. The original arcade version was released on the Sega Astro City Mini console in 2021.
Gameplay
As with most scrolling shooters, the player pilots an airplane fighter, armed with a single gun, which can be powered up by collecting power ups dropped by certain colored enemies. The power ups can add a ship to the fighter's left and right sides and increase shot power and range. They can also drop bombs, which can wipe out all weak enemies on screen and do massive damage to stronger enemies.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Sonic Boom on their February 1, 1988 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
The home ports of Sonic Boom received mixed to negative reviews.
Crash had said that it plays very much like Flying Shark and "doesn't offer anything that hasn't already been seen".
The Games Machine''' rated the Atari ST version 79%, the Amiga version 78%, the ZX Spectrum version 76%, the Amstrad CPC version 37% and the Commodore 64 version 64%.Zzap!64 rated the Commodore 64 version 52% and the Amiga version 58%.Amiga Action'' rated the Amiga version 49%.
References
1987 video games
Arcade video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
Sega arcade games
Sega video games
Activision games
Japanese games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Aircraft carriers in fiction
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20synthetic%20biology | Open synthetic biology is the idea that scientific knowledge and data should be openly accessible through common rights licensing to enable the rapid development of safe, effective and commercially viable synthetic biology applications.
Concepts
Its foundational concepts are open science and the Bermuda Principles.
Open science is the idea that scientific research should be openly shared to enable massive collaboration (e.g., the Polymath Project). The Bermuda Principles is a private accord declaring that all DNA sequence data should be released in publicly accessible databases within 24 hours after generation.
Open synthetic biology is a theoretical framework supporting a global ecosystem of responsible and capable research scientists working collaboratively on synthetic biology application development projects to reduce cost, time, and risks of developing new synthetic biology applications (including open synthetic biology therapeutics) from the inception of primary science to applications reaching market readiness and commercial viability.
Its general principle is that participating research scientists agree to share research, data, findings and results with the open synthetic biology community and the public generally. The Open SynBio community will set standards and expectations of the participants and their "science to market" process and the community will work collaboratively with downstream stakeholders (e.g., investors and business advisors) to ensure public safety and general availability of new synthetic biology applications.
Examples
One example of open synthetic biology is when DNA2.0 donated several artificial gene sequences into an open-access repository run by the BioBricks Foundation.
References
Further reading
Open Source Synthetic Biology Could Mean Inexpensive Permanent Cures
Open Source Synthetic Biology: Problems and Solutions, Seton Hall Law
A Knowledge Perspective of Strategic Alliances and Management of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Evolving Research Paradigms, University of Waterloo
Synthetic Biology Open Language Visual
Synthetic biology
Open science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRL%20Radiogram | An ARRL radiogram is an instance of formal written message traffic routed by a network of amateur radio operators through traffic nets, called the National Traffic System (NTS).
It is a plaintext message, along with relevant metadata (headers), that is placed into a traffic net by an amateur radio operator. Each radiogram is relayed, possibly through one or more other amateur radio operators, to a radio operator who volunteers to deliver the radiogram content to its destination.
Form overview
Radiogram forms facilitate a standard protocol between amateur radio operators, allowing much faster relay of formal messages. They do this by always having the message headers in a certain order, allowing operators to read and understand the headers without explicit verbal labels. This is especially important in hectic and stressful environments such as during a disaster, when many parties call upon radio operators to quickly transfer messages in and out of the affected areas.
A typical form has a place for the plaintext message, as well as for several headers that are important for routing the message to its proper destination in a timely manner. These fields include the message's priority, the callsign of the station of origin (the amateur radio operator who placed the message onto the message net), the date and time of origin, contact information of the message's recipient, as well as the callsign of the station that delivered the message.
The headers' purpose and order is logical and intuitive enough that many amateur radio operators have memorized it and in extremis can transmit and receive radiograms without referring to the form.
Current ARRL Radiogram
Preamble part
All messages must have a preamble. The preamble of the message contains information about the message necessary to keep track of it as it passes through the amateur system.
The parts of the preamble, except for the check as noted later, are not changed by any station relaying or delivering the message. They are permanent parts of the message created by the station of origin and must remain with the message all the way to the delivery point. Preamble information is used to service undeliverable messages and to generate replies to specific handling instructions.
Message number
The message number is selected by the station originating the message and it must be on all messages. It stays with the message all the way to the point of delivery. The delivering station may need to reply to the station of origin and refer to this number. Use number digits only, no letters, leading zeros, or dashes. Numbers are usually begun with 1 at the start of a year or month at the pleasure of the originating station.
Message precedence
Letter(s) used to indicate the precedence of the message, and must be on all messages. See the latest Precedence full definitions from ARRL (From ARRL FSD-3).
Precedences
PRECEDENCES (ARRL FSD-3, 2/94) EMERGENCY (Spelled out on form.): Any message having life and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khurram%20Zaki | Syed Khurram Zaki (26 March 1976 – 7 May 2016) was a Pakistani journalist and human rights activist. He was educated in Karachi, where he attended the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences from 1998 to 2001.
Zaki, a Shia, was known for his opposition to religious extremism and banned terrorist organisations such as TTP, ASWJ, and LeJ.
Professional career
Contact Plus
Zaki's professional career began in 2002 at Contact Plus, a BTL division of Interflow Communications. He worked in the Strategy Department as Activation Manager under the leadership of Syed Abdul Karim Tanveer. His work involved lead and management of loyalty clubs to encourage development of products such as Lipton, the tea brand of Unilever Pakistan.
TV One/News ONE
Zaki joined TV One in 2005 as Director/Producer in Current Affairs department working under Sajjad Mir, the former editor of Nawaiwaqt. He directed and produced "Sajjad Mir kay Sath", "Taboo", "Front Page" and many other current affairs and infotainment programs including hosting a number of religious shows himself like "Sirat e Mustaqeem" and "Deen Dialogue". Within two years of joining TV One/News ONE, Taher A. Khan asked him to head and lead the current affairs and infotainment department as Sajjad Mir left News One for Waqt News, Lahore. He also conducted a number of current affairs and political talk shows like "Front Page" and "Election Beat" focusing on Terrorism, Talibanization, Sectarianism and Security issues.
LUBPAK
Zaki was an editor for Let Us Build Pakistan, a blog aimed at supporting "a progressive, inclusive and democratic Pakistan." This blog was censored and blocked by PTA for viewers within Pakistan.
Civil society activism
Sit-in outside CM house Karachi
Pakistani civil society which was mainly dormant after their last vocal and meaningful protest campaign during the lawyers movement, against Gen Musharraf, became revitalised and functional again in the aftermath of the APS attack, Peshawar. The Government of Pakistan announced a crackdown on all banned terrorist outfits and a "National Action Plan" was announced to counter and control the menace of growing religious extremism and terrorism in Pakistan. The Constitution of Pakistan was also amended with 21st amendment which specifically calls for military trial of terrorist groups, terrorists and organisations using the name of religion or a sect for carrying out their terrorist activities. A long-held moratorium on the death penalty was also lifted for quick execution of terrorists. But despite the fact that there was general consensus amongst Pakistanis from all walks of life for strict action against these banned terrorist groups, the government rather faltered and ditched the hopes by not taking any action whatsoever against terrorist outfits and even execution of terrorists from these banned outfits (ASWJ, LeJ, TTP) was subsequently and mysteriously stopped without giving any reason. Taking advantage of this situati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Cyber%20Engineering%20School | The Cyber Engineering School (CIS) (formerly the Norwegian Defence School of Engineering) is a defence and military engineering university located in Lillehammer, Norway. The college was established in 1994.
References
Educational institutions established in 1994
1994 establishments in Norway
Universities and colleges in Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1orf131 | Uncharacterized protein C1orf131 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the gene C1orf131. The first ortholog of this protein was discovered in humans. Subsequently, through the use of algorithms and bioinformatics, homologs of C1orf131 have been discovered in numerous species, and as a result, the name of the majority of the proteins in this protein family is Uncharacterized protein C1orf131 homolog.
Gene
In humans C1orf131 is located on the minus strand of chromosome 1 and on the cytogenetic band 1q42.2 along with 193 other genes. Notably, the gene upstream of C1orf131 is GNPAT, and the gene downstream of C1orf131 is TRIM67. When this gene is transcribed in humans, C1orf131 most often forms an mRNA of 1458 base pairs long which is composed of seven exons. There are at least nine others alternative splice forms in humans that produce proteins. They range in size from 129 base pairs (2 exons) to 1458 base pairs (7 exons).
Protein
In the C1orf131 protein family, the proteins are between 93 and 450 amino acids long; however, the majority tend to be between 160-295 amino acids long. They have a molecular weight between 10.6 and 49.0 kDa with the majority between 18.6 and 32.7 kDa. They have an isoelectric point between 9.6 and 11.2. Over 30 orthologs from mammals, birds and lizards have been identified as having a poly(A) RNA binding site. All orthologs in this protein family have a domain of unknown function DUF4602. The human protein has been shown to be both phosphorylated and acetylated. These proteins are lysines rich, charged amino acids (DEHKR), and basic charged amino acids (HKR). The secondary structure of these proteins primarily consist of alpha helices and coils with a small percentage of beta strands. C1orf131 has been shown to interact with ubiquitin through affinity capture followed by mass spectrometry and APP (amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein) through reconstituted complex.
DUF4602
DUF4602 (PF15375) is generally 120+ amino acids long. There is typically only one gene that contains this DUF domain;however, the DUF domain has been identified in two different proteins in several species. In Trichuris suis DUF4602 is found in both hypothetical protein M5114_09117 and tRNA pseudouridine synthase D, and in Echinocuccus granulosus DUF4602 has been found in hypothetical protein EGR 05135 and expressed conserved protein. DUF4602 has been found primarily in eukaryotes; however, DUF4602 has been identified in the virus DRHN1, Bacillus sp. UNC41MFS5, Enterococcus faecalis, and Enterococcus faecalis 13-SD-W-01. In the C1orf131 orthologs the DUF domains are typically located in the middle of the gene toward the C-terminus side in larger proteins (250+ residues) and in smaller orthologs (160-250 residues) the DUF domain is located near the N-terminus. Also in larger orthologs there are regions of low complexity which could indicate that these proteins are intrinsically disordered proteins.
Evolutionary history
This gene family exis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YPARD | Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) is an international movement for young professionals. YPARD operates as a network in 72 countries through its chapters. This multi-stakeholder platform's main mission is to serve as a collective global network that enables young professionals to realize their full potential and contribute proactively towards innovative and sustainable agricultural development.
The idea of YPARD was born at EFARD (European Forum for Agricultural Research for Development) meeting held in Zürich, Switzerland in May 2005 and was formally launched during a side meeting at the GFAR Triennial conference in New Delhi, India, on 8 November 2006.
Its headquarters are in Prague, Czech Republic, where it is hosted by the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and AGRIDEA.
History
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) states that in the next 35 years the world’s population will increase from 7 billion to over 10 billion. At the same time, agriculture is an ageing and undervalued profession for which there is a declining interest among young people.
Young professionals face numerous challenges including making their voices heard and exerting influence in the field of AR4D. Lack of youth involvement in AR4D has negative implications for the sector, reducing the potential for innovation, use of new communication technologies, inclusivity and future sustainability.
In response to this, in April 2005, at EFARD in Zurich, a small group of young scientists observed that an important policy debate was taking place. This debate had little involvement of young scientists and decides to take action. Two months later in Rome a meeting was held between the group of young professionals and representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the GFAR, Biodiversity International and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
In December 2005, at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), in Marrakech, took place a roundtable with the topic: "How to Increase Young People's Involvement in Agricultural Research for Development (ARD)?" That was the seed, hence between March and June 2006, in Bern, gave the input for the meeting with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) where the initial funding proposal was discussed and signed.
Between May and July 2006 in Wageningen and Leibniz University of Hannover the vision, the mission, the objectives, the governance structure, and the short and long-term activities for the platform were formulated and preparations for the official launch of YPARD began. At the triennial conference of the GFAR, in New Delhi, on 8 November 2006, the Young Professional’s Platform for Agricultural Research for Development is officially launched during a side event.
Goal and objectives
YPARD's goal is to enable and empower young agricultural leaders shaping sustainable food sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexoo | Lexoo is a UK-based legal technology company launched in June 2014 with headquarters in London, United Kingdom. Lexoo delivers legal services to companies worldwide through a network of more than 1100 lawyers across 70 countries.
History
Lexoo was founded in June 2014 by Daniel van Binsbergen, a former lawyer at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, and Chris O'Sullivan, a developer, having raised $400,000 in seed funding from Forward Partners and Jonathan McKay, the Chairman of JustGiving. In November 2015, Lexoo raised a further $1.3 million in funding from a number of investors, including the London Co-Investment Fund, Duncan Jennings (founder of Vouchercodes.co.uk), Tim Jackson of Lean Investments, Robin Grant (founder of We Are Social) and Forward Partners. In October 2018, Lexoo raised $4.4 million in a Series A round led by Earlybird, with additional financing from Forward Partners and Zoopla general counsel (GC) Ned Staple.
Media coverage
TechCrunch identified that, compared to other markets, the fees charged by legal practitioners are traditionally non transparent, and considered Lexoo “a classic example of how markets can be made more efficient and transparent by moving them online”.
Forbes described Lexoo as “the democratisation of legal services”, noting that “the participating solicitors know they are quoting in a competitive environment, so they will offer their best price up front, without businesses having to ask for it. All the ingredients of a classic disruptive start-up.”
In June 2015, the Financial Times selected Lexoo as its "Innovation to Watch" and Startups.co.uk listed Lexoo among the top 100 startups in the UK in 2015.
Lexoo has also been featured by PE Hub, Legal Futures, Talk Business Magazine, the Guardian, and Tech City News.
In 2019, Harvard Business School made a case study out of Lexoo, which involved three Harvard professors visiting Lexoo’s London offices and focusing on the decisions needed to start and then grow the company, in particular its decision to refocus from SMEs to the in-house legal market.
References
External links
Technology companies based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20China | The following is a list of the exports of China.
Data is for 2022, in billions of US$, as reported by the Observatory of Economic Complexity. The top thirty exports are listed.
See also
List of exports of the United States
List of exports of France
List of exports of India
List of exports of Thailand
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Products exported by China (2012)
Foreign trade of China
Exports
China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Poland | The following is a list of the exports of Poland.
List
Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty exports are listed.
References
Poland
Foreign trade of Poland
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Sobolev | Boris Sobolev is a Russian-born Canadian health services researcher. He is an author of Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research and Health Care Evaluation Using Computer Simulation: Concepts, Methods and Applications, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Health Services Research series published by Springer Science+Business Media.
Biography
Sobolev received a University Diploma in Applied Mathematics from Tomsk State University in 1983, a PhD in Applied Statistics from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1989, and completed his post-doctoral training at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria in 1990. He came to Canada to work at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1996, and joined the University of British Columbia, Canada as a professor at the School of Population and Public Health in 2008. There he has taught a variety of courses, and introduced a new course on causal inferences into the curriculum. He also leads the Health Services and Outcomes Research Program at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation.
Research
Sobolev started his academic career at the Radiation Epidemiology Institute at the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, studying cancer risk in relation to exposure resulting from the Chernobyl accident. At Queen's University, he worked at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, examining how people get access to health care, what services they use, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. Sobolev is best known for pioneering the epidemiological approach to studying risk of adverse events in relation to time of receiving medical services. Currently, he leads the Canadian Collaborative Study on Hip Fractures.
Teaching
In 2014, Sobolev introduced the course "Causal Inference in Public Health Sciences" to the graduate curriculum of the School of Population and Public Health, the University of British Columbia. The purpose of this course is to develop competency in applying causal inference methodology to observational data. It addresses a recognized need for a graduate-level course that links concepts and practical skills for making causal inference in epidemiology, health services research, occupational and environmental health.
Honours and awards
Sobolev was awarded a Young Scientist Summer Program Fellowship at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna in 1990, was the 2004 PWIAS Early Career Scholar award recipient, and became the Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Modeling of the Health Care System in 2003 - a distinction he held through to 2013.
Health Services Research series
Sobolev serves as Editor-in-Chief for this 5-volume series published by Springer. The first two volumes of the series, Medical Practice Variations and Comparative Effectiveness Research, were published in 2016.
References
1960 births
Living people
Canada Research Chairs
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Canadian sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Germany | The following is a list of the exports of Germany. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top thirty exports are listed.
See also
Economy of Germany
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Products exported by Germany (2012)
Germany
Exports
Foreign trade of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Japan | The following is a list of the exports of Japan. Data is for 2016-2020, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the exports contributing at least 0.67% to total export in any year are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Products exported by Japan (2012)
Foreign trade of Japan
Japan
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average%20memory%20access%20time | In computer science, Average Memory Access Time (AMAT) is a common metric to analyze computer memory system performance.
Metric
AMAT uses hit time, miss penalty, and miss rate to measure memory performance. It accounts for the fact that hits and misses affect memory system performance differently. In addition, AMAT can be extended recursively to multiple layers of the memory hierarchy. It focuses on how locality and cache misses affect overall performance and allows for a quick analysis of different cache design techniques. A tacit assumption of AMAT is that a data access is either a hit or a miss, meaning the memory only supports sequential accesses and cannot have multiple accesses occurring simultaneously. Recently AMAT has been extended to consider concurrent data access. A model, called Concurrent-AMAT (C-AMAT), is introduced for more accurate analysis of current memory systems. More information on C-AMAT can be found in the external links section.
AMAT's three parameters hit time (or hit latency), miss rate, and miss penalty provide a quick analysis of memory systems. Hit latency (H) is the time to hit in the cache. Miss rate (MR) is the frequency of cache misses, while average miss penalty (AMP) is the cost of a cache miss in terms of time. Concretely it can be defined as follows.
It can also be defined recursively as,
where
In this manner, this recursive definition can be extended throughout all layers of the memory hierarchy.
References
External links
An overview of Concurrent Average Memory Access Time (C-AMAT)
Computer memory
Cache (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20Communication | Beat Communication Co., Ltd. is supplying software for enterprise social networking services in Japan. They have Japanese customers such as NTT Data, Canon Marketing Japan Inc., Japanese Consumer's Cooperative Union, All Nippon Airways Trading Co., Ltd. Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co.,Ltd., ITX Corporation, ITX, Reitaku University, etc.
In 2013, they acquired the social networking blog site in Japan called “Socialnetworking.jp” that started in 2004. Next year in 2014, ITR, Research Company mentioned in the report that Beat Communication is the leading top company in the field of enterprise social networking industry in Japan followed by Microsoft the second.
The interview with global leaders about “technology and work style” has been picked up on the national media several times. Some of the interviews are Dr. Heizo Takenaka, ex- Minister at Japanese government, Dr. Jiro Kokuryo, chairman of Keio University, Mr. Seiichiro Hino of Microsoft Japan and Mr. Muneyuki Okawa of Salesforce Japan.
History
Ryo Murai wanted to become an inventor from when he was little like Edison according to his interview. He used to be a banker but he started experimental development of software for social graph service at the Incubation Village in Shonan Fujisawa Campus of Keio University in December 2003. He founded Beat Communication Co., Ltd.in Jan. 2004 and released “Beat Communication Package” probably the first enterprise social networking solution in the world ever recorded.
The second software product was called “Beat Style”, it was developed and released in May 2005. The unique feature of “Beat Style” was with the function of Q&A community (Enabling Community for Question and Answer to exchange between employees) together with that of social networking.
In January 2007, internal Wikipedia function was added to “Beat Style”.
In June 2007 they developed software for measuring reduction service called “Eco Style”. At the same time head office of Beat Communication was relocated from Aoyama to Shibuya in Tokyo.
References
Companies established in 2004
Software companies based in Tokyo
Software companies of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%20Safety%20Check | Facebook Safety Check (sometimes called Facebook Crisis Response) is a feature managed by the social networking company Facebook. The feature is activated by the company during natural or man-made disasters and terror-related incidents to quickly determine whether people in the affected geographical area are safe.
History
Release
The feature was developed by Facebook engineers, inspired by people's use of social media to connect with friends and family in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Originally named the Disaster Message Board, it was renamed to Safety Check prior to release. It was introduced on October 15, 2014. Its first major deployment was on Saturday, April 25, 2015, in the wake of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. The tool was deployed again in the wake of the May 2015 Nepal earthquake, during Pacific Hurricane Patricia in October 2015, and during the November 2015 Paris attacks, the latter being the first time the tool was used in response to a non-natural disaster. On March 22, 2016, during reports of explosions at an airport and train station in Brussels, the feature was turned on again, but there was a delay in turning it on after it was revealed it was a suicide bomber attack.
On June 2, 2016, Facebook announced that it would start experimenting with community-activated Safety Checks. With the new system, Safety Check would be activated based on combination of a certain number of people posting about a particular crisis plus an alert from one of Facebook's third-party sources. Users would also be able to share and spread the word about the Safety Check once it was activated. Facebook hoped the changes would lead to more consistent, frequent, and streamlined deployments around the world.
On February 8, 2017, Facebook introduced a Community Help feature to the Safety Check crisis response tool. It allows users to search through categorized posts, offer local assistance, and connect with providers over Facebook Messenger. In June 2017, Facebook announced several updates to Safety Check, including the Community Help feature coming to desktops. It was also made possible for users to start fundraisers from within Safety Check.
Deployment in the context of the Nepal earthquake
On Saturday, April 25, 2015, an earthquake struck Nepal, with an estimated loss of a few thousand lives. Within a few hours of the earthquake hitting, Facebook had activated Safety Check in the region. It identified users as possibly being in the affected area by their current city as listed on their profile, as well as the place from which they had most recently accessed Facebook. The desktop version of Safety Check also provided a brief synopsis of the event and emergency contact numbers.
During the activation more than 7 million people in the affected area were marked safe, which generated notifications to over 150 million friends on the platform.
The tool was deployed again in the wake of the May 2015 Nepal earthquake, and received |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Italy | The following is a list of the top thirty exports of Italy. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Products exported by Italy (2012)
Italy
Exports
Foreign relations of Italy
Foreign trade of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Australian reality television series The Block, retroactively retitled The Block 2004, aired on the Nine Network. Jamie Durie returned as host from the first season as did judge John McGrath. It first premiered on 18 April 2004.
Following the success of the first season, an expanded second season of 26 episodes, airing twice weekly, premiered on 18 April 2004. The series was again set in Sydney, although in the suburb of Manly rather than Bondi where the first season was located.
Auction
Reception
Though the viewership was lower this season from season one, the season was successful in the ratings with an average viewership of 1.6 million watching daily, and the Grand Finale of the season had a viewership of 2.273 million.
Controversy
Two original contestants, Dani and Monique Bacha, left the program in January 2004, two weeks into the second series, when it was reported that Dani had spent six months in jail in 2002 following his conviction for a drug-related offence and Monique's grandfather had died. The couple decided it was best to leave in order to protect friends and family. Andrew Rochford and Jamie Nicholson replaced Dani and Monique Bacha.
References
2004 Australian television seasons
2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block 2010, aired on the Nine Network. Jamie Durie didn't return as host and was replaced by Scott Cam, John McGrath returned as judge & introduced new judge Neale Whitaker, premiered on Wednesday, 22 September 2010 at 7:00 pm.
After a long break, the series was revived in 2010 with a set of four apartments in the upmarket suburb of Vaucluse in Sydney being renovated and Scott Cam replacing Jamie Durie as host.
Results
Room Reveals
Colour key:
Indicates weekly room winner
Auction
Ratings
References
2010 Australian television seasons
3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Pacific%20Geoparks%20Network | The Asia Pacific Geoparks Network (APGN) is the regional geopark network of the Global Geoparks Network (GGN) and the UNESCO International Geosciences and Geoparks Programme (UNESCO-IGGP). Its main role is to coordinate the activities of GGN in the UNESCO regions of Asia and the Pacific, to promote networking between global geoparks and geopark professionals in the region and to provide support for sustainable economic development in geopark areas. As of 2020 February, the APGN had 60 institutional members (UNESCO Global Geoparks) in countries. The Pacific region is currently not represented by a global geopark, but there are ongoing geopark projects, just as in other countries of Asia.
Organization
The APGN was founded in 2007 based on the proposal at the 1st Asia Pacific Geoparks Symposium in Langkawi (Malaysia). It was endorsed by GGN in 2008 and became its official regional geopark network in 2013, in compliance with its Rules of Operation.
Governing bodies
The governing bodies of the regional network as an agency are:
Advisory Committee: comprises the representatives of the founding members of the APGN, who meet annually to make the decisions on memberships and supporting programmes on geoheritage conservation, promotion of geoheritage education and awareness, and monitor the progress of the network
Coordination Committee: made up of two official nominated representatives from each UNESCO Global Geopark of the network(a geoscientist and a specialist on geoparks development or governance) and a representative from UNESCO. It meets twice a year and overviews the admission of new members to the network and has an advisory role of geopark governance.
Secretariat: providing the daily management of the network, supported by the Chinese Geoparks Network and the office of GGN in Beijing.
Regional Administrative Members
The personnel recognized as official members of the regional agency are:
Institutional Members: UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGp) located in the Asia Pacific Region.
Individual Members: professionals of geoconservation, sustainable development, tourism development, and environmental issues of GGN in Asia and the Pacific
Honorary Members: individuals who have rendered exceptional service to the UNESCO Global Geoparks community or to the GGN from the Asia Pacific region
National Representatives: nominated by member countries to represent them in the Advisory Committee (AC) and Coordination Committee (CC).
Cooperating Members: international organizations, institutions, or individuals providing substantial financial or other assistance to GGN/APGN.
Asia Pacific Global Geopark membership
List of geoparks in the Asia Pacific region
The region only approximately follows continental guidelines. Turkey and Russia are in the European network. Iran is in the Asia Pacific. Otherwise the country distribution is Australasia.
Map of Asia Pacific geoparks
Asia Pacific geoparks by nation
The member states of the APGN have established n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Brazil | The following is a list of the exports of Brazil. Data is for 2012, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty exports are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Products exported by Brazil (2012)
Brazil
Exports
Foreign trade of Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoD%20Secure%20Kiosk | DoD Secure Kiosk (DSK) is a secure, low-cost, thin client-derived, custom-built, web browsing appliance that uses a run-time environment (RTE) instead of an operating system, to execute only the code it boots from read-only memory (ROM). It was designed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for low-cost and security, and to need no maintenance or updating.
DSK is accredited by the United States Air Force (USAF) for use on the Department of Defense's (DoD's) private NIPRNet network. It's deployed across the Air Force in every Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) office and several, major aircraft depots.
References
Thin clients
Web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20aircraft%20and%20spacecraft%20exports | The following is a list of countries by exports of aircraft, including helicopters, and spacecraft (Harmonized System code 8802). Data is for 2016, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
Note: Export realized under secret code are not counted. The use of secret code is particularly frequent for military equipment, including military aircraft. Example: Russia exported 14 fighter aircraft Su-30 in the year 2016, as well as other types of military aircraft. Depending on sources, the Su-30 are sold at more or less US$50 million per unit.
Sources
Aerospace
Aircraft and spacecraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Alive%21 | America Alive! was an American television talk-variety program created by Woody Fraser. The show had a brief run on NBC, which aired it as part of its weekday daytime programming schedule from July 24, 1978, until January 4, 1979.
Overview
After helping to develop Good Morning America for ABC, producer Woody Fraser was recruited by then-NBC entertainment president Fred Silverman to create America Alive!. The show was developed to be an alternative for female viewers who wanted a reprieve from the standard daytime fare presented by the three broadcast networks and local stations—usually soap operas, game shows, lifestyle shows aimed at homemakers, and news programs. NBC made a hefty financial investment in the show, which contained live in-studio and satellite remote segments, and was produced in front of a live audience at NBC's New York City studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Jack Linkletter was the show's primary host, based in New York. Janet Langhart (hired away from her co-hosting position on Good Day! on WCVB-TV in Boston) and Bruce Jenner (two years removed from their gold medal-winning performance at the 1976 Summer Olympics) were added as co-hosts and presented remote segments, with Langhart reporting from various Eastern locations and Jenner from Los Angeles. The trio were joined by regular contributors including roving correspondent Pat Mitchell; newspaper columnist Sheilah Graham, who presented a celebrity gossip segment; Los Angeles entertainment critic David Sheehan; consumer reporter David Horowitz; and comedians Dick Orkin and Bert Berdis. A regular segment on women's health, featuring research from Masters and Johnson, was also included.
Scheduling
America Alive! aired live at 12 Noon Eastern/11:00 am Central (tape-delayed in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, where it was scheduled at 11:00 am), replacing Sanford and Son reruns and The Gong Show in NBC's daytime schedule. This placement caused problems as many NBC affiliates on the East Coast aired local newscasts at Noon, thus resulting in some stations pre-empting all or part of the program. NBC stations of note which did not carry America Alive! included WSB-TV in Atlanta; WBZ-TV in Boston (now a CBS owned-and-operated station); WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina; WTLV in Jacksonville; WAVE-TV in Louisville; WCKT in Miami; WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York; WFLA-TV in Tampa; and WPTV in West Palm Beach. Additionally, three NBC affiliates in Ohio–WLWT in Cincinnati, WCMH-TV in Columbus, and WDTN in Dayton–declined to clear America Alive! and opted to continue with The Bob Braun Show, a long-running, regionally-distributed program which originated from Cincinnati. Other NBC affiliates, such as WBAL-TV in Baltimore; WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina; WSM-TV in Nashville; KYW-TV in Philadelphia (now a CBS owned-and-operated station); WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia; WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island; and KSD-TV in St. Louis, aired only a half-hour of the show.
Several months i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20computer%20exports | The following is a list of countries by computer exports. Data is for 2014, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top fifteen countries are listed.
The list does not include Taiwan, due to political reasons. Its number is included in China's, even though China does not control or have influence over Taiwan. Every year, one of three laptops sold in the world is produced by one single Taiwanese company, -- Quanta Computer.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Computers (2012)
Computer
Computer industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20gas%20turbine%20exports | The following is a list of countries by gas turbine exports. Data is for 2012 & 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top 20 countries (as of 2016) are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Gas Turbines (2012)
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Gas Turbines (2016)
Gas turbine
Gas turbines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20LTE%20networks%20in%20Europe | This is a list of commercial Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks in Europe, grouped by their frequency bands.
Some operators use multiple bands and are therefore listed multiple times in respective sections.
General information
For technical details on LTE and a list of its designated operating frequencies, bands, and roaming possibilities, see LTE frequency bands.
Note: This list of network deployments does not imply any widespread deployment or national coverage.
Commercial deployments
Deployments in the 3400–3800 MHz range
Deployments at 410 MHz and 450 MHz
Commercial deployments (old table format)
See also
LTE
LTE frequency bands
List of LTE networks
List of planned LTE networks
List of UMTS networks
List of HSPA+ networks
List of CDMA2000 networks
UMTS frequency bands
List of mobile network operators of Europe
Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 2xx (Europe)
References
Europe-related lists
Lists by country
LTE (telecommunication)
Telecommunications lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20refined%20petroleum%20exports | The following is a list of countries by exports of refined petroleum, including gasoline. Data is for 2022, in billion of United States dollars. Currently the top 10 countries are listed. According to Worlds Top Exports
References
Refined petroleum
Refined petroleum exports
Exports, refined
Petroleum economics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%27s%20Super%20Team | Sanjay's Super Team is a computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Sanjay Patel, and based on his childhood, it premiered on June 15, 2015 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, and accompanied the theatrical release of Pixar's The Good Dinosaur on November 25, 2015.
Inspired by Patel's own childhood when he felt conflicted by the modern world and the Hindu traditions of his family, Sanjay's Super Team follows the daydream of a young Indian boy, bored with his father's religious meditation, who imagines Hindu gods as superheroes.
Plot
A young boy, Sanjay, is watching his favorite superhero show, Super Team, at home and sketching its characters in his notebook. At the same time, his father is trying to meditate at a small Hindu shrine in the same room. Each is annoyed by the sounds of the other's activity until Sanjay's father turns off the television, confiscates his son's Super Team action figure, and makes him participate in prayer. Sanjay retrieves the toy while his father is distracted, but accidentally sets its cape on fire from the shrine's oil lamp. While putting out the cape, he extinguishes the lamp as well and is transported to a temple with three stone statues.
Suddenly, the evil demon king, Ravana, appears and begins to steal the statues' weapons. Sanjay breaks the light-up mechanism in his toy and uses it to ignite the giant lamp in the middle of the room, bringing the statues to life as the gods Vishnu, Durga, and Hanuman. The gods begin to fend off Ravana’s attacks and ring their bells to drive him back, but he retaliates, destroying their bells.
Sanjay recognizes the giant lamp as an upside-down bell and breaks his toy on it to ring it aloud, calming Ravana who peacefully departs from the temple. Sanjay receives a new toy from Vishnu as well as his blessing, then finds himself back in the real world, the cape on his action figure intact. His father returns the remote control, disappointed at his son's lack of interest in their cultural traditions. Sanjay begins drawing in his notebook and surprises his father with a new sketch: the gods from his daydream watching over the Super Team heroes.
The story ends with real life pictures of Sanjay Patel and his father, during his childhood and in the present day.
Production
The inspiration for the short film came from Patel's own childhood, growing up in San Bernardino in the 1980s, in a family of Indian immigrants. Like many American children of the era, he played with Transformers, watched Looney Tunes cartoons and read Superman comics. He also performed daily Hindu rituals of meditation and prayer with his father. He felt conflicted by his parents' traditions, saying "Our worlds were diametrically apart. I just wanted my name to be Travis, not Sanjay."
Growing up, he became more confident with his identity, although he still found it challenging to openly embrace his Indian background at work. As a child, he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiJi | TiJi is a French television channel for children aged three to six.
History
Launched in 2000, TiJi was the first channel in France to specialize in programming for preschool-aged children. At launch, it broadcast between 5:30am and 9:00pm.
A strong increase in the audience of the channel was noted between December 2002 to June 2003, when its share of the preschool audience increased by 60%, reaching 0.8% total share. From 2002 to 2003, in houses and apartments with cable or satellite television, 43% of children aged 4-10 began viewing Tiji.
In 2008, it extended its time to 12pm so international viewers could watch easier. The channel played a signoff bumper for French viewers at 9pm followed by a notice for parents that the channel ended at 12pm for international viewers. Programming would resume as normal until signing off again at midnight.
A Russian feed was launched in 2009, airing all programming dubbed into Russian. On 31 January 2022 a Kazakh audio track was added for the Russian feed of the channel, airing most of the channel's programs with voice-overs for the audience in Kazakhstan.
On 1 February 2019, M6 Group had entered negotiations with Lagardère Active to acquire their television pole, including TiJi, Gulli and Canal J.
On 21 October 2019 the logo's cloud remained the same but small changes were added, somewhat inspired by the current Canal J logo with also a new look and a new sound jingle.
Audience
As of March 2009, TiJi was in the top five of thematic channels in France, with the audience share of 0.6%. It was also the second most popular channel among children after Canal J, with the audience share of 4% among children aged four to ten.
International channels
The channel is variously distributed in French (French-speaking Europe and Africa, overseas French territories, Lebanon and the Balkans), Portuguese, Russian and Kazakh.
Current channels
References
Further reading
Reviews
External links
(in French)
(in Russian)
Television stations in France
Children's television networks
Lagardère Active
Television channels and stations established in 2000
Television channels in Russia
Preschool education television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20ship%20exports | The following is a list of countries by passenger and cargo ship exports. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
See also
Modern day shipbuilding
Shipbuilding countries list
References
External links
Trading in Sea transport report
Global trade in floating structures
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Passenger and Cargo Ships (2012)
Ship
Shipbuilding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence%20sharing | Intelligence sharing is "the ability to exchange intelligence, information, data, or knowledge among Federal, state, local or private-sector entities as appropriate." Intelligence sharing also involves intergovernmental bilateral or multilateral agreements and through international organizations. Intelligence sharing is meant to facilitate the use of actionable intelligence to a broader range of decision-makers.
Intelligence sharing is contrasted with information sharing, which may share the same methods of dissemination, but involves non-evaluated materials that have not been put through the rigors of the intelligence cycle.
History
Intelligence sharing, as a formal action performed by intelligence agencies and intergovernmental organizations, is a newer phenomena. Especially in the United States Intelligence Community, intelligence sharing was not formalized until after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when the need for intelligence sharing was the greatest. Before 9/11, many of the major US intelligence agencies, especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were protective of their information, and were unwilling to share information with the other agency, finding the other's methods to interfere with better procedure. The formalization of intelligence sharing began with the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention and Act of 2004, which changed the overall structure of the US intelligence community, and formed the Department of Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also became the umbrella organization for 15 intelligence agencies, between which the DHS would facilitate information sharing and collaboration.
In addition, the formation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence facilitated the sharing of intelligence between agencies and administrates several centers for improving intelligence work, including the Information Sharing Environment.
Types of Intelligence Sharing Networks
According to Joseph Pfeifer, there are 4 different type of networks which can be created to facilitate intelligence sharing: hierarchical, co-located liaisons, hub-and-spoke, and network fusion.
Hierarchical linear intelligence systems involve singular, point to point connections between agencies, such as between a federal and state level organization, a state organization to a local entity, or bilateral agreements between states. These sharing mechanisms tend to be slow, but allow for increased security, as there is a tightly controlled exchange of intelligence.
Co-located liaisons networks involve the creation of cooperative, multi-agency or multi-governmental locations which house representatives and analysts from a diverse set of agencies. In these organizations, there are typically dedicated buildings and organizations to facilitate such intelligence sharing. The most common example of co-located liaisons networks are fusio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Broken%20Chain | The Broken Chain is a 1993 TV movie made by the TNT network. It tells the true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
Cast
Pierce Brosnan: William Johnson
Eric Schweig: Thayendanegea, also known as Joseph Brant
Wes Studi: Seth/Chief/Speaker for the Tribes
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Gesina 'Grandmother'/Seth's wife
Graham Greene: Peace Maker (Spirit)
Elaine Bilstad: Catherine
External links
1993 television films
1993 films
American Revolutionary War films
Films about Native Americans
French and Indian War films
TNT Network original films
Films scored by Charles Fox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 42nd Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which honors the crafts behind American daytime television programming, was held at the Hilton Universal City Hotel in Los Angeles on April 24, 2015. The event was presented in conjunction with the 42nd Daytime Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The nominations were announced on March 31, 2015.
The ceremony was held with Jeopardy! icon Alex Trebek and The Brady Bunch actress Florence Henderson serving as the ceremony's hosts.
Winners and nominees
In the lists below, the winner of the category is in bold.
Animated programs
Children's Series
Drama Series
Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Series
Lifestyle, Culinary, and Travel programs
Outstanding Spanish Programs
Special Classes
References
042 Creative Arts
2014 television awards
2014 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau%20van%20Dijk | Bureau van Dijk is a major publisher of business information, and specialises in private company data combined with software for searching and analysing companies. It is a Moody's Analytics company. Orbis is Bureau van Dijk's flagship company database.
On 15 May 2017 it was announced that Moody's entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bureau van Dijk, which completed in August 2017.
Overview
Bureau van Dijk's product range combines data from regulatory and other sources, including 160 information providers, with software to allow users to manipulate data for a range of research needs and applications. Unlike other providers of content, Bureau van Dijk reveals their sources and shows the source data – allowing users to create their own analytics and predictive analysis based on underlying primary data and reporting.
The majority of staff focus on sales, marketing and customer support in offices in: Amsterdam, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington D.C. and Zurich.
Bureau van Dijk's research team collects both global M&A data and intelligence around corporate ownership structures, and is based in Manchester, Brussels and Singapore. It also has a team of journalists writing news stories on deals and market rumours.
Product management and software development are based in the Geneva and Brussels offices. The company has over 5,000 clients including banks, insurance companies, financial and consulting organisations, governments and research institutes. Bureau van Dijk claims to offer the most powerful comparable resource of information on private companies in the world. The company brand statement is "The Business of Certainty". The company regularly blogs content and white papers, offering free resources on compliance and other risk areas.
History
The origin of Bureau van Dijk dates back to the 1970s. Belgian businessman Marcel van Dijk established a company specialising in documentary and information systems, named "Bureau Marcel van Dijk". In 1972, its activities were further deployed in the two companies established in Paris and Brussels.
In 1985, on the retirement of Marcel van Dijk, Professor Bernard van Ommeslaghe and Alain Liedts took over the company and extended its operations to include management consulting, auditing and IT support. In 1987, Bureau van Dijk took the pioneering role in Europe by launching a new activity: the design and dissemination on CD-ROM (the precursor to Bureau van Dijk's online databases) of economic and financial databases with information on companies.
In 1991, a second company, "Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing", was formed to assume responsibility for updating and expanding these databases, while the consulting division remained |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Pastor | Oscar Pastor may refer to:
Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor (1931–2011), Roman Catholic archbishop of Piura, Peru
Óscar Pastor (computer scientist) (born 1962), Spanish computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202004%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2004 in music
List of number-one singles of 2004 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2004 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2004
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Organisations%20Data%20Initiative | The Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) is an international collaboration to improve the availability and reliability of data on petroleum and natural gas. First named the "Joint Oil Data Exercise", the collaboration was launched in April 2001 with six international organisations: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), International Energy Agency (IEA), (OLADE), Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). In 2005, the effort was renamed JODI, joined by the International Energy Forum (IEF), and covered more than 90% of the global oil market. The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) joined as an eighth partner in 2014, enabling JODI also to cover nearly 90% of the global market for natural gas.
References
External links
Energy economics
International energy organizations
2001 establishments in the United States
Companies established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20HYDRAstor | NEC HYDRAstor is a disk-based grid storage system with data deduplication for backups and archiving, developed by NEC Corporation. A HYDRAstor storage system can be composed of multiple nodes, starting from one up to 100+ nodes. Each node contains standard hardware including disk drives, CPU, memory and network interfaces and is integrated with the HYDRAstor software into a single storage pool. HYDRAstor software incorporates multiple features of distributed storage systems: content-addressable storage, global data deduplication, variable block size, Rabin fingerprinting, erasure codes, data encryption and load balancing.
History
HYDRAstor project was started in 2002 by Cezary Dubnicki and Cristian Ungureanu in NEC Research in Princeton, NJ. Prototype version was implemented and evaluated in 2004. After another 3 years of development, first version of HYDRAstor was brought to the market in US and Japan. Subsequent version with improved software and hardware were released in following years, with latest version, HS8-5000, providing 72TB raw storage per node, up to 11.88PB of raw capacity in its maximum configuration.
Main features
HYDRAstor can be scaled from single node to 165 nodes in a multi-rack grid appliance. Capacity and bandwidth can be scaled independently by using different types of nodes:
storage nodes – adding capacity
hybrid nodes – adding both capacity and performance
HYDRAstor supports online expansion, with automatic data migration and with no downtime. In standard configuration, HYDRAstor provides resiliency to up to 3 concurrent disk or node failures. Failures are automatically detected and data reconstruction is automatically performed, which means that if time between failures is enough to reconstruct data, system can withstand any number of them.
References
Backup software
Backup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal%20Henry%20Wrubel | Marshal Henry Wrubel (31 March 1924 in New York City – 26 October 1968) was a child prodigy in music, an astrophysicist, and the first director of Indiana University's Research Computing Center.
At age 11 Marshal Wrubel entered the Juilliard School to study piano. In 1944 he graduated from Juilliard and also graduated from CUNY with a B.A. in physics. After graduation, he served in the U. S. Army for two years and worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. After completing his military service Wrubel entered in 1946 the astrophysics doctoral program of the University of Chicago and received in 1949 his Ph.D. under Chandrasekhar. He spent the 1949-1950 academic year at Princeton University as a postdoc on a National Research Council Fellowship. According to Paul Routly, Wrubel At Indiana University he became in 1950 an assistant professor and in 1966 a full professor of astronomy. Wrubel was the director of Indiana University's Research Computing Center from 1955 to 1958; the Center was renamed in his honor in 1973. For the academic year 1968–1969 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado, but in October 1968 he went for a mountain hike with his daughter and died from a heart attack. Marshal Wrubel was survived by his daughters, Emily and Julia, and his wife Natalie Wrubel, née Frank, (1925–2010), who was his high school sweetheart and married him in 1946. The asteroid 1765 Wrubel is named in his honor.
Selected works
Stellar interiors, Handbuch der Physik, vol. 51, 1958
Primer of programming for digital computers, McGraw Hill 1959
as editor: Proceedings of the National Science Foundation conference on stellar atmospheres, held at Indiana University, September/October 1954, 1955
References
1924 births
1968 deaths
American astrophysicists
City College of New York alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Indiana University faculty
Juilliard School alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20in%20Aging%20Studies | The European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS) is a research network that connects researchers interested in the study of cultural aging. The parallel network in North America is called the North-American Network in Aging Studies. Both networks (ENAS and NANAS) aim to facilitate cooperation among their existing members as well as with new collaborators.
History
ENAS was first established in 2010 within the framework of the project ‘Live to be a Hundred: The Cultural Fascination with Longevity’. The European Network in Aging Studies was re-launched as a formal international association at the end of this project. The inaugural ENAS conference was held in 2011 at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Entitled 'Theorizing Age: Challenging the Disciplines', it aimed at building bridges across the circuits of sciences and humanities.
Mission
By facilitating collaboration between researchers and focussing on cultural aging, ENAS contributes to fighting ageism, which has many negative effects (e.g. unsatisfactory intergenerational ties, cumulative negative health effects). Indeed, health research experts state that a humanities expertise is needed to expand current understandings of old age and the impacts of ageism. They explain that organizations like ENAS will help foster such collaborations: "Organizations such as the Gerontological Society of America, the European Network in Aging Studies, and the North American Network in Aging Studies can facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration." The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology mentions ENAS as an example of the increasing acceptance of transdisciplinarity between literary studies and gerontology. In age studies, ENAS is presented as a way forward to "gather, cluster, and aggregate together the scattered people, ideas, publications, and energies now fomenting scholarly and social change in the aging scene".
Cultural aging
Cultural age is defined not only as a biological function nor a calendar mark, but also as all the meanings ascribed to categories of age across different places and times. It takes into account the diverse realities of aging including how it intersects with disability, gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, class, etc. Researchers use narrative, performative, and materiality approaches to study age. For example, they analyze representations (e.g. autobiography, fiction), cultural scripts connected to life stages, as well as the ways people manage the physical changes that come with age.
Scholarly activities
ENAS is a series editor. It produces books about the cultural study of aging.
ENAS holds conferences and offers summer schools. Its members collaborate to their partners’ projects, for example 'Act your age', a project centered on aging bodies and dance.
They have many ongoing projects about the cultural narratives of longevity, the media and identity formation, healthy aging, gender and literature, and online dating.
See also
Ageing studies
Gerontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcell | Tcell is a mobile network brand in Tajikistan, owned and operated by the Tajik company Indigo Tajikistan, owned by AKFED (Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development).
The Tcell network offers mobile telephony and mobile internet services in Tajikistan using GSM, UMTS, HSPA and LTE technologies.
On 6 August 2020, they switched on its first 5G base stations connected to its live mobile network in central Dushanbe.
References
External links
Communications in Tajikistan
Companies of Tajikistan
Aga Khan Development Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavani%20Thuraisingham | Bhavani Thuraisingham is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Professor of computer science and the executive director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a visiting senior research fellow in the Department of Informatics at Kings College University of London and a 2017–2018 Cyber Security Policy Fellow at New America.
Education
Thuraisingham received a B.Sc. in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and physics from the University of Ceylon in 1975. She received an M.Sc. in mathematical logic and foundations of computer science from the University of Bristol and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and 1984 respectively. She earned a Ph.D. in the theory of computation and computability theory from the University of Wales, Swansea in 1979 and a Doctor of Engineering at the University of Bristol in 2011.
Career
Thuraisingham has worked in commercial industry for Honeywell, Federally Funded Research and Development Center (MITRE), Government (NSF) and Academia. She conducts research in cyber security and specializes in applying data analytics for cyber security.
Awards and honors
IEEE Fellow, 2003
IEEE Computer Society 1997 Technical Achievement Award
AAAS Fellow, 2003
British Computer Society Fellow, 2005
ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award, 2010
ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2010
ACM Fellow, 2018
References
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
Sri Lankan computer scientists
1955 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXTV | PX Sports (Primero Action Sports Television) is a Spanish-language pay television channel that focuses on music, lifestyle and extreme action sports related programming including live and pre-recorded events such as surfing, skateboarding, MMA, motocross, drifting, and snowboarding.
PXTV was founded in April 2011 and headquartered in Mexico City. The sports network has over 500 hours of original programming in collaboration with production houses such as Blue Print.
The network is currently broadcasting in Latin America in countries such as Mexico on Totalplay channel 528, Megacable channel 318, Cablecom channel 222, Ultravision channel 407, and Cablevision Monterrey on channel 310. PXTV broadcasts in Colombia on TIGO channel 252, and on HV Multiplay channel 13. It also broadcasts in the United States with AT&T Uverse on channel 3122 with a recent launch on TV Everywhere.
In July 2016, Olympusat added the channel to its OTT platform, VEMOX.
In January 2017, the channel was renamed to PX Sports.
References
Television stations in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Spanish-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superloop | Superloop may refer to:
SuperLoop, a bus rapid transit system in San Diego, California
Superloop (company), an Australian telecommunications company
London Superloop, a network of bus routes in London, UK
Super Loops, later known as Fire Ball, an amusement ride by Larson Company
SuperLOOP, a waterslide by ProSlide Technology; similar to the AquaLoop
See also
Adelaide 500, known as the Superloop Adelaide 500 for sponsorship reasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma%20%282015%20TV%20series%29 | Karma () is a 2015 Hong Kong horror television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The first episode premiered on 29 April 2015.
Cast
Dominic Lam as Lam Kwok-leung
Noel Leung as Chow Siu-kuen
Leila Tong as Michelle Fong
Lawrence Chou as Ken Wan
Felix Lok as To Fung
Kwok Fung as Suen Chun-yee
Eddie Li as Jason Tse
Emily Wong as Amanda Chin
Alan Luk as Lee Kai-fat
Chow Tsz-lung as the son of Lam Kwok-leung
Song list
"藍蝴蝶" by Eva Chan (Episode 7 and 8)
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/Harnessing%20the%20Power%20of%20Wisdom | Harnessing The Power Of Wisdom: From Data to Wisdom is a philosophical book by Andrew Targowski that discusses the concept and status of wisdom in modern society.
Summary
In the book Targowski defines wisdom as good judgement and choice and also states that wisdom can be taught. He goes on to say that wisdom is one portion of the cognitive units that create the Semantic Ladder: Data, Information, Concept, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Targowski also gives his reasons as to why civilization is, as a whole, further behind than it was in Greek times on a philosophical level. He opines that even with the advances in the realm of Information Technology (IT), society remains unable to convert the information at its fingertips into the ultimate form of knowledge and wisdom. This book besides scientific synthesis of wisdom covers also the “art of living” and the decline in human ability to achieve its greatest potential as a global community.
Reception
Biocosmology gave Harnessing the Power of Wisdom a positive review, stating that it was "a remarkable wise contribution to the contemporary cultural world, forming an interdisciplinary theory of wisdom and conception of the wise Integralist civilization. Substantially, this is a significant step towards the integral organization of contemporary social and cultural life, and a valuable piece of information of the integrally organizing essence." Dialogue and Universalism also praised the work and made it one of the main focuses of one of their 2014 issues where they brought in 8 writers to reflect on the work.
References
2013 non-fiction books
Contemporary philosophical literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Luis%20Encarna%C3%A7%C3%A3o | José Luis Moreira da Encarnação is a Portuguese computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany and a senior technology and innovation advisor to governments, multinational companies, research institutions and organizations, and foundations. He is involved in the development of research agendas and innovation strategies for socio-economic development with a focus on emerging economies. He is also a member of the Topical Network Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and ICT-related activities of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and the German Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). He is an elected member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy (USA).
Biography
Professor Encarnação was born in Portugal and has lived in the Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany) since 1959. In Portugal, he graduated from the Escola Salesiana do Estoril.
He holds a Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) and a doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), where he conducted his Ph.D. studies with a scholarship of the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Academic career
In 1967, Professor Encarnação started his academic career in Computer Graphics at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin. Subsequently, he held research and academic positions at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin (1968-1972) and at the Universität des Saarlandes (1972 – 1975).
From 1975 to 2009 he was a full professor of Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany, and the head of its Interactive Graphics Research Group (TUD–GRIS). Since October 2009 he is Professor Emeritus of the TU Darmstadt.
In 1977, he and his research group introduced the Graphical Kernel System (GKS) as the first ISO standard for low-level computer graphics.
Professor Encarnação is author or co-author of more than 500 publications in reviewed international journals and conferences and was the responsible advisor or co-advisor of more than 200 doctoral theses in Computer Graphics and related areas.
Professional career
From 1983 to 2007, Encarnação was Editor-in-Chief of the Computers & Graphics Journal (Elsevier).
From 1987 to 2006, he was the founding director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany.
From 1995 to 2001 he was an elected member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer Society (FhG) in Munich and from 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the Advisory Board (Präsidium) of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
From July 2001 to October 2006 he was the chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Group.
From 2001 to 2007 Professor Encarnação was a member of the EU-Advisory Board (ISTAG) for the EU 6th and 7th Framework Programme for the ICT area. He was chairman of this board from 2002 to 2004 and its vice-chairman from 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPU | ACPU may refer to:
Auxiliary Computer Power Unit, for the Gemini Guidance Computer
Aircell Central Processor Unit, by Aircell
Alignment control panel, in the Glossary of military abbreviations
See also
CPU (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms%20Unlocked | Algorithms Unlocked is a book by Thomas H. Cormen about the basic principles and applications of computer algorithms. The book consists of ten chapters, and deals with the topics of searching, sorting, basic graph algorithms, string processing, the fundamentals of cryptography and data compression, and an introduction to the theory of computation.
References
External links
MIT Press: Algorithms Unlocked
2013 non-fiction books
Computer science books
MIT Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastline | Lastline, Inc. is an American cyber security company and breach detection platform provider based in Redwood City, California. The company offers network-based security breach detection and other security services that combat malware used by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups for businesses, government organizations and other security service providers. Lastline has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
History
Lastline was founded in 2011 by University of California, Santa Barbara and Northeastern University researchers Engin Kirda, Christopher Kruegel and Giovanni Vigna. In 2014, WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. joined the Lastline Defense Program to combat advanced malware targeting businesses by providing primary functionality for APT blocking, available on their unified threat management (UTM) and next generation firewall (NGFW) products. WatchGuard utilizes Lastline's next generation cloud-based sandbox, powered by full-system emulation, which inspects objects for unknown malware crafted to evade detection.
Lastline was featured at the 2014 RSA Conference in San Francisco. That same year, Giovanni Vigna, CTO at Lastline, appeared at the Cyber Security Expo in a keynote presentation that analyzed evasive malware techniques.
Juniper Networks began integrating with Lastline to expand the capability of its Spotlight Secure platform in 2014. In February 2015, Lastline announced a partnership and technology integration with Carbon Black in an effort to facilitate automated and comprehensive end-to-end endpoint and network security for email, web, files and mobile applications.
Funding
In 2013, Lastline raised $10 million in funding led by venture capital firms Redpoint Ventures and E.ventures, now known as Headline Redpoint Ventures led the Series B round with a $9 million investment, while existing investor E.ventures provided the remainder.
In 2014, Lastline raised $10 million from new investors Dell Ventures and Presidio Ventures, as well as existing investors Redpoint Ventures and E.ventures. With the new round of funding, Lastline will continue to focus on serving its growing global enterprise customer base as well as new and existing partnerships to improve information security and threat intelligence worldwide. This round of funding adds to the $13.7 million raised in earlier rounds to bring total funding raised to nearly $24 million since the company's founding in 2011.
On June 4, 2020 Lastline announced that they entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by VMware. The acquisition is expected to be finalized by July 31, 2020.
Offerings
Lastline Breach Detection Platform provides businesses with automated detection of active data breaches.
Lastline Knowledge Base (LLKB) allows for access of information regarding historical data breach events, related IP addresses, and indicators of compromise (IOCs) for malware linked to an advanced threat incident.
Lastline Labs
From May 2013 to May 2014, Lastline researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Child%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the Australian drama television series Love Child, began airing on 5 May 2015 on the Nine Network. The season concluded on 23 June 2015. It consisted of 8 episodes and aired on Tuesdays at 8:40pm.
Cast
Main
Jessica Marais as Joan Miller
Jonathan LaPaglia as Dr Patrick McNaughton
Matthew Le Nevez as Jim Marsh
Mandy McElhinney as Matron Frances Bolton
Ella Scott Lynch as Shirley Ryan
Harriet Dyer as Patricia Saunders
Sophie Hensser as Viv Maguire
Gracie Gilbert as Annie Carmichael
Miranda Tapsell as Martha Tennant
Recurring
Ben Toole as Pete
Lincoln Younes as Chris Vesty
Jessica June as Tania
Andrew Ryan as Simon Bowditch
Marshall Napier as Greg Matheson
Ian Bolt as Bob Flannery
Maya Stange as Eva McNaughton
Episodes
References
2015 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkovi%C4%87 | Tonković may refer to:
Marija Tonković, Yugoslav basketball player
Stanko Tonković, Croatian scholar, of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Bela Tonković, Serbian-Croatian politician, of the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina
See also
Tonkovich
Surnames of Serbian origin
Surnames of Croatian origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAS-BLED | HAS-BLED is a scoring system developed to assess 1-year risk of major bleeding in people taking anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation (AF). It was developed in 2010 with data from 3,978 people in the Euro Heart Survey.
Major bleeding is defined as being intracranial bleedings, hospitalization, hemoglobin decrease > 2 g/dL, and/or transfusion.
Definition
HAS-BLED is a medical tool used to calculate the one-year risk of major bleeding for people on blood thinning drugs for atrial fibrillation (AF). It is used with the CHA2DS2-VASc score.
Use
A calculated HAS-BLED score is between 0 and 9 and based on seven parameters with a weighted value of 0-2.
The HAS-BLED mnemonic stands for:
Hypertension
Abnormal renal and liver function
Stroke
Bleeding
Labile INR
Elderly
Drugs or alcohol
A study comparing HEMORR2HAGES, ATRIA and HAS-BLED showed superior performance of the HAS-BLED score compared to the other two. Mixed evidence exist on the comparison between GARFIELD-AF bleeding score over the HAS-BLED.
2020 ESC guidelines on atrial fibrillation recommend assessment of bleeding risk in AF using the HAS-BLED bleeding risk schema as a simple, easy calculation, whereby a score of ≥3 indicates "high risk" and some caution and regular review of the patient is needed. The HAS-BLED score has also been validated in an anticoagulated trial cohort of 7329 people with AF - in this study, the HAS-BLED score offered some improvement in predictive capability for bleeding risk over previously published bleeding risk assessment schemas and was simpler to apply. With the likely availability of new oral anticoagulants that avoid the limitations of warfarin (and may even be safer), more widespread use of oral anticoagulation therapy for stroke prevention in AF is likely.
While their use is recommended in clinical practice guidelines, they are only moderately effective in predicting bleeding risk and don't perform well in predicting hemorrhagic stroke. Bleeding risk may be increased in patients on haemodialysis.
Score
A score of ≥3 indicates "high risk", but does not necessarily mean that an anticoagulant cannot be given, as some risk factors may be modified.
References
Diagnostic cardiology
Medical scoring system
Medical mnemonics
Mnemonic acronyms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20Manufacturing%20Format | 3D Manufacturing Format or 3MF is an open source file format standard developed and published by the 3MF Consortium.
3MF is an XML-based data format designed specifically for additive manufacturing. It includes information about materials, colors, and other information that cannot be represented in the STL format. 3MF is part of the Linux open standards project and is not intended to compete in the traditional CAD space which are represented by neutral formats.
Today, CAD software related companies such as Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, and Netfabb are part of the 3MF Consortium. Other firms in the 3MF Consortium are Microsoft (for operating system and 3D modeling support), SLM and HP, whilst Shapeways are also included to give insight from a 3D printing background. Other key players in the 3D printing and additive manufacturing business, such as Materialise, 3D Systems, Siemens Digital Industries Software and Stratasys have recently joined the consortium. To facilitate the adoption, 3MF Consortium has brought on new associate members and Executive Director to increase awareness and adoption while also published a C++ implementation of the 3MF file format.
Features
Below are a list of some of the advantages of the 3MF format, supplied by the consortium.
Full color and texture support in a single file
Support structures attached to part data
Full tray support for direct machine preparation
Thumbnails, viewing, and printing in Microsoft Windows
Multiple material support
Beam extension for complex lattice structures
Slice extension for machine data
Secure end to end encryption
Volumetric communication of data at voxel level
Designed for industrial manufacturing
Native integration in Microsoft Office and Paint 3D
Sample file
Below is the 3D payload for a simple 3MF file describing a rectangular cuboid, adapted from the 3MF Core specification. The rectangular cuboid has the dimensions of a 1-2-3 block.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<model unit="inch"
xml:lang="en-US"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/3dmanufacturing/core/2015/02">
<metadata name="Copyright">
Copyright (c) 2015 3MF Consortium. All rights reserved.
</metadata>
<resources>
<object id="1" type="model">
<mesh>
<vertices>
<vertex x="0" y="0" z="0" />
<vertex x="1" y="0" z="0" />
<vertex x="1" y="2" z="0" />
<vertex x="0" y="2" z="0" />
<vertex x="0" y="0" z="3" />
<vertex x="1" y="0" z="3" />
<vertex x="1" y="2" z="3" />
<vertex x="0" y="2" z="3" />
</vertices>
<triangles>
<triangle v1="3" v2="2" v3="1" />
<triangle v1="1" v2="0" v3="3" />
<triangle v1="4" v2="5" v3="6" />
<triangle v1="6" v2="7" v3="4" />
<triangle v1="0" v2="1" v3="5" />
<triangle v1="5" v2="4" v3="0" />
<triangle v1="1" v2="2" v3="6" />
<triangle v1="6" v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20Database%20and%20Dictionary%20of%20Classic%20Mayan | The project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan (abbr. TWKM) promotes research on the writing and language of pre-Hispanic Maya culture. It is housed in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn and was established with funding from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. The project has a projected run-time of fifteen years and is directed by Nikolai Grube from the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn. The goal of the project is to conduct computer-based studies of all extant Maya hieroglyphic texts from an epigraphic and cultural-historical standpoint, and to produce and publish a database and a comprehensive dictionary of the Classic Mayan language.
Subject of the Project
The text database, as well as the dictionary that will be compiled by the conclusion of the project, will be assembled based on all known texts from the pre-Hispanic Maya culture. These texts were produced and used between approximately the third century B.C. through A.D. 1500, in a region that today includes parts of the countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. The thousands of hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments, ceramics, or daily objects that have survived into the present offer insight into the language's vocabulary and structure. The project's database and dictionary will digitally represent original spellings using the logo-syllabic Maya hieroglyphs, as well as their transcription and transliteration in the Roman alphabet. The data will be additionally annotated with various epigraphic analyses, translations, and further object-specific information.
Project Partners
TWKM will employ digital technologies in order to compile and make available the data and metadata, as well as to publish the project's research results. The project thereby methodologically positions itself in the field of the digital humanities. The project will be conducted in cooperation with the project partners (below), the research association for the eHumanities TextGrid, as well as the University and Regional Library of Bonn (ULB). The working environment that is currently under construction, in which the data and metadata will be compiled and annotated, will be realized in theTextGrid Laboratory, a software of the virtual research environment. A further component of this software, the TextGrid Repository, will make the data that are authorized for publication freely available online and ensure their long-term storage.
The tools for data compilation and annotation attained from the modularly constructed and extended TextGrid lab thereby provide all the necessary materials for facilitating the research team's the typical epigraphic workflow. The workflow usually begins by documenting the texts and the objects on which they are preserved, and by compiling descriptive data. It then continues with the various levels of epigraphic and linguistic analysis, and concludes in the best case scenario with a tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alankar%20TV | Alankar Television, commonly known as Alankar TV, is a 24-hour Odia jatra channel from the house of Odisha Television Network. It is the first jatra genre-specific channel in Odisha. The channel is aimed at entertaining Odias across the globe who enjoy content from their own land.
Odisha Television Network owns four more Odia channels namely OTV, Prarthana, Tarang Music and Tarang.
Programming
Alankar Hits
Kichhi Katha Kichhi Geeta
See also
List of Odia-language television channels
List of television stations in India
References
External links
Odisha Television Network
Television stations in Bhubaneswar
Odia-language television channels
Companies based in Bhubaneswar
Movie channels in India
Year of establishment missing
Television channels and stations established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey%20Wives | Hockey Wives is a Canadian documentary television series which debuted on March 18, 2015, on the W Network. In Québec, the series debuted on September 12, 2015, on the Séries+ (Mariées au hockey). The series follows a group of wives and girlfriends of professional hockey players, as they balance the highs and lows of the hockey world, their personal and social lives.
On May 5, 2015, the network announced that the series had been renewed for a second season.
On October 13, 2016, W confirmed the renewal for a third season, and on March 20, 2017, the full cast was revealed.
Season three premiered on April 19, 2017.
Overview
Production for the first season of Hockey Wives was announced on July 17, 2014, in a press release issued by W Network's parent company, Corus Entertainment.
The cast of the third season includes:
Maripier Morin (wife of Nürnberg Ice Tigers forward Brandon Prust)
Emilie Blum (wife of Admiral Vladivostok defenseman Jonathon Blum)
Martine Auclair Vlasic (wife of San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Édouard Vlasic)
Erica Lundmark (wife of Klagenfurt Athletic Sports Club forward Jamie Lundmark)
Vanessa Vandal (girlfriend of St. Louis Blues forward David Perron)
Catherine Laflamme (wife of Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang)
Although based in cities all over the world, during the course of the professional hockey season their lives intersect and affect one another's. From wives who are new to the game, to those whose partners are Stanley Cup winning superstars or are nearing retirement, the women form a team of their own to support and encourage each other through personal and professional highs and lows.
Reception
Following the series premiere in March 2015, the show quickly became the most watched series on W Network that year, with record ratings for the broadcaster. In addition, episodes of the series ranked as the top reality series on iTunes Canada after their initial broadcast.
Timeline of Hockey Wives
Episode List
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! colspan="1" rowspan="1" |Season
! rowspan="1" |Episode
! colspan="1" |Title
! colspan="1" |Originally Aired
|-
! colspan="1" rowspan="8" style="background:#7BB661" |1
| 1
| Married to the Game
| March 18, 2015
|-
| 2
| Home Fire Burnout
| March 25, 2015
|-
| 3
| The Breakout Play
| April 1, 2015
|-
| 4
| Stick handling a Puck
| April 8, 2015
|-
| 5
| Relationship on Ice
| April 15, 2015
|-
| 6
| Love & Loathing in LA
| April 22, 2015
|-
| 7
| Family Skate
| April 29, 2015
|-
| 8
| Pop Ups and Power Plays
| May 6, 2015
|-
! colspan="1" rowspan="16" style="background:#7CB9E8" |2
| 1
| Still In The Game
| October 28, 2015
|-
| 2
| Hockey's Out For The Summer
| November 4, 2015
|-
| 3
| Free Agency Frenzy
| November 11, 2015
|-
| 4
| Let the Good Times Roll
| November 18, 2015
|-
| 5
| The Off-Ice Plays
| November 25, 2015
|-
| 6
| The Long Goodbye
| March 17, 2016
|-
| 7
| Home Sweet Opener
| March 24, 2016
|-
| 8
| Family Face- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatcher%20%28video%20game%29 | Snatcher is a cyberpunk graphic adventure game developed and published by Konami. It was written and designed by Hideo Kojima and first released in 1988 for the PC-8801 and MSX2 in Japan. Snatcher is set in a future East Asian metropolis where humanoid robots dubbed "Snatchers" have been discovered killing humans and replacing them in society. The game follows Gillian Seed, an amnesiac who joins an anti-Snatcher agency in search of his past. Gameplay takes place primarily through a menu-based interface through which the player can choose to examine items, search rooms, speak to characters, explore a semi-open world, and perform other actions.
Kojima wanted Snatcher to have a cinematic feel, so the setting and story are heavily influenced by science fiction films, like Blade Runner, Akira, The Terminator, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Development on the PC versions took more than twice as long as the average game of the time, even after Kojima was asked to trim more than half his initial story. The game was released to positive reviews, but poor sales. It garnered a cult following, and was remade as a role-playing game called SD Snatcher for the MSX2 in 1990. This was followed by a remake of the original adventure game using CD-ROM technology, released for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM² System in 1992.
Looking to provide a more interactive experience to gamers in the West, Konami developed a Sega CD version of Snatcher specifically for North America and Europe in 1994. Although it was a commercial failure, the Sega CD version received mostly positive reviews for its cinematic presentation and mature themes uncommon in games at the time. Snatcher has been retrospectively acclaimed as both one of the best adventure and cyberpunk games of all time, and identified as a foundation for the themes Kojima explored later in the Metal Gear series. The game was a significant inspiration on Goichi Suda, who worked with Kojima to produce a radio drama prequel, Sdatcher. Snatcher was last rereleased in 1996 on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The game was also included in the PC Engine Mini in 2020, though only playable in Japanese. Its lack of availability on modern platforms has surprised industry analysts, given the game's legacy.
Gameplay
Snatcher has been described as both a graphic adventure game and a visual novel. The player controls Gillian Seed as he investigates and hunts "Snatchers", dangerous humanoid robots disguised as humans roaming Neo Kobe City. The game's visuals are static images with some animations that display at the top of the screen. There is no point-and-click interface, with all actions made through a text menu with commands such as move, look, and investigate. The game's puzzles and dialogue trees are simple, lending to an emphasis on linear storytelling. Sometimes character panels are shown below the main graphics window during conversations to convey their facial expressions.
The game allows exploration of a semi-open world |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipa%20cuspidata | Tulipa cuspidata can refer to:
Tulipa cuspidata Regel, a synonym of Tulipa sylvestris subsp. primulina (Baker) Maire & Weiller
Tulipa cuspidata Stapf, a synonym of Tulipa systola Stapf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20VH1%20%28Europe%29 | This is a list of television programs broadcast by VH1 Europe in Europe.
Last programming
Music series
VH1 Shuffle (2012–2021)
Guess The Year (2014–2021)
Top 50 (2014-2021)
Hits Don't Lie (2015-2021)
We Love The: 00's (2015–2021)
Artist: The Hits (2019-2021)
Songs of the Century (2020-2021)
00s Power Ballads! (2021)
Class of 2000-2009 (2021)
Crazy in Love! (only August 1, 2021)
Hottest 00s Collabs! (2021)
Hottest 00s Dance Hits! (2021)
Hottest 00s Pop Hits! (2021)
Hottest 00s R'n'B Hits! (2021)
Loudest 00s Rock Anthems! (2021)
Non-stop Nostalgia! (only August 1, 2021)
The 40 Greatest Hits! (only August 1, 2021)
Artists' series
Adele (2019-2020)
Alicia Keys (2021)
Ariana Grande (2019-2020)
Beyonce (2019-2021)
Black Eyed Peas (2021)
Britney Spears (2021)
Bruno Mars (2019-2020)
Calvin Harris (2019-2021)
Coldplay (2019-2021)
Dua Lipa (2020)
Elton John (2020-2021)
Ed Sheeran (2019-2021)
George Michael (2020-2021)
Jennifer Lopez (2021)
Justin Bieber (2020-2021)
Justin Timberlake (2019-2021)
Katy Perry (2019-2021)
Kelly Clarkson (2020)
Kylie (Minogue) (2020-2021)
Lady Gaga (2019-2021)
Little Mix (2020)
Madonna (2019-2021)
Maroon 5 (2019-2021)
One Direction (2019-2021)
P!nk (2019-2021)
Queen (2019-2020)
Rihanna (2019-2021)
Sam Smith (2020)
Shawn Mendes (2020)
Taylor Swift (2019-2021)
Whitney Houston (2020-2021)
Top 50 series
00's vs. 10's (2019-2021)
00's Collabs (2021)
00's Boys (2021)
Fierce Girls of the 00's (2021)
00's Greatest Hits (2021)
00's Pop Hits (2021)
00's Rock Anthems (2021)
A-List Boys (2019-2020)
A-List Girls (2019-2020)
Boys vs. Girls (2019-2021)
Boy Bands vs. Girl Groups (2019-2020)
Collabs (2020)
Crazy in Love! 00's Love Songs (?-2021)
Dance vs. Pop (2019)
Duets (2020-2021)
Especially for You! (2019-2020)
Love Songs (2019-2021)
Party Classics (2019-2021)
Party vs. Pop (2019-2020)
Sing-A-Longs (2020)
Sing-A-Longs of the 00's (2020-2021)
Songs that defined 00's (2020-2021)
Ultimate Show-Men of All Time! (2021)
Ultimate Show-Women of All Time! (2021)
Ultimate Power Ballads (?-2021)
Former programming
Music series
2-4-1 Hits (2017-2018)
90's Revolution (2011-2012)
90's vs. 80's (2012-2013)
Aerobic (?-2012)
Best Of Charts
Best Of The Week
Before The Weekend
Boogie Night
Celebrity Showdown
Chill Out
Class of 2000-2019 (2020-2021)
Cover Power (?-2012)
Expresso
Feelgood Friday (2012–?)
Flipside
Final Countdown
Huge Hits (2014–?)
It Takes Two (2015–2017)
Keep Calm & Wind Down (2014–?)
Greatest Hits
Late Night Love (2012–2017)
Lazy Sunday Tunes (2015–2018)
Love Is In The Air! (?-2013-?)
Music Never Felt So Good
Music For The Masses
Perfect Pop From The 00's (2015–?)
Popstars (2018-2019)
Popup Videos
Rise And Shine With VH1 (2012–2019)
Saturday Night 80's Disco! (2012-2013)
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Soundtrack (2015–2018)
Sing-along of the Century! (?-2019)
Smells Like The 90's
Smooth Wake Up
So 80's
Sunday Soul
The Album |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLADEM | CLADEM (or Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Defense of Women's Rights; ) is an international NGO network of women’s organizations and activists. It was established in San José, Costa Rica. It was developed after discussions in 1985 at the 3rd World Conference on Women of the United Nations in Nairobi where attendees noted a need for regionally based strategies in order to boost advocacy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The organisation was formally registered in 1989 in Lima in Peru. Since 1995, it has held Category II Consulting Status at the United Nations, and since 2002, it has participated in Organization of American States matters.
Notable members
Its board members include Susana Chiarotti who is an Argentine lawyer campaigning for women's rights.
References
External links
Official website
Organizations established in 1987
Feminist organizations in South America
Organizations based in San José, Costa Rica
Feminist organizations in Costa Rica
Latin America and the Caribbean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Pi | Sonic Pi is a live coding environment based on Ruby, originally designed to support both computing and music lessons in schools, developed by Sam Aaron in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in collaboration with Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Uses
Thanks to its use of the SuperCollider synthesis engine and accurate timing model, it is also used for live coding and other forms of algorithmic music performance and production, including at algoraves. Its research and development has been supported by Nesta, via the Sonic PI: Live & Coding project.
See also
Pure Data
Algorithmic composition
List of MIDI editors and sequencers
List of music software
Further reading
References
External links
Digital art
Computer programming
Live coding
Algorave
Free music software
Electronic music software
Free audio software
Free software programmed in Ruby
Audio programming languages
Software synthesizers
Raspberry Pi
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg%20%28backup%20software%29 | Borg (previously called Attic) is deduplicating backup software for various Unix-like operating systems.
History
Attic development began in 2010 and was accepted to Debian in August 2013. Attic is available from pip and notably part of Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and Slackware.
In 2015, Attic was forked as "Borg" to support a "more open, faster paced development", according to its developers. Many issues in Attic have been fixed in this fork, but backward compatibility with the original program has been lost (a non-reversible upgrade process exists). Borg 1.0.0 was released on 5 March 2016, Borg 1.1.0 was released on 7 October 2017, Borg 1.2.0 was released on 22 February 2022.
As of 2018, Borg is under active development by many contributors, while Attic is not being developed. Stable releases are available from various Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and others, from the ports collection of various BSD derivatives and from brew for macOS. The project provides pre-built binaries for Linux, FreeBSD and macOS.
As of April 2021, the attic website was removed.
Design
Borg offers efficient, deduplicated, compressed and (optionally) encrypted and authenticated backups.
A backup includes metadata like owner/group, permissions, POSIX ACLs and Extended file attributes.
It handles special files also - like hardlinks, symlinks, devices files, etc. Internally it represents the files in an archive as a stream of metadata, similar to tar and unlike tools such as git. The Borg project has created extensive documentation of the internal workings.
It uses a rolling hash to implement global data deduplication.
Compression defaults to lz4, encryption is AES (via OpenSSL) authenticated by a HMAC.
See also
List of backup software
Comparison of backup software
References
External links
Official Website of BorgBackup
Website of Attic Backup
2010 software
Backup software for Linux
Free backup software
Python (programming language) software
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bup | Bup is a Backup system written in Python. It uses several formats from Git but is capable of handling very large files like operating system images. It has block-based deduplication and optional par2-based error correction.
History
Bup development began in 2010 and was accepted to Debian the same year.
Design
Bup uses the git packfile format writing packfiles directly, avoiding garbage collection.
Availability
Bup is available from source and notably part of the following distributions
Debian
Ubuntu
Arch Linux
pkgsrc (NetBSD etc.)
See also
List of backup software
Comparison of backup software
References
External links
bup website on GitHub
2010 software
Free backup software
Backup software for Linux
Python (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%202 | Model 2 may refer to:
Boeing Model 2, an American training seaplane designed in the 1910s
Consolidated Model 2, a training airplane used by the United States Army Air Corps
Data General Model 2, laptop by Data General
Experimental Model 2 submachine gun, a Japanese submachine gun in service from 1935 to 1945
Federal Signal Model 2, an outdoor warning siren produced by Federal Signal Corporation
JSP model 2 architecture, a complex design pattern used in the design of Java Web applications
Sega Model 2, an arcade system board by Sega in 1993
Smith & Wesson Model 2, an American revolver produced from 1876 through 1911
Type 92 Model 2 Fighter, an improved version of the Japanese Type 92 Fighter
See also
Series 2 (disambiguation)
Type 2 (disambiguation)
M2 (disambiguation)
MII (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraman%20Ginga%20S | is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and a sequel to Ultraman Ginga, as well as part of the New Ultraman Retsuden programming block on TV Tokyo. It is the 26th entry in the Ultra Series.
Story
After two years Ultraman Ginga left Earth, and Hikaru returns to Japan once again after gaining a strange vision during his adventure in Mexico. Once he's arrived, he discovered a new threat in the form of Alien Chibull Exceller, an alien who steals , Android One-Zero, his android enforcer and his alien minions. Alarmed by the theft of the Victorium, the , a group of ancient civilians that live underground sent Sho to retrieve it and bestow him an ancient relic, the that transforms him into their protector, .
Hikaru was dragged into the battle again after being recruited into UPG (Ultra Party Guardians), an attack team formed by the International Defense Forces after various paranormal incidents. He reunites with Ultraman Ginga and joins forces with Sho to take down Exceller and his minions. Ultraman Taro returns as well, having sensed the new threat and supports Ginga through the , which allows him to become with the power of the 6 Ultra Brothers.
As the series progressed, it was revealed that Exceller's true agenda is to revive Dark Lugiel from the moon, desiring his body to take over the galaxy. He has revived once again as Victor Lugiel after fusing himself with the UPG's Victorium Cannon, their ultimate weapon but halfway through the invasion, the real Dark Lugiel reveals himself, kills Exceller, and contemplates restarting his plan to freeze all lifeforms. He was defeated once again by Ultraman Ginga and Ultraman Victory, after Exceller's former android One-Zero sabotages Victor Lugiel's inner system at the cost of her own. After the battle, Taro leave the Earth once more and Hikaru and Sho parted ways.
Episodes
Film
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Songs
Opening theme
Lyrics & Composition:
Arrangement: Toshihiko Takamizawa with
Artist: The Alfee
Episodes: 1-8 (Verse 1), 9-16 (Verse 2)
Ending theme
Artist: Voyager feat. Ultraman Ginga (Tomokazu Sugita)
Episodes: 1-8 (Verse 1), 9-16 (Verse 2)
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Lyrics:
Composition & Arrangement: Takao Konishi
Artist: Voyager
Episodes: 1, 2, 4, 10
Lyrics: , Sei Okazaki
Composition & Arrangement: Takao Konishi
Artist: Voyager with (Girl Next Door), , , Hikaru (Takuya Negishi), Misuzu (Mio Miyatake), Kenta (Mizuki Ohno), Chigusa (Kirara), Tomoya (Takuya Kusakawa)
Episodes: 1, 3, 15
Artist: Chigusa Kuno (Kirara) feat. Voyager
Episodes: 12, 13, 16
International broadcast
In the United States, the show aired on Toku beginning February 24, 2018, on weekdays at 7:30 p.m. EST.
See also
Ultra Series - Complete list of official Ultraman-related shows
Ultraman Ginga - Previous seas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood%20One%20News | Westwood One News was a radio news network launched on January 1, 2015, and operated by Westwood One through its parent company Cumulus Media. Using audio from CNN reports and correspondents, and anchored by Cumulus employees, it provided radio stations with hourly newscasts as well as voiced reports that could be individually used by member stations. It was discontinued on August 30, 2020.
Unlike most radio networks, the programming was unbranded as a "white-label" service with no mention of either Westwood One or CNN. The anchors and correspondents simply gave their names without saying what service they worked for. That way, Westwood One News could be carried under the station's local branding. For example, many Nash FM-branded country music ran the content under the title "Nash News."
About
Months after Cumulus acquired Westwood One in 2013, merging it with the former Cumulus Media Networks, the radio network acquired exclusive content from CNN. The news division was created months before Cumulus' deal with ABC News Radio was set to expire at the end of 2014. Until then, most Cumulus radio stations (including the former ABC-owned heritage stations carried over from the Citadel Broadcasting acquisition) used ABC News as their national news source. Cumulus also replaced the former NBC News Radio service previously distributed by the original Westwood One network, which was acquired under the "Dial Global" name in 2012. NBC News Radio had replaced Westwood One's CNN Radio service several years earlier. Westwood One also distributed CBS News Radio until December 2017.
Most of the first affiliates were Cumulus Media-owned stations, however as of February 2019 the network had expanded to over 900 affiliates.
On July 9, 2020, citing "extraordinary circumstances in the current marketplace" and a need to prioritize the company's resources, Westwood One announced that the service would be discontinued on August 30. Its final newscast aired at 11:30 p.m. ET that night. Most former affiliates--mostly Cumulus News and Talk stations--reaffiliated with ABC News Radio while a handful of others changed affiliations to Fox News Radio.
References
External links
Official website
Defunct radio networks in the United States
W
Radio stations established in 2015
Radio stations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20cars%20in%20Chicago | In 1900, Chicago already had the second largest cable car network in the United States and would eventually surpass New York City to have the largest streetcar network in the world in a few decades. In 1900, there were three private companies operating of double track routes radiating out from Chicago's downtown area. State of the art technology when the first line opened in 1882, by 1900 electric traction had proven superior and in 1906 all cable routes were changed to electrical power. Decades later, most were part of Chicago Transit Authority bus routes.
History
In the 1850s Chicago was growing rapidly and local transportation was a problem. Flat and low, drainage was poor and the roads were often muddy and near impassible for foot and horse traffic.
In 1859 the Illinois state legislature incorporated the Chicago City Railway (CCR) and the North Chicago Street Railroad (NCSR), to provide rail horsecar service in Chicago. In 1861 the Chicago West Division Railway was incorporated. The three companies served different parts of the city, defined by the Chicago River, and were not in competition with each other. By 1880 all three had main routes with feeder lines.
In 1882 the CCR opened cable lines to the south on State St. and Wabash-Cottage Grove Ave. Immediately successful, the State St. line would be extended to 63rd St. by 1887 and the Cottage Grove Ave. line to 71st St. by 1890.
A strike of cable car gripmen occurred in June 1883 to protest the low wages they were offered. The strike halted traffic on all but the State Street line.
In 1886 the NCSR put a cable line on Clark St. and parallel 5th Ave. (now Wells St.) into service. In 1889 a branch on Lincoln Ave. opened, and the last branch, on Clybourn Ave., opened in 1891.
Another strike was called in October 1888, this time stopping all cable car traffic in the city. Replacement workers were brought in from other systems to operate the lines.
In 1890 the re-organized West Chicago Street Railroad (WCSR) opened their first lines, to the northwest on Milwaukee Ave. Shortly afterwards a line straight west on Madison Ave. opened. In 1893 two more routes would open, southwest on Blue Island Ave and south on Halsted St.
In 1892 the Chicago City Council allowed the CCR to electrify three horse lines outside of downtown, two years later many North and West lines were electrified. In 1896 the first downtown electrification was permitted, in 1906 all cable service was converted to electric traction.
Operations
The cable cars did not suffer much from the elements, and the harsher winters of the US Midwest and East Coast were no problem for them. As with some other cities using cable cars the problem in generally flat Chicago was not one of grades, but of traffic volume due to the density of the city.
As in other cities the cable cars did not completely replace the horsecars, but they rather created a transportation backbone. In fact, even as the horse lines were being converted to trolley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20valuable%20records | The following is an attempt to list some of the most valuable records. Data is sourced from Record Collector, eBay, Popsike, the Jerry Osborne Record Price Guides, and other sources.
Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin CD (of which only one copy was produced) was sold through Paddle8 on November 24, 2015, for $2,000,000, according to Record Collector 449. On December 9, 2015, Bloomberg Businessweek identified the buyer as hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli. On September 10, 2021 the Wu-Tang Clan broke their own record when the United States Department of Justice, which had seized the album from Martin Shkreli as part of a forfeiture, sold the album for $4,000,000 to crypto collective PleasrDAO, according to The New York Times.
Bob Dylan - a one-off recording of Dylan's 'Blowin In The Wind' sold for $1.8 million at auction in 2022, according to multiple sources, including Rolling Stone.
The Beatles – The Beatles (the "White Album") (Parlophone UK album, 1968) – Ringo Starr's personal copy (No. 0000001) was sold for $790,000 in December 2015, according to Rolling Stone. This is the highest price ever paid for an album that has been commercially released.
The Quarrymen – "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger" (UK 78–rpm, acetate in plain sleeve, 1958). Only one copy made. The one existing copy is currently owned by Paul McCartney. Record Collector magazine listed the guide price at £200,000 in issue 408 (December 2012). McCartney had some "reissues" pressed in 1981 on UK 10-inch 78 RPM and 7-inch 45 RPM, in reproduction Parlophone sleeves, 25 copies of each; these are estimated to be worth upwards of £10,000 each.
Elvis Presley's "My Happiness" acetate was purchased by Jack White for $300,000 in January 2015. It was then re-released on Record Store Day 2015 by Third Man Records.
A fully signed copy of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP sold for $290,500 (£190,000) in 2013.
Normal copies of records involving famous people can often rocket in price when autographed, as for example in the case of a copy of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy (Geffen US album, 1980), autographed by Lennon five hours before his murder. This sold in 1999 for $150,000.
Frank Wilson – "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" (SOUL*35019, US 7-inch 45 rpm in plain sleeve, 1966). One of two known copies of this Northern soul classic fetched over £100,000 in 2020, according to the Harborough Mail. Northern soul is a highly collectible area, based around obscure American soul singles.
The Beatles – Yesterday and Today (Capitol, US album in ‘butcher’ sleeve, 1966). A sealed mint "first state" stereo copy sold for US$125,000 in February 2016, unsealed mint copies of this pressing have regularly sold for well over $15,000. Other pressings and states are also available, in both mono and stereo with prices ranging from $150 to $10,000.
Original master tapes of historic recordings can fetch very high prices at auction. A tape of The Quarryme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2081%20%28Poland%29 | National road 81 () is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway connects Katowice with Skoczów, the whole stretch lies within Silesian Voivodeship.
In 1985 the numbering system was reorganized. The route from Katowice to Skoczów was numbered as DK 93 until 2000, after which it was renumbered to DK 81 (the section from Skoczów to Wisła is now DW 941).
References
81 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Richard%20Patterson | John Richard Patterson (17 May 1945 – 29 January 1997) was the founder of the UK-based computer dating service Dateline. The Guardian called him "history's most successful Cupid," while The Times characterized Dateline as "probably the largest, longest established and most successful computer dating service in the world."
Biography
Patterson was born in Hertfordshire and educated at Bishop's Stortford College. The son of a banker, he earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of London in 1966. He founded Dateline in 1966 after a trip to Harvard University, where he had seen a computer used to match partners at a freshman's ball. The company was founded with £50.00, which he had borrowed from his parents, and later used an IBM computer.
The company was highly successful, eventually becoming "the world's biggest and most enduring introduction service" in the 1980s and 1990s. However, Patterson struggled to find clients at first, and engaged in shady business practices: he was convicted of fraud in 1969 for selling lists of women who signed up for his dating service to men who were looking for prostitutes. Dateline relied heavily on advertising, taking out the first full-page ads for a dating service in newspaper and magazines during the early 1970s, and becoming known for its catchphrase, "You too can find love." In 1974, Patterson bought out and absorbed Com-Pat, his only major competitor and the first computer dating service in the UK, started in 1964 by Joan Ball. Patterson also published a monthly magazine titled Singles, and in 1975 he launched a travel agency, Singles Holidays. While these ventures eventually folded, Dateline continued to operate throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. During the 1990s, some estimates suggested that the company matched more than 40,000 prospective couples a year, approximately 2,000 of whom ended up getting married.
Patterson was an avid aviator, purchasing his first plane in 1972, and winning The Sunday Times Beaujolais Wine Race two years running in his single seater light aircraft.
Patterson was married to Sandy Nye (also known as Valerie); the couple had three children before divorcing in 1982. He subsequently had two more children with his former secretary, Kim Sellick. He struggled with alcoholism later in life, and died of a heart attack in 1997.
After Patterson's death, Dateline was sold to the Columbus Publishing Group in 1998, for £1.45 million.
References
20th-century British businesspeople
British mechanical engineers
People from Hertfordshire
1945 births
1997 deaths
People educated at Bishop's Stortford College |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmovin | Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company which provides services that transcode digital video and audio to streaming formats using cloud computing, and streaming media players. Founded in 2013, the Austrian company contributes to MPEG-DASH, an open standard that allows streaming video to be played in HTML5 video and Flash players.
History
Bitmovin was founded in 2013 after research and standardization in the area of MPEG-DASH at the University of Klagenfurt. In 2014 the company secured an investment round with the venture capital fond Speedinvest and Constantia Industries. In 2014, the company was part of the top 100 companies in online media. Bitmovin is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash and contributes to the standardization at MPEG, DASH-IF, IETF, etc.
In 2015, Bitmovin participated in the YCombinator program.
Products
The company provides the cloud-based transcoding service bitcodin, which increases the efficiency of transcoding by using Cloud computing, and also enables transcoding of ultra-high definition video.
The company also created the HTML5 and Flash-based Web player bitdash which can be used in Web Browsers on desktop computers and smartphones. This player supports the streaming and playback of MPEG-DASH or Apple's HTTP Live Streaming, using either the HTML5 Media Source Extensions or Flash, depending on the platform. DRM is enabled through the usage of the HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions as well as Flash. It is compatible to tools such as x264 or MP4Box.
Usage
Live or on-demand transcoding of video or audio streaming to HLS, progressive and DASH
Web-based players for streaming for HLS, progressive and DASH content in HTML5 or Flash
Streaming of DRM protected content in HTML5
References
Streaming software
Streaming media systems
Media servers
Internet properties established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extempore%20%28software%29 | Extempore is a live coding environment focused on real-time audiovisual software development. It is designed to accommodate the demands of cyber-physical computing. Extempore consists of two integrated languages, Scheme (with extensions) and Extempore Language. It uses the LLVM cross-language compiler to achieve performant digital signal processing and related low-level features, on-the-fly.
Relationship to Impromptu
Extempore shares the use of Scheme syntax, real-time audiovisual emphasis and lead developer Andrew Sorensen with the older and related project Impromptu.
It runs under both Linux and Mac OS X. The bindings to Apple libraries are absent, but the environment can interface with dynamic libraries.
References
External links
Digital art
Computer programming
Dynamically typed programming languages
Audio programming languages
Music software plugin architectures
Free music software
Electronic music software
Free audio software
Software synthesizers
MacOS multimedia software
Multimedia software for Linux
2011 software
Array programming languages
Live coding
Algorave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVA%20Nouvelles | TVA Nouvelles is the news division of TVA, a French language television network in Canada.
Programs produced by the division include nightly local and national newscasts branded as TVA Nouvelles, as well as the news magazine program JE. The division also owns and operates the 24-hour news channel Le Canal Nouvelles.
In September 2020, the Group announced that Serge Fortin, who was managing the activities of TVA Nouvelles and LCN since 2004, would be replaced by Martin Picard, vice president and chief content officer.
Mornings
In the mornings, TVA Nouvelles airs as headline news segments during the network's breakfast television program Salut, Bonjour!. These segments are anchored by Gino Chouinard weekdays from Montreal, and Ève-Marie Lortie on weekends from Quebec City.
Noon
At noon, TVA Nouvelles airs for one hour weekdays and half an hour on weekends. Two weekday editions are produced, with Pierre Bruneau anchoring from Montreal for stations in western Quebec markets (Gatineau/Ottawa, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Rouyn-Noranda), and Pierre Jobin anchoring from Quebec City for stations in eastern Quebec (Rimouski, Rivière-du-Loup/Carleton-sur-Mer and Saguenay). Both programs also have segments set aside for local inserts presented by local anchors.
As most viewers in Canada outside of Quebec receive TVA stations from Montreal or Gatineau/Ottawa, the edition anchored by Bruneau is seen in most of Canada, although parts of New Brunswick receive the Jobin edition.
Afternoon
At 5 p.m. weekdays, TVA Nouvelles airs for 1.5 hours. This airing consists of a one-hour program anchored by Bruneau, followed by half-hour local programs anchored by a local journalist at each TVA station. The local anchors are Pierre Donais on CHOT-DT in Gatineau/Ottawa, Martin Blanchet on CFER-DT in Rimouski, Cindy Simard on CIMT-DT in Rivière-du-Loup and CHAU-DT in Carleton-sur-Mer, Katherine Vandal on CFEM-DT in Rouyn-Noranda, Jean-François Tremblay on CJPM-DT in Saguenay, Sonia Lavoie on CHLT-DT in Sherbrooke and Marie-Claude Paradis-Desfossés on CHEM-DT in Trois-Rivières. Bruneau continues as anchor of the final half-hour on CFTM-DT in Montreal, and Jobin anchors on CFCM-DT in Quebec City; at 6:30, Bruneau continues to anchor for a further half-hour which airs only on LCN.
On weekends, the 5 p.m. program does not air, with only a half-hour edition airing at 6 p.m. and anchored by Michel Jean.
Primetime
The main national edition of TVA Nouvelles, airing at 10 p.m. for half an hour, is anchored by Sophie Thibault weekdays and Cindy Royer on weekends.
The weekend edition may be delayed to 10:30 or 11 p.m. depending on network scheduling.
JE
The news magazine program JE is anchored by Marie-Christine Bergeron.
References
External links
TVA Nouvelles
1980s Canadian television news shows
1990s Canadian television news shows
2000s Canadian television news shows
2010s Canadian television news shows
2020s Canadian television news shows
TVA (Canadian TV network) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Bengals%20Radio%20Network | The Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network is an American radio network consisting of 37 radio stations which carry coverage of the Cincinnati Bengals, a professional football team in the NFL. Three Cincinnati radio stations—WCKY (1530 AM), WEBN (102.7 FM), and WLW (700 AM)—serve as the network's flagship stations; WLW also simulcasts over a low-power FM translator. The network also includes 39 affiliates in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia: 27 AM stations, 18 of which extend their signals with one or more low-power FM translators; and 12 full-power FM stations. Dan Hoard is the current play-by-play announcer, while Dave Lapham serves as color commentator. In addition to traditional over-the-air AM and FM broadcasts, the Bengals are available on SiriusXM satellite radio, and online with NFL Audio Pass.
History
Following the 1996 Bengals season, the team ended its radio partnership with Jacor Broadcasting. Jacor had also been responsible for overseeing a network of 35 stations for the team, which had been fronted by WLW (the flagship station from 1968 to 1981 and from 1993 to 1996). Citing a desire to "control content... outside the parameters of gameday broadcasts", the Bengals opted for a new three-year agreement with Chancellor Media. Cincinnati sports talk WKYN and country station WUBE-FM took over as flagship stations for a new network also run by Chancellor. Soon, however, both Chancellor and Jacor would be acquired by Clear Channel, and in 1999, the team itself signed a six-year contract with the radio giant. The team renewed this agreement with Clear Channel in 2005; Cincinnati stations WSAI (which was WCKY (1360 AM) prior to 2005; WSAI's programming and co-flagship rights were transferred to WCKY (1530 AM) in July 2006) and WOFX-FM continued to share flagship duties for the Bengals Radio Network, which by this time included 23 stations in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Former network flagship WLW served as a co-flagship station when it did not conflict with game broadcasts over the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network, a practice which continues to the present day. As WLW and WCKY are both 50,000-watt clear-channel stations, their combined footprints allow Bengals night games to be heard across almost all of North America.
Rock station WEBN became the network's new FM flagship in 2008, a change resulting from Clear Channel's sale of WOFX-FM to Cumulus Media (the U. S. Department of Justice had required the sale of WOFX-FM and WNNF to approve a leveraged buyout of Clear Channel itself). The team subsequently renewed its agreement with Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) again in 2011 and 2014.
Station list
Blue background indicates low-power FM translator.
Network maps
References
External links
Bengals Radio Network
SiriusXM.com: Cincinnati Bengals
NFL Audio Pass
Cincinnati Bengals
Mass media in Cincinnati
National Football League on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching%20Milat | Catching Milat is a two-part Australian television miniseries that screened on the Seven Network, in collaboration with Screen Australia on 17 and 24 May 2015. It is based on the 1998 book Sins of the Brother by Mark Whittaker and Les Kennedy and is loosely based upon the true story of how New South Wales Police and detectives under "Task Force Air" tracked down and caught serial killer Ivan Milat, who was responsible for the infamous backpacker murders.
Critical response
Clive Small, a former assistant police commissioner, retired detective and now author, served as the investigation team head of "Task Force Air". He has criticised the program as a marginally fictionalised account, especially for overstating the role of Detective Paul Gordon.
Main cast
Richard Cawthorne as Detective Paul Gordon
Geoff Morrell as Superintendent Clive Small
Malcolm Kennard as Ivan Milat
David Field as Detective Neil Birse
Craig Hall as Detective Rodney Lynch
Leeanna Walsman as Shirley Soires
Sacha Horler as Karen Milat
Carole Skinner as Margaret Milat
Fletcher Humphrys as Richard Milat
Linda Ngo as Therese
Alex Williams as Paul Onions
Production
The series was produced by Shine Productions (as Shine Australia, a division of Shine Group), for Network Seven and directed by Peter Andrikidis and produced by Kerrie Mainwaring and Rory Callaghan in the pine forests of south-western Australia. It was written by Dalton Dartmouth.
Reception
The first episode aired on 17 May 2015 at 8:50 on the Seven Network.
Home Media
Catching Milat was Released on DVD and Blu-ray on 25 May 2015 with no bonus content, but the two part series episodes on the DVD run longer than the original aired episodes.
References
External links
2010s Australian television miniseries
2015 Australian television series debuts
2015 Australian television series endings
Seven Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Spielberg | Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 – August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer who was instrumental in contributions to "real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes". For General Electric he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 mainframe computer in 1959. He cited as his greatest contribution the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register. His children include filmmaker Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Anne Spielberg.
Early life and career
Arnold Spielberg was born in Cincinnati on February 6, 1917. He was of Jewish descent. His mother, Rebecca (née Chechick), was born in Sudylkiv, Ukraine; his father, Samuel, was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. They later immigrated to the United States, meeting and eventually marrying in Cincinnati.
From the age of nine, he began building radios. He scrounged parts from garbage cans to assemble his first crystal receiver. He grew up in Avondale, Cincinnati. Spielberg graduated from Hughes High School in 1934. In 1934, he worked in Cynthiana, Kentucky, for his cousin's Lerman Brothers department store.
"At 15, Arnold became a ham radio operator, building his own transmitter, a skill that proved fortuitous when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in January 1942, one month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and joined the Signal Corps."
After training as a radio-operator/gunner for the Air Corps, his skills in the design of new airplane antennas elevated him to the position of Communications Chief in 490th Bomb Squadron, a B-25 Squadron in India. During the Holocaust, Spielberg lost between 16 and 20 relatives.
Spielberg married concert pianist Leah Posner (1920–2017) in January 1945. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, he joined RCA's Advanced Development Department in 1949, where he did early work on servo and guidance systems. In 1955, he joined General Electric’s computer department in Schenectady, New York. In 1957, he and his family relocated to Phoenix, where he founded the G.E. Industrial Computer Department. He left G.E. in 1963, and the following year they moved to Los Gatos, California. In 1965, Arnold and Leah Spielberg divorced, and he moved with his son Steven to Saratoga, California.
Moscow
In 1960, Spielberg traveled to Moscow as part of a delegation of electrical engineers from Phoenix. The trip coincided with an incident that became the subject of his son's 2015 film Bridge of Spies. Steven Spielberg described the event his father experienced at the time:
The Russians were putting the pilot Gary Powers' helmet and his flight suit and the remains of the U-2 plane on show for everyone in Russia to see. A military man saw my father's American passport and took him to the head of the queue and repeated really angrily to the crowd, "look what your country is doing to us."
Work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire%20Surrey%20Pathology%20Service | Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) is a pathology network, serving NHS hospitals in Surrey and Berkshire. BSPS is a joint venture between Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital, and Surrey and Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust. It was established in 2012 as the Surrey Pathology Service. In 2023 it employs around 1,400 people and conducts around 60 million tests per year.
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust established the organisation. In April 2015 it emerged that Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust was proposing to join the partnership. The joint venture was formally expanded in March 2017.
It uses the WinPath Enterprise laboratory information system to enable clinicians to order tests and view results from anywhere within their network. This can manage up to 40,000 tests per day when running at full capacity.
References
External links
BSPS website
Pathology organizations
Health in Surrey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RingID | ringID is a proprietary social networking platform designed and developed by Ring Inc. located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ringID allows users to communicate for free using their individual ID globally over the internet. It was initially released in July 2015.
It has been called a Ponzi scheme and criticized for not allowing users to cash out. In September 2021, an embezzlement case was filed in Bangladesh against 25 people, including two founders of the company. One founder was arrested for embezzling funds.
History
ringID was initially released in July 2015 by Ring Inc.,
with video calling features added in 2016. More features were added with the goal of providing a single platform to cater to all social networking needs.
Features
ringID was conceptualized as an all-in-one social networking platform. The platform can be used for live broadcasting, voice and video calls, messaging, and content sharing.
Users can delete messages from both their device and the receiver's. They can also send instant messages to recipients which are deleted automatically once the predefined time is over.
Criticism and complaints
The Business Standard has accused RingID of being a Ponzi scheme because it pays users for bringing in more users and for watching advertisements. In September 2021, The Business Standard reported that users were not able to cash out, which it characterized as embezzlement. In total 21.2 million taka were allegedly embezzled. A case was filed against 25 people, including RingID owners, under the Digital Security Act and the Multi-Level Marketing Control Act.
Two company founders were arrested in December 2016 in connection with an unpaid fees case filed by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. The two moved to Canada while out on bail.
In October 2021, one founder was remanded in jail by a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate, after his arrest on charges of misappropriating Tk200 crore in three months by luring people to ringID's investment scheme and promising online income.
Notable here that RingID did not pay wages to hundreds of software developers between 2017 and 2019. One victim said that the company owes him over two hundred thousand of BDT and he has given up any hope of getting money back as it is run by a Mafia group.
References
External links
Android (operating system) software
Cross-platform software
IOS software
Canadian social networking websites
VoIP software
Finance fraud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimlet%20Media | Gimlet Media LLC is a digital media company and podcast network, focused on producing narrative podcasts and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who served as the company's CEO and president respectively until Lieber stepped down in 2022. In February 2019, Spotify announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gimlet for $230 million. In 2023, Spotify announced that they were to merge Gimlet and Parcast into Spotify Studios.
History
Gimlet was founded in August 2014 with the launch of its flagship podcast StartUp hosted by Alex Blumberg. Originally billed as the American Podcasting Corporation (APC), Blumberg was eventually convinced to change the company's name. After working with Lexicon Branding, Blumberg and Lieber chose the name Gimlet Media.
The company raised $1.5 million in seed funding at a $10 million valuation. After raising most of its initial capital from investment firms Betaworks, Lowercase Capital, and Knight Enterprise Fund, Gimlet invited the listeners of its shows to help raise the last $200,000 through equity crowdfunding. The company was estimated to bring in $2 million in advertising revenue in 2015. In December 2015, Gimlet closed a Series A round of funding that raised $6 million at a $30 million valuation.
In July 2015, Gimlet announced it would add the option to pay for membership, a decision motivated by a desire to diversify revenue streams to include more than advertising. Members were given early access to pilots for new Gimlet shows, a Gimlet T-shirt, and access to the company's Slack channel. Gimlet then hired Blumberg's spouse and former Rachel Maddow Show producer Nazanin Rafsanjani to explore other ways to diversify the company's revenue. Rafsanjani spearheads Gimlet Creative, a wing of the company that "creates highly produced narrative audio in partnership with brands."
On August 2, 2017, Gimlet announced it closed a $15 million Series B investment round, led by Stripes Group. Emerson Collective, Graham Holdings, Betaworks, and Cross Culture Investors also contributed to the round. In September 2017, British advertising firm WPP announced it was investing $5 million in Gimlet for a minority stake in the company.
On February 6, 2019, Spotify announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gimlet for $230 million. In the summer of 2022, Lieber left his role as president but remained an advisor to Spotify. In November, 2022, Alex Blumberg also departed Gimlet and Spotify. On June 5, 2023, Spotify sent a memo to staff announcing that Gimlet will be merged with Parcast into a single Spotify Studios division, as part of a restructuring that also included the elimination of 200 jobs.
People
Alex Blumberg, a radio journalist, producer for This American Life, and co-founder of Planet Money, came up with the idea of a for-profit podcast network after the success of a T-shirt fundraising campaign for Planet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commiphora%20caudata | Commiphora caudata, the hill mango or green commiphora, is the most abundant Asian species of Commiphora of flowering plants in the frankincense and myrrh family, Burseraceae. It can be found in Southern India and Sri Lanka, usually growing in the full sun on hilly granite rock outcrops in dry zone areas. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree which is said to be able to reach height of 10-20m, but usually is less high. The tree has a smooth, succulent green bark, which partly flakes off with age, giving rise to a characteristic patchwork of green and brown patches. Its sap has a strong resinous scent. The tree has medicinal properties. The fruit is a globose fleshy drupe with 2 to 6 valves and 1 seed that is black and has 4 wings. Remnants of branches can form a kind of thorns on the trunk. The flowers have a greenish to cream-yellow pedestal with pink to red petals.
Names
English: Hill mango, green commiphora
Irula: Kiliya-maram
Kannada Konda-mavu
Sinhala: Seevaya
Tamil: Kiluvai, pachaikiluvai
References
India biodiversity
caudata
Medicinal plants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radford%20M.%20Neal | Radford M. Neal is a professor emeritus at the Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he holds a research chair in statistics and machine learning.
Education and career
Neal studied computer science at the University of Calgary, where he received his B.Sc. in 1977 and M.Sc. in 1980, with thesis work supervised by David Hill. He worked for several years as a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary and as a statistical consultant in the industry before coming back to the academia. Neal continued his study at the University of Toronto, where he received his Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton. Neal became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in 1995, an associated professor in 1999 and a full professor since 2001. He was the Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Machine Learning from 2003 to 2016 and retired in 2017.
Neal has made great contributions in the area of machine learning and statistics, where he is particularly well known for his work on Markov chain Monte Carlo, error correcting codes and Bayesian learning for neural networks. He is also known for his blog and as the developer of pqR: a new version of the R interpreter.
Bibliography
Books and chapters
Selected papers
References
Living people
1956 births
University of Calgary alumni
Computational statisticians
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Canadian statisticians
Machine learning researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFUZ-FM | CFUZ-FM is a Canadian radio station which operates community radio programming at 92.9 MHz (FM) in Penticton, British Columbia.
Operated by the Peach City Community Radio Society, the station received approval to broadcast by the CRTC on May 4, 2015. The station began broadcasting at 92.9 MHz (FM) with 49.9 watts on February 1, 2019.
References
External links
Peach City Community Radio Society - peachcityradio.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akintunde%20Akinwande | Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande
is a Nigerian American engineering professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed as chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, and he said he will honour his appointment once he secure permission from his employers.
Early life and education
Akintunde was born in Offa in Kwara State. He attended Government College, Ibadan. He earned his B.Sc. (1978), M.Sc. (1981) in electrical and electronic engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife and Ph.D. (1986) in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California.
Academic and career
Akinwande commenced work as a scientist at Honeywell Inc. Technology Center in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1986, initially researching on Gas Complementary FET technology for very high speed and low power signal processing. He became associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January 1995, researching on pressure sensors, accelerometers, thin-film field emission and display devices, micro-fabrication and electronic devices with particular emphasis on smart sensors and actuators, intelligent displays, large area electronics (macro-electronics) and field ionization devices, mass spectrometry and electric propulsion. He developed the thin-film-edge Field Emitter Arrays for RF Micro-Triode Power Amplifiers and Flat Panel Displays, demonstrating the possible use of the thin-film-edge.
His research also focuses on:
Microstructures and nanostructures for sensors and actuators, and vacuum microelectronics.
Devices for large-area electronics and flat panel displays
Lithographically patterned metal oxide transistors for large-area electronics
CNT-based open architecture ionizer for portable mass spectrometry
Growth studies of in-plane and out-of-plane SWNTs for electron devices
High-current CNT FEAs on Si Pillars
Batch-fabricated linear quadrupole mass filters
He co-founded the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation in 2004.
He has served in technical program committees for various conferences such as:
Device Research Conference,
the International Electron Devices Meeting,
the International Solid-State Circuits Conference,
the International Display Research Conference
the International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference.
Academic posts and memberships
Visiting professor at the Cambridge University Engineering Department
Overseas Fellow of Churchill College from 2002 to 2003.
Member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.
Honours and awards
Sweatt Award Honeywell's Technical Award (1989)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award.(1996)
Fellow Class of 2008 IEEE
Publications
He has authored over 100 journals and publications.
Patents
Numerous patents in MEMS, Electronics on Flexible Substrates, Display.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20Federal%20Computing%20Centre | The Austrian Federal Computing Centre or Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ) is a public information technology (IT) service provider based in Vienna. The organisation develops and operates e-government services for the Austrian Federal Government, including the Federal Ministries and the Federal Chancellery. In 1997 the BRZ was outsourced from the Ministry of Finance as an organisational spin-off on the basis of a Federal Law, since then it acts as a limited liability company. The Austrian Federal Computing Centre is owned by the Republic of Austria, represented by the Ministry of Finance.
Business area
The BRZ owns one of the largest data centres in the country, provides infrastructure and supervises more than 30,000 IT work stations. Its core market consists of the ministries, the Chancellery, supreme authorities, universities and outsourced organizations. As a full service provider the BRZ offers solutions and services along the entire IT value chain – from product management to the development and implementation of individual and standard software to secure operation.
Among the best known e-government applications are FinanzOnline, JustizOnline, oesterreich.gv.at, federal budget accounting and personnel management, Electronic customs application service (eCustoms), Business Service Portal (usp.gv.at), Commercial and Land Register, Austrian Federal electronic filing system (ELAK), Austrian open data catalogue (data.gv.at), student union elections (E-Voting), Biometric passport, Austrian Health Portal (gesundheit.gv.at) and Austrian personalised access portal (portal.at).
International
The BRZ is involved in EU-wide projects and collaborations, such as Euritas (European Alliance of Public IT Service Providers), Cloud4Europe (Cloud Computing in Europe), PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online), STORK (Secure Identity Across Borders Linked) and eCodex (European e-justice system).
Sources
Company report 2013 of the Austrian Federal Computing Centre
External links
Website of the Austrian Federal Computing Centre
USP
Austrian Health Portal
DATA.gv.at
Information technology in Austria |
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